WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.240 --> 00:00:05.879 A lot of times people who live in gaiety communities 2 00:00:05.879 --> 00:00:07.080 have a false sense of security. 3 00:00:07.839 --> 00:00:10.320 You live in this big, beautiful house because as you 4 00:00:10.320 --> 00:00:12.119 think you're in a very safe environment. 5 00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:22.199 I hander cards for hands or tide. 6 00:00:23.679 --> 00:00:25.519 It was definitely some kind of passionate crime. 7 00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:27.120 Are you saying that I did it? 8 00:00:27.440 --> 00:00:28.039 Yeah? 9 00:00:28.320 --> 00:00:33.840 Holy crap. Oh never. Never. 10 00:00:34.320 --> 00:00:37.079 Poor lady was sleeping in her home and was awoken 11 00:00:37.159 --> 00:00:40.640 to this monster breaking into her home. 12 00:00:41.880 --> 00:00:48.479 Deontay Rizillis is a prolific burglar. Somehow he got a handcuffed. 13 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:51.159 Key and he just ran by everybody out of the 14 00:00:51.200 --> 00:00:53.880 front door and down in the back stairway. 15 00:00:53.920 --> 00:00:55.759 It was just so astonishing. 16 00:00:55.840 --> 00:00:58.719 It was just the kind of thing that couldn't possibly 17 00:00:58.799 --> 00:00:59.640 happen until it. 18 00:00:59.600 --> 00:01:09.879 Was happening right in front of you, your wife, an Laurie. 19 00:01:11.840 --> 00:01:13.000 This is what he's going to tell you. 20 00:01:13.200 --> 00:01:16.280 I'm going to have an situation, and I grab the 21 00:01:16.319 --> 00:01:18.400 gun trying to find the first place to put a body. 22 00:01:18.480 --> 00:01:20.560 No, sir, the only thing they could do was killing. 23 00:01:20.680 --> 00:01:21.599 You want to sell. 24 00:01:21.480 --> 00:01:23.840 Anything, lead the jury and to find the defendant. 25 00:01:37.599 --> 00:01:40.879 The west Ridge development in Davy, Florida, was home to 26 00:01:40.920 --> 00:01:44.239 some sixty families, including the Sioux. 27 00:01:43.959 --> 00:01:48.680 Family, a group of lovely people, very close to each other, 28 00:01:49.400 --> 00:01:52.239 parents that were very involved in their children's lives, a 29 00:01:52.359 --> 00:01:56.120 father who was, you know, a very high achieving scientist. 30 00:01:56.640 --> 00:02:00.959 They are financially very well off. She is a the 31 00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:06.719 Halliburton family. There was a division of property rights, mineral rights, 32 00:02:06.840 --> 00:02:09.280 and as a member of the Halliburton family, she ended 33 00:02:09.360 --> 00:02:10.520 up with some of those rights. 34 00:02:10.879 --> 00:02:12.960 Their son, Justin was living at home. 35 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:15.800 He had just turned twenty, not doing as well as 36 00:02:16.120 --> 00:02:19.039 his dad had hoped in college, and he flunked up. 37 00:02:19.599 --> 00:02:21.840 So yeah, there was some tension, the kind of tension 38 00:02:21.879 --> 00:02:23.879 that happens when you have a loving father who expects 39 00:02:23.919 --> 00:02:26.719 a lot from his son and a son who is, 40 00:02:26.919 --> 00:02:28.960 you know, embarrassed and ashamed of the fact that he 41 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:32.439 wasn't able to live up to his family's expectations. 42 00:02:32.919 --> 00:02:44.159 What is your emergency, my children? What is your name? 43 00:02:46.680 --> 00:02:52.280 Yes, Justin, Sue Joy, my mom call me, Justin. 