She says she is innocent, but what about those Astonishing Police interviews . I wanted him dead, and mow hes gone, and im okay with it. Now she is free, and for the first time revealing every detail, answering all the questions she couldnt before. Did you really want him dead . No. We are face to face with the woman in the water. Two years, seven months and 22 days behind bars. Some people say thats not enough time, that you got away with murder. Im david muir. And im elizabeth vargas, and this is 20 20. Reporter an abandoned kingdom and an unforgiving river, with a mystery running through it. The woman at the heart of the case, the one they call the kayak killer, walks out of prison on a Sunny Afternoon four days before christmas, 2017. Angelika graswald had been charged with the murder of her fiance, Vince Viafore. She pulled the plug on her fiances kayak and then watched him drown in the hudson river. Reporter facing a possible life sentence. Until she was suddenly set free. Angelika graswald is out of prison tonight after serving just over 2 1 2 years behind bars. Reporter viafores outraged family says its not right. Four years for taking someones life . No way. Smile if you want. Its okay. You can smile. Come on. Walk with me. Reporter outside new yorks Bedford Hills correctional facility, freedom and the media are waiting. Were not going to take my questions. Reporter her release sparking headlines. Although, for now, angelika lets her attorney rich portale do the talking. Shes grateful for this day. Shes grateful to be able to breathe in the fresh air, walk in the fresh air. Reporter we first met her in 2015 in the Orange County new york jail when she didnt know if she would ever again see the outside world. Tonight, we have a new interview under very different circumstances with questions she is only nowree to answer. Why didnt you go right over to him and let him i couldnt reach him. Reporter how co why not . Free. U aheres the good news, ye reporter 20 20s camas once again following angelika she tries to revive her interrupted life. Driving away from prison, she reconnects with her younger sister back in latvia. Ciao [ speaking russian ] reporter while she was locked up, she became an aunt. I love babies, theyre so beautiful reporter angelika enjoys her first taste of freedom with friends. How does it taste . Delicious. Definitely better than jail food. Reporter she borrows a guitar, strumming a metallica song. The tune is called nothing else matters. An appropriate anthem for someone who just escaped a murder charge. And nothing else matters angelikas odyssey begins more than two years earlier, when she and vince embark on an illadvised adventure. Not quite up the creek without a paddle, but close enough. The hudson river snakes three 315 miles from the peeks of the ed a radirondacks all the way down to new york harbor. Just before you reach the city, though, hidden between Storm King Mountain and breakneck ridge. You may spy a half forgotten place known as bannermans island, a deserted island, crowned by the tumble down ruins of a castle. I love that place, yeah. Reporter why do you love it so much . The history, the its just beautiful. Have you ever been . Reporter i have. I just love it. Reporter Angelika Graswald a native of latvia, living in poughkeepsie, new york, was drawn to the strange magic of the place, captivated by its eerie charm. You wouldnt expect a place like that in new york, you know . With a castle. Who expects a castle here . I come from europe. Theres castles all over the place there, but here, its real. Reporter felt like a little bit of home maybe for you. Yeah. Somewhat. Reporter if the island was angelikas castle, Vince Viafore was her knight. They shared a love of the outdoors and kayaking, which she says they had done together about a dozen times. We both loved the river. We both loved being on water. Reporter what is it about it thats so alluring to you . Being down to the earth, down to the water, good for pictures. Good for sunsets. Reporter vinces mother, mary ann, says vince loved a good time. Hes the guy who was the life of the party. He had these dance moves that everybody would get around him and cheer him on. What an awesome guy. Reporter why do you think the two of you clicked . We had a lot in common. He was, he was just like me. Very open, friendly. Um, risktaker. He was adventurous. He liked living on the edge. Reporter both had been married twice before, but angelika and vince were ready to take the plunge again. We were gonna go to my country and get married on the baltic sea. Reporter on the beach. Yeah. Reporter why there . Why not . Because my family wouldnt come here and i wanted them to be there. And we also wanted to go to bannermans island and take pictures there with the castle in the backdrop. Reporter for your wedding . I just, i love that place, yeah. Reporter and then one sunday afternoon in april 2015, as Traffic Cameras confirm, they set off in vinces white jeep for an adventure. Their first time kayaking to bannermans island. So it was his idea to go there that day. Well we both wanted to go. Reporter you both wanted to go yeah. Reporter you both wanted to go to bannermans island that day. Yes. Reporter it was a bad idea. Experts say their kayaks were wrong for the river, more suited for a lake or a pond. The water was cold, just 48 bone chilling degrees. And then there was the forecast. Do you remember what the weather was like specifically that day . It was a little cold. But it was, you know, it didnt look dangerous or anything. Reporter according to the local news, a storm was brewing. Clouds will be increasing later this afternoon into tonight and then showers develop before dawn. Reporter angelika says as usual, vince didnt wear a lifejacket that day, but she says he insisted she put one on. After a few beers, and a couple hours taking pictures on the island, the sun is low. They hurry for their kayaks and head back across the hudson. But angelika says the river is rough, swamping vinces kayak, pitching him into the water, dark and killing cold. Angelika says vince yells at her to call 911. But i dont see him, oh my god. Can you see the kayak still . No. The kayak went underwater. Oh my god. Alright, weve got a boat in the water already heading down to you, okay . Okay. The wateis very cold, im afraid hes oh my god. What made it so serious was the time of the year. Reporter jeff schaack, in charge at a nearby yacht club, helped coordinate rescue efforts. It was april and it was cold out. I think he drowned, i need him to be rescued. Okay. Where did you guys go into the river . The boat is coming towards me right now. Reporter angelikas 911 call ends abruptly. Somehow at that moment she too capsized and went into the deadly cold water. Where did you guys go in at . Angelika . Reporter a rescue boat quickly plucks angelika from the river. What condition was she in . She was obviously cold, wet, uh, frantic. Reporter but vince had simply disappeared on that dark april night. Allowed by the riv. It changes your whole world. Of course, you hope he made it to shore or he was unconscious somewhere. Reporter whatever happened to vince, Police Quickly begin to suspect it may not have been an accident. When we come back, angelika volunteers to help police out with their investigation, and finds herself in an awkward position. Astonishing admissions caught on tape. She says she can explain what she said in jail, what she says now. Did you really want him dead . No. Reporter stay with us. Res. I like diet coke. Its super good. And now they have new flavors, like feisty cherry. Oh yeah, im totally into this. 