- (React) You'll be taking a look at some vacations turned deadly.
- Okay, that does not sound pleasant. (woman screams)
- Oh my God, deadly?
- I love true crime,
I was just listening to My Favorite Murder on the way here.
- I'm a little skeptical, but I'm here for it.
- (narrator) In 2005, the world witnessed on national television
the shocking news of the disappearance...
- Hmm, this is a popular one.
- Natalee Holloway, oh my God, I know this one! (laughs)
- (narrator) May 26th, 2005,
145 students, accompanied by seven chaperones.
- Hold up, seven chaperones?
The ratio is not even like... What!?
- (narrator) In Aruba for a five day unofficial graduation trip.
- Oh, they've got money.
- (narrator) The chaperones checked in on the students daily,
but did not escort them around the area or to venues.
Revealed that they regularly changed rooms among each other at night.
- No, of course, there's always drinking involved.
- (narrator) Natalee and her classmates were scheduled
to fly home from the Caribbean, but she never showed up
at the airport to board the plane.
- Yeah, this is just such a bad combo, like a bunch of teens and drinking,
and being not anywhere in an area that you're familiar with.
- (narrator) Getting into a car with residents Joran Van der Sloot,
and brothers Deepak and Satish Kalpoe.
- Okay, maybe false memory,
but I feel like I remember Sloot being some like, rich kid.
- God.
- (narrator) Claimed not to know Natalee's name,
or who she was. - They're lying!
- (narrator) They changed their story.
The young men stated... - Ooh.
- (narrator) They'd taken Natalee to a local spot to see sharks.
- You know, it's always that quick change up, you know?
- (narrator) She had stumbled and refused help,
and as they drove away,
he noticed a man in a dark uniform approaching her.
He said the uniform was similar to the security guard's apparel at the hotel.
Police arrested Van der Sloot and the two Kalpoe brothers again.
Unsurprisingly, the three men's stories changed again
when they were arrested. - Ugh!
- Come on, one time is a little much.
The second time is a lot.
- (narrator) Van der Sloot contacted Betty Twitty's legal representative,
in exchange for a total of $250,000,
he would disclose the location of Natalee's body.
- Imagine being so narcissistic that you offer money
to give details of a crime.
- I think more about the parents, how messed up that is,
to think oh, your kid's gonna celebrate this amazing event in life,
and you trust the people that they're with,
and you think that they're just gonna have a good time,
and it just totally turns to crap.
- (narrator) Sheila Von Wiese Mack and her daughter Heather
checked into these near $1,000 a night rooms...
- Damn.
- (narrator) To Sheila's surprise, Tommy Schaeffer, Heather's boyfriend,
suddenly arrived on a $12,000 flight from Chicago.
- Where do these people get this money from?
- (narrator) ...entering Sheila's hotel room.
- Are they plotting to kill the mom?
- (narrator) Stuffed under his shirt.
- Is this like a Mommy Dead and Dearest situation?
- (narrator) Heather and Tommy are seen heading to the lobby.
- Oh no!
- (narrator) Which they place in the back of a taxi.
- I've never seen this one. I watch Crime Daily a lot.
Crime Watch Daily a lot.
- (narrator) Takes the abandoned luggage to the police station,
that they find out what's inside.
- Yeah.
- (narrator) The bloodied, half naked body of Sheila.
- Bruh, there was blood on the suitcase?
- Wow.
Well, that took a turn.
- (narrator) That expletive Heather is crazy.
- Oh my God.
- (narrator) She asked me to do something really insane.
She asked me to find someone to kill her mom for 50k,
and that was a full six months before the murder.
- What in the thoroughbreds?
- (narrator) Texts reveal the plan was for heather
to kill her mother herself.
- Wow, how do you?
- (narrator) Can you whack her in the head with a big ass pole?
Mack responds, can you? - Geez!
- (narrator) Yes, come in the hallway right now.
A panel of Indonesian judges did find them guilty of murder.
Heather given 10 years in prison, Tommy, 18.
- Only 10 years?
- She should've been in,
they both should've been in prison for way longer.
- This is a person that took care of you since you were a baby.
Like what made you snap for you to just get rid of her?
- I can't even fathom the idea of losing my mom,
so the idea of someone being able to do something
that is one of my biggest fears, is absolutely unhinged.
- (narrator) The year was 2017. - Oh, it's not even that far back.
- (narrator) 4th of July celebration at their family's vacation home,
Peggy Lammers's husband and daughter returned to Cleveland,
while Peggy stayed in Virginia to enjoy a few quiet days alone.
- Okay, yes queen.
- (narrator) When Peggy's husband couldn't reach her,
he called the Middlesex County sheriff's office.
- Okay, the journalist was a smoke show,
I wanna start there, but...
- (narrator) Inside a telescope toppled over, then...
- Oh, it was like a struggle.
- (narrator) A gruesome scene, Peggy in a pool of blood.
- Your family just left, and you're saying by yourself.
It's like dang, it's the perfect set up for anybody,
if they're watching you or anything,
and that sucks that you have to, you can't enjoy things like this,
because of these kind of things.
- (narrator) Medical examiner ruled her death a homicide.
The cause, blunt force trauma to the head.
- That'll do it.
- (woman) She was ambushed in this hallway.
- (reporter) That leads you to believe
that it was maybe somebody that knew the house?
- I would think so, knew she was alone.
- You think you're so safe,
but anything can really happen to anybody.
- (narrator) A ceiling light was partially shattered,
a puzzle knocked over,
everything in the medicine cabinet thrown into the sink.
- Weird.
- I would never think to go look in a medicine cabinet.
That seems very specific.
'Cause if you're gonna come into my bathroom,
all you're getting is moisturizer.
- There's so many different aspects that you see
just singly, in a lot of true crime,
where it's like she was murdered, was that the M.O.?
They ransacked the place, was that the M.O.?
- You just can't be naive, right?
Like you're like, oh, I'm just gonna go on a family vacation
and do all this stuff, but it's like,
anything can happen, you know, to anybody.
- (narrator) There was an Airbnb that was owned by three men.
- That was the first problem.
- (narrator) Had another booking for their fourth bedroom.
- Oh, okay, it was a space in a home.
That's always a little scary.
- (narrator) Found himself confiding in Craig
about his current situation.
- I don't trust her based on the salt rock in the background,
but keep going.
- (narrator) And he's really desperate.
- Ugh, it's so sad, 'cause they make it seem like they're,
you know, going through something,
but they're a little, you know? Something's going on up there.
- (narrator) Begging Craig Levy to let him stay there longer for free.
- For free?
- (narrator) Eventually Craig actually gave in,
and he told Ramis that he could stay there
until the end of the week, but then he had to be out.
Two days go by,
and then Craig Levy changes his mind.
He told Ramis... - Wow.
- (narrator) That he wanted him to pay
for all the nights that he'd stayed.
- The desperation comes back.
- There's a prior agreement that they wouldn't do that, you know?
- Old boy's in the wrong, Craig is,
because you can't renege, man.
- (narrator) Craig decided to go and confront Ramis
and get this money, and get him out of the house.
- Oh, this is gonna be like a shootout or something.
- (narrator) He said he didn't have the keys anymore.
A couple of days prior, he'd actually been arrested by police,
and has his keys taken off of him. (Carlos gasps)
Craig starts flying off the handle. - Oh.
- Well, if he got out of prison,
they would've probably given him the keys back, right?
- Jason lunged forward, got Ramis in a headlock,
and started beating him over the head.
Physically attacking him.
- Oh okay, not how I expected this to go.
- (narrator) About five seconds for Craig to also join in.
Once again, it really didn't take Ryan that long to join in either,
so now there are three men beating, kicking, punching Ramis,
who is on the floor defenseless.
- Some might call this a jumping.
- (narrator) Craig Levy walks inside the house,
and calls the police.
That was the, maybe Craig thought the police would come
and help them get the money out of Ramis.
- He still thought he was right.
- (narrator) Of course, they were not on their side.
They ran straight over to Ramis.
Ramis Jonuzi was pronounced dead.
- Wait, so they beat him to death?
- The whole gang were in the wrong.
You allowed him to stay, at most, it's like,
get your things and get out.
- (React) The Airbnb that this murder took place
already had a number of bad reviews.
How important are housing reviews to any vacation stay?
- Oh, for me? Super important.
- Not even just about the Airbnb itself,
but like the surrounding area, to see if that's safe too.
- I mean, you always wanna search through the Yelps,
and be like were you or your family members murdered here?
If the price is good, like maybe bring a cousin
you're willing to kind of get rid of,
if you don't have any in your immediate family that you don't like,
then I'd probably stay away. Maybe a hotel.
- Cruise ships. Someone's falling off a cruise ship.
- (narrator) Kenneth, Kristy, their three daughters.
- I'm scared of cruises. (laughs)
- (narrator) Boarded the Emerald Princess in Seattle,
to go on a seven day cruise...
- I think I've done this cruise, and I think it was the Emerald Princess.
(laughs)
- (narrator) Kenneth sent his daughters away
to the adjoining cabin the girls were sharing.
- Okay.
- (narrator) After closing the door behind them,
the girls heard the lock,
and moments later, the argument began to escalate even more.
She wanted a divorce. - Oh no.
- (narrator) She began laughing.
Kenneth completely lost control.
- Bro, on a cruise?
- (narrator) The couple's daughters began hearing their mother crying
and screaming for help.
Panicked, they began hitting the door, trying to get it open.
- Oh see, at least like they were trying to help.
- (narrator) Their father screamed for them to stay away.
One of the girls ran to the balcony
and leaned over to see what was happening.
- Oh no, that's traumatizing.
- (narrator) She saw her father was punching her mother.
- Bruh.
- (narrator) While they were on the bed.
- In cold blood, just in front of your kids like that?
- (narrator) And ran to cabin D726.
Kenneth and Kristy were covered in blood.
- I don't like that there's a balcony.
I feel like I know what's about to happen.
- (narrator) The family made it just in time,
as Kenneth was dragging Kristy's body to the balcony.
