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00:00This time on Killers Caught on Camera,
00:07a terrifying day amid the heat and dust of New Mexico.
00:11I heard five shots and they're gonna go down.
00:14When we're dealing with a person who just committed a mass shooting,
00:18we don't know what the mentality of this person is.
00:21Corporal ambulance! Corporal ambulance!
00:23And in snowbound Colorado, a shocking discovery.
00:27The scene itself looked like some sort of altercation had taken place
00:31that was quite violent.
00:33I might be bored.
00:38I just sound like something bad is happening to her.
00:41We know what happened because the video tells us what happened.
00:44I checked some gunshots.
00:46Drop it! Whatever it is, drop it!
00:48That does not prove that I killed a wife.
00:51The camera doesn't lie.
00:57In Northern New Mexico, in Rio Arriba County, is La Madera.
01:06La Madera, New Mexico is a very small community, a very rural area.
01:12There are a lot of families that live there.
01:14Everyone virtually knows everyone else.
01:169-1-1, what's your emergency?
01:17Ma'am, I really need you to take a deep breath and tell me I can't understand you.
01:22What's going on?
01:23A 9-1-1 call comes in.
01:25It is clearly panic.
01:26There's a lot of yelling.
01:27There's a lot of screaming.
01:28How many of you are in La Madera?
01:29You're in La Madera?
01:30What's going on in La Madera?
01:31You're in La Madera?
01:32What's going on in La Madera?
01:37Then essentially, the call goes dead.
01:43Deputies arriving on the scene were met by distressed neighbors.
02:04Were you here?
02:06I was here for the first one.
02:10The first law enforcement agency that arrives is the Rua Eriba Sheriff's Office.
02:15They discover three victims.
02:18Max was shot, and it was over the chest.
02:21The victims were identified as Max Trujillo,
02:27his stepson, Brendan Herrera,
02:30and Brendan's mother, Maria,
02:33known to friends and family as Brenda.
02:39Brendan's still alive.
02:40Yeah.
02:41Making noise.
02:42We need an ambulance here.
02:44One individual, the mother, Brenda, was still alive at the time,
02:48so they were trying to get medical attention for her.
02:51RA-7 sensor, we're going to have two possible 10-7,
02:541-41, barely breathing.
02:57We're going to need 55 here.
03:00The other two individuals, Brendan and Max,
03:03were deceased at the time that law enforcement got there.
03:06The deputies on scene urgently needed to locate the shooter.
03:12Sheriff's Office!
03:15Officers are thinking about if there's a suspect still inside of the residence.
03:19Sheriff's permit!
03:21Are they at risk right now as well?
03:24A lot of weapons here.
03:27Did you hear anything that they were fighting about?
03:30I heard, like, five shots, bam, bam, bam, bam.
03:36More residents appeared on scene.
03:40This is a crime scene.
03:41You're going to have to go over here.
03:43I'm really sorry, guys.
03:44This is a crime scene.
03:45You're going to have to stay over there, okay?
03:46My mom!
03:47I didn't see my mom!
03:48We have the medics coming over here.
03:51I didn't see her!
03:53This was Brenda's teenage daughter, Carissa.
03:59My mom was such a selfless person.
04:03She was very inspirational.
04:06She was my best friend.
04:09I wouldn't go anywhere without my mom.
04:14She was very caring.
04:18She wore her heart on her sleeve.
04:21Max was a steel worker and got together with Brenda just before Carissa was born.
04:27My dad's personality was so goofy.
04:30I mean, this man would light up a room any time he would come in.
04:33He would just joke and he would laugh and make us laugh.
04:37I loved his personality so much.
04:40He was a good man.
04:42They were best friends.
04:45They would support each other no matter what.
04:48You could tell they had true love.
04:51Also living at the property were two of Carissa's brothers, Damian and the third victim, Brendan.
05:04Brendan and I, it was a couple of years apart.
05:08He was just the best, most genuine soul you'd ever meet.
05:13At the crime scene, Carissa had troubling information for the deputies.
05:19The day of the incident, I remember just hanging out at home.
