The Stiletto Killer | The Evidence Room, Episode 24

[Music] [Music] heran remained calm as the judge read the sentence death by execution hosway Flores was murdered last Tuesday on his way home from school the men confessed to shooting the team execution style there was some uh satanic type activity taking [Music] place officers tell us tro stabbed her boyfriend with stiletto heel shoes 2-year-old Riley an Sawyer's brutal killing shocked the nation she was beaten to death stuffed in a plastic box found by a fisherman in Galveston Bay former NFL player Antonio Armstrong senior and his wife Don Armstrong were murdered we the jury find the defendant Antonio Armstrong Jr [Music] guilty one by one they describe the deaths of the alleged other eight victims of the convicted rail Park [Music] [Applause] [Music] killer welcome to season 4 of The Evidence room our original docu series takes you deep into the evidence archives to explore some of the most notorious crimes our area has ever seen and we begin this season with a case against Anna truo who came to be known as the Stiletto heel killer Sunday June 9 2013 what is your emergency ma he started attacking defense like [Music] shoing is he breathing at all no okay ma'am we're dispatching emergency units to 1701 Herman apartment 1801 is that correct homicide he died yeah Stefan Stefan is dead yes I was given him M to M it's the crime that made worldwide headlines all for one reason the murder weapon Han a tro hit her boyfriend with its Point 20 25 times but it's what happened before that's Up For Debate he attacked me and I defended myself the day of the murder tro says she and victim Stefan Anderson had been drinking before they both went home to his luxury condo I walked in and all of a sudden he just turned around and completely changed and he was accusing me that I was going to leave then she says he attacked her the pain was so excruciating and I was in fear and all I had was my shoes so I just took my shoe off and I didn't know what else to do and I just started to hit him why if this was self-defense you struck him some 25 times I wasn't counting or I wasn't intending to hit him I didn't even know that I that I was hitting him or you know that he was hurt because of his rage and he was still so strong I cannot understand he had been drinking like 3 days B drinking when you're a lifetime prosecutor and someone who's done homicide for a while there are cases that you hit your desk and you know immediately this is a special one name is John Jordan I'm an assistant district attorney and I was one of the prosecutors on the anat tro murder case how quickly did the case cross your desk literally I received the case the next day we learned some new details about the events leading up to the murder and the relationship between the suspect and the victim but here is that video of Anna tro 44-year-old who is now charged with Mur murdering her boyfriend according to court documents the two went to a club Saturday night and shared two bottles of wine and tequila shots then they went back to the victim's home and early Sunday they got into an altercation about tro leaving town to visit her daughter now jio told police that during a brief struggle she stabbed her boyfriend several times with her stiletto heel and so I was fighting and fighting right and and I was begging him to let me go but I did grab by the hair and I was trying to get out you know and then he wouldn't he got a more on top of me and I put Ro my face you know he sitting on you or laying on you or yeah he's on top yeah like yeah he got me we you know wrestled cuz I was trying to get away so he he landed on top of me okay and so I I grabbed I remember grabbing him by the hair and or his shirt or whatever I could right to try to get from underneath them because I was suffocating she was moving out and he didn't want her to move out he was drunk and uh was pretty bad alcoholic from what I came to find out and something snapped and they got into a fight Jack Carroll I was the lead defense attorney for Anna tro I wasn't breathing and and the more I couldn't breathe like I was losing Consciousness and but then yeah he did hit me he started like with one him he got me and then he started hitting me and I was telling him so please stop and so I was like and he was hitting me I couldn't bre so the only thing I could do is get this arm and I I don't know if I took my shoe off or was there and I was pleased that and I wasn't there so I got the shoe and I started like please like whatever I could I was trying to grab whatever I could I was just H yeah it was hitting enough to please get away right and then he lost his balance while I was hitting him you know and then so then I got on top of him you know and I was like stay down step but then he grabbed me he wouldn't let me go you believed her yeah I did the evidence was all there and and then he like when he would grab me he was try to hit me and I was like please I like and I I was just and then he grabbed me and I was just hitting him with her shoe please stop stop and then that's when I I got I was trying to get he wouldn't let me you know like he had me and I was like please and I was like Stefan and then that's when I saw the blood and I was like oh Stefan please listen you're bleeding if I let you go can you are you can can you not hurt me were you able to see where the blood was coming from on him no I at first I didn't even see anything I I didn't even know there was blood coming out of him he was he was so like full of you know like angry and rage yeah yeah he didn't even seem like he was hurt or nothing was wrong with him he was so