four days, four days after that marriage, this defendant bludgeoned and strangled wendy trapaga to deathoken mother, miriam bonitas. speaking through an interpreter, the mother said she was shocked when she learned the couple had taken life insurance policies out on one another just before their marriage. >> translator: i did not feel good. i expressed to her, why insurance, they're not even married, they didn't have children. why insurance? >> on the stand, detective maria medero said she zeroed in on that insurance policy when she questioned escoto a day after the murder. >> i told him if he couldn't muster up a tear for his wife of four days to muster up a tear for the million dollars he was never going to see. >> what was his reaction? >> that lack of emotion was an indifference to wendy or a disregard for women in general. detectives say escoto was a man with a history of mooching off girlfriends. this former lover testified she supported escoto for years. >> how much money did you give him a month? >> approximately $1,500. >> go figure, the state said. for whatever reason, women th

you have thought beautiful people catch all the breaks, then listen to this story of 21-year-old wendy trapagause she may be the most gorgeous doomed young woman to ever walk these streets. >> she was model pretty. >> i don't think that she thought of herself as anything spectacular. >> didn't become the central part of her personality. i am pretty? >> it wasn't what she was about. >> her much older sisters and brother ralph never used to qualifier "stepsister" when they speak of wendy. they'll tell you she was a little bit of a daddy's girl, international airline pilot who died, sadly, in a crash when wendy was just 6. her mother, miriam, raised her. and big sister rita always pitched in. >> i guess i was like that other mother for her. i was pretty much there by miriam's side, raising her. >> the love of animals was always a part of wendy. >> she was always rescuing some animal, dog, puppy, kitten, anything. >> she worked for a vet for a while? >> yes. >> but allergies would end her ambitions to become a vet. but she skid -- did have another passion, for fashion and makeovers. >> pretty girl