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-[birds singing]
-[telephone line dialing]
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[suspenseful music playing]
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[woman 1] 911. What's your emergency?
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[woman 2 breathing heavily]
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Somebody came from behind me
and shoved me against my wall
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and started to choke me…
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[sobs] …and were telling me
that I'm going to fucking get it.
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[woman 2 hyperventilating]
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I tried to move and he grabbed me.
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He had me pinned back
by the hair at the neck.
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[music turns ominous]
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My husband's ex has been threatening
to rape, kill my child.
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[chimes]
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…the strange and violent stalking case.
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Police say a woman used an online ad
to terrorize another woman.
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I got another email from her.
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{\an8}[chimes]
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She's been at my work.
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She knows what I look like.
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[ominous music continues]
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[man] How do we combat this woman?
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What do we do?
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[chimes]
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[music fades]
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[poignant music playing]
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[children chattering indistinctly]
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[woman 3] I have two wishes.
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First wish is
I wish none of this happened.
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And my second wish is…
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[inhales deeply, sighs]
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…I wish that everyone
would just tell the truth
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about the events of this story.
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[poignant music continues]
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In 2016, Ian and I had been friends
for almost 20 years.
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We worked together at Disneyland.
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His mom had moved to another state,
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so I became his means of support.
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{\an8}I just remember laughing
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{\an8}and having so much fun
any time I was with him.
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He's just that guy.
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When the opportunity came
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for him to apply to be a deputy
with the U.S. Marshals Service,
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Ian was thrilled.
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The U.S. Marshals represent
the Department of Justice.
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He would transport inmates
from prison to prison,
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and he was responsible
for protecting federal judges.
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So it was an important job.
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Ian was, without a doubt,
a person I'd trust with my entire life.
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Most people question
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the relationship that Ian and I had,
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but our friendship was just a friendship
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and not a romantic relationship.
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So when he met Angela,
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nothing made me happier.
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Ian always wanted to be married,
and he wanted to have kids.
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And he was really excited
that Angela wanted the same things.
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{\an8}We met at the Starbucks in Anaheim.
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{\an8}We just hit it off.
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And so she moved into my condo.
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[dog barks]
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Daphne, do you want to look at the camera?
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Oh! Can you look at the camera?
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[Ian] The smile alone…
The smile was killer.
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She was just a sweetheart.
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Two, three weeks go by,
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I proposed to her.
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Because she was everything
I ever wanted in a woman.
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[music turns pensive]
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[Leslie] So within
a few months of meeting,
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Ian and Angela are living together,
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married, and expecting twins.
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[music fades]
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And Ian's thrilled
because he's always wanted to be a dad.
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-[birds singing]
-[dogs barking]
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During this time, we sit down for dinner,
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and Ian tells me
that Angela's been receiving these emails…
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[chimes]
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…from someone called "Lilithistruth."
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[ominous music playing]
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They have this biblical undertone.
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The nature of them are super threatening.
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We had no clue what Lilith was.
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Ian and I both had to google it.
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{\an8}[ominous music continues]
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There are legends that Adam had a wife
before Eve who was named Lilith.
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She was banished from the Garden of Eden
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because she did not want
to submit to Adam.
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Lilith was an evil, wicked woman
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who committed adultery with Satan
and produced a race of evil creatures.
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Lilith transformed into an evil demon,
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out for revenge to kidnap and kill
newborn children in the night.
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Ian was really freaked out.
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[Ian] Scared the hell out of me.
I had no idea where that came from.
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Angela was really upset.
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-[car alarm blaring distantly]
-[dogs barking]
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[haunting sting plays]
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[Leslie] Sometime later, Angela says
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she thinks someone has been lurking
outside of the condo.
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She couldn't see who it was,
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but she felt really uneasy about it.
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[ominous music continues]
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[chimes]
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-[dogs barking]
-[crossing signal beeping]
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[dog whines]
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[chimes]
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Who is doing this?
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-[dogs barking]
-[tires screech]
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[car engine revving]
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[ominous music continues]
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Four months before meeting Angela,
Ian had broken up with his ex, Michelle…
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and it was anything but simple
of a breakup
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because he was still living in the condo
that they owned together.
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[Ian] I do not hate Michelle.
I have never hated Michelle.
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I just wanted her out of my life.
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And, unfortunately,
we were tied together by that condo.
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And I did want to resolve it.
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We were both thinking
the exact same thing, which is…
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Holy shit.
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It's Michelle sending the emails.
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[chimes]
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-Going to the police seemed necessary.
-[music fades]
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[male officer] I have
the report from yesterday.
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-I'm wondering what happened today.
-Today I got another email from her.
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She's been at my work.
She knows what I look like.
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She's described
what I dressed in detail last night.
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And I'm either safer in my home,
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where at least I know that I'm okay,
or I go to work and risk it.
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I don't even know her capabilities.
I've never met her.
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So I'm dealing with this unknown.
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The gal at the sheriff's office said,
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"You need to call them out again,
request an emergency protective order."
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So, yeah.
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[male officer] You understand that
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the Emergency Protective Order,
they're typically for domestic violence.
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Somebody got arrested,
and the problem is she's not served yet.
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It's a criminal threat, but you can't
do anything until you get her.
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Awesome. Well, thank you guys so much.
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[male officer] You're welcome.
Hopefully, you can…
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[Leslie] Ian and Angela were worried
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because Anaheim PD don't have
enough probable cause to arrest Michelle.
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This is still a very new relationship
between Ian and Angela,
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and to be going through
something so abnormal,
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it's not natural.
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-And I felt for them.
-[Ian] I was scared.
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I was definitely scared
because I didn't know what she was up to.
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So we went to the police department,
and Angela filed a restraining order.
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I offered to serve
the restraining order to Michelle.
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[ominous music playing]
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I was nervous.
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You've been served.
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But I was really, really hoping that
that would put an end to it
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and everything can quiet down.
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-[chimes]
-But nothing stopped.
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The emails kept coming.
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The threats kept coming.
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So Ian and Angela call the police again.
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[woman] Anaheim Police
Department dispatch.
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[Angela] Hi, um, I have
several reports with you guys
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over a temporary restraining order.
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It was served upon the person
that I need protection from.
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She has continued to send
her crazy, threatening, violent,
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I'm-gonna-kill-you emails.
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She actually did it
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right after the cops
went to her house in Ontario, served her.
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An hour later,
I got another one, and it's insane,
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including really graphic photographs.
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I was advised by my attorney
to contact you guys once again
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to see if she could get arrested
because this has gone on far too long,
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and she's obviously violated
the no-contact order.
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[woman] Your name is?
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[Angela] Angela,
and the last name's Diaz, D-I-A-Z.
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[woman] Okay, I'll get them to call out.
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[Ian] Come on in, guys.
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My name's Ian. This is Angela.
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Um…
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These emails have pictures
of decapitated people,
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aborted fetuses, decapitated fetuses.
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You guys are the third group
of officers to come here.
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-[male officer] Tonight?
-This last week, just this week.
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So, restraining order,
and then this is the proof of service.
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Okay.
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How long have you known her for?
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Uh…
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Two years we were together, um,
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and that ended in August, so…
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I mean, do I know her now? No.
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In the time you've known her,
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have you ever seen her be violent
or anything like that?
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She took a knife
into that bathroom right there…
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She's crazy.
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…and told me that she had
a moment where she wanted to kill herself.
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And she threatened to burn this
motherfucker down with both of them in it.
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When… A week before she left,
she was very emotional…
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This is August of last year?
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Yeah, August of last year,
a week before she left.
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Last week of August,
she told me, in a crying fit of rage,
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with her eyes wide open
but tears streaming down her face,
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it was freaky,
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um, that she wished she could burn…
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this whole motherfucker down
with me, you, and the dog in it.
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Or the-- I have a Yorkie.
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I haven't seen my friends or anybody.
My mom has to come out here.
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Everybody's lives have to be halted
for a minute because she's crazy.
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[sighs]
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[chimes]
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[ominous music playing]
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[Leslie] Every single day,
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every time I would see
Ian's name pop up on my phone,
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I thought, "Oh my God, what now?"
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[chimes]
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And then something unbelievable happened.
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Michelle responded
to an ad on Craigslist for fantasy rape
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with photographs of Angela,
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inviting the guy to show up at the condo
to rape Angela,
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saying, "Come to my house,
and even if I scream, don't stop."
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[unsettling music playing]
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[Rick] I get this message
from Lilithistruth
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saying she's interested
in doing a rape fantasy.
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She sends me her address in Anaheim
and her pictures,
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and she says, "Just show up."
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"I'll leave the door open for you,
and pin me down and do whatever you want."
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I replied, "I was thinking
about a home invasion scenario
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where you would be in your bed sleeping."
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"I don't want a neighbor
to see a struggle and call the cops."
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[telephone line dialing]
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[woman] Anaheim Police.
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[Angela] Hi, my name is Angela Diaz,
and I have open cases with Anaheim PD
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and a served restraining order
on a person named Michelle Hadley.
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She has yet again
violated that restraining order.
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I've been receiving emails today from her
saying that she has somebody
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that's going to come
attack me and rape me.
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[woman] We'll send someone out
as soon as we can.
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-[music fades]
-[female officer] So what's going on?
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My name's Ian.
I'm a U.S. Marshal. Sorry, this is Angela.
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-Hi.
-Uh…
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[Ian] This ex-girlfriend
of mine, Michelle,
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she's stating that she's going to have
this guy come over.
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She's gonna give him the address,
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and come over and…
uh, rape her and beat her, right?
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This is what she wrote to this guy.
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"Hi there, I've been dying
to have a rape fantasy occur,
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watched while walking my dog,
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follow me to the door,
force me into the condo,
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force me not to scream, drag me upstairs
and take me from behind on the bed."
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"If you can fulfil this tonight,
please let me know."
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"I am 30, tall, gorgeous, and ready.
My address is…" This address.
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"I have a Yorkie I walk every night,
say 8:00 p.m.? Come find me."
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[unsettling music playing]
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[Rick] As I'm parking,
I'm feeling excited.
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I'm getting a rush of dopamine,
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thinking, "I'm gonna go
and get this done."
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[music fades]
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But once I got to the building,
I noticed the name Ian Diaz.
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And it stopped me cold.
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I don't want to be
walking into a situation
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where the boyfriend
or the husband doesn't know,
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and then I get beat up or murdered.
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So I left.
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[unsettling music resumes]
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[female officer] 224?
I'm 97 and I'm at apartment 2.
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Uh, the only description that they have
is that it's a male in dark clothing.
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So we have the helicopter up above.
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Obviously, make sure
your doors are locked and all that,
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and if you think the guy is back,
or he's sending you guys emails,
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or he knocks on the door,
give us a call back.
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-Thanks very much.
-No problem.
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-Sorry about this.
-No worries.
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[chimes]
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[ominous music playing]
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Ian is trying to keep it all together,
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but I could hear it in his voice
that there was some deep fear there.
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[Ian] At what point
does this girl get arrested
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for sending this shit and hiring guys
off of Craigslist to rape her?
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I'm just curious.
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[Leslie] Why isn't Michelle in custody?
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Or at the very least, being questioned?
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[Ian] How do we combat this woman?
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What do we do?
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Am I supposed to continually
just be in my house all the time?
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[Leslie] There was a part of me thinking,
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"You need to get the hell out
of this condo."
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"You gotta move out."
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"It's scorched earth."
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[music intensifies]
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[vibrating]
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[Leslie] By this point,
Ian was feeling incredibly stressed out.
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He doesn't know how much more
of these emails he can take.
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And then all of a sudden, he says,
"Leslie, you're not gonna believe this."
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[woman 1 on radio] This is 587,
be advised, we've fixed the location…
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[woman 2] 911. What's your emergency?
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[Angela breathing heavily]
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Somebody came from behind me
and shoved me against my wall
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and started to choke me
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and were telling me
I'm gonna fucking get it,
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and it's time for me to get raped.
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[Angela hyperventilating]
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[woman 2] Okay.
How many individuals were there?
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[Angela] Just one, and he was
wearing a black thing over his face.
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-[woman 2] Like a black ski mask?
-[Angela] Yes.
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[woman 2] Okay. We have somebody
on the way right now, okay, ma'am?
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-[Angela] Okay.
-[woman 2] Okay.
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-[indistinct police radio chatter]
-[Angela breathing heavily]
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[woman 2] Do you see the officers yet?
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[Angela] Yeah, I see.
He's actually right here with me.
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[woman 2] He's with you?
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[Angela] Yes.
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[officer 1] Hey, there.
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-Can I turn the light on? That all right?
-[Angela] Yes.
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Okay.
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Is that your makeup
on the wall right there?
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-[Angela] Yes.
-Okay.
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I just didn't know what was happening,
and then all he said was--
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I tried to move. He grabbed me.
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He had me pinned back
by the hair at the neck.
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And shoved like that, and he told me,
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"Now you're gonna get it.
You'll finally get raped."
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For about a month, my husband's ex
has been threatening to rape,
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kill my child.
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-[officer 2] And what's her name, ma'am?
-The girl is Michelle Hadley.
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[officer 2] What wall did
he actually put you up against? Here?
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First, it was a knock here. Right here.
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-And then here was my face.
-Okay.
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If I had to bet,
it's from another Craigslist ad
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that this guy showed up, probably.
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And she's probably responding to him too,
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and didn't send it
to you or somebody else,
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so who knows where it went.
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She didn't give you a warning.
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Here's what'll happen, okay?
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I have the warrant in my car,
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and I'm going to go out there
and grab her.
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-[tense music playing]
-[indistinct police radio chatter]
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{\an8}[siren wailing distantly]
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[man 1] Just relax.
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I just have a couple of questions.
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Some things are going on with you and Ian.
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[woman] Yes, I know. Yeah.
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[man 1] He made a report with us,
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and he brought in some e-mails
that came from you.
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[woman] One of which probably sounded
a little crazy, and I do know that, yeah.
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[man 1] Okay.
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"Lilith is truth."
Do you know anything about that?
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What that means or anything?
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[woman] No.
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[indistinct police radio chatter]
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-[car doors slamming]
-[dog barking]
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[man 2] We hear a car door slamming.
We got a little dog, starts barking.
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When I came out,
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there's the two detectives,
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and I ask them,
"What's going on out here?"
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He says, "We're arresting your daughter."
I say, "What for?"
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"What evidence could you possibly have?"
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00:20:09,625 --> 00:20:11,627
[man 1] Everything right now
is looking like
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you have some type
of responsibility for it.
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And I just-- I'd like to get
more answers from you.
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00:20:16,590 --> 00:20:20,636
We're going to place you
into custody right now. Okay?
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00:20:20,719 --> 00:20:21,720
Okay.
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00:20:21,803 --> 00:20:24,640
-[tense music continues]
-[indistinct police radio chatter]
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00:20:25,766 --> 00:20:27,851
[dog barking]
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00:20:34,650 --> 00:20:36,652
[music fades]
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[man 1] Why don't you give us
your full and complete name, please.
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[woman] Michelle Suzanne Hadley.
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-[man 1] And what's your date of birth?
-[Michelle] 12-20-1986.
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00:20:43,367 --> 00:20:47,120
[man 1] All right, Michelle,
one of the things you have to keep in mind
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is you have to be completely truthful
and candid with us today.
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00:20:50,540 --> 00:20:53,585
So if we find out
that anything you've said is untrue,
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then I can use the statements
you give to us today in trial.
368
00:20:57,881 --> 00:21:01,009
Before I start, though,
you kind of see all these emails here?
