anyone that i've dated ask me for it. if they did, that would be a red flag. and that's that's a hard no for me. and i've never asked anyone for their location. if you say you're going to be at my house at 730 and you're running a few minutes late, you text me and let me know. i don't need to check and see and then wonder, okay, why is he you know, at the house all the way across the street? i know that, yeah, okay. well, this has been fun. appreciate it. nice to nice to have you, greg and phil. nice to meet you. and claudine. okay, so before we go, we want to let you know that we would l e to hear from you. o send u s >> i'm anna garcia, right now on true crime news. a las vegas woman with dreams of becoming a crime scene investigator hits the casino with a friend. their exit caught on surveillance cameras. >> they got into eric's car together. >> then lesley palacio disappears without a trace. >> that's when we knew. this is

more serious than what we think it is. >> what else did the cameras see? >> my mom is just crying. it's like this, like blood curdling scream. >> then he pulled my teeth out and he choked me. >> he's the dentist accused of running a little shop of horrors. tomás. you say the dentist punched you? >> yeah, i started videotaping because i felt something was wrong with the procedure. >> i head to jacksonville, florida to investigate one very bad dentist who messed with the wrong baby. plus, the man convicted of stabbing ucla grad student brianna kupfer to death is sentenced. we have the latest. your daily source for true crime starts right now. hi, everyone. thanks for joining us. we begin in las vegas. that's where lesley palacio and a friend head out for a night on the strip. when lesley didn't come home, cops uncovered disturbing surveillance footage that will piece this puzzle together. it was meant to be a

normal night out on the town in vegas for 22 year old lesley palacio. >> i heard lesley leave. i heard the back door open, but the young medical laboratory assistant student wouldn't return home. >> that night, my mom and kielly come back and my mom is just crying. >> it's like this, like blood curdling scream. >> how did a fun meet up with a trusted friend turned deadly? >> lesley was more of like a mother figure. >> sisters ashley and kaylee palacio say lesley was a nurturing sibling who always talked about bigger plans for the family's future. >> she always said, i want to get you guys out of here and get you guys a bigger house. >> and she also wanted to turn

her medical lab experience into working crime scenes. >> she wanted to become a csi, but one fateful night, lesley would instead become a crime victim. >> the night started with the son of a family friend texting leslie eric rangel. ybarra wanted to grab dinner and head over to a casino. >> in the casino surveillance video, we see leslie and eric walking into the casino together, having a few drinks, spending time there, and then walking out of the casino together. >> palacio family attorney ophelia markarian says everything about the vegas night seemed very normal. >> they got into eric's car together and left the casino. that night. >> but this text at 440 in the morning, sent to leslie's sister, points to something strange, leslie writing that she needs to talk, but then never responds. just after 6 a.m, a

neighbor's security camera captures eric, pulling up to his home. he gets out of the truck and walks next to leslie, who is struggling to stand. they manage to make it in, but an hour later, eric and his father jose rangel are seen carrying leslie out and into his truck. this time, she's not walking at all. >> you can clearly see eric driving off with leslie's lifeless body in the truck, and you can also see eric's father, jose rangel, washing off with a hose. the front yard. after eric leaves. >> in the meantime, the palacios pleaded for information for 12 long days, holding out hope for her to come home. >> we all looked at each other and then that's when we knew, like, yeah, this is more serious than what we think it is.

>> then the news they dreaded leslie's badly decomposed body was found near valley of fire state park, nearly 60 miles from the vegas strip. >> my mom is just crying. >> according to a grand jury transcript that night, eric called a friend saying he needed help getting rid of leslie's body. the friend later testified eric told him he killed leslie and that she was dead in the back of his truck. as days passed with crime investigators searching for her, eric and his father vanished. >> his father actually a few months later, was crossing the border in mexico, and that's how he ended up turning himself in. >> jose rangel eventually pleaded guilty to helping his son move leslie's body from the family home. he was sentenced to two years, but was released after eight months. >> i feel like it was very

unfair because then again, he and eric are the last ones to see leslie in that state and crime scene. >> investigators had found cleaning supplies and leslie's dna in eric's bedroom. yet he has never faced a trial. >> it just makes me feel so gross and disgusted. >> that's because eric remained living his life in mexico for several years until a recent break. eric was arrested by mexican authorities. >> there's still a lot of work ahead of us because the extradition process can be lengthy. >> the palacio family remains frustrated as they wait for justice, something her loving sisters are committed to findin. >> i'm hoping that the court has a really good outcome, and that's when you can see my true reaction until he's finally put away for life. >> eric rangel ibarra is

