tried to get his receiver to make the play. you like that. but you have to be able to see the field. then the last interception, charles woodson. they needed a play. they needed him to go down. make plays. and score. because they were too scores away. at that point. they didn't get it done. >> since 2011, when jim harbaugh became the head coach of the 49ers. his team has won more games than any one in the nfl, except bill belichick. and the patriots. yet, they might not make the playoffs for the first time. they have dropped two straight. welfare of the players, coaches, the staff. lastly, what my personal. professional feature is. associated press, jim, raiders, owner. mark davis. raiders are interested. a more recent report. maybe there is mutual interest. did you make anything of the photo. or just people blowing it up. they're going to let me go. that's what i read night. >> your body language. >> absolutely. jim harbaugh will have no shortage of people trying to make him the head coach. correct. >> half the team. half the league would love to have jim harbaugh. >> as their coach. >> he will have his choice. >> absolutely. >> because are you within of the people that believe it is not -- going to work out here. this is now, done, or do you still think, are you not believing all of that talk? >> well, it just -- seems like the ownership. the general manager. do not come out and squash all of the different things that are going on. to me, if i was the owner of the 49er, i would say, jim harbaugh is going nowhere. we have one of the best football coaches in the national football league. and, we intend to keep him. the silence speaks a lot. >> you have a prediction as to where the coach end up. >> i certainly hope the raiders have a chance at him. everywhere he goes. you want a winner as your head coach. but you got to give it also to tony sporano. he kept a group of guys playing hard. you have got to like that in what he has done for the raiders so far. >> bill and i just getting started. we didn't forget about sporano and the winning team. up next, head inside the raiders locker room. to hear from their rookie quarterback after the best performance of his young career. time for the red zone report. toyota. let's go places where the raiders went into the win column for the second time this year. cashed in on three of four trips. turnovers always a key. the raiders had zero. and total yard. 330 to 248 for san francisco. for more on the raiders' big victory. down the side line. crabtree. intercepted. brandon raese awe interception set the tone. wide open eligible. >> donald penn's touchdown catch summed up the day. unpredictable, but brilliant. the raiders stun their bay area rival. a lot of raiders fans. this is our super bowl. our super bowl. i would joke with them. it's ours too. i am happy. you know that we came out. to, came out victorious. you know, the regular fans stick with us through the thick and thin. a big exhale for them. this week, more and more became true raiders. knowing what the heritage is about. knowing what a rader is. knowing what the game was about. knowing how important it was. >> dareic carr torched the defense on the way to 140.2 passer rating and biggest moment of his rookie season. i thought derek played really well. a lot of people in the box. didn't want us to run the ball. they wanted us to win to see if we can beat them throwing the football. and daring was able to do that. >> you have a bright future here. you know? excited what he can do here in the, rader forcing for a long time. >> felt like i have grown. trying to limit the low ones. >> despite the win. raiders were frustrated after the game. wondering where is my, all season long. donald penn told me. last week was so sickening because we know what we are capable of. this game will be something we can build on for the future. v great job. derek carr, came in. averaging, 5.44 yard per pass attempt. had a great game. tons of time to give that credit to, the offensive line or credit to him. the way he maneuvered in the pocket. >> come buy nation of both. i think at the end of the day. you know a week ago played his worst football game against the saint louis rams. played against a really good defense. the thing that really showed for me. the game looked like it slowed down. if the looked like it was in slow motion. more like in fast forward. it is hard work. dedication. a good kid. when you hear him speak out for a game. god, you are drawn to the guy. you are like, it is all about the team. all about -- you know -- being the best. he is the future of this team right now. are you optimistic about the raiders? going forward. only two, two wins this season. still ahead they have to play. at kc. they have buffalo are you optimistic for the season, but the raiders will turn it around. >>ened of the day. it is great football players. they had a really good draft last year. guess what they need another really good draft this year. hope they get the first pick. some how, some way. able to deem it to a team that wants the quarterback from oregon. we can pile up. three, four. really good