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Mystery and Makeup Monday. (singing) Thank you. Thank you. If you are new here, Hi, I'm Bailey. And on Mondays, I sit
down and I talk about a true crime story,
that's been heavy on my noggin. And I do my makeup at the same time. If you're interested in true
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hit that subscribe button 'cause I'm here for you on Mondays. Cool. So I'm excited to be here as usual. Let me clip my hair out of the way. Isn't my hair cute? I just have to shout it out really quick. I spent forever doing
this and it just needs a moment of appreciation. What is that? I did it. I did it. Can you believe it? So today's story takes place in Colorado Springs in 1990. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. That's where we're going, babe. Now, I guess it's like a super
charming, cute little town. Never been. Maybe I can go one day. I'm never prepared. I'm never prepared. So Colorado Springs today has a population around 500,000 people. But I guess back then around
the 1980s, early nineties, the population was around 250,000. Great. I think that's a good amount, right? Yeah. But I guess it's considered a small town. Okay. It has a very large military
area and it's right near several army bases and
it's also home to the Air Force Academy. So maybe you can get like
a sense of what the area and the people might be like. Army spouses, church going folk, locals who work in flower shops. You know, that kind of thing. Our story begins on a September evening, again in Colorado Springs,
where a woman by the name of Dianne Hood, she was coming out
of a local community center. They held weekly support groups for people who had been diagnosed with Lupus and Dianne would attend the support group. If you are unfamiliar with what Lupus is, according to www.lupus.org, Lupus is a chronic long-term
disease that can cause inflammation and pain in
any part of your body. It's an auto-immune disease, which means that your own immune system, the system within you, that
like usually fights off infections, it attacks
healthy tissue instead. So your body's kind of
like attacking itself. Diana was diagnosed
with Lupus in the 1980s, long after she had moved to
Colorado with her husband. His name was Brian, Brian Hood. He and Dianne, they had met
at Angelo State University in Texas where she was
a cheerleader and Brian, he was like a big college
football star, like super cute, very lifetime movie of them. You know, I'm just like, oh, football player and the
cheerleader together, you know. So they met, they dated and once they were out of college, they went on to get married in 1980. Their friends would
describe them as super cute, this perfect couple, you know. I'm going like, you know, it's just like, people don't really know what... We got to stop giving opinions on couples 'cause you don't know what
goes on behind closed doors. Okay? You don't know. After all these stories
we've done, I'm like we got to stop making comments on people and how perfect they are. And according to all of
their friends and stuff, Dianne just loved Brian,
like that was obvious. It was just, she was, they were just infatuated
with one another. So right after they got married, they moved to Colorado
Springs, had three children. And in 1986, Brian gave up his job. He was selling liquor and he
became an insurance salesman. Now, after that, he quickly,
not quickly but like over time he converted to Christianity
and then he, became born again. Got like, baptized in the church. Brian got heavily involved with the church and he would actually go on
to become some kind of leader within the church. So he was killin' it, for Jesus. So that's a little bit
about Brian and Dianne. So let's get back to that
evening in September. Dianne, she's coming out
of her regular meeting, she's walking to her car and
then all of a sudden she feels her purse gets yanked from under her arm. And she's like, "What the fuck?" So she turns around and she
sees that someone's holding a gun at her close by,
holding a gun to her. Now Dianne can't tell
who it is because whoever this person is, they're
covered head to toe. Ski-mask, they had military
pants, camouflage jacket, just prepared for the situation it seemed. Now Dianne, she does the smart thing, the thing you should do, you just throw your purse at
them and you say, "Take it." And then you run hopefully. So she does that. She throws her purse and she
tells them just to take it. So Dianne is running back to her car. She thinks, okay, the robber,
whoever this person was, they got what they
wanted. They got her bag. So, she's just taking off, right? Well, whoever this person was, they ended up catching up to
her and they kind of grab her, they turn her around and
kind of, sort of like throw her to the ground. And as she's falling, this person shoots Dianne
right through her shoulder. She must have been in pain
too because witnesses, there are witnesses there and they said that she was
screaming on the pavement, crawling away and begging
whoever this person was, not to kill her. Or maybe, you know, she was
just afraid for her life, not in pain. Either way. But the shooter was just not giving up. Whoever this person was, well, they walked up to
where Dianne was crawling, re-cocked their gun and shot Dianne again. This time through the
chest before taking off running with Dianne's purse. Now you can call me crazy but I believe that is not a robbery. That's just a straight execution. Sadly, Dianne, she did
