being your own person. but also, you know, knowing that there are certain expectations really quick miles before we go. is everyone in your family funny? they're pretty funny. yes, yes. they don't try to be. and i think that's what makes them the funniest. okay. there's a lot of just and then also we try and make sure my sisters laugh weird. and if you push them hard enough to laugh, they might pee. so that's always the kind of like everybody's like, all right guys, let's go. let's see if we can make it happen again this year. and we usually do. so everybody try to dial up i'm anna garcia right now on true crime news. a new mom's worst fear. >> alyssa was coming to us saying, i'm afraid he's going to shoot me. >> comes true. shot and stabbed to death in her car by someone in disguise. >> this was someone who was hunting her, but was someone else pulling the strings.

>> plus, married to a monster. >> i ended up waking up in the middle of the night, finding my husband over me with a flashlight. >> violated by the man she trusted the most. >> i decided to look at his phone. >> drugging and raping her. >> i see horrible things happening to me and let down by the system that was supposed to protect her. i don't understand how this man could be convicted on six felonies. and you could let him walk out the door with me. >> what? what he did after he got his get out of jail free card will shock you. plus, the accused idaho college killer back in front of a new judge with a courtroom makeover. why? he's been ordered back into jailhouse orange. your daily source for true crime starts right now. hi, everyone. welcome to true crime news. let's get right to our top story. a single mom heading to work in a dallas suburb, gunned down while sitting in her car. police immediately circle in on a suspect, but they would soon

learn that someone else helped to orchestrate the plan. 24 year old alyssa burkett's young life was only getting started. >> she had $1 million smile and a heart of gold. >> but despite that smile, her grandfather telling fox four in dallas that life wasn't very easy. >> she was a new mother and that changes her like it changes everyone. >> the single mom was working her way through the challenges of raising her one year old daughter. >> was enrolled in college and was doing really well with her studies, and she was working at this apartment complex in a dallas suburb to help make ends meet. >> but alyssa was also living in fear. >> alyssa was coming to us saying, i'm afraid he's going to shoot me. >> he is her ex-boyfriend and the father of their daughter, andrew beard. alyssa was in the middle of a bitter custody battle and on a gofundme she set up to help fight him in court,

she wrote i am scared for my life and my daughter's life. tragically, her biggest fear would become a reality while sitting in her car in the apartment parking lot where she worked. alyssa was shot in the head and stabbed repeatedly to death. >> it was clear to our detectives this was someone who was hunting her, and someone else had seen a man get out of an suv and approach alyssa's car. we did have some witnesses at the scene describe it as a black man, but that did not mean by any means. we went looking for a black man. >> that's because cops would eventually learn it was all a ruse set up by beard. he was in disguise and they were immediately sure it had to be him. when police obtained a search warrant for beard's home, they found a long list of

evidence devices he used to track alyssa's car, trash bags and work boots. some dark colored hair with blood on it. makeup used to change his appearance and then a makeshift silencer. reporter this is video of andrew beard being booked in a dallas county jail. he pleaded guilty to the murder and it all seemed. case closed, much to the family's shock, there was another arrest. beard's girlfriend. prosecutors say holly elkins was the puppet master of the entire plan to kill alyssa, and they laid out the charges against her in court. >> she wasn't an innocent bystander. she participated in this all the way. i think without her influence, andrew would not have committed the murder. >> at trial, prosecutors say elkins stalked and harassed alyssa for months. she and andrew planted drugs and a gun in her car and called the police to have her arrested so she

could raise alyssa's daughter with andrew. when that didn't work, they plotted to kill her. a week before alyssa's murder, elkins sent text messages to beard saying, i hope you'll handle it, and that she'd be his ride or die. >> no emotion at all. she didn't have anything. i don't even know if she blinked. >> a jury found elkins guilty of orchestrating alyssa's murder in august. she was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences behind bars. andrew beard was sentenced to 43 years. >> the overwhelming emotions. because finally, finally, this has been a long time coming. >> outside of court, teresa collard hugged family and friends after justice was finally delivered for her daughter. >> i've been going to that grave site since day one, telling her justice is going to be served. >> it is now almost five years to the day that alyssa was killed. alyssa's family says

that they are happy that they finally got justice, but that it is bittersweet because nothing can bring alyssa back. they are raising her daughter and they say they try to keep alyssa's memory alive by reminding her every day who her mother was. now we turn to a trial that is making international headlines and has rocked france. giselle pellico bravely showing up in court to testify after discovering her former husband of 50 years had been secretly drugging and raping her and then recording it. he admitted to it. even more disgusting, he allowed other men to rape her. at least 83 other men were recorded assaulting her as she lay unconscious. it is a case that bears eerie similarities to our next story. mandy boardman woke up one morning tasting half dissolved pills in her mouth. she would soon find out that her husband was betraying her and recording his crimes. it's early morning and mandy boardman wakes up to an unexplained and strange