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Reporter while kayaking on the hudson river, Angelika Graswald lost the man she says was the love of her life. But even as she helped search for Vince Viafores body, her behavior struck some as strange. As cold as the river. Vinces mother, mary ann. She wasnt sitting there crying, thats for sure. I dont know. She just went about her business. Reporter business like posting a lighthearted video, doing a cartwheel. Woo yay reporter and five days later, at a memorial gathering at a bar, breaking out in a karaoke version of Hotel California. In the Hotel California reporter but that was nothing compared to what police say angelika did 10 days after vince disappeared in the river. She had taken flowers to bannermans island for vince. Detectives follow. One of them claims angelika takes him aside and blurts out a jawdropping confession. She wanted vince to drown. She pulled the drain plug on his kayak so it would fill with water and sink and removed a ring connecting the two halves of his paddle. But none of that alleged confession was recorded. So police bring angelika to the barracks. At 3 25 in the afternoon, they lead her to the Interrogation Room, and the unblinking gaze of the camera. All right. Goyour water, right . Yeah. How you feeling . Cold. Cold . Reporter angelika is about to talk her way into a jail cell. You have the right to remain silent anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. Reporter police say earlier that day, angelika told them she did nothing to help vince. But thats not what she says in the Interrogation Room. You watched him drown. I know its difficult. I know this. No. I didnt just watch him drown. I tried to do something about it. Now, did you really wanna save him . Yeah. Yeah. Somehow. If he did not say call 911, i would have paddled the [ bleep ] out of myself and got to him somehow. Reporter while the detective in attorney rich portale says other officers search her and vinces apartment and find one of his guns is missing. And when they realized there was a gun missing, thats when they really cranked it up. cause thats when they thought, well, maybe she shot him. Reporter almost three hours into the interrogation, at about 6 20, the detective brings in his partner to play the bad cop. How are you . Hi, how you doing . Im matt. Reporter they want to know about the drain plug on the kayak, and a ring that secures the paddle, both missing from vinces kayak. How long before you guys went on your kayaking trip did you take that ring . Was it the same day . I didnt take the ring. You killed him. No, i didnt kill him. Reporter angelika and the detectives, spending the nht in a stuffy little room with no windows and no clock. Four hours in, they bring her coffee, pizza, even at about 7 00pm, a cigarette. Cigarette. Matches. Ash tray, okay . Reporter at times, when shes alone in the Interrogation Room, unaware theres a camera rolling, angelika loosens up with yoga. Even a little hopscotch. But why would angelika want vince gone in the first place . The motive, police say, is a hardboiled crime classic. And he had a Life Insurance policy. Yeah. And you were on it . Yeah. Reporter she tells police six months before his death, vince added her as a beneficiary to his Life Insurance. Another motive, may have been all those demands she says he made in the bedroom. He always wanted sex. Yeah. And you to do sexual things . Well, yeah. Okay. He wanted threesomes, porn, everything. Okay. And i was not ready. Reporter angelika says vince was threatening to call off the wedding if she didnt do the things he wanted. Did it upset you that he yes. Very much. Sort of switched that he did not wanna marry you . Yeah, of course. Who proposes to somebody and then changes their mind . Reporter but the thing many find most shocking comes early in the evening, angelika freely admitting vinces death left her feeling relieved. When you watched him in the water, was a part of you saying, my worries are going away now. Yeah. And, im free . Yes. And were you almost euphoric . Euphoric that he was gonna be gone . I just i was you felt that way . Yes. I still do. You still do . Reporter then, at about 8 30 that night, she starts talking about her dark side. What are your feelings and emotions knowing that this is about to happen . That when youre going im like, ripping in two halves. You know, angels and demons. Whats the demon side saying . The demon side, its not a good side. You guys dont want to see that side of me, nobody does. That side was telling me this is gonna happen, let it happen. Just let it. But the good side was save him, save him, save him. You can do it. You can do it. Youre strong. Why did the demon side win out . Well, cause of the way he was treating me, you know. Reporter just after 9 00 p. M. , six hours into the interrogation that would go on for 11 hours total, angelika, blearyeyed and worn down, blurts out what could be the most incriminating statement of all. You killed vinnie. Right . Youre the one telling me. No. Im asking you the question. You want me to admit it. I want you to, i want you to tell me the truth. I am telling you the truth. And what is the answer to that question . I didnt. No. I didnt want him. Angelika. What is the true answer to that question . All right. Ill give you the [ bleep ] statement. What is it . I wanted him dead and now hes gone. And im okay with it. Im okay with that. Reporter thats cold, but is it a confession . If only we could to ask angelika to explain. When 20 20 contin just that. I wanted him dead, and now hes gone. Why would you say that . Why would you say that if you didnt mean it . Reporter stay with us. 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