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  Speaker 1: I'm Chris Hansen right now on Crime wat Daily. From
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  Speaker 1: here in New York City. A woman collapses in court
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  Speaker 1: and leaves on a stretcher. It's a shocking end to
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  Speaker 1: a sensational trial that rocked San Diego.
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  Speaker 2: It's very bizarre, very bizarre.
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  Speaker 1: Is this woman an evil fem fatale?
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  Speaker 3: She was looking for someone to kill her husband.
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  Speaker 1: Or a heroic mother in fear of her husband.
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  Speaker 4: He had made accusations that he sexually assaulted her. Was
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  Speaker 4: Melissa and the child.
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  Speaker 1: Anna Garcia with a fitness trainer turned YouTube cook.
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  Speaker 5: Welcome to my kitchen where I really.
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  Speaker 6: Like to cook.
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  Speaker 1: Accused of cooking up a recipe for murder.
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  Speaker 7: My friends shot.
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  Speaker 8: I felt like someone hit me in the back.
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  Speaker 1: Then it was one of the biggest Ponzi schemes of
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  Speaker 1: all time. And he is the slippery con man behind
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  Speaker 1: one hundred million dollar crime.
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  Speaker 6: Of a fancy car.
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  Speaker 9: He dressed well Out's waterfront mansion and corporate jet.
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  Speaker 1: Today how Drenberg's house of cards came crashing down and
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  Speaker 1: after a during prison escape, he became a fugitive on
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  Speaker 1: the rock.
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  Speaker 6: Where darren Burg.
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  Speaker 9: Is right now with anybody's cash.
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  Speaker 3: Right now, let's go Jason Matower with Prime Watch Daily.
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  Speaker 7: I'm as also going up from Crimewatch Cally, Yes, let's
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  Speaker 7: be smart. From Crimewatch Daily.
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  Speaker 10: It's Ana Garcia from Crime Watch Daily.
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  Speaker 11: You got anything to say.
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  Speaker 1: Us crime Watch Deally? What you don't know?
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  Speaker 11: She's thirteen?
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  Speaker 1: You're running away now. Welcome to Crime Watch Daily, everyone,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Chris Hansen. We start today in southern California. That's
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  Speaker 1: where a secretive mission in the middle of the night
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  Speaker 1: ends with one man in the hospital and two unlikely
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  Speaker 1: suspects in cups. Ana Garcia has the story the parting shot.
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  Speaker 10: It's the kind of twisted tail the police say is
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  Speaker 10: not exactly uncommon in upscale Carlsbad, California, an elite and
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  Speaker 10: ideal like coastal enclave a little north of San Diego.
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  Speaker 2: We don't have a lot of crime, but when we
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  Speaker 2: do have crime, they are very violent and very bizarre.
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  Speaker 10: This particular violent and bizarre crime beginning with a late
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  Speaker 10: night nine to one one call from a secluded area
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  Speaker 10: of town on one.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm my friend has just shot.
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  Speaker 10: It appears to be a failed assassination attempt.
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  Speaker 4: Shot him.
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  Speaker 7: There's a guy going down like a sniper sniper. Did
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  Speaker 7: you see him at all? Briefly we saw that as
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  Speaker 7: a guard and he shot time, one.
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  Speaker 10: Of the bullets hitting forty six year old computer programmer
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  Speaker 10: Greg Mulda Hill in the left side of his chest.
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  Speaker 10: And Greg's fading fast.
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  Speaker 12: My friends getting whiteheaded?
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  Speaker 8: Turnround, I got bout two year Okay.
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  Speaker 10: Greg is rushed to emergency surgery, where Doc learned the
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  Speaker 10: bullet just missed his heart. At the same time, police
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  Speaker 10: are hunting for what they fear, maybe an armed maniac
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  Speaker 10: on the loose. Initially, you all thought you had an
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  Speaker 10: active shooter situation, and this whole place was almost like
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  Speaker 10: on a lockdown, right.
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  Speaker 2: We didn't know what we had, and at the time
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  Speaker 2: of the callum.
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  Speaker 4: It wasn't until we got more information that it started
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  Speaker 4: sounding less like a random attack and more like a
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  Speaker 4: purposeful event.
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  Speaker 10: But who would want Greg assassinated? The handsome computer programmer
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  Speaker 10: had married his high school sweetheart, Diana loved Joy, a
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  Speaker 10: pretty fitness instructor and champion triathlete, shown promoting her own
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  Speaker 10: recipes for women on the go in this YouTube cooking
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  Speaker 10: video and.
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  Speaker 5: Diana Lovejoy and quick meals.
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  Speaker 13: Are my specialty.
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  Speaker 10: Greg and Diana had been married for seven years and
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  Speaker 10: went through eight heartbreaking miscarriages before giving birth to their
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  Speaker 10: own only child, a son. The struggles to have a
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  Speaker 10: baby reportedly added stress to their relationship, and they sought
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  Speaker 10: marriage counseling, but the damage was done.
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  Speaker 3: They made a beautiful little boy. But once that was done,
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  Speaker 3: that was once they conceived, that was the end of
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  Speaker 3: their marital relationship.
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  Speaker 10: But Greg told detectives that despite their animosity toward each other,
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  Speaker 10: he couldn't believe Diana would ever want their three year
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  Speaker 10: old son to be left without a father, and Diana
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  Speaker 10: seemed more like the perfect working single mom than a
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  Speaker 10: would be killer.
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  Speaker 7: I really like to cook, but I'm often short on time.
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  Speaker 5: The speed is the hook.
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  Speaker 10: But detectives would soon come to suspect Diana may have
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  Speaker 10: also been cooking up something else altogether, especially after Greg
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  Speaker 10: told detectives why he went to the spot of the ambush.
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  Speaker 10: When you're interviewing the victim at this point, is he
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  Speaker 10: in the hospital.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, in the hospital after surgery from his injury. He
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  Speaker 4: had told us that he had received a phone call
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  Speaker 4: at around ten thirty at night from an unknown number
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  Speaker 4: to him.
