then i do for myself. >> that's a powerful statement. your son died. >> i know, but i had the son that i did. and i couldn't be more proud of the young man that he was. kind, selfless and compassionate. everything. >> conrads mom says this is a hard story to tell. but she hopes sharing it will help others. >> there are children in this role just like conrad, and i cannot imagine anything like this happening again. >> that's all for this edition of dateline, i'm natalie morales. thank you for watching. >> he would tell stories about

how he had angels protected him and people who had crossed him in the past had gotten really sick, or their family had died. he would get this terrible grin that just looked evil. >> they were sisters, whose mom brought them here to live with others in this tight-knit commune. >> we were all having meals together and there were lots of parties. >> a swimming pool, a fleet of cool cars. it seemed like a kids fantasy. you are the little girl who got the horse for your birthday? >> i got three horses. >> it was called angel's landing, a special place for a chosen few. a community of free spirits, but also, some would come to suspect, troubling secrets. >> she fell and hit her head and drowned. >> it started with a strange, sudden death. then another. and another. >> he had been crushed under a vehicle while working on it. >> all ruled accidents. but were they? >> it doesn't smell right.

>> for investigators, a journey into the supernatural. >> he would say that even though we couldn't see her, she was there. >> who or what had a grip on this place? >> amber was the angel of death. she would come around when somebody was going to die. >> a terrifying tale of dark power and diabolical prophesy 's. >> he predicted that my mom was going to die. >> you might as well be telling me to go live on the moon, because that just wasn't something that could happen. the thought of leaving was scarier than the thought of staying. i never once thought about leaving. i thought about killing myself, but i didn't think about leaving. >> rolling out past the downtown grid towards the wide open flatlands north of wichita

kansas, it would be easy to zip by the small cluster of homes nestled between the corn and wheat fields. not notice them at all. maybe, that was the point. but the nondescript compound did have a whimsical name, angel's landing. and it was home to a kind of large, put together family. a commune really, including two sisters. >> we had a great relationship. i had everything i wanted. >> but angel's landing not at a county detective. for years he could not shake the place or the people who lived there from his mind. you thought there was a criminal criminal scheme going on there? >> it didn't smell right. >> for us, it was a game of cat and mouse. >> and after a decade long obsession, the detectives hunch would be proved right. it turned out to be far more sinister than anyone could imagine. >> we had kept this a secret for ten years. and no one knew. >> it would uncover a supernatural tale of angels and demons. and investigation into the saga

of a troubling family that dabbled in most of the seven deadly sins. >> amber was the angel of death. >> did you believe it? >> yes, he could see the future. >> lies, plenty. lust, greed, murder. angels landing had all of that and more. >> all i could think about was, how are they going to believe me? you know, this is such a crazy story. what if they don't believe me? >> growing up near kansas city, missouri, the two sisters sara and emily had about as or normal a life as any suburban girls in the midwest. >> my sister and i used to play together when we were younger. my mom, it seemed like she was always home with us. my dad, was always there for dinner and things like that, it seemed like. >> their dad built houses, mom jennifer, a realtor, sold them. and the girls were close, despite a seven year age gap.

>> we would go fishing together. she would take me to the pool every day during the summer. things like that. when we were close, but we fought like siblings. >> sara with 16, emily just nine, and a star student. >> i was teachers pet. i was usually one of the top of my class. >> so you are always prepared? >> yeah, i was a suck up. [laughs] >> you said that, i did. it [laughs] >> totally was, i didn't know it then. but i was. >> everything was easy sailing for the girls until their parents lives went in different directions. >> i knew that my parents were getting divorced. i didn't know why. they never fought in front of us or anything. >> that's always tough. orchids that's summer, 2001, their mom jennifer was showing houses to a new client. a man named lou castro, who with his long hair and western hat, looks like a well-heeled young cowboy. >> he seemed really charismatic and outgoing and friendly.

and like he had a lot of money. >> he would tell everybody that he had cattle in south dakota, and that he was trading stocks. he told me he had a bunch of cars in texas somewhere, and that he owned a mansion on. there >> this softspoken man was looking for a country property for his somewhat new a. g. family commune, just down from south colombo dakota. a young couple, trish and brian hughes, their baby girl and a young couple from north dakota. jennifer found them just right parcel. but even after turning over the keys, there was something about that lou castro guy, that emily's mom found irresistible. he'd become more than a client. >> at first he was just somebody that mom was doing business with. but they would go to lunch often. >> as you look back now, emily, what do you think went on with your mother? >> i don't know. >> something was going on? >> something was. >> and something was going on with lou, to. no sooner had he set it settled down in greater kansas city,

that his family commune was on the move again. and guess who is going with them? jennifer the realtor and her two girls. what did your dad think? >> my dad was devastated. >> just like that, in the fall of 2001, emily, sara and their mom were packing up a u-haul and heading out for a fresh start to life. have you had to leave your neighborhood, your playmates, your class? kids >> at first, i was really upset. but eventually it kind of seemed like a new adventure. and that's what mom really needed to do. >> the new home for all three was a ten acre many farm north of wichita. they moved in with lou in his family commune in the spread they cold angel's landing. the girl's mom, jennifer, brought the adjoining ten acres and built a second. house and after they added a swimming pool and a dirt track for atvs, the commune little later put up a third. house so what was the routine of the house? >> we were all having meals together and we didn't really do chores. >> while the girl's mom resumed

her real estate business, brian worked as a mechanic and lou organized the downtime. >> he would throw parties about every weekend. there was a lot of drinking. other people would bring their kids over. we would go swimming and i would take care of the little kids. we would play pool. >> pretty normal? >> a little lavish, but pretty normal stuff. >> lou loved toys with engines and there were a couple of workshops a big enough to garage his enormous radio controlled planes and a fleet of snazzy cars. >> going to a dealership and buying a corvette was like, going to a toy store and picking out a model car. that is how quickly he would just go and pick them out. and say all right, i want it. >> car its, dodge viper -- >> many corvette's, a few dodge vipers, trail blazers, tahoe's. big trucks, duly. >> they had vanity plates.

angel one, angel to, and so on. a lot of it is kind of a kid stream? >> yeah, i mean i got everything i wanted. >> while the sisters did stay in touch with her dad, who had moved nearby, lou's promise of whatever your heart desires found a speak spot. >> lou asked me what i want if my birthday and i said i would love to have a horse, and i know it's expensive and it's too much. we're so, we're not going to do that. he's like no, if you are horse we're going to get a horse. >> you were the little girl who got a horse for your birthday? >> i was. i got three horses. >> you are the princess of the house? >> yes. >> emily, being the princess, didn't always sit well with sister sara. so the other young mom in the family, brian's wife trish, sometimes stepped into referee their sibling rivalry. >> she was the disciplinarian? >> kind of. there was a specific way to do things and you did it her way. and that's just what was expected. >> what did you think of trish? did you like her? >> she was wonderful. i left her just like a another mom. >> so she really was a substitute mom in a lot of big things. >> she was.