picks. bring in some, really good football players. the raiders need great players. at kc. buff low at home. then at denver. all teams. with winning records. still ahead. the sharks in the great white north. looking for the fifth straight win. the nfl worth team caught them sleeping. we have ice hockey ahead. after a disapin thing season. stanford and why you didn't have to travel far to go bowling with the cardinals this year. eight straight at home. 11 straight overall. back in goal for the first time. since november 8th. look out. tommy wingles with a huge hit. and from behind the net. next time keep your head up on a swivel. as a result he got leveled. the save. and, puts the loose puck in the net. he scored. the first goal of the season. tied at one. a great pass. by marlow. backhanded vision. just left it. and, said thanks. put it away. third period. still tied at one. oilers. then, david, fires a shot. it goes in the net. oilers win 2-1. sharks snap a four-game winning streak. oilers snap an 11-game losing streak. the final four is set. in the inaugural college football playoffs. sorry if you are a horn frog or friend of a horn frog. you are out. there is no tcu. a look at new year's day match up. top four. alabama will face ohio state in the sugar bowl. crimson tide should have location advantage with new orleans. proximity to tuscaloosa. rose bowl, oregon/florida state. winners will meet for the national championship game. on january 12th. meanwhile, stanford take on maryland terrapins. december 30th. and stanford make sixth consecutive bowl appearance. first in the fosters farm bowl. which had been for 11 years held at at & t park. a week in the nfl. recap all the action and count down the top plays from week 14. we are coming back right after this. ♪ at kaiser permanente, everything you need is under one roof. another way care and coverage together makes life easier. okay, a little easier. become a member of kaiser permanente. because together, we thrive. ♪ you are locked in on sports sunday. plays of the day. tied in overtime. bridgewater. wright does everything right. 87-yard. walkoff touchdown. for the vikings. matthew stafford's pass tipped. catches it. runs it in for the score. lions are winners. rams of washington. and back to take the punt. working to his right. weaves through stom defense. and -- he has got to see hip. and good-bye. rams shut out washington. 24-0. those are the plays of the day. and we talk about the nfc. talk about the afc. andrew luck was great. led the kelts to a come back. denver very good. are there any teams here bill that are not now in the hunt. see the ravens getting in. do you look who the top seed are there. anything, you got a dark horse you like? yeah, wucht for san diego. phillip rivers. what they did tonight. they almost beat them. didn't get it. tell you what. if they've win out and get home field advantage. they will be tough in the cold weather in new england. >> who's best. if new england comes out of the afc. you have a favorite in the nfc? >> going to be either green bay or -- seattle. >> okay. yeah, seattle gets to go home in the playoffs you've look their chances more than if they have to go on the road. lost one time at home the whole year. all right. thank you, bill, always fun. >> you got is. >> fur time, supour time super champion. thank you for watching "sports sunday." then there was the husband himself. they kept going back to their notes from their 14-hour interview with him. at times it had been pulling teeth. >> once we asked him over and over again, is there anybody with a motive? anything? anything at all? anything you can tell us? i bring up the point, don't you have a life insurance policy? and he says, yeah, we do. >> a hefty one, it would seem, for a healthy 21-year-old woman he wasn't even married to at the time of purchase. >> i asked him, how much is the life insurance policy? and he said, a million dollars. i said, a million dollars? and you don't think that's a motive? you don't think that's important to tell us? and he said, no, i don't, because i have a million dollar life insurance policy on myself, too. i said, well that's not in question, because you're here. you're alive. >> one thing escoto did reveal, wendy was not pregnant. he said that was the cause of their argument that night. he said wendy had lied to him about the whole thing. as the detectives' questions got sharper that day, michel shut down. would you take a polygraph? no. can we photograph those bruises on your arm? no. take a dna swab? again, no. he didn't talk himself off your list? >> he did not. he did not. >> the working theory of the crime was as simple as it was brutal. he bashed in her skull with a million dollar insurance payout, a tire iron was missing from her car, a likely weapon, but nowhere to be found. >> so you two go to the prosecutor, state attorney say we've got it. let's go. grand jury. >> no. >> we're done? >> no. >> why not? >> you got to prove it. you got to prove it. >> so the police let their person of interest go. in the meantime, wendy's family had huge suspicions about michel. sister rita wasn't crazy