Hes a guy what a lot of women in his life. Are there other people who had relationships with shaun that didnt end well . Someone literally took that child out. She may want to get rid of other women in his life. The police bug his house and hes asking her, do you think these letters were sent from the killer. I think the person is a little unbalanced. Got a few screws loose. When you hid the gun, did you hide it well . Gone. Sounds very much to me like someone is confessing to murder. This is a story that has shocked an entire city over and over. We start with breaking news. A deadly shooting nearby. Shes dead . Ill have to have an investigator call you. Shes dead . [ screams ] this was an execution. A pregnant 42yearold woman gunned down as she was going to work. Was it a robbery . Was it a contract killing . Was it revenge . It turns out, she is the girlfriend of a former chicago bear, shaun gayle. Save me the bears. Shaun gayle was this legendary Football Player for one of the greatest football teams of all time, the 85 bears. And his pregnant girlfriend, rhoni reuter, when she is murdered, it turned this city upside down. The story really starts in 1985 when mike ditka and the Chicago Bears ruled the town of chicago. Chicago is a huge football town. [ cheers and applause ] chicago go bears bury em in 1985, the bears were on fire. This was something the city had not seen. I was a young local reporter working in chicago. I was not a Sports Reporter. I was a news reporter. But the bears were so big that they were leading the newscast, not the sportscast. The 1985 bears, arguably one of the greatest football teams in nfl history, theres no question. Picked off by dave duerson they had just the strangest, wildest group of players youll ever see on one squad. Play mcdonalds playoff payoff. Its a good time for the great taste of victory. I venture to say that almost every guy in that 53 man squad did at least one commercial. This cat knows exactly what he wants. Thats my kind of cat. Whiskas. Thats going to be intercepted. Shaun gayle. Shaun gayle was a great contributor. A starter, just a rocksolid, really wellrespected player that would knock you out. You wanted him at safety. The kick is blocked shaun gayle, number 23, scored the touchdown. Shaun was this charismatic, laidback, softspoken guy. Were not going to, you know, break our arms patting ourselves on our back with what weve done so far. We know we have a long way to go. A little guarded, but of course he was super attractive. You know, everybody would just fall all over him. He was very popular among women. Shaun, of course, youre a bachelor, still a heartthrob among female bear fans. What do you do after a Football Game . And players you got to watch him. Usually the single guys, we get together get a bite to eat. [ coughing ] in 1985, they were perfect through the first 11 games. They won all of them. So there was this building excitement in chicago. Were going to bring home a winner, for them. For chicago and the fans. Its not for anybody else. They won 11 straight games. They only had a couple more to go before the super bowl. And then they decide to celebrate a little early by making the super bowl shuffle. Okay, lets do it. We are the bears shuffling crew shuffling on down doing at for you the corniest, worst music video youre ever gonna see. It was sort of a rap song. Not really. Strutting our stuff on everyone nobody could dance. And look, shaun couldnt dance either. Hell tell you he was smooth. You saw him stuck in the back there. He needed to be in the back. Everybody assumed they were going to win the super bowl, and they did. So mike ditka, hungry chicago, finally champions on this january day in new orleans. They just destroyed the new england patriots. 4610, the final. 46 to 10 is a score that no one will ever forget in this town. This only happens once in a lifetime it was sheer ecstasy, delirium in a city that has waited a long time for a national champion. It feels good to be the king. I dont care what it is, its the world champion. The 85 bears are still the most popular players in the history of chicago sports. Were number one most of the players decided to stay here. They are indeed chicago royalty. 1985 Chicago Bears, we consider him one of us. It was a great group of guys. The thing you need to know about shaun gayle is after football, he was still a success. What do you think about that . He was a commentator. He was doing Different Things in the community. This was a guy who had a major profile after the game. In chicago where he lived, he dabbled in real estate. He always seemed to know what he was doing. Shaun was seen as a ladies man, very smooth. Despite all appearances that he was an eligible bachelor, he actually had a longterm relationship with a woman named rhoni reuter. Rhoni was from wisconsin. And not too terribly far from chicago. Shes in the area between bears fans and packers fans. But obviously, she became a bears fan when she started dating shaun gayle. They met at a Bears Charity event. Rhoni was in the crowd with some friends. Rhoni reuter was into fashion. She worked at macys. I first started digging into this story more than ten years ago. Thats when i met rhonis family. Her devoted younger brother thad and her sisterinlaw anna. She was a big city woman, but she never lost that smalltown girl quality. She liked her chicago life, but she knew where she came from. Im going to zoom in. Hello. Oh. Youre my sister. Really, rhoni made you feel at ease. She could be your friend in an instant. She just had a big smile and she would always hug you and greet you, and she made you be comfortable no matter where you were. Did you know who shaun was . Oh definitely, im a bear fan, so i mean, i and the bears practice in our hometown. So, heres your sister, shes dating a professional Football Player, what was your reaction . It was great for me being a Chicago Bears fan. Yeah, we were happy for her. I really just wanted her to be happy. It wouldnt have mattered if she would have been with a guy who was selling peanuts on the corner, as long as she was happy. They were together a long time. 18 years. Was it a true love affair . Yeah, i believe it was. I think so. Shaun gayle and rhoni reuter never lived together. They never got married. Which according to friends raised some awkward questions for her family. In your opinion, why do you think they werent married . I know rhoni wanted to be married, im thinking it was probably because shaun wasnt ready. Truthfully. You never asked rhoni. We had asked her that prior, but uh, you know, at a certain point you just stop asking. I only saw shaun four or five times the whole time theyd been dating. Over 18 years . Does that strike you at all . Yes, especially being the way rhoni was, very familyoriented. But then, at the age of 41, rhoni got an unexpected gift. Something she always dreamed of actually she found out she was pregnant. Tonight, abcs, 20 20, has an exclusive interview with shaun gayle. Youve got to watch jujus report on this fatal attraction at 9 00 right here on abc 7. I was the only reporter that shaun gayle granted an interview to back in 2009. Shaun gayle speaks very openly with you, it seems. He said he only ever wanted to be interviewed once, to be broadcast and aired once. In that interview, i asked him how he and rhoni were feeling about the pregnancy. Shaun told me we were both excited about it. There was some disappointment because our relationship wasnt at a point where we hoped it would be having a child. This was a happy surprise for us because we didnt think shed have children. 