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This guy was at the top of his game.

He was successful.

He had beautiful children and a wife.

It's very, very strange.

We're definitely puzzled as to why he has just vanished.

A real-life murder mystery.

It's obvious that the alligators have

eaten parts of the body.

A grisly murder with a slew of suspects.

Henry was living a double life.

This automatically expands the suspect pool.

She was irate and thought maybe he was having an affair.

John does have an alarming history of violence.

Maybe there's a sibling rivalry.

Henry had taken his idea

and completely cut him out of the deal.

The truth will be revealed.

Who is this person?

He a friend of Henry's? Is he a hookup?

Or is he the killer?

Every day in North America,

dozens of people are murdered.

The key to solving the toughest of these homicides

lies in the final 24 hours of the victim's life.

To crack the case,

detectives must reconstruct that critical timeline,

the minutes and hours containing evidence

that can help unlock the mystery

and catch the killer.

Miami, Florida -- a Latin-American melting pot

and the heart of the Cuban exile community,

where many have come in search of the American dream.

Miami is a very diversified community.

It's made up of several different cultures --

Cuban, Venezuelan, Colombian, Peruvian,

you know, you name it, I think we have it down here,

so it makes it unique, and it kind of gives it

its own special DNA or footprint, if you will.

But Miami has a dark side, too.

We've seen crime trends come and go,

just like every major Metropolis city.

And just like any major city,

we have our share of narcotics, gambling,

money laundering, um...

Murders have always kind of been steady here,

because wherever you have the other two,

you'd have murder that sometimes

seems to follow it.

On one November morning,

just before Thanksgiving,

a Miami family's American dream turns into a nightmare.

On November 20th at 8:45 A.M.,

Isabel Diaz calls the police.

She was extremely worried, because her husband, Henry Diaz,

had been missing since the night before --

Friday, November the 19th.

Isabel is very distraught.

It's out of character for Henry just to go missing,

especially for this amount of time.

You can only imagine how hard that would have been,

when her husband,

who had never done anything like this before,

was suddenly missing, and she was concerned.

The missing man is 35-year-old Henry Diaz,

a local businessman.

Henry and Isabel were high school sweethearts,

and they had three beautiful children.

He was a very devoted husband and father,

and she was very happy in that relationship.

Henry is a first-generation Cuban-American.

His parents both migrated here from the island of Cuba,

and they opened a grocery market.

It was a well-established business in this neighborhood.

Heading up the investigation

into Henry Diaz's disappearance is sergeant Mike bracci.

He starts by questioning Isabel, who says that on

the day of his disappearance,

Henry woke up early as usual and was at work by 6:30 A.M.

The last time Isabel spoke to her husband, Henry,

was a 10:03 P.M.

On November 19th, that Friday night.

He told her that he was on his way to a business meeting

to discuss an upcoming Christmas party.

And so he was supposed to meet with a band leader

at a lounge where the thing

would have been, and they were gonna go over all

the last details.

Isabel first realized Henry was missing at sometime around

midnight when she woke up, and he wasn't in bed,

she tried to reach him. She couldn't reach him.

She went back to bed.

And then when she woke up at 6:30 in the morning,

he still wasn't there.

She had expected him home, because they were

going on a cruise that day on the 20th.

They had to be at the dock at one o'clock in the afternoon.

So she started calling the family

and trying to figure out where he could be.

At 8:45, she called the police.

To find Henry Diaz,

investigators will need to reconstruct the 24 hours

leading up to the businessman's disappearance.

This guy was at the top of his game.

He was successful.

He had beautiful children and a wife,

a mother who he was very close with.

He just wouldn't have run away.

It's -- it's very, very strange.

We were definitely puzzled

as to why he has just vanished.

To flesh out Henry's timeline,

investigators start building a victim profile.

Isabel tells US that Henry is wearing

a light shirt, jeans,

dress shoes, and a nice watch that he typically wears

when going to work.

His license plate is a personalized license plate

that has the words "money man"

on the back of it.

I relay to her that I don't think

that's -- that's the wisest thing to do.

It immediately makes him a possible target.

We also learn that Henry often carried large quantities

of cash, so this became

an alarming factor for US, as well.

So right away, the possibility exists in my mind

that he could potentially have been or is

the victim of a robbery.

