America's Evil Serial Killing Family | The New Detectives | Real Responders

[Music] when a wealthy family is murdered in their home it looks like a professional hit until investigators begin to suspect it was really the work of a gifted amateur [Music] the investigation into the drowning death of a woman in pennsylvania sends ripples out as far as north carolina where some dark secrets begin to surface detectives on the case of a murdered woman get more than they bargained for when they uncover a sinister family business every family has its problems every household has its secrets but when the skeletons in the closet are real forensics is called upon to get to the bottom of those family plots [Music] on easter sunday 1992 the yule family was wrapping up a weekend getaway at their beach house dana a 20 year old college student bad farewell to his older sister tiffany and his parents dale and glee dana stayed behind to spend the evening with his girlfriend's family while the others made the 200-mile trek back to fresno see you at home have a nice flight it was the last time dana would see them alive two days later when he couldn't get his family on the phone dana called a neighbor to check on the house the neighbor accompanied by the yule's housekeeper made a gruesome discovery mr ewell lay dead on the floor he appeared to have been shot in the back of the head as investigators from the fresno county sheriff's department searched the house they realized that dale wasn't the only victim his daughter tiffany and his wife glee were also found dead like her father tiffany had been killed execution style ambushed with a single bullet to the back of the head but glee had known what was coming it seemed that she had tried to run before bullets to the back and shoulder stopped her the gunpowder residue on her sweatshirt told investigators that the killer had then fired into her body at close range based on the condition of the victims investigators knew that the yules must have been killed almost immediately after they returned from the beach two days earlier five spent slugs were collected from the crime scene one more was found in glee's body in the master bedroom investigators found an opened box of nine millimeter ammunition and an empty gun case the owner's manual showed that the missing weapon was a browning nine millimeter pistol since much of the house was ransacked detectives first theorized that this was a burglary attempt gone awry but the evidence didn't support that theory no it's like an amateur job there was no forced entry many valuable items including dale ewell's gun collection were left in the home rather than use pillowcases to collect the loot bed sheets were laid out and loaded up with worthless items like audio cassettes and coins to homicide detective john souza even though the killer slipped in and out without notice it just didn't look like a professional burglary a good burglar searches dressers and stuff by starting from the bottom and going up that way he has never have to close a drawer he opens the bottom one he searches it he opens the next one and they all stay open well here was a combination of everything there was no pattern at all the crime had been planned out to a team though many neighbors were in their backyards on easter sunday no one noticed anything strange at the ewell house nor had they heard gunshots given the amount of forethought that must have gone into the murders detectives could not discount a professional hit nor could they overlook the prospect that someone might be coming back to finish off the sole family survivor dana ewell he returned from school and met with investigators if he feared for his life he was hiding it along with his grief i really appreciate that he's been just told that his family is dead all his family they're not a tear and know just amazed me i'm going well i'll give him a benefit doubt maybe he's in shock he told police that his mother had once worked for the central intelligence agency his father who owned an airplane dealership had a reputation as a ruthless businessman as dale's eight million dollar fortune grew over the years it seemed likely that he'd made some enemies [Music] investigators delved into the family's personal and financial background probing for dark secrets none were found glee's history as a translator with the cia was uneventful and though many people seem to have disliked dale ewell none had a motive to kill him and his family what's this dana was asked to inspect the house keeping an eye out for anything missing as you can see the blood stains here we're not sure whose blood that was detectives noticed that he seemed unaffected by the blood-stained carpet but he became indignant when he saw that investigators had damaged a light fixture what happened here do people do this immediately after the funeral he started spending money he lavished his girlfriend with expensive gifts and purchased a 130 000 plane for himself it was suspicious behavior but dana had an alibi [Music] during the murder he said he'd been four hours away with his girlfriend's family the girl's father an fbi agent confirmed it dana stood to gain millions of dollars from his family's death but his perfect alibi meant that he couldn't have been the shooter detectives hoped that forensics would help find out who was but there was little to go on no footprints or fingerprints even the shells had been removed the only physical evidence was the six nine millimeter bullets expended at the crime scene all hope of solving the case rested in the hands of ballistics experts at the fresno county sheriff's department the crime lab determined that the bullets had come from the box of ammunition found in the victim's nightstand [Music] identical scratch patterns told investigators that all six bullets had been fired through the same barrel but when these marks were compared with ones from a browning pistol like the