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  Speaker 10: That caller, identifying himself as a private investigator, saying he
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  Speaker 10: had information that could help Greg in a bitter divorce
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  Speaker 10: and custody battle he was waging with his now estranged
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  Speaker 10: wife Diana love Joy.
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  Speaker 4: He wanted to see it. He needed to come to
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  Speaker 4: a location within a certain amount of time and look
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  Speaker 4: at the information see if he wanted.
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  Speaker 6: To buy it from him.
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  Speaker 10: When he's released from the hospital, Greg would return to
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  Speaker 10: the scene of the crime with detectives to show them
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  Speaker 10: exactly what happened. When he arrived at the appointed meeting
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  Speaker 10: place with friend Jason Kovach at his side.
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  Speaker 2: Greg maulther Hill was holding a flashlight or a bike
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  Speaker 2: light and his friend was holding like a mini bat
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  Speaker 2: kind of like for some protection.
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  Speaker 10: And police would make this video recreation of Greg's account
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  Speaker 10: of the frightening events.
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  Speaker 11: Is scanning the area when.
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  Speaker 10: His light suddenly falls on something moving in the bushes.
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  Speaker 2: When he immediately knew that that was a person laying
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  Speaker 2: down that was holding a rifle aimed at him.
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  Speaker 10: Greg and his buddy Jason panic, but one.
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  Speaker 2: Of them yelled gun as soon as they saw that
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  Speaker 2: it was a gun and they both.
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  Speaker 10: Ran, Greg getting hit when the gunman fires shot after
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  Speaker 10: shot at them as they flee, So they run off
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  Speaker 10: this way, and the shooter runs that way.
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  Speaker 11: The shooter runs that way.
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  Speaker 10: It doesn't take long for detectives to figure out that
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  Speaker 10: Greg had been lured into a planned death trap, and
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  Speaker 10: they immediately become suspicious of Greg's estranged wife, Diana, when
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  Speaker 10: they go to her house around three in the morning,
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  Speaker 10: just hours after the shooting, to tell her what happened
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  Speaker 10: to him. Why were the detectives so suspicious of her reaction?
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  Speaker 4: Giggling just wasn't appropriate reaction to finding out the father
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  Speaker 4: of your child had just been shot and was in
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  Speaker 4: the hospital.
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  Speaker 3: Where there's smoke, there's fire.
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  Speaker 10: Next, police uncovers shocking evidence that leads them to believe
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  Speaker 10: Diana recruited this hired gun to do her dirty work.
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  Speaker 3: She was looking for someone to kill her husband, and
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  Speaker 3: she thought that she found her man.
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  Speaker 1: We return now with more of today's story, the parting shot.
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  Speaker 1: For that, let's head back to Ana Garcia in southern California.
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  Speaker 10: Greg Mulvahill is lucky to be alive after being lured
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  Speaker 10: into what police call a death trapt.
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  Speaker 3: It's not like he didn't get a life threatening injury.
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  Speaker 3: We just happened to live in a time where we
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  Speaker 3: have excellent medical care, and he lived.
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  Speaker 10: Investigators wonder if Greg's estranged wife, Diana Lovejoy may have
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  Speaker 10: had something to do with what looks like an attempt
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  Speaker 10: to kill him.
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  Speaker 11: So are you immediately thinking wife as a.
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  Speaker 4: Susp not at that point now, not necessarily, but.
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  Speaker 10: Detectives would grow more suspicious when they learned Diana and
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  Speaker 10: Greg had been having problems throughout a stormy seven year marriage,
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  Speaker 10: which had effectively ended when their three year old son
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  Speaker 10: was conceived.
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  Speaker 3: Mister Malva Hill stated that was the last time that
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  Speaker 3: they were intimate with one another after she found out
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  Speaker 3: she was pregnant with the little boy, and they basically
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  Speaker 3: lived as strangers in the same house.
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  Speaker 10: The couple eventually separated. The next two years were spent
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  Speaker 10: locked in an ugly battle over alimony, child support, and
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  Speaker 10: custody issues, and it would only grow more bitter when
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  Speaker 10: a divorce court judge eventually ruled Diana would have to
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  Speaker 10: pay Greg half the worth of the house they'd lived
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  Speaker 10: in before separating.
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  Speaker 11: How much money are we talking about?
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  Speaker 3: She had three months to give him one hundred and
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  Speaker 3: twenty thousand dollars cash.
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  Speaker 10: Diana is said to have been furious and even more
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  Speaker 10: angry that the judge had awarded fifty to fifty custody.
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  Speaker 11: Of their child.
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  Speaker 3: She wanted complete possession of that little boy.
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  Speaker 10: Detectives theorize she may have been prepared to kill him
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  Speaker 10: to get her way.
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  Speaker 11: Did you do any interviews with Diana Lovejoy?
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  Speaker 4: I did the interviews. Initially, she tried to distance herself
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  Speaker 4: as much as possible.
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  Speaker 10: Detectives have no evidence to link Diana to Greg's shooting
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  Speaker 10: until they uncover this store security video of Diana buying
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  Speaker 10: a cheap burner phone and it's a phone number detectives recognize.
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  Speaker 10: Turns out it's the very same phone used by the
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  Speaker 10: mystery man who called Greg, luring him to this remote
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  Speaker 10: meeting spot with the ruse of selling information to help
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  Speaker 10: him in his divorce battle with Diana.
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  Speaker 11: And what was her reaction to that?
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  Speaker 4: She tried to come up with a new version of
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  Speaker 4: events that had happened.
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  Speaker 10: Diana now tells detectives she bought the phone for a
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  Speaker 10: man she hired to scare her her husband into giving
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  Speaker 10: up his child custody rights before their divorce became final.
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  Speaker 10: My Love Diana would identify the man as Weldon McDavid Junior,
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  Speaker 10: a local gun instructor. She says had been giving her
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  Speaker 10: shooting lessons so she could defend herself against Greg, whom
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  Speaker 10: she claims was abusing her and their little boy.
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  Speaker 4: She had made accusations that he sexually assaulted her, was
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  Speaker 4: molesting the child, was a drug abuser.
