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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:07,708 --> 00:00:09,919 To choke somebody to death requires. 2 00:00:10,044 --> 00:00:12,255 A great deal of intent. 3 00:00:12,380 --> 00:00:13,756 An innocent victim. 4 00:00:13,881 --> 00:00:15,858 She was very much a social butterfly, 5 00:00:15,983 --> 00:00:17,660 and everybody knew her. 6 00:00:17,785 --> 00:00:20,463 A dark mystery with multiple suspects. 7 00:00:20,588 --> 00:00:22,598 Love triangles are powder kegs. 8 00:00:22,723 --> 00:00:24,356 They are very unstable. 9 00:00:26,093 --> 00:00:28,371 We said, "hey, we think she's dead. 10 00:00:28,496 --> 00:00:30,539 Did you kill her?" 11 00:00:30,664 --> 00:00:32,675 If she's telling him it's over, 12 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:35,411 he really has nothing to lose financially 13 00:00:35,536 --> 00:00:36,412 by killing her. 14 00:00:36,537 --> 00:00:38,447 The truth will be revealed. 15 00:00:38,572 --> 00:00:40,806 Boom... this is the guy who did it. 16 00:00:40,941 --> 00:00:42,230 Now we just have to prove it. 17 00:00:43,511 --> 00:00:45,054 Every day in North America, 18 00:00:45,179 --> 00:00:47,823 dozens of people are murdered. 19 00:00:47,948 --> 00:00:50,259 The key to solving the toughest of these homicides 20 00:00:50,384 --> 00:00:54,363 lies in the final 24 hours of the victim's life. 21 00:00:54,488 --> 00:00:55,798 To crack the case, 22 00:00:55,923 --> 00:00:59,535 detectives must reconstruct that critical timeline, 23 00:00:59,660 --> 00:01:02,271 the minutes and hours containing evidence 24 00:01:02,396 --> 00:01:04,473 that can help unlock the mystery 25 00:01:04,598 --> 00:01:05,798 and catch the killer. 26 00:01:14,508 --> 00:01:16,352 Anna Maria island, 27 00:01:16,477 --> 00:01:19,021 a seven-mile strip of soft white sand 28 00:01:19,146 --> 00:01:21,146 in the Gulf coast of Florida. 29 00:01:22,483 --> 00:01:25,227 What's unique about Anna Marie island 30 00:01:25,352 --> 00:01:27,697 is it's just naturally beautiful. 31 00:01:27,822 --> 00:01:32,001 It's got wide beaches, soft sand. 32 00:01:32,126 --> 00:01:33,970 It does attract a lot of tourists. 33 00:01:34,095 --> 00:01:36,772 But the community has been able to stay free of 34 00:01:36,897 --> 00:01:38,741 corporate tourism. 35 00:01:38,866 --> 00:01:41,477 It has that old Florida feel where 36 00:01:41,602 --> 00:01:44,046 the buildings are still low to the ground. 37 00:01:44,171 --> 00:01:45,982 There's not major signage everywhere, 38 00:01:46,107 --> 00:01:47,873 so it's really a gem. 39 00:01:50,144 --> 00:01:53,656 The criminal activity of Anna Maria island relative to 40 00:01:53,781 --> 00:01:56,192 the rest of manatee county is pretty low. 41 00:01:56,317 --> 00:01:58,283 Murders are extremely rare. 42 00:02:02,189 --> 00:02:04,957 It's early morning, November 2008. 43 00:02:07,328 --> 00:02:08,871 Two patrol deputies pull over 44 00:02:08,996 --> 00:02:11,630 a white convertible for a broken taillight. 45 00:02:15,503 --> 00:02:17,179 But when they approach the car, 46 00:02:17,304 --> 00:02:19,582 the driver takes off running. 47 00:02:19,707 --> 00:02:21,617 First thing that pops into their head is probably 48 00:02:21,742 --> 00:02:22,918 a stolen car. 49 00:02:23,043 --> 00:02:25,721 So the first person you go after is the driver. 50 00:02:25,846 --> 00:02:29,325 The deputies give chase and eventually apprehend 51 00:02:29,450 --> 00:02:30,760 Robert corona, 52 00:02:30,885 --> 00:02:33,418 a two-bit criminal known to local police. 53 00:02:35,689 --> 00:02:36,966 He's a car thief, 54 00:02:37,091 --> 00:02:41,504 and he had had several convictions for that type 55 00:02:41,629 --> 00:02:42,538 of offense. 56 00:02:42,663 --> 00:02:45,197 However, he did not have any violent convictions. 57 00:02:47,067 --> 00:02:48,544 When we first talked to him, he said, 58 00:02:48,669 --> 00:02:53,115 he met this woman and a man in the gator lounge bar, 59 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:55,918 and they wanted some crack, 60 00:02:56,043 --> 00:02:58,821 "so she loaned me her car to go get it." 61 00:02:58,946 --> 00:03:02,525 And not having the whole story, 62 00:03:02,650 --> 00:03:05,027 we said, "okay." 63 00:03:05,152 --> 00:03:07,163 When investigators run the license plate of 64 00:03:07,288 --> 00:03:08,464 the convertible, 65 00:03:08,589 --> 00:03:11,667 they see it belongs to 49-year-old hotelier 66 00:03:11,792 --> 00:03:14,203 sabine musil-buehler. 67 00:03:14,328 --> 00:03:19,375 Sabine is a native German, and she was in the tourism 68 00:03:19,500 --> 00:03:20,576 business there, 69 00:03:20,701 --> 00:03:23,946 and so she came to Anna Maria and fell in love with it. 70 00:03:24,071 --> 00:03:26,048 She was very much a social butterfly, 71 00:03:26,173 --> 00:03:28,751 and sort of everybody knew her. 72 00:03:28,876 --> 00:03:30,319 She met her husband, Tom, 73 00:03:30,444 --> 00:03:34,223 and they decided to buy a hotel together, 74 00:03:34,348 --> 00:03:36,358 which turned out to be Haley's motel, 75 00:03:36,483 --> 00:03:40,185 a nice little popular spot that people really loved. 76 00:03:42,856 --> 00:03:45,534 So I came out to Haley's motel 77 00:03:45,659 --> 00:03:49,171 where sabine lived with her husband 78 00:03:49,296 --> 00:03:51,797 to make notification that her car has been impounded. 79 00:03:52,866 --> 00:03:54,310 And I said, "well, it was impounded 80 00:03:54,435 --> 00:04:00,182 "and in east bradenton, off 14 street." 81 00:04:00,307 --> 00:04:02,184 Bradenton is just nine miles 82 00:04:02,309 --> 00:04:04,286 east of Anna Maria island. 83 00:04:04,411 --> 00:04:08,023 But in every way that matters, it's a world apart. 84 00:04:08,148 --> 00:04:11,327 The area is not the best part of town. 85 00:04:11,452 --> 00:04:15,397 There is a certain amount of street crime that occurs there. 86 00:04:15,522 --> 00:04:18,667 Her husband, Tom, says that she doesn't go there. 87 00:04:18,792 --> 00:04:20,669 She doesn't drink. She doesn't smoke. 88 00:04:20,794 --> 00:04:22,438 She doesn't do anything like that. 89 00:04:22,563 --> 00:04:24,073 She was not out there. 90 00:04:24,198 --> 00:04:25,774 There's prostitutes and bars, 91 00:04:25,899 --> 00:04:27,899 and she had no interest in either. 92 00:04:41,849 --> 00:04:45,060 Tom says he hasn't seen sabine in two days. 93 00:04:45,185 --> 00:04:49,154 Tom advised US that they were estranged, 94 00:04:50,591 --> 00:04:53,402 they had been estranged for quite a while, 95 00:04:53,527 --> 00:04:56,372 and that she was living mostly half 96 00:04:56,497 --> 00:05:00,042 a mile away at her boyfriend's apartment, 97 00:05:00,167 --> 00:05:01,433 bill cumber. 98 00:05:02,503 --> 00:05:04,413 Tom directs investigators to bill's 99 00:05:04,538 --> 00:05:07,239 apartment, but sabine isn't there, either. 