>> i have a dead body. >> when you did see the body what was your impression of what had happened to scott sessions? >> there was rage involved in it. absolute horror that somebody could be treated that way. >> the body had been wrapped in plastic sheeting. it was a man and his head had been covered and duct taped as well and his body had been burned. >> what? >> we found your son.

he is deceased. >> it was like somebody had punched me in the gut. >> at this point police are scrambling for clues. >> anything that might lead them to scott sessions' killer. >> what about >> he became very jealous and would get really angry. >> when you hhim -- [inaudible] >> you meet somebody who you think might be a great person to start dating and all of a sudden your life is gone. >> before it's over there will be a second body. >> it's hard to hide it's everywhere. ♪

>> we had a sold february 10, monday night. scott sessions was in my elvis tribute band. he was a trumpet player. >> i had been promising scott for months, that i would make it to one of his gigs. we bought our tickets the minute they went on sale and i was going to get to see scott play in the first time forever. it was pretty exciting. >> as it got closer and closer to start time scott wasn't there. >> it was weird because scott had failed to show up for the gig, something scott doesn't do. >> he was always ridiculously early to the begin and always ready to go dressed, looking good. >> when the curtain opened and he wasn't there we thought, well, maybe he'll show up in a little bit and if i remember correctly it was starting to snow. >> it was snowy. it was cold.

scott didn't show up. >> in the back of mind, i had a bad feeling. >> we were all trying to out what had happened. >> our story begins here in greeley, colorado. it's about an hour north of denver and it's a community built on cattle, oil, and agriculture, but one that thriving blue scene. >> greeley, colorado, about 115,000 people, primarily agricultural. >> we're known for our beef in this area forever. >> people are friendly and it has a small town feel. >> we're located in this pristine little valley where we have the best of ♪

♪ >> 53-year-old scott sessions grew up here in greeley. he was part of the local music scene. played his trumpet at some of the local bars here but some say his personality played louder than his horn. >> he started playing probably at eight or nine. there is a picture of a trumpet across his chest. that trumpet is bigger than he is. >> his high school teacher said, you ought to play in the jazz group, and i think at that time, he really started to get interested in playing the trumpet. >> when he put that trumpet to his lips, oh. >> i've known scott since high school. we've been friends for the last 40 years. he always wanted to remain everybody to be happy and to get along. >> he was a very caring person. he cared about people, he cared

about helping others out. >> scott was very much a people person. he was just a good guy. >> music made him larger than life. >> it was always on. there was no offswitch with scott sessions. >> he was a very loud and explosive personality and that's what made him great on stage. >> he played the trumpet in a denver-based band called movers and shakers. >> it's incredible when you watch video of scott >> when he was up on the stage, he had facial expresses and body mopts, when he was hitting those high notes he would crouch down and get the look on his face. he really got into the music. >> scott and i met in january of 2018 at a gig of his. he was nice, thin, and in shape. and he had strong arms, yes, he was very cute. >> scott's former girlfriend

agreed to do an interview but she asked that we not use her name. >> scott is really good at love and good at expressing love. he's really good with his words and he would sing me songs. all those romantic things. when scott played on the stage, i always called him fan girls. >> our band, movers and shakers, it just exploded out of the gates. >> they were competing in competitions and winning them. they were really beginning to go somewhere. >> when my band started to do bigger concerts, we added a horn section and scottie was my trumpet player for many years. >> best trumpet player, mr. scott sessions. [applause] >> he loved live performances. scott loved being up on the stage. he loved being part of a group of musicians. >> scott could lose his left leg and he would still show up to a gig. >> scott was always known to be

reliable. so it stunned his friends and band mates when he didn't show up for his [phone ringing] >> it was tuesday morning i get a call from george gray, and i say, hey, scott didn't make it to the big last night. he said, well, that's strange. >> turns out, that's not the only thing he missed. >> they had made plans to go see his mom. his mom wasn't doing well with her health. >> he never came out and i didn't give it any thought. guys stayed up late or something. >> he thought maybe he just slept in. i said, i'm going to go over to his house and see if he's okay. >> and george said, i'm really worried about him. something might have happened. >> his father met me there. so he checked in the garage and scottie's car was not there. >> the snow hadn't been shovelled. [meow]

>> the scott hadn't been fed. >> scott was very particular about taking care of his cat. it would make him leave a party if his cat needed attention. >> something was clearly wrong. >> there had been a snowstorm. maybe he went off the road somewhere while driving through the mountains. >> i went to the police department and filed a missing person's report, and that was about noonish. >> as that day went on, we were all putting stuff on facebook and texting his number, hey, man, we're getting worried about you. what's going on, you know, we're concerned. [phone call] >> i got a call from the police department and he said, would you be willing to come in? the detective would like to visit with you. >> i'm on -- road and i dead body.

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are you able to provide any details >> there was a tree on fire and i went up to put it out was laying next to it. >> he's definitely dead? >> he's definitely passed away. >> he thought somebody had been out there camping and had left a campfire so he was going to go throw some snow on it and make sure he put out whatever fire was there. when he got close, that's when he realized, this was a body. >> the body that ben wrapped in plastic sheeting, it was a man and his head had been covered and duct taped as well. he was found next to a smoldering log and been burned. >> driving out here, this is as remote as it gets the nearest store, much less house, is miles and miles away. everywhere around us is just trees, forest, and snow.

