iron. she said she drove him to the bay in downtown miami where he got out of the car with the weapon. and as he s walking i saw when he threw the thing in the water. after dropping him off at his apartment she said she took his bloody clothes and threw them in a dumpster. happy with yourself? no. i m worthless. that s how i feel right now. is this about you? no, it s not. there s a mother who loves her daughter and i had something to do with it. and yolanda s time on the witness stand would get tougher still. two old lovers were about to face off in court. one defending himself and the other testifying against him. a roiling, boiling drama in real time. coming up, michel escoto s ex-lover now the star witness against him in wendy s murder. did you wish she was dead? i wished she would go away. whe. dateline continues. announcer: type 2 diabetes?
i hated what she stood for. i didn t know who she was. i didn t i hated the whole situation. i hated that you left. and did you wish she was dead? i wished she would go away. so you see yolanda s hand in this directly? she s lying because she feels that s in her best interest. i don t put it past her as being a person who would have committed this crime. but would jurors see it that way? here was the critical moment of the trial, a chance for each side to sum up its case. and this potential tipping point, even michel escoto seemed to agree was no time for amateurs. coming up, the verdict. the years of waiting. the years of mourning her. we needed justice. whe. dateline continues. because knowing that your chronic kidney disease in type 2 diabetes could progress to dialysis is important. b is for belief that there may be more you can do. just remember that k is for kidneys and kerendia. for adults living with ckd in type 2 diabetes, kerendia is proven to reduce the ri
especially since he s pursuing the claim. so he has to testify. at this point police and prosecutors were happy to help the family s attorney prepare his case. sharing those statements michel had made to detectives after wendy s death. they call you and say take a look at what we ve got, is that right? we ask if we would be allowed to look at the statements he had given them. we were. michel escoto was videotaped as he gave a sworn deposition. we took his deposition and his story kept changing. so the story about a fight and she takes a hike it doesn t add up. he testified that wendy was it was her idea all of a sudden
that night to go to the miami executive hotel. however, back in 2002 yolanda, the ex-girlfriend, told police michel asked her to make the hotel reservation. it wasn t wendy s idea at all. a factual discrepancy also known as a lie. during the deposition, michel also admitted that yolanda was no longer his ex. he had moved back in with her not long after wendy s death. are you still intimate with yolanda? yes, we are. do you have any plans of marrying yolanda? plans as such, no. there had been one question about michel and yolanda that had nagged detectives since 2002. they learned through phone records that on the night of the murder, michel paged yolanda at 3:00 in the morning. but why? both michel and yolanda told police at the time he wanted to check on her sick daughter. he claims that he beeps her because he thought her daughter, yolanda s daughter, was sick. we later find out that yolanda s daughter is not sick p. so there s no reason for a middle of the night comm
with murder, escoto s girlfriend yolanda cerrillo. her immunity deal meant she would never spend a day in jail. they re both monsters. they re both psychopaths. i don t care at all how desperate, how insecure, how lacking in self respect you have. you re a mother. and you went ahead and planned out the death of another mother s daughter. but investigators said without yolanda things might have turned out differently. people are going to be throwing their shoes at the tv screen at this point, detective. she gave us the additional thing that we needed to charge and keep and bring michel escoto to justice in this case. he gets a life sentence and she gets have a nice day. that s how it appears. but in lieu of not having anybody held accountable for this, i ll take that. the family wasn t going to let yolanda off so easily. they sued her for the wrongful death of wendy and were awarded a $44 million judgment. though they had no expectations of ever seeing that kind of money