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>> there is it? he was stabbed in the chest left to die right here. >> abe said he felt like his son was targeted, right? >> right. >> it was a hit job, correct? >> right. >> i know whoever is involved in this will pay for it. >> when people are desperate, they do desperate things. >> very violent conniving. >> she is into sexuality, and such a calculated way. >> i'm not surprised by anything. it's just crazy twist after crazy twist. it really was internationally court hearing, -- did >> you think it was going to work? >> honestly, i give it a 50/50 chance. >> it wasn't about retribution. it was about justice. it was a quiet fall night, close to midnight, the young couple finished dinner and then

walked to the dimly lit centuries old cobblestone street of old san juan puerto rico, heading for their car. suddenly, a man armed with a knife and a loose block from the cobblestone streets attacked. the husband adam anhang fell to the ground. >> but the witness remembers hearing was adam screaming, run abe, run. >> fighting back as hard as he could, abe never stood a chance. >> he was stabbed repeatedly. >> it with the brick over the head. >> and, like that, it was over. the attacker melted back into the darkness, leaving adam and his wife aurea lying on the street,. and ambulance arrived loaded aurea with injuries on her arms and legs and with her way to the hospital. but for adam, it was too late. he was 32 years old.

>> the coolly police quickly arrived to the -- journalist -- , covered the murder for puerto rico's highest circulation newspaper. it happened in september 2005. >> right, here on these cobblestones -- >> he died right here. >> and, that kind of thing doesn't happen. i mean, old saint one is relatively safe. >> yes. >> especially in this time of, night that time of. year >> in my years of experience, a murder of someone. i'm talking about 20 years. so murder of a businessman unh, unfathomable to those who knew adam like lily gracia. >> it was devastating. because adam had so much potential. >> another friend, andy wendell remembers finding out in the middle of the night. >> a professor from business school called me and told me he

was dead. he had been murdered. i couldn't believe what happened. >> holds it got a call from the same professor. >> and he said, adam passed away. and i still get chills and i think that up that moment it just was oh well could have just pain and everybody run to see what happened. all i could say was adam died, adam died. in winnipeg, canada. adams, parents barabara and abe learn from their daughter, becky the devastating news left them reeling. it was as if the ground had disappeared beneath our feet. we felt like we were rolling through the universe. could not even register the information. and to hear all it happened, helping close?

that >> will tell you, something i wanted it resolved then and there. whoever did this was going to pay for. and that was what i said to myself, five seconds after i heard. >> that was your mission? >> yes. >> abe anhang, you'll hear more from him later and how it's love for his son would lead him on a 13 year quest for justice that would uncover secrets and spend continents. but in those first hours and days after the murder, it would be after the old san juan police to find adam's killer. and, in the early 2000s, that was almost herculean task. , because while the tours, heart of puerto rico, old san juan, was all but three -- free of violent crime. the rest of the island was not. >> during that time, puerto rico was ordering thousands of murders a. here we had a higher murder rate in los angeles, and

they're 6 million people in los angeles that we don't have in puerto rico. >> but, this is a high profile case. adam was a prominent businessman on the island. he was also canadian and therefore considered a terrorist. so, his murder, smack in the middle of all saint laurent became a top priority for law enforcement. >> how much pressure was there on the police, then in the days that followed to make an arrest on the case? >> technically, in charge of the, case they were being very pressured by the higher ups to solve the case. >> the detective didn't have much to go on. robbery didn't seem to be the motive because nothing was taken. >> didn't take his well. it >> didn't take his perch. didn't take's watch. so, it looks like a senseless murder. >> a senseless murder with multiple witnesses, including adam's wife, aurea who was in the hospital recovering from her injuries. detectives got her statement and found out looking to speak to any others. >> they had eyewitness

accounts. >> what was the description of the killer? >> the general description from two witnesses who came forth, since the beginning, also -- pushed aurea and then went back to. adam >> heavyset, tall, so the police knew what the killer looked like. now, the pressure was on to find him, and answer the most important question, why did he kill adam anhang. >> coming -- up >> adam had been working on million dollar real estate deals and one of them gone wrong. >> he's doing this all over the world. >> all over the. world >> and, later, marriage and deception. >> he came to realize, immediately, that it was all about the money. as a father searches for the truth. >> he didn't stop. >> and the, fbi launches a stand to catch an international fugitive. >> did you think it was going to work? >> i give it a 50/50 chance. when dateline, continues.

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of winnipeg, canada as a young man seeking his fortune and determined to make his mark on the world. he returned for a final time in the casket. at 32, still a young man. but, if the size of his funeral was any indication, he had succeeded in leaving an indelible mark in those around him. >> there was hundreds of people, there was zent a empty seat inside the service and it was just a gloomy day to see a fantasy park wouldn't becky and to see the pains that haunts me still. >> the anhang family is jewish,

and part of a traditional burial services shoveling dirt on the casket. >> to watch mr. anhang all you could see was this pain, anger and sadness with just the way that the quiver it was very powerful visual for the rest of my life this is his dad bearing his son. >> parents aren't supposed to bury their children, and so for the anhang's it marked the unnatural and to a life that began with so much promise. i heard you used to walk along with a little briefcase, is that true? >> in the first, day in kindergarten, he used to vestberg case. i never thought he was -- a little, boy he was a little man. he like to do things on his own. always something a little different. , creative he love to solve problems, especially other peoples problems. when people got into trouble they would come to him, he was that kind of a personality. >> according to his personality,

adam was a computer whiz with an entrepreneurial spirit and had big dreams beyond the big skies of his hometown. >> he left home at 18, 19 and he went to work which was the top business school in the world. >> the school at the university of pennsylvania adam was taking graduate level courses at the prestigious business school, even though he was still an undergrad. that is where he found a kindred spirit. >> we happen to sit next to each other in a real estate, plus we just started talking and just a not very tallest in person but had this giant personality and i was just so enamored by. him and friendship just kind of organically went from, that and i'm, anyways became inseparable. >> and it was also struck by adam the first time they met. i was gonna spend the afternoon,

studying i had a great table. >> you're a little older -- so >> yeah, and i had earplugs in and i saw somebody standing next to me and there was adam with this friend and they said, hey, can i sit with, you and i said, hey can't you see the numbers here? >> but he had this great small and everything so we sat down and i just felt like i wanted more. >> mike waller met adam at a college competition for business students. >> just that kind of friend that was always, they're always available and our conversations rotated between business topics, business ideas for the kind of things that young kids go through and it was like if i had a business idea that i want to run, by we had to go to work or go to class. >> it's a recurring theme among adam's friends. the man with the big smile and giant was always there when he needed him. >> what was it about his personality that was it to you

