Natalee Holloway: New Clues In Paradise

Hey, I'm Vladimir G. Tiff. And I'm Kelly O'Grady. And we're here to tell you about our new show, Straight Up. Every week, we're ditching the anchor desk to break down the story the internet can't stop talking about. And we'll have a cocktail recipe to match the mood. Straight Up is out now, wherever you get your podcasts. This is Natalie Holloway. Please welcome Trisha, daughter of Everett Williams. Everyone loved being around her. You know, there's never, like, a dull moment with her. She was always laughing. That was what our whole friendship was based on. Like, we would always make sure we were having fun. When you're around your best friends, you feel like you have that security around you, and you just think everything will always be okay, you know? Natalie's handwriting on her immigration card said the duration of her stay would be for four nights. She has been gone, she has been gone for 97 days. It's been almost four months since I've been there. Six months served for missing American teen Natalie Holloway. Something went wrong. This was a wild night went sour. We have statements claiming that she had drugs. Credible statements? Credible statements. They may have put a poster in the window. Would that be okay out here? All right. ♪ ♪ My name is Gerald Dompich. I am the deputy chief of police and leader of the investigative team working on the Holloway case. I didn't know that she would fall at the hands of evil, let alone fall at the hands of the officials on the island of Aruba. When they talk about Keystone cops and this small island, they don't have equipment. We do have equipment. We have everything they've done since September the 1st. I can't think of anything. ♪ ♪ We have come a long way. If we compare the information we had three months ago to what we have now, it's a different picture. Juran, how does it feel to be going home? Juran and my husband has gone to a lot of slander. Based on speculation, based on rumors, on gossips, we always went for the truth. Is Juran Vandersloot still a prime suspect in Natalie Holloway's disappearance? He surely is. He is? Yes. ♪ ♪ And the Cabell brothers? They are. It is possible that there was a second group involved or more people than these three boys. ♪ ♪ Natalie Holloway, new clues in paradise. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ They say a picture speaks a thousand words. This one speaks two thousand words to me. Authorities believe this is the last picture of Natalie Holloway. It was discovered by the FBI in the camera of one of her classmates and shown here publicly for the first time. Just look at this picture. I think you can appreciate and understand that it could be anybody's daughter. Gerald Dompik, lead investigator in the search for Natalie. It's a constant reminder of his toughest case. It's been a difficult year for you. It's been a difficult year for Aruba. Yes, same time. We can exactly see which vessels go away from the island and come towards the island. How would you characterize the state of this investigation right now? I would say critical last phase. Critical last phase. Yes. ♪ ♪ The story of the search for Natalie Holloway has been marked largely by speculation and rumor, but little by way of facts. Forty-eight hours will take you for the first time inside the police investigation here on Aruba. Among the things we've learned, what authorities really believe happened to the Alabama teenager the night she disappeared, and new clues that could close this case once and for all. We have been informed by a manager of a nightclub that he received a call and he wanted to talk about the fact that he knew more about the whereabouts of Natalie. So this is the first valuable lead that you've gotten in a while? Yes, concerning the specific barrier location, yes. Since Holloway disappeared, the police have received dozens of leads, all leading nowhere. But Dompeg is convinced that this may be the key witness they've been waiting for. The information that this person gave was too specific to just be a story that was just made up by somebody. Now, based on this new information. This is the route to the lighthouse, to the sand dunes. investigators will begin searching again for Natalie's body here on the northern tip of the island. Somewhere on the sand dunes, the sand dunes, the sand dunes will go all the way up to behind the lighthouse, where we basically have to search. It's worse than looking for a needle in a haystack. ♪♪ Aruba, just a stone's throw from the coast of Venezuela, plays host to more than a million visitors every year, most from America. And in recent years, a younger and younger crowd has landed on its shore. It was so much fun. We would wake up, brush your teeth, go straight to the beach. We would literally stay in the water all day long because it was so perfect. The senior trip to Aruba was a well-deserved vacation for Natalie. Days earlier, this