Triple Killer Accidentally Shows Police Her Horrifying Secret
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A meticulously orchestrated murder plot unfolds in New Mexico, where Kane Mays, a man with a history of domestic violence, systematically kills three close relatives—his uncle Victor, grandmother Mary, and stepbrother Killian—at their family home. The case begins with a series of confusing 911 calls from Kane, who claims family members are missing, but fails to provide consistent details. Officers investigating a welfare check uncover no signs of violence but note suspicious disarray and missing vehicles. A fire nearby reveals the burned remains of the three victims, leading to a major investigation. Forensic evidence—including shell casings, blood spatter, and cleaning supplies—suggests a deliberate cover-up. Further investigation reveals Kane’s past abuse and his half-sister Cassandra’s involvement. She falsely claims Kane is missing and accuses Mike, another relative, of wrongdoing. Surveillance footage and home searches prove she and Kane had a long history and were together before the murders. When police raid her home, they find documents in deceased family names and weapons. At a motel in Mississippi, they follow her phone signal and conduct a high-stakes interview. Kane confesses to helping Cassandra clean the house and hide the bodies. Cassandra, in a final interview, admits she assisted in covering up the crime, including removing blood and disposing of evidence. She faces charges of tampering with evidence for a first-degree murder. The case reveals a web of deception, abuse, and premeditated violence, with Kane as the primary suspect and Cassandra playing a key role in the cover-up, demonstrating how familial bonds can be exploited in a calculated, horrific crime.
I'm all right, you nervous? Hey, I'm not here with Mrs. Cassandra. Officers have just arrived at the Getaway Motel of 28-year-old Cassandra Douglas. For the last 24 hours, she and her brother have been on the run after three of their family members were found dead and burned in the desert. I'm 99% this is either an animal or a first. That looks like a human, dude. And as these local officers prepare to confront the primary suspect of the most important case they've ever worked on, nothing could prepare them for the horrifying discoveries they're about to make. Roll the police! I don't want to side, make stuff, no! This is the horrible nightmare. What are we looking at here? I don't know. You know, he's so mean. I think this is one of the worst things that I've ever witnessed being public. It's a routine Friday afternoon at the Otero County Sheriff's Office when Dispatch begins receiving a series of unusual 911 calls from a young man. To me, the case is. Hi, good morning. I'm hoping to file a police report and I might need some assistance doing stuff. Okay. And what's your first and last name? Kane. Maybe. Okay, and tell me what's going on? I've been living abroad for the past six years and I found out that my father died last year shortly after Christmas. I have recently returned home. I'm living in New Mexico again and I was hoping to return to the family property since his passing, tons and tons of family possession and property have all gone missing and have either been sold off lost or stolen and I'm looking to reassume possession of the property but there are people squatting in the house. Do you know who these people are? I do. I could give you first some last names but not anything much else. Kane goes on to clarify that the squatters inside his deceased father's property are actually family members. Mainly, his uncle Victor, who allegedly took over the property and is living there with Kane's grandmother and his stepbrother. He also seemingly claims that his uncle Victor has sold off valuable assets, including firearms and expensive jewelry belonging to his father. The dispatcher logs the information Kane provides and passes it along for legal follow-up. However, not long after this first contact, on a Monday morning in January 2025, Kane calls again. But this time, it's for something strangely different. Hi there. I was calling because I'm wondering what would it take for me to request a wellness check on somebody? A welfare check on my grandmother? Mary Mousen? Okay. The surgeon is aware. They are on an emergency call right now as the news they are done. They will head up there to do a welfare check. Okay. Excellent. A couple of hours after Kane requests a welfare check for his grandmother, Mary, he calls police again for the third time to share new updates. Hello. Hi. My name is Kane. I called her. Hello. So, Sergeant Nordquist is going to give you a call back. They have not responded there yet because they've been tied up with a warrant service where the person doesn't want to come out. That's okay, we start to buy out our way down and everything is locked up tight. That's why I was returning your call because you said it and that I should call you back. All right. And if they're tied up with an emergency, we got to worry about the officers and make sure they're still there. Thank you so much for understanding. I will. Okay. I will let the surgeon know then. Following this latest call from Kane, the welfare check is officially canceled and officers are no longer dispatched to the property. At this point, the dispatcher has no reason to suspect anything other than some kind of family dispute, and the situation appears to have resolved itself for now. In reality, something far more calculated is already in motion, and the family involved will soon be implicated in a scheme that will lead detectives down one of the most twisted murder plots they've ever handled. That same Monday, a few hours after Kane's 911 calls, a man arrives at the police station in the afternoon with an oddly timed request. Hello, sir. Hey, how are you doing? Doing well. Sergeant Norquist. Mike, bless. Mike, it's nice to meet you. How can I help you today? Okay. Well, my brother-in-law helps us take care of my brother-in-law. Okay. And he normally is very conscientious about showing up when he says he's going to show up and everything. Yeah. You know, we schedule him, we've been taking him along for seven years, and he's 90 years old. So anyway, we normally communicate quite a bit during the week and stuff, you know? So are you wanting to check on him or your mother-in-law? No. On him. And he lives on Novow. Yes. Yes. And somebody had called earlier. We were out busy, but someone had called in for a welfare check, but they canceled us prior to us getting up there because they said whoever it was, I can go look and find the name. So the house was locked out tight, and nobody was up there. The person Sergeant Nordquist is referring to is Mike's nephew-in-law, Kane Mays. And it appears that both Mike and Kane are concerned about family members. Though the family dynamics are becoming tricky to keep up with for the Sergeant, Mike is about to make one thing about Kane crystal clear. Yeah. You know what Kane Mays? Yeah, I do know. Who's partner for all? Okay. So what's the problem there? Okay. He's trying to keep us from going on with the look. The house is owned by his father. Yeah, both the owner of the house, okay. There's Frank Graham, and his deceased. Frank has deceased. Yeah. Victor, his brother, stayed and was living with him, along with Kane's grandmother and the step brother, Killian. As Mike continues explaining the complex family dynamics to the Sergeant, one thing becomes clear. The three people are missing, all close relatives of Mike and Kane. But before Mike leaves, there's something serious he needs to warn the Sergeant about. I'm going to get one of my deputies over and go out through the address to see what we can see. So if we can find some kind of a reason, heads up, okay. His dad had a lot of goods, Frank, before he died, and he taught Kane out of the ship. And Kane came the other day. I didn't finish my story, but I pulled up there, okay. And then a person comes to where I could see about the smudge out, right, up there. And then he goes, "No, it's me, Kane." When he walks down, he's packing. He's on. I said, "Well, Victor, there's just nobody's up here." Okay. So, I think if I were you, we're the two guys. Because I think he looks out of tune, and I don't know what, if there were any rifles and stuff like that, where you could be, you know, but anyway, still, I had his phone number. But then, after I had his phone number, so he had my phone where he started texting. Your grandmother's missing, your uncle's missing, your stepmother's missing, right? And this is what he's talking to me about. He's a pathological buyer. I think he's something no good at living here. You guys gotta be really careful. He said, "He just got off the line with Sargent Nordquist for North." He never, he never called us because we never called it content to me. It's becoming clear to the Sargent that something is off, sensing this won't be a routine welfare check. Sargent Nordquist takes note of Mike's concerns and prepares to head out to the house. What makes this case so unique isn't just the crime scene officers will soon walk into, but the way police have to piece it together, using advanced forensics and strategic elicitation to cut through the lies. And as the investigation unfolds, this will prove to be one of the most resource-intensive cases for everyone involved, with constant pressure, long hours, and difficult decisions at every step. Approximately an hour after talking to Mike, Sargent Nordquist and a group of officers head to the property to conduct a welfare check. Based on Mike's previous concerns, officers approach the house cautiously in case they encounter a carcass. Sargent Nordquist, who is the head of the police, is now under the command of the police. Puzzled by the home's disarray, officers leave after confirming no one is inside. With boxes stacked throughout the home and both of Victor's cars, the blue and green supers missing, officers assume the family may have moved out. In reality, the clutter wasn't accidental. It was intentionally staged.
