[music playing] NARRATOR: In May 2005,
nine-year-old Krystal Tobias and her eight-year-old
friend Laura Hobbs went to play at their
local park on their bikes. They didn't return. ALBERTO SEGURA:
When that happened, my whole life felt like
I was living in darkness. No matter how bright it was
outside, it was very dark. NARRATOR: Suspicion
immediately turned to the father of one of
the girls who recently been released from prison. GEOFFREY WANSELL: He had
found his daughter brutalized, killed, stabbed, and yet
he's the only likely suspect and in the end is
indeed convicted. NARRATOR: The grieving father
spent five years behind bars before DNA uncovered
the true killer who'd been hiding in plain
sight all along, a family friend, Jorge Torrez. ALBERTO SEGURA: I didn't know
what to think at that time. This was somebody
that was coming back and hanging out with
me after my sister was dead. And he was the one to do it. NARRATOR: The double murder
was just the beginning. Five years later,
a DNA trail would reveal Jorge Torrez as one of
the world's most evil killers. [tense music playing] In February 2010,
21-year-old US Marine Jorge Torrez was arrested for
abduction, use of firearms, and rape. Theo Stamos was a lead
prosecutor on the case. THEO STAMOS: He
didn't look menacing. He didn't look
like someone who is your stereotypical
serial murderer/rapist. That's what made it even
more sinister because he was so unassuming that way. NARRATOR: After a series of
targeted attacks on women in Arlington,
Virginia, Torrez had been tracked down by police. HARRY JAFFE: These were just
dedicated police officers on patrol in a suburb
of Washington D.C. who put together their observations,
their surveillance, their police work
and helped to arrest a very, very dangerous guy. NARRATOR: After his arrest,
the subsequent investigation revealed Torrez was
responsible for a lot more than anyone had expected. THEO STAMOS: When we learned
that he had been involved as, I believe, a 16-year-old
murdering these two, young, innocent girls,
it was mind blowing. NARRATOR: This killer story
began in Zion, Illinois, where Jorge Avila
Torrez was born in 1988. HARRY JAFFE: His father was
a working class guy, mother as well. So from what I
could tell, he came from a pretty solid family. GEOFFREY WANSELL:
I don't think you could call him exactly
a gregarious boy rather sort of remote. I think he struggled
somewhat at school and consoled himself by
cycling around the area. He was a keen cyclist. NARRATOR: It was
whilst out cycling in the local neighborhood that
Torrez met Alberto Segura, and the pair became friends. ALBERTO SEGURA: He was
a really quiet guy. He didn't speak very much. He was a little older than I
was, but he kept to himself. And somewhat like my
sister, we were very nice. And if we see somebody
by themselves, we will be like, hey, come here. What are you doing? You want to come play with us? And that's kind of
how it all happened. NARRATOR: As Alberto got
to know the 16-year-old, he noticed Torrez, known
as George by his friends, spent little time
with his family. ALBERTO SEGURA: He really
did not like being at home. He didn't ever give
me much details, but he wouldn't really talk
really good about his parents. He would always say, oh, I
can't wait to leave my house. I can't wait to finally
get my own spot. ELIZABETH YARDLEY:
Very often when we look at individuals like
Torrez, they feel excluded. But when you speak to the
members of their family, it's very clear that,
that wasn't the case. But it's that perception of
exclusion that matters here. NARRATOR: When the
two teens started to take an interest in girls,
this feeling of exclusion would be exacerbated as
an awkward Torrez struggle to connect with
the opposite sex. ALBERTO SEGURA: I
remember examples of when George
would be like, well, dude, how do you get girls? Man, like it seems
like girls just want to date you all the time. GEOFFREY WANSELL: There's
quite clear evidence that Torrez was very
jealous of Alberto who seemed to be able to
meet girls at any instant and befriend them. ALBERTO SEGURA: So when I was
dating this girl named Jenny, there will be a time
where he'll come with me, and he would always have
an expression on his face like, what am I doing wrong? Like, how did he get her? And what's wrong
with me type of look. ELIZABETH YARDLEY:
So here we have this tension that's developing. He feels an entitlement