that was signature data? >> he had the biggest hard of anybody i've ever met, whether you needed the friendship, you needed the advice. whatever you, needed he was giving and he was. there >> -- >> he was, to an extreme fault, he was, trusting and he was trusting of everybody and he believed that the kindness that he gave, not everybody had. , and that was always the conversation that we had, i would say, not everybody is like you. >> after graduated from college, adam dove headfirst into the business world where he possessed an innate ability to spot a good deal. >> i'd always tell, you're the smartest person i know. because he could think outside the box and he saw when nobody else saw. >> he was building the buildings hotels in markets that had no hotels, live to some of. them >> and he's doing this all

over the world. then >> all over the world. my name is adam anhang and i'm class of wharton school of business 96. >> they brought him back to the wharton school of business in 1996. >> how many women have to ask? [laughter] >> the nature of being an entrepreneur is that you're constantly putting some ideas -- >> as adams business grow, so that his reputation as a problem solver. that reputation is what first brought him to puerto rico in 2002. >> carlos was working for real estate developer, who wanted adams help in finalizing a hotel deal. >> and what was your impression about? i'm >> young, innocent, really nice kid and he came here and he fell in love with the area. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ >> puerto rico

[speaking non-english] the enchanted island, as it's called, and with its pristine beaches, crystal blue water and historic old old san juan, it's easy to understand why. but, adam was enchanted by something else he saw on the islands. opportunity. >> i thought, what is this a look at going to come up? with i mean, what can he do, this is a child. >> lili gross gamut out of their's business partner. so we didn't think that there was that much potential have five minutes, and you realize that there's something there. >> in fact, adam helped open the first major hotel. the small puerto rican island once used by the u.s. navy, as a bombing range, but now it hurst micah. >> was there a lot of hope in what he was planning? >> absolutely. he had a lot on the table. >> but, to lily, there was much more to her friend adam than

just her forward thinking business savvy. >> for me, i love this with. he had that, bright sarcastic humor. and yet, he was very kind. he was in pretension. he was just adorable. sweet, sweet, adam. >> sweet adam had found a new place to call home. a new place to pursue his dreams. , and it wasn't long before he found himself pursued by a beautiful young woman. >> did she catches i roadway? >> i don't think it was right away because he had other girls around him too. he wasn't her but she was the most persistent. >> coming up -- >> there are restaurants and -- have parked the car. >> adams last hours alive. >> they came off the street where they were met by the assailant who killed adam, right here, at this cross section. >> and, detectives make an arrest. >> he had broken a record. >> did you think, threats have released him, finally, they

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it must of been open because i know david has it all open on his screen cause i could see a bomb like i think they're looking at the sports once hln to hln like you know how we just clicked sometimes when we forget and it's like we've never been stopped before so they're definitely not looking but there's but they're cgtn cgtn when i stop sometimes it's like are you okay and i'm fight but i was on mute like it was me just looking on my phone adam felt that he had hit the jackpot landing aria he thought

that she was miss puerto rico for him and he had hooked the girl. he was proud of his accomplishments like he had really done it. willie says aria who had a modest upbringing tried her best to fit in with adams upskill circle of friends. she really wanted to belong, she really tried to do all the right things around us and tried to rule it all. our was seen more and more frequently on adams arm and he introduced her to the parents when they visited the island. what was your impression of her. she was striking. she was articulate. what are your trumped of running her own business. so adam broader to restaurant and bar in st. john. he made it -- named a pink. scary in march 2000, five out of an aria went into the sole ceremony. but by september adam would be

dead. murdered just blocks from pink scared. everyone was shocked because old san juan it is not a dangerous place, in fact, it's quite safe this doesn't happen. the detectives tasked with finding adam's killer had piece together the last few hours of his life. he and awra driven into old st. croix on that night to have dinner. they parked their car and were captured on security footage walking down the street at about 10 pm. and, a few minutes, later inside the 20 restaurant, dragon, fly where they. an hour and a half later, they can be seen leaving the restaurant and walking in the direction of our areas bar, pink skirt journalist jose sanchez -- , so it was just up the street where they had parked the car and they went to dinner and then told that they had to stop.

and after stopping, i think it was on the street where they were met by the assailant who killed adam right here in this cross section. our ahead also been attacked. the australians pushed, or or stop or and then she fell. the police were working diligently to identify and track down adam's writer. , but they weren't the only ones poking around the streets. so was adam's father what were you hoping to get out of going. there -- most importantly, i everybody knows. they didn't have a murder in old san juan 20. years and they were shocked by. this soon, unauthorized, someone all the reskilling. , so of course, there was an authorized killing. then >> right. >> so, i had to understand and know and what really went.

on >> a vaunted answers. >> if you want to know who adam is. just look at him. look at that quite strength, that strategic intelligence. >> dateline began covering the story not long after adam was killed in 2005. a bullet our cameras to follow him when he dissed -- visited the intersection where his son was murdered. , adam's family put up a 20,000 reward that would lead to the arrest of adam's killer. eyewitnesses described that killer as a tall heavy set man that fled the scene on furred towards the neighborhood called -- a depressed area of old san juan but there were discrepancy in the various eyewitness accounts. including the one area gave in the hospital. detectives wanted to clear the mauve so one of them went to talk to our area to the restaurant two and a half weeks after the murder she wasn't

there but someone else caught his attention. , so he went directly and he finds a kid it looks like it's the first time that you seen somebody like that. when the man refused to answer the detectives questions. he was arrested on the spot for suspicion of murder, his name was jonathan. and he lived in the era. he had no, record the 22-year-old denied killing or even knowing adam but when he was picked out of a photo lineup by one of the eye witnesses who was a lawyer it was enough for the authorities. he was charged with adam and hank's murder. when you heard jonathan had been arrested, did you think that's the relief, finally. he pleaded not guilty, and i am not a murder he spoke with a line in 2007 as she awaited

trial. he said that he had been a home, sleeping on the night he was murdered but didn't have anyone to backup his alibi. he saw someone but he didn't see me in september 2000 72 years after adam's murder. romance trial began. , and of, course abe was there. the case hinged almost exclusively on the testimony of that lawyer, who identified roman as adams. killer that lawyer was adamant in a statement and he would say, that he would sleep well overnight. the jury believed, and jonathan riman was convicted of killing adam and sentenced to 105 years in prison. but romance conviction didn't bring the anhang the closure one might expect.

