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we start? This is Season thirteen, episode three hundred and
thirty I Don't Know something of Sword and Scale show
that reveals that the worst monsters are real. Every family
has a story that they don't expect to tell. In
Waller County, Texas, two families were bound together by a relationship,
a marriage, and a moment of unimaginable violence.
Speaker 6: On the eleventh Yesterday, approximately four to eighteen pm, we
received a call through dispatch there's a possible deceased person
twenty one year old female inside a residence located behind
two six Ocllo. Upon arrival, they did find a deceased
person inside the house. It was a portion of a
body dismembered and a residence that was covered in blood,
and so a gruesome scene at best. Further investigation led
to the family being detained in the suspect placed into
custody for what we're assuming is going to be a
murder charge.
Speaker 1: In the end, on the flat coastal plains of southeast Texas,
something unthinkable happened. It was January twelfth, twenty twenty three.
The Sheriff of Waller County stepped up to the microphones.
He told the press what he could. By then, most
of the facts were known, what happened, who was involved, where,
when and how. The only question left was why. That
would take some time. Days later, investigators sat down with
someone who knew her best, her uncle, Irvin Oreeyana.
Speaker 2: She hadn't been here very long.
Speaker 3: Correct can tell you about how she got here? She
was for Indie, did you really know here?
Speaker 7: She came along with her two brothers.
Speaker 1: O Angie Diaz came to the United States when she
was just seventeen. She crossed the border with her two brothers.
They were undocumented, but hopeful and determined. Like so many
before her, she was chasing something simple, a better life.
She landed in Waller County, just northwest of Houston and
moved in with her uncle. It wasn't glamorous, but it
was safe, it was clean, and for Angie it was
a start.
Speaker 7: She was always uncle teaching me how to ride the
room or outdo it for you, And she was always
she always had that initiately of doing something for their
help because she felt grateful that she was living with us.
Speaker 3: But on our way she felt.
Speaker 8: Like I can't, I can't put my so much weight
on your shoulder.
Speaker 3: Uncle, I got to help you somehow.
Speaker 1: Angie carried her weight, helping her uncle and contributing in
any way she could. They were fans, but she didn't
want to be a burden. Her uncle didn't put any
pressure on her about finding a job or contributing financially.
She was still young, but one eventuality worried him, and I.
Speaker 9: Even talked with her one day, if I know, eventually
you're going to meet someone, and when that time comes, there.
Speaker 3: Will be some set of rules at home for you
to follow.
Speaker 1: Of course, Angie accepted her uncle's rules. She settled in,
started to learn English, and found a job at the
local Hispanic meat market called Chepez. Chepe is Spanish slang
for Jose. It's like calling a place Joe's for those
monolingual people out there. And it wasn't long before she
proved her uncle right and met someone. She followed the
rules and told her an uncle she was just starting
to get to know them. The relationship would build and
the family would finally meet him. But not long after
that she broke it off.
Speaker 8: I broke up with Jose to us he was very
surprisingly useful. Before we went to a vacation, she had
even bet a wedding dress because they were thinking of
getting married.
Speaker 3: And you know so, and then.
Speaker 8: We came from vacation and all of a sudden she
broke up with her. Said to us, was like, so
very surprised.
Speaker 1: I think Angie was young, but she was clear about
what she wanted. She said, there wasn't another guy. What
bothered her was Jose's indecision and his reliance on his mother.
He was a bit of a mama's boy. Angie wanted
something more.
Speaker 3: I had not met anyone.
Speaker 8: It's just that I don't think things are going to
work out. I need a real man in life. In
my life, I can keep wasting my time with the kid.
Speaker 3: She said.
Speaker 1: And she had large aspirations in life and had the
work ethic to achieve them. The last thing she wanted
to do was waste it with a mama's boy. She
needed a man instead with similar life goals. Her uncle,
though suspected that maybe she'd already met him.
Speaker 8: Later, I had a conversation with her, just one on one.
Speaker 3: I told her, and I need you to be honest with me.
Speaker 10: Is there anyone you're getting to know? Anyone you're talking
with and you to know is there someone else in
your life, because I'm responsible what happens to you. And
she said, yeah, yeah, I met someone and right now
we're not going out, we're.
Speaker 3: Just getting to know each other. And I said, okay,
it's fine, thank you for letting me know.
Speaker 1: That's when Jared Dykis showed up. He was quiet, but
there was something about him put it that way. Here's
how his dad, Rodney remembers the first time Jared met Angie.
Speaker 5: The pickup line that he used to get her to
call it. Apparently he had gone into the store where
she was working at and.
Speaker 3: He was looking at his phone and he told her.
Speaker 5: He said, I'm sorry, I don't know what to do
or something to the dead line.
Speaker 3: And she's like, what he said, I cannot find your
number in here? May she gave him this.