to conceal evidence of foul play, and it has done exactly that. None of that is apparent now, so Sergeant Nordquist calls Mike on the phone to update him on the situation. This is where the two men will slowly start to pick up on just how sketchy this whole ordeal is. Oh, sir. So we went up to that address, so we cleared the residence, there was nobody inside, there's no vehicles matching the descriptions of the supers you gave on the property, but there was no signs of a struggle, no signs of any foul play that we could determine, there were some boxes that appeared to be like being packed up, but other than that, that's all we got. The thing is, all three people were missing, they were staying there at the house, but definitely the king of the kings, because the kicker, he's the one that did all that. He called, got your name, and then he was able to send me that text saying that he spoke to you, and then he called back later and canceled the deal, right? Yes, sir, and on the face of it, it looked super sketchy, but there was no indication that we could see of any foul play or a struggle, yes, sir. As the sergeant tries to reassure Mike, even he begins to wonder if the scene is hiding more than it appears. A few hours later that afternoon, Nordquist returns to the station and calls Kane, trying to understand why he canceled the welfare check, and why, most strangely, no one was inside the house. Hi, this sergeant also said the sheriff's office is Smith, is this Mr. Maze? Yes, sir. Are you? This one I'm calling is in regards to you. Earlier this morning, you had contacted our office to do a welfare check on a family member. That's correct. Who is that family member to you? It's Mike, I'm mother. Your grandmother? Who lives up there with Mr. grandmother at the 121 Nogo? That would be an uncle of mine and my brother. Do you have any information on them attempting to move anywhere? I was told that my brother and my grandmother are planning to move soon. So the reason why I'm calling is we went up to that address because Mr. Bletti stopped calling. Yeah, he was the one who recommended that we give you guys a call. He seemed pretty upside. He was looking for it. So we went inside the residence to make sure that nobody was hurt or injured, nothing was broken into. We didn't see any signs of struggle or any signs of foul play. Did you text Mr. Bletti at all today? I mentioned that we stopped by, and I had given you guys a call and everything was okay. Who told you that everything was okay? This badge coordinator I don't remember her name. Because the information that I got was that you called back and said you went up there and everything was okay. Chris. Now what was in that text message to Mr. Bletti? That's what I'm confused with. Um, I let him know that I had tried to call you and the dispatch officer said that you were tied up with, um, sounded like a pretty hostile situation. The way that the text message reads was that you had made contact with me and I know for sure, you know for sure that that didn't happen. So that way it was, it looked kind of weird. Naturally, Nordquist doesn't know what to make of Cain's message to Mike, in which he seems too falsely claimed to have spoken with the sergeant. Suspecting Cain is hiding something, Nordquist ends the call and immediately requests a search warrant for a second search of the house. Well, they wait for the warrant to be processed. All police can do now is hope the missing trio turns up safe, a hope that is far removed from the gruesome reality, awaiting them just a few hours from now. Early on a Wednesday morning that week around 10 a.m., something strange happens about 200 yards from the house where the trio vanished. A passerby takes notice and calls 9-1-1. On Wednesday emergency, I'm sorry, but there's a fire office in the mound area we've called before, about two minutes ago. We'd run down the road to see if we could get a better view of the fire than how the guys out. Okay, well we have already turned out the fire department, so we will get units headed that way to see if they can locate. Yeah, I put it in a box, a bit road for a second, so I'll be able to see it. We'll let them know. Shortly after the call, two deputies are dispatched to investigate the fire. Once they arrive at the reported location, one of them spots something disturbing in the distance. A burned, flipped-over vehicle, matching one of Victor's missing cars. We got a tire track towards the direction I walk this fall of the path. I got the vehicle, it's smoking, I got a couple sets of shoe and pressions, tire tracks, all that. 99% sure those are page NS, but I don't call it in here in this vehicle. Right in here, that looks like a human, dude. This isn't part, huh? Yeah, hopefully, Slater's in this team's on the way. As officers look inside the car, they can see what appears to be the burned remains of three people. Two badly damaged by the fire to identify them at the scene. Suspecting a homicide, they call in Sergeant Nordquest, and it wouldn't take long for him to connect the dots. This might be a Subaru that's a vehicle that they haven't accounted for yet. Look right here. Oh, for sure. You see it? All right, that's it, do you see a one more? Just give him the circumstances, this actually might be one of the missing people. What's that right there? I was looking at that, too. Oh, yeah. Let's just look up right there. Yep. By one of our missing people, missing vehicle. From up here? Huh? From up here. Yeah, I guess Brad, he suspects some guy named Cain killed most of his relatives that live here. And this vehicle, I think is a Subaru. It's like it's really fresh, dude. Christmas, are we here? Yeah. Yeah. Is it what it called this place on fire? What officers are beginning to suspect is horrifying. Not only do the burned remains likely belong to the three missing individuals, but given how recent the fire is, the person responsible may have burned the bodies just hours ago and could still be within reach of police. So once the scene is secured and the bodies are sent for autopsy, a nationwide bolo is issued for Cain Mays. Although police now believe they know what happened and who is responsible, they have no idea just how far beyond Cain this plot goes. There are more players involved, more targets, and a multi-state homicide case that will exhaust every resource police have. We're afraid of him. We're afraid of him. He was one time I should've died. Probably should be dead twice. And he was so aggressive and I thought we were gonna die, I thought he was gonna shoot us on the property. More than 24 hours after the fire, officers remain unable to find or contact Cain, raising concerns that he may be on the run. But this is when the initial autopsy results come in, confirming what officers had feared all along. The burned victims are Cain's close relatives. His uncle, Victor Perria, his grandmother, Mary Mauser, and his step-brother, Killian Mays. Beyond confirming their identities, the autopsy offers little actionable insight. At least one victim had a confirmed gunshot wound to the head, but the other remains were too severely burned to identify all injuries. Investigators surmised that the victims were likely incapacitated well before the fire was set. Following these horrific findings, they began digging deeper into their main suspects background. And turns out Cain Mays had been living in Canada and working as an engineer until just a few months earlier, and had several documented domestic incidents involving his wife. Hoping she may know where her husband is, officers reach out to Cain's wife on the phone where they'll find out she might know far more than that. Hello, my name's Justin Mitchell, I'm a detective with the Otterkin and Sheriff's Office of Mexico. Are you Samantha? Yes, I am. I have a feeling I might receive a call from you at some point, since I did get you guys a call. Yes, ma'am. Do you want to tell me from the beginning, like, how you met him and your relatives were quick with him? I've actually been speaking to the Ontario Prevention Police because I thought he was messing with me. It's what I've mentioned, so I'm also following a case against him right now because it's Canadian and I know each American knows that that's kind of, but he was physically violent with me. I have evidence of it. I was just not playing video games online and we started an online relationship for a few years. It was just basically we would talk, and in one day, he called me up and he said that his father disowned him and he needs to move here right away. He always do, probably, towards me, and just in terms of he had weird attitudes, towards things. Uh, eventually, we moved out. Brace yourself for this one because I feel that I didn't come forward, talk to people and I was just happy to meet people and now this is happening, I'm not going to be honest. It was like, we both had an alcohol problem, but I never drank before I met him. And he definitely, like, pushed out on me and he'd be pressing the drink a lot. Like, if there was always a pressure, he wanted me to do it. He just did start hitting me. He did start getting violent with me. Samantha's statements are nothing short of horrifying, but even worse, she would share a terrifying opinion. I'm just going to go. And I do every time. We need to ask, that's you, Cole. I don't know what to do.
