pretty remarkable. i mean, isn't he exactly the sort of person she would have sought out? >> i find that very ironic. it's also the same person that if she she were here today, she would say, take the weight of forgiveness. it's the better way. >> and, every sunday, the faithful still filled the pews at the pendleton free methodist church. a barefoot sprite who loved to dance lives on, at least in memory. >> her life was great and the people who knew her would want to live better lives because of knowing her and knowing who she was. >> that is all for this edition of dateline. i am craig melvin. thank you for watching. watchin

>> dead men tell no tales but this one left a trail of clues. >> i've never seen my dad that way before. he has never shown fear of anything. >> patriarch. powerbroker. head of the family company. the business was real estate and someone was about to make a killing. >> i never dreamt that would happen. >> murdered in a house he was selling. was it a deal gone bad? >> we had bizarre things happening in the office. >> or maybe bad blood at home. >> my son texted me and was

scared and wanted me to pick him up. >> danger was out there. >> you are under arrest. >> arrest after arrest and twist after twist. >> it makes your blood boil. >> she was the ignition. it was a perfect storm. >> welcome to dateline. vern holbrook seem to have it all. he ran a thriving real estate company. he was the rock of his tight- knit family. so when this beloved patriot failed to show up at a meeting with his daughter-in-law, naturally, she was concerned. where was he? was he delayed at work or was it something far worse? here is josh mankiewicz with secrets at the sunshine motel. >> it's a pulse pounding start to a heart wrenching tale.

a police officer wearing a body camera, dreading to face who knows what? a man down. a room awash in blood. that would be the first of many questions and the starting line of the race for survival. >> severe assault and massive head trauma. >> it was a mystery that more than once appeared to be solved in this sleepy town. in the end, there were more twists than in the river that runs through it. the ripples that hold disturbing secrets about family. about friends. about who will betray you, and who will not. just a little more than two hours from soggy seattle, sits yakima. in a valley where orchards and vineyards flourished. the abundant sunshine of south- central washington.

it was just outside yakima on a saturday in may 2013 that she was meeting her father-in-law. >> i sent him some messages early in the morning asking if i could borrow his truck because i wanted to go to a nursery and he said i'll be out there anyway showing a house, so i can meet you there. >> terrace father-in-law vern holbrook was one of the best- known and best-selling realtors in this part of washington state. the meat time was set. 11:15 a.m. >> i sent a message when i got there, and he said client running late. just got here. see you in a bit in 30 minutes letter sent a message and said i was done, and i didn't hear anything. >> how much time goes by? >> two hours. >> did you think of looking for him? >> yeah, i did but then i thought i don't want to interrupt him if he's with a client. do i regret that?

every second, yeah, i do. >> so terra turned toward home and her husband vern's stepson andrew. >> when she got home, she said it's weird, your dad never showed up. i told her, he probably got tied up in a deal. >> in fact the kids were used to this behavior. >> he worked more than 60 hours a week every week because he enjoyed it. he wanted to help people find a home. >> vern was not only the founder of the business but he was also the patriarch of a large blended family that included stepson andrew, his wife tara, and their children. >> he was the leader of the family. everyone looked up to him. >> along with stepson chad. >> he worked as long as he did because he enjoyed it and he was a social guy. >> chad and his wife gave vern three grandchildren.

>> he was a wonderful dad. wonderful grandpa. you could go on and on about vern. >> jill celebrating at his 75th birthday party, remembers him as a constant presence. the anchor, ever present for his grandkids and great grandkids. christmas morning? >> has always been the stability of the family. >> in fact windchills marriage to chad ended after nine years, vern was still there for them. he helped out with essentials for the kids. he helped jill with a job. that's the kind of man he was. >> he helps anybody out. doesn't matter who they are. >> a big heart. and using that huge heart to help family members or clients was what seem to keep vern holbrook young. after andrew's mom died in 2007, vern eventually remarried and kept moving,