>> so, the sisters will never forget that awful day in june, 2003. emily, just 11 years old, found herself standing by the swimming pool. >> trish was floating in the shallow end of the pool, face down. >> a beach sandal floated on the water. trish was dead. coming up -- the horror of losing one of their own. for emily and everyone else, the sunny life at angel's landing had changed in an instant. >> it was very traumatic. >> and later, there would be more shocks in the story. mysterious accidents, dark threats involving the spirit world, and one seemingly demonic transformation. >> he wouldn't blink. he would get this terrible grin. that just looked evil. >> when dateline continues. in the lyte. discover caplyta. caplyta is a once-daily pill proven to deliver

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rapid city to make a new start with their moms free living, free spending friends in their wichita, kansas, the two sisters emily, 11 and sara, 17, we're still living in the family commune called angel's landing. lou who had money and lots of spare time, was the patriarch. and trish, who is married to brian and had a baby daughter, took care of the home. >> trish was the one that would be there before you went to school and after we went to school. because my mom had to work. >> did you like her? >> i loved her. i loved trish. >> so what happened in june, 2003, angel's landing, came as a sudden, life altering shock. the day began normally enough for the sisters. >> we all had gone to lunch. trish and her daughter, a friend of mine and her baby, and then lou and my sister. and then we came back to the house after lunch and trish and emily and the baby were going

to clean the pool. >> that was the plan for the afternoon? >> right. and lou and i were going to go to davis moore. >> car dealership? >> right. >> so you go to the car dealership with lou? >> yes. >> back at the swimming pool, something truly awful had happened. >> i called 9-1-1. >> she told the operator that trish's toddler had fallen into the pool. and when trish had tried to save her little girl, she had slip backwards. >> she had slipped and fell and hit the concrete? >> she fell and hit her head and drowned. >> the baby was in trouble in the pool? >> right. >> you rescued the baby but you couldn't help? >> right. >> emily got the baby out of the pool. but because she was just a whisper of a thing, try as she might, emily could not lift trish's body out of the water. hopeless. across town, sara and lou we're checking out cars at the dealership when sara's phone rang. >> i received a phone call from emily as she says that trish fell in the pool, i need you to

come home. >> did she say that trish was dead? >> yes. >> so this is shocking news, you've all just had lunch a few hours before. and now you're hearing trish is dead? >> yes. >> lou and sara race back home to angels landing. or police and emts were on the scene. >> we don't believe she was under the influence of anything at this time. >> they had pulled trish's body from the pool and taken photographs. a single beach sandal floated on the water surface. pieces of trish's here clipper in the pool. it had snatched apart when is she banged her head. and there were small bruises on and a cut on trish's forehead. the medical examiner determined trish's death was due to a freakishly bad. accident trish was just 26 years old. and trish was gone? >> yes. >> the family was in a state of shock. >> devastated. >> trish had been kind of the mother of the house the way you talk about her? >> yeah.

>> for you too? >> absolutely. >> it was really hard. it breaks my heart. >> and it was hard for lou. trish was someone he regarded as his best friend. lou had met trish in the mid 19th, is south texas, as serving after serving in the navy. and for 8 years they were inseparable travelers, moving on to south dakota and ending up in wichita. >> it was very traumatic. >> as the family commune try to come to terms with a tragedy, trish's husband brian embraced his daughter closer. gradually they all got on with their lives. >> and then your what, going back to school? the usual things? >> exactly. >> still, it was hard for the family to put trish's death behind them. and something else was troubling them. emily and sara had a fuzzy recollection that trish wasn't the first person in the family commune to die. they recently had met a teenager who had also once been

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family commune was slowly mending after the devastating loss of trish hughes who had

drowned in the swimming pool. sisters sara and emily saw trish's husband brian, a auto mechanic, a broken man. left to raise a daughter. >> brian loved trish more than anything in the world. and he loved his daughter immensely. he was a really, just good person. he missed his wife. brian was the head. >> as they coped with the loss themselves, emily and sara had a flashback. and pieced together another incident when tragedy struck struck the family, about two years before. >> i wasn't there. and i'm glad i was not there. that would just be more that i had lost. >> not long before trish's death, this is first met 15

year old cody griffith from texas, who had also once been on the fringes of the family commune. he had been close to trish and lou thanks to his mom mona. >> my mom and church were really great friends. they would do a lot together. >> cody's mom mona was something of a flower child. >> she was extremely loving, very free spirited. everything was spontaneous. there was really no planning. she could say hey, let's get in the car and drive somewhere. >> could have been a hippie in earlier days? >> maybe. just someone who is extremely loving. very accepting. >> when cody was growing up in corpus christi in the mid 90s, his mom mona was going through a difficult divorce. and financial troubles. she, cody and cody's young sister lindsey, moved in with their good friends trish and lou at the apartment complex. >> i remember lou taking us to baseball practice. my sister and lou taking her home from school in south like that. >> his mom and trish took turns cooking for what was the beginnings of the common. so you really an extended family? >> pretty much. i looked at lou and trish as an uncle. >> so when trish and lou

decided want to pick up six and moved to south dakota, mona decided she wanted to go to and take cody and his sister along as well. >> i'll never forget it, it is just like yesterday. and i told her, no i'm not leaving. and i had gotten extremely upset. >> the very thought of being so far away from his dad was too much for codi. what does she say, yes you are, you're going to go with us? >> no she let me make that decision. she would've not wanted me to do something i didn't want to do. >> so, a late 1998, mona and cody's younger sister lindsey ended up leaving corpus christi and settled near rapid city, south dakota. where one christmas, cody paid them a visit. >> it was an extremely small home. it was in the mountains. we even went and cut our own christmas tree. >> off the grid kind of cabin? >> yeah. >> the cabin was a tight squeeze, for sure. by the family commune was growing. it was here that trish met and married brian, the auto mechanic, and they had a daughter. mona, cody's mom, had also found a boyfriend. rapid city realtor and experience private plane pilot.

you are okay with him? >> oh yeah, of course i wanted my mom to be happy. and i looked forward to meeting him. >> did you ever meet him? >> no. >> one friday in february of 2001, moon and her boyfriend decided to take daughter lindsey and an exciting birthday trip to nebraska. exciting because moon is a boyfriend would fly them their himself. boyfriend would fly them there himself. they took off from rapid city. but not long after, something went terribly wrong. how did you find out about the plane? >> my dad called me inside and he just looked at me and i knew something wasn't right. and then he just told me hey, your mom and sister have a missing. >> your dad must have been all ripped up? >> there's nothing you can say. i mean, he didn't -- there was no way that he could explain to his son that his sister and his mom were gone. >> i imagine you hope that somebody would crawl out of the wreckage, food, water and they're in a little tent waiting for search and rescue to find them. >> that was the only thing i could pray for.

