- (React) You like true crimes, Zaria?
- Oh my-- - (React snickers)
- True crime! - (React) We are going to take
a look at five cold cases that were solved in 2021.
- Whoa! Okay, that's cool. I like that.
- Let's go. - (narrator) On July 11th, 1963,
a man fishing in Keene Creek Reservoir near Ashland hooked onto something
on his fishing cord. - Oh, no.
- (narrator) At first, he thought it was a rolled up blanket.
- Oh. Oh, no. - If this is where it's going--
where I think it's going, I literally have chills.
- Oh my god. No. What is it? A finger? - (narrator) However, after reeling in
the blanket, he realized that inside the bag was the body of a toddler.
- (gasps) Oh my god. - Not a baby!
Why does it have to be a baby? - (laughs) It's such
an unfortunate fishing day. - (narrator) A coroner determined
that the toddler likely suffered from Down syndrome or...
- Oh my gosh. - (narrator) The boy was estimated
to be between one and two years old. The chief genetic genealogist,
CeCe Moore, then used open source DNA database, GEDmatch,
to find two potential siblings. - (React) Genetic genealogy
is the combination of genetic analysis and traditional genealogical research.
In essence, genetic genealogy can be used to identify DNA
tied to family members. - That's wild.
- (narrator) The police interviewed a maternal half-brother in Ohio,
who told investigators that he had indeed had a younger sibling
born with Down syndrome... - Oh.
- (narrator) ...named Stevie Crawford, born in New Mexico.
He also told investigators that Stevie's mother took him
on a trip with her. - This one's kind of wild.
- (narrator) ...that she had returned without Stevie...
- Oh, no. - (narrator) ...and merely told
the family that, quote, "We won't be worrying
about Stevie anymore." - "Worrying"?!
- Oh, good god! You're awful. - (narrator) The half-brother said
it was never discussed again. - That's rough.
- Holy [censored]. What an awful m-- oh my gosh!
- What a [censored] weird thing to say. Obviously, she's guilty,
but that doesn't make you not sound guilty.
[Censored] sinister person. - (narrator) Stevie's mother
and stepfather died a few years prior to the revelations, and his
father's name is still unknown. - They had other kids too!
And they just killed off the one that they didn't want
to have to deal with. That is just absolutely psychotic.
- It's one of those things where it's like, "Isn't it just easier
to drop the kid off at an orphanage?" - First red flag
was no one was looking for a toddler. For me, it would 100% be like,
"Okay, a family member did this." - Not only did she get away with this,
she told everybody that she did it, and then just ended up allowing
to live the rest of her life until she died without anybody
being able to find out beforehand. - (narrator) Kimberly Livesey,
found packaged inside a suitcase. - Oh! (laughs)
They put her in a suitcase! - In a suitcase?
- Oh, that's-- ugh! Just thinking about that...
- (narrator) Sia Demas, found stuffed inside a duffel bag.
- Duffel bag? We're making it smaller. - That'd be a heavy duffel bag.
- This is reminding me of The Lovely Bones.
- (narrator) Jessica Good... - Was put in a wallet.
(laughs) I'm sorry. - (narrator) ...found floating
in Miami's... - God.
- Oh, okay. A little different. She didn't get stuffed in anything.
- (narrator) Over a 14-month period, these three women...
- I hate these cases. - (narrator) ...had all been
brutally killed in South Florida. - Ah, Florida.
- Good ol' Florida. - (narrator) The fingerprints found
at each crime scene matched. And DNA evidence proved
that the same... - Wow.
- (narrator) ...was responsible for all three slayings.
But who was he? - But who was he?
- (narrator) His DNA and fingerprints, they couldn't seem to identify...
- Let's find this bitch. - (narrator) Back in 1996,
a man named Roberto Wagner Fernandez was arrested in Brazil
after allegedly murdering his wife... - That's crazy.
- (narrator) ...but was found innocent after he claimed to have
killed her in self-defense. - What?
- (narrator) His wife's parents then hired a hitman
to take Fernandez out, prompting him to move to the US.
- Whoa! - I'm sorry. Hold on.
Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. Pause it, pause it,
pause it, pause it. The victim's parents hired
to kill him? - (React) Mm-hmm.
- (narrator) His arrival in America synced up with the timeline
of the murders, but that in itself didn't prove anything.
What did were his prints. The Americans sent...
- There we go. - (narrator) ...the fingerprint
evidence they collected from the South Florida crime scenes
to forensic experts in Brazil. And lo and behold,
they matched with the ones they had on record.
- There we go. I was gonna say. - Wow!
- (narrator) After digging deeper, investigators learned that Fernandez
had left the US and returned to Brazil back in 2001.
- Get his [censored]. - (narrator) In 2005, Fernandez,
a former flight attendant himself, boarded a plane bound for Paraguay,
likely planning on starting a new life there for himself
while continuing to take other people's.
But he didn't get the chance. The plane he was on
crashed mid-flight, and Fernandez perished
along with everybody else onboard. - Wow!
- What? That was a twist ending
I was not expecting. - So, this guy would've been dead
for 16 years already. I mean, at least he's dead.
But it's a shame everybody else died with him too
because of that plane crash. - Yeah, he served no jail time,
but fate did it for us, I guess. - (narrator) On the 13th
of October 1985, the Sarasota Police Department
received calls that led them to the house
of a 28-year-old mother, Denise Marie Stafford.
- It's always in the woods. - 1985 also tells us a lot of things
about what it is that they were able to do as far as investigations.
