Speaker 1: This time on killers caught on camera in the UK,
Speaker 1: in Hull, a young woman goes missing after being refused
Speaker 1: entry to a nightclub.
Speaker 2: I had voicing my head saying she's said, she said.
Speaker 3: She said.
Speaker 4: The CCTV picked up a man who was out looking
Speaker 4: to commit sexual offenses.
Speaker 1: She was put in a car.
Speaker 2: Someone has taken us.
Speaker 1: And in the US, a body is found dumped in
Speaker 1: the foothills of the Rocky Mountains after a date turns deadly.
Speaker 5: He said, we found your son. He's beceeged.
Speaker 6: I had to go Telly's mother and she said, who
Speaker 6: would want to hurt my Scottie?
Speaker 7: The killer was waiting behind the door. The depth of
Speaker 7: the cut to the neck was significant and violent laceration
Speaker 7: that nearly decapitated him.
Speaker 8: Something that is happening here.
Speaker 9: In her life.
Speaker 1: We know what happened because the video of Chelwood would happened.
Speaker 5: It is now true that I killed a wife.
Speaker 3: The camera doesn't high.
Speaker 1: In the UK in the Northeast, in Yorkshire, the city
Speaker 1: of Hull.
Speaker 4: Hull is, like many northern cities, had a very significant
Speaker 4: industry and industrial past. It also has a significant student population.
Speaker 1: Twenty one year old Libby Squire was studying philosophy at
Speaker 1: Whole University.
Speaker 2: Libby was an amazing daughter. She was incredibly funny. She
Speaker 2: had a wonderful sense of humor. She was very caring.
Speaker 2: Her and I were particularly.
Speaker 1: Close, affectionately nicknamed Libby pie by her mom. Libby was
Speaker 1: born on New Year's Day, nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 2: I'd always wanted children. My husband and I have been
Speaker 2: together for a year when we had Libby. She was
Speaker 2: a really, really beautiful baby. I was a nannie when
Speaker 2: I had Libby, and she came back to work with
Speaker 2: me when she was three weeks old. I was very
Speaker 2: fortunate that I was able to spend every day with her.
Speaker 1: Libby was the eldest of Lisa and her husband Russell's
Speaker 1: four children.
Speaker 2: She was an amazing big sister. She made sure that
Speaker 2: they knew that she was number one. She adored them,
Speaker 2: and I think in turn, they all adored her.
Speaker 1: When she started school in her hometown of west Wickham
Speaker 1: in Buckinghamshire, Libby flourished.
Speaker 2: Within the first week. She'd made in a whole class
Speaker 2: full of friends. She loved to read. She could read
Speaker 2: before she started school. Academically, she did really well and
Speaker 2: really took to it.
Speaker 1: But when she reached her teens, Libby began to struggle
Speaker 1: with anxiety and oppression.
Speaker 2: I noticed her mental health was really declining, that she
Speaker 2: was self harming daily, hourly.
Speaker 3: At one point.
Speaker 2: It was horrendous and sadly she had four suicide attempts
Speaker 2: in her lifetime as well. It was really hard because
Speaker 2: you couldn't take that pain away from her, but it
Speaker 2: made her resilient.
Speaker 1: Recent research from England has actually found that about one
Speaker 1: in four, so a quarter of people between the ages
Speaker 1: of eleven and sixteen who have mental health issues attempt
Speaker 1: to kill themselves or they engage in self harming behaviors,
Speaker 1: so the rates are really very high. Since about two thousand,
Speaker 1: there has been an increase in suicide generally in places
Speaker 1: like the US and the UK, but exactly what's driving
Speaker 1: that that increase in numbers is a bit unclear. Some
Speaker 1: people point to social media, some people point to increased
Speaker 1: rates of anxiety and depression, especially in teenagers. Libby was
Speaker 1: determined to turn her life around and took a year
Speaker 1: off to deal with her mental health problems before going
Speaker 1: to university.
Speaker 2: She spent lots of time working on herself. She worked
Speaker 2: so hot she spent time with a boyfriend and spend
Speaker 2: lots of time with the family.
Speaker 1: Libby started at the University of Hull in September twenty seventeen.
Speaker 2: She was studying philosophy and she was good at it.
Speaker 2: She really enjoyed it because she'd found something that improved
Speaker 2: her mental health. She found a place, actually, and it
Speaker 2: was lovely watching her blossom into this beautiful woman.
Speaker 1: Thursday, January thirty first, twenty nineteen, Libby and her university
Speaker 1: friends went to the Welly nightclub in the student area
Speaker 1: of Hull.
Speaker 2: It was nine minutes past one in the morning, so early.
Speaker 2: I was a Friday morning, and I noticed a miss
Speaker 2: call from one of Libby's friends. She said, we can't
Speaker 2: find Libby, and I said to talk to me, and
Speaker 2: you can't find Libby, And then she just went on
Speaker 2: to say, you know, we went to a nightclub and
Speaker 2: Libby wouldn't let Libby in because they said she was
Speaker 2: too drunk, so we put her in a taxi to
Speaker 2: send her home.
Speaker 1: But when Libby's friends returned to their shared house, Libby
Speaker 1: was nowhere to be seen.
Speaker 2: I just had this voice in my head saying, this
Speaker 2: is really serious, because Libby would always call me if
Speaker 2: she was in trouble. We spoke three or four times
Speaker 2: a day. It was the strangest of feelings. I just was, oh,
Speaker 2: my goodness, and I couldn't feel her. I couldn't connect
Speaker 2: with her in any way, shape or form.
Speaker 1: In the early hours of Friday, February first, Libby was
Speaker 1: reported and missing to the police.
Speaker 8: I thought, my friend, he put her impact people at
Speaker 8: home and then now he's gone.
Speaker 5: Me said, right, what's your friend's name? Nibby.