to be dating, but the women he wants to
date don't want to date him. So they become almost like an
enemy that he has to defeat. ALBERTO SEGURA:
All the girls would be like, no, get away from me. And I'm just like, I don't know
why they're doing that to you, George, but you're
coming off weird. I would notice
that you know what? Maybe there's something
wrong here with just how he's talking to women. NARRATOR: It wasn't
just how Torrez was talking to women that gave
Alberto cause for concern. ALBERTO SEGURA: There's
an example where he tied a girl to a
trampoline like being funny, but that ain't funny. They were jumping around just
having a good old time then the girls are versus
the boys and the boys versus the girls
type of situation. And then he took it too far,
and then grabbed a jump rope and tied her to the pole of
the trampoline and was like, now you're stuck. What are you going to do? ELIZABETH YARDLEY: This is
a really concerning story in his background
because it shows that he wants to dominate women. He wants to humiliate women. ALBERTO SEGURA: Little
by little is where I would be like, you know what? Maybe I need to keep a distance. And so when I did-- NARRATOR: The friends saw
less and less of each other until Mother's Day 2005. That fateful day began like
any usual Sunday for Alberto. ALBERTO SEGURA: I
was walking home and had it be like 8:00,
9:00 in the morning. I seen my sister riding
her bike to Laura's house. And she was on the sidewalk. And I'm like, hey,
what are you doing? She said, I'm going
to Laura's house. NARRATOR: Nine-year-old
Laura Hobbs had become best friends with
Alberto's little sister Krystal soon after her family moved
into the neighborhood. ALBERTO SEGURA: Their
relationship was really close. They do everything together. I mean, when I say
everything, I mean everything. And they would have sleepovers. They both liked the same things. They both liked planting. And so they had a connection. They both liked riding
their bikes together. Whatever they can do
together, they would. NARRATOR: The girls would
usually be out on their bikes until dinnertime. But on this particular
day, they didn't return. The sun was starting
to go down a little bit. It was around maybe 6:00, 7:00. And usually Laura's home
at a much earlier time. NARRATOR: Alberto and Krystal's
mom, Marina, was at home preparing a family meal. ALBERTO SEGURA:
And so her mom was already kind of freaking out. I ain't think nothing of it. I'm like, well, go
let's go ask Krystal. Let's see where she's at. Let's ask her if she
knows where Laura is at. And I realized like,
well, she ain't in here. Krystal is not here. Laura's mom and my
mom decide, well, let's call the cops
because they're never out past this time. They're always somewhere
where they can be seen. A few friends of mine,
we got on our bikes and we started going around
the whole neighborhood trying to find her. NARRATOR: The entire community
of Zion rallied together. And as police arrived
to join the search, fears started to mount
for the girl's safety. ALBERTO SEGURA: I
remember a police officer once I pulled up to the front
of the house I'm like, whoa, this is serious. It's like my sister is
missing at the moment. Then it was becoming more scary. Everyone was looking for her. There was at least
20, 25 people out walking around in
different directions and different pockets of
people looking around. GEOFFREY WANSELL:
One of the people who takes part in that initial
search is Jorge Torrez. ALBERTO SEGURA: I remember
him riding his bike around. He wasn't in my group. But I remember him
riding his bike. NARRATOR: With no sign
after hours of searching, Alberto and Marina returned
home to wait for news. Police and family
continued to search. GEOFFREY WANSELL:
As night falls, the search for Krystal
and Laura is called off. But Jerry Hobbs and Laura's
grandfather, Art, keep on searching through the night. NARRATOR: It would
be an agonizing night for the families
of the young girls. And the following morning, their
worst fears were confirmed. Desperate for news,
Krystal's mother, Marina, went to the Hobbs' house
the following morning. On the 9th of May
at 6:00 AM, the two young girls were
discovered in the woods of Beulah Park in Zion. Laura had been
sexually assaulted, and both girls had
been brutally murdered. ALBERTO SEGURA: My mom tells
my dad that my sister was found and that she was dead. My dad ran upstairs. He was crying. It was the first time
