On select 2015 jetta models. Or lease a 2015 jetta s for 139 a month after a 1000 volkswagen bonus. I was put in jail for 17 months on charges ive nothing to do with, and they set bail for me at 6 million cash only. Reporter but everything changed for ron santiago once Defense Attorneys joseph riggs and Natalie Bruce agreed to take his case and prepare for a trial. From the first time we met him, we knew that we had an innocent man. Reporter they quickly got bail reduced to a million dollars, allowing santiagos family to post the 10 bond. Still, being out of jail by no means meant his troubles were over because of what police found in santiagos home. How important is that casing that was found in santiagos bag in his garage . Oh, i think its absolutely critical. Reporter District Attorney kari brandenberg. He has that casing in his possession that was found in his home that we know was connected to the homicide. Why would he have that if he werent involved in the homicide . Reporter and what happened to that ninemillimeter ruger that santiago admitted he once owned . So, what happened to your nine millimeter ruger . I traded it. Reporter to who . You know, weve been knocking heads for the last year and a half, trying to remember. Reporter you dont happen to remember the name of the guy you gave this ninemillimeter. Robert. But i dont remember a last name. It was just a simple, okay, ill. Yeah, thats great. Reporter and theres no paperwork . Nothing to prove that you. Thats my mistake, and i should have. Reporter a convenient mistake, according to brandenberg. I mean, theres too many huge gaps in what he has to say. And the shell casing, to me, has not been explained. Reporter that shell casing, which looks like this, is incriminating, which is why the defense wanted to have it thrown out as evidence, arguing that the police obtained it as part of an illegal search. That began a sixyear legal battle. It went all the way to the new mexico supreme court, which finally ruled that the shell casing could be used as evidence against ron santiago. The defense is going to raise every single issue that they can, and they should, in order for the defendant to receive a fair trial. Reporter riggs then turned his focus to what he says was a Flawed Police investigation. They stopped looking at some people that were very obvious suspects too soon. Reporter specifically this suspect. I think renee killed her parents. She hated new mexico, she hated her parents. It was her ticket out of new mexico. Reporter though police had long cleared renee, in a surprising move in 2012, a prosecutor then working the case asked renee to take a polygraph. Whats your understanding of why theyve asked you to do it . Because ive offered it before, and its never been done. Reporter a Police Detective administered the test. Do you know for sure who shot your parents in their bedroom . No. Is there Something Else youre afraid ill ask you a question about . No. Reporter she didnt pass and she didnt fail. It was inconclusive. Theres nothing of. That you think that. Anything else. Theres nothing. Why would i alter my story . New mexico is the only state in the union, the only courts that allow polygraph because theyve been proven to be inaccurate, invalid and dont further the interests of justice. Reporter she did a polygraph at the request of your office, but youre trying to keep those results out . Because they arent results. Because they say nothing about anything. Reporter but the d. A. Lost that fight, so the jury will be allowed to hear about it. Jurors will not hear that santiago pled guilty to forging bad checks because a judge ruled that was irrelevant to the murder charges. Nor would jurors hear about the tale of the cut brake lines. So, in january 2014, more than eight years after the murders of greg and bernadette olemacher, the trial of ronald santiago finally gets under way. All right, please come up, miss ohlemacher. Reporter yet almost from the outset, the focus shifts dramatically to renee. You appear to be nervous. Are you nervous . Yeah. Why are you nervous . Never done anything like this before. Ive never been in court. Reporter the prosecution presents her as a victim. Have you experienced any psychological trauma because of the death of your parents . Oh, yeah. I definitely have some major p. T. S. D. Reporter renees professed love for her parents is now expressed in tattoos on her body. This one is my mamas handwriting. It says, i love you eternally, mommy. Reporter and on her other arm. My mom and dads signature. Mr. Riggs. Reporter but in his cross examination, santiagos lawyer spends hours focused on what he suggests are renees true feelings about her parents, those she wrote about as a teenager. What in the hell is happening to me and my moms relationship . She makes me so bleep angry. My dad, i dont know, he just doesnt like me. You didnt really like your parents . I did like them, regardless of what my diaries say. Reporter but renee has nothing good to say about her extended family that made her the target of their suspicions. She even refuses to acknowledge her grandmother at the trial. That is my moms mom. You wont even call her, grandmother, will