03x07 - Libby Squire and Heather Frank/Scott Sessions

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NARRATOR: This time
on "K*llers Caught on Camera."

In the UK, in Hull,
a young woman

goes missing after being
refused entry to a nightclub.

- I heard the voice in my head
saying, she's dead, she's dead,

she's dead.

RICHARD WRIGHT KC:
The CCTV picked up

a man who was out looking
to commit sexual offenses.

LISA SQUIRE: She was put in
a car, someone has taken her.

NARRATOR:
And in the US, a body is

found dumped in the foothills
of the Rocky Mountains

after a date turns deadly.

STANLEY SESSIONS: They
said we found your son.

He's deceased.

I had to go tell his mother.

And she said, who would
want to hurt my Scotty?

STEVE WRENN: The k*ller was
waiting behind the door.

The depth of the cut
to the neck

was significant
and violent, a laceration

that nearly decapitated him.

MAN 1: It just
sounds like something

bad is happening to her.

WOMAN: We know what
happened because the video

tells us what happened.

MAN 2: I heard some g*nshots.

POLICE: Drop it.

Whatever it is, drop it.

MAN 3: That does not prove
that I k*lled my wife.

MAN 4: The camera doesn't lie.

NARRATOR: In the UK,
in the North-East in Yorkshire,

the city of Hull.

RICHARD WRIGHT KC: Hull is,
like many Northern cities,

had a very significant
industry and industrial past.

It also has a significant
student population.

NARRATOR: 21-year-old
Libby Squire was studying

philosophy at Hull University.

LISA SQUIRE: Libby was
an amazing daughter.

She was incredibly funny.

She had a wonderful
sense of humor.

She was very caring.

Her and I were
particularly close.

NARRATOR: Affectionately
nicknamed Libby Pie by her mom,

Libby was born on New
Year's day, 1998.

LISA SQUIRE: I'd
always wanted children.

My husband and I had
been together for eight

years when we had Libby.

She was a really,
really beautiful baby.

I was a nanny when
I had Libby, and

she came back to work with me
when she was three weeks old.

I was very fortunate
that I was able to spend

every day with her.

NARRATOR: Libby was
the eldest of Lisa

and her husband
Russell's four children.

LISA SQUIRE: She was
an amazing big sister.

She made sure that they knew
that she was number one.

She adored them, and I think
in turn they all adored her.

NARRATOR: When
she started school

in her hometown of West
Wycombe in Buckinghamshire,

Libby flourished.

LISA SQUIRE: Within
the first week

she'd made a whole
class full of friends.

She loved to read.

She could read before
she started school.

Academically, she did really
well and really took to it.

NARRATOR: But when
she reached her teens,

Libby began to struggle
with anxiety and depression.

LISA SQUIRE: I noticed her
mental health was really

declining, that she
was self-harming daily,

hourly at one point.

It was horrendous.

And sadly she had four suicide
attempts in her lifetime

as well.

It was really hard
as a mom because I

couldn't take that
pain away from her,

but it made her resilient.

- Recent research from England
has actually found that about

one in four, so a quarter, of
people between the ages of 11

and 16 who have
mental health issues

attempt to k*ll
themselves or they engage

in self-harming behaviors.

So the rates are
really very high.

Since about 2000, there has
been an increase in suicide

generally in places
like the US and the UK.

But exactly what's driving
that, that increase in numbers

is a bit unclear.

Some people point
to social media,

some people point
to increased rates

of anxiety and depression,
especially in teenagers.

NARRATOR: Libby was determined
to turn her life around,

and took a year off to deal
with her mental health problems

before going to university.

LISA SQUIRE: She spent lots
of time working on herself.

She worked so hard.

She spent time
with her boyfriend

and spent lots of time
with the family.

NARRATOR: Libby started
at the University of Hull

in September 2017.

LISA SQUIRE: She was
studying philosophy,

and she was good at it.

She really enjoyed it because
she'd found something that

improved her mental health.

She'd found her
place, actually.

And it was lovely
watching her blossom

into this beautiful woman.

NARRATOR: Thursday,
January 31, 2019.

Libby and her
university friends

went to the Welly Nightclub
in the student area of Hull.

LISA SQUIRE: It was 1:09
in the morning, so early

hours of Friday morning.

And I noticed a missed call
from one of Libby's friends.

She said, we can't find Libby.

And I said to her, what do
you mean you can't find Libby?

And then she just went on to
say, we went to a nightclub

and Libby-- wouldn't let
Libby in because they

said she was too drunk,
so we put her in a taxi

to send her home.

NARRATOR: But when
Libby's friends

returned to their shared house,
Libby was nowhere to be seen.