100 00:05:08,976 --> 00:05:12,788 When we went to cumber's residence and was talking 101 00:05:12,913 --> 00:05:15,891 to him, he said the last time he saw sabine 102 00:05:16,016 --> 00:05:19,562 was like about 10 o'clock November 4th. 103 00:05:19,687 --> 00:05:22,665 It was election night, and she had left 104 00:05:22,790 --> 00:05:28,727 to go to a party celebrating the election. 105 00:05:31,131 --> 00:05:32,331 Well, she never showed up. 106 00:05:33,934 --> 00:05:36,445 And she was very enthusiastic about 107 00:05:36,570 --> 00:05:38,480 President Obama's candidacy. 108 00:05:38,605 --> 00:05:41,350 So that was kind of a tip off 109 00:05:41,475 --> 00:05:44,042 right then that something might be wrong. 110 00:05:45,579 --> 00:05:50,059 In my experience, it's very rare for someone to disappear 111 00:05:50,184 --> 00:05:55,030 off the face of the earth and not come back within 12 hours, 112 00:05:55,155 --> 00:05:57,366 24 hours, 48 hours. 113 00:05:57,491 --> 00:06:00,336 And knowing that their car had been stolen, 114 00:06:00,461 --> 00:06:01,870 and they were nowhere to be found, 115 00:06:01,995 --> 00:06:04,640 that's very quickly a situation that 116 00:06:04,765 --> 00:06:06,742 becomes suspicious. 117 00:06:06,867 --> 00:06:08,310 Tasked with investigating 118 00:06:08,435 --> 00:06:12,381 sabine's disappearance is detective Peter rampone. 119 00:06:12,506 --> 00:06:17,319 There's a lot of steps that have to be taken to establish 120 00:06:17,444 --> 00:06:20,289 that someone who is missing is indeed dead, 121 00:06:20,414 --> 00:06:22,024 and it's very difficult. 122 00:06:22,149 --> 00:06:24,893 We checked all of her credit cards. 123 00:06:25,018 --> 00:06:27,329 We checked airline flights. 124 00:06:27,454 --> 00:06:29,531 But there was no paper trail of 125 00:06:29,656 --> 00:06:33,602 her having done anything after 10 o'clock, 126 00:06:33,727 --> 00:06:36,071 election night, November 4th. 127 00:06:36,196 --> 00:06:38,941 Detective rampone impounds the car 128 00:06:39,066 --> 00:06:41,477 and calls in the forensic team. 129 00:06:41,602 --> 00:06:43,512 There was evidence in the back of the car, 130 00:06:43,637 --> 00:06:46,282 which indicated that something had happened. 131 00:06:46,407 --> 00:06:49,985 The back seat was cluttered with newspapers, 132 00:06:50,110 --> 00:06:52,087 and there was some Halloween stuff back there 133 00:06:52,212 --> 00:06:55,991 and some kind of a stuffed bird 134 00:06:56,116 --> 00:06:58,049 thing laying in the back seat. 135 00:06:59,486 --> 00:07:01,453 When they moved the bird, we saw the hole. 136 00:07:03,657 --> 00:07:05,334 The seat cushion was cut out, 137 00:07:05,459 --> 00:07:08,504 and the seat padding underneath of it, 138 00:07:08,629 --> 00:07:10,339 and it was like you could see the floor of the... 139 00:07:10,464 --> 00:07:12,875 The vehicle. 140 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:14,977 Investigators conduct a luminol test 141 00:07:15,102 --> 00:07:16,445 on the back seat. 142 00:07:16,570 --> 00:07:18,280 Luminol, which you spray on it, 143 00:07:18,405 --> 00:07:21,016 and if it turns a certain color, like blue, 144 00:07:21,141 --> 00:07:22,541 then it's human blood. 145 00:07:25,212 --> 00:07:27,589 It's definitive... there's blood all around 146 00:07:27,714 --> 00:07:30,415 the cutout patch in the back seat. 147 00:07:30,551 --> 00:07:34,463 So they took DNA swabs from around that circular patch, 148 00:07:34,588 --> 00:07:37,333 both the inside of the patch and then around it, 149 00:07:37,458 --> 00:07:41,837 and then they sent that evidence off for DNA testing. 150 00:07:41,962 --> 00:07:43,605 They also find drops of blood 151 00:07:43,730 --> 00:07:46,208 on the exterior rear left door. 152 00:07:46,333 --> 00:07:48,644 We believed at that point we felt pretty certain 153 00:07:48,769 --> 00:07:49,969 that she was dead. 154 00:07:51,205 --> 00:07:53,405 We just didn't know where. 155 00:07:54,641 --> 00:07:56,819 A no-body homicide or a suspected murder 156 00:07:56,944 --> 00:07:59,021 but with no body, these are cases 157 00:07:59,146 --> 00:08:01,757 that overwhelmingly point to that there is no other 158 00:08:01,882 --> 00:08:04,727 conclusion other than that someone has been murdered. 159 00:08:04,852 --> 00:08:06,061 And in the absence of a body, 160 00:08:06,186 --> 00:08:09,598 you really need to build that evidence through other means. 161 00:08:09,723 --> 00:08:10,999 To find out what happened 162 00:08:11,124 --> 00:08:12,668 to sabine musil-buehler, 163 00:08:12,793 --> 00:08:17,106 detectives must unravel the last 24 hours of her life. 164 00:08:17,231 --> 00:08:20,008 It's extremely important, especially when you have 165 00:08:20,133 --> 00:08:22,277 a whodunnit kind of thing. 166 00:08:22,402 --> 00:08:25,013 You want to establish a timeline so that you can 167 00:08:25,138 --> 00:08:29,785 place people where they were or weren't during that period, 168 00:08:29,910 --> 00:08:33,389 and you go through and rule them out or add them in. 169 00:08:33,514 --> 00:08:36,425 Their first suspect is the man caught driving 170 00:08:36,550 --> 00:08:39,495 sabine's car in the early hours of November 6th, 171 00:08:39,620 --> 00:08:41,130 Robert corona. 172 00:08:41,255 --> 00:08:43,098 The first person you go after is the driver, 173 00:08:43,223 --> 00:08:46,969 because they're more culpable to being involved in a crime. 174 00:08:47,094 --> 00:08:49,728 So we decided to go back and talk to Mr. Corona. 175 00:08:51,532 --> 00:08:53,542 The potential theory would have been that sabine 176 00:08:53,667 --> 00:08:56,311 had somehow driven into the city of bradenton, 177 00:08:56,436 --> 00:08:59,782 encountered Mr. Corona, that he had killed her 178 00:08:59,907 --> 00:09:01,850 and taken her car. 179 00:09:01,975 --> 00:09:04,186 Corona had initially told them that sabine had 180 00:09:04,311 --> 00:09:06,111 lent him the car to go buy drugs. 181 00:09:08,081 --> 00:09:11,427 It sounded plausible, but that was before they found 182 00:09:11,552 --> 00:09:13,529 the blood. 183 00:09:13,654 --> 00:09:16,899 So he's confronted, and he's told, "look, 184 00:09:17,024 --> 00:09:19,802 "this is... this is basically a homicide investigation. 185 00:09:19,927 --> 00:09:21,870 "You better be straight with US about 186 00:09:21,995 --> 00:09:24,396 how you came into possession of this car." 187 00:09:26,733 --> 00:09:29,711 We said, "hey, um," we think she's dead. 188 00:09:29,836 --> 00:09:31,536 Did you kill her?" 189 00:09:34,841 --> 00:09:37,653 And he readily admitted that he stole the car at 190 00:09:37,778 --> 00:09:41,757 that point, that the drug thing was made up by him. 191 00:09:41,882 --> 00:09:43,848 And he immediately gave US another story, 192 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:49,231 that he was checking cars behind the businesses. 193 00:09:49,356 --> 00:09:52,534 He found one at the gator lounge with the window 194 00:09:52,659 --> 00:09:53,869 open and the keys in it, 195 00:09:53,994 --> 00:09:58,430 how convenient, and drove away and got stopped and arrested. 