I've ever seen him cry. My brothers woke up. They heard everything,
and they were sobbing. They were crying loud. My youngest brother, David,
that was his best friend, so he was devastated. And I tried to open
up my eyes to wake up. And it was still
the same nightmare that my sister was not going
to be coming home no more. And it was that moment
I will never forget. NARRATOR: With no murder
weapon and little evidence recovered from the
scene, police were desperately looking for leads. Suspicion turned to
Laura Hobbs'es father, Jerry, who'd been the one to
find the girls that morning. ALBERTO SEGURA:
Laura's dad has done some crazy things in Texas. That he was chasing
people with chainsaws. He was very destructive. And he's been in jail
multiple times for drug abuse and for just being very violent. GEOFFREY WANSELL: The police
jump to conclusions perhaps understandably but nevertheless
do that Jerry Hobbs is in fact the killer of these two girls. And they interrogate
him intensively for 24 hours in that May of 2005. And in the end, Jerry
Hobbs confesses. ALBERTO SEGURA: It just didn't
make sense though that why would a father do that. And I was thinking, well,
there was money missing. You think he was just
got so angry that he take it out on the girls like this? None of it made sense. NARRATOR: The police believe
they had their killer. And Jerry Hobbs remained
in custody awaiting trial. Following the tragic loss
of Krystal and Laura, the family and community in
Zion were left devastated. ALBERTO SEGURA: A few days
later after that situation, we found flowers in our flower
bed that my mom didn't plant. I know it had to be
my sister, and she did it for Mother's Day. And that's when things
became more real. That's when I realized
that she's really gone. And my little sister was just
trying to do something special for my mom for Mother's Day. And days later, we see it. We obviously didn't
notice it at the moment, at the time because we're just-- we were devastated. And then my mom was like, where
are these flowers come from? And all I could think was
her planting them with Laura. NARRATOR: The Tobias
family tried to come to terms with their loss. Alberto needing his friends
during this difficult time, remained in touch
with Jorge Torrez. But shortly after the murders,
Torrez enlisted in the Marines. HARRY JAFFE: He had an
interest in becoming a Marine from early life. So as soon as he was
out of high school, he went right into the Marines. He had a whole series
of solid relationships. ELIZABETH YARDLEY: You can't
be a loner in the military. So I think there's a sense
in which Torres realizes that he does want
to actually make connections with other people. And this is a circumstance
he'll be able to do that in. NARRATOR: As a US Marine,
Torrez was stationed at various locations
around the world, but he would always make time
to stay in touch with Alberto. ALBERTO SEGURA: He
would call me and let me know that he's coming
back home for a week or so. And we would go hang out. NARRATOR: In April
2009, Torrez, now 20, was assigned an
administrative role, and he moved into Naval
Barracks in Arlington, Virginia. THEO STAMOS: Arlington
County is often referred to as an urban village. It's just across the river
from Washington D.C. It's a wonderful community
to live and to work and to raise a family. NARRATOR: In February 2010,
the Arlington community was shaken when during some
of its worst winter storms on record, a series of violent
attacks against women occurred. HARRY JAFFE: The D.C. Area is
not known for extreme weather but that particular season,
we got one of the biggest snowstorms in history. And it's the entire
region was locked down. NARRATOR: The adverse
weather conditions affected public transport,
forcing many of the city's residents to travel on foot. On February the
10th, a female nurse was walking to her
boyfriend's house after a shift at
the local hospital. THEO STAMOS: It
was after midnight. The streets were deserted. No one was around really. HARRY JAFFE: She gets
approached from behind by a man. Taps her on the
shoulder and says, stop right there
because I have a gun. THEO STAMOS: He took it out,
and he pressed it to her side and told her to keep walking. HARRY JAFFE: She knows
that she's about a half a block away. And he says, get in the car. Get in my car. THEO STAMOS: And he started
guiding her at gunpoint towards his car, and she
