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>> the darkest skeletons in their closet. >> but hours of gabby's personal recordings show a dark side to their relationship. >> knowing what we know now about brian murdering her, that was so haunting to watch. >> isolation. manipulation. abuse. >> two people went on a trip. one person returned. >> the murder case that transfixed america reexamined. plus, a lonely widow searching for love meets her prince charming on a dating site. >> they were going to leave. >> together and start this new life. but our happily ever after takes a bizarre turn. suspicious emails, missing women and who was really on the phone? >> the first two words out of her mouth. we knew that was not our mother. >> did nancy harts run off with a serial killer? first up today, a crime story that shocked everyone the disappearance and murder of gabby petito, who was blogging every moment of her cross-country trip with her boyfriend when she was murdered.

what really happened in the final days of her life? it's a side of the story you haven't seen. gabby petito and her fiance brian laundrie, traveling across the country documenting their camping travels in their van. >> hi, i'm brian. >> and i'm gabby. >> and this is our ford transit connect that we've been living in. and we thought it was finally time to give you a tour. >> a fresh look at the dark side of the couple's journey that dominated the nation's attention. family and friends desperately looking for gabby, who would vanish after taking a dream trip across state parks, ending with the murder of the young 22 year old daughter and sister, and the suicide of the man who took her life. >> oh my god. >> knowing what we know now about brian murdering her and then seeing their, you know, gentle, vulnerable relationship coming to fruition on camera and in a raw type of way in the outtakes, you know, it was hard

to look at, but also like, extremely fascinating. >> filmmakers julia willoughby nason and mike gasparro go beyond the lens of social media in a new netflix documentary, american murder. gabby petito going through hours of gabby's recordings and writings. >> stretching, doing some morning yoga. >> with never before seen footage taken by gabby, outtakes of their four month journey together. a personal story told through the unused video and personal journals of the young woman so senselessly murdered. context. to better understand the couple's fragile relationship and the abuse gabby suffered when the cameras were off. >> they put out. >> what they wanted to have the. >> public see. >> behind the scenes. they would get into arguments. >> no turning back. baby. come here. i want to retake this video. >> brian thought the vlog was

stupid. >> big open floor for you to keep. your dirty feet are. >> the happiest people on social media. usually have the darkest skeletons in their closet. >> through these videos you see a very covert, intimate partner violence that is emblematic of this type of isolation and denial that is in an abuse cycle. >> a cycle of abuse also captured on police body cams. the filmmakers examining whether this could have been prevented. >> there is law enforcement. >> there was. >> national parks. >> officials there. there was different organizations having to deal with this situation, how they dealt with this situation. what broke down in the communication? all the what information did they have didn't have. we just thought it was important to put it out there. >> when officers arrived at the laundrie home, they were uncooperative, evasive and refused to answer questions.

>> we had officers go to the laundrie family home. >> we don't know anything. >> was gabriel here? no, she's not here. is this her vehicle? >> two people went on a trip. one person returned. >> i knew something bad happened. >> after gabby's death. telling the story through her own voice. and people who loved her was an important focus of the series, including an old boyfriend, gabby. contacted about some of the relationship troubles she was experiencing. >> she's like, i have a plan. i think i want to leave him. i'm going to do it. i have to figure out when to do it. and that's when i was kind of like, what do you mean? you have a plan? >> the filmmakers also shining a light on the fact that other women who don't look like gabby get far less coverage than her story generated while attempting to get other victims of domestic violence the resources they need through a foundation in gabby's name. >> the message really is abuse can be subtle. and i think that

people downplay the subtlety of those that type of manipulation. and it can be fatal. so there is an importance to see the flags through gabby's story that may seem superfluous otherwise. >> i remember saying to brian, you keep her safe. and he looked at me and he smiled, and he said, i will. >> coming up, another case of an online imposter with a tragic ending. a woman looking for love thinks that she has found the man of her dreams, but she has no idea who she is really falling for. >> i kind of had a eeling in the pit of my stomach that i might never see her again. >> today we are talking about medicare part c, commonly called medicare advantage. if you're losing benefits for any reason or new to medicare, you can call now because you may be eligible