Isabel tells them that Henry's car

also has a GPS tracking system installed.

So on Saturday, November 20th, at about 6:15 P.M.,

Henry's vehicle is located in an apartment complex

in hialeah, Florida,

and it had a different license plate on the vehicle.

The fact that there's a different set of plates on

his car when it's found could have a number of explanations

at first glance -- one would be that when the plate

gets run through the system,

it's gonna come back to a different car.

It becomes then a misdirect.

They start looking at this as a potential auto investigation,

when, in reality, it's concealing something

far more sinister.

Detectives discover that Henry's car was driven to

the apartment complex early Saturday morning

and parked around 4 A.M.

This particular part of hialeah was known for certain

types of crime, had car thefts, vehicle burglaries,

some narcotics activity.

So we found it odd that Henry's vehicle would be

parked here.

Hoping to find Henry, investigators race to hialeah.

It appeared that somebody had parked the vehicle

quite a distance away from the apartment complex

and the apartment residences itself.

They noticed on the car that there was

some paint transfer on the side of the car.

They asked Isabel whether or not Henry had been

in any accidents recently

that he had mentioned or she -- had she ever

seen that on the car?

She indicated no.

But what they can observe from the outside

looking in is that there's blood on the car.

That is not a good sign.

It starts to look like maybe

perhaps there was a minor Fender bender.

Henry goes out of his vehicle to confront or speak with

the other driver,

and then some form of violent altercation occurs,

and that's how maybe there's blood

in the vehicle and at the scene.

But where's Henry is the main question.

While processing the vehicle,

we observe and we find large amounts

of blood, blood smear, um,

on the steering wheel area,

blood on the front

floorboard and...

Passenger side front door.

There was a small hole to

the front interior passenger-side door,

so the paneling, and it was consistent with what appeared

to be a bullet hole or a projectile hole,

and that really was suspicious to US.

We also find blood

in the rear driver's side area, as well as

on the back seat,

and we notice that both front floor mats are missing.

It's obvious that somebody attempted to clean up the blood

and then potentially try to get rid of a crime scene.

We've got a car discovered under very

suspicious circumstances.

We know we're probably looking for a body.

The question is, is it the owner, Henry's, body?

Or has he actually committed a crime

and then dumped the getaway vehicle?

Devoted family man, Henry Diaz,

is missing,

but his abandoned car has been found.

It's covered in blood, and police

are convinced that someone's been shot in it.

Is the victim Henry or somebody else?

Given the amount of blood that we observe,

there's no chance that anybody survived this --

this struggle that occurred within the vehicle.

Using Henry's DNA obtained from a hairbrush

they got from his wife, Isabel,

investigators test it against the blood sample

found in the car.

We obtain the DNA results, and we do learn that, in fact,

it is a match between the blood that is recovered

within the vehicle and the DNA belonging to Henry.

So at this point in the investigation,

it's determined that we are

actually investigating a homicide as opposed to

a missing persons case.

Investigators now theorize that Henry

was killed between 10:03 P.M.

Friday, when he last spoke to his wife, Isabel, and 4 A.M.

Saturday, when his car was ditched in hialeah.

When we are processing the fingerprints and the DNA

that's collected from inside

the vehicle, what we do is it's compared against a database,

which is maintained in our criminal lists,

and unfortunately, in our case, we don't receive any hits

on the evidence comparisons that are -- that are submitted,

and it -- it kind of -- it's a dead end for US,

and it's -- and it's very frustrating.

Investigators talk to Isabel again

to see if she knows of anyone

who might have had a grudge against Henry.

All she could think of was maybe the brothers,

cause there's some jealousy there.

Henry was obviously the most financially

successful of the three of them.

When their father passed away,

the brothers basically took over the operation of running

the supermarket, but we know that

Henry was the one at the forefront, because he was

more of the business savvy, administrative,

more polished.

The other brothers took care of most of

the behind-the-scenes manual labor,

if you will, setting up schedules and dealing

with deliveries.

Henry's a partner with his brothers, but he has

his own business, as well, on the side.

He had made something more of a business portfolio

besides just the supermarkets,

and the feeling was is that this had

caused some sibling jealousy between Henry and his brothers,

especially for John.

Sergeant bracci digs deeper into

the Diaz brothers' backgrounds and their reputations.