>> as cody was praying for a miracle, mona's sister lisa also got a phone call from another sister. >> and she's crying hysterically. and she said that mona and lindsey had left on the plane and the plane had never reached its destination. and they didn't know where it was. >> mona's boyfriend hadn't filed a flight plan, so the plane could be anywhere. rugged territory? >> correct, up in the badlands area, we assumed. or nebraska. we really had no clue. >> but in south dakota, lou castro, a former navy plane mechanic, was on it. when lisa paid a short visit to try to help find her sister and niece, lou was in constant touch with search and rescue. a huge comfort. >> softspoken. nice. funny. friendly.

he seemed very concerned. very distraught over mona and lindsey's disappearance. and very helpful. i mean, he was very gracious and whatever we wanted. >> so, thank goodness we have lou at the helm here? >> exactly. he seemed to have plenty of time. he seemed to know everybody. they knew him. we were grateful that there was somebody that was -- had taken control. and was keeping us in the loop also. >> at a gathering of lindsey's school friends in support of the search, lou seemed especially popular with all the girls. >> oh, they were mesmerized by him. >> was he telling them stories? jokes? >> yes, laughing. he knew them all. quite well, we could tell. >> was there something a little creepy about it? i don't want to plant an idea here that didn't exist. >> they all knew lou but they didn't know lindsey's mom.

i just found that strange. >> six weeks after the plane went missing, lisa and cody got the news they were dreading. the wreckage had been found. there were no survivors. so that's end of all of this? it's not going to have a miraculous ending. >> yes. >> cody traveled back to rapid city and once again saw lou, who seemed distraught. >> he starts crying and he tells me that my little sister was never supposed to be on the plane. he tells me that, if my mom had only been on the plane, that he says, you know i would've taken your sister and we would've left. >> he would've become like the adoptive father then? >> right. >> how would you know whether she was supposed to be are not? >> i don't know. >> looking back, and you wonder what he meant by that? >> every day. every day. >> an ntsb investigation into the catastrophe found no mechanical problems with the plane. leaning toward a theory that bad weather had contributed to the crash. when do you miss your mom and sister the most? times along the way when you are growing up?

cody, i don't think you need to put any words to it. >> really can't. >> lou and trish, not blood relatives, determined the burial place for mona and lindsey. a surprise to lisa, who again raised an eyebrow when she saw her sister and nieces obituary in a south dakota newspaper. >> and it lists myself, my two sisters and her brother, lou. we're like, where did we pick up a brother? >> later, as emily recalled the awful story of the plane crash, she, to, remembered lou telling her what he told cody. >> he said that lindsey was a supposed. >> whatever that meant in 2003 after trish in's the swimming pool, emily and her sister sara weren't the only ones trying to make sense of it all. a local detective in wichita was also taking an interest in

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drowning death of 26 year old trish hughes, the mood at angel's landing was grim. sisters emily and sara watched as the family commune patriarch lou, try to chair everyone up. another young woman who join the family commune. soon lou as she were engaged, with a little girl on the way. and as the clouds lifted over angel's landing, shiny new rides appeared in the drive. >> before trish died, there were three corvette's and everybody else had an suv. and then after trish died, it got more and more and more extravagant. >> more vehicles -- >> higher price vehicles. >> the salesman must of been licking their chops to see him coming. >> they were. we all had the dealerships owner's cellphones. >> speed dial? >> yeah, yeah. >> in fact, we lou spent 1 million and a half dollars on cars in just a few years. in his lavish generosity didn't stop on the family.

civic minded lou was showered with high fives from the city council after he donated $90,000 towards a brand-new police vehicle. and cops were always welcome at the extravagant parties thrown by lou at angel's landing. with one of the officers in the county dated one of the women there for a while? >> that was me. >> that was you? >> yes. >> but not everyone in uniform was joining in the fun. >> it didn't smell right. >> a local informant gave a check it out to wichita detective ron goodwyn, who at the time was an undercover narcotics officer. he recruited two law enforcement heavyweights. and in early 2003, from the shadows, the detective was eyeballing the commune. zeroing in on lou castro. >> ron why did you become interested in particular? >> he drew attention to. himself >> kind of flashy? >> flashy, he had appeared what to be unexplained wealth. drew attention to himself parties, high option vehicles. each vehicle had an angel vanity plate, with a number our

flurry. one, two, three, four. >> maybe had an old family money? inheritance guy? >> sure, that was something we had to look at without violating any of his rights. >> you thought there was a lot of smoke around this guy? but you didn't know exactly what's coming from. >> there was. >> and the smoke kept billowing when goodwyn learned about the death of trish hughes. so your death didn't trigger your interest? >> absolutely triggered more of my interest in him. >> goodwyn wanted to find out exactly who lou castro was. he ran castro's name in law enforcement databases and quickly discovered he was trying to put his finger on a man who seemed to have no pass. a virtual ghost. and not long after trish hughes's death, he troll the internet. >> i started researching and i started noticing there were other deaths associated with him. >> he landed on that obituary of moon and her daughter lindsey, and bingo, there was

lou's named. >> that was the first time i had see lou castro in the print. >> underlining -- he theorized had a drug case. >> i worked drug cases and unexplained wealth is something that you look at. to determine if that is how this person might be earning their money. >> so, goodwyn set out to collect evidence from angel's landing. it began with a trash bags. maybe inside there was evidence of drugs. incriminating documents, or a fingerprint. so maybe if you can get a fingerprint, somewhere he will be in the system and you will come out with a name? >> that's right. >> you try to get a fingerprint? >> i did. >> and the tech guys can't come up with anything? >> they could not. >> frustrating. there was no evidence of drugs. and nearly three years later, there were still no clues as to who lou castro was. but in 2006, came another shocking coincidence. brian hughes, trisha's husband, an expert 31 year old mechanic

raising their daughter in the common. suffered an unimaginable accident. as emily tells it, brian was visiting family in south dakota. >> one day, he called and spoke to lou for a little while and then he asked to speak to his daughter who is still in wichita. and this story goes, that he told her goodbye. >> told his daughter goodbye? >> right. and then a couple hours later, we got the call that he had been crushed underneath a car that he was fixing. >> brian was dead. really? that didn't make any sense to emily. >> he would've put blocks under the tires. >> he knew his way around vehicle? >> right. >> and then he was dead? >> yeah. >> the bodies were piling up. five now. but none of the findings in any of the cases including bryant's, concluded there was foul play. >> it was classified. it still is classified as an accident. >> detective goodwyn decided he was going to have to find a new angle on the enigma of angel's landing and new castro, even if

he had to work around the clock. what drove you on this thing? >> they had to be something else he was out there he was hiding from. >> the mystery? >> the mystery of lou castro, mystery identity. >> one thing was for sure, goodwyn wasn't going to let this go. coming up -- yet another member of the commune meets a tragic end. but this time, a light bulb would go off. >> what we saw was a pattern. >> as investigators dig into lou's past, he starts to seem like a ghost. >> there should've been credit records, drivers license records. we could find none. >> when dateline continues. from the world's #1 selling nerve care company. nervive contains alpha lipoic acid to relieve occasional nerve aches, weakness and discomfort. try nervivenerve relief. nurse mariyam sabo knows a moment this pure demands a lotion this pure. gold bond pure moisture lotion 24-hour hydration no parabens, dyes,