Speaker 4: From a police perspective, a young woman missing after a
Speaker 4: night out in a student area, it's going to be
Speaker 4: a high priority.
Speaker 3: It was particularly bad weather.
Speaker 4: It was very very cold outside, and so immediately the
Speaker 4: police swung into action in terms of trying to locate her.
Speaker 1: Libby's mom and dad drove up to Hall as soon
Speaker 1: as they could.
Speaker 2: It was awful, and the whole time I was just thinking,
Speaker 2: where are you, Where are you? Where are you? It
Speaker 2: was the worst journey ever. It took us five and
Speaker 2: a half hours to get up there. The windscreen wife
Speaker 2: has kept freezing, and I just wanted to be there.
Speaker 2: He just wanted to go and find her.
Speaker 4: When somebody is reported missing, they will speak to all
Speaker 4: of the people who were last in contact with that person.
Speaker 4: But they'll also start a search of close circuit television.
Speaker 1: Police obtained CCTV footage from outside the Welly Nightclub. It
Speaker 1: confirmed Libby arrived at eleven fourteen pm on Thursday, January thirty.
Speaker 4: First, here is Libby in the dark clothing with the
Speaker 4: bare legs, walking towards the entrance of the Welly Club.
Speaker 4: We know this is Libby, so when we're seeing lay footage,
Speaker 4: we're able to reference it.
Speaker 1: Across a mile away from the Welly Nightclub, police obtained
Speaker 1: surveillance footage from a camera near Libby's home on Wellesley Avenue.
Speaker 1: It showed a taxi arriving at eleven twenty nine pm.
Speaker 4: The police were able to identify the taxi driver and
Speaker 4: speak to him very rapidly. He gave an account of
Speaker 4: dropping Libby off and that he'd then left the area.
Speaker 4: There was no question that the taxi driver had in
Speaker 4: any way been involved in Libby's disappearance.
Speaker 1: Libby's keys were later found right outside her front door.
Speaker 2: We knew that the taxi driver dropped her off, and
Speaker 2: we knew she hadn't gone into a house, but we
Speaker 2: then didn't know what happened.
Speaker 1: As the police continued searching through the footage, they saw
Speaker 1: Libby emerge from Wellesley Avenue at eleven thirty six pm.
Speaker 4: We not the same clothing, With no doubt that's her.
Speaker 4: She was walking in an unsteady manner. She didn't appear
Speaker 4: to have any purpose. She was going up and down
Speaker 4: the road. She'd linger in one area, then move on slightly,
Speaker 4: and then go back and retrace her steps.
Speaker 1: Libby was at risk of hypothermia and extremely vulnerable. Police
Speaker 1: needed to find her. As they continued searching through hours
Speaker 1: of surveillance footage, they uncovered a disturbing figure.
Speaker 4: Libby was waiting in the area of a bus stop
Speaker 4: on Beverly Road.
Speaker 3: She is looking down Beverly Road.
Speaker 4: The CCTV picked up a figure of a man who
Speaker 4: appeared to notice Libby. And he's crossing the road and
Speaker 4: he goes down this side street. He hasn't gone away,
Speaker 4: he's just watching her. Is seeing what sort of conditions
Speaker 4: she's in. She's still here by the bus stop, and
Speaker 4: now she starts to move back in the direction of
Speaker 4: her home.
Speaker 3: We can see she's not moving very quickly. She's quite unsteady,
Speaker 3: still on her fees, but watch what he does.
Speaker 4: He sticks to the line of the buildings and walks
Speaker 4: up this side of the road, sort of tracking her movement.
Speaker 4: She's gone off away from safety. He crosses the road
Speaker 4: and in a moment, this green arrow is going to disappear.
Speaker 4: That's when Libby steps off the road into the grounds
Speaker 4: of a convent. Most immediately the suspect follows her. He's
Speaker 4: watched her, stalked her along the road, and now.
Speaker 3: He's moving in.
Speaker 4: We now knew that Libby had come into contact with
Speaker 4: a man, and so it was absolutely crucial that we
Speaker 4: identified that man and could speak to him because we
Speaker 4: didn't know what had then happened.
Speaker 1: Libby's parents appealed to the public for information.
Speaker 2: Libby, my darlin pie. We just want to know what
Speaker 2: You're safe. Please get in touch with this anywhere you can.
Speaker 2: The whole family is missing you.
Speaker 1: The police organized the largest missing person search in the
Speaker 1: history of Humberside Police. The whole community came out in
Speaker 1: full force.
Speaker 3: Please come home, we know we live you, all the
Speaker 3: supports of it. Two undred people in there for you.
Speaker 3: Please please come home soon.
Speaker 2: The amount of people that were trying to find her,
Speaker 2: the whole place just we're really focused on trying to
Speaker 2: get a good outcome for us. That really carried Russ
Speaker 2: and I along, and we were really grateful for all
Speaker 2: of the the outpouring of love for her. But I
Speaker 2: don't think there is a word to describe that situation
Speaker 2: that we were in. It was a feeling that I've
Speaker 2: never ever ever had before, obviously, and I would never
Speaker 2: ever want anyone to go through that.
Speaker 1: In the eighteen months before Libby went missing, there was
Speaker 1: a series of disturbing incidents in the student area of Hull.
Speaker 3: Imagined my house. I caught a man looking in.
Speaker 1: Please what you imagine today I do from outside my howl.
Speaker 1: People who engage in voyeurism and who engage in flashing
Speaker 1: behaviors are repeat defenders. So it's very rare to have
Speaker 1: someone who just doesn't once and then never does it again.
Speaker 1: And whenever you have a repetition of a bad behavior,
Speaker 1: of an anti social behavior, you have generally a higher
Speaker 1: risk of also escalation of all these other negative consequences
Speaker 1: that we fear.
