WEBVTT 00:07.590 --> 00:09.592 [helicopter blades whirring faintly] 00:23.314 --> 00:25.316 [ambient traffic sounds] 00:29.446 --> 00:31.448 [vehicle accelerating] 00:44.252 --> 00:47.964 August 20th, I get a phone call from Bruce, 00:48.047 --> 00:53.636 and he tells me that his wife, Jana, has been missing since that morning. 00:54.846 --> 00:57.474 And did I know where she was? 00:57.974 --> 01:03.313 I was a very close friend, almost like a sister to Jana, 01:04.063 --> 01:06.900 and I said, "No, I… I haven't seen her." 01:08.026 --> 01:10.445 "I have no idea where she could be." 01:12.072 --> 01:17.077 I said, "Bruce, is there anything I can do for you?" 01:17.619 --> 01:21.706 And he broke into sobs and said, 01:22.373 --> 01:25.627 "You can tell me where my wife is." 01:27.545 --> 01:29.297 [suspenseful music playing] 01:29.380 --> 01:31.466 [Tomlin] The LA County Sheriff's Department 01:32.133 --> 01:33.968 is the best of the best. 01:38.014 --> 01:41.184 [Jackson] Some of the highest-profile cases are tried in Los Angeles. 01:44.062 --> 01:47.232 [Shonka] You have to be dedicated 110%. 01:50.068 --> 01:52.987 [Lillienfeld] This is murder. There's no more serious crime. 01:55.073 --> 01:59.994 [Labbe] It boils down to a passion and a sense of duty. 02:02.330 --> 02:04.624 Justice comes from finding the truth. 02:05.416 --> 02:07.418 [music trailing off] 02:12.757 --> 02:15.343 [woman] On August 20th, 2001, 02:15.426 --> 02:18.596 Bruce Koklich called Lakewood Sheriff's Station 02:19.097 --> 02:22.725 to make a missing persons report on his wife, Jana. 02:24.644 --> 02:27.105 [Bowers] Bruce said, "We have a real estate office 02:27.188 --> 02:29.023 at the north end of Long Beach, 02:29.107 --> 02:33.153 and Jana was supposed to, you know, come to the office, 02:33.236 --> 02:35.196 and I don't know where she is." 02:35.280 --> 02:40.034 Bruce and Jana, they had a real estate business in Bixby Knolls. 02:40.118 --> 02:44.247 The office in the city of Long Beach was not far from the port, 02:44.330 --> 02:47.333 and not far from their residence in Lakewood. 02:48.835 --> 02:50.837 [suspenseful music playing] 02:51.629 --> 02:54.048 [Bowers] The next day, on Tuesday, August 21st, 02:54.132 --> 02:56.551 Bruce has indicated Jana's not here. 02:56.634 --> 02:57.844 She hasn't returned. 02:57.927 --> 03:00.680 So there's a heightened interest as to… 03:00.763 --> 03:03.141 "Where is she? What has happened to her?" 03:05.518 --> 03:08.188 We all sat around wringing our hands 03:08.271 --> 03:10.523 trying to figure out what could have happened. 03:12.817 --> 03:13.818 Bruce was a wreck. 03:13.902 --> 03:16.654 He was sitting on the couch with his head in his hands, 03:16.738 --> 03:17.989 just bawling like a baby, 03:18.072 --> 03:20.867 and he gave us as much details as he could. 03:20.950 --> 03:22.785 That, you know, the car was missing, 03:22.869 --> 03:26.456 and that he was trying to think of things that he could do, 03:26.539 --> 03:29.292 where he could start searching, could hire helicopters, 03:29.375 --> 03:31.628 could employ teams of searchers. 03:33.504 --> 03:35.632 [Scott] I know, as a missing person's investigator, 03:36.215 --> 03:41.596 99.9% of the people return within 24 hours. 03:43.598 --> 03:47.018 [Bowers] There's a number of things law enforcement is looking into 03:47.101 --> 03:49.020 after the first 24 hours, 03:49.520 --> 03:54.192 when it becomes more likely that something may have happened to 'em 03:54.275 --> 03:55.902 besides just running away. 03:56.569 --> 03:58.321 Could they be a victim of a crime? 03:58.404 --> 04:01.908 Could she have been carjacked? Could it have been an accident? 04:05.078 --> 04:07.121 [tense, fraught music playing] 04:08.039 --> 04:11.292 We checked the hospitals and checked for traffic accidents. 04:11.376 --> 04:14.837 So we knew that it probably wasn't that. 04:17.924 --> 04:21.344 I was tasked to go to the Koklich residence. 04:22.178 --> 04:26.015 And so I decided to call in a homicide team, 04:26.099 --> 04:30.061 because it is gonna take a lot more time to investigate, 04:30.687 --> 04:33.398 and one of the investigators was Karen Shonka. 04:35.566 --> 04:38.820 [Shonka] When I was a young girl trying to think of what I wanted to do, 04:38.903 --> 04:41.489 I thought, "I want to be a police officer 04:41.572 --> 04:44.284 so I can drive around and speed everywhere." 04:44.367 --> 04:46.995 [slick, groovy music playing] 04:48.329 --> 04:51.499 I was hired by the LA County Sheriff's Department in 1986. 04:51.582 --> 04:53.084 [stirring music playing] 04:54.168 --> 04:58.840 Being a woman in law enforcement in the mid-'80s was a little difficult. 05:00.300 --> 05:02.927 I felt like at times I had to prove myself. 05:03.011 --> 05:05.054 I would go above and beyond 05:05.138 --> 05:09.183 what a male deputy or detective would have to do. 05:10.685 --> 05:12.895 I would just really want to work my cases 05:12.979 --> 05:16.316 and make sure that I was doing a phenomenal job. 05:17.692 --> 05:19.360 [Labbe] Karen worked her ass off. 05:19.861 --> 05:21.195 God bless her for it. 05:21.279 --> 05:24.741 She wasn't gonna let anybody stop her from doing what her dreams were. 05:27.827 --> 05:30.038 [cryptic music playing] 05:30.121 --> 05:32.999 [Shonka] Bruce and Jana had a home in Lakewood, 05:33.082 --> 05:35.293 just north of Long Beach, 05:35.793 --> 05:37.879 which was on a golf course. 05:38.796 --> 05:40.131 Beautiful home. 05:43.301 --> 05:46.804 Once we arrived at the Koklich home, we spoke with Bruce. 05:49.599 --> 05:53.269 [Scott] Bruce told me that on Monday morning, 05:53.353 --> 05:57.523 he gave Jana a kiss goodbye at around 6:00 a.m. 05:58.566 --> 06:01.402 They were partners at a real estate agency. 06:01.903 --> 06:06.991 And typically Jana would arrive at the office at 9:00 or 9:30 a.m. 06:08.785 --> 06:11.996 [Bowers] 10:00, maybe 10:30, Bruce said, 06:12.080 --> 06:14.874 "I asked around with the other real estate agents, 06:14.957 --> 06:17.877 'Where's my wife?' They said, 'She hasn't come in yet.'" 06:19.087 --> 06:22.715 [Shonka] Bruce and Jana have a business partner, Chris Botosan, 06:22.799 --> 06:24.383 that was at the office, 06:24.467 --> 06:30.598 and Chris decided to go with Bruce to the home to find out if Jana was there. 06:30.681 --> 06:32.683 [dark, foreboding music playing] 06:37.105 --> 06:38.523 [Bowers] Her car is gone. 06:38.606 --> 06:41.275 Her purse is gone. Cell phone is gone. 06:41.359 --> 06:44.487 Even the alarm on the house was on. 06:44.570 --> 06:47.490 So he was kind of suspicious. "Where could she have gone?" 06:49.867 --> 06:53.329 This is a missing adult. You have to look at all the possibilities. 