196 00:10:01,368 --> 00:10:04,012 In an attempt to verify corona's story, 197 00:10:04,137 --> 00:10:07,216 detectives head to the gator lounge in bradenton. 198 00:10:07,341 --> 00:10:10,552 They show the night bartenders a picture of sabine 199 00:10:10,677 --> 00:10:13,822 and a picture of her car and ask if they've ever seen 200 00:10:13,947 --> 00:10:15,824 either before. 201 00:10:15,949 --> 00:10:20,729 And they both said, "no, we've never seen her before." 202 00:10:20,854 --> 00:10:23,932 And I asked about the camera 203 00:10:24,057 --> 00:10:27,169 in the back of the bar, and he said, "it's fake. 204 00:10:27,294 --> 00:10:28,627 It's just there for looks." 205 00:10:30,097 --> 00:10:34,042 So we said, "okay," but the bar manager did say that 206 00:10:34,167 --> 00:10:36,745 when she left after the bar closed, 207 00:10:36,870 --> 00:10:40,916 she saw sabine's car parked in the southwest corner of 208 00:10:41,041 --> 00:10:44,876 the building, and it was just sitting there. 209 00:10:46,613 --> 00:10:49,180 And that fit what Mr. Corona was saying. 210 00:10:50,851 --> 00:10:53,952 So at that point, we pretty much eliminated corona. 211 00:10:55,155 --> 00:10:57,466 With corona's account believed to be true, 212 00:10:57,591 --> 00:10:59,101 detectives are now able 213 00:10:59,226 --> 00:11:00,669 to narrow down the timeline of 214 00:11:00,794 --> 00:11:02,704 sabine's disappearance. 215 00:11:02,829 --> 00:11:05,707 The bar manager would have seen sabine's car in 216 00:11:05,832 --> 00:11:07,409 the parking lot after 2:30 217 00:11:07,534 --> 00:11:11,413 because that's when the bar was officially emptied, closed. 218 00:11:11,538 --> 00:11:13,415 Corona 219 00:11:13,540 --> 00:11:15,050 said he went through the parking lot, 220 00:11:15,175 --> 00:11:17,252 walking down the back of businesses, 221 00:11:17,377 --> 00:11:19,821 and that was the only car in the parking lot. 222 00:11:19,946 --> 00:11:22,658 And the time he got pulled over was 223 00:11:22,783 --> 00:11:25,817 just minutes after he took the car. 224 00:11:27,421 --> 00:11:29,665 The fact that the bar manager sees the vehicle 225 00:11:29,790 --> 00:11:32,734 there in the early morning hours of the sixth 226 00:11:32,859 --> 00:11:37,706 tells the investigators that sometime between 10 and 11 P.M., 227 00:11:37,831 --> 00:11:41,376 when cumber says he last saw her alive, and the time that her 228 00:11:41,501 --> 00:11:43,245 vehicle is first observed at 229 00:11:43,370 --> 00:11:46,982 the gator lounge, she's likely been killed. 230 00:11:47,107 --> 00:11:49,618 With corona ruled out, 231 00:11:49,743 --> 00:11:53,555 investigators are looking at just two main suspects. 232 00:11:53,680 --> 00:11:55,891 One of the things you do when you have a homicide, 233 00:11:56,016 --> 00:11:58,126 the first thing you look at is 234 00:11:58,251 --> 00:12:00,919 the immediate circle of family and friends. 235 00:12:03,590 --> 00:12:06,825 And in this case, you know, Tom was there, 236 00:12:10,163 --> 00:12:12,107 cumber was there, 237 00:12:12,232 --> 00:12:14,499 and really nobody else was there. 238 00:12:15,902 --> 00:12:20,649 In cases where a female spouse is the victim of homicide, 239 00:12:20,774 --> 00:12:25,053 we logically think of intimate partners. 240 00:12:25,178 --> 00:12:27,522 And in this case, you know, you have the husband, who is 241 00:12:27,647 --> 00:12:28,824 a business partner. 242 00:12:28,949 --> 00:12:31,927 And then we also have a current boyfriend with some 243 00:12:32,052 --> 00:12:34,396 potential motivation, as well. 244 00:12:34,521 --> 00:12:36,331 We got a lot of phone calls 245 00:12:36,456 --> 00:12:39,701 from friends of sabine, and some people said, "well, 246 00:12:39,826 --> 00:12:41,803 Tom did it. Tom did it." 247 00:12:41,928 --> 00:12:45,240 You know, other people were saying bill cumber did it. 248 00:12:45,365 --> 00:12:47,632 So it's... it's a mind game. 249 00:12:57,410 --> 00:12:59,554 With little physical evidence to work with in 250 00:12:59,679 --> 00:13:02,858 the no-body homicide of sabine musil-buehler, 251 00:13:02,983 --> 00:13:06,128 detectives are looking at both her husband and her boyfriend 252 00:13:06,253 --> 00:13:08,997 as possible suspects... they start by 253 00:13:09,122 --> 00:13:11,366 interrogating her boyfriend. 254 00:13:11,491 --> 00:13:14,403 Tom and sabine had been married for years 255 00:13:14,528 --> 00:13:17,072 at the time of her disappearance, 256 00:13:17,197 --> 00:13:20,198 but the new element in her life was William cumber. 257 00:13:21,568 --> 00:13:23,345 Bill cumber's 39 years old, 258 00:13:23,470 --> 00:13:27,716 and he's known as quite a charismatic guy around town. 259 00:13:27,841 --> 00:13:29,885 And, you know, some people would say 260 00:13:30,010 --> 00:13:32,721 he was a good-looking gentleman. 261 00:13:32,846 --> 00:13:36,491 Mr. Cumber was very candid about his background. 262 00:13:36,616 --> 00:13:39,428 He said he had a history of getting 263 00:13:39,553 --> 00:13:43,999 angry at women and doing violent acts when scorned. 264 00:13:44,124 --> 00:13:46,535 He confessed to that and was convicted of that 265 00:13:46,660 --> 00:13:47,905 and went to prison for that. 266 00:13:49,462 --> 00:13:52,630 But he insists that he's a changed man. 267 00:13:57,170 --> 00:13:58,370 Okay. 268 00:14:16,590 --> 00:14:18,500 Bill credits sabine with giving him 269 00:14:18,625 --> 00:14:20,769 the new start he so desperately needed 270 00:14:20,894 --> 00:14:22,094 three years earlier. 271 00:14:25,098 --> 00:14:27,609 Bill cumber showed up at Haley's motel 272 00:14:27,734 --> 00:14:30,846 one day and told a story of how he had 273 00:14:30,971 --> 00:14:34,172 just gotten out of prison and was looking for work. 274 00:14:35,542 --> 00:14:39,621 He said, "I am coming from a difficult past 275 00:14:39,746 --> 00:14:45,127 "where I have been in prison. I'm very handy with things. 276 00:14:45,252 --> 00:14:46,962 "Is there anything I can do around your hotel 277 00:14:47,087 --> 00:14:50,088 for a little walking money?" 278 00:14:51,391 --> 00:14:54,202 So he began to do little projects, 279 00:14:54,327 --> 00:14:57,005 because they're very welcoming, 280 00:14:57,130 --> 00:14:58,774 you know, heartfelt people 281 00:14:58,899 --> 00:15:01,799 who saw a guy they wanted to help. 282 00:15:01,935 --> 00:15:04,246 Bill tells detectives that what started as 283 00:15:04,371 --> 00:15:07,282 a friendship between sabine and himself soon became 284 00:15:07,407 --> 00:15:08,750 something more. 285 00:15:08,875 --> 00:15:10,085 He was a craftsman. 286 00:15:10,210 --> 00:15:13,288 He was an excellent woodworker. 287 00:15:13,413 --> 00:15:14,823 Saw some of the things he had made 288 00:15:14,948 --> 00:15:16,558 and they were just astounding. 289 00:15:16,683 --> 00:15:18,660 And I believe he was an artist, as well. 290 00:15:18,785 --> 00:15:21,363 So she was kind of receptive 291 00:15:21,488 --> 00:15:25,233 to those traits that this guy 292 00:15:25,358 --> 00:15:27,969 portrayed and possessed. 