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at last his dream had come true. new wife, new step daughter, new start and that is what made what happened so baffling. suddenly, he was dead on the floor. >> otherwise healthy 41-year- old man usually do not drop dead. >> correct. some things just do not add up. >> could this be murder? there were suspicions from the start and they came from his wife. >> police zeroed in on someone at work. was his new wife in danger, too?

brace yourself because this killer is stone cold evil. >> wow, this has got me shaking. >> frank rodriguez was a man of faith and a navy vet who dedicated himself to helping needy children. not exactly the kind of guy who had enemies, so investigators had a challenge on their hands. figuring out who would want frank dead, but how he died was also a mystery and when they would need to solve to catch his killer. here is josh mankiewicz with the devil in disguise.

>> in this world we like to think that we can tell the difference between good and evil. but, sometimes evil puts on a mask and comes to life's party as its opposite, a loved one, a friend, someone we think we can help, and by the time we figure out that we are wrong, it's too late. with that in mind, meet frank rodriguez, a guy who went looking for troubled souls. >> he was very drawn towards people that were broken, even though i don't have a lot, i just want what i have, i want to give. >> frank gave a lot, did a lot of good in his life until he ran across another soul who was not just troubled or broken, but pure evil. frank grew up in rural illinois

, one of six kids, he played football, loved baseball. his sisters, carmen and shirley, remember most that he loved kidding around with his siblings. >> dry sense of humor. he would say something and you're not sure if you're supposed to laugh at it but he was joking. unite -- >> you know, funny jokes and things. >> prankster is the word i'm looking for. >> after high school frank joined the navy. it was around that time that he married a local girl but the line about the sea being a jealous mistress is true. >> his first wife was tired of him traveling all over, been on for six months at a time. after he got out he was a lost soul. he really did not know what he wanted to do and then she ended up leaving him anyway. >> after the divorce, frank was at loose ends. different jobs, different relationships. he felt as if he were floundering until he found first, religion and then, a

place called angel gate academy. >> he loved that job. he loved working with kids. >> angel gate was run by the california national guard from its base in san luis obispo on california's central coast. it was a military academy for city kids who were headed in the wrong direction to learn order, discipline and respect. how was frank with the kids? >> frank was awesome with the kids. >> jenn holloway was frank's supervisor and friend. >> if they were acting out, he would kind of like get -- say things to get them to do the right thing plus he kind of like used me as a bad guy. >> good cop bad cop. >> exactly. frank was always a good cup. >> is rewarding as it was for frank to learn skills for successful life, he also found

it rewarding to take the city kids kayaking or camping or just to hang out by the ocean, which many of them had never even seen, but also left him wanting kids of his own. >> i remember him talking a lot about he wanted to have kids. i mean, he wanted kids really bad. he wanted to start a family. >> his sisters say frank thought his faith would guide him there. >> he was into believing that god was going to give him signs of what was good for his life. >> then one day at church, frank ran into a woman he worked was at angel gate. >> he called mom to tell her that he had met this woman, angelina, and that she was his soulmate. her mom was excited. she called me up. frank has met someone. >> her name was angelina wallace. she's also been in the military. she was devout a christian as frank.

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students on their way to angel gate? he rode with them on a bus on the way from san luis baseball where he met up with his boss an old friend, chad. how did he look? >> frank look absolutely terrible. four days later, frank rodriguez was dead. >> frank rodriguez was living his dream, then suddenly he was dead, then his wife sensed danger. >> coming up -- who could possibly want to do him harm? >> he looked at frank and went eye to eye. >> when dateline continues. >> when dateline continues. by connecting them to the actual listing agent. (agent) oh! so, i'm done? (luke) oh, no, no, no! we're still not sure everyone knows that we're the only site that always connects you to the listing agent

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it was september of 2000. frank rodriguez was finally coming into his own. a new bride, a new family, a new job, but then at 3:00 a.m., after just five months of marriage, thanks new bride, angelina, found him unconscious on the bedroom floor and called for help. it was too late. frank rodriguez was dead. his family was stunned. he had been a healthy man. >> my mother called me after angelina called her on the day that frank died, and mom just said she lost it. she started screaming and slammed the phone. it was horrifying. >> he was only 41. frank left behind a widow and a nine-year-old stepdaughter to whom frank had become very close . >> how did your daughter react to frank time? >> she was devastated but also very confused.

