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[Maria Mederos] When I arrived at the crime scene,

the blood was in so many different places of the room.

There was blood on the carpet, blood on the bed.

And the officers tell me the victim's son was in the room

at the time his mother was shot.

The investigator asked what happened in the room.

He lifts his hands up as if he's holding a gun

and he says, "Like this. Boom.

That's how Mommy got dead."

[man 1] That was the moment in this case, when it's like, "This dude is just evil."

Welcome to Very Scary People.

I'm Donnie Wahlberg.

Yathomas Riley liked to dominate people.

Hurt them, beat them down.

It's what made him a feared and successful boxer.

But it was outside the ring where Riley's cruel and vicious nature turned deadly.

He wanted total control of everyone around him,

especially women.

And anyone who threatened that control

was subject to his monstrous rage and deadly violence.

This is Thomas the Terrible.

[number pad beeping]

[phone ringing]

[dispatcher 1 speaking]

[man 2 speaking on phone]

-[dispatcher 1 speaking] -[man 2 speaking]

[dispatcher 1 speaking]

[man 2 speaking]

[dispatcher 1 speaking]

-[siren wailing] -[dispatcher 2 speaking]

[dispatcher 1 speaking]

[man 2 speaking]

-[radio beeps] -[officer 1 speaking]

-[man 2 speaking] -[dispatcher 1 speaking]

[man 2 speaking]

[man 2 speaking]

[dispatcher 3 speaking]

-[man 2 speaking] -[dispatcher 3 speaking]

[man 2 speaking]

[man 2] I don't even know, bruh.

-[dispatcher 3 speaking] -[man 2 speaking]

-[officer 2 speaking] -[man 2 speaking]

-[officer 2 speaking] -[man 2 speaking]

The last conversation that I had with Lisa wasn't much of a conversation at all.

I said, "Lisa, I am on the way."

And she screamed at me.

"Do not come here. He will kill you too."

Those are the last words I heard my friend speak.

-I understand. - [Yathomas speaking]

[Yathomas speaking]

When we first started this investigation,

we had no idea what Pandora's box we were about to open up.

[producer] Loretta Riley. Take one marker.

[Loretta] There was five children in my mom's household.

Yathomas was the second youngest child in the family.

Yathomas didn't know wrong in my mom's eyes.

That was her baby.

He was just a very vibrant little kid running around,

always jumping off of things, always getting into something.

He was just a very active kid that we were all looking after, so.

I love my little brother.

But when Yathomas was two months old,

my father took my mom and the children

to a labor camp in, uh, Virginia,

and the water was bad out there.

So when he was born, my mom gave him the water that was there,

not knowing that the water was not good.

He was separated from my mom and he was hospitalized

for five months in intensive care unit.

Being away from his mother for five months,

that can significantly impact a young infant.

That is one our attachment to other human beings and to love and warmth occurs.

So the problems from drinking the bad water when he was born

was stuttering, the pigeon-toed,

the delay of speech at the time,

and he was slow at getting to the level of learning than the rest of us were.

[Dr. April Szilagyi] When a baby is stressed,

that could change some of those brain functions that develop

and may have likely caused any kind of delays.

[Donnie] The tainted water isn't the only problem facing Yathomas.

His childhood home is a violent, unpredictable place.

When I was talking to his mom and his sister,

they told me a lot of stories about Yathomas' troubled youth.

They told me that a lot of the behaviors that he exhibited as a child

were things that they saw in his father.

-[Lorene Riley speaking] -[Daniel Wilco speaking]

[Lorene speaking]

[Daniel] Lorene and Loretta both said that there was some

some abuse happening between you and Lorene.

Is that true at all?

[Julius Riley speaking]

We know that his father was physically abusive towards his mother

and he likely learned a lot of those behaviors

and absorbed a lot of those messages. that he received.

[Lorene speaking]

[Donnie] Year by year Yathomas catches up to the other kids in school.

Making friends.

And becoming a standout athlete.

[Julius speaking]

[Donnie] But young Yathomas has a darker side.

When he was a kid, he went into his grandfather's closet

and he was playing with a handgun...

and it discharged.

Around the age of ten, he took his stepfather's gun out of their house

and took it to school to show kids and show off.

When he was 13, he busted out all the windows in the local area.

His mom said that a lot of the behaviors that he exhibited as a child

were not present in her other children,

and it was really Julius' negative behavior that she saw in Yathomas.

So he was 15 when we moved to Ohio.

Yathomas had friends there.

Some of the friends, they were probably gang members.

When I first met Yathomas or TT,

we were, uh, living in Cleveland, Ohio, on the West Side.

Well, the neighborhood, it was... It was pretty ran down.

I mean, the, uh, you know, there was crime everywhere.

It wasn't a good place to grow up.

A lot of us didn't have fathers.

You know, our mothers didn't care. Our mothers were drunk.

You know, the homes are broken.

So we gravitated towards the streets and the streets raised us.

We set out one night, and I believe that night we robbed like four people.

All in one night. We just ran around like a pack of wolves,

you know, looking for innocent prey.

And if they didn't have any money,

Yathomas got to, uh, uh, displaying his violent tendencies.

Yathomas enjoyed violence and inflicting violence and aggression on others.

He does not view human beings as human beings.

They are simply objects to him.

[Jason] Yathomas was 16 years old,

beating up on grown men like they were children.

You know, Yathomas bashed dudes' head with, you know, bottles,

I mean, cracked a bottle right over his dome.

And it... it... it... it's like, yeah, it was... it was brutal.

When it came to the fourth individual,

you know, he was probably about 16, 15 or something. He was pretty young.

I proceeded to stick him up with my pistol.

He didn't have no money. Yathomas, he started to attack the young man.

Yathomas knocked him out early,

but he proceeded to jump on this young man's head with both of his feet,

like he was a trampoline or something.

Like ten, fifteen times.

He liked shedding innocent blood. I mean, and...

That was something that I didn't see before that night.

[Donnie] After beating a teenage boy nearly to death,

16-year-old Yathomas is arrested

and pleads guilty to felony assault.

He serves five years in the Marion County Juvenile Detention Center in Ohio.

[Lorene speaking]

After getting out of juvenile detention,

Yathomas moves to San Diego with his family, where he gets into boxing.

He was never afraid to fight anyone.

He just didn't have any fear in him.

And that's one of the reasons why we told him he needed to get into boxing.

[Lorene speaking]

[Levin Rooney Jr.] First time seeing Yathomas box,

I was very impressed.

You could tell he was just a talented guy.