>> detective justin atwood took me to the spot where the plow driver made the discovery. >> so he literally walked up this pretty steep embankment from down below? >> exactly. >> clammers up to this smoldering log? >> absolutely. and then gets surprised when he realizes there is a body. it shocked him. it scared him. >> it had been intentionally burned. wrapped in plastic, and that plastic had been bound and duct taped. >> i got a police department. they set the detective would like to visit with you. >> i should have known something was not right on the sunday morning when he didn't come to go see his mom. >> he wanted to make sure that we made contact with stan as soon as possible. >> so it was about 4:30,

when the detectives said we found your son. he's deceased. >> he immediately broke the news of scott's deathe to his ailing wife. >> she said, who would want to kill my scottie? >> it's a very difficult thing to tell somebody that their loved one is deceased. emotionally, it's difficult. >> the community is one of the last of a gifted trumpet player. found dead on february 10 by a snowplow driver in bellevue. >> mr. sessions was ultimately identified with a fingerprint reader during the course of the autopsy. >> he had been to a local bar that plays rock or soul eventually. there is a good chance you've heard scott sessions on trumpet. his body was found alongside a road in bellevue. >> he was a person. he had a soul. he had a smile. he had a laugh. he was real. it's hard to describe, and now,

you know, he's just, he's just a body. >> -- called and said they had found a body in a remote area of the mountains outside of fort collins. >> my wife and i looked at each other and thought, no way, that's not scott, can't be. >> he was found deceased, almost decapitated, and his body was lit on fire. >> when you did see the body, what was your impression of what had happened to scott sessions >> it was very deliberate. there was rage involved it in. absolutely horror that somebody could be treated that way and disposed of that way. no one deserves that. >> you don't get a lot of murders in larimer county. >> no. >> and here you have a the body that's almost decapitated. >> yet. this is probably the worst i have ever seen. >> it was like somebody punched

me in the gut. there was a lot of regret that i hadn't made it to a gig sooner. ♪ >> a lot of regret that the world had just lost amazing man, and we didn't know at that time who would have killed him. something had to go terribly wrong. >> okay. so where are we? we're out in front of scott sessions' residence in greeley, colorado. this is where he lived prior to his death. we came here to serve a search warrant. >> what kinds of things were you looking for? >> the first thing we were looking for is the scene of the disturbance. it's your standard pad, single guy living in there. fairly clean. it had some clutter to it and stuff like that. >> we were looking for blood, was his vehicle parked in the garage. we tried to find a cell phone. one of the mainly things we were

looking was his trumpet, instrument he played in the band because he never went anywhere without his trumpet. >> one thought was he was robbed for his trumpet. >> we were told it was a very expensive trumpet. we started looking at databases and pawnshops to try to find a trumpet identical to scott's that was sold. we found the trumpet in his house. it was in a closet. it ended up turning out to be a dead end. >> investigators press on. desperate for clues that could point to a motive or the killer. >> they were kind of at a loss. they didn't have a suspect. >> it was important that investigators find out everything that they could about their victim, scott sessions. >> i was the last person he talked to before he died. i get this call on a saturday evening.

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there was a huge team that came together to work this case. so we kind of prepared for not getting any sleep for the next four or five days. in situations like this there is a lot of stuff you need to start doing. we started reaching out to his friends. does he have any anybody that anybody knows about? there were a lot of things we needed to do >> while interviews with key witnesses are happening another set of investigators are busy analyzing data from local cell phone towers. what they are trying to do is pinpoint exactly where scott sessions may have spent the final moments of his life. >> the cell phone provider was constantly retrieving data from your phone. it's sending data to the cell phone provider as to the location of that phone. >> those records will also tell you last-made phone calls, last-received phone calls or last known telephone numbers that you sent a message to.

>> that tower is going to capture specific data. >> scott's cell phone last pinged three miles away from his house in greeley, colorado. >> that was the last location where scott's cell phone had been prior to his death. ♪ >> at this point police are scrambling for clues, anything that might lead them to scott sessions killer. they have cops canvassing neighborhoods and they find scott's car here right across -- >> it looked like somebody else had driven scott's car and intentionally left it in the parking lot of this super market with the keys it in. >> one thing that was unusual was one of the floor mats from scott's vehicle was found underneath the vehicle when the vehicle was originally located, and that floor mat was also processed for potential blood

evidence. it tested positive on a screening test for blood. however, we were unable to get a dna profile on that stain. >> it was pretty evident to us that this was a vehicle dump. >> police called surveillance video from the king's super market and surrounding businesses including an urgent care. >> they were able to see the car pull into the parking lot. they were able to see somebody get out of the driver's side, walk around the car, and then ultimately walk away from the car on foot and leave the car in the parking lot, and that happened after they had already found scott's body. >> that was the first video that we had o >> we needed to talk to every single one of his friends and find out who he had been hanging

out with. >> investigators talked to two of scott's ex-girlfriends. >> obviously we're here because your dear friend scott has passed away. >> yes. i like to go out and listen to live music, and he's a trumpet player and i met him through that. dated for two years, and then i broke up with him. >> and so during that relationship, you had indicated there were some troubles and stuff like that? >> he became very jealous. would get really angry, so i decided for my own safety, i filed a restraining order. and that was for three months. he was the happiest i had ever seen him and that's why this is such a shock. >> a friend of his called me and she said, did you know scott was missing? i said no. and then her next sentence,

well, he was murdered, and i was like, what? we were on and off. it was pretty tumultuous, so we were seeing each other for a little less than two years. when you would go do things him, he would hold you and put his arm around you. i felt so safe and loved when i was with him. so this is the last message i ever received from scott. >> hey, how is it going? i want to tell you all about memphis. it was fun, cool. give me a holler. like to see you, bye. >> little did she know that investigators were already eyeing her as a person of interest. they were collecting pieces of chewing gum and a hair sample from the ex-girlfriend's trash. and there were a series of text

messages, and a 30-minute phone call between scott and his ex-just one day before he missing. >> so i'm very sorry that we're here, and this is going to be a very sensitive topic to discuss. >> we started to identify that there was a recent relationship. there was a restraining order that was in the system and that they had an argument, or the police were called, and we knew her house was in the central part of greeley. >> we dated he -- 2018, there was a restraining order put on him. >> we had a big fight here at the house. we started yelling at each other, and he ended up throwing coffee at me. i told him to get the f out of my house or i was going to call the police and he left.