Speaker 4: Those incidents included burglaries where the burglar store underwear and
Speaker 4: sex toys. There were incidents of voyeurism, a man being
Speaker 4: seen staring into windows, watching couples having sex, and there
Speaker 4: had been an incident where a man had approached two
Speaker 4: young women who were walking home and had masturbated at
Speaker 4: them in the street and ejaculated onto their front door.
Speaker 1: In one study that looked at people who were caught
Speaker 1: for flashing, they found that about one in four escalated
Speaker 1: in the severity of their actions to what are called
Speaker 1: contact defenses, and that included rape and assault. The last
Speaker 1: sighting of Libby and the male figure was at the
Speaker 1: corner of Beverly Road and Halworth Street. Four days after
Speaker 1: Libby went missing, police had a major breakthrough. Hidden behind
Speaker 1: some blue gates on Howarth Street, a camera captured a
Speaker 1: figure being put into the front seat of a car.
Speaker 1: Libby's mom and dad were asked by the police to
Speaker 1: view the footage.
Speaker 2: They asked us if we thought it could be Libby,
Speaker 2: and I said, absolutely, that's Libby. I knew from the
Speaker 2: way that her hair moved, and I said, no, she
Speaker 2: doesn't get in a car like that. She doesn't get
Speaker 2: in a car back where she gets in put her
Speaker 2: legs down and swing her legs in. She doesn't climb
Speaker 2: in a car like that. So I knew that she'd
Speaker 2: been put in the car and that lodged in my brain.
Speaker 2: Someone has taken her. Someone has taken her.
Speaker 4: A member of the public found on the street a
Speaker 4: watch and it was Libby's watch, and that proved to
Speaker 4: be important evidence because it told us something about the
Speaker 4: circumstances in which she had gone into that car.
Speaker 3: It suggested a struggle.
Speaker 1: The police attempted to track the vehicle which Libby was
Speaker 1: seen getting into just after a miduat night. The car
Speaker 1: was spotted at Oak Road playing fields.
Speaker 3: Next to the playing fields, there's a dead end.
Speaker 4: We were fortunate to find some CCTV from residential property
Speaker 4: and obviously it was very dark, but what you could
Speaker 4: see were headlights coming and going, and that captured this
Speaker 4: car arriving and then leaving. We then had some crucial
Speaker 4: evidence from a man who heard screams coming from a
Speaker 4: woman and he was able to pinpoint the timing of
Speaker 4: those screams because he checked the time. That meant that
Speaker 4: the screams had to be related to Libby.
Speaker 1: As the police continued to track the vehicle that Libby
Speaker 1: got into, the uncovered more disturbing footage of the driver.
Speaker 4: This individual was masturbating in the street, and that was
Speaker 4: important evidence because it revealed that he obviously had an
Speaker 4: extremely high sex drive, insatiable.
Speaker 3: You might say the main.
Speaker 1: Reason people master being in public is because of the
Speaker 1: excitement of the thought of getting caught, because otherwise you're
Speaker 1: not going to be in a public space, You're going
Speaker 1: to do it at home, and so this idea that
Speaker 1: somebody could catch you, that risk, that excitement is arousing.
Speaker 1: The bigger question is why you actually go through with it.
Speaker 1: The net was closing in on the male suspect, then
Speaker 1: a huge breakthrough at three am on February first, he
Speaker 1: walked directly towards a camera.
Speaker 3: We know that this is the same person because we've
Speaker 3: tracked the car.
Speaker 1: Police discovered the vehicle belonged to a local man. The
Speaker 1: footage confirmed his identity. His name was Pavel Relevich, a
Speaker 1: twenty four year old Polish butcher who came to the
Speaker 1: UK in twenty fifteen. Married with two children. He lived
Speaker 1: less than a mile away from Libby's home. The police
Speaker 1: moved in to arrest for kidnap.
Speaker 3: At that stage, we didn't know what had happened.
Speaker 4: We didn't know whether Libby was alive or dead, and
Speaker 4: so kidnap was the obvious charge to arrest in hormit.
Speaker 2: I remember feeling sick, but I remember also thinking, they'll
Speaker 2: arrest him, and he'll tell us where she is, and
Speaker 2: then we'll go and find her and I'll bring it home.
Speaker 1: Police questioned Pavel about Libby's disappearance.
Speaker 3: Are you responsible for kidnapping Libby's squire?
Speaker 8: No.
Speaker 1: At first, he denied having met Libby at all, but
Speaker 1: then he changed his story.
Speaker 3: Hey, men stopped, please, so I need help.
Speaker 2: I need to go home.
Speaker 3: I need to call my mother.
Speaker 4: He then ran the story that he was effectively acting
Speaker 4: as a good samaritan. He was trying to get her
Speaker 4: back to her home address.
Speaker 1: When they searched Pavel's vehicle, they uncovered some alarming items.
Speaker 4: They found women's underwear, sex toys, and these were all
Speaker 4: the things that he had in this series of burglaries
Speaker 4: when he was targeting student homes. And it was from
Speaker 4: that discovery that the police were able to suddenly establish
Speaker 4: that all of these precursor incidents had been the work
Speaker 4: of one person, and that person.
Speaker 3: Was Pavel relevant.
Speaker 1: Taking this underwear and keeping it in the trunk of
Speaker 1: your car. There's sort of an old language around this,
Speaker 1: which is that offender sometimes like to take trophies from
Speaker 1: crime scenes. Typically for non contact sexual offenses like flashing,
Speaker 1: like masturbating in public, you don't typically have stuff with you.
Speaker 1: This is much more prepared. There's more going on here
Speaker 1: than just a spontaneous decision to flash somebody. But Pavel
Speaker 1: Relevich didn't just steal things.
Speaker 4: And some of the incidents relevant sh had left either
Speaker 4: a condom or seamen at the scene, and they were
Speaker 4: able to get a DNA sample, And in other cases
Speaker 4: individuals were able to recognize him because he'd been peering
Speaker 4: into their windows.