>> you told the press, after jonathan roman was convicted that today, part of the truth came out, that was just the beginning because there are others involved. >> that's exactly what i said all this craziness was going on and was making. sends eight suspicions who were fueled by a theory for prosecution to race to trial and adam's murder hadn't been right at all. the mom had targeted him. and somebody had put him up to it. where adam's family and friends, it was clear who that somebody was. >> in spite of the pain and agony, we all connected the dots. very quickly. there was no doubt in my mind and in those of us that knew that she had something to do with the. >> coming up -- >> was a total game. she wasn't even attracted to. a very smart guy, fooled by the

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learned that adam anhang had been killed. his friends, believe one person was behind the murder. his wife, aurea. , so you all pretty quickly came to the conclusion, it sounds like, that she was connected in some way to his death. absolutely. >> let's set and the others were convinced that adam's killing had been a setup. >> we knew it wasn't a robbery, we knew it wasn't random we knew it was her. >> adam's family also felt aria was somehow involved. >> when did you start thinking area is somehow implicated in this? >> well, i had suspected here in there, of course. >> as you've been barbara were looking at adam and arias relationship, they came to an alarming conclusion. >> she is certainly the ultimate con and she is very

very skilled at what she does. what she did, said adam's friend ali was use adam for his money and the social circle he brought her into. it was total, gate i mean, she wasn't even attracted to. you could tell. she was mean to him, she was nice to us. >> she wanted to belong, so she needed him as a ticket to fit in. >> adam seem to have her own doubts about the relationship because, when they got, married he tried to keep it a secret. >> he didn't tell any of us. none of us were invited. none of his friends. not of his business partners. >> so, you didn't know he was married at all? >> no, nobody knew. >> how did you find out that he had gotten married? >> do you remember when he told you? >> well, it was a month after he had gotten married. >> he said the marriage happened so quickly because aria told adam she was pregnant. >> the mother basically said, you know, you gotta preserve our daughters honor and the name and mayor. >> he married her because that

is the kind of stand of person that he was. and, that's the kind of individual that he was. so, he did what he believed was the right thing to do. >> and knowing for a while that he was in the background, that was probably the strategy that was worked out and that was unfortunately successful. >> friends like mike waller, say the marriage was rocky from the start. >> what kind of problems did he tell you he was having with her? >> he just shared that he had gotten married, and it happened quickly. , and he came to realize, immediately, that it was all about the money and about the prestigious being with him. and that he realized he needed to have the situation. >> adam was a fixer and, so prior relationships were one of us would private one out of the relationship, adam can fix. it and he quickly realized that this was all about the money that had been used. >> adam and ariana lived in the

house and upskill ocean park neighborhood of st. one. but, they weren't alone. ariana brought alone her sister, , marcia mother carmen and her two brothers. >> it was like the whole family was, bear living off of adam, taking advantage of it. it wasn't subtle, it was obvious. and, adam would tell us. i feel like a strange in the, so the mother, said i know we speak spanish, they're talking about. me it wasn't comfortable there. , and we got worse, it soon became obvious that aria was not pregnant, never had been. she had faked it. adam was devastated. >> here is the spiders person in the, world was falling for the oldest trick in the book. >> they became really angry about that. she tricked him -- >> she tricked him into marrying him. just months after marrying aria, adam moved into an apartment and began to plan for a

divorce. >> the divorce, for, her would've meant it and to her being able to move up to the world. so, she was desperate. and, when people are desperate they do desperate things, i guess. adam became afraid of what aryan might do. he turned to his friend, hiring him to be his bodyguard. well you're welcome diver, i picked him up in the morning and i dropped him off in the evening. but, fearful as, he was adam did not cut off all contact with aria. they want to couples therapy in a last effort to save the marriage. but, by late september, 2005, just six months after they had gotten married, adam decided to move ahead with the divorce, he planned to discuss it with area the night that he died to keep the peace, he told carlos to take the night off. >> he thought that she didn't like me, and he thought that

without me, there he had a plan that he could convince or to give him the divorce. going home and i was hoping that, by the next, day we would hear that it was over. to this day, carlos carries the weight of knowing he wasn't there that night to help his friend. >> the guy that i'm supposed to protect us live, my friend this kid was everything i was like to have a son, gunned on my time, on my watch. it wasn't easy for a while it doesn't go away it was easier to live with it. the grief carlos and so many of adam's friends of family feel over his death is still apparent. a grief, they, say aria and her family never shared. in, fact aria didn't attend adam's funeral in winnipeg, and

aide, says she never offered any condolences to his family. she is not grieving adam. >> grieving, she's not. she's not giving him at all, greeting -- him >> she's thinking about the money? >> yes, greeting him. not grieving. >> when she recovered from her injuries, aryan made a claim to, what she, said was her share of adams's, $8 million, and carlos, says she and her family were gathering up as many of adam's possessions as they could. they all went out to collect the material things that they had from him. they had gotten the bmw, she was already cleaning his house -- as adam's family and friends got back to what they saw is the calculating way aria inserted herself into his life. how she deceived him for her own personal gain and how she

acted after her death, they became convinced she had a hand in his murder. but something else was nagging and she was beginning to wonder if jonathan roman was not adam's killer after all. well, we interviewed back then for our first dateline piece. >> yeah, i had no idea. >> that was the beginning. it seems like the ending, that's. right 80% of what had happened since then and it had mo abe was on a crusade to uncover the truth about the sun stuff, and he was about to take a drastic step. tunnels is to know you justice, as we know it on the, earth was going to be served. >> coming up -- i just had a feed that it didn't fit together. >> so what did fit together? >> abe says he felt like his

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for many child observers they said that sanchez, there was a good reason. >> was their sense that already an injustice that happened to an innocent man could be convicted? >> there was a lot of condemnation, during the trial that during the party they were involved and didn't say why are you prosecuting him. it has nothing to do with this. >> reporters weren't the only ones who had begun to question whether riman was the actual killer, eight and hang also had doubt, >> it wasn't until after the trial and i sat through for eight weeks, i just had a fear that it didn't fit, together you see. >> they found him self troubled by the seeming lack of hard evidence implicated riman in the murder, it was very skimpy, it was a description, eyewitness, a single witness. >> but, it wasn't just what he

was hearing in the courtroom that gave him pause, he was out talking to people, bars. you get more information in the bar whether it's alcohol or coffee then what you get in a courtroom. people talk. and what people were saying was that jonathan roman had not killed his son. the joke lies that everybody in the street knew about the police. abe was unsettled by the prospect that adam's real killer might still be out there. so, he set off on a decade long odyssey to uncover the truth about what happened that september night. abe's first step, not 24 hours after roman had been convicted was to take his doubts to the fbi. >> aid took it upon himself to honor the crusade to open her

eyes up. >> carlos case is a retired fbi assistant director, he served 17 years in the same one field office. the of, them as the special agent in charge, he says that the fbi, which operates in puerto rico because it is a u.s. territory, typically leaves homicide cases to local authorities. as they had with adam's murder. >> that to, say but it was just one more homicide among the hundreds that occurred here every year. so, the fbi had no use to look into them. >> until eight and hang walked into your offices. >> correct. >> he was able to sit down with an aging, he wanted the fbi to investigate his son's murder, the circumstances surrounding the murder. and, basically figure out why he was killed. and he fell that jonathan riman had nothing to do with the homicide and had been arrested,