just decided that, that was not going to happen. HARRY JAFFE: And she
tosses her purse. And he's distracted for
a minute, and she runs. She bangs on the door
screaming, let me in. Let me in. THEO STAMOS: And I
remember her telling us that if he's going to
shoot me in the back, he's going to shoot
me in the back, but I'm not getting in the car. HARRY JAFFE: The streets
in Arlington, Virginia, are considered to be safe. So when this woman called
up the PD, Arlington PD, and said I have
just been accosted, and a guy tried to abduct me--
he had a gun, and I ran off-- they took note. They responded immediately. THEO STAMOS: She was able to
describe for the sketch artist that he was a Hispanic male
about 5' 7", maybe 150. She also was able to provide
information about the vehicle that he was trying to
get her to get into. She remembered that it was
either silver or gray Dodge Durango, which is a type of SUV. NARRATOR: With no license plate
and nothing else to go on, the investigation
was slow to start. But the attacker was quick to
move on to his next victim. Two weeks later, on the evening
of the 26th of February, a young woman was approached
as she walked home alone. HARRY JAFFE: A man
comes up behind her and says, you come
with me, get in my car. And she's shocked. She's surprised. She's scared out of her mind. And she turns around,
and she resists. She says, no, I'm
not going to do that. And he teases her,
attempts to disable her, knock her down, abduct her. The taser doesn't
really do its job. THEO STAMOS: She was
able to move quickly, and he never was
able to actually have an encounter with her. But she did report the
incident to police. She reported a
particular description. And now law enforcement was
beginning to put together these two separate incidents. NARRATOR: The
predator had failed twice in his attempts to
attack and abduct local women. But he was determined that
his next victim wouldn't have a chance to escape. The armed attacker
struck for a third time, ambushing two friends as they
walked home from a night out. THEO STAMOS: They were
walking up the front walk. They got to the front door
and virtually out of nowhere, this individual appeared. He held a gun to both of them. They were opening the door. He forced them into
their own home. He made them sit on a sofa
in the small living room. Of course, they were terrorized. They were paralyzed with fear. HARRY JAFFE: He says, is
anybody else in the house? And they say no even
though they know there's a roommate upstairs. They don't want to involve her. THEO STAMOS: He then
asked both girls to move into a
first floor bedroom and push them into the room
and force them at gunpoint. He then grabbed several
appliances in the house. One was a vacuum cleaner,
and then also an iron. And he used those cords
to bind the women. HARRY JAFFE: He doesn't
do a very good job. And one of the young women is
able to grab a cell phone out of her pocket because he
hasn't patted her down and she attempts to
call 911, at which time he comes back in the room,
sees her on the phone, takes the phone smashes,
it against a wall, and now he's furious. ELIZABETH YARDLEY:
It's unplanned. He's acting spontaneously. He is so determined that
he's going to attack somebody on this evening. That when he actually
comes to do it, he's not quite sure of
how to carry it through. NARRATOR: With no apparent
plan, the perpetrator dragged one of the women to
his car before driving off. THEO STAMOS: The
other young woman who was now gathering
herself because now her friend, her roommate has
just been taken from the home, she has no idea
where she's gone. She runs out the front door,
doesn't see her friend, doesn't see the assailant,
doesn't see any cars moving, runs back and calls 911. HARRY JAFFE: This is not
a violent prone community, so the abduction of a young
woman is all hands on deck. The all points bulletin goes
out across not just Arlington but across Northern Virginia. THEO STAMOS: The
crime scene detectives and unit comes to the house. They're dusting foot prints. They're taking
photographs of the area. They're looking for
clues outside the home. And as that's happening
and she's being interviewed and she's being tended
to because she was quite traumatized, now
our other victim is in a car with this individual. NARRATOR: The woman was
subjected to several hours of torture by her
attacker who after two thwarted abduction attempts had