Speaker 1: The police confronted Pavel about the items found in the
Speaker 1: pink bag. Why are these soiled nicholas in your car?
Speaker 2: He was perpetrator of several non contact defenses. The realization
Speaker 2: of what had likely happened did sink in. And I
Speaker 2: had thought for quite some time that maybe he had
Speaker 2: assaulted her and she'd had a breakdown, and maybe she'd
Speaker 2: gone somewhere.
Speaker 1: Forty eight days past before the police got a breakthrough.
Speaker 4: A pleasure fishermen saw what he believed to be a
Speaker 4: body in the water.
Speaker 3: But what they could.
Speaker 4: Also see is that around the neck of the body
Speaker 4: was a delicate gold necklace with the letter L.
Speaker 3: DNA samples were taken and examined, and it was confirmed
Speaker 3: to the body of Libby Squire.
Speaker 2: I handed the phone to Russell because I just couldn't speak.
Speaker 2: When he put the phone down, I said, so, does
Speaker 2: that mean she's dead? And he said, yeah, it does.
Speaker 2: There was a big bit of me. It was like,
Speaker 2: I was so happy that she'd been found, that she
Speaker 2: was coming home.
Speaker 1: But it was almost impossible to determine how Libby had died.
Speaker 4: When bodies are found in water, it's very, very difficult
Speaker 4: to tell whether they went in dead or alive, and
Speaker 4: that was the position here.
Speaker 1: Libby's mom went to see her daughter's body.
Speaker 2: It was a week after she'd been recovered. It was hard,
Speaker 2: but I was able to go in and sort of
Speaker 2: hold her hand and you know, just sort of talk
Speaker 2: to her and say thank you for coming back, and
Speaker 2: I'm really sorry I couldn't save you. I should have
Speaker 2: known that you're in danger and I should have saved you,
Speaker 2: but I didn't, And you know, I'm sorry, but I
Speaker 2: just wanted to tell her nobody can ever hurt you again.
Speaker 2: You're safe now.
Speaker 4: Although libby body had been in the water for many,
Speaker 4: many weeks. A sample that was taken was found to
Speaker 4: contain the DNA of Pavel Relevich.
Speaker 2: It contained his seamen and as far as I know,
Speaker 2: it's never been heard of in the world before. Nobody
Speaker 2: else has ever held onto DNA for forty eight days
Speaker 2: in moving water. She's absolutely nailed him.
Speaker 1: Pavel Relevich was re arrested, who are under.
Speaker 2: Arrest for the murder and reared Libby Squire.
Speaker 4: When Relevich was arrested for murder, I mean, his reaction
Speaker 4: was quite incredibly. He sort of giggled and laughed as
Speaker 4: if he found it funny, and he simply denied the offense.
Speaker 1: At trial, the CCTV evidence was crucial.
Speaker 4: It enabled the jury to follow Libby on her last journey,
Speaker 4: almost step by step, and it also then overlaid on
Speaker 4: Libby's journey the movements of Relevanch.
Speaker 1: It emerged that Pavel Releovich went to McDonald's and fueled
Speaker 1: up his car before driving to Halworth Street to wait
Speaker 1: for an unsuspecting victim.
Speaker 4: And it was quite sinister really when you pieced the
Speaker 4: CCTV together, because you had this idea of there was
Speaker 4: Libby in the center of events, not knowing that circling
Speaker 4: around the outside of her was this man who was
Speaker 4: out looking to commit sexual offenses. And then he spotted her,
Speaker 4: and you could see immediately that when he spotted her,
Speaker 4: the die was cast. She was a perfect victim for him,
Speaker 4: and so he was then immediately stalking her and working
Speaker 4: out how he could get her into his car.
Speaker 1: Footage recovered from Oak Road also revealed he had gone
Speaker 1: back to the scene of the crime.
Speaker 4: That return Visit was absolutely dynamite in our hands. If
Speaker 4: he'd have just raped her, there is no way he
Speaker 4: would have gone back to the scene of the rape
Speaker 4: because he would not have known whether the place would
Speaker 4: be swarming with police and been walking into an arrest.
Speaker 4: It was the fact he had the confidence to go
Speaker 4: back that same night which demonstrated that he must have
Speaker 4: knownly killed her.
Speaker 1: Pavel Relevich was convicted of rape and murder. He was
Speaker 1: sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of twenty
Speaker 1: seven years for the murder of Libby Squire.
Speaker 2: He can get out, he can get married again. He
Speaker 2: can drive a car, he can go on holiday, he
Speaker 2: can eat roast beef, He can do whatever he wants.
Speaker 2: Libby can't, and that's not fair. He should never get
Speaker 2: out of prison.
Speaker 4: Throughout the trial, Relevich never admitted that he had raped
Speaker 4: Libby or that he had killed her. He did not
Speaker 4: give any explanation for how she had died. He didn't
Speaker 4: give any explanation for how she'd come into the water.
Speaker 4: He maintained his account throughout that they'd had consensual sex.
Speaker 3: He'd left her fit and well.
Speaker 4: Sadly, in particular for Libby's family, the consequence of continuing
Speaker 4: to deny his offenses is that we'll never know exactly
Speaker 4: what unfolded on our road playing fields and precisely the
Speaker 4: sequence of events.
Speaker 1: In the wake of Libby's death, her mother is determined
Speaker 1: to do something positive.
Speaker 2: I knew I'd never be able to stop raypan murder,
Speaker 2: but she couldn't just die and nothing be done. The
Speaker 2: more I looked into the non contact offenses, I realized
Speaker 2: that actually one of the biggest problems we have is
Speaker 2: that women don't report.