We learned that there had been some

sort of altercation between Henry and his brother, John.

Actually, it escalated to the point where John grabbed

Henry by the throat,

as almost like to appear to grasp him

in a choking manner.

We also learn that John had previously

been the focus of a homicide investigation.

He was working in a store when somebody attempted to Rob

the store, and he pulled

the shotgun on them, and he got into an exchange

with the subject, um, and ultimately,

the would-be robber was shot and killed by John,

so we know he is not afraid to use excessive force

when put in that situation.

With John in their sights,

investigators interrogate him about his brother's murder.

John painted the picture that everything was copasetic

and everything was kind of hunky dory

between the brothers,

but we think it's very worthy and very strange

that when we spoke to John

that he did not mention this fight he had with Henry.

We don't feel like that we were told the whole truth.

Police ask John about his whereabouts

the day Henry disappeared.

John tells US that he last saw Henry Friday afternoon,

roughly around 4 P.M., when Henry responded

just to kind of give him a list of things that needed to be

attended to while he was on vacation.

John went home after work,

and he was there until the next morning.

We look into John's whereabouts

and his alibi, and everything checked out,

so we moved on.

With John ruled out as a suspect,

investigators are hoping he can help fill in

Henry's timeline

the day of his disappearance.

John tells US that the supposed meeting

that was to take place between Henry, John, and the musician

never took place.

The musician responded to the grocery store at 8:15

and told the brothers, basically,

that he hadn't received confirmation of the meeting,

and so he had made other plans.

So John, in turn, calls Henry at 8:15 P.M.

And lets him know that the meeting

for this Christmas party has been canceled.

But Isabel had previously told investigators

that when she last spoke to Henry a 10:03 Friday night,

he was headed to a meeting about the Christmas party.

We found it odd that Henry did not

tell Isabel that the meeting had been canceled.

So we asked John if he was having

an affair or something that was going on

that Isabel wouldn't know about,

and John's answer was, "no way.

That's not Henry," and he doesn't have

any explanation as to what happened.

The timeline becomes clearer when

Henry's credit card records come in.

Henry's credit card was used at approximately

4:40 in the morning at a gas station in hialeah,

which was close to where the vehicle has been located.

His credit card had been used not only at the gas station,

but it was used at a supermarket at 4:23 P.M.

On that afternoon and then at 6:20 P.M.

At a shoe store, all close in the same neighborhood.

In hialeah.

It was very clear to US that whoever used the credit card

most likely could be the person

or persons who dropped the vehicle in hialeah.

So we asked Isabel not to cancel the card, simply because

whoever was using it, we felt

that it was going to be very likely that they would continue

to use it, because the moment that the card was canceled

while they were trying to complete a transaction,

they would know that whoever was looking for Henry now knows

that he's not using his credit card, that it's somebody else.

The police have the address of the gas station,

so they go to the gas station and inquire whether or not

there's any video or security footage

of people making transactions.

They get the footage, and they see

a picture of somebody using the credit card.

That's a big break in the case.

They take a snapshot of the video footage of the person

using the credit card,

and they take it to Isabel to see whether or not

she recognizes the man.

When the thing is shown to Isabel,

she does not recognize the man,

but she sees the wallet that he's holding,

and that's a very unique wallet.

It was handmade, and she says, "that's Henry's wallet."

Investigators are now focused

on identifying the mystery man

and uncovering how he could be connected to Henry's murder.

Something bad happened to Henry,

but the main question, which is who did it?

And where is his body?

Still remain unanswered.

The only thing we do know is because he had the wallet,

there's a good chance that that's the guy

who knows something about the disappearance of Henry Diaz.

So they put out flyers into the community to

see whether or not anybody has noticed this man.

The investigators' community outreach

doesn't help them identify

the mystery man on the security video,

but it does lead them to their first real break in the case.

I get a call from the homicide detectives.

There's been a body found in the everglades.

A fisherman found it

and called into broward county sheriff's office.

The body was found drifting in

a wildlife hot spot known as alligator alley.

It's obvious that the alligators have

eaten parts of the body,

but the man appears to be wearing jeans.

His arms were missing, but he's wearing

clothes consistent with what Isabel said

Henry was wearing.

A human body in the everglades,

badly mangled, badly mutilated.