293 00:15:28,094 --> 00:15:30,906 Bill's criminal past is viewed as suspicious, 294 00:15:31,031 --> 00:15:33,909 so investigators ask him for a detailed breakdown 295 00:15:34,034 --> 00:15:35,844 of the last day he spent with sabine. 296 00:15:35,969 --> 00:15:41,149 He said they had gone to the dentist in the afternoon, 297 00:15:41,274 --> 00:15:43,585 sabine and cumber, 298 00:15:43,710 --> 00:15:46,199 and she was paying for him to have some dental work done. 299 00:15:48,548 --> 00:15:51,193 And I think she left him for a time and then 300 00:15:51,318 --> 00:15:55,197 came back to the apartment on magnolia Avenue 301 00:15:55,322 --> 00:15:56,932 where they had dinner. 302 00:15:57,057 --> 00:16:00,368 According to Mr. Cumber, he made vegetarian spaghetti. 303 00:16:00,493 --> 00:16:03,294 She drank wine. 304 00:16:42,335 --> 00:16:44,546 Mr. Cumber claimed that he had not spoken 305 00:16:44,671 --> 00:16:46,104 to sabine since then. 306 00:16:47,741 --> 00:16:49,951 He had been attempting to reach her by phone 307 00:16:50,076 --> 00:16:51,276 several times. 308 00:16:57,450 --> 00:16:59,961 He then went over to Haley's motel on the morning 309 00:17:00,086 --> 00:17:03,331 of the fifth to confer with Tom buehler about 310 00:17:03,456 --> 00:17:04,733 her disappearance. 311 00:17:04,858 --> 00:17:07,802 Mr. Cumber claimed Tom buehler had told him that sabine 312 00:17:07,927 --> 00:17:12,507 sometimes just went off on her own and, 313 00:17:12,632 --> 00:17:13,898 would reappear. 314 00:17:26,780 --> 00:17:28,623 He didn't seem upset. 315 00:17:28,748 --> 00:17:31,660 He didn't appear to be 316 00:17:31,785 --> 00:17:34,152 in any frantic hurry to help look for her. 317 00:17:37,490 --> 00:17:40,568 Detectives subpoena bill's phone records 318 00:17:40,693 --> 00:17:42,203 to see if he's telling the truth about 319 00:17:42,328 --> 00:17:44,139 trying to reach her. 320 00:17:44,264 --> 00:17:47,442 There were no calls. Nothing. 321 00:17:47,567 --> 00:17:49,945 After 10 o'clock on November 4th, 322 00:17:50,070 --> 00:17:53,114 there's no record of him calling anybody, 323 00:17:53,239 --> 00:17:55,673 and that's a big red flag. 324 00:17:58,144 --> 00:18:00,188 While they can't rule bill out, 325 00:18:00,313 --> 00:18:03,091 detectives struggle to find a reason why he might want 326 00:18:03,216 --> 00:18:04,416 sabine dead. 327 00:18:06,186 --> 00:18:09,597 She was taking care of him completely. 328 00:18:09,722 --> 00:18:12,233 She was renting the apartment, providing the food. 329 00:18:12,358 --> 00:18:14,725 Um, she was the money person. 330 00:18:15,895 --> 00:18:18,463 And so that didn't really add up very well. 331 00:18:20,133 --> 00:18:23,545 This relationship was serving many needs for bill. 332 00:18:23,670 --> 00:18:25,647 He gets out of prison. He has nothing. 333 00:18:25,772 --> 00:18:28,350 He has somebody who's willing to cultivate 334 00:18:28,475 --> 00:18:32,220 a relationship with him and even financially support 335 00:18:32,345 --> 00:18:33,545 that relationship. 336 00:18:35,348 --> 00:18:37,425 Mr. Cumber obviously was a suspect, 337 00:18:37,550 --> 00:18:39,661 given his prior history, 338 00:18:39,786 --> 00:18:42,697 but police were never able to find any 339 00:18:42,822 --> 00:18:44,599 ultimate motive that established him as 340 00:18:44,724 --> 00:18:46,101 the perpetrator. 341 00:18:46,226 --> 00:18:48,870 He was losing a great deal with her, 342 00:18:48,995 --> 00:18:50,195 with her being gone. 343 00:18:51,464 --> 00:18:53,975 He's still on the list, and we're watching, 344 00:18:54,100 --> 00:18:58,146 but evidence and interviews and situations 345 00:18:58,271 --> 00:19:00,348 took US in a different direction. 346 00:19:00,473 --> 00:19:02,117 When asked who he thinks 347 00:19:02,242 --> 00:19:03,752 would want to hurt sabine, 348 00:19:03,877 --> 00:19:06,254 bill points the finger directly at her husband, 349 00:19:06,379 --> 00:19:09,847 Tom, insisting he was jealous of their relationship. 350 00:19:18,791 --> 00:19:20,769 Love triangles are powder kegs. 351 00:19:20,894 --> 00:19:22,904 They are very unstable. 352 00:19:23,029 --> 00:19:25,740 You introduce jealousy, you introduce resentment, 353 00:19:25,865 --> 00:19:28,676 you introduce humiliation, 354 00:19:28,801 --> 00:19:31,446 and those can be powerful motivators for someone 355 00:19:31,571 --> 00:19:33,404 who needs to be in control. 356 00:19:35,742 --> 00:19:38,953 Then, out of the blue, investigators get a call 357 00:19:39,078 --> 00:19:42,223 that a fire has broken out at Haley's motel. 358 00:19:42,348 --> 00:19:44,759 When the fire broke out at the hotel, 359 00:19:44,884 --> 00:19:47,996 it was such a second shock 360 00:19:48,121 --> 00:19:50,131 that immediately people believe 361 00:19:50,256 --> 00:19:52,367 that the two are related... Her disappearance 362 00:19:52,492 --> 00:19:55,703 and the fire and whether Tom maybe set it 363 00:19:55,828 --> 00:19:58,196 because the hotel was struggling. 364 00:20:00,500 --> 00:20:02,744 Fire is always a great eradicator of evidence, 365 00:20:02,869 --> 00:20:04,813 that's why when it shows up in an unusual 366 00:20:04,938 --> 00:20:06,014 or suspicious circumstance, 367 00:20:06,139 --> 00:20:09,517 you always need to dig deeper in terms of was the fire 368 00:20:09,642 --> 00:20:10,842 the main crime? 369 00:20:20,620 --> 00:20:23,164 After a fire rages through Haley's motel 370 00:20:23,289 --> 00:20:26,534 just 12 days after sabine's disappearance, 371 00:20:26,659 --> 00:20:31,039 investigators hone in on her estranged husband, Tom buehler. 372 00:20:31,164 --> 00:20:34,509 To me, the obvious or intuitive reasoning 373 00:20:34,634 --> 00:20:35,944 behind why Tom may have 374 00:20:36,069 --> 00:20:38,947 burned down the hotel is obviously, number one, 375 00:20:39,072 --> 00:20:41,282 to potentially destroy evidence. 376 00:20:41,407 --> 00:20:44,986 Number two would come back to money... fires 377 00:20:45,111 --> 00:20:47,589 equal insurance settlements, for the most part, 378 00:20:47,714 --> 00:20:50,792 and in this case, you could have that double whammy. 379 00:20:50,917 --> 00:20:52,760 With heightened suspicions about 380 00:20:52,885 --> 00:20:55,597 Tom's involvement in sabine's disappearance, 381 00:20:55,722 --> 00:20:57,799 detectives subpoena the motel's public 382 00:20:57,924 --> 00:20:59,300 financial records. 383 00:20:59,425 --> 00:21:01,603 There was some financial problems. 384 00:21:01,728 --> 00:21:03,938 The business wasn't doing that well, 385 00:21:04,063 --> 00:21:09,110 and Tom had a buyer from Europe, Germany 386 00:21:09,235 --> 00:21:13,047 to be specific, who was interested in buying the place. 387 00:21:13,172 --> 00:21:15,183 And with sabine being gone, 388 00:21:15,308 --> 00:21:17,785 Tom gets all the money. 