PART 2: Six Days, Six Victims, One Connection | The Scottsdale Killing Spree

- Six different lives that collided in death, six different people connected by one heartless maniac. There were signs, but no one did anything to stop it. Six different people going about their daily lives with no clue what was about to happen to them, they didn't know that they would all be connected in their death. (gentle music) (gentle music) - Ten million deep dives. - This is part two of a two part series. If you haven't watched part one yet, it's linked right below in the show notes so you can easily jump back to catch up on the case before this final episode. Then you might have heard the officers say that this could be related to the other homicides going on. He's referring to Laura Valeria and possibly Dr. Pitt, if he's even aware that there's a connection at this point. They continue to look around Marshall's office while Pamela makes calls outside, trying to create a timeline. She also gives them Karen Colby's information and they take a drive out to her house. This is around three o'clock in the morning. They're knocking on her door and she's awakened by that noise and she doesn't want to answer because it's late at night, but they do not stop knocking. So finally, Karen's husband goes down there and once he's informed of what's going on, he marches up to their room and says, Karen, you need to get down here right away. The police are here and Marshall was found dead in his office. Karen tells the police the Marshall had actually been leasing the space from her for the last two years and he owned a company called Peak Life Solutions. Karen said that she had been at the office earlier that day, but she left early before 3 p.m. The officers want to know everything she knows about Marshall. I can tell you this. He was 72 years old at the time of the shooting and Karen said he was the sweetest person. He had been a counselor for decades and from what I could find online, Marshall was born on July 18, 1945 and he worked as an advisor to nursing students at Brookline College in Phoenix after relocating to Arizona from New Jersey. He was always focused on the success of his students and was passionate about helping them become successful nurses. In 1972, Marshall Levine received his doctorate in psychology from the City University of New York's Graduate Center. While Marshall was a man of many accomplishments, he was very humble. And he never spoke about the vast number of degrees or books he had written instead. Every person that knew him was impressed by his generosity, his kindness and his devotion to his fiance, Pamela. The two of them shared a very deep commitment. Marshall was active in a toast master's chapter and this is a nonprofit. It's an educational organization that teaches public speaking and leadership skills. At the chapter he attended, Marshall was known for coaching speakers in a way to maximize their potential. On his website, he wrote quote, "My client's fulfillment is my joy." That's why I coach for over 30 years and I'm still thrilled to continue. End quote. He goes on to say in another section that there is no reward that can match the fulfillment of helping someone overcome limiting beliefs or get out of their own way. And achieve their own purpose. Past patients had remarked on how Marshall's counseling changed their lives. One of them said, "One flash of his infectious mile "and his insightful words were enough "to bring comfort to his clients "during an intense counseling session." So why would someone want him dead? That's what police were asking Karen. Who were his clients? Did he ever say that any of them were dangerous? What could she tell them? Karen said she knew very little about Marshall's work because as counselors, they keep everything confidential. But she knows because she's in this industry that they all kept a mental note of their dangerous clients. And that because she knows so many other counselors, she knows that they've all had clients who frightened them at one point or another. She just didn't know of anyone in particular. The investigators collected the shell casings from this scene like they had done the two previous cases and they discovered that they were once again 40 caliber. They were also the identical style as the ones that were used to calura and valeria and Dr. Pitt. They have now connected all three of these scenes together preliminarily. They're still trying to find a solid link between the crimes. So the officers asked Marshall's fiance Pamela whether Marshall had worked with attorneys and Pamela replied that he might have when they lived in New Jersey but not since they moved Arizona. By the next morning, the word had gotten out. They had another business professional had been gunned down in their office. The city was in fear. It was the weekend. Had it not been? I don't imagine a lot of people wanting to go back to work. I think they would be afraid. And there wasn't much being put out in the media about any of these connections. The investigators were still working this case. But the killer was still in the loose and the community was terrified. Someone was out there taking people's lives at random as far as they were concerned. Steve's fiance Natalie heard the news yet again. Four people were now dead. She was scared. But now more than ever before, she believed this was personal. She felt in her heart that this guy was just moving down a list of people that he wanted to kill. And she was worried that he was going to strike again at any moment. And one of those people could be her. The investigators had their work cut out for them. Four murders and less than 31 hours. By the morning of June 2nd, the investigators had opened up a tip line. And as soon as they did, hundreds of tips were coming in. Crime scene investigators arrived and began canvassing the area around the office building. The first three murders occurred in a highly populated area. But this murder happened in a quieter part of Scottsdale since Marshall's office was in a more rural area. Looking for witnesses was difficult. They were on a search for anything. CCTV footage, eyewitnesses, anything. And they come across a mobile home across the street for Marshall's office. They believe whoever lived in there could probably provide them with more information so they walk over and a man comes out. He tells investigators he lives alone in his camper. He sits down on the curb. And he tells them, I've got no weapons. But they're really suspicious of him because he is a white male. He matches the description of the suspect scene at Dr. Stephen Pett's crime scene. He was immediately considered a person of interest, especially because the proximity of the last crime scene investigators learned that this man is self-employed. He works in the area, and he just keeps providing vague answers every time they asked him a question. This only made him look more suspicious. They thought he appeared nervous and he was taken a sweet time thinking about each one of his answers. It didn't seem to just come to him naturally. It was as though he was constructing them in a particular way. They told the man you're not in any trouble we're just investigating a crime and we just need your cooperation. But eventually, unfortunately, they were able to rule him out. He was just a business owner working out of this mobile office out of a mobile home because he lived in Mesa and didn't want to make the trek every day. The man was just very nervous. So they rolled him out, like I said, and they continue searching this area. Since Marshall, Levine shared an office building with a number of other businesses that each had about 100 clients of their own, investigators tried to determine who the assailant could be after, who was the target. They just weren't really certain it was Marshall because they could not make a connection between him and the other victims. Or was this killer just killing professionals? Was he just randomly going out there, looking for these types of shared business centers and taking innocent people's lives? Investigators examined some CCTV footage that they received from the Phoenix Police Department. It showed the area where doctors, Stephen Pitt, was shot. A security camera nearby captured a gold Mercedes driving past shortly after the shooting. And the car was seen kind of pulling in, pulling out, backing up, going forward, driving a little strange. The investigators were certain that this