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  Speaker 10: Diana told detectives she'd seen a report on NBC's Dateline
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  Speaker 10: in twenty thirteen when McDavid was hailed as a hero
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  Speaker 10: for helping another woman, Crystal Harris. He claimed he was
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  Speaker 10: helping Harris protect herself from an allegedly abusive husband.
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  Speaker 13: I asked her, are you prepared to kill him? Because
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  Speaker 13: that is a very real possibility.
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  Speaker 10: McDavid says in the report that he'd given Crystal shooting
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  Speaker 10: lessons too, and after.
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  Speaker 6: A few moments she said, yes.
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  Speaker 11: If I have to, but Crystal didn't have to.
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  Speaker 10: Diana tells detectives it was never her intention to have
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  Speaker 10: McDavid kill or hurt Greg unless it became necessary.
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  Speaker 4: She also lets us know that there was eventually a
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  Speaker 4: plan to either have well McDavid scare her husband or
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  Speaker 4: murder her husband and called law enforcement.
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  Speaker 10: Detectives say Diana used all her charm to talk McDavid
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  Speaker 10: into helping her. Did you talk to either of them
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  Speaker 10: about whether they were having a sexual relationship.
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  Speaker 4: They had had sex one time, and she felt it
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  Speaker 4: was a mistake because he was married and had a
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  Speaker 4: brand new couple of month old baby.
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  Speaker 10: And she says McDavid finally agreed to help her.
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  Speaker 4: She told us that she'd given him a thousand dollars
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  Speaker 4: to scare her husband.
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  Speaker 10: But when McDavid is brought in for questioning, he denies
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  Speaker 10: knowing and having any knowledge of Greg mulba Hill's shooting.
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  Speaker 14: I'm asking you where you were at last where he
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  Speaker 14: gets shot.
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  Speaker 6: Why do you want to be telling you that?
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  Speaker 10: McDavid insists he was at home at the time of
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  Speaker 10: the shooting, and detectives give him an opportunity to prove it.
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  Speaker 4: Can you give me access to your phone to show.
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  Speaker 12: That you're home by because yeah, that's fine.
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  Speaker 6: So listen, you.
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  Speaker 14: Guys are trying to accuse me because no, no, no,
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  Speaker 14: or not too well?
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  Speaker 6: Yes you are well.
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  Speaker 12: I'm trying to find out your version of events, and
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  Speaker 12: you're telling me I don't know, and I'm not giving
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  Speaker 12: you access.
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  Speaker 6: To the only thing that you possess. You possess that.
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  Speaker 10: Shows where you're at but detectives tell McDavid they already
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  Speaker 10: have DNA evidence placing him at the scene of the crime.
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  Speaker 1: Any reason why you.
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  Speaker 6: Would have any DNA in that?
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  Speaker 13: And DNA is something that doesn't just fly off and
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  Speaker 13: blow down the street.
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  Speaker 6: You have to go there to put it there? Would
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  Speaker 6: you have been there?
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  Speaker 15: He might have been there, right.
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  Speaker 6: Why would you be here?
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  Speaker 9: I don't know, I don't.
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  Speaker 16: Know what's there.
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  Speaker 10: Then McDavid suddenly remembers going jogging there.
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  Speaker 1: You went for a run back here?
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, And now he realizes he was tripped up by
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  Speaker 10: a sudden call of nature.
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  Speaker 6: I know what you're talking about, you do?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, okay, explain.
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  Speaker 1: I was on.
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  Speaker 13: Der road, just running along, and then I.
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  Speaker 6: Did have to.
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  Speaker 10: Explaining, well, not quite.
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  Speaker 12: How much of a coincidence do you think it would be?
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  Speaker 16: Knowing that the area that he took is the area
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  Speaker 16: that Greg was.
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  Speaker 10: Shire detectives tell McDavid he left his DNA on one
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  Speaker 10: of two two towels found at the crime scene.
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  Speaker 6: Did you wipe yourself?
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  Speaker 4: Did you use a tonnel or anything?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: Where'd you get the towel?
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  Speaker 13: He was there?
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  Speaker 6: Really?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Are you sure you didn't get from anywhere else?
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  Speaker 13: I didn't get it from anywhere else. I saw the
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  Speaker 13: towels there.
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  Speaker 10: But detectives had already discovered. Those towels at the crime
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  Speaker 10: scene matched a set they'd found in Diana loved Joy's home,
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  Speaker 10: and they would also find the assault rifle used to
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  Speaker 10: shoot Diana's a strange husband among a huge cache of
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  Speaker 10: weapons at McDavid's home.
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  Speaker 2: This rifle was found in the garage, up in some rafters,
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  Speaker 2: and it was hidden.
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  Speaker 10: Now detectives had all the evidence they needed to charge
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  Speaker 10: Diana Lovejoy and Weldon McDavid with attempted murder.
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  Speaker 4: We rested both that same day.
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  Speaker 10: Next a shackle, Diana comes face to face with Greg
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  Speaker 10: for the first time since his shooting.
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  Speaker 8: About the time I realized what I was looking at,
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  Speaker 8: it felt like I had been hitten back.
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  Speaker 1: Diana Lovejoy is charged with attempted murder in the attack
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  Speaker 1: of her strange husband. She didn't pull the trigger. Prosecutors
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  Speaker 1: say she found someone else to do her dirty work,
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  Speaker 1: and the trials and verdicts would make headlines around the world.
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  Speaker 6: Once again.
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  Speaker 1: Here's Anna Garcia.
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  Speaker 10: A somber and humble Diana Lovejoy is led into court
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  Speaker 10: in shackles. Doesn't that's the less, the real housewife of Carlsbad, California,
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  Speaker 10: charged with plotting to murder her estranged husband Greg Mulbahill
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  Speaker 10: and hiring shooting instructor and former marine Weldon McDavid as
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  Speaker 10: her hit man.
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  Speaker 3: Why did you try them together because it is so
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  Speaker 3: clear that this is a conspiracy case where they did
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  Speaker 3: this together.