whether catching fish or closing deals. >> he was a machine. >> he had tried to slow down, even selling the company in 2008 two an ambitious young agent who vern had trained and taken under his wing. daniel blizzard who was buying the business with his two brothers. >> i think that appeal of daniel and his brothers was it would still be a family and a local business as opposed to a chain. >> but vern could not stop selling. >> he kept wanting to retire and he kept getting pushed back. >> and it wasn't because he had no money. it's because he loved it. >> he loved it. he liked being the best at it. >> on that saturday when vern missed his meeting with tara , she and andrew dismissed it as vern being vern until terra got a phone call that night

from chad. >> he was like, have you heard from vern? something is wrong. case in the hospital or something. then instantly i am worried. >> terra is a physicians assistant and knew the hospital well. she was pointed to the er where a nurse delivered the devastating news. >> she proceeded to tell me he had been beaten and his throat was slashed. and they were getting ready to airlift him to harborview in seattle. >> it happened she learned at the house vern has been showing to clients. that's why vern hadn't shown up to meet her that morning. >> i walked to the head of the bed, and, he was so swollen and disfigured. i went down to the foot to the bed, and his feet were sticking out.

that is what looked like him. the rest of him was not the vern that i know. >> what did you think had happened? >> i was not sure at that point. >> the phone rings and she was hysterically crying. she told me my dad had been attacked, and i was in disbelief. i didn't think it was real at first. >> but, it was. his life was dangling by a thread. he turned out to be the proof that you can be both beloved and still have mortal enemies. >> enemies? who would want to herne -- harm vern? a mystery woman with a secret. coming up. show off their clearer skin and noticeably less itch with dupixent. because children 6 months and older with eczema

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what began as a sunny saturday in yeah, ended for vernon holbrook's family in an all-night vigil at this trauma center in seattle. they gathered quickly at his bedside after hearing he had been badly beaten, his throat slashed, apparently at a house he was showing to real estate clients. what were you told about his condition and prognosis?

>> they were worried about how much air he was getting to his brain. >> the vern we loved died that day. >> his former daughter-in-law, jill, remembers hearing of the attack and how it frightened the family. >> my son texted me that grandpa was attacked and he was scared and he wanted me to pick him up. >> the task of quieting the family's fears and finding out who had attacked vern was now in the hands of this man, yakima county sheriff detective sam paroled. did you know vernon holbrook? >> i knew of him. he was known to be one of the big movers and shakers in the real estate industry. >> the detective was called to the house where vern was found that saturday night he had heard from the responding officer, the one who wore this body camera, and captured the scenes from the moment he arrived just before 8:00 p.m. that a colleague had gone looking for vern and his wife

had become worried that he did not return from the showing. the colleague found him here, lying in a pool of blood in this rural home near the small town. >> around 11:15, and we could surmise he had likely been attacked sometime around noon. >> he had been lying there for maybe seven or eight hours? >> yes. >> not a lot of evidence to go on. >> no. >> his truck parked outside offered little. >> his wallet was in there with his i.d. and credit card. >> so presumably not robbery. >> right. >> as the inventory the scene, only one thing seemed to be missing. the only thing they take as his telephone? >> that is what it look like. >> his missing cell phone didn't hinder the investigation.

within hours, the detective had burned's phone records in hand. you go to what? the last person who called him. >> i was able to see the last number that connected. >> did you call that number? >> i did. i left a message asking for a return phone call. >> who did it come back to? >> adriana. >> they learned she was a 23- year-old mother of three with a minor criminal record for misdemeanor assault, living with their kids in yakima at the sunshine motel. the next day, adriana mendez called back. and agreed to meet with detectives. would five are you getting off of her? >> she seemed excited and nervous and talking fast. >> adriana admitted calling vern twice the day of the attack.