honors student graduated from Mountain Brook High School just outside of Birmingham, Alabama. Three of her best friends, Liz Kane, Mally Tucker, and Claire Fearman. We all had a very hard time. recalled their last days with Natalie. We just hung out with our friends on this beautiful island, and it was a really fun trip. And at night, what did you guys do? The, like, second night we were there and the last night we went to Carlos and Charlie's. ♪♪ The legal drinking age here is only 18, and even that's not strictly enforced, making Aruba a popular vacation spot for American teenagers. No one disputes that Natalie and her classmates were drinking during their senior trip, but authorities tell us they have evidence that Natalie's drinking was so out of control it may even have contributed to her death. She was, I think, not differently from other students. She was having a great time, and she was using. doing that, using way too much alcohol and combinations which could basically be legal. She was 18 years old. She was honors senior. They were in this establishment of legal age. ♪♪ Natalie's mother, Beth Holloway Twitty, has been working tirelessly since last May. I'm not leaving Aruba without her. trying to unravel the mystery of her daughter's disappearance. I'm certain they were drinking. We never even tried to say that they weren't. But I have to ask myself, you know, should that cost her her life? No, it shouldn't. Police interviews with hotel staff, local bartenders, and her friends reveal that Natalie had spent much of the day with a drink in her hand. Do you know if Natalie could handle her alcohol? Yes. She could? Right. She was never somebody to be out of control if she had been drinking at all. When you hear stories like people started drinking in the mid-afternoon and drank through the night, does that sound accurate? Yes. So that's kind of excessive. Yeah. Yeah? Yeah. Do you think it's excessive? Okay, yeah, it is. That is excessive. 48 Hours has learned that the Aruba investigation has turned up another disturbing detail. Did you hear stories of people taking drugs? No. The only thing that I heard about drugs is there were, like, people at the hotel that weren't with us that would, like, offer stuff to people. I was never offered drugs, and I never even saw them. Have you been able to confirm whether Natalie Holloway purchased or consumed? No, I haven't been able to confirm that. I don't think so. I don't think so. I don't think so. I don't think so. They saw her with drugs in her possession. But police do believe that Natalie's judgment was impaired that night. Her friends were surprised that she was last seen willingly getting into a car with three strangers-- 17-year-old Yaron Vandersloot, 21-year-old Deepak Kalpoe, and his brother, 18-year-old Satish Kalpoe. Would it be out of character for Natalie to voluntarily go into a car with three boys that she didn't know? That would be out of character. It frustrates me so much, because I feel like as much as we say that, no one believes this, because you hear all that stuff. But from the bottom of my heart, that is extremely out of character and not something that Natalie Holloway would ever do that she was climbing into a car with three gambling and drinking buddies who were joined together at the hip no no way would she have left her friends and placed herself knowingly what she was getting into that they just took her when she just mm-hmm there's no way do you think she may have been vulnerable because she had been drinking they took her in at that opportune time when she was least able to defend herself it was a gruesome discovery off a dirt road in Georgia hunters had found a body was it immediately clear to you that this woman had been murdered yes but who was this mystery woman in the woods that looks like Mindy I'm Erin Moriarty and from 48 hours this is the woman in the woods I have never wanted to be wrong like this in my whole entire life binge the full series the woman in the woods wherever you get your podcast the beach was a blast I had best time in my life Houston's FM news channel 97-5 very pleased to have with us in the studio Beth Holloway 20 the mother of Natalie since Natalie Holloway disappeared I just want to thank you so much for keeping us in your thoughts and prayers and her mother Beth has used any opportunity to keep this story alive there's just so many unanswered questions in this entire investigation and pressure the government of Aruba to solve this case there are just no words to explain the frustration level that we have had to experience in dealing with officials from the island of Aruba last fall 20 called for a boycott of Aruba and the island's tourism industry has suffered travel bookings are off more than 4% from a year ago do you still support a boycott the only leverage that we have in getting any traction in the investigation is when they feel the effects of a boycott this island