>> she was not the only one confused. the coroner's office found no obvious cause of death, natural or unnatural. no heart attack, no trauma, nothing. toxicology test found a little vicodin in frank's system, but not enough to kill anyone. his family was at a loss, especially his wife, angelina, who seemed to be groping for answers, trying to make sense of what happened to frank. >> she called me almost every day to talk about it. she thought he was killed. she thought he was poisoned. >> the idea seemed, on the face of it, crazy. who would want to kill frank? >> i did not know what to think. it was such a shock. >> homicide detectives were called and even though there was zero evidence of a homicide. any chance this is going to turn out not to be a murder and what frank died of was natural causes or food poisoning or something like that? >> absolutely. >> l.a. county sheriff's homicide detective brian stein once said his job was just to keep moving forward. >> we were dependent upon with the coroner's office was doing,

what they would or would not find, but in the meantime you can't stop investigating. >> a few days after frank's death, they spoke with angelina about her suspicions. >> we are here because we understand you have some information or believe there is a possibility that your husband was poisoned. >> angelina had a lot to tell the detectives about five frank's final days, about what she thought had happened to him, and why. angelina said that after his trip on the bus to angel gate, frank got sick with what they both thought it first was stomach flu. >> it was not like a constant. it was like maybe once every half hour. >> then frank got so sick that angelina took him to the e.r. the doctor said all frank needed was rest and fluids, and he would get better, but two

days later, frank was dead and angelina now told detectives she did not believe it had been the stomach flu at all. she thought that something happened to frank on that trip to angel gate. angelina told detectives she had urged frank not to chaperone the students, and specifically, not to go back to angel gate. she was worried that frank, who was so trusting, would not be safe. angelina then said why she was afraid. it turned out that when she and frank work together at angel gate, they became involved in something potentially dangerous. >> we were both very strong

christians, so we would pray together. we were both very prophetic, or some people would call it their gut. we both recognized a new situation there. >> the situations? angelina said she and frank became convinced the person working at angel gate was engaged in inappropriate behavior with some of the students. angelina said she had reported the man to authorities and he now had a motive to hurt her or frank. >> this person had said, if anybody jeopardized my job i will kill them. he looked at frank and went like this. right -- i mean eye to eye.

>> despite her fears, angelina said that night when frank returned from angel gate, he told her everything seemed fine there. >> they were great, they looked up to me. they hugged me. they missed me and somebody in the office, he did not say who, he said somebody in the office said, am my hungry, and my thirsty, they gave me gatorade and cookies. >> now, she wondered, was there something in that gatorade? did that friendly welcome hide something much more sinister because the man angelina said had offered frank food and drink was the same man angelina haddix -- had accused, the same and she said had threatened frank months earlier. >> my instincts are usually pretty right on. sergeant holloway. >> sergeant holloway, chad holloway, frank's former boss. frank's friend.

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10 days after frank rodriguez died, he was honored like a fallen soldier at the military cemetery in riverside, california. >> it was very hard to come out here for the funeral. >> angelina's daughter, anna, who was in the house and frank died, said goodbye and away only a child could. >> autumn put a teddy bear in frank's coffin. she was a sweet little girl, she really was. >> that last goodbye was a struggle for frank's family. >> it was very hard on mom.

she went into a very deep depression after that. >> is the people who loved him more, detectives with the los angeles sheriff's department were trying to find answers. they drove 200 miles north to the rolling hills and small town charm of san luis obispo to angel gate to check out angelina's unsettling story, that she had accused frank's friend, chad holloway, of misconduct with students. but, chad was furious over that, and that all of it might be the reason behind frank's unexplained death. >> they were asking us our opinion of who had access to frank.