like you know and he was still like he you know like he was great like doing and you know and I was like and here I am like and I felt sick and like I saw him when he started he was bleeding and I was like when I saw the blood I was like like like if I would have know you know was like I panicked and I just saw the blood but I didn't care like all the blood you know it's the blood started coming out so I I just grabbed and I kept giving him like breathing and he he was he was breathing so that's when I called I was at that crime scene within 20 48 Hours where was given access to the apartment and I saw the blood and the blood pattern that crime scene gave us an indication of what went on in that apartment that didn't mean that there couldn't have been abuse prior to that but as far as the crime scene and where the blood was pretty quickly we realized that what she was claiming um just didn't um wasn't consistent with what the crime was how key was the blood spatter to the investigation well the blood spatter ended up being key not only to the investigation but in the trial itself because witnesses can tell you different things the great thing about scientific evidence it doesn't lie um it told a story and that story through Chris Duncan one of the foremost experts at the time was that Dr Stefon Anderson was laying on his back as she continued to strike him 25 or 30 times s with that high heel shoe um the way that the castoff was the way that the blood hit the wall um the way that her her jeans were soaked in blood it was obvious that she had straddled him and she had beaten him to death was there any blood high up no only the cast off that would have come up from when you hit a source and then it would come up so in other words if her version was was accurate you would have seen more blood at a higher level on the wall in addition there would be dist the the furniture would be disturbed because she talked about a struggle um and things of that nature how do you reconcile the fact that his testimony was based on the blood splatter it showed that he was on the floor being hit repeatedly and not someone who was standing and getting hit by somebody who's trying to defend themselves and get away we hired a I guess a very famous blood spatter expert by the name of Tom bevel if you ever watch the Forensic Files he's on there all the time on some of the bigger cases that they've ever had and uh I hired him and he told me uh he felt she was guilty that the blood uh spatter didn't add up when I looked at it it was like a picture that's been painted to me I felt I could see what actually happened that didn't give you a moment of pause at all no at what point did you go this is not a case of self-defense this is murder and we're going to try it as murder you know obviously in the state of Texas you get the you know you can claim self-defense and in Texas because of our culture um people will sometimes give someone that self-defense so not only do you have to look at the physical evidence you have to look at the surrounding circumstances pretty early on we were able to track down the cab Drive who had taken Stefon and the defendant from the last bar they were at in the medical center to the high-rise apartment and I spoke to her within a couple weeks of the murder and she explains how Stefon was very calm during that cab ride home she was yelling at him screaming at him cursing him beling him all the way to the party for what she wanted to stay at the at the bar allegedly you can see the footage she is walking around she is flirting with a bunch of people he wants to go home the footage from the lobby of the apartment complex he walks in and he appears to be defeated his his head is down and you see him going into the elevator moments later she would kill him I wanted to leave and he didn't let me leave he would't let me leave and I'm like please you know please let me leave keep in mind it is a fiction that they were still together they had broken up Anna tril was couch surfing through different people she was staying at stefon's home briefly because she was planning on going to West Texas you know this because her luggage was still in the doorway of the apartment so the the relationship had already ended her defense attorney argued that he was a drunk who just snapped and became enraged Stan Anderson was an alcoholic um no denying that he drank a lot but not one person that we talked to who witnessed him intoxicated ever saw him angry as opposed to Anna trilo I immediately thought when I thought a woman with Stilettos kills a guy immediately thought of Anna Jim Caroll says it's been about 5 months since he last Saw Anna truo he knows her though as Anna Fox and says she's a massuse the two he says were just friends but they hung out quite a bit sitting on my balcony twice she told me that if anybody ever messed with her not in those words but anybody ever messed with her she pulled her heel off and says I'll get him with this and it was a big stiletto heel Houston Police responded to ano's high-rise condo early Sunday morning she called police saying she was being beaten but when officers arrived 59-year-old Stefan Anderson a University of Houston biology Professor was found dead police say they were a couple Anderson was stabbed in the head multiple times according to investigators the weapon was a stiletto heel there's a large amount of blood that was in the residence and um some debris that from it looks like some type of U altercation that took place the 44-year-old does have a criminal record a DWI and also a theft by check charge court records indicate she also went by the name Anna Fox