44 00:02:52.360 --> 00:03:04.759 Are you with her right now? So he came out, No, 45 00:03:04.840 --> 00:03:09.680 she's not, she's not. 46 00:03:14.039 --> 00:03:19.439 She's recording on the phone. Call is very difficult to 47 00:03:19.479 --> 00:03:22.680 listen to, and you see the progression which takes all 48 00:03:22.719 --> 00:03:25.719 of about a minute from him saying my mom killed 49 00:03:25.719 --> 00:03:28.840 herself to then say wait, she's tied up. 50 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:37.719 You know, I don't know. I think hanser tide, our 51 00:03:37.800 --> 00:03:42.039 hands are tied. 52 00:03:42.800 --> 00:03:44.360 Okay, everything. 53 00:03:47.199 --> 00:03:48.879 I don't know, gonna under through. 54 00:03:49.680 --> 00:03:51.360 I don't know if I don't think anyone here but 55 00:03:52.240 --> 00:03:53.199 gotta be left already. 56 00:03:53.240 --> 00:03:56.080 But no one else is there. 57 00:03:59.680 --> 00:04:06.120 I'm today, I just I'm sorry. Oh my god. 58 00:04:08.919 --> 00:04:11.960 Homicide Detective Paul Williams was a sign. 59 00:04:11.759 --> 00:04:15.360 To the case myself in the crime scene investigator. We 60 00:04:15.400 --> 00:04:18.480 walked into the garage and through a single entry door 61 00:04:18.519 --> 00:04:22.800 into the home. I was pretty a pretty gruesome scene, 62 00:04:23.160 --> 00:04:25.879 probably one of the most terrific scenes that I've investigated 63 00:04:25.920 --> 00:04:30.160 in my time. She's bound together at her hands and 64 00:04:30.199 --> 00:04:33.079 at her feet, lying on the bathroom forward with multiple 65 00:04:33.120 --> 00:04:37.680 stab wounds amongst about our body. It was definitely some 66 00:04:37.759 --> 00:04:40.759 kind of passionate crime or when I figured somebody who 67 00:04:40.800 --> 00:04:43.639 close to her had an issue with her, or basically 68 00:04:43.639 --> 00:04:47.360 a heated fight or altercation had occurred. 69 00:04:47.040 --> 00:04:48.639 For the victim to get that many stab wounds. 70 00:04:49.519 --> 00:04:53.120 So her son, Justin was brought to police headquarters for questioning, 71 00:04:53.680 --> 00:04:57.279 asked for a DNA SAT and given a white jumpsuit 72 00:04:57.480 --> 00:04:59.639 after his clothes were taken for evidence. 73 00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:01.720 So that was my decision. 74 00:05:01.920 --> 00:05:04.600 You start off looking always at the person who discovered 75 00:05:05.319 --> 00:05:08.079 the victim and the people who were closest to or 76 00:05:08.120 --> 00:05:09.160 had the most to gain. 77 00:05:10.319 --> 00:05:19.240 Oh, we love you. 78 00:05:19.399 --> 00:05:20.120 Out of here. 79 00:05:20.519 --> 00:05:23.079 Obviously very shook it up in an interview room at 80 00:05:23.079 --> 00:05:24.680 first would have done this. 81 00:05:24.759 --> 00:05:30.360 Man, Man, I really want to tell you, I really 82 00:05:30.399 --> 00:05:30.839 don't know. 83 00:05:31.319 --> 00:05:33.319 I honestly think this is just a random I think 84 00:05:33.720 --> 00:05:35.240 these people have been looking out of my. 85 00:05:35.199 --> 00:05:36.920 House for a while for the last two weeks. 86 00:05:37.079 --> 00:05:39.839 Notice all his cars always had always had the cars 87 00:05:39.839 --> 00:05:40.199 out front. 88 00:05:40.920 --> 00:05:44.439 He immediately denied it and basically told us we need 89 00:05:44.480 --> 00:05:44.680 to go. 90 00:05:44.720 --> 00:05:46.360 We're wasting our time. We need to go find the 91 00:05:46.399 --> 00:05:46.920 real killer. 92 00:05:47.879 --> 00:05:52.000 Justin's father, doctor Nan Yaosu, was in an interrogation room 93 00:05:52.199 --> 00:05:52.800 down the hall. 94 00:05:53.480 --> 00:05:55.519 Obviously, I know as you're sitting here you can hear 95 00:05:55.680 --> 00:05:58.879 your son crying, and I know that hurts. But just 96 00:05:58.959 --> 00:06:01.959 understand that, you know, we have to follow procedure here. 97 00:06:02.560 --> 00:06:05.199 Doctor Sue told detectives he was at his office when 98 00:06:05.199 --> 00:06:07.560 he saw an image on a surveillance camera from the 99 00:06:07.600 --> 00:06:10.839 dining room that suddenly went blank. It had been ripped 100 00:06:10.879 --> 00:06:11.519 out of the wall. 101 00:06:12.519 --> 00:06:14.120 Did you tell if it was a male or female? 