Speaker 1: Sexual offenses in general are underreported. So that includes rape,
Speaker 1: that includes various kinds of assault. But if we look
Speaker 1: at non contact offenses like in flashing or voyeurism, you
Speaker 1: have abysmal reporting. Rates, and so most of the time
Speaker 1: people feel unable to report. They don't realize it's something
Speaker 1: they can report because it feels like this sort of
Speaker 1: hazy thing that happened to them. This combination of actors
Speaker 1: means that people who flash others more often than not,
Speaker 1: will get away with it, and that's another reason why
Speaker 1: they often go on to perpetrate this crime multiple times.
Speaker 1: Together with Thames Valley Police, Lisa has launched a campaign
Speaker 1: called it does matter.
Speaker 2: If your friend is drunk, never ever send them home alone.
Speaker 2: Go home with them. And if you are a victim
Speaker 2: of a non contact defense, report it, you know, and
Speaker 2: if the police don't take you seriously, find another police
Speaker 2: officer report it. Non contact defenders will keep offending and eventually,
Speaker 2: you know, they might go on to rape and murder.
Speaker 2: She will always be my firstborn. She'll always be my pie,
Speaker 2: you know, my libby pie as I call her. She
Speaker 2: is still one of the six of us. You know,
Speaker 2: we are a family of six. We always all be
Speaker 2: a family of six. People say to me, where do
Speaker 2: you find your strength? And she gives me the strength
Speaker 2: to carry on. She lives in my heart forever and ever.
Speaker 2: I think it's really important for people to remember her
Speaker 2: as Libby, not as Libby the rape murder victim, but
Speaker 2: as Libby the friend, the girl, the daughter, the sister.
Speaker 2: Will remember the good times with her because they're way
Speaker 2: more important than how she died.
Speaker 1: Pavel Relevich was able to perpetrate multiple sexually motivated crimes
Speaker 1: before he was finally held accountable. What you often find
Speaker 1: with all manner of sexual offenses is that once one
Speaker 1: person comes forward, other previous victims will also report the
Speaker 1: same offense or the same person. It's very sad that
Speaker 1: as a society we don't create enough space for women
Speaker 1: to feel this way in the first place, and that
Speaker 1: we sometimes need a very brave individual to come forward.
Speaker 1: But other times you do have perpetrators held accountable for
Speaker 1: various crimes that they've committed, and yet they are able
Speaker 1: to go on to commit heinous crimes. And in our
Speaker 1: next case, the actions of a violent offender with numerous
Speaker 1: convictions proved fatal. In the US, Colorado, fifty miles northeast
Speaker 1: of Denver, the city of Greeley, a vibrant community with
Speaker 1: a lively music scene.
Speaker 7: Creeley is about an hour north of Denver, About an
Speaker 7: hour south of the Wyoming border. It has a little
Speaker 7: over one hundred thousand people in it, partly rural, partly urban,
Speaker 7: a little bit of a unique mix.
Speaker 1: It was home to fifty three year old Scott Sessions,
Speaker 1: affectionately called Scottie by his father Stanley.
Speaker 5: Scotti was just a going guy.
Speaker 6: He just very animated all the time, just such a
Speaker 6: fun personality to be around. He was quite an achiever,
Speaker 6: and when he was old enough he started to play
Speaker 6: the trumpet.
Speaker 3: It was fun to watch him.
Speaker 1: Scott and his brother were adopted.
Speaker 6: Your parental instincts kick in no matter where the kids
Speaker 6: come from.
Speaker 5: He particularly loved his mom. He just had a knack
Speaker 5: for making people feel good.
Speaker 1: Scott graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in
Speaker 1: music and performed with a number of bands.
Speaker 6: He told me many times, this is the only time
Speaker 6: I am truly happy, really really happy, is when I'm
Speaker 6: on the stage.
Speaker 1: But Scott's musical talent couldn't pay all the bills.
Speaker 5: He painted houses. He was really good at it.
Speaker 1: Scott continued to play on the music scene, but life
Speaker 1: wasn't always easy.
Speaker 6: It was tough times because he got an experimenting with
Speaker 6: the drugs. He got on this track and wronged people
Speaker 6: around him, and he had a tough time.
Speaker 5: For a few years.
Speaker 1: In early twenty twenty, Scott and his jazz band entered
Speaker 1: a music competition in Memphis, Tennessee. Scott had become well
Speaker 1: known and respected within the music community.
Speaker 6: Northern Colorado's best trumpet player.
Speaker 3: Mister Scott sessioned.
Speaker 6: He was ready to take the next step in the
Speaker 6: big time. He was ready to perform on the big stage.
Speaker 1: On Saturday, February eighth, twenty twenty, Stanley spoke with his
Speaker 1: son Scott on the phone.
Speaker 6: His mom was in a care facility at that time,
Speaker 6: and I said, yeah, I'm going to go down stair
Speaker 6: tomorrow and he said, well, I want to go with
Speaker 6: you and I'll see you later.
Speaker 1: That was it, But on Sunday, Scott failed to turn
Speaker 1: up to visit his mom, and his bandmates started to
Speaker 1: worry when he didn't show up for a gig. Monday,
Speaker 1: February tenth, seventy miles northwest of Greeley in Larimer County,
Speaker 1: nine one one dispatchers received an alarming call.
Speaker 9: I'm on the Pingle Pork Road and I have a
Speaker 9: dead body here. COVID an Well, there was a tree
Speaker 9: on fire, and I went up to put it out
Speaker 9: and he's laying next to it. He's definitely passed away.
Speaker 1: Police arrived and began investigating the scene.
Speaker 7: The body was wrapped up in a blanket. The initial
Speaker 7: indication was that it was a homicide and the body
Speaker 7: had been done there.
Speaker 1: Police in Larimer County performed an autopsy on the burnt
Speaker 1: body found in the mountains. It revealed a brutal murder.