is a very friendly island according to deputy police chief Gerald Dom pick the boycott is not the only thing that has cost Aruba dearly what percentage of your budget was spent in this investigation spent about five million Florence which is all which is about 40% of our operational budget and that's about three million dollars maybe I didn't budget enough as far as Beth 20 is concerned there has always been a simple solution to this case just ask the people last seen with Natalie you're on Vander Slot and Satish and Deepak Kalpoe they'd have just gotten the suspects within the first 48 hours like they were supposed to have done then they wouldn't have spent anything it's hard for them to understand that when we investigate we have to go systematically well we have a judicial system we have a court of law and we have rules so we had to follow the rules of the game which they apparently did contrary to the storm of criticism from the American media the Aruba police say they quickly put Vander Slot and the Kalpoe brothers under surveillance when did the department begin conducting surveillance of these three boys the third day the third day yes what does surveillance consist of here observation wiretaps wiretaps did you monitor their email yes the arrests of the prime suspect bringing in the prime suspect it's basically the last thing we do and to further help the investigation of this case but the police say extreme pressure from the Holloway family forced them to stop their surveillance and make arrests cash reward in the amount of the pressure from the family compromise this investigation well I think so it at least distracted the investigators efforts just ten days after Natalie disappeared police took your on the Kalpoe brothers and later even your aunt's father an apprentice judge into custody we wanted justice and we wanted the truth and I think that that was shocking to the officials in Aruba that we were so persistent in investigating and our quest for that Hollis Vander Slot was quickly released on judges orders but the young men remained in custody these three boys know what happened to your daughter yes you're confident over oh absolutely but less than a month after their arrests the suspects will be immediately released a court release Deepak and Satish Kalpoe as police feared simply questioning the brothers did not turn up enough evidence to charge them with the crime to this day they deny any involvement with Natalie's disappearance with the release of the Kalpoe police began to play hardball with their prime suspect are you guilty 17 year old you're on Vander Slot ought to be the last person who saw Natalie as the Rubin law allows they detained him for months without charging him with any crime you're on can you give us a statement we can hold that for a person for the investigational purposes on the basis of suspicion and there was at that moment enough suspicion a Rubin lawyer Arlene Ellis shipper who frequently speaks for the islands government was sure you're on what crack it's mind-boggling to us that is 17 year old if you would have had done it not have been broken it's incredible but as topic explained your runs age actually made things harder for the interrogators was you're on afforded any kind of special legal protections because he was a minor at the time of his arrest yes that complicated matters seriously because he had more visiting rights with his father and his father being a judge in training was a problem for us because he could give his son certain advice you're on his father discussed the family's ordeal with CBS spoke always to your own to tell the truth you believe that policy vendors who knows more than he has been telling about the circumstances surrounding Natalie Holloway's disappearance yes I do but in spite of those parental visits 48 hours has learned that the interrogations were intense and tough Special agents from the FBI were brought in, along with investigators from Holland to conduct the interrogations. Would you question him during the middle of the night? We didn't go that far. But there were late, late evenings, yes. So he was deprived of sleep, but it wasn't going on for days. No. Dompek says it almost worked. There were several moments where your arm almost broke. Several moments. How many times did Joran van der Sloot change his story? The basic story he changed three times. But the little facts changed over 25 times. So it was never the same. One critical element of the interrogation remains in dispute. Did Joran admit to having sex with Natalie? I had access to several statements. One of Joran's statements, he's describing Natalie as she's falling asleep and waking up, falling asleep and waking up repeatedly. And as she's doing this, he is explaining, he's very sexually explicit, graphically detailing what he is doing to Natalie, okay? Twitty and her attorney would not share those documents with 48 Hours. In spite of her