she wanted to talk about selling a mobile home. but he could not see her. sell records confirmed adriana's calls to vern. it was something else that convinced the detective that adriana was not telling the truth. she insisted she had never left yakima that day. but phone records do not lie. people who forget about them do. and, the detective had maps showing adriana had made the last call to vern from the same rural area are the attack took place. she's pretty close to him when the call was made? >> yes. >> over the next several hours, her story changed again and again until she gave it up. she admitted meeting with vern. said it was the idea of her

boyfriend louis. she told a story backed up by surveillance tape from the sunshine motel. of louis picking up adriana and her three small children. that morning at 10:45. she told detectives they drove to the house in cowiche and met with vern and while the kids waited in the car, she and louis went inside with vern to view the house. and in the back bedroom? >> adriana said luis came out

and they tossed vern's cell phone out the car window on the way home before luis delivered adriana and her three kids back to the sunshine motel. again, confirmed on video. 12:31 p.m. to the detective it was obvious this had been a plot to set up a meeting with vern with the sole purpose of killing him. ever see anybody bring their kids to a murder? >> no, it's a first for me. r m >> within hours, detectives had adriana's boyfriend in custody as well. through an interpreter, luis gomez-monges also initially told a story about adriana contacting vern to sell a mobile home. mobile home.

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in the week after vern holbrook was savagely beaten, start slit, during a routine real estate showing in may. detectives quickly made two arrest, charged with attempted murder, 38-year-old luis gomez-

monges who denied any part in the attack. and his 23-year-old girlfriend adriana mendez who admitted luring her into the meeting at luis' request and witnessing luis assault vern. >> she said she had no idea why he would do that. >> you believe that? >> no. >> and why did he not believe adriana? because in the same interview, she had also unwittingly dropped a bombshell when asked how, out of all the dozens of realtors in yakima, she happened to call vern 's company, aspen real estate. >> what goes through your mind when she says that? >> the bells and whistles start going off. >> bells and whistles because after vern had been assaulted, his family flooded detectives with calls. you sit down and start thinking,

who would want to hurt him? >> one person. his name is daniel blizzard. >> daniel blizzard, the ambitious agent to whom vern was going to sell the company. someone vern had once trusted. did you think daniel had something to do with it? >> oh, yeah, i was pretty sure. >> y with zero proof would so many believe blizzard was behind the attack? detective perrault heard a story that went like this in the fall of 2008. vern called employees like bookkeeper judy to a meeting. he was selling the company. >> i think he wanted to spend more time with his family and focus on the selling and a deal with the day-to-day managing. >> no longer a rumor said the email to announce the sale. vern was selling to daniel blizzard and his two brothers. vern would stay on as the designated broker for one year. the deal went south quickly.

>> they made the first three payments, and then they stopped. >> it was a height of the great recession. real estate was tanking. vern was understanding but then they approached vern with a request. >> they asked my dad to take it what's called a key man life insurance policy. him in the key person or key man in the organization. >> because aspen real estate was just your dad. >> it absolutely was my dad. >> it made good financial sense of the time. the life insurance policy would pay $1.58 million upon vern's death. vern knew they were taking the policy out on him? he was comfortable with that? >> i wouldn't say he was comfortable. >> the blizzards never missed a payment on the life insurance, but they never made another payment on the business. in january 2010, 16 months after selling the company, vern

sent out another email to staff, this time to say daniel is no longer with aspen real estate. vern was taking by the company he built. >> if you can't make your payments, you cannot keep it. he had to. >> there were complaints filed with the real estate board. lawsuits. countersuits. all the while that life insurance policy seemed to weigh on vern's mind. >> he went to the life insurance company and he asked them to remove it. no one in the company would remove it. >> because somebody was paying the premiums. >> that's correct and i saw he was fearful of his life. >> to detective perrault, it added up to motive. 1.58 million reasons that daniel blizzard might want vern holbrook dead. what was the link between daniel and adriana and luis? i guess the holy grail would be defined some provable contact between daniel blizzard and adriana mendez .