vehicle belonged to the suspect, however, unlike so many other times, the footage is too grainy for them to know who was behind the wheel or get a license plate number. But they made a note of this. Just in case they were to see this vehicle again on any other footage to see if it was related to the crimes. The public was waiting for answers. Four people were murdered and no one had been identified as the killer. A sergeant went on the news and he was asking the community to stay vigilant. We hear this so many times. Stay vigilant, but they couldn't offer much of anything else. However, they were on duty. They were stationed outside of Marshall Levine's house that he shared with Pamela and North Central Phoenix. They were searching for clues. But they were also making sure the killer didn't try to harm Pamela. The same was happening at Valeria Sharpe's Chandler apartment. Police were out front. They were watching. They were looking at every car that pulled past them. The family had their blinds drawn on their second floor apartment. A woman came outside and told reporters the family needed time to recover from the news. Right, Felisa? A Laura's house in Mesa, there were people sitting outside with the garage door open, but none of them were willing to speak to anyone. There was nothing to say. All they knew was that their loved one was dead. And they didn't know who did it. Investigators asked the attorneys at Feldman, Bert, and Griniere to look at the cases they had worked on in the past. If any of them involved Dr. Pitt, did they deal with a person that could have become violent or had violent tendencies? Make a list of possible suspects. especially any matching the description of that composite sketch, an older white male. They rocked our brains, trying to think back over a decade or more of clients that they'd seen. It wasn't easy for them to recall all of them, but Elizabeth said that one had come to mind. She needed to gather some information, especially because it wasn't a white male, he was black, and it was a really long time ago, so she didn't know if this was related or not. Investigators said to get back to them with any information that she could pull together. They needed all they could get. Meanwhile, news was traveling across Arizona. 200 miles away, a retired detective Rick England was watching the news when he saw the coverage of the now quadruple homicide. His brain had been working overtime, from the minute that he heard about Dr. Pittsburgher. This is what he used to do for a living. He'd spent practically his entire life piecing together evidence and finding criminals. He began his law enforcement journey with the Phoenix Police Department. Later working as an undercover agent and a later in life, he became a private investigator. Now hearing about these murders, he thought they had to be connected to the work that these individuals did. When he heard the news about Dr. Pitt, who was the most well-known of the four, he thought this had to be related to a case that he'd worked on, but there were so many of them, it was impossible for him to figure out which one. Until the double murder of Laura and Valeria. When that was broadcasted just a day later, that is when Rick thought he knew exactly which case these murders were connected to. At least he thought he knew how Dr. Pitt's murder and the law firm was connected. He called the tip line around 9.30 p.m. on June 2nd and he told investigators the link was attorney Elizabeth Filman. He said he already spoke to her. They knew each other. And he wanted to confirm his suspicions. I know you've heard her name many times. Elizabeth is one of the partners at the firm where Laura and Valeria were shot to death. Her father, a local judge, she had left the firm early that day. While Elizabeth had done a lot in her career, she graduated with her law degree in 1989 from Arizona State University, and she went on to work as an associate at a very large law firm in Phoenix called Brown & Bane until 2001. When she started her very own private practice and then formed her current law firm with two other attorneys at Bert, Filman & Grineer. Elizabeth focused on family law including divorces, separations, custody cases, child support matters, as well as mediations and negotiations. Rick believed she was the target, not Laura or Valeria, the reason, revenge. Why? Because of a divorce that Elizabeth had worked on, the case was between husband and wife Connie and Dwight Jones. Remember there was a case Elizabeth said stood out to her? She mentioned Dwight Jones to investigators, but of course they needed to look into the information especially since that case was all the way back in 2009. They just were not sure that this was connected all these years later. In that divorce case Elizabeth sought the assistance of local psychiatrist Dr. Stephen Pitt. For the evaluations of the family for her court proceedings, she recalled that Dwight was not very cooperative and he had major anger issues. Her entire detective Rick England spoke with Elizabeth and said don't you know where the last shooting just occurred? It's Karen Colby's office, and that's when they knew. They knew it, they knew it had to be Dwight. Rick was now relaying all of this information to investigators. He said he was certain because he was a private investigator that was hired to protect Dr. Connie Jones, the ex-wife and mother of Dwight Jones' son, way back when the court granted Connie full custody of their son. Rick knew this case very well because he was now Dr. Connie Jones' husband. This was their biggest lead yet. At least it narrowed down one case that they could look into, one link that they could explore. But what about the link to Marshall Levine? They called Karen Colby to ask her if she knew anything about a man named Dwight Jones and her heart nearly stopped. She did. She counseled his young son almost a decade earlier. She was working with them during that divorce proceeding, and there you have it. They're linked. She and Elizabeth were the other two targets and yet three people unrelated to any of this in a significant way were dead. Karen couldn't believe it. It was her that was supposed to die. She and Elizabeth could be next. No one knew this man's intentions. But investigators weren't so quick to just zero in on Dwight Jones just yet. They needed to speak to Connie his ex-wife. They needed to hear her story to understand why this would be related and who Dwight Jones was. Connie was now a Phoenix area radiologist and she explained to detectives that during the summer break in college in 1984, Connie met and fell in love with a young soldier named Dwight Jones. At the time he was 22, he was stationed at Fort Bradworth, Carolina, and Connie was only 18 when she said was way too young. Dwight was her first boyfriend, but she realized how naive she was. Connie was very ambitious. She was studying to one day become a doctor and Dwight told her he dreamed of becoming an attorney. Connie was attracted to Dwight's aspirations. She imagined a future with him, both working hard, going after their dreams together. So they continued dating and eventually Connie graduated from college and began medical school. After Connie's first year in 1988, the couple got married and Dwight left the army, but that's when things changed. Connie was working hard to become a doctor, but Dwight seemed to be really unmotivated and lazy. He only had little part-time jobs here and there, but he only worked maybe three days at each one as far as she could remember, because when he got hired, he would quit or get fired right afterward. And there was always a reason. It was never his fault. They had to live off Connie's financial aid benefits from school. And that's not something she was used to. She grew up in a household that valued strong work ethic. So she began to get tired of Dwight's unwillingness to help them out, but he just kept telling her I'm going to try that he loved her so much and he begged her to please give him another chance to prove that he could do things right. Time went on and before she knew it, Connie was finished with medical school and she was now in her residency. She chose psychiatry, but as she studied the subject in depth, she began to realize she was living with a mentally ill man. Her own husband. Dwight's depression was obvious to Connie. It was marked by Dwight staying in bed for days on end, wallowing in his own self-pity and soon he would become angry at Connie