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KATHY BARRY: It was a beautiful morning when I received the phone call.

I did not understand what was going on.

NARRATOR: A shocking murder no one saw coming.

Execution-style shootings are very unusual

in Orange County.

In Fountain Valley, it was no exaggeration to say

this was a turning point.

It became a test to the safety of the community.

NARRATOR: A similar crime unearths even more questions.

What possibly could be the connection?

It made no sense at all.

Fountain Valley was unable

to identify anything.

It was a dead end.

That person is out there somewhere.

NARRATOR: As two vicious acts of violence

threaten this picture-perfect community,

any wrong turns could be deadly.

They got themselves caught up

with a guy that was very evil.

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GEOFF BOUCHER: When I first got to Orange County,

I thought that there was a certain

"Stepford" quality to it.

Fountain Valley is one of those California communities

that has a sort of master plan, cookie-cutter feel.

These communities are planned meticulously,

and they're laid out on a grid.

A local joke the cops say is that, uh,

if you go home drunk, make sure that,

when you walk in the house, you're walking in the right one.

NARRATOR: Fountain Valley:

Orange County's best-kept secret.

A community designed and built around

an idealistic vision of O.C. perfection.

A place where families rising through the upper middle class

can claim their own perfect piece of the California dream.

Jane and Al Carver found their place here,

living out a sun-kissed fairy tale

with a big house, happy kids, great friends.

All part of the master plan.

This is my dad and my mom on their wedding day.

My parents were very much in love,

and... and-and also very much opposite.

My dad, he was director of operations

at a health care company,

and my mom became a flight attendant out of Los Angeles.

My dad was more of a conservative-minded...

"take the caution" approach.

And my mom was a little bit more

adventurous, and I think that that balance

in their personalities attracted each other.

Jane Carver was my best friend.

We met in stew school

in 1969.

KAREN NOTEBOOM: We all started flying together

the same year, with United Airlines.

Janie just was fun and spunky

and easy to work with.

The group of us got nicknamed "The Ya-Yas"

'cause we flew together so much

We just had a good time.

People were just drawn to Janie because she had this

twinkle in her eye that drew people in.

Most all of our friends lived in Fountain Valley,

so we drove to work together,

and we made plans with our families.

CLIFFORD CARVER: She was just an incredible mom.

Really fun-loving and laughing all the time

and joking and, like, just making the best of life.

You could watch from the outsid

and just be like, "Wow, she's got it."

JUSTIN: We traveled a lot.

I can recall going to Hong Kong.

We went to Europe.

She was very spontaneous

in her approach to travel.

CLIFFORD: If we were studying the presidents or the capitals

or something like that, and she was working

and going on a trip to Washington, D.C.,

she was like, "Hey, we're gonna skip school today,

and I'm gonna go show you the real thing, so let's go."

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Running was her escape.

She always wanted to be on the go.

She didn't sit much.

Jane just enjoyed life.

NARRATOR: The Carvers couldn't know

that their master plan for the good life

was about to go horribly wrong.

BOUCHER: June 10, 1995, the Carvers wake up.

Jane goes for a run,

and she runs right into a nightmare.

Jane is about a block from home

and then suddenly she's confronted.

A man appears out of nowhere

and shoots her in the face.

KIM BROWN: There was one shot, she falls down,

and this man looks briefly,

turns around and gets back in his car and drives off.

And there are witnesses across the street

that can hardly believe what happened.

BOUCHER: Witnesses describe the gunman

as being very calm

and sort of casual.

-Al Carver hears the sirens coming... -(sirens wailing)

...and he steps outside his hom

trying to figure out what's going on.

Jane Carver was so close to being

back at the house from her run

that the crime scene is within yards of their front door.

BARRY: I received a phone call from Al Carver,

who was choking up on the phone.

It was hard to understand what he was saying,

that Jane had been shot.

OWEN: I ran around the corner.

Al was just-just a mess.

You could read the pain on his face.

He just looked at me and he said,

"She's gone. She's really gone."

I heard it on the police scanner

and came to the scene.