>> right. >> it turned out the holy grail was a few blocks away at the sunshine motel. >> i went to the motel, and they told me that a big white guy would come in occasional and pay adriana's -- for her. >> you get the security video? >> who was it. >> daniel blizzard. >> there he is, paying adriana's bill at the sunshine motel. and detective perrault found more. text messages between adriana and daniel from the day vern was attacked. 9:24 a.m. daniel tex adriana, do not be late for shopping. what's going on there? >> it appears recode and what they are talking about is the real estate appointment with vern. >> 12:04 was around when the attack happened, adriana text daniel we are going shopping. >> i believe that's a way of

saying the job is done. >> that same afternoon, who pulls up at the sunshine motel to pick up adriana? you guessed it. daniel blizzard. possible they were talking about shopping? >> anything is possible but is not likely. >> in september 2013, three months after the attack, the detective went to pick up daniel. >> he didn't seem surprised to see me. >> and he didn't say what could this be about? >> no. he did not ask. ot ask. >> it didn't take long for daniel blizzard to tell investigators how we really felt about vern and the business deal that had gone bad.

>> why was daniel being adriana's rent and taking her shopping? >> detective perrault was having none of it. >> you are sticking to your story, but i do not believe it. >> for the first time. daniel blizzard's demeanor changed. >> he was definitely surprised, looked like he might be ill. >> what went through your mind when police told you they arrested daniel blizzard? >> thank god, finally. >> is sounded like a case neatly tied up. two detectors link to a man with motive and millions to gain. but that was not the whole

story. there was someone else involved, the detective believed. someone else who betrayed vern's trust, and as it was someone close to vern would be an understatement. in fact, it is someone you have already met. >> coming up. arrest number 4. number 4.

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welcome back. i am craig melvin. as vern holbrook clung to life in a hospital bed, detectives pushed hard to solve this sordid tale. they had already arrested three and their next suspect would provoke outrage. here again is josh mankiewicz with secrets of the sunshine hotel. of the fall of 2013, three months after the attack, vern holbrook was in a coma, but somehow still alive. did either of you hold out any hope for recovery? >> i think you always want to believe and have hope that someone will get better. >> i joked with hospital staff, this guy is ornery. if anyone can come out of it, it will be him. >> as the winds rolled into the valley, detective perrault had made three arrests . but, there

was one more to come. to say it was a shocker would be an understatement. there was one more name the detective had been hearing from vern's family. >> it turned out the alleged mastermind, daniel blizzard, had, for several years, dated and help support financially a woman who had once been as close to vern holbrook as a child. this woman. remember her? >> he helps anybody out. >> the mother to three of vern's grandchildren. his former daughter-in-law jill taylor. what would your motivation be for sordid taking part in the plot? >> i suppose the only connection would be her relationship with daniel. >> what's good for daniel was good for jill? >> i would think so. >> the detective found jill taylor was also the common link

between daniel blizzard and another of the alleged participants in the plot, adriana mendez. what did adriana mendez and jill taylor have in common? >> methamphetamine. they met three common friend at a party, using drugs. >> detectives say their friendship forged in methamphetamine became so close that jill invited adriana and her three kids to move in with her, and it was at jill's apartment where daniel met adriana and luis. adriana would know daniel without jill. >> correct. >> the detective was starting to get a clear picture of how the alleged co-conspirators came together. he soon found another chills friends who filled in some more blanks for him. nikki vargas came forward to say it was no secret what jill and daniel wanted done.

