NARRATOR: Colorado Springs, Colorado.
October 9, 2002.
[sirens blaring]
Paramedics rushed the victim to the hospital.
Her lung is pierced.
Her throat and face are slashed.
Surgeons race to operate before the victim goes critical.
Jaworski was the lead investigator
for the case of the woman who was brutally stabbed.
ROBERT JAWORSKI: When I arrived on scene,
we identified the victim as 48-year-old Judy
Oldham, an employee of a local hardware store.
NARRATOR: After years of suffering depression,
Judy Oldham was starting to turn her life around.
ROBERT JAWORSKI: The on-scene patrol deputy told me
they found Ms. Oldham lying inside
of her doorway bleeding profusely
from the chest and the head.
I observed a blood trail.
I also observed what appeared to be human flesh--
part of Judy's ear, which had been bitten off.
This was personal.
This wasn't random.
Somebody had a grudge against Judy.
NARRATOR: Jaworski's only lead is the victim.
ROBERT JAWORSKI: That first night Judy
was going to be going into surgery,
we weren't going to be able to talk to her.
It's really frustrating when the only witness
you have to a crime is unable to talk to you.
[music playing]
NARRATOR: The next morning, Jaworski gets a break.
ROBERT JAWORSKI: I was contacted by one of Judy's relatives,
who told me that somebody I should be looking at
is a lady by the name of Henrietta Villarreal.
She told me Henrietta was somehow involved with Judy's
boyfriend, and that there was tension
between Judy and Henrietta.
NARRATOR: Jaworski asks Henrietta to come in to talk.
She does so willingly.
Hi, Henrietta, I'm Bob Jaworski.
I'm a detective with the Sheriff's Office.
I'm going to let you go right off, you're not under arrest.
Door's unlocked.
You're free to leave it any time, OK?
You know Judy.
ROBERT JAWORSKI: I could tell we have a woman scorned here,
but is she capable of attempted murder?
Tell me about your day yesterday.
Let's see.
I got up, made him coffee.
I offered to make them some, and then I was going to take
my dog out for a walk and--
oh, wanted to kill him.
It was about 8:00.
Went to the post office.
Went out to the balcony, smoked cigarettes.
ROBERT JAWORSKI: She was able to spit facts out right and left
on times, and who she was with, and what
the conversation was about.
Henrietta had so many details during that interview,
but it was very rehearsed.
We knew she was covering up for something.
We went back to bed and sleep.
ROBERT JAWORSKI: What time did you guys go to bed?
Around 6:00, 7:00.
Just at the time Judy Oldham was being butchered.
NARRATOR: Surprisingly, Henrietta's alibi checks out.
Her live-in boyfriend doesn't recall her
leaving the house that evening.
ROBERT JAWORSKI: Henrietta's boyfriend backed up her story.
I had no probable cause to arrest
Henrietta for this attack, so I had to let her go.
After a week in the ICU, Judy Oldham finally
recovered enough to speak.
When she talked to me, she was very adamant
that it was Henrietta Villarreal who attacked her.
We brought Henrietta Villarreal back into the hot seat.
NARRATOR: If she lied during her first interrogation,
how can Jaworski get her to tell the truth this time?
I called Detective Cliff Porter to join
me in the interrogation.
NARRATOR: Someone who will play any role
necessary to get a confession.
I've been mad.
I've been gay, straight, Catholic, Lutheran, Baptist.
Whatever the bad guy needs me to be in order to feel comfortable
telling me the truth.
[music playing]
Get this started.
I'm not being arrested, am I?
ROBERT JAWORSKI: No, not at this time.
OK, I'm just asking.
ROBERT JAWORSKI: OK.
I told you everything the other night.
I did.
ROBERT JAWORSKI: You didn't go out anywhere that night?
Oh, no, I'd been drinking.
I don't drink and drive.
ROBERT JAWORSKI: Henrietta didn't bring up drinking
in the first interview.
I just bought a six pack.
I drank it all.
ROBERT JAWORSKI: OK.
I think I went over there to find
out why she messed with him.
You know, honestly, the last thing I really remember
is punching her.
That's it.
That's the last thing I do remember.
CLIFF PORTER: How's it lead up to that?
She opens the door, then what's said?
Try to run us through it. - I don't remember.
Let me think.
I do remember we argued.
I think I called her a slut.
OK.
I'm pretty sure I did.
That's how I refer to her-- slut Judy.
I remember grabbing her hair.
And then I must have seen something there,
and I remember reaching out for it.
Try to remember what you saw there
and what you were reaching for.
I'm seeing a knife.
I think that's probably what--
I mean, like I said--
wait, hold on.
I'm having a hard time remembering.
NARRATOR: Porter sees that Henrietta
is not quite ready to confess.
He takes another approach.
I mean, what was going through your head
when you first knocked on that door?
To see the woman's eyes that had sex with the man you love.
You deserve his loyalty.
You deserve his faithfulness.
There you are knocking on her door.
ROBERT JAWORSKI: I could tell Detective Porter was building
a rapport with Henrietta.
CLIFF PORTER: OK, I want you to focus here because we're
making some progress.
And you can see how we made that progress.
I want you to focus for me and get to the point.
I know he needs to be alone with Henrietta
to build that relationship.
The heart is probably the only organ you can't manage.
And I understand that.
I don't like to discuss my personal stuff,
but I can tell you I work long swing shift hours
and I'm not on my first marriage.
So I know where you're coming from.
I'm still happily married to my first wife.
I'm using tactical deception here so that Henrietta
feels more comfortable.
We know that you went over there.
We know that she got stabbed, OK?
So how's that go?
How do you reach?
Do you reach-- I mean, is it one of these,
where you're just doing this?
Is it one of these where you're going like this?
is it something like this?
I mean--
Let me think.
I see-- I turned.
And I think I went like this.
I'm going to go talk to--
NARRATOR: After four hours in the interrogation room,
Jaworski and Porter get their confession.
[sighs]
NARRATOR: This time, Henrietta doesn't get to go home.
CLIFF PORTER: Love is one of the oldest motives in the book
for committing crime.
There's very few reasons that pop
up as much, even in today's modern world
in law enforcement.
ROBERT JAWORSKI: Judy's life's changed forever.
She's not only physically scarred from the stab wounds
and the disfigurement of her ear,
she's emotionally scarred, all because of the jealous rage
of one woman.
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