- (React) You like true crimes, Zaria? - Oh my--
- (React snickers) - True crime!
- (React) We are going to take a look at five cold cases
that were solved in 2021. - Whoa! Okay, that's cool.
I like that. - Let's go.
- (narrator) On July 11th, 1963, a man fishing in Keene Creek Reservoir
near Ashland hooked onto something on his fishing cord.
- Oh, no. - (narrator) At first,
he thought it was a rolled up blanket. - Oh. Oh, no.
- If this is where it's going-- where I think it's going,
I literally have chills. - Oh my god. No. What is it? A finger?
- (narrator) However, after reeling in the blanket, he realized that inside
the bag was the body of a toddler. - (gasps) Oh my god.
- Not a baby! Why does it have to be a baby?
- (laughs) It's such an unfortunate fishing day.
- (narrator) A coroner determined that the toddler likely suffered
from Down syndrome or... - Oh my gosh.
- (narrator) The boy was estimated to be between one and two years old.
The chief genetic genealogist, CeCe Moore, then used
open source DNA database, GEDmatch, to find two potential siblings.
- (React) Genetic genealogy is the combination of genetic analysis
and traditional genealogical research. In essence, genetic genealogy
can be used to identify DNA tied to family members.
- That's wild. - (narrator) The police interviewed
a maternal half-brother in Ohio, who told investigators that he had
indeed had a younger sibling born with Down syndrome...
- Oh. - (narrator) ...named Stevie Crawford,
born in New Mexico. He also told investigators
that Stevie's mother took him on a trip with her.
- This one's kind of wild. - (narrator) ...that she had returned
without Stevie... - Oh, no.
- (narrator) ...and merely told the family that, quote,
"We won't be worrying about Stevie anymore."
- "Worrying"?! - Oh, good god! You're awful.
- (narrator) The half-brother said it was never discussed again.
- That's rough. - Holy [censored].
What an awful m-- oh my gosh! - What a [censored] weird thing
to say. Obviously, she's guilty, but that doesn't make you
not sound guilty. [Censored] sinister person.
- (narrator) Stevie's mother and stepfather died a few years prior
to the revelations, and his father's name is still unknown.
- They had other kids too! And they just killed off
the one that they didn't want to have to deal with.
That is just absolutely psychotic. - It's one of those things
where it's like, "Isn't it just easier to drop the kid off at an orphanage?"
- First red flag was no one was looking for a toddler.
For me, it would 100% be like, "Okay, a family member did this."
- Not only did she get away with this, she told everybody that she did it,
and then just ended up allowing to live the rest of her life
until she died without anybody being able to find out beforehand.
- (narrator) Kimberly Livesey, found packaged inside a suitcase.
- Oh! (laughs) They put her in a suitcase!
- In a suitcase? - Oh, that's-- ugh!
Just thinking about that... - (narrator) Sia Demas,
found stuffed inside a duffel bag. - Duffel bag? We're making it smaller.
- That'd be a heavy duffel bag. - This is reminding me
of The Lovely Bones. - (narrator) Jessica Good...
- Was put in a wallet. (laughs) I'm sorry.
- (narrator) ...found floating in Miami's...
- God. - Oh, okay. A little different.
She didn't get stuffed in anything. - (narrator) Over a 14-month period,
these three women... - I hate these cases.
- (narrator) ...had all been brutally killed in South Florida.
- Ah, Florida. - Good ol' Florida.
- (narrator) The fingerprints found at each crime scene matched.
And DNA evidence proved that the same...
- Wow. - (narrator) ...was responsible
for all three slayings. But who was he?
- But who was he? - (narrator) His DNA and fingerprints,
they couldn't seem to identify... - Let's find this bitch.
- (narrator) Back in 1996, a man named Roberto Wagner Fernandez
was arrested in Brazil after allegedly murdering his wife...
- That's crazy. - (narrator) ...but was found innocent
after he claimed to have killed her in self-defense.
- What? - (narrator) His wife's parents
then hired a hitman to take Fernandez out,
prompting him to move to the US. - Whoa!
- I'm sorry. Hold on. Stop, stop, stop, stop,
stop, stop, stop. Pause it, pause it, pause it, pause it.
The victim's parents hired to kill him?
- (React) Mm-hmm. - (narrator) His arrival in America
synced up with the timeline of the murders, but that in itself
didn't prove anything. What did were his prints.
The Americans sent... - There we go.
- (narrator) ...the fingerprint evidence they collected
from the South Florida crime scenes to forensic experts in Brazil.
And lo and behold, they matched with the ones
they had on record. - There we go. I was gonna say.
- Wow! - (narrator) After digging deeper,
investigators learned that Fernandez had left the US and returned to Brazil
back in 2001. - Get his [censored].
- (narrator) In 2005, Fernandez, a former flight attendant himself,
boarded a plane bound for Paraguay, likely planning on starting
a new life there for himself while continuing
to take other people's. But he didn't get the chance.
The plane he was on crashed mid-flight,
and Fernandez perished along with everybody else onboard.
- Wow! - What?
That was a twist ending I was not expecting.
- So, this guy would've been dead for 16 years already.
I mean, at least he's dead. But it's a shame everybody else
died with him too because of that plane crash.
- Yeah, he served no jail time, but fate did it for us, I guess.
- (narrator) On the 13th of October 1985,
the Sarasota Police Department received calls that led them
to the house of a 28-year-old mother,
Denise Marie Stafford. - It's always in the woods.
- 1985 also tells us a lot of things about what it is that they were able
to do as far as investigations. - (narrator) All of her items
found at the scene were carefully examined
in a bid to find who might have killed her that night.