102 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:18.600 I think he's a male okay, a skinny Okay. How 103 00:06:18.639 --> 00:06:20.720 old did this male work? Twenty? 104 00:06:20.800 --> 00:06:22.120 Is male? 105 00:06:22.199 --> 00:06:22.680 Black? Male? 106 00:06:22.800 --> 00:06:26.639 Or looks like a whites. Doctor Sue said after he 107 00:06:26.680 --> 00:06:29.399 saw the video, he called his son Justin at work 108 00:06:29.639 --> 00:06:31.439 to go home and check it out. 109 00:06:31.639 --> 00:06:33.600 Where was your son today when he left the house? 110 00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:35.879 Let me ask you that where was he supposed to be? 111 00:06:36.040 --> 00:06:37.120 He's supposed to go to walk. 112 00:06:37.160 --> 00:06:41.920 He didn't go to work, and you realized what, well 113 00:06:41.959 --> 00:06:43.839 you thought you saw that camera beforehand. 114 00:06:43.920 --> 00:06:46.959 It's sort of a pretty close description to your son. 115 00:06:48.199 --> 00:06:51.240 Yeah, and not only that, but could it have been Justin? 116 00:06:51.279 --> 00:06:53.000 Because Justin was inside the house and knew where these 117 00:06:53.040 --> 00:06:53.600 cameras were. 118 00:06:54.120 --> 00:06:57.600 As other detectives scoured the crime scene for clues, they 119 00:06:57.639 --> 00:07:00.959 found a knife outside the front door they later learned 120 00:07:00.959 --> 00:07:04.759 belonged to Justin, and while the house appeared to have 121 00:07:04.839 --> 00:07:09.120 been ransacked, detectives reported that nothing seemed to be missing. 122 00:07:09.920 --> 00:07:11.879 So those were all kinds of things that my partner 123 00:07:11.920 --> 00:07:13.199 and I were recording in the back of our head 124 00:07:13.240 --> 00:07:14.720 that we need to address. 125 00:07:16.439 --> 00:07:20.240 Dude, I'm I can't man, I've been in this room 126 00:07:20.279 --> 00:07:24.240 way too long, man, Okay, Listen, A lot of the 127 00:07:24.240 --> 00:07:25.600 stuff that we talked about earlier. 128 00:07:26.199 --> 00:07:28.279 The stuff you told us doesn't make sense. What do 129 00:07:28.319 --> 00:07:30.920 you mean, Are you saying that I did it? 130 00:07:31.240 --> 00:07:36.959 Yeah, holy crap, Oh my no, I did oh never, 131 00:07:37.199 --> 00:07:37.959 oh never do that. 132 00:07:38.079 --> 00:07:38.319 Dude. 133 00:07:39.199 --> 00:07:42.079 Oh my god, Oh my god. What what's so hard 134 00:07:42.079 --> 00:07:43.839 to believe I did that? 135 00:07:44.120 --> 00:07:44.879 I would break you. 136 00:07:45.920 --> 00:07:46.800 Nobody broken enough. 137 00:07:47.120 --> 00:07:47.720 Stop playing this. 138 00:07:48.399 --> 00:07:49.360 Go no long. 139 00:07:49.399 --> 00:07:51.040 We've been doing this job a long time. 140 00:07:51.800 --> 00:07:53.639 This horrible that you guys would even think that I 141 00:07:53.639 --> 00:07:56.720 would do it. I'm sorry, but you're sorry. I'm gonna 142 00:07:56.720 --> 00:07:59.480 I'm gonna go. No, You're not gonna go nowhere. 143 00:07:59.560 --> 00:08:00.680 Dude, there, I. 144 00:08:00.680 --> 00:08:01.560 Didn't do it. 145 00:08:04.639 --> 00:08:08.519 Oh my god, do you did you listen to me 146 00:08:08.600 --> 00:08:09.319 on the of. 147 00:08:09.439 --> 00:08:13.839 The Yeah, it's all both your whole both stupid plan 148 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:16.160 and you did a job at the house. 149 00:08:16.560 --> 00:08:18.360 So you want to start coming clean. This is your 150 00:08:18.360 --> 00:08:19.480 only opportunity. 