389 00:21:17,910 --> 00:21:20,522 With money being a possible motive, 390 00:21:20,647 --> 00:21:23,057 detectives ask Tom whether or not he had 391 00:21:23,182 --> 00:21:26,561 taken out an insurance policy on sabine's life. 392 00:21:26,686 --> 00:21:29,164 Tom told one of my detectives that he has 393 00:21:29,289 --> 00:21:33,034 an insurance policy out on her for $100,000. 394 00:21:33,159 --> 00:21:35,570 Tom volunteered that 395 00:21:35,695 --> 00:21:38,473 he forgot about the $300,000 policy 396 00:21:38,598 --> 00:21:40,341 he had taken out years before, 397 00:21:40,466 --> 00:21:43,134 um, and that concerned US, as well. 398 00:21:44,537 --> 00:21:47,115 Not only that, investigators discover 399 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:49,317 that he had recently filed court papers 400 00:21:49,442 --> 00:21:51,609 to have sabine officially declared dead. 401 00:21:54,113 --> 00:21:58,793 And as that played out, people started to 402 00:21:58,918 --> 00:22:01,629 dig up those possible feelings of, well, 403 00:22:01,754 --> 00:22:03,364 if they haven't found her, 404 00:22:03,489 --> 00:22:06,067 why would he want her declared dead at this point? 405 00:22:06,192 --> 00:22:07,936 You know, maybe there's still hope she's alive. 406 00:22:08,061 --> 00:22:10,004 This is kind of strange. 407 00:22:10,129 --> 00:22:12,006 With their suspicions deepening, 408 00:22:12,131 --> 00:22:15,910 detectives question Tom about his whereabouts between 10 P.M. 409 00:22:16,035 --> 00:22:18,413 On November 4th and 2:30 A.M. 410 00:22:18,538 --> 00:22:21,849 November 6th, the window in which they believe sabine 411 00:22:21,974 --> 00:22:23,184 was killed. 412 00:22:23,309 --> 00:22:25,987 Tom said he was attending an election party 413 00:22:26,112 --> 00:22:28,590 and was there with his girlfriend, 414 00:22:28,715 --> 00:22:29,991 and there were several people 415 00:22:30,116 --> 00:22:33,094 that would have attested to his whereabouts 416 00:22:33,219 --> 00:22:34,952 during the time of her disappearance. 417 00:22:36,289 --> 00:22:38,299 Alibis can be tricky in that just because you were 418 00:22:38,424 --> 00:22:40,235 at a certain place at a certain time doesn't 419 00:22:40,360 --> 00:22:42,770 necessarily mean that you couldn't have also been 420 00:22:42,895 --> 00:22:44,339 somewhere else immediately 421 00:22:44,464 --> 00:22:47,064 thereafter and returned to the original place. 422 00:22:49,268 --> 00:22:50,378 We may be dealing with a large, 423 00:22:50,503 --> 00:22:52,947 as we are in this case, window of time, 424 00:22:53,072 --> 00:22:55,383 where you have the opportunity to literally be in multiple 425 00:22:55,508 --> 00:22:58,209 places not at once, but in immediate succession. 426 00:23:00,913 --> 00:23:03,424 Detectives search Tom's house, looking 427 00:23:03,549 --> 00:23:05,316 for any evidence of foul play. 428 00:23:07,887 --> 00:23:10,965 Tom had an injury on his head, 429 00:23:11,090 --> 00:23:13,791 a small scratch, and we asked him about it, 430 00:23:15,361 --> 00:23:18,339 and he said, "I was hanging some blinds in my bedroom, 431 00:23:18,464 --> 00:23:19,674 "and when I was hanging them, 432 00:23:19,799 --> 00:23:22,010 they fell on me and struck me in the head." 433 00:23:22,135 --> 00:23:23,544 So we went and looked at the blinds, 434 00:23:23,669 --> 00:23:24,812 and they were kind of askew, 435 00:23:24,937 --> 00:23:27,348 and there's a little drop of blood on one of the blinds, 436 00:23:27,473 --> 00:23:31,953 which is consistent with the story he had told US. 437 00:23:32,078 --> 00:23:35,490 So he didn't hide it, you know, he told US right away 438 00:23:35,615 --> 00:23:38,059 what he... where he got it. 439 00:23:38,184 --> 00:23:40,762 And when the fire marshals tests Tom's hands for 440 00:23:40,887 --> 00:23:43,831 accelerant found in the motel's debris, 441 00:23:43,956 --> 00:23:45,156 they find nothing. 442 00:23:48,761 --> 00:23:52,440 Finally, detectives confront Tom about bill's claim that 443 00:23:52,565 --> 00:23:56,167 he was jealous of his wife's extramarital relationship. 444 00:24:27,166 --> 00:24:29,911 Tom said the romantic aspect of the relationship 445 00:24:30,036 --> 00:24:31,913 had ended years ago, 446 00:24:32,038 --> 00:24:35,283 but they remained friends and business associates. 447 00:24:35,408 --> 00:24:37,185 They had the house divided. 448 00:24:37,310 --> 00:24:39,821 He lived in half, she lived in the other. 449 00:24:39,946 --> 00:24:41,689 The kitchen was in the middle. That was neutral. 450 00:24:41,814 --> 00:24:44,492 That way both stayed out of each other's way. 451 00:24:44,617 --> 00:24:47,662 Tom had a girlfriend, so the idea that somehow 452 00:24:47,787 --> 00:24:49,230 he suddenly became enraged 453 00:24:49,355 --> 00:24:52,756 and jealous at this particular point didn't seem very likely. 454 00:24:55,094 --> 00:24:57,572 But despite the fact that detectives aren't able to 455 00:24:57,697 --> 00:25:01,542 conclusively rule out Tom or bill at this point, 456 00:25:01,667 --> 00:25:03,978 there just isn't enough evidence to charge either 457 00:25:04,103 --> 00:25:06,447 of them in sabine's disappearance. 458 00:25:06,572 --> 00:25:09,617 I only have heard of one case where they prosecuted 459 00:25:09,742 --> 00:25:12,820 somebody without a body, and they got a conviction, 460 00:25:12,945 --> 00:25:17,291 and we had to... We really had to get a body. 461 00:25:17,416 --> 00:25:20,762 The sheriff's office brings in cadaver dogs to search 462 00:25:20,887 --> 00:25:23,965 a section of the beach near Haley's motel. 463 00:25:24,090 --> 00:25:25,466 We felt pretty certain she had 464 00:25:25,591 --> 00:25:27,325 been buried out at the beach somewhere. 465 00:25:28,728 --> 00:25:30,828 We started using... 466 00:25:32,298 --> 00:25:36,066 Dogs, ground-penetrating radar. 467 00:25:37,303 --> 00:25:41,783 Then we used a bulldozer, and we would scrape very little, 468 00:25:41,908 --> 00:25:45,620 and if they hit a branch or something, they'd stop, 469 00:25:45,745 --> 00:25:48,589 dig around it and find, "no, keep going." 470 00:25:48,714 --> 00:25:50,992 And we dug up... 471 00:25:51,117 --> 00:25:54,028 A mile of beach, very wide 472 00:25:54,153 --> 00:25:56,453 and went down as deep as you could. 473 00:25:58,558 --> 00:26:00,391 But they come up empty-handed. 474 00:26:01,627 --> 00:26:04,071 It got to a point where no, nobody's dragging a body 475 00:26:04,196 --> 00:26:05,606 this far. 476 00:26:05,731 --> 00:26:08,543 Then a tip comes in. 477 00:26:08,668 --> 00:26:10,378 There were two women who claimed to have 478 00:26:10,503 --> 00:26:14,615 seen someone who looked like sabine at the airport. 479 00:26:14,740 --> 00:26:19,287 There's cases of missing persons who go on vacation 480 00:26:19,412 --> 00:26:21,956 for, say, a month and don't tell anybody, 481 00:26:22,081 --> 00:26:23,925 and they come back from their vacation, 482 00:26:24,050 --> 00:26:26,461 and everybody's wondering, 483 00:26:26,586 --> 00:26:28,996 you know, where they've been. 484 00:26:29,121 --> 00:26:32,066 So it was raised as a distinct possibility. 