A Long, Dark Stretch of Road
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How quickly life can jump from candle light dinner to this number one, are you hi 啊。 Wasn't supposed to in this way, not on a dark row, not with a gunman beside the window of their misubble, not with the crack of gunfire.

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The day had begun, like so many other lazy saturday mornings in a well heal new york city suburb of good homes, good schools and solid boundaries. Carlos arrest olivo, fifty eight, to well known criminal defense. Ve tourney was puttering around the family's two story cobo blue center hall colonial, just three doors down from their very famous neighbor's bill and hillery clinton in the desirable village of chapeau.

A Carlos's wife, Peggy, fifty five, worked as a teaching assistant during the week, Carlos jobes reported to her second job of shopping the town's upscale boutin on the weekends. Carlos, Peggy, two older boys were off on their own. Now carlito s.

Twenty nine, had followed in his dad's footsteps and was now a lawyer were said twenty three was out in colorado finishing college alysia sixteen, a bubble high school cheer later, was still living at home. SHE was going out with friends that night. After raising three children in their almost thirty years of marriage, Carlos and Peggy were enjoying their new freedom from the unrelenting pace of full of time parenting duties we wanted.

Enjoy ourselves while we were Young. I think we both were deadly afraid of getting old and um you know we saw too many people who uh became old and then couldn't really enjoy them so they have money.

So that evening they decided to make a night on the town of IT. Peggy went on the internet and box and movie tickets, the plan, drive into new york, see the film, maybe do a little shopping and have a nice dinner.

We going to go in her car, but they didn't have gas. So we went in mind.

had a little bit gas. IT was november eighteen, two thousand six, the week before thanksgiving. And new york wasn't yet overrun with the usual madness. The Christmas season would bring the calm before the holiday storm.

And we walked around for about twenty minutes because if we required early, uh, you wants to see the stores and we walk back. We saw the movie later.

They went to a favorite french bee pro.

We had a wonderful dinner.

What a Cosmopolitans on the table that night. Yes.

pick had two or three, I don't know. I had about five, six. We enjoyed going out to dinner, and we enjoyed having a drink.

But now IT was time for the hour, drive home north to chain as they started to make their way out of the city. Frank ferrell, a one of his closest friends from their college days at colombia, had played telephone tag with Peggy that evening. I could tell that theyd been out to dinner is on there because he was very happy and very bubble, and he was actually even trying to speak with a french access. Carlos, as usual, that the driving.

Normally we get in the car and you put on the classical rock station, and invariably you would fall asleep.

Alysia, their sixteen year old, called her mom cellphone as they were driving home from the city, asking them to pick her up at a friend's house. Later that night.

he was having a really good time and told her I loved her and he loved me, and my dad says he loves me too.

caro said. Peggy soon draws back to sleep. Meanwhile, the fuel gage was reading low. Caro said he was determined to make IT to his favorite gas station, the one with the rock bottom Prices, but also off the highway, down a dark stretch of road. When I came to a gallon of gas, Carlos was as tight as a tick.

Where's I might to spend whatever I wanted to spend on meals or bottle wine, for whatever reason. The idea is spending fifteen cents more gallon from one station during other was offensive to me.

The stretch of route one hundred he accepted onto was quiet at that out. But Carlos wasn't apprehensive. He was on familiar term, even though he was an attorney who defended some of the worst low life's new york city had. Often, once he crossed that county line, he always breathe the sigh relief.

That's why we moved up to wish us, because we got up here. That was safer.

But this auto night, something was very different. In the past three months, Carlos had stopped practicing law. He'd been this borne after some clients that accused him of running off with their money. And while he said he was relieved to be moving on to a new stage in his life, he had left behind a trail of angry former clients.

There have been some threats and some problems. Obviously, the people who weren't happy with me.

you represented some tough customer.

Yes.

I or any of them present tense in your life.

At that point. I had got ten some threats year before, six months before, been communicated to U. S. attorneys.

And so Carlos made his way toward the gas station. Heggie was sound to sleep in the seat beside them, the radio droning old days. He'd looked back at that moment later, thinking, life had never seen Better.

What a nice evening out. IT had been a marriage still attacked after thirty years, three accomplished children. And he was finally out from, under the relentless pressure of practicing law.

was like a taken off my shoulders, enjoying myself. I was able to be more home than I was before.

But the concept of home time with Peggy was about to be changed forever. A car had loomed up out of nowhere, overtaking now, cutting him on the car had stopped in a ball cat man with a gun had jumped out of the back.

He could do the dry from manhattan to his home in west chester on auto pipe. But in seconds on this saturday night, on a dark stretch of road, striking trouble had found color pareja evo, as he recounts the night.

driving in all the on this card, just kind of cut in front of me. My concern at the moment was not get into an accident for the obvious reason that I don't want the tops of, because I had been drinking.

cut off and forced to decide the road by an older model, dark coloured sedan that looked to him like a my .

next reaction was to get out the car .

in yet of them. But in an instant, a man wearing genes in a baseball cap of color to the king of colombian was standing by his car window.

pointing a gun to him. That rules I should do, but the government reverse, were, are shared. Try to hit the. Car, but I didn't, and he got into the back seat. I then reacted.

Carlo started wrestling with the gun.

They try to grab the gun and twisted. We started struggling. He was pulling away. I was trying to pull this way to turn. Twister was using this hand as leveraged shots went off, and I wound up in back. I and I remember a burning, stinging sensation.

Carmon's knew he had been shot. Peggy still looked to sleep in the passenger seat up front. The gunman fled because car los got back in the driver seat.

I turned the car on. I picked up the phone. As I start to drive away, I called nine, eleven, the side, the road and one thirty three. I'm trying to, no, I, trying to get through .

the Carlos, bleeding from his lower left side, started driving quantic ally to the nearest hospital about fifteen minutes away. Okay, are you and asking.

what are you and asking me.

asking you more .

about what I was trying to tell him about description of the car, whatever. All they keep asking me was, where are you? Where are you? Are you pull over and wait for the ambuLance? To the hospital.

to. Peggy was now slumming over in the passenger seat.

Kid didn't move all away, and I draw as fast as I could. I just wanted to get somebody out to get attention to her because he was my job to take care and protective, like and protect my family. And I obviously in a very good job of that. So, you know, at least I could try to do with make sure that you got whatever medical attention he could at .

the hospital. Color lines, the S, U, V. In the guard post, the hospital security cameras catch him leaving the mizi vishy, trying to get help for himself.

And is why I just got out of the car as soon as I couldn't, I try to get in to get .

in medical assistance. Carlos was rushed into the emergency room.

They took me into a room, and I remember I being upset because I thought they were working on me and not doing anything with her.

The doctors gave him a sensitive to calm down. He'd been shot in the side of his stomach. Peggy had taken a bullet to the head. The couple's daughter, alesia, waited at her friend's house for a ride home that never came.

I kept on calling my parents and they weren't picking up. And my parents always .

pick up the phone no matter what else is brother, mr.

Said was a way of college when he got the news to call home. And dads can be OK. They won't sure about my mom. I need to get home as soon as possible.

At least you got the same news. Before dawn, her parents in a car accident, family friends came to take her to their house to spend the rest of the night on the way there. SHE convinced herself IT was just scrapes. And Bruce.

I like, my mom is fine, because my mom is always very healthy. And I was like me, I was like, know, a breast album, something like that.

But when he woke up the next morning, older brother, car leads, told her what had happened to their parents. SHE went to see her dad.

He was crying. Was strictly just saying, my Peggy, my pei, I just asking for my mom, my ground, Peggy, he was holding onto my hand and I ve never seen my dad car. I've never seen crumble and be so to shovel.

Other family members and friends started descending on the hospital as the awful new spray, Robert buckey found his close friend Carlos in human.

in shark, in grief, drugged.

And he even show himself he was almost inconsolable. He wish ed, he was dead. Frank ferro also rushed to the hospital to be with colors.

He was a broken, he, he was really a broken man. Everybody was destroying. Colors was destroy. The kids were destroy, friends were destroy.

And how can this happen? exactly? How could this have happened? Hegg, fifty five years old, the mother of three, was down the court, or still alive, but only barely.

The fifty five year old woman being kept allied by machines in a suburban new york city hospital was an unlikely target for an unknown assailants bullet to the head. SHE was wife, mother, teachers .

assist.

Thousand nine hundred seventies, before flying became a mission, flight attendants were still known as stories, and peggie was one of them flying for the now to find airlines. IT was a career that still had a slide or a glamor to, and I got Peggy open away from her big family of seven sisters and one brother in their little bungalow, lex ton, kentucky Laural abasic said her older sister, Peggy was determined to find adventure and escape the slow lane of their small southern city.

Picking on and excitement, he was the first one in the family to um get out of town and Peggy .

with a thousand what smile and personality to match would soon catches the attention of one of the frequent fliers on her trips to porter rica a charismatic up and .

coming lawyer carless parade olivo carless was very romantic, sensitive. He spoiled Peggy garden. And you know, most of us were pretty jealous that Peggy was doing exciting things and here he had this man who gave her just everything that he could dream .

of colors with his impeachment manners and big spender ease sweat the small town girl and her family right off their feet.

He was very much the ladies man. He could charm us carless love to take everybody out for dinner and bad one and steps in, and the types of things we learn to customer to.

And soon the dashing lawyer and the pretty store us were married, and the couple's first baby arrived. A year later, Peggy turned into their wings to be a stay at home more and new babies arrived .

like clock ward. And every six years, SHE had a child. And I used to kid her and tell her that he would have a child. SHE didn't want to go back to work.

The family was finally complete with their two boys and a little girl. Alyssa said he couldn't have picked a Better family.

I love my family so much. My mom sparred me to death inside of my dad, and I have very, very protective brothers. And I think I really had the perfect child.

both colors. And Peggy dove in .

the parenting. Our joy was our children. And I did the things that other parents, I guess, do I, I became a socket coach, not knowing anything about soccer, basically join life with my children, with my wife, work with something I did because I was good at IT and because I had to earn a living to the support my family.

Some families may run on a well calculated master plan of upward mobility, but the Perez l labels weren't one of them. The money came and went. Money was a particularly important to colors, in a sense.

If he had IT, they spent IT. When he was making a lot of money, you would pull out your while to pay for something. They don't put IT away. Looking back, even carless thought sometimes he was a little too free spending.

But we win. The two old boy, my carlito, was driving the porch converted to high school.

But when the money dried up, the family simply treated sales.

Our family is like a role coaster and always been that way will have these wonderful highs of, you know, doing what we like to these kind of lose. But I was never just for in our house or a time of panic. IT was just like.

alright, hold off a little bit. That's how just went to my family. Sometimes, I mean, eventually everything always even that and was fine.

But in one thousand nine hundred and ninety six, Carlos s. Practice hit the kid's hard, so much so that Carlos decided to leave chappaqua, porter reo, to jump start his law career. He also hoped he might pull him out of a growing depression that he believed was triggered by a bad bout of line disease.

All of I couldn't stand cold where the, I couldn't stand this now, I couldn't. I thought I was going to, basically. Guy, so I told that you look at pig, you know, let me, let me go back.

We go. I have contacts there. Um I can work there.

The family tried to make the best of bit by nineteen ninety nine, after three sometimes restless years in porter, Carlos was itchy to move back to chap qua, the money manhattan suburb, weather be damned.

I figured I was welling up because I come to with three times the, I stays on cases during the winter, and I didn't seem to me. So we move back.

What followed was almost a vagabone experience, the family living in a hotel, then a crap department over in a posty shop. They even relied on the kindness of a family friend for a simple roof over their heads.

We lived in our friend's basement for, I think, the summer, and then we lived in a hotel room for a little about all .

of us had to be time as a family.

Know what things. Never really got tough, even in the worst times. We are living above a poll.

Story, story, and never was hard. I was never stressful. I still remember really a great memories and just hanging out, only really loving each other.

And soon Carlos was up and running again with new clients. And before long, they're settled into a nice home in chap. Even after all their years together, alysia says her parents still held hands and cuddled as though they were teens themselves.

They are always together. I don't think I could ever find them, not together, will be reading together, sitting together, watching T, V. Everything was together. They have got along beautifully. They are constant holding hands, which sometimes as a teenager, especially as like o come on.

like stop IT with her kids. All but full grown peggie had found work is the teachers assistant at one of the town's grade schools rewarding despite the paltry salary.

SHE was a wonderful teacher. He worked with special needs kids, and the students have really loved her, and they made her like cards. And IT is really good.

By two thousand and six, seven years after their experiment in porter reo, the family seemed as good as up. Carlos even took his girls Peggy and alysia for a spurge trip to FLorence in february .

of that year. Art museums and shopping and IT is beautiful.

Everyone in the family seem to be doing well. Carlitos, the oldest hatten, married that August, and callers and Peggy had thrown him a nice party at the house and help pay for the honeymoon. Alesia was soaring at the high school, Amber said, who transferred from west point to a color to college that he felt was a Better fit, was finishing up his senior year. IT was a good season in the family. All in all.

I had everything I want. Family was good. I was good.

I was. I had to finish school. I doing stuff. I loved her whole future, had me and now, yeah, things are going great.

But there were secrets in that nice colonel in Carlos had been disbarred in August. His law career finished in disGrace after clients that accused him of spending their money that he told in trust. Was his own family even aware? And of course, he hadn't told Peggy about the mistress of ten years, the one time shop assistant from porter rio, nor had he owned up to calling escort girls for occasional sex. So that night, the car with the gunman ambushed them on a dark road. There were things that Peggy would never learn about her husband.

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While colosSally wounded in a hospital bed, the grim reality started to break through the haie of drugs the doctors had given to the data. Doctors had been unable to save Peggy after he suffered a catastrophe shot to the head.

My wife is dead, yes, and i'm alone. And i'm responsible for IT one way or another. Because if IT was random, I didn't react well. And if IT wasn't random, IT was because of me. And SHE never heard anybody.

SHE never did anything wrong.

anybody. SHE didn't deserve that.

What had happened that night was IT a failed car jacking or perhaps a disgruntled mer client out for event as a defensive tourney. I mean, he dot with some strange guys, and you've been doing this for about twenty five thirty years. connects.

Friends had always worried about some of the rough characters he'd represented. If you're a lawyer defending heroes en dealers and you get poor results, you could develop set enemies you could in. In fact, there were instances where he actually did have some threats. And laurel, about sky, knew her sister Peggy had always been concerned about the high risk that attended her husband's s work .

as a criminal defense. Ney did get pretty reliable threads, and I know that they had very aborted walk in systems and whatever on the house. SHE bolted .

herself self in the night.

Yeah, he said, well, in carlo system and work, you know, he gets threats and staff and he were just, you know, kind of cautious.

But now all of colors and Peggy precautions were for not detective marc Simons got the call that saturday night that they'd been a double shooting in the upscale bedroom community he served. What kinds of crimes are you usually called to investigate?

I would say mostly property crimes, burglary, theft, larceny, criminal missions, drunk driving and so for .

so when you get .

to call a gunch victims, that's ual.

Detective Simons raced to the hospital. The first thing, he seizes the mitsubishi m into the guard post.

all four doors were open. The car had had blood in IT. There was notice of a bullet hole, though. There was a shell city sitting on the back seat. There was a black coat sitting on the back seat with a White plastic bag shooting from within the fault of the code.

First glen's observations, little that explained itself.

I don't have very many facts at this point, other than ask the person who was involved.

what happened? Detective Simon was LED into Carlos hospital room. Carlos told him about the ambush .

a person had gotten into his vehicle into the vacation with a weapon, and he attempted to take that weapon from the assailant during wh time. Shots were fire in the car.

Because he's telling you.

is this does that makes sense? Is applause usial? Well, yes, he tells me he's an attorney that he's represented various clients, some of which weren't happy.

He's got some tough character. He represented absolutely people that might be out for revenge because I thought i've got a radial. absolutely.

The police worked through the night collecting bits and pieces of evidence from the S. U. V and from the general roadside area where colors had described the ambush taking place.

they found blood on the road.

In a mr said, finally arrived at .

the airport when I got there, my brother, his bathroom and my best room there, waiting for me in the bag plan. And I knew right away that my mother had died. Pretty much the .

facts were overwhelming. His mother dead from a gunshot wounds to the head his father shot, lying wounded in a hospital bed, mr. Said, paced the court while he waited to see his father.

Yeah, fun. Let me in and you burst that cry. yeah. And that. I got, no, i'm sorry, i'm sorry, going to protest.

Or did he tell you anything about the incident itself at that point? He said.

now he was this crime. I mean, he looks, skin, you look pair. I mean, he was shot in stomach and from us, told by the doctors of stuff that had been an inch to the side, IT would hit a major ordering and kill them .

from his hospital bed. Carlos told the police the details he could remember. Did he have a make model color of the vehicle?

Yes, there was a total to light vehicle and described IT as boxy, not rounded, as the newer models are, as he given .

you a description of they are.

He didn't say he was .

a spack detective sims summed a sketch artist to the hospital. Carlos described an olive skin man, maybe colombian scrumpy, wearing a baseball cap in gene, as an experience ed criminal defensive tourney. He urged investigators to get the sketch out immediately before the gunmen disappear.

When I gave him the sketch, I also told him luck. And this is a hit because there are the ones that started to ask me if I gotten reads in the center. I said, this is some kind of a hit. This guy is going to be out of the country.

even as the police released the sketch to the local media and gave them some details of the crime. Now not clear if they were victims of road rage or calculated ambush, the shocking news was filling out to pegg's large family spread all across the country.

My sister jane called me, and I just picked up the phone, and he was quiet for a minute. SHE goes pay's dead. She's been shot and he was just pretty hysterically. And I was just, you know, dumb. Founded.

the family had the sketches of details about the roadside among, but IT sounded to them like a revenge killing rooted in Carlos's criminal defense practice.

We were concerned that you know, somebody was unhappy with and had ordered a hit.

and now the family had even more to worry about with the hit man return to finish the job.

Peggie Perez olivo had been murdered on a west chester roadside. Her family and friends gathered to say their goodbye at the funeral. At least he remembers thinking a small turn of ashes was all that remained of her mother. Alesia was a childhood end.

This is my time to be a grown up. This was the first time that I had to pull myself together and take .

care of people. O, O.

that was the day the detective.

marc Simons, was among the mornings.

A detective and I went to the memorial service.

Would expect to get in that kind of thing.

You can try to pay a little respect. I mean, you are gone to be charged with investigating the death of this woman. You do watch. You watch to see there, to see if, and you never know, you're going to be around people that may have involved to share with you.

The police so far had turned up nothing. No older toyo ta no columban with a baseball cap at the house after the funeral, Carlos could not stop talking about the shooting.

The one way he put IT to me was the one time in his life that he was called on to protect Peggy, and he failed. And, you know, IT was a lot of, if I had this, if I had that, if I hadn't, you fought with the gun, manu second guessing himself.

and he felt guilty, and he was .

just destroyed. He had nights yours. He couldn't sleep.

Restless nights, bleak days. The father alesia kwo was gone.

He isn't there. He just wasn't part of him, just died. My mom made him whole try to give me a hug. Bit can only move because the short wound and after that was just a very, very different. My life was turned up upside down for sure.

Peggy sister laurel abbasi did what he could do help her brother in law.

He had a room off the kitchen, and he had a rocking chair, and he would just sit in the corner and people would go in and, you know, spend time sitting with him. If he felt like talking, we would talk. And if you, you know, just wanted to sit and stare out in the spacing, that's pretty much what he did, just staring and just crying. Carlos was, he was an agony. I mean, there is just no way to described the grief.

More said, who always been particularly close to his mom, try to comfort his father while confronting his own grief.

No one never love you in the way your mother dush, you know. And dam, I felt like, god, have I got support me taking out from the underneath me at .

least he was having a hard time even accepting that her mother was dead for .

a long time afterwards, I believed that my mom was still gona pull into the driveway and that IT was a bad T, V, show. Print as like, this is, this is not you. This when that happened to my family, my family, the perfect family. That's what my friends say, that when I happened to us.

as the family struggled with grief in the days after the funeral, they were also on edge that the killer might come back to finish the job, so much so that Frank ferro, a former college football player, spent the first week sleeping at the end of Carlos is bad. Concerned general safety, I slit at the foot of the bed .

and one of his friends actually slipped out the whole way .

because we weren't sure whether this was a hit or not. So you're a big guy. If someone was to come back, the'd have to get passed you to get to him, right? Three days after the shooting, as friends and family kept there around the close vigil in the house, Carlos barely functioned in his grief, often to speak to the detectives alone. As he said in his bedroom, wearing his bathroom.

I told, I know you have to look at the human first, so, you know, talk to anybody you want. You want the names of people that we know here are the name, and talk to them. Because I want you to realize that there is no reason why I would do this is absolutely no reason.

And yet, the detectives were soon to discover there may be of reasons to look at colors per zo evo. Starting with this precarious situation is an out of work at turning with lots of bills piling up. There was also a big insurance policy on his wife, Peggy IT was falling to the police officers of the small community in west chester county, new york, to determine what had happened on a darker and roadway in their town. But things like this just never happened.

Carlos Perez l. Evo had told the police a horrifying story. After a night out in manhattan, he and his wife had been ambushed by a gunman. SHE was shot in the head. 非洲 heat was shot in the stomach。 Twelve days after the shoot, colors per reza evo agreed to a company that detectives to new york city to retrace the root of where he's gone. On that saturday of the shooting.

I had nothing to hide.

Detective Simons and his partner picked up Carlos .

at his house. We should take us the way he went, and he did. And we drove down the city. Initially, when he got in the car, he yet up a pen, and he was quick in the pen quickly, quick.

Like, why strike?

Well, I just wondered, are you nervous? Are you upset? What's causing you to do .

when they return to west chester? Detective Simons, as colors to guide them to the spot where the ample occurred.

We recovered items from not seeing where we think this police occur initially. We won't past that. Bt, and he stopped as and I said, no, we're too far north.

Turn around and we start back up again. We stop this knob to far south. So we we played for a little while in that area until he finally settled on where he thinks ocurred. There's a long done at this point. I'm wondering if he doesn't know, but as we got up to the area where we believe has occurred, he started to click lock and unlock the electro x in the car.

Maybe if Carlos was edge IT was because of a secret he's disclosed to the detectives the day before he told the investigators that he knew theyd look for a girlfriend and that they would find.

He brings that to our attention. That's how we first run of this one.

IT was an affair with a Younger woman. He had met in porter reo, and he had lasted for a decade.

IT was, in a sense of character, hi, I never looked at another woman for the first twenty years that that i've been married. I don't know my wife. They deserve IT. I have no excuse or SHE current .

tense in your life.

No, we had stop about two years or two and a half years or a year and half before, uh, and I was like an on and off situation. And I had always basically told her, you know, i'm married to have children. I'm not onna break up my family yet.

Some months before the shooting, he said the lover had called to say he'd married and had a baby. They resume as phone friends.

We talk to me once every two weeks. At three weeks.

you call the day of the shooting. That would turn out was also the former lovers birthday, carlo said, sent his old flame flowers.

I did. I did I had not sent her anything the year or two years before that I was with center flowers. Uh, and I chose to do at that time because we had talked every so often and I felt that as a friend, as IT was a good will kind of gesture。

Carlo had called the woman from the city hours before the shooting to see if she's got in the flowers. So now you have a wife who's been shot to that, and a man who's telling you that he has a lover who is maybe past tense. But this is a well, it's class like part of homicide case.

There was a long term affair at ten years whether or not IT was concluded when he said he did, you know but so yeah that that is an element to this and as an element to this.

not good facts for a man with a murdered wife and no sign of the assailant from the back seat. But to Carlos IT was as meaningless as IT was only circumstantial. He, of all people, a criminal defensive turney would never be that stupid.

I mean, stop and think about IT OK you think i'm going to send the next girlfriend? He is a girlfriend lowers that night. I'm supposed to go and kill my wife.

IT be the stupidest thing to do. Okay, I mean, you know, and i'm the one that told the police. I said, look, I send flowers, but ababa, you're not going to find. I made a phone call that night. You're not going to find IT on the phone because I used the card that I had that I used to call outside the country.

His friend Robert bucket knew all about the girlfriend and shrugged IT off a number of new of the affair. We knew when IT ended, IT had been over eighteen months before the incident. And yet, right at the time of the crime, I sensor birthday flowers.

SHE was still a friend. Do you believe IT was a hot and heavy ongoing thing? Absolutely not.

The affair was sex. IT wasn't the kind of relationship. The car of some big hand does IT say. Therefore, the marriage was unhappy? no.

IT says at that point in the marriage, as people get older, as women change interests in their sex, life changes, he would never leave begging, never leave begging. Loral about sky doesn't know whether her sister knew about a girlfriend or not, but SHE wasn't shocked to learn that there was one. One thing everyone seemed to know about Carlos was how much he doted on women.

He loved women and Carlos needed you know uh he was a person who liked detention and affection and I don't know what was going on in their lines but if IT just didn't surprise me that um carless would have somebody to fulfill needs of, he thought he needed more attention than he was getting.

But while the adults could may be understanding in the big picture context of a thirty year marriage, the news hit his son hard.

I wasn't happy for that. We mad at your dad. Yeah, yeah. I was. I was very mad of them.

But while Carlos, admittedly, they may not have ben a model husband, no one could say he wasn't CoOperating fully with the police, laying out his imperfections, giving them potential lead, trying to help. Carlos even suggested that he offer a hundred thousand dollar reward to anyone with information leading to the arrest of his wife's killer. Andy pushed the detectives to wire him up to a polygraph.

Give me a light decor. I don't care.

You'd be willing to take one anytime.

I have nothing to hide. I have nothing to hide. The detectives .

decided not to give Carlos polygraph s since they can be used in new york's state court room, but they also didn't need a lie detector test to tell them that there were strength and collops account of an unknown armed to sailed chief among the reasons to believe him, he d taken a shot himself. And there was, as long as your ARM ruster, a former clients who potentially might want to settle the score with colors.

From the outset, detectors had wondered whether Peggy per eza evo was a wrong time, wrong place, victim of a hit man, someone intent on taking out her husband for getting sideways with one of the tough customers, heat represent. And buckley, who'd worked briefly with car los is law practice, told detectives that they might want to check out one of them from a recent high profile case that the two had worked on together. A man ate elio.

Crews believe Carlos had botched his defense when he got sentenced to prison for killing his wife's lover. Had cruise hired a hit man from his prison cell as payback, you believe that he had made a threat directly against carlo and his family? I had been told that he did.

So maybe the mystery of what happened out in the dark roadway might be explained by talking to Ellie grows. yes. Prior to the shooting, Carlos says he heard that cruise was trying to even the school.

I got a call from an extent telling me that he had overheard conversations afterwards of mister cruce saying that he was going to ruined my life like his life was ruined.

Detective Simons chased down that way.

What he had told this is that he would have IT. Both he and his family were very unhappy with the outcome of the case.

Hey, maybe absolutely, but detectives had hopes of a breakthrough in the case they didn't have the murder with, but there was a large lake right near where the ambush had taken place. Had the gunman thrown the firearm in, the police divers were assembled for what do we have to lose kind of search?

The shoulder of the road where caro said a gunman shot him and killed his wife is just yards from the bank of a good size lake. Here's a body of water. It's a perfect place to get rid of a gun.

New york's state trooper Christian mccarthy dive team was dispatched to the lake side on little more than the homicide detectors. Haunch check out the lake. We were just told that there was a murder weapon that was missing and IT might be in here.

The lake was covered with ice and snow, and we asked the tree to meta and tell us about that searches dive team made four days after pegg's death. Their point of reference was the spot on the shoulder where a blood rops had been found. Had the killer perhaps toss the gun from that very place?

The thought being that is somebody got out of their car that that might be where they throw the gun right there, rather than walking up and down the road or driving to another location. As they've done on hundreds of investigations, the divers mapped out a grip with lines coming back to the ground zero of the blood rop, and plunged into the monkey lake. Once you hit the bottom, the silt get smocked up and you're in a cloud of silt, and you just can't see anything, not even an inch. Its total black knight finding a handgun mired in a silty button, if they even existed, struck the veteran diverse as long odds they figured they be day searching the grades.

I would say. As troper mccarthy .

kicked his way just above the bottom, he trailed a gloved hand, finding stones, muck. Then there IT was the heft .

I hold IT .

up out of the cell, and i'm staring at a handgun.

I was amazed, ed, he was a needle in a haste. And now i'm looking at what might be a murder weapon.

Very lucky day of the, a very lucky day. Amazingly, they'd retrieve the gun and old sea automatic. But was that the gun used to murder Peggy? That was a question only the experts could answer.

Tony toted did the ballistics work for west chester county at the time. In the homicide of Peggy Perez l. evo. He now had three valuable things to compare.

The actual bullet slogged the medical examiner had removed from the victim's head, spent shell casings found at the scene, and the mystery gun fished out of the nearby lake total always examine the gun, and then fired a sample standard procedure to help me make us finding that was the weapon that produce those shell cases. And you can say that with a certainty out, a lot of dismal points. Oh, absolutely.

This weapon fired. This bullet. I have no waivers factor to when I say it's the firearm. It's the firearm, the needle in a haystack recovery of the hand gun, hand, the ballistic test. Finding that IT was definitively the murder weapon was .

a major breakthrough. Huge is a place at years. So we now have the murder weapon.

And then you've got to put the murder weapon in someone.

something.

with his initial interviews, concluded the detective, step back to look at the big picture of his case. And there was a part of the husband story. He didn't quite get something common sense really. And IT had to do with going down out of the way roads looking for gas.

IT did strike me as odd to get gas there to save, I think, what was kind of a nominal amount.

and he had to go out of his way to save a few cents.

IT seems a bit odd, having been in the city at a fairly not an expensive dinner just a hour before sticking is on.

As the detectives speculated on the hit man revenge theory of the crime, how was IT that the assailant, new Carlos, would be on that spirit highway where he said he was overtaken miles from his home?

If you're going to lay and wait for somebody, you have to pretty much know where .

they are gonna be and when. IT only made sense if the husband had been follow. So Simons found security camera pictures documenting parts of Carlos and Peggy day in new york.

You looking to see video, what's the dominie s what are you seeing on that camera? Is somebody following them?

The video shows the couple entering a theater, but there isn't anyone obviously casing them.

Didn't see anybody lurking in the back or apparently following them. We had video of them both purchasing the tickets, walking through the theater, waiting outside, I believe, the bathroom at one point, then walking into the movie. There he was fairly unremarkable, just a man, his wife, at a movie.

and coming home with the toll booth. The camera doesn't record a vegal older japanese car following detective Simon spent hours analyzing the video from that night. Looking at a video.

you can tell if somebody y's following somebody or not. There's a constant flow of vehicles through IT in new york city toll barrier on a saturday night.

though the detective noted with interest there was a car matching that description ahead of them at the top.

What I did say is a car, a boxy kindi OTA ford, similar to the one described us.

Could one of those cars have belong to the gn? But the detective was also learning more about that backseat struggle carlo had related in some detail ARM restating the man for the gun over the front sea console, ending up himself in the rear .

of the vehicle, no any footprints or scuffed ks across the dashboard or the seats. We also found in the back of the car there was a newspaper on the floor of the, and just said rear where this assailant got in, but the newspaper wasn't torn or stepped ed on IT didn't look like IT i'd been disturbed IT didn't .

look as though they had been a struggle in this back seat.

Well I didn't. And again, remembering that the coat was still sitting in the center of the seat, would this bag coming out of IT still in the seat in the middle? Two people that let out their car almost seems to me that that would have been dragged out onto the floor, at least out the side of the vehicle, but that wasn't the case.

The county crime scene text had also analyzed scorching from the muscle blast, measured the angles of the bullets trajectories, and mapped out the blood spatter. And what they found wasn't matching Carlos's account of the struggle .

IT just didn't seem postle that for the series sequence of shots to have occur, the way he describe .

them started with peggie. The victim, the M. E, determined that the gun had been fired right near the back of her head. The bullet went straight and true, not ankled up or down. An amazing shot for a gun being wildly photo.

The medical examiner tells me that in his opinion, the bullet that struck and killed her was fired from a bottom inch from the back of her head, and IT was straight and level.

Another bullet went into the fabric beneath the roof. The angle of entry dictated to the county ballistics experts where the gun had been when I was fired.

When they looked at the angle eventually of that bullet hole, IT appears to be coming from towards the outside of the car, rather than inside the car.

Another bullet hatred, a rear glass panel, the angle told the country's experts. IT was fired straight into the glass like Peggy, fatal wound. My findings were that that hole in that glass was straight on ninety degrees. IT was hard for investigators to understand how that symbol, let could go through the side of Carlos a stomach during the struggle and then continue through the car window accident at a clean ninety degree angle.

IT seems like IT would be impossible to get yourself up into that position where that bullet could go through him and then go through that glass .

at the angle and other questions. Carlos overcoat folded on the back seat. Sticking out of the pocket was a small White garbage bag. Inside the bag, crime scene analysts found gunshot residue.

Seems that that was a tremendous ly high concentration of gunpowder .

residue inside that my totally non expert brain could see gunshots being fired in a contained area, and its raining down particles of something that's gonna detectable .

to the lab for IT to get down inside, in a pocket, in a bag, down in there, in the concentration that he is that he did is very difficult.

There was so much that didn't add up to the detective peg us, Carlos told IT had remained snoozing as this fight in a confined space broke out. Carlos Perez olivo, despite his willingness to take a lie detector test, wasn't entirely eliminating himself as a suspect. After all, there was the admitted former girlfriend of many years.

It's hard to speculate, but it's also impossible to discount the coincidence that deny Peggy dies is this woman's birthday.

But the detective also knew that if sex and passion are very often part of the mix in domestic murder, then so often is money. And now the investigators began the tedious paper chase that tracking down the Perez olivos finance, what jumped out of them was how little cash on hand carlo apparently had. The family banking account was down to the last three hundred dollars, and the investigators believe he hadn't told his children, or even his wife, Peggy, the monumental news that he had been.

This borne his soul means of making money and supporting himself in his lifestyle. His family's lifestyle is now gone.

This is an enormous fact in a relationship. For thirty years, absolutely, my tickets been pull to practice law. And this is how we make our money. The children didn't know.

I don't believe that they know.

And the wife didn't know Peggy.

That's what we believe SHE didn't know.

With his lively who had gone, no money was coming in that the detectives could see, but the bills kept piling up.

We ve got a financial picture of people that on the surface, seem to have money. Beautiful home, beautiful community, wealthy suburb. But when you, when you delve deeper, you find that, okay, he doesn't own the home, rents the home.

Okay, don't own this car. Their least bills are late, credit cards are not paid, and the new credit cards are open. You start to see a financial picture of people that may be living beyond their me.

And then they came upon the life insurance policies. Peggy.

what we found was that, well, mister parsel vo is by all accounts, the primary supporter, bread water. He had fairly low amount of insurance on himself, but we found that there were approximately five policies that had missed zl evo as the insured. The payout with somewhere in the area of eight hundred and fifty eight hundred twenty five thousand dollars.

she's making maybe twenty five thousand dollars a year with the winter back in a good year as a teachers and she's a hundred thousand dollar pay out policy on her.

We also found that the policies on mister zl evo had had the payoff increased somewhere in the area of o four and eight five.

The investigation was a year old on the anniversary pegg's death. Alysia and her older brothers carlito took the earn with her mother's actions to the beach.

a beautiful day and. As time, do you really think my mom, just as a person, not as a victim, not as anything like that, just my mom?

And then a few weeks later, carlo said something to tell elisia. By then a senior in high school.

in twenty minutes, the police were going to be coming to arrest him. He told me that money is over here. You know, use this money to pay the bills, get food, and, you know, you're a big girl, now can take care of self.

The investigators had put together a picture of a fAiling lu thorium in late middle age disGrace in his career, tapped out of the bank, unable to keep up the good suburban happy family for sad killing his wife for the insurance money they theorized was the solution to this problem from the upstairs bedroom alesia pushed, decide the court to watch the detectives take her father away.

No, why I did that? That was kind of not bad memory. But they pushed him up against the car and they took him away. And I was left there.

Carlos per zel evo was charged with the murder of his wife pecking.

Carlos Perez l. Liba was now on trial for shooting his wife to death on a dark and suburban n road as they drove home.

From when IT comes to this guy, the evidence will show that would may at first appear perfect. Is not the .

prosecutors believe parenzo evo was a man in a personal tuna I, and saw killing his wife as the solution to his problems.

Mister Perez o. Evo, without any doubt in my mind, plan the murder execution of his wife.

So he went to new york, knowing full well that he was gona kill ler on a dark road.

knowing full well he would kill ler on a dark road.

Jana defier than the west chester county district to turny, believes that pereo evo was all but dead bro with a lifestyle in an affluent suburb, he could no longer afford to keep .

up the payoff. The insurance policy provides motivation with a capital m money.

And another woman, the former mistress of many years, he's sent flowers to and called on the very day his wife was murdered.

What does that tell you about the perfect .

family in court? The big picture the prosecution team was trying to draw for the jury was of a desperate man coming unravel, the secret compartments of his life breaking open.

But this was a man who obviously was a very noisy, stic person. And after all, he was disbarred for stealing money from his clients. He showed that in his relationship with his wife before he murdered red by being involved with another woman. This is a man who elevated his own self interest above all those around him. Carlos s.

Story was that he and his wife were run off the road on a saturday night in november, and a gunman climb ed in the backseat of their car. There was a struggle for the gun. As Carlos told IT shot fire, killing Peggy, wounding him.

The investigators made a video demonstration of the sequence of events as he told IT to them, i'm jam against here. This day is jammed against you right in the confined interior of the mitsubishi couldn't understand how carlo ended up in the back seat as he struggled for the gun with only the narrow opening of the console to get there. He can get back here without this thing open up.

There is no way imaginable that mister pereo evo could have gotten through the space. In between the seats the space has measured was nine inches. And he would have you believe that he is tussling with the assailant in the back seat and and he gets into the back seat of the car, not .

possible in my side.

And what's more, to believe Carlos version of events, the prosecutor argued he would have clAmbered into the back seat without ever waking up his wife beside him.

I think IT devise common sense that if you are in the passenger compartment and your husband's in a struggle for his life, in your life, that you not aroused in some way, very unusual and highly unlikely.

And the prosecutors thought the very fact that Carlos drove to the hospital instead of waiting for em to come to him, was also part of his master plan.

He needed to get away from the exact location of the murder because he toss the gun not far from the location of the murder. He wanted to divert the police away from that location so that they wouldn't recover the gun.

because because of the crime scene moves, IT makes IT all that much more difficult .

for the investigators .

as they absolutely, and something called their eyes as they played back that security camera video taken when Carlos arrived at the hospital.

his shirt was tucked into his pants. This is a man who had just claimed that he was in a life and death struggle for his and his wife's life. And he's arriving at the hospital a few short minutes later with a shirt tucked into his pants and looking perfectly neat, trim.

And if IT was a professional hit, or even a car jack, why the prosecutors would the gunman put himself in a voler position in the back seat of Carlos miti? Shi.

what common sense tells you if this were a card jacket? Er, as mister parzon level offered to us, the car jacco wouldn't get into the back seat, the anu out of the front seat of the car and get in the car and take the car. He didn't do that.

So if you get into the baxi of the car, you're an unsafe area. If you're the perpetrator.

you've lost all control virtually and there would be no reason. What would be the advantage for the perpetrator to get into the back seat of the car? non.

And perhaps most importantly to the prosecutor, also from a common sense point of view, was, if this was a professional head or a car jacking, why would the gunman kill the wife and leave the husband and eyewitness with little more than a treat and released wound?

The assailant leaves the car, and he leaves .

with the male with a very minor wounds, and the female dead. Does that make sense?

Course, that doesn't make any sense.

If you are a robber, if you are the hit man.

if you were the car jacket, er you'd take the car no. And if you were the hit man, you shoot did and .

that did .

happen and that did not happen.

suspicions about the husband story. But they need much more than that. If they were going to convince a jury that colors per olivo killed his wife, why would this seemingly happy thirty year marriage? And in a mork, this is a family not unlike many others in west gesture.

absolutely.

absolutely very good. Appearance accomplished.

They did appear to be a loving couple. But you know, there's no telling what goes on behind people's closed doors.

So investigators started pushing those doors open. Looking into deeper psychological terrain. They saw a man who had been at one time hospitalized with clinical depression and who now lost his ability to practice law. He'd been despite a disGrace they believe he concealed from his fan.

Practice was done over. There was no apparent means of income.

What the prosecutor saw left was the life insurance on her nine hundred thousand dollars wasn't fortune by chapeaus standards, but enough. The authorities figured for Carlos to set themselves up for the next chapter in his life, perhaps with the old girlfriend he'd sent flowers to that day. There be no costly divorce for him. A movie and dinner date in new york, followed by a bullet to the brain.

would be the way out, all part of a plan, a very devious and diabolical plan, to commit murder and get away with IT.

But this case would turn out to have a star witness having to do with that very handgun the divers had retrieved from the light. How often do the legal gods give you a witness like that?

It's unbelievable. It's the gun, the gun, the gun.

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The court was about to hear from the prosecution star witness his testimony would be about the vintage german and gn used to kill Peggy that divers had fished out of the road side lake. That's the, I mean, to do no mistaking IT mark, soa would tell the court that he'd seen the distinct of of walthar ppc semi automatic inside Carlos house five months before Peggy was murdered.

His stories started back in june of two thousand six, Carlos Peggy were rangers boxing up for yet another house man. Mark sola was helping out his uncle, the parrels ebs lord, and making sure that the tenants had left the property in broom swept condition. He found the house was anything but packed up.

Boxes were, were in the living room. My french, or was still, there was was chaos. So gazella made a distress call to his, fought to come help and get these tenants out quickly because the house had been sold.

We started upstairs. We started a sweeping floors. As they worked their way through the bedroom, his father noticed a partly open manilla envelope.

I saw a gun inside of the so called my attention. I turned around and we look, and I was a IT was a pistol that was on the floor. Did you know what IT is? absolutely.

Yeah, absolutely a pistol permit. Um I know my farms IT was A A german walter P. K, no doubt in your mind. No, not at all. The pistol and question is one that some collectors like mark.

So to keep their eyes out for the author, PPT is known as the James bond gun and has a certain cash, a gazella said he went downstairs and ask carles to come up to the bedroom. As we're walking up the stairs, I tell him we found a pistol in the closet. Oh yeah, yeah.

That's that's his pistol. We, we walk into the bedroom. I walk up to one. He picks up the firearm he and I are both looking at, and he's handling IT for me.

He says, you know what this is? I said, sure, as a german water PPT. He says, you know what is famous for? Yeah, James bond movies.

Go back and forth more talk about the firearm gazella IT turned out had been shopping around for a walk. Thor PPT and the pistol Carlos was holding was exactly what he'd been looking for. I tell him that I was actually interested in in purchasing in the farm.

I said, listen, when you love to sell, i'd love to buy IT from you. I said, answered that the gun had sentimental value, something about IT being a gift from a client, and he wasn't interested in selling IT. End of the conversation back to sweeping out the house a night out in manhattan ends in violence and gunfire for a west wester couple.

Then that november weekend, IT was all over the new, that ambo shooting of Carlos and pegging Perez le evo. My immediate response was like, I felt horrible. I felt bad.

I just helped them clean up. I knew how he was nice. He made me something to drink. Well, was at the house. As he followed the news of the shooting.

Mark sola told his co workers about that june day when he saw the gun in the Perez ebel home. I wanted to work. I set off.

If they ever turn up with a german walter. P. K.

I have to come for, and I have to say something. And low and behold, diverse fish out from the lake. A german walter bk.

In the court room. The prosecutor saw him as an unshakable witness. He spoke with an psycho pedia certainty about author pp case.

He was an extraordinary witness. His luck would have IT. He was a gun enthusiast, very familiar with that particular gun, and in fact, searching for that particular gun.

And mark soa identified for the jury the murder weapon as the very gun he saw in the parrels eval house that day is the gun in evidence the very same one that you saw at the house that day? sure. Yeah, that's that's the german walter P.

K. I saw. Carlos dismissed markers all the story altogether.

No way could he have seen a walther P, P, K. In his house. You think he's line.

He's making the story. I know he's line.

He did not see that distinct of gun in your .

kind of seen that gun because there was no gun in the house at all. Guy, guns. I've never had any, gus, there never been any guns in the house. The only thing that was in the house that looked like a gun was a pallet gun that looks quite similar to what that guy looks like.

Do you think the guy came to your house? They saw that.

I know that what they saw a pen?

Yes, that looks like a real one.

But is our discussion was .

not of a pale gn. IT. Was a german water.

P. P. K. Are you sure IT wasa plugin you so absolutely. IT was definitely not a palestine, the god, the story of a troubled marriage and teetering finances. The defense had its work cut out for IT, but colors parrels oliva, a one time criminal defense lawyer who had represented clients accused of murder, would fight back with all he had. Did you murder your wife backing course not.

If there was any way that I could change places with her, there was any way that I could be dead. I be very happy.

The case has been nothing more than inuendo and speculation the defense was up and IT had to undo the prosecutions damaging version of the story of peg's murder. Just not credible, just not because he has no idea. We saw defensive journey Christopher a.

Claire took on the biggest problem. Mark sole is testimony about seeing the murder weapon in Carlos's hand five months before his wife was murdered. Was IT funny pose, the defense that anyone could have such a vast knowledge about the whaler P.

P. K. At their fingertips, the way ola seem to on the stand.

The question is, when did he learn that? Did he learn IT from my cap dia to each four trial? Did he learn IT a month four trial? No one knows me.

Learn that. And code defence attorney Richard for toy would also tried to poke coals in the forensic evidence, starting with that reconstruction demonstration. And I don't have enough room over here. IT didn't contradict Carlos's account, the defense team argued, because significantly IT failed to take into account the position of the driver seat during the struggle, they argued the seat was pushed back further at the time of the shooting, leaving enough room for colors to be dragged into the back of the mitigation.

The seats were not placed in the same position that they were in at the .

time of the incident, the prosecutors had argued that Peggy was shot at close range with the gun put beneath the space of a headrest, but the defense said that was just one possible scenario. They're claim that the most of the was under the headrest and that was not supported by any of the Frances, any of the going to shut resident pattern analysis that we had done. And they pointed out to the jurors, don't forget, Carlos himself had been shot.

IT was a wounded to the stomach, and IT went in. Fortunately, I went in out. But there, even their own doctor testified, there are major organs around there, and the defense team pointed out that Carlos could have been shot in the stomach during the struggle with the gunman.

With that same bullet accepting the rear window, we actually introduced an anonymous ally correct doll with with a dowle going in and out of the doll and out the hole the window to show that that was certainly possible. And to further prove its point that someone else was in the car that night, the defense pointed out that investigators had found a male hair that didn't belong to Carlos in the back seat area of the mitsubishi. Well, as other DNA they couldn't trace, they found substantial of blood.

The back seat they just couldn't link IT to anybody. And the defense lawyers also believed that the police had failed to fully investigate Carlos's former client, helio. There are witnesses that they claim they heard him makes statements, uh, indicating that mister cruise, I believe that colors through his case, uh, that he knew everything about mister press lio.

He knew where he lived I think the quote was when he's dead, send me the press clippings upstage swain laugh. So maybe this was what a hit man, somebody hired by a guy with a major beef against your client, what we do know is mr. Result represented a lot people that are capable suggests. But detective sims chased down the aleo cruise lead and came awake, convince that he had nothing whatsoever to do with the shooting. Could you arrange a hit from prison?

I don't know if IT says easy to do is maybe movies or television have a portrait today, but we did pursue that angle, but were unable to CoOperate that this individual was able to master.

Mind this. But perhaps the most important point the defense wanted the jury to take away was the colors paris l. evs. Family and friends believed that he was incapable of killing Peggy, the woman he loved. The mother of his three .

children know that I thought for a second that my father had to do anything of my mother, uh, being killed. I would not for a second or be supporting him or defend him and I am defining because i'm one hundred to a sure there is no way to his sister.

Alysia is equally affected.

There's just no possible way. That's ridiculous. The da is nothing and they have nothing.

Peg's own sister even testified on behalf of her brother in law.

I can't say carlo is a perfect guy. He had a fair, he had money troubles. He's been despite. I can't say he's a model citizen. But just because you do all those things, that doesn't make you a murder, no matter what you think your car los as a person. I knew that there was no way that he killed lester.

But what would a jury think?

We try to understand the marriage. And here's a guy who says he loves his wife, but he had a mistress for a number of years. He told the detectives that he that he went to escorts services. I mean, IT wasn't quite the picture that he was trying to to pay.

In the courthouse, the case was now in the hands of the jury direct tony defy was confident IT would be a guilty verd .

