03x08 - La Madera Homicides and Ana Rascon

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

A terrifying day amid the heat
and dust of New Mexico.

JESSIE WHITTAKER: When we're
dealing with a person who just

committed a mass sh**ting, we
don't know what the mentality

of this person is.

NARRATOR: And in snowbound
Colorado, a shocking discovery.

SKYE WELLS: The scene
itself looked

like some sort
of altercation had taken

place that was quite violent.

[THEME MUSIC]

MAN 1: It just
sounds like something

bad is happening to her.

WOMAN 1: We know what
happened because the video

tells us what happened.

MAN 2: I heard some g*nshots.

OFFICER 1: 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 Northern
New Mexico,

in Rio Arriba
County is La Madera.

TONY LONG: La
Madera, New Mexico,

is a very small community,
a very rural area.

There are a lot of families
that live there.

Everyone virtually
knows everyone else.

[PHONE RINGING]

A 911 call comes in.

It is clearly panic.

There's a lot of yelling.

There's a lot of screaming.

Then essentially
the call goes dead.

NARRATOR: Deputies
arriving on the scene

were met by distressed
neighbors.

TONY LONG: The first law
enforcement agency that arrives

is the Rio Arriba
Sheriff's Office.

They discover three victims.

NARRATOR: The victims
were identified

as Max Trujillo, his
stepson Brendan Herrera,

and Brendan's mother, Maria,
known to friends and family

as Brenda.

JESSIE WHITTAKER: One
individual, the mother, Brenda,

was still alive at the time,
so they were trying to get

medical attention for her.

The other two individuals,
Brendan and Max,

were deceased at the time that
law enforcement got there.

NARRATOR: The deputies
on scene urgently

needed to locate the sh**ter.

JESSIE WHITTAKER:
Officers are thinking

about if there's a suspect
still inside of the residence.

Are they at risk
right now as well?

NARRATOR: More residents
appeared on scene.

This was Brenda's teenage
daughter, Carissa.

CARISSA SAGRAVES: My mom
was such a selfless person.

She was very inspirational.

She was my best friend.

I wouldn't go anywhere
without my mom.

She was very caring.

She wore her heart
on her sleeve.

NARRATOR: Max was
a steelworker,

and got together with Brenda
just before Carissa was born.

CARISSA SAGRAVES: My dad's
personality was so goofy.

I mean, this man
would light up a room

anytime he would come in.

He would just joke and he
would laugh and make us laugh.

And I loved his
personality so much.

He was a good man.

They were best friends.

They would support each
other no matter what.

You could tell
they had true love.

NARRATOR: Also living
at the property

were two of Carissa's
brothers, Damian

and the third victim, Brendan.

CARISSA SAGRAVES:
Brendan and I, there

was a couple years apart.

He was just the best, most
genuine soul you'd ever meet.

NARRATOR: At the crime
scene, Carissa

had troubling information
for the deputies.

CARISSA SAGRAVES: The day
of the incident I remember

just hanging out at home.

Brendan had his
day off, so he was

in his room watching movies.

Damian was not working.

He had just dropped
out of college.

He quit his job.

So he was struggling.

I remember just looking
out the front door,

and, I mean, I
see my dad walking

to the door to come inside.

And all of a sudden, I mean,
I saw him point the g*n

and you just hear
the shots go off.

And my dad just fell.

My brother Brendan
had heard it,

and he ran out at the same
time my mom did it.

My mom was just
on the ground with my dad

and told me to call 911.

She was trying to talk,
and he went and grabbed

the phone from
my mom and threw it

across the roof of the house.

So we had no phone
to finish calling.

Damian started just
fighting with Brendan.

He just overpowered
Brendan, and he

just had the g*n by his neck--

between his neck
and his shoulder, and--

and he just-- he just
pulled that trigger.

My mom heard the g*nsh*t
and she was just pleading,

just don't do it,
just don't do it.

