this. i have, um, a brake light. that is intermittent. sometimes it you know, it tells me i need to get it fixed. and sometimes i don't so i've been letting it ride. ok you didn't hear that officers like it or not, but before we go send us your like it or not questions. you can even record yourself asking a question along with where you're from, and you can see it during the show. so this a message or comment on instagram or tik, tok . thank you for watching. do you like it or not i'm anna garcia right now on true crime news. >> antonio montana, ali abdul-jabbar, known on tiktok as jhoan kid with nearly a million followers, makes a grisly discovery. >> my wife and another man were found dead on the couch online. >> they look like a loving, happy couple living their best

life in san diego. but that wasn't the whole story, he says. he snapped. if you see her kissing ray on my couch with rivalry, jealousy, rage, murder, do you expect a man to feel we're in the courtroom as the tik tok killer learns his fate? plus, he was living the high life. >> he drove a fancy car, a waterfront mansion, corporate jet. >> there's just one problem. it wasn't his money. he pulled off one of the biggest ponzi schemes in history. >> he's intelligent and cunning. >> and now he's on the run playing a real life game of catch me if you can. your daily source for true crime starts right now. we begin with the man called the tik tok killer. he was a social media star known as jin kid. he had nearly a million followers, and he earned them by pretending to be scarface. just

like the movie character. true crime news was there when he was sentenced for killing his wife and another man. applause broke out in support of the sentence. the families of the victims say his followers have no idea how much he and his alter ego were really one and the same. >> antonio, montana and you, what do you call yourself? >> you're looking at ali abu laban, a man who'd wanted to be a tiktok star calling himself jin kid on social media, took out the wrong guy. >> i'm not in that business. >> obsessed with al pacino's character in scarface, his popularity soared to about 1 million followers. >> speak english. >> okay, ali abu laban created his jin kid character when he moved to san diego from virginia three years ago with his wife, anna marie, and their five year old daughter on social media. they were a young, attractive couple, very much in love and

living a good life in sunny san diego. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america. >> but in reality, life wasn't so good inside their luxury downtown high rise. break it up. >> oh my god! carter! carter! oh my god, oh my god, there's a man. there's a man. >> but this on camera performance is not for social media. i felt like i was on the passenger seat of my own body when i opened the door. >> and lo, who it was. it broke my heart. >> this is cold, hard reality in county jail. if you see her kissing ray on my couch with his feet on my table, with my money. >> anthony lamb lerby mermis in the house of my daughter. sleeping on the furniture that i put together. what do you expect a man to feel guilty for fatally

shooting his wife and her friend in a jealous rage. >> oh, look at the end of my marriage. >> that's my family trying to justify killing anna marie abu laban and rayburn barron to a fox. >> san diego news reporter. did you kill her? >> don't ask me that. don't ask me that. >> but behind the scenes, life was more like the scarface persona. abu laban played on camera. the scene complete with cocaine and domestic violence. is it just you? >> it's just me and my daughters here. >> she's with neighbors and friends saying he was physically abusive and his followers reposting videos of his blatant drug use. >> i'd rather hang out with my woman than any other dude, bro. i don't need to pretend to be single. i'm too busy enjoying

life with my wife. >> but that joy would turn deadly. after shots ring out in their apartment. >> yes, ma'am. my wife and another man were. i found them dead on the couch. okay steph. i lohin. okay. >> hold on. sir >> horford abu laban calls police, claiming he found his wife and her friend ray barone dead on the couch. tell me what you saw when you went in there. >> i saw her head, but he didn't find them there. >> detectives quickly determined the tiktok star was the reason two people were dead. they immediately arrest him. >> defendant was married to the victim, anna marie abu laban, and they have a five year old daughter named amara. >> with tears in his eyes. the prosecutor lays out the charges against him. >> first, he shot rayburn barron

three times and then he fired at his wife and prosecutors say it was all because of a jealous rage after she kicked him out and pushed for a divorce. >> abu laban was so convinced his wife was with another man that he installed a listening app on his daughter's ipad. when he heard a man's voice, it was enough to send him on a mission to kill them both. there was the confession call placed to his mother. surveillance footage of abu laban running into the apartment, photographs of him in the elevators and in the parking garage. and even with shocking audio that he recorded himself of the shooting, abu laban pleaded not guilty. >> based on all of these facts, i do not believe that any bail should be set. >> but the man who was making his name playing characters on social media saved his biggest

