that's a no. a definite no. okay. no. angela davis steve paulson it's always a lot of fun. yes. thank you so much. all right, before we go, make sure you send us your like it or not questions or record yourself asking a question. make sure to tell us where you're from. and you could see yourself on our next show. or you can send a message or a comment for us on instagram or tiktok. we would love to hear from you. thanks for watching. like it or not >> i'm anna garcia, right now on true crime news. a miami real estate mogul and his glamorous wife's marriage collapses. and the battle over the couple's $360 million fortune takes a dark turn. >> no one wants giannis your emergency, please. someone with a gun is here. >> nine people arrested in a terrifying murder for hire plot that went on for years. she was poisoned, rammed into by a

flatbed truck and confronted by a masked gunman. but his campaign of stalking torment and attempted murder took a tragic twist. no one saw coming. plus, a hero police officer gunned down on the job rocking a small town in illinois. >> i lost my best friend. >> my interview with his sobbing widow, and then that's when all the rumors spread. what was the shocking web of secrets that she was hiding as she poured her heart out to me? your daily source for true crime starts right now. thanks for joining us. we begin with a twisted murder for hire plot masterminded by a millionaire real estate titan, sergio pino and his wife tatiana were fixtures on the miami social scene. but in private, the glamorous couple's marriage was on the rocks and it seems that sergio would do anything to protect his fortune, even kill.

coral gables, florida a land of wealth, yachts and million dollar houses. but it wasn't the glitz and glamor that brought federal agents to a dramatic caught on video raid on this sprawling mansion. it was a murder for hire plot. >> this case is about a husband, mr. pino, who decided, after years of marriage that he was going to kill his wife. >> that husband, sergio pino, was a self-made florida man. success story building a real estate fortune worth at least $150 million. >> we knew of the pino couple because mr. pino. sergio. pino. he was the head of a very big development development company, century homebuilders, which is well known here in the south florida area. >> but as pino's 32 year marriage to his glamorous wife, tatiana pino, collapsed, the fbi says the real estate developer hatched a plan to get her out of

his picture perfect life for good. >> our investigation revealed that there were multiple attempts on the victim's life to include poisoning and intentional vehicle ramming, and attempted shooting, as well as two separate arsons. >> the crime wave was apparently triggered by tatiana and sergio's contentious divorce. she wanted much more than the $20 million settlement. he was willing to hand over. >> she was actually what it was alleged to have been poisoned by fentanyl. >> in divorce documents, tatiana claimed the poison attempt was just the beginning. even after she moved from the waterfront coral gables mansion to her own house in nearby pinecrest. two of her sisters cars were set on fire. then, in another attempt, her suv was rammed by a home depot truck. >> you know, she was out doing a few errands and when she came home, there was a rental. home depot truck that was sitting on

the street just outside her driveway, waiting for her as she pulls into her driveway. this truck does kind of a backwards circle and crashes into her doo. >> surveillance cameras capture all of it, including the truck speeding off. >> it was the first time we, as the local police department her, were made aware of all the things that were going on in this pino's life, and we were really given a good picture that this was not just one little isolated incident here in pinecrest. this was a piece of a bigger puzzle, a bigger case that where where tatiana pino was the victim. >> investigators soon learned sergio's war of the roses battle was about to hit the next level. >> he tried to have her killed on separate occasions. when that failed, he put out a contract on her head on two separate occasions, hiring separate groups of hitmen to do the job.

>> pino apparently calculated that taking tatiana's life by hiring hitmen would be far cheaper than a multi-million dollar divorce. >> pino would pay $150,000 on the first disbursement, and another $150,000 if the murder did not connect pino to the activities. mrs. pino had to die before their next divorce proceedings. chris, number one, what's your emergency? >> i need someone with a gun. is here. >> tatiana's adult daughter, alessandra pino, frantically called 911 when a gunman showed up at her mom's house and aimed a gun at her head. >> there's a guy with a gun? yes, he just pointed a gun at me and they're still here. >> the fbi says the gunman was looking for tatiana and found alessandra instead. but

investigators were already closing in. according to the feds. sergio pino had turned to byron bennett and fausto vosler to organize the crews that carried out all the violent attempts. the wealthy businessman knew the pair from their contract work on his roof and his yacht, but one suspect, avery bivins, had a change of heart and agreed to cooperate with the feds. investigators listened in as bivins and fausto vosler were recorded discussing an escape plan. i was gonna tell you quickly. >> we need a plan. where? let's say, god forbid they knock on your door one day or whatever the case. >> someone's gotta let me know. >> nine suspects were arrested, and once there was enough evidence, federal agents swarmed sergio pino's mansion to bring him in as the mastermind. >> the fbi's swat team surrounded mr. pino's residence.