And he just looked
at her and pointed

the g*n straight at her.

And she said,
please, don't do it

and he just let
that one go too.

I just knew if I didn't
get out of there,

I was going to be next
and I needed to get help.

I just ran.

I ran to whatever house
I could find first.

TONY LONG: Max Trujillo
Sr was shot in the back.

Brendan Herrera was
shot almost execution

style in the back of the head.

And Brenda was shot
on the side of her head,

basically on the right temple.

All of those wounds were
clearly from someone that

intended to k*ll his victims.

NARRATOR: By the time first
responders arrived, Damian

had already fled the scene.

JESSIE WHITTAKER:
The suspect had

stolen a pickup truck
from that property, as

well as some other firearms.

When we're dealing with
a person who just committed

a mass sh**ting, we don't
know what the mentality

of this person is.

Are they going out
and are going to continue

a spree of murders afterwards?

[PHONE RINGING]

While we were en
route to La Madera,

there was another 911 call that
came out advising that a woman,

she had just came home
and found her husband laying

shot in their front yard.

NARRATOR: This incident
had taken place


in the equally small

community of Tres Piedras.

JESSIE WHITTAKER: When
I arrived on scene,

I observed an elderly male
laying down on the ground

with apparent g*nsh*t wounds.

He was deceased.

The individual who shot him had
also stolen his pickup truck.

NARRATOR: The victim
was Michael Kyte,

a retired archeologist
who had only

recently moved to New Mexico.

TONY LONG: This is
a very remote area.

It would be unusual,
highly unusual,

to have that number
of fatalities

in that short of a time
period, that close together.

So I think at that point
they probably had a good idea

that they were all related.

NARRATOR: Shortly
after, those suspicions

were confirmed when Herrera's
truck from La Madera

was found abandoned
not far away.

It had run out of gas.

JULIA SHAW: I think it would
be easy to think, well,

he's just a ruthless m*rder*r
at this point on a spree.

He's k*lling people, he's
k*lled his own family members,

now he's k*lling
strangers on the road.

But probably what's going on in
his mind is he was desperate.

He is still trying
to escape, and

he needs to put
distance between himself

and the crime scene.

And the only way
he's going to do that

is if he has another
vehicle or gas.

And I think in that
moment you are

not thinking about this
individual as a human being.

So I think it's
more of a practical,

an instrumental--
as we call it-- m*rder.

NARRATOR: By now, Carissa's
mom, Brenda, had been

airlifted to the hospital.

She was on life support.

CARISSA SAGRAVES:
I held her hand.

I didn't want
to leave her side.

They did inform us that
she was brain dead.

There was no way of her
coming out of it.

Seeing her in that bed
was the hardest thing.

She didn't look
like my mom anymore.

I just knew that
she couldn't suffer.

I just knew that we had
to do something about it.

And, I mean, she
was just in pain.

And so it was about a day, and
we took her off life support.

NARRATOR: Just a few
hours after they received

the first call, the Rio
Arriba Sheriff's Office

got yet another 911 call.

JESSIE WHITTAKER: It
was reported to us

that over in the community
of Abiquiu,

a individual was shot
at the Bodes' gas station.

NARRATOR: The victim was
identified as a local man.

JESSIE WHITTAKER: Manuel
Serrano was a family man

who lived in that community.

He worked as a security
guard at the

local Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.

He was actually headed
to work at the time

that he was shot and k*lled.

NARRATOR: Investigators
were able to access

the store's CCTV.

JESSIE WHITTAKER: Here we see
a black Chevy pickup truck

pulling up to pump number six.

This is the truck that
was identified as being

stolen from Michael Kyte.

At this point,
there's an individual

that walks outside with
a straw cowboy hat,

and appears that he is going to
be getting gas for his truck.

So here you see a white Jeep
pulling up to pump number four.

And we see Manuel Serrano
exiting his vehicle.

And the individual
begins to take notice.