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ron goodwyn was, investigating lou castro at angels landing. a commune of about a dozen people. he was also keeping count of the mysterious deaths, five so far. mona, her boyfriend and her daughter lindsey had perished in the plane crash. he trish had drowned in the, he wondered, how could any family be so unlucky? but what baffled him most was that he didn't know who the central man, lou castro, really was. rifling through angel's landing trash cans had more. what do you do next? >> one day, when i was out on a

day off, i just happened to see lou castro with a female in a vehicle. and i followed them to a restaurant on the north end of town. >> goodwyn sat in the restaurant watched and waited. >> and after they had finished, i contacted the manager and asked him if i could collect the dishes and glasses that they had to use at that table. >> the idea was to get fresh fingerprints that could maybe i. d. castro. that's a pretty cool move? did it work? >> it did not work either. we tried every piece of dinnerware that was on the table, but we were successful. >> so he's still a mystery man as far as i. d.? >> that's right. >> so, goodwyn tried another fingerprint ploy. he took some glossy photos, walked up to lou castro's home and cooked up a story about burglars in the neighborhood. could lou recognize any of the cars or people in the photos? so you hand these glossy photos to the guy you believe is lou castro -- >> i do.

>> how does he handle them? >> he takes the envelope and holds them between his palms. and was the photos are out of the envelope, he moves the photos around with his fingernails and does not take up the photos by his fingers. >> he knew exactly what you are doing? >> he did. >> and he was in quite a fall for it and leave a print. >> no. >> what does it tell you about the guy that had become your nemesis here. >> will it raise my suspicions even more that he was triton trying to hide from law enforcement. >> illustrated, goodwyn needed help. he called a detective in the da's office, clint snider, who had worked high profile cases like notorious wichita boutique a serial killer. >> it is in the maze-ing story when iran told it to me. all these mysterious deaths. and of course, in this business you don't believe in coincidences. so, i felt like that ron was on to something. >> and ron enlisted another big gun to help i. d. castro. fbi supervisory special agent john sullivan. >> we checked our fbi databases and private databases.

i had the offices school and get photographs, political rest records. we checked every lou castro that we could find in the u.s.. and then matched the lou castro that we had living in wichita. >> how unusual is that? that the fbi cannot, through all its resources, come up with a name and i. d. on the guy. >> it's extremely unusual. especially in this day and age, because usually everybody has a trail. there should have been credit records. there should've been drivers license records. there should have been all sorts of records that we could find. and we could find. >> none of the car purchases, the property deeds, even the utility bills in angel's landing were under the name lou castro. they were all under the names of commune members. but just as goodwyn was feeling stumped, another extraordinary tragedy was about to shake angel's landing. it happened in 2008. when sarah was almost 24 and emily 17. >> i had called mom after school to have dinner with her, and she didn't answer her

phone. and i was so angry with her because she had in gloried my phone call. about 30 minutes into the tax test that i was taking, they pulled me out of class and my dad was there. he said we have to go. and he started driving me to my house and i said dad, we have to go to the hospital. and he said no, emily, we don't. >> county 9-1-1, what's your location? >> their mother's car had swerved into the oncoming traffic. >> she had hit a gravel truck head on. on a rural road. >> so, your mother is suddenly dead? >> right. >> awful event. maybe it was a distraction. maybe shatters turn away from trouble. we really don't know. >> no idea. >> she had just bought a little

yorkie, and for the past couple weeks she had been happy. >> what did the accident investigators make of that? >> they said it was in an accident. >> meanwhile, the investigators, goodwyn snyder and sullivan, couldn't ignore that jennifer's head on highway death was the six in eight years from the same family commune. does that change your interest in the case? are you amped up a little bit more? >> i think we all were. what we saw was a pattern. >> approximately every two and a half years, there was a mysterious death. deemed each time to be an accident. and while the officers suspected lou castro was somehow involved, they had no hard evidence on which to arrest him. they had to just wait. >> it's not that easy. we did not want to tip off what we were looking at. and if you knew we were looking at him, he could get a big move. he could change the way he does because. >> and you still don't know who he is. >> and we still did not know who he was? >> a year later, in 2009, lou castro did exactly what they feared. he took off.

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announced a moved to tennessee. how is that approach to the family? we're out of here? moving to tennessee? >> he said we really needed to go. i was really angry with him from wanting to move. i did want to go, i wanted to stay. and lou said, emily we're doing this for you. >> for you? >> yes, he said that we were going to be closer to vanderbilt, which was the college that i wanted to go to. and he said, this whole move was for me. >> it was kind of flattering to hear? >> yeah, and also, how do you say no when the entire thing is about you. >> so, you are still the princess? >> right. >> emily was 17 but sara was nearly 24 and inching away from the smothering-ness. >> i moved out. >> how did you do that? that's a huge step. >> he really wanted to move to tennessee and i didn't want to go. and i had just lost my mom and i couldn't stand the thought of losing my dad.

i never have been able to stand that thought. my dad is so important to me. >> did you tell lou to his face, i'm not going, i'm not going in the car? >> yes. >> how did that go down? >> he was very angry with me. scary angry. and i just, i can't, i use not doing that. i don't want to be that far away from my dad. i don't. there is no way. >> emily might have gone to live with their father, but she remained with the commune. >> i wasn't going to leave what i considered my family. >> and your dad was province home in columbia, tennessee, sara stood her ground in wichita. she could exhale at last. one evening she went out and met a guy. his name was daniel, an expert marksman in the kansas national guard. and as they fell in love, she began to spill the buried

secrets of her past. do you think nobody could have these dark stories in your life. but you just had awful, awful things to tell. >> yes. >> was sara still in touch with the family commune, now living in tennessee. and daniel wanted to know more about this lou character, sara was telling him about. >> i did some research in all these dust trying to figure out how much of it was related to this individual. >> which is exactly what law enforcement was doing on the outside of all this. trying to look in and figure out where the puzzle lay. what did you feel about the stories? >> a lot of mixed emotions. i didn't know how to handle a lot that stuff at this time. because was all very fresh, very new to me. and just stuck with her, and decided, let's try to make things right. >> and secretly, daniel decided to take action. >> you put together a remarkable letter for the fbi? >> yes. >> it took some guts to do it. >> i was pretty much just tired of me carrying that information myself.

i found out enough that i believed that it should be and somebody else is hands, that they could do something with it. >> daniel laid out his suspicions, painting an alarming picture of the angel's landing commune. a series of mysterious deaths. a code of silence enforced with sickening threats. and a big clue as to where all of the money might have come from. and at the center of it all, the man who called himself, lou castro. even for this veteran of the wars in afghanistan and iraq, according to the authorities, carried its risks. >> did you work with it? >> i did. but i decided this was something i have to do. and the chips will fall with a fall. >> it turns out the authorities were very interested in what you had to say. >> yes. >> sold, in december, 2009, nearly seven years after the wichita investigation began, detectives goodwyn and snider, and the fbi agent sullivan, got their first break. the email from daniel.