06:53.955 --> 06:55.665 Maybe she ran away. 06:55.748 --> 06:58.668 Maybe there was an extramarital affair that was occurring. 06:58.751 --> 07:00.461 You have to investigate all that. 07:01.796 --> 07:04.632 [Shonka] What's her mental state? Are they on medication? 07:05.133 --> 07:08.594 Those kind of things can tell us where she's at. 07:09.345 --> 07:11.848 And in this case, something doesn't seem right, 07:11.931 --> 07:12.932 seems suspicious. 07:17.019 --> 07:20.898 Bruce told me that, on Friday night, 07:20.982 --> 07:24.360 Jana had gone to a concert with her friend Nini. 07:25.695 --> 07:30.283 And that Jana had probably arrived home after midnight. 07:33.077 --> 07:37.540 Bruce said that he and Jana wanted to have a "mellow, chill weekend," 07:37.623 --> 07:38.708 just the two of them. 07:40.126 --> 07:43.880 [Bowers] On Monday, Bruce said his wife has disappeared, 07:44.589 --> 07:48.259 and no one has been able to determine what has happened to her. 07:48.843 --> 07:51.888 [woman] It's just completely out of character for her. 07:51.971 --> 07:55.641 You know, it's like she just disappeared off the face of the earth. 08:00.730 --> 08:04.233 [Shonka] Bruce gave us a consent to search the home 08:04.317 --> 08:06.986 and to look around for any clues we may find. 08:07.069 --> 08:10.990 We were going through trash cans, everything in that house, 08:11.073 --> 08:13.743 to try and figure out what happened with Jana. 08:17.205 --> 08:21.584 I remember going through their answering machine at their home. 08:21.667 --> 08:24.003 I was writing down the caller ID information. 08:24.086 --> 08:26.088 [cryptic music playing] 08:26.172 --> 08:29.425 [Shonka] Bruce did say they didn't want to answer any phone calls for the weekend 08:29.508 --> 08:35.056 because Jana was still disturbed about this unknown male voice 08:35.139 --> 08:39.393 that was leaving messages on their answering machine. 08:39.477 --> 08:40.686 [chilling stinger] 08:40.770 --> 08:43.814 [Bowers] Bruce asked them, "Would you listen to this tape recording?" 08:43.898 --> 08:46.234 "It sounds like somebody threatening." 08:48.945 --> 08:50.780 [Scott] It was directed to Jana. 08:51.280 --> 08:53.741 It was a male's voice, 08:53.824 --> 08:55.493 and it says, 08:55.576 --> 08:57.662 "You know me. You need to call me." 08:59.205 --> 09:03.626 Bruce said that he and Jana both found it very disturbing, 09:03.709 --> 09:06.128 that they did not recognize the voice. 09:06.212 --> 09:10.383 You know, we've had most of our acquaintances listening to it, 09:10.466 --> 09:12.260 and nobody can identify it. 09:17.431 --> 09:20.977 [Shonka] We asked, "Who'd wanna hurt her? Did she have enemies?" 09:21.519 --> 09:23.980 Bruce said, "Because of Jana's father, 09:24.564 --> 09:27.441 someone may have abducted Jana." 09:27.525 --> 09:31.904 Jana was Jana Carpenter-Koklich. 09:31.988 --> 09:33.823 Her father was a state senator, 09:33.906 --> 09:37.034 a very prominent politician in the state of California. 09:39.245 --> 09:42.790 Jana's father, State Senator Carpenter, 09:42.873 --> 09:45.626 was very popular with the community. 09:47.378 --> 09:50.339 However, he got mixed up in some criminal activity 09:50.423 --> 09:53.342 later on in his political career. 09:53.426 --> 09:56.137 And he got prosecuted for it. He even went to prison. 09:57.221 --> 10:00.474 Two years before Jana's disappearance, he was released. 10:00.558 --> 10:04.228 So there was a lot of attention by the media 10:04.312 --> 10:07.315 that this must have something to do with her disappearance. 10:08.482 --> 10:10.860 Could there be some type of revenge 10:10.943 --> 10:15.615 for all the actions that he had done through his political career? 10:17.283 --> 10:21.078 [Scott] This unknown male voice that was leaving messages 10:21.162 --> 10:23.205 could be the possible kidnapper. 10:29.253 --> 10:32.423 [Shonka] Bruce let us know that they do have repo'd property 10:32.506 --> 10:35.760 in gang areas throughout LA County. 10:36.761 --> 10:41.349 Jana may have gone over there and was abducted around there. 10:41.891 --> 10:45.269 That was Jana's job, at times, to go out and collect the rent. 10:45.770 --> 10:46.979 So she had a gun. 10:48.648 --> 10:50.441 She was afraid 10:50.524 --> 10:54.695 that somebody might try to rob her when she was trying to collect the money. 10:55.821 --> 10:59.950 [Scott] That adds another level to the investigation. 11:00.493 --> 11:04.413 In many cases, if people aren't willing to use a gun, 11:04.497 --> 11:07.792 it can be easily taken from them and used against them. 11:07.875 --> 11:10.503 She's been missing for a day, which is unlike her. 11:10.586 --> 11:14.757 She's a very prompt and professional woman that I love most deeply, 11:14.840 --> 11:17.301 and hope to have her return as soon as possible. 11:17.385 --> 11:19.387 [somber music playing] 11:20.763 --> 11:24.517 [Shonka] Bruce's demeanor was very forthwith. 11:24.600 --> 11:27.311 He wanted to give us the information that we needed. 11:27.395 --> 11:30.648 Bruce said they had been married for 11 years, 11:30.731 --> 11:33.109 and they were in a very loving marriage. 11:34.527 --> 11:37.279 [Titchenal] Bruce and Jana had similar goals in life 11:37.363 --> 11:40.699 and started building a real estate business together 11:40.783 --> 11:43.619 that was really very, very successful. 11:45.663 --> 11:48.040 [woman] They were really tied to their business, 11:48.124 --> 11:50.418 but they were enjoying their life. 11:50.501 --> 11:52.503 I could tell she loved him. 11:53.462 --> 11:56.006 Bruce and Jana spent a lot of time together, 11:56.090 --> 11:57.550 almost all their time together. 11:57.633 --> 12:01.220 They never made decisions without consulting each other, 12:01.303 --> 12:02.847 and they always talked about 12:02.930 --> 12:05.641 where they were going and how they were gonna get there. 12:06.142 --> 12:10.396 [man] We sat up last night very late trying to figure out motivation. 12:12.398 --> 12:14.275 Why would anybody do this? 12:18.571 --> 12:22.116 [disquieting, suspenseful music playing] 12:22.992 --> 12:25.286 We definitely have the clock ticking. 12:26.245 --> 12:30.458 Jana may have been abducted, and we've already lost time. 12:30.541 --> 12:32.126 She could be in distress somewhere. 12:33.961 --> 12:37.339 So we want the media to get her picture out there, 12:37.423 --> 12:40.176 picture of her car, the license plate. 12:40.843 --> 12:44.054 We need the public's help to try and find Jana Koklich. 