claim, Dompek says there's no proof of sexual assault. Did Joran van der Sloot ever confess to being sexually assaulted? Did Joran van der Sloot ever confess to being sexually intimate with Natalie Holloway? No. He did not? Never. Never. Believe me, we were looking for anything to throw him, to keep him in jail. The only thing he admitted to was that he was fondling sexually, like kissing, touching her in the back of the seat. And there was no sexual interruption. No sexual in terms of penetration or whatever, really having sex with her. With no confession and no body, police release Joran van der Sloot. This young man was able to withstand 90 days in prison and they weren't able to get a confession from him. What does that say to you? It can mean two things. Either he's innocent, he really doesn't know what happened, or he's a genius. The young man has denied any wrongdoing, but he's done nothing to dispel Doppig's suspicions. What do the FBI profilers tell you about Joran van der Sloot's psychological profile? Well, they use the word sociopath and the fact that he was capable of lying about basically everything. Pathological liar? Yes. There's a reason why he lies. He's covering something up so horrible that he can't tell the truth. But if Joran can't or won't tell police what happened that night, they now think someone else is behind it. They think it was Joran van der Sloot. else will you people are coming in the picture it is possible that there was help and even more shocking dump it believes there may have been no murder at all we're going to be able to now raise the reward for the safe return of natalie from 200 000 to a million with no major break in the holloway case and apparently no one was hurt in the past six months the aruban authorities are redoubling their efforts to find natalie's body what is this exercise you're about to demonstrate for me what we're going to do is we're going to throw a dummy overboard one of the most persistent theories clouding the case is the notion that natalie's body was dumped out at sea but dr ruben cruz the head of the island search and rescue team showed us that an unweighted body thrown out at sea was dumped out at sea but dr ruben cruz the head of the island search and rescue team showed us that an unweighted body thrown overboard near the shore would wash up on the beach how many times have you performed this exercise many times many times and in every case the dummy has drifted to shore drifted back to shore every case every case the only way that wouldn't happen is if a boat sailed more than two miles offshore a trip that would have turned up on police radar and been captured on tape this is all being tracked and being taped on a hard disk police have accounted for every boat in the water the night natalie vanished so we pretty much have a fix on every vessel that comes in and goes out authorities now believe natalie's body is buried somewhere among these dunes but not because it washed ashore here the aruban authority's new theory is that someone someone possibly very close to the young suspects took the time to carefully hide the body not once but maybe twice literally burying her and perhaps the most stunning revelation from the authorities though they're convinced natalie holloway is dead they tell 48 hours that they believe she was not murdered this was a highly intoxicated body of a very small person chief dompic laid out his current theory of what happened after natalie was last seen driving off with yoron and the capo brothers shortly after 1 a.m after she left carlos and charlie's where do you think she went and what happened to her well again we have a couple of scenarios we think that they did not go to the beach they did not no we think that they went somewhere else i feel certain yes he took her to his apartment beth 20 believes that natalie was brought back to your own vandersoot's home yes possible possible wherever she was police now think that while natalie was with yoron she died suddenly from an overdose of intoxicants we feel strongly that she probably went into shock or something happened to her system with all this alcohol maybe on top of that other drugs which either she took or they gave her and that she just collapsed the crime dompic suspects occurred when the body was illegally disposed of the boys may have acted alone we're not talking about killers here or as dompic says the body was illegally disposed of or as dompic says it was a crime dompic reveals for the first time they could have had accomplices it is possible that there was a second group involved or more people than these three boys dompic speculates the body was hastily buried once and that those extra accomplices may have been needed to move it to a more hidden location these latest developments the new witness the chance of an accidental death by overdose and the possibility of additional accomplices relocating the body have changed dompic's