>> and in the email, he told us what he thought was happening. but the great thing about it was, for the first time we had somebody from the inside that could confirm some of our suspicions. >> so you guys really need to look at this guy, lou castro. and i'm get guess you get a holy cow phone call? >> yes, we finally have a corroborating witness that will help us determine who lou castro is. >> and secret, without sarah knowing, they brought daniel in and peppered him with questions. >> he related to us how lou castro and the others had moved to the residents in columbia, tennessee. we were reluctant to talk to his girlfriend because again, we did not want to tip off castro or, anybody else. >> and daniel, there inside man, delivered the mother lode. >> they'd bring me pictures, asking to identify these people. >> surveilling? watching cars come and go? you are able to put the picture together for them. >> correct. armed with daniels email and his intel, goodwyn, snyder and

sullivan, got an official greenlight to pursue castro and try to take him out of business. >> john's counterparts in tennessee's obtained a license for a vehicle out there which was registered to a person by the name of joe vegas. so at that time, we had a new name that we potentially thought could be a new family member or we could potentially be lou castro. >> at the same time as investigators were looking for joe vegas, they were following money transferred from the angel's landing family, to their new home in tennessee. >> the money had transferred from wichita, kansas, from area banks to columbia, tennessee banks. >> emily remembers the day lou set up a new account. do you go to the back within that day when he won the? >> i did. you don't >> you don't know that a little authorities have been looking for him for years back and look at wichita? >> no. >> after they got in touch with the bank, the investigators pulled the security camera video. >> there, clearly visible was emily. and there was a man called

giovanni guest opening an account. >> what did you see in that image? >> lou castro. >> so lou castro of the wichita is now joe vegas of tennessee? >> that's correct. the >> investigators believed he was neither lou castro, nor joe vegas. and now, he had been made. identity fraud is a federal crime. so the investigators now had grounds to arrest him. a week later, they moved in. coming up -- investigators finally get inside the doors of the commune. and later, sinister stories of angels landings turned -- >> amber was the angel of death. she would come around when somebody was going to die. >> and then you'll hear lou castro himself. when dateline continues. i really do take care of myself. i try to stay in shape. that's really important, especially as you age. i noticed after kids that my body totally changed. i started noticing a little pudge. so i took action!

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call me the while we're here? >> i think because he did not have the proper identification to actually get legitimately established as lou, so he needed an actual social security card, an actual drivers license. >> investigators back in wichita found out that lou was now going by the name joe. they believed that he had committed identity fraud, which gave them what they needed to make an arrest. >> we went to the front of the residents, knocked on the door, and mr. castro and his common law wife answered the door. >> we actually approached him as joe manages. we called him joe monogamist to his face when we talk to him. he corrected us and colten, lou castro. so he went back to his old identity. >> was he shaky to see law enforcement is front or? >> i didn't think so. >> he was confident that he was going to be able to explain away why we were there. >> the officers arrested him, charged him, and searched the

property. >> what did you find in the house? >> normal things, paper documents, computers, 11 weapons, guns inside the house. >> any smoking guns? >> no. >> emily had been on her way home from school when she got a call from detective goodwin. >> he said emily, where are you? and i said i don't know who you are. he said i am detective good wind. he said where are you? you need to come home. >> first time you heard that name, good one? >> i showed up and goodwin and sullivan came out, and i just about fainted. and goodwin had to practically carry me into the house, because i was terrified. >> what did they tell you is all about? >> i do not remember. i remember that i did not tell them anything. >> louis himself was continuing to confound the officers by not giving up his real name. >> we are very frustrated at that point, we saw one way to the jail as fast as possible. we wanted his fingerprints immediately, we wanted to know who he was, and and that did

not occur. >> castro's fingerprints did not show up on any of the federal databases, even after a six hour interview, he did not crack. >> so, after the search warrant, after the trip, we came back to wichita partly happy because we had arrested lou castro. but we did still do not know who was at that. point >> so one castro pleaded guilty to i.d. fraud, and was sentenced to two years in federal prison, goodwin believe that was just a ploy to avoid much bigger his charges. really serious crimes over many years. he was determined to get to the truth. seven years after opening up his investigation into angels landing, he sent off to the place that he believed blue castro's to criminal journey began. and last found castro's true identity. coming up -- the discovery that would case the breakthrough case wide open. >> i statutory his hands and say work you get that? >> when dateline continues. n dateline continues

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man who called himself a loop astro but would not give up his real name was behind bars after confessing to i.d. fraud. but even after seven years of investigating, goodwin was just getting started. he believed that castro was involved in much more serious crimes, heavy duty stuff. maybe even those mysterious deaths. the plane crash that killed mona her boyfriend and daughter, the death of bryan hewitt, the inexplicable head-on tragedy in which their mom died. and trisha woods drawing. as investigators called everyone with links to castro, the trail took goodwin to south texas. >> it took us to south texas because patricia hughes, the victim in the drowning was from the evil taxes. >> good wouldn't i question it

her family -- they had recalled that tricia went with a guy way back when. >> a guy named daniel perez. >> have you ever heard that name in all the years trying to figure out who lack after? was >> daniel perez. goodwin immediately contacted the local authorities, and it turned out that there was a record of daniel perez. and it mugshot. >> the fact that to me that day. >> i remember one ron finally got the facts from taxes, and i snatch it out of his hands and say, where did you get that? it was obvious that it was the person that we knew as lou castro. of course now we know they are daniel perez. >> lou castro was daniel perez. born in a taxes in 19 -- that in the mid 1990s but the cases had been dismissed because he was believed to be dead. >> the person believed in south access to be dead for many years. >> he was not dead because you saw him in wichita.

you saw him driving his corvettes. >> that is right. >> he was on the land. >> in kansas and tennessee, interviews with the angels landing commune helped goodwin connect the dots between six states and more than a dozen commune members over a period of 15 years. and something else happened. emily wrote a letter to lou, when he was serving time for i.d. fraud. >> i said, i am finally going where i want to go. and doing the things i want to do. and he wrote him back and chewed me out for not caring about him. >> that was the price of being his little princess. >> i was saying that i was happy, and he took that as a slap in the face. and i stop talking to him. >> instead, emily started talking to the investigators. she and sarah trickled out their stories, fearful that they too might be implicated in whatever goodwin suspected. >> it took a lot of questioning and lots of tears, and lots of