you . No. Shes sitting in the back of the courtroom there, and you wont call her, grandma . No. Reporter the defense also raises the mystery of sammy the dog. Remember the notoriously noisy dog not heard barking when renee called the police . She had just went silent, and i was afraid that the person had shot her, too, that i was going to go in there and she was going to be dead, too. Reporter but sammy was far from dead when Police Arrived at the scene. Going up the stairs, we encountered a dog. And what was the dog doing . It was barking and growling at us. And what did you guys do with the dog . I believe we had somebody mace the dog so that we could actually get to the top of the stairs. Reporter so, why was sammy quiet during the murders . The only reasonable explanation is renee did something with the dog, put the dog in her room. Reporter but prosecutors say thats nonsense and charge the defense is simply trying to divert the jurys focus from the defendant, ron santiago, and that damning shell casing. You must think that someone planted it. Thats the only other way. Either you had that shell casing. Which i did not. Reporter . Or someone put it there. It was put there. To you, theyre more than just a pet. So protect them. With k9 advantix® ii. Its broadspectrum protection kills fleas, ticks and mosquitoes too. K9 advantix® ii. For the love of dog™. Its a highly thercontagious disease. Here. It can be especially serious even fatal to infants. 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Your honor, at this time, i would offer michael haag as an expert in forensic firearm and tool mark examination. This portion of the cartridge casing is called the head. Reporter michael haag, a firearms expert, was asked to determine if the shell casing found in santiagos gun bag was fired from the same gun used to kill greg and bernadette ohlemacher. Haag goes deep into the metal to study and compare the microscopic markings on the shell casings found at the crime scene, labeled c1 through 4, with the one found in santiagos gun bag, labeled c2oo. C200 on the left side, on the right side is c3 from the homicide scene. Were going to zoom in little bit by little bit. We see the beginnings of some similarities. We have a nice impression here, with another little guy above him and then correspond that with another little guy above that. These are fantastic correlation marks between these objects. My conclusion is that c200 was fired by the same firearm that was used to fire c1 through c 4. Reporter the match is undeniable. Even santiago seems convinced. Oh, i agree completely with his finding. I mean, looking at the photographs, it matched the shell casing from the crime scene. Was it the same gun that fired the bullet . Yeah. Reporter i mean, you have to admit, it looks like its shot from the same gun. Thats. Thats damaging. Thats right. Thats why we had to raise the suspicion about how that single shell casing got in that bag. Reporter riggs wants the jury to believe that police found more than four shell casings at the crime scene. But you saw five or six shell casings. You documented it, you told everybody. Five or six, yeah. And if i was off by one, i was off by one. Reporter and riggs suggests that one extra shell casing could have been planted in santiagos gun bag. He zeros in on detective carl ross, the investigator who led the search of santiagos house in june of 2006. Investigators took over 100 photographs documenting their search. We found a bag with ammunition and a casing in the garage. Reporter that bag was filled with gun oil, live ammunition and pens. The police began photographing the contents, and each photo is digitally time stamped, detailing the exact moment each one was taken. And the time on that . 11 29. In this photograph, we do not see a shell casing there. Detective ross, the time, please. 11 31. They take yet another photograph and go closer. There is no shell casing at the bottom of the bag. Reporter but then, at 11 31, the photography of the gun bag is interrupted, and when it resumes ten minutes later at 11 41, those pens are gone, and instead. The very next picture shows a shell casing and gauze. Reporter riggs hopes the jury will wonder why that shell casing suddenly appeared. Having a tenminute unexplained, undocumented period of time makes the planting of the shell casing plausible. Thats baloney reporter ridiculous, says prosecutor cheryl johnston. If you are going to plant evidence, why would you take pictures of it not being there and then a picture with it being there . Reporter you dont believe that at all . No, absolutely not. Reporter what johnston finds suspicious is santiagos missing ninemillimeter ruger. The defendant wont take the stand. I think i had that ruger for two or three years. Reporter . So she shows the jury what he told 48 hours in 2008 when we asked about the gun. I traded it. Reporter to who . Robert. But i dont remember a last name. It was just a simple, okay, ill. Yeah, thats great. Reporter thats just not credible, says johnston. The defendant got rid of it because he used it in a crime. Reporter she reminds the jury that santiago learned a lot about the ohlemachers when he