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Its an incredible stretch of its definitely going to feel like summer. Its an incredible stretch of warm days we have coming up. October 4, 2007, was an unseasonably warm day for the chicago area. Its usually starting to get cold around that time. Its almost like beach wetter here. Instead of oktoberfest were calling it summerfest. Rhoni lived in deerfield, illinois, which is a quiet, affluent, beautiful little suburb of chicago. Lots of people go out there to get away from the city. People flock there to live a quiet life. Its a cute place to be and very relatively safe place to be. Kids would have been heading off to school. Rhoni was in her kitchen, on her way out to work, grabbed her stuff, opened her door. And in the shadows, gets hit with seven bullets, forced back into her apartment from, from the blast. Two shots were directly to the fetus. Its just shes executed. Rhoni, its christa downstairs. Are you okay . I heard a woman screaming. And i dont know. Then it went quiet. Would you give me a call, please . Thank you. Deerfield police. I heard a woman screaming. And then a pop, pop and then it went totally silent. I called and she does not answer. We need an ambulance. Theres a female down. I suspect it maybe a gunshot. When Police Arrive at rhonis apartment, they find a gruesome scene. There she is lying on the floor, riddled with bullets. Officers find a lady bleeding in her kitchen. The officer smelled gun smoke and thought the offender was still on the scene. The phones are ringing off the hook at the Deerfield Police department. Deerfield police. I heard about a shooting. Because the town is in a panic. Can you tell me whats going on . Why is that helicopter hovering . We have some Police Activity maam. There was fear that there was some gunman running around town on the loose. Have they caught the person . I dont have the details on that yet. The town was shocked. Even the local Junior High School went on lockdown. Put that school on lockdown. I just put the school on lockdown. I talked to the principal. Theyre doing that right now. The link to shaun gayle emerged almost immediately. When officers enter her apartment, they see pictures of shaun gayle throughout the condominium. The officers knew those were pictures of rhoni and shaun gayle, because shaun gayle is a celebrity in the chicagoland area. Shaun got a phone call by a Sports Reporter who had heard that a pregnant woman in deerfield had been murdered. So, shaun calls Deerfield Police. Deerfield police department. I am calling about that shooting in deerfield. Yes. Listen, ive been getting calls from the media. This is shaun gayle. Theyre trying to say they are naming me as a suspect . Hold on, please. Is she was it rhoni reuter . Is she okay . Yes, it was. And no, shes not. She shes dead . Shes dead . Shaun, dont go to her house, okay . Shaun, come to the police department. Do you know where it is . Yes. Where are you right now . Im on deerfield road. Okay. I got to call her parents. My father called my cell phone. And i just figured it was another call from dad and mom. They call often. But the minute i picked up the phone and heard my mom crying, i knew that something had happened. Dad said, you need to come down immediately. Your sister has been taken. And i, uh, dropped my phone and headed out the door. Its just something you never think is going to happen to your family. And i still think im going to wake up and its going to be just a dream. My sister. There were a ton of questions in my mind. And everythings spinning through my head. What could have happened . What what happened . Youre thinking, well, was she downtown shopping when this happened . We just knew she was gone, and we didnt understand why. When did things start becoming a little bit more clear . Actually after i got to mom and dads. What did they tell you . That she had been taken inside her apartment. Right, well, i know exactly right in her kitchen. Is that from rachy . Yes. Did it cross your mind, like, did she have any enemies . Was anyone out to get her . No. If you knew rhoni, theres no way you could do Something Like this, if you really knew her. There was no sign of a robbery. There was no sign of forced entry, so that led police to think maybe the killer was somebody rhoni knew. We had to look at shaun. Shaun gayle was the first guy. Youd be foolish to not look at him. Hes dating her. Shes pregnant with her child. Does he want to eliminate her from his life . Does he not want this pregnancy . Police find rhonis purse at the scene, and inside that purse is a letter. That letter might provide clues as to what really happened here. Right now, theres over a million Walmart Associates doing their best to keep our nation going, while keeping us safe. Weve given masks to all our people and were helping our customers practice social distancing in stores. 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Pop my 100 allwhitemeat classic or spicy popcorn chicken combo for just 5. 99. Good morning. Good morning. It is thursday october 4, 2007. This is abc 7 news at 11 00. We start with breaking news right now from north suburban deerfield. A woman was shot to death in deerfield this morning. This was one of the biggest stories ive seen in many years. Police say the victim was the girlfriend of former bears player shaun gayle and that she was pregnant with his child. Her friend also tells us, and i am quoting him here, that shaun gayle was her whole life. That he meant everything to her. No suspect information is available at this time. Well, people jump to conclusions all the time when you first read Something Like this. You know, wow, breaking news, this is crazy, and it involves a former bear, let alone an 85 super bowl bear. Oh, my gosh. I think people were shocked and horrified just by the act itself. Hello it seemed obvious from the beginning it wasnt a random crime. Whoever did this was after not only rhoni, but after the unborn child. Someone deliberately took that child out. The Lake County Major Crimes Task force headed up this murder investigation. The shooting sparked a heavy police response. The Deerfield Police is not a very large police force, but when you call in the resources of the entire county, it can make a big difference. So, as the detectives are out there gathering evidence and talking to neighbors, some puzzling questions emerge. Investigators say that someone reported seeing a teenager running across the street shortly after she was shot. Several witnesses apparently told police that they saw a young africanamerican boy in the area right after the shooting. Another witness said this person was wearing a disguise. And that it was a very petite person. Maybe around 5 feet tall, baggy track suit, something dark possibly over the persons face. We get a report of a small black car leaving the scene. Was it a robbery . Was it a contract killing . It just didnt add up. It didnt make sense. Police want to question shaun about the crime. Now remember, shaun called police to find out about the crime, and thats when they told him about rhoni. Deerfield police department. Im calling about that shooting in deerfield. Yes. The police are going to look at shaun calling them from sort of two different directions. Its the logical thing to do. A loved ones been harmed or killed. Was it rhoni reuter . Is she okay . You know, the other side of that is with him reaching out to them, is he saying i need to cover my tracks . Listen, ive been getting calls from the media. This is shaun gayle, and theyre trying to say theyre naming me as a suspect . Shaun gayle calling us right away within hours of this murder was a little suspicious. So, shaun hangs up with the Deerfield Police and voluntarily goes down to the station. I cant believe this. [ crying ] shaun gayle was questioned for ten hours. You know, its hard because being an avid sports fan, i really had to focus on the fact that he was just another individual and that he wasnt a sports figure. I had to forget his celebrity status. You know, we essentially have to treat him as he is the suspect. He was visibly upset. He