485 00:26:32,191 --> 00:26:34,658 Could she have gone somewhere 486 00:26:34,794 --> 00:26:37,895 and not returned? Or maybe she'll show up. 487 00:26:39,599 --> 00:26:43,878 But she would have to use some form of money to survive on, 488 00:26:44,003 --> 00:26:46,070 and we couldn't find a trace of that. 489 00:26:47,974 --> 00:26:50,975 There was no record of sabine having taken any flight. 490 00:26:52,445 --> 00:26:56,624 Also, video camera footage from the airport was reviewed, 491 00:26:56,749 --> 00:26:57,959 and there was no image 492 00:26:58,084 --> 00:27:00,394 of sabine at the airport at the time the women claimed 493 00:27:00,519 --> 00:27:01,719 to have seen her. 494 00:27:02,888 --> 00:27:06,367 You have to chase every lead until you hit a wall, 495 00:27:06,492 --> 00:27:08,636 and then you go to the next lead, and you're chasing 496 00:27:08,761 --> 00:27:09,637 that one until you 497 00:27:09,762 --> 00:27:11,806 gather every... enough information. 498 00:27:11,931 --> 00:27:14,932 Detectives finally catch a break in the case 499 00:27:16,869 --> 00:27:17,845 when they get a call from 500 00:27:17,970 --> 00:27:20,204 a neighbor of sabine's who lives on the beach. 501 00:27:22,074 --> 00:27:25,319 They have a sidewalk, which is just wide enough for, say, 502 00:27:25,444 --> 00:27:28,789 a golf cart to go down, and it runs 503 00:27:28,914 --> 00:27:31,626 parallel to the beach. 504 00:27:31,751 --> 00:27:34,762 There was a little jut of wooded area that came 505 00:27:34,887 --> 00:27:37,999 off that sidewalk towards the beach with trees, 506 00:27:38,124 --> 00:27:39,534 and the neighbor, 507 00:27:39,659 --> 00:27:41,335 he was out clearing out some stuff, 508 00:27:41,460 --> 00:27:43,838 and he moved some logs or debris, 509 00:27:43,963 --> 00:27:45,696 and he found a purse in there. 510 00:27:49,335 --> 00:27:54,582 He did open it and looked, and it was sabine's purse, 511 00:27:54,707 --> 00:27:57,941 with her ID and some, I guess, credit cards and cellphone. 512 00:27:59,445 --> 00:28:03,624 Whoever disposed of it there had to know the area kind of 513 00:28:03,749 --> 00:28:06,294 to be on that walkway that's, 514 00:28:06,419 --> 00:28:08,863 you know, only accessible by 515 00:28:08,988 --> 00:28:10,131 side streets, 516 00:28:10,256 --> 00:28:13,801 and this wasn't near a side street, it just... 517 00:28:13,926 --> 00:28:16,070 Made US think, well, I know who knows 518 00:28:16,195 --> 00:28:17,395 this area pretty well. 519 00:28:27,206 --> 00:28:29,717 The discovery of sabine musil-buehler's purse 520 00:28:29,842 --> 00:28:31,619 buried near the beach provides 521 00:28:31,744 --> 00:28:34,388 the first solid clue to who might be responsible 522 00:28:34,513 --> 00:28:35,723 for her murder. 523 00:28:35,848 --> 00:28:38,960 Its location is critical, because it's just a couple 524 00:28:39,085 --> 00:28:43,264 blocks down from Mr. Cumber's residence on magnolia Avenue, 525 00:28:43,389 --> 00:28:45,099 and it just keeps pointing back to 526 00:28:45,224 --> 00:28:48,292 Mr. Cumber, that he is the person responsible. 527 00:28:49,662 --> 00:28:51,706 With that in mind, detectives take 528 00:28:51,831 --> 00:28:54,642 a closer look at bill cumber's prison record. 529 00:28:54,767 --> 00:28:57,445 A few years before, 530 00:28:57,570 --> 00:29:00,381 Mr. Cumber met a woman, 531 00:29:00,506 --> 00:29:03,217 um, felt that she had rejected him, 532 00:29:03,342 --> 00:29:05,853 and so he set fire to the residence that she was 533 00:29:05,978 --> 00:29:07,521 residing in at a time 534 00:29:07,646 --> 00:29:09,223 she and several other individuals 535 00:29:09,348 --> 00:29:10,748 were inside the house. 536 00:29:14,754 --> 00:29:16,831 Now knowing that bill's history includes 537 00:29:16,956 --> 00:29:18,599 an arson conviction, 538 00:29:18,724 --> 00:29:21,669 investigators question him directly about the fire 539 00:29:21,794 --> 00:29:23,704 at Haley's motel. 540 00:29:23,829 --> 00:29:27,642 Fire marshals said there was an accelerant used. 541 00:29:27,767 --> 00:29:31,112 Um, at some point, I believe the fire marshal 542 00:29:31,237 --> 00:29:35,016 spoke with cumber. 543 00:29:35,141 --> 00:29:36,317 They did some kind of test, 544 00:29:36,442 --> 00:29:40,087 and he had some kind of accelerant on his hands. 545 00:29:40,212 --> 00:29:44,458 And cumber explained that away, as at his workshop, 546 00:29:44,583 --> 00:29:47,551 his lock was stuck, and he sprayed wd-40 in there. 547 00:29:49,121 --> 00:29:52,566 Mr. Cumber does allow them to search his apartment. 548 00:29:52,691 --> 00:29:56,837 They looked for any kind of gasoline containers. 549 00:29:56,962 --> 00:29:59,640 They examined the area of 550 00:29:59,765 --> 00:30:03,377 the apartment for traces of an accelerant, 551 00:30:03,502 --> 00:30:04,779 but they weren't able to find anything 552 00:30:04,904 --> 00:30:07,314 to definitively link him to the arson. 553 00:30:07,439 --> 00:30:10,685 But they find, um, 554 00:30:10,810 --> 00:30:13,721 blood on the couch inside the apartment, 555 00:30:13,846 --> 00:30:18,059 which they then take swabs of and submit for DNA testing. 556 00:30:18,184 --> 00:30:21,295 Then detectives notice something else. 557 00:30:21,420 --> 00:30:24,632 I noticed on his hand, he had 558 00:30:24,757 --> 00:30:28,135 a wound right in the center of his palm. 559 00:30:28,260 --> 00:30:31,305 And I asked him, I said, "where did you get that?" 560 00:30:31,430 --> 00:30:33,307 And he goes, "I was riding my bike, and I skidded, 561 00:30:33,432 --> 00:30:37,244 and I fell into the shells, and I scraped my hand." 562 00:30:37,369 --> 00:30:40,915 No, I've done that my entire life as a kid. 563 00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:45,019 You don't get a blister in the middle of your hand. 564 00:30:45,144 --> 00:30:48,111 That blister on his hand was from a shovel. 565 00:30:49,882 --> 00:30:51,459 Detectives bring cumber down to 566 00:30:51,584 --> 00:30:54,161 the station for a more serious sit down. 567 00:30:54,286 --> 00:30:58,065 What they see solidifies their suspicions. 568 00:30:58,190 --> 00:31:01,402 We had him come into the office, 569 00:31:01,527 --> 00:31:05,773 and detective alvarado and detective kenney 570 00:31:05,898 --> 00:31:07,475 interviewed him. 571 00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:09,577 I was watching on a video, 572 00:31:09,702 --> 00:31:13,147 and they questioned him for quite a while, 573 00:31:13,272 --> 00:31:15,916 and they asked him what about the cut in the seat, 574 00:31:16,041 --> 00:31:18,242 something to that effect. 575 00:31:18,377 --> 00:31:20,888 And he made an up and down motion like 576 00:31:21,013 --> 00:31:23,390 he was holding a knife and making a circle 577 00:31:23,515 --> 00:31:26,350 and cutting out the seat cover. 