It was a lot of commotion,

and I was trying to take it all in.

People were still talking about a gunman on the loose.

BROWN: It was hard to fathom the fact that someone would

walk up and basically execute this woman

in broad daylight.

A well-traveled street.

And all of a sudden, that sense of safety

in the community is absolutely shattered.

There wasn't much to go on at the time, evidence-wise.

We had to rely on what the witness statements were.

BOUCHER: There are six witnesses at the scene

who describe the gunman,

and their descriptions are fairly consistent.

The suspect was wearing a brown or tweed sportscoat

with a high-neck shirt and dark pants.

He's between 30 and 40, receding hairline.

We had a forensic artist that we typically used,

and she came in and did the composites

with two witnesses.

The car was a 1978 to 1984 two-door hatchback.

It was white. And at that time,

we went and searched, but we didn't find

the suspect or the car.

We collected one bullet casing

at the scene.

There was very little evidence.

The crime just doesn't add up.

She wasn't robbed.

There was nothing here that explained why

this woman had been shot.

NARRATOR: In an instant, this sunny Saturday morning

became the worst day in the Carvers' lives,

and would change this O.C. enclave forever.

OWEN: Justin had been asleep through this whole thing.

He was 14 at the time.

And that just broke my heart.

I-I couldn't imagine how Al could possibly

tell Justin that about his mother.

It was like a dream to me. It was really... (weak chuckle)

Your life is changed like that.

It was a tough day. A really tough day.

CLIFFORD: I was 20 years old,

and I was a sophomore at Oregon State University.

I got that phone call,

and I felt like I was racing to the airport,

but I felt like I couldn't drive fast enough.

Everything was in slow motion.

Why would that happen?

Why would anybody shoot Janie, of all people?

This didn't make any sense at all.

NARRATOR: In a tight-knit haven like Fountain Valley,

the best resource could be the friends

she held in closest confidence.

Perhaps there was some secret conflict brewing

beneath the perfect Orange County surface

presented by the Carvers.

BROWN: You can't assume that anybody is excluded initially.

And that was my responsibility,

to interview family and friends because this was a large effort

to try to find information.

I had to ask Al in that initial interview

did he have anything to do with this murder?

Did he know anybody who had anything to do with it?

He was devastated, it was very clear,

but we just didn't know.

Al was very open right from the beginning.

There wasn't any question that he didn't answer.

His friends also corroborated the fact that

Al was in his home when this occurred.

BARRY: We were all in a state of shock,

not knowing what to do.

The police came over, and each one of us

was interviewed individually.

They just wanted to get a sense on

what we did that morning and who Jane was.

OWEN: We tried to think about something

she might have said to us.

Did she talk about anybody on the plane bothering her?

You know, any incident where somebody was angry with her.

But nothing.

You couldn't even wrap your head around the whole scenario.

BOUCHER: They have an idea what the suspect looks like,

but they don't know what the motive could be.

They were convinced it was a contract hit.

BOUCHER: Even when you get to the bottom of this mystery,

there's another twist.

A man had called her,

and he was demanding to be paid

There's another shooting that happens.

This might have a connection.

NARRATOR: Jane Carver's O.C. dream was cut short

in a senseless execution,

leaving everyone in her community

chasing the fragments of its now-shattered perfection.

BROWN: Homicides don't happen in Fountain Valley.

Jane's murder was the only one at that time

in 1995.

NARRATOR: Could this idyllic place

have forever veered from its master plan?

BOUCHER: In the weeks after Jane Carver's murder,

it was no exaggeration to say this was a turning point.

It became a test to the reputation

and the safety of the community

Everybody either knew Jane Carver or knew her name.

The one thing nobody knew is: why was she dead?

NARRATOR: Fear spread as whispers and speculation

were at the tip of every tongue

and the top of every news headline.

Could it be someone Jane knew?

Or if it was random,

what or who could be next?

BROWN: From witness statements,

we were told that this person

had been seen parked

in the area prior to the incident.