Speaker 5: Number and next when they started dating. What kind of
relationship that they have? That's you know, I thought that
it was a pretty cool relationship because every time you
heard them too, they were laughing. In her life, it
was just something it's just pretty cool, pretty cool laugh.
Speaker 1: Jared wasn't anything like Jose. He had a career as
an electrician, and more importantly, he didn't have to ask
his mom for mission every time he did something. He
was also white with bright red hair, which earned him
the nickname Rojo around Chepez meat market. In case you
didn't know, Rojo is Spanish for red. They talked constantly,
video calls, voice messages, that sort of thing. They were
falling in love.
Speaker 9: Eventually she came home she liked Luke uncle, and I really.
Speaker 3: Love him a lad.
Speaker 10: And he loves me a lot, and that we have
decided to get married, and I would.
Speaker 3: Like you to be the whitnes.
Speaker 1: He thought to himself, what can I do, I'm just
the uncle. If Angie wanted to marry Jared, he wasn't
going to stand in her way. By this time, she
was twenty one years old, a grown woman who could
make her own decisions. She could do whatever she wanted,
whether or without his approval. But even before the family
could meet Jared, she tied the knot. She texted her
uncle a picture of her and her new husband. On
the steps of the courthouse, Jared carried Angie across his
arms as they kissed. Her white dress shimmered in the sunlight.
When Angie's uncle finally met Jared, he was impressed. Jared
was always clean and well dressed. He was polite. He
always shook hands, but he was quiet. He couldn't speak Spanish,
so he was often lost during conversations, but he tried
to be part of the family. During Christmas, he bought
Angie's little cousin's nerf guns and played Nintendo with them.
It was all very wholesome.
Speaker 8: He gave it his perspective and matured persia.
Speaker 1: It was a whirlwind relationship. They had been dating for
a few months when they got married in the fall
of twenty twenty two, but both Angie and Jared gave
it their af Jared started spending all his money to
convert a small outbuilding on his parents' property into an
efficiency apartment for them. Angie started taking beach body training courses,
even flying to Florida to attend. She had her sights
on becoming a fitness instructor. They were happy with their
whole lives ahead of them. Isn't that usually how it starts?
While they're can I.
Speaker 5: Now one one point neighbors Rodney Dragons to meet its
angels and police.
Speaker 3: The two or six olleg fool apart.
Speaker 11: Okay, what's going on? I don't know everything but my
frien's wives is please okay, oh my.
Speaker 1: Okay, where is he at?
Speaker 4: He's in my house.
Speaker 2: Okay, this is your house.
Speaker 5: They have they have a dueling on my property.
Speaker 10: Oh my god, nothing out.
Speaker 3: He holler home and.
Speaker 1: Okay, So just just calm down.
Speaker 12: We're getting deep on road.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 11: And you said, God.
Speaker 10: Gonna okay, and you said, this is fut You.
Speaker 3: Know he's my daughter in law.
Speaker 11: She's my daughter in law.
Speaker 1: Angie was dead. Rodney Dykas found his daughter in law
lying in a pool of blood in Jared's apartment. It
was clear, even to Rodney that only one person could
have been responsible.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, prefurrys along with my sun.
Speaker 7: He has no weather. He's in my house.
Speaker 3: He's laying in the floor crying.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, oh my god, oh son.
Speaker 1: Rodney was clearly in anguish, but he had to call
nine on one because Jared's mother, Lynn couldn't. She saw
Angie's body too, and just lost it. Her legs gave.
She went down on the ground in the front yard
and couldn't get back up, crying, wailing, waiting for the
police to arrive. Her husband, Jared was balled up on
the floor inside his parents' house, also crying. The whole
situation didn't make any sense, but Rodney had felt something
was coming.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I stole him in the US. Oh
my god, I stole him there.
Speaker 13: I stole him there too.
Speaker 3: I had him in the hospital two days accounts.
Speaker 2: He was hearing voices.
Speaker 3: I told her that she could excuse him the doctor Sitney.
Speaker 1: The scene got hectic quickly well. The dispatcher was relaying
this information over the radio. The EMTs were out of
the loop. They walked into something they never expected.
Speaker 14: There look to me like a towel on the floor
and pink socks from what I could originally see. As
I began to step up the steps, I could see
underneath the towel there looked like blood. It looked like
there's some blood on the floor as well. Because we
had no information, didn't know what had happened. As she
committed to the side with a shotgun.
Speaker 3: You know what we were walking into.
Speaker 14: There's a desk immediately to the right of me. When
I walked in, the door looked like it had a
computer on it. And as I looked around the desk,
I could see her feet stepped in further and I
could see the rest of the body, and then I
realized there was the patient did not have a head.
Speaker 3: At that point, my crew was coming up behind me and.
Speaker 2: I stopped them.
