there, stays there. if the host is kind of like, you know what? we are not going to eat. you know, a dozen of these items or whatever. please take it back. okay. >> reluctantly then. >> yeah. yeah, yeah. too bad if you're trying to get rid of it, but we'll move on. now, before we go, send us your. like it or not questions or record yourself asking a question and tell us where you're from. you could see yourself on our next show or send us a message or comment on instagram or tiktok. thank you so much for watching. like it or i'm and senior and we'll see you next tim i'm anna garcia. right now on true crime news. a teenager riding his bike gunned down just days before christmas. no motive, no suspects. >> nobody wanted to say anything. people are scared. >> but brian herrera's family won't stop fighting for justice. plus, we're going to tell us. >> you're going to tell us. >> oh, jesus christ, a maniac

stalks a young mom, and her boyfriend slams into their car and holds her at knifepoint. >> he just looked at me and he said, kill both of you. >> today, the harrowing second by second 911 call with an ending you won't believe. >> come on. leslie. leslie. >> ma'am, your daily source for true crime starts right now. we begin with a family's fight for justice. it has been 12 years since brian herrera was gunned down. just a few days before christmas. and so far, every lead has turned up empty. 16 year old brian herrera was a loving son and brother to his family. >> he was great. he was very shy, very sweet, very loving, an a student and a kid who never caused anyone a day of trouble in his life. >> he wanted to do so many different things. he changed every year. he changed the story of why he wants to become when

he grew up. >> but none of that made any difference to the killer who gunned him down while he rode his bike only three blocks from his home in miami, florida. on his way to do homework at a friend's house. he never made it. >> there isn't anyone that i've spoken to who knew brian, whether it's his friends or his family who wasn't able to immediately convey this profound sense of loss. you know, a uniquely kind soul that had been lost to us. it was an awful, awful case to pick up. >> we first heard of brian herrera thanks to an email sent by his heartbroken step mother, anabel. we are desperate and need help in solving this case, she wrote. our family needs help bringing brian the justice he deserves. the murder happened only days before christmas, in broad daylight in the middle of a residential neighborhood. and

yet, not a single witness has stepped forward to help find the killer. you asked us to look into this story. what do you think we can do for you? >> well, i'm hoping that someone who saw what happened that day is willing him to come forth and give information on what happened. we would like closure. brian deserves justice. >> anabel herrera became brian's stepmother when he was four years old, but she misses him today as only a mother can. and she will never forget the day she got the worst news of her life. >> this is something completely devastating. it's life changing, and it's something you never get over. >> brian's father, william herrera, was at work when he got a visit from police. >> they told me they found him laying on the street. and i was, like, crazy. i didn't know what to do, to say. and that's when i realized brian was not with us anymore. >> christmas for the herrera's

would never be the same. >> on christmas eve, my husband had to go identify his son's body. then christmas day, we were planning his funeral. >> while the police remain tight lipped about the details of brian herrera's murder, his parents have now taken on the role of playing detective, and they say that they found out some information. they believe that brian ran into someone right here. >> he was intercepted right here, right in front of this house. most likely, people tried to rob him. he tried to evade them with his bike, and he couldn't overrun them. >> you know, it's been so long now, and we still haven't, you know, obtained an arrest and all these, you know, the neighbors, unfortunately, they're scared to speak, but we know that they saw, you know, everyone knows pretty much who did this. and they're scared to come forward and give information. >> investigators need help. they say brian was in the allapattah neighborhood of miami just after