was, uh, shaken. But by the time he sat down for questioning, detective scott frost said that shaun gayle became strangely composed. I figured i would see more of a sobbing shaun. He was very reserved, very calm. We were having issues with his time line from what he did the night before, what time did he go to bed, what time did he leave. He seemed like he was off in his times. And its just like, well, you know, im not asking you what you did two weeks ago. Im asking you in the last 24 hours. It was like, you know, something doesnt seem right. We need to really research things. The day that rhoni was killed, the Police Obviously need to know where shaun was. On the morning of the murder, shaun says he slept in, worked out with a trainer, and then went and got a haircut midmorning at a barber about 10 minutes away from rhonis house. The problem is its not airtight exactly where he was when she was killed. And so, as a result, the police are really gonna have to nail that down. The police were trying to figure out if shaun had a motive. When they talked to a lot of rhonis friends, they found out, or they heard from different people that maybe he wasnt 100 thrilled about the pregnancy. Were starting to hear that this was a surprise and that basically rhoni had given this ultimatum of, listen, you either want to be part of the childs life or you dont. Im still having the baby. During the questioning of shaun, police learn that rhoni wasnt the only woman in his life. He was playing the field, so to speak. Here he, you know, kindly enough gives us, you know, a list of almost 18 or 16 different women that he either went on a date with, you know, got a phone number from, or had something romantically involved. Hes giving us here you go. Talk to everyone. You know, these are 18 women over a threeyear period. Granted. Its still a lot. When the fact came out that shaun had lots of relationships with lots other women, this was news to rhonis family. I wouldnt think that my sister would have put up with that sort of relationship. No. She loved shaun with her whole heart, and i think she expected the same back. I really didnt see any other people in the picture at all. But shaun has said that as close as they were in their relationship, for him, it wasnt exclusive. Hes a guy who has a lot of women in his life. And so, to be thorough, youre going to have to look at each one of these women that he dated or has had a relationship with. You have several women that could have been jealous of rhoni. 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When you have a high profile former professional athlete like shaun gayle living in a city like chicago, theres a whole when you have a high profile former professional athlete like shaun gayle living in a city like chicago, theres a whole a world that exists for these former players. Im talking charity events, fancy dinners. Any of them walk into a restaurant, they can get a table anytime they want to. And wherever you go, lots of beautiful women. Killer, yall, and it wont stop the 85 bears, to this day they are still perceived as iconic legends. I mean, people go nuts when they see them in person. We got it locked this team ruled the city. It riveted the country. And while shaun had been in a long term relationship with rhoni, there were a number of other women that he was seeing, and now hes sitting in the Deerfield Police station and his whole life is under the microscope. During shauns marathon ten hour questioning with police, they eventually ask him who he thinks could have killed rhoni. And he gave them the name of monika kurowska, who was a woman that he had had a relationship with in the months prior to that. Monika kurowska was from poland. She was beautiful. She was very, very fit. She was a personal trainer and a model. Shaun said he dated monika for about six or seven months. But heres the thing it didnt end well. He said that she was sort of harassing him. In fact, shaun gayle got an order of protection against monika, and in court papers makes a number of allegations. At one point, she was outside his apartment and was hitting the buzzers of some of his neighbors, and it was causing a problem. And that he found her outside his apartment and saw that her arm or hand was bloody. And he eventually found that it appeared she had punched through a window and was apparently trying to get into his apartment or at least get his attention that way. That caused a lot of concern for shaun. Monika told abc in a statement she was upset when she got to shauns home and saw him with another woman. She says she wanted to speak to him, but he wouldnt open the door. She knocked on his window. And in the heat of her frustration, she says she accidentally broke it. She says she decided to end the relationship and she never saw shaun again. Shaun also told police that he believed that for months monika had been sending a number of harassing letters to a variety of women in his life. It was a situation where these letters were intended to tell all of these women that, oh, by the way, youre not the only one dating shaun. In fact, theres this whole list of other women. One of the reasons that he thought these letters were written by her was because they were written the way she spoke, which was in broken english. One of the letters read, i think maybe you would like to know what your boyfriend shaun is doing with a lot of other women. He will lie to you and tell you a lot of stories, and try to make everything sound like your fault, like he does to me. Those letters caused an enormous amount of trouble in shauns personal life. Rhoni received one. Her mother did, too. In fact, rhonis mom went so far as to call shaun about it. She wanted to know if rhoni was safe. Thats what she said. Because . If theres some woman out there sending letters, you know, she may want to get rid of the women other women in her in his life. And so what did shaun say when she asked the question . Dont worry about rhoni. This is a crazed fan that, you know, has made up these letters and rhonis very safe. Rhoni had one of those letters in her purse at the time she was killed. What would monikas motive have been . Anger at shaun would have been the obvious motive. You know, there had been this stalking behavior. They had to believe that she was very angry at shaun, i guess, for not being monogamous. She was a very suspicious character. She was definitely a very suspicious character, yes. Who did you suspect . Monika, obviously, because we thought, well, its probably whoevers responsible for sending these letters. One of the first things that youre doing when youre investigating a murder is seeing if somebody has an alibi, a legitimate alibi, and it turned out that monika was a personal trainer at the time. And she had been training an older gentleman. We got to mark her off. Police cleared monika kurowska, who denied ever writing or sending those letters. But if she didnt send them, who did . Funeral services for rhoni reuter were held in wisconsin monday morning. We were preparing to bring a new life into this world. We were preparing a celebration, and we ended up preparing a funeral, a double funeral. When shaun arrived at the funeral, there were those that were consoling him and there were those who were looking at him with suspicion. Meanwhile, the police were watching his every move. Why did you go to rhonis funeral . We wanted to see if he was going to show up, how he was going to react, how he was going to handle himself. You know, would he say anything . So youre keeping a watchful eye on him. Yeah. Killers and murderers have been known to make confessions at the casket. When i interviewed shaun and asked him how people looked at him, he said, at that moment, in my grief, i did not care. He said, i asked the funeral director if i could see the baby. But he said he would really warn against that because he