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-There's a lot of them.
-[Michelle] Yeah.
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[man 1] "I've been more than patient.
My patience has come to an end."
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00:21:06,765 --> 00:21:11,561
And then on the email, September 10,
2015, this is a reference towards Lilith.
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"Get ready, the truth is coming."
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"God's law is above all laws,
including the law of man."
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00:21:18,527 --> 00:21:20,153
So did you write this?
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[Michelle] Yeah, that was me.
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00:21:22,197 --> 00:21:23,949
[unsettling music playing]
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I don't even really understand
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00:21:27,327 --> 00:21:31,373
where a lot of it came from
or why I wrote it.
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00:21:32,124 --> 00:21:34,084
I listened to a lot of sermons growing up,
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00:21:34,167 --> 00:21:40,007
and so it almost was like
some weird brain dump from childhood.
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00:21:40,757 --> 00:21:41,967
[man] Who's Lilith?
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Educate me.
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00:21:43,343 --> 00:21:46,263
[Michelle] It's almost like
the alternate persona
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of, like, a devil character,
like the female side.
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00:21:50,809 --> 00:21:52,352
[man] The female side of who?
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00:21:52,436 --> 00:21:56,398
[Michelle] Of, you know,
I guess like a Satan or a devil character.
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00:21:57,149 --> 00:22:00,402
[man] So Lilith is the anti-Jesus?
388
00:22:00,485 --> 00:22:03,530
-Or the female side?
-[Michelle] Yeah, I guess so, yeah.
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It's hard to explain
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00:22:05,198 --> 00:22:08,744
because it's not really like
anything else I've ever experienced.
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00:22:08,827 --> 00:22:12,956
You're just like,
"Okay, like, what did I even do?"
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00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:14,583
Like, I don't even know what happened.
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00:22:14,666 --> 00:22:17,419
And I thought, "Oh my God,
I really am losing my mind."
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00:22:17,502 --> 00:22:19,296
[inhales, sighs]
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00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:21,340
[man] Let's talk about Ian.
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00:22:21,423 --> 00:22:23,175
How did you first meet him?
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[Michelle] In 2013,
I was doing online dating.
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00:22:29,890 --> 00:22:30,974
[chiming]
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00:22:31,058 --> 00:22:33,685
I wanted the white picket fence life.
400
00:22:34,811 --> 00:22:38,774
{\an8}And then I matched
with this U.S. Marshal named Ian.
401
00:22:38,857 --> 00:22:40,609
[pensive music playing]
402
00:22:42,486 --> 00:22:43,904
So I said yes.
403
00:22:44,946 --> 00:22:51,078
I grew up watching
all of the Disney princess shows on TV,
404
00:22:51,161 --> 00:22:53,330
and I really bought into it,
405
00:22:53,830 --> 00:22:57,292
that if you were a nice girl,
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00:22:58,377 --> 00:23:00,295
you got your prince at the end.
407
00:23:00,379 --> 00:23:03,673
[whimsical music playing]
408
00:23:03,757 --> 00:23:09,763
I quickly learned
that Ian was really into Disneyland.
409
00:23:10,263 --> 00:23:13,058
He told me he went all the time,
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00:23:13,141 --> 00:23:15,310
like, multiple times a week. [laughs]
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00:23:16,436 --> 00:23:17,896
As we're walking around,
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00:23:17,979 --> 00:23:22,401
he's showing off his knowledge
of how things worked behind the scenes.
413
00:23:22,484 --> 00:23:25,153
And it turns out
he worked there for many years.
414
00:23:25,237 --> 00:23:27,322
[children laughing and chattering]
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00:23:27,406 --> 00:23:29,199
[Michelle] We were
talking about princesses,
416
00:23:29,282 --> 00:23:31,576
and he told me
his favorite princess was Belle.
417
00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:35,580
That was his type,
and that I was like her.
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00:23:36,206 --> 00:23:40,752
I had never met someone
who was this into Disney as an adult.
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00:23:41,670 --> 00:23:46,550
But he told me that some
of his best memories with his dad,
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00:23:46,633 --> 00:23:48,927
who he did not have
a good relationship with,
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00:23:49,010 --> 00:23:50,137
were at Disneyland.
422
00:23:51,972 --> 00:23:53,849
I'm thinking, "How sweet."
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00:23:54,349 --> 00:23:56,059
I love when men are vulnerable,
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00:23:57,269 --> 00:24:00,564
and it was such a magical environment
that I remember also feeling
425
00:24:00,647 --> 00:24:03,400
a little bit swept away in the moment.
426
00:24:03,942 --> 00:24:05,694
So I was super excited
427
00:24:06,570 --> 00:24:09,739
to do a trip to New York City together
a few months later.
428
00:24:11,158 --> 00:24:13,702
It's very romantic around Christmas.
429
00:24:13,785 --> 00:24:16,246
[whimsical music continues]
430
00:24:16,329 --> 00:24:20,792
Ian was super excited
that we were in New York City.
431
00:24:20,876 --> 00:24:23,753
So he was videoing everything.
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00:24:23,837 --> 00:24:25,672
I wasn't used to people videoing me,
433
00:24:25,755 --> 00:24:28,425
so I remember feeling
a little bit awkward.
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00:24:28,925 --> 00:24:29,843
Are you…?
435
00:24:29,926 --> 00:24:32,179
-[Ian laughs]
-[laughs]
436
00:24:32,262 --> 00:24:34,890
[Ian] Because you're so cute
when you walk through.
437
00:24:34,973 --> 00:24:37,601
When you're looking at everything,
you're so adorable.
438
00:24:38,602 --> 00:24:40,145
[Michelle] Ian was attentive.
439
00:24:40,228 --> 00:24:42,481
He was sweet. He was thoughtful.
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00:24:42,564 --> 00:24:44,232
[Ian] Do you want to get a cookie?
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00:24:44,316 --> 00:24:47,360
I started seeing him
as a really good option
442
00:24:47,444 --> 00:24:49,821
for a long-term relationship.
443
00:24:50,697 --> 00:24:52,741
And so we decided to move in together.
444
00:24:52,824 --> 00:24:55,243
[pensive music playing]
445
00:24:55,327 --> 00:24:57,496
Ian actually brought up
the decision to buy.
446
00:24:58,455 --> 00:25:03,835
And he finds these new construction condos
in downtown Anaheim.
447
00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:10,342
The idea was that I would basically
front the money for the down payment,
448
00:25:10,425 --> 00:25:13,136
then he would help out
with the mortgage payment.
449
00:25:15,639 --> 00:25:18,308
I cleared out my entire savings account,
450
00:25:18,808 --> 00:25:21,269
but I was super happy.
451
00:25:21,770 --> 00:25:24,231
It just seemed like
the natural progression, right?
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00:25:24,314 --> 00:25:25,607
We're getting engaged.
453
00:25:25,690 --> 00:25:28,109
We're going to need
a place to start our family.
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00:25:28,193 --> 00:25:33,573
We can literally drive to Disneyland
in, you know, ten minutes.
455
00:25:33,657 --> 00:25:36,701
And, oh my God, we can also see
the fireworks from our balcony.
456
00:25:36,785 --> 00:25:39,996
And that was actually the clincher.
457
00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:43,250
-[crowd exclaiming]
-[music turns eerie]
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00:25:43,333 --> 00:25:47,254
[Michelle] But then,
once we moved into the condo together,
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00:25:47,337 --> 00:25:50,298
it felt like everything
took a turn for the worse.
460
00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:55,637
And I just have no idea
how things got to a place
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00:25:55,720 --> 00:26:00,225
where I ended up literally considered
the craziest woman in Orange County.
462
00:26:00,308 --> 00:26:02,435
{\an8}A woman is behind bars this morning
463
00:26:02,519 --> 00:26:05,605
{\an8}in connection with a strange
and violent stalking case.
464
00:26:05,689 --> 00:26:08,358
Michelle Hadley is facing
felony stalking charges
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00:26:08,441 --> 00:26:11,111
after harassing
her ex-boyfriend's pregnant wife.
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00:26:11,194 --> 00:26:15,282
[woman on TV] 29-year-old Hadley
used a rape fantasy online ad
467
00:26:15,365 --> 00:26:18,201
to send people to her ex-boyfriend's home.
468
00:26:18,285 --> 00:26:20,537
The man's new wife,
who was pregnant, by the way,
469
00:26:20,620 --> 00:26:23,957
was actually attacked by one of the men
who responded to the ad.
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00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:27,627
[man on TV] They say she routed emails
through different computers and servers,
471
00:26:27,711 --> 00:26:28,920
trying to evade police.
472
00:26:29,004 --> 00:26:31,881
Hadley is being held on $1 million bail.
473
00:26:31,965 --> 00:26:34,968
If convicted,
she faces up to life in prison.
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00:26:39,180 --> 00:26:41,474
-[Mike] I feel helpless.
-[music fades]
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00:26:41,558 --> 00:26:44,269
We have no idea what to do.
476
00:26:44,352 --> 00:26:46,479
[ominous music playing]
477
00:26:47,689 --> 00:26:49,899
When we raised our daughters,
478
00:26:49,983 --> 00:26:52,360
one thing I always made clear to them
479
00:26:52,444 --> 00:26:57,866
was you treat everybody
with respect and kindness.
480
00:26:57,949 --> 00:26:59,909
So when they're accusing my daughter
481
00:26:59,993 --> 00:27:02,662
of luring the men
to attack a pregnant woman,
482
00:27:02,746 --> 00:27:04,789
the wife of a U.S. Marshal,
483
00:27:05,707 --> 00:27:07,751
of course, I'm in shock.
484
00:27:08,376 --> 00:27:10,211
[man on TV]
One of the most horrific stories
485
00:27:10,295 --> 00:27:12,255
of mayhem and vengeance I've ever covered.
486
00:27:12,339 --> 00:27:15,258
She could be looking
at upwards of life in prison.
487
00:27:15,759 --> 00:27:18,428
[Mike] I've never
been to a jail in my life.
488
00:27:18,511 --> 00:27:21,806
Michelle's mother, Suzanne,
and I are behind a big glass,
489
00:27:21,890 --> 00:27:25,268
and they bring Michelle up,
and Michelle goes into the cage.
490
00:27:25,352 --> 00:27:26,978
[ominous music continues]
491
00:27:27,062 --> 00:27:30,273
Only really bad offenders go in the cage.
492
00:27:32,025 --> 00:27:34,944
This is the saddest day of our life.
493
00:27:35,612 --> 00:27:39,324
Attempted rapes, sexual assault, stalking,
494
00:27:40,033 --> 00:27:41,368
and harassment.
495
00:27:41,451 --> 00:27:44,454
It looks like she could get
a life sentence for all of this.
496
00:27:46,081 --> 00:27:47,999
Our relatives think she did it.
497
00:27:48,083 --> 00:27:50,251
Our friends think she did it.
498
00:27:51,086 --> 00:27:53,380
But my mind is logical,
499
00:27:53,463 --> 00:27:54,839
which equates into numbers.
500
00:27:54,923 --> 00:27:58,051
It means that two and two is always four,
no matter what.
501
00:27:58,134 --> 00:28:00,345
So when things don't make any sense,
502
00:28:00,428 --> 00:28:04,432
that is not a world that I exist well in.
503
00:28:05,517 --> 00:28:09,020
I would never, ever think
she would be capable of this.
504
00:28:11,439 --> 00:28:13,400
So if Michelle didn't do this,
505
00:28:13,483 --> 00:28:14,526
who's Lilith?
506
00:28:15,610 --> 00:28:16,986
That's the question.
507
00:28:17,070 --> 00:28:18,488
Who is Lilith?
508
00:28:19,406 --> 00:28:21,408
[music turns pensive]
509
00:28:31,126 --> 00:28:34,295
[man] It was in the summer of 2013.
510
00:28:36,172 --> 00:28:40,135
I was in a little bar called Out of Bounds
in Huntington Beach.
511
00:28:40,218 --> 00:28:46,057
{\an8}I noticed a, uh, really, really
cute blonde, uh, walk through the doors.
512
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:51,354
She was flashy, she was cute,
you know, she walked with swagger.
513
00:28:51,438 --> 00:28:52,564
She was hot.
514
00:28:53,064 --> 00:28:56,109
I must've mentioned at some point
that I was in law enforcement,
515
00:28:56,192 --> 00:28:58,111
and she said, "I am as well."
516
00:28:58,194 --> 00:29:01,656
"I'm an attorney, and I work
with the Department of Justice."
517
00:29:02,365 --> 00:29:04,242
So we had that in common.
518
00:29:04,743 --> 00:29:06,870
And we exchanged numbers.
519
00:29:07,495 --> 00:29:10,790
She introduced herself as Angie.
Her full name was Angela.
520
00:29:12,542 --> 00:29:17,255
Angela was everything a guy would want
in a girlfriend, all across the board.
521
00:29:18,339 --> 00:29:22,969
She was fun, funny,
kind, energetic, vivacious.
522
00:29:23,762 --> 00:29:24,971
Each day that ticked by,
523
00:29:25,054 --> 00:29:27,766
my feelings for her
got stronger and stronger.
524
00:29:27,849 --> 00:29:29,225
A few months later,
525
00:29:29,309 --> 00:29:32,896
she mentioned she wasn't happy
at her apartment in Irvine,
526
00:29:32,979 --> 00:29:35,607
and I said,
"Well, why don't you just move in here?"
527
00:29:35,690 --> 00:29:38,443
"You're here all the time anyway."
528
00:29:39,611 --> 00:29:42,113
I was falling for her, there's no doubt.
529
00:29:42,197 --> 00:29:44,199
{\an8}[music turns poignant]
530
00:29:47,494 --> 00:29:50,663
One night we were on the couch.
531
00:29:50,747 --> 00:29:56,586
She divulged that she had cervical cancer,
and the cancer had progressed to stage 4.
532
00:29:57,921 --> 00:30:00,799
I said, "Oh my God.
Okay, we're gonna beat this together."
533
00:30:00,882 --> 00:30:04,385
"I want to be supportive.
I'll go to chemo appointments with you."
534
00:30:04,469 --> 00:30:07,263
"No, no, no, you just work.
I know you need to work."
535
00:30:07,347 --> 00:30:09,808
"You have an important job.
I can get there by myself."
536
00:30:11,351 --> 00:30:15,897
Angela wanted to be strong,
and she wanted to do this herself.
537
00:30:16,689 --> 00:30:19,776
I didn't like it, but I had to accept it.
538
00:30:22,612 --> 00:30:24,989
[woman] I met Angela back in 2014.
539
00:30:26,241 --> 00:30:28,284
She was just very warm and friendly,
540
00:30:28,368 --> 00:30:30,912
and I thought, "Oh my God,
she's interested in my kids."
541
00:30:30,995 --> 00:30:33,748
And anybody who wants to know
about my kids, I instantly love.
542
00:30:35,583 --> 00:30:39,838
When Angela told me that she had cancer,
I could feel her pain. It was palpable.
543
00:30:39,921 --> 00:30:44,217
And finding out so newly in knowing her
that she was sick,
544
00:30:44,300 --> 00:30:47,136
I felt very maternal
and very protective towards her.
545
00:30:47,220 --> 00:30:49,472
She was kind of
an injured bird in some ways,
546
00:30:49,556 --> 00:30:51,599
and who doesn't want
to take care of an injured bird?