one stolen from the yule's house investigators found an obvious discrepancy the scratches that indicate rate of twist didn't match rate of twist is the distance it takes a bullet to complete a single rotation the browning has a rate of twist of 10 inches but the murder bullets showed a 12 inch rate of twist for criminalist alan boudreau there was no mistaking the findings [Music] to me that finished the issue it's not a browning pistol that fired the murder bullets but these weren't the only marks on the slugs each of the six bullets bore deep scratches boudreaux was puzzled by these peculiar marks i've never really seen anything like that before although i had about 24 25 years experience enlargements of the bullet markings were sent to law enforcement labs throughout the country but none was familiar with the etchings or the unusual rate of twist [Music] six bullets had been fired yet no one had heard shots unusual gun barrel marks had etched a mysterious signature onto the resulting slugs this suggested that the weapon had been modified perhaps by a silencer but the sheriff's department had little experience with them i've never come across where someone had used a silencer silencers not i mean they're used and you see them on tv a lot but i think it's more uh movie drama than than actually in real life silencers are not not used in crimes and so that was that was kind of unusual in itself before souza had only theorized that murder was the motivation if a silencer had been used he now had the physical proof you got a silencer he got a killer that came to the house to kill people that was the sole purpose after their ballistics analysis investigators studied the microscopic residue from glee's sweatshirt it's common to find gunmetal residue near close range shots but this one contained an unusual mix of rubber steel wool and bright yellow fibers [Music] the forensics team couldn't identify the source of these materials but knew that they had somehow been used to modify the weapon their findings corroborated the silencer [Music] theory they proved that on easter night someone had entered the ewell home with a deadly agenda he ransacked the house to make it look like a burglary and stole the victim's gun to throw detectives off track but he had used ammunition he found in the home and that meant the killer would have had to know there was a box of nine millimeter ammunition stashed in dale ewell's nightstand only a handful of people had intimate knowledge of the house and three of them were dead detectives probed more deeply into dana's background college classmates at santa clara described him as a preppy clean-cut loner obsessed with wealth so it was odd they thought that he'd been best friends with a student named joel radofsitch who was nearly kicked out of school for stealing furniture joel seemed defensive with investigators he told him that he barely knew dana his whereabouts on easter sunday could not be confirmed look i already told you all right now i don't know anything about it surveillance on dana showed that joel moved into the ewell home two months after the murders and lived there until the following october during that time dana paid his friends bills and treated him to thousands of dollars worth of helicopter lessons yet when dana was asked about joel he denied knowing him detectives had caught both young men in a bald-faced lie they needed to find out what else they might be lying about [Music] more than a year after the triple homicide of a wealthy fresno family detectives still didn't have enough evidence to prove that dana ewell and joel radofsitch were involved and the pair was well aware of that fact when dana returned to santa clara the following spring they communicated only through beepers and pay phones dana was skilled at dodging the detectives dana was always looking over the shoulder very cautious he would go to the jet center in san jose airport and they had insulated boots pay phone booths and most of calls were from those and he you couldn't even stand outside the booth and hear what's being said joel wasn't as careful he was overheard telling dana that he was worried about what the investigators might have on them unfortunately it wasn't enough to tie the young men to the murders investigators obtained a search warrant for a duplicate beeper so that they could monitor joel's pages weeks passed without any suspicious calls then in october 1993 joel got a page from a man detectives knew very little about his name was jack pontz okay there it is he and joel used to go target shooting together const admitted that just 11 days before the ewell murders he had purchased a feather industries nine millimeter semi-automatic rifle he said he bought it to kill opossums [Music] detectives thought that was an odd choice of weapon and when they asked to see it ponce said that the gun had been stolen [Music] if investigators could somehow tie the missing rifle to the bullets and residue from the crime scene they'd be able to connect radofsitch and yule to the triple homicide [Music] realizing he was implicated in the murders turned state's evidence he admitted that he purchased the rifle for joel [Music] days later joel told ponce he'd killed the ewels and asked him to dispose of the weapon ponce threw it away the murder weapon was gone but another piece of the puzzle fell into place when investigators learned that dana had purchased a book on how to build a homemade silencer i purchased the same books that he did he had purchased and brought him home and of course i gave to alan budrow and says make a silencer heard this book boudreau built a silencer to the book's specifications among the materials were tennis balls and steel wool consistent with the residue found on glee ewell's sweatshirt but the real proof was in the firing for that they'd need the gun after interviewing 90 firearms manufacturers worldwide investigators discovered that the