announced their presence over the loudspeakers, and ordered mr. pino to exit his house and surrender. >> the wealthy developer refused to give up the failed plan ended in a stunning plot twist. >> unfortunately, mr. pino did not respond to any of our efforts to have him surrender. after an hours long standoff, miami swat agents made entry into the home and ultimately finding mr. pino deceased in his bedroom from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. >> as sergio's body was removed from the home, tatiana pino's nightmare had finally ended. >> she is safe, and she no longer needs to live in fear for her life. >> tatiana is rebuilding her life. in fact, she is running her estranged husband's company, at least for now. up next, when a hero cop is gunned down, his double life is exposed. did he

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we turn now to a sordid story that i covered in the small town of fox lake, illinois. a beloved local police officer calls for

help, claiming that he is under attack and is then shot and killed. shortly after his death, i sat down with his grief stricken wife, desperate for answers. little did anyone know that the investigation would soon uncover that fox lake police had a traitor in their ranks. >> i called his cell phone yesterday because i missed his voice so much. >> when we first met mel gliniewicz, she appeared every bit the grieving widow, a cop's wife, coping with a personal crisis. >> i lost my best friend. >> her husband, lieutenant joe gliniewicz, a decorated beloved police officer, mentor and army vet, affectionately known in the idyllic small town of fox lake, illinois, as g.i. joe. his absence a vacuum in a model american family. >> someone took him away from me. someone took him away from his family. and that that that really. it sickens me that

someone would do that. >> but the truth between the tears was more scandalous than even we could have ever imagined. lieutenant joe was on his way to work and went to patrol an industrial area where vandals were spotted. he radioed in to dispatch saying that he was on foot chasing a suspects. you know what? just three minutes later, he calls in for a second unit as backup. these were his last words. >> 7-4 6-1 10-4 gary payton ii ynoa steph home plate. >> then silence. minutes later, he's found dead. >> that obviously sparked a major manhunt, with over 400 police personnel responding to the area. numerous aircrafts, numerous k-9 units. >> cops find nine dna samples at the scene. they test more than 100 people to see if they can find a match. even though a

dozen cops investigated this case, the search had yet to turn up any viable suspects. >> it was the longest day, the longest day of my life. >> not having any answers, not knowing where my husband was. >> little did we know at the time. but after we left mel, we found out that our interview was contributing to a bizarre cover up. >> and then the nightmare began. and all i want to do is wake up from it. >> we have to consider a suicide, or we have to consider a accident. >> when the coroner said maybe it's a suicide, how did you take that? >> there was a lot of anger. i wholeheartedly believe he was murdered. >> and to say otherwise is disrespectful, hurtful, irresponsible. and that's when mel begins gaslighting us to

polish the halo around her herro husband. >> the coroner is an elected person. he didn't perform the autopsy. the one that performed the autopsy came and stood on my deck and told me everything. >> everything. according to mel, is that her husband was killed by a single devastating gunshot wound to the torso. even though he was wearing a bulletproof vest. mel was also told the vest stopped one bullet, but another bullet entered at a downward angle, and that was the fatal shot. >> there were two shots. somebody that is going to kill themselves is not going to shoot themselves twice, which is true. >> but he was also a skilled enough marksman to know how to make a suicide look like an accident. the kind of thing that

would preserve a policeman's pension. >> there were things that were happening in our life that people who are going to commit suicide would never do. he'd already applied for chief's jobs in other towns. he was retiring out. we were planning vacations. he lived for these things. >> where are you watching? >> one, two. three. right. >> those are places you haven't checked yet. >> this is video of joe gliniewicz teaching teens how to be cops. a youth mentorship charity. joe and mel ran out of the fox lake police department called the explorer program. >> your job when you exit is to come out here. >> the guy known as g.i. joe is also seen here on a video leading training on how to respond to an officer, down to rescue the downed officer. >> got it. >> and mel and joe didn't just run the program. they also ran its bank account and how they were using that bank account and