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  Speaker 10: Now, lucky to be alive, Greg would come face to
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  Speaker 10: face with Diana for the first time since the shooting,
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  Speaker 10: as well as the trigger man. Diana allegedly paid a
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  Speaker 10: mere thousand bucks to kill him in a late night ambush.
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  Speaker 3: The gunman, lying in the sniper position shoots six to
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  Speaker 3: seven more rounds.
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  Speaker 10: Greg takes the stand to tell how he'd caught a
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  Speaker 10: quick glimpse of McDavid hiding behind him brush with a
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  Speaker 10: rifle aimed directly at him.
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  Speaker 8: About the time I realized what I was looking at,
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  Speaker 8: it felt like I had been hitting the back. The
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  Speaker 8: next thing I remember was starting to run.
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  Speaker 10: As McDavid continues shooting until he and friend Jason Kovach
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  Speaker 10: are out of range and.
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  Speaker 12: We ran the other direction away from the gunfire.
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  Speaker 10: Diana shows no emotion as Greg testifies, and her attorneys
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  Speaker 10: continue you to deny she had any intention of harming Greg,
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  Speaker 10: claiming McDavid was only supposed to scare Greg into staying
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  Speaker 10: away from Diana and their little boy after accusing him
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  Speaker 10: of sexually abusing both of them.
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  Speaker 3: Miss Lovejoy had gone to the Carlsbad Police Department and
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  Speaker 3: made a complaint stating that mister Mulvahill had sexually assaulted
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  Speaker 3: her in her sleep. She said that she suspected that
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  Speaker 3: mister Malverhill was molesting her boy.
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  Speaker 10: But the court would hear that a Child Protective Services
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  Speaker 10: investigation had found no evidence to support Diana's shocking allegations
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  Speaker 10: against Greg.
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  Speaker 3: He had to go through numerous psychological evaluations. He had
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  Speaker 3: to see psychiatrists, psychologists, sex therapist. The unanimous conclusion was
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  Speaker 3: that this was made up, that he had not molested
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  Speaker 3: his little boy, and they ended up determining that actually
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  Speaker 3: he was the better parent of the two.
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  Speaker 11: So you don't believe her.
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  Speaker 7: Absolutely not.
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  Speaker 10: Assistant Prosecutor Jody Breton would tell the court Diana simply
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  Speaker 10: didn't want to pay Greg his one hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 10: thousand dollars share of a house they owned, nor give
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  Speaker 10: him shared custody of their son as ordered by a
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  Speaker 10: divorce court judge. Instead, the prosecution tells the court Diana
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  Speaker 10: chose to kill two birds with one stone by paying
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  Speaker 10: Weldon McDavid to kill her child's father.
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  Speaker 3: Diana Lovejoyce sets about looking for someone, and she finds
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  Speaker 3: that someone when she finds mister McDavid.
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  Speaker 10: But McDavid would testify that, like Diana, he had no
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  Speaker 10: intention of harming greg Or the friend that was with
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  Speaker 10: him the night of the shooting.
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  Speaker 13: I fired six shots in the air, and once they
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  Speaker 13: started running, I ceased fire.
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  Speaker 10: It's about the strangest defense you will hear for an
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  Speaker 10: attempted murder charge. The shooter insists he's such a good
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  Speaker 10: shot that if he wanted the ex husband dead, he'd
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  Speaker 10: be dead.
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  Speaker 13: Now, Marines are taught if they wanted to kill someone,
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  Speaker 13: two to the center, madness, one to the head.
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  Speaker 10: Briton doesn't buy it, telling the court how McDavid had
• 19:04
  Speaker 10: deliberately lured Gregg into a death trap with the false
• 19:08
  Speaker 10: promise of selling him information that would help him in
• 19:11
  Speaker 10: his divorce from Diana.
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  Speaker 3: And you can discharge a firearm and there'd be no
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: reason for you to call the police and tell them.
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  Speaker 15: Mathworns.
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  Speaker 13: I didn't call them because I knew that they would
• 19:24
  Speaker 13: view that as me discharging a firearm, but I was
• 19:28
  Speaker 13: actually defending my life from a flashlight.
• 19:33
  Speaker 10: Briton alleges McDavid had his rifle cocked and ready to
• 19:37
  Speaker 10: fire before Greg and his friend spotted him, and Briton
• 19:41
  Speaker 10: tells the jury there is only one decision they can make.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: He's still guilty attempted murder because he took that one shot.
• 19:50
  Speaker 10: But attorneys for Weldon McDavid and Diana Lovejoy continue to
• 19:53
  Speaker 10: insist they both were only trying to protect her innocent child.
• 19:58
  Speaker 12: People simply trying to help stop molestation of a three
• 20:02
  Speaker 12: year old.
• 20:04
  Speaker 10: Next, this suddenly happens when the jury returns to deliver
• 20:09
  Speaker 10: its verdict.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: Her family is screaming, help her, help her.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Now to the conclusion of today's story, the parting shot.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Once again, here's Anna Garcia.
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  Speaker 10: The fate of Diana Lovejoy is being left in the
• 20:28
  Speaker 10: hands of the jury, who must decide if she is
• 20:32
  Speaker 10: a ruthless, villainous who plotted to kill her husband, Greg
• 20:36
  Speaker 10: mulvahill for her own personal gain.
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: I know that you don't have all day and we've got.
• 20:41
  Speaker 10: Malice to feed, or if this happy homemaker is actually
• 20:46
  Speaker 10: a concerned mother who claims she was just trying to
• 20:49
  Speaker 10: stop Greg from allegedly sexually abusing their three year old son. Now,
• 20:56
  Speaker 10: as the jury is about to deliver its verdict, an
• 20:59
  Speaker 10: anxiously Diana sits in court alongside Weldon McDavid, the former
• 21:04
  Speaker 10: marine she had allegedly hired to shoot Greg and a
• 21:08
  Speaker 10: failed attempt. He miraculously survived, and Diana appears to be
• 21:13
  Speaker 10: physically ill, waiting to hear the words that will either
• 21:17
  Speaker 10: set her free or possibly send her to prison for
• 21:20
  Speaker 10: the rest of her life.
