from the john bordeaux account, you have e-mails that basically solicit sonia s death. so that would be sherri taking revenge through john bordeaux. yes, on that john bordeaux account. well, she certainly had a motive, didn t she? yes, her and 100 other people. just like dennis, sherri was killed, and quickly. sher i have a law-abiding citizen. other than she had no love for sonia. she never entertained having sonia killed. she did the right thing. she forwarded this to the authorities, the fbi. reporter: in fact, jerry forwarded those john bordeaux e-mails to the if ib if ib, the moment she seen them. c mon, we don t need three dead people. it needs to stop. reporter: as always, the fbi kept a lid on their investigation, which was frustrating to sherri. we weren t kept apprised of what s going on.
eric dela cruz, guess what he wants to know from the lawyer. how much am i getting? how much am i getting in the will? just like that. there were no other questions he wanted to ask? that was it. the lawyer said in his long career, he never had anything remotely close to that. but to eric s other surprise, he got nothing. sonia left the money and her property to her son, john bordeaux. he wanted to make sure that john bordeaux didn t get anything and what better way to remove him from the problems, what, having him sit in jamie for a crime he didn t commit. then eric got another nasty surprise. as he played innocent with the detectives. and my partner pulls out a picture of fernando romero. and eric completely goes off the rails to the point where he can t even speak. he is so spun up.
the black widow case went to court. eric dela cruz along with his navy pal and accused partner in crime were tried together for the murder of sonia risken. but the case presented a predicament for prosecutor john lewin because sonia, too, was an alleged killer and equally devious having apparently ordered the murders of two husbands. so i did not try to present her as anything other than who she was. as a killer. if you look at poetic justice, she got what was coming to her. now lewin was determined to see her killers, what was coming to them, too, the extortion, killing and the evil plan to blame john bordeaux for everything. the defense argued there was no murder weapon, to dna, no
to sherri. so now we know without a shadow of a doubt you were sending the john bordeaux e-mails. they trace i d it when you were in japan. eric, this is undisputable, son. no oh my gosh. eric, you are no dummy, but this is the most important day of your life. they knew that the arrest was coming, instead they tracked his cell phone as he drove from that navy base in virginia back to his home in california and there in eric s driveway, they slapped on the happened cuffs and rodriguez had one more chat with his former investigative partner. and i walked up to him. i told him, you re under arrest. how d he take it? he kept kind of mumbling to me, that i had the wrong person. surprise travels fast to the thompsons in lomita. if you said, give me a list of who is the very bottom of
telling us the truth? and we were really trying to figure out, is he really the biological son? reporter: bordeaux said he was born in the philippines, sonia was just a teenager then. rodriguez got the distinctive impression this mother/son relationship was complicated. it s kind of like an outcast of hisli family. he was brought over from the philippines as a young boy. reporter: that s when he took onwh duke s last name. but john bordeaux swore he hardly knew his mother s ex-husband larry risken. it was, he says, a topic strictly off limits with her. you ask about the nature. she was arguing about that question? yes, ma am. reporter: bordeaux s behavior and story seemed suspicious. though, just days later, they brought him back again. this time for a polygraph test.