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he knew it was coming. >> did you believe? >> it i was skeptical at first, but when you are nine or ten and your mom says this is really what is happening, you give it a little bit more credibility. >> it was not just emily and sarah's mom, others at angels landing believed that lou was a direct descendant of geronimo, and had power to make it rain and bring good health to those at death's door. >> trisha told me about similar instances, where either lou had been dead, or an animal had been dead, or somebody had been really sick, and they made them better. >> did you believe? >> yes. you could also see people, like from the past. like, people that had already died. he could see those people. >> see them, because he said, he was an angel. >> lou said, your mom is right, i am. one hundreds of years old, this is not really my body, i have

died several times, but this just the one that i am right. now >> what did you do? >> it seemed really cool. you know, it was like being so special, and being around this thing that nobody else gets to do. >> your very own angel. >> it is like seeing santa claus. you get really excited when you're ten years old. he was saying that he would keep take care of us, that he would always make sure that we were safe. >> but safety meant that lou needed to control. >> he was the one that told everybody what they were going to do, and when they were going to do it, how they were going to do that. >> it really bossy guy, my way or the highway? >> kind of. he was very good at manipulating you, i guess you could say. >> was your mom vulnerable? he seemed to know where people's buttons were? >> very much so. >> he was stepping in like the, boss? >> he acted like he was my dad. >> what do you think it was

that he put together that you got pulled into? >> it was a cold. >> and you knew that lou castro was the cult leader? >> yes. >> what was that saying that he had? did you feel that power? >> yeah. >> he could say crazy things and you think he's telling you the? truth >> yeah. >> detective ron goodwin was incredulous listening to all this, but nothing could have prepared him for what came next. lou castro, this year, had three angel alter egos. >> they were always watching over him. daniel, amber, and arthur. arthur was mean and daniel was kinder. >> but you do not want to meet either these alters novelties? >> no. >> amber was the angel of death. so she would come around when somebody was going to die. >> he could see who is going to die? >> yes. >> he said this was in his? powers >> right. >> did you ever see that personality and him? >> i did. he would not blink. he would get this terrible grin that looked evil.

>> the sister say that before his mom's death, the castro had a terrifying vision. >> he protected that my mom was going to die. >> devastated. >> it was awful. the >> the outlandish stories were shocking to ron goodwin, a seasoned detective who is about to just govern more about lou castro's power over life and death. and it was about to take the detective back to that summer day in 2003, when trish was drowned in the swimming pool in angels landing. >> her story is that tricia hughes is not an accidental drowning? >> coming up, what emily heard, and then what emily saw. when dateline continues. thee continues. th like that cardboard tv. i told props to switch that out. okay, everyone, that's a wrap. [ bell rings ] wait, you faked this whole thing? i knew it was the quickest way to see you.

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it began with a prediction early eerily similar to the one castro made before her mom's death in 2008. >> she tells him an incident, prior to patricia's drowning in the swimming pool. >> about a week before trisha's death, emily, trisha's toddler, and trust yourselves were sitting at a table when lou castro, this year, as 11-year-old emilee believe her to be, he had a vision. >> and we said something really big is going to happen. trust is going to die. and then i started die crying. he said it is okay, it is her time. >> she said castro told her not to worry, while he could not be there well trish died because it would destroy her his power as a senior, he would still bring trish back to life. >> then, he said she will come back. >> do i understand that trish is listening to him while he says this? she is hearing this described? >> yes. >> if she startled, not me, i'm not going along with us? >> no, she was quite involved.

>> on the appointed day, the angels landing family had gone out to lunch. we >> have just gotten back for lunch, and he said all right, we are going to go to the dealership to look at a car. i think it was for sara, but i do not remember. and he said, but the pool needs to be cleaned, so you interest are going to stay here and clean. it and he said emily, it is time. i said okay. >> she said lou began to set up the cleaning equipment for the pool, a few feet away from the workshop. >> he said you are going to lay weight inside the shop with a little one, so i said okay and i gave trish a hug on the driving board. and i started crying, and she said why are you crying? and i said because i'm going to miss you. and she said is going to be okay. >> then emily took the toddler, waited inside the workshop where there was some new kittens. >> a few minutes go by, and there was a splash, a little scream, like a shriek.

and then lou came in and he was panting, or out of breath, and he looked sad. his arms were wet. >> then she said, lou gave emily a critical order. >> wait 20 minutes, and then go out there. make sure you and the baby jump in so that you are wet, call 9-1-1. so we went and played with the kids in the shed, and we waited. it was a agonizing 20 minutes. >> trying to entertain the little girl. >> knowing that trish was outside. >> time goes by, you leave the shed, go to the pool. >> we went to the pool, krish was floating in the pool faced down. so i got the baby, i jumped in. >> just to get yourself? what >> yeah. >> because then your story would've been finished. that you have attempted to rescue the baby?

>> how awful, seeing trash floating dead in the pool. >> i lost it. >> even so, emily called 9-1-1, just as she had been ordered by castro, and told the story that tricia slipped while trying to rescue the baby, and banged her head and drowned. and in the crucial 20 minute window, lou had apparently taken it her sister sarah to the car dealership. >> did he give you a hint of what was going on that? day >> no. >> what do you believe that lou did at the poll that? day >> i believe that he drowned trish. >> not accident at all? >> no. >> buescher had under the water, and killed her? >> yes. >> detective ron goodwin believed both emily and sarah had been horribly duped. emily told the detective that castro showed up his alibi with more hocus pocus, telling her that with his powers as a seer, he had put her in a time warp, convincing her for many years that she was not even at the pool when trish drowned. so innocent, 11 year old emily, waited and waited for liu to

bring troops back to life. but she was gone. and for years, her death remained an accidental drowning. >> i know that it was because of the story that i told. there was a lot of regret that comes along with us. >> but you are not to blame for this, you get that? >> i'm trying to come to terms. >> goodwin is now grasping the full extent of castro's holdover emily at angels handling. >> the control that he had over her was unlimited. she would do anything for him, she truly believed that he was this person. >> and with emily's story, he had the evidence that he had been seeking for so many years, of castro's grievous crimes. >> so now based on the story, of what she saw at took part in as a little girl, you have murder case? >> yes. >> but, as if murder was not enough, emily and sarah had more to tell. there were more crimes to reveal, even more ugly stuff. sara and emily had --

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had been listening hard as emily and sarah reveal the awful story of truth hughes's murder at angels landing. but nothing, not the email from daniel, the story about versus drowning, or his wildest suspicions about lou castro could prepare him for what he was about to hear next. >> emily, here is the really difficult part of your story and i will let you tell us a little as much of as you like. but you see seem right away to be sharing the bedroom with lou? as a fourth grader? >> yes, i was ten. >> ten years old.