currently she's charged with murder and her bond is set at $100,000 then I saw the picture this morning on your website and I went uhoh uhoh and it was Anna and Everywhere We Looked Anna there was something common Anna and alcohol and violence and we literally went to she was known to hang out in bars in downtown Houston um we spoke to a barback who is a little guy was passing by her one day and while you know people were at the bar he saw there was an earring on the ground he reached down handed it to her and she slapped him across the face for handing her the earring we talked to another person just out of the bloom slapped him across her face and he was a a gentle person really nice guy um and and we found these people by literally going to places we knew she went and we asked bartenders asked restaurant staffy do you know this person oh yeah we do and it was story after Story there was a an incident involving a a security guard who was telling her to to leave an establishment and she lunged at him and he had happened to have long hair and she pulled his hair where hair was coming out in her her her hands so there was these these uncontrollable unprovoked crimes of violence not huge like not involving weapons but involving her slapping people biting people there was a remember how I said that she was couch surfing around this time there was another former boyfriend of hers that she was staying at his residence and he had moved on and had a new girlfriend but they were allowing her to stay at the residence and just out of the blue as he's sitting in the chair and the new girlfriend is witness to it she walks up to him and bites him on his face were you prepared to defend her character oh yeah but I couldn't get people to testify for her why not I'll leave I'll let leave that to your imagination [Music] and he just started like progressively getting him just out of hand you know starts to get angry kids real jealous and he started to get violent towards me and so I said you know I don't live like this I don't want to live you know no violent relationship or anything watching her statement to police that night that nearly 4-Hour long interview she talked about multiple men multiple instances of abuse I myself have been assaulted and he knew that I suffer from a post-traumatic disorder and I have from then I I'm get nervous and I I can't go outside from place to place so I just you know I stay with an individual so protective uh because um I suppose um I'm sorry we were never able to corroborate anything that she claimed in her statement if we had names and there were as I mentioned the other one if we had other people that we knew had former relationship ship with them we talked to them um and there were several that we talked to and again the answer was always the same um she was violent um she it was never a real reason for it always alcohol rated and she was not abused herself it was a dramatic and emotional day in the courtroom at one point the murder defendant cried and the victim's family walked out it was evidence the entire courtroom wanted to see a size nine 5 1/2 in stiletto covered with the victim's hair and blood prosecutors say the shoe is the murder weapon that Anna truo used to kill her boyfriend Stefon Anderson on Tuesday the jury heard the call tro made to 911 as the jury listened troio began to cry on the tape she was nearly incoherent telling the operator that Anderson had beat her she then said I hit him with my shoe operator you hit him with your shoe yes tro responds the operator then asks if he Anderson is awake now and troio says no later during the trial prosecutor John Jordan climbed on top of a life-sized mannequin in front of the jury he demonstrated how investigators believe truo struck Anderson with the Stiletto at least 25 times joo's attorney claims she used the shoe in self-defense after Anderson began beating her to stop her from leaving the condo but Ashton buy the first officer to respond to the scene told jurors that when he arrived troo opened the door and was covered in blood officer buoy described Anderson's Body he was covered in blood I immediately believ that his head had been blown out tro was taken into custody that night the jury also saw a video of the police interrogation where troio insisted that she only struck Anderson with her shoe after he abused her why did you play the entire statement for the jury lens is into the mind of Anna tro when you're being asked questions and I believe the beginning of it was tell us what happened and you take hours to not talk about what happened that night but talk about all of the abuse that you have suffered your entire life you're trying to avoid talking about that night and you're trying to paint a picture of yourself I felt very uncomfortable about it because uh when she was told that he you know died there wasn't much of a reaction and also she seemed to be more concerned about getting something to eat you know than about what had happened it just wasn't any kind of remorse she wasn't contrite at all did she express any kind of remorse after the fact when you were talking with her no I've seen in self-defense cases when a person really believes that they were justified in what they did No Remorse that's the way I took it with her she was completely Justified and uh that's how she felt why did you not put her on the stand during the guilt or innocence phase of the trial because she'd already been interviewed for four hours I didn't want her being open up to the prosecutor's you know cross-examine her in front of a jury and a 4 hours going to come in anyway you didn't feel she could have added more