The question at that point is, given the state of the body,

is this Henry, or is this some other victim?

Police have recovered a body in the everglades,

but it's been in the water for several days

and has been mutilated by alligators,

so they can't immediately confirm if it's Henry Diaz.

They're not able to visually identify that person,

because after he's been in the water that long,

his face really doesn't have the characteristics that it

would have had when he was alive.

So they take Henry's dental records, and they're

compared to the victim's teeth,

and it's a match -- they confirm that it's Henry Diaz.

Detectives start working a theory

on how Henry's murder likely unfolded.

Henry was shot, perhaps in one vehicle,

moved to another vehicle, and then his body was dumped.

One wonders, what is the psychology

of somebody who would do this?

Perhaps they want the body to be exposed to the elements,

because this exposure could cause evidence

linking a timeframe or a time of death or a manner of death

to be eroded.

Is this something that's a hit and has been highly organized?

Or is moving to different vehicles and dumping the body

something that somebody is doing in

a disorganized manner and, in an impulsive way, just wants to

get rid of any evidence.

Sergeant bracci breaks the news

of Henry's death to his family.

I think this is such a horrifying

way to hear that your loved one was

handled at the end of their life.

But the one thing the police did tell them, though, however,

was that Henry would have been dead instantly

and didn't suffer.

When investigators ask who would want to kill Henry

in such a brutal way,

Isabel suggests they look at Henry's second business,

gentle hands, a home healthcare company that he runs

independently from his brothers.

Henry had bought gentle hands about

three weeks before he was killed.

I believe the sale took place on November 1st,

and he was still working with the people that used to own it

to learn the business,

but basically, he took over the business at that point.

When investigators interview

Henry's employees at gentle hands,

they uncover a surprising new lead.

We learned that there was some sort of

disagreement or argument between Henry

and Pedro Rodriguez.

They were going to, at one point, combine efforts to buy

this home healthcare business

and that they were gonna venture on

this business opportunity together.

But we learn from the employees that Henry

had actually cut Pedro Rodriguez out of the deal

and that Pedro was a little upset about it,

because he stood to lose quite a bit of money.

So as we know in a lot of our investigations,

money is often a strong motive for murder.

And, in this case, that's an immediate red flag

for US, as well.

Sergeant bracci digs into Pedro's background

and makes a shocking discovery.

We find out that his name had come up in some

sort of medicaid fraud investigation that was

conducted by the FBI,

and so we felt the need to speak with Pedro in person

to see if there was any other suspicious interactions

that he had with Henry

police haul Pedro down to the station for questioning.

Initially,

I notice that he's a little suspicious as to why the police

would want to interview him in the -- in the murder

of Henry.

It's concerning, just simply because he knew that Henry

hadn't been heard from.

Um, we asked him how he -- how he had heard this,

and he said that an employee

um, at Henry's business, had called him and let him know.

Investigators push Pedro about his failed

business deal with Henry.

Pedro told US that he had approached Henry and said,

"hey, listen, I don't have the money,

"but I do have the idea and the business concept as to how

this could be a very lucrative business for both of US."

Henry seemed interested.

He listened to his plan, to a sales pitch.

He said he would get back with him, and he didn't hear

from Henry for a while,

and he had later learned that Henry had taken his idea

and bought the business and completely

cut him out of a deal.

Pedro told US, um, he was quite angry.

He was hurt. He was offended.

Pedro had a motive to murder Henry,

but when investigators pursue his alibi,

they learn he was at work during the hours that Henry

was killed.

He's eliminated as a suspect.

The professional pressure that you feel -- it's

only natural with being a homicide investigator --

but knowing that i'm a resident of the community,

I live in Miami-dade county,

and the biggest question for US is, again, trying to piece

together what could have happened.

We still don't know where it happened

and what part of dade county.

Um, could be in Henry's driveway.

It could have been right outside of his business.

We still don't know.

And so we have a lot of unanswered questions

that we're not able

to provide closure, provide answers, to the family

and/or to the public.

Having hit another dead end in their investigation,

detectives pull Henry's cellphone records,

looking for any clues that could point to his killer.

At around 10, there were

several calls made to the same number, and the last

one being at 10 o'clock,

and that call is answered.

The phone number belongs to somebody named Jose.