>> richard worked at angel gate at the time. he told police he had not noticed chad talking with frank, but did remember how upset chad was about angelina's charges. >> chad was beside himself. i had never seen him that angry. >> chad holloway was pretty angry about that accusation and express to some people that he would like to deal very harshly with whoever who had done that to him. >> angry enough to kill? >> who knows. we did not know chad holloway very well yet. >> what detectives called getting to know you doesn't feel quite so friendly when you are a murder suspect. >> i was under the impression that they were so convinced i had done this that they had stopped at the sheriff's department and basically told him to prepare to book me. have -- >> how did that conversation go? >> it was very intense.

>> conversations have been investigated by local law enforcement and found to be completely baseless but the detectives also now a false allegation can still be a very good motive for murder. >> that is one of the worst things a teacher or instructor can do to a kid under his or her tutelage or control. >> yes. >> it is also one of the worst things to be accused of if you didn't do it. >> that was probably the scariest thing that had happened to me in life. i was in desert storm. a lot of things happened in combat. i had never in my life been that scared. >> scared and he admitted, angry. >> i was beyond mad. i can't even describe how angry i was.

>> did you say you'd like to put your gun to the head of the person who is doing this to you and pull the trigger? >> something to that effect, i did. >> detectives asked him about that. >> something along the lines of you were the target of false allegations from the wife of a guy who is now dead, and you were pretty angry at the time of those false allegations? >> i -- it -- i don't remember -- >> nearly ruining your life over some phony allegations. that's enough to make a lot of people angry enough to do violence. >> i guess it could be, yes. >> but, he insisted to detectives and to us, whatever threats he made were out of anger and frustration and he would never have followed through. >> when you said you wanted to take a gun and put it to the head of the person who lay those accusations against you, you did not know it was angelina you're talking about at the time. once you found out it was angelina who made those allegations, i am guessing you probably thought on putting your gun to her head?

>> absolutely not. >> chad also said that what angelina told detectives about frank's last visit to angel gate never actually happened. >> did you work in the office? >> no, i was not working in the office. >> when you last saw frank did you offer him a gatorade? >> no. >> clearly, someone was lying. the question was, who? coming up -- >> all i heard was ask them about [ inaudible ] >> who and what had killed frank? investigators have a secret mission for sergeant holloway. when dateline continues. show off their clearer skin and noticeably less itch with dupixent. because children 6 months and older with eczema have plenty of reasons to show off their skin. with dupixent, the #1 prescribed biologic

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>> you talk to other people about frank and angelina's marriage? >> yes. >> and --? >> we find some interesting things out. >> for one thing, frank was angelina's fourth husband, but not necessarily her first choice. people who worked with angelina and frank at angel gate said angelina initially had her eye on a different guy. >> she was interested in a gentleman that worked there also that was somewhat a cowboy, wore cowboy boots and a hat. she showed up with a cowboy up bumper sticker on her car in the hat in the back seat and now she's a cowgirl and when he didn't want anything to do with her, she had recognized frank was a religious man. >> and the next thing you know? >> she has a bible in the back window of her car and then i love jesus bumper sticker. >> to a lot of people it seemed angelina was shopping pretty hard for a man and knew what was necessary to get one. >> she was pretty much like a chameleon based on some of the

behaviors we learned about her. >> after meeting angelina, frank had become less close to many of his friends at angel gate. then, when the couple moved south, frank seemed to cut off his own family. >> he called me in may on mother's day and said that i can't talk long you know, she's monitoring my calls. >> none of that fit the profile of a loving wife or later, a grieving widow, and soon after frank's death, angelina moved back up north and left behind some of frank's things. >> we found it very odd that she took his dress shoes from the service in some of his uniform stuff, some of his medals and stuff like that that he had and they were all in the trash can. >> she threw them away? >> the things in the trash were really shocking, things that you would think you would keep from your husband that you loved. >> all that was curious, but there was one thing above all others that may detectives suspect angelina might be involved in frank's death.