The rest of this recording is too disturbing to play on YouTube, but it clearly documents an alleged, serious domestic violence incident involving Kane. Investigators now know they must act quickly, as more people, including Samantha, could be in immediate danger. So later that day, after securing approval for the earlier search warrant, police returned to the victim's house, but this time, they bring specialized chemicals called Blue Star, just to hunt for hidden blood, bullets, and evidence that may have been cleaned up. And what they're about to uncover would reveal just how many crucial clues officers had missed during the initial search. Inside the kitchen, Detective Spot, one of three spent 22 caliber shell casings, along with a live 22-round. Using Blue Star, they also detect high-velocity blood spatter throughout the home. As the search continues, investigators notice clear attempts to clean up the scene, and given the precision and speed with which the bodies were disposed of, they begin to suspect a grim possibility. This was not the work of a single perpetrator, but then officers find something very strange. Condoms and pregnancy tests stored with cleaning supplies near the well-house and septic area. Following these disturbing findings, police would continue searching the property and contacting Keynes relatives, worried he may already be far away, possibly even on his way back to Canada. A few days later, as detectives continue searching for leads on Keynes, they decide to pay Mike and his wife, Lordis Blatt, a visit. Just like Keynes, Lordis also has personal ties to all three victims. After Peria was her brother, Killian Maze was her grand nephew, and Mary Mauser was her brother's partner. But before investigators can help to learn anything about Keynes' whereabouts or possible accomplices, they must first deliver the tragic news to the couple. Well, I would like to give you guys a little bit of information as I told you yesterday. Do you want to let you know that there was a vehicle fire that was in close proximity to the house, there were three subjects that were not able to be identified that were inside of that vehicle. I cannot tell you who those subjects are. On the property? In the Subaru? Or? I can't tell you what vehicle it was for sure right now. Again? So you already know that it can't be fixed? I can't. But you can tell you it's a vehicle? Yes. I'm really sorry that I even have to show this information with you. This is a horrible nightmare. I mean, I agree with you on my murder. This is one of the worst things that I've ever had to be involved with. Upon hearing the news, Lordess is beyond devastated. What makes the situation even scarier is that she fears whoever is responsible may not be done yet. This is a psychopath. Can you know, I didn't want to say that I didn't want to drop him in the tunnel but he's crazy. You've got to find him. We're afraid of him. He doesn't even have to tell my mother he isn't. That's just what I'd grab mother. Oh, my God, how can you be? Um, we hoped for better, but it's not even imagination. We are working on so many different leads right now. I just catch you, somebody will be safe because he's crazy. The worst imagination I thought I didn't know how to tell you guys this, but I was going to tell you all. That's what sent in the bird. And this has got to be the worst. This is a physical part that I haven't heard anything this we're into something news lately. Yet. Indeed, this kind of killing doesn't happen every day. But investigators are about to hear another person of interest from the couple. Someone who may know more about where Cain is. So in our, in our job, you will hear law enforcement say a lot, you know, it's what you know and what you can prove. And right now we're working on collecting the information so we can prove what we believe we know. Exactly. We don't know what he did all those years wherever he was. What, what did he do? What did he know? What was his work? Uh-huh. Great. We have no idea. I would even be worried about his sister Beck and Ross. All his sister, you know, when he, that one text sent me about working with the, uh, over in Roswell or whatever he said, yeah, he was saying something about helping out his sister with her crazy ex. Crazy ex. Yeah. Something like that that you. Yeah. So I think it was a relationship. I kind of remember that at the beginning that she wasn't with that guy anymore because of that. Was it? Like I was supposed to feel sorry for her to me. When they first were like chitchatting and everything. Oh, and the conversation. Okay. She's talking about things. I think that they said something about that. Mike would go on to identify the woman in question as 28-year-old Cassandra Douglas, Cain's half-sister, and based on his concerns and the evidence from the home search, suggesting at least two people were likely involved in the cover-up, detectives begin to wonder if Cassandra is the next key piece to the puzzle. So with this new lead, the interview concludes, and investigators shift their focus to Cassandra and her potential connections to the homicide. Coincidentally, as investigators prepare to call Cassandra the next day, she reaches out to them instead with a very peculiar 911 call. Hi. Is there any way that you would mind putting in a well-fired check on my brother, Cain May? What's the address? He'd tell me that he was going to 680 Cox Canyon Plotcroft in Mexico. He was supposed to meet up with our uncle and tell me that if he didn't come back last night, and definitely didn't come back in the morning that I needed to call you guys. He's been part of a missing person's thing, and Mike has been acting very aggressive and hostile towards us. Not only is Cassandra claiming her brother, Cain, is also missing, but she's suggesting that her uncle, Mike, might have something to do with it. Once investigators catch wind of this 911 call, they immediately sense something is off. The timing is highly suspicious, almost as if it's part of a plan to deflect suspicion away from Cain. So later that day, officers are sent to her address with one goal in mind, assess the situation and determine whether her claims hold any weight or if it's just an attempt to mislead the investigation. He was supposed to go up to meet with Mike, think on the 21st. He told me that if he didn't show up by the morning of the 22nd, that I needed to file a missing person's report because I already have three family members missing. Kylian and Mary were supposed to go up to Alperky. I haven't seen those two alive since 1123, give me just a second. Officers have no clue at this point, but Cassandra isn't alone. Right this moment, their prime suspect, Cain Mays, is hiding inside the very house they're standing in front of. Sorry, we're also having issues with a psychotic ex of mine, so you're going through a lot right now. A little bit. And then with Cain going missing and Mike, presumably having like over half of his guns, it's a really, really long story and not one that I'm 100% familiar with because Cain just came back into my life September of last year, so like, I wish I had on my back Street. I completely understand, no big deal. How did they come into your life? Through Cain. Okay, so Cain comes into your life and then now you meet Mary and kill you, okay, and then now all of them are missing. And have you talked? Did you ever have direct contact with Mike? I never had direct contact with Mike, no. I just heard him screaming from the hell both times. This she did earlier, Cassandra doubles down on her accusations, suggesting that officers should focus on Mike, implying he may be involved in the disappearances. Officers take note of her statements and ask her to give them a call if Cain shows up again. Their goal remains unclear, but now that they have a story, they can start verifying. So a few hours later,
As police continue looking for Cain, an officer decides to stop by the neighborhood again and speak with Cassandra's neighbors to see if they've heard or seen anything. According to them, Cassandra hasn't been living alone. A man with long dark hair has been staying with her for the past few months. Additionally, witnesses report seeing the sane man driving Victor's missing green Subaru, and that it was also seen parked outside Cassandra's residence multiple times. Realizing the description of the man matches Cain, officers return to the station to dig deeper into Cassandra's earlier claims, where they will very quickly uncover some major contradictions. Even though Cassandra insisted she had only recently met Cain, investigators discover an older Facebook photo of the two together, proof they've known each other for years. But that's just the first lie, because officers who were out looking for Cain also recover surveillance footage from a nearby Walmart, showing Cain and Cassandra shopping together alongside her son's and daughter. Besides buying groceries and food, investigators spot cleaning supplies like bleach and vinegar along with multiple bottles of caracene, items that closely align with what would be needed to clean up a violent crime and start a fire. At this point, investigators are unsure if Cassandra is actively hiding a wanted fugitive, or if she's being controlled and forced to cooperate with someone who has already killed three members of her own family. With suspicion mounting, detectives obtain a search warrant for Cassandra's house. Then around 8pm that night, a group of officers return to the property, taking up positions outside the house as they prepare to raid it. occupants of seven morningside, this is the Raza Police Department. Exit the front door to your hands up, doing now. Raza Police, search warrant. I guess we're just going to boot this thing. Raza Police, I don't want to sign, make yourself known. We're going to pull in. I'm going to take left. Ready? Got another door here. I'm going to go, I got a hallway with just like the fridge under the