thought that would be an image that i would never be able to get out of my head. While the family is grieving, police are still looking for leads. At the scene were shell casings. Shell casings tell you the caliber of the weapon. In this case its a nine millimeter. You then have some interesting comments by neighbors in close proximity to rhonis apartment who describe yes, a loud bang, but it sounded muffled. You have one neighbor who hears a pop pop sensation, which she later figures out from watching a crime show that it sounded the same as the silencer. The idea that there could be a silencer in this case adds another element in my view that this is planned. Are there other people who have had relationships with shaun that have ended that didnt end well . Suddenly there are three hot tips that come into the Lake County Major Crimes Task force. Theyre all urging police to look at the same woman, another woman that shaun gayle had a relationship with. Her name . Marni yang. And police learn shes someone he saw the night before the murder. I want to find out your association with shaun. How you know shaun . For the sweet. The hectic. The tender. The tense. The frustrating. And the fiery. But for many, migraine keeps them. From saying. I am here. We aim to change that. With. Aimovig. A preventive treatment. For migraine in adults. One dose. Once a month. 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I never thought id say this, but i kind of miss school the teachers, i mean, yall are gifted people i thank you so much for what youre doing. Their investment into our children is beyond what we can even imagine. Appreciate all that you do. At some point marni yangs at some point marni yangs name surfaced as someone who had had a previous relationship with shaun gayle. Marni was a single mother who was very devoted to her children. She was a hardworking woman, she was an intelligent woman. My mom had three jobs at one time. She was a real estate agent. She was an aspiring fitness model. She worked as a cocktail waitress. My mother has always tried her best for us. I wanted to provide my children as much as i possibly could. I didnt ever want them to feel a lack of anything. My brother and i, we played tackle football. My mom was like hardcore football mom. My mother picked up scuba diving as a hobby. She paid for classes for me to take. And that was always fun. She juggled it all. Marni met shaun at a bears convention. She was working as a security person at that event and would have had access to some of the celebrities, and shaun certainly was one of those. And i just remember him approaching me, introducing himself just by his first name. I didnt know who he was. And i just kept bumping into him throughout the course of that weekend. I remember him mentioning that he was looking for some investment property. Because it had come out that i was a real estate broker, and i just remember giving him my business card. About two hours after the event was over, my phone rang. And it was him. We really didnt discuss very much, other than what type of properties he might have been looking for. We made arrangements to meet. So they meet, they start talking, and they start doing real estate deals together. She was spending a lot of time with shaun because they had this real estate transaction that she was basically brokering. Two months after the murder, the Police Called in marni to answer some questions. I absolutely did not see a problem with, you know, going in and sitting down and talking to them. How are you doing . Im all right. Marni . Yes. Im detective chuck schletz. Chucks going to ask you some basic questions about who you are, where you live, stuff like that. I didnt feel like i needed an attorney. You know, it was pretty much just anything i can do to help. Basically, i want to find out your association with shaun, how you know shaun, when you first met shaun. Ive probably known him for about six years. We met at a convention. I think i had been given enough advice about the fact that everybody that was connected with him was probably going to be questioned at some point. Marni, you know, obviously you know why were talking. Yeah. Theres probably not that too many people that dont know. They talk to her for about an hour and a half. Did you know the extent of his relationship with the victim . I didnt know the extent of the relationship. I know he had told me that he was he had gotten somebody pregnant. She seemed relaxed and comfortable, sort of with the attitude of, i just want to help. They received three tips telling them to look at her. If anything else comes up, you dont mind coming in . No, thats fine. After speaking to marni, Police Continue their investigation. The police said they started talking to everyone and they kept hearing a similar story. People who knew marni said that she was telling everyone that she was shauns girlfriend. She bragged about it all the time. She was very proud of it, and she made a lot more out of the relationship than it actually was. Yeah. That was not what i was referring to him as. I dont think the word boyfriend was ever used, really. I asked shaun back in 2009 if marni had been his girlfriend, and he emphatically said, no, she was not. He said not even the craziest stretch of the imagination. But he did admit to me that their professional relationship did get friendly. The night before the murder, what we found out was that marni was at shaun gayles house. They engage in the sexual relations. Police issued a search warrant for shauns house, and after accessing his computers, they dropped what must have felt like a bombshell on shaun. Unbeknownst to shaun, marni seems to have ax to his emails and all this time for years she might have been stalking him online. Investigators believed that marni had been tracking shaun and rhoni. Marni has denied these claims. And those letters that shaun thought came from monika, Police Believe they actually came from marni. Marni yang discovered through her penetration of this email account this polish womans emails. She would then study them, master the broken english with which the polish woman spoke, and write the letters in that broken english in an effort to frame her. Police continue to investigate marni, but heres the thing theres no physical evidence tying marni to the crime. Now remember, shaun has always maintained his innocence. And finally, after weeks of investigating him, police clear him. Once they do, they have a proposition for him. They want his help on getting information about marni. Were basically telling shaun, we want to set up some wires in your house. We want to see if you can get her to talk about her p. And then they take positions all around his house. You have to set up safeguards when you build these type of operations. You dont want anybody to get hurt. We basically have to put security up and down stairs. We got coppers hiding in closets just in case things go south. During his conversation with marni, hes asking her about these letters that were sent to women he dated. And hes asking her, do you think these letters were sent from the killer . Id say its possible. Yeah, i think this person is a little unbalanced. Got a few screws loose. Now remember, Police Believe it was marni who sent those letters, not monika. So in their view, shes talking about herself. My whole point, what im trying to bring up, anyone who take someone elses life, theres got to be some sort of really lasting effect. I would think so. You have to be a sociopath in its purest form in order to be able to take another persons life. In the end, marni admitted to nothing. So one of the things the police do is they start pulling her trash, looking for incriminating information. And they hit some pay dirt there. They find a Bank Statement that they read, and it says purchase on her debit card ray rawlings arms. So they call ray