finally succeeded in his plan. ELIZABETH YARDLEY: Burning
rage and that resentments and how dare these
victims got away from me. So the next victim, he's
determined that he's going to carry this through. THEO STAMOS: And he pulled over
and he got in the back seat and he raped her. He sodomized her, rapes her,
and then he takes off driving. And, of course,
the whole time he has a firearm that
he threatens her with so that she would be compliant. HARRY JAFFE: She is dazed
and disgusted and vomiting. And she realizes that they're
driving for a long way. This isn't just
around the corner. They're on a highway. She sees signs. She knows that she's
going miles and miles away from Arlington, Virginia. THEO STAMOS: He drives to
a very secluded area sort of like a forest preserve,
an off road area, completely covered in
snow about 100 yards or so from the roadway. From there, he gets
out of the car. He gets the victim out of the
car, and he rapes her again. HARRY JAFFE: There's no
question about the fact that after raping this young
woman after abducting her, binding her, raping her,
that he intended to kill her. ELIZABETH YARDLEY: And
then he takes the scarf that she was wearing, and he
begins to tighten the scarf around her neck and she asks him
in a very plaintive voice, what are you doing? And he said, what do
you think I'm doing? HARRY JAFFE: He
pulled it as tight as he could, cut
off her breathing and for what he imagined,
what he thought that he was successful and that
he had killed the woman, and she was dead. NARRATOR: But he hadn't. Unbelievably, the woman
survived the attack. HARRY JAFFE: She
regains consciousness. She realizes that
she is freezing. She's lying half
naked in the snow, but she has a will to live. And she looks up, and
she can see that there's a road not far away. She sees cars on the road. And so she crawls on her arms
and legs toward the road, and she starts screaming. NARRATOR: Shocked by
the woman's condition, a passing car stopped to
help and called an ambulance. THEO STAMOS: She had quite
a lot of trauma to her feet and her extremities because
she was so close to being strangled to death. The particular hemorrhaging
her, the whites of her eyes were completely made red. It was something
to see even days later when we first met her. It was still something that
I'd never seen in my career. We learned later from talking
to the medical experts that she was within seconds
of actually being killed. NARRATOR: Officers were able
to glean detailed information about the perpetrator's
appearance from his victim and crucially, about the car
that was used in the attack. THEO STAMOS: It was
remarkable just how composed this young
woman was given what she had just been through. As traumatic as
the situation was, she had the constitution
to be quite lucid. She had a great recollection
of what he looked like, the words he said, the car. NARRATOR: A significant break in
the search for the perpetrator came from a patrol
officer who was just about to finish his shift
when he heard something familiar on the radio. THEO STAMOS: He remembered
that several days previously while he was on his patrol,
he had watched this car, and it was a Dodge
Durango, and it appeared just to be
hunting through the streets of Arlington. It wasn't breaking any laws. He wasn't violating any
traffic laws or anything, but there was just something
that caught his attention. NARRATOR: So odd
was the behavior that the officer had written
down the vehicle registration. And on hearing
about the abduction, had rushed to
pinpoint its owner. THEO STAMOS: They then
confirmed that it came back to this individual,
who as it happened, was a member of the
United States military and was stationed at Fort Myer. Through that presence
of mind and the ability to do just ordinary but
really good police work, we were able to run
the tag, and the tag came back to Jorge Torrez. NARRATOR: The name meant
little to them at the time, but it would later become
one they'd never forget. Armed with a photo,
detective showed the victim who was still
receiving treatment in hospital for her injuries. GEOFFREY WANSELL: And
she identifies him. And she says, yes, yes, that's
the man that attacked me. NARRATOR: Torrez had no idea
that he'd failed once again and that the woman he'd
attacked had survived and had his face
etched in her brain. Naval Criminal Investigation
services were drafted in, and a team dispatched