578 00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:30,564 So for him to have made that gesture indicated 579 00:31:30,689 --> 00:31:34,024 he knew the shape that had been cut out of the seat. 580 00:31:35,394 --> 00:31:37,738 I was watching the video, 581 00:31:37,863 --> 00:31:40,241 and I'm like, "my gosh, 582 00:31:40,366 --> 00:31:44,645 that's how the seat cover was taken out." 583 00:31:44,770 --> 00:31:47,915 Mr. Cumber would have had no means of knowing that other 584 00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:50,651 than having been the person who cut out the piece 585 00:31:50,776 --> 00:31:52,319 of upholstery. 586 00:31:52,444 --> 00:31:55,656 And in our minds then, boom, this is the guy who did it. 587 00:31:55,781 --> 00:31:57,070 Now we just have to prove it. 588 00:31:59,385 --> 00:32:01,462 Detectives decide to force bill 589 00:32:01,587 --> 00:32:03,631 into showing his hand. 590 00:32:03,756 --> 00:32:06,767 Police will often bluff suspects by presenting them 591 00:32:06,892 --> 00:32:08,002 with claims of evidence 592 00:32:08,127 --> 00:32:10,538 that they don't actually have in hopes of 593 00:32:10,663 --> 00:32:12,206 getting an admission. 594 00:32:12,331 --> 00:32:14,708 Detectives know that the camera at the back of 595 00:32:14,833 --> 00:32:15,776 the gator lounge, 596 00:32:15,901 --> 00:32:18,913 where sabine's car was found, isn't functional. 597 00:32:19,038 --> 00:32:21,715 It's a fake, but bill doesn't know that. 598 00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:24,985 When we interviewed cumber the next evening, 599 00:32:25,110 --> 00:32:27,188 we mentioned to him, 600 00:32:27,313 --> 00:32:31,692 "well, there's a camera out behind the gator lounge. 601 00:32:31,817 --> 00:32:33,994 "We haven't got the tape yet, 602 00:32:34,119 --> 00:32:37,198 and then when we do, we gotta process it." 603 00:32:37,323 --> 00:32:40,968 Which is nonsense, "but, 604 00:32:41,093 --> 00:32:44,071 whoever dropped that car off is gonna be on that video." 605 00:32:44,196 --> 00:32:46,140 That led Mr. Cumber 606 00:32:46,265 --> 00:32:48,809 to go to the gator lounge and confront 607 00:32:48,934 --> 00:32:50,678 the manager and ask, in fact, 608 00:32:50,803 --> 00:32:53,948 whether they had video cameras trained on the parking lot, 609 00:32:54,073 --> 00:32:56,540 which only a guilty person would have done. 610 00:32:56,675 --> 00:32:58,652 No innocent person would be concerned 611 00:32:58,777 --> 00:33:01,021 that he had appeared on a video. 612 00:33:01,146 --> 00:33:03,657 So that was one of the most telling aspects 613 00:33:03,782 --> 00:33:07,027 of the case that pointed to Mr. Cumber's guilt. 614 00:33:07,152 --> 00:33:10,097 That was an indication that we're on the right track, 615 00:33:10,222 --> 00:33:13,801 you know, we got him. We just got to get him. 616 00:33:13,926 --> 00:33:15,636 While investigators wait for the lab 617 00:33:15,761 --> 00:33:18,606 to process the blood found in bill's apartment, 618 00:33:18,731 --> 00:33:21,275 they uncover an important clue. 619 00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:25,246 November 4th, sometime after 10, 620 00:33:25,371 --> 00:33:29,639 sabine's car had been parked out on the beach, 621 00:33:30,943 --> 00:33:34,955 a quarter of a mile away from the apartment she shared 622 00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:38,893 with William, and that raised concern. 623 00:33:39,018 --> 00:33:42,396 And the reason we found that out is because 624 00:33:42,521 --> 00:33:46,066 a deputy was driving around that night, and he saw 625 00:33:46,191 --> 00:33:49,303 a car parked in a no parking zone, 626 00:33:49,428 --> 00:33:51,094 and he wrote it a ticket. 627 00:33:52,498 --> 00:33:55,142 The discovery helps illuminate sabine's movements 628 00:33:55,267 --> 00:33:56,977 on the night she disappeared. 629 00:33:57,102 --> 00:33:59,880 The timeline we had was 630 00:34:00,005 --> 00:34:02,149 sabine's last known to be with Mr. Cumber 631 00:34:02,274 --> 00:34:04,919 between 10 and 11 according to his statement. 632 00:34:05,044 --> 00:34:08,122 Her car is documented two blocks away 633 00:34:08,247 --> 00:34:09,723 by the parking ticket 634 00:34:09,848 --> 00:34:14,461 at 5:10 A.M. on the 5th, so roughly six hours 635 00:34:14,586 --> 00:34:17,731 after he last said he had been with her. 636 00:34:17,856 --> 00:34:19,767 Well, it's only two blocks away from where 637 00:34:19,892 --> 00:34:21,168 Mr. Cumber lives. 638 00:34:21,293 --> 00:34:24,905 It would make sense for him to want to place 639 00:34:25,030 --> 00:34:26,941 her car somewhere other than their residence 640 00:34:27,066 --> 00:34:28,809 if he's killed her. 641 00:34:28,934 --> 00:34:31,078 And then, of course, he can easily walk 642 00:34:31,203 --> 00:34:34,548 the distance back to his residence that evening. 643 00:34:34,673 --> 00:34:35,950 It gave US a timeline, 644 00:34:36,075 --> 00:34:38,752 told US where the vehicle had been 645 00:34:38,877 --> 00:34:40,788 as opposed to the gator lounge, 646 00:34:40,913 --> 00:34:44,325 and it just kind of all fit. 647 00:34:44,450 --> 00:34:47,394 When detectives attempt to arrest bill, 648 00:34:47,519 --> 00:34:49,730 they find that he's left town. 649 00:34:49,855 --> 00:34:54,335 He was making a getaway, trying to disappear. 650 00:34:54,460 --> 00:34:57,461 Fleeing is kind of a good indicator of guilt. 651 00:35:07,539 --> 00:35:09,984 As investigators zero in on bill cumber 652 00:35:10,109 --> 00:35:13,253 for the suspected homicide of sabine musil-buehler, 653 00:35:13,378 --> 00:35:15,923 he's apprehended fleeing the state. 654 00:35:16,048 --> 00:35:19,793 He's heading up north towards i-4, 655 00:35:19,918 --> 00:35:21,662 and he had a taillight out, 656 00:35:21,787 --> 00:35:25,322 and he shouldn't have been driving... he's got no license. 657 00:35:27,626 --> 00:35:28,826 And he's on probation. 658 00:35:30,629 --> 00:35:33,763 Well, normally, violation of probation, you know, 659 00:35:35,267 --> 00:35:39,279 you may get a little bit of jail time, or... 660 00:35:39,404 --> 00:35:42,539 You can get before a judge who finds out that there's 661 00:35:42,674 --> 00:35:44,184 a murder investigation going on, 662 00:35:44,309 --> 00:35:47,488 and you can get 13, 14 years, 663 00:35:47,613 --> 00:35:50,991 which is what he got, so he's on ice. 664 00:35:51,116 --> 00:35:54,161 That gave US all some breathing space to try to 665 00:35:54,286 --> 00:35:56,630 continue the investigation without having to worry that, 666 00:35:56,755 --> 00:35:58,933 you know, he could potentially kill somebody else. 667 00:36:00,259 --> 00:36:01,268 Meanwhile, 668 00:36:01,393 --> 00:36:03,837 the detectives finally get the forensic results 669 00:36:03,962 --> 00:36:06,940 from the blood taken from sabine's car. 670 00:36:07,065 --> 00:36:09,043 DNA is perhaps 671 00:36:09,168 --> 00:36:13,113 the most persuasive physical evidence you can have. 672 00:36:13,238 --> 00:36:19,153 We had Mr. Cumber's DNA on the driver's seat area 673 00:36:19,278 --> 00:36:24,091 and also in and around the area that had been cut out 674 00:36:24,216 --> 00:36:25,426 in the back seat. 675 00:36:25,551 --> 00:36:29,430 And we have sabine's blood in the area that's been cut out, 676 00:36:29,555 --> 00:36:32,499 keeping in mind that Mr. Cumber 677 00:36:32,624 --> 00:36:35,202 supposedly had never driven that car. 678 00:36:35,327 --> 00:36:38,639 So we decided we had all the evidence we were going 679 00:36:38,764 --> 00:36:42,743 to get... we were probably not gonna find her body. 680 00:36:42,868 --> 00:36:45,579 And so, ultimately, the decision was 681 00:36:45,704 --> 00:36:48,649 made to charge Mr. Cumber with murder. 