for no apparent reason verbally. And then emotionally, it seemed like she was always walking on eggshells around the man she thought loved her and who she once loved so much. Now she didn't know what to expect from him. He would get offended at the littlest thing and then without warning, he would become irate. He would even punish her and give her the silent treatment for a week. She wouldn't get that communication with him. If she did anything he thought was wrong, he would just ignore her and things just got worse and worse. They had grown apart and then she knew psychiatry wasn't for her after seeing mental illness firsthand. So she switched her residency to studying radiology. She still loved her husband. She was in a helping profession herself and she had a heart for those who were suffering. She begged Dwight to seek therapy, but he said he didn't need it and it only made him angrier that his wife thought he was crazy. She couldn't bring it up without a fight. In 1996, Connie found out she was pregnant. She had suffered through eight years of ups and downs and as the years went on, things had only gotten worse. She finally told Dwight she wanted to separate. She couldn't imagine raising a child around a man like him. It wouldn't be safe when she confronted him. Dwight cried for three days on the floor and he apologized again and again saying he didn't want to lose her. "I'm sitting there thinking of course you don't. You're using her, of using her and she's working hard trying to give you this good life and here he was making all these promises that he wouldn't keep and yet again, another promise came out of his mouth. He told Connie he would do whatever it took for them to stay together. He would get help. He wanted to raise her child together. He said it's not me, it's my illness and he loved her so much. He said please don't leave me. It was hard for Connie. As much as she resented Dwight, she was equally afraid to leave because she didn't know what he was capable of and then she'd be on her own as a single mom. She just didn't have a solid escape plan so she stayed hoping that having a child would possibly make Dwight get his life in order. In 1997 she gave birth to their son. I've seen Rick and Connie ask the media not to mention Connie's son's name so I will respectfully keep that private. It actually seemed to make things better. His son gave him a new purpose. He loved being a dad. He was a stay-at-home dad while Connie was at work every day. However, when she returned from work, there wasn't a lot done around the house. There was still a lot for Connie to do who was probably exhausted by the time she had home but it did seem like a new beginning for this family. Dwight seemed more stable with the deal. daily routine, set in place and everything, he was really trying to be a good dad and a better partner to Connie, or so it seemed. It was all a facade, a way for Dwight to manipulate Connie yet again. Soon enough all the positives faded away and Dwight became even worse than before. He became jealous and obsessive and possessive of Connie. He made life miserable for her. After she had his son with Dwight, she felt like she had more of an obligation to stay with him despite how bad this was. She didn't want to be a divorcee, but she didn't know how things could ever get better. He wasn't willing to get the help he needed, and she said she never knew what version of him she was going to get that day. Sadly, his behavior escalated over the years and it became physical. The thing is Dwight was smart about how he went about her in Connie. He wasn't going to hit her in the face or the eye or anywhere that anyone could see it. He would do things to harm her that were hard to prove. He pushed her up against the wall or forcefully hold her down on the ground or use his forearm to whack her on the back or in the stomach. These things didn't leave bruises. It would be hard for her to report them, but there was a time when Dwight went so far as to break Connie's breastbone. Ow, I mean, that takes a lot of force. He took the palm of his hand and he shoved it into her chest. I can't even imagine my goodness, this poor lady, and if this has ever happened to you, I am sorry. I know how common this is, I really, really do, and I am so sorry that anyone has to go through this, especially from the person they love. It's heartbreaking and terrifying. Connie didn't call the police because she didn't have a way to get away from Dwight. She was afraid that he would come after her if she tried to press charges, and that would only enrage him. Instead, she slept with a knife under her pillow. She just didn't know when he would become so out of control that he would try to kill her. She was in fear of her life. So over the next few years, while living in a nice house in Scottsdale and working hard to provide the best life possible, she saved money in a secret bank account. She confided in the right people. She came up with a solid escape plan, and she hired the right attorney, Elizabeth Feldman. Connie knew she wanted out. It was early 2009. Dwight had gotten to a point where he was threatening to take his own life and the life of their son, so that Connie would have to spend the rest of her life suffering knowing it was her fault that they were both dead. It's very manipulative. He used this against her any time he wanted her to do something that she wouldn't comply with. Dwight began putting their son in harm's way, and Connie was desperate to get out. But she knew about a woman who had actually been killed when she was trying to leave her violent boyfriend, so she knew she had to make sure she had this secret escape plan that was rock solid. She had been recording Dwight. All of this rampages for years now documenting everything that she could. She gathered up all her important documents, all the tapes, everything, and she put them in a safe location. She began packing and buying clothes, leaving them at work, just getting things together. Everything that she and her son would need, once they fled. And Elizabeth Feldman? She was the one giving Connie advice and support. After all, this was Elizabeth's specialty. On May 6, 2009, Connie recorded another one of those fights, and I have some of that recording. You can hear Dwight melting off in the background, just being belligerent. It started when their son did something that Dwight didn't approve of, and then he stood over this poor little 11-year-old boy, just pointing at him, yelling in his face, and Connie tried to get in between them, and that is when Dwight targeted her. It's when she told him to leave him alone. He began threatening her, calling her every name you can think of. He definitely had a lot of resentment over her success. That was evident by this comment. He said, "See you smart, you are a bitch. See what your college degree taught your dumb ass." He also threatens to kill Connie by taking her outside to the pool and drowning her. It's really hard to listen to, as Connie is retelling the story to police her voices cracking. She's getting choked up, reliving this nightmare is very hard on her, but she knows it's important to explain everything. Connie goes on to say that Dwight told her that if she called the police, she'd be dead before they got there. "I can only imagine the fear that was running through her. You want to leave, but you're afraid to go." She was trapped, but this time she did call 911, and the SWAT team surrounded their house. Dwight wouldn't come out. He was holding his 11-year-old son hostage. This is him yelling outside that his wife started all this, blaming it on someone else, as usual. After an hour and a half standoff, Dwight finally appeared outside the front door, with his son in front of him like a human shield, wow. That is heartless, and Connie felt helpless because her son was inconsolable. He was breaking down, horrified, and she couldn't bear to see him like that. It was devastating her, but finally Dwight was arrested. Now was Connie's chance to get away. She quickly felt for divorce. After 20 years of marriage, many of those years living in terror. Even though Dwight was arrested on multiple charges that night, he was able to somehow plead guilty to only a single misdemeanor of disorderly conduct. It's the equivalent to a disturbance in the neighborhood. And Connie couldn't understand how in the world this could be possible, he held her son hostage for over an hour. How was he getting off this