he was pretty agitated when he left, but i didn't think much of it. i started cleaning up and then the cops showed up at the door, so he had called the police. >> he reported himself, i'm going to get picked up. he called and he got picked up anyway. >> wrote a nice letter to the judge. to me it really wasn't that big a deal. i said please help scott resolve the situation. so he solved it and we moved on with it. >> when you talk -- you could tell they started getting distracted. >> we were in the middle of the interview and we get a income on the door. we got

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>> it was on valentine's day and we were out at the weld county sheriff's office. >> investigators are speaking with scott sessions' ex-girlfriend. >> this will be a very sensitive topic to discuss. >> they asked me if i had information on scott and i could tell they are getting distracted and then they cut the interview short and they were like, okay, thank you so much. >> we get a knock on the door and it says we've got to go right now. >> after hours of questioning scott's ex, they get a new lead one that would clear her. >> they served a search warrant on february 14 on scott's apartment. during that investigation they actually found passwords. >> i raced down to 35th avenue in greeley because we had broken into scott's facebook messenger

and found out that at the same time that scott was talking to his dad on the phone, scott was having -- a facebook messenger conversation with whom we identified as heather frank. >> just a couple of weeks before his murder, scott sessions met a local greeley woman named heather frank. >> heather and scott had exchanged multiple communications via facebook messenger. they were talking about her attending some of scott's concerts, in particular, she had seen him perform and she liked him. it was obvious that they had met in the past. >> what we discovered to be the beginning of the story so to speak, january 24, there was some facebook communication between scott and heather that seemed to be starting or developing between the two, and it seemed to be romantic in nature. >> the pair first connected over a shared love of music.

>> when scott met her as well, it appeared she was very taken with scott. she was a beautiful woman. i remember the look on her face when she was watching scott, it was like -- dog eyes, you know. >> we were trying to understand heather frank's life. what is her lifestyle, where does she work? there is a lot of stuff that we had to figure out at that point. >> when i met heather's friends, they described her as a fun loving free spirit. >> tell me how you knew heather? >> i would see her every two months for a hair cut and style, and we took her higher from blond to red, and it was like, four-hour appointments, just her and me usually. >> in your line of work you become kind of a therapist, right? >> oh, yes, that's what my business card says, hair therapist. she's very colorful and she always had the best clothes. very friendly, very boisterous, a happy girl. super fun. >> heather was a mom to three

boys. her eldest son alex said the two were inseparable. >> she was pretty much like my best friend and we did everything together. my mom and my dad got divorced in 2010, and after they separated, it was kind of rough. but us three boys always put a smile on our face. >> she would be there for me when i had hard times. she would just track me down to go do fun things and get back into the swing of things. >> she was always blasting music. she loved it. >> every time i came over we would always do dance parties, little dance ops. >> she loved nature, she loved going camping. >> she worked as a server over at the diner. people loved her. i met heather at dougs. we worked together every single day for those three years. >> she didn't waste any time. i had been there for a week when

she invited me to go out to a concert with her and have a really fun night and from that point on it kind of just grew. >> every thursday, girls night, we always looked forward to that that was our night. we would start out and go to the same place, do the same thing, and just drink, eat, hang out, and have fun, and we got off work early enough, we would just go walking around downtown greeley. shops, little hole in the wall bars. >> she did tell me she had met somebody and he played in a band and she enjoyed going to listen to his music because it was jazz. >> she just said, met somebody and i've been meeting him at this bar. definitely seemed like an innocent little, i met somebody and i'm going to hang out with him now. i didn't ask too many questions yet. >> i remember meeting heather. he brought her down to one of our gigs in denver. he had only met her a few weeks prior to when we had gone on this trip to go down to memphis,

he said, oh, there is this new girl that i'm talking to. >> so in the days leading up to his disappearance and murder, what were they exchanging? what were they saying in those messages? >> they were very friendly with each other. they were making plans to hang out with each other. there was a point, though, on the eighth of february where the tone of those messages changed. you could actually see the different tone. it was more of, hey, let's connect. let's meet. come over to my house. it was a little bit more direct and demanding. >> 59 this point in the investigation police are putting the pieces together and they realize that the dates scott told about his father on february 8 was actually with heather frank. >> we were seeing that leading up to the last time that scott had a conversation with his dad stan, about 5:30 in the evening,

on february 8, he said, i found the door i'm going to, talk to you later, love you, talk to you later and that was the last conversation that we know scott to ever have. >> by that time they had pulled the phone records for scott sessions, and they had started to put those pieces of the puzzle together and realized that scott sessions' phone had traveled to the area of heather's apartment. >> it started pinging in the area of heather's apartment, and they also knew that his phone had stayed there overnight. but at that time, the fact that his phone eventually dies in her apartment or gets shut off, one or the other, and they never found his phone was very telling for detectives. >> police have zeroed in on heather frank as the last person to see scott sessions alive. >> so we had to be very cautious about what our next steps were. we can't just go storming in

there and say, hey, heather, what are you doing and what happened to scott? i remember very vividly, pulling into this cul-de-sac, there was a vehicle that was there that had some damage to the front of it, and it looked like it had driven in a norm. it had very bright red dirt on the side of it. >> authorities discovered the security camera footage -- >> you can see the car is driving westbound up the canyon headed towards -- park. >> where is this car going and it could lead to the killer?