547
00:30:51,683 --> 00:30:53,059
[poignant music continues]
548
00:30:53,142 --> 00:30:56,563
Angie would come
to my son's Little League practice,
549
00:30:56,646 --> 00:30:59,691
and we'd sit and just chat.
550
00:31:01,276 --> 00:31:04,028
We would talk about her health,
551
00:31:04,112 --> 00:31:06,489
about her dreams.
552
00:31:06,573 --> 00:31:09,158
She was afraid that she was going to die.
553
00:31:09,242 --> 00:31:13,580
And the more time that I spent with Angie,
I noticed that she got thinner,
554
00:31:13,663 --> 00:31:15,415
that she got more pale.
555
00:31:15,498 --> 00:31:18,585
She was throwing up
all the time from the chemo,
556
00:31:18,668 --> 00:31:20,712
and she says, "I feel uncomfortable."
557
00:31:20,795 --> 00:31:22,213
"I don't think that I'm pretty."
558
00:31:22,297 --> 00:31:24,841
"I don't think Jason's gonna be
attracted to me anymore."
559
00:31:25,425 --> 00:31:27,343
So to show support for Angie,
560
00:31:27,427 --> 00:31:30,430
I cut my hair short
and put it on Facebook,
561
00:31:30,513 --> 00:31:34,142
and I posted
a hashtag "Angie Warrior" on it.
562
00:31:34,225 --> 00:31:35,435
[music fades]
563
00:31:35,518 --> 00:31:39,188
There was one
particular doctor appointment
564
00:31:39,272 --> 00:31:40,982
that Angela was going to,
565
00:31:41,065 --> 00:31:44,527
and so I said,
"I'm going. I'm absolutely going."
566
00:31:44,611 --> 00:31:46,905
I took the time off. I drove her there.
567
00:31:46,988 --> 00:31:50,033
-[pensive music playing]
-[indistinct chatter]
568
00:31:50,116 --> 00:31:52,869
[Jason] When we
got into the doctor's office,
569
00:31:52,952 --> 00:31:54,871
she was adamant, "No, no, no."
570
00:31:54,954 --> 00:31:56,873
She would not let me go in.
571
00:31:57,498 --> 00:31:59,959
And I thought it was so weird and awkward,
572
00:32:00,043 --> 00:32:02,253
and then I started looking around.
573
00:32:03,129 --> 00:32:06,674
Something was wrong,
and I couldn't pinpoint what it was.
574
00:32:06,758 --> 00:32:09,344
I asked the receptionist, you know,
575
00:32:09,427 --> 00:32:12,597
"What kind of, uh…
576
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:15,391
you know,
cancer treatment center is this?"
577
00:32:16,142 --> 00:32:18,811
That's when I discovered
that she was there
578
00:32:18,895 --> 00:32:22,857
to have a mole
that she had on her ankle removed.
579
00:32:23,733 --> 00:32:25,151
I confronted Angela.
580
00:32:25,234 --> 00:32:26,611
She said, "That's part of it."
581
00:32:26,694 --> 00:32:29,072
"I need to get the cancerous mole
removed as well."
582
00:32:29,155 --> 00:32:33,242
That came across
as really, really weird to me.
583
00:32:33,326 --> 00:32:35,328
[music fades]
584
00:32:36,704 --> 00:32:40,124
[Mary] Angela was very upset
because she was losing her hair.
585
00:32:40,208 --> 00:32:42,835
She had her hat on, of course,
and we'd be talking,
586
00:32:42,919 --> 00:32:44,253
and I'd see her go like that.
587
00:32:45,672 --> 00:32:47,423
At first, I thought she was concerned
588
00:32:47,507 --> 00:32:50,385
because she didn't
want us to see she was balding.
589
00:32:50,468 --> 00:32:51,928
[pensive music resumes]
590
00:32:52,011 --> 00:32:54,931
But I'm realizing
she's pushing her hair up.
591
00:32:57,558 --> 00:33:01,521
I didn't want to call her out on that
and be the asshole,
592
00:33:01,604 --> 00:33:05,984
but I just had a strong inkling
that she was lying.
593
00:33:06,651 --> 00:33:09,070
I'm thinking,
"This bitch has more hair than I do."
594
00:33:09,153 --> 00:33:10,822
[pensive music continues]
595
00:33:10,905 --> 00:33:15,952
Angela had text messaged me
her first-person perspective
596
00:33:16,035 --> 00:33:18,579
from sitting in the chair
receiving her chemotherapy.
597
00:33:19,247 --> 00:33:21,958
And I thought,
"Angela's not in this picture."
598
00:33:22,041 --> 00:33:23,668
"Is this real?"
599
00:33:24,919 --> 00:33:27,213
I did this online search.
600
00:33:28,172 --> 00:33:33,094
{\an8}I had to go through pages
upon pages upon pages.
601
00:33:35,096 --> 00:33:39,851
I decided to call UCI where she said
that she was receiving her chemotherapy.
602
00:33:39,934 --> 00:33:40,768
"Hi, my name's Mary."
603
00:33:40,852 --> 00:33:41,769
"My friend Angie there,
604
00:33:41,853 --> 00:33:43,855
I'm supposed to be picking her up
to take her home."
605
00:33:43,938 --> 00:33:45,273
"She's there getting chemo."
606
00:33:45,356 --> 00:33:48,443
"I have no idea how to find her,
and I can't get a hold of her right now."
607
00:33:48,526 --> 00:33:49,485
"Can you help me?"
608
00:33:49,569 --> 00:33:50,903
They said, "I am so sorry,
609
00:33:50,987 --> 00:33:53,865
but as far as we know,
she's not a patient here."
610
00:33:53,948 --> 00:33:57,744
She specifically was going there.
611
00:33:57,827 --> 00:34:01,247
She'd sent me pictures
from getting chemo there.
612
00:34:02,123 --> 00:34:04,167
[Jason] As I was just about to quit,
613
00:34:04,250 --> 00:34:05,960
that very last page,
614
00:34:06,502 --> 00:34:09,505
I found that exact photograph.
615
00:34:09,589 --> 00:34:11,591
[music crescendos]
616
00:34:12,675 --> 00:34:13,593
[music fades]
617
00:34:13,676 --> 00:34:15,511
Oh my God, what?
618
00:34:16,679 --> 00:34:22,018
It was taken by a guy that was
going through a battle with cancer.
619
00:34:22,685 --> 00:34:27,482
[sighs] Oh, my heart sunk, you know,
all the way to the bottom of my feet.
620
00:34:28,524 --> 00:34:32,278
Then I thought, "How do I get this person
out of my house?"
621
00:34:32,820 --> 00:34:34,614
When I talked to Jason,
622
00:34:34,697 --> 00:34:38,868
he asked me if I would come over
and help pack her shit.
623
00:34:38,951 --> 00:34:40,953
[tense music playing]
624
00:34:41,037 --> 00:34:44,082
I realized the journal that I got her,
625
00:34:44,165 --> 00:34:48,211
it had notes scribbled on it
for her medical treatment,
626
00:34:48,294 --> 00:34:52,924
but also it had, like, hearts
and scribbling about Jason.
627
00:34:53,007 --> 00:34:56,427
How bad he would feel when she died,
628
00:34:56,511 --> 00:34:59,555
and she wanted him to go on with his life.
629
00:34:59,639 --> 00:35:02,266
She knew she wasn't dying, so why do that?
630
00:35:02,350 --> 00:35:04,060
Did she want somebody to find it?
631
00:35:04,143 --> 00:35:07,105
Is she that deranged
that she truly believed it?
632
00:35:09,315 --> 00:35:11,359
We found in the bottom drawer,
633
00:35:11,442 --> 00:35:14,862
there was medical tubing and gauze.
634
00:35:15,655 --> 00:35:20,326
So she could make it look like
something was sticking out of a port.
635
00:35:21,369 --> 00:35:22,870
I'm thinking, "Fuck you."
636
00:35:22,954 --> 00:35:26,124
"I don't know what's going on.
You're lying to everybody."
637
00:35:26,207 --> 00:35:28,751
"I don't know what your game is,
but I'm on to you."
638
00:35:28,835 --> 00:35:32,338
[music crescendos, fades]
639
00:35:32,421 --> 00:35:34,632
It was time for a confrontation.
640
00:35:35,508 --> 00:35:37,885
[Jason] I invited everybody in our circle
641
00:35:37,969 --> 00:35:41,139
that she had lied to,
manipulated, to my house.
642
00:35:41,222 --> 00:35:42,598
[Angela] Hi. Life's good.
643
00:35:42,682 --> 00:35:44,642
[Jason] Come on in. Have a seat.
644
00:35:44,725 --> 00:35:45,893
-Welcome.
-Hi!
645
00:35:45,977 --> 00:35:48,771
[Angela] Why is everybody here?
646
00:35:48,855 --> 00:35:50,148
Please have a seat.
647
00:35:50,231 --> 00:35:51,607
[Angela] What are you doing?
648
00:35:51,691 --> 00:35:54,068
Okay. Here's what's going on.
649
00:35:54,152 --> 00:35:56,946
Everybody in this room,
you owe a big, huge apology to.
650
00:35:57,029 --> 00:35:59,031
-[Angela] For what?
-[Jason] Okay, for two things.
651
00:35:59,115 --> 00:36:04,745
One, everybody in this room
is about to know two things.
652
00:36:04,829 --> 00:36:05,913
You're not an attorney.
653
00:36:05,997 --> 00:36:08,416
Yes, I actually am.
I got my law degree. I did.
654
00:36:08,499 --> 00:36:09,917
-[Jason] Okay, and this…
-[laughter]
655
00:36:10,001 --> 00:36:12,879
I laughed.
It's like, okay, that's total bullshit.
656
00:36:12,962 --> 00:36:14,589
[Jason] Angela, you don't have cancer.
657
00:36:14,672 --> 00:36:16,424
-Yes, I do.
-[Mary] No, you don't.
658
00:36:16,507 --> 00:36:19,385
How do-- Would you like to speak
with my parents and everybody?
659
00:36:19,468 --> 00:36:21,137
What are you talking about?
660
00:36:21,220 --> 00:36:22,388
[Mary] Let's see your port.
661
00:36:22,471 --> 00:36:24,891
-[Jason] Angela, just sit down.
-Yeah. What… Why…
662
00:36:24,974 --> 00:36:27,810
-[Jason] Let's talk about some things.
-What are you guys talking about?
663
00:36:27,894 --> 00:36:29,395
[Jason] Would you please just sit down?
664
00:36:30,229 --> 00:36:31,647
-You know…
-That's fine.
665
00:36:31,731 --> 00:36:35,193
Again, there's overwhelming proof
that you don't have cancer.
666
00:36:35,276 --> 00:36:37,445
So everybody in this room
has been deceived,
667
00:36:37,528 --> 00:36:40,281
and like I said,
I'm more heartbroken than anything else.
668
00:36:40,364 --> 00:36:43,034
[Mary] I believed you,
and I welcomed you into my home,
669
00:36:43,117 --> 00:36:44,327
and you lied to me.
670
00:36:44,410 --> 00:36:47,079
-You lied to my children.
-I did not lie to you or your children.
671
00:36:47,163 --> 00:36:49,749
-[Mary] Show me your port.
-[Jason] You're the ones that came to me.
672
00:36:49,832 --> 00:36:51,292
[woman] It's in her fucking arm.
673
00:36:51,375 --> 00:36:52,585
[Mary] Show me your…
674
00:36:52,668 --> 00:36:54,587
-Let's see. Show me your port.
-It hurts.
675
00:36:54,670 --> 00:36:56,380
-It fucking hurts.
-[Mary] Show me your port.
676
00:36:56,464 --> 00:36:58,674
-It really fucking hurts.
-[Mary] Show me your port.
677
00:36:58,758 --> 00:37:01,802
[Jason] This picture said
"battle juice," right?
678
00:37:01,886 --> 00:37:02,929
[Mary] Unwrap it.
679
00:37:03,012 --> 00:37:06,224
[Jason] Portraying yourself as sitting
in the chair receiving chemotherapy.
680
00:37:06,307 --> 00:37:07,558
Okay. Let's just go.
681
00:37:07,642 --> 00:37:10,937
[Mary] Unwrap-- See?
There's nothing to show.
682
00:37:11,020 --> 00:37:13,022
-You're a fucking liar.
-[tense chatter]
683
00:37:13,105 --> 00:37:14,690
-[Mary] She's a liar.
-Sorry, but--
684
00:37:14,774 --> 00:37:16,901
-I'm taking her with me.
-[Mary] Unwrap it.
685
00:37:16,984 --> 00:37:19,570
{\an8}-Then unwrap it.
-I am taking her with me. Right now.
686
00:37:19,654 --> 00:37:21,656
[tense music playing]
687
00:37:26,786 --> 00:37:28,371
[Mary] Show your port!
688
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:33,000
Show your port, liar!
689
00:37:33,084 --> 00:37:34,835
Show your port!
690
00:37:34,919 --> 00:37:36,837
You're probably even fired!
691
00:37:36,921 --> 00:37:39,590
You probably don't even have a job!
692
00:37:43,469 --> 00:37:45,304
[Jason] After Angela left,
693
00:37:45,888 --> 00:37:50,601
I needed an absolute cutting of that tie.
694
00:37:52,186 --> 00:37:55,690
There's so much deception
and so much dishonesty.
695
00:37:55,773 --> 00:37:58,150
What is this woman capable of?
696
00:37:58,818 --> 00:38:00,820
[music turns ominous]
697
00:38:07,743 --> 00:38:09,495
-[lock clicks]
-[cell door opens]
698
00:38:09,578 --> 00:38:13,874
[Mike] We went and saw Michelle
every… time we could in jail.
699
00:38:14,750 --> 00:38:17,086
We're up to 80 days now,
700
00:38:17,169 --> 00:38:18,796
and she's given up hope.
701
00:38:21,757 --> 00:38:23,718
We just want her out of that jail cell.
702
00:38:25,177 --> 00:38:27,847
We lost 70% of our family business
at that point.
703
00:38:27,930 --> 00:38:28,806
[blows raspberry]
704
00:38:28,889 --> 00:38:30,224
Straight into the hole.
705
00:38:30,308 --> 00:38:32,184
Who wants to do business with…
706
00:38:32,893 --> 00:38:37,815
the family whose daughter
solicits rape fantasies
707
00:38:37,898 --> 00:38:40,609
to attack… a pregnant woman?
708
00:38:40,693 --> 00:38:41,527
[music fades]
709
00:38:43,195 --> 00:38:45,197
[portentous music playing]
710
00:38:47,908 --> 00:38:51,579
[Leslie] Ian and Angela had been together
for eight months at this point.
711
00:38:52,079 --> 00:38:54,832
Michelle was finally out of their lives,
712
00:38:55,458 --> 00:38:57,918
and there are twins on the way.
713
00:38:58,711 --> 00:39:04,383
Ian was excited and looking forward
to this new chapter in his life.
714
00:39:04,467 --> 00:39:06,469
[music fades]
715
00:39:07,511 --> 00:39:11,599
But then I am sleeping late at night…
716
00:39:11,682 --> 00:39:13,809
[cell phone vibrating]
717
00:39:13,893 --> 00:39:17,229
I get a call somewhere around 2:00 a.m.,
718
00:39:17,313 --> 00:39:19,815
which is never a good feeling.
719
00:39:20,858 --> 00:39:22,735
The first words out of Ian's mouth are…
720
00:39:24,445 --> 00:39:26,322
"The twins are not real."