easily? And he wasn't going to be held in jail. They just gave him 12 months of probation. At this point, he was not authorized to own a firearm, so I guess there was that. But when is that ever stopped anyone from getting a gun if they wanted one? The one positive thing that came out of this plea deal was that Dwight was committed to a mental health facility for an evaluation, and Connie had waited for this moment for so long. Only to get a report from the doctors, that he was not an imminent threat. Yeah, it was not what she had expected, but then she gets a call from one of the psychiatrists that evaluated him. They told her that Dwight was dangerous, and that she should look into getting security like a bodyguard, just in case. Connie was already thinking along those lines Elizabeth Feldman had been giving her advice on her options, and Connie was introduced to former detective Rick England. He worked for Elizabeth Feldman, and Connie hired him to keep an eye on her and her son, and make sure they were safe. Rick was also supposed to conduct an investigation on how much of a threat Dwight really posed to Connie and her son. Rick began watching Dwight's every move. He had a team of investigators following him at all hours of the day and night taking pictures, videos of everything he was doing, where he went, everything he did. Dwight had a room at Connie's that was filled with basically garbage. Look at these photos. Rick and his team sifted through every single item, every piece of debris looking for clues to where his mindset was, and they stumbled upon some books that had very disturbing titles. Winning through intimidation, Arizona's gun owners guide, how to get even more dirty tricks from the master of revenge than there was one called on killing, which talked about how to injure people in things like street fighting. This looked like a man with a plan, a plan to harm someone, and that someone was most likely Connie. Rick knew that Connie's life was in danger. He had 24 hour surveillance on her and her son. There were private security officers outside her son's school the entire time he was there every day, outside their home at all hours. Anytime Connie left the house to go anywhere, the grocery store work, especially if she had a public event where she had to speak. Once at this point, Connie was very successful in her career and doing all kinds of work. Rick had security watching, waiting, making sure she was safe. Not only that, it was no longer safe for Connie to be at her house. Instead, they had to set up three different safe houses that no one knew existed. No one had the addresses, and they made sure that no one was ever following them any time they took Connie and her son to them. They had countless rental cars they used to make sure Dwight didn't know what vehicle they'd be in, and then they would rotate between the safe houses that they were staying at. This is how fearful they were for their lives. They even had attack dogs with them. Dwight was always trying to get through Rick's security measures, and get to Connie and his son. Think about it. Let that sink in. This was a very dangerous man. Think of all these things they had to do to stop him. Rick said he had to be ten steps ahead of Dwight at all times, especially when it was time for the court proceedings to begin. Of course, Connie wanted custody of their son. This was a dangerous man, and she was ready to fight. She knew this could set Dwight off any moment. Through her attorney, Elizabeth Feldman, Connie was introduced to Dr. Stephen Pitt, who was hired to conduct videotaped interviews of Connie and Dwight together and separately during the sessions with him. He was there to evaluate their relationship and their mental health. Here is a short clip from one of those videos where Connie is introducing herself to the camera for the very first time. Yeah. Okay. And back to Dr. Jones, right? Yeah. And you and I have never met before, correct? Yeah. Okay. And the example, we had a conversation. That conversation just could place hold on the lobby wherein you introduced me to Mr. England. Right. And he's someone that's company on security. That's correct. And what is he? Is he an off duty officer? He is a proud investigator. Okay. And how often does he, where does he go with you? It just, it depends based on where we're going. Dr. Pitt's job was to evaluate this entire situation and then read a report that he would give to the court. And then they would review that to make their final decision. Connie read the entire report and it was lengthy. She believed it was detailed and accurate and it matched the conclusions that she and Rick had already made. Dr. Pitt stated in his report about Dwight, quote, "Without psychiatric intervention and treatment, Mr. Jones' mental state will continue to unravel. He will become increasingly paranoid, likely psychotic and pose an even greater risk for perpetrating violence." He said that Dwight had an obsession with Connie and then eventually something would trigger him to do something dangerous. Probably deadly. Connie was fearful. She knew once Dwight's probation ended, he would be allowed to own a firearm again. So she took out a restraining order against him which would once again prohibit him from owning a gun legally. All the while, Rick was also producing reports for Elizabeth Feldman. This would aid Connie in gaining custody of her son. Karen Colby, the therapist who was renting out that office to Marshall Levine, will back when Connie's divorce began, she was hired as a counselor for Connie's son. Karen was used to working with children and families during divorces, but she thought that there was something different about this case. It was the violence that stuck out to her. She called it the scariest case that she had ever been involved in. She worked on this case for two years as it went to trial in 2011. Dr. Stephen Pitt and Karen Colby testified and presented their findings to the court. Dr. Pitt said that Dwight had an anxiety disorder, a mood disorder, and features of anti-social narcissistic and paranoid personality disorder. In his defense, Dwight's attorney told the court that Dwight believed that Dr. Pitt and Karen Colby and all the other people in the case just accepted his wife's account of their entire relationship without question because she was a doctor. And Dwight was not part of the doctor club. He didn't have the resources and the money that Connie was able to spend to manufacture a case against him. That was how Dwight saw things, that everything was made up, that he was the victim, not the bad guy. This is classic narcissism. Connie was relieved when the Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Pamela Gates granted her full custody of their son, citing the father's violent and abusive behavior and his untreated mental illness. Connie just assumed that Dwight would never have any further contact with them ever again, but she was stunned when she read the decree. There was a portion that stipulated that Dwight would have supervised visits with their child. This was something she couldn't be okay with after all of this work, all the effort. And that's not all. The court was prioritizing Dwight's parental rights over their son's safety. Under Arizona law, Dwight also had the right to monthly spousal support from Connie. And because of her successful medical career, she would need to be paying him $6,000 a month, despite everything he had already done to her. All of his threats on her life, the beatings, the emotional torture, Connie still had to give him her money that she earned, and she also had to pay all of his attorney's bills and fund those supervised visits with their son. This was unbelievable to her, and one of the scariest parts was that Connie wouldn't be able to pay for her security detail anymore. Rick, like I said, worked for Elizabeth Feldman, and the price was high. At this point, Connie did the math. She knew she would be paying Dwight for at least the next seven years until her son was 18, and it was probably going to be over $650,000. Her restraining order, it would expire in 2013. She'd not much time to figure out what to do. She knew at that point, he would legally be allowed to purchase a gun. And he had blatantly told her, he was going to wait until her defenses were down, and then he'd kill her. Connie was carrying a gun of her own. At all times, Rick knew if she didn't have protection in the form of security, she would be