02x09 - Spinks and Carpio

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NARRATOR: This time on "K*llers Caught on Camera."

In the UK, a young woman with a love of horses

is stalked by a work colleague.

A bag of weapons is found at the stables.

She just said, Mum, he's weird.

NARRATOR: And in the US a woman is relentlessly

pursued by her estranged husband who tries

to ram her car off the road.

NARRATOR: And events take a lethal turn.

MAN 1: It just sounds like something

bad is happening to her.

WOMAN 1: We know what happened because the video

tells us what happened.

MAN 2: I heard some g*nshots.

POLICE: Drop it, whatever it is!

Drop it!

That does not prove that I k*lled my wife.

MAN 3: The camera doesn't lie.

NARRATOR: In the UK, Old Whittington, Derbyshire.

A market town 40 miles east of Manchester

in the middle of England.

It was home to 23-year-old Gracie Spinks.

[laughs]

She was my first baby.

Beautiful, really beautiful baby.

The first thing that I saw was these beautiful, massive

blue eyes looking at me.

RICHARD SPINKS: I'll never forget that moment.

It was a magic moment.

ALISON WARD: Then we had a brother as well 16 months later.

So she was really, really close to Tom

because they were almost like twins,

you know, born so close in age.

[screams, giggles]

She was just so beautiful, and bubbly and a happy child.

ALISON WARD: She did dancing as a little girl.

[vocalizing]

I bought her a guitar and a ukulele.

And I had a karaoke machine in my office.

And she'd go there every Friday and sing to her heart's content

on her own.

ALISON WARD: I know it's a bit of a cliché about lighting

up the room, but she did.

You know when she walked in, you kind of know, oh, she's here,

you know, she's home.

ALL: [SINGING] Happy birthday, dear Gracie.

Happy birthday.

NARRATOR: As a young girl, Gracie

spent most of her free time working with horses.

ALISON WARD: In school holidays, she'd be there all day,

mucking out, doing all the yucky jobs, filling hay nets feed.

And then at the end of the day, they got, like, a horse

riding lesson out of it.

NARRATOR: In her early 20s, her own horse, Paddy,

was the love of her life.

They spent hours together at the stables.

Gracie became a swimming instructor.

But in March 2020, during the COVID pandemic,

her job was put on hold and she had to find other work.

ALISON WARD: She saw a job advertised.

It was an Amazon type e-commerce.

She made some nice friends there and really,

really enjoyed her job there, yeah.

NARRATOR: In the autumn of 2020, one of her colleagues,

Michael Sellers, asked her out.

Stephanie Wareham is a journalist

for the "Press Association."

Michael Sellers is 35 years old.

He lives with his family in Sheffield,

and he was a supervisor at the farm where Gracie worked.

ALISON WARD: She went and had this meal with him

and she came back.

She'd had a nice evening and she spoke fondly of him.

NARRATOR: But Sellers wanted more than friendship.

And in December, there was an unannounced visit to her home.

Apparently, he'd forced himself on her

and she really, really was not happy with that at all.

After that night, it was a big turning point that she

just said, mummy, he's weird.

NARRATOR: Gracie called an end to the friendship.

Sellers did not take Gracie's decision well.

She blocked him on all social media

because she didn't like how he was messaging

her about what you're doing, who you see, and where you're going.

NARRATOR: Sellers followed her every move

on security cameras at work.

He was a supervisor, which meant that he could access

the cameras and he would follow Gracie

about watching her every move.

RICHARD SPINKS: He could check where she was

and who she was talking to.

And they're the main signs of a stalker.

You know, you just want to know where that person is, what

they're doing, who they're talking to,

their hours of work, the places they visit,

their likes or dislikes.

You get obsessed with them.

And that's the way it was with him.

When we think of stalking, I think

we have this picture of someone following someone

physically around a space.

But actually, about half of stalking behavior

is digital stalking.

So that could be on social media,

but it can also be using tech-assisted tools

like cameras.

And what you find is, especially once you start combining

the two, when you've got digital and real-life stalking, that's

when you've got really problematic behavior.