Speaker 7: The autopsy revealed the laceration to the neck from front
Speaker 7: to back, cutting all the way to the vertebrae. The
Speaker 7: depth of the cut to the neck was significant and violent,
Speaker 7: laceration that nearly decapitated him. The burning was determined to
Speaker 7: be postmarum.
Speaker 1: A fingerprint scanner identified the victim as Scott Sessions.
Speaker 6: I got a call from the police department.
Speaker 5: He said, we found your son. He's deceased. I knew
Speaker 5: that I had to go tell his mother immediately. That
Speaker 5: was my thought.
Speaker 6: The next morning I did go and she said, who
Speaker 6: would want to hurt my Scottie.
Speaker 1: Police needed to find the killer. They searched Scott's house
Speaker 1: and found some messages on his computer to a woman
Speaker 1: named Heather Frank.
Speaker 7: The messages between Heather and Scott indicated that they were
Speaker 7: starting a new relationship and that there was some romantic
Speaker 7: interest between the two of.
Speaker 1: Forty eight year old Heather Frank was a manager at
Speaker 1: a diner in Loveland. She had three grown up children.
Speaker 8: The Heather was vivacious. She was extremely creative. She liked crofts,
Speaker 8: she liked arts, she liked music. She loved going out
Speaker 8: to listen to bands. People who knew how to said
Speaker 8: she was the kind of person who lit up a room.
Speaker 3: I had the most.
Speaker 8: Infectious laugh, and she had a spirit about her that
Speaker 8: people noticed, and when she grew up, that traveled with her.
Speaker 1: One of Heather's last messages to Scott was an invitation
Speaker 1: to come over to her apartment late on Saturday, February eighth.
Speaker 1: Detectives checked Heather and Scott's phone records. The data confirmed
Speaker 1: they'd both been at Heather's apartment on Saturday, February eighth,
Speaker 1: the night Scott disappeared. Police checked the area around Heather's
Speaker 1: apartment for surveillance footage, and by Wednesday, February twelve, they
Speaker 1: got a major breakthrough. They found Scott's car in the
Speaker 1: parking lot of a grocery store.
Speaker 7: The keys were still inside the car, the doors were unlocked.
Speaker 7: The floor mat from the driver's side had been placed
Speaker 7: just outside the driver's side door in the snow. Once
Speaker 7: they found the car, they started points surveillance videos from
Speaker 7: nearby to see if they could determine how it got
Speaker 7: there and win.
Speaker 1: Police uncovered a crucial piece of footage which showed Scott's
Speaker 1: car being driven into the parking lot.
Speaker 7: The direction that it comes in from is important because
Speaker 7: Heather Frank's apartment is a short distance away, and this
Speaker 7: video was taken on February eleventh, which was the day
Speaker 7: after Scott's Session's body was found in the mountains.
Speaker 1: A male figure was seen getting out of Scott's vehicle.
Speaker 7: He walks back around the backside of the car over
Speaker 7: to the passenger's side. We see him putting something on
Speaker 7: the ground, shuffling his feet almost as if they were
Speaker 7: trying to wipe away footprints in the snow, and then
Speaker 7: walking away from the car.
Speaker 1: Investigators continued searching for more surveillance footage to see where
Speaker 1: the man went. At the same time, they were also
Speaker 1: looking for the last known person to see Scott, Heather Frank.
Speaker 7: They started digging into her background a little bit more,
Speaker 7: and what they found was that she had been the
Speaker 7: victim of some acts of domestic violence at the hands
Speaker 7: of a former boyfriend by the name of Kevin Eastman.
Speaker 1: Forty eight year old Kevin Eastman was already known to
Speaker 1: the police.
Speaker 8: Kevin Eastman has an extensive criminal history. His crimes go
Speaker 8: back years. Among the many offenses he's been charged for
Speaker 8: were domestic violence multiple times, vehicle offenses, burglary, weapons offenses.
Speaker 1: In twenty fifteen, he violently attacked Heather and pleaded guilty
Speaker 1: to assault in the third degree. He was sentenced to
Speaker 1: two years probation. Four years later, after another altercation with
Speaker 1: Kevin Eastman, Heather had to receive treatment in the hospital.
Speaker 8: Allegedly, Eastman punched Heather multiple times in the ribs, leaving
Speaker 8: her with serious injuries.
Speaker 1: This attack was so savage it.
Speaker 8: Left Heather fearing for her life and she pleaded with
Speaker 8: police for protection.
Speaker 1: Investigators obtained Kevin Eastman's phone records. They revealed he'd also
Speaker 1: been at Heather's apartment on Saturday, February eighth, the night
Speaker 1: Scott went missing.
Speaker 7: All three phones that of Scott's sessions Heather Frank and
Speaker 7: Kevin Eastman had converged at the same time on Saturday
Speaker 7: night at Heather Frank's apartment. At that point, Scott's Session's
Speaker 7: phone dies or is turned off and never moves again.
Speaker 7: But the next morning, Heather Frank and Kevin Eastman's phone
Speaker 7: leave the area of Heather Frank's apartment and begin traveling
Speaker 7: up the Puter Canyon towards Pingree Park, which is where
Speaker 7: Scott's Session's body is ultimately found. Now you have Kevin
Speaker 7: Eastman and Heather Frank as the primary suspects in the
Speaker 7: dispeariance and death of Scott Sessions.
Speaker 1: Investigators tracked Kevin and Heather's cell phones and began to
Speaker 1: look for footage in the same locations.
Speaker 7: One of the key videos that they find is a
Speaker 7: video from Putter Canyon on the way to Pingree Park.
Speaker 7: It's eight thirty seven in the morning. Can't see the
Speaker 7: license plate number, but you can see some damage on
Speaker 7: that passenger side front fender that we later find to
Speaker 7: be consistent with Kevin Eastman's vehicle.