performance for the courtroom, where he faced two counts of first degree murder. >> right after you shot anna in the head, you pushed her head down into rey's lap, right? >> oh, i'm not going to tolerate this. >> abu laban argued he was acting out in a heat of passion, saying untreated mental illness and drug abuse put him in a state of psychosis. >> what did you just say? >> as prosecutors confronted him with a mountain of evidence, he can't hide his rage. >> i've been incarcerated three years. you never showed that to my team. where did you get that? >> finally, with the families of anna maria lobatón and ray barron in court, the verdict we, the jury in the above entitled cause, find the defendant, ali nasser abdullah masn guilty of the crime of murder in the first degree. then the families of anna and ray would finally get their chance to confront the man called jinn, who destroyed their lives, making a plea to the judge to keep the killer behind

bars for the rest of his life. >> i'm sorry. >> what did you. what my mom did to you, what i did to you. >> my mom picked you up. they couldn't hide their disgust. >> sorry. your honor, what did they do? >> they do anything to you? you know, you don't have to worry, ma'am. it's not going to go cheat, alright? >> if you didn't cheat first, my sister was a gentle, loving, sweet young woman who absence has left a hole in my heart. that can never be filled. i lost my baby brother, my baby brother and my best friend the way he had to leave this earth is not something that he deserved. he was a kind and loving person. he deserved a chance in this life. >> and the man who caused so much pain over a fit of

senseless jealousy turned toward the grieving families. >> i cannot imagine the pain that i've caused your families. i saw the look on all your faces and the tears in your eyes, and i hate that i'm the reason for it. on that day, i was in the worst physical and mental state of my life. i was sick, suffering from an untreated, severe mental illness. >> the judge, who watched abdullah bond's theatrics throughout the trial finally had the last say. >> he is a very talented actor. when i saw the scarface videos, it's as if when he committed these crimes, he became that persona of scarface, of just the cold blooded killing without remorse. the bottom line here is he will die in prison. he will never be a free man. he will take his last breath. there wil.

>> outside the courtroom, ray barone's family holds a photo of their loving brother on the last mother's day. their entire family spent together. his sister having one last word. >> i don't want him mentioning my brother's name because my brother was a saint and he's just an evil person. >> ali abu laban was sentenced to two life terms without parole to be served consecutively. he was also slapped with another 50 years for gun related charges. and the other victim in this case is jason kidd's daughter. her mother is dead. her father is in prison for the rest of his life. prosecutors say she is in a safe and loving environment that will support her through this devastating loss. when we come back, see what other true crime stories we're following around the ountry. we wow. that's good. almond breeze? you like the almond breeze i got you... that's sooo interesting.

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welcome back. here are some of the other stories that we're tracking in our true crime inde. houston police say that they have arrested a man who allegedly killed a 90 year old navy veteran in a carjacking. great grandfather nelson beckett died after he was shot. and then he was run over by his own car.

this all happened outside his retirement home. khalil arceneaux has been arrested, and authorities say that he was out on bond for a dui when beckett was killed. now he's being charged with capital murder. residents in the san fernando valley here in los angeles are on edge after hundreds of brazen home robberies in a short period of time. 260 of them have been recorded with no arrests. the latest victim, nfl star and heisman trophy winner reggie bush. cops say at least one person tried to break into his multi-million dollar home. bush, who was there at the time, screamed and scared off the suspects when detectives arrived, they found broken glass at the back of his house. sadly, this isn't the first time someone tried to break into a home on his street. a wannabe thief in atlanta tries to hold up a nail salon, and he ends up humiliated. instead security video shows the man entering the

salon acting like he has a gun. he screams, everyone give me your money! but the workers and the customers ignore him. one worker casually answers the phone. hello there. just unfaze. manicures and pedicures continue without missing a beat. the suspect eventually giving up and leaving the scene up next, he masterminded one of the biggest frauds in american history. but he's escaped from prison and now he's on the run. the hunt for gitive darren berg when w wow. that's good. almond breeze? you like the almond breeze i got you... that's sooo interesting. what's happening, dad? with delicious taste and 50% more calcium. blue diamond almond breeze. don't just milk it. almond milk it. [coughs] when caroline has a cough, she takes robitussin. so, she can have those one on ones again. hey jim! can we talk about casual fridays? oh sure. what's up? get fast, powerful cough relief with robitussin, and find your voice.

