officer. regina sanchez. tara had called her when she learned that regina had been sleeping with levi. the nature of the phone call was to get mad at me, ask what was going on. why she upset? yes. very. investigator showed that not long after that phone call, someone had typed in a web search on levi s computer, how to kill somebody. after the how to kill somebody search, there was a rod page that was visited and that s on how to kill someone. the states implication, levi thought murder might be easier than divorce. the prosecution said levi had grown tired of tara. that computer shows you that something is going on. he tells tara she is holding him back, calls are aware through this piece of skin. the prosecution suggests that levi had a plan to get rid of tara for a new girlfriend, heather hindi. she was the other albuquerque calk, who got to know levi in the weeks before terry s death. you indicated that you
investigation into tara s death. eventually, it caught the attention of prosecutors. bryan mackay was in assistant da. you thought the truck was a motive? we think the trove was the motive in a really simple sense. he s just moved to a pd, he s wanting to move up the ranks. i m sorry, you know the brass is going to do something if everyone s going around your wife s reporting that you re committing fraud. all of the defendants, except, leave i settled there parts of that civil suit, denying any lie ability. the court of a family got what they really wanted. in april 2011, more than three years after terrell s death, levi chavez was charged with her murder. coming up there s no way that he could ve done. this levi chavez goes on
prosecutors in the levi chavez murder trial were dealt to major blows. first, the judge blocked testimony supporting their theory, that levi was involved in an urn sherine scam. second, he bullock statements from friends and family, who alleged terror felt threatened by her husband. but the state had another card to play. it was time to put the cheating husbands loved life on full display. among the mistresses who arrived in court, was katrina. i verizon store clerk who i met shortly before tara s death. they began an affair the day they met. a few weeks later, they were in bed together again, in the same home where tara had died. when you went to the residents, did you have a sexual encounter? yes. did you know if the children were there? he said he they wear. but i did not see them. next up, a fellow apd
were you going to collect that evidence? no. because? because it had been flushed by an albuquerque police officer that had been in the house. one of the friends that had come over to offer support? friends. coworker. so, was it tara s blood? was it even? blood we re never gonna now. no. and that bedding with the mysterious blood swipe was also removed by apd cops. tara s family could not shake the feeling that levi s fellow officers might be helping out their friend. and that the local investigators in charge, should ve stopped them. i was extremely angry with the albuquerque police department sheriff s department. i was beside myself with them. how could you allow another agency to come into your jurisdiction and enter that house? the jurisdiction of the man who found the body? yes. detective jones says there
saw a broken man. he was in bed and i don t know what to say. it s the worst that could happen to anybody. what did he say to you that day? do you remember? he was to a motion, he couldn t speak. along with the shock, tara s best friend was overcome with a sense of disbelief. part of me was like, no, this isn t right. this isn t what happened. like, they were lying. it s not true. that s exactly what tara s parents were telling the detective, who d come to their home, with that terrible news. for one thing, they told him there was simply no way tara would leave her children. you would not be the first family of a loved one, who committed suicide, who did not want to believe that that was possible. josh, i don t know about other families. but i knew tara.