Speaker 3: I said, back out.
Speaker 14: We're in a crime scene. And they said they kind
of looked at me and they realized look on my face.
But even until me later that like we saw the
look in your face, we knew that there was nothing
we were going to do. So they backed out. I
backed out.
Speaker 2: I and mascot, their vice paramiedic what we had.
Speaker 3: I said, there's nothing we could do.
Speaker 1: This wasn't a suicide or accidental death. This was a
crime scene and very obviously, so.
Speaker 3: I need crime scene and to this location.
Speaker 1: Deputies were already enrouted, still more surprised, as we're waiting
on Oakcallow Boulevard.
Speaker 11: Oh gossip and thanks who you got the same.
Speaker 3: Amerger? Sure emergency over nursed you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, I believe. Deputy assessed the scene. Jared was
already in the back of a patrol car. His mom
Lynn was weeping on the front lawn. His father, Rodney,
paced back and fourth when he wasn't seated on his
writing mower. Other deputies kept them separate. And took all
of their phones. The lead deputy had the big picture,
but the lead paramedic filled in the details.
Speaker 15: Yea was just crudely distaputated.
Speaker 13: Back hit it in the bathtub.
Speaker 11: I mean it's a redhead.
Speaker 13: It's no, it's just dark. No, the one, the one
you got, the one you got detained redheaded more Yeah,
yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: The responding deputy thought he knew exactly what this was,
that redhead boy. He'd seen them before, But as the
scene unfolded, something didn't sit right. What they found inside
that small apartment was worse than anyone expected, and the
truth was far stranger than the assumptions that had brought
them there. Whatever happened wasn't just violent, It was something deeper.
It was something harder to name. The body of Angie
Diaz was found on the floor of a small apartment
she shared with her husband, Jared Dykas, but her head
was found in the bathtub.
Speaker 6: And this was taking place in a residence occupied by himself,
the suspect, and the wife the deceased, living behind the
parents' house.
Speaker 16: Turning down to what appears to be a horrific case
of domestic violent in Waller County and We do want
to warn you the details in this case are very disturbing.
Speaker 6: Everything happened on the property and all parts and pieces
were recovered and submitted for evidence.
Speaker 16: She was found dead this past Wednesday.
Speaker 12: Investigators say that our husband, Jared Dykas, had killed her
with a kitchen knife, severing our head from her body.
Speaker 6: It is gruesome. It's a gruesome crime. And the best
you can say is that the world we live in
today and it is. It's a gruesome scene and both
sides of these families are going to be altered by it,
either way suspect and or the victims.
Speaker 12: They were only married in October and now he is.
Speaker 1: Charged with her murder. Nearly weds. Jared and Angie had
so much promise. Now Jared was charged with her murder.
But the media calling it a horrific case of domestic
violence didn't really tell the whole story. You see, the
Sheriff's department was familiar with the address.
Speaker 6: There has been prior calls disturbance wise, but nothing to
this effect and to this level of violence.
Speaker 11: This this old crazy boy.
Speaker 13: Yeah you've been here before.
Speaker 2: I haven't been here before.
Speaker 3: Yeah I was were was old redhead who have been
down to care right here with his mob.
Speaker 6: He's saying, you think how much.
Speaker 3: The person and now he takes it up there.
Speaker 1: When they got there, they assumed it would be more
of the same, but his deputies talked with the father, Rodney.
Speaker 13: John's that on information you wouldn't have to know Miss
Angie's maiden name.
Speaker 11: They said, your wishs did.
Speaker 1: And the mother Lynn.
Speaker 13: Hello, ma'am, I'm Dippy Lewis. I think I've talked to
you at the door here a while back about maybe
some dogs or something. No, your son's truck. Remember I'm
knocking on your door one morning and said, hey, you
know where you know where that truck's at.
Speaker 1: And the brother Wayne, I.
Speaker 13: Was telling you, Mama, I think that the last time
I was here, your brother's truck was broken down or
round of gas or something over.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they realized it wasn't what they thought at all.
Speaker 11: It's a mom and did and two brothers. And then,
unbeknownst to me, one of the brothers got married back
in September, littlego or the jetpoos and they're living in
the shed back behind the house. But when I heard
possible ba at two or sixth o'callo. I thought it
was the brother.
Speaker 3: That's sitting up the trim of the carboard.
Speaker 11: I've just figured the ket ode.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't.
Speaker 11: I didn't. I didn't think this other one would be involved.
Speaker 1: Between Jared and his brother Wayne, Jared was the good
son Jared.
Speaker 13: Brandy does remember me, okay.
Speaker 1: Wayne was the one who had previous run ins with
the law. Even the deputy was surprised to find Jared
in the back of the patrol car, but interviews with
the parents which shed light on Jared's recent behavior. He'd
been acting unusual for some time, but the day of
the murder all the parents' worries would come to a head.