So therefore, we considered that

it could possibly be a stalking situation.

BOUCHER: Was it some grudge or secret relationship?

Every single theory was being thrown around.

There was nothing ruled out.

You really have to feel for Al Carver, because, I mean,

not only h-has he lost his wife,

he's also not oblivious to the fact

that people are looking at him in a different way.

They say there's a thin line between love and hate,

but there's an even thinner line between marriage and murder.

BROWN: At one point, I was having lunc in this deli, and there were

two women talking about the case,

and they were convinced it was a contract hit done by

her husband.

Al Carver was an open book.

Anything we needed to do or asked of him,

he was more than willing to cooperate.

He did take a polygraph and he passed the polygraph.

It was straightforward and very uncomfortable,

but it was something that had to be done.

Even though it's not admissible in court,

it did confirm my belief that

Al was not involved.

JUSTIN: We all knew that my dad had nothing to do with it,

but it was a process we were willing to do.

I mean, at that point, we wanted answers,

and all you can do is provide as much as you can.

NARRATOR: And so the Carver case was becoming

a true murder mystery in the eyes of the public.

As the pressure mounted,

would they ever find justice for Janie?

OWEN: The day of the funeral was

packed house, standing room only.

CROSBY: We were there for support for the family,

and, uh, it was difficult, for all of us.

JUSTIN: You needed to kind of just regroup

and think about what the heck just happened.

And what-what do we do now? What-What's life gonna be like?

CLIFFORD: There was a void.

But there were so many people there to make sure

that we were gonna be okay.

BARRY: We came back from the funeral

and we were trying to figure out what to do.

How can we help Fountain Valley Police Department

solve this?

CLIFFORD: They got a composite drawing,

they got a face, and then they got the car,

but they don't have the guy.

So everyone, like, decided, "Okay, let's print

"thousands of these flyers

and we're gonna blanket Orange County."

Maybe we can get some leads this way.

BROWN: Because so many people wanted to help,

I had to organize them into groups.

There were more than were employed

by the Fountain Valley Police Department.

NEWS ANCHOR: About 100 people met at Mile Square Park

to pick up flyers bearing a composite sketch

of Carver's alleged killer

and distribute them to area businesses.

They're sure someone out there knows who he is.

NARRATOR: Friends of Jane would stop at nothing

to shake out this killer and restore a sense of safety

to their sunny streets.

BARRY: We would meet every Saturday

and pick out certain areas.

We would go door-to-door.

MARINI: We went to bars,

we went to hair salons.

E-Every place in the strip mall.

Laundromats, it didn't matter.

Anyone that would let us

put up a flyer, we were happy to do it.

BOUCHER: I mean, they got busy,

and it was an impressive thing to see.

They started raising money,

and the airline that Jane Carver had worked for

kicked in $10,000 to help catch the killer.

They wanted to get to the bottom of this.

BROWN: The reward fund kept increasing

and it went up to $45,000.

We're talking 1995. That's a lot of money.

CLIFFORD: It was an amazing effort,

and it was really cool to see a community come together

for our family.

The support of our friends and the community

is really what's giving me the strength,

uh, to, uh, to keep going here.

BOUCHER: If crimes could be solved by concern,

the murder of Jane Carver would have been

an open-and-shut case within a day.

You could have as much money as you want,

but in this case, police couldn't even buy a clue

They had no leads at all.

Yes, we were disappointed because we felt

that our hard work

was just not getting us anywhere.

Time heals in one sense, but until you catch the person,

it-- time is worse.

The thought crossed our minds:

is this maybe a cold case?

This may never get solved.

NARRATOR: Ten months crawled by,

and investigators were no closer to any answers.

But a case without answers can often turn cold.

BROWN: The case does go cold and it wanes.

We were very hopeful that we might

get that one break to help us.

On April 10, 1996,

there's another shooting that occurred in San Clemente

which appeared very similar to our case with Jane Carver.

JIM TANIZAKI: An individual was going to his business

and as he arrived, he was met by someone

who shot him one time in the face and left the scene.