and when that did not work? did you believe her? >> it was believable that they were asking people about a hitman for $10,000. >> the proof jill took part in the plot came from her own lips. if, you believe the former family members who pointed fingers at her. her -- enter, chat, chills ex- husband. he said six weeks before the attack, jill said something strange when discussing supervised visits with their three children. >> she told me vern may not be around that much longer to be supervising visits. i said, why would you think that? she told me then, well, he makes a lot of enemies and he will make the wrong kind of

enemies. >> this eventually ended jill and the sheriff's office herself. relief? satisfaction? >> satisfaction. >> huge satisfaction. >> you saw jill being what? a pawn of daniels? >> i think they used each other. >> four people were charged with the attempted murder of vern holbrook. and then, the case changed again. in january 2014, eight months after he was attacked, vern holbrook died from his injuries. >> it was a sense of relief for him that he did not have to

suffer anymore, but it was really hard, really hard for the entire family. to see him not with us anymore. >> turned attempted murder into first-degree murder, premeditated murder. >> and it raised the stakes all around. >> right. >> once again, what seemed to be and what would be wouldn't quite line up. there was one more twist in that long river of lies. >> coming up. jill taylor, the accused becomes jill taylor, star witness. tar witness. hi. i use febreze fade defy plug. and i use this. febreze has a microchip to control scent release so it smells first-day fresh for 50 days. 50 days!? and its refill reminder light

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is the four people now charged with the murder of vern holbrook awaited trial in the yakima county jail, vern's family and former colleagues filled a special animosity for one of them. jill taylor. jill had been burns daughter-in- law. how could she be part of the plot to kill him? >> how could you do this to someone who cared for you and took care of you and help your kids and you were part of this family. how could you do something like that? >> hard to believe that somebody who had been the beneficiary of vern's generosity

would be involved in any way and a plot like that. >> i don't know what was going on in jill's world that she felt she needed to do that. >> jill's arrest was troubling for her ex-husband because chad said he tried to tell vern that her behavior could be volatile and violent. >> i tried to warn him a couple of times after our split, that she is dangerous, and he should be careful. he just kind of, her? he didn't. >> he wasn't buying it. and then, as the trial of the four suspects wound their way to the courthouse, vern's family was blindsided yet again. prosecutors called to say they were offering deals to two of the suspects, to make sure there cases where rock solid against accused daniel blizzard and the alleged attacker luis gomez-monges . the state would allow adriana mendez and jill

taylor to walk out of jail if the two women would agree to testify against the two man. did they ask your permission? or were they saying, this is the way the cookie crumbles? >> we didn't have a choice but we were made aware that this is what they were thinking of doing. >> why were the deals necessary? the deputy prosecutor. >> trying to pick the lesser of two evils. >> you get the mastermind and you get the guy whose hand was on the knife, and maybe the little fish swim away. >> that is essentially what happened in this situation. >> do you think you had a strong case against jill taylor? >> she was probably the weakest case compared to the four we believed were involved. >> in august 2014, the murder trial of daniel blizzard began

with a parade of lawyers, life insurance salesman, and law enforcement taking the stand. before the star witnesses began to appear. >> he would say i can't wait until the old man is gone. >> jill taylor claimed daniel wanted vern dead so he could collect the $1.58 million life insurance policy. and, that adriana mendez said she and luis would go through with the attack . >> she said, we are going to do that, we are going to kill vern for daniel. >> when it was her turn, adriana mendez said daniel showed her a wad of cash to entice her. >> after the attack was over, adriana claimed daniel gave her the $10,000 plus a $2000 bonus.

that money was never recovered. >> this is outrageous. >> the defense attorney argued that adriana and jill would've said anything on the stand because of the chit out of jail free offers from prosecutors. >> and you can reunite with your kids. >> yes. >> the defense argued the jurors had to acquit daniel blizzard because of a lack of evidence. >> you will not hear of a single shred of forensic evidence. this man or anybody else. >> after three weeks, the jury had the case, but it took less than a full day of deliberation to deliver a verdict. >> we the jury find the defendant, daniel blizzard, guilty of the crime of first-

degree murder. >> yes. you know? what we wanted and what was right happened. >> it was a huge, huge relief. that the jury found the truth. >> the judge sentenced daniel blizzard to more than 34 years in prison. a month later, the trial of luis gomez-monges, he testified it was not he that adriana mendez had slashed vern holbrook's throat. >> the jury did not buy it. the judge sentenced luis to more than 26 years behind bars. the two men were going to prison. what would happen to the two women who cut deals to help put them there? and, what would jill taylor have to say about it all? >> coming up. coming up.