feeling. >> i felt like maybe i had sex the night before, but i knew that i didn't because i didn't remember it. >> but she's never had sex with her husband. that was so forgettable. >> a lot of the times i truly thought i was crazy. i thought i was losing my mind. >> mandy's nightmare will become one of the most controversial cases a jury has ever had to decide. the young indianapolis, indiana mom had been happily married to david weiss for seven years. >> we were parents. we were busy. you know, we were just typical people, you know, living everyday lives. >> although the birth of their two children took a little spark out of their marriage, they were still going strong. >> we still had a sex life. we never stopped. >> but mandy is baffled when she notices morning after signs of sex that she can't remember having, and that david says never happened. >> he looked at me like i was crazy. >> mandy wonders, was she just

dreaming it all up? >> i was really deeply confused. >> a worried mandy confides in her best friend and neighbor, nicole davis. >> she asked me, you know, does that happen to you? do you ever just wake up and not remember going to sleep, not remember anything happening, but felt like something happened? >> but more strange signs start to appear. she starts feeling tired all day, as if she had never slept at all. >> i talked to my mom. i talked to my friends, and it would be like, well, you're a busy woman. it's only natural that you get tired. you're always on the go. and i went with that. but i still thought it was strange. i still thought something has to be wrong. >> then nicole drops in on mandy. one afternoon to find her in an alarming condition. >> she was on the couch, kind of drooling down her mouth. she was awake like coherent, but not really coherent. like she knew i was talking to her, but all she could do was kind of roll her

eyes around and tell me she was tired and she needed to take a nap. >> mandy knew it wasn't drugs or alcohol because she didn't drink and party and everything just kept getting stranger. >> one night i woke up in the middle of the night and i found a dissolving pill in my mouth, and i thought to myself, wow, how in the world can i get up? and i take medicine and not swallow it? >> her memory is slipping. mandy grows increasingly concerned about her mental health. >> here i am, tired all day. i'm forgetful. and now i'm taking pills in the middle of the night and forgetting to swallow them. >> but mandy's hubby seems oddly unconcerned. >> david never really had anything to say about it, and mandy will soon learn why. i am starting to put the pieces together now. i ended up waking up in the middle of the night and finding my husband over me with a flashlight. >> coming up, mandy uncovers the shocking truth about her husband. i was devastated. >> i was disgusted. 12 years with this man, but her

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welcome back. after months of waking up forgetful and feeling out of sorts, mandy boardman is about to find out why. the shocking reason caught right on her husband's phone, but seeking

justice would only leave her feeling victimized all over again. mandy boardman was just desperate for a good night's sleep, but suddenly she is awakened to a flashlight in her face and her own husband lurking above her. >> i'm asking what's going on. i'm watching my husband run from my side of the bed, over to his side of the bed. i go over there and i see him stuffing something under the mattress. what's under the mattress? nothing. what's under the mattress? nothing i'm going to get what's under the mattress so i go for it. we had a little physical toss. eventually i got what was under the mattress. i look at it and there was a vial and an eyedropper, and i'm like, what is this? nothing. no, you had this. what is this? you're trying to hide this? what is it? and he just tells me he's like, it's xanax. he's like, i'm giving it to you. and i'm like, why? he's like, i feel like you need sleep. you won't take it. so i'm giving it to you right there in the couple's bedroom. >> the whole ugly picture is coming into focus. >> after i find the vial, i

start noticing things. there were a couple of times that i would open up a new soda. i'd set it down. i'd walk away, i'd come back, i'd take a drink, and it would taste different. i asked him, i was like, what'd you do? and he's like, nothing. i was like, did you put something in my soda? and he's like, no, i didn't. i was like, then you drank it. >> david refuses, and that's all mandy needs to know. but mandy has no idea how deep david's evil deeds really go until he forgets to take his cell phone to work. >> so i decide to look at his phone. the worst things i've ever seen on the phone screen, she finds three x-rated videos of david raping her while she's in a deep sleep induced by pills that he has been secretly feeding her. >> i was devastated. >> i was disgusted. i'd spent 12 years with this man and given him every bit of trust i ever had. he was supposed to take care of me. he was supposed to protect me. there's no way that he's actually violating me and recording it.