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ponzi schemes ever. >> you might think it's magic, but it's actually real meat and potatoes stuff. >> the scam artists ripping off more than $100 million. >> he drove a fancy car. he dressed well. waterfront mansion, corporate jets. now the con man has disappeared. i wouldn't be surprised if he was in canada. mexico, central america. >> darren berg's life of crime started as a frat boy at the university of oregon. >> we viewed him as the boy wonder, the ambitious entrepreneur already owned his own business. the rest of the undergraduate chapter elected him president of the fraternity. at the same time that he continued to be treasurer of the fraternity. >> turns out berg was taking checks written to the fraternity, endorsing them with his tour company stamp and depositing around $21,000 straight into his charter bus account. >> darren's defense was that he

had spent all of this money on behalf of the fraternity, and he was merely reimbursing himself. >> berg escaped an indictment and disappeared until he resurfaced in portland, oregon and started up an advertising business. but berg was up to his old tricks. this time, the u.s. attorney indicted him for stealing $19,000 from a portland bank and a check kiting scheme. berg pleaded guilty, but ultimately dodged another bullet. >> he ended up making some arrangements where he paid restitution and left town, this time with his eyes set on seattle. >> darren berg's mortgage company, meridian funds, was set up to collect money from investors and invest that money into mortgages. >> but instead of using the money to buy mortgages and invest, he was living lavishly off off the money that is the textbook definition of a ponzi scheme. that just was the beginning of the end for darren.

>> he was arrested for embezzling, but had stashed millions of dollars in exotic offshore accounts, filed for bankruptcy, and brokered a deal to help investigators unravel his crimes. >> he always thought he could stay one step ahead of everybody ahead of his investors, ahead of the bankruptcy court, ahead of the fbi. >> so when berg's time ran out and he pleaded guilty, darren berg was charged with orchestrating washington state's largest ponzi scheme and was sentenced to 18 years for fleecing over 800 investors out of $140 million. berg spent the next six years doing time at various minimum security federal prisons in california. then he disappeared. berg hopped a prison fence that led to an airport where u.s. marshals say it's likely he boarded a private jet and started his new life as an international fugitive. >> i have little doubt that he

probably is someplace where it's warm and doesn't have an extradition treaty to the united states. >> berg is a wanted man. investigators say he may have had help and named berg's ex-boyfriend as a person of interest. >> he's intelligent and cunning. there's no stopping to what he's capable of. >> joining us now with more perspective is former fbi agent bobby chacon. bobby, here's the question. how has berg been able to evade capture for this long? he can't be doing it by himself, can he? >> no, probably not. but the biggest issue is cash. i mean, cash is a fugitive's best friend because we can track everything through money now, through the banking system and even internationally. but he was able to squirrel cash away during as many years that he was perpetrating this ponzi scheme, knowing that ultimately it's all going to crash down around him. if he was smart enough to squirrel cash away, you know, he might have a nice sizable

bankroll of cash to keep him going. >> do you think it's more likely that he had his getaway all set up with money and passports? more likely. that was the scenario. instead of maybe people helping him now, i think that he probably knew eventually he'd be on the run. >> so he had maybe fake documents, travel documents. he had an amount of cash hidden in different places, and then when the actual escape was to happen, he had some help on the outside. those two things together is what's allowed him both to escape and to stay on the run. >> what do you think is the likelihood that he's going to be captured? >> it's difficult to know. a lot of times it's, you know, sometimes it's not until their money runs out, their cash runs out, and then they have to start. you know, doing stuff on the grid. if he runs out of cash or if he makes a mistake, they'll be on him. >> all right. >> thank you. bobby >> great to see you. >> if there's a true crime you think we should know about, call the true crime news tip line at

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>> on the next true crime news. a 13 year old girl found dead. the last one to see her alive. her mom's boyfriend. >> you guys. you say you guys have a pretty good relationship? >> definitely have a very strong bond. >> the disturbing discovery caught on surveillance. >> madeleine was visible in that vehicle. >> a startling admission that leads to his arrest. >> is it normal for both of them to sleep in the same room? >> and the shocking details of a secret double life. on the next true crime news. for the latest breaking crime news, go to true crime news.com. watch more exclusive content on our youtube channel. listen to our podcast and follow us at my true crime news. chicago police are asking for your help in solving a cold case. 15 year old barría davis was found dead on the floor of

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