BROWN: Another investigator saw a flye

and thought it appeared to have an M.O. very similar

to our case with Jane Carver.

NARRATOR: The random murder of Jane Carve

had shaken a perfectly planned O.C. community

and left friends, family and investigators

seeking elusive answers.

But a similar attack in south Orange County

was about to rock its foundation to the core.

BOUCHER: Ten months after Jane Carver's murder,

uh, something interesting happens.

About 30 miles south,

investigators are looking into another act of violence.

CHRISTINE MURRAY: On April 10, 1996,

I responded to the city of San Clemente shortly after

a subject by the name of James Wengert

had been shot in the face

and surprisingly survived.

The suspect did not ask for money.

In fact, said nothing to Wengert but instead

shot him in the face without comment or warning.

And then turned and left.

Execution-style shooting is very unusual in Orange County.

My lieutenant made an off-the-cuff remark,

the only one he could recall had occurred

almost a year earlier-- a jogger, Jane Carver--

who had been killed in Fountain Valley.

When we were able to interview him,

James Wengert immediately

focused our investigation on someone that he had been having

contentious business dealings with

by the name of Coleman Allen,

and felt that that person was responsible.

James Wengert was a businessman and had no criminal record.

But at the time of James Wengert's shooting,

he had borrowed a-a significant amount of money

from Cole Allen to try and keep his business afloat.

Cole Allen had required Wengert to take out

a very large life insurance policy

that listed Cole Allen as the beneficiary.

And the amount of the life insurance policy

was almost three times the amount owed.

In any circumstance, hearing someone is obtaining

life insurance policies on people that owe them money,

this set off some significant alarm bells for us.

This is the thing you see

on a television show or read in a book,

but certainly not a crime in Orange County, California.

NARRATOR: Was it possible that Cole Allen was behind two brutal crimes

that tore at the tailored fabric of Orange County?

Could Janie Carver's shooting have been a murder for hire?

And if so, how had she become tangled up

in this nefarious plot?

MURRAY: Two other law enforcement agencies in Southern California

had active investigations targeting Cole Allen

for fraud and financial crimes

in a very sophisticated way.

BOUCHER: Coleman Allen runs a company called Premium Commercial

in Huntington Beach, and this company

specializes in making loans, often to small-business people.

MURRAY: He did sell them a form of hope

This would be, like, a bridge loan to get them

up on their feet, but with the high interest rate

that he charged and the payment demands that he made,

very quickly,

hope turned into a nightmare.

BOUCHER: There is an air of Tony Soprano to all this.

It was very clear when the money was due,

and it was also made clear that if that money wasn't in,

there was gonna be consequences.

MURRAY: Cole Allen would use

the repayment of these loans as a means

to blackmail his clients

in a very elaborate loan-sharking scheme.

So he would take out insurance policies

on the people who owed him money,

and make himself and his company the beneficiaries.

So now you have a situation where someone is gonna spend

the rest of their life paying this money.

And then when they're done paying him,

then they're gonna die.

And then they're gonna pay him some more.

MURRAY: That was one of the scams

that Signal Hill Police Department as well as

the Los Angeles Police Department were looking at.

Is Cole Allen forcing his clients

to purchase life insurance

and then was he profiting by having those clients murdered?

When we started making arrangements

to go and interview Cole Allen,

we learned Cole Allen had died of a massive heart attack

a couple of days before Wengert had in fact been shot.

It was extremely frustrating.

It raised more questions than it provided answers.

We still conducted searches at his business

to attempt to locate records

that might lead us to who might have

shot James Wengert.

NARRATOR: As the investigation uncovered a seedy motive

in the cold-blooded attack on Wengert,

detectives couldn't help but recognize

the overt similarities to the murder of Jane Carver.

MURRAY: We decided to reach out

to Fountain Valley Police Department

and ask them to start checking

for any connections between the Carver family

and Cole Allen or Premium Commercial.

BOUCHER: There's enough on the surface of the two shootings

that police are looking into whether or not

there's a connection there.