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  Speaker 15: Be the jury in the abovant title cause, find the defendant,
• 21:26
  Speaker 15: Diana Jane Lovejoy guilty of the crime of conspiracy to
• 21:29
  Speaker 15: commit murder in violation of penal quote section onety two
• 21:33
  Speaker 15: for an.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: Eight you could see this Lovejoy look over at her
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: defense attorney in like what happened? Like just shock disbelief.
• 21:44
  Speaker 10: Now it's time for her accomplice to hear his fate,
• 21:47
  Speaker 10: and Diana Lovejoy just can't take it anymore.
• 21:50
  Speaker 15: Leave the jury in the above actual cause, find the
• 21:53
  Speaker 15: defendant Weldon K. McDavid as to commit murder.
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  Speaker 10: Diana has suddenly passed out, her body slumped back in
• 22:06
  Speaker 10: her chair as family members cry and scream in horror.
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  Speaker 3: You can kind of see her head go back and
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: her eyes go in the back of her head, and
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: she just slumps over, and it was a pretty loud,
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: audible clunk when she hit her head on the table,
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: and then she kind of spills over onto the floor.
• 22:27
  Speaker 10: Diana still appears to be unconscious as medics carry her
• 22:30
  Speaker 10: from the courtroom on a stretcher.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: So it's quite a bit of chaos.
• 22:35
  Speaker 10: Doctors would find that Diana had only faint, but Jody
• 22:40
  Speaker 10: Bruton suspects Diana might have even faked that.
• 22:44
  Speaker 11: You sound very skeptical.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: I am skeptical because I just again, she's somebody who
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: will hire a person to kill her ex husband. She's
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: someone who will accuse her ex husband of molesting and
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: sexual assault, So I would not put it all past her.
• 23:00
  Speaker 10: Breton isn't sure Diana's tears are real either, when she
• 23:04
  Speaker 10: returns to court to make a plea for mercy, still
• 23:07
  Speaker 10: denying guilt and still making the same shocking allegations against Greg.
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: And what sexually abused And I did my son be
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: molested once? And I did take all the steps I
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: possibly could to obmiterate that situation.
• 23:27
  Speaker 10: Briton is disgusted that Diana continues to falsely accuse Greg
• 23:31
  Speaker 10: of such an atrocity, especially after a full investigation had
• 23:35
  Speaker 10: found it simply wasn't true, and even praised Greg as
• 23:39
  Speaker 10: the better parent.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: And he genuinely is a nice man.
• 23:44
  Speaker 10: Diana insists she never wanted her son to be without
• 23:48
  Speaker 10: a father.
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: I would. It's so big. Who have people?
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: Some people in this world seem to think that I
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: would have it iffy to do this.
• 24:07
  Speaker 10: Her partner in crime, Weldon McDavid, also turns on the tap.
• 24:11
  Speaker 12: I thought of my son growing up without a father.
• 24:17
  Speaker 12: My father was killed. My father was killed when I
• 24:23
  Speaker 12: was twenty four, and I still haven't gotten over that
• 24:28
  Speaker 12: I would not take a father from a child.
• 24:33
  Speaker 10: But the judge appears to be unmoved by anything the
• 24:36
  Speaker 10: two have to say for themselves, as he gives them
• 24:38
  Speaker 10: both the max for a conspiracy to commit murder and
• 24:42
  Speaker 10: attempted murder, sentencing Weldon McDavid, the triggerman, to fifty years
• 24:48
  Speaker 10: to life, and Diana Lovejoy, who hatched the plot, twenty
• 24:53
  Speaker 10: six years to life, leaving just about everyone except the
• 24:58
  Speaker 10: two co conspirators and their defense attorneys in full agreement
• 25:02
  Speaker 10: with the judge and jury.
• 25:05
  Speaker 11: What did the jury say afterwards?
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: They didn't believe mister McDavid at all, that they thought
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: he was narcissistic and was his story was just absolutely incredulous.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: There there's just nothing, no truth to it, and.
• 25:20
  Speaker 10: That Diana was perhaps the worst villain of the diabolical duo.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: I believe Lovejoy was the manipulator. And then you know
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: the master behind all of it. That mister and McDavid
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: would have had no reason to come up with this
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: plot or engage in any of this on.
• 25:36
  Speaker 9: His own, coming up waterfront mansion, corporate jet, he.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Had a taste for the finer things, in a bad
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: habit of taking other people's money. Now the frat boy
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: turned khan man is playing catch me if you can
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: with the facts.
• 25:52
  Speaker 9: Where deren Burg is right now with anybody's guests.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: That's next, Welcome back to crime much Daily. Up next.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: He made millions of dollars appear then disappear. But darren
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Berg was no magic man. Instead the Fed saying he
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: was a con man. And now the man who has
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: been dubbed Mini Madeoff has managed to make something else
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: vanish himself Melissa McCarty is in northern California with today's story,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: the Money Mirange.
• 26:20
  Speaker 7: He's the mastermind of one of the biggest Ponzi schemes ever.
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: There's no magic here.
• 26:26
  Speaker 10: He might think it's magic, but it's actually rooting eating
• 26:28
  Speaker 10: potato stuff.
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: The slick scam artist ripped off more than one hundred
• 26:33
  Speaker 7: million dollars one hundred mili defunt, his lavish lifestyle.
• 26:39
  Speaker 9: Drove a fancy car, he dressed well, waterfront mansion, corporate jets.
• 26:45
  Speaker 7: Now this wolf of Washington is playing catch me if
• 26:48
  Speaker 7: you can with the Feds. But this guy is no
• 26:51
  Speaker 7: Leonardo DiCaprio.
• 26:53
  Speaker 14: He vanished within seven days, and nobody knew very well.
• 26:57
  Speaker 7: Where the crafty con man is hiding is a mystery.
• 27:01
  Speaker 9: Where Darren Burg is right now is anybody's guests. Canada, Mexico,
• 27:05
  Speaker 9: Central America.