He also had Go- gifted power.

You know what I mean? When he was hitting the bag,

it had that cracking sound that anyone who knows boxing

or anyone who's been in the gym,

you hear that, you're going to turn around and watch.

"Wow, that guy's got power."

He was a scary looking dude, you know what I mean?

He had the crooked nose.

He always was in just like a wife beater. Very muscular.

I remember the sparring wars that he would have.

If you hurt someone at sparring,

then you're supposed to back off.

It's just practice, you know what I mean?

You're not supposed to try to knock somebody out.

Yathomas was someone he would hurt you in sparring,

and they want to continuously hurt you.

He seemed to have a love of... of violence.

[Loretta] Yathomas wanted to be the next big name.

I saw him going in that direction.

His ego was big enough.

[Donnie] In the ring, Yathomas Riley becomes a brutal fighter.

Outside the arena, he exudes confidence and charm.

Yathomas is attracting women to him,

and I think it comes from him being handsome, very much is a go-getter.

He was always smiling. He was always laughing. He was always giggly.

You need to be very strong-willed,

to be able to voice your opinion because no one is perfect.

Yathomas isn't perfect.

If he's not listening to me or his mom or his siblings,

he needs a woman who can tell him something without being afraid to.

Yathomas and Koketia met in 2005 at Walmart in Florida.

Koketia King was a mother of two.

She was a corrections officer and she had aspirations of being a police officer.

[Loretta] The first time I met Koketia I thought she was a good girl.

I thought she was very strong and definitely my brother needs that.

His sister thinks that Koketia experience on the right side of the law

will keep Yathomas from the wrong side of it.

And then they did talk about marriage at one point.

She was pregnant at the time with his kid.

So I believed Yathomas loved her.

A lot.

[Donnie] 2006 is a year of milestones for 24-year-old Yathomas.

Koketia gives birth to their son, Yaheim,

and he wins the National Golden Gloves tournament.

Making him the top amateur light heavyweight in the US.

The National Golden Gloves opens up a lot of doors for him

and really sets the stage for a promising boxing career.

Everyone could see how good he was and how much potential he had,

and he did have the ability to become an elite level fighter.

[Donnie] By 2007, Yathomas' record is 24 and 6.

And he's set to try out for the US Olympic boxing team,

headed for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

He makes it all the way to the finals, where he loses a close bout.

Yathomas just missed out on making the 2008 Olympic team

and turned pro not too long after that.

Coming out of the amateurs, he was someone that everyone wanted to sign.

But you took a closer look at him

and you could see he had a bit of baggage.

The risk in taking on someone like Yathomas

with a criminal past is at some point in his life,

he exploded for one reason or another.

And you're always, kind of now that's in the back of your head of...

"Is this gonna happen again?"

I was working for Joe LaGuardia Star Boxing,

who signed Yathomas out of the amateurs.

They're based out of the Bronx.

The plan was for him to come up,

live here, train here, fight out of New York.

They wanted to get him away from where he was at the time

and hopefully to keep him out of trouble.

Keep him on the straight and narrow.

As she worked, and he practiced his skills in boxing,

Koketia was really hoping that he would take over and take care of the family.

But Yathomas would buy cars, limos,

splurge with money.

[Lorene speaking]

[crowd roaring]

[bell dinging]

[announcer] He weighed in at 185 and one half pounds.

Please welcome Yathomas Riley.

In 2010, Yathomas was a very promising young boxer,

[crowd cheering]

He was a heavy fighter. He was a scrappy puncher.

Uh, he did not dance around the ring.

He hit hard. That led to exciting fights,

which was paving the road for him to be a star.

All day, every day. Sixteen-oh.

-Sixteen-oh. -[announcer] ...Riley!

Coming home with it, baby.

Three, four, five years was the game plan for him to...

to fight for a world championship.

[Donnie] In the boxing world, Riley is a rising star.

But to Koketia, he's an absent father.

Koketia would definitely call and ask for advice

whenever her and Yathomas would go through something.

[producer speaking]

[Loretta] Infidelity, majority of the time

Not knowing if this person is coming home

or "why are they talking to me like this?"

And... just in that nature.

[producer speaking]

Yes.

That seemed to be a constant source of conflict with Thomas,

that he did not want a woman in his life

who spoke back to him that way, who stood up for herself.

[Donnie] By the summer of 2010, Koketia wants out.

But she's about to find out the terrifying cost of her freedom.

-[gunshots] -[dog barking]

[number pad beeping]

[phone ringing]

[dispatcher 4] This is the police. How may I help you?

-[Yathomas] Why the [bleep] did you do that? -[dispatcher 4] Hello?

-[Yathomas] Hello! [indistinct] -[dispatcher 4] Hello?

[Yathomas] Fifteen-thirty-six. Why the [bleep] did you do that?

-Oh, [bleep]. -[dispatcher 4] What is your address?

What is your address?

[Yathomas speaks indistinctly]

The 911 call was received at 11:41 p.m. on June 10th of 2010.

[radio chatter]

[Maria] The initial information from the scene,

according to the person that called,

which was Yathomas Riley,

was that it was a suicide.

[Closel Pierre] The victim was being airlifted.

And she was in critical condition. She may not survive.

Therefore, we handled the case as a homicide.

[Maria] Once the victim, Koketia King, was evaluated by fire rescue,

we knew that she was shot multiple times.

That information brings up a lot of questions.

It has happened where someone has shot themselves twice.

But the victim's injuries were highly unusual.

She was shot in the left thigh.

The second shot was to the face.

And it was more in an upward angle

to where it came in through the lip, took out the eye

and then went out the back of her head.

Not really your textbook suicide.

When I arrived at the scene,

I see the young son of Koketia King standing outside.

We had also noticed there is a police car.

The back windows are rolled down,

and there is a Black male in the back seat.

He'll scream out every once in a while or whatever and,

you ask, "Oh, who's that?"

"Well, that's the live-in boyfriend.

He was on the scene when we arrived."

Yathomas Riley had exhibited out of control...

behavior, when the officers were there,

and even as he was in the backseat of the car,

crying, screaming, sweating, yelling out, "I love you, boo! Don't leave me, boo!"

You know, "I'm here for you, boo!

Don't... That's my boo! That's my girl!"

[Maria] I walked up, explained,

"Listen, we're here to investigate what happened.

You're a very important part of the story that we need to get

and we will get to your story.

But I need you to just calm down for now

and we'll be able to speak to you

and you'll be able to tell us everything that happened today."

Now, most adults, seeing that there would be children involved

would take the path of comforting the children,

or not adding drama to the trauma.

That was not Yathomas Riley.

Yathomas Riley was acting out.

He was, at one point, threatening,

where he said, "I'm a professional boxer.

I would have kicked all your asses if I wanted to."

When we first walked into the apartment,

I noticed the first bedroom had some folded clothes on the floor,

not a bed.

The second bedroom has sneakers lined up, all against the wall.

They were well cared for in that bedroom,

but it was just for the sneakers.

[producer speaking]

The kids, I believe,

were sleeping in the living room.

There was no other bed other than the bed in the master bedroom.

[Closel] Yeah, I'm trying to be open minded.

But I said, "That was strange."

You know, you're up, you're spending money on so many shoes

and then your kids are sleeping on the floor.

As a parent, I think that was odd.

Yeah.

When we went into the master bedroom...

the blood was in so many different places of the room.

There is blood on the carpet, blood on the bed.

The bed is moved.

And also, there were some holes in the wall,

like somebody punched the walls.

There seemed to have been more of a struggle,

more of... of just chaos that happened in that room.

It's looking less and less like a suicide

and more like something happened

between Yathomas Riley and Koketia King

inside that bedroom.

[Closel] Yathomas is transported to headquarters.

When I approach him to talk to him,

he just shut down on me.

And he wanted to speak to no male detective either.

But he was laughing and he was talking a lot,

bragging about himself, he's a boxer.

His records, you know. He was bragging a lot.

He showed no type of caring, like, you know,

"I want to know the status of my girlfriend."

He never asked that question to me.

As a man, if your loved one has been shot,

you should show some interest to find out the status of that victim.

He never did.

Yathomas doesn't have any sort of guilt or remorse

for the actions that he engages in,

whether it be the victim,

whether it be society as a whole,

even his family.

He is a narcissist, so he has a lack of attachment to everybody.

I was very much aware of what the potential

of violence could be with him.

He's a trained boxer who can knock me out in one punch.

Knock the other person in the room out with one punch,

and then all hell can break loose from there.

So I said, "Okay, I need to keep an eye on that guy."

That's when I made the decision

to have him shackled up from the legs on the ground.

[Maria] Yathomas Riley told us during the interview

that he had discovered a letter

written to Koketia,

and he believed that she was having an affair at work.

He asked her about the letter.

She denied that there was anything personal going on.

He explained that Koketia King,

she shot herself to prove that she loved him.

Not only did she shoot herself once, she shot herself twice.

[producer speaking]

I found it ridiculous.

It's just unbelievable.

As I'm watching that guy, I know that guy is a very dangerous person.

If he has a chance, he would do it.

He would have done it again and again and again.

He figured that we were not believing

his version of what happened in the room.

At that point, he became wild.

Banging his head against the wall

and-and pulling on the chains and stuff.

So, he became uncontrollable.

He was like a caged animal.

[indistinct police radio]

[Donnie] But Yathomas and Koketia

are not the only witnesses to the tragic shooting.

Another indicator that this was not a suicide

is that the young son of Koketia King

was in the room at the time his mother was sot.

The investigator asks what happened in the room.

He lifts his hands up as if he's holding a gun,

and he says, "Like this, boom."

-[gun cocks] -[gunshot]

"That's how Mommy got dead."

At the end of the interview with Yathomas Riley,

we informed him that he was being charged

with the attempted murder of Koketia King.

[Donnie] The charge is attempted murder,

because despite being shot in the head at close range...

Koketia is somehow clinging to life.

We didn't expect her to survive.

But she did.

Riley tells police Koketia shot herself,

claiming it was a suicide attempt in the middle of an argument

about her supposedly cheating on him.

Now Koketia is conscious and ready to tell her side of the story.

[producer] Koketia King, take one, marker.

[Koketia] Before I met Yathomas Riley,

I was certified in the state of Florida

as a correction officer and a police officer.

My goals were to try to be a homicide detective.

But, I got deferred.

The first day I met Yathomas was October the 30th, 2005.

I was with a friend that had a mutual friend of his,

and I met him through that friend.

Yathomas was charming.

He seemed like somebody that I wanted to get to know.

We talked that night, and then we went to the movies the next day.

And from that day we just was talking every day.

He'd come by, see me.

Just the usual dating stuff.

[producer speaking]

He told me that he was back and forth from his mom, his dad a lot,

that he went to prison and he had got out when he was 21

and he started boxing.

I think I just like to try to see what's the good in people.

So I did not see any of it as a red flag.

I was living in Miami, Florida,

and he was living in San Diego, California.

He would come see me at least every other month

or two months.

His friend would tell me that he's an up and coming boxer.

He was still amateur at the time.

And that he has money and he'll take care of me.

But I wasn't impressed.

I'm like, I have my own job, my own money.

I don't need his.

There was times where he wasn't making money yet,

so of course, she was the breadwinner.

[Koketia] I found out I was pregnant in February of 2006.

I called him and told him.

He seemed happy.

Yeah.

He started making sure I had what I needed

through my pregnancy.

He was coming back and forth regularly.

[Donnie] And by 2008, things seem to be looking up for the couple.

Yathomas is racking up win after win.

But as usual with Riley, good times are followed by bad behavior.

I found out about other girlfriends

from conversations he had on the phone.

One day we was in the room.

And the kids was in there and his phone rang.

[phone ringing]

He answered, and he said, "Hold on a minute."

He walked out of the house.

I confronted him about the phone calls

and he said, "Oh, it's too loud in here.

I can't hear on the phone, so I step out of the house so I can talk."

But I knew it wasn't true.

And that was the first time I found him verbally abusive,

was when I was questioning him about the phone calls

and why he had to step outside.

When you anger him or tell him no,

it changes, like a switch go off.

Yathomas really wants people to kind of cater to him,

and he believes that he is entitled,

whether it be to money,

or whether it be to harming another individual,

including within his romantic relationships.

Then later, after all these phone calls and text messages,

I crushed the phone.

He did not scare me.

I worked in a prison with men.

I can come on that compound and they're gonna respect me,

and... because I hold myself to a standard that they're like,

"Okay, we gotta respect her."

That's what he didn't like, because I'm not going to back down.

[Donnie] In 2010,

Yathomas finds new fuel for his rage.

He suspects Koketia is cheating

and claims he could prove it.

Yathomas had told the family that he found letters coming from an inmate.

And he was concerned about infidelity.

Letter addressing me as, "Hey, baby girl."

And he's like, "Oh, you're messing with that dude.

You're f-ing that dude." Dah, dah, dah, dah.

'Cause he called me "baby girl"?

Everybody call people "baby girl."

So... what's the issue?

[Donnie] Meanwhile, inside the ring,

Yathomas seems to be tanking his own career.

I know that he liked to smoke weed.

I know that he had a short temper.

He didn't want to be told what to do.

He didn't want to be told when he was supposed to fight.

He felt that in his mind, he knew what he was doing

and, you know, he didn't want to listen to his managers.

He didn't want to listen to his trainers.

He didn't want to listen to his promoter.

All the people that were looking out for him,

all the people that had an investment into him.

And week of the fight,

he was just like, "No, I'm not fighting.

I don't feel like fighting.".

That's like, terrible for business. [chuckles]

[sirens wail]

[Donnie] In 2010,

police in Florida pull Yathomas over,

and he's so uncooperative that they arrest him.

From jail, he calls Koketia.

He wanted me to buy him out of jail.

[phone ringing]

It was only $100, but I wasn't spending my money on him.

And he ended up coming home,

he's like, "Why you didn't come get me?

I had to call somebody else to come buy me out."

And I said, "I told you I wasn't paying for you.

So that's why I didn't come."

I was standing in my bedroom and he was in front of me

and he was yelling and he punched me in both of my eyes.

And then he wanted to hit me again.

But he punched the wall instead.

He felt like he had lost some power and control, and that was enraging to him.

I describe him as calculating and manipulative and just evil.

He... He don't like to see nobody happy but him.

I think I stayed for my son so he could have his father.

But it was just getting to be too much.

He was trying to control me, like, keeping me from my family,

verbally abusing me.

Just don't want me around people that cared about me, like my friends.

He didn't want nobody else to try to to persuade me to do something else.

I was done. I was finished.

I couldn't do no more.

I was just trying to get enough money

to get me and my kids a place to live, but...

I didn't make it to that point.

So, June 10th of 2010,

Yathomas came over, like we used to do

after the kids go off to school.

I was making breakfast and we were just talking about daily life.

He didn't say anything that they was having any problems.

He didn't say that they were arguing.

He didn't say anything of that nature.

All he said was that she was at work

and he was waiting for his son to get out of school.

So I didn't see anything that could have stirred up

what was going to follow after that.

[Koketia] He was calling and texting.

And just going, just verbally abusing me.

-[phone ringing] -[Koketia] I feel he think he was losing control

because I wasn't answering my phone,

um, responding to texts.

I came home around ten, and I had my two sons with me.

When I walked in the house, the whole house was dark. It was completely dark.

And then later,

he came in the door, he came down the hallway.

And he started fussing.

"Where you been? I've been calling you."

Okay.

What do you want me to say?

And I jumped up in his face and he told me,

"If you jump up one more time, I'm gonna shoot you."

And I said something- and I was in his face and he pushed me down.

And he shot me in my back.

[gunshot]

And I was looking at the shot like,

"Did he really just shoot me?"

And I was like, I couldn't process.

My brain would not let me process that he shot me.

The little one, as soon as he heard the gunshot,

he came back down.

Like, "What y'all doing?"

So, he seen everything.

And blood started gushing out, and I was blacking in and out.

I was like, I was fading in and out, and-

and then I finally just blacked out.

And once I blacked out, he shot me in my face.

[gunshot]

He shot me in my face, which took out my right eye.

I thought I was dead.

[sirens wailing]

[indistinct police radio]

[Loretta] My father called me and said that Koketia was being airlifted.

And that she had been shot.

And we needed to go and check her out and see that she's okay.

I was very devastated after hearing that.

[Kevin] When I heard Yathomas got picked up for this- for the shooting,

I was shocked.

I couldn't believe it. I felt like he had so much potential

and so much to look forward to in his career and in his life.

[crowd cheering]

-[announcer] Ladies and gentlemen. -Six and O.

[bell ringing]

[Daniel speaking]

[Lorene speaking]

[Daniel] Yeah.

[Lorene speaking]

When I came to, I was in the hospital.

Bandaged up, and the detective was sitting at the foot of the bed.

She explained that there was an argument going on over the letter.

And that is what leads up to him shooting her.

[Daniel] Do you think he did that?

[Lorene speaking]

[Daniel] Uh-huh?

[Lorene speaking]

[Daniel] Really?

[Lorene speaking]

[producer speaking]

I did think he did it.

That was my first opinion.

Not hearing the story, that's what I thought.

[Lorene speaking]

[Daniel speaking]

[Lorene speaking]

[Dr. Szilagyi] I think Yathomas definitely has disdain for women,

and I think that his mother trying to keep him more responsible

and trying to impose those consequences

likely had a negative impact on their relationship.

And Yathomas was more easily able to cut her out.

[Lorene speaking]

[Daniel] Right.

[Lorene speaking]

[Daniel] Mm-hmm.

[Lorene speaking]

But people in Yathomas' camp,

his trainers, promoters and everything

don't believe that Yathomas has this in him.

There was no way in their mind that he had shot Koketia.

As someone who I knew personally

and someone who I considered a friend,

I-I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt.

Um, so I didn't think he did it.

The initial thought was, "This doesn't sound right."

[Donnie] But someone else is giving Yathomas

a lot more than the benefit of the doubt.

A 29-year-old medical student named Lisa Amodio.

[Kevin] Lisa trained at the gym as well,

and I think that Yathomas was very cool to her,

especially that she was a fan of boxing.

She thought that he was going to be a celebrity.

We all thought he was going to be a celebrity.

So she was intrigued by his persona,

and I think that this whole thing

was exciting and intriguing for her.

[Daniel] As a medical student, she was a Yathomas' cut man.

So taking care of Yathomas as he was getting bludgeoned by his opponents.

More than just the cut man,

she was also Yathomas' new girlfriend.

She was a doctor, so she liked to help people.

So I think she felt that she could probably save Yathomas.

So when Yathomas was locked up, from what I saw,

her role was to support her man.

And she did that to the fullest.

Whatever he needed, whatever needed to be done,

whatever she had to do to make sure that

he was going to get the most support,

to get the case thrown out,

she was gonna be there.

I remember talking to Lisa, and she's like, "He didn't do it.

He didn't do it. This is like...

We- We have proof he didn't do it."

And she was so adamant that he was innocent.

And it was hard to... to think otherwise,

because again, I never saw that side of him.

I never saw that side of anyone

that they would want to shoot somebody.

After Yathomas shot Koketia...

he really had no empathy for her and what he did to her.

The fear that she likely experienced in that situation.

Koketia was just a chess piece,

and I think that he was ready to move on

to bigger and better things.

Like most predators Yathomas Reilly moved on to new prey.

This time, it's Lisa Amodio.

He's charmed her, seduced her and made her fall in love with him.

And now, she's willing to do anything

to help get her new love out of prison.

Lisa believes Yathomas can be a champion fighter.

She wants to start a new life with him,

get married and have a family.

But there's an old saying,

"Be careful what you wish for."

[people cheering and applauding]

Congratulations.

[man 1] He just beat the system.

Know what I mean? He's a champ of this hour.

-[people laughing] -[man 1] Man.

-[man 2] Champ, baby. -[man 1] Yeah.

[Closel Pierre] I was watching a local news.

At 10:14 p.m.,

I saw Yathomas Riley coming out of jail

with both fists up in the air.

"I'm a free man."

[reporter speaking]

[reporter] All right, thank you.

[Donnie Wahlberg] Two years after he was arrested for shooting Koketia King

and just days before his trial is set to begin,

Yathomas Riley emerges from jail

with all charges dropped.

[Closel] Then I said, "Are you serious?"

I asked myself that question.

"Why would he be let go?

Professional boxer Yathomas Riley

was on track for greatness before life got in the way.

Accused of an attempted murder,

now, the local fighter begins his road to redemption.

[Maria Mederos] I couldn't believe it.

There was media coverage of him claiming victory

outside of the jail.

He's-He's...

He's a very dangerous person.

Hey, baby, like I love you.

I'm with the press right now.

[reporter speaking]

[Donnie] The woman in Yathomas' corner the last two years,

his rock, is Lisa Amodio.

Born and raised in New Jersey,

she becomes a medical doctor,

finishing her residency

at St. Barnabas Hospital in The Bronx.

[Daniel Wilco] Lisa was someone that Yathomas met up in New York.

Lisa had just graduated med school

and was going to this boxing gym

where she met Yathomas,

and the two quickly became very close.

I had flew to New York and he took me to the gym.

And she was there and he introduced me,

"Oh, this is my girlfriend, my kid's mom."

He told me that he's training her.

And I said, "Okay."

But I knew it wasn't true.

[Dr. April Szilagyi] To someone like Yathomas,

human beings are objects

that they use to get whatever they want,

or to attain a higher status.

As a couple, they were a bit odd to me.

Lisa's a doctor, and she liked to help people.

That was her nature.

Yathomas was a thug.

He liked people believing that he was from the streets.

But they say opposites attract,

and they seemed very happy.

[Donnie] Lisa refuses to believe that the man she loves

is capable of shooting anyone.

So, when he's arrested for attempted murder,

she dives into the case files looking for anything that might help

Yathomas beat the charges.

And in the police report, she finds something.

[gunshot]

[Donnie] When he was arrested,

Yathomas didn't have gunshot residue on him.

But Koketia did.

[Kevin] After speaking to Lisa,

I almost got obsessed with the gun residue thing.

I remember, like, asking uh, science friends

like, "Is there any way that, you know

she would have gun residue, and he wouldn't,

and he pulled the trigger?"

And Lisa was convinced

that there was zero question that she shot herself

and he was going to get off of this crime.

If you're in close proximity of a gun being fired,

the powder residue would float in the air.

And if you were holding the gun,

it would be on your hands.

But that's something that could be like,

either wiped off or washed off,

and sometimes, we do have that.

[Donnie] Lisa also focuses on that letter

an inmate sent to Koketia.

The letter that allegedly set off the argument

that led to the shooting.

Partway through the letter,

they say that they should check in on a woman

and give a phone number for this woman.

That phone number had nine digits.

Phone numbers have 10 digits.

Social Security numbers have nine digits.

During that time, within the jail system,

there was a scam,

where identity was stolen

from whatever social security number they could get,

and if they could get all the information,

they would file your tax return

and get the refund.

This was evidence in some people's mind,

of a tax fraud scheme

Koketia, as a corrections officer,

was involved in with inmates in the jail.

[Koketia] I told defense attorneys

that while working at the prison,

during the same time I'm trying to leave Yathomas,

an inmate approached me with an offer

to make some quick money

so I can do what I was planning on doing, leave.

And he told me that he'd give me $2000

to put this letter in the mail,

so I could move,

because I didn't have enough money

to just leave like that.

[Mederos] The defense ran with that story

about the victim not being credible.

And put a taint on the story because of the fraud.

[reporter] As evidence clearly mounted

and the victim's testimonies were contradicted,

it became clear Riley wasn't the suspect at all.

In fact, he was the victim.

Nothing ever changed in the case.

The facts were the facts from day one.

So it was just unbelievable.

They painted the picture

of that she might have been involved in fraud.

That's not why we're here.

We're here because she was shot twice,

by somebody that she had a relationship with,

a domestic situation,

not because she was involved in fraud.

[Donnie] Despite having what initially felt like an airtight case

against Yathomas Riley,

prosecutors decide they can't risk putting Koketia on the stand

now that her credibility has been questioned.

The charges are dropped.

Yathomas the Terrible goes free.

[Donnie] August 17th, 2012,

Riley came home.

The first thing I did when I got out is hug my family.

You know, very happy to see them.

To see the sunshine.

[Mederos] That-That turns your stomach a little bit

when you see that.

Yeah.

We feel like we failed Koketia,

and she didn't get justice at all.

[Koketia] The day he got released,

someone called me on the phone

and he said, "Nobody call you, tell you he's getting out?"

I said, "No."

And I was like, "Okay." And I hung up the phone.

[Yathomas Riley] Everybody need a second chance.

Thank God that he gave me my second chance.

[Koketia] I was scared.

I didn't go nowhere.

I stayed in the house.

[Donnie] Koketia has a restraining order,

that's supposed to keep Riley away from her and their son, Yaheim.

Meanwhile, Yathomas has moved on with Lisa,

who is now an emergency room doctor.

Yathomas and Lisa moved to Leesburg.

I believe that's because that was the location,

for her, being an ER doctor, is one of the best locations for her to go to.

I know Lisa from the emergency room.

I was a nurse there, and then she joined us as an ER doctor.

I introduced myself as we were supposed to do,

and I knew I was going to like her immediately.

Compassion oozed from her.

I knew immediately, I said, "I know why

this person became a doctor."

[Loretta] He loved Georgia.

Really did. We have family here as well.

And he got married.

[Kevin] When they got married, him and Lisa,

I was happy for him.

I don't think that they were a couple

that I would ever expect to unite,

but they were very happy together.

[Koketia] I was all for him to marry Lisa.

I was happy.

That mean he ain't gonna bother me.

[Daniel] Yathomas and Lisa started a new life together.

They have a son, Giuseppi,

and from the outside looking in,

they are a very happy, beautiful family.

After Yathomas is released, he asks his promoter to set him up

with a fight that will get him back into the national attention.

His first flight out of prison was his toughest opponent to date

as a professional coming off of a two-year prison stint.

Clearly, he hadn't been training properly.

[Daniel] He goes into this fight and it is very clear

that he is not the same boxer.

And he loses this fight.

And that would end up being his last professional fight.

Having a family and not having his career,

the thing that had defined his life for the past few years

ends up being a bigger problem for Yathomas and for Lisa.

[dial tone ringing]

[dispatcher speaking]

[dispatcher speaking]

[Lisa sobbing]

[doorbell rings]

[Jessie] The first time I hung out with Lisa socially

outside of work was actually at her home.

She had invited myself and my partner and our daughter,

to come for a barbecue, to go swimming.

And that was actually the first time I met her husband.

When we arrived at their home, Yathomas was very clear

that our shoes were to be off, where they were to be placed,

if we had bags, where they were to go.

Lisa came out of the back.

She was not the confident, funny, exuberant person that I knew.

She was mousy.

Meek, timid.

Lisa had obviously been instructed how to behave,

how to speak, where to sit, what to do.

That was my impression.

How did this matchup even happen?

What are the qualities about Yathomas that Lisa fell in love with?

I-I could not find them.

[Donnie] It isn't just Jessie who has trouble figuring out

why Lisa is so devoted to Yathomas.

The women in his immediate family do, too.

[Lorene speaking]

[Jessie] I looked Yathomas up after Lisa told me who he was.

When I was reading the articles online,

I discovered that Yathomas had been... detained

for allegedly, possibly shooting a partner.

Reading that article,

I knew that what I was seeing

between the two of them in their home was real.

I told my partner, I said, "I've got to get even closer to her.

She's in trouble."

Yathomas did not let Lisa out of his sight.

He did not want her speaking to people

without him there, especially his family.

That is part of just an abuse cycle

of keeping a victim sheltered,

so that they can't... talk to others

or sort of have new ideas come to them

in terms of leaving their abuser.

[Lewis Lamb] He apparently believed

that his wife was seeing someone else.

He would go to the hospital where she worked

and walk into the ER area,

and he would sit at a desk, like, watching her work.

Yathomas was getting in confrontations

with other hospital employees and disrupting the workplace.

But, the hospital administration got-got involved, and-and...

basically told him that he couldn't come back.

So, then he took to sitting outside.

I realized Lisa was in real trouble

when I went to her house one day,

and she met me with a pair of big rimmed sunglasses on.

I didn't ask her to take them off.

We were inside the home.

I looked at Lisa and I said, "Nice glasses, friend."

[Donnie] In June of 2015,

three years after the couple settled in Georgia with their infant son,

Lisa hits her breaking point.

[dial tone ringing]

[dispatcher] Lee County, 911.

I need some officers to come to my house.

[dispatcher] What's the problem?

[Lisa] My husband keeps putting a gun to my head today.

[dispatcher] Okay, where is he at now?

[Lisa] He just drove away.

I think he's mentally ill. [sobbing]

He's...

He's having some sort of psychotic break.

Her husband, the love of her life holding a gun to her head

seemed to be a wake-up call for Lisa.

She was not going to let Yathomas hurt her.

[indistinct radio chatter]

[dispatcher] Okay, they're about to pull him over, okay?

- They're getting behind him. -[sirens wail]

[Lisa sobs] Please don't hurt him.

- Do you hear me? -[dispatcher] No, ma'am. No, ma'am.

[Lisa sobs] I cannot believe that this is happening.

[Donnie] Lee County Sheriff's deputies arrest Yathomas

on three counts of aggravated assault

and keep him in jail while he awaits a hearing.

With Riley in jail,

Lisa thinks she'll get

at least a temporary break from her volatile husband.

But, Yathomas has other ideas.

[dial tone ringing]

[automated voice] Hello. This is an AmTel operator

calling from Lee County Justice Center

with a prepaid collect call from...

Yes?

[Donnie] Riley finds a way around the judge's order

barring him from contacting Lisa.

He calls her using the name Chad

and refers to her as Jessica.

Lisa picks up on the scheme right away.

[Yathomas speaking]

[dispatcher speaking]

[Yathomas speaking]

[dispatcher speaking]

[Yathomas speaking]

[dispatcher speaking]

-[Yathomas speaking] -[dispatcher] Yes, you are.

[dispatcher speaking]

Even though Lisa is trying

to get him to take responsibility for his actions

and even trying to get him to have some sense of empathy,

he would constantly change the subject,

which shows that he has to be in absolute control.

[Yathomas speaking]

[dispatcher speaking]

[Lisa speaking]

"Till death do us part."

Lisa says these words as a vow of love and devotion.

But for Yathomas, "Till death do us part"

is less of a vow and more of a twisted promise.

Lisa seems willing to do anything for her husband.

But what is he willing to do to her?

[Donnie] It's June of 2015, and Yathomas Riley is in jail,

locked up for pointing a gun at Lisa's head.

How long he'll stay in jail is up to Lisa.

[Jessie] Lisa had a window of opportunity to leave.

I told Lisa, "If you bond him out of jail,

you've given him permission to escalate his behavior."

He's going to kill you.

It gets to the point where her coworkers, where her family

and even Yathomas' family, are telling Lisa,

"This is a problem. You need to get out."

[Lorene speaking]

I said, "What, Lisa? what is it that he has done for you,

that has you thinking...

he deserves your loyalty?

What has Yathomas done for you?"

[gun cocks]

[Jessie] "He held a gun to your head.

The next time, he's gonna pull the trigger."

[producer speaking]

She just shook her head.

And said, "I-I can't turn my back on him."

[Lorene speaking]

[Daniel] Right.

[Lorene speaking]

Yathomas Riley appeals...

to women who are nurturers.

The moment these women start engaging with him,

he begins breaking them down.

Slowly but surely convincing these women

that they're nothing without him.

[Donnie] In early July, Lisa drops the charges against Yathomas.

He's free.

Yathomas is released from jail,

but forced to give up all the guns in his home.

[gunshots]

Yathomas Riley had to surrender all of his firearms

to the magistrate court constable.

It was seven or eight, nine guns, mostly pistols,

uh, that he- that he took away from there,

and he is also not supposed to have any contact with Lisa.

But shortly after he is released,

Lisa goes back to the courthouse

and has the restraining order removed

so that Yathomas can come home and be with her.

[Donnie] What happens next is the opposite

of the happy homecoming Lisa longs for.

Yathomas immediately vents his rage on his wife

for calling the police on him.

She was realizing who he really was.

And learned, at an emotional level that she couldn't help him.

That's when she became... disposable.

Lisa told me, "If I don't get away

from this man, he's going to kill me."

I feel like Lisa knew she wasn't going to leave him alive.

And unfortunately, I believed that, too.

And so it broke my heart to hear her in that way.

Yeah.

[Lorene Riley]

[Jessie Blanchard] The last conversation that I had with Lisa

wasn't much of a conversation at all.

I answered the phone and she was screaming and crying.

I couldn't- I couldn't make a lot of sense of what Lisa was saying,

other than she was terrified.

Lisa clearly knew she should have left him in jail.

I said, "Lisa, I am on the way."

And she screamed at me.

"Do not come here. He will kill you too."

Those were the last words I heard my friend speak.

[somber music playing]

[rapid phone dialing]

[ringing]

[911 operator]

[Yathomas Riley]

[baby crying over phone]

[911 operator]

-[Yathomas] -[911 operator]

[Yathomas]

[911 operator]

[Yathomas]

[911 operator]

[sirens approaching]

[operator on radio]

[operator on phone]

[Yathomas]

-[radio beeps] -[Officer Snow]

[Yathomas]

[911 operator]

[Yathomas]

[female operator]

[Yathomas]

[female operator]

[Yathomas]

-[female operator] -[Yathomas]

-[Officer John Rouse] -[Yathomas]

-[Officer Rouse] -[Yathomas]

-[Officer Rouse] -[Yathomas shouts]

[female operator]

-[Officer Rouse] -[Yathomas] She's dead!

[Officer Rouse]

[female operator]

[somber music playing]

[door creaks]

[Officer Snow] Sorry, let me just...

[Yathomas crying] Oh [bleep] baby.

-[bleep] -Go in here. Come through.

-[Officer Snow] Okay. -Come in.

[speaking indistinctly]

[bleep]

[Officer Snow] Gotcha.

When I arrived on the scene, there were numerous sheriff's deputies there.

There were already a couple of other GBI agents there.

Yathomas Riley was there.

[Officer Rouse]

And I could tell it was- It was already kind of a tense situation.

[Officer Snow]

-[officer] -[Officer Snow] ...over there Yeah.

Right.

When we first started this investigation, we had no idea

what Pandora's box we were about to open up.

[eerie music playing]

Tonight, an investigation is under way

into the death of a woman in Lee County.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation

and Lee County Sheriff's Office were called to a home

in the 500 block of North Hampton Road.

This is where the body of 34-year-old Lisa Marie Riley

was found this morning, by Riley's husband, Yathomas Lee Riley.

[tense music playing]

[Bryan Smith] Everything about the house was pretty normal...

Until we got to the master bedroom

where the primary crime scene was.

The master bedroom was a mess.

Lisa was still in there.

She was covered in blood.

She had been dead for some period of time.

It was immediately obvious that this had not just happened.

-[Officer Snow] You see all the blood on her? -Right.

There was a pool of blood next to her body that had been smeared.

As if something was crawling around in it.

From a personal perspective, it was horrifying

because we knew immediately

that Lisa Riley had been dead

in her bedroom with her child.

You try to maintain your composure and work the scene,

but things like that where a child is involved, that's troubling.

[Yathomas]

[Yathomas]

[Smith] Yathomas had called 911

and reported that his wife had killed herself.

Nobody believed that.

-[baby fussing] -[Yathomas shouting]

Yathomas constantly played the role of the victim.

[Dr. April Szilagyi] You can hear him talking about,

"How could you do this to me? Why am I here?"

Not taking any responsibility for his actions.

[Yathomas]

One of the other nurses said, "You've got a phone call. It's your husband."

He said, "I need you to sit down."

I sat down and I said, "Okay, I'm sitting."

He said, "Honey, Lisa's gone."

[soft piano music playing]

I wasn't surprised.

I was mad. [chuckles]

I was mad.

And I almost even remember thinking...

"Well, if Lisa couldn't get away,

at least it's over for her."

I was walking up the steps to go to our apartment.

And that's when one of my sons gave me the phone

and my mom told me the news and I stopped right there.

And my husband at the time had to catch me.

[producer]

[scoffs] Of course.

[Officer Rouse]

-[officer] -[Officer Rouse]

[officer]

[Officer Rouse]

[Koketia King] I was sitting in my car and his mom called my phone,

and she's like, "You told me he was gonna kill that girl."

And then I went and Googled it,

and sure enough...

Tonight an investigation is under way

into the death of a woman in Lee County.

I think before she passed, she thought about me...

Because I warned her before any of this happened.

And she still went down that rabbit hole.

[Blanchard] Yathomas could not control my friend,

so Yathomas killed her.

[narrator] In the hours after the shooting,

investigators collect and analyze evidence.

They also arrested Yathomas

for violating his bail conditions...

[officer]

[narrator] ...which prohibited him from having guns in the house.

[gun cocks]

With Riley behind bars again,

investigators have time to pick apart his story.

Police did not find any signs of forced entry.

They checked all the windows.

They were all locked.

None had been opened. No doors had been broken in.

I began doing some bloodstain pattern analysis in the master bedroom.

We did some shooting reconstruction

so that I could determine exactly how it happened.

The bullet struck the baseboard,

which means we knew that they had been fired in a downward direction.

And then when there were bullet defects in another wall,

we knew that multiple shots had been fired in this room.

-[Officer Snow] -[officer]

You use Luminol on the bathroom, on the bathroom floor

and got some very strong reactions for the presence of blood.

So we knew that he had already gone in and cleaned up.

If somebody comes home, finds their spouse shot,

they're not going to clean up the bathroom

and then call 911.

Everything that I was seeing in this scene,

every step I took I was seeing something else

that demonstrated or suggested that this was not a suicide.

[narrator] As they gather evidence from the crime scene,

investigators get a huge break.

They discover the house has an alarm system with cameras,

giving detectives a picture of what happened

on the night of the murder.

[Lewis Lamb] On July 9th,

Yathomas follows her to the back of the house.

Lisa never appears again.

Yathomas comes out,

picks up the nine-month-old,

disappears back down that hallway again.

He takes Giuseppe back to the master bedroom,

-leaves him there... - [Giuseppe crying]

...with pools of blood smeared around the floor near his mother,

and leaves the house.

[narrator] Yathomas leaves his nine-month-old son in the master bedroom,

where the boy's mother lays dying from a gunshot wound.

He then jumps in his car, and drives away.

Very shortly after he left the house, he called his lawyer.

I think he didn't get an answer.

So he's milling around in the Albany area for a couple of hours.

He's constantly dialing into this ATT system and viewing the cameras.

I think it was 42 times.

He was checking to see if there'd been any police response,

if anybody had called,

if anybody was coming to the house.

And then he's headed north towards Atlanta...

Before he turns around and comes back.

The next morning, Yathomas walks back in the house.

After he's there for about four minutes,

he calls his lawyer.

[rapid phone dialing]

[dial tone ringing]

He calls his lawyer again.

[rapid phone dialing]

[dial tone ringing]

-Again. -[rapid phone dialing]

[dial tone ringing]

-Again. -[rapid phone dialing]

[dial tone ringing]

He called him six times.

All before he calls 911.

[three distinct beeps]

And when he calls 911,

he immediately posted his alibi...

[911 operator]

[Yathomas]

...which was really odd.

[narrator] Over the next several weeks, detectives search for evidence

that can prove Yathomas was in the house when Lisa was shot.

[gunshot echoes]

And they discover a curious detail in the security system logs.

[electronic pinging]

A broken window sensor alarm went off just before Yathomas left the house.

That glass break detector was activated two times,

at 8:23 and 8:26 p.m. that night.

A glass break alarm is actually a vibration sensor,

so that's what we were reading.

It's going to activate with sharp noise.

[gunshot echoes]

The prosecutor on this case, and I, we were sitting here having this conversation.

We're like, "Oh my God, we may know exactly when the shooting happened."

[Daniel Wilco] Law enforcement went back to the house at a later date

to conduct a practical test,

to investigate the sensor.

Master bedroom door open,

center north bedroom door closed.

We took what we call a bullet box, which is a cardboard box

with old ballistic vests in it.

Two shots.

[Smith] And we actually went back to the house

and shot a similar firearm in the house into the bullet box.

[gunshot]

The other guy is at the alarm pad filming the alarm pad.

[distant gunshot]

[alarm beeping]

[automated voice] Master bedroom window.

You know, you hear, "Bang," the alarm pad lights.

So know that every time a gunshot goes off in there...

-[gunshot] -[automated voice] Bedroom window.

[alarm beeping]

...that it activates that.

And this was huge.

I mean, we were like, "We know exactly when this shooting happened."

[narrator] An even more shocking discovery,

a horrifying clue that reveals what happened

in the master bedroom during and after the gunshots.

When I conducted some macro- Micro photography

and a close up examination

on Lisa's son's pajamas, his onesie,

and I found and documented

bone fragments embedded in the onesie.

[Lamb] There was strong physical evidence to support the idea

that she was holding the baby when she was killed.

[gunshot echoes]

What makes this case so horrendous

and what gives you the most insight into who Yathomas Riley is...

He could have strapped the baby in a car seat and driven away with the baby.

He could have still built his alibi,

but instead because the baby is going to complicate

his attempts to build an alibi,

he leaves the baby there

-overnight with his dead mother. - -[baby crying]

The baby literally had to have cried himself to sleep

in a puddle of his mother's blood.

[Smith] That was the moment in this case when it's like...

This dude is just evil.

[producer]

So hearing you say that...

Hurts.

[producer]

[deep breath]

-Can we stop for a second? -[producer] Sure.

[King] He shot us in front of his kids.

Your flesh and blood. Your bloodline.

So that goes to show you don't care about them.

You're trying to take away the most important person in their life.

[tense music playing]

[narrator] 11 months after Lisa's death in June of 2016,

Yathomas Riley goes to trial, charged with her murder,

and with the aggravated assault

of their nine-month-old son,

because Lisa was allegedly holding him

when Yathomas shot her.

He was acting so arrogant and like he knew he was going to get off.

He was just sitting over there

laughing with the correction officer.

He was just having a good old time.

[Lamb] I thought that the case was airtight.

I didn't see any holes.

I didn't see any place for the jury to go that-

That there wasn't evidence to answer those questions.

We had, you know, three and a half, four days of evidence.

The jury was out in 30 minutes.

[narrator] The jury finds Yathomas Riley guilty on all counts.

I was relieved because he wouldn't be out to do it to nobody else.

[narrator] The judge sentences Riley to life

without the possibility of parole,

a sentence that many believe came one victim too late.

When he shot his girlfriend in Florida, Koketia,

and then he got away with it.

Then he went to Georgia to do the same thing.

If the state had done the right thing,

there's another victim in Georgia

who would have never been dead today.

[Wilco] Lisa was the reason that he got out.

She was the reason that he had a second chance at life.

And then, in return, he takes her life.

The whole thing is just- It's tragic.

I did all I could do to help her.

I did all she would let me do.

I feel like Lisa knew what was about to happen to her.

I think Lisa knew, and she just, at that point,

wanted to make sure that I didn't go too.

As a woman, it's very disappointing to me,

and it's very... It's heart wrenching.

I'm glad that Koketia King is still here.

I'm glad she's here for her sons,

but there's another woman that's not.

[Lorene on recording]

-[Wilco] Mm-hmm. -[Lorene]

-[Wilco] Yeah. -[Lorene]

If you look over the course of his entire life,

from his childhood through his adolescence

and then into adulthood,

all of his behaviors are very characteristic of being very psychopathic.

There is no chance that Yathomas would ever change.

There's nothing to indicate that psychopaths will ever get better.

[Smith] He used people when he wanted to,

and when he was done with them, he would discard them.

This is one of the coldest sumbitches we've ever come across.

For most of his life, Yathomas Riley seemed to lurch

from one violent act to the next,

culminating in a final outburst of brutality

where he murdered his own wife

and left their infant son in her bloody arms.

Finally, justice has been served.

Riley will spend the rest of his life behind bars.

But for Lisa's family and friends,

justice came too late.

They were left with a life of grief and sadness.

I'm Donnie Wahlberg. Thanks for watching.

Good night.

Next time on Very Scary People...

Scott Kimball tells us about 21 people that he killed.

[gun blast]

It's like a horror novel.

He brings out a knife.

At that point, I knew I was dead.

[Woman] He's supposed to tell us where are these bodies,

??

but I think we just made a deal with the devil.

??

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