151 00:08:19.959 --> 00:08:22.639 You can understand your dad. What what I said to 152 00:08:22.680 --> 00:08:24.480 my dad? I I lied to my dad. I told 153 00:08:24.560 --> 00:08:25.399 him I was going to work. 154 00:08:25.879 --> 00:08:26.000 No. 155 00:08:26.079 --> 00:08:30.879 Inconsistently between your statement, you're going what what? 156 00:08:31.600 --> 00:08:31.800 Hey? 157 00:08:31.959 --> 00:08:34.240 We just want to know why, Oh my god, I 158 00:08:34.360 --> 00:08:37.240 didn't do it. I just want to know why I 159 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:40.480 didn't do it. I didn't do I didn't hear my 160 00:08:40.600 --> 00:08:42.519 own book saying that over and over again. It ain't 161 00:08:42.519 --> 00:08:45.039 gonna go anywhere. I'm telling you, just why did. 162 00:08:44.919 --> 00:08:45.240 You do it? 163 00:08:45.279 --> 00:08:45.559 That's it? 164 00:08:46.279 --> 00:08:49.360 And do you feel bad at it? That's all? That's 165 00:08:49.399 --> 00:08:50.000 all I want to know. 166 00:08:51.320 --> 00:08:54.840 Detectives wet next door to tell Justin's father, doctor Sue, 167 00:08:55.200 --> 00:08:57.759 his son was now considered a suspect. 168 00:08:58.799 --> 00:09:04.200 But since my son is still my son, I would 169 00:09:04.279 --> 00:09:07.159 accept the truth that he did it. But before that, 170 00:09:08.519 --> 00:09:11.320 we need to make sure that everything it don't fail it. 171 00:09:11.399 --> 00:09:14.120 Okay, And you just said that if he did it, 172 00:09:14.120 --> 00:09:15.879 you would accept it. Is that what you said? 173 00:09:16.039 --> 00:09:19.399 If the truth, if the to the truths come out 174 00:09:19.440 --> 00:09:21.440 that he did it, I totally accept them. 175 00:09:21.600 --> 00:09:21.960 Okay. 176 00:09:22.039 --> 00:09:22.879 I'm a scientist. 177 00:09:23.240 --> 00:09:24.120 I go with the truth. 178 00:09:25.440 --> 00:09:28.720 And detectives were confident the truth would be found in 179 00:09:28.799 --> 00:09:34.000 the DNA on the knife at the murder scene. 180 00:09:38.120 --> 00:09:40.399 Dude, you guys got the wrong person. 181 00:09:40.519 --> 00:09:42.720 Man, I didn't do it. 182 00:09:43.039 --> 00:09:47.919 The police had that young man detained in an interview 183 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:53.480 room for thirteen hours, filming constantly coming in and out 184 00:09:53.519 --> 00:09:57.440 of the interview room, so they focused in on him. 185 00:09:57.759 --> 00:09:59.360 You came in, you were thinking, you're gonna tell us 186 00:09:59.360 --> 00:10:01.080 that it was a wrong and they were looking at 187 00:10:01.120 --> 00:10:02.679 your house for two leads and all this. 188 00:10:03.000 --> 00:10:04.559 Guess what we can sift through? 189 00:10:04.559 --> 00:10:05.440 Bull real fast? 190 00:10:06.080 --> 00:10:08.399 Okay, that's all those things. 191 00:10:08.440 --> 00:10:10.480 I said, what's true? I don't know somebody was casing 192 00:10:10.519 --> 00:10:12.639 your house for two weeks. I don't know, because you're 193 00:10:12.679 --> 00:10:13.559 just giving us ideas. 194 00:10:13.600 --> 00:10:15.360 You know why, because you're the one responsible. 195 00:10:15.840 --> 00:10:19.519 So stop with the boys, God help you. I don't 196 00:10:19.759 --> 00:10:21.840 I did not know. Guess what. We know what helped 197 00:10:21.919 --> 00:10:23.440 is and we know what it looks like. We know 198 00:10:23.600 --> 00:10:25.799 both is and we know what it looks like. So 199 00:10:25.840 --> 00:10:28.080 stop stop, bro. 200 00:10:28.360 --> 00:10:32.399 I'm not posting to you officers, I swear on my life. 201 00:10:33.559 --> 00:10:36.320 It was now after three in the morning and still 202 00:10:36.720 --> 00:10:37.679 no confession. 203 00:10:38.159 --> 00:10:42.240 They didn't have grounds to hold it, and then they 204 00:10:42.519 --> 00:10:47.279 eventually had to release both man and then the the 205 00:10:47.320 --> 00:10:48.759 investigation continued. 