about him from the moment she first met him. >> call it bad energy. i shook that man's hand and i was wiping my hand right after i let it go. it's just -- it was eerie. >> this guy definitely did not pass the sniff test? >> no. >> the revelation that he bought a million dollar life insurance policy on wendy only confirmed their belief that he killed her. two months after wendy's death, michel filed for his beneficiary payout. the insurer, metlife, fought, saying the case was an unsolved homicide. and her murder would remain unsolved for a long time. >> we'd be frustrated. you know, the family of the victim and we're sitting there waiting and waiting. >> then michel did something bold. he actually sued the insurance company to pay him his million dollars. would a guilty man be so brazen as to try that? absolutely, the family said. and by then they'd had enough. the family got a lawyer, jorge barone, and together they went after michel escoto. >> we believed he was the killer. >> two years after the murder, the family filed a wrongful death suit against michel. metlife put the insurance money in escrow, and waited on the sidelines, as michel and wendy's family fought it out in civil court. but if michel wanted to see so much as one cent of that money, he would have to do something he hadn't done before. >> he has to testify. he cannot plead the fifth. especially since he's pursuing the request. 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 just kept changing. >> so the story about a fight and she takes a hike -- >> it doesn't add up. for instance, he testified that wendy had -- 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 had asked her to make the hotel reservation for him. 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 of 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 yo ran do told police at the time he wanted to check on her sick daughter. >> he claims, of course, that he beeps her because he thought her daughter, yolanda's daughter, was sick. we later find out that yolanda's daughter was not sick. >> so there's no reason for a middle of the night communication? >> no reason whatsoever. >> when the civil case finally went to trial, escoto got so roughed up that on the second day he was a no-show in court. wendy's mother got the insurance money and prosecutors got to hear firsthand about his constantly shifting stories. >> the state attorney sat in the courtroom and was taking notes. >> did you have a little chitchat in the hallway outside? >> we did. >> what did you say? >> this is your case. you have all the evidence right now. and, of course, we gave them the deposition testimony and everything. we had everything outlined. >> michel escoto was arrested three days after his court no show and was charged with the murder of his bride, wendy trapaga. police still thought they needed more, so they fixed their eyes on the girlfriend, yolanda cerrillo. >> i knew that eventually, as time goes by, that relationship would deteriorate. >> why did you think that? >> because if they had that secret amongst each other, that was going to be a friction point in their relationship. >> too corrosive a secret? >> yes, yes. >> how do you reel her in? >> time. time. time changes relationships. >> and it did. in 2006, one year after michel was arrested, yolanda and her attorney went to prosecutors and said, let's make a deal. she got full immunity in exchange for telling how she helped michel that night. >> she came into the state attorney's office and explained that she did take him away from the crime scene. >> so that's a great story to tell a jury. >> yes. that's it. >> police may not have had a murder weapon or helpful forensic clues but now they had yolanda, who was about to give her version of that night. it was cold-hearted and calculating. >> coming up, an arrest, and a witness who was there. it's not the end of the story but the beginning of a whole new drama that would play out in court. every story has two sides, especially when it's a lover's triangle. >> i don't put it past her as being a person who would have committed this crime. >> and should a spurned lover be believed anyway? >> he said to calm down. it was all a plan, that he didn't love her. he loved me. >> things were heating up. nearly 12 years after the murder of wendy trapaga, her husband michel escoto was finally on trial for her murder. he pleaded not guilty to first degree charges. >> money is the root of this defendant's evil. >> prosecutors offered the most chilling details of the case. that escoto actually picked wendy to be his bride just so he could insure her life and kill her. >> he would prey on this unsuspecting 21-year-old girl and marry her. four days -- four days after that marriage, this defendant bludgeoned and strangled wendy trapaga to death. >> among the first witnesses, wendy's heartbroken mother, myriam bon itous. speaking through an interpreter, the mother said she was shocked when she learned the couple had taken life insurance policies out on one another just before their marriage. >> translator: i did not feel good. i expressed to her, why insurance, they're