LISA SQUIRE: I just had
this voice in my head

saying, this is really serious,
because Libby would always

call me if she was in trouble.

We spoke three
or four times a day.

It was the strangest
of feelings.

I just was, oh my goodness.

And I couldn't feel her.

I couldn't connect with her
in any way, shape, or form.

NARRATOR: In the early
hours of Friday, February 1,

Libby was reported
missing to the police.

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RICHARD WRIGHT KC: From
a police perspective,

a young woman missing after
a night out in a student area

is going to be a high priority.

It was particularly
bad weather.

It was very, very
cold outside, and

so immediately the police
swung into action in terms

of trying to locate her.

NARRATOR: Libby's
mom and dad drove up

to Hull as soon as they could.

LISA SQUIRE: It was awful.

And the whole time I was
just thinking, where are you?

Where are you?
Where are you?

It was the worst journey ever.

It took us 5.5 hours
to get up there.

The windscreen
wipers kept freezing

and I just wanted to be there.

I just wanted
to go and find her.

- When somebody is
reported missing,

they will speak to all
of the people who were last

in contact with that person.

But they'll also start a search
of closed circuit television.

NARRATOR: Police
obtained CCTV footage

from outside
the Welly Nightclub.

It confirmed Libby arrived
at 11:14 PM on Thursday,

January 31.

RICHARD WRIGHT KC: Here is
Libby in the dark clothing

with the bare legs, walking
towards the entrance

of the Welly Club.

We know this is Libby, so when
we're seeing lasered footage,

we're able
to reference it across.

NARRATOR: A mile away
from the Welly Nightclub,

police obtained
surveillance footage

from a camera near Libby's
home on Wellesley Avenue.

It showed a taxi
arriving at 11:29 PM.

RICHARD WRIGHT KC:
The police were

able to identify
the taxi driver

and speak to him very rapidly.

He gave an account
of dropping Libby off

and that he then left the area.

There was no question that
the taxi driver had in any way

been involved in Libby's
disappearance.

NARRATOR: Libby's
keys were later found

right outside her front door.

LISA SQUIRE: We knew that the
taxi driver had dropped her off

and we knew she hadn't
gone into her house,

but we then didn't
know what had happened.

NARRATOR: As the police
continued searching through

the footage, they
saw Libby emerge from

Wellesley Avenue at 11:36 PM.

RICHARD WRIGHT KC: We've
got the same clothing,

we've no doubt that's her.

She was walking
in an unsteady manner.

She didn't appear
to have any purpose.

She was going up
and down the road.

She'd linger in one area,
then move on slightly and then

go back and retrace her steps.

NARRATOR: Libby was
at risk of hypothermia

and extremely vulnerable.

Police needed to find her.

As they continued
searching through hours

of surveillance footage, they
uncovered a disturbing figure.

RICHARD WRIGHT KC: Libby
was waiting in the area

of a bus stop on Beverly Road.

She is looking
down Beverly Road,

the CCTV picked up
a figure of a man

who appeared to notice Libby.

And he's crossing the road, and
he goes down this side street.

He hasn't gone away.

He's just watching her.

He's seeing what sort
of conditions she's in.

She's still here
by the bus stop.

And now she starts to move back
in the direction of her home.

We can see she's not
moving very quickly.

She's quite unsteady
still on her feet.

But watch what he does.

He sticks to the line
of the buildings

and walks up this
side of the road,

sort of tracking her movement.

She's gone off,
away from safety.

He crosses the road
and he follows her.

At the moment, this green
arrow is going to disappear.

That's when Libby
steps off the road

into the grounds of a convent.

Almost immediately,
the suspect follows her.

He's watched her, stalked
her along the road

and now he's moving in.

We now knew that Libby had
come into contact with a man,

and so it was
absolutely crucial

that we identified
that man and could

speak to him because we didn't
know what had then happened.

NARRATOR: Libby's
parents appealed

to the public for information.

- Libby, my darling
Pike, we just

want to know that you're safe.

Please get in touch
with us any way you can.

The whole family
is missing you.

NARRATOR: The police
organized the largest

missing persons search in the
history of Humberside Police.

The whole community
came out in full force.

- Please come home.

We know we love you.

All the support, there's over


Please, please come home soon.

LISA SQUIRE:
The amount of people

that were trying to find
her, the whole place just

were really focused on trying
to get a good outcome for us.

That really carried
us and I along,

and we were really grateful for
all of the outpouring of love

for her.

I don't think there is a word
to describe that situation

that we were in.

It was a feeling
that I've never,

ever, ever had
before, obviously,

and I would never, ever want
anyone to go through that.

NARRATOR: In the 18 months
before Libby went missing,

there was a series
of disturbing incidents

in the student area of Hull.

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JULIA SHAW: People who
engage in voyeurism

and who engage in flashing
behaviors are repeat offenders.

So it's very rare to have
someone who just does it once

and then never does it again.

And whenever you have
a repetition of a bad behavior,

of an anti-social behavior,
you have generally

a higher risk
of also escalation

of all these other negative
consequences that we fear.

RICHARD WRIGHT KC:
Those incidents

included burglaries
where the burglar

stole underwear and sex toys.

They were incidents
of voyeurism,

a man being seen
staring into windows,

watching couples having sex.

And there had been
an incident where

a man had approached two young
women who were walking home

and had masturbated
at them in the street

and ejaculated onto
their front door.

- In one study that
looked at people

who were caught for flashing,
they found that about one

in four escalated in the
severity of their actions

to what are called
contact offenses.

And that included
r*pe and as*ault.

NARRATOR: The last sighting
of Libby and the male figure

was at the corner of Beverley
Road and Haworth street.

Four days after
Libby went missing,

police had a major
breakthrough.

Hidden behind some blue
gates on Haworth street,

a camera captured
a figure being put

into the front seat of a car.

Libby's mom and dad
were asked by the police

to view the footage.

LISA SQUIRE: They asked us if
we thought it could be Libby,

and I said, absolutely,
that's Libby.

I knew from the way
that her hair moved.

And I said, no, she doesn't
get in the car like that.

She doesn't get
in a car that way.

She gets in-- she put her legs
down and swing her legs in.

She doesn't climb
in a car like that.

So I knew that she'd
been put in the car.

And that lodged in my brain
someone has taken her,

someone's taken her.

- A member of the public
found on the street a watch.

And it was Libby's watch.

And that proved to be
important evidence

because it told us something
about the circumstances

in which she had
gone into that car.

It suggested a struggle.

NARRATOR: The police attempted
to track the vehicle which

Libby was seen getting into.

Just after midnight,
the car was spotted

at Oak Road playing fields.

- Next to the playing
fields there's a dead end.

We were fortunate to find some
CCTV from residential property.

And, obviously, it was very
dark, but what you could see

were headlights
coming and going.

And that captured this car
arriving and then leaving.

We then had some crucial
evidence from a man who heard

screams coming from a woman.

And he was able to pinpoint
the timing of those screams

because he checked the time.

That meant that the screams
had to be related to Libby.

NARRATOR:
As the police continued

to track the vehicle
that Libby got into,

they uncovered more disturbing
footage of the driver.

- This individual was
masturbating in the street,

and that was important
evidence because it revealed

that he, obviously, had
an extremely high sex drive,

insatiable, you might say.

JULIA SHAW: The main reason
people masturbate in public

is because of the excitement of
the thought of getting caught,

because otherwise you're not
going to be in a public space,

you're going to do it at home.

And so this idea that
somebody could catch you,

that risk, that
excitement, is arousing.

The bigger question is why you
actually go through with it.

NARRATOR: The net was closing
in on the male suspect.

Then a huge breakthrough.

At 3:00 AM on February
the 1, he walked

directly towards the camera.

- We know that this
is the same person

because we've tracked the car.

NARRATOR: Police
discovered the vehicle

belonged to a local man, the
footage confirmed his identity.

His name was Pawel Relowicz,
a 24-year-old Polish butcher

who came to the UK in 2015.

Married with two children, he
lived less than a mile away

from Libby's home.

The police moved in to arrest
Pawel for kidnap.

RICHARD WRIGHT
KC: At that stage

we didn't know
what had happened,

we didn't know whether
Libby was alive or dead.

And so kidnap was the obvious
charge to arrest him on.

LISA SQUIRE: I
remember feeling sick,

but I remember also
thinking they'll arrest him

and he'll tell us where she is
and then we'll go and find her

and I'll bring her home.

NARRATOR: Police
questioned Pawel

about Libby's disappearance.

At first, he denied
having met Libby at all.

But then he changed his story.

RICHARD WRIGHT KC:
He then ran the story

that he was effectively
acting as a good Samaritan.

He was trying to get her
back to her home address.

NARRATOR: When they
searched Pawel's vehicle,

they uncovered some
alarming items.

RICHARD WRIGHT KC: They found
women's underwear, sex toys,

and these were all
the things that he

had stolen in this
series of burglaries

when he was targeting
student homes.

And it was from that
discovery that the police

were able to suddenly
establish that all

of these precursor
incidents had

been the work of one person.

And that person
was Pawel Relowicz.

- Taking this underwear
and keeping it

in the trunk
of your car, there's

sort of an old
language around this,

which is that offenders
sometimes like to take

trophies from crime scenes.

Typically for non-contact
sexual offenses like flashing,

like masturbating
in public, you don't

typically have stuff with you.

This is much more prepared.

There's more going on here than
just a spontaneous decision

to flash somebody.

NARRATOR: But Pawel Pavlovich
didn't just steal things.

RICHARD WRIGHT KC:
In some of the incidents,

Relowicz had left either
a condom or semen at the scene,

and they were able
to get a DNA sample.

And in other cases,
individuals were

able to recognize him
because he'd been seen

peering into their windows.

NARRATOR: The police confronted
Pawel about the items

found in the pink bag.

LISA SQUIRE: He
was the perpetrator

of several
non-contact offenses.

The realization of what had
likely happened did sink in,

and I had thought
for quite some time

that maybe he had assaulted
her and she'd had a breakdown

and maybe she'd gone somewhere.

NARRATOR: 48 days passed before
the police got a breakthrough.

RICHARD WRIGHT KC:
A pleasure fisherman

saw what he believed
to be a body in the water,

but what they could
also see is that around

the neck of the body
was a delicate gold

necklace with the letter L.
DNA samples were taken and

examined, and it was confirmed
to be the body of Libby Squire.

LISA SQUIRE: I handed
the phone to Russell

because I just couldn't speak.

And when he put
the phone down I said,

so does that mean she's dead?

And he said, yeah, it does.

There was a big bit
of me it was like,

I was so happy that
she'd been found,

that she was coming home.

NARRATOR: But it was almost
impossible to determine

how Libby had died.

- When bodies are
found in water,

it's very, very difficult
to tell whether they

went in dead or alive.

And that was the position here.

NARRATOR: Libby's mom went
to see her daughter's body.

LISA SQUIRE: It was a week
after she'd been recovered.

It was hard, but I was able to
go in and sort of hold her hand

and just talk to her and say,
thank you for coming back.

And I'm really sorry
I couldn't save you.

I should have known that you
were in danger and I should

have saved you, but I didn't.

And I'm sorry but--

I just wanted to tell her--
nobody can ever hurt you again.

You're safe now.

RICHARD WRIGHT KC:
Although Libby's body

had been in the water
for many, many weeks,

a sample that was taken
was found to contain

the DNA of Pawel Relowicz.

It contained his semen.

LISA SQUIRE:
And as far as I know,

it's never been heard
of in the world before.

Nobody else has ever held
on to DNA for 48 days

in moving water.

She's absolutely nailed him.

NARRATOR: Pawel Relowicz
was re-arrested.

RICHARD WRIGHT
KC: When Relowicz

was arrested for m*rder,
I mean, his reaction

was quite incredible.

He sort of giggled and laughed
as if he found it funny.

And he simply
denied the offense.

NARRATOR: At trial, the CCTV
evidence was crucial.

RICHARD WRIGHT KC:
It enabled the jury

to follow Libby on her last
journey, almost step by step.

And it also then overlaid
on Libby's journey

the movements of Relowicz.

NARRATOR: It emerged that Pawel
relowicz went to McDonald's and

fueled up his car, before
driving to Haworth Street

to wait
for an unsuspecting victim.

RICHARD WRIGHT KC: And it
was quite sinister, really,

when you piece
the CCTV together

because you had this
idea of there was Libby

in the center of events, not
knowing that circling around

the outside of her was this
man who was out looking

to commit sexual offenses.

And then he spotted her.

And you could see immediately
that when he spotted her,

the die was cast.

She was a perfect
victim for him.

And so he was then
immediately stalking

her and working out how he
could get her into his car.

NARRATOR: Footage
recovered from Oak Road

also revealed he had gone back
to the scene of the crime.

RICHARD WRIGHT KC: That
return visit was absolutely

dynamite in our hands.

If he'd have just
r*ped her, there

is no way he would have gone
back to the scene of the r*pe

because he would not have
known whether the place would

be swarming with police and
he'd be walking into an arrest.

It was the fact he
had the confidence

to go back that same night,
which demonstrated that he must

have known he'd k*lled her.

NARRATOR: Pawel Relowicz was
convicted of r*pe and m*rder.

He was sentenced
to life imprisonment

with a minimum term of 27 years
for the m*rder of Libby Squire.

- He can get out.
He can get married again.

He can drive a car.
He can go on holiday.

He can eat roast beef.

He can do whatever he
wants, Libby can't, and

that's not fair.

He should never
get out of prison.

RICHARD WRIGHT KC:
Throughout the trial,

Relowicz never admitted
that he had r*ped Libby

or that he had k*lled her.

He did not give any explanation
for how she had died.

He didn't give any
explanation for how

she'd come into the water.

He maintained his account
throughout that they'd

had consensual sex.

He'd left her fit and well.

Sadly, in particular
for Libby's family,

the consequence of Relowicz
continuing to deny his offenses

is that we'll never know
exactly what unfolded

on Oak Road playing
fields, and precisely

the sequence of events.

NARRATOR: In the wake
of Libby's death,

her mother is determined
to do something positive.

LISA SQUIRE: I
knew I'd never be

able to stop r*pe
and m*rder, but she couldn't

just die and nothing be done.

The more I looked
into the non-contact offenses,

I realized that, actually, one
of the biggest problems we have

is that women don't report.

JULIA SHAW: Sexual offenses
in general are underreported.

So that includes r*pe,
that includes various kinds

of as*ault. But if we look
at non-contact offenses

like in flashing
or voyeurism, you

have abysmal reporting rates.

And so most of the time
people feel unable to report.

They don't realize
it's something

they can report
because it feels

like this sort of hazy
thing that happened to them.

This combination
of factors means

that people who flash
others more often than not

will get away with
it, and that's

another reason why they
often go on to perpetrate

this crime multiple times.

NARRATOR: Together with
Thames Valley Police,

Lisa has launched a campaign
called, It Does Matter.

LISA SQUIRE:
If your friend is drunk,

never ever send
them home alone.

Go home with them.

And if you are a victim of a
non-contact offense, report it,

you know.

And if the police
don't take you

seriously, find another
police officer and report it.

Non-contact offenders
will keep offending

and eventually they might
go on to r*pe and m*rder.

She will always
be my first born.

She'll always be my pie,
my Lippy pie, as I call her.

She is still one
of the six of us.

We are a family of six, we
always will be a family of six.

People say to me, where
do you find your strength?

And she gives me
the strength to carry on.

She lives in my heart
forever and ever.

I think it's really
important for people

to remember her as Libby.

Not as Libby, the r*pe
and m*rder victim,

but as Libby, the friend, the
girl, the daughter, the sister.

And remember the good
times with her

because they're way more
important than how she died.

NARRATOR: Pawel Relowicz
was able to perpetrate

multiple sexually
motivated crimes before he

was finally held accountable.

- What you often find with
all manner of sexual offenses

is that once one
person comes forward,

other previous victims will
also report the same offense or

the same person.

It's very sad that
as a society we

don't create enough
space for women

to feel this way
in the first place,

and that we sometimes
need a very brave

individual to come forward.

But other times, you
do have perpetrators

held accountable for various
crimes that they've committed

and yet they're able to go
on to commit heinous crimes.

NARRATOR: And in our next
case, the actions

of a violent offender
with numerous convictions

proved fatal.

In the US, Colorado,


of Denver, the city
of Greeley, a vibrant community

with a lively music scene.

- Greeley is about an hour
North of Denver, about an hour

South of the Wyoming border.

It has a little over


Partly rural, partly urban,
a little bit of a unique mix.

NARRATOR: It was home
to 53-year-old Scott Sessions,

affectionately called Scottie
by his father, Stanley.

STANLEY SESSIONS: Scottie
was just a good guy.

He was just very
animated all the time,

just such a fun
personality to be around.

He was quite an achiever.

And when he was old enough, he
started to play the trumpet.

It was fun to watch him.

NARRATOR: Scott and his
brother were adopted.

STANLEY SESSIONS: Your parental
instincts kick in no matter

where the kids come from.

He particularly loved his mom.

He just had a knack
for making people feel good.

NARRATOR: Scott graduated
from Brigham Young University

with a degree
in music, and performed

with a number of bands.

STANLEY SESSIONS: He
told me many times,

this is the only time
I am truly happy,

really, really happy is
when I'm on the stage.

NARRATOR: But Scott's
musical talent

couldn't pay all the bills.

STANLEY SESSIONS:
He painted houses.

He was really good at it.

NARRATOR: Scott continued
to play on the music scene,

but life wasn't always easy.

STANLEY SESSIONS:
It was tough times

because he got to experimenting
with the drugs.

He got on this track
of wrong people around him

and he had a tough
time for a few years.

NARRATOR: In early 2020,
Scott and his jazz band

entered a music competition
in Memphis, Tennessee.

Scott had become
well-known and respected

within the music community.

ANNOUNCER: Northern
Colorado's best trumpet

player, Mr. Scott Sessions.

[APPLAUSE]

- He was ready to take
the next step in the big time.

He was ready to perform
on the big stage.