rawlings arms. And thats when they find out about the book, how to make a disposable silencer. And the fact that she ordered volume 1 and volume 2. She actually went to home depot and purchased the items to build the silencer. Shes got a drill, circular clamp and a one and a quarterinch metal pipe. And some pvc piping and duct tape and a hacksaw. So even with these new discoveries, the police still need more information, so they set up another sting operation. And now, its another woman, a socalled psychic, who will upend the investigation. She may be goofy but she knows how to press record. Do you give your permission for the following conversations to be overheard and recorded . Yes. This overhear will now commence. And what unfolds inside this unassuming dennys will surprise investigators. Very chilling. It was surreal. Save me evere psoriasis,. Little things. Can become your big moment. Thats why theres otezla. Otezla is not a cream. Its a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. With otezla, 75 clearer skin is achievable. Dont use if youre allergic to otezla. It may cause severe diarrhea, nausea or vomiting. Otezla is associated with an increased risk of depression. Tell your doctor if you have a history of depression or suicidal thoughts or if these feelings develop. 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I knew perfectly well i was being recorded. I saw the wire. He slammed his hands on my desk and said its either going to be you or your mother that goes down for this. Youre saying you lied then, but how do i know youre not lying now. Seems very much to me like someones confessing to murder. A former pro football star in the middle of an exclusive murder. Police are searching for a suspect in the murder of a pregnant girlfriend of former chicago bear shaun gayle. The city was shocked. Heres shaun gayle, one of the good guys, always pleasant. And then suddenly there were a lot of people who thought maybe shauns involved. Shaun gayle has been subject to rumors and watched his reputation become blemished. In the months following the murder, i would say that the general Public Opinion was that it was him. Shaun bore the brunt of the suspicion for rhoni reuters murder. What people didnt know was that behind the scenes he was working with Law Enforcement, because they believed marni yang was obsessed with him. So now marni yang was the prime suspect. Think of the evidence prosecutors lined up here against marni. She buys a book online about a silencer. She goes to home depot and shops for all these items. Now that police have all this incriminating evidence, they bring marni back in for questioning. Shes pretty smart. We werent going to just be able to put her in a room and say, did you do it . And shed confess sobbingly. You know, we know that wasnt going to happen. One of the early questions you ask someone is where were they at the time this murder was committed. What happened when you got up . Well, i looked at my phone and there was a message there. Andrew was calling me from the basement to let me know that he was not feeling great. I remember checking to see if he had a fever or not, and he felt warm. So he stayed home from school that day. After checking on her son, marni says she went to the garage to try to get her truck to work. And it wouldnt. Marni yang said that she was home during the murder. And interviews with her son revealed that she was not home. Police then introduced the information they had about that she ordered this book about how to make a silencer. Did you purchase this book . Yes, i did. Now, why would you purchase a book on how to make disposable silencers . It was a joke. Marni yang justified having those books by saying that they were for her longtime cop boyfriend. That was a gag gift that was supposed to be for sal. Firearms are a hobby of his. She gave it to him. And he was like, what is this . And ended up just leaving it at her house. He said he had no idea why she would have given that to him. Did you ever, um, try to make one of these things . Um, no. So, um, that actually gave me a really good idea for putting together, um, a science project that turned out to be probably a little bit more complicated than i was prepared to get involved in. There was no science projects for her kid at that time. That was a lie. As the interrogation progresses, police ask her about owning guns. I have four of them, actually. My sig is a. 40 caliber. My luger is a. 40 caliber. And my smith is a. 38. Its a revolver. Police already know that marni owned another gun, a ninemillimeter beretta, which happens to match the caliber of the gun that killed rhoni. She leaves out the nine millimeter and all of a sudden it was, you sure theres no more guns . You know what, i think there was another one. It was black, it was a semiautomatic. I dont know what it was. Where is that one . That one. I do not know. I want to say a year and a half ago, some things disappeared out of my house. So in that interrogation, Police Confront marni with a damning piece of evidence. Police had conducted a search warrant in marnis house. So they say to her, in your home we found mailing labels with the names of the women in shauns life whove received those harassing letters. Bianca, camerona, maria. These are all labels. These are all the women that were sent the letters and copies of the labels. You dont have any idea why these labels or packets of letters would be in your house . You know, you had said that if there was a question that i didnt feel up to answering that i could okay, thats fine. They introduce the photograph of the unborn child. This little girl, this child ever never get to see her life or have her dreams or ever do anything. They dont really get a reaction. I mean, thats very telling. They held me for what i now know to be three days. We had the evidence of the silencer. We had the evidence of her having had a 9millimeter. It still wasnt enough. The reason its not enough, it still does not link marni to shooting rhoni. And she knew it wasnt enough, because after they questioned her for a few days, she still was able to walk out the door. If you want to commit a murder and get away with it, keep your mouth shut. They have to let marni go. But police are gearing up for another sting operation. When you hid the gun, did you hide it real well . Its gone. Many Toyota Service centers are open to help keep your vehicle in top shape. And may even offer nocontact vehicle dropoff. If you need a new vehicle, toyota is offering 0 financing and attractive leases on our most popular toyotas, like camry, rav4 and tacoma. You can even shop and buy online from the comfort of your home. Its our promise to you. Today and tomorrow. Toyota. Theres new quickdissolve nurtec. Dont take if allergic to nurtec. Pay as little as 0. Learn more at nurtec. Com the calming scent of lavender by downy infusions calm. 