Speaker 5: I think it was around noon when Jared came in
and told me that we needed to go to like, yeah,
we needed to go to a Houston story and gave
it a store number.
Speaker 3: I kept telling him, that doesn't tell me anything. I
don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't have an app to look up store numbers
like you did, because that don't work for an You
have to give me an address so I know where
we're going.
Speaker 3: He said, it's Houston. Houston's fairly blog.
Speaker 5: That doesn't tell me shit, and he went back there
and his mother was asleep, and he came back, and
that's when I stopped him. A corded and he heard
where we're going. I don't think he was going to
talk to me at all. I don't, I don't. I
don't get the impression that he was there to talk
to me. I got the impression he was there to
talk to his mother. And then I asked him what
is he need?
Speaker 16: He told me he.
Speaker 3: Needed his gun, and let did you tell him?
Speaker 5: Told him, you're not getting that gun back right now
while you're like this, I said, what do you need
your gun for?
Speaker 3: And he did this.
Speaker 1: Already suspicious of his behavior. There was no way Rodney
was going to give Jared his gun. When he asked
him what he needed it for, he pantomimed putting the
gun up to his own head, but then quickly he
tried to play it off like he was just scratching
an itch.
Speaker 3: Odd, for sure, I just needed and I said, that's
ship And I went to his mother. They started asking
her who do we call? Did we take him to
the hospital Jersey? Do you want to go to a hospital,
Do you want to go to a mental hospital? What
do you want to do? That started the conversations, and
I laid down and the next thing I know, I
woke up and.
Speaker 5: My wife was young and at him from my bedroom
to the hall bathroom, the common bathroom because she hurt
him on the phone.
Speaker 3: And that was around four four pm.
Speaker 12: Today, you have behavior just kept getting weirder and weirder.
Speaker 3: And weird from one o'clock on.
Speaker 12: Yeah, but he just when answer my questions.
Speaker 3: Sa jery, would you.
Speaker 2: Want do you need to take you somewhere?
Speaker 3: Do you need just talk to someone?
Speaker 17: And I mean I just found in.
Speaker 3: The bathroom, went on the toilet.
Speaker 12: He was looking at his phone and then he was
talking to someone and I said, well who were you
talking to? And you you wouldn't like to answer me?
And we would He said, like, that's when that was
my boss. I said, well, you didn't say that.
Speaker 3: I said, what did he want?
Speaker 12: I mean he was give me in my instructions for
the next night's job. And then he came in my
bedroom cause I asked you jar come here cause you
was want to answer my questions, you know, And I
heard a phone ring from the bathroom and I'm like,
whose phone is that in the bathroom?
Speaker 3: Why do you have and he's like, well, I have
two phones.
Speaker 12: And then I said why do you have two phones?
Speaker 3: And then he gave no, I only had one phone.
So he would just go back and forth and back
and forth.
Speaker 12: These were answers, and he went and picked it up
out of the bathroom and put it in his pocket,
and I said, why do you have two phones? And
then I said, give me your phones, and.
Speaker 3: He gave me both of 'em. And then I noticed
one of them was in standings.
Speaker 12: I said, this his Angie zone, because that's faw the
picture of getting an Angie on the phone. So I
just recognized that as her everything things, and I just
kind of asked him why you have an Angie's phone?
Speaker 3: Was supposed to be a worker. And then it's just
me and my husband just right away, right.
Speaker 1: Outside, already worried about their son's behavior. Their stomach sank
when they saw that he had Angie's phone. They didn't
know what to expect, but they knew it wouldn't be good.
Speaker 5: I opened the door and I walked in, and he
couldn't see anything, and I took a step in and I.
Speaker 3: Saw him, you know, and that's what I told my wife.
I says, you don't want to come in here. She
came here and I said, called like one.
Speaker 5: One and that I knew she wasn't going to be
able to I grabbed my phone and I started calling
when y'all walked in, What did you say you when
you described that?
Speaker 3: For me?
Speaker 12: I know it's hard, but just shoes on her stomach okay,
and just was on them with food.
Speaker 3: Or right side. So an we just any other body injuries,
you see.
Speaker 18: I didn't see her head, but I don't know you
didn't see your head at all? Now, But I that
was a it was a quick gliss that I didn't
hear her hair cause.
Speaker 3: She had long, long, long hair. I didn't fear your hair.
And we were back in the house and I said,
what have you done here? And he was already on
the floor crying. Were an, you're better? Or where I ran?
What did you do? He's he just said I'm sorry.
Speaker 15: He wouldn't you need any any.
Speaker 12: Answers, And I'm I'm sorry, I don't know that person.
Speaker 1: Rodney and Lynne and Angie's body lying on the floor
of the apartment, they knew it was already too late
to help her.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 1: They scrambled to call the police and keep Jared from
doing anything else. Their minds flooded with all the little
weird things Jared had been doing for a while now.
