office area, go through there. all detectives joel kisner and dolphis boucher knew is the body of a female was inside the garage. master bedroom will be the last we touch. i kind of explained to you what happened. why were you called to this house? i got a call from a missing persons detective, lady named ginger, her daughter had called and said they couldn t find her. ginger is 44-year-old ginger candella, aspiring writer and single mother of two daughters. 23-year-old tabbitha, her youngest, reported her missing. told the officer that i had a concern she might, you know, she might be missing or something might have happened to her. tabitha described her mom as a spiritual seeker and said it wasn t unusual for her to leave town once in awhile. in fact, she said she had been receiving text messages from her mother, including this one from two weeks earlier saying just letting you know i m going to a
virtually no sleep, the detectives drove the 250 miles to california. it s day three. this morning, thursday morning, we found out that they had located michael and that he was staying in a hotel room, actually checked into a hotel room with our victim s stolen credit card. lane had been staying at this motel 6, parked outside the room was ginger s maroon toyota. this is ginger s vehicle taken out of las vegas by michael. the damage on the front end of it is the collision he had with the transvestite deffie and he also switched out the license plates which made it easier for him to hide. inside the car, ginger s passport and driver s license. in the motel room, more solid evidence. property belonging to ginger. what i figure is we use this table for collecting this stuff.
it s day three. this morning, thursday morning, we found out that they had located michael and that he was staying in a hotel room, actually checked into a hotel room with our victim s stolen credit card. lane had been staying at this motel 6, parked outside the room was ginger s maroon toyota. this is ginger s vehicle taken out of las vegas by michael. the damage on the front end of it is the collision he had with the transvestite deffie and he also switched out the license plates which made it easier for him to hide. inside the car, ginger s passport and driver s license. in the motel room, more solid evidence. property belonging to ginger. what i figure is we use this table for collecting this stuff. here s all her other credit cards.
it s something that i did. i regret and will have to live with for the rest of my life. reporter: now calmly, step by step, lane took police through the anatomy of a murder. he said it began in the bedroom where he and ginger agreed to try an unconventional meditation technique. he would temporarily cut off her air supply by pressing on her neck, in essence choking her. we decided to do meditation through choking. mild carotid control. temporarily cutting off the blood supply to the brain so she would go in to a status where she was in recommend sleep. but for reasons he couldn t explain he says things got out of control. i don t know what possessed or came over me. what did you do? i got the skillet from the kitchen and whacked her over the back of the head with it.
six weeks after meeting lane, reverend hewitt fired him and that frightened her. our hearts were pounding. i had seen him clench his jaw and the little vein coming out here when things didn t go his way. so i knew he had a temper. a few weeks after he was fired, lane attended this self-help conference and book launch called three feet from gold. here s a picture of him that day, taken with the man who wrote the foreword for the book. it was the same man seen with ginger. he took a picture with the same man. two weeks later, ginger would be dead. what happened between lane and ginger at that conference? do we know? not at this point. so they just met? they just met and started some sort of relationship that progressed to him moving here and moving into her house. lane moved to vegas with ginger and was living with her for less than one week when they