not even married, they didn't have children. why insurance? >> on the stand, detective maria medaros said she zeroed in on that insurance policy when she questioned escoto a day after the murder. >> i told him if he couldn't muster up a tear for his wife of four days to muster up a tear for the million dollars he was never going to see. >> what was his reaction? >> that lack of emotion was an indifference to wendy or a disregard for women in general. detectives say escoto was a man with a history of mooching off girlfriends. this former lover testified she supported escoto for years. >> how much money did you give him a month? >> approximately maybe $1,500. >> go figure, the state said. for whatever reason, women threw gifts at escoto. one bought him the ducati motorcycle, another a car. but still another former lover who also supported him for years would be the prosecution's star witness. >> yolanda cerrillo. >> yolanda cerrillo. the prosecution argued she was the girlfriend with intimate knowledge of how escoto carried out this brutal crime. she had been given immunity in exchange for her testimony here. wiping away tears she recounted how it all started, how she fell hard for the defendant she thought to be a charmer. >> have you ever had a man you could share your life with? >> i thought it was michel. >> only to realize he was dumping her for the younger, and more attractive, wendy. yolanda said she then confronted escoto in this restaurant parking lot, and heard for the first time, she said, that his impending marriage to wendy was all a sham. that in the end he would come back to yolanda with pockets full of cash. >> he said to calm down. that it was all a plan. that he didn't love her. he loved me. he was going to marry her. they were going to have an insurance policy and she was going to die. >> all right. so he told you he had a plan? >> yes. >> the plan was murder. it was during that conversation, yolanda told jurors, that she became a co-conspirator, not only helping escoto cover up his crime but also help him carry it out. this was the plan. on his wedding night, yolanda said escoto would drug and drown wendy. to make sure he got it right, yolanda admitted that she took part in a grim dress rehearsal of what was meant to look like an accidental death. >> we filled up my tub and i got in the water. and he pushed me down with his hand. >> you let him push you under the water? >> yes. >> what did you say once he let you up? >> i told him that wouldn't work. >> why? >> because the force of him holding her down in the water would leave bruises. >> what did you suggest? >> i suggest he use a towel to hold her down. >> yolanda said she even helped him whip up the drug-laced concoction to knock wendy out. >> he came over and he brought some percocet pills. and he and i started squishing them, i think it's a mortal and pestle thing. >> what was he going to do with the percocet pill that you ground? >> he was going to give it to her so she would be drugged. >> and then drowned, said yolanda. but she added the plan to kill wendy hit an unexpected snag. at the honeymoon hotel in key west, wendy balked at the taste of the drugged cocktail. so escoto tried again later that weekend at the miami fantasy suite hotel. this time she drank the cocktail but for some reason he couldn't manage to drown her. that's when yolanda recalled escoto showed up at her place in the middle of the night with a dazed wendy in the front seat of a car. >> did you see anything in the passenger seat? >> i saw a movement. somebody inside the car. >> wendy was still alive. yolanda said escoto ordered her to follow him in her car. >> then what happened? >> he got out of the car, he walked over to my car, and he told me, drive around, give me 20, 25 minutes. >> eventually, yolanda said she spotted escoto again, walking down the street, splashed now in blood and carrying a tire iron. she said she drove him to the bay in downtown miami where he got out of the car with the weapon. >> and he threw the thing in the water. >> after dropping him off his apartment, she said, she took his bloody clothes and threw them in a dumpster. >> happy with yourself? >> no. worse. that's how i feel right now. >> is this about you? >> no, it's not. it's about a mother who loves her daughter and i have 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 acts as his own lawyer. >> this is harder than i thought it would be. >> and on the stand, his ex-lover, now the star witness against him in wendy's murder. >> did you wish she was dead? >> i wish it would go away. >> when "dateline" continues. engineers build, farmers grow, artists create, but teachers, they do it all. they build minds, they help children grow and they create leaders. make an impact on a child's life. get into teaching. the more you know. the state of florida had succeeded in painting michel escoto as a man who used women for money, in other words, a cad. then again, a cad is a far cry from a killer. >> i don't think you could say it. i think there is problems with this evidence. >> you're not just saying that? >> i'm not just saying that. there's