NARRATOR: On Saturday,
February 8, 2020,

Stanley spoke with his
son Scott on the phone.

STANLEY SESSIONS:
His mom was in a care

facility at that time.

And I said, yeah, I'm going
to go down to see her tomorrow.

And he said, well, I
want to go with you.

And he says, I'll
see you later.

That was it.

NARRATOR: But on Sunday,
Scott failed

to turn up to visit his mom.

And his bandmates
started to worry when

he didn't show up for a gig.

Monday, February 10,


of Greeley in Larimer
County, 911 dispatchers

received an alarming call.

Police arrived and began
investigating the scene.

STEVE WRENN: The body was
wrapped up in a blanket.

The initial indication
was that it was a homicide

and the body had
been dumped there.

NARRATOR: Police
in Larimer County

performed an autopsy
on the burnt body

found in the mountains.

It revealed a brutal m*rder.

STEVE WRENN: The autopsy
revealed a laceration

to the neck from
front to back, cutting

all the way to the vertebrae.

The depth of the cut
to the neck

was significant
and violent, a laceration

that nearly decapitated him.

The burning was determined
to be postmortem.

NARRATOR: A fingerprint
scanner identified

the victim as Scott Sessions.

STANLEY SESSIONS: I got a call
from the police department

who said we found your son.

He's deceased.

I knew that I had
to go tell his mother,

immediately that
was my thought.

The next morning I did go.

And she said, who would
want to hurt my Scotty?

NARRATOR: Police needed
to find the k*ller.

They searched Scott's
house and found

some messages on his computer
to a woman named Heather Frank.

STEVE WRENN: The messages
between Heather and Scott

indicated that they were
starting a new relationship

and that there was
some romantic interest

between the two of them.

NARRATOR: 48-year-old
Heather Frank was a manager

at a diner in Loveland.

She had three
grown up children.

AVA GLASS: Heather
was vivacious.

She was extremely creative.

She liked crafts.

She liked arts.

She liked music.

She loved going out
to listen to bands.

People who knew Heather
said she was the kind

of person who lit up a room.

She had the most
infectious laugh,

and she had a spirit about
her that people noticed.

And when she grew up,
that traveled with her.

NARRATOR: One of Heather's
last messages to Scott

was an invitation to come
over to her apartment

late on Saturday, February 8.

Detectives checked Heather
and Scott's phone records.

The data confirmed
they'd both been

at Heather's apartment on
Saturday, February 8, the night

Scott disappeared.

Police checked the area
around Heather's apartment

for surveillance footage,
and by Wednesday, February 12,

they got a major breakthrough.

They found Scott's car
in the parking a grocery store.

STEVE WRENN: The keys
were still inside the car.

The doors were unlocked.

The floor mat from
the driver's side

had been placed just
outside the driver's

side door in the snow.

Once they found
the car, they started

pulling surveillance
videos from nearby

to see if they could determine
how it got there and when.

NARRATOR: Police
uncovered a crucial piece

of footage which showed
Scott's car being

driven into the parking lot.

STEVE WRENN: The direction
that it comes in from

is important because Heather
Frank's apartment

is a short distance away.

And this video was taken
on February 11, which

was the day after
Scott Sessions's body

was found in the mountains.

NARRATOR: A male
figure was seen getting

out of Scott's vehicle.

- He walks back around
the back side of the car

over to the passenger side.

We see him putting
something on the ground,

shuffling his feet
almost as if they

were trying to wipe away
footprints in the snow,

and then walking
away from the car.

NARRATOR:
Investigators continued

searching for more
surveillance footage

to see where the man went.

At the same time,
they were also

looking for the last
known person

to see Scott, Heather Frank.

STEVE WRENN: They
started digging

into her background a little
bit more, and what they found

was that she had
been the victim

of some acts
of domestic violence

at the hands
of a former boyfriend

by the name of Kevin Eastman.

NARRATOR: 48-year-old
Kevin Eastman was

already known to the police.

- Kevin Eastman has
an extensive criminal history.

His crimes go back years.

Among the many offenses
he's been charged for

were domestic violence multiple
times, vehicle offenses,

burglary, weapons offenses.

NARRATOR: In 2015,
he violently attacked

Heather and pleaded guilty
to as*ault in the third degree.

He was sentenced
to two years probation.

Four years later, after another
altercation with Kevin Eastman,

Heather had to receive
treatment in the hospital.

- Allegedly, Eastman punched
Heather multiple times

in the ribs, leaving her
with serious injuries.

This attack was
so savage, it left

Heather fearing for her life.

And she pleaded with
police for protection.

NARRATOR:
Investigators obtained

Kevin Eastman's phone records.