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always very nice and interested in our lives, like, how was your day? how did work go? just trying to become closer with us. >> kevin is a oil field worker. he worked here in greeley. >> kevin was previously married and had a daughter. he had been dating heather for more than five years. >> kevin probably proposed, that i know of, three or four times. she didn't want to be tied forever, but as hard as she tried to get away from him it just got harder and harder every time. >> there were a number of police reports where she had been the victim of domestic violence at the hands of kevin eastman. >> she didn't want to continue talking to him, but they would still see each other from time to time. but it wasn't until the end of the year of 2019 when she told us that she had finally told him that she's done. >> despite telling friends and family otherwise, kevin appeared

back in heather's life in february 2020. >> my mom called and asked if me and my husband and two brothers would all like to go out and eat and i heard someone whispering in the background. >> me and my husband, we didn't make it and neither did my husband christian. my brother blake and his girlfriend, they ended up going, after blake came home, he told me that kevin was back. he was there at dinner with them. this was after they posted the news that there was a body found up in -- park. >> so while heather's family learned that kevin resurfaced, police learned who owned that mysterious car that had been parked in front of heather's apartment. >> we identified the vehicle that i had seen that had the mud on the side of it, belonged to kevin eastman. it was registered to him. all this stuff started coming together that we're going down the right path that we need.

>> detectives decide they would now starred to surveil them. >> we wrote search warrants asking a judge to grant us permission to look at kevin eastman's cell phone as well and when we got those records back we started putting those records together and trying to look at the last known locations. >> investigators realized that scott, heather, and kevin's phones were all in the same place at the same time on february 8, the night that scott disappeared. >> all three cell phones were in the same location at the same time. and then scott's cell phone disappears. it's not registering anymore. >> at this point, kevin eastman and heather frank are both suspects in the disappearance and death of scott sessions. >> we got a tracker on heather frank's vehicle as well as kevin eastman's vehicle. we decided instead of having a law enforcement officer parked on the their street 24 hours a day watching their front door, watching when they leave, we

could put a pull camera on there, and we can remotely watch. >> so you actually had a camera that you had the utility companies put up on that pole? >> yes, almost to the top. it was attached facing toward heather's apartment, that building right there. >> they were hoping to figure out when they were coming and going and being able to follow them and do other things. >> we had a tracker on the vehicle so we were able to see they drove to loveland, to best buy to victoria secret, not a lot of information that they are involved in something. >> they didn't notice any suspicion but more data from their phones starts to come in and police get a big break in the case. >> on the morning of the ninth, about 7:00 in the morning, we could see that kevin eastman's cell phone and heather frank's cell phone left for an apartment at the same time, and traveled

the same path. the cell phones stopped pinging at ted's place, which is a gas station off highway 14 and highway 287 in larimer county, at about the same time where you would go into the mountains and loose connectivity to your cell phone. based off of the last known direction of travel of heather frank and kevin eastman's cell phone we knew this cell phone had to pass by the amphitheater. it had cameras outside and we knew that we could get vehicle traffic traveling eastbound and westbound on highway 14 going up to -- park. >> the way the entrains expectra is positioned it shows kevin's subaru passing the restaurant going westbound up the canyon, and i think it was 8:37 in the morning. this footage shows kevin's car driving toward the area where the body was found. just three hours after scott's cell phone dies at heather frank's house. >> same damage that i saw on his vehicle parked outside of

heather frank's apartment was on the camera at the mishawaka. >> then we see what would appear to be his subaru traveling the opposite direction. i think it was 11:30 or so later that morning. it was about a three-hour time frame where it looked like kevin's vehicle was up in the canyon, in the area generally of -- park. >> that was our third major break to this case. that vehicle passing by the mish, leading up to the park and going back to her apartment. we started writing warrants for people's arrest, for the of scott sessions. >> on february 15, about 5:30 in the evening, we saw heather frank leaving her apartment with kevin eastman walking directly behind her. >> this is the moment that turned the case upside-down. >> one of these people would

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>> it took everything i had to not scream. why? >> i'm sure that you've seen stuff in the news about somebody disappearing from greeley. >> our friend scott was killed in one of the most brutal killings ever. >> they found him but now someone else in the area is missing. >> her children don't know where she's at. her boss doesn't know where she's at. >> it had to be some sort of love triangle gone wrong. >> all they have is this one man

to guide him in a six-hour police interview unlike anything that you have ever seen. >> my head is getting all screwed up. >> this is almost three hours in, and he's alone >> let me help these men get to the bottom of this case. please. >> do you think at this point that kevin eastman is dangerous? >> where was the blood at? >> [ bleep ] [bleeped] >> i was like, whoa. >> what really happened to scott sessions? >> oh, please. >> it's not detailed. >> do you think this is all theater? >> somewhere among the 110,000 greeley, colorado residents, a

killer roams free. cops are on the hunt for scott sessions murder and they focus attention on a waitress and former oil rig worker and that focus is thanks in large part to a camera pointed right in their direction. >> it's the day after valentine's day. about 5:30 p.m., and heather frank and kevin eastman have come out of her apartment. they loaded into his silver subaru. >> heather is carrying a jacket in her hand. she looks almost unsteady on her feet as she's walking out and they are not having a conversation and she gets into the passenger side of the vehicle. one of them is never coming back, and this is a key moment in the case because it's being captured by a surveillance camera set up on a light pole across the street. >> we have a pole camera up. we have trackers on the vehicle. so we decided that night that we're going to go home now. our team is going to power down for the night, get a good night's sleep and we would come back to work the next morning at

6:00 or 7:00 in the morning and start this case back up again. >> the plan is to arrest frank and eastman the following morning but while the investigators are trying to get some rest kevin eastman is not. he's driving far wide into a rural area, and overnight, he'll be making multiple stops. the first stop is to the home of a man named troy bunnell. >> troy bunnell runs his own trucking company essentially, and troy is always needing help and assistance with that, and that's actually how troy and kevin are connected. they used to work together in the past. >> so i came to the office and don any robbins called me and he said some strange stuff happened overnight while we were sleeping and we lad a tracker that was going off on kevin eastman's vehicle all throughout the pawnee grasslands. >> that concerned me enough that he's destroying evidence and i