kitchen. I think Cassandra Jolly is the one that lives here, huh? I'm going to have some romantic stuff right here, something with me. Raza, see that? Great. This is weird, because there's that monitor for the camera that's in the window. What are those guys on a fucking terrace watch? I had a marble and then I had a, yeah, I saw that one in the closet. There's another one that your big cans are all in this room. Here, red one. Inside, something about the house immediately feels off to the officers, as they observe unusual posters, graffiti, and other unsettling details scattered throughout. They then make their way into the bathroom, where one officer recalls hearing that something might be hidden underneath the house. I highly doubt it. I'm sure this is what he was referring to. I wonder what this is? That's what he said. The neighbor cross-street said that he's living here, and then there's a door underneath the watch and go, at least to the basement. Because didn't they say there's another secret exit or something here? There's a couple windows. What did they do to you? They used their build-in. They look up there, you know. Ready? Ready? Ready? Ready? Ready? Ready? Yep, now hold it. Oh, that'll fit. That? Mm-hmm. You know what I mean? Oh, yeah. Let's do it now. Let's do it in. Mm-hmm. All right. Got a water leak on it. It's kind of weird to have a door right there too, huh? At the center of the basement, it's a plastic storage tote, toolbox, duffel bags, and other various items. Officers noticed there's no dust on the items, and whoever left them behind was in a hurry, possibly trying to leave unnoticed. Beyond the basement, police would go on to find something highly suspicious, documents belonging to one of the victims, alongside paperwork linked to Kane's father and live 22 caliber ammunition. Following these discoveries, investigators secure the scene and begin working to obtain a real-time location warrant for Cassandra's phone. With their suspicions growing that Cassandra fled with Kane, officers know they need to locate them quickly before they vanish, potentially escaping to Canada. 12 hours later, investigators strike gold. The warrant for Cassandra's phone is successfully approved, and in a major development, Verizon pings Cassandra's phone nearly 1,000 miles away. She's no longer in New Mexico, but in her Nando, Mississippi, inside a super-ade motel. With this discovery, the case becomes multi-state with police and Mississippi quickly briefed on the investigation. Officers are then dispatched to locate Cassandra. This is the final phase in the case, and what happens next will determine whether police get the critical answers they need or lose the lead entirely. As officers make their way to the super-ade motel, their primary objectives are to extract information about Kane's whereabouts, test Cassandra's statements, and determine how deeply she may have been involved in the homicide of her own relatives. When officers finally arrive at the motel, something immediately feels off. What's going on? What are we looking at? First, when we were trying to investigate this property, we thought Mary and Killian had left, and my case down had started to be aggressive and painful with shooting rounds, and we've already tried to file this with the Roswell Police Department down in New Mexico. Would you consent to us after your vehicle? Interestingly, Cassandra now seems on the verge of an emotional breakdown for reasons the officers are yet to understand. After all, only 24 hours have passed, and seemingly no new information has been relayed to her. Neither news of the murder, nor that Kane is the main suspect, nor that her house was just searched. So to get to the bottom of her emotional reaction, Mississippi officers on scene coordinate a call with special agent Kyle Graham in New Mexico, who's been tracking the growing list of contradictions in Cassandra's statements. Using those inconsistencies, the detective is about to carefully test Cassandra's story and see how far she cracks. You mind grabbing those, taking your waffles upstairs and me? I'm not upstairs, I'm downstairs, I'm downstairs, I'm downstairs, I'm downstairs, yeah. Why more? People wouldn't protect this to you as you go, unless you're half in Roswell, correct? Yeah, I did all those shows up and I had to leave, so I brought them over here to Mississippi. Why isn't anything wrong? No, this doesn't mean that's wrong with that, but what can I do if I'm going to be out with one of these? I don't know, I haven't even, like, I just met Taylor and D.A. and my grandmother for the first time in my entire life, you know, remember.
I don't know, the house was empty and there were boxes in the middle of the living room. That was his dad's property. He was supposed to go to him afterwards, but he wasn't here, he had to go up to Canada. That's over with driving in the dead house, like you could drive a car. I don't, they all could. I know that they had that little blue car. That was driving the green car. That I don't know. That's what I noticed, I know that car is not drivable. Well, we have a video of Team driving the green super. And we have information from the neighbors that the green super was at your house at one point in time. That's what I want, okay? I just want to talk to one of them. I know you don't want to look at them, but I want to talk to one of them over at home. I want to talk to them, but I just want to talk to one of them. I'm scared. It's because I don't know what's going on. With every sentence, the detective becomes more convinced that Cassandra is hiding something she fears could incriminate her brother or even herself. But there is something a lot more concrete detectives previously uncovered, and the detective is about to leverage it to completely trap Cassandra. Yeah, because they weren't supposed to be there. They hadn't paid all any of the mortgage on it. We found documents showing that they were still using Frank's credit cards and Frank had been dead. And that's all of the bills were still in Frank's name. And they were still using that. And so I told them that that was illegal. And he needed to make a police report because you can't be using, don't stick that in my face honey. That's like identity theft. Does it prevent him even though his dad died? Yeah, he didn't know that his dad died. And so he came back to states. He found his obituary. He found his obituary shortly before on the internet. That's how he figured out. So almost a year later, he finds out his dad died. And I know that he's upset about that. But that's not enough reason to kill somebody. I didn't do that. Then why? Did he kill somebody? No. I don't understand what you're trying to accuse him of. Well, that doesn't sound very convincing. I don't know when he's trying to accuse him of. Sure enough, that doesn't sound too convincing to the detective. Because Cassandra has seemingly slipped up. At this point, no one had told her that the missing family members were dead or that Cain was suspected of killing them. Realizing her mistake, Cassandra quickly starts backpedaling to regain control of the narrative. Do you really think Cain killed them or hurt them? I'm pretty concerned. You know, I don't think free people just manage off the face of the earth, especially when they're two of them are elderly. And then he just comes in from Canada and all hell breaks loose. That's kind of suspicious to me. God, I'm so stupid. I wouldn't even think to put two and two together like that. But Mike was so scared when he came down. And he was so aggressive. And I thought we were going to die. I thought he was going to shoot us on the property. Well, you didn't even see that he had a gun. Cain told me that he had one. And he was mad enough. Oh my god, he was so mad. As a last-ditch effort, Cassandra goes back to accusing Mike of being responsible for the disappearances. But in fact, officers in New Mexico have already quietly debunked that claim. Information they are holding back for the right time in place. Before leaving, they also check Cassandra's car, where they find belongings hastily packed up. But Cassandra explains this as a desperate attempt to run away from her abusive ex-boyfriend. So shortly afterwards, the officers wrap up their visit. But in doing so, they've proven something crucial. They can find Cassandra whenever they want. Something she clearly didn't anticipate. It seems as though the confrontation went nearly perfectly for the detectives. But Cassandra has a crucial secret that had went unnoticed at the motel. Cain had traveled to Mississippi alongside her, was staying nearby and had successfully hidden from officers, marking yet another moment where she misleads police about his whereabouts. So less than an hour after police leave the motel, the two would begin plotting. Coming up with a plan, they think we'll get them out of this gruesome mass murder. At 2pm, Cassandra's vehicle is seen in front of the Hernando Police Department. Cain would step out and calmly walk into the station. 15 minutes later, Cain would be seated in the department's interview room, too, alongside Detective Stovall. The sudden appearance of Cain would leave detectives with little room to prepare. So Special Agent Silva, a New Mexico detective already working this case, would be placed on call to assist in the interview. It's important to know that this is an interview and not an interrogation, as Cain has agreed to speak voluntarily and has not been detained. In reality, this interview can only work against him. But in his mind, this is both his and Cassandra's final chance at freedom. Agent Silva would begin the interview by making this crystal clear. You are free of any point. You don't have to answer any of my questions, anything like that. You can say, "I don't want to answer that question." If you don't want to, we can blow over another question and we can skip to the next month. But I do want to let you know that you are free to leave, okay? Thanks, sir. All right. After realizing he's free to walk out at any time, Cain shifts tactics. He begins probing the detective for information, trying to figure out how much investigators have bought into the false narrative he's been intentionally feeding them. Can I ask you something? It's on one hand kind of nice to talk to somebody from Otero. Also, maybe a little concerning. We have to speak directly because I'm considered a missing person. Well, that's what I want to talk to you about is there's so many missing persons. There's a lot of phone calls to the sheriff's office. So, while it's missing, and there's also some other missing reports going on, there's a lot of firearms missing, right? There's a lot of being close to missing. They want to talk to you and get your side of the story with what's going on. I was trained to come in and speak with somebody in person. What happened with that? On my way down to Alamogordo, I gave another uncle a phone call because I had seen him on the property and he was a very looming presence at the time. I was open to stop and ask him about some things and some personal aspects that were going on. I wound up getting run off the property and had to kind of go into hiding because I'd know his influence and the extent of his company. Okay, well, which uncle is that? Mike Blint. So, so Mike, ran you off the property, you had questions for him, and I understood it. Yes, sir. So, when did this happen? It was when I was on my way down on the 21st. I kind of explained the situation to my sister a little bit, and I told her if you'd all hear from me. Did you call somebody? Hello, I keep jumping around and just trying to put on everything. Do you want to my house to talk to you on any shot at you? Correct. Yes, sir. I was talking Mike about that, but why are you shooting at people from front doors? That's kind of, that's kind of dangerous. That was this week that was on the 21st. I would absolutely appreciate you taking a look. Kane makes his alibi clear. Mike, the man who kicked the entire investigation off in the first place is the suspect detectives need to be focusing on, alleging he shot at them through the front door when they approached the home. Unfortunately, detectives have spent far more time investigating than Kane realizes, allowing agents Silva to completely debunk Kane's story. Simply put, there are no bullet holes or any signs of a shooting on the property. Okay, so here's the thing. Kane is, I'm going to start going through some of your, some of your story here. Okay, that's not making sense to me. I'm just saying that you're lying. I'm just saying, I don't think it's, I don't think it's fully, fully aware yet. If that makes sense, um, it was kind of cut off, uh, uh, in my front, uh, can you hear me? Yes, sir. You went to Mike's house, my shot at you this week through the front door. You announced yourself how could you didn't call 911? I know that they very much do not take too kindly to law enforcement. Okay. And so, and it really holds a user for that to be avoided. So here's the thing on the net is I have, I ask you.
investigators that are there at my house, that have been to at my house. There are no bullet holes to his front door, they're no bullet holes to the sighting. They're not seeing you on his camera at his house, so there's one saying that some of it's not making sense. So, did you actually go to my house and knock on the door? Because you're not a camera. His cameras go back this week, they go back last week, so I'm not seeing you anywhere on there. We had a ton of different gamecams that are all under SD cards. He doesn't have any of the chips from the 21st? No, I'm saying he has video surveillance of this week and of last week, but I don't know. They're not seeing you anywhere on the cameras. Kane appears shocked by these details. Whatever he thought happened that could favor his story simply didn't. Kane would sit in silence for an extended period of time, seemingly in denial, but his plan was so terribly miscalculated. If they still have the footage, they should have totally shown me pulling up a part to long the mailbox, kinda behind it a bit, not necessarily pulled up past it, walked right up the drive up to the. It's kinda tucked in between the slope on the hill and then it goes into the house where the stone steps are. That metal storm door? I'm just trying to give you a pass so that you can see. And that was early afternoon-ish, I got there between one and three o'clock, I believe it was. Kane proceeds to give a nearly 10 minute explanation of where he was parked. Unnecessarily complex explanations like these are usually a telltale sign to the detectives that the suspect has shifted into a defensive state looking for any validation that the detective is believing their lies. Agent Silva takes note of this and begins leaning deeper. This time pressing Kane on his sister Cassandra and her potential involvement. Previously, police recovered and documented strange items during the home's crime scene search and it's still unclear why they were there. Civil plans to use these details to force Kane into defending Cassandra's innocence, a tactic that will create a contradicting story compared to what Cassandra told officers just hours prior. "Are you aware that we spoke to Cassandra?" "Yes, sir?" "I'm just trying to get something happened up there, Kane. I want to know whether there are any going on. I know that you were up there in January. We can kind of get away from that. You were up there in January. If something happened up there, I want to know what happened, okay? If there was an argument, if something happened, then it kind of helped me help you, okay? What happened when you were up there in January of this year?" "I'm trying to figure out everything that has happened as well. That's part of the way I wanted to speak with you guys and kind of get you involved in looking." "I'm going to be honest with you, I'm confused on these time runs. You were up there this week at some point and you were up there last week at some point. So what happened this week and last week while you were up there with the family?" "That's what I want to know." "They weren't there? Nothing's happened." "You were a thousand invent on the 18th of January, correct?" "I'm not sure." "The reason I ask is because Cassie has been in contact and she showed us a screenshot on January 18th at 357, it's between you and her that says, "Wait quietly, wait for me." "That's actually something that I was going to try to find." "I believe this is from you or from her." "It says wait for me and I says, "I'm safe." "Oh, I'm sorry?" "Those are the texts that say, "Wait, and that I'm safe." "I said, "I'm safe, wait for me," and then there's a response that says, "Got ya." "I have eyes on the front, so far, so good." "What is that?" "That's the day that might came up to bed." "Okay." At this point, Cain must be starting to realize Cassandra may not have been on his side as much as he had thought. Not only are the police beginning to take a clear side, but his only teammate might be against him as well. Cass is explaining why she dropped him off at the police station. Note that Cain at this point can avoid any question he wants, and more importantly, can leave whenever he wants. Even Agent Silva decides to take a brief step away from the phone, but Cain would stay. Instead, letting the officer in the room in on what's going through his mind. Between you and me and the walls, I really think that someone has tried to pin years with a shit on me, because I came back home at the wrong time and interrupted something. "I'm just here, help me, please, guys." "Oh, Jim, there's a little one." "What?" "It's fine, that's what the harsher number is, Sydney." "Yes, just though, that seems like an interest for the detective." He used to joke with all of that, and I always say, "I make a great state, though." I'm kinda hoping it's not the case this time. I came here today to ask you guys for help and talk to people that I knew wouldn't be necessarily under an outside influence. "But do you see how it looks for us?" "I mean, they've shown his beloved into this whole situation." "Here, one day, here, here, in Mississippi, no ties to Mississippi at all, like you had no family here." "No, sir." "He had nothing here." "No, sir." "My family." "I died, man." If I was in that seat, and a detective, 13 hours away, on the cell phone, Paul told me that my brother and uncle, your grandmother, your grandmother, your uncle, did somebody call me and said, "Not only was my brother killed, but also your grandmother and your uncle were killed." Did somebody tell me that over time? "You know what I would be doing?" "Okay, okay." "Do you know what I would be doing?" "I wouldn't be sitting there, staring at a wall." "I mean, bowling my eyes out, I'd be throwing the water bottle across the room." "I'd probably rip this table out of the wall." "Yeah, but then you gave me some stress in here." "But I wouldn't give it to you." "I wouldn't give it to you." "Because of how much I'm close with my brother." "I'm not close with my grandma, but it's still with the fact that somebody did that to my family." "Do you understand where I'm coming from?" "Well, they asked what I think should happen to a micro who never did this and didn't play a company I couldn't save, but back where I'm from, they beat me up to the tree." "Right. So that's more of a reform that you would expect, but the issue I'm having is there's no emotion. You haven't. You express no sad, there's no, we're not getting anything. Of course, it leaves me to believe you already knew this had occurred. I just need to know that." Look, even the officers with no context of the case can't help but assume Cain was involved in the murders, leaving him to sit in silence as he realizes how poorly this voluntary interview has gone. The agent's silver would return and continue pressing cane for answers.
Eventually revealing that he had, in fact, been inside the house multiple times the week of the three victims' disappearance, and admitted to helping Cassandra travel to Mississippi with her kids, something she lied about earlier in the motel. Even worse for Kane is that, as the hours-long interview progressed, officers behind the scenes were already taking action. They were instructed to locate his uncle's stolen green Subaru, which they suspected Kane used to drive to Mississippi alongside Cassandra's own vehicle. After looking through surveillance footage and searching around the city, officers hit the jackpot and tracked down the missing car. Inside, they found latex gloves, 22 caliber ammunition, an empty ruger pistol box, and most importantly, Kane's passport, tying him directly to the stolen vehicle. Now investigators have exactly what they've been missing, probable cause. And with that, Kane is no longer free to leave, and he's about to find out just how massively his attempt to clear himself and Cassandra backfired. Back at the motel late in Mississippi, Cassandra would patiently wait for Kane to return, give her a call, or just show any signs his interview was over. But as hours passed, it became clear that something had gone terribly wrong. Growing worried, Cassandra packed her bags and fled alongside her children, making yet another 1,000-mile drive back to New Mexico. Officers keep tracking her phone signal until it finally stops at her parent's house. By this point, investigators have more than enough to justify Cassandra's arrest, but one critical question still remains. Was she directly involved in the murders? And if so, to what extent? Because of that uncertainty, officers make a deliberate decision, rather than moving in aggressively, only four investigators go to the house, keeping the encounter calm and cooperative. Her goal is to interview Cassandra on the property, and, if possible, apply enough pressure to turn her against Kane. If they can do this, they'll be able to pin both Kane and Cassandra against each other, forcing them to incriminate themselves. Do you want me to start from the beginning, for what I know, or do you want to ask questions fresh? No, I'm going to let you tell your story, and just so you know, you're not under arrest, you're afraid to leave whenever you want to leave. We came to you because we talked on the phone earlier with the text. And when I told her, she makes a stop overthinking everything, trying to be a detective herself, because she's seen all this stuff, and she's trying to put pieces together and knows that she was lying to her about things. So just start at the beginning and tell it like you told us. So I wanted to apologize soon, because whenever I spoke to you the last time, I wasn't thinking straight. Not only is Cassandra much more cooperative this time, but she quickly admits that she had been dishonest before, and even apologizes. Her father's comment makes it seem like she's on the verge of throwing Kane under the bus, which is exactly what investigators are here for. So with the reassurance that she's not under arrest, Cassandra begins to share some much needed details about how three of her relatives ended up mysteriously dead. He's inside the house, and he says that he couldn't find anything. Don't know where anybody's at, and that it's okay for me to come inside. And I go inside, and I kept telling you, it smelled fucking weird in there. Almost like something had died within the walls, like an atom war or something. I was already concerned by the fact that he felt like something had happened. So I'm trying to rationalize through that, and he's just saying, "I'll do it," and we're doing things legally. It's okay. And then he drives the car off somewhere, and has me push it off. And so this little ditch thing, and at one point, whenever I try to say, "Hey, if you need to call somebody," he said that the majority of the cops up there are crooked. I worked in the ER down here, and I can see how you can think that sometimes. Investigators are clearly not fond of Cassandra's strange remark. Though by now, it's becoming clear to detectives that Cassandra is putting cane at the center of everything, while noticeably avoiding any direct mention of the murders, the cleanup, or the burnt bodies. Instead, she frames everything vaguely, claiming cane suspected something happened inside the house, but they didn't look too deeply into it, and that she was simply helping him deal with a property dispute. Investigators allow Cassandra to continue telling her story, but the more she talks, the more convoluted her version of events becomes. Then at this point, she even invites them inside, where the story only grows longer. After nearly two hours of listening, Agent Kyogram decides it's time to push back. So now we're going to get into my portion, okay? I don't know. There's probably a team of 15 of us on this case, so we know a lot of stuff, we know everything about that property, and some of the stuff that you're saying does make sense and does add up, however, some of the stuff that you're saying doesn't make sense to you and doesn't add up, and quite frankly, I don't think some of it happened. But I will tell you right now, I don't feel like cane could have done everything that he did alone, and I think he included you into a whole mess of a situation. I don't believe that you killed anybody in this house or on that property. I strongly believe that. I don't think that you had any part of murdering people, but I do strongly believe that he fucked himself and he needed help, and you're a helpful person, and he put you in a shitty spot and said, "Help me. I need help cleaning this property. I need help cleaning this, all this blood up, and I need help getting these fucking bodies out of this house." But now's your chance. I'm giving you the opportunity, because I'm telling you right now I have all that I need. The gig's up, the gig's over. Okay? This is your opportunity and your chance to tell me, "What did he make you do? What did he ask you to help him to do?" All I know of is that he wanted me to undo the, like the headboards, the couch. But I. You know there's no blood on that? Think about it before you answer that. Not the side that I picked it up from. No, all I did was what he asked me to do. But you understand all you did, what he asked you to do, it's too late. You already helped him. That's already a crime. Which I know of us, and that's the reason why I asked if I needed attorney because I tampered with evidence. Correct. And it wasn't until after the fact that I sat there and I thought about it because he said that everything was found that way. So the charge is already there. There's not going to be any more of, it's not going to get any worse other than you just telling the truth of what happened. The charge is there. You already have a tampering with evidence charge on a first degree murder, okay? Just a second to repel any. Needless to say, this is not what Cassandra is hoping to hear. In this moment, she realizes her days of freedom may be numbered, if she continues twisting the facts to protect both herself and Kane. Cassandra knows something has to give, so after hearing what's awaiting her, she asks to step outside for a smoke, and this is where she finally gives detectives a small piece of the truth. Like I said, I went out there, I went out to the store, and I came back, he said he found the number. He said, what, what did he tell you he found? How many people? I signed up for to take him to a job interview. I didn't sign up for him to do this. Do you now believe that he did it? I don't know what to believe. I just know that there was a mess, and then there was a lot of illegal shit. What else did you help clean up inside the house, inside the blood and the furniture taking it out? Yeah. I didn't see it.