charged, and convicted for something that he did not do >> it said he felt like his son was targeted, right? >> yes. >> it was a hit job? >> correct. >> he said he found the person who he thought had ordered the hit. they suspected that area had something to do in the murder of the sun. >> but abe had no real evidence to back him up and no idea if the fbi would be willing to help. >> at the time, yeah, they said they're going to open the, found my fall is going to be minute -- one of many false. did you think that they're gonna be as adamant about the justice as you are? >> oh my gosh, i had no idea how much. i mean, first of all, i was -- i have no real right to demand things that an american citizen might demand. i realize that. why would they take an interest? where we are in the priority for them. so, i had to really rely on the goodwill of these men, almost

all men to do the right thing. that was all i had. >> the right thing, in the fbi's mind was to take a closer look at what ade was telling them. and, the fbi agreed to look at the case fall? >> we agreed to look at the case because of the notoriety of the case at the time and the launch mechanism of the crowds in the caribbean and it was a very high profile, very public case. >> the fbi can step in if it believes a conspiracy has taken place, so if a hit had been ordered on adam, then the fbi would have jurisdiction over the case. agents were assigned to investigate aid suspicions. and, lo and behold, the agency came back and they said a lot of the stuff that is telling us they were checking out because we think there's more to the story than meets the eye. >> coming -- up >> he said, yeah, i killed him. i beat him in the head. i stopped, him and then that

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it here -- >> when adam was a kid, it said the two of them to walk to this nearby park to sit and watch the airplanes fly overhead. adam would memorize the flight schedule for the local airport. >> he would then tell, me where they were, from where they were going and we would talk about what those people were likely talking about and what they were coming to winnipeg for and where they were going. >> it, says these moments helped i don't understand and appreciate the larger world

beyond winnipeg. >> and, here was a way that we could relate to the world by a simple octave sitting here on a saturday afternoon. it is bittersweet, now, for abe knowing that the big plans adam jumped up on this bench would ultimately lead him to puerto rico. and, his murder. a murder that the fbi now is looking into. >> and, we see discrepancies and we see that there is a description of an individual that is inconsistent with the individual that was at local trial and convicted. >> special, agents devin cobalt ski and scott patterson would join the team that worked the case, they say one of the first things the fbi did was re-interview the witnesses. >> unfortunately, for puerto rico, and maybe law enforcement got to the community and it might be story when the fbi goes out in the community for story, be generally story b is a little bit more accurate.

and, story was leading the fbi to a different suspect. not jonathan ramaud, who had been convicted of killing adam but someone named alex pabon colon. known on the street as, l local, the crazy. one >> this also happened that he had -- >> turns out it was a name authorities had heard before, in, factoring jonathan re-monstrous, all it defense witness testified that she saw the murder and recognize the killer. she said that it was not raimondo but a man named alex, the jury evidently disregarded the testimony, the fbi agents did not. >>, and they were inter parallel and they started conducting interviews, looking for him. >> remember, love perla is the neighborhood where they said the killer fled after the murder, it is nestled between the ocean and a cliff that

abuts olds, old san juan just block somewhere out of, died and while it occupies a beautiful piece of real estate, it has a reputation for harboring criminals. >> so, here is -- jonathan rim on the. >> jonathan riman lived here. >> and so did alex pabon colon. >> alex's, friend was born and raised in old san juan, you said the reputation is well deserved. >> there are families that have been here for generations. , then there's also the drunken things that they discovered that can hide in here and work out. here, so they don't allow any robberies. they don't allow anything going on here that's not supposed to go on. >> they protect voters. >> they protect the tourist, they protect themselves. they keep the tourism going in the island and avoid the cops coming in after them. >> that criminal element was not happy with the heat alex pabon colon had brought into --

>> obviously i was no longer welcomed there and they had told him to leave oral speed find a way to kill them themselves for allowing an innocent man to be charged with a crime that he committed. so, he was pretty much in hiding. >> pub on had left lot parallel but not st.. one, in april 2008, the fbi tracked him down. >> what story did alex tell them? >> initially, he denied it, but then he started cooperating. >> he didn't just cooperate, alex confessed, he said yes, i killed, them i beat them in the head and stabbed him and then just left him there today. but >> he kept talking, he said that he didn't act alone, that adam's murder was part in a conspiracy. >> what did he say was part of the ring? >> so, he basically said that he had been hired aurea vazquez

rijos. >> aurea, just as the family suspected. >> he basically said that they offered her the thousand dollars to kill him. >> alex's pabon colon confession and the implication of aurea was a major breakthrough in the case. but, agents couldn't based aurea solely on the words of a killer. >> he cooperated, and said it's a sensational story. >> a sensational story, but, was a true? >> coming up -- >> she makes multiple phone calls to his work in attempt to speak with him, to arrange a dinner later that evening. >> did aria beat adam to his death? >> she is having dinner at the dragon fly. and that is one he goes into action. , and, later audio's new plan. >> gus he figured i don't want anything to do with this dilemma getaway. you have to give her credit, she's a very smart woman. very conniving. >> when dateline continues. line continues get all-day and all-night heartburn acid prevention with just one pill a day.

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>> an alleged killer is behind bars, but a mystery remains. >> aide said he felt like his son was targeted, right? >> right. >> it was a hit job. >> right. >> the fbi is trying to prove it's adam's estranged wife who ordered to hit. >> she is one of the very few people that i would, say are very evil and conniving. >> she would -- anybody for self. >> adam's father had been fighting to get justice. it was about to get much harder. >> the fbi did an incredible job, if they don't have jurors diction, they -- will >> so, abe decides to take matters into his own hands. >> it wasn't about retribution, it was about justice. he didn't stop. >> some of the biggest discoveries are still to come. >> she used her sexuality. >> it's just a crazy twist after crazy twist.