awaiting extradition from mexico, which could be taking a while due to red tape. leslie's family still doesn't know how she died. her cause of death was ruled undetermined by the medical examiner. now to california's infamous dating game killer, who went from charming tv bachelor to one of the most notorious serial killers in american history. he died on death row. but authorities believe there could be even more victims out there. i just spoke to the man who put him and many other high profile criminals away. he's put away some of the most violent criminals and worked on some of the most sensational criminal cases in american history. matt murphy's the book of murder, a prosecutor's journey through love and death, tells the true story of what it means to get justice. john meehan of dirty john fame, murderous power ranger skylar deleon and dozens of others across a storied and stellar legal career. it makes

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defense attorney, a move matt says doomed the trial. from the start. >> he gave a very technically sound cross-examination of this 12 year old murder victim's mother, where he basically called her a liar. but i looked over and all that jury saw was the monster who murdered her daughter, calling her a liar. >> after matt put him away, alcalá died behind bars in 2021, but huntington beach, california police believe he is still responsible for dozens of other cold case murders. based on the hundreds of photos featuring stalking and torture that they found in his old storage locker. do you believe all the people in those photos are victims? >> some of them have been identified over the years. one of them, christine thornton, she was the wyoming victim, and wyoming and brogdon alcalá had no connection that we know of until we learned that he'd been given permission by his parole officer to drive across country

twice. and prosecutors, i really got to hand it to him. they saw that photo, and there was there were the skeletal remains of a young woman discovered in the 70s. and based on the mountains in the background of the photo, those remains were identified, matt believes, even though he put alcalá away for good, law enforcement should still pursue new charges against him. i hate the word closure, but it would bring some level and some feeling of justice, matt murphy's the book of murder a prosecutor's journey through love and death is out now. >> when we come back, he preyed on the most vulnerable of patients. my investigation into a very bad pediatric dentist next. >> who's coming in the driveway? daddy. my goodness. >> my daughter is being treated

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>> we turn now to jacksonville, florida. i went there to investigate disturbing allegations against a local dentist. he is accused of inflicting unthinkable pain against his young patients and making millions in the process. this is horrifying. those are the screams of a three year old boy in the hands of a dentist accused of intentionally inflicting pain and torturing children to satisfy deviant,

sadistic appetites. all this revealed in court documents. >> i can't personally imagine a situation where there would be a worse dentist in america. >> many of his little patients would have to agree. >> he heard in me and i was yelling for my mom, but he wouldn't let my mom and my dad in. and that he choked me. >> tomás you say the dentist punched you? >> yeah, he threw me. they choked me and they sat on me. >> these are three of the dozens of children attorney john phillips initially represented when you put 81 children side by side by side, and you measure the level of consistency, it's off the charts. this is the dentist. they are all complaining about doctor howard schneider of jacksonville, florida. some of doctor schneider's harshest critics say he ran a little shop of horrors that disfigured children and

robbed them of their smiles. the pediatric dentist has been threatened with legal action by more than 100 families, represented by two different law firms, one alleging professional malpractice. the other accusing him of a number of terrible things, including battery, false imprisonment and intentional abuse. >> the more procedures, the more the more billings in one suit. >> schneider's practice was called a house of horrors. >> bilking the tax payer one baby tooth at a time. >> though schneider's attorney is fighting back, saying the lawsuits are only meant to embarrass and harass his client. >> it would go in for caps, and two months later they'd have those same teeth that were capped extracted. >> schneider's lawyer maintains the procedures were medically necessary. yet phillips showed me bag after bag filled with children's teeth, which he says

didn't need any work. healthy baby teeth that should have just fallen out naturally. >> i do believe it was very unnecessary that he kept all 14 teeth. >> shawaryn christopher's son, zion is the one you heard screaming in the video. >> my son was screaming about ten minutes. >> poor little zion went in for just one cap on a decaying tooth and came out with a mouth full of metal. >> i started videotaping because i felt something was wrong with the procedure. >> as horrifying as it is to listen to zion screaming, imagine if you could not hear your child screaming for help. amanda berry and nicholas balzer are deaf and they had no idea that their son dominic was screaming in the dentist chair. they couldn't come in the room. >> no. >> and you would have wanted your mommy and your daddy there. >> yeah, i was screaming for my mom. >> with the help of a sign language interpreter, the parents told me their horror story. dominic went in to have one tooth extracted. they say