05:21Brendan and I was like, oh my God.
05:22I was like, oh my God.
05:23I was like, oh my God.
05:24Oh my God.
05:25Who's Damian?
05:26He's my brother and I shot them.
05:27Damian what?
05:28Damian what?
05:29He shot my dad first and then my brother and my mom.
05:33Oh, where's Damian?
05:34Where is he?
05:35Who told you this?
05:36Who told you this?
05:37I've seen it.
05:38I was there.
05:39The day of the incident, I remember just hanging out at home.
05:48Brendan had his day off, so he was in his room watching movies.
05:52Damian was not working.
05:54He had just dropped out of college.
05:56He quit his job.
05:58So he was struggling.
06:01I remember just looking out the front door and, I mean, I see my dad walking to the door
06:10to come inside.
06:11And all of a sudden, I mean, I saw him point the gun and you just hear the shots go off
06:17and my dad just fell.
06:22My brother Brendan had heard it and he ran out the same time my mom did it.
06:27My mom was just on the ground with my dad and told me to call 911.
06:32She was trying to talk.
06:33And he went and grabbed the phone from my mom and threw it across the roof of the house.
06:39So we had no phone to finish calling.
06:44Damian started just fighting with Brendan.
06:47He just overpowered Brendan.
06:49And he just had the gun by his neck, between his neck and his shoulder.
06:54And he just, he just pulled that trigger.
07:06My mom heard the gunshot and she was just pleading, just don't do it.
07:11Just don't do it.
07:12And he just looked at her and pointed the gun straight at her.
07:16And she said, please don't do it.
07:19And he just let that one go too.
07:23I just knew if I didn't get out of there, I was going to be next.
07:31And I needed to get help.
07:33I just ran.
07:35I ran to whatever house I could find first.
07:42Max Trujillo Sr. was shot in the back.
07:45Brendan Herrera was shot almost execution style in the back of the head.
07:50And Brenda was shot on the side of her head, basically on the right temple.
07:56All of those wounds were clearly from someone that intended to kill his victims.
08:08By the time first responders arrived, Damian had already fled the scene.
08:17The suspect had stolen a pickup truck from that property, as well as some other firearms.
08:23When we're dealing with a person who just committed a mass shooting, we don't know what the mentality of this person is.
08:29Are they going out and they're going to continue a spree of murders afterwards?
08:33No one would tell us there's an emergency.
08:40My husband, my husband is, I don't know if he's dead or not.
08:47I think he's dead.
08:51While we were en route to La Madera, there was another 911 call that came out advising that a woman, she had just came home and found her husband laying shot in their front yard.
09:04This incident had taken place 35 miles away in the equally small community of Tres Piedras.
09:12When I arrived on scene, I observed an elderly male laying down on the ground with apparent gunshot wounds.
09:18He was deceased.
09:20The individual who shot him had also stolen his pickup truck.
09:26The victim was Michael Kite, a retired archaeologist who had only recently moved to New Mexico.
09:34This is a very remote area.
09:38It would be unusual, highly unusual, to have that number of fatalities in that short of a time period that close together.
09:45So I think that at that point, they probably, you know, had a good idea that they were all related.
09:50Shortly after, those suspicions were confirmed when Herrera's truck from La Madera was found abandoned not far away.
10:00It had run out of gas.
10:01I think it would be easy to think, well, he's just a ruthless murderer at this point on a spree.
10:10He's killing people. He's killed his own family members. Now he's killing strangers on the road.
10:13But probably what's going on in his mind is he was desperate. He is still trying to escape. And he needs to put distance between himself and the crime scene.
10:23And the only way he's going to do that is if he has another vehicle or gas.
10:27And I think in that moment, you're not thinking about this individual as a human being. So I think it's more of a practical and instrumental, as we call it, murder.
10:38By now, Carissa's mom, Brenda, had been airlifted to the hospital. She was on life support.
10:47I held her hand. I didn't want to leave her side.
10:51They did inform us that she was brain dead. There was no way of her coming out of it.