In both cases, the attacker shot the victim

in the face before walking away

MURRAY: This was something that breathed a little air

back into the investigation.

OWEN: There was talk that perhaps

the Carvers had taken out a loan,

and that was not true.

I had never heard of Cole Allen in my entire life.

What could possibly be the connection there?

But the police thought it was such an oddity.

JUSTIN: It actually led to more questioning.

And, truthfully, it led to a lot of disappointment.

MURRAY: Fountain Valley was unable to identify

anything that remotely linked

Jane Carver with Cole Allen.

It was a dead end.

It seemed as if this lead really had been snuffed out

before it could even go anywhere.

CLIFFORD: I mean, there's a little bit of panic there.

We just didn't know if it was ever gonna be solved.

JUSTIN: There's all these different phases

that you go through, and anger was one of them.

Why us?

Why her?

Why us as a family?

It was difficult, though, because who are you angry with?

Besides... I guess, God?

These feelings that we went through, my dad and brother

and I... it lasted weeks, months.

It was drawn out.

MARINI: Kim Brown, I remember her

giving us hope, saying, "We will find this person.

You just have to be patient."

We believed Kim, but our patience was

really dwindling and we needed closure.

NARRATOR: Fountain Valley residents

wondered if their perfection could ever return.

But the lack of leads in two horrific crimes

seemed to hold little promise.

BOUCHER: The Jane Carver case has gone cold.

And then the Wengert attack, uh

especially with the death of Cole Allen,

that's gone cold.

It doesn't look promising, but then, something happens.

Ten days after the shooting of James Wengert,

Cole Allen's widow gets a phone call.

And the person that's on the phone identifies himself

as the triggerman.

MURRAY: The shooter believed Wengert had, in fact, died

on that garage floor,

and he was seeking payment, as Cole was dead.

Everything indicated that Cole Allen likely hired someone

to kill James Wengert for the life insurance payout.

I needed to ascertain who this person was.

Who did Cole Allen hire to shoot James Wengert?

NARRATOR: The surprise death of Orange County's most dangerous

loan shark, Cole Allen, left detectives at a dead end.

Jane Carver's brutal execution

and the near-fatal attempt on James Wengert's life

were like eerie mirrors of each other.

Was this a random reflection?

Or did the surface match reveal a deeper connection?

About ten days after James Wengert had been shot,

Cole Allen's widow contacted law enforcement

to report that a man had called her,

indicated he shot someone at the direction of Cole Allen,

and he was demanding to be paid.

The caller was identified as Paul Alleyne.

We were able to find business records from Premium Commercial

that tied Paul Alleyne

directly to Cole Allen.

BOUCHER: Paul Alleyne is a man

who is in desperate straits.

Paul Alleyne owns an auto parts store and he also

owes money to Coleman Allen.

He's borrowed $30,000

with 36% interest compounded annually.

This is a man who was under the gun.

NARRATOR: Could Paul Alleyne's

insurmountable obligation

to Cole Allen have forced his hand to commit murder?

A debt forgiven in exchange for an unforgivable act?

MURRAY: We showed a photographic lineup to James Wengert,

and he positively identified

Paul Alleyne as the person who shot him in the face.

Suddenly, things are starting to make sense.

Dots are being connected.

They pick him up and they bring him in.

They hope that Paul Alleyne is the key that's gonna unlock

the door to this case.

MURRAY: During the interview of Paul Alleyne,

he continued to deny any involvement

in the shooting of James Wengert.

So I challenged him on that.

And, in fact, told him,

that James Wengert had not died on that garage floor.

This got a visible reaction

from Alleyne, who seemed to be surprised.

He composed himself

rather quickly, and then said, "Well, it's a racial thing.

Us Black guys must all look alike to an old white dude."

It was then that I reminded him

I had never described James Wengert to him.

The only reason he knew he was "an old white dude"

was because he was the shooter.

I concluded the interview, while I went

out into the office and asked

Fountain Valley to use Paul Alleyne's photograph

in a lineup with their witnesses.