At work. The night before, his father noticed some odd
things that was.
Speaker 5: In deming quiet. He's quiet, he's been. I don't know
what the words are, but I think the word of lethargic.
He just detached away. He was happy because he was
going to work and it was he seemed he was
really happy that he was laid off from November. It
was because they're slow during that time of year. It
happens every year.
Speaker 3: He doesn't like that.
Speaker 5: But he was laid after in November December, and this
was his first job back. No, I'm sorry. This was
his third job back. He did have two other jobs
part of it. But he was happy that he.
Speaker 3: Was going to work. But other than that, he was
just distant and we didn't talk.
Speaker 1: When Jared wasn't laid off. He was an electrician and
the company he worked for had a contract with home Depot.
The night before the murder, he was supposed to work
at two different store locations. At the first one, Rodney
noticed Jared was just off, so.
Speaker 5: I started the demo and then he came over. He said,
I'm sorry, pops, here on the wrong nile. You need
to put these back up.
Speaker 4: My gosh.
Speaker 3: So I put him all back up, and he.
Speaker 5: Said, make it look like we weren't on this aisle,
you know, kind of to say that, you know, we
didn't mess up.
Speaker 3: I got him all back up.
Speaker 5: And as soon as I got him back up because
I instead, I'm sorry, dad, he says it is the
right need to go ahead. And that was a little
strange because they've been doing this so long.
Speaker 3: They don't him and my older son, they don't. They
don't usually start on the wrong spy, you know.
Speaker 1: Other than that oddity, the rest of the job went fine. Afterwards,
they headed to the second location. The store was closed
by then, and the manager had to meet them at
the door to let them in. That's when Rodney learned
that Jared had gone to the two locations out of order,
another uncharacteristic mistake by Jared.
Speaker 3: So when we got there, she said, oh, hold loo,
they're not going in. You've got to tell me what
you're here for.
Speaker 5: And of course those managers, they know what's happening in
their store, they know what ailes people are supposed to
be on they know what they're supposed to be doing.
And she was asking him that and I don't have
that information, so I don't say anything.
Speaker 3: And she asked him for an I don't remember the
words that.
Speaker 5: She uses his ID code or job order code or something,
and he said, I love you father, Yes, what? And
I looked at him and it's like, I can't believe
he just said that. And he looked at her and
he said, I love you father.
Speaker 3: So he wasn't looking at you. He was looking he
was not looking at me. He was answering her question.
Speaker 5: And it kind of told me back a little bit.
I said, Jared, she needs your job number. He's on
your phone. So he started working on his phone and
it looked like he was just desponded and distracted.
Speaker 1: Eventually, Jared found the work order. He and his dad
got the job done. He read the blueprints, followed the instructions,
and everything went the way it should. But something still
felt off. Jared wasn't acting like himself. Then on the
drive home, his dad noticed and did he ever.
Speaker 5: Make it all the way home he make any remarks.
Speaker 3: When we were just leaving the store, we were getting
onto two ninety. What did he tell me? He said,
I'll never give up again.
Speaker 5: And I said, you're not supposed to give up, You're
supposed to keep going forward. So whatever was bothering him
over the last few days, or whatever was going through
his mind over the last few days, a few days,
I think I thought at the time that him going
to work made him realize that, you know, you don't
need to give up, you just need to you know.
Speaker 3: And of course they.
Speaker 5: Were you just need to keep going forward. And I
felt really relieved that he said that.
Speaker 1: Rodney took Jared's comment as a good sign that he
was getting over whatever it was that was bothering him.
Both Rodney and Lynn had noticed the change in their
son of the last few months. And it all started
with the death of his best friend.
Speaker 3: This way ye tell me first, and his brother. His
brother lost his job.
Speaker 12: And then he got a date why in November, so.
Speaker 3: Only he can't drive with his job.
Speaker 12: It started when he I think when he denied that
he got to.
Speaker 3: D W I he was crying in a way when
a freight yard about it and you're coming upshadow that.
Speaker 1: In May of twenty twenty two, Jared's best friend died suddenly.
It shook him. Not long after, he met Angie, and
by September they were married, But whatever stability that brought
didn't last very long. He was laid off from work,
tried to start a business, but couldn't get it off
the ground. The failure seemed to wear him down. Then
came the d w I in November, and with it
the loss of his life since. But it wasn't until
the final week, the week leading up to Angie's death,
that his parents started to fear something was truly wrong
and everything.
Speaker 3: See them at the time.
Speaker 5: No, nothing seemed wrong with seriousness since the start the
fourteen Yes, but it seemed like he wasn't as bad
as he was before. Okay, so no, he's not been
himself for a few days. Explaining to me how describe him,
he answers, yes, sir, No, sir, yesterday, no, man recently
before you know, you say you're thirsty, Yeah, your lady
are you thirsty?