11 a.m. he was riding on north 11th avenue toward the expressway when he was accosted and shot near the intersection of northwest 39th street. sergeant diaz was one of the first to arrive at the crime scene, and remembers well what he found. >> i actually found brian's backpack. now what i was expecting to find was narcotics or firearms, because it's so typical for us to have cases that involve gang members. but when i looked through his bag, what i actually found was drawings of spider-man. i found science papers with a's on them. i found trading cards, you know, everything that would indicate that this was, in fact, a child who had been shot. and that is a that's a really tough thing to have to see. every night when i go to bed, i think about brian herrera. i think, you know, we

need to close that case. and as long as it's open, i'm going to feel that way. >> the challenge is getting witnesses to speak out. >> we drove by the area many times, and all the neighbors would come out to tell us what they saw that day, and then all of a sudden it stopped. nobody wanted to say anything. and if i would confront someone. hey, remember you told me? i don't know, i didn't say that. the people are scared. >> even in their new home. memories of brian are everywhere in this frame. a special way to honor brian for a high school graduation he would miss. >> i notice your son's high school diploma on the wall. >> it was a mixture of emotions that day. it was beautiful, but it was very sad not seeing him walk down that aisle. >> you said you were wearing his shoes yesterday. yeah. >> every once in a while. >> tell me about that. >> we had the same size shoes, you know, and like, when i wear them, i feel like i connected

somehow, i don't know. so i wear them every christmas. >> the season they lost him. he is remembered in a special way in every day. anabel herrera continues her small but unwavering campaign to find justice for brian until she gets answers i want justice. >> i want someone to look at brian's story and feel our pain and just come forward. but we need to pull a few heartstrings here. and i think someone will come through. >> if you have any information that could help solve this case, please contact miami-dade crime stoppers. or you can call our tip line at (888) 845-7555. when we come back terror on the road. they're going to tell us. >> they're going to tell us. they're tracking the car. >> a mom being hunted by a madm. her terrifying story. d the incredible twist. next.

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we turn now to a story with an ending that's nearly impossible to believe. it all starts like a typical day. a couple out running errands. but this day is about to become anything but ordinary. >> we're going to tell us.

you're going to tell us. >> oh, jesus christ. >> the screams of a young mother with a knife to her throat. oh! >> i thought that she was dying right there. >> what happened to leslie bassanelli? and who was the monster wielding the knife? >> she had a cut on her face. from her. from her lip, all the way almost to her ear. >> growing up in the sleepy hamlet of moscow, pennsylvania, leslie bassanelli gained a reputation for her blissful, carefree approach to life. >> she's such a kind soul. she'd do anything for you. >> leslie is a very kind hearted person and has, in fact, gotten awards at work for being the most liked person by customers in those kinds of things, so we're very proud of that. >> after high school, leslie began dating tim mcgoff.

>> in the beginning, the things she was happy and things seemed to be going great for them, but her parents saw a different side of tim. >> he was a controller, and he liked to punish her. >> then mother nature dropped a bombshell. a baby boy named colin. >> the pregnancy was unexpected. neither one of them had the funds to establish a home. and so my wife and i talked about it and decided that we would make our home their home. >> leslie noticed that tim began to drink more and work less. their refrigerator filled top to bottom with beer. >> he spent most of his time in the back room in the lower level of our house, watching tv and drinking, and leslie told family and friends the heavy drinking turned her lover into a monster, and when she became pregnant a second time, things got even worse.

>> he's choked her. at one time, she told me and pushed her while she was pregnant. >> at this point, it was the yelling, the like towards colin and then towards her, and you could just see, like the little boy that colin was, was starting to change. and she noticed it too, because she was she changed too. she was more quiet and walked on eggshells, and she was just a different person. >> leslie found the abuse too much and then found the courage to finally leave her boyfriend. leslie reconnected with a childhood sweetheart, craig hoover. hoover was recently separated and had two young children of his own. >> our relationship seemed pretty perfect. we were. we had a lot of good times, a lot of laughs. >> but there was someone who thought it wasn't so perfect. tim mcgoff that's the highest risk for any victim of domestic

violence is when they're leaving or when they have left. >> i don't think she realized how significant the hatred that he had for her, that hatred reached its boiling point on a weekend when mcgough was scheduled to have a visit with his suns, but the boys decided they would rather stay home to play with craig's kids. craig had surprised leslie with his two girls coming in for the weekend. you know, it's not unusual for kids wanting to be with other kids. and in this particular case, young colin wanted to spend time with leslie and craig and his two daughters. >> that evening, leslie and craig left the kids with her parents. leslie put on a thick scarf to keep the winter cold at bay, but a cold snap would be the least of her concerns. immediately after they pulled out of the driveway, craig knew something was wrong. >> a car had pulled out right behind us, and i had asked

