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- 0:03Speaker 1: Your Honor, first thing I'd like to say is that
- 0:05Speaker 1: I am innocent of these killings. I did not commit
- 0:09Speaker 1: any of these murders that I was found guilty of.
- 0:12Speaker 1: I feel that nothing here has been proven. There's been
- 0:15Speaker 1: a lot of lies, a lot of deceptions, deceiving the
- 0:19Speaker 1: people of the Bronx.
- 0:23Speaker 2: I'm innocent of these crimes. Thank you, Your Honor. How
- 0:29Speaker 2: do you think? Good to see you.
- 0:30Speaker 3: Come inside.
- 0:33Speaker 2: If you just sit here to start.
- 0:35Speaker 4: With, please.
- 0:45Speaker 3: Thank you. Look at the camera.
- 0:49Speaker 2: This man is one of America's most notorious serial killers.
- 0:54Speaker 2: He was convicted of three murders and suspected of more,
- 0:58Speaker 2: but he proclaims he's innocent.
- 1:01Speaker 5: Alex Enrique grew up like hundreds of thousands of other
- 1:04Speaker 5: people did in the Bronx, but they didn't turn into
- 1:08Speaker 5: serial killers. He is a psychopath first before he's anything else.
- 1:14Speaker 2: Enrique admits he did know all the victims. One was
- 1:19Speaker 2: just 10 years old. All I know is that I
- 1:22Speaker 2: just wish my friend was here.
- 1:25Speaker 6: I have not killed anybody in my life, and I
- 1:28Speaker 6: don't think I ever will.
- 1:30Speaker 2: But there was no hard evidence.
- 1:32Speaker 7: I thought maybe they had the wrong person, because the
- 1:35Speaker 7: person to do this type of crimes really didn't fit
- 1:38Speaker 7: the person that was sitting there.
- 1:40Speaker 8: Alejandro Henriquez, a serial killer.
- 1:43Speaker 6: Alex Henriquez.
- 1:44Speaker 2: Alejandro Henriquez.
- 1:46Speaker 9: I remember feeling that I wanted to spit on him,
- 1:49Speaker 9: that I wanted to attack him.
- 1:51Speaker 3: My heart bled black.
- 1:55Speaker 2: Having refused interviews for almost 30 years, Alex Enriquez is
- 2:00Speaker 2: now ready to tell his side of the story.
- 2:04Speaker 10: He comes at you from every angle, and you must
- 2:07Speaker 10: take your time, and you must let him talk. Because
- 2:10Speaker 10: the more he talks, the more mistakes he may make.
- 2:30Speaker 2: Jessica Guzman was just 10 years old when one afternoon
- 2:34Speaker 2: in October 1990, she headed down to her local supermarket
- 2:40Speaker 2: and never came home. Jessica was the youngest of three
- 2:44Speaker 2: girls murdered in a tight-knit community in the Bronx. Suspicion
- 2:51Speaker 2: fell on Alex Enriquez, the last person to have seen
- 2:55Speaker 2: Jessica alive.
- 2:57Speaker 6: The last time I seen her, she was headed in
- 3:00Speaker 6: that direction.
- 3:01Speaker 3: May her soul rest in peace.
- 3:02Speaker 11: A highly publicized case involving little Jessica disappeared near her
- 3:06Speaker 11: home and was found a week later by the side
- 3:08Speaker 11: of the Bronx River Parkway suffocated.
- 3:10Speaker 5: 2,000 mourners turned out for services in the Bronx, including
- 3:14Speaker 5: Mayor Dinkins and other top officials.
- 3:16Speaker 2: It was the death of this 10-year-old girl that captured
- 3:19Speaker 2: the nation's attention. Her coffin was covered in a flag
- 3:24Speaker 2: sent by the president. A serial killer had terrorized this
- 3:29Speaker 2: neighborhood for two years. And now the police were under
- 3:33Speaker 2: huge pressure to catch him. So, Owen, what do we
- 3:39Speaker 2: know about Jessica?
- 3:41Speaker 10: She's a normal, regular little girl, 10-year-old girl. When she
- 3:45Speaker 10: was found in a few days, we knew we were
- 3:50Speaker 10: defeated before we even got started because she was already
- 3:54Speaker 10: not worth us any longer.
- 3:57Speaker 2: At the very least, her death stopped this maniac from
- 4:02Speaker 2: killing more.
- 4:03Speaker 10: Her death caused a big, huge investigation to be pursued.
- 4:10Speaker 10: And in so doing, other homicides, victims came into play.
- 4:16Speaker 10: And then it turned out that Alex was the common
- 4:19Speaker 10: denominator of all these unfortunate homicides. when you have a
- 4:26Speaker 10: conscience and it's tough to live if you have a conscience.
- 4:31Speaker 10: He's lived a long time without a conscience. Hopefully he'll
- 4:36Speaker 10: never dare or never be able to get out and
- 4:39Speaker 10: do this to anybody else.
- 4:51Speaker 2: Nearly there, sorry for the delay.
- 4:53Speaker 3: Takes a lot of time in the world.
- 4:55Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, yeah. All I've been able to find out
- 5:02Speaker 2: about Enriquez is that no-one in his community ever thought
- 5:06Speaker 2: he could be a serial killer. He grew up in
- 5:10Speaker 2: the Bronx, was married, had children and ran a cab company.
- 5:17Speaker 2: Since his time in prison, he's married again.
- 5:19Speaker 3: Alex.
- 5:22Speaker 2: You've been incarcerated for 28 years for crimes that you
- 5:28Speaker 2: adamantly insist you did not commit. What kind of person
- 5:32Speaker 2: were you before you were convicted?
- 5:36Speaker 3: Oh, I was a father, I was a son, I
- 5:41Speaker 3: was a brother, and I was a husband. Was I perfect?
- 5:47Speaker 2: Far from it.
- 5:49Speaker 3: Was I an angel? Far from it.
- 5:52Speaker 2: What were your imperfections?
- 5:56Speaker 6: It's sad and embarrassing to say. I was married and
- 6:01Speaker 6: I had a lot of girlfriends. That was my biggest,
- 6:06Speaker 6: I guess, problem. But it was just that, I guess,
- 6:11Speaker 6: as a man, I did things I wasn't supposed to do.