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, it's just a quiet not here.
Speaker 1: While being polite isn't the biggest red flag. It wasn't
like Jared like parents do. They started asking him what
was wrong.
Speaker 3: He kept saying that he was on math.
Speaker 5: And then you would start girling him about it, and
then he would say it.
Speaker 3: I just told you that.
Speaker 12: When Jared turned acting strange, like, I'm keep asking you know,
what's wrong with you? And he said, I said, are
you on drugs?
Speaker 3: And would say no.
Speaker 12: And then the next time I would ask him what's wrong,
he said, I'm on drugs and okay.
Speaker 3: Well are you or were you fish? Where did you
get it?
Speaker 5: And he would he would convince us that he had
gone and gotten mess and that's.
Speaker 3: What he was doing.
Speaker 5: He wasn't sure on how he was using it, you know,
cause you'd ask him questions, are you smoking it?
Speaker 3: Are you shooting it? Do I need to look at
your arms?
Speaker 14: You know?
Speaker 3: How are you using this? Are you snorting a smoking it?
Shooting it? What are you doing? I don't know? And
things like that.
Speaker 17: It would be like you would have believe that he
used with any would be like telling the right stuff
to be used to that.
Speaker 1: They couldn't get a straight answer from Jared. He was
acting like he was on drugs, but people on drugs
can still tell you what they were doing. They were
convinced he was having some sort of mental episode.
Speaker 12: And my husband did tell me that there was something
that happened because jarieds something's been going on so.
Speaker 3: Mentally mentally.
Speaker 12: And this is did I'm gonna say about a week,
when are you doing drugs?
Speaker 3: When we will say when I know? And then I'm
not sure what day. It was a couple of nights.
So he called the names on a film.
Speaker 2: Nine on one. You're huh, go ahead.
Speaker 3: I'm just I did a little bit of drugs. I
need help, so called Louleward.
Speaker 11: Okay, And what's the problem.
Speaker 3: I just don't do well? Okay. And you say you
took drugs. No, ma'am, I'm I'm I'm I'm ill okay.
Speaker 9: And are you there by yourself?
Speaker 5: Just somebody waiting?
Speaker 3: My family too with me?
Speaker 2: How are your families with you?
Speaker 17: Okay?
Speaker 2: Okay, so you don't suber? Okay, But do you need
an ambulance or no?
Speaker 3: Are you good?
Speaker 2: I mean I got you, okay.
Speaker 19: I available northern units to two of six O call
it boulevard two zero six call boulevard. We have E
M S and r out for an unknown problem for
the information. Sounds like he is possibly under the influence.
Speaker 1: Jared called nine one one for himself. You claim he
did drugs and now he didn't feel well. But then
he changed his mind, and then he changed it back
even more bizarre. After he called nine one one, he
called again.
Speaker 19: Well, I do on one.
Speaker 4: What's your emergency?
Speaker 2: Yes, this is Jared, mister Jared. How can I help you?
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir. We having a mess out to you.
Speaker 12: Are you okay?
Speaker 17: Did something change?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 11: No, I'm not okay.
Speaker 19: Okay, what's going on?
Speaker 5: I just I've been doing yesterday and I don't feel
well and I didn't do it.
Speaker 11: I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
Speaker 17: That's okay.
Speaker 19: I have a message out to you.
Speaker 13: Okay, thank you, Yes, sir.
Speaker 1: He sounds confused like a spun out meth head. Regardless,
the ambulance arrived and took him to the hospital. They
ran various tests, including different types of drug tests. Then
they said he was perfectly healthy.
Speaker 5: So and everybody believed that he was on drugs, because
that's what he called I one for and he told
him just like I.
Speaker 3: Think now I'm doing that.
Speaker 5: So of course they hear, you're analysis to come whole
regional contexts Monday morning, Sunday night, Monday morning, and then
they released it even after I told him he's hearing voices,
he's thinking that people are going to hurt the reason
he can't stay in his.
Speaker 3: Hospital is ever going to kill him, and things like that.
Speaker 5: And the doctor questioned him about this stuff, and he
told the doctor.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I told the doctor, pholease, don't sit it
at all, let's sit it somewhere. And instead they referred
to a psychiatrist.
Speaker 12: So I don't know, but he's actually gad some drugs.
Speaker 2: We didn't even get to resolve his.
Speaker 3: But test finger now ispecial. When I was at the hospital,
I don't know.
Speaker 12: I can't say that.
Speaker 1: Jared's parents didn't know what to do. He wasn't violent,
he wasn't angry, but something was wrong, something they couldn't
quite put their finger on. They hoped the hospital would
figure it out. With all those fancy doctors and expensive
equipment and whatnot. They hoped that someone, anyone would see
what they were seeing. But that's not what happened. That's
not the state of our medical system. So you know
what they did. They just send them home, as they
usually do. He was released the next morning with a
clean bill of health. Days later, Angie was dead.