• 27:09
  Speaker 7: Darren Berg started his white collar, black tie life of
• 27:12
  Speaker 7: crime in college as a front boy at the Pi
• 27:15
  Speaker 7: Kappa Alpha House also known as Pikes at the University
• 27:18
  Speaker 7: of Oregon.
• 27:19
  Speaker 14: First showed up in Eugene and joined the fraternity in
• 27:23
  Speaker 14: the fall, and they immediately elected him treasurer.
• 27:28
  Speaker 7: Michael Stone, a former alumni advisor to the fraternity remembers
• 27:32
  Speaker 7: the smooth talking Berg dazzled his fraternity brothers with his
• 27:37
  Speaker 7: charisma and business savvy.
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: We viewed him as the boy Wonder.
• 27:42
  Speaker 7: Because at just twenty years old, the ambitious entrepreneur already
• 27:47
  Speaker 7: owned his own business, a charter bus company touting his
• 27:50
  Speaker 7: own name, Darren Berg Tours, and so they gave him
• 27:54
  Speaker 7: two titles because of that.
• 27:55
  Speaker 14: Yes, the rest of the undergraduate chapter elected him president
• 27:59
  Speaker 14: of the fraternity at the same time that he continued
• 28:01
  Speaker 14: to be treasurer of the fraternity.
• 28:04
  Speaker 7: But while his fraternity brothers were guzzling beer, Berg was
• 28:08
  Speaker 7: busy funneling Pike House money into his own bank account.
• 28:13
  Speaker 7: So you get this call one day from someone in
• 28:15
  Speaker 7: the house panicking.
• 28:16
  Speaker 14: Yeah, I got a call from the assistant treasurer who
• 28:22
  Speaker 14: called to say that all of their checks were bouncing
• 28:24
  Speaker 14: and that there was no money in the bank account
• 28:26
  Speaker 14: and they didn't understand how that could be because everybody
• 28:29
  Speaker 14: had just paid a full quarter of room, and board.
• 28:34
  Speaker 7: Stone was concerned. So we stopped buy the Pike House
• 28:37
  Speaker 7: to inspect the bank records that Berg kept tucked away
• 28:40
  Speaker 7: in his room, and sure enough, the balance was zero.
• 28:46
  Speaker 14: He came home at the time that I was looking
• 28:51
  Speaker 14: at the financial records in his.
• 28:52
  Speaker 6: Room, and he kind of went ballistic, and I.
• 28:56
  Speaker 14: Said, I'm here to try to find out where all
• 28:58
  Speaker 14: the money went, sinceverybody says they paid their house bills,
• 29:01
  Speaker 14: but there's no money in the bank account and it's
• 29:03
  Speaker 14: bouncing checks.
• 29:04
  Speaker 7: Turns out Berg was taking checks written to the fraternity,
• 29:08
  Speaker 7: endorsing them with his tour company stamp, and depositing them
• 29:12
  Speaker 7: straight into his charter bus account. How much money are
• 29:16
  Speaker 7: we talking that he stole?
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: About twenty one thousand at the time.
• 29:20
  Speaker 7: I mean, these are college kids. That's a lot of
• 29:22
  Speaker 7: money to a lot of those kids.
• 29:24
  Speaker 14: It was we ultimately got it all back. His bank,
• 29:27
  Speaker 14: First Interstate Bank took the hit for having dealt with
• 29:31
  Speaker 14: a fraudulent depositor.
• 29:33
  Speaker 7: Stone called the cops and the DA about what he
• 29:36
  Speaker 7: considered straight up embezzlement, but Eugene police never pressed charges.
• 29:41
  Speaker 7: And you won't believe why.
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: Darren's defense was that he had spent all of this.
• 29:46
  Speaker 14: Money on behalf of the fraternity and he was merely
• 29:50
  Speaker 14: reimbursing himself.
• 29:52
  Speaker 6: Lane County District Attorney in the Eugene.
• 29:54
  Speaker 14: Police Department felt that that was a good enough defense
• 29:56
  Speaker 14: that they didn't need to investigate.
• 29:58
  Speaker 7: Berg escaped an indictment, and then, just like the rep
• 30:02
  Speaker 7: money he stole, he simply disappeared. Well, he's living in
• 30:07
  Speaker 7: this house and everyone's looking at him, like, where's our money?
• 30:11
  Speaker 7: Did he leave?
• 30:11
  Speaker 14: He was gone and out of town within seven days.
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: Nobody knew where he went.
• 30:19
  Speaker 7: Stone never saw the frat frodster again, but he did
• 30:22
  Speaker 7: finally get a richly defensive earfull. How many weeks or
• 30:27
  Speaker 7: months after until you receive that very condescending letter from.
• 30:31
  Speaker 6: Him, Oh, that was the same week.
• 30:34
  Speaker 7: In his scathing letter, Berg writes, I have, at no
• 30:37
  Speaker 7: time ever embezzled any funds from the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.
• 30:42
  Speaker 7: What an erroneous assumption. Unfortunately, I will be unable to
• 30:46
  Speaker 7: participate in your Perry Mason game. If for some reason, however,
• 30:50
  Speaker 7: you should have any questions, I suggest you direct them
• 30:54
  Speaker 7: to my attorney. He's paid good money to answer stupid questions.
• 31:00
  Speaker 14: I wrote him a letter back saying I called your attorney,
• 31:02
  Speaker 14: and your attorney says he's never heard of you, So
• 31:05
  Speaker 14: I'm still waiting. That was classic Darren puffing, up coming
• 31:10
  Speaker 14: up with with you know, this grandiose response and rebuttal
• 31:14
  Speaker 14: that if you just peel back the veneer, there's nothing there.
• 31:20
  Speaker 7: Where did Darren Burg go? Nobody knew for sure until
• 31:26
  Speaker 7: he resurfaced in Portland, Oregon, and started up an advertising business,
• 31:31
  Speaker 7: even bringing some of his former fraternity brothers on board.