682 00:36:48,774 --> 00:36:51,452 As they prepare their case against bill cumber, 683 00:36:51,577 --> 00:36:54,688 detectives put pressure on him to confess. 684 00:36:54,813 --> 00:36:57,324 We hounded him for years and years. 685 00:36:57,449 --> 00:36:58,325 We just didn't let up. 686 00:36:58,450 --> 00:37:02,229 And he just was exhausted, and knew he was 687 00:37:02,354 --> 00:37:04,164 gonna be in jail for a long time, 688 00:37:04,289 --> 00:37:05,589 and he just gave up. 689 00:37:23,242 --> 00:37:25,652 Cumber finally tells detectives exactly 690 00:37:25,777 --> 00:37:27,387 what happened to sabine musil-buehler 691 00:37:27,512 --> 00:37:30,390 in her last 24 hours. 692 00:37:30,515 --> 00:37:32,148 She took him to the dental office 693 00:37:34,319 --> 00:37:37,364 for him to get some dental work done, 694 00:37:37,489 --> 00:37:40,724 and he was observed to be in ill temper. 695 00:37:42,761 --> 00:37:45,672 They then watched the election returns. 696 00:37:45,797 --> 00:37:50,410 She drank a bottle of wine, and somewhere in 697 00:37:50,535 --> 00:37:54,882 the area of 10 to 11, he tried to smoke a cigarette. 698 00:37:55,007 --> 00:38:00,377 She found out about it and basically told him it was over. 699 00:38:50,729 --> 00:38:53,807 He then wrapped her up in a blanket, 700 00:38:53,932 --> 00:38:56,109 put her in the back seat of the car, 701 00:38:56,234 --> 00:38:58,590 and he decided he was gonna Bury her out on the beach. 702 00:39:02,240 --> 00:39:03,984 The following day, he takes the car, 703 00:39:04,109 --> 00:39:05,975 he drives it into bradenton. 704 00:39:07,346 --> 00:39:10,557 This is now November 5, 2008. 705 00:39:10,682 --> 00:39:14,094 And he leaves it at the gator lounge with the keys 706 00:39:14,219 --> 00:39:16,630 in the ignition in the hopes that someone will take it 707 00:39:16,755 --> 00:39:18,565 and thus become the prime suspect 708 00:39:18,690 --> 00:39:21,535 in Ms. Musil-buehler's disappearance. 709 00:39:21,660 --> 00:39:25,572 He takes the last bus back to the island 710 00:39:25,697 --> 00:39:28,765 and goes back to the apartment that they had shared. 711 00:39:30,702 --> 00:39:33,814 I don't think Mr. Cumber planned to kill her 712 00:39:33,939 --> 00:39:37,884 prior to the evening of November 4th. 713 00:39:38,009 --> 00:39:40,487 I believe he was angry at 714 00:39:40,612 --> 00:39:43,223 the loss of what she could provide for him, 715 00:39:43,348 --> 00:39:45,993 financially. 716 00:39:46,118 --> 00:39:49,096 Having been denied something he wanted, 717 00:39:49,221 --> 00:39:50,453 he chose to kill her. 718 00:39:52,224 --> 00:39:54,835 However, to choke somebody to death 719 00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:57,471 requires a great deal of intent. 720 00:39:57,596 --> 00:40:01,241 It's not a split-second act like shooting a gun 721 00:40:01,366 --> 00:40:02,743 in the heat of the moment. 722 00:40:02,868 --> 00:40:05,045 It requires a sustained effort, 723 00:40:05,170 --> 00:40:08,738 which shows some intent to kill. 724 00:40:11,410 --> 00:40:13,854 In exchange for a reduced sentence, 725 00:40:13,979 --> 00:40:17,380 cumber agrees to reveal the location of sabine's grave. 726 00:40:18,750 --> 00:40:21,795 Mr. Cumber then got in a law enforcement vehicle 727 00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:24,698 and took the police to the location, 728 00:40:24,823 --> 00:40:27,634 which was a couple blocks away from Haley's motel, 729 00:40:27,759 --> 00:40:30,937 under a covered area where people can 730 00:40:31,062 --> 00:40:33,730 sit on a bench and look at the beach. 731 00:40:35,767 --> 00:40:37,444 He was somber. 732 00:40:37,569 --> 00:40:40,914 He kneeled down at the burial site, 733 00:40:41,039 --> 00:40:42,839 supposedly said a prayer. 734 00:40:46,144 --> 00:40:49,222 He affected remorse. 735 00:40:49,347 --> 00:40:51,347 Whether he actually felt it, I don't know. 736 00:40:53,685 --> 00:40:56,697 Investigators begin digging for sabine's remains. 737 00:40:56,822 --> 00:41:00,901 We started finding items associated with sabine 738 00:41:01,026 --> 00:41:04,538 roughly three feet down from the surface of the sand. 739 00:41:04,663 --> 00:41:07,374 Her clothing was with her. 740 00:41:07,499 --> 00:41:10,577 I believe a piece of jewelry was with her. 741 00:41:10,702 --> 00:41:14,147 The remains were completely skeletonized. 742 00:41:14,272 --> 00:41:17,451 I think finding the body provided the family with 743 00:41:17,576 --> 00:41:20,921 a measure of relief and certainty 744 00:41:21,046 --> 00:41:22,823 that they had lacked. 745 00:41:22,948 --> 00:41:25,659 I think ultimately, this was 746 00:41:25,784 --> 00:41:28,184 something that gave them some peace of mind. 747 00:41:29,654 --> 00:41:32,265 Bill is sentenced to 20 years in prison. 748 00:41:32,390 --> 00:41:35,736 He will be eligible for parole in 2029. 749 00:41:35,861 --> 00:41:38,438 The timeline is important in all murder cases, 750 00:41:38,563 --> 00:41:42,776 but in this case, because she initially wasn't found, 751 00:41:42,901 --> 00:41:46,613 we had to come up with a convincing narrative, 752 00:41:46,738 --> 00:41:49,950 potentially to a jury that, in fact, she is dead, 753 00:41:50,075 --> 00:41:51,952 and this is why we know she's dead, 754 00:41:52,077 --> 00:41:54,654 and the timeline was basically 755 00:41:54,779 --> 00:41:57,891 the critical aspect of that narrative. 756 00:41:58,016 --> 00:42:00,494 But the victory is bittersweet. 757 00:42:00,619 --> 00:42:04,331 You never forget the family members of the victims. 758 00:42:04,456 --> 00:42:06,266 You never forget their trauma. 759 00:42:06,391 --> 00:42:11,872 It's the ultimate act of violence, and it disturbs 760 00:42:11,997 --> 00:42:13,173 a family typically. 761 00:42:13,298 --> 00:42:16,943 And in this case, it disturbed an entire community. 762 00:42:17,068 --> 00:42:20,881 You gotta weigh closure against sorrow and loss, you know, 763 00:42:21,006 --> 00:42:23,316 and that's a difficult thing to measure. 764 00:42:23,441 --> 00:42:26,509 For the family, can't ever really be closure, 765 00:42:28,113 --> 00:42:30,647 'cause you wake up every day and you know they're gone. 59571

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