Theres my sweet little sister on the news. Dateline is next on nbc. Dateline is next on nbc. Oh baby, you were so good aw, thank you, mom. Dad. You stayed . I did. And im glad i did. You are really good. And if dancing is what makes you happy, then thats what you should do. Youre a dancer, and a dancer dances. Some guy was singing that in the john, and it stuck in my head. That calls for a round of drinks. Uh, dont worry about me, mike. I get my drinks for free. Let me buy. Ive got a lot of singles to get rid of. One of us could go help him. Normally, id steal him for myself, but youre my sister. So go hit on our hot uncle and become our aunt. Are you sure . Yeah. Im pretty sure hes into you. Plus, i just made out with one of the strippers backstage, so. Already checked that box. Hey, ethan. Hey, shea. So. So. So theres something i kind of want to tell you, but i dont want it to be awkward. Well, maybe its the same thing ive been wanting to tell you but i was afraid it was awkward. Okay. Here it goes. [cell phone rings] sorry. I have to take this. Its my agent. Hello . Seriously . Of course ill be there thank you. What was that . They liked my tape. Im gonna be dancing in aladdin on broadway. [gasps] youll be great in that. No shirts. Broadway. Dream come true. But. I have to move to new york. Thats far away. About what we were gonna say to each other. Maybe one day. Come on. Lets tell everybody. I just got a call from my agent. Im gonna be dancing on broadway [all gasp] really . Broadway . Well, thats something i can brag about i think we may be in the Perfect Place for it. Hey, everybody my son is gonna dance on broadway [cheers and applause] and before that, he was a professional golfer and now hes gonna dance on broadway [cheers and applause] are you okay, mom . My son is moving across the country. Ah, im gonna need more than a minute. Mom, well talk every day. From the gentleman over there. Oh, my. [chuckles] oh, well, im just gonna have to tell him im married. Actually, its for him. Yes finally lucky you. You should see him dance. You know, im a little tired of hearing about this cowboy. Ive got some pretty sweet amoves myself. I know you do, honey. Thats it. Dj hit it [ginuwines pony playing] [laughter] [cheers] and then newli lly weds. They were still on their honeymoon, only married four days, when this young bride was murdered. I get a phone call, screaming, crying. No murder weapon, no dna. But no shortage of suspects. Did the miami lifestyle have something to do with her death . He did admit to having encounters with other couples there. Objection. Betrayal. He loved me. And finally, a verdict. The years of waiting. The years of mourning her. We needed justice. Im lester holt, and this is dateline. Heres Dennis Murphy with mystery in south beach. If youve spent any time down here, you probably sense there are really two miami beaches. You know this one by reputation anyway. South beach. A pulsating playground with energy that surges out of the ocean and exhausts itself in the allnight clubs. And then theres the old miami beach. Here are the sunburned back streets of squat apartment blocks, where decades past people used to sit out in aluminum chairs. And thats where a young couple, wendy and michel, were trying to make a go of it. The rent was cheap. The window air conditioning was good enough. But if you have thought Beautiful People catch all the breaks, then listen to this story of 21yearold wendy trapaga, because she may be the most gorgeous doomed young woman to ever walk these streets. She was model pretty. I dont think that she thought of herself as anything spectacular. Didnt become the central part of her personality. I am pretty . It wasnt what she was about. Her much older sisters and brother ralph never used to qualifier stepsister when they speak of wendy. Theyll tell you she was a little bit of a daddys girl, International Airline pilot who died, sadly, in a crash when wendy was just 6. Her mother, miriam, raised her. And big sister rita always pitched in. I guess i was like that other mother for her. I was pretty much there by miriams side, raising her. The love of animals was always a part of wendy. She was always rescuing some animal, dog, puppy, kitten, anything. She worked for a vet for a while . Yes. But allergies would end her ambitions to become a vet. But she skid did have another passion, for fashion and makeovers. Pretty girl. At easter, she memorably dolled up her nieces for a living room fashion show. Here is the director of the entire operation. She had a flare for it and you can do very well in that field. So at 21, after a brief marriage, she enrolled in beauty school. And in 2002, thats where she first saw michel rumble up on his motorcycle. He was a sometime teacher of computing. But by his early 30s, he was looking for a career change. He thought he would try hairstyling, so he enrolled, as fate would have it, in the same Cosmetology School as wendy. He had a string of admiring girlfriends. But wendy, younger by ten years, and prettier than most any other woman in his orbit, was a prize catch. His friend, ramone santa cruz. When i met wendy, he was on a motorcycle with her. I told myself, its a beautiful girl. I dont know what he did to get this girl. Whatever he did, it worked. She was totally in love, sparkling in the eyes. Within six months they were living together on south beach. She dyed his hair blonde, perfect for the club scene. They lived for the day, and then came unexpected news for these two butterflies. Wendy was pregnant. Her mother had mixed feelings. How did she feel with the fact that she was pregnant this delighted with the fact being a grandmother but not delighted with the circumstances. Wendy had the Big Church Wedding for her first marriage. This time around they got hitched at city hall. You may kiss the bride. Congratulations. The next day, wendy and michel set out for a brief weekend honeymoon, a drive down to the florida keys to key west where the road ran out. Sunset drinks, dinner and a hotel. Three days after the wedding, they were back in miami beach, sunday evening. Wendy called her mother to say they were going to a movie and dancing later at a club. Then in the middle of the night, the wee hours of monday morning, wendys mother got an unexpected call from her new soninlaw, michel, saying theyve had an argument. Wendy stormed off, saying she was going to her mothers house. Since then, the bridegroom says he repeatedly called wendy without success. Right around then, in a bleak warehouse district, miles and miles from the afterhours bars of miami, a sanitation worker was startled to see the body of a young woman in a blue dress slumped between two vehicles. It was the newlywed, wendy. News travels fast. I get a call from my stepmother, screaming, crying. Wendys dead. They took her from me. She told me its on the news. I went and looked and theres my sweet little sister being put on a gurney. And its just so surreal. Desolate warehouse place. All i kept thinking about was her being alone there, by herself, praying to god that she didnt suffer. The killer, who bludgeoned her to death, also erased the beauty from her young face. A honeymoon weekend for the new bride had ended behind Yellow Police tape. Coming up, who killed wendy and why . Was it a kidnapping, a carjacking gone bad, or did it have something to do with miamis wild night life . Whats been going on with michel in the club scene . He did admit to having encounters with other couples there. The dark side of life in sunny miami. Sunny miami. Now more reliable than ever and im on a mission to prove its the fastest. 