- (whispers) Her husband. - (narrator) But investigations...
- Her husband did it. - (narrator) ...were slowed down
by limitations in technology. And things slowly began
to reach a halt. - And there we go.
- (narrator) The first sign of hope, however, came when a suspect
arose in the case. - Interesting.
- (narrator) Joseph Magaletti, Jr. However, the police had nothing
to nail him to the crime, and he was let go.
- That happens a lot. If you know the story,
it's very clear... - (React) Right.
- ...who did it, but because there's no physical,
substantial evidence or eyewitnesses, legally, the way that our system
is set up, you can't arrest them for that.
- (narrator) Time passed, and the case grew cold.
- Huh. - (narrator) However, in 2021...
- 36 years later. Jesus. - (narrator) ...technology,
the Sarasota Police Department
decided to reopen the case. - Thank you.
- It's so fascinating to think that these things happen decades later,
where they can just come back. You know, they just keep the evidence
'cause they're not supposed to throw it out for a murder
or homicide or whatever. And somebody's just like,
"How about we take a look at this again years later?"
And I'm assuming they figured something out on this guy.
- (narrator) The civilian investigator, Jeff...
- I'm still feeling like it's her husband.
- (narrator) ...new evidence pointed to one fact.
- Interesting. - (narrator) She was standing
when she was attacked. - Standing before she was attacked.
- (narrator) ...and pinned to the ground.
- That's so interesting you can tell that from evidence.
- (narrator) He thought about the places on her clothing
the killer would have had to hold before they could do that
and sent for testing. - Wow.
- (narrator) And when the results came back, they conclusively pointed
to former suspect, Joseph Magaletti, Jr.
- [Censored] got away with it for years, I bet.
- (narrator) But where was Magaletti now?
- Where was he? - (narrator) Magaletti had died
in prison since 2015. - Damn.
- - (narrator) ...at the age of 64... - Oh!
- (narrator) ...while he was serving life for strangling
his former Sarasota neighbor. - So, he-- wait.
He got caught for another crime, and then post mortem
also got pinned to this one as well. - Well, at least he went to prison.
- They had all the answers there, but they just literally
didn't have the technology for it at the time.
- (narrator) In 2007, an unknown man in a gray
Chevrolet pickup truck hit a man on a motorcycle
in Midland, Texas... - Okay.
- (narrator) ...and left the scene without helping the man.
- Classy guy. - Oh my god.
Full hit and run. - (narrator) ...passed away
due to his injuries. He was identified...
- Terrible. - ...as 37-year-old Dustin Davidson.
- Imagine being that big of an [censored] to hit and run.
- Hit and runs are so hard to figure out.
- (narrator) Investigators tried to identify the person
who drove in a Chevrolet pickup truck, but they were unable to.
No one came forward with useful information.
- I'm kind of interested to see how someone figured this out.
- I know they have the car, the model, but a lot
of people probably have that car. - Yeah, I feel like
it's almost impossible to identify somebody randomly hitting you
in the middle of nowhere. - (narrator) And the case went cold.
- I mean, it's one of those things where, at that point, how do you know?
- (narrator) In February, the Midland Police Department
received a tip that the man
in the pickup truck was Raymond Dale Click.
- How? - (narrator) Investigators...
- That's 14. Somebody was sitting on that?
- (narrator) ...confessed. He said that he was too scared
to come forward in 2007. - Wow.
- (narrator) Raymond could be facing up to 20 years in prison.
- Drunkenly tell someone about it? - Someone was like, "You know what?
The divorce is finalized. Let's go!"
- The only thing that I can think of is that after 14 years, at some point,
the guilt just comes through, and you end up telling
the wrong person. - I wonder if it's 20 years
for killing someone or 20 years for just not coming up.
- Usually, in that situation, I believe it's considered manslaughter
if you kill someone by accident. But then he ran away.
So, I think that would be additional charges.
♪ (dramatic chord) ♪ - (narrator) Police and families
of the many victims have known for decades who is responsible
for a killing spree in Western Pennsylvania
in 1977 and 1978. - Another situation where they knew
who it was. - (narrator) The problem, though,
was the... - A problem?
- (narrator) ...40 years in prison. - 40 years in prison?
- (narrator) The suspect wouldn't confess.
- Ugh, that's so annoying. - (narrator) This changed
in early 2021, when serial killer Edward Surratt admitted to slaying
six Pennsylvanians. William Adams...
- So, he confessed, but he's been in prison for 40 years.
- (narrator) ...Guy Mills, and Laura Mills.
Pennsylvania State Police announced in June...
- Interesting. - (narrator) ...that Surratt,
who is currently serving two life sentences in Florida,
admitted to the killings during a police interview in March.
Now aged 79, Surratt is linked to dozens of murders...
- Oh! Dozens. - (narrator) ...in Ohio
and Pennsylvania. - Okay, so it went deeper.
- (React) He was already in jail facing two life sentences
for other crimes. - You're already there.
You could just say it. - You know what happened.
You know it was a certain person. And you can't-- you are powerless.
And you can't do anything about that. - The man's already got
two life sentences, already served 40 years.
And at this point, just decided to confess
even though, literally, they said at the very beginning,
"Hey, real quick, EVERYBODY knows you've done this."
- Thanks for watching this episode. - Hey, don't forget about us.
Subscribe to the channel. - And let us know
what spooked you in the comments. - Bye, guys.
- Bye, guys. - Bye, guys!
- Bye! - I'm so bad at this stuff.
I'm always like, "It's the husband!"