721
00:39:26,405 --> 00:39:28,407
[music turns ominous]
722
00:39:30,242 --> 00:39:32,411
I had to kind of re-- like…
723
00:39:33,537 --> 00:39:37,249
get my thoughts together,
and I just said, "What? Wait, what?"
724
00:39:37,333 --> 00:39:38,834
And he said,
725
00:39:38,918 --> 00:39:41,003
"The sonogram of the twins…
726
00:39:42,505 --> 00:39:43,589
was fake."
727
00:39:45,883 --> 00:39:48,052
I'm thinking, "What the fuck?"
728
00:39:48,135 --> 00:39:50,638
You know, Ian confronted Angela.
729
00:39:50,721 --> 00:39:53,724
And Angela was
730
00:39:54,392 --> 00:39:55,851
obstinate in her reply.
731
00:39:55,935 --> 00:39:57,561
"How could you say that?"
732
00:39:57,645 --> 00:40:00,606
"Of course they're real.
What are you talking about?"
733
00:40:02,233 --> 00:40:04,860
But then she left immediately.
734
00:40:05,694 --> 00:40:07,696
[pensive music playing]
735
00:40:09,323 --> 00:40:15,579
Ian and I started to find pregnancy tests
in Ziploc bags with blue markers.
736
00:40:16,205 --> 00:40:17,832
I'm thinking, "Oh, my God."
737
00:40:17,915 --> 00:40:19,834
I thought, "Who is this person?"
738
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:23,879
Ian and I started to doubt
everything that Angela said
739
00:40:24,547 --> 00:40:28,592
for that entire eight months
of being in Ian's life.
740
00:40:29,427 --> 00:40:31,929
{\an8}So we told the police everything.
741
00:40:33,097 --> 00:40:36,016
[man] This is, to put it lightly,
a monster of a case.
742
00:40:36,517 --> 00:40:39,019
And our job is to figure it out,
743
00:40:39,103 --> 00:40:41,105
um, to find out who's doing what,
744
00:40:41,188 --> 00:40:43,899
and we appreciate you coming in here
and making a statement.
745
00:40:43,983 --> 00:40:46,777
-[Ian] No problem at all.
-[man] So let's talk about Angela.
746
00:40:46,861 --> 00:40:50,364
You stated that your relationship
with Angela started January 2nd?
747
00:40:50,448 --> 00:40:52,992
[Ian] We met at the Starbucks in Anaheim.
748
00:40:53,492 --> 00:40:56,203
We just hit it off.
She was just a sweetheart.
749
00:40:56,287 --> 00:40:59,707
Everything I ever wanted in a woman.
750
00:41:00,583 --> 00:41:01,500
Everything.
751
00:41:02,793 --> 00:41:07,131
Ian brought everything
that we had found in the condo.
752
00:41:07,715 --> 00:41:09,967
-[man] You have pregnancy tests.
-[Ian] I do.
753
00:41:10,050 --> 00:41:14,513
This was found after she left.
754
00:41:14,597 --> 00:41:17,057
This is the one
that I was shown for the twins.
755
00:41:17,141 --> 00:41:18,225
It's obviously been peed on.
756
00:41:18,309 --> 00:41:20,769
And then I found these two
757
00:41:21,479 --> 00:41:23,814
with a different kind of line in it.
758
00:41:23,898 --> 00:41:27,109
-And then I found three different pens.
-[Leslie] All of these in the same box.
759
00:41:27,193 --> 00:41:29,487
[Ian] And if you can tell
from the side here,
760
00:41:29,570 --> 00:41:31,947
this one's been altered and opened up,
they all have.
761
00:41:32,031 --> 00:41:34,492
-[man] So she drew the line in it.
-[Ian] She drew the line.
762
00:41:35,367 --> 00:41:39,079
[Leslie] Ian explained to the police
the sonogram was fake.
763
00:41:39,163 --> 00:41:41,123
[Ian] This just about
killed me, all right.
764
00:41:41,207 --> 00:41:44,793
If you google "fake sonograms,"
765
00:41:44,877 --> 00:41:48,672
that one comes up
at, like, number ten on Google Images.
766
00:41:48,756 --> 00:41:50,841
With other people's names on it.
767
00:41:50,925 --> 00:41:52,927
[music turns ominous]
768
00:41:54,428 --> 00:41:59,892
Ian was disturbed by the whole thing
and sort of at a loss for what to do next.
769
00:41:59,975 --> 00:42:01,894
He was not in a great place.
770
00:42:01,977 --> 00:42:05,147
-[telephone line ringing]
-And he was calling Angela.
771
00:42:05,981 --> 00:42:08,275
[Ian] Hey. I knew you
weren't gonna answer, and that's fine.
772
00:42:08,359 --> 00:42:10,110
I just wanted to leave a message.
773
00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:14,406
You lied about something
very, very severe.
774
00:42:14,490 --> 00:42:17,701
And I think you can understand that.
I think anybody else would too.
775
00:42:18,494 --> 00:42:21,247
I just hope
you're taking care of yourself. Bye.
776
00:42:21,330 --> 00:42:23,499
[telephone line ringing]
777
00:42:23,582 --> 00:42:24,917
It's Ian.
778
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:28,921
Just trying to give you a call
to see if you were available to talk.
779
00:42:29,004 --> 00:42:31,090
The fact that I even
want to talk to you at this point
780
00:42:31,173 --> 00:42:32,800
probably means I really do love you.
781
00:42:32,883 --> 00:42:35,219
So… give me a call.
782
00:42:35,302 --> 00:42:36,220
Love you.
783
00:42:37,388 --> 00:42:41,767
After Angela left, I was starting
to uncover all sorts of wacky stuff.
784
00:42:41,850 --> 00:42:43,435
-[man] She lied about her job?
-[Ian] Yes.
785
00:42:43,519 --> 00:42:46,272
She admitted
that she did not have the job.
786
00:42:46,897 --> 00:42:49,608
It felt like an immense responsibility
787
00:42:49,692 --> 00:42:54,405
to be sure that the police knew
that there was some doubt
788
00:42:55,030 --> 00:42:58,784
now applied to Angela's filings with them
789
00:42:58,867 --> 00:43:02,162
about Michelle's threats
of violence and rape.
790
00:43:02,246 --> 00:43:05,291
Because what's really happening?
791
00:43:05,374 --> 00:43:08,377
[dramatic music playing]
792
00:43:10,212 --> 00:43:11,338
Holy shit.
793
00:43:13,257 --> 00:43:15,092
Did any of these emails
794
00:43:15,593 --> 00:43:17,428
actually come from Michelle?
795
00:43:24,893 --> 00:43:28,814
Is it possible
that Angela sent all of these emails
796
00:43:29,315 --> 00:43:31,317
to herself?
797
00:43:35,487 --> 00:43:38,574
Holy… fuck.
798
00:43:40,784 --> 00:43:42,578
What really happened in the garage?
799
00:43:43,912 --> 00:43:45,581
Was she attacked in the garage?
800
00:43:47,875 --> 00:43:49,918
Here is Michelle in jail.
801
00:43:50,461 --> 00:43:54,256
And who the hell knows
if that's the right person in jail?
802
00:43:56,592 --> 00:43:58,761
Is Angela the victim
803
00:43:58,844 --> 00:44:00,262
or the perpetrator?
804
00:44:03,307 --> 00:44:05,517
[pensive music playing]
805
00:44:05,601 --> 00:44:07,394
[Ian] Have you talked to Angela at all?
806
00:44:08,187 --> 00:44:09,021
[man] No.
807
00:44:09,104 --> 00:44:10,147
[Ian] Have you tried?
808
00:44:10,230 --> 00:44:11,065
[man] No.
809
00:44:11,148 --> 00:44:12,900
[Leslie] We told the police,
810
00:44:12,983 --> 00:44:14,526
"Please look into this."
811
00:44:15,069 --> 00:44:18,113
"Figure out what's missing.
Go talk to Angela."
812
00:44:18,197 --> 00:44:21,367
-[telephone line ringing]
-[children chattering]
813
00:44:21,450 --> 00:44:23,327
[Cunha] Hey, it's Detective Cunha.
814
00:44:23,410 --> 00:44:24,411
[Angela] Yeah.
815
00:44:24,912 --> 00:44:26,664
[Cunha] Just a couple of questions.
816
00:44:27,414 --> 00:44:30,000
Do you know Jason Rayburn at all?
817
00:44:30,084 --> 00:44:31,585
[tense, pensive music playing]
818
00:44:31,669 --> 00:44:33,796
[Angela] It's a person I dated
a while ago.
819
00:44:33,879 --> 00:44:35,130
[Cunha] Okay.
820
00:44:35,214 --> 00:44:36,632
[Angela] Obviously, much before Ian.
821
00:44:36,715 --> 00:44:38,300
[Cunha] Okay. And then,
822
00:44:38,384 --> 00:44:40,636
did you ever get sick?
823
00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:45,933
Did you ever get sick to the point
where there's talk about you had cancer?
824
00:44:46,809 --> 00:44:48,352
[Angela] There was talk about it.
825
00:44:48,435 --> 00:44:51,146
I went to have
skin cancer biopsies removed,
826
00:44:51,230 --> 00:44:52,439
and I was super stressed out.
827
00:44:53,190 --> 00:44:55,317
[Cunha] Okay, so no chemotherapy
or anything like that?
828
00:44:55,401 --> 00:44:57,111
[Angela] No, absolutely not.
829
00:44:58,445 --> 00:44:59,905
A mindfuck?
830
00:44:59,988 --> 00:45:01,323
[unsettling music playing]
831
00:45:01,407 --> 00:45:05,202
Sorry, but I don't know
if anything that I know about her is true.
832
00:45:05,285 --> 00:45:07,371
[pensive music playing]
833
00:45:07,454 --> 00:45:09,164
[Ian] I can't believe this is happening.
834
00:45:09,248 --> 00:45:10,124
[sighs]
835
00:45:10,207 --> 00:45:12,000
I feel like a fucking idiot.
836
00:45:12,501 --> 00:45:14,545
[Cunha] Who do you think's responsible?
837
00:45:16,130 --> 00:45:17,756
I think Angela did it all.
838
00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:19,216
[music turns ominous]
839
00:45:19,967 --> 00:45:21,677
When I look at these crazy emails,
840
00:45:23,178 --> 00:45:25,681
and the religious stuff and whatever,
the Lilith stuff,
841
00:45:25,764 --> 00:45:27,808
and the Craigslist and the rapist,
842
00:45:28,308 --> 00:45:29,852
that could have been Angela.
843
00:45:30,436 --> 00:45:33,105
I leave the house, bam.
All of a sudden, she's attacked.
844
00:45:33,188 --> 00:45:34,606
I tried to move. He grabbed me.
845
00:45:34,690 --> 00:45:36,692
He had me pinned back
by the hair at the neck.
846
00:45:37,359 --> 00:45:38,527
[Ian] She's behind all this.
847
00:45:39,445 --> 00:45:43,282
It seems like I've been sleeping
with the enemy the entire time.
848
00:45:45,242 --> 00:45:47,035
Team 12's Kevin Kennedy joins us
849
00:45:47,119 --> 00:45:49,496
from the Live Alert Center
with a plot twist.
850
00:45:49,580 --> 00:45:50,414
Kev?
851
00:45:50,497 --> 00:45:51,874
[lively news theme playing]
852
00:45:51,957 --> 00:45:55,502
Michelle Hadley spent four months in jail
for a crime she didn't commit.
853
00:45:55,586 --> 00:45:58,338
Police say she was framed
by a vindictive woman
854
00:45:58,422 --> 00:46:02,259
who was willing to take
extraordinary actions to ruin her life.
855
00:46:02,342 --> 00:46:04,386
I started to question
856
00:46:05,095 --> 00:46:07,514
what her motive was.
857
00:46:08,849 --> 00:46:09,933
At some point,
858
00:46:10,017 --> 00:46:15,397
I just remember Angela asking me
about Ian's relationship with Michelle.
859
00:46:15,898 --> 00:46:19,818
She seemed pretty curious
about how that ended.
860
00:46:19,902 --> 00:46:21,069
[ominous music playing]
861
00:46:21,153 --> 00:46:23,781
At one point, Angela looks over at me,
and she's crying.
862
00:46:23,864 --> 00:46:26,158
And she said, "I just feel like
863
00:46:26,742 --> 00:46:28,827
Michelle is always gonna be in our life."
864
00:46:28,911 --> 00:46:34,166
"We're never going to be able to move on
because she will always be a part of it."
865
00:46:34,750 --> 00:46:37,294
[woman on TV] The judge
used the words "evil, calculated,"
866
00:46:37,377 --> 00:46:39,046
and said what Angela Diaz did
867
00:46:39,129 --> 00:46:42,466
was unlike anything he had seen
in all his years on the bench.
868
00:46:42,549 --> 00:46:46,887
This was a distorted triangle
of relationships
869
00:46:46,970 --> 00:46:50,390
that twisted fantasies
aren't even made up of.
870
00:46:51,725 --> 00:46:54,728
[somber music playing]
871
00:47:13,121 --> 00:47:15,624
[Michelle] They told me I'm free to go
872
00:47:15,707 --> 00:47:17,960
and the charges
have been completely dropped.
873
00:47:18,043 --> 00:47:21,046
-[auspicious music playing]
-[camera shutters clicking]
874
00:47:22,756 --> 00:47:27,219
Freedom was so sweet at that point
because, oh man, I mean,
875
00:47:27,302 --> 00:47:30,013
you don't appreciate it
until you've lost it.
876
00:47:31,473 --> 00:47:34,059
I'm walking down the courthouse steps,
877
00:47:34,142 --> 00:47:37,020
and the media is waiting for me outside.
878
00:47:40,023 --> 00:47:42,609
It's this big moment for me
879
00:47:42,693 --> 00:47:47,656
because they all want to hear
what I have to say.
880
00:47:47,739 --> 00:47:51,410
Obviously, this has been
a huge nightmare for me,
881
00:47:51,910 --> 00:47:55,622
probably the most traumatic
experience of my life.
882
00:47:55,706 --> 00:48:00,836
And I'm glad it's finally over,
and I finally get to move on with my life.
883
00:48:00,919 --> 00:48:03,422
Here's a bizarre
Orange County love triangle.
884
00:48:03,505 --> 00:48:04,673
This is a big story.
885
00:48:04,756 --> 00:48:07,551
[man on TV]
It had all the makings of Law and Order.
886
00:48:07,634 --> 00:48:10,679
A jealous wife,
romantic rivals, blackmail.
887
00:48:11,263 --> 00:48:16,268
I think the media
gleefully grabbed ahold of this narrative
888
00:48:16,351 --> 00:48:20,105
of the crazy woman,
889
00:48:20,814 --> 00:48:22,816
the jealous woman.
890
00:48:24,318 --> 00:48:27,487
And if they couldn't paint me as that,
891
00:48:27,571 --> 00:48:29,948
then they were
just gonna paint Angela as that.
892
00:48:30,032 --> 00:48:34,202
They didn't want to talk about the man.
Nobody wanted to talk about that.
893
00:48:34,286 --> 00:48:36,121
I wanted someone to listen to me.
894
00:48:37,414 --> 00:48:40,542
I wanted to tell someone
what actually happened.
895
00:48:41,209 --> 00:48:43,670
Because there was a lot more to tell.
896
00:48:43,754 --> 00:48:46,757
[music turns dramatic]
897
00:48:53,221 --> 00:48:55,891
[man] I was working
at the Department of Justice
898
00:48:55,974 --> 00:48:59,144
as a criminal investigator
and digital forensic examiner,
899
00:48:59,227 --> 00:49:03,106
investigating cases involving
Department of Justice employees.