10:57Seeing her in that bed was the hardest thing. She didn't look like my mom anymore.
11:02I just knew that she couldn't suffer. I just knew that we had to do something about it.
11:10And, I mean, she was just in pain. And so it was about a day and we took her off life support.
11:17Just a few hours after they received the first call, the Ria Arriba Sheriff's Office got yet another 911 call.
11:39It was reported to us that over in the community of Abiquiu, an individual was shot at the Bode's gas station.
11:59The victim was identified as a local man.
12:03Manuel Serrano was a family man who lived in that community.
12:09He worked as a security guard at the local Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.
12:14He was actually headed to work at the time that he was shot and killed.
12:20Investigators were able to access the store's CCTV.
12:24Here we see a black Chevy pickup truck pulling up to pump number six.
12:36This is a truck that was identified as being stolen from Michael Kite.
12:45At this point, there's an individual that walks outside with a straw cowboy hat
12:50and appears that he is going to be getting gas for his truck.
13:06So here you see a white Jeep pulling up to pump number four.
13:10And we see Manuel Serrano exiting his vehicle.
13:13And the individual begins to take notice.
13:21There doesn't appear to be any sort of communication between the two of them.
13:25But he's watching him.
13:26He's observing everything that he's doing.
13:34Manuel Serrano is still going about his business.
13:37He's actually cleaning his windshield.
13:39And you see the black truck.
13:41The lights come on.
13:42And the driver's side window goes down.
13:46An arm comes out.
13:50And the individual in that truck discharges his firearm in the direction of Manuel Serrano.
13:59From the ricochets off the pavement, we know that the gunshots are coming from him.
14:03Manuel Serrano is seen actually trying to escape the person who's shooting at him.
14:11As he's running away, that black truck is seen pulling out.
14:18This was a targeted attack.
14:21No altercation happened.
14:26Manuel Serrano died of his wounds shortly after.
14:29For investigators, there could be no doubt what they had witnessed.
14:35Manuel Serrano was an innocent victim who was shot in the back as a cold-blooded murder by this individual in the black truck.
14:46We were able to identify the individual as Damian Herrera.
14:49This doesn't feel like a situation where he's got nothing else to lose because the bigger question is, what does he have to gain from shooting this guy?
15:00This is so random.
15:01And so I think there must be something going on in his own mind that we don't see where this makes sense, that shooting this man is a good outcome because it either protects his escape, it protects his identity, or maybe he thinks, what if this is a cop who's after me, or what if this guy's out to get me?
15:22So it points to paranoid delusions for me or some sort of perception that we don't have just watching this footage that's only in his own mind.
15:30At this point, we've got multiple law enforcement agencies, you know, Espanola Police Department, Rio Arriba County Sheriff's Department, New Mexico State Police, that are all involved in essentially this manhunt to find Damian Herrera.
15:45Damian Herrera.
15:46Units are heading north on 84.
15:49I have a unit heading in the direction of a possible suspect, Black Silverado, driving on the shoulder, almost hitting several vehicles.
15:58Herrera is speeding down the highway pretty quickly after killing Mr. Serrano.
16:04He is now driving in the northbound lane, northbound lane passing vehicle.
16:08He might go ahead on.
16:09Oh, my goodness.
16:11You've got two law enforcement officers that are chasing him.
16:13They're pretty close behind.
16:15Oh, he's going to wreck.
16:16I think he's wrecked it.
16:17I think he's flipped.
16:18Damian Herrera ends up pulling too far off onto the shoulder.
16:23He goes off the road, hits a rock, and it causes his truck to flip, and it rolls over.
16:33At that point, it's a very active situation.
16:35There is dust all over the place.
16:37It's very hard to see.
16:38Stop what happened.
16:39Stop what happened.
16:40Stop.
16:41Stop.
16:42They're looking around, looking for the driver of the vehicle.
16:44They're actually looking at the truck.
16:46And it isn't until just a few seconds later that they realize that the driver is actually already out of the vehicle and begins to charge at them.
16:54Cut, stop right there.
16:56Stop right there.
16:57Cut, stop.