There doesn't appear
to be any sort

of communication
between the two of them,

but he's watching him.

He's observing everything
that he's doing.

Manuel Serrano was still
going about his business.

He's actually cleaning
his windshield.

And you see the black
truck, the lights come on

and the driver's side
window goes down.

An arm comes out, and the
individual in that truck

discharges his firearm in the
direction of Manuel Serrano.

From the ricochets
off the pavement,

we know that the g*nshots
are coming from him.

Manuel Serrano is seen actually
trying to escape the person

who's sh**ting at him.

As he's running away,
that Black truck

is seen pulling out.

This was a targeted attack.

No altercation happened.

NARRATOR: Manuel Serrano died
of his wounds shortly after.

For investigators,
there could be no doubt

what they had witnessed.

JESSIE WHITTAKER:
Manuel Serrano

was an innocent
victim who was shot

in the back as a cold
blooded m*rder*r

by this individual
in the black truck.

We were able to identify the
individual as Damian Herrera.

JULIA SHAW: This doesn't
feel like a situation

where he's got nothing else
to lose because the bigger

question is, what does he have
to gain from sh**ting this guy?

This is so random.

And so I think there must
be something going on

in his own mind that we don't
see where this makes sense,

that sh**ting this man is a
good outcome because it either

protects his escape, it
protects his identity

or maybe he thinks, what if
this is a cop who's after me?

Or what if this guy
is out to get me?

So it points to paranoid
delusions for me,

or some sort
of perception that we

don't have just
watching this footage

that's only in his own mind.

TONY LONG: At this point we've
got multiple law enforcement

agencies, Espanola
Police Department,

Rio Arriba County
Sheriff's Department,

New Mexico State
Police that are

all involved
in essentially this manhunt

to find Damian Herrera.

[POLICE SIREN]

Herrera is speeding down
the highway pretty quickly

after k*lling Mr Serrano.

You've got two law
enforcement officers

that are chasing him there.

They're pretty close behind.

JESSIE WHITTAKER: Damian
Herrera ends up pulling

too far off onto the shoulder.

He goes off
the road, hits a rock

and it causes his truck
to flip, and it rolls over.

TONY LONG: At that point
it's a very active situation.

There's dust all over the
place, it's very hard to see.

They're looking around, looking
for the driver of the vehicle.

They're actually
looking at the truck,

and it isn't until just
a few seconds later

that they realize
that the driver is

actually already
out of the vehicle

and begins to charge at them.

He is wild.

He's trying to get g*ns.

He is just fighting with
everything that he has.

Damian Herrera, he's
not a large man,

but it took three
large and very

healthy, very strong police
officers and a taser a couple

times to get him
into compliance

and to get him into handcuffs.

That's how wild
and crazy he was acting.

JULIA SHAW: He's in this
fight or flight mode.

And he is full of adrenaline.

It seems like a situation that
spiraled from that first shot

and then he just kept
sh**ting, and he kept running

and he kept attacking.

And he still in that mode
when he encounters the police,

and he doesn't know
how to shut it off.

NARRATOR: Herrera was put
in the back of the police car.

Once he'd calmed down,
he was able to answer

the officer's questions.

TONY LONG: The police officer
then asked him about what

happened with Mr Kyte.

And then the police officer
very artfully asked him,

was there anything
else that happened?

He said, no, no, no.

That's it, that's it.

And then the police officer
asked him about Manuel Serrano.

He had essentially blamed
the killings on everyone else.

And it's a story
that is absolutely

wild and unbelievable and just
not supported by any evidence.

He was actually even
telling the police officer,

I'm not a violent person.

Ask anybody.

It was just
an alarming statement

to hear out of his mouth,
considering that he

had just k*lled five people.

NARRATOR: Damian Herrera
was charged with five

counts of first degree m*rder.

Further charges arose
from his time in custody.

TONY LONG: While
he was incarcerated

at the jail in Tierra Amarilla,
he attacked one of the guards.