dead. She wasn't just going to leave her because she couldn't pay the fees on account of what the court ordered, besides, I think you know by now, the story is very similar to the classic movie, with the amazingly talented Winnie Houston. The Bodyguard. If you don't know the storyline, watch the movie, it's a good one. An art imitates life. Connie and her Bodyguard also became more than just business. Their relationship became personal. They developed feelings for one another over the years, and Rick was now more than a friend. He was there as Connie's lover and protector. That was his purpose now. Dwight had been ordered by the court to receive psychiatric treatment, but Connie said that she'd never seen any evidence that he ever went to therapy. Instead, Dwight isolated himself from society. He got a hotel room, and an extended stay hotel in Scottsdale. And the court allowed Jones two hours of supervised visitation every week. Connie begged the court to terminate it. She showed them evidence that this man was increasingly unstable. And through their investigations, they found he even purchased a machete. He had drawn a map outlining where she worked and how to get there. Connie's request was still denied, so she tried her best to move on in her life and her career. Despite all that Dwight had done to try to destroy her, she pressed on. Even authoring a book about breast cancer screening, it's called "The Breast Test Book, A Woman's Guide to Immography and Beyond." I'll link it below if you're in your 40s. It's time. I just got mine. This book was designed to help patients be more confident about their treatment options, and it sounds like a very valuable resource. And Connie was a very knowledgeable doctor. For years, Connie and her son lived in fear. Everything they did had to be planned in advance. So much effort went into it, even going to a movie or a nearby story at all had to be orchestrated with their safety in mind. They had to change all their habits. Connie, she couldn't have favorite places that she liked to go celebrate. Birthdays, for example. No, not anymore. Her life had to change. She could no longer enjoy those things because they were too risky. Dwight knew about them. They were married for 20 years. He knew too much. It's almost as though Connie had to take on a new identity. She couldn't even make new habits, though, either. She couldn't have a favorite place. Even the places she shopped couldn't be the same every week. No patterns could ever be made. Connie had to learn to use a gun, had to defend herself. She took self-defense, defensive driving courses. Because Rick predicted that one day Dwight would confront Connie. He would find somehow some way to hurt her because he promised he would. Ultimately, that spousal support that she was paying to Dwight, it ended in 2016, and the mandated visits with her son did too. At first, it felt like a step in the right direction. But Connie also knew that Dwight was aware, she had a $4 million life insurance policy. And she feared that somehow, he would try to get his hands on that money by harming her. The years that went by didn't mean Connie and Rick let their guard down, not at all, especially when it came to Connie's son. He couldn't just go out enough fun with his friends on a whim, no. There were so many restrictions upon this boy's life. Connie believed things may get worse. The Dwight's money would soon begin to dwindle. I tried to do the math. He was living in an extended stay hotel for a decade. That couldn't have been cheap. It definitely wasn't as cost-effective as maybe having an apartment. I had no idea why he thought that was the best place for him. Especially when you hear the rest of this story. I'm telling you, it gets crazier. I looked online and it did say that you could spend anywhere between $1200 up to $4,000 a month for an extended stay. Considering you probably only need a little room, I guess it may have been comparable to an apartment at $1200 a month. I didn't even know you could live in a hotel permanently. But of course, without a job, the money would run out and at some point, Rick and Connie believed this may be the trigger that Dwight needed to come after her. It was only a matter of time they thought, and two years passed. Weeks prior to the events that unfolded beginning on May 31, 2018, Connie and Rick, they finally were able to take a vacation. They went on a cruise, but it took them six months of planning. They were far away from Arizona, far away from any threats, but they didn't know what was going on while they were gone. They had no idea whether Dwight had tried showing up at Connie's work or trying to find her. When they returned, they were immediately taken to an isolated cabin they owned. Not too long after that was when Rick was notified on the morning of June 1 about Dr. Pits murder. Someone he had always been so impressed by, and it wasn't until Saturday that Rick was informed that the paralegals were killed, and that they were from Elizabeth Feldman's office. It was when he realized that the killer was White Jones and he immediately called Connie, he let her know you are in grave danger, then knowing about the third crime scene only solidified Rick's suspicions even more. He had been, to all three of those locations many times, places that Dwight Jones had also been to as well. He knew they were all connected, and that is when it was time for him to reach out to the Phoenix PD. He talked to the Violent Crimes Unit, and now we know everything from where we left off. The investigators were now convinced that Dwight was their prime suspect. They had poured over tons of police reports, divorced documents, psych evaluations, and orders of protection, and I did the same. Here I am scrolling the court records, and there's a lot, a lot. I'll tell you that. One of the most telling and terrifying things I read was probably from Connie's 2010 plea for protection. Her attorney, Elizabeth Feldman, wrote, quote, "Dewight has made numerous previous threats to Kill Connie. That if she left him, he would wait until things settle down before taking his revenge." End quote, "I don't think she knew how true those words would be." Rick gave the police a description of Dwight Jones, as well as the make a model of his vehicle, 2001 Gold Mercedes in EC20. Recall the police had footage of a Gold Mercedes in the vicinity of Dr. Pitt's office at the time the crime was committed. Rick also explained that Dwight was a major flight risk because during his investigations in the past, his team noted, "The fact that Dwight lived in a hotel. He only kept a few articles of clothing and even had like paper plates. This was a sign that he could up and leave at a moment's notice. They had to move fast. What didn't add up was the composite sketch of it being a white man. When Dwight was not white. Maybe the eyewitness, they saw someone else leaving. They assumed it was a killer. They weren't sure. But now they knew who they were looking for and where he'd be. Because Rick told them Dwight had lived at this extended day for nine years. Nine years. And that whole time, Rick and his friends and even family that he had in law enforcement said they had never heard of someone staying in a hotel that long, ever. And sometimes, to help Rick out, they would drive by to see if Dwight's car was still parked in his usual spot. And it was. At this point, they had stopped doing actual surveillance. Two years had gone by. They were now in isolation and protection mode. Because the investigators had that DNA from the bullet casings that they found at the crime scenes, they collected a sample of Dwight's son's DNA and they waited for results. Well, almost immediately, the lab notified them and said, it's a match. Dwight Jones was indeed the shooter. And even though Connie knew how dangerous Dwight was, she was still shocked that he really did this. He really carried out his deadly revenge. She had always called Dwight her personal terrorist, but she never imagined his behavior would have such a devastating impact on the community at large. Around 11 p.m. on June 3rd, Dwight's car was spotted in a neighborhood called Fountain Hills near Kit Fox and Paradox Roads, but the police had still not made contact with him. Until 3 p.m. when they saw Dwight driving his gold Mercedes around Scottsdale, the surveillance team started to follow him. He made several stops. Visiting a convenience store, he went to McDonald's, he went to a friend's house, and then to McDonald's again. On that second visit to McDonald's, the surveillance team watched him get out of his car, with a paper bag, and throw it in a dumpster. Well, after Dwight got back in his car and drove away, investigators scoured that dumpster. They found the bag, and inside was a 22 caliber pistol, but they knew that this one was not used in the four murders. It was the wrong caliber. Everyone was killed with a 40. So the investigators were curious about why Dwight would need to dispose of that gun, and where the murder weapon was. They started to backtrack, and they found evidence that Dwight was out of residence located at 14906 East Kit Fox Place, around 12 to 1 p.m. earlier that day. So they wanted to try to make a connection between that place, and Dwight, but they couldn't. So they sent out some units to go up to this home and investigate. They knocked on the door, and no one answered. They walked around the house. It was pretty normal. There was nothing going on. This has a really pretty house. I have a couple pictures of it. They didn't see anything out of the ordinary. It was about a 30 minute drive away from the extended say hotel. So it seemed like Dwight was kind of going out of his way to go there, so they wanted to know why. It was on a dead end street, a cold assac, and it had a winding driveway. And as investigators walked around the home knocking on windows and looking inside, they still weren't getting any answers. Now usually, it wouldn't be too much of a cause for concern, but considering what they found at the last three places they knew Dwight had been, in the last few days, they were even more concerned. So eventually, they take a ladder, they put it up to the house, they look inside of a window, they gave them a view into the main portion of the home, and that's when they saw the body of a man lying on the ground. It was obvious to them that he had been shot. At this point, they forced entry into the home, and that's when they discovered a second body. It was a female this time. Both were deceased and had been shot with a 22 caliber weapon. This matched the caliber of the gun that the investigators found in that dumpster that Dwight had discarded. The victims were identified as 70-year-old Mary Simmons and her 72-year-old boyfriend, Byron Thomas. They were able to determine from records that the gun actually belonged to Byron Thomas, but they had no idea what the connection was, but they knew Dwight had killed them. And he had taken the lives of six people now. Mary Lee Simmons was born in Missouri on December 18, 1947, and she was the second oldest of 12 children. She had 10 sisters and one brother, Velma Shirley Grundy, Perlene, Lawana Janice, Brenda Gloria Felicia Teresa, and Brother James. That's a full house. After Mary graduated from high school, she moved to Chicago, Illinois, and started her career as a dental assistant and later became a dental hygienist. She married a man named Ernest Durham in 1979. And her and her husband launched Durham hair products together, which include curly grow, Chicago curl, leisure curl, and many others that were popular in the 1980s. And throughout the 90s, actually, Mary moved to Arizona where she eventually met her loving companion Byron Hayward Thomas. Mary was a caring person. She actually became Byron's caretaker because at the time that he was killed, Byron was reportedly blind. I sadly couldn't find out much about Byron, but I know that Mary loved him very much. They enjoyed traveling, Mary loved playing tennis, and that is actually how she met Dwight Jones. She met him about five years prior to her murder, and it appeared that they had just had a casual relationship. They just liked playing tennis together. They would meet at different local parks. Mary was known to be quite the superstar on the court, and Dwight's apparently would call himself a tennis instructor how odd. Now this is a very loose connection, which had nothing to do with Dwight's divorce proceedings. So it didn't really make sense. Why would he kill this couple? Neighbors were shocked. Harriet Cosmetics, who lived next door, heard the news, and she said, "Are you kidding me?" Mary and the killer played tennis together. She said, "I knew she was playing tennis, and she was very active, but I didn't know she played tennis with him." Why would he kill her? She also said, "She thinks there must be more to this story." She said, "Why would he pick Mary and poor Byron? They had nothing to do with it." This is not a reasonable explanation. You play tennis, or some kind of sport, and then they come and kill you, end quote. Clearly, everyone who lived close to Mary was on edge. Murder after murder, and now right in their own neighborhood so I can understand their fears. After Mary and Byron were found, investigators started to plan a way to get to White and to custody. He's going to kill again, so they defies the plan, and they were going to put it in place as soon as possible. By 1 a.m. Monday June 4th in the middle of the night, Rick and Connie, doing investigations of their own, found a lot of stuff on social media, a smear campaign, led by none other than Dwight Jones. They found a YouTube channel that they believed he had created, and it was called exposing low-lifes. Yeah, except White, he wasn't referring to himself, no, he was exposing Connie, or at least he was attempting to, to the public. Before his rampage, he created 18 videos, over 10 hours worth of footage, eerie videos of a white mask and a voiceover of himself talking about the divorce, sharing Dr. Pits evaluation videos, doing reaction videos to them, addressing one of the videos, a long letter to his son, and others outlining what he believed was a conspiracy against him. How the lawyers, the psychiatrist, his ex-wife, they conspired against him, that the divorce was rigged, and they stole his son from him. Yeah, he shared these videos on Facebook as well. Here's the post he made. Look at the way he titled the video. Interview with lying female doctor, child, it starts with an am rhymes with Chester, can't say it on this channel, and the description read that this doctor, Connie Jones, had done something terrible to her son, and then tried to have her husband killed by cops when he caught her doing this. He also had this really weird and disturbing Twitter account where he had messages for his son. One of them was an open letter. He said, "I've been trying to see you for years. Your mom stops the visits." Another one says, "I support the me-to movement because all along he's trying to make it look like Connie is doing really inappropriate things to their child if you know what I'm talking about." Starts with an am, Chester, do the math, and he would post links on Twitter to the same YouTube videos. Another one was entitled, "How Dr. Connie Jones got away with Child Blank," and the the description red, female doctor in Scottsdale air. Arizona got caught by husband doing bad things to their child. Dr. Connie P. Jones and her secret cop friend Rick England tried to have him killed. This is just it goes on and on. Then in March 2008 Dwight found his son's girlfriend and he mentioned turn to tweet saying this. Please tell him happy belated birthday and I love him and I miss him and I tried to tweet him and his mom blocked me to keep us apart. You two make a nice looking couple please follow. He would also mention ASU and news sites and Twitter sending them these really like odd rambling tweets. On his YouTube videos he attempted to get in contact with his son by recording an open letter. Here's part of that. "I know she's been telling you that I was dangerous and a danger to you and a threat to you and a threat to her. I was never a threat to you." He even told the story of his interview with Dr. Pitt in his version of course including some of the original video footage. He's already had me and voluntarily put into a psychiatric hospital because of a argument we had that she set up and take recorded. That's another long story that we'll get into later but I just wanted you to see her interview and what a pathological liar she is and a bad one at that. So I'm going to pause this recording and start the tape over at the beginning. I just wanted this to be put up first and this is not a confidential tape. "And one of the other things you need to understand is that what we talk about here is not confidential. And you understand that I'm not your doctor and I'm not here to treat