problems with this evidence. >> attorney terry lemonin stood as escoto's stand-by counsel. he said despite the theatrics, the state's case against michel escoto was weak from start to finish. there was no murder weapon, no blood, no dna linking the defendant to the crime. which is maybe why michel escoto, who had already pleaded not guilty to the charges, did what so many men facing a life in prison sentence would never dream of doing. he defended himself in court. >> i believe the evidence will show that only an imbecile and an imbecile in love with money would kill somebody four days after they were married to that person. >> was it lincoln's advice about a fool as a client? those who represent themselves? >> we'll see. >> wearing glasses, khakis, a sweater, and speaking in a soft voice,ate coato seem escoto seemed less like a killer and more like a geek. a hopeless novice, getting pummeled by the execution. >> judge, i'm telling him he was being sandbagged -- >> one time the newbie seemed near tears, another overwhelmed. >> i thought it was would be -- >> was this clutsy moment all about winning sympathy from the jury? the time he stumbled? >> sorry, twisted my ankle, judge. >> and one particularly wince-worthy moment came when civil attorney jorge barone, his nemesis from the failed insurance trial, took the stand. under cross-examination by escoto he explained just why it was he suspected escoto of killing his wife, wendy. >> you had been married to her for three days before you killed her. to get the life insurance. so to me, that was very clear. >> judge, give me a second. i want to say something that i shouldn't. >> escoto lost it. >> would you say that against -- >> objection. >> he's going to take all of them -- >> had mr. nerd inadvertently shown the jury the lava boiling within? that threat won escoto a contempt of court citation from the judge. >> be quiet! >> what appeared to be near disaster for the defendant could be spun as a play to his advantage. >> i think one of the important advantages that he has here is that human connection that he's getting, standing up there. with every witness who says you're a murderer, you're this, you're that, him not backing down. he has never backed down. >> but escoto, the hapless underdog, still needed to convince jurors he was not violent. especially when it came to women, wendy in particular. >> i'm going to be as gentle as i can, judge. >> he carefully questioned his former mother-in-law. he may have won points when he got her to admit that wendy had once confided this to a friend. >> she told her friend that she was content, that she loved you, mr. escoto. >> so did i. >> likewise, this former girlfriend and self-confessed sugar mama had to admit that escoto was never a violent bully. >> did i ever throw anything at you? >> no. >> did i ever punch you? >> no, no. >> did i ever slap you? >> no. >> did i ever throw you on the ground? >> no. >> more important, he wanted to show that the state's theory of the crime was a fairy tale starting with the idea that he drugged wendy. a pharmacologist testified that wendy had only small amounts of prescription narcotics in her blood when the autopsy was performed. >> the toxicology reports are consistent with normal doses that you would take of any of these medications. >> she wasn't heavily drugged as the state argued. >> she wasn't as incapacitated as you might have been led to believe? >> absolutely. and that's highly disputed. highly disputed. >> there was another problem with the state's theory. and it had to do with how wendy died. >> if the assailant was left-handed, began to strike her -- >> a medical examiner for the defense believed that wendy's extensive injuries indicated two killers. both right-handed. >> there are several impacts on the right side, which in an altercation suggests to me that the assailant is right-handed. >> and since michel escoto is left-handed, the implication for the jury was clear. he couldn't be the killer. what's more, a dna expert said she expected to find escoto's dna on the victim's clothes. after all, they were husband and wife. but she found something more. >> there were several of the markers where his dna is not present in it. >> dna traces for two different males, and get this, traces for a female. to standby lawyer terry lemonin, that could mean only one person, yolanda cerrillo, escoto's old girlfriend who said she was with escoto just before and after the murder. >> she's got the old play of immunity. >> he says the first thing to know about yolanda is that she's a liar. first, she knew nothing about the crime. then she said she did, but only after the fact. the final story put yolanda front and center in planning the murder. >> lo and behold we have a story that comes about, about the drowning and the drugging and all this drama that i believe is rubbish. >> so what did make sense? a killer, he said, who hated wendy enough to pummel her so badly she was unrecognizable. and who fit that bill? >> i felt destroyed because she took you from me, yes. >> in a beyond weird courtroom exchange, escoto in cross-examination took on his