all of this mania. and emily, good luck with the sharks. i know they're doing a little bit better this season. i hope that that continues. >> and mark, thanks for letting me ride along. >> love to have you. >> you are a perfect man, a perfect gentleman here and always appreciate your great meteorology. so all right, thanks everybody for joining us. we will catch you next time for the next episode of like it or not. >> get out. go and take that step. >> go and break it down. rock your body. move it out. go and take that step. go and break it down. rock your body. mov e it out. don't ta that >> i'm anna garcia right now on true crime news. the shocking sentences for two of the men involved in the murder of general hospital star johnny wactor. >> you're remanded to the custody of the sheriff to be delivered to the state prison in a true crime. >> news exclusive. we are with johnny's grieving mother, family and friends as they head to

court to face the men as they learn their fate. >> i want them to know who my son was, who they took. >> her reaction to the sentences was justice served. >> it's kind of ripping the band-aid off, you know, every time. >> plus, it's a murder mystery straight out of a mob movie. a self-made texas tycoon with millions in the bank. he loved women, and they loved him. but someone shot him dead, execution style. >> he was shot in the head, chest and leg. >> was it a crime of passion by an angry ex? a money grab or bad blood with a business rival? i went to texas to investigate. i'm looking for mr. gonzález. hi everyone. thanks for joining us. we begin with the latest on a story that we've been covering for months, the murder of actor johnny wactor. now, two of the men involved in the case have been sentenced. and in a true

crime news exclusive, johnny's mom, scarlett, allowed our cameras to spend the day with her and johnny's friends and family as they headed to court to speak directly to the men connected to the killing. >> i've been journaling since two days after johnny died so that i wouldn't forget every feeling, every emotion. >> a mother braces herself. >> it's not right what they've done. >> eight months after johnny wactor was gunned down on a los angeles street, true crime news is with his mother, scarlett wactor, family members and friends heading to court for the sentencing of two men involved in the general hospital actor's murder. it's a short drive from their hotel to l.a. superior court, but still nerve wracking. scarlett steels herself for a moment. no parent should have to endure. >> i want them to know who my son was, who they took. there's no way that there's enough time

to tell them how great he was. >> the intersection of hope perezchica. >> on a fateful day last may, he and coworker anita joy had just finished their shifts at 3 a.m. as they walked to their cars, they came upon a robbery crew hell bent on stealing the catalytic converter from his car. when he approached the thieves. the 37 year old actor was killed in cold blood. the thieves fled. friends and concerned residents left flowers on the sidewalk where johnny was so callously killed. everyone cries for justice. then, nearly three months after the shooting, police released grainy surveillance photos from the scene and the lapd gets a break in the case. >> our investigators work tirelessly to gather evidence, interview witnesses, and follow every lead for suspected gang members with lengthy rap sheets are eventually arrested.

>> robert marcello and sergio estrada, charged with murder, both plead not guilty. frank arellano and leonel gutierrez face lesser charges. >> alano, who was an accessory after the fact, bought the converters from them. and then gutierrez, who was the actual driver of the getaway c after they shot my son in court, alonzo pleads no contest to accessory after the fact and receiving stolen property. >> gutierrez pleads no contest to grand theft and attempted robbery. scarlett and johnny's brother, lance traveled to l.a. from south carolina to read victim impact statements. before gutierrez and alano are sentenced, the defendant was already on probation and he continued to participate in the crime which led to this senseless act. >> each time you release a violent offender, ridly racaniello 0 for 1 supplies. my son paid the ultimate price for that family.

>> anita joy, johnny's friend and coworker who was there the night of the shooting, also shares her grief. >> not a day has gone by that i haven't felt the sadness and pain of losing a friend in such a shocking and tragic way. >> alano was sentenced to five years and eight months in state prison. >> as for gutierrez, for a total aggregate sentence of four years in the state prison. >> gutierrez family is there too, expressing anger with the lapd, leading to a chaotic scene outside the courtroom doors. >> intimidation? yeah, intimidation. try to, like, keep us there for a bit more and make a scene. they know that they can. they can't say anything to us. really? that's super threatening because they can get in serious trouble for that. but they know that they can say whatever they want to the detectives and the police and they they will cause trouble as much as they want to. >> la's new da, nathan hochman tells true crime news he sympathizes with wachter's family. it's been horrible

enough to have your son murdered, and then you are ultimately disrespected in a court of law. >> i've had a chance to meet with scarlett before, and her steel and resolve is truly impressive. having lost her son, we can do our best to make that as safe a space as it is. it's a public courtroom. people are allowed to come in, but i can make sure that scarlett's words resonate as loud as possible in the community, charlotte notes. >> in just a few short years, alano and gutierrez will be free. >> they're breathing. they will eventually get out, go see their family, get married, have children, whatever they do. but we'll probably, unfortunately continue the gang for johnny. >> there will never be another birthday. no children, no more family gatherings. and his family will have to relive this

nightmare again when the two remaining suspects go on trial. >> i don't really want to be out here coming to court, sitting in the room with the family members of people who aren't sorry for what happened to my brother. >> it's kind of ripping the band-aid off, you know, every time it's very difficult to go forward and heal until this is all over, which will include the trial. so it's going to be a while. >> she's a mother determined to get justice for her son, actor johnny wactor. the two other men charged in johnny's death, robert isaiah barcelo and sergio estrada, have been ordered to stand trial for murder and attempted second degree robbery charges. we'll continue to follow this case and we will bring you updates here and on true crime news.com. when we come back, a beloved texas multi-millionaire executed in his own hom was it revenge, greed or something else?