I remember Gracie coming home quite cross saying that weirdo,

he's been watching me on CCTV.

And he's asking people that I'm talking to, you know,

what we're talking about.

It's got nothing to do with him.

JULIE SHAW: Stalking is incredibly hard to deal with.

It's incredibly awkward to confront people.

When you confront people, they usually

use what are called neutralization

techniques, which is that they try

to explain away their behavior.

And they'll say, oh, no, no, I was already in the area

or I was checking the video footage for something else.

You're being paranoid.

And you, sort of, get that gaslighting in there as well.

And so there's always a reason.

And so it's very hard for you as a victim to even feel like what

you're experiencing is actually happening

and is not just in your head.

NARRATOR: By Christmas, his behavior became more extreme.

He'd asked Gracie what her favorite car was

and she'd said a Scirocco.

So he went and bought one.

He told her it cost 15,000 pounds and said,

does this impress you?

And will you go out with me now?

And she said, no, no.

She thought it was really, really weird.

Really weird.

Turning up with unwanted gifts is a classic part

of stalking behavior.

It itself is a form of manipulation,

and that can increase the fear response as well correctly.

And even worse is if those gifts are, in fact, used almost

in a transactional manner where the person is saying,

well, I got you this and so we're obviously dating.

NARRATOR: On January 4, 2021, Gracie left

early to see her horse, Paddy.

Michael Sellers was already there.

She rang me on the phone from the car and she was crying.

She says, mum, she said, he's at the stables.

He's waiting for me.

It's a place that she felt safe in.

And suddenly, he was there interfering with her

and that spooked her.

It really frightened her.

NARRATOR: It was a turning point for Gracie.

She drove straight to work and reported

Sellers to her managers.

[suspenseful music]

An internal investigation revealed that Michael

had done the same thing to eight women

that he had worked with before.

And this included setting up fake social media profiles

to stalk female colleagues.

NARRATOR: On January 27, following

misconduct proceedings, Michael Sellers was fired.

The problem with losing your job and having this obsession

is that now you've got nothing else to think about potentially.

And so you've got even more time to physically and digitally

stalk that person.

It takes time to figure out exactly where somebody

is all the time, and to follow them

and to show up where they are.

NARRATOR: Just over a week later,

he appealed against his dismissal,

saying all of the women and Gracie were lying.

Gracie decided to call the police.

I don't think she really wanted anything particular

to happen to him, but she just wanted

the police to be aware of the problems

that she'd had with him.

And that was very, sort of, typical Gracie that, you know,

she didn't want trouble.

She didn't want any trouble.

I think she, kind of, thought, if I'm just kind to him

and, you know, it'll just go away.

She was very naive.

She was naive in a lot of things, wasn't she?

Yeah.

She thought everyone was nice, you know,

and the world was beautiful.

NARRATOR: After Sellers was reported to the police,

officers confronted him in a parking lot

after walking his dog.

He told the police that he was in a relationship with Gracie.

[ominous music]

And that's an illusion that he had.

That's a big danger signal and a flag to say, hang on,

something's not right.

An erotomanic delusion is where you have this idea

that you're in a romantic relationship

with someone when you don't.

Originally, it was actually used only

to describe women who fantasize or thought that they

were in relationship with men.

But when women have erotomanic delusions,

they usually are quite quiet, they're very subdued,

they don't really act on it very much.

But with men who have these same delusions,

they're much more likely to act on it.

And it can lead to violence.

So it's a very different manifestation.

Underlying factors there where men also might feel like they're

owed this relationship because they're now investing so

much time and energy into it.

RICHARD SPINKS: I think he probably,

at the time, got the impression from that police officer,

well, you know, they're not really serious about doing

anything about it, you know.

They've just come along and had a word.

I'll carry on with whatever I was going to be doing.

STEPHANIE WAREHAM: He told the police

that he respected Gracie's decision

and he wouldn't speak to her again.

And the case was closed.

But Michael's obsession was continuing

and it was reaching new levels.