>> by the spring of 2008, two and a half years after adams, the fbi had tracked down the man believed to be his real killer. alex, pabon colon, you not only confessed but also said the adams, wife aria, had offered him $3 million to kill her husband. but arreola and the only person he implicated in the conspiracy. according to fbi special agent, devin, -- >> he had a series of meetings with, area her sister, marcia her sister then boyfriend jose in the lead up to the murder. >> aria, her sister, her sister's boyfriend, all allegedly in on the plot to kill adam. >> pabon colon, an admitted drug dealers, said he often did business at peak scared -- the -- pabon colon said it was there were the true first approached him. >> they had met before to

discuss beating adam up. >> throughout the investigation, the fbi worked with the united states attorney's offices who said that santiago and jennifer hernandez vega our assistant you s attorneys there. >> two days before the murder, they decide that adam has to be killed. >> pabon colon also gave investigators his version of how the murder went down. >> he articulated being called the morning of the crime, november 22nd 2005 and had been hastily -- in order to get a knife in order to commit the, attack and detailed the choreography that existed between him and jose on the day of the murder to be in a certain location and to expect that aurea and adam would be walking in that direction. >> we pabon colon said was to hurt aurea enough during the attack to not appear that they had targeted. adam they believe that aurea had set the plan in motion

insisting that adam have dinner with that night. >> she meets multiple calls to adam's work in attempt to speak with him touring to dinner later that evening. >> adam agreed, and remembered, since he thought that they would be finalizing their divorce terms, made the fateful decision to give his bodyguard carlos the night off. >> carlos believes are you knew adam would come alone if she played nice. >> so, already picked adam up at his office, drove them into old saint juan, lebron told investigators what happened next. >> he received a call from jose, indicating that they were ready or it was about to happen. at that time, they're having dinner at the dragon fly and that is where it goes into action. the >> security footage, from that, night captured adam walking with aria unaware that these were the last few moments of his life. >> he told investigators that it was our yet that took adam

from the restaurant to pink skirt after they had dinner, knowing pabon colon was waiting nearby. it was uster aurea who gave pabon colon the signal -- and it was aurea who led adam up to the streets into the hands of pabon colon. he followed up the street, an all-time saying that aurea. and at the, time he approaches her, and attacks -- witnesses said, aurea just, they're watching as adam was killed. she didn't call for help. she didn't try to save her husband. she didn't even run. those witnesses, also reported a brief conversation between aurea and the attacker before he punched her to the ground. it wasn't just aurea's behavior that raised a red flag, so deter injuries from that night. >> adam had been brutally murdered with a knife and

cobblestone and bled to death on the street. and, she had a little nick on her head. and, forgot to scream. and, forgot to run. >> and there was something else that the agents found incriminating. the couples prenuptial agreement. >> in terms of their prenuptial agreement, they had significantly more lucrative if he died versus a divorce. roughly, she would receive 30 $500 a month for three years if they divorced. if he died, she was going to take home eight or $24 million. >> it was a math equation. >> it was motive, eight months after abe walked into the fbi's offices, announce them to look into his son's murder. the fbi felt confident there was enough evidence against aria taurus to. and, so on june 4th, 2000, eight aria was indicted on charges of hiring a hitman to kill adam. >> jonathan riman was released from prison, and exonerated.

but any vindication, adam's family and friends felt was short lived. because aria was not behind bars. in fact, she wasn't even in puerto rico. >> gotta give her credit, she's a very smart one. very conniving. >> coming up -- >> she was crafting a new life herself. >> are you has a new country and in your family, giving the fbi in your problem. >> she had children, there's so, i believe it was a means to justify her -- in order to stay there. >> when dateline continues. when dateline continues go for 10 runs! run a marathon. instead, start small. with nicorette. which can lead to something big. start stopping with nicorette. plan a didn't work out? get plan b one-step. plan b helps prevent pregnancy before it starts, and it won't impact your ability to get pregnant in the future. find it yourself in the family planning aisle no prescription, no id. i've got this.

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eight months investigating adam anhang's murder, combination with the wife. but aurea was not in jail, because by the summer of 2008, she had long since left puerto rico. >> or was aurea at this point? >> so aurea had responded to --

in 2006. , so i guess she, figured i don't want to be -- i don't want anything to do with this would get away. >> nine months after adams, death aria hunter ivy and florence on a student visa. supposedly, to study filmmaking. she made troops back to puerto rico but by the time of her indictment in 2008, it was clear that she's moved to italy as permanent. >> it's not as if this lady knew what she had done. she knew. she was crafting a new thing for herself. >> but, she was doing so without any money from the prenuptial agreement. abe, as executor of adams it state, had refused to pay oriented all investigations into the son's death had been concluded. >> in italy, aurea now a brunette, was going by the name beatrice domenici. be before short. she started a relationship with the local man and in august

2008, she gave birth to twin girls. >> i better work. then we became friends. >> ivana alma, met her when they both worked a tourism office in florence. >> she was a professional, she spoke at least three foreign languages, english, spanish and she was speaking quite good italian. she was very kind, very friendly, very gentle. that, these -- >> and, even assess that are of was devoted to her children. maybe also a good mother, she was very cui with them, she was very patient. as a mother, should be. >> not long after the twins were born, aria agreed to an interview with journalist, josé santos who traveled to florence to meter. she told us that the reason she went to florence was because

she wanted to be a target. and she loved florence. >> aurea maintained her innocence but josé was skeptical. >> we were just longing to spend a couple of hours with. there, but she seemed oblivious to undeniable facts on the case. >> like, for instance, the circumstances surrounding adam's murder, aurea maintain the attack was a robbery not a hit. >> biden, it was obvious that this was not a -- but, she always knew that for me, this was an armed robbery. >> aurea the night long the killer alex el loco pabon colon, but she said she sought the fbi's help shortly after adam was killed. the interview made for a sensational story back in puerto rico. they cost quite a stir because the evidence showed how aurea was openly announcing reality.

she was holding on to her side of the story. >> why couldn't you guys just go to italy, given the information and arrest aurea at that point? >> the fbi does not have jurisdiction or see. so, we rely on our partnerships with our foreign law enforcement partners. but the fbi can't throw on our rain jackets and walk into a sovereign nation and execute an arrest warrant. >> the fbi would have to request that the italian authorities arrest and extradite aria. something asian kowalski said wasn't going to happen. >> the crime for which he was charged, federally, as a death penalty eligible charge. and the country of italy does not extradite, for any crimes that carry out the potential sentence. agent kowalski believes that aryana's move to italy was a calculated maneuver. >> was that the fbi's working theory though that she was living in italy because she

knew? that was a place that she knew that she could be safe from expedition? >> yes, she selected that place purposefully. >> he also says that, having those twins was part of the ploy. >> she had children there. i believe it was a means to justify her citizenship in order to stay there. >> it appeared as though aria had outsmarted the federal authorities and was perhaps even thumbing her nose at adam's family and friends. >> i can honestly tell you she is one of the very few people iran to, almost 27 years in the fbi, that we would say is really evil and conniving, calculating. >> but for all of her alleged planning to allude the fbi, there was something or rather, someone aria had overlooked. we abe anhang, and here's an older gentlemen who is smaller in stature but what was your

impression of him? >> adams dead, a, was just a brave man. >> it may be a small man but he is a, powerful smart man and able to modulate his emotions, strategic. >> do you think area even knew what was coming her way? >> absolutely not. >> abe was not a lull to give up his pursue. >> she couldn't run off to europe and start a new life all over again while we buried our friend and he buried his son. it wasn't about retribution, it was about justice. >> and, he didn't stop. >> coming up, eight tracks aria on his own. and he shares what he learned with the fbi. >> she lied about her wife the minute she showed up in italy. when dateline continues. eline continues. ugh! advil dual action fights pain two ways. advil targets pain at the source,