Speaker 1: Just over three hours later, at eleven forty six am,
Speaker 1: the police identified a similar vehicle driving back along the
Speaker 1: same road.
Speaker 7: The timing works here because it's about an hour drive
Speaker 7: to the area where Scott's Session's body was disposed of.
Speaker 1: As the evidence slowly built up a map of their movements,
Speaker 1: police decided to put both Kevin Eastman and Heather Frank
Speaker 1: under veillance. They attached a camera to a lamppost directly
Speaker 1: opposite Heather Frank's apartment and put GPS trackers on both
Speaker 1: Kevin and Heather's vehicles. Heather kept to her normal routine
Speaker 1: as if nothing had happened.
Speaker 8: In the days after Scott Sessions was murdered. According to police,
Speaker 8: Heather appeared to go about life as normal. She went
Speaker 8: to work, she went shopping, she went out to dinner.
Speaker 8: But later when investigators talked to the people she worked with,
Speaker 8: they said they knew something wasn't right. Something simply seemed
Speaker 8: off with Heather.
Speaker 1: The fact that she's going to work and she isn't
Speaker 1: reporting the crime immediately suggests that he's threatened her with something,
Speaker 1: or he's threatened that if maybe he gets caught, he'll
Speaker 1: figure out another way to kill her. And this is
Speaker 1: exacerbated by the fact that he has made these kinds
Speaker 1: of threats before. It's reasonable for the police at this
Speaker 1: point to say maybe she wasn't on it, because why
Speaker 1: else wouldn't she report it when she got to gain
Speaker 1: from not reporting. But it's also equally likely that she's
Speaker 1: going to work because he's saying, you need to act
Speaker 1: normal otherwise there will be consequences. On Saturday, February fifteenth,
Speaker 1: at five point fifteen pm, Kevin and Heather were seen
Speaker 1: leaving her apartment together.
Speaker 7: At this point, the police have arrest warrants for both
Speaker 7: Heather and Kevin. We see Kevin Eastman coming out of
Speaker 7: that apartment walking towards his subaru. They're watching their movements
Speaker 7: to formulate a plan as to when they're going to
Speaker 7: effectuate that arrest. Looks like Heather is a little unsteady
Speaker 7: on our feet. Whether she's injured or intoxicated, we don't know,
Speaker 7: but something seems a little off here. She's holding some coats.
Speaker 7: Kevin also appears to have some clothing. Whether or not
Speaker 7: they're they're headed out for a longer trip, we don't know.
Speaker 7: They get in the car, they're about to drive off here.
Speaker 1: The vehicle was tracked driving to a ranch fifteen minutes
Speaker 1: outside of Greeley. The following morning, Kevin Eastman was observed
Speaker 1: by police acting suspiciously.
Speaker 7: Kevin Eastman is near a fire pit and that he's
Speaker 7: starting to burn some something, some material some kind. After
Speaker 7: watching Kevin Eastman do that for a while, he sees
Speaker 7: Kevin Eastman get into his car and leave the ranch
Speaker 7: and begins driving toward town. Kevin Eastman proceeds to drive
Speaker 7: to a gas station. He parks at one of the pumps,
Speaker 7: gets out of the car, but then takes a red
Speaker 7: plastic gas can out of the back of his car
Speaker 7: and begins filling it up. The detective's concerned that Eastman's
Speaker 7: getting more gas to take back to the burn pile
Speaker 7: to destroy additional evidence.
Speaker 1: The lone police officer made the decision to arrest Kevin Eastman.
Speaker 7: When Eastman was a rest, they found two spent shellcasings
Speaker 7: and three live rounds, as well as a large hunting knife.
Speaker 1: Kevin Eastman was questioned by police s.
Speaker 5: Orial, I'm buying how your name Kevin Eastman.
Speaker 7: Kevin Eastman starts off by talking about his relationship with Heather.
Speaker 5: She broke my heart really down right before Christmas. She's
Speaker 5: scaring a call and she said, Hey, I don't ever want.
Speaker 3: To see you or you again.
Speaker 6: Others blue, and I was like, that doesn't make any sense,
Speaker 6: and let's just totally destroyed me well enough by medication,
Speaker 6: and I just gave.
Speaker 5: Up my will to live.
Speaker 1: When the interview turned to Scott Sessions, Kevin gave away
Speaker 1: a crucial piece of information.
Speaker 3: Heather hooked up with this guy named Scott.
Speaker 6: I feel bad sticking nails of the dead, and I
Speaker 6: feel bad breaking her confidence.
Speaker 5: You said that you didn't want to speak ill of
Speaker 5: the dead.
Speaker 3: I told you that he was.
Speaker 5: A missing person.
Speaker 1: People do often slip up a bit in interviews, especially
Speaker 1: if they haven't really rehearsed their story. That's a big
Speaker 1: slip up to say that this person is dead. And yeah,
Speaker 1: it could happen if you assume that missing persons after
Speaker 1: a certain time are going to be dead. But it
Speaker 1: does very much point to he has guilty knowledge. He
Speaker 1: knows something more than he is willing to accept.
Speaker 7: At this point, Kevin begins to change his tune a
Speaker 7: little bit. He begins providing police with bits and pieces
Speaker 7: of evidence indicating that he was either there at the
Speaker 7: time Scott's Sessions was killed, or that he came immediately
Speaker 7: after Oh Will to the house.
Speaker 6: Because I know that she gets too drunk or it's
Speaker 6: stop her sotos very serious look.
Speaker 1: Like, and police asked Kevin where Heather was.
Speaker 5: Worse hunter?
Speaker 3: What worse hunter?
Speaker 5: She's probably a lot of.
Speaker 3: Work changes and her cars on.
Speaker 1: While Kevin Eastman was being interviewed, detectives conducted a search
Speaker 1: at the ranch property where Kevin had been seen burning things.