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in exchange for her cooperation, adriana mendez, the woman her broader three small children to a murder scene was allowed to plead guilty to charges of assaulting criminal rendering. she was sentenced to time served, about 15 months, and released. and, jill taylor? vern holbrook's former daughter- in-law was set free after spending about one year in the county jail. charges of first-degree murder were dismissed without prejudice meaning prosecutors to have the option of refiling at some point in the future. at this point, jill has never been convicted of any crime in connection with the death. >> if it wasn't for jill putting it all together, helping daniel put the pieces together, this may not have happened. >> i think that's criminal. it should not have happened. you know, she, in my opinion, got away with murder.

>> and when you walk out of this interview she might be standing in the street. >> you never know. it crosses my mind. >> we wanted to talk to jill taylor, and it turned out she wanted to talk with us. to tell a story of betrayal. in her telling, she is the one who was betrayed. when we sat down with jill, she had been out of jail for about three months, claiming she was caught in a web of daniel blizzard's creation. when you heard that vern had been attacked and left for dead, how did you feel? that maybe you could've headed that off somehow? >> i wouldn't have headed it off anyhow because daniel was determined to do what he wanted to do. i really cared about daniel, and, i was hoping he would pull his head out of his rear. maybe i've issues with letting people use me and he set me up

for everything. >> daniel set you up. >> yes, he set me up. it was a win-win for him. >> remember, it was only through jill that daniel blizzard met adriana and luis. jill admits that is true and admit she knew blizzard had paid them and admits she never told police. but told us something she never said on the stand. that adriana convinced her the attack would never happen. >> i went to her hotel in april and i told her that i don't care how much money he has lent you, you are not obligated to do anything. she said i'm not going to do that. >> adriana specifically told her she would not go through the attack on vern? >> yes. >> you must've been surprised. >> it caught me off guard. >> asked jill about the death of a man who had been good to her and her kids. her answer was a financial help vern provided for her and her

family has been overstated. >> i make 36,000 a year. i had a good job and paid my own bills. he only helped me when i first split up with my ex-husband, and a beta back every dime that he helped me with. >> jill blames the family for making her look bad. particularly, her ex-husband, chad. >> your ex-husband thought you were a suspect and everyone is spent in you and daniel blizzard right away. >> i don't understand what they think i would do anything like that. what would i gained from a? >> what would you can? daniel blizzard issue boyfriend gets $1 million. >> good for him. that has nothing to do with me. >> presumably you would share with that. >> if i was going to attack somebody, i would attack someone with it. >> 1,000,000 1/2 dollars is a lot of motive. >> i don't care about money. i don't get why people are shallow when it comes to money.

>> jill's story, she didn't want the money. her boyfriend lied to her. the couple that lord burned to the home lied to her. but, the claims that daniel blizzard had asked jill to poison vern? well those, according to jill, those are true. daniel gave you poison. >> i think so. i just dumped it out. >> do you know what kind it was? and he said put it in vern's during? and you said what? i'm not going to commit murder? >> no. i figured whatever. i'm not going to do that. you are stupid. >> and you called the police? >> no. >> you didn't call the police? >> no, why would i. >> i come from a world wears you don't go to the police when someone sneezes run. >> why did daniel think you would be willing to poison vern? >> i don't know.

i loved him and would've done a lot of things for him. >> so you are kind of a victim here? >> i don't like to call myself a victim. by your definition, you have. >> there's one person who's clearly a victim, vern holbrook, built a successful business and loved his role at the center of a happy family. did he trust too much? should have known what might be coming? baby. those are tough question to answer because the truth is, no one wants to believe your business partner would betray you. after all, the idea is they are just like family. just like family. ♪♪ ♪♪ this sunday, return to ♪♪ this sunday, return to power. >> look what happened?