context to those four hours I didn't think she uh I was afraid she'd lose control when she was testifying she very as we discussed earlier very demonstrative she was very emotional and what can I say I didn't think she'd make a good witness you know that was one of the first cases of which I did a true reenactment in the courtroom and there was a method to it um we got up on the table we used a dummy um I got on the table as if I was um an a tro on top of Stefan and and I showed how he was struck with and we used it with Chris Duncan as the blood spatter expert because he had done the measurements and he was explaining this exactly what you would see the injury sustained on S Stefon Anderson um to put it in perspective for your viewers his face looked like swiss cheese she hit him so many times with that stiletto heel and we put in evidence the medical examiner had taken an x-ray of that heel where it looks like a ice pick and there weren't fractures he bled to death so it was that kind of force those kind of markings it's hard for me to understand how she would be able to strike him 25 or 30 times and cause that much blood and not realize you killed him and listen to that 911 call yes she appears emotional she also appears intoxicated one of the other pieces of testimony that came out was that he had defensive wounds but she didn't so if he was the aggressor and she was trying to save her own life how is it she didn't have defensive wounds but he did he was a wrestler he's fairly fairly large man and he was strong and he had wrestled in college or something Switzerland or Sweden someplace and like I said earlier when he started pushing her back he shoved her over a couch big couch and it overturned that still doesn't explain why he had defensive wounds but she did not he's a wrestler I don't think he uh you know is punching her or trying to stab her Stefon Anderson as a young pre-teen teenager was involved in Fitness in Sweden at the time of his death he's in his 60s to suggest that some type of um 40 years before in high school that he put them in a lock to answer your question they actually called an MMA expert to the stand and you can read the transcript we made them into our witness and we walked through the crime scene with him and he had to concede everything that we said did you at any point believe she ever had to defend herself that night I never believe for a moment that she had defend herself at all you know you have to look at everything you have to be open to all possibilities you know and so when we're talking to people in his past and talking to people in her past it's important what are they telling us well in his past they're saying he's gentle in her past she's violent and indiscriminately so what does the crime scene tell us the crime scene tells us she's on top of him her her genes are blood soaked all of the strikes are happening while he is on his back and the person who last saw you moments before you did this says she was yelling and cursing at him and he was just being calm everything was pointing in One Direction that there might have been domestic violence here but it was on her being violent on him not the other way around I think you said to the jury she's not crazy she's scary crazy I did I don't know if you can still say that in 2023 but that's that's how I I viewed it is you know you want to it's a certain kind of craziness that you need to avoid and unfortunately Stefan Anderson did not why would she go to that extreme did you ever find out never found out um the true motive you know whether you know I can speculate that perhaps you know he was embarrassed by how she treated him in that cabin in front of people maybe he said you're going to have to get out because remember she was sping the night and I believe was going to go on a bus to West Texas to her children the next day perhaps that set her off um perhaps she wanted to get back together with him and him rejecting her we will never know because two people would know is Anna tro and Stefon and you can't believe a word that comes out of Anna Trio's mouth we the jury find the defendant Anna tro also known as Anna Fox guilty of murder as charged in the indictment Anna tro showed no emotion after the verdict was announced she now faces up to life in prison after being convicted of murder during closing arguments prosecutors urged the jury to return a guilty verdict saying truo made up her story that she acted in self-defense tro was convicted of stabbing her boyfriend University of Houston Professor Stefan Anderson more than 25 times with her stiletto heel her attorney told the jury the prosecution did not show Motive and that she was a victim of domestic violence as long as she was justified from the first to the last strike the jury has to find her not guilty Carol also questioned The credibility of witnesses and the actions of emergency responders but in the rebuttal prosecutor Jack Jordan reminded jurors that truo hit Anderson 25 times truo he said is guilty of murder one of the the things that the foreman had said after the verdict was that was just too many blows to the Head 25 blows to the head was just too many to be self-defense another you know maybe she went overboard I don't know maybe he was getting a hold of her and she had to do what she did the punishment phase you still had a glimmer of hope there you said this was a woman who needs Mercy yeah it was obvious that you know if she hadn't planned on killing him it's obvious that it was sudden passion but you put her on the stand during the punishment phas punishment yeah it's just why the change well she'd sitting there during the whole