wanted to get out here and see what he's doing. >> don any robbins is a no nonsense lawman who has spent a lifetime working major crimes. he's running this investigation. >> do you think at this point that kevin eastman is dangerous? >> oh, yes, for sure. being armed at least with a knife, obviously, because of the way that scott sessions was murdered. >> in the early morning hours, the gps tracker tells robbins that eastman's vehicle has been down by a river crossing. not bad place to get rid of evidence so robbins heads in that direction but then he sees smoke and the veteran investigator's experience tells him where there is smoke, there is fire. >> and then you're thinking -- >> that's when i decided i probably needed to drive by there to see exactly what was going on with that smoke. >> upon his arrival, he sees who

he positively identifies as kevin eastman wearing a baseball cap and tending this fire. >> it's a very rural area. some people burn their trash. what was uncomfortable is he couldn't see heather frank. he could see kevin eastman >> the other thing about him though, is he has no back-up. he's out there by himself. he's not in a marked car. he's looking at a guy who has warrant for murder. >> at that point in time we don't even have a search warrant for that property so while the suspect is occupied at the burn pit robbins makes a quick detour to survey that river crossing but when he returns to the bunnell property, eastman is driving away. >> and the two cars actually pass each other. lieutenant robbins actually sees kevin eastman driving north on 45. >> i turned around and began to follow him, and ended up going to a small town called kersey.

>> and at that point is when sergeant robbins decided that he needed to make contact. >> it's early here at phillips 66, and until now, sergeant robbins has been keeping a save distance as he follows eastman, but earlier that morning, he had seen him burn something in that fire pit, and he's right there at the first gas pump filling a gas canister, and robbins decides he cannot allow him to burn anything else. >> he pulls in behind him at the gas station. kevin is standing outside of his vehicle and he's pumping fuel into a portable gas can. >> obviously, there is a burn pit over there that he's been burning something in. scott sessions body was burned. so i had, like i said, concerns that he was going to take that gas can and probably use it as acc sell rant to destroy

evidence of some kind. >> from the moment eastman pulled in security cameras captured it all. >> so you arrest him. you pull out your pistol. >> pull out my pistol. >> how far away are you from him? >> 10 yards, maybe. >> what did he say? he didn't say anything. >> what did you say? >> sheriff's offer, you're under arrest. get on the ground. mr. eastman. i'm pointing my weapon at him, he turns around and looks at me. and he gets on the ground. i go up and i handcuff him. >> di search him. and on his person, he had a wallet, a substantial amount of money, and a fixed blade knife, in the cargo pocket of his pants. >> we later found out there were shell casings to a.22 caliber rifle or handgun in his pocket. >> did you ask him where is heather or your alleged accomplice? >> after i advised him of miranda i asked him where she was at and he didn't respond.

>> we executed the search warrant on the bunnell property, and the first contact we had with troy bunnell, we cleared the entire property, which was a garage, the house, and we didn't find heather frank, which i was concerned with at that point. >> just because investigators can't find heather frank on the property doesn't mean she's not there. >> -- eastman knows where she is, he's not saying. >> where is heather? >> what? >> where is heather? >> she's probably at work. >> she's not at work.

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>> larimer county sheriff's office, they are serving a search warrant at bunnell's. they are getting a search warrant ready at heather frank's apartment and also interviewing kevin eastman. >> there were lots of things happening simultaneously with a bunch of questions that still need be answered in a hurry. >> a greeley man has been arrested in the murder of northern colorado musician. >> complicating matters more, heather frank is not with eastman at the time that he's picked up. >> her children don't know where she's at. her boss doesn't know where she's at. in fact, in the investigation they find out that not even troy bonnell has seen heather frank. >> so this is your office. >> yes. we're at the sheriff's office

and this is the interview room where we had a conversation with kevin eastman for 6 1/2 hours. >> for 6 1/2 hours? >> 6 1/2 hours, yes. >> your name. >> kevin eastman. >> nice to meet you. >> is he relatively calm at that point. >> he's very calm, polite and cooperative. >> my head has gotten all screwed up. yes, my memory is not always what it should be. >> during this interview eastman has this story about getting a head injury at work that caused all this memory loss. so much so he just cannot remember being -- only about one hour earlier. >> how many times during that interview do you think he said i don't remember or i can't remember? >> oh, i don't know. 30, 40, 50 times. >> you don't believe i can't remember, i'm sorry, i can't remember it. i can't remember it. [bleeped] >> but eastman's mind is not totally blank. he is able to recall certain

dates and times and conversations. just as long as they have nothing to do with either heather frank or scott sessions. >> sunday, the ninth, it snowed. >> i remember it snowed a lot. >> that's kind of different from the guy who was warning you, i have a head injury and can't remember anything. >> he's telling us that he can't remember things that happened two or three days ago but he's telling me stuff that happened six weeks ago. he's starting to lose credibility with me at this point in the interview. >> i'm sure that you've seen stuff in the news about somebody disappearing from greeley. >> is it a musician? >> he was a musician, yes. >> yes. >> did his eyes drop when you mentioned scott sessions the first time? >> this is a person that's hiding. he really does not want to be present in this conversation because he's very uncomfortable. he does not want to face me. he's hiding his face.

he's hiding his emotions. he's hiding whatever his reactions are going to be. >> some of the more interesting moments in this cat and mouse game come when the investigators briefly leave the room but those cameras are still rolling. >> this is almost three hours in. and he's alone in the >> god, father, let me help these men get to the bottom of the case. please. >> my appointment was on the sixth. >> do you think this is all theater? >> it could be or he's actually feeling the stress of it. -- ♪ amazing grace ♪ ♪ how [singing]

>> he's taking a lot of deep breaths because i think he's starting to feel some of the pressure, where this conversation is going. >> we're trying to get him locked into a timeline of events prior to scott going >> up until this point, we have not really been in your face presenting facts that, look, you need to tell us this stuff. we're getting very close to us transitioning from an interview into an interrogation. so you can see that i'm leaning in to apply that emotional pressure. i wanted to see what his emotional reaction would be to asking him to say scott's name. >> this musician guy -- you can say his name. >> scott. >> you're having a hard time saying his name. >> he cannot utter the name scott sessions.