• 31:35
  Speaker 7: Wait a minute, his same fraternity brothers who he stole
• 31:39
  Speaker 7: money from a couple.
• 31:40
  Speaker 6: Yeah, there was two members who worked for him.
• 31:43
  Speaker 7: He was able to convince them it wasn't his fault.
• 31:45
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 31:46
  Speaker 7: But Berg's new business venture ended up much like the
• 31:49
  Speaker 7: old one, a scam. This time, the US Attorney indicted
• 31:54
  Speaker 7: him on bank fraud charges, accusing Berg of stealing nineteen
• 31:58
  Speaker 7: thousand dollars from a s Portland bank in a check
• 32:01
  Speaker 7: kiding scheme where an individual writes a bad check on
• 32:04
  Speaker 7: one account and then covers it by writing a second
• 32:07
  Speaker 7: bad check from another account. Berg pleaded guilty, but ultimately
• 32:13
  Speaker 7: dodged a bullet. The slick talking Berg cooperated with cops,
• 32:17
  Speaker 7: gave the money back, and convinced authorities to let him
• 32:21
  Speaker 7: off the hook.
• 32:22
  Speaker 14: He ended up making some arrangements where he paid restitution
• 32:26
  Speaker 14: and left town. But as far as I know, his
• 32:28
  Speaker 14: returney brothers lost the money that they had loaned him
• 32:32
  Speaker 14: in that business.
• 32:33
  Speaker 7: From there, Berg takes his sketchy show on the road again,
• 32:37
  Speaker 7: heading to Seattle, where in this gleaming glass tower he
• 32:41
  Speaker 7: launches yet another new business venture.
• 32:43
  Speaker 9: Darren Berg's mortgage company, Meridian Funds, was set up to
• 32:48
  Speaker 9: collect money from investors and invest that money into mortgages.
• 32:52
  Speaker 7: But wait for it, instead.
• 32:55
  Speaker 9: Of using the money to buy mortgages and invest he
• 32:58
  Speaker 9: was living lavishly off the money, and he was placating
• 33:02
  Speaker 9: his investors who were getting monthly dividend payments by attracting
• 33:06
  Speaker 9: new investors.
• 33:08
  Speaker 7: That is the textbook definition of a Ponzi scheme. Darren
• 33:13
  Speaker 7: Berg became a master at the game of attraction. Watch
• 33:18
  Speaker 7: as he gives a slick sales pitch to hook prospective clients.
• 33:22
  Speaker 14: Key for us is to get in front of people
• 33:24
  Speaker 14: and get them to know who we are.
• 33:25
  Speaker 6: You need to know how we run our business.
• 33:27
  Speaker 9: Darren Berg was very convincing. And darren Berg also always
• 33:31
  Speaker 9: thought he was the smartest guy in the room.
• 33:34
  Speaker 7: But is he smart enough to outsmart the Feds?
• 33:37
  Speaker 9: He always thought he could stay one step ahead of everybody.
• 33:39
  Speaker 7: The answer is yes, and you won't believe how.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: He did it. We return now to today's story the
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: money mirage once again. Here's Melissa McCarty.
• 33:51
  Speaker 7: Chris darren Berg owned two private jets several multi million
• 33:55
  Speaker 7: dollar homes, but the Fed say Berg and his life
• 33:58
  Speaker 7: were the same thing, one big fraud. Darren Burg offers
• 34:03
  Speaker 7: his clients big returns on real estate investments, but he's
• 34:07
  Speaker 7: actually running a multi million dollar scam.
• 34:11
  Speaker 9: He really used the trappings of wealth as a big
• 34:15
  Speaker 9: sales pitch to his investors.
• 34:18
  Speaker 7: In addition to using his client's cash to fund the
• 34:20
  Speaker 7: high life, he also used it to launch a lifelong obsession.
• 34:24
  Speaker 7: Dating back to his college days at the University of Oregon.
• 34:28
  Speaker 9: Darren Berg was fascinated with buses. His grandfather had been
• 34:31
  Speaker 9: a bus driver and he heard stories about, you know,
• 34:33
  Speaker 9: his grandfather driving a bus and traveling around, and that
• 34:35
  Speaker 9: really appealed to him, and it's stuck with him as
• 34:38
  Speaker 9: an adult.
• 34:39
  Speaker 7: So Berg cooked up the idea to launch a luxury
• 34:43
  Speaker 7: motor coach company with a fleet of buses catering to
• 34:47
  Speaker 7: high end clientele.
• 34:48
  Speaker 9: They were leased out to sports teams, to politicians. The
• 34:54
  Speaker 9: governor of Washington was running for reelection and she chartered
• 34:57
  Speaker 9: one of his buses for his campaign.
• 35:00
  Speaker 7: Like always, Berg was able to get away with his
• 35:03
  Speaker 7: high flying business schemes because his sleek salesmanship lured fresh
• 35:08
  Speaker 7: blood into his web of lies. But also, like always,
• 35:12
  Speaker 7: the golden boy ran off with the goal when his
• 35:15
  Speaker 7: bus company went south.
• 35:17
  Speaker 9: The key to the Pondee scheme was always having fresh investors,
• 35:21
  Speaker 9: you know, bringing in new cash. Early on, some of
• 35:24
  Speaker 9: this ones were actually legitimate, but as the years went on,
• 35:27
  Speaker 9: the Ponzi scheme became more prevalent, and he became deeper
• 35:31
  Speaker 9: and deeper in debt.
• 35:33
  Speaker 7: And right when the king of investor scams, Bernie Madoff,
• 35:36
  Speaker 7: fell from his fraudulent throne, so did darren Berg. His
• 35:40
  Speaker 7: elaborate house of cards came crashing down.
• 35:44
  Speaker 9: That just was the beginning of the end for Darren.
• 35:47
  Speaker 7: He was arrested for embezzling and stashing millions of dollars
• 35:51
  Speaker 7: in exotic offshore accounts.