900
00:49:04,107 --> 00:49:06,276
My name is Ian. I'm a U.S. Marshal.
901
00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:08,195
Sorry, this is Angela.
902
00:49:08,278 --> 00:49:10,530
[man] Angela Connell had pleaded guilty
903
00:49:10,614 --> 00:49:15,118
to charges relating to framing
Ian Diaz's ex-girlfriend, Michelle Hadley.
904
00:49:15,619 --> 00:49:18,080
{\an8}Ian Diaz was
a Deputy United States Marshal
905
00:49:18,163 --> 00:49:20,332
{\an8}and a Department of Justice employee.
906
00:49:20,415 --> 00:49:24,711
I mean, we had an obligation
to go back to look at the case again.
907
00:49:24,795 --> 00:49:27,547
So we reached out
to Anaheim Police Department…
908
00:49:27,631 --> 00:49:29,967
[tense, pensive music playing]
909
00:49:30,592 --> 00:49:33,971
…and they provided us
with their case file.
910
00:49:34,763 --> 00:49:39,267
{\an8}One of the first things I did
was listen to the interview with Ian Diaz.
911
00:49:39,768 --> 00:49:41,019
[music stops]
912
00:49:41,103 --> 00:49:44,189
[man] This is, to put it lightly,
a monster of a case.
913
00:49:44,272 --> 00:49:46,525
Our job is to find out who's doing what,
914
00:49:46,608 --> 00:49:48,944
and that's why
we pulled you in here to talk to you.
915
00:49:49,027 --> 00:49:51,363
We appreciate you coming in
and making a statement.
916
00:49:51,446 --> 00:49:54,282
[Ian] Right, tell me some good news
because my heart is up.
917
00:49:54,366 --> 00:49:55,784
-[man] Okay.
-[Ian] What is going on?
918
00:49:56,576 --> 00:49:59,746
[Jason] My general impression
of Ian and his responses
919
00:49:59,830 --> 00:50:02,207
is that he's a bit anxious.
920
00:50:02,290 --> 00:50:04,626
[pensive music playing]
921
00:50:04,710 --> 00:50:07,087
{\an8}In addition to those recordings,
922
00:50:07,170 --> 00:50:10,424
{\an8}there were a few things
in the body camera footage
923
00:50:10,507 --> 00:50:11,758
{\an8}that jumped out to me.
924
00:50:12,467 --> 00:50:14,302
There is a scene
925
00:50:14,886 --> 00:50:17,264
where Ian leaves the living room
926
00:50:17,347 --> 00:50:20,142
while Angela is talking to the police.
927
00:50:20,225 --> 00:50:22,227
[officer 1] The specifics of that.
928
00:50:22,310 --> 00:50:24,604
-Like, exactly when it…?
-[officer 1] Time? Date?
929
00:50:24,688 --> 00:50:27,691
Oh, no, she doesn't say,
like, on December 16th.
930
00:50:27,774 --> 00:50:30,318
Ian is clearly listening
to what Angela is saying
931
00:50:30,902 --> 00:50:34,698
and provides her information
from the side.
932
00:50:34,781 --> 00:50:36,241
No, she doesn't do that.
933
00:50:36,324 --> 00:50:38,326
[Ian] She says, "I'm coming over tonight."
934
00:50:38,410 --> 00:50:39,494
She always says that.
935
00:50:39,578 --> 00:50:41,455
She always says that threat of, like,
936
00:50:41,538 --> 00:50:43,498
"I'm coming over tonight.
I'm coming over."
937
00:50:43,999 --> 00:50:47,377
It sounds to me
as if Ian is trying to coach Angela.
938
00:50:49,212 --> 00:50:51,256
[officer 2] The last email was at 5:30?
939
00:50:51,339 --> 00:50:52,883
-5:33.
-[officer 2] 5:33.
940
00:50:52,966 --> 00:50:54,926
[Ian] No, there was one just now.
941
00:50:55,010 --> 00:50:57,054
-That's why we called them.
-Oh! Oh, yeah.
942
00:50:57,137 --> 00:50:58,638
-Sorry.
-[Ian] Yeah, no, there was one…
943
00:50:58,722 --> 00:51:01,349
[Angela] I was like,
"What? Why are you here?"
944
00:51:01,433 --> 00:51:02,642
[pensive music continues]
945
00:51:02,726 --> 00:51:05,479
It certainly makes me think
that Ian is involved.
946
00:51:06,396 --> 00:51:08,273
In addition, one of the things I noticed
947
00:51:08,356 --> 00:51:12,652
was Ian has tremendous animus
toward Michelle.
948
00:51:13,361 --> 00:51:15,739
You guys have been here a whole boatload.
949
00:51:15,822 --> 00:51:18,617
-[female officer] Regarding the same girl?
-Regarding the same bitch.
950
00:51:19,117 --> 00:51:21,995
This ex-girlfriend of mine
has it out for this woman
951
00:51:22,079 --> 00:51:23,538
because she fucking hates her
952
00:51:23,622 --> 00:51:26,124
and hates the fact
that I'm not with her anymore.
953
00:51:26,208 --> 00:51:30,587
I mean, his desire to have her locked up
struck me as rather odd.
954
00:51:30,670 --> 00:51:33,924
[Ian] She needs to be in fucking cuffs
and in a padded room.
955
00:51:34,007 --> 00:51:35,926
[pensive music continues]
956
00:51:37,719 --> 00:51:39,262
[Jason] And so we meet with Michelle
957
00:51:39,346 --> 00:51:43,558
to interview her and get a sense
of what she would be like as a witness.
958
00:51:45,894 --> 00:51:46,895
[music fades]
959
00:51:46,978 --> 00:51:50,107
[Michelle] I thought, "Okay,
this is my chance to tell my story."
960
00:51:50,607 --> 00:51:53,735
There are a lot of misconceptions
about what happened to me.
961
00:51:53,819 --> 00:51:56,446
And until you really understand it
962
00:51:56,947 --> 00:51:58,323
through my eyes,
963
00:51:59,282 --> 00:52:01,785
you don't know anything about my story
964
00:52:01,868 --> 00:52:04,955
and why what happened to me happened.
965
00:52:05,580 --> 00:52:09,000
[man] I need to get a bit more detailed
into your relationship with Ian.
966
00:52:09,084 --> 00:52:09,918
[Michelle] Sure.
967
00:52:10,001 --> 00:52:13,255
[man] Anything strange happen,
that you might have said, "What the heck?"
968
00:52:13,338 --> 00:52:16,591
[Michelle] Yeah, I guess
I kind of have to back up.
969
00:52:16,675 --> 00:52:19,177
-[inhales, exhales]
-[poignant music playing]
970
00:52:19,261 --> 00:52:21,930
We came to realize
there was much more to Michelle's story
971
00:52:22,013 --> 00:52:23,348
than we had previously known.
972
00:52:23,431 --> 00:52:25,142
[exhales]
973
00:52:25,225 --> 00:52:27,310
[Michelle] Early in the relationship,
974
00:52:27,394 --> 00:52:30,063
I'm on a break at work,
975
00:52:30,147 --> 00:52:32,691
and Ian calls me to talk to me.
976
00:52:32,774 --> 00:52:34,776
And I'm right outside my work building.
977
00:52:34,860 --> 00:52:37,863
And he tells me, "Hey,
978
00:52:38,822 --> 00:52:43,952
I have this fantasy that I want to watch
you have sex with another man."
979
00:52:44,035 --> 00:52:46,454
[music turns unsettling]
980
00:52:46,538 --> 00:52:50,083
Oh, my heart immediately dropped
981
00:52:50,167 --> 00:52:52,544
because I thought… [groans]
982
00:52:52,627 --> 00:52:53,837
…"Here it is."
983
00:52:54,629 --> 00:52:57,007
We're not compatible in this area.
984
00:52:57,924 --> 00:53:00,177
Obviously, people have
different fantasies.
985
00:53:00,260 --> 00:53:03,597
That's normal.
A lot of people are into different things.
986
00:53:04,639 --> 00:53:07,559
If I were actually to describe
myself to people,
987
00:53:07,642 --> 00:53:10,270
I would have put "wholesome"
right at the top of the list.
988
00:53:10,353 --> 00:53:14,441
Like, I was that
little all-American girl who…
989
00:53:14,524 --> 00:53:16,318
I had never done any drugs.
990
00:53:16,401 --> 00:53:19,487
I had waited until I was 21
to drink alcohol.
991
00:53:19,571 --> 00:53:22,991
I was so wholesome. [laughs]
992
00:53:23,575 --> 00:53:25,285
Like, almost sickeningly wholesome.
993
00:53:25,368 --> 00:53:28,455
[laughs] But I thought he was too.
994
00:53:29,039 --> 00:53:32,626
I was not expecting any of this.
995
00:53:32,709 --> 00:53:34,586
[somber music playing]
996
00:53:34,669 --> 00:53:40,258
He would bring it up
over and over and over again,
997
00:53:40,342 --> 00:53:42,177
multiple times a week.
998
00:53:42,260 --> 00:53:45,055
I would say, "I don't like this at all."
999
00:53:45,138 --> 00:53:46,890
"This is making me
fell really uncomfortable."
1000
00:53:46,973 --> 00:53:48,934
"I don't want to do it,
and I've told you."
1001
00:53:50,977 --> 00:53:53,688
[man] How come at that point you say,
"This isn't working for me"?
1002
00:53:53,772 --> 00:53:55,440
[Michelle] Well, I did a couple times.
1003
00:53:55,523 --> 00:53:59,110
I would cry, tell him I was done with it.
I couldn't take it anymore.
1004
00:53:59,194 --> 00:54:00,570
But then he would backpedal.
1005
00:54:00,654 --> 00:54:03,615
He would be like,
"No, I was-- it was just talk." You know?
1006
00:54:04,991 --> 00:54:07,494
But then he starts sending me
1007
00:54:07,577 --> 00:54:12,165
links to profiles on Craigslist
1008
00:54:12,249 --> 00:54:14,793
of men he wants to do this with.
1009
00:54:14,876 --> 00:54:17,462
[unsettling music playing]
1010
00:54:17,545 --> 00:54:19,631
I hadn't dated a lot before this.
1011
00:54:19,714 --> 00:54:20,882
So I thought,
1012
00:54:20,966 --> 00:54:24,219
maybe this is just
what women had to do in relationships.
1013
00:54:24,302 --> 00:54:25,762
Like, maybe this was normal.
1014
00:54:27,055 --> 00:54:29,057
And I told him, like, "Okay,
1015
00:54:29,140 --> 00:54:32,978
if I do it this once,
I don't ever want to hear about it again."
1016
00:54:33,061 --> 00:54:35,480
And I just remember feeling like…
1017
00:54:40,902 --> 00:54:42,696
-[exhales raggedly]
-[music fades]
1018
00:54:45,573 --> 00:54:47,826
…like a beautiful part of me had died.
1019
00:54:48,576 --> 00:54:49,828
Because it was…
1020
00:54:49,911 --> 00:54:52,205
[inhales, exhales]
1021
00:55:00,797 --> 00:55:02,716
just this part of myself that…
1022
00:55:04,551 --> 00:55:05,510
[inhales]
1023
00:55:05,593 --> 00:55:09,389
…had existed outside of
all of this ugliness in the world.
1024
00:55:09,472 --> 00:55:11,474
[poignant music playing]
1025
00:55:12,726 --> 00:55:14,519
And he just fucking killed it.
1026
00:55:16,021 --> 00:55:17,105
[sniffles]
1027
00:55:18,523 --> 00:55:22,402
[man] When did this…
this act actually happen?
1028
00:55:23,069 --> 00:55:24,529
February 14th.
1029
00:55:25,905 --> 00:55:29,576
[man] Now, after that happened
in February 14th, you stayed?
1030
00:55:29,659 --> 00:55:31,244
[Michelle] I stayed with him, yeah.
1031
00:55:32,078 --> 00:55:35,123
I thought that
if I let him scratch this itch,
1032
00:55:35,206 --> 00:55:37,042
that we could move past this.
1033
00:55:37,125 --> 00:55:39,961
-[man ] Um, did you guys get engaged too?
-[Michelle] Yeah.
1034
00:55:40,045 --> 00:55:42,172
I thought if we got engaged,
1035
00:55:42,255 --> 00:55:46,634
then maybe the relationship was gonna be
on the right track after this.
1036
00:55:49,054 --> 00:55:50,680
[Jason] Hearing Michelle's story
1037
00:55:50,764 --> 00:55:54,893
about his pressuring her
from very early on in their relationship
1038
00:55:54,976 --> 00:55:56,561
to have sex with another man,
1039
00:55:56,644 --> 00:55:58,146
that's clearly a red flag.
1040
00:55:58,772 --> 00:56:01,983
{\an8}But what happened after they got engaged
1041
00:56:02,067 --> 00:56:05,028
{\an8}was particularly helpful
for purposes of our investigation.
1042
00:56:05,111 --> 00:56:06,654
[pensive music playing]
1043
00:56:06,738 --> 00:56:09,199
[man] When did you move
into the apartment complex
1044
00:56:09,282 --> 00:56:10,700
over at South Anaheim?
1045
00:56:11,409 --> 00:56:14,329
It was about two months
after we got engaged that
1046
00:56:14,412 --> 00:56:16,998
Ian actually brought up
the decision to buy together.
1047
00:56:19,834 --> 00:56:22,337
That's when everything went south.
1048
00:56:23,630 --> 00:56:28,635
Ian starts asking me
to change things about myself.
1049
00:56:29,719 --> 00:56:32,514
It starts off with smaller things,
1050
00:56:32,597 --> 00:56:36,726
like he wants me to get fake nails.
1051
00:56:37,560 --> 00:56:40,188
Then he wants me to get
a belly button piercing
1052
00:56:40,271 --> 00:56:42,357
because he thinks it would be hot.
1053
00:56:43,024 --> 00:56:45,693
He starts asking me
to dress in certain ways,
1054
00:56:45,777 --> 00:56:48,113
so he'll pick out outfits for me,
1055
00:56:49,155 --> 00:56:52,951
and, uh, tell me
when he wants me to wear them.
1056
00:56:54,702 --> 00:56:57,122
You know, I was
really young at this point,
1057
00:56:57,205 --> 00:57:01,459
and I didn't have
a very well-developed sense of self yet.
1058
00:57:01,543 --> 00:57:05,296
So when Ian came in
and started to take over,
1059
00:57:05,380 --> 00:57:09,384
it was really easy to just step in line.
1060
00:57:09,467 --> 00:57:11,803
[music turns unsettling]
1061
00:57:11,886 --> 00:57:14,264
Most of my days,
I would just drive to work,
1062
00:57:15,557 --> 00:57:16,599
to school,
1063
00:57:17,100 --> 00:57:18,017
back home,
1064
00:57:18,977 --> 00:57:20,019
back to work,
1065
00:57:20,770 --> 00:57:22,063
back to school.
1066
00:57:24,315 --> 00:57:28,820
And anytime I would drive
outside of that area,
1067
00:57:29,446 --> 00:57:30,530
he would notice.
1068
00:57:30,613 --> 00:57:32,282
And I'd get a phone call from him,
1069
00:57:32,365 --> 00:57:34,868
and he's like, "Where are you right now?"
1070
00:57:36,911 --> 00:57:37,871
It was like he…
1071
00:57:39,080 --> 00:57:40,540
he was everywhere.