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Thats when i began having car troubles. When Law Enforcement initially talked to christie, christie, you know, followed through with that story. Law enforcement never really believed it, but they didnt know how involved Christi Paschen was. As police start digging into Christi Paschen, they learn about this phone call which she gets from marni on the day of the murder at work where phone calls are recorded. Chrysti pashen, how can i help you . Do you want to go to dinner . Okay, thats fine. Is everything all right . Yeah, im fine. Okay. Okay. Not a problem. All right, ill call you later. Okay. Byebye. Do you want to go to dinner . That statement bothered me for a year, because it just didnt make sense. In the months that police spend investigating this crime, they start thinking about that black car that was seen fleeing the scene. But that car doesnt match anything that marni has. And so, a logical thing to do is see if they can find a car that marni may have rented in or around the area. They got lucky. Police find a record of a car thats rented in marnis name but using christis address. Marni yang rented a car two days before the murder. It was a blue sort of bright color. The next day, she decided she wanted a darker car. She didnt like the first rental car. Thought it stuck out too much. And, you know, sends it back to get something thats going to blend. The rental car that she had at that time was a volkswagen rabbit. That was similar to what they found on Surveillance Video near the area of the scene around the time of the murder. This car was used for 40 miles. That is exactly from the rental place to Christi Paschens to the murder scene back to Christi Paschens and then to the rental for the dropoff. Its exactly 40 miles. They decided to interview christi first because her address comes up on the enterprise location. Investigators approach Christi Paschen and tell her that shes going to be a coconspirator in murder if she doesnt work with them. My feeling is that christi just got tired, tired of lying. She realized that we, obviously, had done our homework. And i think she just had enough. She was going to go ahead and kill rhoni. I was like, dont do this. What are you going to kill all the women . But she said shes the one she spends most of the time with, so shes got to go. Christi tells police that marni had come to visit christi at her house the night before the murder and told her that she was going to kill rhoni. Marni said, if i do this in the morning, i will call you at work after i have done it and i will ask you out to dinner. Police say that they realize that question do you want to go to dinner . Was actually code for, i did it. I killed rhoni. It was like, okay, now this makes sense. Police convinced christi to start cooperating with them, and they got her to make several phone calls and record several phone calls with marni. What . Relax, will you . I just got a call from mr. Wonderful. Oh, really . What did he want . He wants to talk to me now. I dont [ bleep ] remember where i was, marni wait, what are you talking about . When . The night of the the night before that stupid murder. Oh. They are not really calling you in because they think you were or were not where you said you were the night before. Okay . That is a ruse. Theyre gearing up for some [ bleep ] police want christi to do Something Else for them. They say, okay, now set up a meeting with marni. The two ladies meet at dennys, but unbeknownst to marni, theres a full sting operation thats about to take place. Todays date is march 1, 2009. For voice identification, please state your name. Christi paschen. Christi paschen is there. Theres two Police Officers, undercover at another booth somewhere. I am scared, marni. Youre not the only one. I helped you do something you knew i didnt want any part of. When you hid the gun, did you hide it real well . It went into a bucket of cement, and i threw it in a dumpster. It is gone. Under a year and a halfs worth of chicago garbage at the city dump. This is good chocolate. Theyre sipping tea and eating ice cream and talking about a murder like it was going grocery shopping. It was surreal. We walk away from that and were like, there has to be more. So christi then goes back to marni and says, i really need to talk to you again. They sent the psychic back to dennys the next day. Do police see a full confession in the cards . Ks, tmobile will build americas largest and most reliable 5g network. With more towers, more engineers, and more coverage. Youll get the best 5g network, and the best prices. Welcome to tmobile. Americas largest 5g network. Threedont settleients for less. 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What came up, what you know me. [ bleep ] comes up when im asleep. What came up, what woke me up was, we dumped the wig. We did. We dumped the plates, we dumped the stuff for the gun. Mmhmm. We learn in this conversation that christi and marni actually went on this dumpster tour, going around the night of the murder, dumping all of the evidence. And then marni starts sharing the details about how she says she killed rhoni. Rhoni was leaving for work, and she was met at the door by marni yang. I had a hoody on, okay . Dark makeup on my face, and i had gloves on, okay . Marni is describing an elaborate disguise which seems to match witnesses description of the suspect on the day of the murder. She started screaming. I took the first shot. It was at that point i realized we are at the point of no return, and i just started emptying the clip. The matter of fact tone with which she described it is terrifying. I took maybe one or two steps into the kitchen to finish the job. Right around the head of rhoni are live rounds. There was some jamming occurring, probably because she had the silencer on. And those live rounds were falling out until it didnt jam anymore. When she went down she took her foot and she took one good kick at me, got me in the shin. I was like, weak by the time and like, like that. That was it. I just, i took one last shot. The final wound the kill shot, to rhoni itself was right at the head. I slammed the door, took off. That was it. You see your share of cold, calculated, evil people in this business, but it really is hard to wrap your head around a mother of three whos going to literally execute a pregnant woman. Two shots right to the abdomen, right to the fetus. Its extreme. With marnis confession securely on tape, they now have enough evidence to move in and arrest her. When they told us that they had made an arrest, it was, it was just like, thank you, thank you. She alluded police for a year and a half. Marni yang the 41yearold has been charged with the murder of rhoni reuter. Marni, i need you to have a seat over there please. Thank you. When we arrested her, we brought her into the station. We provide her segment of the wire with her and christi. All she was doing was screaming until she went down. I would like to talk to my attorney. She basically lawyers up and is done with us. And shes seen on tape after we leave the room curling up in the corner of the room practically in the fetus position. She was obviously defeated, and i think she realized she lost. It was like, gotcha. Finally. She is charged with killing the girlfriend of former chicago bear shaun gayle. Nearly three and a half years after the murder, marni yang is going to trial. When i really sit down and just think this all happened because someone had a crush, it makes no sense to me. Yang has pleaded not guilty. If convicted, marni yang faces life in prison. Marni yangs main goal was to eliminate the competition, and the evidence showed that she was obsessed with mr. Gayle. And her obsession was mainly directed at the other women. She wanted to get rid of them so that she could have him for herself. Former Chicago Bears player shaun gayle takes the witness stand this morning. Gayle testified that he had sex with marni yang the night before she was accused of the 2007 murder of rhoni reuter. The fact that he had slept with marni the night before the murder raised a lot of eyebrows, but it wasnt enough to change the narrative. Prosecutors wanted to portray marni as the jealous woman. A big part of the prosecutions case was that marni sent these letters to other women that shaun was seeing. And as part of that they put marni yangs daughter emily on the stand. I do remember being on the stand. I felt like i was really hesitant. Emily says that her mom had told her that she had sent those letters so that the women could find out about each other. That said, testifying could not have been easy for either mother or daughter. It hurt to see her there. The court heard testimony today from Christi Paschen, who says shes a psychic and a friend of yangs. She was on the stand for a day and she said a lot. And