• 35:53
  Speaker 9: When people started hearing about ponde schemes and a worry
• 35:57
  Speaker 9: about a crumbling housing market, coached him about getting their
• 36:01
  Speaker 9: investments back, and Darren didn't have the money to pave
• 36:04
  Speaker 9: him back, and so that set off a mad scramble
• 36:07
  Speaker 9: for Darren.
• 36:09
  Speaker 7: For years, darren Berg had lived this sweet life. Now
• 36:12
  Speaker 7: the fifty one year old was about to get his
• 36:15
  Speaker 7: just desserts.
• 36:16
  Speaker 9: Then they started suing him in court, and they filed
• 36:20
  Speaker 9: lawsuits against him, started seizing his property.
• 36:23
  Speaker 7: So what did Darren do? He filed for bankruptcy and
• 36:26
  Speaker 7: broke her to deal. To help the bankers unravel his crimes,
• 36:30
  Speaker 7: or so they thought.
• 36:33
  Speaker 9: The authorities allowed Darren Berg to participate with investigators. The
• 36:38
  Speaker 9: rationale was that it was a very complicated scheme, lots
• 36:43
  Speaker 9: of accounts, lots of paperwork, and who better than Darren
• 36:47
  Speaker 9: Burg to help them decipher it.
• 36:50
  Speaker 7: But it was all smoke and mirrors.
• 36:53
  Speaker 9: Darren presented himself as someone who would cooperate, so he
• 36:57
  Speaker 9: was allowed to move from sat to take a consulting
• 37:01
  Speaker 9: job in California.
• 37:04
  Speaker 7: It wasn't long before the Feds discovered, like so many
• 37:07
  Speaker 7: other people in Berg's life, they too were being played.
• 37:11
  Speaker 7: Darren was plotting his great escape by stashing money in
• 37:16
  Speaker 7: secret bank accounts in Belize.
• 37:18
  Speaker 9: He always thought he could stay one step ahead of everybody,
• 37:20
  Speaker 9: ahead of his investors, ahead of the bankruptcy court, ahead
• 37:25
  Speaker 9: of the FBI. He just had this confidence that he
• 37:30
  Speaker 9: could beat it, basically beat the rat.
• 37:35
  Speaker 7: But finally Berg's time had run out.
• 37:38
  Speaker 9: Darren Berg was charged with orchestrating Washington State's largest pontie scheme.
• 37:45
  Speaker 7: Berg pleaded guilty and was sentenced to eighteen years in
• 37:48
  Speaker 7: the federal pen for fleecing over eight hundred investors, many
• 37:52
  Speaker 7: of them elderly, out of one hundred and forty million
• 37:55
  Speaker 7: dollars in a con he ran over a decade.
• 37:59
  Speaker 9: He did stand before the federal judge and say that
• 38:01
  Speaker 9: he did these crimes intentionally. He didn't apologize. Darrenburg was
• 38:07
  Speaker 9: not a person to apologize.
• 38:10
  Speaker 7: Berg spent the next six years doing time at various
• 38:13
  Speaker 7: minimum security federal prisons in California.
• 38:16
  Speaker 16: He's not considered dangerous.
• 38:19
  Speaker 7: He may not be dangerous, but he is cunning. It
• 38:22
  Speaker 7: was at the Atwater Satellite work camp where he performed
• 38:25
  Speaker 7: his ultimate magic trick. He disappeared. Darrenburg was only housed
• 38:31
  Speaker 7: at the Atwater Penitentiary minimum security facility for about a year,
• 38:35
  Speaker 7: but it was enough time for him to realize the
• 38:37
  Speaker 7: only obstacle standing between him and freedom was a fence
• 38:41
  Speaker 7: similar to this, and just beyond the fence in airport
• 38:46
  Speaker 7: where US marshalls say it's likely Berg hopped a private
• 38:50
  Speaker 7: jet and began his new life as an international fugitive.
• 38:54
  Speaker 16: The penitentiary, it's in an open field, so there's different
• 38:57
  Speaker 16: means of how he could have escaped, but works on
• 39:00
  Speaker 16: in all leeds.
• 39:02
  Speaker 7: So how is it possible that Berg could simply stroll
• 39:05
  Speaker 7: out of a federal prison.
• 39:06
  Speaker 16: It's definitely difficult to escape.
• 39:10
  Speaker 6: You know, they do the counts.
• 39:11
  Speaker 16: You know everybody is washed over, but it's still possible.
• 39:16
  Speaker 7: Obviously, when you showed up, were you looking in all
• 39:19
  Speaker 7: these farmlands in the airport? Were you searching for him
• 39:22
  Speaker 7: literally on foot?
• 39:23
  Speaker 16: When the team showed up to do their initial investigation,
• 39:27
  Speaker 16: the investigators at the facility, they had already done their
• 39:30
  Speaker 16: own search, and obviously we picked up where they left off.
• 39:35
  Speaker 7: For now, Darren Berg's whereabouts are anybody's guests? Do you
• 39:39
  Speaker 7: think he's in this country? Where do you think he went?
• 39:41
  Speaker 14: I have little doubt that he probably is someplace where
• 39:46
  Speaker 14: it's warm and doesn't have an extradition treaty to the
• 39:48
  Speaker 14: United States. There's a number of those places in the Caribbean.
• 39:52
  Speaker 14: They only exists to hide money.
• 39:54
  Speaker 9: Where Darren Burg is right now is anybody's guess. I
• 39:57
  Speaker 9: wouldn't be surprised if he was in Anada, Mexico, Central America.
• 40:03
  Speaker 9: Nothing about where he is right now. What surprised me.
• 40:06
  Speaker 7: Darren Berg is now fifty five. His mug is plastered
• 40:10
  Speaker 7: on wanted posters all over. Tips have poured in from
• 40:14
  Speaker 7: around the country, but as of now, the master manipulator
• 40:18
  Speaker 7: is still on the lamb. Obviously one of his best schemes.
• 40:22
  Speaker 16: Yet he's intelligent and cunning to create a Ponzi scheme
• 40:28
  Speaker 16: and take millions of dollars from hundreds of people. There's
• 40:31
  Speaker 16: no stocking to what he's capable of.