to the barracks on the 27th of February 2010. HARRY JAFFE: They slowly
drive through the garage, and they find the vehicle
with a license plate. And they park there,
and they wait. THEO STAMOS: I remember
one of the officers looking into the window of the
car, and he was yelling out to his colleagues, what was
the description of the iron that the victim described? What did she say it was? And they shouted back at him,
it was a white sunbeam iron. And he goes, yep, I'm looking at
a white sunbeam iron back here. HARRY JAFFE: At a certain
point, a young Marine comes down looking
smart, dressed in jeans. He gets into the car,
tries to get in the car, and they arrest Jorge
Torrez right there. NARRATOR: Torrez was taken
into custody and questioned. THEO STAMOS: And what we did
learn after his arrest was that this incident
that he was involved in Arlington, these
two incidents, was just the tip of the iceberg. NARRATOR: Samples
of DNA are about to reveal dark secrets
from Torrez'es past that would shock everyone. THEO STAMOS: Upon arrest for
a series of various charges, a sample of the suspect's DNA is
entered into the nationwide DNA databank. That happened after Torrez was
arrested and as a consequence, there was what's
called a cold hit. And the hit was a
hit in two places. NARRATOR: One cold hit linked
the DNA taken from Torrez to the unsolved murder of Navy
corpsman, Amanda Snell, who lived in the same
barracks as Torrez, and had been found dead in her
room on the 13th of July 2009. HARRY JAFFE: She had pretensions
of being a Naval officer. And she was a lovely,
lovely young woman. One day she did not
show up for work. And her coworkers reported that. And so in a normal
course of checking out what was going
on with Amanda, they went to her barracks. They look inside
the closet, and they see Amanda Snell slumped
over with a pillowcase over her head. At that point, they
call in the police. NARRATOR: At the time,
investigators were baffled. HARRY JAFFE: In investigating
the death of Amanda Snell, I didn't see any visible
signs of struggle. THEO STAMOS: The
investigators were flummoxed. They didn't really
know what had happened or what the cause of death was. HARRY JAFFE: NCIS went and
interviewed people on her hall. And one of the people that
they spoke to and interviewed was a Marine named Jorge Torrez. And Torrez was very helpful. He said he knew her, but
he didn't know her well. NARRATOR: The new DNA evidence
contradicted this story, and he became lead suspect for
the murder of Amanda Snell. The second DNA match
was from a sample taken from the bodies
of Krystal Tobias and Laura Hobbs in
Illinois back in 2005. THEO STAMOS: They
knew at the time that there was foreign in
DNA on one of the girls. They didn't know who it was. It turned out that,
that was Torrez'es DNA. NARRATOR: While in jail, Torrez
would confirm police suspicions when an informant wearing a wire
recorded a shocking confession. THEO STAMOS: Torrez admitted to
this inmate who was recording that he had indeed
been responsible for the murders of the two
young girls in Zion, Illinois. And he admitted to the
murder of Amanda Snell. ELIZABETH YARDLEY:
He's boasting about it. This tells us a lot about
Torrez'es personality and his psychology. It's not enough for him
to be violent and deadly. He wants to be seen to
be violent and deadly. NARRATOR: The news that
Torrez was in prison had already reached Alberto
Segura when out of the blue he received a call
from his friend. ALBERTO SEGURA: Hey,
what's up, George? How are you doing, buddy. Doing not so well. I'm like, man, yeah, I know
your sister was telling me you got into some trouble, dude. Hope it ain't nothing crazy. What you trying to do? Send some guns back from
one of your station? He was like no, man. It's like, so I'm going to
just go straight to the point. I'm like what's up? They're trying to say
that I abducted a girl, and I killed this girl
in the barracks room. And I'm like whoa,
dude, this what? I'm like, well, you
didn't do it, did you? No, of course, I didn't do it. I was like, well,
you got this, dude. I'm believing you. He was like, well,
there's more to it. Well, because of these murders,
they're trying to link me back to when your sister died. And I'm like, whoa. I was like, well, you
didn't do it, right? There was a pause. And I'm like, huh. I was lost for words
because by him pausing just for a little
