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