die in that parking lot. And it left people with so many questions, like who killed Dianne? And why? Okay. Now I know a lot of you at
home are probably thinking, "It's the husband, it's Brian. He did it." Cause it's, it's always
the husband, you know. But a witness who was there at the scene, describe the killer as a
five foot, six, thin man. Now Brian, Dianne's husband,
he was six foot, two, muscular, I guess like an athletic build. So Brian's out. Brian is out. So of course investigators, they have to go and talk
to Brian because that's, you know, they have to start somewhere. So they go to Brian and Dianne's home where their three kids are at. They tell him the bad
news and asked them like where he was at that day around the time. And he was like, "I was at home watching
my beautiful children, who my wife gave birth to. God bless her." Like that was his response. Okay. I mean, it's not funny, but like, it was just a little different
as is a little unusual for finding out your wife just got
murdered in the parking lot. So Brian's out. Police are thinking, okay
were there some other details? Well, witnesses said like
the killer was wearing camouflage, military looking get-up. Okay. Noted. Well, police had their dogs
come out and sniff around the area where Dianne was killed at. They found the whole outfit,
not far from where Dianne was. I'm talking about the whole outfit. Like someone had to strip
down naked, I guess, because it was every article of clothing. Plus like the gloves, the mask,
I mean, it was just thrown. It was thrown away, nearby. So it was like, okay, we got
a streaker, I don't know. And then not far from where
all the clothes were found, that's where they found Dianne's purse with all the money and
credit cards removed. So it looks like a robbery. Could be. So investigators are a little puzzled, like why Dianne? And why would they rob her? Because when they look into Dianne and her family's background, I mean, they're not necessarily
like super wealthy. She was going to, like this support group. It's not like a high rollers club. And out of all the people, why Dianne? Like, it just doesn't make any damn sense. You know, what did they think she had? Now what really sticks out
about this supposed robbery was how the killer seemed
like they wanted to make sure Dianne was dead before running off. Because they had the
bag, they had her purse, so why did this person go back and shoot Dianne a second time? Like that just didn't make any sense. Sure does not. So police ran ballistics on
the gun that killed Dianne and it brought up even
some stranger results. Oh yes it did. The analysis confirmed
that the weapon in the case was most likely a revolver from the 1870s. An antique called the "Peacemaker." I know, what in the time
travel is going on right now? Are we in klu? Now this is not exactly the
kind of thing you'd find at your local gun store or like go into a Walmart and pick it up really quick. This is a collector's piece, this gun. Literally though, like,
not everybody has it. But it does make sense
to the overall story because there was a witness
who called 911, when the attack was happening and they
said that the killer, the killer was standing
over Dianne and this person cocked the gun, which
on most modern handguns, you don't need to re-cock. Yeah. They, I guess they do it for you, but with the Peacemaker,
that's not the case. You have to cock the weapon
every time you want to fire it. Meaning, whoever killed
Dianne, did so with intent enough to stand over her, taking the time to cock the
weapon again and finish the job. Like it just, it took some work. It wasn't just an easy like,
"Bing bang, give me your bag." You get what word I'm laying down. And then that made me think like, maybe that's why they
call it the Peacemaker. Because like, by the time you
reload, re-cock or whatever, you probably had enough time
to make peace with the person you're attempting to
shoot. That's my theory. I could Google it, but I
like my assumption better. The Peacemaker. I made it up. So don't go. I don't know if it's true. So just don't put me
somewhere on that one. Now some might think this
is a very small detail, but nay nay, of course not, this is actually a very important detail. A revolver from the 1870s
was used in this murder. You're not just going to
find that like on anyone, this revolver. You're not just going to go
up to some random guy's house and find an 1870s revolver. You know, like this is a big deal. So police are like, "Yay." Now the downside is that
they really had no leads or like, they didn't know
where to go from here. Who could have done this? It wasn't the husband. Some of the investigators
are believing that it was a robbery gone wrong, but I mean, all signs were pointing to this
to being really impossible. Okay. I mean, yeah, her bag and her stuff, well, her credit cards
and money were missing, but that's about it. There were just too many
strange details mixed in. Things were not adding up. Investigators had no leads. So this case could have gone cold but if it wasn't for what happened next, it probably wouldn't have been solved. I'm like beating my face. So a day after Dianne was murdered, the owner of a local flower
shop called in to give a tip to the Colorado Spring police. The owner of this flower
shop said that he read about Dianne's death in the local paper and he was just feeling
really uneasy about it. And police are like, "Why sir? Why are you feeling so uneasy about it?" And the owner, the owner tells them that he
knew Dianne's husband, Brian was having an affair. But it wasn't the husband.
