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listen to the voice mails that my parents have left me or my husband and my son. totally leave me a voice. no he's under a certain age. you don't leave a voicemail rosary. although i like that. you know our phones these days, if you if you if a voicemail is left, it'll kind of rest you transcribe it for you, my god, people under a certain age, they're not going to get your voicemail. just bottom line. are you saying i'm old? i am 10,000. all right, that's a wrap like it or not. send s your questio . . i'm anna garcia right now on true crime news. murder general hospital star johnny wactor. the teen who admitted being there when johnny was killed in court today. true crime news is there with the latest after his mother's emotional plea for justice. exclusively with me. what would justice look like in
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this case for you? then what is going on? >> hello? >> my mom was a knife. >> she stabbed her foster mom almost 200 times as her younger sister watched on in horror. >> she did that? >> today, the sister who witnessed the brutal killing speaks out about the crime involving sex, greed and murder. >> he got a new car, redid the house, bought a house in florida. >> your daily source for true crime starts right now. we begin with new developments in the shooting death of general hospital actor johnny wactor. you'll recall that he was shot and killed on the streets of los angeles. now, one of the teens who admitted being there when wactor was killed faced a judge to learn his fate. a shocking scene, a cold blooded killing in downtown los angeles. former
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general hospital actor johnny wactor gunned down when he surprised thieves trying to steal the catalytic converter from his car. >> the intersection of hope and pico. >> police and paramedics rushed to the scene, but they are unable to save the 37 year old actor's life. johnny won over millions of fans playing brando corbin for two years on 164 episodes of general hospital. >> i want to quit my job and let the chips fall between hollywood jobs. >> he worked as a bartender in downtown l.a. the actor with the bright smile and a female coworker were walking to their cars just after 3 a.m. on may 25th when they came upon a robbery. crew. johnny's mother, scarlett, is left devastated by the loss of her beloved son. so tell me what happened the night he was killed. >> he saw some guys at their car and he asked him, are you
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telling me my car? and when the guy looked up and had a mask on, he immediately stepped back and the guy shot him. point blank in the heart. >> traveling from her home state of south carolina, she made a tearful plea to me here at our l.a. studios. >> i really wish they would just catch them. it'd be so much easier to have closure. >> johnny's coworker anita joy witnessed the heinous crime. >> the momentum of him coming backwards. we were tripping through the street all the way down here. >> anita tells fox l.a. reporter laura díaz. johnny's friends are putting their grief aside to fight for justice. >> we've had a really stagnant grief to deal with in the last few months where we've all put johnny's efforts of his justice before our grief. >> nearly three months after the shooting, the lapd releases surveillance photos and details about the suspects. days after mom scarlett's tearful visit, four suspected gang members, 318
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year olds and 122 year old are taken into custody. >> our investigators worked tirelessly to gather evidence, interview witnesses and follow every lead to ensure that no stone was left unturned. >> fingerprints found on a floor jack at the crime scene reportedly tie the men to the crime. two suspects are charged with murder. >> one of them actually fired the weapon. the other one was there. >> in court, both men plead not guilty. a third suspect who pleaded not guilty was charged with accessory after the fact. the fourth suspect just pleaded guilty to attempted robbery and grand theft by embezzlement. he will be sentenced soon. anita joy vows to continue the fight to make sure all four suspects spend years behind bars. >> i'm going to literally do anything in my power that i can to make sure these guys go to trial and get convicted, and if that means, you know, reliving it some more, then that's that's what i have to do.