I was hopeful that if Alleyne was the person shooting

James Wengert for Cole Allen, maybe he had been involved

in shooting Jane Carver, as well.

It was a long shot, but you have

to just touch every base in hopes

that you find the right answers.

BOUCHER: News gets back to Fountain Valley

about the arrest of Paul Alleyne.

And hope surges-- this is what people have been waiting for.

This feels like a break in the case.

BROWN: We were very hopeful that this was our suspect, too.

Unfortunately, Paul Alleyne's

picture and description did not match our suspect.

It was disappointing.

MURRAY: He was not picked out by the eyewitnesses

as the shooter of Jane Carver.

Back to square one for Fountain Valley, and I

had to prepare for the prosecution of Paul Alleyne

for shooting Wengert.

The case consumes you.

I'm thinking, "Innocent victim,

"mother of two children,

"loved by everybody,

with absolutely no reason to be killed."

This guy has to be out there.

He just has to be out there.

JUSTIN: We as a family, we're also

concerned that we never find this person.

Here is the angel pins

that we got from one of our friends.

She brought them to everybody.

Then we all started wearing the angel pins,

because Jane was our angel looking over us.

CROSBY: We wore them to work on our uniform.

We wore them every day

on our little lapels.

MARINI: We hoped for something good to happen,

but we were so afraid that

this was going to just be a cold case.

JUSTIN: We were confident in

the people that were investigating

and sticking with it-- we really were.

We knew they were

adamant about catching this person,

but at the same time,

without any leads, it was, it was tough.

We knew it was tough for them.

NARRATOR: Hope, however fleeting,

would not be lost,

thanks to the relentless determination

of one of O.C.'s finest.

BOUCHER: Christine Murray was going through the transcripts

of the interrogation of Paul Alleyne,

and there on that page,

when she reads this piece of information,

it hits her like a thunderbolt.

MURRAY: I found this

little... nugget of information.

Maybe a little piece of hope for Fountain Valley

and Jane Carver.

Near the end of the tape,

Paul Alleyne made an offhanded remark to my partner

that Cole Allen was mad

at a guy named Leonard Mundy,

because Leonard shot the wrong person once.

BOUCHER: It turns out that

Coleman Allen had sent another person to do a job

and it didn't go well.

Could that have been the shooting of Jane Carver?

MURRAY: There was some inquiry by my partner as who was this?

What do you mean he shot the wrong person?

Alleyne did not have any details.

Hearing this on the tape,

what other murder happened that I didn't know about?

Who was the wrong person that got shot?

And who was Leonard Mundy?

NARRATOR: Would one last lead

help detectives find justice for Jane?

Or would her murder be left unsolved?

Who was Leonard Mundy and who did Leonard shoot?

NARRATOR: A twisted piece of the puzzle in the James Wengert attack

revealed that there may be another shooter out there

doing the dirty work of Cole Allen.

MURRAY: I started going through all of the documents

we had seized from Premium Commercial,

but now instead of looking for a needle in a haystack,

we needed to find Leonard Mundy's

connection to Cole Allen and the business,

and could it have anything to do with Fountain Valley?

BOUCHER: Leonard Mundy is another small-business man.

And he's taken out a loan from Coleman Allen.

In fact, he's taken out two.

There's a $40,000 loan and then a month later, another one.

These are not numbers that he can handle.

He is in a race to the bottom.

There's nothing about Leonard Mundy's background

that suggests that he's a violent man or a criminal.

But, you know, things change,

especially when people are desperate.

NARRATOR: But beyond the now-clear connection

between Cole Allen and Leonard Mundy,

a more tenuous link was about to reveal itself,

as investigators tore through the filing cabinets

at Cole Allen's business, Premium Commercial.

I came across a file

that listed a residential location

in Fountain Valley and the owners of that property

were Margaret and James Wengert.

At the time Wengert was shot,

they resided in the city of San Clemente.

So that led me to reach out to the Wengerts

and what I learned was

at the time of Jane Carver's murder,

the Wengerts did, in fact, live in Fountain Valley.