Don't get ahead of yourself. Is that right? Is that what he was doing? Interesting. Now we're getting somewhere, right? Brian's alibi was pretty airtight. He wasn't the one who did it,
but he's having an affair. It doesn't prove anything,
but it's something, you know. So police need more details before they can move forward. So they go down to the flower
shop and they ask the owner who Brian was having an affair with. Like, did they, did they, this
person know who, who it was. That's when police first hear the name, Jennifer Reali. Ooh, Jennifer. Okay. So who's this Jennifer girl, right? So Jennifer, Jennifer, Jennifer. She's a 28 year old mother of two who moved to Colorado Springs in 1989. Around the same time that
Dianne was diagnosed with Lupus. The man that she was
dating, his name was Ben. Yeah, Jen and Ben. And he was in the army and
then they were stationing him at nearby Fort Carson. So Jennifer dropped out
of college, married Ben, and then moved with him. You get it. As the year goes by, you know, Jennifer, she's just like a local mom, an army wife, involved with her family. And then she's also
working at the flower shop. Hmm. Interesting. So clearly she's a person of interest. Now police, they go and
they question Jennifer. And she's adamant that her
relationship with Brian, they were strictly friends,
nothing more, friends only. No, friends. Yes. So and police asked
like, "Well, what, like, how'd you guys meet? Like, what
do you guys do as friends?" Jennifer tells the police
that she and Brian, they met at the gym and
they go to the gym a lot and they hang out in the gym
jacuzzi, which is like, okay, as friends, we hang out in the jacuzzi. And they just chat about
their families and yeah, yeah. You know, blah, blah, blah. And Jennifer was telling
investigators that the two, again, nothing but friends, gym
buddies, if anything. Okay. Police go to the gym and they question
employees who work there. Now these employees tell
police a different story. Hmm. These gym employees describe
Jennifer and Brian as a couple. They were always with each other. You never just saw one of them. Like, you would always see
them together at the gym. And they seemed very not-friends
like, more lovey-dovey. Jennifer, Jennifer. Your story isn't making
a lot of sense, girl. So police, they go to
Jennifer's house and they decide to question Jennifer's husband. Police go to their house, remember? Great. And they're talking with him, Ben invites them in and
that's when they find out that Ben, over here, he has a
collection of antique guns. Yeah. And take one guess, what
gun they found there? Right there, in like all the antiqueness. Oh, it's the 1870s Colt Single
Action Army Peacemaker gun. The Peacemaker. Huh? Weird, it's right there. Looked right at it. So that's pretty hard to ignore. Right? I mean, that's the smoking gun. I mean, how many people
in Colorado Springs has an antique gun
collection and not to mention this specific weapon. So police are pretty sure that again, they found their smoking gun. So they actually end up showing Ben, the clothes that they
found with Dianne's purse. And they're like, these
actually look like your clothes. Are these your clothes? Because it's an army jacket,
it's like military fatigues, just all of it. But he tells police like, "Yeah, that kind of looks like my stuff." And not only that, but police, they found dog hairs on
the clothing that matched what they had collected
from Ben and Jen's house. And also from inside their car. Yep. All signs are pointing to one of you. Okay, well luckily for
Ben, he had an alibi. He worked at Fort Carson.