>> yes, and i was in his bed every night. >> he convinced me that this is what i needed to do to take care of him, this was my job. >> why did he say that he needed you? >> he said that for a seer, he needed to have a pure little girl to have sex with him so that he could survive. >> and that would recharge his batteries as an angel who is hundreds of years old? >> he would validate it with old bit luckily stories, or things like that, about how little girls are special and that he really needed a little girl and i had to take care of him. >> did you think it was wrong or out of line at the time? >> no. i wanted to take care of him. that is what i was supposed to do. it is hard to explain, but i loved blue. i loved him quite a bit. it was uncomfortable, and it was painful, and it breaks my heart now.

it is really hard to look at me when i was little. >> your childhood was stolen from you. >> it was. >> even when castro got engaged and had a child, the abuse didn't stop. though emily was pushed out of the bedroom. >> crazy to say, but where you a little bit jealous? >> i was. i was 12 and i felt like i was getting divorced. >> for sara, the awful reality was not so dissimilar. she too was subjected to castro's mind games, as he was a controller. >> like trying to drive a wedge between my sister and i. >> were you jealous of emily? >> he tried to make me jealous of her, yes. >> she says that castro was more violent with her than her sister. >> if you did not follow lose way, what would happen? >> he would rate me. yes. >> how awful.

>> i mean, there are hundreds and hundreds of times. i cannot tell you every single time, but you try not to remember those things. >> how old were you when it began? >> 17. >> castro's abuse was backed up by demonic threats if the girls did not obey. >> he told me that he was going to take me to purgatory. >> he would threaten to take people to purgatory so they will be forever in limbo. >> that was his capacity as an angel? >> it is important to remember that lou would never make these threats. it was hit the angels who were inhabiting his body who would make these threats. so the next morning he would wake up and say mama, i love you, i'm so sorry. but, really? >> now, where is your mom when all of this is going on? >> it was like, really late at night usually. so, she would be sleeping in

her house. >> because, you had by then two or three different properties, right? >> and what about all of the other adults? there are people coming and going may be seeing things, nobody intervened? >> nobody saw it. i think that is really important, is that nobody saw the abuse. i've spoken to people who were there, and i guarantee you that nobody knew. he was very careful. i never had a bruise. >> so psychologically? >> i was always with him, so it would not be weird for us to disappear for an hour two. nobody knew. >> but castro did not just manipulate the girls for sex. he ordered sarah secretly to videotape a young child with a bathroom, orders backed up with the most districts of threats. >> was aiq happy with what you showed?

and >> now he, he made michaud to twice because the first time he said that i did not get what he needed me to get. >> if you had said, no, i am not going to take that video camera, i'm not gonna do that, what would he have done? >> he would say that i'm gonna make an worst nightmare come true, i'm going to kill your dad. >> it was the same reason she never told her dad about the abuse. >> he was always threatening to kill my dad. >> that was a big go to? thing >> yes, because i am a daddy's girl. >> he said the acute feared that castro instilled in her was even worse when he was drinking. one evening he was brandishing a assault rifle. >> i thought i was going to lose my head. because he was angry with me. >> he enjoyed the pain, he enjoyed making people miserable and making people terrified. he enjoyed it. >> but so great was castro's

power that leaving did not seem to be an option for the young girl. >> you did not have any money or plan b or anything? >> you had your dad back home? >> i think that is a pretty common thing for people in these types of situations. everybody says, well you could've left than, you could've left then. but that did not seem like a possibility. the thought of leaving was scarier than the thought of staying. the scary part is, what if i he is right, i am useless, nobody will love me, what if he is right and he is a seer? >> and does have an inventing angel who will come get you? >> and that is scarier. >> i believe believe that might happened? >> i physically could now, but i never thought of leaving. i thought about killing myself, but i never thought about leaving. >> how do you leave? >> you don't, i have ptsd. >> i'm not at all surprised.

>> ron goodwin, aghast of what he had this hearing, believed he had been told of crimes that he could see castro behind prison for a long time. >> he is a sexual predator who is willing to do anything to get his way and do what he wants to do. to live a life like he wants to live. he will stop at nothing, including murder and rape. and he did not stop at anything to get what he wanted. >> after the investigators presented all the evidence to the dna, they waited in till castro had completed his two year federal prison sentence, then immediately rearrest him, and he ended up being charged with 28 counts of first degree murder, child exploitation, and multiple accounts of sexual crimes and fraud. perez was heading to the court. as witnesses filed into the court, the investigators wonder if their star witness, emily,

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court in wichita kansas. >> we must determine whether the defendant is guilty or not guilty. >> daniel perez, aka liu castro went on trial. he was charged with a first degree murder of trey shoes, with sexual crimes including child exploitation and fraud. eventually, 28 counts in all. there were no charges in any of the other mysterious deaths.

emily and sarah would both testify, though at the time not wanting to make public their identities, and they would face down the accused who controlled them both for so many. years >> i cannot imagine how mc you must have been walking into that courtroom? because the case really depends on you. >> all i could think about was, how are they going to believe me. this is such a crazy story, what if they do not believe me? >> the state, benefit mr. bennett and i will ask you to hold him responsible and find him guilty. >> district attorney mark bennett and assistant da kim parker prosecuted the sprawling case. >> were you worried about even explaining this thing to a jury, about what it was all about? >> we had facts across several states, facts that involved a multitude of victims and witnesses. >> this is like an imax movie and he went with the epic version of the daniel pry the

story? why did you do that? >> you cannot understand it otherwise. if you cannot tell the whole story, the jury would be lost. >> the prosecution had won a key ruling before trial, when judge shows of allowed evidence from beyond canvas to be entered. so accusations that goodwin had discovered, would be heard by a jury. >> an individual by the name of patricia huge had died. >> the da allege that, even though troubleshoot might have been a willing participant in her own death, it was nonetheless perez who held her head underwater. >> the primary distinction between a homicide and suicide is that suicide is at your own land. literally, at this case, homicide, the hand of another. his hand was necessary to complete this act. >> there was circumstantial evidence to prove the charge, and the star testimony of only one witness, emily. 11 years old at the time of

trisha's death. >> which is the weakest part of the case, when you had to work the most on? >> this is the only account with the testimony of one individual. so it was the most difficult to prove. >> i just kept thinking, nobody is going to really think that it was as bad as it was. nobody is going to think that he should serve life in person. >> beyond emily's account, the prosecution put on an expert -- the small bruises on the top of tricia head, -- likewise the broken hair clip found on the pole bottom got there not because she stumbled, but because somebody approached on top of her head as she was held under water. moving on, the next big charge, the exploitation of a child, carried a life sentence. this was the incident in which the sarah accused perez of forcing her to videotape a young girl as she got undressed. >> how did it feel to see him in court, right there? >> it was terrifying. i felt like he was going to jump across the table and get

me. >> even then? >> yeah. >> the da alleged perez ordered sarah to take videos of the child at least twice. >> we found all of this video on computers in tennessee. >> among the other sex crime charges, sara and emily, and one other witness, testified about the same sexual assault that took one evening. >> all three independently described this event, so right off the bat -- >> it was surreal and terrifying to sit before 12 people that i did not know and tell them all of these terrible things, and terribly graphic detail, that happened when i was ten. >> and there are more witnesses. another for young women from three states, alleged victims unaware of one another, but agreeing that castro claimed malevolent agents were controlling him have they assaulted him sexually. >> did not know each other, of course.