16:58Oh.
17:03He is wild.
17:04He's trying to get guns.
17:06He is just fighting with everything that he has.
17:09Stop.
17:10Stop your .
17:11Oh.
17:12No, no, no.
17:13Let me go.
17:14No, no, no.
17:15No, no, no.
17:16No, no, no.
17:17No, no.
17:18No, no, no.
17:19No, no, no.
17:20No, no, no.
17:21No, no, no.
17:22Damian Herrera is not a large man, but it took three large and very healthy, very strong police officers and a taser a couple times to get him into compliance and to get him into handcuffs.
17:35That's how wild and crazy he was acting.
17:37What are you doing?
17:38He was fighting over my gun.
17:39He shot fired.
17:40He's in this fight or flight mode and he is full of adrenaline.
17:53It seems like a situation that spiraled from that first shot and then he just kept shooting and he kept running and he kept attacking and he's still in that mode when he encounters the police and he doesn't know how to shut it off.
18:06Herrera was put in the back of the police car.
18:09Once he'd calmed down, he was able to answer the officers' questions.
18:13I was in my parents' house, man.
18:16So we're going to get into it.
18:18All the gasoline.
18:19Okay.
18:20And my stepdad tried to take some gun.
18:25He had a gun.
18:27My brother got in the middle of it.
18:29Okay.
18:30And I'm rounding off to hit my brother and I wrestle with my dad.
18:35And as I was trying to get the gun away my mom away in the middle of it, I started trying to hit.
18:40I don't even know if she was trying to hit me or him, but she ended up getting in the middle of it.
18:45And it was just, it was bad, dude.
18:47I don't even really remember.
18:48He just took it off.
18:50The police officer then asked him about what happened with Mr. Kite.
18:57I asked him for gas.
18:59He took me to his house to go get gasoline.
19:01He was trying to push me out of his truck as soon as we got to his house.
19:05Okay.
19:06And I was just defending myself, dude.
19:09And then the police officer very artfully asked, you know, was there anything else that happened?
19:13He said, no, no, no.
19:14That's it.
19:15That's it.
19:16And then the police officer asked him about Manuel Serrano.
19:18I was cleaning the windows and he I don't even know what he started telling me in Spanish, dude.
19:25And I was just like, yo, calm down and started rushing me.
19:29And that's all happened.
19:32He had essentially blamed the killings on everyone else.
19:37And it's a story that is absolutely wild and unbelievable and just not supported by any evidence.
19:42He was actually even telling the police officer, you know, I'm not a violent person.
19:47Ask anybody.
19:48It was just an alarming statement to hear out of his mouth considering that he had just killed five people.
19:57Damian Herrera was charged with five counts of first degree murder.
20:04Further charges arose from his time in custody.
20:12While he was incarcerated at the jail in Tierra MarÃa, he attacked one of the guards.
20:32This just feels like someone who isn't of sound mind, who's making incredibly bad decisions.
20:39Maybe he's just a violent person, but there's nothing to suggest from his criminal record
20:43or from his own past that he was violent really before any of this happened.
20:48And so you've got that first incredibly violent act of shooting his stepfather
20:54and then a cascade of violence that follows from there.
21:01Damian Herrera had in fact been struggling with his mental health for some time.
21:06We all just kind of knew that something was wrong.
21:11I mean, we could see the signs, but we never thought it would get this far.
21:17The man had told me it would be cool to just see somebody hurt and in pain and just to see them go through something.
21:26And I think at that time, I didn't really think of it as a way of him hurting us, but at the time I knew it was weird.
21:35It was scary.
21:36Where is this coming from?
21:39And I remember my mom just reaching out to my siblings, my older ones, to just let them know we need to help him in a way.
21:47We need to get him to talk.
21:52This is a 21-year-old man, a young man who is in a pretty dark place.
21:58Fantasies of violence are not totally uncommon, but it is uncommon to voice to somebody else that you think this is acceptable behaviour.
22:08And it borders on something that's called criminal thinking.
22:11So criminal thinking is a set of beliefs that predisposes people to engage in crimes, including violent crimes.