Speaker 11: I had him in the hospital to day account, he
re hearing voices. I told her to excuse him, the
doctor sitting in your story.
Speaker 1: Was it drugs? Was it psychosis? Was it both? Or
was it something else? Entirely in the aftermath, the focus shifted.
The horror of what happened to Angie Diaz was undeniable,
But what no one could explain, what haunted those left behind,
was what drove Jared to do it in the first place.
Speaker 3: You are Jared k okay at all? So I keep
calling you Jared, and you don't know. I used to know, okay,
And it was like somebody.
Speaker 1: Even Jared didn't even recognize himself. It was like someone
came in here, he said, pointing to his own head.
Speaker 12: So it's my understanding.
Speaker 3: You were just in the hospital, is that right?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 3: After that, after it's.
Speaker 1: Weird, Jared said, he went to the hospital after doing
a substance.
Speaker 2: That's okay.
Speaker 12: Is there something you used a lot or in natal
or okay.
Speaker 4: Until recently.
Speaker 12: When the last time that he used then what.
Speaker 3: Oh I did it? I did it to chew each
other for like to the uppertually okay.
Speaker 12: And then when you just went to the hospital, what
too need to go e say it was for the substance.
Speaker 3: And after that, wouldn't it?
Speaker 15: Have you used again since then?
Speaker 4: Mkay?
Speaker 2: Math or something different? Okay, when was the last time
that you used that?
Speaker 5: You remember?
Speaker 3: You don't remember when it was.
Speaker 1: Jared mumbled and shook his head to most of the questions,
but when he did actually speak, it still didn't make
any sense. It claimed that he had never touched meth
in his life until that day, but then he said
he'd been doing it for two weeks. The timeline was
a little fuzzy.
Speaker 3: Jared to decide how this goes.
Speaker 12: It's not a question I've ever told you that. It's
not a question that you did in the manner in
which you did it.
Speaker 3: But will matters is the one. What happened? He said,
live your own drugs?
Speaker 12: Okay, But they didn't.
Speaker 3: They didn't tell us what happened in that room, what
was going on? Just drugs me he got.
Speaker 15: To stay away from Well, I understand that. So you did it,
and tell us what happened after you did. Drugs just
make you go crazy, It makes you really sign makes
that be able? She said, all right, it's the way
that makes you do this morning last.
Speaker 1: Night, Jared was blaming the whole thing on drugs, but
he was reluctant to be specific about what he did
or why. Sometimes he would just stare back at the detectives,
refusing to say a word. He would look as though
he was about to cry, then return to a dazed
and confused state.
Speaker 3: I just lost lost my way with God. That's clear.
We're not asking for generalities. We're not asking about your.
Speaker 12: Personal relationship with God. Obviously, it just struggle to struggle
for everybody.
Speaker 3: That's not a question.
Speaker 12: Nobody has a perfect relationship with him. So we're going
to ask you one last time what happened, And if
you don't want to talk about it, that's fine. That
your opportunity to have any kind of looking like a
good guy of this is what I did, and.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, and I can't believe I did it. That
door is.
Speaker 2: Closing on you.
Speaker 3: I didn't do it.
Speaker 2: You can't.
Speaker 3: You can't even keep this very very body.
Speaker 1: This dude cracks a joke. It was hard to gauge
where his head was at, almost crying one moment, stoic
the next, then making jokes.
Speaker 19: Crazy.
Speaker 2: But there's just both too, So way does she say,
to make you mad to do that to her? She
had to say something to be that mad, to do
what you did.
Speaker 3: I don't know some okay, something? Okay, So it did
so it made you do what? So what did it
makes you fun?
Speaker 2: The screen.
Speaker 3: Did?
Speaker 5: It?
Speaker 3: Was? How many?
Speaker 2: He kay?
Speaker 3: Telling me? What ever?
Speaker 2: Did you tell you?
Speaker 3: Is you sh like stop time?
Speaker 19: Whatever?
Speaker 3: You never would do? Stop? Time would stop.
Speaker 1: Jared was speaking in broken sentences. It was hard to
follow his train of thought, but he said that something
took control of him. Something on the screen was telling
him what to do, and it would stop time. He
claimed he wasn't in control of himself.
Speaker 16: It was.
Speaker 3: None of my free will, okay, forced to do what?
Forced to just walk? Forced to go?
Speaker 2: What did it force you to.
Speaker 3: Do to her? What did it force you to do?
Speaker 11: You want?
Speaker 3: It forced me to what to kill her?
Speaker 2: So how did you kill it? Tell us how you
killed it?