view of the case i'm convinced that there's no thing as a crime of this proportion which goes unseen there's information out there and we just have to get it but the challenges are daunting yoron vanderslow told us on the phone that he never saw natalie with any drugs and called dompic's theories not credible to date there has not been a shred of forensic evidence found in the vanderslow house the calpo car or anywhere else on the island it's very rarely that you have a case that somebody just disappears and there's hardly any evidence left behind natalie's schoolmates have had to handle a harsh lesson about the dangers of the adult world they've entered you know we went on senior trip but then after that it's basically like we were forced to not become adults but definitely grow up a lot natalie's parents have filed a civil suit against yoron vandersloat and his father but beth 20 fears she may never learn the truth about what happened to her daughter what gives you hope today i don't have any you don't have any somebody wants to tell me a crime like this cannot go unsolved we are that much closer to knowing what really happened to natalie when i see natalie holloway on tv i absolutely think of my son i see his face his smiling face when we hear about natalie holloway and what happened and what her parents are going through it brings us back to the terrible time that we had the horror that we went through a nine millimeter glock 12 or 14 inches from your head sounds like an atomic bomb going off i said calling from the united states i need to speak to my brother and he said you can't do that you can't do that you can't do that you can't do that you can't do that you can't do that you can't do that you can't do that you can't do that you can't do that you can't do that you can't do that you can't do that you can't do that you can't do that you can't do that you can't do that you can't do that by the amount of blood there was in the bed it was it was obvious like he was dead randy was the epitome of a california surfer boy blonde hair a free spirit very soft-hearted if he saw me upset over something and he put his hands on my shoulders and say don't worry little mother i will always take care of you i think this was a a homicide it's the same thing over and over people send their children to paradise but it's really hell if something occurs it's very very difficult to try and get any justice it doesn't matter what you say nobody listens we are absolutely certain that randall latona committed suicide i didn't believe it for a minute not for a minute not for a minute they don't like any murders in their country that looks bad for their tourism they have listed a number of murders as suicides my son did not take his own life he was murdered and i want somebody to acknowledge that in honduras you know what you're suggesting mr latona that the honduran authorities are covering up your son's murder yes i am suggesting that i promise i will not let let this go unsolved the unsolved mysteries podcast is back i'm jordan murphy and each week i'll take you inside a new investigation it could be an unsolved murder an unexplained disappearance the search for a wanted fugitive any mystery that still needs answers we'll follow every new lead every break in the case and the moments when a mystery is finally solved because after all these years one thing hasn't changed someone somewhere knows the truth listen to and follow unsolved mysteries available now wherever you get your podcasts he was a joy to us he was at the sunshine i planted roses yellow ones because he was the color of sunshine to me he was always up always smiling to 34 year old randy latona's way of thinking life would be even brighter when he moved to paradise he had been a stockbroker in las vegas but left it all behind to move to a tropical resort island in honduras called roatan why roatan why did randy come to roatan for this gail geerling an american who lived on the island for more than a decade after his death he was the first person in the says Randy had it all figured out. Did you think that he stood a chance of being a success here? Absolutely. Absolutely. Randy created a new business, the Bay Islands Rum Company. Randy's father, Vince. He had just shipped in some $30,000 worth of material. He rented a little warehouse down there. And he had a girlfriend, 29-year-old Leslie Spearing. They met back in the United States four years earlier. When Les turned it on, she could be very attractive. She spun a tale to him about her father leaving the family, abusing her before she left. Her mother disowned her. She was living with her grandmother in Pennsylvania. She really tugged at Randy's heartstrings. Randy's brother and sister. Something in her caught his eye, and I think he genuinely fell in love with her. The very first time I met her, she came across a lot of things that I didn't know about her. As a very shy, quiet demeanor, farm