JULIA SHAW: This just
feels like someone

who isn't of sound
mind, who's making

incredibly bad decisions.

Maybe he's just
a violent person,

but there's nothing to suggest
from his criminal record

or from his own past that
he was a violent, really,

before any of this happened.

And so you've got that
first incredibly violent act

of sh**ting his stepfather
and then a cascade of violence

that follows from there.

NARRATOR: Damian
Herrera had, in fact,

been struggling with his
mental health for some time.

CARISSA SAGRAVES:
We all just kind of

knew that something was wrong.

I mean, we could see
the signs, but we never

thought it would get this far.

Damian had told me it
would be cool to just

see somebody hurt
and in pain, and just to see

them go through something.

And I think at that
time I didn't really

think of it as a way of him
hurting us, but at the time

I knew it was weird.

It was scary.

Just, where is
this coming from?

And I remember my mom
just reaching out

to my siblings, my older
ones, to just let them

know we need to help
him in way-- in a way,

we need to get him to talk.

JULIA SHAW: This is
a 21-year-old man, a young man

who is in a pretty dark place.

Fantasies of violence
are not totally uncommon,

but it is uncommon
to voice to somebody else

that you think that this
is acceptable behavior.

And it borders
on something that's

called criminal thinking.

So criminal thinking
is a set of beliefs

that predisposes people
to engage in crimes,

including violent crimes.

And they include things
like rationalization

that make it seem like
it's OK to be violent or

aggressive, that say,
if I do bad things

or break the law it's because
other people had it coming

or that other people
are out to get me.

And so it's the set of beliefs
that put you as the victim

often in these
situations and that

make it easier
for you to justify

lashing out against others.

NARRATOR: Herrera was found
guilty of the four murders

in Rio Arriba
County and sentenced

to four consecutive
life sentences,

a minimum of 120 years.

The legal process
in Taos County

for the k*lling
of Michael Kyte is

ongoing, because the charge
for the stolen truck

is currently under appeal.

CARISSA SAGRAVES: Why,
why would he do this?

Why would anyone
think like this?

To this day I still ask why.

It was never really answered.

Never a question that
he answered on his own.

It's gut wrenching,
is what it is.

There's not a day that
goes by I don't think

of my parents and Brendan.

I mean, there's times
where I'm doing something

and I'm thinking they would
have enjoyed to see this.

It's the hardest thing
to come back to reality when

I'm thinking and know that
I can't pick up that phone

and I can't give them a call,
I can't give my mom a hug.

There's never
a day that goes by.

I mean, they were
my everything, really.

NARRATOR: Damian
Herrera believed

he could fight his way
out of the scenario

he'd created in his own mind.

JULIA SHAW: Delusions
can take many forms.

So they can be very
simple delusion

that you can fight
and flee your way out

of a situation that is
actually already impossible,

or it can be a situation
where you see reality

through distorted eyes.

And so that borders more
on what we consider psychosis

where you have someone
reacting to cues

that aren't really there,
but they're perceiving as such.

And so you can have
a delusion that

ends up fueling
a crime in itself,

which is when you think that
it's me or the other person.

That if I don't k*ll them,
they will k*ll me, even if it

is completely implausible.

NARRATOR: And it
was another delusion

that led to a brutal m*rder in
the cold mountains of Colorado.

In the West of Colorado
is Gunnison County.

SKYE WELLS: Gunnison are
a very rural community

located in between
two mountain ranges,



So there is a lot
of areas that are

inaccessible at certain
times of the year

without special equipment,
and don't necessarily have cell

phone or even radio coverage.

And so the job can get
quite difficult at times.

NARRATOR: On March


received a report from
a remote corner of the county.

SKYE WELLS: The Sheriff's
Office received a call

about an abandoned vehicle
on Alpine Plateau Road,

which is the road
that would lead

to the Arrowhead subdivision.

NARRATOR: Deputies made
their way up the snowy trail

to locate the vehicle.