Speaker 5: I don't know because it wasn't It wasn't It wasn't
or it wasn't.
Speaker 2: What did you do?
Speaker 3: What did you say? What did I see?
Speaker 15: Tell me?
Speaker 3: That's all.
Speaker 2: Right, that's what it did do and made you cut
her head on?
Speaker 1: He tried to explain that when he got home, Angie
turned on the TV. That's when he started hearing commands.
Time stood still and the screen was filled with numbers.
A voice told him what to do and if he
didn't listen it would make him hurt. But after getting
all of that off his chest, he started answering questions.
Speaker 3: How did the fight.
Speaker 15: Start, how did the knife get introduced?
Speaker 3: How did LC us through that? What happened to if
I had seen her other knife? We were just talking
one way, and then in terms of that that he
didn't need any That's what.
Speaker 2: That started with. How did you did tell held her
didn't shoot up and you told me to RAPEO.
Speaker 3: He do rap?
Speaker 1: It was unclear if he did rape Angie. She was
found fully clothed with no defensive wounds. There wasn't even
a single side of a violent struggle, which is disturbing
in and of itself.
Speaker 2: Why did you put her head in the back of.
Speaker 1: Being told.
Speaker 2: Her hair was wet?
Speaker 3: How come did you turn the shower on?
Speaker 2: Yes to wash yourself or to wash your hair?
Speaker 5: Or what.
Speaker 3: Did you have plans on hurting your mom or your dad?
Speaker 7: When do you know where they have?
Speaker 3: There are no versions that told you to have them
then voice, shoot yourself.
Speaker 1: Jared's explanation did little to actually tell us why he
did what he did. He contradicted his own account. He
said drugs were involved, but he was also hearing voices.
The only thing we know was true is that he
cut her head off and put it in the bathtub
to wash her hair, and she didn't fight back because
he probably took her by surprise. But after talking to
Angie's family, friends and co workers, the police had a theory.
Speaker 3: Do you know why he did? Do you know anything
right now? Or shod the theory? When I told you
about theory? They could wronged sat down.
Speaker 12: But from what we're gathering, it was possibly a combination
of him being on drugs and his jealousy.
Speaker 1: Friends of Angie set her normally upbeat attitude changed shortly
after she got married to Jared. When asked, she said
he had changed. She was clearly having second thoughts. But
this theory all hinged on drug use, and to be fair,
Jared was high as a kite during his interrogation and
his intake photos his pupils are the size of saucers.
But that's where it gets weird. When the police checked
his toxicology report from the hospital stay two days before
the crime, when he called nine to one one claiming
METTHEUS it was completely clean. There were no drugs in
a system whatsoever. If he did drugs the night before,
it would have shown up. While the drug tests the
least conducted after his arrest showed drugs in his system,
it wasn't meth, it was cocaine. He didn't even know
the difference.
Speaker 3: I guess.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't a lot. Not enough to cause psychosis,
that's for sure. So maybe the drugs didn't cause what happened.
Maybe it just unleashed what was already in his brain.
So an alternative theory is that Jared was unraveling mentally
long before he ever tried drugs. He lost his best friend,
the layoff, the failed side hustle, the DWI. It all compounded,
weighing on him at a time when he just wanted
to be able to provide for his new wife and
seemed to be failing at it. Meanwhile, she was living
the dream. She had a job, she had friends, and
was pursuing her goal of being a fitness trainer. She
was succeeding while Jared was failing. Maybe there was some
jealousy involved. Maybe he was jealous of Angie, but that
didn't matter. Jared pleaded guilty. There would be no trial,
There would be no courtroom drama, no chance to explain
what really happened, and no chance to be evaluated for
mental illness. He was sentenced to forty years in prison.
It would be eligible for parole when he's sixty five.
Speaker 12: The family of a young woman found decapitated inside her
Waller County home is planning a vigil for her this weekend.
Speaker 16: And the person accused of killing her is her own husband,
Jared Tikas.
Speaker 5: And that's what the people really star.
Speaker 1: Nobody there and friends of the woman found decapitated inside
her Waller County home now the vigil in her honor tonight.
Speaker 18: I mean, I'm sure she came here for fair life.
Speaker 12: I mean, they have us to know what happened.
Speaker 3: She shouldn't deserve to be kaar like this.
Speaker 1: Angie Diaz came to this country in search of a
better life. She found it. She found family, she found friends,
and she found love. She was chasing something bigger than herself.
Maybe Jared wanted that too, but somehow he lost himself
along the way. Slowly quietly secretly until it was too late.
Speaker 4: To stop the book start.
Speaker 1: I'd better see my Shopify line up with dozens of
orders after this. I ain't even kiddick. You guys are
annoying as fuck. If I'm gonna deal with you, you
better start buying some T shirts. I'm gonna start holding
this ship. Hosta go buy a shirt.