Now, anytime he went to work, his time would be logged
and managed by the military. So police were able to check
and see that he was indeed working that day and it
wasn't him. So Ben is cleared. However, just because they
no longer suspected Ben, doesn't mean that it wasn't his gun that was used in the murder. Police do some tests and hey, sure enough, they can match the
bullets that killed Dianne to bullets fired from this exact gun. There's, with 90% certainty. Science. Ben never mentioned anything
about the gun being stolen or anything like that. But he did say he moved it
recently from another location and brought it into his home. And Ben would tell investigators
that his wife, Jennifer had asked for the gun. Now, I guess their marriage,
it was on the rocks. I mean, it probably was because she
was having an affair really. Yeah. So the two of them decided that
they were going to separate, but they were still
living in the same house. Well, Jen had told Ben
that she wanted a gun to protect herself when Ben wasn't home, when he was away at work. She was like, "I don't feel safe. I just need a gun to
protect me and my children." So he gives her randomly or by choice, I don't know, the Peacemaker, which is a hell of a choice
because it's slow as hell. So she were being attacked,
not the ideal gun to have. Don't know if that was on purpose or not. I think we can laugh about
it now, but not really. Could you imagine? You're like,
"Babe, babe, I want a gun." And then he gives you this
Peacemaker that literally takes forever to like cock-it
or whatever and shoot it. "Thanks babe. Thanks. So kind of you." Ben told police that Jen, she had only kept the gun for a few days. And then she like came back
and was all kind of like demanding that he take the
gun back and it was weird, but it was like, okay. And that was like right before he ended up meeting with police. So hmm. Wa Oh! Police, they come to Jennifer
with all this information. They lay it out all in front
of her and in front of Ben. And they're like, "Look,
look you little kitty cats. We know your husband
owns the murder weapon. And we know he lent it to you, Jennifer. And we know the clothes are
his and we know the hair on these clothes matches
what we found in your car." There's just lots of winos
going on and putting her on the spot, calling her out,
also in front of her husband. Jennifer, she can't deny. She can't deny the
evidence that they have. And she's just a total slop. Jennifer realizes that she
has no way out of this, babe. She is in, she has no way out. Right? She's cornered. "Oh no! Oh dear! What do I do?" She cracks. She ends up admitting to
everything right on the spot. She tells the cops that like, yes, she was having an affair with Brian. And not only that, but
Jennifer admitted that yes, she had indeed killed Dianne. So Boomshakalaka, case closed. Jennifer killed Dianne because she's sleeping with
Dianne's husband, right? Well, no. Yes. Nay nay. But no. But yes. But Jennifer, she still had so much more to say. She's like, "Let me tell you
though, cause that's not all. Let me tell you." If she's going down,
everyone's going down with her. So Jennifer is spilling
her guts out to the police. She's telling them everything
all in front of her husband, to her husband's like right next to her. Not only did Jennifer kill Dianne, but she told police that it
was Dianne's husband, Brian who put it up to her. Gasparilla. During her confession,
Jennifer admitted that her and Brian's relationship
was way more than just friends. Right? We said that. They'd been meeting at the
fitness club, in the jacuzzi for weeks and weeks and weeks. And I guess one day Jen told
Brian that her husband Ben was going out of town on military duty. She's like, "You know,
I might be home alone." And naturally Brian saw this
as an opportunity to hang out with her, just as friends though. But that night, things were
taken to the next level. The two would end up having
sexual relations at her place. And this is where it all started. After that the two of them
were hooking up left and right. Well as much as they could. So after the two of them hookup, Jennifer goes on to say
that Brian tells her that they've become "one" in God's eyes. Like that's literally what
he said after they hooked up, which would be a little weird to say after you just got done slapping meats together. But okay, Brian, you know. Well Brian tells Jennifer that their union isn't considered a sin under God because it is his will that they are together. So it's not a sin because
they're supposed to be together. He's able to convince
Jennifer that it would be a much greater sin for
him to divorce his wife while she was ill with Lupus, than have an affair with Jennifer. Like that was the most appropriate way for them to be together. What a fucking wiener. In other words, Brian was bringing God
into their relationship or into the conversation
to justify the affair. And remember, he's a church leader. So maybe it was easy to believe.