to help out the furniture with. - Did you help clean up anything else? - There's so many red flags going on right now well still of you saying that you walked into this house and King telling you, fully shit. I just walked into a house and all my family's dead. Let's get rid of them. - It doesn't sound stupid. - Doesn't it sound stupid when you say it out loud? 'Cause I guarantee you, I walk into a house of my family dead. Shit's about to hit the van 'cause we gotta figure out what the hell just happened. And I'm calling the cops. - Yeah, I don't. - We're telling you, we've done our research. I've gotten zero sleep in five days. I mean, we're not letting this go. This is a triple homicide. - And not letting it go is exactly what investigators are going to spend the rest of the day trying to do. Hoping Cassandra will eventually crack and give them the full story. Unfortunately, though, this is the closest they will get to a real admission. As Cassandra begins to backpedal and returns to a revised version of events where she claims they found their family members already dead. They then simply decide to cover up the scene to avoid getting in trouble because King believed the police were corrupt. Detectives would spend until nightfall pressing Cassandra with no success and she ultimately sticks to the same story. So before ending the interview and leaving, Agent Graham has one more rather strange question that's been on his mind all this time. - He had access to my phone. He knew my passwords. Like I said, I trusted him supposed to be my brother. - Can I ask you a really weird question? - Sure. Yeah, I'll get mine. - No, go for it. - Why was it, why was there, why'd you guys buy a brand new box condoms? - No, that was a joke. It should be the skin on late sex. And I had bought those in Chattanooga, and through them at Walter, because I was tired of having kids and I was tired of being pregnant all the time. - Well, why would they be in the vet house? - I've got, I don't know. Why would they be in the vet house? - That's why I have a weird question. - Last time I knew about them, they were in the, they were at my house. - Well, this was in the well house with all of the cleanup. He told me that there was a possibility that Karen wasn't his mother due to DNA tests. DNA results. And that's, there is a potential that he had feelings for me. - Kane? - Mm-hmm. - And that didn't, that's not, that's not weird for you. Like to be around him without your kids when you guys are pretty much brother and sister. - Like it was weird, but he never acted on it. - I thought you guys were step-cibels. Not half-cibels. - No, we're half-cibels. - Well, 'cause we also found a pregnancy test. - Yep, I had a one night's Santa the variety. And I didn't start my period on time. And I panic and I overthink and there should be four of them. - The detective's tone makes it clear. They aren't convinced. Suspecting Kane and Cassandra are hiding important details about their relationship. By now though, what investigators came here to do is partially successful. Even though there's still no direct admission tying their suspects to the killings, Cassandra has implicated both herself and Kane in the coverop. Because of this, Cassandra is officially detained and brought back to the police station. What exactly was said during Cassandra's arrest remains unknown, but the pressure appears to have completely broken her. In the hours that followed, she went on to further incriminate Kane, seemingly doing everything she could to distance herself from what happened, no matter the cost to him. A betrayal that would later come as a complete shock to Kane. - Oh, I knew it was. It's like I had PTSD from the last time I saw cops, because there was my blood all over the floor and I had through the wall and I was trying to protect them from that. If he was really as innocent as he said he was and there was gonna be nothing to hide, right? - Which is why he dropped them off at the jail. - I was pretty shocked that he showed up at the police department in Mississippi. - Cassandra told him if he was as innocent as he told me that he was. If he really found them the way they were, then that's all he had to tell you guys and you would figure out the rest. - In the following days, Kane is brought into an interrogation room this time in an orange jumpsuit for what would be his final interview. Agent Graham is assigned to conduct the interview. The same investigator who previously spoke with Cassandra and secured her confession. By this stage, Graham knows the case inside and out and he approaches the interview with a deliberate strategy, intent on extracting as much information as possible. And in this case, that's exactly what's needed because now more than ever, detectives need a confession. - Right as the interrogation begins, Kane makes a desperate attempt to ensure Cassandra is keeping her story together. He seems to be completely unaware that Cassandra isn't protecting him anymore. - Do you happen to have a pen handy? - I do. - Do you have her number? Because I have it in my wallet at the jail, but they won't let me access it. And I need to make sure that she's okay because she mentioned wanting to go back down to New Mexico. And after doing it once, that's already a hard nut trip. - Well, I talked to her Sunday when she got back into Roswell. I don't even know what the day is, man. - At this point, Kane still believed Cassandra was in Mississippi and hadn't spoken to officers since their first contact. Unfortunately, not only did Cassandra confess since then, but she did it in front of the very detective, sitting just feet away. - So, I talked to her on Sunday. I've traveled to Roswell when she got in. I talked to her for probably, I don't know, more than two, less than four hours, okay? And then on Monday, I traveled to Roswell again and I talked to her again for about, I don't know, two hours, okay? But I learned a lot from her, okay? And I'm hoping that I'm gonna learn more from you. I don't wanna call anybody a liar, but I think there's some inconsistencies with your statements. 'Cause I want you to know that there's gonna be a lot of questions that I ask you that I already know the answer to, but this is gonna be a test for you to see if you're being truthful with me, okay? Because it is, I know it's the truth, because I've been working this case since Wednesday, the 22nd, okay? - After Agent Graham makes it obvious, Kane is on his own now. The interview demeanor changes fast. He wastes no time bringing up Cassandra's confession and placing it directly against Kane, making it clear that detectives are no longer relying on his version of events alone. - Did you hurt anybody inside that house, including Victor, Killian, and Mary? - No, sir. - So how does Victor, Killian, and Mary just mysteriously go missing? - I've been trying to find out the same. - You do understand though that we found all three of them, correct? I believe Special Agent Silver did tell you that. - He alluded to something that I was really hopping is not truthful. - So I'm just gonna, I'm not really one to beat around the bush, okay? I just, I can't like it as, okay? But Cassie's told me everything that's happened, okay? She told me the involvement. She told me what you guys did. That you walked into the house. You found all three of them dead. You guys picked up their bodies. You put them in the blue Subaru. You drove it up the hill. You guys both tipped it over. She told me it all, okay? You guys used a little green dolly to pick them up and put them on the dolly, will them out to the car. You tied a rope around Killian's waist, hooked the rope up to your dad's hitch, and drove the car to pull them into the back seat. So the gigs up came, okay? I told you I don't beat around the bush. We've done a, I've worked over 100 hours in one week, okay? This is serious. So now this is your opportunity and your chance to tell me you were side of the story. Cassie's told me hers, okay? - Okay. - As Kane sits in silence, the realization sets in. He's on his own now, and whatever story he had planned coming into this interrogation has now been flipped entirely on its head. But Agent Graham presents the story strategically. By laying it out exactly as Cassandra described it, he gives Kane an opening to admit only to helping conceal the murders while shifting responsibility for the actual killings onto someone else. If he can get this confession first, it'll be significantly easier to get Kane to confess to the killings later on. - If you wanna start back at the beginning, and I know the date that all this happened also. - I can, I can tell you what happened. I can't tell you why. I have, I don't know. I was trying to find out. I fucked up your crime scene, and I'm sorry for that.