former lover, yo ran do cerrillo. who admitted her poisonous resentment of wendy. >> 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. >> if there's a hung jury, we may have to start over again. after a seven-week trial and testimony from almost 40 witnesses, the prosecutor and the defense attorney, in this case, michel escoto himself would get one last chance to talk to the jurors in closing arguments. prosecutor gail levine acknowledged that her office had to hold its nose in order to get escoto's girlfriend yolanda to testify against him. >> i can't charge her. i'd love to. but i can't. and she came in here and she filled in the details. she gave you the answers to questions that you have. >> when it was the defense's turn, escoto and his back-up attorney surprised the courtroom. >> you want him to take over as your counsel at this time? >> i would like to let him take over, judge. >> thank you, judge, i'm ready to proceed. >> for the first time in this trial escoto's backup counsel, terry lemonin, seasoned defense attorney, would take over and urge the jurors to find reasonable doubt in the state's case. lemonin jumped, attacking what he called the prosecutor's overselling of a mostly circumstantial case. >> this is a court of law. and no matter how much i scream as an advocate, no matter how much i wave my hands or say villain, villain, villain, bad, villain, villain, it doesn't make it so. >> his strategy was to plant a seed of doubt in just one juror's mind. >> if there's a hung jury, we may have to start over again. >> then the case went to the jury. wendy's family, as they had done throughout the trial, gathered together once again and prayed. her mother hugged prosecutor gail levine, who pursued escoto so ferociously. >> she is my hero, without a doubt she is my hero. >> two and a half hours after the jury went out, cell phones started buzzing in the courthouse. so many years since wendy's murder, and now, in moments, her family would know. >> the years of waiting. the years of mourning her, all of a sudden we're told the verdict is in. before i got to the courtroom i was already crying. i was shaking. >> wendy's family members held their breath. escoto appeared to do the same as the judge instructed the clerk to read the verdict. >> we the jury in miami-dade county, florida, this 22nd day of april, 2014, find the defendant, michel escoto, guilty of first degree premeditated murder. >> michel escoto sat stone faced in his chair, his lips downturned in a grimace. nodding. for the family, there were more tears but of a different kind. now sorrow mixed with relief and satisfaction. wendy's mother dropped to her knees and gave thanks. for detective maria medaros, a 12-year-old case was now officially stamped closed. >> he'll never do this to another woman again. his lies and his charming and his planning and his evil plan will not affect another person. >> but there was someone the family felt had gotten away 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. >> if she has to pay one cent a week, it's well worth it. as a reminder for the rest of her life, how she assisted that monster. >> two weeks after his conviction, michel escoto was sentenced for the murder of his new bride. at the hearing, he proclaimed his innocence to wendy's family. >> no matter how much satisfaction this verdict has given any of you, an innocent person was convicted in this case. >> finally the family had a opportunity to address the man who killed wendy. >> justice served. off to hell with you, and good riddance. >> when wendy's mother myriam spoke through a translator, there wasn't a dry eye in the courtroom. >> translator: some days mother's think, many of you have daughters or sons, and you will receive a kiss from them. i have to go to the cemetery to put flowers on my daughter's tomb. >> judge marisa mendez gave escoto the mandatory sentence. >> life in prison without the possibility of parole. >> the only way he leaves prison is in a pine box. on the day escoto was found guilty the family went to the cemetery to visit wendy. they sat on her grave and talked to her. >> i kind of just sat back and said that i could breathe for the first time in so long, and i just felt that she was finally at peace. she can rest now. >> rest for wendy, the kind, young woman who loved animals and enjoyed playing dress-up and who fatally married a stranger, till death he did part. >> that's all for now. i'm lester holt. thanks f nbc bay area news starts now. >> right now at 11:00, anger is spilling out into the streets and freeways. protesters taking over bay area roadways and clashing with police officers. good evening to you. i'm peggy bunker. >> and i'm terry mcsweeney. we're following a developing story for you. let's take a look at large pictures. protests turning violent in the east bay tonight. what we are seeing is a long line of protesters, thin in places, but at least three blocks long, telegraph avenue near channing in berkeley. berkeley police just recently notifying that there is vandalism going on. and they are asking people to

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