>> yes, he continued to say i didn't know the guy. >> i never knew the dude. >> he didn't want to say his name. >> eastman appears to have this emotional breakdown when investigators attempt to read him the transcript of the messages between heather and scott. >> oh, please -- >> it's not detailed. it's not detailed. >> i don't want -- >> are you thinking that this is someone who is a clever criminal? i think he's experienced. he knew exactly what he was doing. he had a plan. >> but we need to be completely honest with each other, okay? >> i can't be completely honest with you. >> originally said he wasn't there, he didn't know anything about scott sessions, and then he says, i was in the scene and i started -- >> were you transporting -- where was the big mess at? >> i said -- [inaudible] >> many hours into this back and forth -- pick your head up and

breathe, okay? the one word that changes everything, blood. >> there had to be something serious for that amount of blood. >> so there was a lot of blood there. where was the blood >> [ bleep ]? >> where? [bleeped] >> what every eastman is saying inside interrogation room is shocking enough, but outside the room, another bombshell. >> according to the investigators, there was personal items half burnt in the pit. something that was heather's. and leave you bubbling with joy. it's what makes our amazing alfredos... well, amazing. it's the gift in every ravioli and the layer of lasagna you can't live without. best part is, the cheese keeps coming 'til you say “when” just like our never-ending first course that's always on us.

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>> as kevin eastman continues to bend but not break in his interrogation. >> i don't know, man, this is just crazy. >> investigators are still hunting for heather frank. they don't know where she is but they do know where she is not, and that's her apartment. >> so they get a warrant to search her property. >> our job is solving puzzles using physical evidence. >> in the living room of the residence, there were some shopping bags near the sofa which contained some paper towels, some cleaning products, and the box for a cell phone. >> i did observe a black commercial style rug in the entryway and that appear odd and out of place. underneath that black commercial rug i did see a large reddish brown stain that was consistent with the appearance of a

bloodstain. it did look like the bloodstains were trying to be hidden from view of someone entering the apartment. >> that blood as well as other bloodstains located around that area of her living room were tested, and those bloodstains came back to scott sessions. >> it's hard to hide blood when it's everywhere. >> everywhere. everywhere. everywhere >> at some point during the back and forth, the interview changes drastically. >> yes, it does. >> you can see in some of these clips that ryan had his cell phone out and he was getting text messages from other investigators to, hey, we found out this information. >> to the first time that you heard that heather is dead it's from hearing ryan talk about it to -- >> that's correct. >> we found heather, and heather is in the same condition that scott is. >> time to start talking.

>> the information came in that heather frank was found deceased at troy bonnell's property and it was like a baseball bat to my gut. i was expecting something but i wasn't expecting that. >> and that makes the actions or the inaction of investigators somewhat controversial when it comes to that video of heather frank leaving her apartment. at the time it surfaces investigators are still piecing things together trying to determine what is going on. >> so they do not move in arrest. >> how did you feel when you saw it in >> to this day i'm still conflicted. >> you're watching somebody drive away to their death. could we have changed it or done anything differently? i don't think so. this is a very unfortunate, sad story, and i feel horrible for her kids, fact that this

happened to heather. the fortunate thing is that the decisions she made played into the situation in how it unfolded and she did not deserve to die. it's a very powerful image that you're seeing right now. >> it was just so shocking because i was like, what? and i was just so confused. first she's wanted on murder, and then shippeds up dead. >> heather frank had been shot to death. an autopsy would later conclude she was killed at close range with her body pressed up against a hard surface. >> i got a phone call from my boss telling me that they needed help at the scene. at that point, they had found a body on that property. she had been wrapped up in plastic. she had wire -- >> her body was found and it was near the fire pit and he had placed her underneath a piece of

wood that looked like a big door with the body being wrapped up. it made it even more suspicious. the fact that it was wrapped in plastic made it pretty comparable to the first murder that was involved in this case. and that was sessions. [distant voices] >> i assisted in the delivery of the notice for heather's boys. they were all living together and we all went with the coroner's office to deliver that news. >> it is the morning of february 16. the detectives came to the house and they told us that they had found my mom. >> i answered the phone, i said, alex, are you okay? he said, yes, i'm okay, but mom is not. and i just started bawling. i said, please tell me she's still alive. and he said, i wish -- i wish i

could, or something like that. he said, it's so bad. >> now, there are also some questions for the men who own this property where heather frank's body was found and where kevin eastman was seen just hours earlier. so troy bonnell is brought in for questioning. >> they found a body on your property. they believe it's a female so obviously you know what we're thinking. [bleeped] >> it's heather. >> [bleeped] >> christ. >> yes. yes. >> i had nothing to do with it. >> okay. >> bonnell says he was sleeping at the time eastman was at the burn pit and had no idea what he was doing on his property but investigators cannot take bo nell at his word especially after they learn about a missing gun from his garage. >> a.22 caliber. >> well, they are saying she was

shot by a small caliber pistol, and, you know, that's what i have. >> he's admitting that there is a gun in the tool chest and we're searching the property. we served a search warrant in his house and we're not finding this gun. where is this gun? >> bonnell also acknowledges heather didn't care for him. >> she didn't like me, for whatever reason. i think it's because, i kind of had some words with kevin, you know. >> back in his interrogation room kevin eastman is implying that troy knows more than he's letting on. >> tell us what happened, no more games. it's okay, tell us, you can tell us. troy is going to start talking. >> it's okay. you guys can talk to him. he probably knows more than i do. >> -- in the burn pit. >> according to investigators, there are clues in the burn pit. clues that point to kevin

eastman. >> there was some personal items that they found half burnt in the pit that appeared to be something that was heather's, possibly. they had asked me, you know, days later, when they were doing their investigation if i had disposed of lipstick and make-up, and i think there was a hair brush and something else, but fortunately i don't throw that stuff away. i'm pretty much solo at the ranch. >> we need the truth. the truth needs to be told out of respect for heather, and respect for her boys. >> after a marathon interrogation, kevin eastman is finally arrested. >> kevin -- >> you're under arrest. hit the wall for me, please. >> but he's got a plan. he's going to point the finger at troy bonnell. >> i'm angry with kevin because i feel like, you know, i was

