billowing when goodwyn learned about the death of trish hughes. so her death didn t trigger your interest in him? he landed on the obituary and, bingo, there was lou s name. that was the first time i had seen lou castro in print. underlying his suspicion, he theorized he had a drug case. i worked drug case sz and unexpected weltd so goodwym began to come out. maybe i had side there was truss
get that? it was obvious it was the person we knew as lou castro and now as daniel pers. lou castro was daniel perez. born in texas. he pleaded no contest to two sex crimes. but he was believed to be dead. and the person believed to be dead for many years but you saw him in wichita. so he was on the lam. he was on the lam. sglrs interviews with the angels landing commune helped goodwin connect the dots between six states and more than a dozen commune members. and something else happened. emily wrote a letter to lou while he was serving time for id fraud. i said i m finally going where i want to go and doing the
couldn t help? right. reporter: emily got the baby out of the pool but, because she was just a wisp of a thing, try as she might emily could not lift trish s body out of the water. hopeless. across town, sara and lou were checking out cars at the dealership when sara s phone rang. i receive a phone call from emily. and she says that, trish fell in the pool. i need you to come home. did she say that trish was dead? yes. so this is shocking news. you ve all just had lunch a few hours before. and now you re hearing trish is dead, huh? uh-huh. reporter: lou and sara raced back home to angels landing, where police and emts were already on the scene. there s no reason to believe that she was under the influence of anything at this time. reporter: they had pulled trish s body from the pool, and taken photographs. a single beach sandal floated on the water s surface. pieces of trish s hair clip were in the pool. it had snapped apart when she
irresistible. he d become more than a client. well at first, he was just somebody that mom was doing business with. but they would go to lunch often. reporter: as you look back now emily what do you think went on with your mother? i don t know. reporter: but something was going on, huh? something was. reporter: and something was going on with lou too. no sooner had he settled down in greater kansas city, than his family commune was on the move again. and guess who was going with them? jennifer the realtor and her two girls. reporter: and what d your dad think? my dad was devastated. reporter: just like that, in the fall of 2001. emily, sara and their mom were packing up a u-haul and heading out for a fresh start to life. you got to leave your neighborhood, your playmates, your class kids. at first, i was really upset. but eventually it kind of seemed like a new adventure and that that s what mom really needed to do. reporter: the new home for all three was a ten
five so far. money in a, her boyfriend and daughter lindsey perished in the plane crash, trish in the pool and now brian had been crushed under a car he was working on. while all of the deaths were deemed to be accidents really he wondered how could any family be so unlucky? what baffled him most is he didn t know who the central man, lou castro, really was. rifling through angels landing trash cans hadn t worked. what do you do next? one day when i was out on a day off i just happened to see lou castro with a female in an suv vehicle. i followed them to a restaurant on the north end of town. goodwyn sat in the restaurant, watched and waited. after they finished, i contacted the manager and asked if i could collect the dishes and glasses they had used at that table. reporter: the idea was to get fresh fingerprints that could