1072
00:57:40,623 --> 00:57:42,208
-[cell phone ringing]
-[messages chiming]
1073
00:57:42,292 --> 00:57:45,837
The texts were incessant,
constantly calling me.
1074
00:57:48,798 --> 00:57:51,342
But then things started to escalate.
1075
00:57:51,426 --> 00:57:54,471
[ominous music playing]
1076
00:57:54,554 --> 00:57:57,932
He actually installed security cameras,
1077
00:57:58,016 --> 00:58:00,059
but not outside the condo.
1078
00:58:00,143 --> 00:58:03,897
He actually installed them inside,
facing the kitchen,
1079
00:58:03,980 --> 00:58:05,648
where I would cook.
1080
00:58:06,983 --> 00:58:08,610
I just felt like
1081
00:58:09,235 --> 00:58:11,446
he always knew exactly where I was
1082
00:58:11,529 --> 00:58:12,989
and what I was doing.
1083
00:58:14,115 --> 00:58:18,411
The condo was initially
this, like, beautiful dream,
1084
00:58:18,495 --> 00:58:21,915
but after a month, it felt like a cage.
1085
00:58:22,916 --> 00:58:26,085
It was like I couldn't stay,
but I couldn't leave.
1086
00:58:26,169 --> 00:58:28,087
It was-- I don't know how--
Does that make sense?
1087
00:58:28,171 --> 00:58:32,258
Where it's like this weird limbo
where you're just stuck.
1088
00:58:32,342 --> 00:58:34,344
[unsettling music playing]
1089
00:58:34,886 --> 00:58:37,805
It was almost a daily rollercoaster ride.
1090
00:58:38,515 --> 00:58:41,518
One minute, he'd be taking me
to Lawry's Steakhouse
1091
00:58:41,601 --> 00:58:45,188
and doing this really fancy dinner
and telling me how beautiful I was.
1092
00:58:45,271 --> 00:58:46,272
And then the next minute,
1093
00:58:46,356 --> 00:58:49,234
he'd be flirting with another girl
and screaming in my face.
1094
00:58:49,317 --> 00:58:51,694
-[music fades]
-[engine starts, revs]
1095
00:58:51,778 --> 00:58:53,821
One time,
1096
00:58:53,905 --> 00:58:55,073
we get into his car,
1097
00:58:55,156 --> 00:58:56,699
and he gets very angry at me.
1098
00:58:56,783 --> 00:58:57,992
He takes off.
1099
00:58:58,076 --> 00:59:00,578
[engine revving]
1100
00:59:00,662 --> 00:59:04,165
He's driving really, really fast,
and we get on the freeway.
1101
00:59:04,874 --> 00:59:06,084
All of a sudden,
1102
00:59:06,793 --> 00:59:11,339
out of nowhere,
he just slams the brakes on hard.
1103
00:59:11,422 --> 00:59:13,675
And he tells me, "Get out of the car."
1104
00:59:13,758 --> 00:59:18,263
And as I'm about to open the door,
he reaches over me and slams it closed.
1105
00:59:18,763 --> 00:59:20,056
And he says,
1106
00:59:21,391 --> 00:59:23,184
"What's wrong with you? Are you crazy?"
1107
00:59:23,268 --> 00:59:24,686
[tense music playing]
1108
00:59:24,769 --> 00:59:26,646
I'm shaking at this point.
1109
00:59:27,814 --> 00:59:29,857
He takes the ring off my finger,
1110
00:59:30,942 --> 00:59:34,737
and basically tells me
that I'm not getting it back
1111
00:59:34,821 --> 00:59:38,658
until I… can learn how to behave myself.
1112
00:59:38,741 --> 00:59:41,911
[man] Did you ever report any of that
to the Anaheim Police Department?
1113
00:59:41,995 --> 00:59:44,122
-[Michelle] No, I did not.
-[man] Okay. Can I ask why?
1114
00:59:44,205 --> 00:59:47,417
[Michelle] Well, I've done
a lot of research online
1115
00:59:47,500 --> 00:59:49,794
about abusive relationships with cops,
1116
00:59:49,877 --> 00:59:53,006
and I'll be honest,
I thought they might try to protect him.
1117
00:59:53,089 --> 00:59:55,800
[poignant music playing]
1118
00:59:55,883 --> 00:59:58,553
[Jason] It was heart-wrenching
to hear this story,
1119
00:59:59,220 --> 01:00:02,557
how he had manipulated and controlled her.
1120
01:00:03,224 --> 01:00:06,394
She didn't want to come forward
because she was afraid.
1121
01:00:06,894 --> 01:00:09,689
I think at this point,
I was starting to suspect
1122
01:00:10,273 --> 01:00:14,485
Ian Diaz abused his position
as a Deputy United States Marshal.
1123
01:00:15,278 --> 01:00:18,781
And so the testimony of Michelle
1124
01:00:18,865 --> 01:00:21,451
became significant in our investigation.
1125
01:00:25,663 --> 01:00:28,499
[Michelle] I knew I needed to leave.
1126
01:00:29,208 --> 01:00:33,630
And so there was one day where I could
hear Ian talking to his friend Leslie.
1127
01:00:33,713 --> 01:00:36,591
[tense music playing]
1128
01:00:36,674 --> 01:00:38,926
This was my chance to get out…
1129
01:00:39,010 --> 01:00:40,345
[car engine starts]
1130
01:00:40,428 --> 01:00:43,890
…because I knew he wouldn't do anything
while she was there.
1131
01:00:45,266 --> 01:00:46,601
As I drive away,
1132
01:00:46,684 --> 01:00:48,853
my hands are literally shaking
on the wheel,
1133
01:00:50,188 --> 01:00:53,816
and I'm crying,
hoping to God he doesn't follow me.
1134
01:00:54,984 --> 01:00:57,153
At that point, my bank account is drained
1135
01:00:57,236 --> 01:00:59,238
because it's all gone into the condo.
1136
01:01:00,239 --> 01:01:04,410
My parents' house
was the only place I knew to go.
1137
01:01:04,494 --> 01:01:06,496
[music turns poignant]
1138
01:01:08,373 --> 01:01:10,500
And I felt like… [inhales sharply]
1139
01:01:10,583 --> 01:01:13,002
[exhales]
1140
01:01:13,086 --> 01:01:14,170
"I'm here."
1141
01:01:15,838 --> 01:01:18,216
[chiming]
1142
01:01:18,299 --> 01:01:20,301
[music turns ominous]
1143
01:01:21,719 --> 01:01:25,181
But I'm realizing it's not over,
1144
01:01:25,264 --> 01:01:29,060
and he has actually no intention
of letting it be over.
1145
01:01:29,143 --> 01:01:30,436
[chiming]
1146
01:01:30,520 --> 01:01:31,771
He starts sending messages
1147
01:01:31,854 --> 01:01:34,107
that made it seem
like he knew where I was.
1148
01:01:35,441 --> 01:01:37,235
He's calling me a bitch.
1149
01:01:37,819 --> 01:01:40,113
He's calling me the C-word.
1150
01:01:40,196 --> 01:01:42,240
He's telling me
that I'm gonna regret this.
1151
01:01:43,533 --> 01:01:46,285
[man] What's his endgame?
What's the reason why?
1152
01:01:46,786 --> 01:01:50,164
[Michelle] I think his endgame was
to figure out a way to keep the condo
1153
01:01:50,248 --> 01:01:52,834
and destroy my life at the same time.
1154
01:01:53,334 --> 01:01:55,336
My parents are getting notifications
1155
01:01:55,420 --> 01:01:58,131
that they've had
background checks done on them.
1156
01:01:58,214 --> 01:02:02,009
It feels like it's escalating
to a really scary place,
1157
01:02:03,052 --> 01:02:05,763
especially as Ian
always had his gun with him.
1158
01:02:06,848 --> 01:02:09,892
I just felt he was constantly there,
watching me.
1159
01:02:09,976 --> 01:02:13,438
-[unsettling music playing]
-[dogs barking]
1160
01:02:13,521 --> 01:02:17,150
At this point, I don't really feel
like anywhere is completely safe.
1161
01:02:18,484 --> 01:02:23,114
I have never felt fear like that before,
1162
01:02:23,197 --> 01:02:24,824
like I was a hunted animal.
1163
01:02:26,033 --> 01:02:28,286
I think Ian's fucking crazy at this point.
1164
01:02:28,369 --> 01:02:29,996
I think he's a psychopath.
1165
01:02:31,122 --> 01:02:33,374
The next step for him
is to try and come and kill me.
1166
01:02:34,125 --> 01:02:37,211
I get to a point
where I really am losing my mind.
1167
01:02:37,295 --> 01:02:38,880
I just couldn't take it anymore.
1168
01:02:38,963 --> 01:02:40,965
[unsettling music continues]
1169
01:02:42,884 --> 01:02:46,929
So I wrote a couple
very angry emails to Ian.
1170
01:02:48,431 --> 01:02:51,851
And I'm really scared
of what he's going to do.
1171
01:02:52,977 --> 01:02:56,773
I leave my phone, my laptop,
1172
01:02:56,856 --> 01:03:00,443
all of my devices that I think
he could potentially track me on.
1173
01:03:01,569 --> 01:03:02,820
I get into my car.
1174
01:03:03,696 --> 01:03:06,491
I'm basically like,
"Get me the fuck out of here."
1175
01:03:06,574 --> 01:03:09,202
[ominous music playing]
1176
01:03:12,789 --> 01:03:16,542
But as I'm driving,
I feel myself slipping away.
1177
01:03:18,044 --> 01:03:20,838
Like my brain just detaching.
1178
01:03:23,674 --> 01:03:29,514
I ended up having an almost out-of-body
experience for, like, 24 hours.
1179
01:03:32,809 --> 01:03:36,103
And then when I come back out of the fog,
1180
01:03:36,187 --> 01:03:39,774
I am in… the middle of nowhere.
1181
01:03:39,857 --> 01:03:41,651
I have no idea where I am.
1182
01:03:42,902 --> 01:03:46,656
And… I have been picked up
1183
01:03:47,949 --> 01:03:52,286
by this Native American family
who found me wandering around.
1184
01:03:54,330 --> 01:03:56,415
And it turns out I was in Arizona.
1185
01:03:56,999 --> 01:04:00,127
And… they called
1186
01:04:00,211 --> 01:04:02,505
um, paramedics and the police,
1187
01:04:02,588 --> 01:04:04,841
and they take me to a hospital.
1188
01:04:04,924 --> 01:04:08,386
The doctor comes in to, um…
1189
01:04:09,554 --> 01:04:11,389
see me and he says, "You know,
1190
01:04:11,472 --> 01:04:14,267
this sounds like a dissociative episode."
1191
01:04:14,934 --> 01:04:20,523
And he tells me I have complex PTSD
from what I just went through with Ian.
1192
01:04:20,606 --> 01:04:22,817
[somber music playing]
1193
01:04:22,900 --> 01:04:23,734
So later,
1194
01:04:23,818 --> 01:04:27,029
after all this supposed cyberstalking,
1195
01:04:27,530 --> 01:04:29,282
when they arrested me,
1196
01:04:29,991 --> 01:04:33,077
they read through
these two emails that I sent.
1197
01:04:33,160 --> 01:04:34,871
[Cunha] "Get ready, the truth is coming."
1198
01:04:34,954 --> 01:04:37,874
"God's law is above all laws,
including the law of man."
1199
01:04:39,625 --> 01:04:41,127
So did you write this?
1200
01:04:41,627 --> 01:04:43,087
[Michelle] Yeah, that was me.
1201
01:04:44,380 --> 01:04:47,300
I'm not really sure how to explain to him.
1202
01:04:47,800 --> 01:04:50,303
I don't even really understand
1203
01:04:50,386 --> 01:04:54,473
where a lot of it came from
or why I wrote it.
1204
01:04:55,516 --> 01:04:57,727
I only ever sent these two emails.
1205
01:04:57,810 --> 01:04:58,811
[chimes]
1206
01:04:58,895 --> 01:05:03,024
But I was framed
for all this horrible cyberstalking.
1207
01:05:03,900 --> 01:05:06,527
-[dogs barking]
-[tires screech]
1208
01:05:06,611 --> 01:05:07,778
[car engine revs]
1209
01:05:07,862 --> 01:05:11,490
Michelle's story does sound crazy,
1210
01:05:11,574 --> 01:05:13,784
that she had, effectively,
a nervous breakdown.
1211
01:05:15,703 --> 01:05:17,496
[Michelle] I thought
he'd think I was crazy.
1212
01:05:17,580 --> 01:05:18,497
[laughs nervously]
1213
01:05:19,165 --> 01:05:20,833
But he didn't. [sobs]
1214
01:05:20,917 --> 01:05:22,919
[poignant music playing]
1215
01:05:23,461 --> 01:05:24,754
He believed me.
1216
01:05:27,548 --> 01:05:30,009
Just-- I felt so much relief.
1217
01:05:34,972 --> 01:05:37,350
And for the very first time,
1218
01:05:37,433 --> 01:05:39,435
I felt like I had
1219
01:05:40,728 --> 01:05:42,980
flipped the script on Ian.
1220
01:05:43,689 --> 01:05:45,691
And suddenly,
1221
01:05:46,901 --> 01:05:49,904
I was actually the one coming after him.
1222
01:05:50,404 --> 01:05:51,989
[tense music playing]
1223
01:05:52,073 --> 01:05:58,621
We realized the two religious emails
that she sent Ian are important.
1224
01:05:58,704 --> 01:06:04,502
Because we suspected Ian seizes on those
to create the Lilith account
1225
01:06:04,585 --> 01:06:07,171
and to create
this other religious language.
1226
01:06:08,547 --> 01:06:11,801
He mimics her when he writes these.
1227
01:06:11,884 --> 01:06:14,178
And this is evidence that points to Ian,
1228
01:06:14,261 --> 01:06:15,471
not Angela.
1229
01:06:18,015 --> 01:06:21,352
At this point, we were starting to suspect
1230
01:06:21,435 --> 01:06:24,772
that Angela might have
only been a passenger.
1231
01:06:25,398 --> 01:06:27,400
And that this was Ian's scheme.
1232
01:06:27,483 --> 01:06:29,944
[ominous tone plays]
1233
01:06:31,821 --> 01:06:33,823
[suspenseful music playing]
1234
01:06:33,906 --> 01:06:36,826
{\an8}It's important that
we find additional evidence
1235
01:06:36,909 --> 01:06:39,245
{\an8}to support this new theory
1236
01:06:39,328 --> 01:06:42,790
that we had
a Deputy United States Marshal, Ian Diaz,
1237
01:06:43,290 --> 01:06:46,210
who framed his ex-girlfriend,
Michelle Hadley,
1238
01:06:46,293 --> 01:06:48,087
for a crime she did not commit.
1239
01:06:50,506 --> 01:06:54,927
We first looked at the night
where Ian and Angela are reporting threats
1240
01:06:55,011 --> 01:06:59,473
that Lilith is sending
a rapist to the condo from Craigslist.
1241
01:06:59,974 --> 01:07:03,394
It is one of the most significant events
during this scheme.
1242
01:07:03,477 --> 01:07:06,147
She's stating that she's going to
have this guy come over.
1243
01:07:06,230 --> 01:07:10,484
She'll give him the address, and come over
and rape her and beat her, right?
1244
01:07:12,069 --> 01:07:15,948
[Jason] So it was important for us
to find the man on Craigslist, Rick,
1245
01:07:16,032 --> 01:07:19,869
because not only was he lured
to the condo under false pretenses,
1246
01:07:20,786 --> 01:07:25,875
he may give us information we didn't have
about what happened that night.