22:18And they include things like rationalisations that make it seem like it's okay to be violent or aggressive.
22:24That say, if I do bad things or break the law, it's because other people had it coming or that other people are out to get me.
22:31And so it's the set of beliefs that put you as the victim often in these situations and that make it easier for you to justify lashing out against others.
22:44Herrera was found guilty of the four murders in Rio Arriba County and sentenced to four consecutive life sentences, a minimum of 120 years.
22:54The legal process in Tows County for the killing of Michael Kite is ongoing, because the charge for the stolen truck is currently under appeal.
23:05Why? Why would he do this? Why would anyone think like this?
23:11To this day, I still ask why. It was never really answered, never a question that he answered on his own.
23:18It's gut-wrenching is what it is.
23:23There's not a day that goes by, I don't think, of my parents and Brendan.
23:28I mean, there's times where I'm doing something and I'm thinking they would have enjoyed to see this.
23:34It's the hardest thing to come back to reality when I'm thinking and know that I can't pick up that phone and I can't give them a call.
23:43I can't give my mom a hug.
23:44There's never a day that goes by. I mean, they were my everything, really.
23:51Damian Herrera believed he could fight his way out of the scenario he'd created in his own mind.
24:13Delusions can take many forms. So they can be a very simple delusion that you can fight and flee your way out of a situation that is actually already impossible.
24:28Or it can be a situation where you see reality through distorted eyes.
24:35And so that borders more on what we consider psychosis, where you have someone reacting to cues that aren't really there, but they're perceiving as such.
24:47And so you can have a delusion that ends up fueling a crime in itself, which is when you think that it's me or the other person.
24:55That if I don't kill them, they will kill me, even if it is completely implausible.
25:01And it was another delusion that led to a brutal murder in the cold mountains of Colorado.
25:17In the west of Colorado is Gunnison County.
25:25Gunnison, a very rural community located in between two mountain ranges, 7,000 feet above sea level.
25:32So there is a lot of areas that are inaccessible at certain times of the year without special equipment and don't necessarily have cell phone or even radio coverage.
25:42And so the job can get quite difficult at times.
25:48On March 7th, 2021, police received a report from a remote corner of the county.
25:56Sheriff's Office received a call about an abandoned vehicle on Alpine Plateau Road, which is the road that would lead to the Arrowhead subdivision.
26:07Deputies made their way up the snowy trail to locate the vehicle.
26:13It was a small four-door sedan, and it appeared it had just gotten stuck in the snow going up the road.
26:22Where was the driver of the vehicle?
26:25And why aren't they the ones calling for help?
26:30While the deputies were on the scene, the dispatch center received another call from a nearby cabin.
26:37Number one, what is your emergency?
26:42Haven't been here for a week, and I come in and see the whole living room in the disarray really torn up.
26:49And then I see this body laying over there by the couch.
26:53They're face down, the body is cold, it's not moving.
26:59Officers were confronted with a distressing scene.
27:02Looking at the body, it was really hard to tell what the injuries were because there was a large amount of blood around it.
27:14But the body had some severe injuries to the head.
27:18The scene itself looked like some sort of altercation had taken place that was quite violent.
27:24The whole living room was in disarray.
27:29Oh, that's functioning.
27:31What?
27:32Yeah, the whole living room inside the table was out in front of.
27:34Yeah.
27:35There was a bottle of lighter fluid on the counter, and the coffee table was smoldering.
27:44It appeared that some kind of a fire had either started or somebody intended to start.
27:49In all the chaos, investigators found a promising lead.
27:56We were able to find a set of car keys.
28:00On those keys was a tag that had linked it to the abandoned vehicle that was called in earlier.
28:07The car was registered to 22-year-old Anna Rascon.
28:18Anna was the type of person that people tended to gravitate towards.
28:25She had this smile on her.
28:28She had, like, this light heart.
28:30And she was so kind.
28:31She did have a temper.
28:33Not gonna lie.
28:34She did have a temper.
28:36And she was stubborn.
28:38But she...
28:40She was an amazing person.
28:45Anna was born in Grand Junction, Colorado, but she moved back and forth between the city and her mother's home of Agua Prieta in Sonora, Mexico.
28:55When she first came from Mexico, I remember she hardly knew any English.
29:03And she learned it.
29:04She picked it up so quick.
29:05So fast.
29:07She was really smart.
29:08Always posing.
29:09I told you she always looked cute and pink.
29:12She was really confident.
29:13A lot of people found it easy to talk to her.
29:17She for sure was the person that you would feel comfortable going to.
29:20She always had that mother instinct, like...
29:23Yeah.
29:24She was really nourishing.
29:29Anna was a devoted mother who had her first child at the age of 17.
29:36I knew Anna was gonna be a great mom.
29:39One of her biggest ambitions was to have that white picket fence life.
29:43Having that normal life where she just kind of took care of her kids.
29:48Everything was good.
29:49Everything was stable.
29:50That's what she dreamed of.
29:55Anna later moved to Rifle, Colorado, to be with a new boyfriend.
30:01She originally had moved out there to be with her daughter's father.
30:06She kind of stayed out there after they split and ended up finding a job working at a hotel, doing housekeeping.
30:14But she was more focused on raising her kids and being a mom for her kids.
30:19But life grew increasingly hard.
30:22Anna's really started struggling and feeling the pressure of being a single mom and doing things on her own.
30:30She had overdue bills.
30:32She was a negative in her bank accounts.
30:36She did express, like, my life's falling apart at this point.
30:39I need some help.
30:40Anna was prescribed antidepressants and other medication to help her mental health.
30:50But by 2020, she also began to self-medicate.
30:54There were signs that Anna was using, but I think, as a family, we all found it very hard to accept.
31:02We didn't want to believe that.
31:06Anna felt that she was putting herself in a dark place, and she wanted to find a way to get out of it.
31:11She reached out to her mom, and she asked, hey, can you take the kids just so I can get into a new apartment, find a job, get back on my feet, and then I'll go back for the kids.
31:25Anna loved being a mother, and so to have to send her children away very likely left her feeling depressed, isolated from her loved ones.
31:37And also, probably, there was an element of shame there.
31:42And so this cocktail of emotions, these really difficult emotions to carry, they can really set the stage for someone to start engaging in unhealthy and unhelpful coping strategies.
31:53But then that means that we can end up in kind of a cycle of suffering.
31:57So we turn to the drug use, and then our emotional and our financial pressures, they mount, they grow.
32:04And then we then turn to the drugs again, and then we fall into this loop that becomes really difficult to find our way out of.
32:14Eventually, on Friday, March 5th, Anna and her mother arranged that Anna would drive down to Sonora, Mexico, to collect her children that weekend.
32:25Come Sunday, I get a call from my mom, and she's like, hey, have you heard from Anna?
32:33Nobody's heard from her.
32:35Her phone's off.
32:37Nobody can get in touch with her.
32:42In Arrowhead, investigators were taken aback by the severity of the victim's injuries.
32:49She'd been bludgeoned around her face and head.
32:53Her arm was badly broken.
32:56And she had several large puncture wounds in the back of her neck.
33:01It was a very horrific thing that took place.
33:07That might be blood.
33:08We found almost an antique pickaxe of some kind, maybe an ice pickaxe, something like that.
33:17It was pretty clear that that was the murder weapon.
33:22And it absolutely came from the residence.
33:25We were able to track down some photographs of the residence from an earlier time, and it was actually hanging on the wall above kind of the door.
33:34Through a law enforcement database, we were able to get a description and were able to confirm that the female that was in the house was, in fact, Anna Roscoe.
33:44I picked up the phone, and she's like, OK, are you sitting down?
33:55And I was like, yeah, don't scare me.
33:59Be prepared, because I'm going to say something to you, and it's something bad.
34:04And she just told me that.
34:08My sister was gone.
34:13I started going crazy.
34:16I didn't even listen to her anymore.
34:20My first instinct was to go into denial, because, no, that wasn't possible.