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machine get a walmart in chesapeake, virginia, was identified as 16 years old fernando chavez marin. officials said previously withheld identifying him, due to him being a minor. he was one of six people killed. california governor gavin newsom says he will not run for president in 2024, even if joe biden doesn't run again. newsom told politico he spoke all in on biden's reelection, and he is already relayed back to the president. now, back to dateline. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> aurea a carve out a new life or self in italy, a country for laws that prohibit her extradition, because the charges she faced carried a potential death sentence. >> all of us, i think, was blend out of our had. i mean, every move she made was calculated. >> the ongoing saga was taking a toll on adams family and friends. >> i thought it was very

unfair. she is indicted. we know what she's done. and yet, she still gets to go on living. >> but the fbi agents pursuing aurea were not giving up. special agent scott patterson felt a special connection to the case. his even predated his career as an agent. in fact, it was our original dateline report from 2008 that first brought this story to his attention. he was in the army, serving in iraq when he sought. and says he was touched by abe 's loss. >> he lost his son, and i think adam was doing for the island, and how his life was taken. >> patterson, was contemplating leaving the military for a career in law enforcement at a time, said the story made him want to work the hard cases, healthy abe anhang of the world. >> i was just seeing it and thinking, you know, that's the type of work that i want to be

doing. >> after joining the bureau, 18 patterson volunteered to work in the san juan field office. he had no idea that the fbi was actually investigating the murder case that it helped shape his decision, until it landed on his desk. >> you get it, new cases. i'm sitting at my desk, reading through this. like, i know this case somehow. i'm lying on the computer, looking it up, unlike that is at the big script murder. >> it was a strange twist of fate, and it became asian patterson's top priority case. one of the first things he did was call aid. >> i remember the first phone conversation i had with him, it was delayed or even his voice. like that cut me. >> he made a promise to abe. >> i told him whatever it takes, like, we will get her. >> but agent patterson didn't got to fully understand who he was up against. aurea was in italy and

untouchable. the fbi's hands were tied. abe's, however, we're not. >> the fbi had a tremendous job. i mean, they did an incredible job. if they don't have to jurisdiction in italy, i had to go fire my expense, and everything else the investigators in italy. >> abe refused to wait for aurea to trip up. he hired private investigators to keep tabs on her and report back to him. abe would put off his own retirement, so he could fund his investigation. >> and they had to be done, because no one else was doing it. >> abe's investigator surveilled aurea. these pictures of her are from one stake out. the investigators documented where she was a living, where she was working. >> it is like abe became singularly obsessed with solving the crime. >> i do use the word determined more than obsessed. he was like a machine, just staying on top of it. he wasn't gonna let it go until it was done. >> did you ever tell, him abe,

maybe, just let the fbi, let the police -- >> know. no. >> -- deal with this. >> it was a matter. >> what did you find about the life she built herself there? >> she wasn't in poverty. she was able to make some money and somehow have a good life. >> abe but the information gleaned by his private investigator is, what amounted to argue his daily routine to the fbi. former fbi assistant director carlos cases -- >> we knew that they were not gonna extradite her. that's why we gave her all the credit in the world, because he took it upon himself to essentially track her for us and tell us what she was doing, who she was associated with, and what her movements were. >> we're never asking mr. anhang for any information. >> the fbi agents made it clear that the information from abe's investigators was not solicited and not automatically taken at face value. >> so, it was helpful, but it

was also information that you had to, then, work on your own, and to corroborate. >> it was extremely helpful information, you know, i very much appreciate this information that we would take, and we have to figure out what was factual and what was not. >> the agent thought that aryana's boyfriend and father of her twins had found out through media reports about the accusations against her. not long after, aurea moved out of the house with the girls. >> the papers started to reveal that she was -- and that she sought refuge in the jewish community. >> and florence's jewish quarter, aurea passed herself off as a jewish widow, whose husband has died in an accident. in fact, when she married adam, aurea agreed to convert to judaism, but never did. >> she lied about her life, you know, the minute she showed up in italy. in puerto rico, we call it the -- factor. >> [speaking non-english] . >> exactly, this mother of two,

like how she could be in charge of this crime. telling people she was jewish. >> for me, look at me, they're accusing me. i'm just a widow. i'm just a jewish girl, trying to get help. and my husband was killed. and for the jewish community in florence, they felt they need to help her. i mean, it was part of, you have to help a widow. it's an obligation to help a window, and she knew that. so, she was playing that card. >> she played all of them, too. >> all of them. >> assistant u.s. attorney where we santiago says aurea used false birth certificates to perpetuate her roots. >> that was done with the intention that she obtained a certification from the jewish community of florence claiming that she was a joe, and her daughter is born in italy was jewish, so stick then we look at from italy to israel. perhaps, planning her next escape, aurea never moved to israel, but over the next few years, the fbi continued to keep tabs on her, largely

through information provided by abe's investigators. and one piece of information in particular was game changing. >> she did a fair bit of traveling. she loved to travel. >> she was not confined to italy then? >> no she, went to space, she went to england, she was in gibraltar, she wasn't israel once. we tracked her. >> all those trips she was taking gave the fbi a new opportunity to break the case because a number of european countries had a different policy regarding extradition. so, if she was arrested outside of italy, there would be a good chance of getting her back to puerto rico. >> had the fbi try to capture her and arrest her in any of those points in her travels? >> but by the time the agents would get hint of where aurea was and found the paperwork with the local authorities, it was too late. she was already back in a low. >> how close did you get? >> we had officers in one of those countries where --

the steps in the process they need to go through was such fast you, know, changing information, it was really tough. >> how frustrating is that, though, for the fbi agents, knowing that she's there, but she's untouchable? there's nothing we can do to get her. >> it's very frustrating, but we don't get bogged down in frustration. we find a way to get it done. >> the game of cat and mouse between aurea and the fbi continued for years. but by 2013, five years after her indictment, the fbi decided to stop playing defense. it was time to go on offense. it was time for hail mary. >> did you think it was gonna work? >> honestly, i gave it a 50/50 chance. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> coming up -- the fbi said say trap. >> what are her vulnerabilities? what are motivations? let's develop a strategy to exploit those. >> will it work? >> you are in shock. >> i was in shock. >> when dateline continues.