[ominous music]

NARRATOR: On May 6, 2021, the police

received another alarming call, this time from a dog walker.

NARRATOR: The bag had been found very close to where

Gracie kept her horse.

[suspenseful music]

The bag and its contents was taken back to the police

station, but it was dismissed.

It was simply marked as found property.

NARRATOR: Gracie and her parents had

no idea the bag had been found.

ALISON WARD: Had the police gone and they'd just said,

girls, this has been found this afternoon, Do you recognize it?

Have you seen anybody?

Gracie would have recognized it as Michael's because of the kind

of bag it was.

And also, it got a very distinct water

bottle that was always on the corner of his desk at work.

He was obviously watching her and was knowing her movements.

Maybe something was going to happen that night.

NARRATOR: Four weeks after the bag of weapons was found,

Sellers displayed worrying activity.

On June 16, he was filmed buying garbage bags and tape.

The following day, another flurry of activity

in the white Volkswagen Scirocco he had bought to impress

Gracie six months before.

Halfway between his and Gracie's house,

he stopped at a drive-thru for a snack.

Ray Evans is a forensic image analyst

and works in close conjunction with law enforcement.

We see here, the car is seen near the vicinity

of Gracie's house.

And we know that there's no reason for him to be there.

And then 39 minutes later, he's back home.

And then later on, he comes out after 8:00 in the evening.

And we see Seller's car going through the CCTV

very close to Gracie's house.

And it's the second time during the day that this has happened.

NARRATOR: In the very early hours

of the next morning, June 18, he loaded up a large box,

its contents unknown.

As he comes out of the house carrying this box,

he already knows what he's going to do.

NARRATOR: He returned shortly after keeping

his purpose and plan secret.

Michael continued traveling back and forth into the night.

He was captured on camera multiple times,

traveling from his home to Gracie's house and the stables.

Here we have his car in the early hours of the morning.

The stables where Gracie kept her horse is in this area here.

There's no reason for him to be there in the early hours

of the morning.

NARRATOR: Seller's car was also caught

on dash cam near the stables.

With all of this footage available,

it makes it that much easier for the police

to be able to track and trace people.

NARRATOR: Before dawn, Sellers was out again.

Comes out.

We don't know what's in the bag, but we're

able to, again, track him quite easily from his house.

We see his car coming down the hill and he turns right here.

And a few minutes later, we see him

walking in the direction of where the stables are located.

It's early in the morning, 5:55, and he is obviously carrying

something in his hands.

He walks right up towards the direction of the stables.

[ominous music]

NARRATOR: Gracie had just woken up.

ALISON WARD: She were running late, actually, that morning.

We just had brief words in the kitchen, just a normal bye,

love you, love you.

[ominous music]

NARRATOR: On the morning of June 18, 2021,

Alison got a call from the partner

of Gracie's friend, Nikki, who also

kept a horse at the stables.

ALISON WARD: I'd literally just arrived at work.

They'd rang me and just said, you need to get to the stables.

Nikki's found Gracie at the stables

and she's covered in blood.

I just thought one of the horses had maybe kicked her.

I just thought an accident had happened up there.

I got to the stables.

I went into the field and Nikki and her daughter

came walking over to me.

Nikki got blood all over her jeans on the knees,

and she was really upset.

The guy with the air ambulance told me to sit down.

And I said, no, I don't want to sit down.

But I just knew what they were going to tell me.

He just went, despite attempts, you know, she's passed away.

I just sat there going, no, no.

Terrible.

[sirens blaring]

It was revealed that she had been stabbed

and she had 10 stab wounds, including 1 to her neck.

[melancholic music]

ALISON WARD: We know Gracie fought back.

They said the injuries that she had got on her hands

and injuries that he'd sustained,

they could tell that there'd been a fight between them.

So we knew that she'd stood up to him.

NARRATOR: Gracie's k*ller was interrupted by her friends.

ALISON WARD: And Nikki had seen a man

running away down the field.

They disturbed him.

So the police were looking all around Poolsbrook

and using drones.

We're all just hugging each other.

What is happening here?

We can't believe this has happened.