12:44.680 --> 12:48.851 We figure if we find the car, more than likely we'll find Jana. 12:49.351 --> 12:51.353 [tense, eerie music playing] 12:59.236 --> 13:02.948 [Titchenal] We fully expected there would be a ransom note, 13:03.032 --> 13:05.451 or something to let us know she was still alive, 13:05.534 --> 13:08.120 and we continued to hold on to that hope. 13:10.706 --> 13:12.041 [Baird] Time goes by. 13:12.541 --> 13:14.376 Jana doesn't come home. 13:14.460 --> 13:16.378 Jana doesn't call. 13:17.171 --> 13:18.172 Nothing. 13:19.757 --> 13:22.760 And the police are interviewing people. 13:24.011 --> 13:28.432 [Scott] Nothing became of the political theory with Jana's father. 13:28.933 --> 13:30.851 It was checked out and cleared. 13:31.936 --> 13:35.856 But a name that came up while we were interviewing Bruce Koklich 13:35.940 --> 13:37.650 was Chris Botosan. 13:37.733 --> 13:39.360 [tense music playing] 13:39.443 --> 13:43.697 Bruce said he came home with Chris while he was looking for Jana. 13:44.198 --> 13:47.785 Chris was a business partner of Jana and Bruce's 13:47.868 --> 13:50.871 in a software company that they were just starting. 13:51.539 --> 13:53.624 [Titchenal] I think there was a situation 13:53.707 --> 13:57.044 where something happened between him and Jana. 13:57.127 --> 13:59.630 Bruce never really told me anything about that, 13:59.713 --> 14:01.632 but it just became apparent 14:01.715 --> 14:04.093 in the couple of times I saw them all together 14:04.176 --> 14:07.471 that Jana wasn't really enamored by this guy. 14:07.555 --> 14:09.223 She wasn't really happy with him. 14:09.723 --> 14:12.643 Chris, being a partner of Bruce and Jana, 14:12.726 --> 14:15.729 he would benefit from Jana's disappearance. 14:15.813 --> 14:17.815 [dark, brooding music playing] 14:19.733 --> 14:20.776 In this business, 14:20.860 --> 14:26.156 if Jana is eliminated, Chris gets a bigger piece of the pie. 14:27.157 --> 14:30.327 The cops told us maybe Chris had something to do with it. 14:30.411 --> 14:32.371 Then we heard that he left town. 14:34.331 --> 14:38.586 So that, all of a sudden, was like a red flag to the sheriff's department. 14:39.795 --> 14:42.047 [Shonka] We were able to locate Chris Botosan 14:42.131 --> 14:44.425 and confirm an alibi for that weekend, 14:44.508 --> 14:47.219 where he was hanging out with a girlfriend. 14:48.387 --> 14:52.349 Chris Botosan was eventually cleared as a suspect. 14:52.850 --> 14:54.852 [taut, mysterious music playing] 14:58.814 --> 15:01.317 We did speak with Jana's friend, Nini. 15:01.817 --> 15:05.446 She said that Jana seemed happy on Friday night, 15:05.946 --> 15:08.449 that Jana didn't want to stay up late that night. 15:08.532 --> 15:12.286 She only had a half a glass of wine at the Eric Clapton concert 15:12.369 --> 15:14.455 because she had to get up early the next day 15:14.538 --> 15:17.374 for a gym appointment with Dean, her personal trainer. 15:18.459 --> 15:21.795 Dean told me that he had been training her one-on-one 15:21.879 --> 15:23.672 for the last four, five years. 15:24.214 --> 15:28.093 She never missed an appointment, and she was never late ever. 15:30.012 --> 15:32.806 [Bowers] Every Saturday morning, around seven o'clock, 15:32.890 --> 15:35.351 they would go jogging down by the beach. 15:36.518 --> 15:38.145 The detectives wondered, 15:38.228 --> 15:40.648 "Could there have been a romantic relationship?" 15:41.398 --> 15:45.527 [Baird] She's starting to really change her outward image. 15:46.153 --> 15:48.489 She had had her teeth done. 15:49.573 --> 15:51.075 She had lost weight. 15:52.493 --> 15:56.830 Jana shared one of her personal training days 15:56.914 --> 15:58.874 with a good girlfriend of hers, Connie. 16:00.084 --> 16:03.796 And Connie said that there was no sexual tension 16:03.879 --> 16:06.799 or anything between Dean and Jana. 16:06.882 --> 16:08.842 Everything was very professional. 16:09.343 --> 16:13.222 Jana was just very obsessed with her workouts. 16:13.847 --> 16:18.477 We verified his story, and checked his alibi, 16:18.978 --> 16:21.230 and he was cleared as a suspect. 16:21.772 --> 16:25.943 There was nothing going on between Dean and Jana. 16:26.026 --> 16:28.028 [ominous music playing] 16:29.446 --> 16:32.408 As well as I knew Jana, there was no possibility 16:32.491 --> 16:34.993 that she had gone off with some other lover. 16:35.828 --> 16:39.331 It just wasn't possible that this was something of her own doing. 16:39.415 --> 16:42.042 Something definitely had happened to her. 16:44.420 --> 16:47.381 Dean relayed to me that Jana missed the appointment 16:47.464 --> 16:50.008 on Saturday at seven o'clock in the morning. 16:50.092 --> 16:52.302 He said he called the house phone, no answer. 16:52.386 --> 16:54.555 He called her cell phone, no answer. 16:54.638 --> 16:56.890 He was very surprised that she didn't show up. 16:59.143 --> 17:02.354 She also had a scheduled massage appointment 17:02.438 --> 17:05.441 on Saturday at 2:00 p.m. with Nini. 17:07.484 --> 17:09.737 Nini said, "Jana did not show up." 17:10.237 --> 17:11.739 [phone ringing] 17:13.240 --> 17:15.951 Even as the weekend went on, she tried to contact her, 17:16.744 --> 17:17.953 but got no answer. 17:18.454 --> 17:21.498 [Scott] Nini made calls to Bruce's voicemail. 17:21.582 --> 17:25.377 There was never any answer from Jana or Bruce. 17:25.461 --> 17:27.963 That definitely set up a red flag. 17:29.006 --> 17:33.552 I did ask Bruce, "Why would Jana not answer those phone calls?" 17:34.053 --> 17:38.265 He just says, "We just wanted to blow everything off for the weekend." 17:39.349 --> 17:41.935 They are professional real estate agents, 17:42.019 --> 17:46.857 and I found that very strange that they wouldn't answer phone calls. 17:46.940 --> 17:48.942 [frenetic, suspenseful music playing] 17:53.322 --> 17:57.826 Investigating these type of cases, you want all the information you can get. 17:57.910 --> 18:00.329 Housekeepers can be very informative. 18:01.121 --> 18:05.751 They see what's going on. They're the quiet eyes around a house. 18:06.543 --> 18:09.338 I talked to the housekeeper. 18:09.421 --> 18:10.756 Her name was Consuelo. 18:10.839 --> 18:14.510 She said her routine was, every Tuesday, 18:14.593 --> 18:18.847 she would change the bedding in the master bedroom. 18:19.640 --> 18:22.935 She said that when she made the bed the week prior, 18:23.018 --> 18:26.188 it was a white and black sheet with some cursive writing on it. 18:27.731 --> 18:30.275 [woman] There was messages on the sheets. 18:30.984 --> 18:33.821 "Happiness," "love," and, you know, beautiful messages. 