he will stop at nothing, including murder and rape and he didn t stop at anything to get what he wanted. after the investigators presented all their evidence, they waited until castro had completed his two-year federal prison sentence. then he ended up being charged with 28 counts. child exploitation as well as multiple counts of sexual crimes. as witnesses file the to the courtroom, the investigators wondered if their star witness, emily, perhaps still so vulnerable would hold up when she saw the man kbon as lou castro before her. how much guts does she have? i can t imagine what it took for her to get to that point. and now she s going to take him on? yes. now despite all the evidence, at least one part of this case may not be a slam dunk when dateline continues. slam dunk
it turns out trish, monnau and lindsey and emily and sarah s mother who died in a car crash had all two things in com. daniel perez had predicted each of their deaths and each had juicy life insurance policies, payouts totaling $1.2 million were made to commune members. every time the coughers were low, someone would die? abshoutly. get down to sometimes less than 5,000 and that s around the time somebody was going to die. and the d.a. summed up their case against 55-year-old daniel perez. it s a story of domination, control and manipulation of the most vulnerable. spans 15 years. multiple victims, multiple deaths.
detective ron goodwin was scarcely able to take in the story of the cult and occult. they recounted that lou castro, whose real name was daniel perez had brain washed them into believing he was a sear and that he took on the personality of dark, manipulative angels that could predict somebody s death. emily tookthem back to 2003. this was a different story than she told when she was 11 and it began with a prediction eerily similar to the one she made during her mom s death. shy tells of an incident. emily, trisha s toddler and trigs herself were sitting at a table and the 11-year-old emily believed him to be, had a
participant in her own death, it was nonetheless perez that held her head under the water. the distinction is that suicide is at your own hand. literally in this case, homicide, the hand of another. his hand was necessary to complete this act. there was circumstantial evidence and the star testimony of only one witness, 11 years old at the time of trisha s death. is this the weakest point of the case? this is the only count that had the testimony of one individual. so, yes, it was the most difficult to prove. i kept thinking nobody is going to really think it s as bad as it was. nobody was going to think he should serve life in prison. beyond emily s account, they put on an expert witness for the small bruises on the head consistent with finger pressure.
things i want to do and he wrote me back and chewed me out for not caring about hum. i said i was happy and he took that as a slap in the face and i stopped talking to him. instead she started talking to investigators. they trickled out their storaides, fearful they might be implicated. it took a lot of questioning and lots of tears and lots of detective goodwin telling me that it was going to be all right and that i wasn t in trouble. sarah and emily s whole terrifying saga began when she was 17 and emily 10. a supernatural world began to emerge after their mom got to know the man known as lou in 2001.