trial and she knew what maybe what the jury believed they convicted her pretty quick and uh I was hoping you know we could get that sudden passion you argued no this is not sudden passion why you know if a jury comes back and believes that there was sudden passion one it has to be from an adequate cause that would cause an ordinary person um to react in such a way and that would significantly change the punishment range the maximum she could get would be 20 years we argued against it because one there was no adequate cause there was no evidence whatsoever of Stefon Anderson doing anything that would warrant her behavior so don't even get it the first one and then secondly would anybody in a rational person in her shoes do that I mean you can't really have it both ways you can't claim self-defense and a jury rejects that and say okay it wasn't self-defense but I just I just did it out of passion and and what a lot of folks think is because you're passionate you get sudden passion law doesn't work that way um the example of a sudden passion is your child is molested and um and you find out right away and you just can't control your emotions to protect child so you react or a spouse comes home and they catch their significant other in bed with somebody else and they they react that way so it has to be something like that attorneys for Anna troo asked for Mercy but in the end troo received the harshest possible punishment assess her punishment at confinement in the institutional division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice For Life Chio and her family members in the courtroom sobbed after the life sentence was announced she will now spend the rest of her life behind bars for stabbing University of Houston Professor Dr Stefon Anderson with her 5 and a half inch heel stiletto shoe my uncle was a great man he was kind and he did everything for everyone all the time earlier in closing arguments prosecutors said truo would be a continuing threat if she was allowed to walk away a free woman Anna tro violently beat her intimate partner to death for no reason that is what makes her so dangerous but tr's defense attorneys argued she deserved leniency because she acted with sudden passion show Mercy to miss tro who needs mercy so much right now before being sent to prison Anderson's family members were able to give a victim impact statement to describe how difficult and painful their lives have been since their loved one was murdered at the hands of Anna truo he didn't deserve what happened to him and even if nothing can get him back again we have we we're happy that Justice is Serv you know biggest case I ever had and lost it quicker than I've ever lost anything before is it true did you really give the bayith 5 to one odds that they were going to come back with a not guilty and I was joking and I think John Jordan was walking by I got a little bit cocky about it and so I had to eat that you know 5 to one but I you know if You' taken the beted up I probably would have uh done it 5 to one odds I seemed pretty uh silly you know on retrospect but that was pretty uh pretty tough trial and tensions were running a little bit High when you think back now do you still believe everything she told you I do some some people they just I don't know what it is with them but they don't have the they don't they're not Liars I don't know if they don't have the imagination or they know you can tell if they're lying so they don't lie or whatever I think she told me the truth on on everything you know we asked the jury um during jury selection is when a man kills a woman nobody questions it they're like okay did he do it and they will but if a woman kills a man the first question is what he do and so we we had to kind of flip that we had to because it we're we're dealing with stereotypes a lot of times in this courthouse and you have to let that go and just let the evidence take you where it is really to me it was a gentleman who was kind and he was just in the wrong relationship uh so all these years later what I try and convey is this is not about Anna troio this is about steflon Anderson um and what I said in closing I think is true for for a lot of they they she was known you know as Anna tro or an a fox or depending on who it was but once the jury convicted her she became a murderer um a convicted murderer you know there is a message out there um for the community to understand I mean we have done a great job of of empowering women to tell them please you know we can have shelters for you although when you leave that is a homicidal time but we've done a good job of that maybe we haven't done as good a job of when men are in abusive relationships or when female are are verbally abusive and then it it it escalates Anna truo is now 54 years old and she's serving a life sentence at the Mountainview prison Unit in Gatesville Texas however she will be eligible for parole in the year 2043 she declined our request for an interview we're back next week with a case involving hos Flores he was an 11-year-old boy who was stabbed to death while walking home from school being 11 years old and walking home from school block and a half from your home you should be safe and I think it just touched a nerve in our community from the get-go a new episode of The Evidence room streams every Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. on kprc2 Plus for everyone at the kprc2 investigates team I'm Robert Arnold thank you for joining us and we'll see you next [Music] week

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Length: 34min 27sec (2067 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 05 2023