1247
01:07:25,958 --> 01:07:27,835
[suspenseful music continues]
1248
01:07:27,918 --> 01:07:31,380
So it took a little bit of sleuthing
to find Rick,
1249
01:07:31,464 --> 01:07:33,924
but we finally tracked him down.
1250
01:07:37,344 --> 01:07:38,345
[music fades]
1251
01:07:38,429 --> 01:07:40,514
[woman on radio]
Firefighters in Southern California
1252
01:07:40,598 --> 01:07:42,767
are battling a wildfire
that's threatening…
1253
01:07:42,850 --> 01:07:46,896
[Rick] I want to be anonymous
because I don't want to be known
1254
01:07:46,979 --> 01:07:50,191
for my sexual fantasies.
1255
01:07:50,274 --> 01:07:52,068
[woman] Saturday,
Los Angeles fire officials…
1256
01:07:52,151 --> 01:07:56,113
[Rick] Because I am a single parent
and I didn't want to date at that point,
1257
01:07:56,197 --> 01:08:00,659
I was on the Craigslist meeting people
for casual encounters.
1258
01:08:00,743 --> 01:08:02,536
[woman continues indistinctly on radio]
1259
01:08:03,162 --> 01:08:07,333
[Rick] A rape fantasy, it's actually
a very popular fantasy, I would say.
1260
01:08:07,416 --> 01:08:09,251
[pensive music playing]
1261
01:08:10,461 --> 01:08:13,380
So I placed an ad on the Craigslist,
and it said,
1262
01:08:13,464 --> 01:08:18,594
"I am looking for women who have fantasies
about being raped or forced to perform."
1263
01:08:19,512 --> 01:08:23,140
I get this message from Lilithistruth.
1264
01:08:23,224 --> 01:08:24,683
Her reply stood out
1265
01:08:24,767 --> 01:08:27,436
because she seemed very eager,
1266
01:08:27,520 --> 01:08:30,189
almost desperate, to get this done.
1267
01:08:30,940 --> 01:08:32,358
I thought it was a bit odd,
1268
01:08:32,441 --> 01:08:36,320
so I figured
I'll get her on the phone to voice verify,
1269
01:08:36,403 --> 01:08:38,739
just to make sure that this is real.
1270
01:08:40,574 --> 01:08:42,201
When I view the body cam footage,
1271
01:08:42,284 --> 01:08:46,789
there were a few things that struck me
about what was happening that night.
1272
01:08:46,872 --> 01:08:47,915
[pensive music continues]
1273
01:08:47,998 --> 01:08:52,878
The first is that Ian is able to identify
1274
01:08:53,546 --> 01:08:58,509
and communicate… with Rick on Craigslist.
1275
01:08:58,592 --> 01:09:02,429
[Ian] I'm trying to act like a girl,
and I ask him, "What's your number…"
1276
01:09:02,513 --> 01:09:06,475
[Jason] When our digital forensics team
looked on his computer,
1277
01:09:06,559 --> 01:09:11,897
there was no evidence of Ian going
to 40 or 50 different rape fantasy posts
1278
01:09:11,981 --> 01:09:13,440
to find Rick.
1279
01:09:13,524 --> 01:09:15,109
He hits the first pitch,
1280
01:09:15,192 --> 01:09:17,361
and he gets Rick directly.
1281
01:09:17,444 --> 01:09:22,449
The odds of that are just impossible.
This is like a million to one shot.
1282
01:09:23,659 --> 01:09:26,537
And then in his laptop backups,
1283
01:09:26,620 --> 01:09:30,666
we found Ian using
his personal email account
1284
01:09:30,749 --> 01:09:34,461
to jump right in
to this conversation thread
1285
01:09:34,545 --> 01:09:37,131
that Rick was having with Lilith
1286
01:09:37,214 --> 01:09:38,591
without missing a beat.
1287
01:09:39,091 --> 01:09:41,802
Such that Rick thinks
he's communicating with the same person.
1288
01:09:41,886 --> 01:09:43,179
[pensive music continues]
1289
01:09:43,262 --> 01:09:44,513
Ian asks,
1290
01:09:44,597 --> 01:09:47,558
"Are you headed to my place
in Anaheim tonight?"
1291
01:09:50,269 --> 01:09:52,354
Now, that certainly begs the question,
1292
01:09:52,438 --> 01:09:56,859
how did he know that Rick was coming
to the condo in Anaheim that night?
1293
01:09:57,359 --> 01:10:01,739
The only conclusion
is that Ian himself had responded
1294
01:10:01,822 --> 01:10:07,286
to the Craigslist fantasy rape ad
using the Lilithistruth email.
1295
01:10:07,369 --> 01:10:12,291
This is compelling evidence
Ian Diaz was running the scheme.
1296
01:10:15,294 --> 01:10:17,171
[Rick] So when I got this message,
1297
01:10:17,254 --> 01:10:20,758
I replied, "I can,
but I need you to voice verify."
1298
01:10:21,467 --> 01:10:24,762
[Jason] And now it's Angela Diaz,
pretending to be Lilith,
1299
01:10:24,845 --> 01:10:27,181
who actually voice verifies.
1300
01:10:27,264 --> 01:10:28,515
[Angela] Hi, Rick, this is Lili.
1301
01:10:28,599 --> 01:10:31,477
I just wanted to confirm
tonight at 8 o'clock.
1302
01:10:31,560 --> 01:10:32,770
I'll see you then.
1303
01:10:33,979 --> 01:10:35,147
[Rick] I heard it was a woman,
1304
01:10:35,231 --> 01:10:38,108
so I said, "Well, okay, I'm going to
go down there and get this done."
1305
01:10:38,192 --> 01:10:40,236
[pensive music continues]
1306
01:10:40,319 --> 01:10:42,071
[Jason] Something else
that jumped out to me.
1307
01:10:42,154 --> 01:10:45,074
While Angie is calling
Anaheim Police Department
1308
01:10:45,157 --> 01:10:47,910
and reporting that
Michelle Hadley is sending a rapist,
1309
01:10:48,702 --> 01:10:52,122
Ian is actively encouraging him
to come to the house.
1310
01:10:52,665 --> 01:10:55,668
[pensive music continues]
1311
01:11:00,047 --> 01:11:01,924
[Ian] My idea was, yes,
1312
01:11:02,007 --> 01:11:05,594
I had her go out there
and open the gate a bit so it'd be open.
1313
01:11:05,678 --> 01:11:08,472
I was hoping he'd come up.
I wasn't gonna rough him up or something.
1314
01:11:08,555 --> 01:11:10,266
I was just gonna say, "Just have a seat."
1315
01:11:10,349 --> 01:11:13,060
'Cause I knew you were coming,
and I was just gonna detain him.
1316
01:11:13,143 --> 01:11:17,064
Anyone who's worried that
a potential rapist is coming to your house
1317
01:11:17,147 --> 01:11:19,108
doesn't encourage them
to come to the house,
1318
01:11:19,191 --> 01:11:21,819
and then unlock the door,
and then unlock the gate.
1319
01:11:23,153 --> 01:11:24,280
But in this case,
1320
01:11:24,363 --> 01:11:29,076
it's clear Ian and Angela are doing it
to bring Rick to the condo
1321
01:11:29,159 --> 01:11:31,578
because they wanted
to frame Michelle Hadley.
1322
01:11:33,372 --> 01:11:35,332
{\an8}In his police interview,
1323
01:11:35,416 --> 01:11:39,044
Ian laid this all at Angela's doorstep.
1324
01:11:39,128 --> 01:11:41,505
[Ian] I can't believe
this is happening. [sighs]
1325
01:11:42,172 --> 01:11:43,716
I feel like a fucking idiot.
1326
01:11:44,216 --> 01:11:46,260
[Cunah] Who do you think's responsible?
1327
01:11:47,886 --> 01:11:49,430
I think Angela did it all.
1328
01:11:50,097 --> 01:11:54,393
Ian wants to suggest that all of this
happened right under his nose.
1329
01:11:54,476 --> 01:11:58,522
[Ian] It seems like I've been sleeping
with the enemy the entire time.
1330
01:11:59,815 --> 01:12:02,443
But it's clear watching
the body cam footage,
1331
01:12:02,943 --> 01:12:05,154
looking at the digital evidence…
1332
01:12:07,573 --> 01:12:10,159
and upon interviewing Rick,
1333
01:12:10,242 --> 01:12:11,910
that this wasn't the case.
1334
01:12:11,994 --> 01:12:12,995
[music stops]
1335
01:12:13,078 --> 01:12:15,664
This is Ian pretending to be Michelle
1336
01:12:15,748 --> 01:12:19,626
pretending to be Angela
catfishing someone to the condo.
1337
01:12:19,710 --> 01:12:21,712
[unsettling music playing]
1338
01:12:22,796 --> 01:12:24,673
This is a very complicated case.
1339
01:12:25,257 --> 01:12:27,676
This could be confusing to a jury.
1340
01:12:28,510 --> 01:12:31,513
Who's impersonating whom,
pretending to be whom?
1341
01:12:32,348 --> 01:12:34,433
You know, I need to clear my head
1342
01:12:35,100 --> 01:12:38,520
to reflect on how the case
should be presented.
1343
01:12:40,647 --> 01:12:46,111
And I'm thinking, "Did Michelle Hadley
pose a real threat to Ian and Angela?"
1344
01:12:46,195 --> 01:12:47,613
Of course not.
1345
01:12:47,696 --> 01:12:51,909
But how did they persuade the Anaheim
Police Department to lock her up?
1346
01:12:53,118 --> 01:12:58,040
So we needed to prove to a jury
that Ian had misused his position
1347
01:12:58,123 --> 01:13:00,417
and manipulated
the Anaheim Police Department.
1348
01:13:04,963 --> 01:13:07,508
-[officer 1] Hello.
-Hi. Come on in. How are you?
1349
01:13:07,591 --> 01:13:10,511
Reviewing the body camera footage
over and over,
1350
01:13:10,594 --> 01:13:13,263
we began to figure out how that happened.
1351
01:13:14,348 --> 01:13:17,893
The pattern of the scheme
begins with what would be
1352
01:13:17,976 --> 01:13:21,313
an otherwise innocuous impersonation
of Michelle Hadley.
1353
01:13:21,397 --> 01:13:23,023
I got another email from her,
1354
01:13:23,107 --> 01:13:25,567
and I haven't opened and checked it
because I was like…
1355
01:13:25,651 --> 01:13:26,485
[officer 1] Okay.
1356
01:13:26,568 --> 01:13:30,155
Communications to Angela
that are somewhat threatening…
1357
01:13:30,239 --> 01:13:34,743
The last one we got from her
was late last night, and she said,
1358
01:13:34,827 --> 01:13:37,454
"You won't have a husband.
Your children won't have a father."
1359
01:13:37,538 --> 01:13:38,956
"I hope your punishment is swift."
1360
01:13:39,039 --> 01:13:41,708
"I love keeping you waiting
for what is next. Enjoy work tomorrow."
1361
01:13:41,792 --> 01:13:45,337
"I'm sure it will be a painfully
enjoyable experience. Michelle."
1362
01:13:45,421 --> 01:13:47,423
[Jason] But to the
Anaheim Police Department,
1363
01:13:47,506 --> 01:13:49,174
there was nothing they could do.
1364
01:13:49,258 --> 01:13:50,884
[officer 2] Okay, it's a criminal threat,
1365
01:13:50,968 --> 01:13:54,096
but you can't do anything
until she gets served.
1366
01:13:54,805 --> 01:13:57,474
So, restraining order,
and this is the proof of service.
1367
01:13:57,558 --> 01:13:58,392
[officer 1] Okay.
1368
01:13:59,351 --> 01:14:01,979
And then it slowly ratchets its way up
1369
01:14:02,062 --> 01:14:04,690
with grotesque pictures.
1370
01:14:04,773 --> 01:14:08,944
These emails have pictures
of decapitated people,
1371
01:14:09,445 --> 01:14:12,156
aborted fetuses, decapitated fetuses.
1372
01:14:12,239 --> 01:14:13,991
[Jason] But the Anaheim Police Department
1373
01:14:14,074 --> 01:14:16,660
are not really acting
when the threat level is low.
1374
01:14:16,743 --> 01:14:19,246
[female officer]
It's a misdemeanor, unfortunately.
1375
01:14:19,746 --> 01:14:23,041
So Ian and Angela
have to increase the threat level.
1376
01:14:23,125 --> 01:14:27,129
Now we're responding
to ads for rape fantasies.
1377
01:14:27,212 --> 01:14:29,214
[woman on phone]
Anaheim Police, Dispatcher Scott.
1378
01:14:29,298 --> 01:14:30,966
Hi, my name is Angela Diaz,
1379
01:14:31,049 --> 01:14:36,096
and I have open cases with Anaheim PD
on a person named Michelle Hadley.
1380
01:14:36,180 --> 01:14:38,098
I've been receiving emails today from her
1381
01:14:38,182 --> 01:14:41,477
that she has somebody that's going to come
attack me and rape me.
1382
01:14:42,394 --> 01:14:47,483
[Jason] Police arrive on scene because,
according to the call they've received,
1383
01:14:47,566 --> 01:14:49,818
there's someone there to commit a rape.
1384
01:14:49,902 --> 01:14:52,362
Ian can see that they're police officers,
1385
01:14:52,446 --> 01:14:56,366
and he is standing there
with his firearm out
1386
01:14:56,450 --> 01:15:01,663
to persuade the Anaheim Police Department
that the threat is so severe
1387
01:15:01,747 --> 01:15:04,833
that he has to be prepared
to use lethal force
1388
01:15:04,917 --> 01:15:06,752
to stop his wife from being attacked.
1389
01:15:06,835 --> 01:15:08,212
Just asking to get shot.
1390
01:15:08,295 --> 01:15:10,506
-Yeah.
-I would have shot him.
1391
01:15:10,589 --> 01:15:12,132
[Jason] This is playacting.
1392
01:15:12,216 --> 01:15:13,592
[tense, pensive music playing]
1393
01:15:13,675 --> 01:15:15,260
By wearing his badge,
1394
01:15:15,344 --> 01:15:17,471
and then by putting it on the table…
1395
01:15:17,554 --> 01:15:18,514
[Ian] So…
1396
01:15:19,890 --> 01:15:23,769
My name's Ian.
I'm a U.S. Marshal. Sorry, this is Angela.
1397
01:15:23,852 --> 01:15:26,188
…Ian is trying to show to them, like,
1398
01:15:26,271 --> 01:15:29,066
"I'm one of you,
and you should credit what I say."
1399
01:15:29,149 --> 01:15:30,817
[Ian] Had I not emailed him today,
1400
01:15:30,901 --> 01:15:33,445
she would have been raped
outside in the courtyard.
1401
01:15:33,529 --> 01:15:37,157
Now, trying to persuade them that,
"I've never seen anything like this."
1402
01:15:37,241 --> 01:15:41,703
That Michelle Hadley needs to be
in a padded room in cuffs.
1403
01:15:41,787 --> 01:15:45,290
She's chilling at her apartment right now,
just pulling all the strings,
1404
01:15:45,374 --> 01:15:46,833
manipulating everybody.
1405
01:15:46,917 --> 01:15:51,046
And then Ian's effort to manipulate
the Anaheim Police Department
1406
01:15:51,129 --> 01:15:52,798
is starting to get traction.