They revealed he'd also
been at Heather's apartment

on Saturday, February 8,
the night Scott went missing.

STEVE WRENN: All
three phones, that

of Scott Sessions, Heather
Frank and Kevin Eastman,

had converged at the same
time on Saturday

night at Heather
Frank's apartment.

At that point, Scott
Sessions's phone

dies or is turned off
and never moves again.

But the next morning, Heather,
Frank and Kevin Eastman's phone

leave the area of Heather
Frank's apartment

and begin traveling
up the Poudre Canyon

towards Pingree Park, which is
where Scott Sessions's body is

ultimately found.

Now you have Kevin
Eastman and Heather Frank

as the primary suspects
in the disappearance

and death of Scott Sessions.

NARRATOR: Investigators tracked
Kevin and Heather's cell phones

and began to look for footage
in the same locations.

STEVE WRENN: One
of the key videos

that they find is a video
from Pooter Canyon

on the way to Pingree Park.

It's 837 in the morning.

Can't see the license
plate number,

but you can see some damage
on that passenger side front

Fender that we later
find to be consistent

with Kevin Eastman's vehicle.

NARRATOR: Just over three
hours later, at 11:46 AM,

the police identified
a similar vehicle driving

back along the same road.

STEVE WRENN:
The timing works here

because it's about
an hour drive to the area

where Scott Sessions's
body was disposed of.

NARRATOR: As the evidence
slowly built up

a map of their movements,
police

decided to put both Kevin
Eastman and Heather Frank

under surveillance.

They attached a camera
to a lamp post

directly opposite Heather
Frank's apartment,

and put GPS trackers on both
Kevin and Heather's vehicles.

Heather kept to her
normal routine,

as if nothing had happened.

AVA GLASS: In the days after
Scott Sessions was m*rder*d,

according to police,
Heather appeared

to go about life as normal.

She went to work,
she went shopping,

she went out to dinner.

But later when investigators
talked to the people

she worked with, they said they
knew something wasn't right.

Something simply seemed
off with Heather.

JULIA SHAW: The fact
that she's going to work

and she isn't reporting
the crime immediately

suggests that he's
threatened her with something

or he's threatened that
if maybe he gets caught,

he'll figure out
another way to k*ll her.

And this is
exacerbated by the fact

that he has made these
kinds of threats before.

It's reasonable for the police
at this point to say,

maybe she was
in on it because why

else wouldn't she report it?

What has she got to gain
from not reporting?

But it's also equally
likely that she's

going to work because he's
saying you need to act normal,

otherwise there will
be consequences.

NARRATOR: On Saturday,
February 15 at 5:15 PM,

Kevin and Heather were seen
leaving her apartment together.

- At this point, the police
have arrest warrants

for both Heather and Kevin.

We see Kevin Eastman coming
out of that apartment

walking towards his Subaru.

They're watching
their movements

to formulate a plan
as to when they're going

to effectuate that arrest.

Looks like Heather is
a little unsteady on her feet.

Whether she's injured
or intoxicated,

we don't know but something
seems a little off here.

She's holding some
coats, Kevin also

appears to have some clothing.

Whether or not they're
headed out for a longer trip,

we don't know.

They get in the car and they're
about to drive off here.

NARRATOR: The vehicle was
tracked driving to a ranch



The following morning,
Kevin Eastman was observed

by police acting suspiciously.

- Kevin Eastman is
near a fire pit,

and that he is
starting to burn some--

something, some
material of some kind.

After watching Kevin
Eastman do that for a while,

he sees Kevin Eastman get into
his car and leave the ranch

and begins driving toward town.

Kevin Eastman proceeds
to drive to a gas station.

He parks at one of the pumps,
gets out of the car,

but then takes
a red plastic gas

can out of the back of his
car and begins filling it up.

The detective is
concerned that Eastman's

getting more gas to take
back to the burn pile

to destroy additional evidence.

NARRATOR: The lone police
officer made the decision

to arrest Kevin Eastman.

STEVE WRENN: When
Eastman was arrested,

they found two spent shell
casings and three live rounds,

as well as a large
hunting knife.

NARRATOR: Kevin Eastman
was questioned by police.

STEVE WRENN: Kevin
Eastman starts off

by talking about his
relationship with Heather.

NARRATOR: When the interview
turned to Scott Sessions,

Kevin gave away a crucial
piece of information.

- People do often slip
up a bit in interviews,

especially if they haven't
really rehearsed their story.

That's a big slip up to say
that this person is dead.

And, yeah, it
could happen if you

assume that missing persons
after a certain time are going

to be dead but it does
very much point to he

has guilty knowledge.

He knows something more
than he's willing to accept

at this point.