>> thousands of miles apart. >> and their stories are essentially the same. >> but it was the fraud charges that revealed the big picture picture. what daniel perez in angels landing or ultimately all about. he did not have to go very far down the paper trail to realize that perez signed nothing. the car loans, mortgage applications, all filled out by this followers. the prosecutor said that they manipulated his followers into buying the real estate and lavish toys. it got worse, it turned out that trish, mona, and lindsey died in a plane crash. brian he used the man who died under a vehicle, all had two things in common. daniel perez had predicted each of their deaths, and each had to see life insurance policies. payouts totaling four point $2 million, were made to call new members. >> it seemed that whenever the

funds were running low, somebody would die, and there will be a big insurance payoff. was it that that pattern, mark? >> absolutely. get down to less than 10,000 or 5000 in the account, that was around the time somebody would die. >> with that explanation, the da summed up their case against 55 year old daniel perez. >> it is a story of domination, control, and media pollution of the most vulnerable. it spans 15 years, multiple victims, multiple deaths, multiple life insurance policies. he moves through several states so that he could satisfy his own sexual appetite. >> daniel perez was about to take the stand and tell the court that it had all been a big misunderstanding. next, you will hear him speak directly to us. >> coming up -- mr. perez i've heard you described as co-leader, child

rapist, who are you? when when

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through texas in the midwest, going by the name lucas astro. in tennessee, he was chauvin eggs. >> do you solemnly swear that the testimony that you're about to give will be the whole truth. >> now as he faces charges of first degree murder, charles exploitation, and fraud, he took the stand in his own defense. this time in his own name. perez told the story court that everything about his story had been invented by the prosecution. there was no angels, demons, sexual crimes, no insurance fraud, and certainly no murder. perez sat down with dateline and we went over the points of his defense. >> i've heard you described as a cult leader. child rapist. somebody who's good to have off

the streets. who are you? >> i am no one in particular. i am just me. >> do you think you can see into the pew future, are you a profit, for us here? >> why are you telling people? we >> want your angel alter egos, are they still around? >> there is no such thing. they were not alter egos. if i'm having sex with somebody, but just do not call me by my name. call me anything but liu. >> explaining, he says that after being charged with sex crimes in the mid 90s, he left texas not because he was fleeing the authorities, -- >> that was just a mule. i was just moving money. i delivered money, and i got paid for it. >> it is illegal money? >> yes sir. >> do you still have money? >> yes.

>> how much? >> close to half 1 million. >> as for the alleged murder of tissues in the swimming pool. did he set everybody down a table and predict her death? >> did you add a teller body that her time had come? >> no. >> had that little girl set up an alibi for you at the car dealership? >> so you are saying that they made up all that stuff? no i was not there. >> there is no question that you're at the car dealership. the key question is that it was not your hand on trisha's head pushing her? >> nobody killed partnership use. >> here's the thing, when investigators look at you, bad things happen -- but there is a big infusion of insurance money. let's go back to the plane into, did you break that plane to crash? >> years go by is trisha's time

in the pool. then it is brian, the husband trapped underneath a car. >> yes he south passed way in south dakota. >> did you play mind games with jennifer? >> no. >> i had nothing to do with anyone's death. >> what about the instructions you allegedly gave sarah? >> no. they found the pictures and the videos on her computer. not mine. has anybody considered the fact that she is the one who is doing it. >> no are you a pedophile? >> no sir. >> so raping the 11 year old never? happened >> no. >> that is the allegation. >> it is, but i am. not >> you get up in the morning to drive your flashy cars around and look for the raping of a young girl. that is what you are about? >> that is the picture that came together, but it is not. reality >> sarah says that he raped her hundreds of times.

>> no. >> that is what she testified? >> that makes you a? monster >> wash no. >> they were of age, we were just having fun. >> the stories that come out of these people that used to be your family is that you are a manipulating them, they felt absolutely terrified by you. >> and one of them was dating a police officer, we have police officers and law enforcement that hang out at the ranch for at least eight years. it is not logical. how are you going to sit there and be raped, and then that individual is not going to run to a police officer handing right there? you know. >> the prosecution is going to put together a story that you are a very unlucky guy, with all of these people dying every few years, a lot of money coming into the family. how do you explain that kind of

circumstantial pattern that says if you are a criminal enterprise? >> i cannot explain it. >> were you a co-leader? >> no, there is no commune, there is no cold. >> that is in essence what daniel perez told the jury. the state had it all wrong, top to bottom. the jury got the case and retired to deliberate. in about three hours of his back with a verdict. judge joseph kirby asked a rented to the court. daniel perez was found guilty on all 28 accounts. in march of 2015, he was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences. for the exploitation of the child and the murder. >> it conclusively shows that perez used people as near objects. >> he received another 33 years for the other charges.

a 55-year-old will not be eligible for parole for more than 80 years. those who payne -- feel that perez might have been involved in the other deaths like the car crash that killed emily and service mom. >> do you think there's more to it than a civil road accident? >> probably. >> or the plane crash where cody's mom and sister were lost. >> he did it. some, way somehow, he found a way to alter the aircraft. >> you believe that? >> in my heart, i do. >> you do not have any evidence to say that. >> i cannot prove anything. >> his heart goes out to emily and sarah. >> i lost my mom and sister. but those girls lost. i cannot even imagine. >> so, who is daniel perez? he used so many different stories that is hard to piece them together. >> he is just a guy from south texas? >> right. >> telling stories? >> right.

>> for what reason? >> he liked it. he realized that if he could find a way to generate capital without having to work, he could have access to whatever sorts of things his heart desired. things, including, me and my sister. >> in the end, it was tenacity and old-fashioned doggedness that took perez down. >> i would not have my life back if it were not for detectives goodwin and detective snyder and supervisory special agent sullivan. and mr. bennett and mr. parker. it is amazing what they have given me. the last time we sat down with sarah and emily, they were

trying to move on, but still reflecting on the shocking abuse. >> your mother knew nothing about all this? do you think? >> looking back, she had to have known. >> you would think? >> but she must've lost her mind. there is no way that my mom would allow that to happen to her children. >> the sisters are now closer than ever, and closer to their dad to who was anguished when he heard his daughters stories for the first time. >> there is many, many times that my dad could've given up on me. and he never gave up on me. >> he cried, and you want to know why i never told him. >> because in your mind you are protecting him. you are keeping him from the demon. >> sara is now married to daniel, and still lives in wichita. emily got married to.

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