worked on their home loan. There was plenty of evidence that he was deeply involved with the olemachers. Hes been to their house. Reporter but why would he kill his customers . Prosecutors say santiago promised the couple cash from a home loan that was stalled, and he panicked. It became clearer and clearer to us that the olemachers expected money and that he was unable to deliver what he said he was going to deliver. Reporter prosecutors put neighbor grant martin on the stand. He testifies to hearing an angry greg olemacher threatening someone on the phone a mere 12 hours before his murder. What did you hear greg say into the telephone . If theres not money put in my account by tomorrow, i am going to call the police. Reporter but martin admits that he doesnt know who was on the other end of the phone. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury. Reporter . And defense attorney riggs, in his closing argument, says the states case doesnt make sense. If you dont like the service youre getting at a mortgage company, you dont call them up and say if you dont give me my money by tomorrow, im going to call the cops. They would laugh at you. Reporter as he has done the entire trial. Lets test renees 911 call. Reporter . Riggs returns to his favorite topics, renee and the family dog, sammy jo. When renees on that phone to 911, the dog ought to have been going nuts, right . Dogs going to be all over it she said, i called for sammy. sammy come here, weve got to go downstairs. listen to the 911 tape. She didnt call for sammy. It didnt happen. Why would she tell you it did . Because she is not telling the truth. Reporter but the state gets the last word. Enough about renee reporter and thats when prosecutor jason yamato finally offers the jury a motive for why this seemingly mildmannered Mortgage Loan processor would kill the ohlemachers. Defendant had a relationship with greg and bernadette that was not going well. The defendant made 90,000 a year. He killed the ohlemachers to protect that 90,000ayear job. The defendant is guilty of these crimes, and thats before we even get to the casing, the same casing that was used to kill the olemachrs, fired from the same gun. Its crystal clear, the defendants guilty of every single count of this indictment. eeeeohmumohweh hush my darling. dont fear my darling. the lion sleeps tonight. hush my darling. man snoring dont fear my darling. the lion sleeps tonight. woman snoring take the roar out of snore. Yet another innovation only at a sleep number store. A new movement in hair. A beautiful fluidity. Restoring strength and flexibility so it moves and responds the way you do. New improved nexxus with concentrated elastin protein and precious ingredients. For hair that lives to move. My secret is the amope pedi perfect foot file. Feet, its microlumina rotating head buffs away hard skin. Even on those hard to reach spots. Its amazing, you can see it and feel it. For soft beautiful feet. Amope pedi perfect, love every step. I was terrified. I mean, just sitting there waiting, just waiting as. It just tears you apart. Reporter during the more than monthlong trial in this albuquerque courtroom, three dozen witnesses testified, 800 pieces of evidence given to jurors. Now, eight years after the ohlemachers were murdered, ronald santiagos fate is in the hands of the jury. This was a case we put our heart and soul into for seven and a half years. Everything that we had worked for couldve been a success or an utter and complete failure. I was prepared for the worst. Reporter and what was the worst . Guilty. Reporter and going to prison for how long . Forever. I would never get out. It was life. It was a life sentence. I said, dont be surprised, if. If youre convicted, they handcuff you immediately. Reporter three days passed with no word, and then. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, has the jury arrived at verdicts in this matter . The judge read through the counts. Let mr. Santiago please stand . Time stopped. I couldnt breathe. We find the defendant not guilty of count one. We find the defendant not guilty of count two. Second degree, not guilty. Reporter what were you thinking at that moment, ron . My mind went, i dont know, blank. I didnt know what to think. I mean, did i go in into a state of shock . I think im still in a state of shock. Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes your service in this matter. Reporter outside the courtroom, a clearly emotional santiago savored the notguilty verdict he had hoped for, with supporters, friends and his extended family. Its been a long wait. Im very happy that the truth has come out, and i did nothing. I had no part in this. Reporter hours after his acquittal, surrounded by his own close family, santiago paused in remembrance. I want you to keep in your hearts and prayers the vigil family and the ohelmacher family. Theyve suffered more than i could ever suffer. Reporter but far from relieving their suffering. I was stunned. I was speechless. Reporter . Santiagos acquittal has been yet another shock for bernadettes sister, jessica montoya, and others in the family. He shot my sister. He shot my brotherinlaw. He took my family