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>> henry gutierrez was a well-respected and seemingly well-liked multi-millionaire. rich, popular with the ladies and down to earth. so who would want him dead? it is a question that's still unanswered. and one i went to texas to investigate.

now, detectives hope that someone watching this can help solve the mystery. a murder scene like an episode from the sopranos. >> he was shot in the head, ches and leg. >> a multi-millionaire owner of a trash collection company. a race car driver. a ladies man shot to death in his easy chair, execution style. >> we've seen him sleep in that chair a million times. you know, nearly 25 miles north of san antonio, the safe suburb of schertz, texas, is considered one of the best places in the u.s. to live. >> we have a population, i think, right now of 36,000. i consider it a small community. we're pretty close for outside san antonio, but we don't have a big crime rate here. >> and local waste disposal magnate henry gutierrez was a fixture in this small town community. was henry one of the richest men in town? >> in schertz, most likely he was one of the richer people, money wise. insurance. >> the proverbial millionaire next door. your father was very

successful. >> yes, ma'am. >> but he lived kind of a modest life. >> you wouldn't know that he was a multimillionaire if you looked at him, that's for sure. you know, he's kind of a kind of a hippie. >> a hippie who happened to make a lot of green from garbage. tell me about the family business. >> my mother started a garbage company, and she would go from house to house asking if she could pick up their garbage for $2.50 a month. >> and it went from that to a multi-million dollar company. >> yes, ma'am. >> that is the true american dream. >> yes it is. >> henry took over the company after his father died and eventually sold it. then he started up another trash company, a handshake partnership with his old friend efren gonzalez. >> so he started up another one with gonzales in the early 90s, and that was a very successful company that was sold in 1997. i believe that company sold for about 6 or $7 million. >> that's when henry devoted his energies to drag racing and his other hobby women. >> my dad was he was he was an

eligible bachelor. >> so an eligible millionaire bachelor, right? >> yeah. >> so he had a lot of girlfriends. yeah, but garbage was in henry's dna, so he started up a third trash company, bare waste, with his uncle george. and how big was the waste disposal company that you had at the time? >> we were running right at about 55 trucks every day. it was a multimillion dollar business. yes, ma'am. >> but all of it came to a bloody end on christmas eve ten years ago. >> jimmy and i had a meeting that morning at 9 a.m. he didn't show up. >> at the time, henry and his uncle george had a plan to sell bear waste to a multi-billion dollar company. when henry was a no show, george called his son miguel. and that's weird for your dad not to show up for a really important business meeting. >> yeah. for this meeting, there was really no explanation for him to miss it, because it was going to be an initial meeting about the sale of the business.

>> miguel rushed to his dad's house. what he saw shocked him senseless. >> as i looked through the glass pane, i mean, i could clearly see him in the chair with a plaid blanket over him and his boots. i could just see his boots sticking out, and i saw a shell casing on the floor, and i knew that something terrible had happened, and i just kind of. i just kind of collapsed for a second. and, you know, i was just, i think i was shouting dad, dad and. no, no. >> and miguel was breathless as he spoke to the 911 operator. >> it's really good to the funeral home. >> henry was dead in what looked like an execution style slaying, so given that he had a blanket over him, that he was sitting in a recliner. what do you make of this? >> the blanket would indicate to me normally that someone was close to him, or knew him, would do something like that. so you don't see the face of the person. >> police find henry's house ransacked, his car taken, and a ring that he always wore. but police soon suspect this was no

simple, local style burglary. >> we found henry's car. months later, it was recovered in san marcos, which is about 20 miles from here north. and it was recovered in a parking lot of an apartment. >> any connection to that apartment building or anything? >> no, man. we canvased the apartment building and weren't able to find anything or anybody that's seen anybody there, and we weren't able to get any forensic evidence from the car. >> more evidence would eventually cast doubt on the murder being the result of a mere burglary at all. >> someone went in and obviously killed henry for either money or something to do with the business. >> do you think henry was killed by someone he knew? >> yes, ma'am, i do. >> next. did henry's business dealings lead to his death? and a key clue emerges his will. that could change the course of the investigation. >> liberala life with norman is

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>> we return now to an unsolved murder mystery, and the detectives need the public's help. multi-millionaire henry gutierrez was sitting in his living room when someone came into his house and opened fire. police searched for his killer and a last minute change that he made to his will raises their eyebrows. the little house on the texas prairie. >> yeah. this is where we grew up. and it's very pretty out here today. >> miguel gutierrez can't hold back the tears. he's the one who found his texas trash magnet. father henry gutierrez, shot to death, execution style. >> that was really all that you could see was his boots sticking out from underneath it. i can remember i just. and there was a shell casing here. there was another one over here. >> instead, miguel found henry murdered in his easy chair, his home trashed to look like a break in. but police say it's all a bit suspicious.