schneider pulled dominic's front teeth instead. and when i pulled the gauze out of his mouth, his front teeth were missing. >> he pulled my teeth out and he choked me. my face was red. >> when we come back, a viral social media post sparks a backlash against doctor schneider. but will these families get justice? >> there's been a series of complaints abo dococtor schneider, but they never went anywhere. next. >> look at this one under-eye bag. >> it's gone. there's this side and this side. >> just look at these results. >> 50 and haven't slept in weeks. 35 and fresh from a vacation. >> they are some of the hottest videos on social media. those videos claiming to instantly get rid of bags under your eyes. it's called plexaderm and lifestyle expert annette figueroa is here to tell us why

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>> this is 11 year old thomas dennis and his service dog, crosby. thomas has autism and epilepsy. yet doctor schneider didn't allow his mother or his service dog to be by his side in the exam room. so you're all by yourself. susan, denise says thomas was severely traumatized by being restrained in something called a papoose board. >> he punched me on the shoulder and i didn't like it. >> papoose boards are used in pediatric dentistry. in certain cases, but dentists must get the parent's permission. >> there's been a series of complaints about doctor schneider, but they never went anywhere. >> well, that all changed when one mother got mad and went on a rant on facebook. >> he messed with the wrong baby. that's what he did. >> what got brandi motley so upset was this. these are photos of her daughter, brielle, right

after an appointment with doctor schneider. >> that's when i seen brielle on the papoose board, hyperventilating and blood everywhere. >> doctor schneider pulled eight baby teeth. even though brielle's mom claims she didn't have one cavity. four on the top and four on the bottom. >> all of her front teeth and all of her bottom front teeth were gone. all she had was jaw. teeth. so brandi took to facebook and let it all out. i posted her pictures along with what happened that day. >> brandi's facebook page about doctor schneider, which at the time grew to more than 14,000 supporters, brought other parents out of the shadows. >> and then i realized that thomas was not the only child i was like, holy crud, what's going on with this guy? >> finally, years later, but finally, finally, finally, finally indeed. >> after weeks of protests, doctor schneider gave up. he voluntarily relinquished his license to practice and shut

down his office. >> the attorney general's office called my home. >> doctor schneider was arrested and charged with 11 counts of medicaid fraud for performing procedures without parental consent and submitting unauthorized claims for medicaid reimbursement. he was also charged with one count of scheming to defraud. >> the handcuffs made me smile. yes. yes, ma'am. >> schneider was booked and released on $110,000 bond. >> when doctor schneider got arrested, it made me so happy. >> doctor schneider denies the allegations and would not talk to us. his attorney sent us this statement, reading in part. my client and i respectfully decline your offer to opportunity to participate in a process which has heretofore been anything but fair and balanced. not long after we spoke with the families, many of them reached a settlement agreement with doctor schneider. the terms of which are

confidential. but just as the angry parents thought that he would finally get his day in criminal court, two physicians testified that doctor schneider suffers from dementia and the judge makes a bombshell decision. the dentist is incompetent to stand trial. all charges dropped. next, the man convicted of killing brianna kupfer. sentenced. we have the latest. >> do you have a coffee? smile. drinking coffee causes yellow teeth for thousands of people. just like you. and whitening toothpaste just doesn't make those stains go away. introducing power swabs. thefirm that lifts coffee stains off your teeth in less than five minutes. >> i've smoked. i've drank coffee. i drink red wine and using power swabs. it's made a difference. people ask me, what do you do to whiten your teeth and i'm really proud to tell them that i use power swabs. >> the secret is a tooth

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every day. and now we have a true crime news update on the brianna kupfer murder. it's a story that you, the true crime news community, have been outspoken about. her killer, sean smith has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. brianna, a ucla grad student, was stabbed 46 times while working at a furniture store. that's it for today's true crime news. i'm anna garcia. see you (pensive music) (gun fires) - [caller] my friend is staying with me and there's blood everywhere. - what was your reaction to hearing those gunshots? - this was something very personal. they were there for one reason, and that was to kill moriah wilson. - everybody loved her. she was this absolutely incredible cyclist that was gonna probably go really far. - did the evidence give detectives some kind of direction? (pensive music)