18:34.446 --> 18:37.741 But on Tuesday 21st, 18:37.825 --> 18:39.451 when I see the bed, 18:39.535 --> 18:41.703 it was not the same sheets. 18:51.797 --> 18:55.759 [Scott] The sheets that she had put on the previous Tuesday were gone. 18:56.343 --> 19:01.682 And now there was only a full-size flat sheet on the bed, 19:01.765 --> 19:03.976 and the bed is a queen size. 19:05.519 --> 19:08.147 [Lopez] In the nine years I worked for the Kokliches, 19:08.230 --> 19:10.065 they never changed the sheets. 19:10.149 --> 19:14.778 I'm the one who do it every Tuesday. 19:14.862 --> 19:16.321 They never do that. 19:17.531 --> 19:21.785 [Scott] And she added that the sheets were nowhere to be found in the house. 19:21.869 --> 19:25.205 Not in the washer, not in any of the other rooms, 19:25.289 --> 19:27.499 so she was very concerned about that. 19:28.292 --> 19:31.962 She also pointed out a towel was missing from the bathroom. 19:32.462 --> 19:35.215 One of the pillows was also missing. 19:35.799 --> 19:37.384 This was very unusual. 19:38.385 --> 19:42.389 [Shonka] There was a theory that Jana was abducted from her bed 19:42.472 --> 19:46.226 by the anonymous male calling for Jana at the home. 19:47.269 --> 19:50.647 But Bruce told us there was no signs of forced entry. 19:50.731 --> 19:53.525 All the doors were locked. The alarm was activated. 19:53.609 --> 19:55.360 Everything looked secure in the home. 19:56.195 --> 20:00.574 It has to be somebody who knew Jana or knew of her, I feel, 20:00.657 --> 20:02.910 because they had to be aware of her movements 20:02.993 --> 20:05.204 and the fact that Bruce had left the house. 20:05.287 --> 20:08.206 [unsettling music playing] 20:14.463 --> 20:17.299 [Shonka] We had no leads in her disappearance. 20:18.884 --> 20:21.470 And then on 27th August, 20:21.553 --> 20:26.183 we received a phone call that Jana's '96 Pathfinder was located 20:26.266 --> 20:28.769 off California Street in Signal Hill, 20:28.852 --> 20:31.688 and this is huge information for us in this case. 20:33.690 --> 20:35.067 [suspenseful music playing] 20:35.150 --> 20:39.279 The initial view of Jana's Pathfinder, 20:39.363 --> 20:42.658 we weren't able to find her purse, gun, or cell phone in there. 20:44.243 --> 20:47.955 However, we did check the cargo area of her Pathfinder, 20:48.455 --> 20:50.749 and we were able to see a feather in the back. 20:54.378 --> 20:57.005 The feather in the back cargo area 20:57.089 --> 21:01.760 was really important based on her pillow missing from her bed. 21:02.594 --> 21:06.390 And then we found what appeared to be a large bloodstain. 21:08.058 --> 21:10.310 Working a missing persons case, 21:10.394 --> 21:14.273 when you find a significant amount of blood somewhere, 21:14.356 --> 21:19.486 that's where you kind of cross the line that, "Okay, this is not good." 21:22.197 --> 21:25.534 [Paul] She's a very sweet, friendly girl. 21:26.159 --> 21:29.997 No reason for anybody to do this. [sobbing] 21:30.080 --> 21:33.041 There's a little chance they might find her alive, 21:33.542 --> 21:36.128 but I'm prepared for whatever happens. 21:36.211 --> 21:38.297 I've got to know, get some closure. 21:39.047 --> 21:40.632 [Shonka] Now you go into recovery mode. 21:40.716 --> 21:44.011 Where is she? Where's her body? We need to find her. 21:44.094 --> 21:46.096 [eerie, unsettling music playing] 21:54.604 --> 21:58.025 A search team was created of about 140 people 21:58.859 --> 22:00.694 to search the petroleum fields. 22:01.945 --> 22:03.739 If you do discover something, 22:03.822 --> 22:06.575 we need you to back away from it, and don't touch anything. 22:07.159 --> 22:12.247 [Bowers] Jana's car was found right next to the Signal Hill oil wells. 22:13.623 --> 22:19.046 And all that area, there's a lot of giant, big, deep holes 22:19.129 --> 22:21.757 that were dug when they were trying to explore for oil. 22:25.093 --> 22:29.097 We were out there for quite a while, and nothing was found. 22:29.181 --> 22:31.183 [cryptic music playing] 22:32.309 --> 22:33.643 [Scott] It was very disappointing, 22:33.727 --> 22:37.022 because we wanted to bring closure to the family. 22:37.981 --> 22:40.317 Now we have to start from ground zero. 22:43.862 --> 22:45.697 [Labbe] We still didn't have a body, 22:45.781 --> 22:47.491 and the truth of the matter is, 22:47.574 --> 22:49.076 we're homicide detectives. 22:49.576 --> 22:51.703 As far as a "no body" case, 22:51.787 --> 22:54.664 they're extremely difficult to prove in the state of California. 22:58.752 --> 23:00.754 [dark, ominous music playing] 23:04.174 --> 23:07.636 [Shonka] We were able to secure another search warrant on the house 23:08.345 --> 23:11.389 and conducted a luminol examination. 23:15.769 --> 23:19.606 There was a drop of blood found in the master bedroom 23:19.689 --> 23:21.399 on the carpet near the bed. 23:21.900 --> 23:25.946 We got DNA samples for Jana from her hairbrush. 23:26.947 --> 23:31.660 The several spots of blood that were found in the bedroom 23:32.160 --> 23:36.915 and that blood that was in the back of the Pathfinder matched Jana's DNA. 23:39.501 --> 23:41.962 [Shonka] Evidence is still being put together, 23:42.462 --> 23:46.299 but with that amount of blood in the back of her Pathfinder 23:46.383 --> 23:49.302 would lead anybody to believe she's been murdered, 23:49.386 --> 23:52.389 and her body was placed back there at some point. 23:52.472 --> 23:57.436 I think that we could classify this from a critical missing over to homicide. 23:59.771 --> 24:03.817 [Scott] At this point in our investigation, her husband, Bruce, 24:03.900 --> 24:06.153 was the only one that had access to her. 24:07.279 --> 24:09.906 [Shonka] Bruce was the last person that saw her alive 24:09.990 --> 24:11.491 and really has no other alibi, 24:11.575 --> 24:13.785 other than he was alone with her over the weekend. 24:13.869 --> 24:17.205 So now we're starting to focus on Bruce, her husband. 24:19.499 --> 24:21.084 [Bowers] From the detectives' standpoint, 24:21.668 --> 24:27.048 Bruce is claiming Jana was alive and with him the entire weekend, 24:27.132 --> 24:30.051 Saturday, Sunday, and Monday morning. 24:31.136 --> 24:35.557 And then they talked to Bruce and say, "Would you be willing to do a polygraph?" 24:35.640 --> 24:38.226 "We just want to verify your story." 24:38.727 --> 24:40.604 And Bruce said, "That's fine." 24:41.855 --> 24:46.568 He asked investigators if he could preview the questions beforehand. 24:47.068 --> 24:50.238 Um, it's not our policy to provide those questions. 