something straight out of homicide 101. it was the way angelina kept bringing up frank's life insurance. >> frank and i sat down when we got married and said we need to cover our butts. if something should happen to one of us, we need to take care of each other. >> how long after frank died did angelina call the insurance company? >> roughly within eight hours. >> so, the same day? >> same morning. >> now the insurance probably won't pay until the cornices what the cause of death is. well, what do i do, sleep in my car until november? >> as the days went on in the corner still did not rule, angelina grew more and more impatient. >> i have a question. did you guys get anything from the corner? >> angelina kept going and

someone kept recording those calls. >> they don't have anything yet. it takes time for this type of stuff, you know, unless they know what they're looking for. >> detectives saw an opportunity. remember, they needed the same thing angelina did, just for different reasons. >> we need a cause of death and at this time, we are thinking she knows what that cause of death is. >> they had thought angelina might be telling the truth about one thing, that frank had been poisoned, and they also knew what frank's sister had told him, something very strange that angelina had said to her. >> she says oh, there are lots of ways you can poison someone. for instance, she says, we have a flower out here called oleander. >> oleander thrives in the

southern climates. the leaves and flowers are toxic, but only deadly in large quantities or if the poison is somehow concentrated but angelina seems to know how to do that. >> she said you could make a tea out of it. you could make a soup out of it and it's a poison. we were riding in the limousine. she pointed right out, those are oleander bushes. >> detectives found oleander bushes in another place. angelina and frank's backyard. now, they wondered, since angelina was so eager to get a death certificate and collect the life insurance, which she slip up and tell them oleander was what killed frank? i spoke with her again and again, all the while telling her they were gathering evidence against frank's coworker, chad holloway. >> we kept asking her, what poison would chad have given frank? >> it could be anything. it could be the flowers on the road. >> flowers on the road? >> you know, they grow in the middle of the highway. i think they are azaleas? >> at this point we think she knows exactly what it is, no doubt.

>> try as he might, they could not get angelina to say the word, oleander. still, she kept calling them about chad in one day, and delivered another clue straight to investigators. someone had called her, she said, and told her something big. >> it was about maybe five or 10 after eight. i was on my way back from dropping my daughter off at school. i would get this call and it was blocked. they said they wanted to tell me what was going on because they had a lot of respect for frank but they could not tell me who they were because they know how hollow it is and they said you need to know a conversation i had with holloway . he had said if they do try to tack it down, they can't send me because and they said, they can't pin me. it started breaking up and all i heard was ask them about antifreeze.

>> antifreeze, not oleander? was antifreeze even on your radar at this point? >> no, i don't believe it had been. >> but, naming a new poison was only one interesting detail in this conversation. remember, angelina had said the anonymous informant called her shortly after 8:00 a.m. you got her phone records. >> yes. lo and behold, there had not been any calls anywhere near incoming or out going to angelina's phone at that time. >> in trying once again to implicate chad holloway, angelina had implicated herself. now, detectives again went to see chad, this time, to talk about angelina. >> angelina rodriguez. that was the last person i ever wanted to see, ever wanted to hear her name, have anything to do with whatsoever.