bit made me realize that he probably was the guy. And I was trying to stay
positive the whole time. And I'm like, well, bro, well,
you say you didn't do it. No, I didn't do it, dude. I swear to you. And that was the last time
that I would talk to George. This was somebody that was
coming back and hanging out with me after
my sister was dead, and he was the one to do it. NARRATOR: With Torrez now the
proven killer, in August 2010, Laura Hobbs'es father, Jerry,
was finally released from prison after serving
five years for the murder of the two schoolgirls,
a crime he didn't commit. HARRY JAFFE: He has claimed
his innocence all along. He has said, I was forced
to make that confession. I would never kill my daughter. It's absurd. I am wrongfully accused. I am wrongfully jailed. So when the truth comes
out that it's Torrez, he is totally vindicated. NARRATOR: Hobbs would later
go on to successfully sue Lake County. ALBERTO SEGURA: I felt
real bad for Jerry Hobbs because he obviously
went to prison and was accused of killing his
daughter and for five years, people were blaming Jerry
Hobbs for killing both girls when it really wasn't him. NARRATOR: On the
12th of October 2010, the first trial began in
Arlington where prosecutors brought 17 charges
against Torrez, including abduction, use
of firearms, and rape. HARRY JAFFE: Torrez
pleaded not guilty. He didn't confess. So it forced the women
who he had tried to abduct and the woman who he
abducted and raped and tried to kill to relive
those horrific events. THEO STAMOS: We did have
overwhelming evidence of guilt. We had the identity
we had in the car. We had the victim's ID
in the back of the car. We had her earring,
her DNA in his car. So this was no
longer a whodunit. It was maybe a why he did it. NARRATOR: Torrez was found
guilty on 14 charges, and the 22-year-old was
sentenced to five life terms plus 168 years in prison. THEO STAMOS: The victims
were tremendously gratified. There was a lot of hugging and
crying and a sense of relief. NARRATOR: In March 2014,
Torrez was back in court for the murder of Amanda Snell. He was found guilty and
given the death penalty. It would be another
four years in 2018 before Alberto and his family
would finally see justice served for Krystal and Laura. It was an emotional trial. ALBERTO SEGURA: The judge
was showing to the courtroom and everybody else that
how the bodies of the girls that happened on Mother's
Day how they were laid out. And I happened just
to peek and see it, and I fainted just for
a second where I had to catch myself from falling. NARRATOR: Marina and Alberto
both testified against Torrez. ALBERTO SEGURA: I had
him right there in front. I could have hit him. I could have done so much
to him, but what good would I have done? When I walked down to George
after getting off the stand, I walked up to
him, and I made eye contact the whole way there. He was barely looking at me. He was looking at me off
the corner of his eye. And maybe he was expecting
me to do something dumb. And I walked up to him and I
said, hey, man, I forgive you, George. I went to the back,
and I did cry. I cried because I
thought about what pain my sister went through
and because of this guy. NARRATOR: In September 2018,
13 years after he'd brutally killed nine-year-old Krystal
Tobias and eight-year-old Laura Hobbs, Jorge
Avila Torrez was found guilty of their murders. HARRY JAFFE: You
have to step back and say he almost got
away with two murders. He came this close to
getting away with murder, literally, of two young girls. NARRATOR: Although
already on death row, Torrez had an additional 100
years added to his sentence. HARRY JAFFE: Jorge
Torrez was a US Marine. He's the best of the best. And nobody knew that
hiding inside this Marine was a true predator,
was a true killer, and he was capable of
horrendous acts of violence. ALBERTO SEGURA: You took a
piece of our family puzzle that can no longer be here. I love to see my
sister have her wedding and graduate high school. He took away memories that
we won't be able to witness. He did take a
piece of our hearts and a big chunk of our life
away for our whole family. NARRATOR: Jorge Torrez
was a prolific predator capable of carrying out
heinous and horrific acts against some of the most
innocent in our society. His insatiable desire to
hunt out his next victims had ultimately
led to his demise. He will be forever remembered
as one of the world's most evil killers. [music playing]