rare feather industries rifle is the only nine millimeter manufactured with a 12 inch rate of twist even though he didn't have kant's rifle boudreau could still perform tests on other weapons of the same model he spent months tracking down nine millimeter feathers with serial numbers close to the one registered to pots the barrels of these guns would be nearly identical boudreaux test-fired the weapons through sticky paper to trap any microscopic particles blown through the barrel this trace evidence was compared to the residue found on glee yule's clothing the unusual yellow fibers the rubber particles and the steel wool were an exact match and it was not difficult to reasonably conclude yes there there is um tennis ball material on mrs ewell's sweatshirt and it's consistent with the silencer that i constructed based on the information from detective susan the test bullets closely matched the characteristics of the murder bullets the rate of twist was correct the deep scratches were nearly identical to the murder bullets and finally the gun extruded the same residue as was found near glee no other type of weapon could have matched so closely [Music] in march 1995 nearly two years after the murders arrest warrants were obtained for dana yule and joel radofsitch all right here's the plan based on their extensive investigation detectives had finally pieced together the whole story hungry for his father's fortune dana conspired with joel a year in advance to shoot his family and make it look like a burglary in exchange dana would split the 8 million dollar inheritance with him while dana established his perfect alibi 200 miles away joel slipped into the ewell home with a spare key he shot dana's sister and mother first then waited for dale they'd figured that without the weapon they couldn't be tied to the murders but as cleverly as they planned dana and joel's designs weren't bulletproof neither man ever confessed in may of 1998 yule and radofsitch were found guilty of three counts of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison in the yule case creeping suspicions undermined a tight-lipped conspiracy elsewhere a murder investigation was triggered by an innocent comment on november 7th 1994 police in pennsylvania responded to a 9-1-1 call from a distraught man named timothy baskowski hold on sir calm down what's your address lee we got a detail in raw starship it's a white female found in a hot tub his wife marianne had lost consciousness in the hot tub he couldn't resuscitate her police arrived to see paramedics attempting to revive her what happened this evening their efforts failed she gonna be okay i was inside she was out here in the hot tub and i saw her and i just her heart stopped as she was rushed to the hospital the 35 year old woman was pronounced dead on arrival she had a .22 concentration of alcohol in her bloodstream [Music] more than twice the legal limit for intoxication that my wife drank told the nurse that marianne had been a heavy drinker and that he blamed the drowning on her alcohol [Music] in allegheny county cases of accidental death are police matters so technicians processed the scene investigators questioned baskowski's parents who'd been called over to babysit while timothy was at the hospital okay well it's a shock it's really a shock baskowski's father made the comment that this wasn't the first time their son had endured such a tragedy his first wife elaine had died four years earlier nearly to the day [Music] when baskowski returned from the hospital investigators were waiting for him baskowski described the incident throughout the day and into the evening he estimated that marianne drank between 13 and 15 cans of beer around 11 30 that night the couple downed a bottle of wine marianne was an alcoholic her husband said baskowski claimed that marianne stayed in the hot tub after he got out when he next saw her he said she was lying on her side in the water [Music] detectives searched the house they found beer in the refrigerator and a bin of empty cans but these cans were completely dry inside and had obviously been collected over several days cans that had been opened that evening would have still held some liquid the evidence contradicted vascouste's claim that marianne had consumed beer after beer well into the evening they also learned that a friend of marianne's had spoken to her on the telephone for an hour and a half earlier that afternoon the friends said that marianne didn't seem drunk the more detectives learned the more they suspected that mrs baskowski's death was no accident but a case of deadly deja vu if marianne boskowski was murdered in her hot tub detectives in pennsylvania had very little physical evidence to prove it there was no sign of violence found in or around the tub all they really had were some conflicting statements timothy baskowski agreed to go down to the police station for further questioning to detective jimmy svedic his exacting account seemed staged one of the things he was so consistent with his times too consistent ten to one i did this uh marianne did this at eight minutes to one five after one i was putting on my shoes in this interview this afternoon is that okay while baskowski was relating his story detectives observed a scratch on his neck could you tell me how you got that my wife and i went on a cruise and i asked him to remove his shirt we may even want to take a picture of it on his back they saw a pattern of scratches baskowski explained that he and marianne had been on a cruise recently while in the tub he had asked her to scratch his sunburned back given the suspect's pale skin and the deep gouges the explanation seemed implausible uh okay that's uh some scratches these looked like marks from a struggle [Music] when investigators questioned baskowski about [Music] without enough information to detain him he was free to go investigators immediately contacted law enforcement