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♪ >> i'm here at the weld county courthouse where after 2 1/2 years, kevin eastman finally goes on trial. >> eastman is charged in the murders of heather frank and scott sessions. sessions, a well-known trumpet player here in northern colorado. >> to be sitting in that courtroom and watch that man be brought in to sit at a table with his attorneys was the first time that i had seen kevin eastman in the flesh in front of me as a human being. and it took everything i had to sit there and not want to scream at him. >> good morning, ladies and gentlemen. at its very core this case is

about domestic violence. the defendant, kevin eastman, he didn't want to lose heather frank. >> kevin eastman was the only one who had a motive to kill scott sessions. >> these hands, these hands brought danger, destruction, and death. >> these hands killed scott sessions and heather frank. these hands are the hands of a murderer. these are the hands of the defendant kevin eastman. >> what really happened to scott sessions and heather frank? that's what everyone is hoping to hear from the prosecution. >> on february 8, scott sessions never saw it coming. literally, ambushed from behind by a man with an anger, fueled by jealousy, and a large sharp knife. >> do you solemnly swear or

affirm -- >> to prove that kevin eastman ambushed scott sessions in a fit of jealous fury the prosecution calls more than 40 witnesses. >> it's obvious that it's a very large sharp knife that went from the front to the back, that nearly decapitated scott sessions. >> people's exhibit 126. >> the prosecution also presented dna evidence they argued linked kevin eastman to the murder of scott sessions. >> the biggest thing that we have was a pair of pants that was found amongst kevin eastman's clothing. actually had blood on them. >> -- developed from cutting of the jeans indicated a mixture of two contributors -- mr. eastman and mr. sessions. >> a speck of blood, if anything, that's consistent with helping after the fact. >> those jeans become important because that connects kevin

eastman to scott sessions' murder. >> at the heart of the prosecution's case was the abuse they say heather frank suffered at the hands of kevin eastman. >> have a seat. >> the only thing that we really knew of heather is what came out through her son. >> can you tell the jury about the first time you knew the defendant had physically harmed your mother? >> it was in february of 2014, when i seen her, she had a slash on her throat. like a knife, like, you know, a cut on her throat. i believe it was the right side of her face was really beaten up, like really bad. it was black and blue. her wrist had been broken. >> so testimony came out that kevin was not a nice man. his pattern of behavior included breaking the arm of heather's son, slitting heather in the throat at one other time. throwing her into walls. >> they were at a bar.

they came home. and he started fighting with her, and she told him to leave. and he got pissed, and he grabbed her arm and basically broke her arm. grabbed an adult kitchen knife and slit her throat and beat her face up. >> that alleged throat slashing incident was never reported to police but in 2015, eastman pled guilty to misdemeanor assault against heather for a separate altercation. >> raise your right hand and do you solemnly swear or affirm. >> her hairdresser testified that she come in to get her hair fixed and there would be big chunks of hair missing out of her scalp. >> do you recall an appointment with heather in that september 2019 time frame? >> yes, i do. she had a bald spot about the diameter of a golf ball on the top of her head. she came in for that appointment. i was parting out her hair and she was missing a golf ball size

amount of hair on the top of her head. >> like a piece of her -- >> the hair was completely gone. there was no hair there. and i told her, heather what is going on in this section? are you having some problems with alipecia, and she said no, that's from kevin. she said he grabbed ahold of her and yank her. >> police responded to another domestic violence between heather and kevin speaking to her at a did you ever hospital. we shared this video with the family's permission. >> i've just got to sign this call. >> -- hotel room, punches to the left side of my ribs, and i had -- it's going to hurt worse. >> who did this to you? >> kevin eastman. >> you look at this video, and you see her lying in the

hospital bed. she's barely able to talk. >> how many times did he punch you? >> three times. >> a warrant was issued for assault in the third degree but kevin was not arrested until after the murders. >> just like -- this is the -- [inaudible] >> during trial the defense acknowledged that the relationship between heather and kevin was tumultuous, but they did not directly respond to the claims that kevin was abusive. >> this case was about domestic violence, and we wanted to make sure that the jury understood that power and control ultimately was what killed heather frank and scott session. >> i think that kevin eastman murdered scott sessions. >> kevin attacked scott sessions, and murdered him. i couldn't even imagine what my

mom was going through at that time. >> i don't think that she could have left, and i think kevin started to believe that heather was going to go to the police, or heather was going to tell something to somebody and kevin was going to get caught and he had to eliminate the last witness. >> every piece of credible evidence in this case point to one reasonable conclusion. kevin eastman killed two people between february 8 and february 16. >> you saw no physical evidence that proved at all let alone beyond reasonable doubt that mr. eastman murdered mr. sessions. >> in jailhouse phone calls with his sister, to hear eastman tell it, the evidence against him is slim. >> i don't think they really got anything for evidence. >> i'm going to be a very

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. >> as the trial enters its second week attorneys for kevin eastman lay out a much different version of events than prosecutors. they allege it was heather frank who killed scott sessions, and then troy bonnell who killed heather frank. kevin eastman, they claim, was simply left to clean up the mess. >> mr. eastman made an easy target for an accusation built on assumptions but he did not kill mr. sessions. miss frank killed mr. sessions and mr. eastman helped in the aftermath. >> eastman claims the motive for the attack on sessions would be revenge. >> the defense team would like you to believe that scott raped heather, heather was so mad about the rape that scott wouldn't leave her alone, that she lured him to her apartment so she could kill him and kevin may or may not have helped her to dispose of the body. >> ms. frank planned for mr.