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>> by 2013, as aurea continued to evade u.s. law enforcement, the frustration felt by the agents pursuing her was palpable. >> we were in a defensive posture because she'd been an elusive person for so long. >> we knew we could not arrest her in italy. the italians would not extradite her if we had her arrested in italy. >> even though aurea would leave italy and travel throughout europe, the agents never had enough lean time to coordinator arrest with the local authorities. so, they decided they needed a new strategy. they would set a trap. carlos cases was a special agent in charge of the san juan field office in 2013. >> the agents came to me, one day, and said, boss, we have this plan that we are

developing because we believe that we have the ability to get aurea to travel from italy to spain. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the agents felt confidence spain would arrest aria, and extradite her to puerto rico. >> we developed this strategy to exploit what she was doing in her daily life, and she was a tour guide. and she was traveling all over europe and elsewhere, and she would provide tours for travelers in groups. >> the strategy was simple. present aurea with a business opportunity, come to spain to meet a group of american tourists, and guide them as they travel through europe. >> i told my agents, all right, we're getting all the approvals. we're doing this. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the agents set up a fake tour group that was heading to europe, and in need of an experienced guy like aurea. >> so, you conducted a good all fashion sting operation. >> a good old-fashioned sting

operation, in which we needed to design something that's plausible for her to be able to bite into. it's not all bells and whistles. there are no drones. there's not, you know, why are cops everywhere. it's none of that stuff. hey, let's use what we know about aurea vazquez rijos. what are her bundle biloxi's? what are her vulnerabilities? let's develop coast to get to a place where an arrest can be executed with a little bit less a risk. >> her weakness, they decided was money, and soon they plan to dangle the job offer too good to pass up. >> it had to be very meticulous, natalie, because we could not run the risk of her to get suspicious and then backing out and not traveling. >> this was a well choreographed in very thoughtful operation, in which there was a manifest. there was gonna be a multi stop tour to multiple countries. and there were down to confirming what's on the agenda for each day, whether she would be responsible for by providing these groups, restaurants,

co-restaurants should have to go to to take the travelers to those locations. it was not bulletproof, but it was strong. >> it wasn't enough to convince aurea. the fbi agents contacted her through intermediaries she'd worked with before. >> so, she twisted these people? >> she had trust. >> through those intermediaries, that investigators negotiated with aurea for two months. finally, she took the deal, and she agreed to fly to spain to act as a guide for what she thought was a group of jewish american tourists. >> did you have confidence in the planet that point, when you all saw this on paper, and you saw that email exchanges going back and forth, did you think we're only gonna get her this time? >> i was pretty confident. >> i was worried that she wasn't gonna get on the plane. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> but when the day arrived, the agents got word. aurea had boarded the plane, and was on route to spain. >> she's traveling to spain, arrives there, thinking she is

gonna meet a bunch of travelers. what happens? >> authorities from spanish national police are they, play inside at the gate, taking her to custody. >> the sting operation worked. on june 30th, 2013, after five years on the run, almost eight years after adams murder, aurea vazquez rijos was finally in custody. >> and what was that moment like for you? >> i was ecstatic. i never thought we were gonna be able to get her. >> aurea's arrest triggered phase two of the operation. >> as soon as i received confirmation that she was in custody, then we executed arrest warrants on marcia and jose in san juan. >> agents swarmed the home of aurea's alleged coconspirators, her sister marcia, and marcia's boyfriend, jose. >> so it really was and it's internationally choreographed, simultaneous arrest. good day for the fbi.

tremendous day for this family. >> carlos cases delivered at the good news to abe and his family. >> i was so surprised, i did even say thank you to him. i dusted them off, which was not right. >> you are in shock? >> i was in shock, yeah. >> i mean, it's been years of pursuing her, and finally, they had her. >> they had her. >> what's it like to hear those words, we have her, she is in custody? >> oh, well -- >> finally. >> almost, the opposite of the yellow one, you know, your son's dead. ♪ ♪ ♪ aurea vazquez rijos was in a spanish jail cell. her sister and her sister's boyfriend, locked up in san juan, all face conspiracy charges connected to the murder of abe anhang. but if you thought that this was the end of the saga, you haven't been paying attention. >> by this point in this investigation, like i'm not surprised by anything, because it is just a crazy twist after a crazy twist. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> coming up -- >> she used her sexuality.

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>> the fbi's meticulously planned sting operation had worked. aurea vazquez rijos had been arrested by spanish authorities, after five years on the run. but as barabara anhang had learned in the years since her son's death, that aurea was nothing if not candy. >> barbara, did you think, okay, the end is insight? >> no, i did not. her behavior is extremely mischievous and slippery. >> so, you are already expecting something else? >> yes, but i couldn't tell you what it was. but i knew something would happen. >> call it a mother's intuition, because while aurea was in a spanish jail, fighting her

extradition to puerto rico -- >> aurea put back to her playbook, the one that she used, and ended up getting pregnant while in prison. >> how does that happen? >> well, i don't know, because i've never been to that prison in spain. but what i do know is, as she got pregnant by another inmate that was there. >> and is it the fbi's belief that she had this child, again, as some way to try to delay the process against her? >> yes, she did that in italy, put it recently by having twins. it's our assessment that she did it again, to have some legitimate reason why she shouldn't be removed to the united states. >> master monica later? >> master monica later. >> the pregnancy meant that aurea's extradition, if it happened, would have to wait at least until after the baby was born. >> so, when you heard she managed to get pregnant in prison in spain -- >> i smell that one so quick. >> you knew it was coming? >> oh, i knew it was coming. >> she used her sexuality, you

know, to such a calculated way. it goes to show the sikh, evil individual that really was only thinking about herself, and how to spin herself. >> the baby, a girl, was born in the summer of 2015. just weeks later, agent kowalski got the word. >> all of a sudden, the spanish forces said, we're done. she's being extradited. and we were told in past experiences, unless you act, immediately, there's potential that their removal evaporates. >> but the fbi was ready. >> i don't want to risk transporting her on a commercial flight back to the u.s., particularly with a small child, because my concern was that she was gonna call the scene while boarding the airplane, and the captain was gonna say, you know, get out. i don't want this on my flight, too risky. >> any delay in the extradition could give aurea another chance to stave it off, and remain in europe. >> i called fbi headquarters

and requested to use the fbi director's plane to fly to madrid, pick her up, and then, bring her back, straight to san juan. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> headquarters approved the request, so agent kowalski jumped on the directors plane and flew to spain to pick up aurea and her baby. finally, they were bringing her home. he was tightlipped about what aurea said on that flight. >> i'm not able to discuss the specifics on the conversations. but she presented as someone that was in disbelief that she was actually apprehended. and she presented as someone that, in her opinion, did not believe that she was guilty for the crimes that she was charged. >> what satisfaction did you feel on that flight back, though, knowing she sitting right there next to you, and in custody? >> i felt very fortunate to, honestly, sitting there, thinking about it, when we land, abe anhang finally has, not closure, but has some sense of