STEVE WRENN: Kevin begins to
change his tune a little bit.

He begins providing police with
bits and pieces of evidence

indicating that he was
either there at the time

Scott Sessions was k*lled or
that he came immediately after.

NARRATOR: And police asked
Kevin where Heather was.

While Kevin Eastman
was being interviewed,

detectives conducted a search
at the ranch property

where Kevin had been
seen burning things.

STEVE WRENN: One
of the officers

who's conducting the search
leaves the area of the burn pit

and lifts up a wooden
tabletop that is nearby,

and discovers another body.

The body that is found
underneath the tabletop

is wrapped in plastic
and baling wire.

NARRATOR: The body was
confirmed to be Heather Frank.

STEVE WRENN: Heather died
from two g*nsh*t wounds

to the chest.

They were two 22
caliber b*ll*ts.

NARRATOR:
In the interview room,

police confronted Kevin
with this new information.

JULIA SHAW: People do break
down and cry in interviews,

but in this case, it's
such a quick turn and

such a dramatic sobbing, I
haven't seen this before.

I guess if you're worried
that this could have happened

and it's your worst
nightmare and

then they confirm it and you've
already been thinking it,

maybe you could quickly
escalate like this,

but if it is coming
out of the blue,

it seems difficult
or, certainly,

unusual to see someone
breaking down like this.

STEVE WRENN:
Detectives do get him

to start talking
about what he sees

at Heather Frank's apartment.

And what he describes is
seeing a lot of blood.

JULIA SHAW: I guess it's
something we don't really think

about that someone who has
been the perpetrator in a crime

is surprised, perhaps even, by
the extent of the crime scene

that they've created.

We know that people can have
flashbacks, for example,

to both the act itself and
the consequences of the act.

And just because you are
the reason that there

was blood at the scene,
it doesn't

mean that you can't
still have flashbacks and

intrusive thoughts.

NARRATOR: Officers
obtained a search warrant

for Heather Frank's apartment.

STEVE WRENN: They found some
things that weren't adding up.

Her cell phone and purse
were left at the apartment.

There were also
some spots of blood

on a couch near the entryway.

NARRATOR:
But the biggest discovery

was by the front door.

STEVE WRENN: When they pulled
back a large black rubber

mat near the entryway,
they discovered

a large pool of blood.

NARRATOR: The blood
was later determined

to belong to Scott Sessions.

STEVE WRENN: The location
of the large pool of blood

suggests the Scott
Sessions never

made it more than a couple
steps inside the front door.

I always believed
that the k*ller

was waiting behind the door.

As soon as Scott Sessions
stepped into the entryway,

that he was
attacked from behind

and his throat was
cut at that time.

Now police are discovering
that Kevin Eastman is leaving

a trail of dead bodies.

He had been at the scene
of Scott Sessions's death,

he had been at the location
where Scott Sessions's body was

placed, and now he was
the last person to be

seen alive with Heather Frank.

As the police wrap
up the interview,

they have enough
evidence at that point

to charge him not only with
the death of Scott Sessions,

but with Heather Frank as well.

Heather was present for Scott's
death by Kevin Eastman,

but I don't have any indication
that she instigated that,

wanted it, was involved in it.

She was trapped and was
a victim of his violence.

I think every indication is
that she was under the thumb or

control of Kevin Eastman,
and was just too scared to do

anything about it.

AVA GLASS: In the days
after Heather's death,

there was a great
deal of sadness

in the community,
but also anger, especially

among her family and friends.

She was caught in Kevin
Eastman's violent control,

and it seemed to many
people that if things

had been done differently,
she might still be with us.

NARRATOR: As well as the video
surveillance footage,

DNA evidence proved vital.

STEVE WRENN: There
were a pair of jeans

found in amongst Kevin
Eastman's property

in the garage.

Those jeans were ultimately
tested and determined

to have Scott Sessions's
DNA or blood on them,

linking Kevin Eastman
scientifically

to Scott Sessions's death.

NARRATOR: In court,
the jury found Kevin Eastman

guilty of the m*rder
of both Scott Sessions and

Heather Frank.

He was sentenced
to two consecutive life

sentences as well
as an additional 27 years.

- I have never been
one to let other people

affect my happiness.

In fact, I will not
allow you, Mr. Perp,

you to affect how I live
the rest of my life.

I'm going to forgive
you because I don't

want to carry this burden.

This is your burden
to carry alone.

A few days after the trial,
we held a memorial for Scott.

It was truly a memorial,
not a funeral.

A lot of people came
forward and told

me what a great guy he was.

They told me
incidences of kindness,

they told me they'll miss him.

I was very grateful for that.

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