sessions to come to her residence that evening. ms. frank initiated mr. sessions to hurry up and come over. >> who was it that wrapped mr. sessions head in duct tape before his body was burned, and dna on that duct tape was ms. frank's. >> although there is no evidence a rape occurred. >> this defense strategy comes from an unlikely source, the investigators who interviewed eastman. >> she's saying that this guy raped her. >> if he actually did or just that she's saying it? >> i think -- i mean, it's like splitting hairs. i mean, how does that make you feel. she says that this guy raped her. >> that was an investigative interviewing technique to get him to continue to talk, and so they threw that out as a potential theory of what might have happened, and he took it and ran with it. and adopted it, and turned that

into his version of events. >> i feel like she had no way out, and that she had to help kevin clean up that mess. i don't think that she lured him >> that was rough, and i feel like with the lawyers, you know, on kevin's side and they tried to put it all on her, which really hurt me. >> please raise your right hand. >> -- was a character witness for her brother kevin. >> is your brother an angel? >> no, he's not. >> at some point did the relationship between mr. eastman and ms. frank essentially deteriorate? >> yes, it did. >> i was so mad at her testimony because she was, again, blaming heather. she blamed heather for everything that happened. >> you didn't like it. >> fair to say. >> i did like heather in the beginning, yes, i did like heather. >> in january 2020, you were not a fan?

>> probably not. no. >> so heather killed scott. troy bo nell killed heather. that was their theory. >> mr. bonnell can't. he took matters into his own hands and he killed ms. frank. >> raise your right hand. >> i felt like the whole world was watching. i had tv cameras panning in on me, and shutters going and the courtroom was full. >> bonnell testified for the prosecution, and they seemed convinced he wasn't involved in any way but to try to make their alternative suspect very plausible to the jury the defense would throw everything they had at troy bonnell. >> the day that troy bonnell testified, he was cross-examined at length about everything. and he took a beating. >> you told detective -- quote, that did you not even know [ bleep ] people, referring to mr. eastman and ms. frank. you said, and i quote, i don't

even know [ bleep ] >> correct. >> i don't even know [ bleep ] who this guy is. >> stop right there. stop. stop. i never once, ever, ever, steady not know kevin eastman. they asked me if i knew heather. >> troy bonnell says he and heather had a very difficult relationship. heather did not like bonnell. >> your dna was found in a pack of cigarettes on her deceased body. explain how your dna could be on ms. frank's -- >> i have no explanation. >> it was odd that his dna would be there, but touch dna can be on items for lots of different reasons. if that cigarette pack had been in his house, and he picked it up and moved it, that would mean that heather was, in fact, there, at his house >> certainly that caused

problems and it raised suspicion and turned him into an alternate suspect for the defense. that was viable for them. it gave them an argument at trial that had he been honest about everything, i don't think would have carried much weight. >> what we knew at that point was that the night before troy was with another woman, and that the other woman had confirmed his location and what he was doing. >> that's an alibi? >> yes. >> he had an alibi. >> the defense was ridiculous. i could not believe that that was their only defense was what about troy? what about troy? >> did troy drop everything he was doing on his ranch to go, you know what, kevin? i'll go ahead and day, of that murder for you. i got you, buddy. no. it's ridiculous to even think about that. >> two years have passed since

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defendant kevin dean eastman guilty of murder in the first degree. >> i think when you hear a guilty verdict in a homicide my initial thought is gratitude that the injustice of the death itself wasn't compounded by the system not working. >> as the court has heard, repeatedly, scott sessions was a gifted musician. >> at the sentencing the daewoo played a video of scott "tap "taps." at the sentencing the d.a. played a video. >> it was so timely, like he was playing "taps" for himself. >> kevin got two consecutive life terms as well as an additional 27 years on some of the other charges. >> kevin eastman was offered the chance to speak at his

sentencing, but he declined. >> mr. eastman does not wish to make a statement at this time. thank you. >> it was a belief knowing that he's not going to get out. >> in my head i danced a jig but the thing about guilty verdicts is this. nobody wins in a homicide. their families are devastated. people still feel unsafe. >> i will not let him or anyone else determine my happiness for the rest of my life. so mr. eastman, i have no quarrel with you. i basically turned to him, you know, i forgive you. >> i wish i was able to forgive him the way scott sessions dad has forgiven him. i'm not there. i can't. >> as for troy bonnell, colorado rancher who says he was unjustly dragged into kevin eastman's

murder trial, for him, closure has been hard to come by. >> i have never been charged with anything. i pretty much have been alienated from everywhere. i'm still the one trying to make sense of all of this. i lost a $4 million a year profession. i've been forced to seek employment, and i'm planting corn. who would have thought? it's not as easy as everybody thinks. >> i miss talking to her. >> i miss her laugh. >> she was great woman. she was a beautiful mother, and she loved all of us, and loved all of her friends. >> she just ended up being a part of something that she didn't ask for. she was a victim. >> can you come show me what this is. >> that looks like it's a very small memorial. >> you got a little bit emotional when you first saw it? >> yes, when you get so involved in the last moments of somebody's life, you become

connected to them. >> scott's family hopes his spirit will live on through his trumpet. >> what we want to do is find a good home for this. somebody that plays trumpet that's not as fortunate, maybe a young child. >> a young child or somebody. >> that we could ♪ [jazz music] >> we should point out tonight that kevin eastman maintains his innocence and is appealing his murder convictions. he declined to speak to us. that is our program. thanks so much for watching, i'm david muir and from all of us at 20/20, good night.

>> building a better bay area, moving forward, finding solutions. this is abc7news. >> i s front of the house and to the side over here admiring the work. ama: a couple killed in a south bay crime spree. we are seeing eerie surveillance video showing part of yesterday's rampage to get good evening. dan: yesterday afternoon. it started with tw carjackings in san jose, both victims were stabbed and have life-threatening injuries. thurned d with a couple struck and killed in san jose and a man stabbed to death in milpitas. lauren martinez spoke with a man who worked for that couple in san jose. reporter: