it is time the truth come out. the call came in the middle of the night it was their friend in a panic. he had gone missing off the boat and that is where it started what did you think? that was the ticket to the count of three repeat of that let me here on wartime type of thing no matter how many times you heard it, it just did not make sense. you think of all these things, it rushes through your head. except, this was clearly true. i just saw disaster happening, in a foreign country. you say this can t be, this can t be. i knew it. he has to be another explanation. there was some other explanation all right, it just was not the one anyone was expecting. my instinct said, this is going to go sideways fast, i just did not know which way or how. how we were going to get there. maple says a marvelous city, and his beautiful market wasn t and castigated reporter for the italian newspaper it is full of life, it is full of colors, and it is a
horrible way to go. we found a lot of things suspicious. there s no video of it happening. there s no witness testimony, there s no fingerprints. she was dead before she landed in the water. i was approached by the fbi to record my conversations. you are interrogating somebody who is a major suspect. nothing i would have ever imagined could have prepared me for this. this is just phenomenally devious what you described. yes, i realized i was being used. it is time the truth come out. the call came in the middle of the night it was their friend in a panic. he had gone missing off the boat and that is where it started what did you think? that was the ticket to the count of three repeat of that let me here on wartime type of thing no matter how many times you heard it, it just did not make sense. you think of all these things, it rushes through your head. except, this was clearly true. i just saw disaster happening, in a foreign country. you say t
Lonnie was simply telling the truth, while the fbi suspected he was responsible for his death, the bureau did not have much evidence to back up that suspicion. in december 2006, the u.s. attorney brought the case to a federal grand jury, except, the grand jury s role was only to investigate, not to issue an indictment. if you had proof that lonnie had killed his ex-wife, you would have taken to a grand jury, and gotten an indictment, and i have to believe you did not do that because you thought there wasn t anything really to prove that beyond your suspicions? we in the fbi our investigators, and our role is to find facts, whether a case is presented to a grand jury, that is a prosecutorial decision. and a justice department apparently decided there was not enough to go for it at that point. at some point to me that the termination. so the grand jury met, and no charges were filed against lonnie, he just said, see, i told you. he said i told you head into anything. two, lon
Seem credible. but i didn t know if any of the jurors felt sorry for him. five months after trial started, the case was handed to a jury. what they see an innocent man taken advantage of time and again or a heartless murder? micki s brother told she wondered. they are 14 years to come up with a story, 14 years over and over to make everything fit. after just an hour of deliberation, it all came undone. the verdict? guilty of first degree murder for financial gain. how did lonnie take it? he shook his head. he just stood there and shook his head, because i watched him. and watching him. he s shaking his head. he wouldn t look back at you? no. micki s niece, julie, had been waiting to. as soon as i heard the verdict, it was as big sense of relief. like, my aunt finally got justice. lonnie was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. he is appealing his conviction. because of a life sentence, the da s office dropped the murder for hire charge. f
mickey and lonnie brought this home in california, they married in 1995. that bliss did not last. that mueller that he initially, had that initial attraction disappeared with time. it did not take long for the two to crumble like a jungle game, when the pieces started to come out and it all toppled over. it did not take long for him to start complaining. what was she telling? you a lot of it had to do with control. control of money. he was spending a lot of money. then, certain things she wanted, she had to run it by him first. even though they were both making money, they were both contributing to the marriage, but i m in charge, i make the financial decisions here? he is in control. guys like to be in control. i have noticed that. it is kind of a shame. so the wall came tumbling down. like many relationships, this one was complicated. after six years of marriage, the couple divorced. he got an apartment in downtown l. a. near his office. you still spent time at th