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finally, the coroner's report came back. the finding, frank rodriguez was killed by ethylene glycol, the key ingredient in antifreeze. the tox screen also found oleander. now, detectives felt they knew for sure, frank had been murdered. they knew how, and they thought they knew who. not chad, but angelina. but, to make this case stick, they would need a little more, so the kept angelina talking. >> we befriended her. we went in her house and the first thing she did was offer us coffee. my partner and i kept kicking each other, say no, we are good, thank you. >> from the beginning, angelina had tried to cast suspicion on frank's friend and coworker, chad holloway. chad, she said, was the killer, but detectives did not believe her, and instead enlisted chad to help set a trap for her.

the idea is what here? >> to see what kind of mistakes she might make. >> they asked chad to call angelina while they listened in. she had a in her best to put chad in the gunsight of law enforcement. now came his chance to return the favor. >> angelina? >> yes? >> why did you tell the police i poisoned frank with antifreeze? >> who is this? how did you get my number? >> angelina, i'm just wondering how in the world -- this could ruin my life. >> at one point, you say angelina, you're going to ruin my life, which actually, although it is maybe part of the script for that call, it is kind of true, given what she tried to do to you before. >> it was, but inside, i knew it was the other way around. you are not going to ruin my life anymore. it is your life that is going to be ruined because of this.

>> you need to call the investigator. i'm ending this conversation. >> okay, angelina. >> then, more than a minute after chad hanging up, angelina called the cops and gave them quite a different version of the call they had just listened to. >> he said a detective just told me that they think i killed frank with antifreeze. >> that's what we told him. >> he says i wouldn't go spreading these things or else and i'm like what are you talking about? i don't need to be talking to you and he said well, they will never be able to catch me anyway but he said you know, you just got to watch your back. >> you said you better watch your back? >> okay. >> i am scared to death. >> what angelina should have been scared of is that the cops were on to her too obvious lies, this one about which had

supposedly said to her, and the previous phantom call about antifreeze. but, angelina still had not admitted anything, at least not to detectives. then, they found a good friend of angelina's, a confident -- confidant. she told the police that just months after the wedding angelina was already bored with frank and cheating on him. >> they were sitting around i guess like girls do, and talking about killing their husbands, joking around, how they would do it. >> as girls do. >> as girls probably all do. >> the friend quoted angelina as saying she did not want to divorce frank because he had just bought life insurance. >> there is another conversation on the telephone with palm era. angelina said she was making a special milkshake for frank.

palmira questioned if frank was sick and angelina told her not yet. >> of course angelina had no idea what the cops knew. she thought they were still investigating chad, and she was still happy to help them do that. for example, detectives told angelina, they could not figure out how chad knew when frank was coming to angel gate. he would've had to have known them, he told her, so that he could have his poison ready. >> them miraculously -- >> miraculously, a fax shows up. >> it was an angel gate roster for the day of frank's visit with frank's name conspicuously written in. >> this is a fax that came right to sheriffs homicide. that was convenient. >> very convenient. >> the facts did not include the sender's name, but did send a clear message. >> this is a coversheet to the facts that was received anonymously in sheriffs homicide. why is chad still free?

chad never knew how hard angelina had pushed the cops to arrest him. >> wow. this is got me shaken. >> five months after her husband's death, police dropped in at angelina's house. angelina thinks their next stop will be chad's place. it won't. for the next 35 minutes, stein and his partner try to get angelina to give it up. they lay out the facts. >> the only information, the only person that is supplied any information that frank was poisoned with you. no one else. no one else knew frank was poisoned. only you. only you knew. oleander in addition to antifreeze. nobody in this entire investigation told us about antifreeze.

>> they tell her the poisons were still in frank's stomach, which meant he ingested them days after his return from angel gate, and within hours of his death. meaning, angelina was the only one who could've given them to him. and, detectives tell her that all along, while she thought she was playing them, they were playing her. >> this entire time, we have used everything you said and followed up on everything you've done and said and quite frankly, it is hard to remember all those lies. >> angelina told them they were wrong. >> i didn't tell my husband. >> okay. you need to stand up. >> are you arresting me? >> yes, you are under arrest for the murder of frank. >> no. i did not kill my husband. oh, god. i swear i didn't kill my husband.