Detectives track down Jose and summon him

to the station to answer some questions.

Jose is contacted, and he tells them

that he met Henry on a gay website.

The fact that Henry would be looking at a gay website is

kind of unusual,

based on what the family and the wife and the friends

are all telling the cops Henry is all about.

Jose tells them that he and Henry had been together

once before,

and he said that Henry told him that he was gay,

but he was married.

Henry was trying that night to get together with Jose,

and that was unsuccessful.

The police, once they hear that Jose is gay

and that Henry is interacting with him,

they begin to think that Henry maybe has a life very different

from what everybody in this family planted about

his life with Isabel and the children.

Investigators do a deep dive

into Henry's computer and discover

prior to his death, he'd been

secretly arranging hookups with more men.

So they have their forensic computer people

examine the computer, and they find

that he has been on many gay websites and spends

a lot of time looking and searching through the websites.

The idea that if somebody was secretly gay, they might be

more likely to get in a situation that they couldn't

get out of and maybe would get killed,

especially somebody who has a tag saying "money man"

and is representing himself as a very

successful, good-looking businessman.

Investigators turn to the Diaz family,

hoping to learn more about Henry's online activities.

We speak with Isabel regarding

what we've recently learned.

So we ask her

if she knows if Henry had ever been known to frequent

gay websites online or anything that would lead her

to be suspicious.

So Isabel tells US that there's no way,

he's a great father,

he's great husband, great brother.

There is no way that this could possibly be true.

Henry's family now believe the cops were lying.

They believe that this couldn't possibly be true.

They just wouldn't accept it.

I think this would be very shocking,

just because this would seem

to come out of nowhere to a family who has,

in all appearances, many different values than

what this lifestyle they may think could indicate.

For Henry, what is concerning to me is that there may be lots

of pressure both from

a religious, family, and at a community level not to

disclose or to keep certain parts of yourself secret.

But it's just also opening,

maybe, some opportunities for offenders to be motivated to

harm him in some way.

Things get complicated even further

when we realize Henry was living a double life --

father and family man and on the side was frequenting

gay websites and hooking up with a variety of men.

This automatically expands the suspect pool,

and these are people who, because of Henry's second life

and his not advertising who these people were,

are gonna likely be very difficult to track down.

Armed with information that murder victim,

Henry Diaz, had been living a secret life,

detectives reexamine the surveillance video of

the man seen using Henry's credit card.

The security footage from the gas station depicts

an unidentified male there,

and like a lot of security video, has no context.

The question at that point is, who is this person?

Is he a friend of Henry's?

Is he a hookup? Or is he the killer?

Detectives are still unable to identify

the mystery man through the video alone.

But flyers soliciting his identity

are still circulating in the community

as the investigation continues.

We still don't receive any public information

or even anonymous tips.

We go back to the drawing board

and let the case take US to the next direction,

whichever it may be.

The big break in this investigation comes on

November 30th at 12:55 in the morning.

Hialeah police

a police are called to a fight that's broken out between

two gentlemen, and they go on the scene,

and one of the hialeah officers recognizes one of

the people in the fight from the wanted poster that went out.

The man's name is yosvani Fernandez.

A female by the name of Maria

is also involved in this incident.

Hialeah police bring both of them

in for questioning and notify US.

When sergeant bracci looks into yosvani's background,

he learns he has a criminal past.

Back in Cuba, he spent 10 years in prison

for hijacking and theft before escaping and fleeing to Miami.

Anybody who's had run-ins with the law

is somebody that you need to look at.

It means if you're willing to violate rules and laws

in the past, you may be willing to do so in the future.

So he's certainly a viable suspect in my mind.

We also learned that yosvani has a dark-colored

four-door Mercedes registered to him,

and even more coincidental, if you will,

we locate a dark four-door Mercedes registered

to yosvani Fernandez in the same apartment complex

as where we found Henry's vehicle.

So we take yosvani Fernandez's photo,

and we show it to the clerks at all the stores where

the credit card was used that belonged to Henry,

and they positively identify him as being the individual

who made the purchases.

Having zeroed in on yosvani as their prime suspect

sergeant bracci hauls him in for questioning.

Yosvani kept denying everything.

He said he didn't know anything about it.