24:50.906 --> 24:53.700 [Janeth] He's been given a lot of advice by a lot of friends, 24:53.783 --> 24:56.953 in the law field and even law enforcement, 24:57.037 --> 25:00.081 and, uh, has heard all kinds of horror stories 25:00.165 --> 25:02.584 about how they use tricky questions. 25:02.667 --> 25:05.837 He had an attorney, and the attorney advised him, 25:05.921 --> 25:07.714 "No, you shouldn't do a polygraph." 25:10.800 --> 25:13.345 Bruce was frantic about doing something. 25:13.428 --> 25:16.264 He couldn't just sit there and not do anything. 25:16.348 --> 25:18.725 I'm doing whatever I can to get my wife back. 25:18.808 --> 25:23.855 I know that he called the TV stations and made an appeal. 25:24.981 --> 25:26.483 [Koklich] My name is Bruce Koklich, 25:26.566 --> 25:29.319 and I'm currently looking for my wife of 11 years, 25:29.402 --> 25:33.490 and I'm offering a $100,000 reward for her return. 25:33.573 --> 25:35.700 The $100,000 reward still stands. 25:35.784 --> 25:37.827 I want my wife back. 25:38.328 --> 25:41.373 Whatever it takes to get her back, I'm willing to do it. 25:42.958 --> 25:45.877 [somber, delicate music playing] 25:47.003 --> 25:49.839 [Bowers] Bruce had come out and gave interviews. 25:50.674 --> 25:53.093 Then as time went by, there were several ladies 25:53.176 --> 25:55.011 who saw those interviews 25:55.512 --> 25:57.889 and contacted the sheriff's department. 26:01.309 --> 26:07.357 They indicated that Bruce contacted them about maybe going out on a date. 26:07.440 --> 26:09.401 There was a lady at the bank. 26:09.484 --> 26:11.403 Bruce came up and said, 26:11.486 --> 26:14.197 "Would you be willing to go out to dinner with me?" 26:15.198 --> 26:16.449 She didn't think much of it 26:16.533 --> 26:20.662 until she saw the TV interview that his wife was missing. 26:22.581 --> 26:25.375 There was another lady who worked at an escrow office. 26:25.458 --> 26:27.210 She didn't wanna have anything to do with him. 26:28.003 --> 26:30.213 And then there was one of the neighbors. 26:30.297 --> 26:32.799 And she got a note on her windshield. 26:32.882 --> 26:34.718 And it said, "From Bruce Koklich." 26:34.801 --> 26:38.346 "Would your granddaughter be willing to go out with me?" 26:39.014 --> 26:40.557 She thought, "That's strange." 26:40.640 --> 26:44.352 "Why would he put a note like that wanting to meet my granddaughter?" 26:46.896 --> 26:50.317 [Shonka] Right before and after Jana's disappearance, 26:50.400 --> 26:51.943 he's asking all these women out, 26:52.027 --> 26:55.322 and they all turned him down because of his creep factor. 26:55.405 --> 26:57.407 [foreboding music playing] 26:58.617 --> 27:01.328 [Bowers] Bruce was interested in going out with other women 27:01.411 --> 27:03.955 while he's giving TV interviews, 27:04.039 --> 27:05.457 how much he misses his wife, 27:05.540 --> 27:08.877 and he would do anything to have his loving wife back. 27:08.960 --> 27:10.503 What is going on here? 27:12.047 --> 27:14.924 This is not a grieving spouse. 27:15.800 --> 27:16.801 This looks suspicious. 27:17.802 --> 27:21.598 It's starting to get a little more concerning. 27:21.681 --> 27:23.683 [somber, restrained music playing] 27:25.685 --> 27:28.438 [Bowers] As the investigators got deeper into this case, 27:28.521 --> 27:32.525 they found out from friends, relatives 27:33.818 --> 27:36.696 that Jana was dissatisfied with her life. 27:37.864 --> 27:42.202 [Baird] Jana told me that they were going to adopt. 27:42.786 --> 27:45.664 She wanted a family so bad. 27:46.498 --> 27:48.833 They had already filled out the papers, 27:48.917 --> 27:51.044 and we were both real excited. 27:52.295 --> 27:55.048 One day, she shows up for dinner, 27:55.840 --> 27:59.344 maybe a month or so before she disappears. 28:00.136 --> 28:04.057 And I said something about, "How's the adoption going?" 28:04.140 --> 28:05.684 And she said to me, 28:06.267 --> 28:08.603 "There will be no adoption." 28:10.688 --> 28:15.860 Now I'm wondering if maybe it was something else with her and Bruce. 28:16.778 --> 28:20.573 I just could never see Bruce adopting a child, 28:21.449 --> 28:25.787 because it definitely would take Jana away from the business 28:25.870 --> 28:27.789 if she had become a mom. 28:30.417 --> 28:35.088 Was Jana tired of the domination of Bruce, 28:35.171 --> 28:37.173 who was always there telling her, 28:37.257 --> 28:39.884 "We gotta make more money, more money, work harder"? 28:41.469 --> 28:43.138 [Titchenal] Control was important to Bruce. 28:43.221 --> 28:45.890 He had to control the business situation. 28:45.974 --> 28:48.643 He had to control personal relationships. 28:49.269 --> 28:50.520 That's how he was built. 28:53.189 --> 28:58.194 We learned that Bruce Koklich has a long history 28:58.278 --> 29:02.782 of asking women out, making rude comments to women, 29:02.866 --> 29:04.743 grabbing women, doing certain things. 29:05.827 --> 29:08.204 Obviously, that's a problem in a marriage. 29:08.705 --> 29:12.041 [Baird] He was womanizing while he was married. 29:12.625 --> 29:14.335 Jana knew about some of it. 29:16.463 --> 29:19.007 [Bowers] We don't know exactly what was going on in Jana's mind, 29:19.090 --> 29:22.677 but we know she was trying to improve herself, 29:22.761 --> 29:25.054 make herself more independent, 29:25.138 --> 29:27.432 where she could go out on her own if she wanted to. 29:28.016 --> 29:30.852 Looking for a new life, something different. 29:32.520 --> 29:36.649 I believe that she may have threatened him with divorce. 29:40.904 --> 29:45.408 If Jana said, "We're done, you don't want the same things I want," 29:45.492 --> 29:49.454 I can see Bruce not being able to handle that well. 29:50.288 --> 29:51.372 He was very ambitious 29:51.456 --> 29:53.792 and very much money-driven and goal-driven. 29:54.334 --> 29:57.837 If they get a divorce, he would have to share half of everything. 29:59.798 --> 30:03.635 I honestly believe that he killed her over money. 30:04.844 --> 30:07.680 He just didn't want to part with it. 30:09.098 --> 30:14.062 We learn Bruce and Jana both held $1,000,000 life policies. 30:14.729 --> 30:17.982 She most likely has been killed for financial gain. 30:20.109 --> 30:23.780 [Shonka] During that time, we were able to speak neighbors that said 30:24.531 --> 30:28.034 early Saturday morning they heard what sounded like arguing 30:28.117 --> 30:29.661 between a man and a woman, 30:29.744 --> 30:33.915 and the other one described it as maybe moving heavy furniture. 