in greensboro north carolina where baskowski and his first wife had lived they uncovered some uncanny similarities between the two mrs maskowskis [Music] baskowski had met both wives marianne and elaine in church singles groups you looked at this already both worked as religious school teachers they were the exact same weight even more chilling were the similarities between their deaths [Music] according to north carolina police baskowski had called 9-1-1 on a sunday night in november just as he had done in pennsylvania paramedics arrived to find elaine on the bathroom floor with her husband attempting cpr okay so we're here you asked a few questions about what happened last night [Music] baskowski claimed that his wife had been drinking heavily that evening fell unconscious the detectives in north carolina were suspicious they didn't have enough evidence to disprove the husband's account cause of death was left blank on the death certificate baskowski was never charged i tried to get him to stop but now four years later detectives in pennsylvania were faced with the possibility that their case would end the same way to bring it to trial you need more than just suspicion you need you need a case you got to put the evidence together and everything has to be there and they just didn't have what they needed though the bizarre circumstances of his wives drowning deaths pointed to foul play it would be a challenge for investigators in pennsylvania to differentiate an accident from a murder especially when there were no witnesses unless marianne's body had a compelling story to tell baskowski would have just washed his hands of another suspicious death the autopsy began with an inspection of the body there was no evidence of external trauma just a few fresh bruises but the bruising wasn't enough to disprove baskowski's story the paramedics might have caused them the body was next examined for signs of drowning to allegheny county coroner cyril wet it was evident that something had cut off marianne's breathing but it wasn't water these lungs were not wet and heavy at all and if she had drowned in this tub i believe that there certainly would have been a fair amount of water into the lungs the victim had sustained hemorrhages in her eye and the back of her tongue the muscle tissue of her neck had sustained deep bruising all of these were telltale signs of death by strangulation the coroner concluded that after a rough struggle someone had wrapped his hands around the victim's neck and squeezed the life out of her the findings in pennsylvania caught the attention of john butts chief medical examiner of north carolina he wondered if blaskowski's first wife elaine had also been asphyxiated four years earlier the autopsy reports showed no indication that she was but the original examiner might have missed the telltale signs enabling baskowski to get away with murder elaine's body had been long buried but photographs remained investigators hoped they'd be enough to rectify a grave oversight four years after elaine baskowski died in her bathroom investigators in north carolina finally had their chance to prove that she'd been murdered medical examiner john butts noticed a strange mark on one of the photographs taken at her autopsy one of the important pieces in the puzzle of this case involved some distinctive bruises that were present on miss boskowski's lower chest upper abdominal region this was the set of linear or elongated bruises that are illustrated in this photograph these parallel bruises called railroad tracks match the shower door railing in the baskowski's bathroom at autopsy their significance was overlooked but knowing how timothy baskowski had allegedly killed his second wife helped butts find clues to the death of his first one she was literally squeezed to death this bruise was produced when this woman's abdomen upper chest region was pushed or compressed down onto the shower track and again it was it was our our feeling or our conclusion that that's actually the mechanism or death based on what north carolina investigators had turned up detectives in pennsylvania looked for more similarities between the two cases they learned that both of baskowski's wives were planning to leave the marriage neither had yet canceled their life insurance policies that named their husband as beneficiary it seemed that killing his wife would solve his financial and romantic problems when history began to repeat itself with marianne he resorted to a plan that worked in the past thanks to the astute work of investigators in north carolina and pennsylvania the staged drowning of his second wife would be baskowski's last in 1996 he was convicted of the murder of elaine in 1999 he was sentenced to death for the murder of marianne [Music] timothy baskowski's murderous past eventually caught up with him in new jersey police again would have to look backward to solve a death in the family early saturday march 4th 1995 a jogger was having a run through east side park while most of paterson new jersey still slept one of its residents had apparently chosen to sleep practically on the jogging path hey buddy only a pair of feet stuck out of the sleeping bag the jogger wondered how the person could breathe and realized the occupant wasn't breathing at all police confirmed that the body in the bag was deceased they interviewed the jogger and fanned out to look for evidence of a possible homicide the victim was a young female 18 to 24 she'd been beaten the sleeping bag interior was blood-stained but not soap suggesting she was stuffed into it afterward probably to move her to this spot detective mike caseri led the investigation we knew it was a murder we knew that wasn't the original scene it's just that we were trying to figure out who did it and that's where the whole thing started most every homicide investigation begins with the victim in this case she had no identity [Applause] the cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head the medical examiner found no sign of sexual assault the blood-stained portions of her clothes were carefully cut away and the blood tested against the victim's own if some of it didn't match investigators hoped that it could be used against a suspected culprit but all the stains matched the victim's blood they found neither hide nor hair of any potential suspect [Music] at the new jersey state identification bureau the victim's fingerprints were run through aphis the automated fingerprint identification system it compares prints from police files all over the country [Music] within hours it found a match right in new jersey the victim was 18 year old tara carter her prints were on file because she had once been arrested for shoplifting her parents had moved out of state but police found her closest relative her sister they brought a photo of the victim see if you see anybody a friend came to help because she couldn't bring herself to look at it yeah i recognize it they made the id now there was no doubt tara carter was dead police learned that tara said she was going to spend the weekend with her boyfriend he went by the name original she didn't know his real name or where to find him she also said that tara had been living with a family friend a widow named celestine payne and her children they might know more payne lived in a nearby neighborhood where she occasionally rented rooms in her house [Music] police paid her a visit celestine offered to help in any way that she could she directed us to the bedroom area where where tara slept with her two daughters and myself and detective reyes looked around you know it's common to look for phone books or anything with possible uh you know names of friends or anything because we had nothing we didn't have anything to go on to solve this crime at that point oh no wendy tara carter was treated like a member of payne's family she was the best friend of celestine's daughter wendy with whom she shared the room until wendy moved to south carolina detectives looked in the closet where tara kept her belongings they found nothing to indicate she was in any kind of trouble with her mysterious boyfriend or with anyone else when payne could offer no new information about the victim's boyfriend original police put the word out that they needed to speak with him in the meantime they looked for more information about the victim payne directed them to the basement where more of tara's things were stored they didn't know what they were looking for until they found it in one area drops of blood dotted the basement floor detective reyes automatically told ms payne not to touch anything you know that it's possible that the crime happened here and she's uh again said well if it happened here i want to know about it this is my house see these drops right here the amount and position of the blood droplets raised suspicions but didn't suggest that this was the murder scene investigators weren't sure what the drops meant you could see a dripping steam coming down from the rafter directly below it was a stain a stain of blood which indicated that it's possible blood may have dripped from the upstairs into the basement celestine payne gave her consent to a more thorough search of her house she said i want to know about it whatever it takes to figure out you guys do what you got to do while the forensics team was dispatched detectives continued their investigation they headed back to the victim's closet which turned out to be directly over the blood-stained beams they found blood on the wall and floor of the closet along with blood-stained women's underwear and other garments it looked like bloody murder but investigators had to be sure samples were collected and sent to the new jersey state police central lab where genetic markers in the blood were scrutinized these proteins inherited from our parents don't change though not as precise as dna testing genetic marker testing is often sufficient because certain markers are more rare than others senior forensic scientist cynthia mcsweeney analyzed the samples from the closet and i was able to determine that this blood stain was consistent with only three percent of the black population that three percent included the victim tara carter the evidence proved that she had met her death inside the house [Music] celestine payne accompanied detectives to the station for questioning she told them that she last saw the victim at 11 a.m on friday march 3rd the day before her body was found tara said she was going to run errands celestine and her son had errands of their own to run and were gone most of the day when celestine returned a man named charlie pinchum was waiting on the porch pinchum used to date celestine's daughter wendy before she moved away he was in the habit of stopping by celestine's house and hanging out she didn't know where he lived because he might have committed the crime while the pains were away charlie pinchum's name was added to the suspect's list while celestine answered questions investigators combed her house for more clues besides the bedroom closet traces of blood were found in the kitchen the drain pipes were removed and the traps emptied to see what might have accumulated there almost 100 articles of evidence from there including blood drippings swabbings took the sink apart and removed later turned out to be skull fragments inside the sink trap the toilet there was uh some hair and and matter found inside there from there the whole thing exploded uh the investigation took off by now the victim's boyfriend original heard police were looking for him and presented himself along with an alibi he was off the suspect's list at least for now that left the equally mysterious charlie pincher and the grieving celestine pain but detectives didn't know where charlie pinchum was and the forensic evidence didn't necessarily place