1407
01:15:52,881 --> 01:15:55,926
[Ian] At what point does this girl
get arrested for sending this shit
1408
01:15:56,009 --> 01:15:58,053
and hiring guys
off Craigslist to rape her?
1409
01:15:58,136 --> 01:15:59,888
-I'm just curious.
-[music intensifies]
1410
01:15:59,972 --> 01:16:01,598
[Jason] With an imminent threat of rape,
1411
01:16:01,682 --> 01:16:04,226
the time that
Anaheim Police Department has to think
1412
01:16:04,309 --> 01:16:06,478
continues to get reduced and reduced.
1413
01:16:06,562 --> 01:16:09,231
This dragnet ensues, right?
1414
01:16:09,314 --> 01:16:12,025
Anaheim Police Department
is racing around the neighborhood.
1415
01:16:12,109 --> 01:16:13,777
They put a helicopter in the air.
1416
01:16:13,860 --> 01:16:16,405
They're trying to find
this alleged rapist.
1417
01:16:16,488 --> 01:16:17,656
[woman 1 on radio] 587…
1418
01:16:17,739 --> 01:16:20,659
-[Jason] And then comes the final act.
-[music turns dramatic]
1419
01:16:20,742 --> 01:16:22,744
[woman 2 on phone]
911. What's your emergency?
1420
01:16:23,662 --> 01:16:26,790
[Angela] Somebody came from behind me
and shoved me against my wall
1421
01:16:26,873 --> 01:16:28,709
and started to choke me.
1422
01:16:28,792 --> 01:16:31,628
Ian is ratcheting up the level of threat,
1423
01:16:31,712 --> 01:16:35,841
the danger that
this… Michelle Hadley poses.
1424
01:16:35,924 --> 01:16:37,259
I tried to move. He grabbed me.
1425
01:16:37,342 --> 01:16:39,886
He had me pinned back
by the hair at the neck.
1426
01:16:39,970 --> 01:16:42,764
He told me,
"Now you're finally going to get raped."
1427
01:16:42,848 --> 01:16:46,560
And he ultimately forces them
into acting quickly.
1428
01:16:46,643 --> 01:16:49,146
Okay, here's what's gonna happen, okay?
1429
01:16:49,229 --> 01:16:50,897
I have the warrant in my car.
1430
01:16:50,981 --> 01:16:52,983
And I'm gonna go out there and grab her.
1431
01:16:55,485 --> 01:16:57,821
[Jason] Looking at
this timeline of events,
1432
01:16:57,904 --> 01:17:02,159
we can understand
how Ian was able to persuade
1433
01:17:02,242 --> 01:17:05,621
the Anaheim Police Department
to arrest Michelle Hadley.
1434
01:17:05,704 --> 01:17:07,247
[music fades]
1435
01:17:07,331 --> 01:17:09,124
[pensive music playing]
1436
01:17:09,207 --> 01:17:12,544
Although Ian does
everything he can to cover his tracks,
1437
01:17:13,462 --> 01:17:14,963
in digital forensics,
1438
01:17:15,047 --> 01:17:20,135
there's always another place
to go looking for conclusive evidence.
1439
01:17:21,345 --> 01:17:26,600
As I got deeper and deeper into
Ian's DOJ Marshall Service-issued devices,
1440
01:17:26,683 --> 01:17:29,519
it turns out what he had on his computer
1441
01:17:30,270 --> 01:17:31,938
was very significant to us.
1442
01:17:33,565 --> 01:17:36,151
When you create a Word document,
1443
01:17:36,234 --> 01:17:38,737
it's creating temp files
in the background.
1444
01:17:38,820 --> 01:17:42,949
So if you lose power
or you forget to hit save,
1445
01:17:43,033 --> 01:17:44,034
you can then recover it.
1446
01:17:44,618 --> 01:17:47,621
And on Ian's DOJ laptop,
1447
01:17:47,704 --> 01:17:52,376
we found fragments
of a Lilithistruth email.
1448
01:17:53,210 --> 01:17:56,088
This was evidence that Ian Diaz
1449
01:17:56,171 --> 01:17:57,547
is Lilith.
1450
01:17:58,048 --> 01:18:01,093
[dramatic music playing]
1451
01:18:01,176 --> 01:18:03,136
There it was in black and white.
1452
01:18:04,346 --> 01:18:07,349
[unsettling music playing]
1453
01:18:08,892 --> 01:18:11,228
It was time to arrest Ian Diaz.
1454
01:18:12,187 --> 01:18:16,108
You might remember this story
with a twisted plot out of Orange County.
1455
01:18:16,858 --> 01:18:18,860
[somber music playing]
1456
01:18:22,322 --> 01:18:24,825
I almost didn't believe it. [laughs]
1457
01:18:25,784 --> 01:18:28,995
I immediately went on
to the DOJ's website,
1458
01:18:29,079 --> 01:18:33,542
and they actually had a press release
that said that he had been arrested.
1459
01:18:33,625 --> 01:18:35,419
So I was like, "Oh my God, it's real."
1460
01:18:35,502 --> 01:18:38,255
[woman on TV] The case dates back to 2016.
1461
01:18:38,338 --> 01:18:41,299
Ian Diaz and his then-wife, Angela Diaz,
1462
01:18:41,383 --> 01:18:44,928
created a twisted plot
against Michelle Hadley.
1463
01:18:46,138 --> 01:18:48,849
I knew that there was no chance
1464
01:18:48,932 --> 01:18:54,271
that he was going to plead
any other way than not guilty.
1465
01:18:54,354 --> 01:18:57,023
He would do everything within his power
1466
01:18:57,107 --> 01:19:00,819
um, to prove his innocence.
1467
01:19:01,403 --> 01:19:04,656
The ex-boyfriend whom prosecutors
say framed her is convicted.
1468
01:19:05,407 --> 01:19:08,201
Guilty on all counts.
1469
01:19:09,035 --> 01:19:11,496
And I just remember, you know,
1470
01:19:11,580 --> 01:19:14,458
I'm standing at the sink
and I'm looking in the mirror,
1471
01:19:14,541 --> 01:19:16,251
and I just remember
1472
01:19:16,752 --> 01:19:20,213
looking at myself and thinking,
"You fucking did it."
1473
01:19:22,924 --> 01:19:24,176
"You did it."
1474
01:19:27,012 --> 01:19:28,430
[sighs]
1475
01:19:29,139 --> 01:19:32,142
[somber music playing]
1476
01:19:49,493 --> 01:19:51,578
I could not believe it.
1477
01:19:52,078 --> 01:19:55,207
I couldn't believe
that this was happening.
1478
01:19:55,874 --> 01:19:57,751
I've never felt that sad.
1479
01:19:58,877 --> 01:20:00,796
I felt like it was a nightmare.
1480
01:20:00,879 --> 01:20:02,339
I needed to wake up.
1481
01:20:02,422 --> 01:20:03,840
I just wanted to wake up.
1482
01:20:03,924 --> 01:20:04,925
And…
1483
01:20:05,884 --> 01:20:07,761
And I couldn't. It was real.
1484
01:20:07,844 --> 01:20:10,680
[poignant music playing]
1485
01:20:10,764 --> 01:20:13,683
One of the things I noticed
when I first came into the case
1486
01:20:13,767 --> 01:20:15,977
was this person named Leslie.
1487
01:20:17,020 --> 01:20:19,481
And I realized very early on,
1488
01:20:19,564 --> 01:20:22,859
"Okay, here's someone
who is very much in Ian Diaz's corner."
1489
01:20:25,320 --> 01:20:27,823
[Leslie] I wouldn't doubt
that people think that I'm blinded
1490
01:20:28,323 --> 01:20:29,908
by my friendship with Ian,
1491
01:20:29,991 --> 01:20:34,788
and that somehow
I'm missing some deep, dark side of him.
1492
01:20:35,497 --> 01:20:39,376
I can't say definitively
that upon interviewing her,
1493
01:20:39,459 --> 01:20:43,421
I came away firmly believing that this was
a woman who was in love with him.
1494
01:20:43,922 --> 01:20:49,135
But later, as we kind of--
Additional evidence came forward,
1495
01:20:49,219 --> 01:20:51,221
that's the conclusion I came to.
1496
01:20:53,098 --> 01:20:57,060
[Leslie] I love him with all my heart.
He is like a part of my family.
1497
01:20:57,143 --> 01:20:58,979
And I will love him forever,
1498
01:20:59,062 --> 01:21:03,149
but I am not in love with Ian.
1499
01:21:04,109 --> 01:21:08,947
So there's your side,
my side, and the truth.
1500
01:21:10,240 --> 01:21:13,577
But there is no evidence
that anyone could show me
1501
01:21:13,660 --> 01:21:16,955
that would make me doubt Ian's innocence.
1502
01:21:18,206 --> 01:21:21,835
Because I see
that Angela is a serial imposter,
1503
01:21:23,086 --> 01:21:26,214
and she pled guilty to charges.
1504
01:21:27,090 --> 01:21:30,051
And an innocent person
does not plead guilty.
1505
01:21:30,135 --> 01:21:33,179
[music crescendos, fades]
1506
01:21:33,263 --> 01:21:39,686
I think we will never know
exactly what happened in the condo.
1507
01:21:39,769 --> 01:21:45,066
Only Ian Diaz and Angela Connell know.
1508
01:21:46,067 --> 01:21:49,571
And they're not reliable witnesses.
1509
01:21:49,654 --> 01:21:51,656
[unsettling music playing]
1510
01:21:53,033 --> 01:21:59,205
But we can try and answer
the question of "Why did Ian do this?"
1511
01:22:00,832 --> 01:22:02,250
[exhales]
1512
01:22:02,334 --> 01:22:06,296
As much as the condo is part of this,
1513
01:22:07,088 --> 01:22:09,299
and he didn't want to lose his home,
1514
01:22:10,091 --> 01:22:11,176
to me,
1515
01:22:12,010 --> 01:22:15,221
it boils down
to Ian wanting to control someone.
1516
01:22:16,139 --> 01:22:18,642
He wanted to control Michelle,
1517
01:22:19,434 --> 01:22:20,936
and she got away,
1518
01:22:21,019 --> 01:22:22,979
and that made him angry.
1519
01:22:23,063 --> 01:22:27,525
So he designed a scheme
to frame his ex-girlfriend.
1520
01:22:27,609 --> 01:22:30,737
[music intensifies]
1521
01:22:30,820 --> 01:22:32,656
In my view,
1522
01:22:33,198 --> 01:22:36,534
Angela Connell was a perfect partner
1523
01:22:36,618 --> 01:22:39,412
because she craved empathy.
1524
01:22:42,499 --> 01:22:46,419
Angela loved portraying herself
as a victim,
1525
01:22:48,463 --> 01:22:50,924
and Ian exploited that.
1526
01:22:58,682 --> 01:23:01,685
[dramatic music playing]
1527
01:23:08,984 --> 01:23:10,986
[music turns poignant]
1528
01:23:11,820 --> 01:23:13,822
[Michelle] Ian got everything he wanted,
1529
01:23:14,698 --> 01:23:17,283
but it actually cost him his freedom.
1530
01:23:19,285 --> 01:23:21,746
I often look back and wonder
1531
01:23:21,830 --> 01:23:26,584
how Ian turned into the person
who wanted control and power over me.
1532
01:23:30,296 --> 01:23:32,340
Ian had told me at one point
1533
01:23:32,424 --> 01:23:36,302
that he grew up
in a really toxic environment.
1534
01:23:38,888 --> 01:23:43,685
And I thought, "Could this possibly
explain his behavior towards me?"
1535
01:23:45,311 --> 01:23:49,232
It felt like he actually had
two totally different personalities,
1536
01:23:49,315 --> 01:23:51,151
and you never knew
which one you were gonna get.
1537
01:23:51,234 --> 01:23:54,571
Were you gonna get this,
like, sex-obsessed fiend,
1538
01:23:54,654 --> 01:23:56,740
or were you gonna get the wholesome boy?
1539
01:23:56,823 --> 01:24:00,535
And I thought that this personality,
the wholesome one,
1540
01:24:00,618 --> 01:24:02,287
was who he really was.
1541
01:24:03,204 --> 01:24:06,583
But sadly, the damage had been done.
1542
01:24:06,666 --> 01:24:08,668
[poignant music continues]
1543
01:24:17,093 --> 01:24:20,096
-[music fades]
-[waves susurrating]
1544
01:24:25,769 --> 01:24:29,105
Ian and Angela cast me as Lilith.
1545
01:24:29,189 --> 01:24:30,440
[poignant music resumes]
1546
01:24:30,523 --> 01:24:34,611
She basically escaped the Garden of Eden,
1547
01:24:34,694 --> 01:24:40,325
disobeyed everyone,
Adam, God, the whole group.
1548
01:24:41,117 --> 01:24:43,078
She's the quintessential…
1549
01:24:43,161 --> 01:24:45,747
uh, revolutionary.
1550
01:24:47,832 --> 01:24:51,211
In retrospect, I'm not mad that
1551
01:24:51,294 --> 01:24:55,381
they… picked a character for me
1552
01:24:55,465 --> 01:24:58,551
who is… a disobedient female
1553
01:24:58,635 --> 01:25:01,012
who stands up to male authority figures.
1554
01:25:02,722 --> 01:25:05,433
It kind of fits. [laughs]
1555
01:25:05,517 --> 01:25:06,768
I just didn't know it then.
1556
01:25:09,604 --> 01:25:13,483
But now I'm on this
other side of that journey.
1557
01:25:14,109 --> 01:25:16,111
I started to rebuild my life.
1558
01:25:16,778 --> 01:25:19,989
You know, I'm getting back into school.
I'm going back to work.
1559
01:25:20,073 --> 01:25:21,741
And I start dating again.
1560
01:25:23,284 --> 01:25:24,160
Eventually,
1561
01:25:24,869 --> 01:25:27,080
I find out I'm pregnant.
1562
01:25:28,998 --> 01:25:33,503
I gave birth to my daughter
on the same day Ian was convicted.
1563
01:25:33,586 --> 01:25:38,133
[gasps] Look at that. How cool is that?
How cool is that, huh?
1564
01:25:38,216 --> 01:25:41,094
That's like what the--
They do with the movies.
1565
01:25:41,177 --> 01:25:44,389
-I hope you did fun things today, huh?
-[girl] Yeah.
1566
01:25:44,472 --> 01:25:45,640
Yeah.
1567
01:25:45,723 --> 01:25:48,601
Well, I miss you, baby. I love you.
1568
01:25:48,685 --> 01:25:49,644
I miss you.
1569
01:25:49,727 --> 01:25:52,564
Aw, I love you too. So sweet.
1570
01:25:52,647 --> 01:25:55,358
Kisses. Mwah! [blows kiss]
1571
01:25:56,234 --> 01:25:57,610
[laughs]
1572
01:25:57,694 --> 01:25:58,903
I miss you.
1573
01:25:58,987 --> 01:26:01,698
[poignant music continues]
1574
01:26:01,781 --> 01:26:05,785
[Michelle] Raising this beautiful
little girl is my fairy-tale ending.
1575
01:26:07,620 --> 01:26:09,831
I think it is happily ever after.
1576
01:26:11,416 --> 01:26:13,209
I'm not a princess,
1577
01:26:13,293 --> 01:26:17,589
but I get to be the hero in my own story.
1578
01:26:22,927 --> 01:26:25,805
[dramatic music playing]
1579
01:28:27,218 --> 01:28:29,220
[music fades]