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>> the other three defendants in the case appear in court next month. true crime news will continue to cover the case. and we will bring you the very latest. now to a case that we've been following sex, secrets and murder. lisa kinnvall was brutally murdered in her home. stabbed nearly 200 times when cops arrived at the scene. her 18 year old foster daughter, sabrina zunich, was holding a bloody knife. sabrina says her foster father coached her to kill so they could be together. now, the sister who witnessed the horror speaks out to true crime news in the overnight hours in this willoughby hills, ohio home, social worker lisa kinnvall is sleeping in her bedroom. her husband kevin, is away at work when suddenly violent screams wake their teen daughter, megan. >> 9-1 1-1. what is your emergency? please
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>> 17 year old foster daughter sabrina zunich is on top of lisa in a violent rage, stabbing the woman who gave her a new home. what is going on? >> oh my god, what is going on? it was. >> oh, what is going on? hello >> my mom was a knife responding officers arrived to find sabrina covered in blood. >> she came out of the bedroom where she had both hands raised in the air, and she had a very large bread knife in her right hand. >> the loving foster mother she'd been living with for less than two years lay lifeless on the floor, covered in knife wounds. >> i could see lisa's body laying along the wall in between the bed and the wall, a scene so gruesome it stunned this veteran cop. i've been an officer for 23 years now, and i've never seen anything that bloody before. >> and this young teen, with her hands covered in bandages, claims she can't remember a
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thing. >> what's your thoughts on how lisa is not alive now? what >> sabrina zunich was thrilled at the chance to live with a new family. >> my social worker told me that i had foster parents wanting to interview me and lisa and kevin kuhnel were no strangers to fostering children. >> it was my belief that they were both on board. they were both excited to have her in the house and to become part of the family. >> and the couple's two biological daughters created an atmosphere sabrina craved. >> i wanted a foster home. i wanted that family structure. and when she told me, i kind of cried a little bit. >> sabrina said she was excited. she was out of foster care and she had a home. and you know, she felt that she was going to be there until she graduated high school. >> but just 18 months later, sabrina sits in an interrogation room saying she can't remember what would cause that joy to turn into evil rage. >> what do you recall? rose raudy getting done with my
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homework? >> getting terrmel and that's it. >> held ball rubén. >> she also can't explain her wounded hands. >> so you don't know what's wrong with your hands? >> mermis lipon can't because they told me that they were cut. >> cut pretty bad. >> but stitches. >> how many? >> five. or what could have possibly caused her to act so violently? >> an argument or anything with lisa last night? no, no, everything was fine. >> and as detectives try to jog her memory by telling her she killed her mom. >> what's your thoughts on how lisa is not alive now? what? what is your what is your thoughts on that? that she is not alive. maybe you understand. that's that's what we're talking to. you about. >> semykin. >> lisa says that you should have told me i did it. >> yes, i live up to that.
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>> blood was probably hers. >> she actually cried when i told her that, you know, she was the one that killed her. and she acted like she was surprised. showed a lot of emotion for over an hour. >> it's the same story sabrina insists she can't remember anything from that night. >> have you had these type of issues in the past where you just don't remember things? >> i don't know, positive. i mean, i know i was in my other group homes when i was in a fight with other people, i blacked out. >> investigators start digging into life inside the family home, pulling in lisa's husband, kevin, for a conversation about that violent night, surprising him with what they've already learned. >> elaborate more on how your relationship with sabrina developed evolved. remember, kevin, we ask you for the truth. when we came, came here that we're getting into all this stuff, aren't we?
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now back to the story of this house of secrets in a small town in ohio. sabrina zunich says that her foster father coached her to kill his wife. this in order to be the new wife. the question now is, was this manipulation or just downright murder? from the minute foster daughter sabrina zunich was in custody. willoughby hills, ohio detectives knew they had lisa canfield's killer. you want to kill my mom, please. the blood curdling call dispatchers heard from lisa's. then 13 year old daughter, megan sent police to the scene. what is going on? >> my. >> there? they find sabrina covered in blood, a knife in her hand, and foster mom lisa's lifeless body covered in stab wounds. >> they had an argument or anything with lisa last night? no, no, everything was fine.
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>> sabrina says she blacked out, claiming some type of amnesia, and it turned out. >> keury car coming out of the bedroom with a knife in your hand? >> no, but her adopted little sister fully witnessed sabrina repeatedly stabbed their mother. >> you hfe and stab lisa. i missed it, and megan called the police. ockimey true. 3xn it is. i'm sorry. >> i've never been a murderer. >> while investigators knew sabrina killed her foster mom, detectives soon grew puzzled by lisa's husband kevin, specifically his behavior the night she was killed. >> when kevin got here that night, you know, he was told that his wife had passed away. he didn't cry, you know, he didn't show any emotions and didn't ask questions either. didn't even ask who did this. wasn't even wondering who did this or how it happened where it
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happened. no questions at all. >> at the time, kevin's stepdaughter megan also noticed red flags. now, after many year, a grown up megan can finally bring herself to talk about that night with true crime news. >> ever since the murder, he was was acting very strange, megan says stepdad kevin seemed more concerned with sabrina than his wife. lisa didn't shed a tear at her funeral. the one thing that stuck out to me was he tried going to see sabrina in the jail, which turned heads, and at her funeral he asked if we think of sabrina, but what unfolded next is a true crime stunner. >> detectives soon find text messages between kevin and sabrina. racy messages that reveal kevin was having a sexual relationship with his own 17 year old foster daughter. >> it started with leg massages.