Speaker 7: One of the officers who's conducting the search leaves the
Speaker 7: area of the burn pit and lifts up a wooden
Speaker 7: tabletop that is nearby and discovers another body. The body
Speaker 7: that is found underneath the tabletop is wrapped in plastic
Speaker 7: and baling wire.
Speaker 1: The body was confirmed to be Heather Frank.
Speaker 7: Hither died from two gunshot wounds to the chest. They
Speaker 7: were two twenty two caliber bullets.
Speaker 1: In the interview room, police confronted Kevin with this new information.
Speaker 1: We found Heather, and Heather is in the same condition
Speaker 1: that Sky is.
Speaker 3: Heather's dead.
Speaker 1: People do break down and cry in interviews, but in
Speaker 1: this case, it's such a quick turn and such a
Speaker 1: dramatic sobbing. I haven't seen this before. I guess if
Speaker 1: you're worried that this could have happened, and it's your
Speaker 1: worst nightmare and then they confirm it and you've already
Speaker 1: been thinking it. Maybe you could quickly escalate like this,
Speaker 1: but if it is coming out of the blue, it
Speaker 1: seems difficult or is certain unusual to see someone breaking
Speaker 1: down like this.
Speaker 7: Detectives do get him to start talking about what he
Speaker 7: sees at Heather Frank's apartment, and what he describes is
Speaker 7: seeing a lot of blood.
Speaker 6: What when were you when when you saw Scott's body?
Speaker 3: Was it that that does.
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Speaker 3: So you see a lot of blood?
Speaker 5: Was the blood there when you first got terrible?
Speaker 3: Was the blood there after You've been there for.
Speaker 5: A while, pulling grindle as she did?
Speaker 3: Just control left out.
Speaker 1: I guess it's something we don't really think about that
Speaker 1: someone who has been the perpetrator in a crime is surprised,
Speaker 1: perhaps even by the extent of the crime scene that
Speaker 1: they've created. We know that people can have flashbacks, for example,
Speaker 1: to both the act itself and the consequences of the act.
Speaker 1: And just because you are the reason that there was
Speaker 1: blood at the scene, it doesn't mean that you can't
Speaker 1: still have flashbacks. And intrusive thoughts were officers obtained a
Speaker 1: search warrant for Heather Frank's apartment.
Speaker 7: They found some things that weren't adding up. Her cell
Speaker 7: phone and herse were left at the apartment. There were
Speaker 7: also some spots of blood on a couch near the entryway.
Speaker 1: But the biggest discovery was by the front door.
Speaker 7: When they pulled back a large black Robert matt near
Speaker 7: the entryway, they discovered a large pool of blood.
Speaker 1: The blood was later determined to belong to Scott Sessions.
Speaker 7: The location of the large pool of blood suggests that
Speaker 7: Scott's Sessions never made it more than a couple steps.
Speaker 3: Inside the front door.
Speaker 7: I always believe that the killer was waiting behind the
Speaker 7: door as soon as Scott's Sessions stepped into the entryway,
Speaker 7: that he was attacked from behind and his throat was
Speaker 7: cut at that time. Now police are discovering that Kevin
Speaker 7: Eastman is leaving a trail of dead bodies. He had
Speaker 7: been at the scene of Scott's Session's death. He had
Speaker 7: been at the location where Scott Session's body was placed,
Speaker 7: and now he was the last person to be seen
Speaker 7: alive with Heather Frank.
Speaker 5: Can I you're a lawyer. I'm sorry, Dutch, thank you,
Speaker 5: I'm sorry I let you down, kept my life over
Speaker 5: in that way. As the police up the interview.
Speaker 7: They have enough evidence at that point to charge him
Speaker 7: not only with the death of Scott's sessions, but with
Speaker 7: Heather Frank as well.
Speaker 5: Kevin, because you're under arrest, we were going to change
Speaker 5: you out into jail clothing.
Speaker 7: Heather was present for Scott's death by Kevin Eastman, but
Speaker 7: I don't have any indication that she instigated that wanted it,
Speaker 7: was involved in it.
Speaker 3: She was trapped and was a victim of his violence.
Speaker 7: I think every indication is that she was under the
Speaker 7: thumb or control of Kevin Eastman and was just too
Speaker 7: scared to do anything about it.
Speaker 8: In the days after Heather's death, there was a great
Speaker 8: deal of sadness in the community, but also anger, especially
Speaker 8: among her family and friends. She was caught in Kevin
Speaker 8: Eastman's violent control, and it seemed to many people that
Speaker 8: if think this had been done differently, she might still
Speaker 8: be with us.
Speaker 1: As well as the video, surveillance footage, DNA evidence proved vital.
Speaker 7: There were a pair of genes founded in amongst Kevin
Speaker 7: Eastman's property in the garage. Those genes were ultimately tested
Speaker 7: and determined to have Scout's Sessions DNA or blood on them,
Speaker 7: linking Kevin Eastman scientifically to Scott's Session's death.
Speaker 1: In court, the jury found Kevin Eastman guilty of the
Speaker 1: murder of both Scott Sessions and Heather Frank. He was
Speaker 1: sentenced to two consecutive life sentences, as well as an
Speaker 1: additional twenty seven years.
Speaker 6: I have never been one to let other people affect
Speaker 6: my happiness. In fact, I will not allow you, mister Purp,
Speaker 6: you to affect how I lived the rest of my life.
Speaker 6: I'm going to forgive you because I don't want to
Speaker 6: carry this burden. This is your burden to carry alone.
Speaker 8: Well.
Speaker 6: A few days after the trial, we held a memorial
Speaker 6: for Scott.
Speaker 5: It was truly a memorial, not a funeral.
Speaker 6: A lot of people came forward and told me what
Speaker 6: a great guy he was. They told me incidences of kindness,
Speaker 6: They told me they'll miss him.
Speaker 5: I was very grateful for that.