much of it was damning evidence against marni. The next day, when they crossexamined her and started asking her about being a psychic and a hypnotist, being a pow you got the feeling that the jury didnt necessarily believe the truth of those things, and that obviously affected her credibility. But as ari fisz said, she may be goofy but she knows how to press record. Marnis defense at the trial was that she had no idea she was being recorded, but that she was just spinning a tale for her friend, Christi Paschen. She started screaming and i just started emptying the clip. I am the mother of three girls. Seeing baby skyler with a bullet that ran through her i just have chills. I will never get that picture out of my head. Ever. A jury finds marni yang guilty of firstdegree murder and intentional homicide of an unborn child. I cant even begin to tell you how difficult this has been for me and of course rhonis family. At least i feel that rhoni and baby, theyre at peace. Marni is sent away for life in prison. But now, eight years later, marni has filed a petition saying she was wrongfully convicted. Among her claims . That her daughter was pressured. And her son threatened by police. He slammed his hands on to the desk and told me its either going to be you or your mother thats going to go down for this. So roll up those sleeves. And help heal your skin from within with dupixent. Dupixent is the first treatment of its kind that continuously treats moderatetosevere eczema, or atopic dermatitis, even between flare ups. Dupixent is a biologic, and not a cream or steroid. 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She was sentenced to two life terms for the murder of 42yearold rhoni reuter and her unborn baby. It took a jury only four hours to convict marni yang. Today she continues to maintain her innocence. Now she has a highprofile lawyer and a team of experts committed to proving the state got it wrong. We filed a petition for postconviction relief, alleging marnis actual innocence. Tonight one of reuters friends she was like a sister. Says she believes yang is innocent of murder. The real killer is out there and that person needs to be held accountable. The petition filed by marnis new defense Team Includes a number of allegations from marnis children about the investigation and about the case against their mother. My mother was forced to confess the something she didnt do. Things just need to be set right. Much warmer conditions will be with us all weekend long. The thaw has begun. So, the morning that the Lake County Task force came to serve the warrant, i was dead asleep in my room. They were knocking on the door. I was only 11. I told them about my brother and sister, who were sleeping in the basement. I woke up to a bunch of Police Officers yelling, search warrant. Get up. Marnis children were home alone when they say their house was ransacked. I was just watching them tear our house apart. Emily and andrew were 16 years old, children, when this occurred. They took brendan and i into one squad car and andy in another. The children were separated and taken to Different Police stations. They bring me into an interrogation room. I didnt know anything. And they wouldnt accept that. And the mental frustration, it really broke me. It got to the point where i started banging my head on the table. Its like im there and i know whats going to happen. How maybe i could have stopped it. But i cant. One of the Task Force Investigators came into the room. It was like a movie almost. He slammed his hands onto the desk and told me, its either gonna be you or your mother thats gonna go down for this. And thats when i really started getting scared. Marnis children are turning the tables on the police, using the way in which they say they were interrogated as a weapon to fight to free their mother. They told me to write that i had seen my mom write these letters to shauns 16 other girlfriends, which i had never seen these letters ever in my life. The only way that i got out of that situation was to write down a statement that my mother wasnt home the morning of the murder. But she was home that morning. She was. Later on at the courthouse, some lady came in the room and told me, youre going testify what you wrote, and im just like, i cant. Its all made up. Its not true. And shes like, well, if you dont, youre going get in trouble, so i testified. The state Attorneys Office denies the childrens statements were coerced. They say emilys lawyer wouldnt allow prosecutors to talk to her until she took the stand. And when did she testified she never said her statement to the police was a lie. As for andrew, the state says they repeatedly told marni during her threeday interrogation that he wasnt a suspect. I had a nervous breakdown. Andrew says that as a result of the police questioning, he had to be placed into a mental institution. I was hospitalized. I was put on a psychiatric unit for probably like a good month and a half. The Major Crimes Task force has told us they cant comment on the petition because of the pending court case. So now were in . Every prison has a different look. We went to see marni at this illinois womens prison where she sat down with us to speak on camera for the first time. Hello. Marni . This will be an interesting conversation. You havent spoken about any of this for more than a decade. This is correct. Why speak now . I feel like prior to this i dont think it would have mattered. I feel like theres a time. That time is now. Before discussing her new defense i asked marni about shaun. Remember, Police Believe that her motive for murder is jealousy. You never sent menacing letters to the women in shauns life. I did not. I was one of the recipients of them. Were you obsessed with shaun . Im not. The relationship is one of the biggest mistakes i ever made. I regret it. I wish i had never met him. The crux of marni yangs defense at this point is that she claims that she falsely confessed to Christi Paschen in order to protect andrew, her son. What made you think that the police were going to be able to pin it on your son . Thats what they told my children. You met up with christi at dennys. You basically describe the perfect crime. I knew perfectly well that i was being recorded. I saw the wire. We may have trouble folks. The piece came out. It was hanging down. We hear on the tape that christi was having trouble with the wire. I dont know if she saw it or not. Hopefully she didnt see the piece. Youre a very convincing actress, because on that tape, it sounds very much to me like someones confessing to a murder. I wasnt confessing to her. I was confessing directly to Law Enforcement. Marni claims that even before the meeting at dennys, she told christi in a phone call recorded by police that she was gonna falsely admit to it. She told christi she was just going to make some [ bleep ] up pardon my word. All right, well start making [ bleep ] up. This is the transcript of the entire conversation. You mentoned just the last line. Theres no mention of her son. Theres no mention of her falsely confessing to save her son. We have statements from francine merar and from larry merar, divorced parents of marni, before this conversation took place. She said, im just going to go and meet christi and make up a story that i committed to murder and let the attorneys sort it out with the police. The lawyers will take care of it. Oh, what a stupid idea. It was a rash and illconceived decision to protect my children. Marni took a polygraph, and the polygrapher said shes being honest in her answers. The state Attorneys Office says that the whole idea of marni making stuff up is nonsense. They say days before christi and marni met at that dennys, christi had already given police all these details about what marni had told her in the past about the murder. And then when she and marni meet, marnis repeating the same details. How would she know unless she did the killing . Jed, if youre facing life in jail, wouldnt you say, you know, guys, i was kidding. I was confessing on behalf of my son. But that was never brought up at trial. I cant account for the trial lawyers strategy at that trial. 