you in any capacity." "I'm the same." "And one of the more disconcerting things about this process for anyone that sits in that chair is that I get to ask a lot of questions that we finish and I don't you don't I don't tell you what I'm thinking. We're and you introduced me to Mr. England and he's someone that's company on security." "That's correct." "What is he? Is he an off-duty officer?" "He is a private investigator." "Okay and how often does he where does he go with you?" "It just it depends based on where we're going." "Now he's supposed to be a private investigator and her bodyguard." She left out that he's also her lover. This is a guy that she was having an affair with a sexual relationship during our marriage. Notice she didn't tell him that part, nor did she tell the courts or any other people who interviewed us during this whole custody battle we were having. Now she'll say if that's a lie and they didn't start having a sexual relationship until after this thing was over which is laughable because she was sleep with any and everybody because she was hypersexual, a sexual deviant. She also my child and I told her I was leaving her and I was going to get so custody. That's a whole 'nother story. We'll listen to the rest of the tape and my purpose of showing this is to show you how much she lied during our divorce and this is the only visual evidence I have. There were some other interviews that was supposed to be audio taped or they were audio taped by the custody evaluator but she refused to hand over those audio tapes even though it was ordered by the court to do so and she got rid of all evidence that this woman, my child, my child told her because of the evaluator and he told his therapist that this piece of shit was doing it to her and she paid these ladies, both of these ladies, to not release the evidence and we never got her. This lady Connie Jones was also seeing a psychiatrist or psychologist and the psychologist refused to release her records also. If she's totally innocent, why didn't she release her medical stuff and why didn't the court demand that because they demanded all my medical stuff to be released and to do a custody evaluation, everybody's medical stuff is supposed to be out in the open so they can determine if we were both apparent with the interview. If there is during the day or during the week or whatever, you have someone with you 20 followers around the clock? No, I do not. But he came for this particular interview. How come? Because Dwight has been in this area and he feels that he needs to make sure he's not surveying the area. How would I know she's going to interview with this guy? In his actual interview with Dr. Pitt, he said that Connie was the one hurting their son and that she cheated on him a number of times, that she was a bad mom in line to make it look like Dwight was the vital one but it was really her and that she did all this so she could hurt Dwight and take his son away but that ultimately, she would be the one that loses custody but we know that didn't happen. Instead, Dr. Pitt lost. He paid the ultimate price with his life. It was the one time that Dr. Pitt was wrong about something. It wasn't a judge or a lawyer that was targeted first. There wouldn't be a sign for him to protect himself. He went down first outside of his office in broad daylight. Once the police were made aware of these YouTube videos, they were removed but it was even more proof of Dwight's motive. He believed everyone was against him and he held a grudge for nearly a decade. Elizabeth, the puppet master, hiring Dr. Pitt and advising Connie and Karen Colby, the therapist that rented the space to pour Dr. Marshall Levine. The way that Dwight saw it, she was responsible for turning his son against him. Innocent people were dead because of this man's twisted mind and he was still on the loose. The YouTube channel, like I said, with all those videos was taken down but I have a few clips that I can share with you and he just sounds unhinged. He was talking about how people with power can cover up their crimes because they can pay people to protect them. And he gives examples. Dr. Larry Nazar, Bill Cosby, Sandusky, Weinstein, and he says that's how they all got away with it for so long. People who enable should be held accountable. They should go to jail. That's how Larry Nazar, Dr. Larry Nazar got away with it for so long. And this new guy at UNC can't think of that doctor's name. That's how he got away with it so long. That's how Bill Cosby got away with it. Sandusky, Weinstein, all of these people had money and titles and they had people covering up their crimes just like Connie. How many people does she have to grow? How many children does she have to grow before she's brought to justice? And by the way, if you're not familiar with these cases that he mentioned, they were all doing sexually inappropriate things to children and women and they had money and power and that's what he thought they used so they could keep doing it. Some of that may be true but then he goes on to compare them to Connie and her entourage saying that those evil men had people covering up their crimes just like Connie has the lawyer and doctors covering for her. She has the money and the power and Dwight didn't. He's basically talking nonsense and the evidence was piling up. They really didn't need more. What they needed was to locate and arrest white and start to build a case against him so they could bring him to justice. Later that very same morning on June 4th, the first steps were put into place. That was to quietly and secretly evacuate the hotel where Dwight lived. The SWAT team had surrounded the area. Then every guest was notified by police from the special assignments unit in conjunction with the hotel management. They were taken off the premises floor by floor. They successfully evacuated the rooms around Dwight's first. They had most of the first and second floor done and they were working on the third. That's where Dwight's room was. When he sensed their presence, he came out of the door and he began to fire at them. Between seven to eight rounds were fired but luckily none of the officers were injured. However, now they knew they needed countermeasures in place so they could gain control of this situation. Then all of a sudden, the gunfire stopped. So they shot through one of his windows so that they could send in a drone to look inside. See what was going on in the room. You can see this video of the drone entering Dwight's window. At this point, they were able to confirm that Dwight had taken his own life as the team was closing in on him. It's over. But the real investigation had just begun. And this was the part of the video I could not wait to get to. I don't usually get to see the aftermath, the evidence and I tried my best, but not everything is open to the public. Well, this time, I was able to get a lot of photos of what was inside of Dwight's hotel room and what it looked like, and it was shocking. You really get to see inside the mind of a killer. They started outside in the parking lot. They shot out the windows of his car to gain access, and then just look at the stuff inside. The back driver's seat floor has bullets, some kind of earplugs for target practice to where all kinds of stuff. Some of ammunition, clothing and the trunk, tennis racket in there. That's probably what he used to take those lessons with Mary. There's even towels, a gas tank, but look what's on the passenger's front seat. Oh my god. He actually had a newspaper with a heading that said the trail of the shootings. Wow. He was following the story in the paper. He also had a picture of his son when he was a little boy in the center console. What he was really interested in is what was in the hotel room that he was in for nine years. Here's the window they shot out. I'll start there. For those of you that just listen, I will explain. There's lots of boxes and guess what's inside? Case, paperwork, all the depositions, the court orders, all the information about everyone, Dr. Pitt, the lawyers, everything. Because it's such a mess inside, it's really hard for me to tell what some of these things are. But he also, for some reason, needed a paper shredder and look at the kitchen. He definitely seemed to have more than just paper plates now. But I guess with all the money he had from Connie, it's a wonder he had to live in a place like this. He could have done much better for himself. However, we know