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So the detectives headed out to do the part of the job that never gets easier. So youre delivering terrible news . Horrible news. Amid the shock and tears, they piece together from their mother a sense of who the victim was and what her final hours and days had been about. Sunday evening, the phone call, wendy sounded okay, the detectives were told, but that next call at 5 48 am, the one from michel, asking if she was at her moms, was worrisome. A few hours later, he was waiting for wendys mother at the school why she worked. He met her at her job. He was very worried about where she could be. He was about to get an official answer as to where she was. As were talking, the phone rings and its Michel Escoto calling. Again asking his motherinlaw if she had heard from wendy. Detectived grabs the phone and asked where he was. They head over to where he was. To deliver the news of his girlfriend of eight months, his bride of four days. We explained were investigating the death of wendy, and he started balling up. Doubled over, crying. Police gave him a few minutes to compose himself before asking him to come down to headquarters to answer some more questions. There he recounted the honeymoon. Michael told the detectives that wendy had the idea of adding a little more spice before rejoining their workweek lives. Well, we havent had much of a honeymoon this weekend. Lets extend our honeymoon. So as Michel Escoto told it, around midnight they checked into a miami hotel that features fantasy suites with a private pool and jacuzzi. He says they had sex, slept a little and wendy dosed off in the jacuzzi. Around 4 00 am, michel says, they checked out and headed home. Thats when, he said, the newlyweds had their first argument. Michel says he walked into the apartment, leaving wendy in the car. Three minutes later, he comes out. He says when he comes out, the car is gone. Wendy is gone. He spoke with detectives for 14 hours. They asked him repeatedly if he could identify anyone with a motive. He said he couldnt. After leaving police headquarters, he saw his friend ramone santa cruz. He was looking depressed. He looked down, maybe tired. Five days after her murder, wendy was laid to rest. And then friends and family gathered at her parents home. Detective bias was there as well and he learned something about the couple that would send the investigation down another path. A thread of this investigation takes you into the swinger lifestyle. Whats been going on with michel and wendy and the club scene . After im informed of this, that wendy was part of a Swingers Club, a place called the miami velvet down here in south miami, the first thing i did was i called michel. He did admit to having encounters with other couples there. Now you got to wonder did somebody with a thing they developed about wendy and is that person maybe the killer . It turns out the club is within a mile and a half of the scene, so i wanted to explore that. The Swingers Club was cooperative and detectives took dna samples from a few employees and members. They would have to wait for the results. In the meantime the investigation was turning up a new lead, a former girlfriend of his, yolanda sirrio. She had a relationship with him before he met the victim. According to her, michel left her for wendy. She loved him and was very much in love with him. A single mother, was she also a woman scorned . Michel left her just six months earlier. And to add insult to injury, asked her to take care of his dog while he was on a honeymoon. To go to the expent of taking care of someones dog during their honeymoon, as a woman, very strange to me. Does yolanda become a suspect . A woman who feels she was fired because of a younger woman and nobody gets away with that, and im going to kill you . Theres a lot to yolanda. A lot of bad if you ask ramon santa cruz. I didnt like her from the beginning. She was very evasive. The apartment was always dirty. She was never a good person to begin with. Detectives met with yolanda who freely admitted that she was devastated when michel left her. But she had no idea who beat his wife to death. She said she didnt know anything about it. But the detectives noted Something Else about yolanda. She lived just a few minutes from the parking lot where they found wendy. When you started adding up things, her proximity to the crime scene, im very interested in her. No one knew what yolanda was hiding. That would come later. And so would the revelation of a motive that would seem to explain every violent little thing. Coming up, a million reasons why someone wanted wendy dead. I asked him, how much is the Life Insurance policy and he said 1 million. When dateline continues. When dateline continues. I am a migraine sufferer. My mom wants to understand, but she just cant see it. 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Then there was the husband himself. They kept going back over their notes from the 14hour interview with him. At times it had been pulling teeth. We asked him over and over again, is there anybody with a motive, anything at all, anything you can tell us . I bring up a point, dont you have a Life Insurance policy . He says, yeah, we do. A hefty one, it would seem, for a healthy 21yearold woman he wasnt even married to at the time of purchase. I asked him, how much is the Life Insurance policy . And he said a Million Dollars and i said a Million Dollars . And you dont think thats a motive . You dont think thats important to tell us . And he said no, i dont, because i have a Million DollarLife Insurance policy on myself, too. I said thats not in question because youre here. Youre alive. One thing he 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. He didnt take himself off the list. The working theory of the crime was as simple as it was brutal. He bashed her in skull with a 1 million payout. The tire iron was missing from the car, nowhere to be found. So you go to the prosecutor and say we got it, grand jury. No, youve got to prove it. Got to prove it. So the police let their person of interest go. In the meantime,