30:33.998 --> 30:38.795 I mean, this picture just keeps getting brighter and brighter as it goes on. 30:41.089 --> 30:43.091 [low, harsh music playing] 30:47.679 --> 30:49.180 [phone ringing] 30:49.264 --> 30:50.765 [tense music playing] 30:52.308 --> 30:55.353 [Shonka] A call came in that a witness saw 30:55.436 --> 30:58.022 what they believed to be a white Pathfinder 30:58.106 --> 31:01.860 parked in front of a home there on California Street in Signal Hill, 31:03.027 --> 31:05.613 but they weren't sure it was Jana's car. 31:06.406 --> 31:09.284 [Bowers] A person said that they saw the car parked there 31:09.367 --> 31:12.704 the Sunday before she's reported missing. 31:14.205 --> 31:17.834 They looked, and it was a white person with a white dress shirt on, 31:17.917 --> 31:20.003 and he's just sitting there in the alley, 31:20.086 --> 31:22.380 and it seemed suspicious to this individual. 31:24.257 --> 31:27.135 The sheriff's department thought, "Could it be Bruce?" 31:30.263 --> 31:34.726 We put together three separate six-packs, or mug show-up folders. 31:36.853 --> 31:41.566 One that had Bruce in it, one that had Dean, the personal trainer, 31:41.649 --> 31:45.361 and the other one had the business partner, Chris Botosan. 31:46.321 --> 31:49.240 This witness looked at all three different folders 31:49.324 --> 31:50.491 and picked out the one 31:50.575 --> 31:54.579 where Bruce was identified as being that person in that car. 31:55.872 --> 32:00.543 That put Bruce in that area on a Sunday 32:01.210 --> 32:04.047 when he said that he and his wife were home alone. 32:04.547 --> 32:06.549 [mysterious music playing] 32:08.676 --> 32:12.805 Bruce wanted somebody else to be blamed for his wife's disappearance, 32:12.889 --> 32:16.017 and it appeared that he purposely took her car, 32:17.477 --> 32:20.938 put it in a very poor neighborhood 32:21.022 --> 32:24.776 with the keys in the ignition, with the windows down… 32:26.527 --> 32:29.113 just hoping and praying that somebody would take it, 32:29.197 --> 32:34.077 make it appear that somebody else had kidnapped or carjacked Jana. 32:35.578 --> 32:38.998 [Shonka] Signal Hill is just north of Long Beach. 32:39.082 --> 32:42.502 The Kokliches had some of their apartment complexes in the area. 32:43.002 --> 32:49.425 We were able to get some information from some residents in Signal Hill 32:49.926 --> 32:53.012 who said they saw the neighborhood kids getting in Jana's car, 32:53.096 --> 32:55.723 taking the car for joy rides around the neighborhood, 32:55.807 --> 32:57.350 and parked in a garage. 32:57.850 --> 33:01.020 It was becoming apparent, not only to us, 33:01.104 --> 33:04.399 but family members and friends of Jana 33:04.482 --> 33:08.945 who were starting to have their doubts about Bruce. 33:09.028 --> 33:11.030 [suspenseful music playing] 33:12.448 --> 33:15.159 [Titchenal] I had trust in Bruce and had no reason to not believe 33:15.243 --> 33:17.662 everything that he had told us up to this point. 33:18.663 --> 33:22.000 Now I had to look at everything, and I had to think, 33:22.083 --> 33:23.710 "Was my trust misplaced?" 33:24.669 --> 33:28.339 "Is there actually a lot more that's going on 33:28.423 --> 33:29.882 that Bruce isn't telling me?" 33:32.760 --> 33:37.557 "Is there another side to him that I didn't know existed, 33:37.640 --> 33:39.642 that I didn't think was possible?" 33:43.771 --> 33:45.773 [tense, mysterious music playing] 33:50.069 --> 33:55.158 We put together a timeline of 18th and 19th August. 33:56.868 --> 34:02.081 According to Bruce, 12:30-ish, Jana returns from the concert. 34:03.332 --> 34:06.794 Early Saturday morning, neighbors across the street 34:06.878 --> 34:09.672 heard arguing between a man and a woman. 34:11.591 --> 34:14.677 [Bowers] When the detectives were asking more questions with Bruce as to 34:14.761 --> 34:17.346 "Where were you guys all weekend long?" 34:18.264 --> 34:19.557 Bruce had told 'em, 34:19.640 --> 34:22.769 "Saturday, we read some books, we watched some television." 34:24.103 --> 34:28.483 "Then on Sunday, we walked around. We talked to people in the neighborhood." 34:29.150 --> 34:31.944 When detectives talked to those neighbors, the neighbors said, 34:32.028 --> 34:33.905 "We never saw them." 34:36.074 --> 34:38.034 But Bruce kept coming by and asking, 34:38.117 --> 34:42.038 "Remember? Remember I talked to you on Sunday? Remember?" 34:42.121 --> 34:44.665 And they said, "No, we… we didn't." 34:44.749 --> 34:48.002 We weren't able to corroborate anything that Bruce said. 34:48.503 --> 34:50.838 He didn't even remember what they were wearing. 34:51.339 --> 34:54.133 Bruce Koklich was planting a seed 34:54.217 --> 34:57.303 that somebody out there had it in for Jana. 34:58.012 --> 35:01.516 [Scott] He was directing the investigation right from the beginning. 35:02.016 --> 35:05.478 He thought it was a carjacking, was a kidnapping, 35:05.561 --> 35:09.148 or it was that person on the voicemail. 35:09.857 --> 35:13.069 All those things have to be looked into, and they were, 35:13.569 --> 35:15.863 but they were all excluded. 35:18.449 --> 35:21.577 Bruce had a motive. Bruce is the only one. 35:21.661 --> 35:23.663 [inscrutable music playing] 35:27.792 --> 35:31.295 [Shonka] Bruce had a lot to gain from Jana's death. 35:32.171 --> 35:35.716 The potential million-dollar life insurance policy, 35:35.800 --> 35:37.051 all the properties, 35:37.134 --> 35:40.138 that beautiful home that they had there on the golf course. 35:42.306 --> 35:45.768 If he was able to avoid divorce, he would get all of it. 35:46.602 --> 35:48.813 [reporter] Do police consider you a suspect? 35:48.896 --> 35:50.231 Not that I'm aware of. 35:50.314 --> 35:52.942 I'm doing whatever I can to get my wife back. 35:55.027 --> 35:58.114 Bruce didn't have any characteristics of grieving. 35:58.197 --> 36:02.076 His wife is missing, and he's going out trying to meet women 36:02.160 --> 36:04.871 and trying to have sexual relations with them. 36:05.580 --> 36:08.374 [Shonka] It seemed like Bruce wanted to be single. 36:08.457 --> 36:11.794 Bruce wanted to be the real estate mogul, 36:11.878 --> 36:14.380 the guy with the money and the property, 36:14.881 --> 36:16.674 and Jana was in the way. 36:17.258 --> 36:21.137 So he came up with a plan to get rid of and murder his wife. 36:21.220 --> 36:23.222 [tense music playing] 36:25.975 --> 36:31.522 I believe that Bruce killed his wife early Saturday morning. 36:34.317 --> 36:40.740 [Shonka] Bruce wraps her body up in the sheets with the pillowcase or towel 36:40.823 --> 36:43.576 and moves her body into the back of the Pathfinder, 36:43.659 --> 36:46.037 which was in the garage at the time. 36:47.413 --> 36:51.459 For the amount of blood that was in the back of her Pathfinder, 36:52.210 --> 36:53.461 it could be purge. 