This is unbelievable.

This is so sad.

What's going on?

We both stood there in silence, you know.

Terrible.

I can't believe this has happened.

What's happened to my beautiful daughter?

NARRATOR: Social media was frantic.

Anna White posted a picture of the bag

of weapons she found near the stables a month before.

It was the first time it had been published.

ALISON WARD: Nikki that found Gracie

that morning saw the contents.

She was horrified because she recognized that the axe that

was in the brown bag of weapons was also

exactly the same as what she'd seen at the stables

that morning.

NARRATOR: Almost three hours after Gracie was k*lled,

another body was found.

It was her stalker.

Michael Sellers had taken his own life in the field



There was a black holdall and inside it was a handwritten note

saying, don't lie.

After the discovery of his body, police went round

to Michael's home address in Sheffield,

and it was there that they found a suicide note.

NARRATOR: Words that were hard to comprehend.

He blamed Gracie really.

He said, he couldn't live with her lies.

Totally premeditated and planned, the whole thing.

NARRATOR: The inquest into Gracie's death

concluded that Gracie was unlawfully

k*lled by a colleague.

Derbyshire police accepted there were

serious failings in how Gracie's initial complaint was

dealt with.

Bitter, angry, hurt, let down.

I feel devastated by their inactions

to, yeah, to my daughter's cry for help.

We do believe she'd be here today

if things were handled differently.

NARRATOR: Gracie's parents are now

working with the Derbyshire police and other forces

to help improve the way police respond to stalking complaints.

RICHARD SPINKS: I feel like Gracie is nudging us along

and wants us to do this 100%.

I feel like she's there helping us doing.

Honestly, I think it doesn't make it any easier

and it will never go away.

But in a way, if we can save one life, then it's worth it.

ALISON WARD: This is my Gracie tree.

So different people have bought me different little ornaments

and trinkets, and I just keep this tree lit

all the time, day and night.

It's just on all the time.

And it's my little Gracie tree, my little bit of comfort.

You know, she had a whole life to live, to give a lot of love.

And a big chunk has been ripped out of our lives

never to be replaced.

[melancholic music]

RICHARD SPINKS: It'll never go away.

ALISON WARD: No, never.

And it's very hard, very hard to live with.

A couple of her friends have had babies.

As pleased as I am for her friends, it hurts me.

Because you just feel like everybody else's lives

are just moving on.

[melancholic music]

NARRATOR: In the UK, stalking is now being taken increasingly

seriously by law enforcement.

JULIE SHAW: Anyone can become a stalker.

Anyone can develop these, sort of,

obsessive thoughts, this repetitive behavior,

and get stuck in a spiral, especially if they have

what's called an insecure attachment style.

So they're not very good at connecting with people,

especially romantically.

It's mostly this idea of you're stuck

in this thought pattern, and this obsession,

and you start following it.

And you fall into this cycle of behavior

and you need someone else to break you out of it,

partly because you don't have insight

that this is bad behavior and that this is damaging somebody

else's mental and physical well-being

And that's why it's important to have training for people who

have a past of stalking or who are suspected of stalking people

to make sure that they learn ways to break

out of those obsession cycles.

NARRATOR: In our next case, an attempt

is made to break the cycle with dramatic consequences.

[dramatic music]

Beaumont, Texas, just over 80 miles east of Houston

on the Texas coastal plain.

Violent crime in Beaumont is double the US average.

It was home to 32-year-old Liz Carpio and friend Cindi Mendoza.

CINDI MENDOZA: She was such a loving, and caring person.

She was beautiful inside and out.

She could light up a room.

We saw each other every day.

We had birthday parties at her mother's house.

It was like family.

[cheering]

[speaking spanish]

NARRATOR: Liz and Cindi worked for the same auto parts company

and became close friends.

She enjoyed doing audio, changing speakers

or putting a big speaker box in the back of her trunk

or anybody's car.

That was her thing.

In April 2019, Liz met Bradley Konning

when he started working at the auto parts store

where Liz was a manager.

They started dating, and a few months

later, Liz became pregnant.