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we're back with our special look at internet imposters. like many people these days, nancy harts went online hoping to find love, and when she met a man named ray, she thought she had met someone that she could spend the rest of her life with. but ray wasn't who he said he was. and nancy's life was in grave danger. >> her husband had passed away over ten years ago, and she didn't have a whole lot of friends outside of home or in

the family. and i think she she always she was just looking for someone in her life to spend some time with. >> more than a decade after losing her husband, nancy ray, hearts was ready to find love again after posting her profile on a dating site for people of a certain age, she met a man who called himself ray. same as nancy's middle name. an instant talking point. >> i guess. they pretty much corresponded several times every day, so it was pretty much just an online relationship. and then he would come and visit with her for four days, and then would leave again and be gone for 3 or 4 months. >> but at age 72, nancy was looking for more than a long distance relationship. after about a year with ray, she spoke up about her need for commitment. >> and so she finally wrote an email that she was just about through with the situation. >> it only took one day for ray to show up at nancy's home in

kingman, arizona. flowers in hand, nancy was thrilled and ray soon became a fixture in her life. she even bought in to his unusual ideas. >> he had her convinced that they had to get out of arizona, had to get out of kingman because there was lava pits up under the state, and that the financial institutions were no longer stable. but he got her throughout these several months, convinced that the world was coming to an end. >> pretty soon, nancy made some major life changes. out of the blue, she traded in her cadillac, had her social security payments transferred to a debit card, and sold the home she lived in most of her life for 50,000 in cash. >> they were going to leave together and start this new life and go find property somewhere else, just wherever the wind took them. >> nancy's kids tried to convince her to at least hold on to the house in case things didn't work out. >> i didn't meet ray until right before they left. he was in the

house for a few minutes, and then he was outside unpacking the truck as fast as he could, and it was a very and out. when she left my house that day, i kind of had a feeling in the pit of my stomach that i might never see her again, but there was no stopping her. we tried. >> before ray drove their mom off into the sunset. nancy's son wrote down the license plate on his rv and filed it away, just in case. for weeks, nancy was out of touch, even missing her kids birthdays. then two months later, an email from nancy claiming to be happily living off the grid in the mountains of new mexico. >> just from the tone and everything of those emails, we knew that it wasn't her writing. >> when cherrey looked closer, she realized it wasn't even her mom's email address. >> her email address was arizona cactus wren. well, he had changed it to where it was

arizona cat wren. so the c and the t had been flipped around. >> but nancy's family did notice enough for sherry's sister, denise to go to authorities who came back with such not great news. >> the deputy who took the initial report was able to talk to someone who indicated that they were nancy and that they wanted to start a new life elsewhere and were not interested in having any further contact with their family. >> the mojave county sheriff's deputy pretty much dropped it as a case after that, but denise wasn't about to give up, and neither was her sister. >> with no hard evidence, nancy's family did have a story. her younger daughter, denise, took it straight to daily miner reporter doug mcmurdo. >> i went from, i've seen this movie before to wait a minute, i haven't seen this movie before. >> after hearing the strange details, doug started typing and

soon the story of nancy harts was front page news. >> there was an outpouring of concern from the community, and i know that people made denise aware of, i think, a couple of private eyes, and one of them, lyle shaman, actually started working for her, and he was able to, as they say, break the case open. >> lyle shaman, a private investigator who at the time had 34 missing persons cases under his belt. after meeting with nancy's kids, he made it 35. >> in this case, my action plan was simple. it was try to make contact with nancy hart's. >> coming up. a call to nancy raises even more suspicion. >> we knew that was not our mother on that recording. >> and ray's connection tother missing women is revealed. that's next. >> it's a good day to cough. oh,

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>> we're back with the disappearance of nancy hart. the 72 year old widow left her family to start a new life with a man she met online. that would be the last time they'd see her alive. >> well, she was looking for her. just someone to love and someone to love her. >> nancy hart's kids need answers. they hire private investigator lyle shaman to make contact with nancy. he emails her, but gets a quick response from him. ray. >> he went on to say that that nancy was fine, that she no longer wanted anything to do with her family. i responded back to him and said, in either event, i need to speak to nancy hart's. >> surprisingly, it pays off. nancy calls him not once, but twice. the second time he traces the number. >> the phone number came back to an apartment complex in las vegas, and we eventually just went to the apartment, knocked on the door. it was obvious within a couple of minutes that nancy harts was not going to be at that location. >> the p.i. realizes ray had