- (narrator) All of her items found at the scene
were carefully examined in a bid to find who might have
killed her that night. - (whispers) Her husband.
- (narrator) But investigations... - Her husband did it.
- (narrator) ...were slowed down by limitations in technology.
And things slowly began to reach a halt.
- And there we go. - (narrator) The first sign of hope,
however, came when a suspect arose in the case.
- Interesting. - (narrator) Joseph Magaletti, Jr.
However, the police had nothing to nail him to the crime,
and he was let go. - That happens a lot.
If you know the story, it's very clear...
- (React) Right. - ...who did it, but because
there's no physical, substantial evidence or eyewitnesses,
legally, the way that our system is set up,
you can't arrest them for that. - (narrator) Time passed,
and the case grew cold. - Huh.
- (narrator) However, in 2021... - 36 years later. Jesus.
- (narrator) ...technology, the Sarasota Police Department decided to reopen the case.
- Thank you. - It's so fascinating to think that
these things happen decades later, where they can just come back.
You know, they just keep the evidence 'cause they're not supposed
to throw it out for a murder or homicide or whatever.
And somebody's just like, "How about we take a look
at this again years later?" And I'm assuming they figured
something out on this guy. - (narrator) The civilian
investigator, Jeff... - I'm still feeling
like it's her husband. - (narrator) ...new evidence
pointed to one fact. - Interesting.
- (narrator) She was standing when she was attacked.
- Standing before she was attacked. - (narrator) ...and pinned
to the ground. - That's so interesting
you can tell that from evidence. - (narrator) He thought about
the places on her clothing the killer would have had to hold
before they could do that and sent for testing.
- Wow. - (narrator) And when the results
came back, they conclusively pointed to former suspect,
Joseph Magaletti, Jr. - [Censored] got away
with it for years, I bet. - (narrator) But where
was Magaletti now? - Where was he?
- (narrator) Magaletti had died in prison since 2015.
- Damn. - - (narrator) ...at the age of 64...
- Oh! - (narrator) ...while he was
serving life for strangling his former Sarasota neighbor.
- So, he-- wait. He got caught for another crime,
and then post mortem also got pinned to this one as well.
- Well, at least he went to prison. - They had all the answers there,
but they just literally didn't have the technology
for it at the time. - (narrator) In 2007,
an unknown man in a gray Chevrolet pickup truck
hit a man on a motorcycle in Midland, Texas...
- Okay. - (narrator) ...and left the scene
without helping the man. - Classy guy.
- Oh my god. Full hit and run.
- (narrator) ...passed away due to his injuries.
He was identified... - Terrible.
- ...as 37-year-old Dustin Davidson. - Imagine being that big of
an [censored] to hit and run. - Hit and runs are so hard
to figure out. - (narrator) Investigators tried
to identify the person who drove in a Chevrolet pickup truck,
but they were unable to. No one came forward
with useful information. - I'm kind of interested to see
how someone figured this out. - I know they have the car,
the model, but a lot of people probably have that car.
- Yeah, I feel like it's almost impossible to identify
somebody randomly hitting you in the middle of nowhere.
- (narrator) And the case went cold. - I mean, it's one of those things
where, at that point, how do you know? - (narrator) In February,
the Midland Police Department received a tip that the man in the pickup truck
was Raymond Dale Click. - How?
- (narrator) Investigators... - That's 14.
Somebody was sitting on that? - (narrator) ...confessed.
He said that he was too scared to come forward in 2007.
- Wow. - (narrator) Raymond could be facing
up to 20 years in prison. - Drunkenly tell someone about it?
- Someone was like, "You know what? The divorce is finalized.
Let's go!" - The only thing that I can think of
is that after 14 years, at some point, the guilt just comes through,
and you end up telling the wrong person.
- I wonder if it's 20 years for killing someone
or 20 years for just not coming up. - Usually, in that situation,
I believe it's considered manslaughter if you kill someone by accident.
But then he ran away. So, I think that would
be additional charges. ♪ (dramatic chord) ♪
- (narrator) Police and families of the many victims have known
for decades who is responsible for a killing spree
in Western Pennsylvania in 1977 and 1978.
- Another situation where they knew who it was.
- (narrator) The problem, though, was the...
- A problem? - (narrator) ...40 years in prison.
- 40 years in prison? - (narrator) The suspect
wouldn't confess. - Ugh, that's so annoying.
- (narrator) This changed in early 2021, when serial killer
Edward Surratt admitted to slaying six Pennsylvanians.
William Adams... - So, he confessed,
but he's been in prison for 40 years. - (narrator) ...Guy Mills,
and Laura Mills. Pennsylvania State Police
announced in June... - Interesting.
- (narrator) ...that Surratt, who is currently serving
two life sentences in Florida, admitted to the killings
during a police interview in March. Now aged 79, Surratt is linked
to dozens of murders... - Oh! Dozens.
- (narrator) ...in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
- Okay, so it went deeper. - (React) He was already in jail
facing two life sentences for other crimes.
- You're already there. You could just say it.
- You know what happened. You know it was a certain person.
And you can't-- you are powerless. And you can't do anything about that.
- The man's already got two life sentences,
already served 40 years. And at this point,
just decided to confess even though, literally,
they said at the very beginning, "Hey, real quick,
EVERYBODY knows you've done this." - Thanks for watching this episode.
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- And let us know what spooked you in the comments.
- Bye, guys. - Bye, guys.
- Bye, guys! - Bye!
- I'm so bad at this stuff. I'm always like,
"It's the husband!"