girl, as she put it. But I didn't believe it. It wasn't a very favorable first impression. She looked strung out, a little rude, crude. Did he help her financially? Yes, very much so. The Latonas say Leslie had a drug problem. When she was clean, things were good. But when she was using, which became much more frequent, you just couldn't go near her. She was ugly. She was twisted. Leslie and Randy had big fights. There was a time when I remember Randy wore a little bit longer sleeves than he ever did. And I said, what happened? He said, oh, Les got in a fit last night, and she tried to catch me with a knife. I don't understand how a smart, successful, take charge kind of man would associate himself with a woman with a drug problem and anger. It's difficult for us to understand, also. It truly is. But by 2002, Randy was fed up with Leslie. And by March, the Latonas say he had enough. He stuck to his guns and said, this is it. There is no more. I'm not giving you any more money. You're not going to stay here. You're done. We're done. You're out. Leslie reportedly was furious. Just days before Randy's death, she allegedly told people in a bar she'd kill Randy if he didn't buy her a plane ticket to Los Angeles. She said she would kill him. Yeah. John Hines was working the bar. We didn't really take it as for real that she was going to do it. But sure enough, Saturday, it was said and done. The next morning, Randy Latona was found in his own bed, a single bullet to the temple, a gun in his hand. Leslie Spearing told police that the night before, Randy's death, she did use cocaine while partying in a nearby town and didn't return to the condominium until 530 in the morning. In her statement, Spearing says that Randy was awake when she got back. They had a short, uneventful conversation, and then the couple went to bed. I'm surmising she gets into an argument with him, and he refuses adamantly to give her any money. And the night? Before he was murdered, she told this one individual, she said, if he doesn't give me money when I get home, I'm going to kill him. Clearly, she had the motive, she clearly had the means, and she clearly had the opportunity. After Randy's death, Leslie refused to speak with the Latona family. Leslie walked away the day after Randall was murdered and never looked back. Leslie did tell police she awoke to find Randy's body lying right next to her. Incredibly, Leslie claimed she slept right through the gunshot. There's no way in the world that a living human being would not be straight up hanging from the chandelier. Wayne Hollingsworth is an investigator hired by the Latona family. He doesn't believe Leslie Spearing's story about sleeping through the gunshot, and says she lied to him. He lied to the police about what time Randy died as well. Leslie Spearing says that Randy Latona committed suicide about two hours before this photo was taken? Yes. And you're saying that's impossible because. Absolutely impossible. Why? Well, because the blood on the forearm, this is blood that is hardened, if you will, and it's got to have been there for a period of 10 or 12 hours, maybe 14 hours, before that photograph was taken. The Latonas also hired former Miami forensic pathologist Raul Vila. If I think this was a homicide, the blood on the covers, away from the body, the way the hand was placed under the pillow with the gun, the way the hand was placed in the gun. The Latonas, armed with their own investigator's analysis, cannot accept the Honduran conclusion of suicide. Always in suicide cases, the family casts doubt on the investigation. No matter how good the investigation may be, they always. Doubt it. I don't care what they say. He did not take his own life. There's no evidence from the Hondurans that show that this is a suicide. They just drew that conclusion because it's easy, they keep their caseload low, and they can go along saying, we don't have any murders in this country. They're all suicides. And they do that for tourism. You made a promise to your son. Absolutely. You stood over his coffin? Yes. And what did you say to him? I promise I will not let this go unsolved. There's a happy face. It's like yelling into a canyon and all you hear is your own voice echoing back. Nobody else is answering. You have traveled more than six times to Honduras. At least. You've invested at least $100,000. Probably a lot more. In investigating this case. Yes. You want answers? Yes. Randy's father, Vince, These are the children. and his mother, Jill, have devoted their lives to proving their son was murdered. Innocent little things, as you can see. What do you think Randy would say about your efforts? He'd say you're doing the right thing. Go for it, mother. Go for it, dad. I know you're going to avenge my murder. But that's not easy. When the authorities say, there was never even a crime. It has been hell. We will never have our son back. It doesn't matter what we do. Why? The