away. Reporter to this day, bernadettes own sisters believe both ron santiago and renee olemacher were somehow in it together. I totally believe that renee was involved. Reporter but surprisingly, this man no longer does believe that. After pointing the finger at renee throughout the trial. You really didnt like your parents, did you . Reporter . Listen to what defense attorney riggs says now. I came to a conclusion at the end of the trial that renee did not kill her parents. I think renee knows who did, but, for some reason, she cant tell. Reporter but if you dont think renee actually killed her parents, is that fair what you did in the trial . Didnt this trial kind of victimize her again . Theres two reasons why she put herself in that position. Reporter but, i mean, the. You put her in that position, too. We followed the evidence that the state gave us. I cant remember someone, in my entire career, who did more things to make themselves look guilty than renee. Reporter renee now lives in Washington State and uses a different last name. She declined to comment on the verdict, but her Attorney Says shes upset with the acquittal. When renee last spoke to 48 hours, santiago was awaiting trial, and out on bail. What bugs me is that hes living a normal life. Hes got a family. I dont have a home to go back to because of him. Reporter whens the last time you talked to renee . In march of 2006. She has lost virtually everything. She lost her parents, she lost her family, she was not treated well as a suspect, she was not treated well in trial. There are people that will probably think that she always had something to do with it, despite the fact that theres no evidence. Reporter ironically, its the same future santiago predicts for himself. I dont think i ever will have that true feeling of being innocent or free. Im the person that got away with it, in a lot of peoples eyes. It doesnt matter. I will always be guilty. Reporter santiagos Attorney Says he believes the killer is still out there. I would love to see the Albuquerque Police department take another look. Reporter but do you believe that will happen . No. I mean, the police will never admit mistakes. Reporter was there justice . Justice depends on who you ask. If youre the one thats charged and youre acquitted, then you think theres justice. If youre the one that has two family members brutally murdered in their bedroom, then there probably isnt. Captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by Media Access Group at wgbh access. Wgbh. Org its a case thats riveted the world the blade runner, the fastest man on no legs, charged with killing his girlfriend. I certainly dont think that this will be hailed in the world as a trial for South African justice. You fired at reeva. I did not fire at reeva. Now people are again riled up because all the memories are coming back. Theyre thinking about reeva. Theyre thinking about the emotion. One gunshot, maybe it was by accident. But four gunshots seems to be intentional. I think this could be the rebirth of a changed oscar, a remorseful oscar. When i was two, my mother amy was murdered. She was in bed with her. 24 years of always wondering why this happened. We expect to hear a name we did not know, not from one that we knew. Cbsn, the live Digital News Network from cbs news. Cbsn. Cbs news. From the cbs Broadcast Center in philadelphia this is cbs3 eyewitness news. A tragic ending to the search for a missing man. His body discovered tonight in the Schuylkill River. Good evening everyone, im natasha brown. Thanks so much for joining us. The man was reported missing earlier this evening after he was spotted going into the river in manayunk. Eyewitness News Reporter Steve Patterson picks up the story. Reporter swept away. We thought would be a rescue effort became a recovery effort. Reporter rescue crews responding in manayunk saturday night. The call shortly after 6 00 a man goes in the Schuylkill River and is reported missing. An hour later search crews makes the discovery. We deployed our members into the river and we were able to recover the body at that time. Unfortunatelunfortunately this d expired. Reporter emergency Officials Say the man believed to be in his 50s was last spotted in the water near the hidden river blues festival at Venice Island park. How he ended up in the river is the focus of a Police Investigation but emergency workers cautioned care in respecting the river. Its very dangerous to swim in the schuylkill because of the currents, um, we do not recommend it at all. Reporter and at this point police not releasing the identity of the victim. Of course, the cause now under Police Investigation. Reporting from the news center, im Steve Patterson cbs3 eyewitness news. This just in to eyewitness news. Police have arrested the hitandrun driver accused of injuring a sixyearold girl in northeast philadelphia. It happened on the 6600 block of sylvester street about 7 00 oclock tonight. Police say the driver got out of the car and ran from the scene after hitting several park cars. A neighbor heard the accident. And the neck thing i know i hear this little girl screaming, a g
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