206 00:10:50.679 --> 00:10:54.960 They process any items that could potentially have DNA on 207 00:10:55.039 --> 00:10:57.039 them of evidentiary value. 208 00:10:58.120 --> 00:11:01.480 One was a knife that was at the front door 209 00:11:01.519 --> 00:11:04.759 outside of the front door of the home and a 210 00:11:05.440 --> 00:11:08.279 belt that was used to tie the victim's hands up. 211 00:11:10.159 --> 00:11:13.159 About a week later, we got what we call a 212 00:11:13.200 --> 00:11:16.080 preliminary hit or identification. 213 00:11:17.159 --> 00:11:20.559 It was not a match with Justin Sue and he 214 00:11:20.679 --> 00:11:25.639 was clear as a suspect, as he had repeatedly predicted, when. 215 00:11:25.480 --> 00:11:29.879 You guys find out you're wrong, I hope you come 216 00:11:29.919 --> 00:11:33.679 and say sorry, to meet man or something, because this 217 00:11:33.720 --> 00:11:34.919 is a horrible No. 218 00:11:34.759 --> 00:11:36.480 This is a horrible If I found out I was wrong, 219 00:11:36.519 --> 00:11:38.360 I seriously consider a career change. 220 00:11:38.519 --> 00:11:41.639 I don't feel guilty for the reason or the ways 221 00:11:41.639 --> 00:11:44.360 that we went after him pretty hard, but at that time, 222 00:11:44.720 --> 00:11:46.879 our job is not to worry about feelings, and our 223 00:11:47.000 --> 00:11:49.600 job is to go about and to do the job 224 00:11:49.679 --> 00:11:53.399 for the victim who can't speak. I wouldn't have changed 225 00:11:53.399 --> 00:11:55.799 the way I did, or my partner feels the same 226 00:11:55.799 --> 00:11:56.080 way too. 227 00:11:56.200 --> 00:11:57.120 We wouldn't have changed it. 228 00:11:58.279 --> 00:12:01.360 But the DNA did lead that to another suspect. 229 00:12:01.879 --> 00:12:04.480 We're learning new details tonight about the man arrested for 230 00:12:04.519 --> 00:12:06.159 the murder of a South Florida mother. 231 00:12:06.519 --> 00:12:09.240 A nineteen year old Haitian American by the name of 232 00:12:09.320 --> 00:12:10.679 Deontay Rizilis. 233 00:12:10.840 --> 00:12:14.679 We knew Deantay risils was the person whose DNA came 234 00:12:14.759 --> 00:12:17.519 up on the pocket knife and the loop belt ins 235 00:12:17.519 --> 00:12:19.519 that would lose to tie up the victim. 236 00:12:20.080 --> 00:12:27.159 Deontay Risillis is a prolific burglar, and he had multiple 237 00:12:27.360 --> 00:12:28.919 over two dozen burglaries. 238 00:12:29.639 --> 00:12:33.279 This house seemed to very much match houses that he 239 00:12:33.360 --> 00:12:35.000 had burglarized in the past. 240 00:12:35.399 --> 00:12:39.480 He always gains access into the homes through a rear 241 00:12:40.000 --> 00:12:44.320 either window or glass window or glass door, and commits 242 00:12:44.320 --> 00:12:47.720 his burglaries sometime during the day where he expects the 243 00:12:47.720 --> 00:12:48.639 homes to be empty. 244 00:12:49.080 --> 00:12:52.480 When he was inside the home, he encountered missus poor 245 00:12:52.559 --> 00:12:55.240 lady was sleeping in her home and was awoken to 246 00:12:55.279 --> 00:13:01.440 this monster breaking into her home. I think she put 247 00:13:01.480 --> 00:13:03.759 up one hell of a fight tried to get away 248 00:13:03.799 --> 00:13:06.360 several times, which is why he felt the need to 249 00:13:06.399 --> 00:13:09.120 have to tie her up, bound her and stabb her 250 00:13:09.240 --> 00:13:12.039 and take off. He did not want to leave. An eyewitness, 251 00:13:13.360 --> 00:13:17.080 with the assistance of some cell phone tracking detectives, made 252 00:13:17.080 --> 00:13:20.240 contact with him and took him into custody without incident. 253 00:13:22.720 --> 00:13:24.360 I explained to him that I had a warrant for 254 00:13:24.399 --> 00:13:25.679 him for murder, and you're. 255 00:13:25.519 --> 00:13:28.440 Gonna be charge the first to gree murder, well, first 256 00:13:28.799 --> 00:13:33.879 first to murder. Okay, let him in charge. 