34:27And I said, finally, I was like, what happened?
34:30Like, what happened with her?
34:31And he's like, at the moment, we're treating this as a homicide.
34:36So it's under investigation.
34:39When they called me, I started asking questions, like, what the hell?
34:44Where did this happen?
34:46How did it all go down?
34:47You know?
34:48And they did tell me, too.
34:49Like, there's not a lot we can tell you, but whoever did this to her is a monster.
34:56And I can tell you that the way her knuckles were, she defended herself to the best of her abilities.
35:10After the realization really set in of it was a homicide investigation, it just made me think, like, who would do that to a person?
35:30Like, who?
35:31Especially her.
35:33Outside the cabin, the snow revealed further evidence.
35:42Footprints leading to and from the property.
35:47The initial kind of size up was two people had broken into a house for an unknown reason, and one ended up dead.
35:54We weren't sure how or why they were in the area.
35:57Over in Rifle, investigators were given the names of people Anna had been known to associate with.
36:06One of them was known to the police.
36:09Jorge Solas had a bit of a criminal record, mostly kind of small petty crimes, a little bit of property crime.
36:17But primarily, he had drug crimes going on in his record.
36:20Interviews with neighbors on the mountain revealed that a man fitting Solas' description had been spotted with Anna by the car early on Saturday morning.
36:31I rolled the window down and said, you guys stuck, need help?
36:35Do you remember what this female looked like at all?
36:37I remember very skinny, very skinny, straight black hair.
36:42Later that day, the same neighbors spotted the same man further down the mountain.
36:49But this time, he was alone.
36:53100% remember, without a shadow of a doubt, we picked up that crazy kid in the back of the truck.
37:00Huh? Do you remember what he was wearing?
37:02I remember big, baggy blue pants.
37:05Huh?
37:06And I remember a big jacket.
37:09He had that, I don't know whether it was, you know, mentally ill or drug-induced, but he was suffering some psychosis.
37:15At that point, he became our number one suspect.
37:21A search of Anna's vehicle revealed promising leads.
37:28Anything here you guys see that you're in need for evidence?
37:31In the midst of that search, we had located several receipts from Walmart located in Rifle, Colorado.
37:40At that time, CBI had sent agents to request surveillance around the approximate times that we saw on the receipts.
37:48CCTV showed Anna with an unknown male.
37:55The surveillance footage around the store picks them up, getting out of her car, walking into the store, and right as they walk in the store, there's a great shot of the two of them, where you can see most of their faces.
38:07Anna's companion was wearing the same jacket and pants described by the witnesses who saw them on the mountain.
38:17Other evidence also linked him to the crime scene.
38:21The male scene with Anna Rescone has a very identifiable baseball cap on.
38:28We then locate this ball cap inside the vehicle.
38:37The man was now positively identified as Jorge Salas.
38:43The Walmart surveillance became a crucial piece of evidence because it linked the two of them together, which what we knew was the last known person she was with, and to the car.
38:54We see them get in the car and drive away.
39:01How do we go from a shopping trip to Walmart to Anna Rescone's death?
39:07Despite the breakthrough, the trail now went cold.
39:1110 days after the investigation had started, we had no sign, no word of anybody seeing or hearing from Jorge Salas.
39:25And then we kind of catch a break.
39:28In Grand Junction, 95 miles away from the crime scene, a member of the public called the police about a man acting suspiciously.
39:37Officers with the Grand Junction Police Department were dispatched to the area.
39:43Hey, what's going on? Can you come talk to me, sir?
39:47What's your name? What's your last name?
39:51What's that?
39:54Well, you do, actually. In this case, you do because there's suspicion of criminal activity, okay? So you got to identify yourself.
40:10I can't hear you.
40:12He says his name is Jay Santos.
40:15This officer is not convinced that this person is being completely honest with him.
40:20Is Jay your actual legal name or is it...
40:24What?
40:26Is Jay your legal name or is it something else?
40:31Okay, so what's your legal name?
40:34George.
40:36One of the officers remembers reading the bulletin about the warrant we had for a homicide suspect.