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They point out all the time the long history in lake county of wrongful prosecutions. They would like everyone to believe that marni yang is one of those wrongly prosecuted people. One of the key pieces of evidence that the defense is talking about is that police said that there was Surveillance Video from a gas station of the car that marni yang had rented, a volkswagen rabbit, leaving the neighborhood right about the time after the murder. We didnt know that whether or not this was or was not a volkswagen rabbit. So we wanted to test it by renting an identical vehicle, which we did. This was ours. You could see they were different shapes. This has a longer, um, body. This is a shorter body. This one looks like its a little taller. This ones a little shorter to the ground. Its been examined by forensic experts. And they looked at this and they concluded these are different vehicles. In response, the state Attorneys Office says that marnis defense made similar arguments during the trial and the jury rejected it. Regardless of the video, its not like shes been consistent with her story on it. The purpose of the rental car was for a photoshoot. Do you have the name of the photographer . I dont remember. I just remember he was from wisconsin. Heres a guy who could potentially clear you of murder, and you cant remember his name . No. It was that long ago. Another point the defense is hammering on is that their experts are saying, you cant attach a silencer to this kind of gun. Its got a little tiny barrel on it. And you can see when this gun comes forward this is a moving piece. You dont have enough to attach it to. We talked to peter diaczuk. Hes a firearms expert and a Forensic Science professor whos taught at both penn state and john jay college. We asked him for his insights on the competing arguments. The length of the barrel is quite short but can accept a homemade suppressor. But it may interfere with the function of the firearm, and it may not remain attached properly. The state Attorneys Office says, well, she could hold the silencer up to the barrel while shes shooting it. If this thing is just held in place sort of superficially, youre putting yourself in grave danger. The big point of the gun in the defenses petition is that they claim she didnt even have possession of the gun at the time of the murder. May i have your name please . My names jessie delgado. They have a person who claims he told police that he stole that gun from marnis house months before the murder. I was like, is this about the gun i stole . And they were like, whoa. What are you talking about . And i was like, i stole a gun from marni. I remember there was a party and everybody was there, and especially this one guy thats always there. Hes a sketchy guy but in reality i guess i was the sketchy guy. There was so many people in the house, nobody knew who took it. When you realized your gun was missing, did you report it to the police . I remember calling my Insurance Company and talking to them about it. The Insurance Company told me that my policy did not cover personal items other than the house itself, and so i didnt bother. The prosecutions point of this is, if delgado is her sons friend, wouldnt that be something she would have known about at the trial . And thats the states main argument, that many of the claims raised by marnis current legal team could have been raised at the trial, but werent or had already been argued at trial. I think the strongest piece of evidence that we have is the Scientific Evidence of the bullet trajectories, showing that marni yang, because of her height, could not have fired the bullets that killed rhoni reuter. The defenses argument is the shooter had to be 510 or taller, and marnis only 5. We are looking at the mannequin that we developed that represents rhoni. These rods are protrusion rods. We placed them on the bullet path that the medical examiner has identified in his report. This is marnis shot. This line right here goes to the heart of the matter, because if she had been the shooter for this wound, it would have come out at a different place completely. Theres a lot made about wound b. That wound is downward angled wound fired by a taller person than marni. Someone who is at least 510. And yet, when the m. E. Testified, after examining the tissue, the me said it was actually going upward. Hes wrong. Heres the thing. When somebody is getting killed, they dont stay stationary. Think about what must have been going through rhonis mind. Was she begging for her life . Did she get on her knees . Did she try to move away . All of that would affect marnis positioning relative to rhonis. I know that youve taken apart each and every piece of evidence that was presented, and its everything from the fact that she told friends that she had access to shauns emails, the fact that she bragged about him and her relationship with him every chance she could, that she purchased those suspicious items at home depot, that she rented a car, that she told christie that she wore a disguise her own words on tape about ronnie reuters murder. Any one of those details you could pick apart and say, okay, maybe. But in toto, doesnt it paint an alarming picture to you . Yes. It does. And that is why its so important to adversarially test those little pieces, find mom look take something that can wipe you out . Or dont, and fight through every second. New quickdissolve nurtec™ can bring you back when migraines attack. Just one dose can work fast and last so you can keep going. Dont take if allergic to nurtec. The most common side effect was nausea. Nurtec one migraine. One dose. 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I would just say to her that no matter everything shes been through, you know, be proud that shes raised a really good young man, and thats all thanks to her. Im glad youre still here. I know i havent been there, but im hoping that we can all get through this together. Could it be that marnis lying to her own children and using them for her defense . She loves and loved those children. I reject that as a possibility. I dont think marni was using her children as pawns. I have to ask you, did you kill rhoni reuter . I did not. And i am not capable of doing anything like that. Im a mother myself. Like, thats unconscionable to me. Absolutely not. The states Attorneys Office filed a motion, as you well know, to dismiss your petition, and they described it as skillfully, lawyerly rebranding of the facts and the overwhelming evidence against marni. I agree that it was skillful. Its not a rebranding of the facts. Its a taking a look at the facts and putting them in a light of truth. The state also argues that many of the statements that were filed as a part of marnis petition are not notarized or are not sworn to and that those claims should therefore be dismissed. Its now up to a judge as to whether or not marni yang deserves a new trial. Rhonis family said that this was finally over. As soon as she was convicted, so its difficult to see that rhonis family will have to go through this again. My sister. Rhoni was kind of the hub of the family. She brought us all together. During our interview, one of the most poignant answers shaun gave me was to the question of whether he blamed himself. And he told me, the issue was not so much blame. Its the fact that i have to live with knowing that rhoni and the baby died because i knew this marni yang. She took a piece of all of our lives. She took a piece of all of our hearts
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