SKYE WELLS: It was
a small four door sedan,

and it appeared it
had just gotten stuck

in the snow going up the road.

Where was the driver
of the vehicle?

And why aren't they
the ones calling for help?

NARRATOR: While the deputies
were on the scene,

the dispatch center
received another call

from a nearby cabin.

[PHONE RINGING]

Officers were confronted
with a distressing scene.

SKYE WELLS: Looking
at the body,

it was really hard
to tell what the injuries

were because there was a large
amount of blood around it.

But the body had some
severe injuries to the head.

The scene itself looked like
some sort of altercation

had taken place that
was quite violent.

The whole living
room was in disarray.

There was a bottle of lighter
fluid on the counter

and the coffee table
was smoldering.

It appeared that some kind
of a fire had either started

or somebody intended to start.

NARRATOR: In all
the chaos, investigators

found a promising lead.

SKYE WELLS: We were able
to find a set of car keys.

On those keys was
a tag that had

linked it
to the abandoned vehicle

that was called in earlier.

NARRATOR: The car
was registered

to 22-year-old Ana Rascon.

EMMA VALDEZ: Ana was
the type of person

that people tended
to gravitate towards.

She had this smile on her.

She had like this light
heart and she was so kind.

She did have a temper.

I'm not going to lie,
she did have a temper

and she was stubborn, but she
was an amazing person.

NARRATOR: Ana was born
in Grand Junction, Colorado,

but she moved back and forth
between the city and

her mother's home of Agua
Prieta in Sonora, Mexico.

LUPITA LOPEZ: When she
first came from Mexico,

I remember she hardly
knew any English.

She learned it.

She picked it up
so quick, so fast.

GIL RASCON AVALOS:
She was really smart.

LAURA ADAN: Always posing, and
she always looked cute in pink.

- Really really confident.

- A lot of people found
it easy to talk to her.

She, for sure, was
the person that you would

feel comfortable going to.

LUPITA LOPEZ: She always
had that mother instinct.

Like, she was
really nourishing.

NARRATOR: Ana was a devoted
mother who had her first child

at the age of 17.

EMMA VALDEZ: I knew Ana was
going to be a great mom.

One of her biggest
ambitions was to have

that white picket fence life.

Having that normal life
where she just kind of took

care of her kids,
everything was good,

everything was stable,
that's what she dreamed of.

NARRATOR: Ana later
moved to r*fle, Colorado,

to be with a new boyfriend.

EMMA VALDEZ: She originally
had moved out there to be

with her daughter's father.

She kind of stayed out there
after they split and ended up

finding a job working
at a hotel doing housekeeping,

but she was more focused
on raising her kids

and being a mom for her kids.

NARRATOR: But life
grew increasingly hard.

EMMA VALDEZ: Ana really
started struggling and feeling

the pressure
of being a single mom

and doing things on her own.

She had overdue bills.

She was in negative,
her bank accounts.

She did express,
like, my life's

falling apart at this point.

I need some help.

NARRATOR: Ana was prescribed
antidepressants and

other medication to help
her mental health,

but by 2020, she also
began to self-medicate.

EMMA VALDEZ: There were
signs that Ana was using,

but I think as a family, we all
found it very hard to accept.

We didn't want to believe that.

Ana felt that she was putting
herself in a dark place,

and she wanted to find
a way to get out of it.

She reached out to her
mom and she asked, hey,

can you take the kids?

Just so I can get into a new
apartment, find a job,

get back on my feet and then
I'll go back for the kids.

LARISSA JOHNSON: Ana
loved being a mother,

and so to have to send her
children away, very likely

left her feeling depressed,
isolated from her loved ones,

and also probably there was
an element of shame there.

And so this c*ck
of emotions, these really

difficult emotions
to carry, they

can really set
the stage for someone

to start engaging
in unhealthy and

unhelpful coping strategies.