Latona's own investigators, including former prosecutor, Wayne Hollingsworth, say the forensics point to murder. This is a homicide. There's no question about it. There are so many holes in this thing that it's just unbelievable. Randy didn't leave a suicide note. And the way the gun was found in his hand seemed very strange. Who ever takes a weapon like that and shoots with a thumb? So you believe that the gun was placed in his hand? Absolutely. In his right hand? Oh, yes, absolutely. But Honduran prosecutor Rafael Soto and Detective Gonzalo Sanchez don't agree. Que era un suicidio. If the intention were to make it look like a suicide, it would have made more sense to place the index finger on the trigger. We hired our own gunshot expert, Vincent DeMaio, San Antonio's veteran medical examiner. Does it strike you as odd that he would pull the trigger with his thumb? No. This is a not uncommon method of holding the weapon in suicides. But most people, the general public, doesn't know that. There are other questions. For example, gunshot residue. Usually, anyone who fires a handgun has some on his hands. Randy did not. There's no gunshot residue on his hands. That's impossible if he shot himself. The Hondurans say it probably rubbed off. And there's Leslie's hard-to-believe story about sleeping through the gunshot. She was laying right next to him. She did not hear the gun go off. How could that be? If her judgment had not been impaired, I would have not believed her, ever. But drunk, on drugs, without much sleep, I do believe her. Police also believed Leslie when she told them Randy had been drinking heavily. They think he was depressed. Did he have a drinking problem? He didn't have a drinking problem. He drank like anybody else drinks, like all young men do. You know, a number of beers or whatever it is. He didn't have a history of depression. No. On the contrary, he was always up and always smiling. But there were issues. Randy was arrested twice in the United States after Leslie accused him of being violent toward her. No charges were ever filed. In spite of the Latona's convictions, the Honduran police have stood firm They say: Randy killed himself. Vincent Tamayo, the gunshot expert hired by 48 Hours, cautiously agrees. Do you believe that the Honduran authorities conducted a thorough examination? I believe they conducted an adequate investigation, not a perfect investigation, probably comparable to what most police agencies in the United States would have done. The physical evidence, again, as I said, is consistent with suicide. Dr. Tamayo is a reputed forensic pathologist. I can't dispute what he says. I think otherwise. It doesn't change my opinion whatsoever. Randy's brother, David. What kind of answers does your family need? I think we'd just like to know the truth from the one person who could probably give it to us. Leslie Sparing. Leslie Sparing. She was there. She admits that she was there. The Latonas finally had their day in an American court, having filed a wrongful death suit in Las Vegas against Leslie Sparing. She never showed up in court. How could she not show up? How could you be subpoenaed on a $2.5 million civil wrongful death lawsuit and not defend yourself? It's absurd. Because Leslie Sparing never appeared, the judge awarded $2.5 million to the Latonas. No amount of money is going to bring my son back. I just want her to know that she can't get away with it. That's all. It's money they'll likely never collect. In 2003 and 2004, Leslie Sparing was convicted on a variety of prostitution and drug charges and served time in jail. Leslie Sparing did not respond to any of our requests for an interview. Give me my hug. Quick. A real tight hug. Oh. The Latonas. The Latonas find strength close to home. We support each other, our daughter and our other son, and our grandchildren. And in the memories of their son. And I tell them when you see a jet streaming across the blue sky, the contrails behind it, I just look up and say, Uncle Randy's serving the sky. In 2010, Joran Vandersloot was convicted of murdering a young woman in Peru and was sentenced to 28 years in prison. In 2012, Natalie Holloway was declared legally dead. Her body has never been found. I don't know what I'm doing. Need a break. Forget it. I quit. Escape to Pluto TV. This is objectively fantastic. Relax into the movies and shows you already know and love, all for free. Swing! Even our news is uplifting. You stay classy, San Diego. Watch Tommy Boy, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Anchorman, The Legend of Ron Burgundy, The X-Files, Wayne's World, and so much more. We're not worthy! The best things on TV really are free. You just have to know where to look. Escape to Pluto TV. Stream now, pay never. Saturday, November 14th. It is a big bike field in New York City. The UFC is on Paramount+. Free, with your paid subscription. 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