used someone else's information for his online dating account. he schedules another call with nancy, this time recording it as her kids listen in. >> i'm trying to do everything i can to just prove to your daughter that you're that you're okay, so that i can just end this case. >> okay? >> i have talked to denise on the phone twice in the past month. >> a lie. denise says they hadn't spoken. now shaman knows it is in even nancy on the line. >> the first two words out of her mouth. my sister and i looked at each other and the tears just rolled down our faces. we knew that was not our mother. on that recording. >> denise goes back to the sheriff's office and convinces them to investigate. this time, they agree. first running the license plate number nancy's son wrote down as her new love drove nancy off into the sunset. turns out, ray is actually robert lawson cardigan, a canadian citizen who has been living

illegally in the us since the early 90s. after a multi-state search, deputies find him in yucca, arizona, only arresting him on fraud and credit card theft charges unrelated to nancy ray hart's. >> none of the allegations had anything to do with the disappearance of nancy hart's and other women who had went missing that were linked to him in this time frame. >> incredibly, he's living with another unsuspecting woman who, like nancy, had just sold all of her belongings to start a new life with ray. >> we don't believe she's an accomplice at all. she's been very cooperative, and we certainly believe that she could have been the next victim. >> victim of what? when police searched the home, they found several guns. one with the serial number scratched off for nancy's daughter, sherri. it all added up to one very tragic conclusion. >> why couldn't you have just taken all of her money? if

that's what you wanted? take it. it's just flipping money. you didn't have to take her life. >> on a computer. in cardigan's home, deputies discover another clue the names and numbers of at least two other missing women. he was also in possession of their driver's licenses. >> we began trying to find these women, to talk to them about whether they knew nancy, whether there was anything about about this gentleman that they could help us with so that maybe we could find nancy. and what we found was that these ladies are also missing. las vegas local neva lindley, last seen in 2011, and dolan springs, arizona resident verna clayton, last seen in 2008. her son speaking with our fox ten affiliate by phone. >> i get a phone call. if you want. >> anything from the house, go get it. moved out of arizona.

click. and that was the last thing i heard from her. >> without bodies, police just couldn't connect cardigan to murder or the women's fates. nancy's family feared the worst. >> i know what's happened to her. there's not a doubt in my mind what's happened to her, but why did you have to do that? was it why you didn't have to do that? and the sad thing is, she was just looking for someone to love her. >> then, five years after nancy's disappearance, those fears are confirmed. as revealed by our fox ten phoenix affiliate reporter, justin lum. >> nancy's remains were discovered in may 2019, in the small town of topock, arizona. investigators were able to officially confirm the identity of these remains is nancy hart and the cause of death being

gunshot wounds. >> finally, they knew. but would justice be served for nancy's family or any of the others? >> the main suspect in this case is robert canha kaedan. authorities say he was the last person to be seen with nancy hart, but at the time that nancy was finally identified, canha cain had already died in prison when he was serving a sentence on unrelated charges. >> just three months before her remains were id'd. robert carnahan died in prison, where he was serving a 16 year sentence for fraud, forgery and theft charges, according to the mojave county sheriff's office. he was the main suspect in her disappearance and a suspect in the cases of neva and verna. their bodies have not been found. >> there are so many questions that have been left unanswered with the death of carnahan and never admitting any responsibility to the fate of these women.

>> now, verna clayton's son can only hope one day his mother will be found, too. >> i just want closure. i want to know where she is at. at least her remains. so i can basically put her to rest. >> we'll be right back. >> today we are talking about medicare part c, commonly called medicare advantage. if you're losing benefits for any reason or new to medicare, you can call now because you may be eligible for plans in your zip code with additional benefits or cost savings you may not be receiving now, or that may have previously not been available to you. different parts c plans are available in different parts of the country, so don't wait. call the number on your screen now. you should call now even if you've called before. we will check to see if there is a part c plan available in your area, with additional benefits and potential cost savings. call to speak with a licensed insurance agent and find out if you are

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>> on the next true crime news. the bride to be disappears days before her wedding. >> as time. >> kept ticking, i. >> start getting a little worried. >> her last conversation while at the laundromat. >> she said. they just won't leave me alone. >> but when no one can find her and she doesn't show up for work, it launches an all out investigation. was this a future wife with cold feet or did something sinister strike? >> his behavior was erratic. >> the disturbing discovery that led to a surprising suspect. on the next true crime news, become a true crime news insider. the wedge alarm door stopper is perfect for hotel rooms or even

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