257 00:13:34.840 --> 00:13:37.879 Prosecution was going to seek the death penalty, and the 258 00:13:37.919 --> 00:13:41.919 court assigns h. Don Williams, who specializes in such cases 259 00:13:42.039 --> 00:13:43.360 as Rizealis, as lawyer. 260 00:13:43.679 --> 00:13:48.759 In the beginning the case I thought was a very 261 00:13:49.480 --> 00:13:54.240 defensible case. Mister Sue, he initially said he saw white, 262 00:13:54.919 --> 00:13:55.799 a white guy. 263 00:13:55.679 --> 00:13:58.039 A black male or looks like a whites. 264 00:13:58.720 --> 00:14:04.879 Mister Rizal's background, he had other burglary cases and there's 265 00:14:04.919 --> 00:14:06.360 never any hint of violence. 266 00:14:07.480 --> 00:14:11.080 And Rozialis's friends and family who know him as Mucci, 267 00:14:11.480 --> 00:14:13.159 quickly came to his defense. 268 00:14:13.720 --> 00:14:16.200 That's not a crown that he would have committed. 269 00:14:16.759 --> 00:14:18.039 And I stand on that. 270 00:14:18.240 --> 00:14:19.480 I put my life on it. 271 00:14:19.799 --> 00:14:21.240 I know he didn't. 272 00:14:21.519 --> 00:14:24.399 Even paying for a billboard across the street from the 273 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:26.399 Broward County Sheriff's office. 274 00:14:26.679 --> 00:14:31.240 It actually juxtaposed a picture of Jill Sue with a 275 00:14:31.279 --> 00:14:34.440 picture of Dante Rozilli's as if both of them are 276 00:14:34.519 --> 00:14:35.519 victims of this crime. 277 00:14:36.039 --> 00:14:39.919 For two years, the case against Allante Rizealis slowly moved 278 00:14:39.960 --> 00:14:43.480 through the court system in a series of procedural hearings. 279 00:14:44.120 --> 00:14:48.519 This was, for lack of a better term, a murder 280 00:14:48.600 --> 00:14:50.000 case like many. 281 00:14:49.799 --> 00:14:52.440 Other murder cases, and this was not going to be 282 00:14:52.480 --> 00:14:54.120 a case where we were going to go gabble to 283 00:14:54.159 --> 00:14:59.679 gabble until the suspect decided that we weren't. 284 00:15:00.679 --> 00:15:03.879 We're on top of breaking news and accused killer escaping 285 00:15:03.919 --> 00:15:05.720 from the Broward County courthouse. 286 00:15:05.759 --> 00:15:07.360 More than eight hours ago. 287 00:15:07.519 --> 00:15:11.000 An army of police descend on a locked down Broward 288 00:15:11.039 --> 00:15:12.039 County courthouse. 289 00:15:12.440 --> 00:15:14.720 Deonta Rasillis was on the wrong. 290 00:15:15.039 --> 00:15:16.879 It was just so astonishing. 291 00:15:17.000 --> 00:15:19.840 It was just the kind of thing that couldn't possibly 292 00:15:19.919 --> 00:15:21.799 happen until it was happening right in front of you. 293 00:15:22.200 --> 00:15:26.720 So now there's a killer on the loose, and everybody 294 00:15:26.759 --> 00:15:31.080 wants to know everything there is to know about Deonta Razillis. 295 00:15:33.840 --> 00:15:36.320 We're not seeing a new video of the chaos in 296 00:15:36.360 --> 00:15:39.080 a Broward courtroom when a murder suspect managed to slip 297 00:15:39.080 --> 00:15:40.480 out of his shackles and escape. 298 00:15:40.720 --> 00:15:43.080 Somehow he got a handcuff. 299 00:15:42.679 --> 00:15:52.120 Key, and he had a jail jumpsuit overclose that was 300 00:15:52.200 --> 00:15:54.279 way too large for him, so that he could remove 301 00:15:54.320 --> 00:15:55.000 it very quickly. 302 00:15:55.440 --> 00:15:57.960 He had people in the courtroom who gave him the 303 00:15:58.000 --> 00:16:00.519 signal of when the vehicle that was pick him up 304 00:16:00.559 --> 00:16:01.080 was in the back. 305 00:16:01.799 --> 00:16:04.600 He just ran by every day out the front door 306 00:16:04.639 --> 00:16:07.679 and down the back stairway, something right out of a 307 00:16:07.720 --> 00:16:08.840 television movie. 