Is everything that I just said, what Cassie told me is I accurate? To a degree. And what isn't? When we went to the house that day, and it's just you and Cassie. Yeah. Not the kids. No. There's a witness too. And who is that? The mailman. He can attest to this, like the postal man that drives and delivers the mail in the mailboxes. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. We had gotten there just before him. He went up, I told her to hang tight for a minute because I meant that everybody would be awake. And that was kind of look and hopeful. Killian was up and moving about. And then knocked on the door. It's all the man. He just missed the postman. And he was real fidgety, he was scratching his head a lot. He was irritated and I told him, hey, I got some good news. Everything's moving along with the mortgage company. We're looking to move in and we ought to be all set by like the end of the month. Everything should be good. They got my process or my status is pending. He closed the door. And I watched him take the mail off to the bedroom. And then he went back and I, but you know, I heard like, must have been 20 gunshots. I didn't even think to do the front door. I just ran around to the side, came through my door. And that wasn't closed all the way. I ran through the bedroom. My uncle Vic was laying in his doorway with a gun in one hand. His other was like shaking, just kind of like floating there. And Kylian was across from him. I don't know why. I don't know who shot. I don't know. So where, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but I don't mean to be an ass, okay. But I know when you were going down this road, that that's where you were headed, okay. That one of them did all this. The evidence, they both had guns, they told me there weren't any left in the house. Where are they? They're doing Cassie where the other one's in there. So what do you guys do with the guns? Do you see that work? I've been doing this for a long time, okay. I'm not dumb. This isn't my first homicide, okay. Kane falls directly into Agent Graham's trap, confessing to concealing the bodies and giving a terribly thought out lie about who committed the murders. But Graham doesn't stop there and begins pressing further. Kane knows that nothing he can say at this point will dig him out of his grave. I'm not going to lie to you though, Kane, like this was a pretty, this was a pretty tough one for us. This took a lot of time. This is the most that we've ever spent on a case, by the way. This is the farthest we've been to investigate one, too. And I mean, the whole wrap in the rope around Killian's waist and pulling him in with the other car. I mean, that was pretty creative. And I'm being serious, I'm not being as smart as I don't know how I would have got him in the car either. I don't know how I would have gotten him on the wagon. That's 200 pounds dead weight, 280 pounds dead weight. That's a lot. I mean, you're not much bigger than me. I mean, think about how crazy that sounds though, like you were cremating them and you went not there on the 22nd and you burned them, right? After you and her put chain link over the top of the car with the little camouflage tarp thing and all the sticks and brush covering it. I did try to offer them a cremation. I mean, that was nice of you, but I didn't hurt them because the rest of the family didn't get to say their goodbyes. There aren't enough of us left. And I mean, I got to give it to you too. Using the cummelongs and the steel pipe to prop it over to get it dumped over, like this is one of the most creative homicides that I've seen. I didn't hurt anybody, sir. I would never hurt my family. Oh, but came that's what they all say. I just don't, I don't buy that you didn't do it. I'm sorry. I can't. I think Cassie's full on a lot of things, but I don't think she's full on that. And I'm not so sure that she wasn't involved in it, to be honest with you. She wasn't even there, sir. Okay, well, I'm telling you right now, Cassie's in jail. That's why you can't get old to her. Then I need an attorney. Okay. My next question is, are you going to sign a waiver of extra edition to go back to Mexico or do you want us to have to get a governor's warrant? And you set up here in our jail for months. I can't tell you, but I can serve you with this target notice, okay? These are the charges that are being filed against you. This is what we're going for grand jury, okay? I can't accept that. Well, it's not an option. That's what these are the charges coming against me. Yes, sir. These are your charges. Clearly, a cane doesn't seem to understand the law. And he'll be fighting the charges regardless of whether he accepts them or not. On paper, cane is charged with an array of crimes, including arson, aggravated burglary, and three counts of first-degree murder. Additionally, Cassandra would be officially charged following the interrogation. Also getting three counts of first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder and tampering with evidence. In the weeks that follow, detectives and prosecutors begin assembling the full picture. The blood patterns inside the house, the cleanup supplies, the burnt Subaru, the shell casings, the clothing, the phone records, and Cassandra's own statements, describing the disposal of the bodies. And after countless sleepless nights, investigators believe they have finally pieced together what happened. Victor, Mary and Killian were killed near the South bedroom and kitchen before being moved through the house. Their bodies were then loaded into Victor's blue Subaru, which cane allegedly drove into the canyon, pushed over a ditch, and set on fire. Canes shifting stories and control of the green Subaru point investigators towards him as the primary actor, while Cassandra's admissions place her squarely in the cleanup and cover up. Detectives see cane returning from Canada as the start of a growing grievance over what he believes is rightfully his. 22 acres of family land. They allege that they dispute over the property-motivated cane and that he drew Cassandra into a plan to cover up the deaths and claim control of the land. For now, both remain presumed innocent unless and until they are proven guilty in court. If convicted, they could each face multiple life sentences under New Mexico law with decades behind bars before any possibility of parole. As for Mike, Lordis, and the other relatives, they can rest safely for now, praying that those responsible never see the light of day again.
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
Kane Mays, a 28-year-old man returning to New Mexico from abroad, makes three suspicious 911 calls: one to report squatters in his father’s home, a second to request a welfare check for his grandmother, and a third to confirm the family members are still at the house.
The welfare check is canceled without follow-up, despite the family's absence.
Mike Blatt, Kane’s uncle and a family member, alerts police that Kane is hiding the truth, claiming he saw Kane packing up and that Kane is dangerous and suspicious.
Officers investigate the family home and find no signs of struggle, but boxes are packed and two cars (blue and green) are missing.
A fire is reported 200 yards from the house, revealing burned remains of three people: Kane’s uncle Victor, grandmother Mary, and stepbrother Killian.
Autopsy confirms all three were murdered, with one having a gunshot wound to the head.
Investigations reveal Kane had a history of domestic violence, and his wife, Samantha, confirms he was violent and abusive.
Surveillance and forensic searches find hidden evidence
Cassandra Douglas, Kane’s half-sister, makes a suspicious 911 call claiming her brother is missing and accusing Mike of involvement.
Officers discover a photo of Cassandra and Kane from years ago, plus Walmart footage of them shopping together.
A search of Cassandra’s home uncovers documents in Frank’s name, evidence of ongoing use of deceased family credit cards, and live ammunition.
Cassandra is found in Mississippi at a motel, and officers track her phone.
A voluntary interview with Kane reveals he admitted to being at the house, helping Cassandra travel to Mississippi, and lying about his visit.
Officers recover Kane’s passport and a stolen green Subaru with evidence of blood, ammunition, and gloves.
Cassandra, during a final interview, admits to helping Kane clean up the property, remove evidence, and hide the bodies, and confesses to tampering with evidence.
Summary:
A meticulously orchestrated murder plot unfolds in New Mexico, where Kane Mays, a man with a history of domestic violence, systematically kills three close relatives—his uncle Victor, grandmother Mary, and stepbrother Killian—at their family home. The case begins with a series of confusing 911 calls from Kane, who claims family members are missing, but fails to provide consistent details. Officers investigating a welfare check uncover no signs of violence but note suspicious disarray and missing vehicles.
A fire nearby reveals the burned remains of the three victims, leading to a major investigation. Forensic evidence—including shell casings, blood spatter, and cleaning supplies—suggests a deliberate cover-up. Further investigation reveals Kane’s past abuse and his half-sister Cassandra’s involvement.
She falsely claims Kane is missing and accuses Mike, another relative, of wrongdoing. Surveillance footage and home searches prove she and Kane had a long history and were together before the murders. When police raid her home, they find documents in deceased family names and weapons.
At a motel in Mississippi, they follow her phone signal and conduct a high-stakes interview. Kane confesses to helping Cassandra clean the house and hide the bodies. Cassandra, in a final interview, admits she assisted in covering up the crime, including removing blood and disposing of evidence.
She faces charges of tampering with evidence for a first-degree murder. The case reveals a web of deception, abuse, and premeditated violence, with Kane as the primary suspect and Cassandra playing a key role in the cover-up, demonstrating how familial bonds can be exploited in a calculated, horrific crime.
FAQs
Cain Mays is the primary suspect, as he was found in possession of weapons, had prior domestic violence history, and was seen near the crime scene with Cassandra. Evidence including a stolen vehicle and hidden items links him directly to the crime.
The three family members—Victor Perria, Mary Mauser, and Killian Mays—were found dead in a burned vehicle. The fire was recent, and the bodies showed signs of prior injury, including a gunshot wound to the head.
Police initially responded to Kane's welfare check requests with routine visits, concluding no one was inside and no signs of foul play. However, the calls were later found to be suspicious due to inconsistencies and missed details.
The bodies were burned and hidden in a vehicle to conceal evidence, likely to cover up the murders and avoid detection. The vehicle was a green Subaru, one of Victor's cars, and was found with tire tracks and signs of recent burning.
Cassandra lied about her relationship with Cain, provided false alibis, and was seen with him during suspicious times. She also had access to the house and admitted helping him clean up, which implies direct involvement in hiding evidence.
Through text messages, phone records, and surveillance footage, investigators found that Cain had been communicating with family members and had visited the property multiple times, including during the week of the disappearances.
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