leslie if he had noticed any headlights when we pulled out of her driveway, and she said no. and i'm like, well, you know, this car came out of nowhere and the car had disappeared, and we pulled out, and then we traveled a couple more miles. there was a car on the side of the road and we pulled up and i'm like, there's the same car on the side of the road. i said, you know, it's kind of strange. and she kind of brushed it off. >> was craig being paranoid or did leslie have a fuming ex on her trail? on their way home, the mysterious car reappears and the hair on the back of craig's neck is standing at full attention. >> i pulled up to the stop sign and i looked over and i'm like, there's that same car. i said, i think we're being followed. >> leslie calls 911. >> okay, where are they now? >> right now we're going to be passing by north pocono bagel. all right. almost at 307. >> now passing north pocono bagel and finding that anytime we try to, you know, kind of

turn around or go by us, and then once we see us pull up somewhere else, then they'll pull out. >> and that's when the mysterious driver on their tail moves in for the kill. >> are you alone here with somebody? >> i'm with somebody now. there. they just pulled out. they. >> oh, jesus christ. they're attacking. the car. >> 7-4. >> leslie, what's going on? >> and i just remember, like, looking out the side of my car, like we're. we're going to die. >> coming up, the heart stopping confrontation with a man determined to kill the minute by

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>> leslie! leslie! >> leslie! come on. leslie! leslie! ma'am. ma'am, where are you? >> i could see him standing in the middle of the road, holding her ponytail and a knife in his hand. i was too far away to do anything else, and i just looked at him and i said. i said, tim, you got two kids at home and. and he just looked at me and he said, i'll kill both of you. and then he grabbed ahold of her ponytail, and then he tried to slice her throat. and then she grabbed ahold of her throat, and i thought that she was dying right there. >> the brutal knife attack was savage, but despite a deep and violent stab, a miraculous moment, leslie's life was

spared. >> that was the most horrific moment of my life. because i thought i was going to die. i started to run. i saw tim standing in the middle of the roadway with a knife like this, it just this awful. evil glare. he put the knife in my mouth and sliced. >> this is actually the item of property that saved her life. >> remember when leslie left the house and she put on a winter scarf? miraculously, that scarf saved her. mcguff's knife didn't pierce the thick material. >> so if i didn't have that on, i really wouldn't be here today. craig would have watched me die in front of him. >> turns out the car mcgoff turned into a tank had been

stolen earlier that day, and looking inside, cops make a disturbing discovery. >> they found a loaded 22 three two liter bottles of gasoline soda bottles in a backpack. they said that he had about 70 bullets in his pocket and a bic lighter. >> cops believe leslie and her boyfriend weren't all he was after. >> our speculation was, well, he had three bottles of gasoline. and there's three ways in and out of leslie's parents house. so, i mean, our speculation was that maybe he was going to torch the house. and as they were running out of the house, shoot them. >> it took a jury less than three hours to find tim mcgoff guilty of 15 counts, including attempted murder, with a judge's sentence of a minimum of 21 years behind bars. >> we got 21 years minimum, which was which was tremendous, and it was certainly brought justice to the family.

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off when you don't see a body and then they just disappear? >> it's weird. and when things don't add up, he makes a dreadful mistake. it leads to an international manhunt for a dead man walking on the next true crime news. for the latest breaking crime news, go to true crime news.com. watch more on our youtube channel, listen to our podcast and follow us at my true crime news. that's it for today's true crime news i'm andy garcia. see you next (pensive music) - [don] she had been stabbed. it was very clear that she had been violently sexually abused. - we may not catch him if we don't get the dna that we were hunting. - that level of brutality was very unique in a veterinarian office. it scared people. - [caller] how long does it take them to get here? - how did you determine he was your man? - he was lying about not knowing andrea. he clearly had killed her. (suspenseful music)