308 00:16:09.279 --> 00:16:11.799 The Roward County Sheriff's is twenty one year old Dante 309 00:16:11.879 --> 00:16:13.320 Rasiles is still missing. 310 00:16:13.639 --> 00:16:15.679 Police say he took off in a getaway car with 311 00:16:15.720 --> 00:16:17.159 the help of several accomplices. 312 00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:21.320 Huge story, huge man hunt all over the county. 313 00:16:22.080 --> 00:16:26.080 Believe no stone on, turn everything in the back, bring 314 00:16:26.159 --> 00:16:28.759 it back housby safely. 315 00:16:29.159 --> 00:16:30.279 Quickly, efficiently. 316 00:16:32.279 --> 00:16:35.440 The sheriff was going crazy. I think things spent about 317 00:16:35.440 --> 00:16:38.440 a million dollars in overtime trying to catch him. 318 00:16:38.919 --> 00:16:42.360 It was a black eye. It was hugely embarrassing. It 319 00:16:42.480 --> 00:16:46.240 was just so brazen. It was just so astonishing. 320 00:16:48.519 --> 00:16:50.360 The police thought I had something to do with it. 321 00:16:50.360 --> 00:16:52.759 You know, where'd he get the handcuff key to take 322 00:16:52.799 --> 00:16:54.840 off the handcuffs? Well, it must be the lawyer like 323 00:16:55.000 --> 00:16:57.120 yelling like really, come on. 324 00:16:57.200 --> 00:16:59.480 Guys. 325 00:16:59.679 --> 00:17:02.320 Had a large following of people. Basically they called him 326 00:17:02.320 --> 00:17:04.759 the Robin Hood of the neighborhood. So there was a 327 00:17:04.799 --> 00:17:07.640 lot of people that he had manipulated to follow him 328 00:17:08.359 --> 00:17:12.319 and help with his escape from the courthouse all the 329 00:17:12.359 --> 00:17:14.480 way through to try and throw off law enforcement at 330 00:17:14.519 --> 00:17:16.559 every level and hide and get away. 331 00:17:17.240 --> 00:17:19.960 In the beginning, they were often a ten thousand dollars reward, 332 00:17:20.359 --> 00:17:22.599 and I said to myself, that's not going to do it. 333 00:17:22.839 --> 00:17:26.079 The amount went to fifty thousand dollars, and I said, now, 334 00:17:26.079 --> 00:17:26.839 he's going to get. 335 00:17:26.720 --> 00:17:30.640 Caught breaking Overnight the Broward Sheriff's Office announcing the capture 336 00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:32.359 of Dayon day Risilds. 337 00:17:31.960 --> 00:17:35.200 A group of deputies surrounded a van that Resulz was 338 00:17:35.279 --> 00:17:37.599 in and was immediately escorted inside. 339 00:17:38.440 --> 00:17:41.000 Well, the motive was he was going to get out 340 00:17:41.039 --> 00:17:43.640 and prove his innocence and all that time. He's gone 341 00:17:43.680 --> 00:17:48.519 a week and he basically got forty five minutes away 342 00:17:48.519 --> 00:17:49.400 from the courthouse. 343 00:17:50.279 --> 00:17:53.400 When they get him and they look at his phone, 344 00:17:54.400 --> 00:17:57.839 he has not been on the hunt for the real killer. 345 00:17:58.240 --> 00:18:00.599 He has not been trying to clear his name. He 346 00:18:00.680 --> 00:18:06.480 wasn't doing anything along those lines. He was using his 347 00:18:06.519 --> 00:18:07.319 phone to look at porn. 348 00:18:12.319 --> 00:18:14.640 It was a total of eight people who were charged 349 00:18:15.440 --> 00:18:17.799 for participating and aiding and abetting him. 350 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:20.640 Franzine measure Doo was arrested for giving him a wig, 351 00:18:20.960 --> 00:18:23.160 color changing contacts and clothing. 352 00:18:23.920 --> 00:18:28.440 Mucci, as he was known in the community, had tons 353 00:18:28.440 --> 00:18:32.960 of friends and he's a charismatic guy. That's one thing 354 00:18:33.000 --> 00:18:35.960 that we've learned throughout this process. He can talk an 355 00:18:36.079 --> 00:18:37.240 eskimo into buying. 