justice, that he came to the fbi in 2007, and said i need your help. and we conduct with investigation over several years. and you know, one thing in the directors plain over spain and bring her back. >> and the fact that you are flying in the directors blame, i think, conveys how important an operation this was to the fbi. >> extremely. >> carlos cases met the plane on the tarmac, when it landed in san juan. >> and so, i went up into the plane. i thought i was gonna see a contrite and a sad aurea with a somber mood, far from it, she was smiling. >> years of hard investigative work and culminated in this moment. the fbi had their woman. agent kowalski says aurea was given the chance to spend some time with her infant daughter, before they would be separated, perhaps, forever. >> and then, she requested that she use that time to make yourself up, because she was fully aware that there would be a tremendous amount of media coverage and cameras upon her arrival. >> so, she was more concerned

about making sure she looked good then about spending their last moments with her child? >> yes. >> did that surprise you at all? >> it did not surprise me. >> she's the queen of selfish. >> yeah. >> it was september 24th, 2015. almost ten years, to the day, since adams brutal murder. for the anhang family, abe's relentless pursuit of aurea had come to this moment, aurea in shackles, brought back to finally face the charges against her, and face abe, himself, in court. >> when they finally brought her back, somebody said to me what words do you have -- i said, welcome back from your european vacation. >> but aurea was not about to go down without a fight, and without trying to do what she did best, exploiting people for her own personal gain. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> with the jury the next? >> coming up -- >> she thought that she would win the jarriel when.

should get away with it. >> aurea on the stand -- when dateline continues. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ ♪ >> aurea vazquez rijos was accused of hiring alex alex el loco pabon colon to call her husband adam anhang. she pleaded not guilty, as did her two alleged coconspirators, her sister marcia, and josé. did aurea not want to talk to dateline, but her mother has been an outspoken defender of her daughters. >> translator: to me, my children are innocent. >> she insists her daughters are victims of a corrupt legal system. >> translator: there's justice here for people with a lot of money, but not for others. the modest people on the street have no chance. >> after three years of

procedural delays, and an active god made her marcia -- the trial for aurea and her codefendants finally began in august 2018, 13 years after adam anhang was murdered. >> for me, the case was about agreed. >> assistant u.s. attorney jennifer hernandez, jose santiago, prosecuted the case. >> it was important for the jury to understand why would this have occurred. the fact that at the time, they were about to get a divorce when the murder happens, it's all about her wanting to have more. >> the trial was held in a federal courthouse, just blocks from where adam was murdered. >> was abe in the trial at the time and his wife? >> he was, in the first throw. >> abe says it was unnerving, sitting so close to aurea and her defense table. >> she was only 15 to 20 feet away, that's how close it is. and we made eye contact if you time. >> aurea for her part, appeared

to be playing a part. >> she played a character, and every day, she would come very well dressed with are all her makeup on. >> aurea seemed one of the juries to see her as adams glamorous, yet grieving widow. >> she came in with her hair blow dried. she was something else, trying to have them work for her, you know, poor thing. >> with no physical evidence tying aurea to adam's murder, the prosecution's case was circumstantial. and with aurea sitting at the defense table, it was by no means a slam dunk. but after a ten-year investigation, the case was voluminous in scope, from testimony about the troubled nature of adam and aurea's relationship, to the numerous phone calls aurea made to adam to convince him to have dinner with him that fateful evening. to the prenuptial agreement, granting or $8 million, should adam die. the prosecutors also presented

something else, they believed, pointed to a conspiracy. a handwritten letter by alex the bone. >> and this letter was addressed to marcia. >> and the point of this letter is saying that he had this part of the plan, and now, it was their turn to pay him for what he had done. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> of course, their star witness was alex pabon himself, who had already pleaded guilty to participating in the conspiracy to kill adam. you told the jury how aurea and her codefendants hired him to do it. although he said they never paid him as promised, he was one of the last prosecution witnesses to testify. >> we believe that by putting alex at the end, and showing all the motive that aurea had, and all the steps that she took to have adam murdered, before sitting down alex, it would be easy for the jury to comprehend, yes, this was actually happening.

>> but the difference trying to convince the jury that something else happened. >> i believe the defense strategy was to paint him like he was so crazy, that he did this, like it was a random killer. >> the defense said alex shift alex el loco pabon colon, the crazy one, was just that, crazy. and had acted alone in killing adam. and they dismissed that letter which had never been delivered, as the rumblings of an unstable killer. in fact, they insisted there was no evidence of any communication between pabon and the three codefendants. but the biggest moment of the trial came with aurea herself, when she took the stand. she'd spent more than a decade, claiming to be adam anhang's grieving widow. now, it's our chance to convince the jury. >> she felt secure that if she had the opportunity to talk to those jurors, that she would make them believe that she, in fact, was in love with adam

anhang, and she hadn't participated in these events. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> aurea this defied the two never even met alex pabon, let alone hired him to color husband. and while she admitted that she and adam had married martial issues, aurea insisted they were devoted to one another, and we're working things out. aurea also testified that she had not fled to italy to elude authorities, but rather, to pursue her dreams. adams friends weren't buying that. >> and how would you describe her on the stand? >> she was the narcissist that we know she was. she thought that she would win the jarriel win, she would get away with it. >> but what would the jury believe? >> you always worry about the jury, because one person could just, for whatever reason, decide to go the other way. i always worry about that. absolutely. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> after two days of deliberations, the jury reached the verdict, guilty. >> and then, nearly 15 years

after the death of your son, finally, those words, guilty. which was the emotion in that courtroom? >> it was quite a moment, yeah, it was. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the sentencing was held a few months later, after the victim impact statements, as abe was walking past aurea, she spoke to him. >> she says to me, are you happy now? she has the audacity -- well, i knew what she was trying to do. she was trying to provoke me, right? >> what did you say? >> i just said, shut up. now, in retrospect, there are a lot of things that i could've said. yeah, looking for a symbolic moment, sort of sums it up, it's right there. yeah. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> aurea was sentenced to life in prison, as a were marcia and josé, although they've been convicted of a lesser charge, all three are appealing. >> i don't hate aurea.

but i sure hate what she did to us and our family, and what's she done to her family. i mean, look which is done. >> think about the children she left behind. >> right, i mean those kids, she had no regard for the kids she was bringing into this world, other than it would help her run away. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> aurea's twins are with their father in italy. her daughter, born in spain, lives in puerto rico with aurea 's mother. four abe and his family, the convictions marked the end of a journey filled with pain and loss, but also, with determination, determination to fulfill a vow abe made the day he learned his son had died. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> we could say now, there's justice for adam. but will that bring peace at all for abe? >> i think, yeah, it brings relief. some level of closure. but, no, i don't think it will ever bring him or barbara back

to feeling at peace. >> -- i see it as a joyful and his optimism, and how beautiful person he was. it reminds me what we lost. and what he could've been today. >> to know abe is to know that he'll start writing the next chapter now. and whereas the last chapter was about seeking justice, for adam, i'm certain this next chapter will be about living. adam's legacy. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i'm craig melvin. >> and i'm natalie morales. >> and this is "dateline. "