>> so what do you suspect they were really doing? >> i think the scene was made to look like a burglary instead of an intentional homicide. instead of the intent being to kill henry that day, adding to the mystery, a strange phone call to henry's uncle george. >> after the murder. >> they called george, and saying that they know who killed henry, came from a convenience store in houston. we weren't able to develop any body or anything from that phone call, but perplexed detectives wonder who had the motive to kill henry. well, of course, everyone that was iolved with the scene. >> so is miguel a person of interest, and if so, why? >> i personally told miguel that him and his sister. persons of interest. for the simple fact that you have a will change, even though they may not have benefited directly from it. and miguel is being cooperative with us, by the way. >> police learned that just before his death, henry changed his will, naming his sister and

not his children as the future executor of his estate. >> he changed it to mejía kriske and i told him i was thankful for that because i know i didn't have anything to do with it. >> then police wondered whether henry, a notorious ladies man, ran afoul of someone romantically. >> we've looked at henry's girlfriend. they were all out of town, which left henry's estranged business partner, efren gonzalez. >> gonzalez had sued henry and his uncle george, saying he was cut out of the sale of bear waste. is he a person of interest? >> because we haven't had the opportunity to speak to him. he wants us to speak to his attorney. >> do you believe because he was in a business dispute with henry that makes him a person of interest? according to you, of course. >> because there's a lot of money to gain one way or the other, given the police department's claim that efren was a person of interest, i headed to his house in this upscale neighborhood in houston. >> mr. gonzalez, there's no way

for me to knock on the door or ring the bell, because this is a locked gate and the doorbell is there, so we're going to go see if we can find them at work. maybe. hi. excuse me. i'm looking for mr. gonzalez. if efren was there, he didn't come out. but efren senior's daughter beatrice did. who do you think would want to kill henry noé? >> we don't know anything about the case. >> and we also did interview the lead detective on the case. and he did say that your father and your brother are persons of interest. still, they haven't been. >> they haven't advised us. they've talked to our attorneys. so i'm not sure what that means or what that implies. but they've talked to him. we've cooperated with everything. we have no involvement with that whatsoever. so we loved henry very, very much. they were family to us as of now. >> six years after those denials, neither efren nor his

son have been named suspects or charged with henry's murder. no, there is a $75,000 reward for the capture and conviction of the killer, but no one has yet to claim that reward. >> henry was a long time community member of city of shirts and shirts. >> police have submitted henry's murder to a cold case review. they are working with the texas rangers to reexamine evidence in the hopes of pushing the case forward. >> i think this is something that we not only owe to the gutierrez family, but we also owe to the city and our community. >> for henry's surviving family, the pain remains as they pray for justice. >> christmas must be very hard for you. >> christmas will never be the same for us on christmas eve, instead of buying a gift, i buy a poinsettia to put at the cemetery. >> i'm sorry. thank you. >> i'm sorry too. and i would

really love to not have another family suffer and go through what this family has gone through. i'm sorry. >> again, detectives in schertz, texas are asking for the public's help to finally close this case. anyone with information on henry gutierrez's death can contact police at (210) 619-1200. you can also call the true crime news tip line at (888) 845-7555. we'll be right back. >> my moderate to severe plaque psoriasis held me back. now, with skyrizi, i'm all in with clear skin. things are getting clearer. yeah, i feel free to bare my skin. >> yeah, that's on me. nothing is everything. whoa!

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>> on the next true crime news. a young man plans to break up with his jealous girlfriend. >> she had kind of gone off the rails and ends up taking his own life. >> brenda says jonathan shot himself. >> his girlfriend claims that she was there when it happened, but the story isn't adding up. there was no gun to do on

jonathan's left hand, looking more like a homicide than a suicide. his parents launched their own investigation and make a startling discovery 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. that's it for today's true crime news. i'm anna garcia. see you (dramatic music) - [nancy] a mysterious murder in a cornfield brings tragedy to a small town. - the body was burned too severely, there was no way to identify whether it was male or female. (dramatic music continues) - the most horrific part of it is the not knowing. - [nancy] friends turn into suspects. - he was a local boy from the hometown. - when was the last time anybody had seen sarah? - he had stolen some things from her and she was supposed to be going to get them back.