356 00:18:37.039 --> 00:18:40.880 Knights and back in custody in the Broward County jail, 357 00:18:41.240 --> 00:18:45.599 Rizilis got another group of friends to help create a defense. 358 00:18:46.599 --> 00:18:50.799 The bottom line is he's trying to build an alibi 359 00:18:50.839 --> 00:18:53.680 that says he's in Georgia at the time that Jill 360 00:18:53.720 --> 00:18:57.319 Halliburton Sue is murdered. He's not aware that police are 361 00:18:57.599 --> 00:18:58.759 following his every move. 362 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:03.400 The plot was busted and yet another group of Rizilla's 363 00:19:03.440 --> 00:19:05.759 friends and supporters faced prosecution. 364 00:19:06.559 --> 00:19:09.039 There's a young lady that gets charged in that she 365 00:19:09.119 --> 00:19:12.240 had never met mister Rises in person. She was an 366 00:19:12.319 --> 00:19:17.240 insurance agent and she gets fascinated by him and she says, 367 00:19:17.359 --> 00:19:19.920 I want to get married, that she wanted to marry him, 368 00:19:19.960 --> 00:19:22.319 so she pulled herself right into this case. 369 00:19:23.240 --> 00:19:29.359 This guy convinced your fourteen people to commit a crime 370 00:19:29.400 --> 00:19:36.519 on his behalf, to jeopardize their own freedom because charisma. 371 00:19:37.599 --> 00:19:41.319 That's just how charismatic he is. They called it Operation 372 00:19:41.599 --> 00:19:47.480 Rico Slavin. That's how police felt about this guy's ability 373 00:19:48.279 --> 00:19:53.599 to get people to follow him on this path, Operation 374 00:19:53.839 --> 00:19:54.720 Ricos Slaby. 375 00:19:56.119 --> 00:19:59.880 Finally, with enhanced security, Deonta Rizillis is put on t 376 00:20:00.519 --> 00:20:02.920 for the first degree murder of Jill Suke. 377 00:20:03.440 --> 00:20:07.359 The jury was out a very very lengthy period of time. 378 00:20:07.880 --> 00:20:12.720 They finally come back with a verdict and the verdict 379 00:20:12.920 --> 00:20:15.160 is guilty of manslaughter. 380 00:20:15.920 --> 00:20:19.559 Each juror is asked, is this your real and true verdict? 381 00:20:19.799 --> 00:20:23.000 And usually it's one of the most routine things that 382 00:20:23.160 --> 00:20:27.319 never results in anything, but of course, in the Deonta 383 00:20:27.440 --> 00:20:32.640 Razilia's trial, that process becomes its own drama because the. 384 00:20:32.680 --> 00:20:35.359 Very first person is the fourth person. 385 00:20:35.400 --> 00:20:39.160 And there is a pause, and no one expects a pause, 386 00:20:41.160 --> 00:20:47.000 and you could almost hear her struggling until. 387 00:20:46.759 --> 00:20:50.279 Finally she says no. 388 00:20:50.279 --> 00:20:55.079 No one ever says no. It's always yes, yes, yes, yes. 389 00:20:55.799 --> 00:20:59.359 Never had that happen in thirty five years. When that happens, 390 00:20:59.480 --> 00:21:02.359 then the is not accepted. The jury sends the jury 391 00:21:02.400 --> 00:21:05.799 back and they have to continue deliberating, and they deliberated 392 00:21:06.000 --> 00:21:07.839 some more, and then came back the next day and 393 00:21:07.920 --> 00:21:12.680 they declared themselves to be a hung jury. I had 394 00:21:13.000 --> 00:21:16.279 five different jurors reach out to me and all of 395 00:21:16.319 --> 00:21:19.559 them said the same thing. They thought he was guilty. 396 00:21:19.880 --> 00:21:26.000 And several of those jurors told me that there was 397 00:21:26.200 --> 00:21:28.680 one juror in particular who said he was not coming 398 00:21:28.759 --> 00:21:32.559 back with a verdict that would send another young black 399 00:21:32.559 --> 00:21:33.759 man to prison for life. 400 00:21:34.039 --> 00:21:38.359 The judge declared a mistrial and said a new trial date. 401 00:21:39.079 --> 00:21:41.759