40:42And they're like, absolutely, this is the guy we're looking for.
40:45All right, man, so you're under arrest. You've got warrants. I'm sure you knew that.
40:48That's my warrant on.
40:50Oh, there's a few of them. We'll explain.
40:52Can't take them down to my car.
40:54There's an unease in this interaction where he's obviously being a bit cagey.
40:58Certainly, psychologically, he's trying to evade the answers to the questions.
41:05And he's probably trying to be strategic about it.
41:07But in the end, he gets detained anyway.
41:12When Jorge was picked up by Grand Junction police, he had a backpack with him.
41:18And we locate several items that were, without a doubt, inside the cabin.
41:23We had contacted the cabin owner, and she had confirmed they were in the basement of the house.
41:32Salas' fingerprint was also found on a bottle in the cabin.
41:38We're positive this is the man who killed Anna Rasko.
41:43Agents from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation now conducted an interrogation.
41:49You're not the first person who, in a cold, snowy area, borrowed somebody's house for a little bit to lay up for a while and warm up and stuff.
41:58But something in that house, man, something went crazy between you two.
42:02So do you know what happened, and you just don't want to tell me?
42:06I mean, do you know what happened?
42:08No.
42:10Talk me through that, man.
42:14I think they got spun up on dope.
42:18They're somewhat lost.
42:19They're not really sure where they're going.
42:22He now starts getting paranoid that she is a narc.
42:25But you picked the house that you were walking to.
42:28That's what you guys do too long.
42:30What do you mean, bud?
42:32People sacrifice, right?
42:36Okay, you're not saying Anna was sacrificed.
42:39That could have been me.
42:42What could have been you?
42:44Sacrificed.
42:47Well, you think you could have been the one that was killed?
42:51Yeah.
42:53He has this bizarre story that he was being set up and that she had to be sacrificed.
42:58And that sounds to me like a almost what's called dissociative fugue when you're, like, not really there.
43:08And you're taking drugs, and we know that they took drugs and that they took them together.
43:14And you're just somewhere else.
43:17You're on a different planet, and you have your own thoughts about what's going on in the world.
43:21And it translates into misperceiving reality in very weird ways.
43:25I want to know what caused you to kill Anna.
43:31We don't know why that happened.
43:33I don't know either.
43:35Well, we think you do, and that's what you don't want to tell us.
43:38But as of now, it's just going to stay as, I don't know why I killed her.
43:42I just killed her.
43:44That's how you want it to be?
43:46I felt like somebody, like, cursed me or something.
43:51That got into my body and .
43:54Okay.
43:56What's striking is that he seems to accept that he killed her at this point.
44:00And he isn't really making an effort to patch together a plausible story for the cops.
44:05Did you tell her what you were going to do?
44:08No.
44:09I didn't know.
44:10I didn't even know I was going to do that .
44:16Jorge Solis made a conscious decision to end Anna Riscone's life.
44:21Based on the scene, we know she fought because the house was torn apart.
44:24But he went from such a violent act to, within hours, talking to people on the street, nonchalantly like nothing had happened.
44:35That tells you the kind of man he was.
44:40Investigators had enough evidence to charge Jorge Solis with Anna's murder.
44:45On March 3rd, 2023, he was sentenced to 42 years in prison following a plea deal.
44:57The verdict is not really what we wanted.
45:01He took that chance for her to live life, to be a mother, you know, to her babies.
45:10And he took that from them.
45:12You know, they need her.
45:13And she loved them so much.
45:19Anna's story is a particularly tragic one.
45:22She tried to build a life for herself and her kids and just struggled really to navigate this world.
45:30She kept falling on hard times.
45:32But I think that she would constantly show that she had the passion, the devotion to be a good mother.
45:39She fought right up until the very end, even in the face of senseless violence.
45:46She tried to fight for her life and the life of her children.
45:49She was the best sister I had.
45:55And I still, I still remember her with her good things, not bad things, trouble things.
45:59I still remember the trouble things because now they're funny.
46:07And I love her.
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