- 6:14Speaker 3: I was with this girl, that girl, that girl. And
- 6:16Speaker 3: you lived the lifestyle I lived. You know, you have
- 6:19Speaker 3: a nice car, you dress....
- 6:21Speaker 6: Nice clothing. Women attract to that. It's like a magnet.
- 6:26Speaker 3: And I don't like guys, I like women. So it was,
- 6:30Speaker 3: you know, it went with the.
- 6:32Speaker 2: The women found you magnetic?
- 6:35Speaker 4: Um....
- 6:38Speaker 3: I guess so, if I had them.
- 6:40Speaker 6: I didn't, you know, pay anybody or force anybody, so
- 6:45Speaker 6: I guess they must have liked me.
- 6:48Speaker 2: Most people who are committed to killing children, get targeted
- 6:51Speaker 2: in prison. Have you had that?
- 6:56Speaker 3: No, you hear comments. There's a lot of worse crimes
- 7:01Speaker 3: in here.
- 7:03Speaker 2: Well, Alex, I mean, you're convicted of killing three very
- 7:09Speaker 2: young people. One was 10, one was 14, one was 21.
- 7:13Speaker 2: What could be worse?
- 7:16Speaker 6: To me, there's nothing worse than taking a child's life.
- 7:19Speaker 6: an innocent child's life. When I see something on TV
- 7:23Speaker 6: that something happened to a.
- 7:24Speaker 3: Child, I always sort of like get emotional.
- 7:29Speaker 6: My eyes get watery because I say, wow, that's what
- 7:32Speaker 6: they're accusing me of. So it's not a nice thing.
- 7:43Speaker 12: Two kids went missing in the Bronx, and that's when
- 7:47Speaker 12: I first heard the name Alejandro Henriquez, because he was
- 7:52Speaker 12: the last person seen with them. Shortly after that, there
- 7:57Speaker 12: was another missing person. This was Jessica Guzman. When she
- 8:01Speaker 12: went missing, we said, well, who was with the what?
- 8:04Speaker 12: One of the housing detectives says, yeah, there was a guy,
- 8:06Speaker 12: Alexander Henriquez.
- 8:10Speaker 13: Despite his declaration of innocence, suspicion has swirled around Alex
- 8:13Speaker 13: Henriquez for some time, but until now, not enough evidence.
- 8:17Speaker 6: There seems to be the impression, at least, that people
- 8:20Speaker 6: who know you, especially if they're young, don't live long. Well,
- 8:28Speaker 6: you say that, but I must be a magician then.
- 8:31Speaker 14: I can't be in two places at one time.
- 8:34Speaker 13: When he was arrested, I was very scared they were
- 8:38Speaker 13: blaming the wrong guy. Everything I was hearing of what
- 8:44Speaker 13: he did to each girl To me, it was just
- 8:49Speaker 13: had to be a monster. And this is not what
- 8:52Speaker 13: I was seeing. I remember meeting him. I dropped off
- 8:58Speaker 13: Jesse to a friend's house. He was cleaning the car
- 9:02Speaker 13: in front of the house. And Jesse told me, mom,
- 9:06Speaker 13: this is Christina's dad.
- 9:13Speaker 2: Are you capable of hurting a child?
- 9:16Speaker 3: Am I capable of hurting a child?
- 9:18Speaker 4: Uh, no.
- 9:20Speaker 3: Why would I want to have a child? Because I
- 9:22Speaker 3: have children.
- 9:24Speaker 2: How many do you have?
- 9:25Speaker 3: I have two girls. Ironically, my second daughter was called Jessica.
- 9:31Speaker 3: It's the same.
- 9:32Speaker 6: Exact name as the girl, one of the girls they
- 9:36Speaker 6: accused me of killing.
- 9:38Speaker 3: And, um.
- 9:48Speaker 6: Really can express the pain I feel when I hear that.
- 9:54Speaker 2: Let me just get some pictures of the, so that
- 9:57Speaker 2: our viewers know what we're talking about here. these are
- 10:03Speaker 2: the the three girls so Shamira was the first to
- 10:07Speaker 2: die then Lisa and then Jessica did you kill these people.
- 10:19Speaker 3: No I didn't.
- 10:21Speaker 6: I never, listen to me carefully, I've never taken anyone's life,
- 10:26Speaker 6: not even an animal, never.
- 10:40Speaker 2: What the police told me about this interview, because I said,
- 10:43Speaker 2: you know, what do you think will happen? How will
- 10:45Speaker 2: it play out? Because I don't know you. And they
- 10:47Speaker 2: said he will have an answer for everything. He will
- 10:51Speaker 2: bamboozle you with all sorts of information. He'll try and
- 10:55Speaker 2: manipulate you. He'll lie to you. He'll play you. He'll
- 10:59Speaker 2: try and play you. He'll try and outwit you. He's
- 11:01Speaker 2: a smart guy.
- 11:01Speaker 6: That's their job. Their job is to make you believe
- 11:07Speaker 6: that I am the killer.
- 11:10Speaker 5: Most psychopaths have very positive self-images. They look at their
- 11:14Speaker 5: reflection in the mirror, in a sheet of glass, and
- 11:18Speaker 5: they really like what they see. And they're convinced that
- 11:21Speaker 5: their stuff doesn't stink. And they'll go out and tell
- 11:24Speaker 5: anybody what they want to hear, as long as in
- 11:27Speaker 5: the long run it benefits the person, him or herself.
- 11:34Speaker 2: Enriquez says the police, facing a public outcry, desperately needed
- 11:38Speaker 2: a scapegoat. And he was it.
- 11:44Speaker 4: Mr.
- 11:45Speaker 3: And Mrs. Rodriguez.
- 11:45Speaker 8: You're a hell of a liar!
- 11:53Speaker 14: I have no anger for the families for what they're
- 11:56Speaker 14: saying or what they think of me because they.
- 11:58Speaker 1: Have been misled and they have been deceived.
- 12:02Speaker 2: I could never understand.
- 12:03Speaker 8: Why they've come here and lied against us.
- 12:05Speaker 2: I lied and she's lying and she's lying.
- 12:07Speaker 11: Everybody lies with you, I think everybody with you.
- 12:12Speaker 14: I'm innocent of these crimes. I'm innocent of these murders.
- 12:15Speaker 14: I have no anger for the family.
- 12:22Speaker 2: There have been suggestions, and you can perhaps clarify this,
- 12:25Speaker 2: that you may have suffered some form of abuse, sexual
- 12:29Speaker 2: abuse or otherwise, when you were younger. Is that true?
- 12:32Speaker 5: No.
- 12:33Speaker 2: Nothing like that?
- 12:33Speaker 3: Never. My parents took care of me. I went to
- 12:40Speaker 3: the best schools. I had everything.
- 12:47Speaker 2: Neither of your parents are alive, is that right?
- 12:48Speaker 3: They passed away, yes.
- 12:50Speaker 2: While you were in prison?
- 12:52Speaker 6: My dad passed away first, and my dear mother passed
- 12:56Speaker 6: away March.
- 12:59Speaker 3: 11th, 2017.
- 13:02Speaker 2: What was your relationship like with your mother?
- 13:10Speaker 3: Beautiful.
- 13:13Speaker 2: Did she ever ask you if you did the killings?
- 13:17Speaker 3: No, she never asked me.
- 13:19Speaker 2: Did she believe in you to the end?
- 13:21Speaker 3: Oh, yes.
- 13:26Speaker 2: Do you accept that whoever killed these girls is a
- 13:31Speaker 2: despicable human being?
- 13:32Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
- 13:33Speaker 2: Somebody who would take three young lives and snuff them out?
- 13:38Speaker 3: Without a question.
- 13:39Speaker 2: Ruin every dream for them, for their families?
- 13:42Speaker 3: Of course.
- 13:42Speaker 2: In Lisa's case, her parents have never altered the room
- 13:46Speaker 2: that she was last in 30 years ago. They go
- 13:50Speaker 2: and sleep in there sometimes for comfort. Their lives are
- 13:53Speaker 2: ruined too.
- 13:55Speaker 6: How can you ever recover from a tragedy like that?
- 13:58Speaker 6: An ugly tragedy.
- 13:59Speaker 3: There's no recovery.
- 14:09Speaker 15: This is Lisa's room. Almost exactly the way she left it.
- 14:15Speaker 15: Gives me a lot of comfort to just be in
- 14:18Speaker 15: her room and sleep in her room. I feel like
- 14:22Speaker 15: I have her still in my heart. and that she's
- 14:25Speaker 15: with us here. And I could just hear her now saying, Mama,
- 14:31Speaker 15: I love you, you know?
- 14:36Speaker 12: We had just got a new medical examiner. He came
- 14:39Speaker 12: up with something that we had never used before as
- 14:42Speaker 12: a cause of death, homicide lasphyxia. We'd use strangulation or
- 14:48Speaker 12: suffocation or things like that. But it appears that he
- 14:52Speaker 12: held so tight that they couldn't breathe.
- 14:57Speaker 8: That's a slow way to go.
- 15:13Speaker 2: Lisa was 21, and the oldest of the three girls,
- 15:16Speaker 2: Alex Enriquez, was convicted of killing. But the police had
- 15:22Speaker 2: little to link him to the murder, a pair of
- 15:26Speaker 2: his wife's pink sweatpants were covered at the crime scene.
- 15:30Speaker 2: And crucially, a witness who could place Alex and Lisa together.
- 15:37Speaker 2: At the time, he was living here with his wife.
- 15:42Speaker 11: One day, Alex and Lisa were standing out front. They
- 15:46Speaker 11: were basically sitting like or leaning against a car. I
- 15:52Speaker 11: guess it was his car. And he introduced Lisa as
- 15:56Speaker 11: his niece. And we talked for a bit, and he
- 16:00Speaker 11: said he called her a cab. And I found that
- 16:03Speaker 11: kind of ironic because he is a cab driver. But anyhow,
- 16:10Speaker 11: he waited, and they were waiting for a very long time,
- 16:13Speaker 11: and the cab never came. She wanted to go home, obviously,
- 16:18Speaker 11: but he wasn't taking her. She looked very young. I
- 16:24Speaker 11: had no reason to believe that that wasn't his niece.
- 16:33Speaker 2: In Lisa's case, you say that you had a sexual
- 16:37Speaker 2: relationship with her.
- 16:38Speaker 3: Yes, I did.
- 16:44Speaker 6: Please understand, I don't want to offend the victim's families,
- 16:48Speaker 6: and that's the key, because.
- 16:50Speaker 2: They've been hurt enough.
- 16:58Speaker 6: We would just go out, she'll call me, I'll call
- 17:01Speaker 6: her and we'll go out. She wasn't per se my
- 17:04Speaker 6: girlfriend because she had a boyfriend.
- 17:06Speaker 2: How many times did you have sex with her, do
- 17:09Speaker 2: you think?
- 17:18Speaker 3: I don't remember. To be exact, I couldn't tell you.
- 17:24Speaker 3: I wasn't keeping notes of this.
- 17:25Speaker 2: One of the key pieces of evidence in that in
- 17:28Speaker 2: that instance, was that she was found wearing your wife's
- 17:34Speaker 2: pink sweatpants. How do you explain that?
- 17:38Speaker 6: Well, I remember when we came from the beach that
- 17:45Speaker 6: she was, her clothes had sand and oil, and she said,
- 17:52Speaker 6: do I have anything to wear? I said, I don't
- 17:53Speaker 6: have anything that'll fit you. And then I gave her
- 17:57Speaker 6: a pair of sweatpants that I found.
- 17:59Speaker 4: In a drawer.
- 18:00Speaker 2: They're your wife's? This is the crate.
- 18:04Speaker 3: I'm assuming they're hers.
- 18:06Speaker 2: She was found dead in those pants.
- 18:09Speaker 3: I gave her a pair of pants. Were those pants?
- 18:12Speaker 2: Alex, she was found dead wearing those pants.
- 18:15Speaker 3: That's why. Oh, I understand what you're saying.
- 18:16Speaker 2: I heard you. So if you now concede you gave
- 18:18Speaker 2: them to her and she's found dead in them, quite
- 18:20Speaker 2: obviously people are going to think, well, what happened?
- 18:25Speaker 6: I said, let's say I gave her the pants. Let's
- 18:31Speaker 6: say she was found dead in the pants. Why would
- 18:36Speaker 6: that say that I killed her? Did someone see me
- 18:39Speaker 6: kill her? Did they find physical evidence to say that
- 18:46Speaker 6: I perpetrated the crime of murder?
- 18:49Speaker 3: No.
- 18:49Speaker 6: It was a witch hunt. It was, okay, we have
- 18:52Speaker 6: this here, and we have this here, and we have
- 18:54Speaker 6: this here. We put it all together, we make him
- 18:57Speaker 6: look like the murderer.
- 19:03Speaker 2: The defense tried to build a picture of this man
- 19:07Speaker 2: having some kind of relationship with Lisa. Did you believe
- 19:12Speaker 2: any of that?
- 19:13Speaker 3: No.
- 19:15Speaker 9: Not that he was, you know, that they were having
- 19:19Speaker 9: any kind of relationship, no.
- 19:22Speaker 2: You know, she would have told us. She would have,
- 19:24Speaker 2: you know, mentioned him, which she never did. Were you
- 19:30Speaker 2: aware of him at all? No.
- 19:32Speaker 15: Maybe what happened was that she called him because he
- 19:35Speaker 15: was a cab service. She knew him, but only as
- 19:38Speaker 15: a cab service, and it's not like they were dating
- 19:41Speaker 15: or anything like that.
- 19:43Speaker 2: But the fact that he appears to have given Lisa
- 19:47Speaker 2: some sweatpants, which came from his... own wife seems such
- 19:52Speaker 2: a strange detail. Have you ever been able to think
- 19:56Speaker 2: about how that could have happened?
- 19:58Speaker 15: The only thing we can figure out is that he
- 20:02Speaker 15: killed her at that moment and he undressed her and
- 20:05Speaker 15: that's how she ended up with his clothes.
- 20:07Speaker 2: But otherwise, no. The truth is we don't know what
- 20:12Speaker 2: to believe with this guy.
- 20:13Speaker 10: No.
- 20:13Speaker 3: No.
- 20:15Speaker 2: And Chiki, what are your feelings towards Alex Enriquez? I
- 20:20Speaker 2: can't even begin to tell you how much I hate
- 20:25Speaker 2: that he took our daughter from us.
- 20:28Speaker 3: I understand.
- 20:30Speaker 2: I understand. It's heartbreaking to talk to you and to
- 20:35Speaker 2: see the pictures that... and to have to relive this
- 20:37Speaker 2: with you. I'm so sorry for what you both have
- 20:40Speaker 2: had to go through. Lisa, like all the murder victims,
- 20:48Speaker 2: lived within two miles of Enriquez's home. His cab service
- 20:55Speaker 2: operated right in the heart of a neighborhood.
- 20:58Speaker 12: It was a common occurrence for those kids to be
- 21:00Speaker 12: walking on the street, and the parents said, yeah, sometimes...
- 21:06Speaker 12: He takes them home if he's driving past in the
- 21:08Speaker 12: car or something. They didn't have any suspicion about him
- 21:12Speaker 12: at all.
- 21:15Speaker 2: Police believed he killed more than three girls, but couldn't
- 21:18Speaker 2: prove it.
- 21:19Speaker 15: The community has lost six young people during the past
- 21:22Speaker 15: four years, and many believe a single killer is to blame.
- 21:26Speaker 3: Children are disappearing from all over the place.
- 21:29Speaker 6: I'll find the person that did this.
- 21:31Speaker 9: If we don't find them, they're going to do it
- 21:32Speaker 9: again and again and again.
- 21:34Speaker 2: Bodies are being dumped in our neighborhood, and it doesn't
- 21:36Speaker 2: seem like City Hall is getting off their rear ends
- 21:39Speaker 2: to say no more.
- 21:42Speaker 6: All the victims had a link to a man who
- 21:44Speaker 6: has lived and operated right in the middle of the
- 21:46Speaker 6: area where the bodies have been found.
- 21:49Speaker 15: Everybody that comes here, they know that he did it,
- 21:52Speaker 15: he did it. Everybody, all the drivers, because that guy,
- 21:56Speaker 15: he's sick.
- 22:03Speaker 2: The police say there were no similar deaths once you
- 22:07Speaker 2: had been imprisoned in that area of the Bronx.
- 22:10Speaker 3: That's what they say.
- 22:11Speaker 2: There were no more girls snatched off the street. I
- 22:13Speaker 2: have evidence of otherwise.
- 22:16Speaker 3: No one? Okay. You remember, I don't.
- 22:20Speaker 6: Know if you, probably you don't remember, there was a
- 22:22Speaker 6: girl they called Baby Hope.
- 22:27Speaker 2: Mm-hmm. I know that story.
- 22:29Speaker 3: Very similar. Mm-hmm.
- 22:32Speaker 2: Police say it bore no relation to the deaths here.
- 22:35Speaker 3: I know it.
- 22:35Speaker 2: It's a very different modus operandi.
- 22:37Speaker 3: But what I'm saying.
- 22:37Speaker 2: It's a particular modus operandi for all these deaths.
- 22:40Speaker 3: Like which one? Can you explain?
- 22:41Speaker 2: All three of them were taken off these particular streets
- 22:45Speaker 2: in a two-mile radius and killed in the same manner.
- 22:48Speaker 3: And how did Baby Hope die?
- 22:50Speaker 2: The police say it was different circumstances.
- 22:53Speaker 6: No, it was asphyxiation, like they were killed, according to
- 22:58Speaker 6: what the police said.
- 22:59Speaker 3: So in the side of the road.
- 23:02Speaker 2: Let me ask you this, Alex. Even if you had
- 23:04Speaker 2: killed him, you wouldn't tell me, would you?
- 23:08Speaker 3: If I would have killed him, I would have pled
- 23:10Speaker 3: guilty from day one.
- 23:11Speaker 2: Would you?
- 23:12Speaker 3: Yes.
- 23:12Speaker 2: You'd have admitted to being a triple child killer.
- 23:16Speaker 3: Obviously, there would be something wrong with me. I needed help.
- 23:19Speaker 2: Do you think there is something wrong with you?
- 23:21Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm innocent. Been innocent from day one.
- 23:35Speaker 6: Listen, I'm here because, first of all, you're not paying
- 23:39Speaker 6: me in the interview. I'm not here because I want
- 23:43Speaker 6: to meet you. I'm here because I need to present
- 23:47Speaker 6: the evidence. Because, again, let's go back to the fact
- 23:51Speaker 6: that I'm a con, liar, cheat, whatever you want to
- 23:54Speaker 6: call me.
- 23:55Speaker 3: Fine.
- 23:56Speaker 6: That has nothing to do with taking three innocent lives.
- 24:00Speaker 2: So what it does, here's the problem for you. It
- 24:04Speaker 2: makes it very hard to believe you about anything. But
- 24:07Speaker 2: I need you to understand. The body language to me,
- 24:09Speaker 2: I'm not an expert, but every time you've got overly defensive,
- 24:13Speaker 2: your arms go like this, and it's.
- 24:16Speaker 3: No, that's another thing.
- 24:17Speaker 6: I'm relaxed like this, I'm relaxed, I get tired of
- 24:19Speaker 6: keeping my hands stuck, put them here.
- 24:21Speaker 2: It's a very defensive thing to do.
- 24:24Speaker 4: Is it?
- 24:25Speaker 3: I don't know nothing about body language.
- 24:27Speaker 2: I would say it is. I've only noticed it in
- 24:29Speaker 2: the time I've been with you.
- 24:31Speaker 6: Okay, well, let's take it another step.
- 24:33Speaker 3: We're just.
- 24:34Speaker 2: I think we've got a slight tape.
- 24:35Speaker 3: Sorry.
- 24:36Speaker 2: Just running out of battery.
- 24:37Speaker 4: OK.
- 24:37Speaker 2: Alex, just give us one moment. Thank you very much.
- 24:44Speaker 2: For the last two hours, I've been struggling to get
- 24:47Speaker 2: under the skin of Alex Enriquez.
- 24:52Speaker 3: Oh, I have my hands crossed.
- 24:53Speaker 2: He's not here. I want to know what lurks beneath
- 25:00Speaker 2: his cool, calm exterior.
- 25:02Speaker 10: One of the first days that I met him, my
- 25:05Speaker 10: partner made a remark to him. And out of a
- 25:09Speaker 10: clear blue sky, Alex got so insulted he lost his cool.
- 25:15Speaker 10: And he jumped at my partner and he said, you're
- 25:17Speaker 10: a liar! And at that point, I saw with Alex,
- 25:27Speaker 10: like you pressed a button and he went off.
- 25:34Speaker 2: We showed my interview to James Fitzgerald, an FBI legend.
- 25:39Speaker 2: He caught the infamous Unabomber, ending a 20-year manhunt.
- 25:43Speaker 7: Ted Kaczynski injured 24 people and killed three others.
- 25:47Speaker 10: For decades, he was one of the most wanted criminals
- 25:49Speaker 10: in the US.
- 25:52Speaker 2: Are you capable of hurting a child? Am I capable
- 25:55Speaker 2: of hurting a child?
- 25:57Speaker 3: No.
- 25:58Speaker 2: Why would I want to hurt a child?
- 26:02Speaker 5: Most people would say... No, of course not. He hesitated
- 26:06Speaker 5: for actually a few seconds. Then his first reply was,
- 26:10Speaker 5: am I capable of hurting a child? He puts the
- 26:12Speaker 5: question back to peers in so many words. And then,
- 26:15Speaker 5: of course, he sort of denies it and plays off
- 26:16Speaker 5: that whole scenario from there. But why not just come
- 26:19Speaker 5: out and say, no, I would never do that. Even
- 26:22Speaker 5: with a psychopath, the lying syntaxes have to get aligned
- 26:26Speaker 5: with one another to make sure that the proper lie
- 26:28Speaker 5: comes out at the proper time. Psychopaths like control. They
- 26:33Speaker 5: don't want to be controlled. They want to control others.
- 26:36Speaker 5: To them, it just makes sense because it's what got
- 26:39Speaker 5: them this far in life in sort of a successful
- 26:43Speaker 5: method of surviving.
- 26:47Speaker 3: Please, Mr.
- 26:48Speaker 6: Morgan, I allow you to ask me any questions you
- 26:50Speaker 6: want because I have nothing to hide.
- 26:52Speaker 3: But it's very important that you let me explain why
- 27:00Speaker 3: I'm innocent.
- 27:01Speaker 2: See, I have to decide, Alex. Are you.
- 27:04Speaker 2: Are you just a guy in prison now as an
- 27:07Speaker 2: innocent man? Or am I looking at somebody who did
- 27:11Speaker 2: do that? In which case, you're one of the worst
- 27:13Speaker 2: people I've ever met in my life.
- 27:16Speaker 3: Okay.
- 27:16Speaker 6: And I can understand that because anyone who would commit
- 27:19Speaker 6: them atrocious crimes would have to be the worst person
- 27:23Speaker 6: you could ever meet.
- 27:32Speaker 2: Owen, do you think that Alex and Rick has planned
- 27:35Speaker 2: these killings meticulously or were they spontaneous acts?
- 27:40Speaker 10: I'd say it could be a little of both, some
- 27:42Speaker 10: of both. And the reason I say it is because
- 27:45Speaker 10: we may be much more to Alex than I ever
- 27:48Speaker 10: knew about or thought about. I may have thought about it,
- 27:51Speaker 10: but I couldn't put it together. He seemed to deal
- 27:55Speaker 10: with people that he knew were sort of beneath him
- 27:58Speaker 10: or he could charm or he could con.
- 28:07Speaker 16: Alejandro was the guy that killed her. He was telling
- 28:11Speaker 16: her stories that he had a horse in one of
- 28:16Speaker 16: the horse stables in the Bronx, and that's how he
- 28:19Speaker 16: coerced her to, you know, be interested in hanging out.
- 28:22Speaker 11: You know, we teach our kids that you don't take
- 28:26Speaker 11: things from strangers, but he wasn't really a stranger to
- 28:29Speaker 11: them because he saw them In the neighborhood, he was friendly,
- 28:36Speaker 11: give them candy, you know, and little by little, he
- 28:40Speaker 11: gained their trust.
- 28:42Speaker 3: They said she.
- 28:43Speaker 9: Was decomposed, found in a black, in a black garbage bag, decomposed,
- 28:48Speaker 9: leaning on a tree. 11 years, we buried her on
- 28:52Speaker 9: her 11th birthday, October 20th, 1990.
- 29:01Speaker 2: Police had no hard evidence to connect Enriquez to Jessica's murder.
- 29:08Speaker 2: But during interrogation, they say he made a vital mistake.
- 29:12Speaker 2: He told them a detail only the killer could have known.
- 29:20Speaker 2: With Jessica, with the evidence you gave about the particular
- 29:25Speaker 2: floral design on her... The what? The flower design on
- 29:29Speaker 2: her underwear... The police didn't know that because they hadn't
- 29:33Speaker 2: cleaned her underwear. After you said that, they went and
- 29:37Speaker 2: cleaned the heavily decomposed and filthy, dirty garment. And they
- 29:43Speaker 2: found that, yes, it was floral. They didn't know that.
- 29:47Speaker 2: You had told them that.
- 29:50Speaker 3: I don't know if that's true.
- 29:51Speaker 2: That is true.
- 29:52Speaker 3: That's what they said to you?
- 29:53Speaker 2: That's the truth. So then how do I know certain things... And.
- 29:59Speaker 3: This is one of the reasons that... Well, Alex, it's
- 30:02Speaker 3: obvious why.
- 30:03Speaker 2: I only know the pictures. Alex, it's obvious why you
- 30:05Speaker 2: would know.
- 30:06Speaker 10: How?
- 30:07Speaker 2: If you'd killed her, you'd know. Okay.
- 30:09Speaker 3: If they showed me the pictures.
- 30:11Speaker 2: Pictures the undergarment hadn't been cleaned.
- 30:13Speaker 3: They didn't show me pictures of the undergarment.
- 30:15Speaker 2: They told me. You just said they showed you pictures.
- 30:17Speaker 3: They showed me pictures.
- 30:18Speaker 2: Alex, I either showed you pictures or they didn't.
- 30:20Speaker 3: No, no. They showed me pictures.
- 30:21Speaker 2: Did they show you pictures or not?
- 30:22Speaker 3: They showed me pictures of... The crime scene, the bodies.
- 30:26Speaker 2: You gave them a particular piece of information. Because they
- 30:29Speaker 2: told me. But they did not know. How could they
- 30:31Speaker 2: tell you something they didn't know?
- 30:32Speaker 3: That's what they tell you.
- 30:33Speaker 2: They hadn't cleaned the garment. So they're lying too.
- 30:37Speaker 3: Do you really think they said the truth?
- 30:40Speaker 6: I'll tell you a little bit of what the police
- 30:42Speaker 6: told me in the interrogation room.
- 30:45Speaker 3: You're an animal. Look what you did.
- 30:47Speaker 6: What did you have sex with this little baby girl with?
- 30:52Speaker 6: little flower panties and training bra?
- 30:56Speaker 3: Would you ripped it off? Did you cut it off?
- 30:58Speaker 3: Would you do it with a knife? What knife did
- 31:00Speaker 3: you use? Did you use scissors?
- 31:02Speaker 6: They'll say anything to try to break you down. And
- 31:05Speaker 6: because I didn't do anything, they couldn't break me.
- 31:10Speaker 10: Well, all I can recall now is that when the
- 31:13Speaker 10: panties were reexamined, that's when it was noted, the color
- 31:18Speaker 10: and the description. because at the time of the, when
- 31:24Speaker 10: the body was found, there was a lot of discoloration
- 31:27Speaker 10: from the elements, et cetera. Only a person involved could
- 31:34Speaker 10: know such detail. I never wanted the wrong person in jail.
- 31:41Speaker 10: I never wanted to bring a case into court that
- 31:43Speaker 10: would crumble.
- 31:48Speaker 5: The fact that he Kept going after these young girls
- 31:52Speaker 5: is a clue that maybe his peer relationships, his sexual
- 31:56Speaker 5: activities with women around his own age, weren't going quite
- 32:01Speaker 5: the way he would have liked. He quite frankly may
- 32:04Speaker 5: not have been able to perform at times with them,
- 32:06Speaker 5: so what he would wind up doing is regressing in
- 32:10Speaker 5: his own psychosexual way to these younger women, these children
- 32:14Speaker 5: in a sense, and that's somehow how he would gain
- 32:18Speaker 5: control over them.
- 32:19Speaker 3: And satisfy those needs of his.
- 32:28Speaker 12: This guy got in touch with us. He said, hey,
- 32:32Speaker 12: I was driving up the Bronx River Parkway that night.
- 32:35Speaker 8: I saw a.
- 32:36Speaker 12: Car, he says, and there was a guy standing by
- 32:39Speaker 12: the trunk. I pulled over and I yelled to him
- 32:42Speaker 12: in Spanish, hey, do you need help?
- 32:44Speaker 8: He says the guy was very rude.
- 32:47Speaker 12: He yelled, get out of here, I don't need any help.
- 32:51Speaker 2: He says, oh, okay, you know.
- 32:53Speaker 12: By this time, we had a photo array up, and
- 32:56Speaker 12: we showed it to the guy, and he picked Alex
- 33:01Speaker 12: right out of the photo array. He says that was
- 33:03Speaker 12: the guy that was parked, and he was parked 10
- 33:07Speaker 12: feet from where the body was discovered, maybe.
- 33:11Speaker 6: Let's go back to the evidence. What does the evidence say?
- 33:15Speaker 6: You have a guy who said he's seen me and
- 33:17Speaker 6: spoke to me at the crime scene.
- 33:19Speaker 2: Well, let's come to that. I never spoke to this guy.
- 33:22Speaker 2: This man says he saw you there in the early
- 33:24Speaker 2: hours after the death of Jessica. He says he saw
- 33:29Speaker 2: you there.
- 33:33Speaker 3: Do you believe that? Have you seen.
- 33:36Speaker 2: You tell me, were you there?
- 33:37Speaker 3: No, I wasn't there. Mr. Morgan, if I was a murderer...
- 33:43Speaker 3: killer who killed.
- 33:45Speaker 2: Three innocent a serial killer is what you're.
- 33:48Speaker 6: A serial killer whatever you want to call it and
- 33:51Speaker 6: a man pulls up to me and i just finished
- 33:55Speaker 6: killing somebody don't you think he would have been my
- 33:58Speaker 6: next victim i want you to think about that for
- 34:01Speaker 6: a second he can put me the crime scene he
- 34:04Speaker 6: can pinpoint me that i was there mr morgan i'm
- 34:08Speaker 6: not trying to con you or anyone I understand that
- 34:11Speaker 6: your job is to try to discredit me as much
- 34:13Speaker 6: as you can.
- 34:13Speaker 10: No.
- 34:14Speaker 2: No, no.
- 34:15Speaker 3: Let me finish.
- 34:16Speaker 2: I don't have it. My only job is to interview you.
- 34:18Speaker 3: Please.
- 34:18Speaker 2: And to try and ascertain in my mind whether I
- 34:20Speaker 2: think you killed these girls or not.
- 34:22Speaker 3: Well, how could you ascertain that if you don't let
- 34:24Speaker 3: me explain?
- 34:25Speaker 2: Because I find that the way that you are trying
- 34:27Speaker 2: to deflect on every aspect of what links you to
- 34:31Speaker 2: these killings, I mean, it's been masterful deflection. That's what
- 34:34Speaker 2: it's been, deflection.
- 34:35Speaker 3: So I'm masterful now?
- 34:37Speaker 2: I think you're a masterful liar, yeah.
- 34:39Speaker 3: OK.
- 34:40Speaker 2: You were by your own admission.
- 34:41Speaker 3: I'm a liar.
- 34:43Speaker 2: Does that make me a murderer? Not only does Enriquez
- 34:55Speaker 2: admit to being a liar, but he's also been convicted
- 34:58Speaker 2: before of another crime. How will he react when I
- 35:04Speaker 2: question him about this shocking incident that landed him in prison?
- 35:20Speaker 2: Some people, Alex, when they've been in prison for a
- 35:22Speaker 2: very long time, they think so much about.
- 35:26Speaker 3: Think so much about?
- 35:27Speaker 2: About why they're here. Did they start to believe their
- 35:31Speaker 2: own story?
- 35:32Speaker 3: No, I believed it from day one. If you see.
- 35:38Speaker 6: The court TV thing, I was very adamant that I
- 35:42Speaker 6: didn't do anything.
- 35:42Speaker 2: You were very plausible.
- 35:44Speaker 3: I didn't do anything. I've watched it.
- 35:46Speaker 2: I've watched that video.
- 35:47Speaker 3: And I didn't do anything now. And There's nothing anyone
- 35:51Speaker 3: can tell me.
- 35:52Speaker 2: What do you say to the families suffering so much
- 35:55Speaker 2: from the deaths of their loved ones?
- 35:58Speaker 3: What do I say? Look for the truth.
- 36:06Speaker 2: At trial, the defense argued all the evidence was circumstantial.
- 36:11Speaker 11: He is an accused serial killer, but Alejandro Enriquez remains
- 36:14Speaker 11: composed as his murder trial enters its third week.
- 36:19Speaker 2: They only had one thing in common.
- 36:22Speaker 3: They all knew Alejandro Enriquez.
- 36:24Speaker 6: His attorney says the DA has a weak case based
- 36:26Speaker 6: on circumstantial evidence. People were so mad and so angry
- 36:34Speaker 6: and the police.
- 36:34Speaker 3: Had to do something.
- 36:36Speaker 5: The evidence in this case is weak and unreliable circumstantial evidence.
- 36:41Speaker 1: I did not commit any of these murders that were
- 36:44Speaker 1: found guilty of.
- 36:46Speaker 2: I feel that nothing here has been proven There's been
- 36:49Speaker 2: a lot of lies, a lot of deceptions.
- 36:52Speaker 5: I found it interesting that Enrique, at one of the
- 36:55Speaker 5: most critical points in his life, being convicted of three
- 36:58Speaker 5: separate homicides, he has his moment to shine. The acting
- 37:03Speaker 5: skills this person possessed would be worthy of an Academy Award.
- 37:07Speaker 5: He knew how to frame these storylines together to show
- 37:11Speaker 5: a little bit of pity towards the family, but he
- 37:13Speaker 5: didn't mean that at all. It was all about preserving
- 37:16Speaker 5: himself and to save his own butt.
- 37:19Speaker 14: I have no anger for the families for what they're
- 37:22Speaker 14: saying or what they think of me because they have
- 37:24Speaker 14: been misled and they have been deceived.
- 37:27Speaker 5: And now he's on the stage for the first time
- 37:29Speaker 5: in years exhibiting his best psychopathic skill sets.
- 37:38Speaker 7: I keep calling him a gentleman. I don't know why,
- 37:41Speaker 7: but that's the way I was brought up. But this
- 37:43Speaker 7: piece of garbage... He's always there, he's always around where
- 37:49Speaker 7: things happen. You know, you say coincidence, coincidence happens every
- 37:53Speaker 7: once in a while. Everybody in that jury room knows
- 37:59Speaker 7: that he did it, and he knows that he did it.
- 38:02Speaker 7: There was no other person that could have done it
- 38:07Speaker 7: but him.
- 38:12Speaker 2: Owen, do you have any doubt that Alex Enriquez is
- 38:15Speaker 2: guilty of the crimes he committed?
- 38:18Speaker 3: No doubt.
- 38:21Speaker 10: I say they convicted him, and I'm satisfied with that.
- 38:25Speaker 10: If they hadn't convicted him, that case still would have
- 38:30Speaker 10: been in my court.
- 38:37Speaker 2: When you see video footage of Enriquez from that courtroom,
- 38:40Speaker 2: he doesn't look like a serial killer. capable of choking
- 38:45Speaker 2: the life out of three young girls who knew him
- 38:49Speaker 2: and trusted him. But there is one shocking incident that
- 38:54Speaker 2: happened before the murders that shows beyond doubt he is
- 39:00Speaker 2: capable of cruelty to children. How do you explain the
- 39:06Speaker 2: time that you were charged with these offences? You were
- 39:09Speaker 2: convicted of scolding a young boy who was the son
- 39:13Speaker 2: of your Okay. Severely scolding him so much you ended
- 39:18Speaker 2: up with a quite lengthy prison sentence.
- 39:21Speaker 6: When you say that I scolded and that I was convicted,
- 39:28Speaker 6: those are key words.
- 39:30Speaker 2: But they're facts, aren't they?
- 39:32Speaker 3: No, they're not.
- 39:33Speaker 2: You weren't convicted?
- 39:35Speaker 6: I pled guilty to leaving him alone in the bathroom
- 39:39Speaker 6: and to a lesser charge because.
- 39:41Speaker 2: What was the lesser charge? It was an e-felony.
- 39:46Speaker 3: Assault....
- 39:52Speaker 6: I don't want to just say something that's not true.
- 39:55Speaker 6: I didn't think he was going to get burned, though
- 39:57Speaker 6: I wouldn't have left him in there. I was preparing
- 39:59Speaker 6: him to take him to his father. You think I
- 40:02Speaker 6: would intentionally scold him, put his clothes on, and take
- 40:05Speaker 6: him to his father? That doesn't make too much sense.
- 40:08Speaker 2: Yeah, but Alex, at the very best, it's appalling negligence
- 40:12Speaker 2: by you because you were the adult in charge of him.
- 40:14Speaker 3: Exactly.
- 40:14Speaker 2: That's at the very best. But that's not what you
- 40:16Speaker 2: pleaded guilty to. You didn't plead guilty to negligence. You
- 40:19Speaker 2: pleaded guilty to assault.
- 40:22Speaker 3: Their whole thing was this.
- 40:24Speaker 6: They needed to make me look bad to the public
- 40:28Speaker 6: as much as they could.
- 40:29Speaker 2: When a boy of that age gets that bad at school,
- 40:32Speaker 2: that's bad. You're not going to make it look bad.
- 40:34Speaker 2: It's bad.
- 40:35Speaker 3: Mr.
- 40:35Speaker 6: Morgan, this interview is not about me lying, me cheating,
- 40:40Speaker 6: me fornicating.
- 40:42Speaker 2: It has nothing to do with it. This is about
- 40:44Speaker 2: whether you killed these three women. So let's stick to
- 40:46Speaker 2: the evidence of these three women.
- 40:47Speaker 3: I'm asking you, please, this is what we're here for.
- 40:50Speaker 3: If you want to You called me a liar. You
- 40:53Speaker 3: say you think I'm guilty. I know you're a liar.
- 40:55Speaker 2: I know you're a liar. You said you're a liar.
- 40:57Speaker 2: But I'm not a murderer. Because a liar doesn't make
- 40:59Speaker 2: you a murderer. I'm going to believe you, and I
- 41:00Speaker 2: don't believe you. Why should anyone believe you?
- 41:02Speaker 6: To satisfy if you're right or wrong, I mean, I
- 41:05Speaker 6: don't know if you.
- 41:06Speaker 3: Do care, get the crime scene video.
- 41:09Speaker 2: I care about these girls.
- 41:10Speaker 3: Get the crime scene video.
- 41:12Speaker 2: And the lies they never had. And look at the picture.
- 41:14Speaker 2: And the families whose lives have been destroyed. That's what
- 41:17Speaker 2: I care about. My life has been destroyed.
- 41:19Speaker 3: My family's life has been destroyed.
- 41:21Speaker 2: But yet I'm innocent, and.
- 41:22Speaker 3: I'm in here.
- 41:22Speaker 2: It's 28 years, and we tend to overlook the evidence. Alex,
- 41:28Speaker 2: we're going around in houses. The viewers can make their
- 41:31Speaker 2: own minds up whether they believe you or not. We
- 41:34Speaker 2: have to leave it there.
- 41:35Speaker 3: Okay.
- 41:35Speaker 2: We've had a chance to put your say.
- 41:37Speaker 3: No, I didn't have a chance.
- 41:38Speaker 6: You spoke, and when I tried to give you the
- 41:41Speaker 6: evidence to show you otherwise, you interrupted me, and now
- 41:44Speaker 6: we have to go.
- 41:46Speaker 3: Okay.
- 41:46Speaker 2: Thank you for your time. We're good.
- 41:51Speaker 3: All right.
- 41:55Speaker 2: Well?
- 41:56Speaker 3: My job. All right.
- 42:03Speaker 5: It can be frustrating talking to anyone who is just
- 42:07Speaker 5: locked into their lie, locked into their story. You'd be
- 42:13Speaker 5: the rare guy that broke a psychopath after 28 to
- 42:16Speaker 5: 30 years. but Piers held his own, stuck to his guns,
- 42:21Speaker 5: and that's what you got to do with these guys.
- 42:24Speaker 5: Enrique is the poster boy for a lying psychopath who
- 42:27Speaker 5: lacks remorse and empathy.
- 42:34Speaker 16: I'm enjoying the fact to know that I'm hoping you
- 42:37Speaker 16: live to 99.
- 42:39Speaker 2: Because he was a player.
- 42:42Speaker 3: Multiple personalities.
- 42:44Speaker 16: To this day, I meet somebody that knows him, you know,
- 42:46Speaker 16: that knew him.
- 42:46Speaker 3: He was only 29 years old, right? Something around there.
- 42:49Speaker 16: Young guy, drove a Mercedes, always suited up. He needs
- 42:54Speaker 16: the reaction from other people in order to feel successful,
- 42:57Speaker 16: to feel complete.
- 43:00Speaker 3: So for him to be in a box by himself,
- 43:02Speaker 3: it makes me feel better.
- 43:05Speaker 11: For a while, I just thought I was a very
- 43:07Speaker 11: bad judge of character. But what I realized is that
- 43:12Speaker 11: I was just fooled. You know, I just didn't see
- 43:16Speaker 11: the real person.
- 43:18Speaker 2: Thank you very much.
- 43:25Speaker 7: When they read the verdict, I just looked over at
- 43:29Speaker 7: Jessica's mother and I was like, I gave you what
- 43:34Speaker 7: you needed. I gave her what she needed to hear.
- 43:51Speaker 12: The court imposes an indeterminate sentence, the maximum of which
- 43:56Speaker 12: shall be for the term of your natural life.
- 43:59Speaker 3: And the court imposes.