NARRATOR: If the Wengerts and the Carvers

both lived amidst the planned perfection of Fountain Valley,

could there be a more elusive connection?

Something that tied back to the same slice of Orange County

both claimed as their own?

MURRAY: So I conducted a follow-up interview

with the Wengerts and spoke

with Margaret Wengert, who went by the name Peggy.

And Peggy told me that

her husband and Cole Allen had used their home

in Fountain Valley as collateral to secure

the business loan James Wengert obtained from Cole Allen

without her knowledge.

And, in fact, had forged her signature.

Cole Allen had been attempting to seize

that house against the debt Wengert had accrued.

And as a result, Peggy filed a civil lawsuit

against Cole Allen

for fraudulent business practices,

and that suit was underway

in June of 1995.

By all accounts, Cole Allen was livid and incensed

that Peggy Wengert had the audacity to sue him.

I looked at a calendar and realized Peggy Wengert

was due in court to testify against Cole Allen

three to four days after Jane Carver's death.

Could that have, in any way,

contributed to the murder of Jane Carver?

NARRATOR: This new discovery was soaked in mystery.

What had actually connected the dots

on June 10, 1995,

in the pockets of this perfectly planned community?

I decided to go look at the Wengert house

in Fountain Valley.

I had driven by using the northbound 405 Freeway,

and I inadvertently missed the first Brookhurst off-ramp,

which is what I needed to get to the Wengert home,

and instead took a cloverleaf, or looping, off-ramp,

that pointed me in the direction of the Carver home.

And that made me start to wonder,

could someone else have made that same mistake?

Fountain Valley is a master-planned community,

and many of the residential communities

tend to look a little bit alike.

And I realized, if someone told you to turn right

when you got off the freeway, take the first turn,

pass a park,

and the next left takes you into the Wengert residence,

those same directions get you to where Jane Carver was shot,

if you made that mistake on the off-ramp.

The two houses were almost a mirror-image pattern

away from the freeway.

If a driver wasn't attentive

and didn't know whether they were taking the north exit

or the south exit, they could have ended up

in front of the wrong house.

And at the time of Jane Carver's murder,

Peggy Wengert was Cole Allen's biggest threat.

BOUCHER: What if Jane Carver were killed

because the master plan of Fountain Valley

had undermined the master plan of Coleman Allen?

MURRAY: I couldn't get past the gut feeling

that led me to call Fountain Valley back and say,

"I need you to do one more photo lineup for me,

"and I want you to put in

a guy by the name of Leonard Mundy."

BROWN: When that photo came up,

there was no doubt that that was our suspect.

MURRAY: Their witness identified the shooter

of Jane Carver

as Leonard Mundy.

BROWN: I was just so pleased that finally

we had found him.

MURRAY: Fountain Valley was able to get

a search warrant of their own

for Premium Commercial, looking for documents

to tie Leonard Mundy to Cole Allen and Peggy Wengert.

And they found those documents.

They very much mirrored the types of documents

that Paul Alleyne had completed for having shot James Wengert.

BROWN: Cole Allen was found to have written off

two uncollectable loans,

and Cole Allen didn't write off loans.

Cole Allen got his money back.

He was all about money.

NARRATOR: The paper trail unveiled

Cole Allen's insidious greed.

Those fueled by desperation

would serve as reluctant hit men to eradicate anyone

who dared stand between him and his big payoff.

It was determined that the SWAT team would serve the warrant

for Leonard Mundy up in South L.A.

There was a lot of anticipation-- I wanted to see

this person responsible for this horrible crime.

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When they brought him out,

it was just a culmination

of all the time, energy and effort put into it,

and being able

to give the Carver family some closure.

BOUCHER: The arrest of Leonard Mundy

brought to a finish line much of the mystery

that surrounded the death of Jane Carver.

That's when you really start to see all the moving pieces

and how they fit together.

BROWN: After his arrest,

we needed to talk to him and find out the truth.

It's even harder to believe now than it was then.