for what had caught the attention of town administrators. >> we thought after the funeral that it was going to get easier. we were like, all right, you know, a lot of the stress is gone. and then all of a sudden that's when all the rumors spread. >> but were they rumors or was mel gliniewicz using the media to hide the truth? >> i lost my heart. all i want is one more kiss. one more hug. one more chance to hear his boisterous laughter. >> when we come back. bombshell texts. a paper trail and the plot to take o a town administrator. that's next. >> look at this one under-eye bag. >> it's gone. there's this side. and this side. >> just look at these results.

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widow shortly after he passed away, i had no idea that behind her tears, she was sitting on a scandalous secret. >> i lost my best friend. one day without crying. would be nice. >> mel gliniewicz is heartbroken and furious in front of our cameras. >> this country isn't helping. you know when there are calls going out to shoot officers just because they wear a uniform. >> her husband of 27 years, police lieutenant joe gliniewicz, affectionately known as g.i. joe there we go, was allegedly shot and killed after a struggle while apparently chasing down three suspects in fox lake, illinois. >> when our officers can't go home without being shot at and there's a problem, another problem. >> mel's story continued to get more curious. >> i could go on and on and on about all the stories that my

husband, but that isn't going to change the fact that he's never coming home. >> after two fbi agents called her in for questioning to find joe's killers, what they found between all the words was an entirely different crime related to those finances. with that charity explorer program, it is what it is, you know. >> i know what he went of. use the explorer credit card because we always paid that back, you know. so i mean, that was just one of those things. >> there were times where i didn't take it for nine months and wrote a $2,700 check. yeah, we owed that. you know, so i mean, it's like people want to go, well, that's definitely fun, but i'm like, no, not when you paid it back. >> just one problem. it wasn't paid back. tens of thousands of dollars were built from the youth charity central to the gliniewicz identity, used as a private slush fund for their vacations, lifestyle, even subscriptions. and when a fox lake town administrator asked

for an audit, joe panicked, killed himself, and mel started lying. >> somebody knows something out there. somebody knows who did this. and for whatever reason, they're holding on to that. but they need to remember that this was somebody's father. this was somebody's husband, and this was a community's leader. just they need to come forward. >> but it was all laid bare in bombshell text messages that gliniewicz thought he deleted before his death. they reveal the village administrator was hot on his heels. if she gets a hold of the old checking account, i'm pretty well. another text sho's mel replying. maybe we need to hide the funds somehow. and police claim gliniewicz even had a plan to discredit the village

administrator by planting drugs on her. >> they opened up a desk drawer and found a small amount of what tested positive to be cocaine in an unmarked evidence bag. >> investigators discovered the revenge went further with a plan for murder. detective covelli stated gliniewicz was looking to quote, speak with a high ranking motorcycle gang member to initiate a hit on the village manager. in the end, joe abandoned his hitman schemes, deciding the best way to bury his scandal and save his pension was to make himself look like a martyr. it didn't work. >> this extensive investigation has concluded with an overwhelming amount of evidence that gliniewicz death was a carefully staged suicide. >> i'd like to make it clear i never took a cent from the explorer fund. >> there were very different tiers from melanie gliniewicz, this time at a sentencing for felony deceptive practices, plea

charges for admitting her role in joe's financial cover ups. now a convicted felon, she was sentenced to 18 to 24 months probation rather than face trial on more serious charges of money laundering. melanie's probation ended earlier this year, but she is still seeking joe's pension. nearly $70,000 a year in payments. the pension board is yet to r urn a decision on whether or not to give it to her. we'll be right back. >> i told myself i was okay with my moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis symptoms with my psoriatic arthritis symptoms, but just okay isn't okay. and i was done settling. >> if you still have symptoms after trying a tnf blocker like humira or enbrel, rinvoq works differently. >> rinvoq is a once daily pill that can rapidly relieve joint pain, stiffness, and swelling as fast as two weeks for some and

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