mental illness and the effects it has on people. In this photo, you can see how this watt team broke his door down. Look at this. And then look at this. It's a book called Taken Into Custody. It's about family courts and how they have bureaucracies that trample basic civil liberties entering the homes uninvited and taking away people's children. Throwing the parents in jail without any form of due process. Much less a trial. While that seems like an interesting read. And you know he read these books because they had bookmarks in them. And not only that. When you open them up, he actually had handwritten notes. Certain places were starred. Other ones had explanations next to them. Here's one that he starred. It said, "Once a man has a child, he forfeits his most important constitutional right." Everyone assumes he must have done something. The one that has an explanation says, "No one knows what actually happened until it happens to them and even they can't believe it." The media reports us with a series of clichés and euphemisms, divorce, custody battle, fatherlessness, Debbie Dad, while ignoring the underlying legal framework that connects all of these phenomena, with no hint that most begin as a unilateral child snatching that are planned with the assistance of court officials and rewarded by the courts. We see with daily reports of male violence, with little indication that female violence is equally common. We hear harrowing tales of child abuse. But not the fact that it's overwhelmingly committed by single mothers and their boyfriends once the father has been forcefully removed and is no longer able to possess his child. Wow. This book seems kind of one sided. But that's the argument, right? That the court is. I mean, the very next topic in the book is "Automatic Mother Custody." And do I really believe this book and its premise? Inside the hotel room investigators also collected shell casings that match the ones at the murder scenes. There were all kinds of files, DVDs, BHS tapes, various depositions, interviews, all of this during the divorce. And of course, Dr. Pitts evaluations as well as various weapons. But what's scarier is that he even had police hats and clothing. He was impersonating a police officer. He had flare guns, rifles, and a deflebag like this one. But he also had disguises. And this was in the form of masks like these. Here's a devil and that white mask when he recorded his YouTube videos. This may be the reason the person who witnessed Dr. Pitts shooting thought he was a white man. He had all kinds of ways to disguise himself. He had mustaches that he would glue on, upbeard, police badges, knives, grenades, handcuffs, tickets to gun shows that he had attended over the years. He was obsessed. And that was something that was said about him in the records. He had this obsession with revenge. And it seemed like that is what he set his mind to all of these years. This hat right here had a patch on it. And it read, "See this, pay some bearabellum. I can't say it is Latin. For if you want peace prepare for war." He really thought he was fighting a war against him. When it was his own actions that created the terror. And look at the shirt he had. This is a picture of a rifle on it. And it says, "AK-47, when you absolutely, positively need to kill everyone in the room. That's gross." And here are some other clothing items he had. There was a DVD called Divorce Court. And on the movie's website, it says a shocking expose of the inner workings of the 15 billion a year US family law industry. It shines a bright light on the appalling waste. And the shameless collusive practices seen daily and family courts. It's a stunning documentary film that anyone considering marriage or divorce must see. I think that's going to be a pass for me. Wow. He literally lived and breathed this decade-old divorce. Living in his own echo chamber, it was his mission to get what he thought he deserved. Now this is scary. They found a printed list from the divorce proceedings and on it were the names of witnesses and what they were paid in the trial. I see Dr. Pitt's name on there. Karen Colby, Connie's husband, Rick England. Wow. And there was another paper. Dwight wrote some key points in the divorce hearing. And he listed every person that was against him starting with Connie. Going on to Dr. Selmy, Karen Colby, Dr. Iso. And he definitely had more on the list of people that he was going to kill. Oh my God. Look at this. It's a random envelope from a law firm. But on it were scribbled names. Dwight had written Dr. Pitt and his office address. But on the side, Dr. Selmy, Pitt, Colby and Feldman. Wow. That gave me chills. Imagine being the target and living to know that you were on that list. Here also some other books that he seemed to be reminding himself that he should read "The Little Black Book of Violence," what every young man needs to know about fighting. Another one's called "I Thought It Was Just Me" seemed to also be a big fan of the Punisher. He had a wallet with a logo on it as well as magazines and things like that. The Punisher is from the Marvel Comics. He's a violent vigilante. He really thought that he was getting some kind of, I don't know, justice? This case was wild. It was unbelievable. It's scary. It just goes to show you that you never know what someone is doing, what they're thinking, and what they're planning. A grudge held that long, so many years. And it's just so sad that so many innocent people had to die because Dwight wouldn't get help. He wouldn't get over what happened and it's sad. People don't always work out as couples. They change. And no one has to be with someone. It's our right to choose who we want to spend the rest of our life with. And you shouldn't live in fear of the person that's supposed to love you. Relationships are hard, breakups can be even harder, but life can go on and you can be happy in the aftermath. Time heals. As long as you're willing to be healed, but the message I think, or the takeaway, is go to therapy. That's why I wore this shirt. We all need it. Self-reflection is so important. I truly believe Dwight loved his son. But because of his mental illness, that love took on an evil form. In the days following the murders and the death of Dwight Jones, Rick, Connie, and Elizabeth made statements at a press conference. That's actually where I got a lot of my information. I was going through their timeline. Because they explained how all of this played out and how Rick had a hunch and he reached out to the police department and he alerted them that he thought Dwight Jones was responsible. However, I do want to play a couple of these clips so you can hear from Connie and Rick and Elizabeth themselves in their words. Here's Connie. This tragedy has profoundly affected me and my son. Firstly, because we know that we were the primary target for Dwight Jones and we are very grateful to be alive today. Secondly, we feel great sorrow for the families and for the victims, six innocent people who were killed at the end of a maniac. Now a word from Rick. We're given the press conference so that our family can get back to some resemblance to a normal life, which we're not sure what that's going to be right now. We wanted time to agree for the victims of this tragedy. Everybody says that. That's always everybody's opening statement, but I can assure you that we felt deeply for those families. We'd like to find out what life is like without having daily security measures to get through the day. And this is how Elizabeth felt. I continue to grieve for two people that for six victims and two people that I care deeply about. I've known and loved both of them and I grieve for them all the time. When Connie was being interviewed on date line by none other than Josh Mankowicz, he said your ex-husband is dead. And he asked her whether she felt relieved and she smiled and that might come off as cruel. Nobody should really hope that somebody dies. But I thought about it and I felt like this is probably the very first time she could breathe. The first time she could feel like she was truly safe. And that's what she relayed to Josh in the interview. Can you imagine being so scared that only someone's Death can make you feel safe from them. It's unbelievable. I hope none of us have to go through anything like this. I want to thank you so much for listening to Steve's, Laura's, The Larias, Marshall's, Mary and Byron's story today. I'll see you in my next video. Bye.