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welcome back to to dateline. i am craig melvin. detectives continued piecing together the profile of someone they thought was a cold-blooded killer. their investigation yielded answers and the question. could she have murdered before?

here is josh mankiewicz with the conclusion of the devil in disguise. >> angelina rodriguez was charged with the murder of her husband, frank. it turned out, that might not be the worst thing she had ever done or ever would do. >> you think that if they made it look like a suicide they would be bright enough to figure a way to do that? >> what you are hearing is the wheels of a mind turning. that is angelina in jail speaking through the air vents with her neighbor in solitary. >> they can do it like a robbery gone bad or make it look like he was mad. >> angelina apparently believed the statements of her friend palmira about how she was bored with frank and wanted the life insurance payouts with the most damning evidence against her so it seemed angelina made a decision. higher want to get rid of her

friend. >> this is angelina inside the county jail trying to set up a hit on palmira from outside to keep her from testifying. >> the inmate angelina was talking with turned her in, and soon, detectives were recording angelina's conversations. >> if they get cyanide, that would do it real quick. you know what i'm saying? >> if that sounds cold-blooded, consider this. angelina made clear she would help care for palmira's children after, that is, she had their mother killed. >> if it came down to it, i would adopt her kids. that is how much i love her kids , but i don't love her anymore. does that make sense? >> so you will take care of her kids but she got to go? >> yeah, that is what i was thinking. >> police told palmira what angelina was up to and asked for her help. this time, they got really creative. >> they basically stage her death. they have her on her bed in her

house with a fake bullet hole, fake blood. >> the picture is pretty convincing. >> it was very convincing, yes. >> they sent an undercover cop posing as a bad guy with pictures in hand to visit angelina in jail. >> somethings happened to your friend. >> who? what? >> okay? you need to contact your family , okay? >>, god. >> angelina's initial response was oh my god, oh my god, i was only kidding. shortly thereafter, it was oh my god, i'm going home. >> i am so ready to go home. >> she killed her husband. >> no doubt. >> she tried to kill a witness against her. anybody else? >> her baby. >> in the course of their investigation into frank's death, detectives found out that in 1993, angelina's daughter, alicia, choked on her

pacifier and died. they also learned that angelina sued the pacifier manufacturer and settled for more than $700,000. what's more, she collected life insurance on her 13-month-old baby, just as she had tried to do with frank. detectives reviewed the evidence and came to believe alicia's death was no accident. >> you are confident after an investigation that the pacifier was tampered with, the baby didn't do it and it did not come apart naturally? >> absolutely. >> angelina said she did not kill her baby and she was never charged with that. she did stand trial for the murder of frank rodriguez. the

prosecution expert testified that angelina poisoned frank at least twice. first, with oleander, which made him sick enough to go to the e.r., but not to kill him. then, when she was giving him those fluids the doctor ordered, she was dosing him with antifreeze, which was fatal. the jury found angelina guilty of first-degree murder for financial gain, but could not reach a verdict on whether she tried to kill that witness. in the sentencing phase, the judge allowed the jury to hear evidence implicating angelina and her daughter's death, then the jury agreed on a sentence. >> she shall be put to death. >> even while facing a death sentence, angelina seemed unfazed. she addressed the court but admitted only to some errors. >> i broke. i made a few terrible, stupid mistakes which i regret very much. we all make mistakes. i just picked the wrong time to make mine but murder is not on that list. >> frank rodriguez that angelina was the god-fearing woman of his dreams. tom fuller thought she was a nurturing mother who would protect their daughter. he will never know for sure if he was lord into a terrible

mistake. but, chad holloway understands. he knows now just how close you are evil came to him. he says he has let it go with the gratitude that unlike his friend, frank, he at least survived, but his reputation and his life were intact. >> people need to know how evil angelina was. how many lives she ruined to try to get a little bit of money, and she was not going to stop at anything until she got what she wanted and i want angelina to know you didn't ruin me. you did not ruin me at all. >> in the bible we are warned that satan disguises himself as an angel of light. and sometimes, he is pretty good at it. >> that is all for this edition of dateline. i craig melvin. thank you for watching. g melvi thank you for watching.

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