I think if anyone SAT through that trial that took place in this courthouse that there would be absolutely no doubt that Carlos Perez olivo murdered his wife in cold blood.

But defense attorney mcclure felt just as strongly there was no way a jury could convict based on the evidence. They speculated the entire trials to what happened. And you can convict somebody on speculation.

But of course, the stakes were highest for colors Perez olivo. If the verdict was a gamble, his life was what was at stake. As a veteran criminal defense attorney, he knew exactly what he was up against. You've waited for a lot of juries to come back. How strange was IT for you to be waited for jury to come back?

Bizarre is the only way to described. But it's like sometimes I I feel like you somebody and i'm looking at something that happened to somebody else because doesn't make sense.

But now a jury of twelve would decide his fate. They included an IT director, a customer service supervisor, a marketing project manager, a housewife and auto mechanic and IT manager, a phone company worker, a retired executive and an M, R, I technician that we're all keeping an open mind in a circumstantial case with no eye witnesses, no confession to the crime, the jury was going to have to work its way through the evidence piece by peace.

They started by debating the central question, what colors sprees? Olivo, one time successful lawyer, father of three, brutally killed his wife of thirty years. This is sort of a dilema for you because everything on the exterior from the sidewalk before you peel away the roof seems to be pretty good. They ve been together for a long time.

but inside there was something else going on. You got a sense that um you know this is this is a family that was despite there what appeared to be a kind of wealthy lifestyle was really kind of one you one event away from being completely bankrupt. In addition .

to the family's money problems, Carlos had also Carried on a decade long affair, even sending the woman flowers for her birthday and calling her the nights wife was shot to see if she's gotten them. If nothing else.

What IT showed was this wasn't the ideal, the ideal marriage that that, you know, the defense tried to paint that through somebody who want clearly wasn't entirely happy with his wife.

But Carlos, a former criminal defensive turney, had been disbarred just three months before the murder, had one of his angry clients ambushed him by the side of the road. Was this a revenge killing? He defended tough guys. He defended .

drug dealers and people who may have been in organized ed crime.

Did you have to consider whether his practice defending tough guys might have come back to autem? I thought about IT.

IT was a story that you could imagine might be true.

Maybe there really was a hit man. Um so you had to consider that. Oh, absolutely. You definitely consider that there was more the fact that he was a criminal difference lawyer and that he defended people that perhaps for this and we're looking in to get back mean there are situations when you don't have happy customers and not unhappy customers are criminals. You you got a fact of that in a little bit.

And remember, Peggy zone sister, as well as their children, had taken the stand to say there was no way their father had killed their mother. For me, that was tough, emotional thing to get by and thinking that grasses, these kids love their dad so much, how could he do this? Maybe because he didn't do IT.

Um absolutely. But the juries were also going to have to take a hard look at the forensics of the case, the angle of the bullets, the size and shape of the met bii. Could the struggle in the car with the gunmen have happened the way carles described? The jury was prepared for a long deliberation.

The jury deliberated late into the night, and the longer they were out, the more confident the defense team was that they would find their client colors. Reza evo, not guilty. I can just say that we are encouraged by the fact that they are looking at the case carefully, which is what we can ask them to do, looking at the evidence, and we need to come to the right decision of not guilty.

But upstairs in the courthouse, the jurors were taking a hard look at the forensics in the case. Remember, the prosecution had argued the struggle in the mitzvah could not have happened the way carlo said he did. They show yours a video demonstration to show how difficult that would have been for colors to end up in the back seat. My side he've had to go through the narrow opening of the S, U, V, S. Console, end up on the back with the gunman, and all the .

while not wake up. His sleeping wife knew IT on the seat.

And there then the prosecution argued there was the angle of the bullets Peggy shot level in the head. Another gun shot fired at a ninety degree angle through the back window. All of this during a wild struggle was IT possible.

Some jurors thought, yes, they eluded to the fact that peace to tall, too big of a guy to be able to fit through such a small area between the driver seat and the passenger seat, would you think could have be done? I, yes, I think I could be done based on the irrelevances IT. absolutely. But some of the jurors weren't so sure.

you know, was a narrow car. He was, he was a very strangest tough job to get into that back seat. And and then what was left in the back seat seemed to be in a very orderly shape for me.

I found that most damaging at me in the fact that his wife never woke up. Car traveling at forty five milan hour comes to a stop. SHE does not wake up.

Someone force you off the road in a dark road and not wants to. He wake his wife, but says, we might be in trouble. But remember, carlo said, also taken a shot to the stomach.

When I first heard about the case, I said, I like kidding. Who's gona shoot himself in the stomach? You know, somebody had to shoot him.

That is strange. He is. She's dead. He's wounded. That's a long way to go throp to throw the police off your case, right? And there was the prosecutor, star witness mark ola had testified that he saw the vintage water PPT in Carlos house just five months before the shooting.

He really identify at the gun very clearly how believable the witness was to your. Finally, after a day and a half of deliberations, they had reached a decision. They're verdict colors per razo eval. Guilty of murdering his wife, Peggy.

Guilty to me, IT was a shock, I believed, to the alternative. That was a shock to my family. I was a shock.

his summer said, was away from the courthouse. When the verdict was read, he ran back to get the news.

They even know how to react. IT just followed. The six kish joke of my life have been played on me.

Just a like, I didn't computer, I didn't make sense. I didn't understand how you can be guilty. The child gone so well from that. I was just like a few ws going off. I remember just sing like blacking, almost.

He was so angry. He put his fist right through the plaster of the course wall.

I broke the wall. I was, I went ballistic and I just just the rage was uncontrollable, but caught me so off guard. I was so sure they're going to find innocent.

At least you have learned of the guilty verdict. Bypass SHE headed to a park.

I was just in shock. IT was just like I was just take a deep breath and time to, you know, keep going because obviously there's anything I can do about that. I have to deal with this now.

But the jurors, those with the beliefs that mattered, were convinced that Carlos Perez olivo had indeed murdered his wife of three decades. IT was like a puzzle. IT was like all the pieces fit in, you know, IT was the money, the fact that he did have this other love interest, and in the fact that he was a criminal atterley, he elevated himself in his own mind that know he can now fox all these policeman. And the fact that he shot himself, I think he thought that would be the coop to grow, that nobody would ever figured that he would shoot himself. District attorney defy had no doubt that colors per reza evo did indeed kill his wife in cold blood.

I believe that there are people who are willing to put their own selfish self focus needs above all those around them, including the people that they are supposed to love and protect and care for.

Justice served.

I think that justice has most definitely been served.

And the judge apparently agreed .

the defendant is a master of .

deceit .

who contrived a diabolical plan.

murder his wife for his .

own financial game.

SHE sentence Carlos to the maximum twenty five years to life.

How do I ensure I do believe that we all have a destiny and there's nothing you do to change that? I can put up with anything, put up with the humiliations, people asking me questions if I killed my wife or not. I can put up with being a jail for the rest of my life, maybe in part is easier because I, I M, I didn't you?

But that's not what the jury thought happened on that november night. So the one time criminal defense lying who used his skills to keep clients out of prison is now himself an inmate with a number and a jump suit.

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