They got married shortly after.

I thought that she was happy.

I didn't see any red flags or whatsoever.

NARRATOR: But as time went by, Cindi started

to notice things weren't right.

She started being a little bit more open about her relationship

with her husband.

And that's when I later learned that he was a*usive,

controlling, manipulative.

NARRATOR: Bradley Konning had a history

of violently assaulting Liz.

She reported it to the family violence unit

at Beaumont Police Department.

Detective Brian Kokenes took on her case.

Liz and Bradley had an on-again,

off-again relationship, and she did report

that she was being assaulted.

She was punched, strangled.

It was a very toxic relationship.

Let's say, cooperated.

Not much we can really do.

We try to send them the right direction.

There's counseling.

There's resources out there for you to relocate.

But we don't live behind those doors.

These women are scared.

That's not easy for them to get out of the relationships.

Sometimes it's easier for them just to stay there.

And statistically, the woman will

take seven beatings before they even

called the police to report it.

So there's probably more abuse than what we even know about.

NARRATOR: Liz was living in constant fear of Bradley.

On August 22, 2020.

She called 911 because he was chasing her down in his car.

NARRATOR: Bradley had tried to ram Liz off the road

while his six-year-old niece was in the passenger seat.

The officers caught up with him and Bradley was arrested.

Trying to run someone off the road

and thinking that that is going to have

any kind of benefit for you and the relationship is--

I mean, most of us would say that's ludicrous.

And I don't think that people who

are engaging in this behavior think

that this is going to work.

I think they are acting out of bad management

of their emotions and the inability

to solve the problems that they have.

So it's an inability to communicate effectively.

It's an inability to express anger.

It's an inability to manage anger.

And that manifesting in this way.

NARRATOR: Bradley was charged with aggravated as*ault, evading

detention and child endangerment.

He remained in jail for 12 days, but he

convinced Liz to bail him out.

CINDI MENDOZA: Whenever he was released,

she was the one that picked him up.

She was the one that was there for all of the arrangements

of his probation officer.

I guess he had manipulated her that he would

be the only one that would accept her

or that would care for her.

NARRATOR: But Bradley's aggressive behavior continued

when he got out of jail.

He started harassing her.

He started making so many phone calls, email after email,

threats, harassing her.

She felt like her life was in danger.

She didn't feel safe anywhere she would go.

And she started to carry a g*n.

One of the main reasons cited in the United States

for g*n ownership is for personal security.

So it's this idea that if I have a g*n, I can defend myself,

which there's an element of truth to that.

However, statistically, you're twice as

likely to be m*rder*d if you have a weapon in the home

than if you don't, which is huge.

So if you think it's going to make you safer, it's I mean,

statistically not.

NARRATOR: Now armed, Liz realized

that she had to stop her support and completely

disconnect from Bradley.

BRIAN KOKENES: She was pretty upset.

She saying, you know, I made a mistake.

I regret what I did.

She helped him get out of jail this time.

She was brainwashed, but she filed for divorce.

NARRATOR: Liz also installed security cameras on her house.

But on April 28, 2021, Liz's electricity was cut off.

One night, I get a phone call from her stating that she

couldn't see anything on her cameras

because the lights had been cut off.

NARRATOR: But Liz's new camera had managed

to capture a man running away.

[ominous music]

It was Bradley.

Detective Sergeant Yvette Borrero

runs the family violence unit at Beaumont Police Department.

YVETTE BORRERO: She had told him that she

wanted a divorce so that's why he

was ramping up his aggression.

She even posted on her Facebook page

that she was worried that he was becoming more violent,

and that she also posted that if anything happened to her,

it'd be him.

NARRATOR: The next morning, April 29, Liz woke up

to find her tires slashed.

Immediately, she bought more storage for the video recorded

on her security cameras, then went straight to the courthouse

to apply for a protective order.

BRIAN KOKENES: I think she saw the light.

She was ready to get out of the relationship.

She was filing for a protective order, which prevents

him from coming around her.

So she was going in the right direction.

Finally, she's going in the right direction.