36:57.006 --> 37:01.260 A body starts purging as it's starting to decompose. 37:01.802 --> 37:03.137 So I'm wondering, 37:03.221 --> 37:06.599 "Did he keep her in the garage Saturday and Sunday?" 37:08.809 --> 37:10.394 And then moves her body, 37:10.895 --> 37:15.441 dumps it somewhere in between their home and Signal Hill, 37:16.108 --> 37:17.735 because, Sunday night, 37:18.694 --> 37:21.989 the Pathfinder's seen in Signal Hill 37:22.073 --> 37:23.866 with him in the driver's seat. 37:26.118 --> 37:30.373 And then he walks home the four miles to Lakewood. 37:33.501 --> 37:36.003 The whole team did a great job 37:36.087 --> 37:39.131 of clearing any other possibility. 37:40.925 --> 37:43.177 All roads lead to Bruce Koklich. 37:43.844 --> 37:45.846 [agitated, foreboding music playing] 37:46.681 --> 37:51.477 When you add up all of those really significant, incriminating things, 37:53.187 --> 37:57.692 it was enough evidence for the DA's office to file an arrest warrant. 38:01.570 --> 38:03.572 [dramatic music playing] 38:09.245 --> 38:12.123 [Titchenal] Once we learned that Bruce had been arrested for Jana's murder, 38:12.206 --> 38:17.086 all those little pieces finally fell into place for me and my wife, 38:17.169 --> 38:19.839 and we were saddened to have to think 38:19.922 --> 38:22.633 that Bruce did have something to do with it. 38:23.551 --> 38:27.513 There was a lot of circumstantial evidence that suggests Bruce isn't innocent. 38:28.514 --> 38:29.890 [Baird] I thought, "This is great." 38:29.974 --> 38:34.395 "He'll just sit in jail until, you know, his trial comes." 38:34.478 --> 38:35.813 But, boy, was I wrong. 38:36.439 --> 38:40.026 He got out on $1,000,000 bail. 38:40.860 --> 38:45.698 I love my wife. I mean, I hope that she's found. 38:46.324 --> 38:49.660 And, um, I'm most wholeheartedly not guilty. 38:51.203 --> 38:53.205 [mysterious synth music playing] 39:03.966 --> 39:07.595 [Bowers] After many months, almost a year, we got to trial. 39:09.096 --> 39:11.474 To get a conviction, we're gonna have to prove 39:11.557 --> 39:15.269 he is the one that caused her disappearance by killing her. 39:16.062 --> 39:20.858 But the problem is our best evidence, meaning a dead body, we don't have. 39:20.941 --> 39:23.569 As far as the search for the body, it's ongoing. 39:24.987 --> 39:27.448 [Shonka] This case was an eye-opener for all of us 39:27.531 --> 39:30.409 because nobody had really had a "no body" case. 39:31.118 --> 39:35.331 There wasn't too many of those that they were getting convictions on. 39:36.415 --> 39:39.126 [Bowers] We were stuck with circumstantial evidence. 39:39.710 --> 39:45.633 It's a major task for the prosecutor to convince all 12 jurors 39:46.175 --> 39:47.885 there is no reasonable doubt. 39:48.761 --> 39:52.390 The danger in "no body" cases, there's always a doubt. 39:52.473 --> 39:54.475 [suspenseful music playing] 39:58.646 --> 40:02.441 [Bowers] Jana had a $1,000,000 life insurance policy. 40:02.525 --> 40:04.735 Bruce could collect on the life insurance. 40:04.819 --> 40:09.907 The prosecution needed to prove that there was a financial motive. 40:11.826 --> 40:14.453 [Shonka] The prosecution had a lot of good witnesses 40:14.537 --> 40:17.540 that wanted to come in and testify on behalf of Jana. 40:18.958 --> 40:21.085 [Lopez] It was my responsibility to do it. 40:21.752 --> 40:24.088 She was the sweetest lady in the world. 40:24.171 --> 40:25.673 She doesn't deserve this. 40:27.299 --> 40:31.595 And when I see Bruce, he was not nervous at all. 40:32.847 --> 40:36.308 [Bowers] Bruce wanted to testify, which was kind of a surprise. 40:36.809 --> 40:40.187 Most of the time, when a defendant takes the witness stand, 40:40.271 --> 40:43.357 they will do more harm to their case than benefit. 40:44.483 --> 40:47.153 However, the defense put on a strong case. 40:47.236 --> 40:49.822 There's absolutely no motive, 40:49.905 --> 40:54.618 either personal between the two of them or monetarily, as has been suggested. 40:55.494 --> 40:59.206 [reporter] Bruce Koklich testified he and his wife had a good relationship. 40:59.290 --> 41:02.751 His legal team displayed photographs of the couple's vacations. 41:02.835 --> 41:05.963 They also showed the jury birthday and anniversary cards 41:06.046 --> 41:08.674 the pair had exchanged over the course of their marriage. 41:08.757 --> 41:12.052 He painted a different picture of what was going on. 41:12.136 --> 41:14.930 And the question was, "Was a jury going to buy it?" 41:17.057 --> 41:19.935 [Shonka] As a detective, you always feel like, 41:20.019 --> 41:22.897 "I put this picture together, and they're gonna judge it, 41:22.980 --> 41:26.734 and all it takes is one person to not like it." 41:26.817 --> 41:27.902 There goes your case. 41:31.155 --> 41:32.990 [Bowers] After all the evidence was presented, 41:33.073 --> 41:35.242 the judge read the instructions to the jury, 41:35.326 --> 41:38.078 and they went into the jury room to deliberate. 41:47.171 --> 41:49.507 [Bowers] There's one day, and nothing happened. 41:49.590 --> 41:52.134 Another day, another, another. It went on and on. 41:55.012 --> 41:57.223 [Shonka] When it goes beyond a day or two, 41:57.306 --> 41:59.183 I would start to worry. 41:59.266 --> 42:02.102 On this case, the jury deliberated for six days. 42:05.481 --> 42:09.568 There was seven for guilty and five for not guilty. 42:10.152 --> 42:13.364 They could not come to a unanimous verdict. 42:13.447 --> 42:16.867 The judge declared a mistrial, and it was declared a hung jury. 42:19.411 --> 42:20.663 [Shonka] It's hard to swallow, 42:20.746 --> 42:25.209 especially knowing that we had seven that believed what we presented. 42:25.292 --> 42:27.795 I couldn't believe Bruce got away with it. 42:28.379 --> 42:30.839 He killed Jana and he gets to walk. 42:35.010 --> 42:37.930 [Bowers] The DA's office had to take a serious look at it, 42:38.013 --> 42:41.016 and then it was decided we could do it again, 42:41.600 --> 42:43.394 but we have to take another approach. 42:48.607 --> 42:51.652 I was asked to come in and create 42:51.735 --> 42:54.363 what was called a "visual trial," 42:54.446 --> 42:59.118 where we would present all that circumstantial evidence in a slideshow. 42:59.201 --> 43:00.536 We would have charts. 43:03.372 --> 43:07.418 We're not gonna emphasize killing Jana for the life insurance. 43:07.501 --> 43:10.587 We were gonna concentrate on the timeline. 43:12.298 --> 43:16.343 The sheets, the setting up of the car, 43:17.052 --> 43:19.930 all of that pointed to Bruce's guilt. 