celestine pain at the scene when the murder occurred this wasn't the first time police had been to payne's house while reviewing the case detective sergeant ronald humphrey remembered a prior incident there was a guy stabbed maybe about a year year and a half before that eugene cooper i remember eugene living there but i never got to interview him he was an intensive care unit at the hospital on a stab wound and we couldn't get to speak to him upon cooper's release from the hospital he refused to press charges and disappeared now 18 months later detectives tracked eugene cooper down to see if there was a connection cooper told them that while he lived in the house celestine wanted him to sign his life insurance policy over to her he didn't do it but let on that he had soon after charlie pinchum attacked him he said that uh the time he got stabbed charlie was the one that stabbed him and sell this uh pain that put them up to it cooper didn't go to the police because he was frightened and wanted to put the whole ugly incident behind him he picked out pinchum's photo from some mug shots because cooper implicated him in this stabbing it was more important than ever to locate him now that eugene cooper was talking he had a lot more to say and the case took another unexpected twist he told police that celestine had set several fires at her house for the insurance money he also admitted that he helped celestine move a body but it wasn't the body of tara carter tara carter had been found dead in a sleeping bag and the investigation into her murder began to disclose other skeletons in celestine payne's closet according to eugene cooper the death of celestine's husband alfonso years earlier may not have been accidental prior to his death alfonso payne had been suffering from severe hypertension and gout he was being cared for by his wife celestine in 1991 his body was found in a field across town at the time alfonso's death was considered to be accidental that he was doing drugs wandered away and collapsed now three and a half years later eugene cooper told new jersey police that he'd helped celestine and her children dump alfonso payne's body on the other side of town with cooper's new information detectives pulled alfonso's medical records and autopsy report they found that before his death he had been too ill to even get out of bed let alone get across town the autopsy showed that the drugs in his system at the time of death weren't those prescribed for his medical condition but high dosages of five kinds of tranquilizers and antidepressants all prescribed for celestine yeah sure investigators had enough to get another search warrant for payne's home they found that besides the policy on her husband alfonso and for fire damage payne also managed to get one on eugene cooper even without his signature it appeared that celestine payne may have killed her husband and once again insurance seemed to be the motive they also found a policy on tara carter's life it's like a couple of insurers this was strange because like cooper she wasn't related to pain the policy provided a possible motive not enough evidence to arrest celestine for murder be the right to talk to laurie and have a present with you while you're by this time charlie pinchum had been found and arrested for stabbing eugene cooper eventually he admitted to it saying that celestine payne put him up to it then investigators asked him what he knew about the tara carter murder he said he was there and tried to stop it but celestine pain killed her afterward he admitted helping her move the body using a car she rented they had what they needed to arrest celestine payne then they tracked down the rental car cynthia mcsweeney tested the trunk for traces of blood and found nothing but her job wasn't finished her tests of the liner below the trunk carpet yielded different results when i analyzed the liner and did get a positive result i began to think that perhaps the person had tried to clean up the area but had not done a thorough job as before a genetic marker analysis of the blood proved it belonged to the victim tara carter its presence in the trunk of a car rented by celestine payne linked the suspect to the crime you've got a pretty good rap despite the evidence she flatly denied any wrongdoing i know celestine was a devious woman um she would look at you and say child i didn't do this murder and almost melting to you you know i had nothing to do with this i would never hurt anybody and and she's using her kids to kill people including her own father she's killing her friends she's killing family people she is a she's evil it's only one word to put an evil woman she passed that evil on to her daughter investigators learned that while wendy pretended to be tara's best friend she also pretended to be tara at least long enough to sign a life insurance policy in tara carter's name [Music] once the policy was in effect tara carter's days were numbered the unwitting victim lured into a false sense of security in payne's home was marked for death [Music] admitted using a crowbar her body was stashed in the upstairs closet until it could be bundled and moved safely without being detected ultimately the forensics clinched the case and even celestine payne couldn't deny it the bloodstains the financial motive and the opportunity all pointed to payne her daughter wendy and charlie pinchum when faced with the evidence they plea bargained celestine payne and charlie pinchum received life and wendy payne received 28 years to solve some homicides investigators need look no further than the victim's own home but just because a suspect is a relative doesn't mean the case will be solved with relative ease a killer in the home will take greater care to cover his tracks it's up to forensics to make sure that deadly secrets don't stay buried in family plots [Music] [Music] [Music] you

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