NARRATOR: Liz left the courthouse

to go back home briefly and sell Bradley's truck.

As she was driving back, she called Cindi.

I was on the phone with her for 10 minutes.

She said, I'm going to go ahead and I'm going

to pull it for the driveway.

She gets out of her car.

She pulls up the truck that she's

going to go ahead and sell off.

And she tells me, you know, I'm going to just let it run

to make sure that it's running.

She tells me, he's here.

He's here. Call the cops.

Call the cops.

NARRATOR: Officer Kory Gerber was first on the scene.

KORY GERBER: As I pulled up, exited my patrol unit,

and there was a truck that was still running.

So I figured somebody was trying to leave.

It wasn't until I got around the front of the truck,

I found Liz deceased on the ground.

She was on her back and her face was completely covered in blood.

So I couldn't tell if she'd been beaten or shot.

I called for a supervisor, along with detectives, to come help.

[radio chatter]

NARRATOR: Yvette Borrero responded

to the scene with detectives from the family violence unit.

That's 79549 Lincoln 3, an '05 blue Pacifica.

When we arrived on scene, it was very apparent that this was

going to be a homicide case.

She was laying in the driveway, clearly deceased.

There was what looked like a bouquet of flowers

laying on the ground.

There was also a handgun.

There was no suspect vehicle or anything like that.

So we didn't know the k*ller walked up, rode a bicycle up,

drove up in a car.

We just had no idea.

NARRATOR: The police determined that Liz had been k*lled

by a g*nsh*t to the head.

The medical examiner confirmed that it was very close

range because it left stippling on her head.

She probably absolutely knew who shot her because she

saw it coming right at her.

When I arrived to the scene, I see ambulance.

And I see something on the floor and I see her mother crying

on another side of the street.

I said, well, what's going on?

The detective at that time also lets me

know that she had been k*lled.

[ominous music]

NARRATOR: As detectives tried to work out

how Liz had been k*lled, Brian Kokenes noticed

her investment in surveillance.

I look up and I see several cameras

on the side of her house.

And at that point, we were hoping to show what happened.

We need to get those cameras.

That's our case.

When we first arrived, we had no idea who possibly

could have done the sh**ting.

We had a lead on a possible first name

because we had received a 911 call from the victim's friend.

YVETTE BORRERO: This person was identified as Bradley Konning.

He was her estranged husband that she

was trying to escape from due to previous family violence.

In fact, that morning, she had gone

to what's called victims assistance to apply

for a protective order.

And then later that day, she was going

to meet with one of our detectives

to file formal charges on him regarding harassment.

So this was an ongoing domestic violence situation.

NARRATOR: Bradley's sister knew her brother

well and arrived on the scene.

BRIAN KOKENES: We spoke with Bradley's sister.

She was very cooperative.

She told us that Bradley had just used her car

and just brought it back to her.

While searching her vehicle, we found a receipt in her car

from HEB, which is a local grocery

store right down the road.

On those receipts, it gives you the date, time.

We went to the HEB store and was able to pull

security footage from that store and from that register.

NARRATOR: The footage showed Bradley Konning buying a bouquet

of flowers at a grocery store less than 2

miles away from Liz's house.

This video is very important because it shows

his clothing, his demeanor.

But the flowers were very important.

[suspenseful music]

He made this purchase around 9:35 AM.

And around 10:04 AM is when we received

the call of the homicide.

That showed that he was there within minutes.

At this moment, in the course of this investigation,

this evidence was very crucial to us

because it gave us the probable cause

that we needed to detain him.

NARRATOR: But they still had to find Bradley.

A special unit was sent out to try and track him down.

[sirens blaring]

We were able to send out a special assignments unit.

And these men are geared to searching

and hunting down people.

NARRATOR: They spoke to anyone who knew Bradley.

NARRATOR: Finally, just after 10 o'clock

that night, they found Bradley and he was arrested.

Yvette Borrero called Liz's mom to let her know.

They found him at his aunt's house

outside the city of Beaumont, and they brought him back in.

We questioned him.