But then that means that we can
end up in a cycle of suffering.

So we turn to the drug
use and then

our emotional
and our financial pressures,

they mount, they grow.

And then we then turn
to the drugs again,

and then we fall
into this loop that

becomes really difficult
to find our way out of.

NARRATOR: Eventually,
on Friday, March 5, Ana and

her mother arranged
that Ana would

drive down to Sonora,
Mexico, to collect

her children that weekend.

EMMA VALDEZ: Come Sunday,
I get a call from my mom.

And she was like, hey,
have you heard from Ana?

Nobody's heard from her.

Her phone's off.

Nobody can get
in touch with her.

NARRATOR: In Arrowhead,
investigators

were taken aback
by the severity

of the victim's injuries.

She'd been bludgeoned
around her face and head.

Her arm was badly
broken, and she

had several large puncture
wounds in the back of her neck.

SKYE WELLS: It was a very
horrific thing that took place.

We found almost an antique
pickaxe of some kind,

maybe an ice pickaxe,
something like that.

It was pretty clear that
that was the m*rder weapon,

and it absolutely came
from the residence.

We were able to track down some
photographs of the residence

from an earlier time,
and it was actually hanging

on the wall above the door.

Through a law
enforcement database,

we were able to get
a description,

and we were able
to confirm that the female

that was in the house
was, in fact, Ana Rascon.

GIL RASCON AVALOS: I picked up
the phone and she's like, OK,

are you sitting down?

And I was like,
OK, don't scare me.

Be prepared because I'm
going to say something to you

and it's something bad.

My sister just told me
that my sister was gone.

I started going crazy.

I didn't even listen
to her anymore.

LAURA ADAN: My first
instinct was

to go into denial because,
no, that wasn't possible.

And I said-- finally I was
like, well, what happened?

Like, what happened with her?

And he's like,
at the moment we're

treating this as a homicide,
so it's under investigation.

LUPITA LOPEZ: When
they called me,

I started asking questions
like, what the hell.

Where did this happen?

How did it all go down?

And they did tell
me too, there's

not a lot we can tell you
but whoever did this to her

is a monster.

And I can tell you
that the way her--

I can tell you that
the way her knuckles were,

she defended herself
to the best of her abilities.

EMMA VALDEZ: After the
realization really set in of it

was a homicide
investigation, it

just made me think, like, who
would do that to a person who--

especially her?

NARRATOR: Outside
the cabin, the snow

revealed further evidence,
footprints leading

to and from the property.

SKYE WELLS:
The initial size up was

two people had broken into a
house for an unknown reason,

and one ended up dead.

We weren't sure how or why
they were in the area.

NARRATOR: Over
in r*fle, investigators

were given the names
of people Ana had

been known to associate with.

One of them was
known to the police.

SKYE WELLS: Jorge
Solis had a bit

of a criminal record, mostly
kind of small petty crimes.

A little bit of property crime
but primarily he had drug

crimes going on in his record.

NARRATOR: Interviews with
neighbors on the mountain

revealed that a man
fitting Solis's description

had been spotted with Ana
by the car early on

Saturday morning.

Later that day, the same
neighbors spotted the same man

further down the mountain.

But this time he was alone.

SKYE WELLS: At that point he
became our number one suspect.

NARRATOR: A search
of Ana's vehicle

revealed promising leads.

SKYE WELLS: In the midst
of that search,

we had located several
receipts from Walmart

located in r*fle, Colorado.

At that time, CBI
had sent agents

to request surveillance
around the approximate times

that we saw on the receipts.

NARRATOR: CCTV showed
Ana with an unknown male.

SKYE WELLS: The surveillance
footage around the store

picks them up getting
out of her car,

walking into the store.

And right as they
walk in the store,

there's a great shot
of the two of them

where you can see
most of their faces.

NARRATOR: Ana's companion
was wearing the same jacket

and pants described
by the witnesses

who saw them on the mountain.