I'm not sure, but poor God. He's like, "Why are you
guys always bringing me into this bullshit? Leave me out of this. I got miracles to do." That's my impression of God. Just kidding. Yeah. So great. Brian and Jennifer, they
would keep hooking up for like months and months and months. they'd often meet or try
to meet in secret locations or go to places where they thought nobody would recognize them. Because it was such a small town, I mean, they tried to go just
anywhere they could find where no one would see them,
but it kind of seemed like that wasn't a main priority for them. And they didn't really try
that hard because for example, there was one time or not even one time, there was numerous times
when the meetup spot would be at Jennifer's
work, the flower shop. Yeah. So the of the flower
shop saw the two of them. And he's the one who
eventually tipped off the cops as to what was going on. So that little sneaking around thing didn't really work for
them, which is good. Right? 'Cause then they got caught,
but they're just so stupid. How can you be so dumb? Okay. So during the affair, as Brian and Jennifer
are getting more involved with each other and start
sharing more of themselves, Brian talks a lot more about his wife. He started telling Jennifer
that now that they were "one", it was God's plan for them to be together and the timing couldn't be any better. Brian would eventually tell
Jennifer that it was God's plan that she killed Dianne, so the
two of them could be together And she's like, "Oh my
God, I can't kill Dianne. Whatever, I can't do that." But Brian ends up
convincing her that this sin would be forgiven because
it would be necessary for them to become one. Therefore God will forgive
you for murdering somebody. And he's like a higher up,
so I think she believed him. I'm not sure what her thought process was. When Jennifer was revealing
all of this during her trial, she said that he felt in
his mind that to murder her was less of a sin than to divorce her. And she also went on to say
that morning of the murder, Brian, he had called her and he told her, "Hey, Dianne, she's going
to be at that weekly meeting she always goes to later that
day. Just letting you know." Apparently the two of them
had been planning this, like robbery act for quite
some time with the goal of it, looking like a random attack. And allegedly Brian told
Jennifer, "If you love me, you can do this and we
can have a life together." Eye frickin roll. What a...? Yuck. No dude is that great that you need to murder someone for them. Yeah, no. No. Let me think. No. Well, after he tells her that like, "You'll do this if you love me", you know, and then he tells Dianne,
"Make sure to shoot her twice." Just to make sure. What a dick. I'd be like, "Why don't you do it yourself
then you little bitch?" So then, the trial. Jennifer, she was arrested
just two days after killing Dianne Hood on September 14th, 1990. She was charged with
murder in the first degree. And because of her thorough
confession in her testimony, police also arrested Brian as they should. As they should. After Jennifer told the
police her whole story, that's when they started
looking a little bit more into Brian. Turns out he had been having
conversations with his friends about possibly killing his
wife, like for a while now. And none of them said anything. Okay. Like he was not quiet about it.