Bradley did not help us at all.

He lawyered up.

Said he didn't do it.

He pretty much had a smirk on his face, didn't care.

Showed no emotion, didn't ask any-- didn't

ask about where his wife was, or where his child was,

or anything.

NARRATOR: Bradley was held in jail on a $1 million

bond for Liz's m*rder.

But to keep him locked up, the police needed irrefutable proof

that he k*lled Liz.

The evidence they needed was on Liz's surveillance camera.

But finding the footage was a technical challenge.

We discovered that her security

footage was actually on the app and it was in a cloud.

They actually were out of China so our laws

here don't apply to them.

So trying to subpoena this footage or anything

was not going to happen.

We also had a time limit where the footage on the cloud

gets wiped off.

And I believe we had 15 days to get to that footage

and we needed a pass code.

The clock's ticking.

We have to get to this footage or we're going to lose it.

NARRATOR: They sent Liz's phone off to tech experts

to break the code, but the process was taking too long.

They got the phone back and resorted to old fashioned police

methods.

We all sit down with Liz's family to, sort of,

hey, start giving us any code you can think Liz would have

used, date of births, anything special

that we can start typing in.

And that's when me and Sergeant Borrero start punching numbers.

It's very frustrating trying to get in that phone.

I don't think me and Sergeant Borrero slept very much.

That was two three days.

We were scared we were going to lose that footage.

You want justice served for this lady

and for her family to have some type of closure.

That's your job.

NARRATOR: It was painstaking work.

YVETTE BORRERO: I was just trying

several different four-digit combinations.

Finally, the phone opened up for me with a code

that happened to be 2004.

NARRATOR: The code provided access to significant evidence.

Yvette and her team were about to finally

see on camera who k*lled Liz.

[suspenseful music]

YVETTE BORRERO: This is our victim

coming home to her residence.

She pulls into her driveway.

She's bringing out her garbage can

We see that she's on the phone with her friend.

As she's on the phone with her friend,

we see the suspect coming up.

[suspenseful music]

YVETTE BORRERO: She pulls a g*n out to defend herself.

Dude, don't mess with me!

No!

Stop!

[g*nsh*t]

[unsettling music]

It's brutal.

It's graphic to hear her voice speaking

and then she's just extinguished like that within minutes.

It's horrible.

It's horrible.

I hate it for her family.

I hate it for her child that's going

to grow up to know that her father did this to her mother.

And for what?

For no reason, just to be controlling.

NARRATOR: The evidence caught on camera

could not have been more incriminating.

YVETTE BORRERO: He steps out wearing

the same clothing that he was wearing at the grocery store.

He calmly walks up to her, then he runs at her.

He overpowers her, knocks her out, takes the g*n,

shoots her point blank, throws the g*n at her, and leaves.

He leaves the flowers.

This video was key evidence.

Now, we were able to prove that without a shadow of doubt,

this is what he did.

This is how he did it.

NARRATOR: Bradley was unaware the police had recovered

the footage from Liz's house.

He thought he'd disabled the cameras the night before when

he turned the breaker off.

When this finally went to court,

he still did not take responsibility

up until he really knew that the footage was so very telling.

He still tried to make excuses.

NARRATOR: The footage from Liz's security camera

was played to the jury in court.

The camera footage for this case

was so very valuable because it showed him

graphically doing the crime.

That it was him by himself, nobody else that he could blame.

And there's just no other evidence

like seeing it for yourself.

It was him, he did this, and we had him.

NARRATOR: Bradley Konning was found

guilty of Liz Carpio's m*rder and sentenced

to 73 years in prison.

There's so much senseless violence,

that sometimes it's just you just have to, you know--

what the heck?

But what keeps me personally going

is that when we do help people and when it does horribly

go wrong, that we hold that person

accountable for their misdeeds.

I still remember her and I still have memories of her.

For one, her mother gave me this necklace.

It's one way of me also knowing that I have her close to me.

She was a person that I could lean on.

She was my sister, my best friend,

someone that I could trust, someone that I could count on.

[dramatic music]