He had nothing to do with anything,

and he didn't know Henry.

So he basically denied everything,

and they got nowhere.

Sergeant bracci confronts yosvani

with the surveillance footage of him using

Henry's credit card.

When we asked him if he knew Henry or could even

possibly be dating him, he just --

he became very irate and just frustrating --

couldn't believe that we would ask him a question like that,

and so we asked him why he would possibly be using

Henry's credit card.

He said that he found the wallet on the ground.

He didn't know who it belonged to.

Not believing yosvani's story,

sergeant bracci questions him

about his whereabouts on the night Henry was killed.

His alibi was that he was

probably out with one of his girlfriends.

He doesn't know which one -- he can't remember.

Hoping to poke holes in yosvani's alibi,

sergeant bracci also interviews yosvani's

girlfriend, Maria.

When speaking with Maria,

we asked her if she knew where yosvani was on the night of

November 19th, and she found it odd that --

that we would ask her that.

But she responds to the question,

and she says she was working.

She works at I think a bar or something like that,

and yosvani dropped her off at work

at five o'clock in the afternoon

and was supposed to come pick her up at the end of her shift,

and then she received a call from yosvani,

about 10:30 P.M.

And then after that, shortly thereafter,

yosvani and another gentleman came to visit her,

and they stayed for a couple minutes,

and then they left.

Maria then tells sergeant bracci

that when her shift ended, yosvani wasn't

there to pick her up.

She remembers very specifically calling yosvani

several times, and that he would not answer

the phone, well into the late hours of Friday the 19th

into the morning hours of the 20th.

She was irate and thought

maybe he was having an affair, confronted him,

and then he called her back from another number

not belonging to him.

He said that he would be there shortly and she said,

"don't bother. I'm getting another ride."

She went to a club with a friend.

He then called her again and said he'd picked her up

there and take her home,

and that happened around 4:30 in the morning.

When he took her home, they had a big fight.

She went to bed, the next morning, he...

Told her he would like to take her to breakfast.

Sergeant bracci leans on Maria about yosvani's whereabouts

when he wasn't answering the phone.

She swears she doesn't know anything else.

At that point, detectives showed a picture of

Henry with his arms cut off by the alligators

and went through the fact that he had a family and went

through the whole story about what had happened to Henry.

Horrified by what she's just learned,

Maria breaks down.

She then admitted that she had lied,

and she tells them everything she knows.

Ultimately, the break in this case comes,

as it often does, with a woman scorned

who was also being lied to and who,

upon realizing this, has enough material knowledge to

completely shake the case loose.

After several false starts,

investigators finally have their prime suspect

in the Henry Diaz murder,

former felon, yosvani Fernandez.

And, as it turns out, his girlfriend Maria,

knows a lot.

So Maria finally tells US

that yosvani confessed to her,

because he was afraid, since she was alleging

that he was having an affair with another woman.

Maria said basically yosvani told her

he had robbed somebody, he had killed the person,

that he had dumped the body in a place

where alligators would chew up the body.

Homicide detectives right away are able to now go through

each piece of evidence with her,

and she's -- she's cooperating, and she's saying what yosvani

said and what he told her and stuff.

So she becomes, of course,

a very important witness in this case.

Maria reveals that yosvani wasn't working alone

and that the phone he called her from

the night of Henry's murder belonged to his accomplice.

We subsequently found out, through his phone records,

the phone belong to an individual named maikel.

Once we know where

he lives and his whereabouts, we go, and we meet with him,

and we bring him into the office.

Investigators interrogate maikel

about his role in Henry's murder.

We let him know first and foremost that

yosvani has told US everything,

just try to get as much information as we can

from him, as well.

Maikel talks, but he's selective when

it comes down to the details.

Maikel said he came here from Cuba in 2004, January.

He met up with yosvani.

Yosvani didn't have any money and needed a loan,

and he lent him $500.

He expected yosvani was gonna pay him back,

and he still hadn't been paid back.

Maikel reveals that he was working with yosvani

just to get his money back.

It could be that they knew Henry.

They knew he was a businessman.

He had a personal plate that said "money man."

Maybe he was deliberately targeted because they wanted

to extort him

for further money by threatening to reveal

his sexuality.

In some ways, it feels unsatisfying,

because we're left with more questions than answers,

and the biggest one that's the most unsatisfying to me

is that it was only over a small sum of money.

