Arapahoe 911 with your emergency.
Hi, are you there? Yes, I am here
a call that would change the
course of three young lives.
OK, so you think your wife may be dead.
A crime of passion isn't born out of love,
but a desire for power and control.
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I didn't think he would go out
and go off the hook and go crazy.
Life is different in a lot of ways. Just.
Is everything reminds you of you know
what could have been or what happened or?
Just I don't know. Yeah,
a different life for Mazon Klapperich,
one of three children left behind
after the death of his mother, Ipti,
some Trabelsi known to loved ones as ipti.
She was the greatest person
that I've ever known.
She was so kind and so caring to
to everyone she ever met she. Just.
Lit up a room that she walked into,
that light was damned when
investigators say her husband Todd
Anthony Searles took her life forever,
changing the lives of her children.
I'm just, you know, starting college.
My sister hasn't even graduated high
school yet, like there were so many.
Things that we you know I wish
I could have shared with her.
And. It just feels like I've
been robbed like I won't.
I won't be able to experience
those things with her.
In 2015, Ipti moved to Denver for a new job.
At that time, she and her husband,
magazines dad were going through a divorce,
but in 2016 they all moved to Denver.
They made sure that the kids were
taken care of in the best way that
they could, as divorced parents by
then, if she had already
moved on with Searles
by the time that we all got here.
They were already in a relationship.
Mazzin describes his first impression
of Searles like an interrogation.
I think he almost wanted to present this
controlling nature to the kids specifically,
just to show that he was in charge.
Mom and Dad had joint custody
one week at each house. He says
trading back and forth was tough.
It's because on one hand it meant
going to my mom's where I was in
an uncomfortable household where
I didn't feel like not safe,
but I didn't feel welcome or.
Comfortable, I didn't feel comfortable there.
The Rift in their family deepened after
he says his father filed this restraining
order against Searles in March 2019.
I saw what happened. Clearly, ma'am,
my stepdad was aggressive and punched my
dad in the face who was doing nothing.
He was just trying to pick up his kids.
Searles was arrested on a
third degree assault charge.
Then last year things got physical
again, this time with empty
and I heard my mom say something
along the lines of get your hands
off me and that's when you know,
I said whoa, what's going on so?
You know, I poke my head out of
my door to see what I yell up.
The up the stairwell see, like,
hey are you OK? What's going on
eventually his stepfather
kicked him out of the house his
mother fought to get him back
she. Work something out
and they allow me back.
But at that point in time I
have somewhere else to live and.
Frankly, I don't like it.
I don't like living there.
I I hated it.
Actually it was.
It was horrible.
The decision not to come home created
tension and silence between Madison
and Ipti days before her murder.
I didn't have a last conversation
the last time I saw my mom.
I because we had an argument,
unfortunately, just before she passed,
that wasn't the mother,
you knew that was the mother
Todd created, correct?
The fact that I didn't,
I didn't get to say a single goodbye
or I love you or anything it was.
It was difficult. Madison
says that was the most difficult time, but
he still never expected what happened next.
I remember thinking to myself like God.
I hope. I hope he doesn't do
something bad. I hope he doesn't.
June
1st, 2021. It started
out as a really, really good day by
8:13 that evening everything
changed after surles called 911.
I need the address at 7128 S Poplar lane.
Alright, do you need
police or the paramedics?
There will need both.
My wife broke into the house
and began stabbing me.
I defended myself and I
think she may be dead.
The call continues for four minutes.
How did you defend yourself?
The dispatcher then asks him to
step outside with his hands up,
put your hands behind your back.
Sir Cyril's immediately gives
his side of the story that it
started as a fight about a divorce.
And then it just started stabbing.
He claims Ipti started
stabbing him multiple times,
but in this video you can't see any
wounds. You have the right to remain silent.
Eventually deputies read him his
rights and he chose to stop talking.
Inside paramedics are working to save
Gypsies life according to the autopsy report,
she was stabbed more than 120 times.
She died at the hospital.
Deputies say what Surles
didn't know was empty's.
15 year old daughter Sarah was downstairs.
She heard her mother screaming
for help saying please stop she,
the mother called for
the daughter a few times.
She could hear the nail half calmly
saying how's that feel he did not?
Sounding distressed did not scream at any
point she ran to a neighbor shortly after,
based on what she told police.
It took Searles 53 minutes to call 911.
He was charged with domestic violence
and murder in the first degree,
like I didn't think he would.
I didn't think he had it in him.
He spent the next four months in jail,
deputies say days before his
October hearing, he took his own
life at the Arapahoe County Jail,
now mass in his left, wondering why
his stepfather murdered the woman.
He claimed to love.
It's incredibly difficult.
I, I don't think there has been
a single day that's gone by that
I haven't. Thought about it.
He also thinks about the sign
of abuse he may have missed. I
was never aware of the kind of
manipulative controlling behavior
that he enacted, not just on my mom,
but on me and my brother and my sister.
You just you, don't you.
Don't recognize my case until it's too late.
Tried to take control
back by filing for divorce
and instead of giving up the
control he takes it back and
does something unspeakable.
Mazon feels robbed and he
says so does his family.
That's why he's sharing his mother
story in hopes someone might see this
and get out before it's too late.
I would say leave now because.
It's not even just for your own safety,
but. There are so many people
who care about you. And.
Your safety is of a concern to them as well.
Now if you all notice Mazzin was alone,
his loved ones weren't ready to talk yet,
which is understandable. It's a hard topic,
but he did want to say this.
He wanted to let his mom know that he
loves her and that he's OK and he's
still pushing through and that he and his
sister they have already started therapy.
Definitely a long road for all
three of these kids for life.
Not just now, but for life.
Did you steal his mom but stole their
relationship? Prior to her her death?
Yep, it's just. It's that control.
It's that manipulation that you continuously
hear about in so many of these cases,
and you never realize until
it's too late that wow,
maybe I could have done something.
Maybe I could have spoke up,
but you never think it's going
to get to that point.
And I I have to ask you,
I don't know how much you want to share here.
I'm kind of putting you on the spot,
but like.
Are you willing to share with us a
little bit about what drew you to these
stories in your own personal experience?
Just like Madison on one
of those left behind,
I didn't lose my mother to domestic violence,
but at six weeks she was shot and killed.
So the difference here,
you know,
I don't know what that love is like.
He experienced that.
I haven't experienced that,
but I know what that loss is like and I know,
you know,
that was one reason for wanting to do
these stories and wanting to speak
with the children and be able to
empathize with them and bring myself
to their level to let them know.
Hey, 27 years later, I'm still struggling.
And it will always be that way and
your work on this continues this week.
Yep,
tomorrow night we will introduce
you all to another family,
still dealing with the loss after a
crash and a murder suicide that's
going to be the family of Tricia
Sue Green West fall back in November
we brought you that is breaking
news and you will hear from them
tomorrow at 9:00 and 10:00.
All right. Thank you, Eric.