>> mandy immediately files for divorce and reports david to indianapolis police in an extremely rare case, he is charged with raping his wife under laws that have been in place in all 50 states since the early 90s. at court, the videotapes are a key piece of evidence convincing a jury to convict him of rape, and five counts of criminal deviant conduct. >> we get the guilty verdict, and i am free. finally, like this man is gone. he's gonna be in prison. >> david faces 6 to 20 years on each of those counts. but when sentencing day arrives, mandy boardman says the words out of judge kurt a's gruber's mouth had her feeling assaulted all over again. >> i sat there and was stunned how? what? >> instead of a possible 120 years behind bars, the judge sentences david to only house

arrest. >> i don't understand how you can let him walk out the door with me. >> what? sending someone to their home to serve out a sentence is to me just completely inappropriate when you consider the home is where she was victimized and judge curt eisgruber adds insult to injury when he tells mandy, her husband may have been, quote, a terrible husband, but that he's a loving father and she should work toward forgiveness. >> i'm still to this day, baffled that those words came out of the judge's mouth. >> i could not believe my ears when i heard it. i thought, the man is insane. he was just flat out insane for doing that. >> i felt like he thinks of male to rape like a lot of people think of marital rape, that it's okay and that it's not real rape. >> judge curt eisgruber declined to comment on the sentence. prosecutor courtney curtis

believes the judge's opinion reflects society's attitude toward marital rape. >> i think there's an unwillingness to accept that it is as bad as other forms of rap. >> it is something that no wife or woman should ever have happened to them. >> but the judge's decision would be called into question again after david wiggins violated the terms of his house arrest and eventually spent a year in jail, and later he was arrested again for yet another crime. this time, cops busted david for using his phone to secretly record unsuspecting victims in the restroom at a grocery store where he worked, he faced multiple counts, but struck a deal and pleaded guilty to a single voyeurism charge. he served about five years and was released and is now a registered sex offender. mandy is now remarried, with the new last name of pond, but she's still

skeptical that any of her nightmare will ever end. joining us now is mandy pond. mandy, i am still so angry by the fact that your ex-husband was convicted of these violent, violent assaults on you and did not spend one day in prison as part of his sentence. >> no, he did not. it was very upsetting that day when he was sentenced to find out that he was, in fact, going home, and he would not be spending any time in jail. >> so do you believe because of that leniency and complete disregard for you in this case, that that made it possible for him to continue on with his crimes? >> it absolutely did. it set a precedent in the very beginning when he didn't have to go to prison. he got off, and that was in his mind to get out of jail free card. and he continued to do what he did as a result of that voyeurism case. >> then the sentencing part of the case involving you then is

updated or changed. what happened there? >> so what happened with the voyeurism charges and the sentencing was he would plead guilty to his voyeurism charges. he got the time served while he was in prison, waiting on those charges to come to because he violated his probation slash parole. he was then brought back to the charges from my case, which then at that point, the judge was forced to give him the suspended sentence that he received, and he had to serve that time. >> mandy, was there a little bit of sweet justice in here? >> there was definitely some sweet justice when it came to him getting the jail time from my case, because it was, in fact, the judge that had slapped him on the wrists many years before. >> your ex-husband is now technically a free man, even though he's a registered sex offender. how does that impact your life? >> well, it's been scary, honestly. and not only is he a registered sex offender, he is registered as a violent sexual predator. and it is very scary

knowing that he is out and about. and i could run into him at any time and it's not a comfortable feeling at all. >> mandy, thank you so much for joining us today. >> thank you so much. i appreciate it. >> up next, police say an a with the au pair led to a twisted murder plot. when we come back. >> finish ultimate engineered for the toughest conditions. dry, burnt on stains, old dishwashers, very hard water. finish ultimate with cycle sync. technology helps deliver the ultimate clean. >> emergency crystals pop and fizz when you throw them back. and who doesn't love a good throwback? now, with vitamin d for the dark days of winter. >> how was everyone's day, >> it was great. we made this taco crescent ring. i saw a weird bird. you came home, you

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>> new video of a police chase out of wisconsin involving a limousine. officers initially tried to pull over the limo because the driver was going too slow, but then he led them on a high-speed chase. he eventually lost control, crashing and then took off running into the woods. when cops caught him. he actually bit one of the officers. oh, don't bite me. so the k-9 unit bit him back and he was arrested. accused idaho college killer brian kohberger appeared in court before a new

judge in a new location. his defense team was able to get the trial moved, saying that there was no way that he would get a fair trial in moscow, idaho. so the trial is now in the idaho state capital of boise. kohberger faced the new judge in a suit he had asked the judge to appear in civilian clothing just for this hearing, but he'll be in prison. orange. after the trial is expected to begin sometime next year. that's it for today's true crime news. i'm anna garcia. join us next time. (ominous music) - it's chilling, it's haunting. it's really sad that that's how her life ended. (ominous music) it's a lot of passion, rage. you never see her ever again. (ominous music) sherri's murder was premeditated. he was planning to kill her. he thought he was going outsmart investigators. that didn't happen. (ominous music) (emergency services talk indistinctly on the radio)