Other evidence also linked
him to the crime scene.

SKYE WELLS: The male
seen with Ana Rascon

has a very identifiable
baseball cap on.

We then locate this ball
cap inside the vehicle.

NARRATOR: The man
was now positively

identified as Jorge Solis.

SKYE WELLS: The Walmart
surveillance

became a crucial
piece of evidence

because it linked the two
of them together--

which we knew was the last
known person she was with--

and to the car.

We see him get in the car
and drive away.

How do we go from
a shopping trip

to Walmart to Ana
Rascon's death?

NARRATOR: Despite
the breakthrough,

the trail now went cold.

SKYE WELLS: 10 days after
the investigation had started,

we had no sign, no
word of anybody seeing

or hearing from Jorge Solis.

And then we kind
of catch a break.

NARRATOR: In Grand
Junction, 95 miles away

from the crime scene,
a member of the public

called the police about
a man acting suspiciously.

SKYE WELLS: Officers
with the Grand

Junction Police Department
were dispatched to the area.

He says his name is Jay Santos.

This officer is not convinced
that this person is being

completely honest with him.

One of the officers remembers
reading the bulletin

about the warrant we had
for a homicide suspect,

and they're like,
absolutely, this

is the guy we're looking for.

JULIA SHAW: There's an unease
in this interaction where he's

obviously being a bit cagey.

Certainly, psychologically,
he's trying to evade

the answers to the questions.

And he's probably trying
to be strategic about it

but in the end, he
gets detained anyway.

SKYE WELLS: When
Jorge was picked

up by Grand Junction police,
he had a backpack with him.

And we locate several items
that were, without a doubt,

inside the cabin.

We had contacted
the cabin owner

and she had confirmed they were
in the basement of the house.

NARRATOR: Solis's
fingerprint was also found

on a bottle in the cabin.

SKYE WELLS: We're
positive this is

the man who k*lled Ana Rascon.

NARRATOR: Agents from
the Colorado Bureau

of investigation now
conducted an interrogation.

SKYE WELLS: I think they
got spun up on dope.

They're somewhat lost
or not really sure

where they're going.

He now starts getting
paranoid that she is a narc.

- He has this bizarre story
that he was being set up

and that she had
to be sacrificed.

And that sounds to me
like a almost what's

called dissociative fugue
when you're not really there

and you're taking drugs.

And we know that
they took drugs

and that they took
them together.

And you're just somewhere else.

You're on a different
planet, and

you have your own
thoughts about what's

going on in the world.

And it translates
into misperceiving

reality in very weird ways.

What's striking
is that he seems

to accept that he k*lled
her at this point,

and he isn't really
making an effort

to patch together a plausible
story for the cops.

SKYE WELLS: Jorge Solis has
made a conscious decision

to end Ana Rascon's life.

Based on the scene we know she
fought, because the house was

torn apart, but he went
from such a violent act

to, within hours,
talking to people

on the street nonchalantly
like nothing had happened.

That tells you
the kind of man he was.

NARRATOR: Investigators had
enough evidence to charge

Jorge Solis with Ana's m*rder.

On March 3, 2023, he was
sentenced to 42 years in prison

following a plea deal.

LUPITA LOPEZ: The verdict is
not really what we wanted.

He took that chance
for her to live life,

to be a mother to her babies,
and he took that from them.

They need her.

And she loved them so much.

LARISSA JOHNSON: Ana's story
is a particularly tragic one.

She tried to build a life
for herself and her kids

and just struggled, really,
to navigate this world.

She kept falling
on hard times, but

I think that she
would constantly

show that she had
the passion, the devotion

to be a good mother.

She fought right up
until the very end.

Even in the face
of senseless violence,

she tried to fight for her life
and the life of her children.

GIL RASCON AVALOS: She
was the best sister I had.

And I still remember her
with her good things,

not bad things.

Trouble things, I still
remember the trouble things

because now they're funny.

And I loved her.

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