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once the leg massages, you know, he kept telling her to go higher, go higher. and you know, she's like, well, i don't want to go high because i want to touch your privates. and he was like, that's okay. if you do that at that point, it just became a full on blown relationship between kevin and sabrina. >> kevin agreed to speak with investigators with his attorney by his side. he didn't cop a thing trying to figure out what happened that night. >> you know, i mean, i you know, it was i mean, you know, his wife was brutally murdered here, and we're trying to help, help him, you know, help us. he can help us. an investigation. he wasn't within 100 miles of the house when that happened. >> turns out he was that far from the murder scene. but detectives didn't need kevin's location or words to feed their suspicions. while behind bars, sabrina started talking and offered up a case solving bombshell. >> it was kevin's idea, and it was talked about after we were having sexual relations.
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>> sabrina tells cops that kevin wanted to leave his wife, but he was worried that she would have custody of their youngest daughter, so he convinced sabrina to kill lisa and help him raise the child. >> so the plan was for me not to get caught, and me and him to live together with hailey and me, be a mother figure to her and have a relationship. >> and apparently kevin had another plan. collect on lisa's $750,000 life insurance policy. >> he got a new car, got a new trailer, redid the house, bought a house in florida. >> you know, i just think that kevin just thought that, you know, they'll never be able to link me to this crime. >> but he was linked to the crime. charged with conspiring to kill his wife, lisa. and the star witness against him was the foster daughter he manipulated. >> for cooperation and planning. >> kotkaniemi.
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>> both kevin and sabrina are manipulators. they knew what they were doing. >> sabrina would plead guilty to killing her. foster mother. kevin was found guilty by a ohio jury of conspiring in the murder. megan says she'll never forgive either one of them for taking her mother, but police say kevin is the reason lisa's dead. >> kevin absolutely did manipulate her. she was a young, 17 year old innocent child that's been in and out of foster care her entire life, and kevin knew that. he knew that she was vulnerable, and he took advantage of that situation. >> sabrina zunich was sentenced to life in prison. she will be eligible for parole in the year 2042, when she will be 47 years old. there's still a lot more to come on true crime news the true crime news index stories that we're following making headlines around the country, including the story of an 11 year old boy charged with killing the former
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to help find missing. sebastian rogers. it's been more than six months since the 15 year old boy disappeared from his suburban nashville home. the fbi has a $50,000 reward for information and now dog the bounty hunter has upped the reward to $100,000. police in colorado have arrested a 36 year old in connection with the fatal shooting of a dog breeder who went missing weeks ago. >> he was one of us, and he was one of my best friends. >> paul peavy was a renowned dog breeder of dobermans and several puppies were reportedly missing from his residence as well. the sheriff's office says the puppy's whereabouts are part of the ongoing investigation. the sheriff is asking anyone who bought a doberman in the last few weeks to look for a chip and contact them when we come back on true crime news, state troopers take to the air making an amazing escue. you
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>> a father's fight for justice. his daughter brutally murdered because her accused killer had been released from jail. now, true crime news is there as he heads to court demanding answers. then. hey, girl. >> hey, you look so pretty. >> you are a stunning model. gets the shock of her life when her murder for hire plot takes a crazy turn. >> what do you want done with her? oh my god, just put her in a chopper on the next true crime news. >> for the latest breaking crime news, go to true crime news.com. to watch more exclusive content on our youtube channel, listen to our podcast and follow us at my true crime news. this is the part of the show we love the most, showing when our men and women in blue go above the call of duty. this is in west milford, new jersey. someone going cliff diving got into some
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deep trouble. they fell in a remote area and there was no way to rescue them in between the cliffs. that is, until new jersey state troopers came in the state police aviation unit braved difficult weather to get to the injured person. they carefully put the patient into a gurney and lifted them hundreds of feet out of the ravine. he is in the hospital and is recovering. that's it for today's true crime news, i'm anna garcia. join us next time . (upbeat music) - today on "icrime," we've got a knockout on aisle three. is this a kidnapping attempt caught on tape or a misunderstanding? (group screaming) and this. (car crashing) (upbeat music) (group screaming) - i'm sending to the police, you idiot. - [speaker] oh my god, i got you on camera. - get out. (group screaming)

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