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NARRATOR: Nearing the one-year anniversary

of Jane Carver's execution,

a hidden truth still lingered in the seemingly safe streets

of this perfectly planned place.

Even when you get to the bottom of the mystery,

there's another mystery waiting for you,

which led to the entire unraveling

of this complex riddle.

What presents itself is that Leonard Mundy

was sent to kill somebody,

but he ended up killing Jane Carver.

What put her in the crosshairs that day?

The answer that they find is a tragic one.

It turns out

she's a victim of mistaken identity.

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MURRAY: The actual target

on that June day in 1995

was Peggy Wengert.

BOUCHER: Peggy Wengert

enraged Coleman Allen.

She had brought attention to his criminal enterprises

through a lawsuit, and he was furious.

He's not a guy that you want to make angry.

So he launched an attack,

and that attack was Leonard Mundy with a gun.

MURRAY: Leonard Mundy made a wrong turn

and shot the wrong person.

We did go through all the records

to see what Cole Allen had identifying Peggy Wengert.

The only picture we were able to find in the files

was an old driver's license photo that had been xeroxed.

BROWN: They may have somewhat, size-wise, looked alike,

but obviously he decided that Jane was his target,

and whatever amount of money he got was worth taking her life.

MURRAY: Paul Alleyne and Leonard Mundy

weren't sophisticated criminals, but they

got caught up with...

pure evil.

I would speculate that Cole Allen used these men

to commit these assaults because he could--

they were blackmailed into taking actions

of an extremely violent nature.

He could intimidate them, manipulate them,

order them around.

And he didn't have to pay them.

JUSTIN: The truth came out, and it was

nothing short of shocking.

Something that I never

would have guessed.

BARRY: It was relief,

but at the same time,

it was the worst kind of scenario,

because we had nothing to do with his business.

Somebody killed Jane,

thinking that she was somebody else.

Are you kidding? This is what actually happened?

That at least gives you some sort of, I guess, closure,

and...

you know, you cross your fingers

and hope that justice is served.

TANIZAKI: Leonard Mundy was convicted

of the brutal killing of Jane Carver

and then was sentenced

to life without the possibility of parole.

Paul Alleyne was convicted

of shooting James Wengert

and was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.

JUSTIN: It was pretty frustrating for u

that Allen wasn't alive to see his day in court.

I feel for Mundy to this day.

He was in a tough spot and had to make a stupid decision

that cost him his life,

and... cost us our mom.

I'm very relieved with this, uh, verdict today.

It's a day that we've long awaited.

It's... kind of signals the, uh, the-the end

of a horrible chapter in the life of our family.

NARRATOR: At long last, investigators had delivered

some measure of justice for Janie.

And the community of Fountain Valley rallied once more

around the memory of one of their own.

NOTEBOOM: After something,

you know, so horrible,

you kind of want it to stand for something,

and... and you don't want people

to forget.

OWEN: We all thought we would do something

that Janie would really appreciate.

BARRY: The marathon came together

as a way to honor Jane.

Jane...

loved to run,

and she believed in education.

It was a huge success,

and the donations that were made for the run

were going to be given to some students

that needed a scholarship

so that they could go on to college.

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CROSBY: The Race for Janie

raised $75,000,

and we had an entry of, uh, 1,200 people.

MURRAY: I think the key to solving this case

was the community.

The citizens of Fountain Valley,

they kept Jane's memory alive,

and, because of that, led us to think:

is there a relation between a San Clemente shooting

and Jane's murder?

OWEN: It's painful, but I want her to be remembered

so that people know how she was

I miss her so much.

CLIFFORD: It's never a hundred percent better, but it's

just a little bit easier

as time goes on.

JUSTIN: We've put our best foot forward, and we try

and stay positive as a family, and one thing

that was important with all this is that

it brought my dad and my brother and I

very close together.

If my mom were around today,

I would like to think she'd be still traveling,

hanging out with the-the grandchildren,

hopefully, uh,

keeping my dad good company,

and living life

to the fullest-- she was good at that.

I'd like to think that would carry on to this day.

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