(Carlos gasps)
With the intent to throw her overboard.
- Wow!
- (narrator) Grab Kristy's ankle and drag her body back inside,
Kenneth began screaming
that he would be the one to jump overboard.
- Oh no.
- (narrator) But before he did, security entered the room
and handcuffed him.
- Thank God, crazy ass. You don't get to go out like that.
- (narrator) Family members would later testify
that when they found Kenneth next to Kristy's motionless body,
he told them she wouldn't stop laughing at me.
- As soon as it said she was laughing.
I was like and that's what did it for him.
- Maybe he doesn't realize this,
but people laugh for all sorts of reasons,
besides thinking something that is funny.
- The most horrible part out of all of this,
I mean, aside from her being dead, was the girls.
You have ruined your kids for the rest of their life.
- I've been laughed at before,
and luckily I didn't murder anyone after doing that.
And I think that's one of my best qualities.
- (narrator) A body has been found burned beyond recognition
in a fire pit. - Oh God.
- (narrator) Sheldon Steward lies in a hospital bed
recovering from multiple knife wounds
he says were inflicted by his best friend.
- That looked like self harm.
- What the [censored]?
- (narrator) At first, detectives fear
Trevor may be on a murderous rampage at Buck's lake.
- Was it Trevor?
- Ew, look at his face. (gasps) Do you see that?
There's like no soul behind those eyes.
- (narrator) Results for the charred body, it's a shocker.
- Trevor? - (narrator) It's Trevor Holminski.
- Okay.
- Mm-hmm.
- (narrator) Trevor had actually been stabbed in his back.
- I was gonna say, that's sus.
- (narrator) Before being incinerated in a campfire pit.
Investigators are already suspicious of Sheldon's story
that Trevor attacked him after he rejected his sexual advances
when they got high on LSD.
- This is getting so advanced, oh, on LSD!
- (narrator) Believes Sheldon's own knife wounds
are self inflicted.
- Ooh, I'm just guessing it left and right.
I said that looks like self harm.
- (narrator) They suggest Sheldon may have killed his friend
in a moment of homophobic fury,
when Trevor allegedly hit on him.
- Wow.
- (narrator) When confronted with the overwhelming case against him
Sheldon finally admits. - There we go.
- (narrator) That he did indeed kill his best friend.
- Okay, a little camping trip murder.
Not good.
- He had some deep rooted problems
for him to like snap on your best friend.
- I know people who've been in cases like that all the time,
where it's like I got a little drunk, I got a little ahead of myself.
It's not hard to be like yo, you're crazy, let's pack this up.
You know, let's, but you [censored] kill him?
- (narrator) The Todts were from
the small town of Colchester, Connecticut,
and although Anthony ran his practice there,
the rest of the family mainly stayed in Celebration, Florida.
- Where in Florida? (laughs)
- (narrator) He had a family emergency,
his wife was sick down in Florida,
and needed to go.
A woman named Cindy, Megan's auntie,
kept trying to get in contact with Megan.
- What's going on?
- (narrator) Saying they had arrived up in Northern Florida.
- Okay.
- (narrator) But Megan has lost her phone,
and that they were going off grid.
- Off grid, always dangerous.
- (narrator) Tony's sister, Chrissy,
rang the Osceola sheriff's office.
- Uh-oh.
- (narrator) And requested a welfare check.
- See, there you go, smart. (laughs)
Remember, these are people you know, like,
you wanna make sure they're safe.
- (narrator) The next call was from the FBI.
Tony Todt, he was under investigation
for healthcare fraud. - Oh, who would've though?
- (narrator) He was allegedly billing Medicaid
for tens of thousands... - Oh no.
- (narrator) For appointments that never happened.
They would have patients back 2015, 2016,
who stopped needing physical therapy,
and hey, to Tony, they did, or at least on paper.
- They ran away, but I feel like there's even more.
I feel like his family is not safe.
- (narrator) This time he was there, he was chillaxing on the porch.
- Just alone? Just hanging out?
- (narrator) And the police went into the house.
Megan was found on the master bed.
(Carlos gasps)
The children on the mattress inside.
- He's just living with dead bodies.
- (narrator) They'd been there for a while.
(Carlos gasps)
I'm talking weeks.
It was revealed shortly after... - Oh my God.
- (narrator) That his family had been murdered.
The dog too. - The dog too!
- (narrator) And that Tony had confessed
to being the one that did it. - Wow!
- (narrator) While at the hospital. - What a sick individual.
- How convenient is it to have two different homes?
'Cause like what a great alibi, we're just going to the other house.
So it like gives you time
before people start thinking something's up.
- This was obviously premeditated in my opinion,
and that is not someone who's just having a moment of weakness.
- You take out your frustration on your family,
your kids and the dog?
This is just a simple case of he's [censored] crazy.
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- Bye!
- Especially your best friend, and then you put him in the fire.
I'm assuming they got together, they made the fire themselves,
and then you roast your friend in it.
You know, you're not getting off scot-free,
even if you take a little sniff sniff, you know?