This dude is just yip yappin And not only that, this sloppy
ass also took out $100,000 life insurance policy on
her before the killing. Give me a fucking break. So it's not looking great
for those two. Is it? Brian's lawyer, not
thrilled. He's not excited. He's like, "Hold on a minute
you guys, everybody calm down. Brian is not to be blamed here." He said it was Jennifer. Jennifer's the one who
murdered Dianne, not Brian. Brian was at home. And Brian's attorney also said that during the phone conversation
they had that morning, between Brian and Jennifer,
cause he did call her. But during that phone conversation, Brian actually broke up with Jennifer and she acted on her own to get revenge. That was, that was his defense. So it kind of sounds like,
oh big eye-roll, right? But Dianne's brother, David, he took the stand to defend Brian. Yeah. He took the stand and said like, "I don't believe Brian is
guilty. I believe this woman, she took my sister and
now she's trying to take Brian away from us, like the
family. She's ruined all of us" I mean, like to have the
brother of the victim come to Brian's defense
was a pretty big deal. If Brian was involved, the
family really didn't think so. Which is like, I don't
know if it's just me, but it's kind of hard to believe, right? Like why didn't they want to...? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Jennifer's mother-in-law, well, it was her former
mother-in-law because Ben divorced Jennifer by
the time this took place. But anyway, she testified that
Jennifer, her mother-in-law said that she could fake
her way through anything. And that Jennifer was
not the type of person who could be manipulated. In other words, there's no way that Brian
manipulated her to kill Dianne. So after six weeks of deliberation, the jurors acquitted Brian
of first degree murder. Instead they charged him with
murder in the second degree, conspiracy to commit murder
and criminal solicitation. He was sentenced to 37 years in prison. Which I mean, okay. I don't know. I think he
was more involved in that. Hello? I think the life
insurance policy says it all, but what do we know? Jennifer. Jennifer. She was also found guilty. Guilty and she was given
a life sentence in prison. Now some were very disappointed
with this conviction. Yeah. Because many believed that
Brian did indeed manipulate Jennifer and they believe
that he should have gotten a bigger sentence, but I
don't know what happened. Now, Jennifer, you could tell the weight of
like everything she had done was taking a toll on her. I don't think, 'cause during
her trial it was said that she was pretty calm and
didn't show any emotion. And then by the end of
the trial, it was like, I think she realized
that like this was real and she's probably going to
prison for a very long time. And she was. She was supposed to go to
prison for the rest of her life. But in 2011, after 19 years, the Governor of Colorado
commuted her sentence as a thanks for her cooperation in Brian's
trial and investigation. So this meant that she was
going to be up for parole later that year. And it was like almost two
decades earlier than expected, which is wild. Like, oh, okay, you
could just murder someone and just be like, "Okay,
just kidding, you're out." However, while she was in prison, she, Jennifer was diagnosed
with pancreatic cancer and in 2014 she started
receiving treatment for it, which was chemotherapy. And by the time she was up for parole, her hair was like all
gray. She was very frail. She wasn't doing too well.
And then in December of 2017, Jennifer was released on parole. Wild. I was going to say, this is Karma, I don't know if this
is Karma. I don't know. Cause only three months
later on March 24th, Jennifer died. Pancreatic cancer. Which is, is sad. A lot of mixed feelings because it's like, I feel bad for her cause I
think maybe she was manipulated and didn't deserve to be... Well, she did kill somebody. I don't know. Now Brian's ass. Brian. Brian, over here, his time in prison was a
little bit more eventful, I guess you could say. While he was put away, he was
charged with two other crimes that prevented his initial
attempts at parole. One of these crimes, he
tried to escape from prison. Yeah, not kidding. Okay. He was like part of a prison break. Someone like put together this whole idea. "We're all going to burst out together." This plan, right? He was part of it and Brian's
ass ended up getting caught. He didn't make it that far. And because of that, even
though he's qualified for parole for his charges relating
to Dianne's murder, he had to spend 15 more months in jail before he was let out. Oh yeah. He was let out. No idea where he is
now. Where's Brian now? Where is he now? Let's do an update. Shall we? Brian, come on in. Just kidding. I don't
know where he is now. Hey Brian. Hey sweetie. You should go back to
prison. Sorry about that. So yeah. That's today's story. I would love to know what you guys think. Like, do you think they should
have equally been to blame or did Jennifer deserve to be in for life and Brian not so much? Do you believe that Jennifer was tricked or do you think she was making
that up for her own reasons? But Brian, he put the life
insurance policy on her. There was something going on.
There was some kind of plan. I wonder if they were
going to get rid of Ben, Jennifer's husband. Hmm. I don't know. So many
questions, not a lot of answers. I would love to hear
your thoughts down below. I'd love and appreciate you
for hanging out with me today. Let me know who you want
me to talk about next week. But other than that, I hope
you have a wonderful day. You make good choices and
I'll be seeing you guys later. Bye. (ending music)
Does anyone know if she's going to post or skip today?
I'm excited to watch this!!