I want to know why somebody would resort to violence.

Why would somebody kill Henry in this way?

I think you can safely say this is a bias-motivated homicide.

Maikel and yosvani aren't

revealing much, but their cellphones might.

Because of the cell towers,

we know that Michael's phone is being tracked

leaving the crime scene to where Henry's body was dumped.

And it's pinging, which means that it's alerting

on these various cell towers

leading both out to where Henry's body was dumped

and subsequently located,

and it's leading all the way back in to where

we eventually find the vehicle parked in

the apartment complex.

Believing maikel is the weak link,

police confront him with these findings.

It's always key,

if you've got two or more suspects,

and you're gonna play them off each other to identify

the weak link, the one who will acquiesce, who will cave

the most quickly, who can be flipped,

as we say.

Often, it comes down to someone who has the most to lose,

and that can be carefully worked by the authorities in

order to convince this person one way or another

to cooperate.

When we speak with maikel

and we present him with the evidence,

he tells US exactly what happened simply because

now he realizes the trouble that he's in.

With maikel's confession,

police are now able to fill in

the final 24 hours of Henry Diaz's life.

So after Henry's meeting is canceled,

he decides he wants to hook up with somebody.

So he first calls Jose,

who, it turns out, wasn't available.

And that's when Henry decides he's gonna

go to a local pickup spot instead.

At 10:03, Isabel and Henry speak

on the phone for the last time.

Meanwhile, yosvani suggested to maikel that

he come and help him do a robbery.

They would try to find somebody who was trying to

hook up with a gay person

and they'd be too embarrassed to report it.

And then maikel would have his money,

and that would be the end of him paying the debt.

Yosvani and maikel had seen Henry

at an adult bookstore,

which was known to be frequented by gay men.

They identified him by his vehicle,

his license plate, "money man,"

and he was wearing a wedding ring, so they figured he would

be a good target, and they were gonna Rob him.

They get into Henry's vehicle.

Yosvani tells Henry that he's actually there to Rob him,

that he wants his money,

that he wants his jewelry, and then he's gonna take his car

from him, as well.

Henry puts up a fight.

Yosvani shoots Henry in the face,

and now they're in sheer panic.

After placing Henry's body in the trunk,

yosvani and maikel take off with his car.

They drive out to the everglades.

Maikel helps yosvani

take the body out of the trunk.

They dump the body in the water,

and then they take off and head back to hialeah.

The men then leave the car in

the parking lot of Maria's apartment building.

Maikel then gets his car and then takes off.

And that's the last he saw of yosvani.

Then yosvani goes on a spending spree, using Henry's

credit card to buy groceries,

gas, and shoes.

He has a wallet in his hand.

He has money, he's paying with somebody else's credit card.

But yosvani does not give anything to maikel,

according to what maikel says.

It seems cold-blooded, simply because he could have

just robbed him, taken his wallet,

taken his watch, and just let him go on his way.

He didn't have to shoot and kill him,

but by Henry refusing to cooperate,

he felt the need to kill him.

This case is very tragic, because you have an upstanding

member of society who has, you know, a sexuality

that he doesn't feel comfortable or doesn't want to

reveal who's been deliberately

targeted for that, and for what purpose?

I'd like to think that there was a deeper motivation here,

but it may be that you have some killers who have

features of garden variety psychopaths,

and they're just killing over a small sum of money because of

what they want in the moment.

Yosvani Fernandez is convicted of

second-degree murder and armed robbery.

He's sentenced to 25 years.

Maikel rojas-Perez is convicted of being an accessory

after the fact and receives a sentence of 18 years.

We had so many items of evidence that gave US

information where somebody

was at a certain time, where a vehicle was at a certain time,

and the timelines in this case really

helped US in terms of solving the case.

When you sit and put -- put it together like a puzzle,

it all matched up.

I'm happy and proud of the work we put in as a team.

We've invested a lot of time,

time away from our own lives, our families, our children.

And you know now that you can go

and sit in front of a family and give them closure.

What I remember most about this case is that this was

a man who had three young children and a wife

and the circumstances with him going on the cruise

and not showing up,

and then them not finding his body for so many days,

just, I -- it was just really tragic, really tragic.