horrible way to go. we found a lot of things suspicious. there s no video of it happening. there s no witness testimony, there s no fingerprints. she was dead before she landed in the water. i was approached by the fbi to record my conversations. you are interrogating somebody who is a major suspect. nothing i would have ever imagined could have prepared me for this. this is just phenomenally devious what you described. yes, i realized i was being used. it is time the truth come out. the call came in the middle of the night it was their friend in a panic. he had gone missing off the boat and that is where it started what did you think? that was the ticket to the count of three repeat of that let me here on wartime type of thing no matter how many times you heard it, it just did not make sense. you think of all these things, it rushes through your head. except, this was clearly true. i just saw disaster happening, in a foreign country. you say t
mckee to get his hands on her money, so they had no right to seize it, and he won. that is when the federal government went to the district attorney the government had lost, but it was not over. the u.s. attorney handling that civil case sent several boxes of evidence here, that the orange county california district attorney s office. he said, i just think there s more to this case, can you take a look at it for criminal liability. susan price, no relation to, bill is an assistant da. she and deputy da learned that in florida, he had married again. and then, something else in the case file really ketanji in. it was another woman, another ex-wife. who is amy? amy is a teacher, she is the originally from vietnam. she is the woman who went to see in california, after he
those balconies guarantee that in a fall, the only thing that you would head is the mediterranean. almost seven story straight down. that is a long fall. you re standing there looking over the balcony, that s a long fall in the ocean. definitely. a jury would decide if this unusual defendant was guilty of mckee s murder. and attorney himself, lonnie filed a motion after motion and delay the trial for years. lonnie is a bright man. lonnie worked very hard as an attorney, throughout these proceedings who wrote a lot of the briefs that were presented to the court. and how did he do? he s a good attorney. however, he was blinded by his own gnosticism. and he s not as smart as he thinks he is. david michael did not represent lonnie for the criminal trial. instead, lonnie had a public defender. opening statements began in february of 2020. the defendant believed that
operating this new business, these bouncy houses for children. we told him he was arrested for the murder of mickey. and at that point, he claimed to give us a statement. he didn t say anything? he didn t say anything. it was lonnie s right to remain silent as he was under arrest for murder. he was booked into the county jail. how did that feel? actually it felt pretty good. it felt pretty good. for his family, it was welcome news. what did you think? i go. what a relief. after seven years. because i knew he had something to do with mckee s murder. and one thing had not changed, there was still no physical evidence tying lonnie to her death. with this case be enough for a jury? coming up! there is no blood in the room, there is no evidence of a
against the virus spreading fast. in italy tonight, infections are spiking. all of these witnesses have come from italy. and we literally, within 48 hours of the last one going back to italy? there is news about coronavirus hitting italy. and within a day, we re seeing that there is a travel ban in italy. and i m thinking, what is happening? next, the orange county court calendar was wiped clean. were you worried that the trial had to pause because of the pandemic? yes i was. that delay lasted more than two months. then on may 26, 2020. with covid-19 cases still spreading in orange county. the judge called a hearing. to determine whether lonnie s case could move forward. tell us she went to court with a heavy heart. it was the 14th anniversary of mckee s death. the hearing was livestreamed to the public. and no surprise, the defense