43:23.684 --> 43:27.980 [Shonka] At the end of the trial, when the jurors went in to deliberate, 43:28.897 --> 43:30.149 I felt very good. 43:33.444 --> 43:35.738 [Bowers] Jury was out for only several hours. 43:35.821 --> 43:38.032 It was less than a half a day, 43:38.824 --> 43:42.161 and they rang the buzzer, meaning they had a verdict. 43:44.663 --> 43:48.459 The jury came out and the jury verdict was read. 43:49.084 --> 43:52.421 Bruce Koklich was found guilty. 43:52.504 --> 43:54.506 [somber music playing] 43:55.966 --> 43:58.552 I remember I sat there and cried. 43:58.636 --> 44:01.305 It was the culmination of everything. 44:01.388 --> 44:03.349 [mournful music playing] 44:03.432 --> 44:05.768 [Janeth] Now we can plan a memorial for Jana. 44:06.644 --> 44:12.024 And I just wish we could've gotten him to tell what he had done with her. 44:13.067 --> 44:15.527 [Titchenal] The perpetrator has family too, and they're… 44:15.611 --> 44:18.364 you know, the disappointment and shame. 44:18.864 --> 44:21.659 There was really no reason why Jana had to die. 44:22.618 --> 44:25.996 It is especially devastating not to know where her body is 44:26.080 --> 44:29.667 so that we could have the comfort of a final goodbye to her. 44:30.250 --> 44:34.046 Bruce, you took away your wife who loved you. 44:34.546 --> 44:38.425 You took away all that Jana was and could have been. 44:39.385 --> 44:43.931 You took away a daughter. You took away a niece and a cousin. 44:44.014 --> 44:49.770 You took away her father's will to live and the only thing that gave him comfort. 44:51.897 --> 44:54.233 You'll be imprisoned in the state prison system 44:54.316 --> 44:55.901 for the term prescribed by law, 44:55.984 --> 44:58.070 which is 15 years to life. 44:59.405 --> 45:03.075 [Titchenal] When the judge pronounced what Bruce's sentence was gonna be, 45:03.158 --> 45:07.371 he turned, looked at me, and said, "Don't worry about me. I'll be okay." 45:07.454 --> 45:09.873 And they handcuffed him and walked him off. 45:12.668 --> 45:15.879 He's an egotistical manipulator 45:15.963 --> 45:19.508 and thought that he could charm his way out of this somehow, 45:19.591 --> 45:21.301 and it just didn't work. 45:24.471 --> 45:29.059 Bruce could not outsmart bulldog homicide detectives. 45:29.143 --> 45:32.146 Everybody has a lot of pride working homicide. 45:32.229 --> 45:35.816 You get a case, and you work that case. You're not gonna let go. 45:37.901 --> 45:40.446 [Titchenal] Even though I still communicate with Bruce, 45:40.529 --> 45:44.032 I don't have any sympathy for him and his situation, 45:44.533 --> 45:47.661 but I can't punish him any more than he's already being punished. 45:49.788 --> 45:53.792 I really do feel for Jana, her mother, and her father, 45:53.876 --> 45:56.044 not knowing what happened to their daughter. 45:56.128 --> 45:58.589 That's very sad and that breaks my heart. 46:05.053 --> 46:07.723 [Baird] I miss Jana every single day. 46:08.307 --> 46:09.641 It still hurts. 46:12.186 --> 46:14.146 She was a lovely person. 46:15.439 --> 46:17.566 Yes, I miss her very much. 46:19.234 --> 46:20.235 [sniffles] 46:20.319 --> 46:21.320 I'm sorry. 46:25.282 --> 46:27.409 [Shonka] Being able to put this puzzle together, 46:27.493 --> 46:30.704 and then take it to court for 12 people to look at it, 46:31.205 --> 46:35.125 and for them to unanimously agree 46:35.209 --> 46:38.629 with what myself and my team put together, 46:39.379 --> 46:42.090 it's so rewarding to be able to do that. 46:43.592 --> 46:45.594 [somber music playing] 46:53.101 --> 46:54.478 [indistinct chatter] 46:59.066 --> 47:01.026 As I look back and reflect on it 47:01.109 --> 47:03.570 now that I'm no longer a homicide detective… 47:03.654 --> 47:07.449 I've only been retired 32 days now, so it's kind of… 47:07.533 --> 47:10.536 After 42 years, I'm wrapping my head around it still. 47:10.619 --> 47:13.455 I was very depressed when I left Sheriff's Homicide. 47:13.539 --> 47:15.332 It's like leaving my family. 47:15.916 --> 47:19.419 I miss the excitement, the challenge of solving a case, 47:19.503 --> 47:21.755 so, um, I thought about it a year, 47:21.839 --> 47:23.549 and I just had to go back. 47:23.632 --> 47:25.509 I just couldn't handle retiring. 47:25.592 --> 47:27.177 I cried. [laughs] 47:27.261 --> 47:28.512 I did. I… I mean, 47:28.595 --> 47:33.767 I was just so conflicted with leaving, and I didn't feel it in my heart. 47:34.685 --> 47:38.522 Karen Shonka retired but decided to go back to work. 47:38.605 --> 47:40.023 She's a workaholic. 47:40.107 --> 47:41.483 Crazy girl went back. 47:41.567 --> 47:45.779 There's a very small percentage of people that come to Sheriff's Homicide Bureau 47:45.863 --> 47:49.074 and stay there for, let's say, more than a decade. 47:49.157 --> 47:51.201 I think that that takes a special person 47:51.285 --> 47:53.954 to see and deal with the trauma that we deal with. 47:54.037 --> 47:55.622 [bright, hopeful music playing] 47:55.706 --> 47:57.624 [Hernandez] There is no other job like ours, 47:58.208 --> 48:01.336 even law enforcement in particular, working homicide. 48:02.462 --> 48:04.882 I think that's where it becomes a family. 48:05.591 --> 48:08.677 [Tomlin] You gotta remember, in that room, there's different ideologies. 48:08.760 --> 48:11.305 Different religions, different races, 48:11.388 --> 48:14.266 different political parties, if you will, 48:14.349 --> 48:16.560 but you come together 48:18.937 --> 48:20.564 for the job. 48:20.647 --> 48:23.400 You were a small part of something much bigger. 48:23.483 --> 48:26.320 It's a whole shitload of responsibility on your shoulders. 48:26.403 --> 48:28.196 But it is kind of fucking cool, right? 48:28.280 --> 48:30.991 To show up and you're the shot caller, big baller. 48:31.074 --> 48:35.454 I would say if I miss one thing, it was the people that I worked with, 48:35.537 --> 48:37.289 and the fun that we had, 48:37.372 --> 48:40.292 and the time to get serious, and the time to play. 48:40.375 --> 48:43.545 Deep down, you always will be a cop, and you'll always be a detective. 48:43.629 --> 48:47.341 If I had to go back and do it over again, and I was 25 or 30 again, 48:47.424 --> 48:49.926 and I knew, "This is what's ahead next 35 years," 48:50.010 --> 48:53.096 I wouldn't change a goddamn thing, not a thing. 48:53.180 --> 48:56.350 I wouldn't change anything. It was the greatest ride of my life. 49:11.073 --> 49:13.075 [hopeful music trails off] 49:13.659 --> 49:15.661 [dramatic outro music pulsing] was the greatest ride of my life.