in this will pay for it. when people are desperate, they do desperate things. very violent conniving. she is into sexuality, and such a calculated way. i m not surprised by anything. it s just crazy twist after crazy twist. it really was internationally choreographed, good old-fashioned sting operation. you think it was going to work? honestly, i give it a 50/50 chance. it wasn t about retribution. it was about justice. it was a quiet fall night, close to midnight, the young couple finished dinner and then walked to the dimly lit centuries old cobblestone street of old san juan puerto rico, heading for their car. suddenly, a man armed with a knife and a loose block from the cobblestone streets attacked. the husband adam anhang fell to the ground. but the witness remembers hearing was adam screaming, run baby, run. fighting back as hard as he could, adam never stood a chance. he was stabbed repeatedly. it with the brick over the head. and, like that,
vazquez rijos was finally in custody. and what was that moment like for you? i was ecstatic. i never thought we were gonna be able to get her. aurea s arrest triggered phase two of the operation. as soon as i received confirmation that she was in custody, then we executed arrest warrants on marcia and jose in san juan. agents swarmed the home of aurea s alleged coconspirators, her sister marcia, and marcia s boyfriend, jose. so it really was and it s internationally choreographed, simultaneous arrest. good day for the fbi. tremendous day for the victim s family. carlos cases delivered at the good news to abe and his family. i was so surprised, i did even say thank you to him. i dusted him off, which was not right. you were in shock? i was in shock, yeah. i mean, it s been years of pursuing her, and finally, they had her. they had her. what s it like to hear those words, we have her, she is in custody? oh, well finally. almost, the opposite of the
that it didn t fit, together you see. they found him self troubled by the seeming lack of hard evidence implicated riman in the murder, it was very skimpy, it was a description, eyewitness, a single witness. but, it wasn t just what he was hearing in the courtroom that gave him pause, he was out talking to people, bars. you get more information in the bar whether it s alcohol or coffee then what you get in a courtroom. people talk. and what people were saying was that jonathan roman had not killed his son. the joke lies that everybody in the street knew about the police. abe was unsettled by the prospect that adam s real killer might still be out there. so, he set off on a decade long odyssey to uncover the truth about what happened that september night. abe s first step, not 24 hours after roman had been convicted was to take his doubts to the fbi. aid took it upon himself to honor the crusade to open her eyes up. carlos case is a retired fbi assistant director, he served
the italians would not extradite her if we had her arrested in italy. even though aurea would leave italy and travel throughout europe, the agents never had enough lead time to coordinator arrest with the local authorities. so, they decided they needed a new strategy. they would set a trap. carlos cases was a special agent in charge of the san juan field office in 2013. the agents came to me, one day, and said, boss, we have this plan that we are developing because we believe that we have the ability to get aurea to travel from italy to spain. the agents felt confidence spain would arrest aurea, and extradite her to puerto rico. we developed this strategy to exploit what she was doing
what did you find about the life she built herself there? she wasn t in poverty. she was able to make some money and somehow have a good life. abe put the information gleaned by his private investigator is, what amounted to argue his daily routine to the fbi. former fbi assistant director carlos we knew that they were not gonna extradite her. that s why we gave her all the credit in the world, because he took it upon himself to essentially track her for us and tell us what she was doing, who she was associated with, and what her movements were. we re never asking mr. anhang for any information. the fbi agents made it clear that the information from abe s investigators was not solicited and not automatically taken at face value. so, it was helpful, but it was also information that you had to, then, work on your own, and to corroborate. it was extremely helpful information, you know, very much appreciated this information that we would take, and we have to figure out what