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>> did she tell you she loved you? >> yes. she told me how sorry she was, how she doesnt remember shooting me. >> at the time you really believed that, huh? >> yes. >> and so they headed out on the road, eastbound on interstate 80, patty behind the wheel, jaime riding shotgun. they stopped for some gauze to stuff into jaimes bullet holes and went on an 18-hour drive as the kids life slowly oozed away. after the night in the motel, this murderous odd couple was in custody. and jaime, so close to ...

>> so as the summer sun set and the two watched television, jaime told ron who was hard of hearing that the pigs were making noise and maybe they should investigate. it was out by the pig pen, youll recall, where ron was to be murdered. >> because that way it would be easier to hide, clean up, if you want to say. i was going to use a falling ax and i had it here by my waist, ready to swing, but the adrenaline that i felt that should have surged through went in and out in a split second. and i we...

Lake, even though he was begging patty to drive south to mexico. and he decided that patty probably was trying to set him up to take the fall for rons murder. but he also decided that maybe, for the love of patty, he would do just that. he went over in his head the story he would tell when detectives came to see him. >> that i did it, that im a mad man. but then a feint thought of my family came through, saying, oh, yeah, my family. what is my grandmother going to think? so thats when i started ...

Family was sentenced to 25 years to life. but before being led off to prison, he agreed to meet with rons daughters, april and misty. >> he explained that the little amount of time that he knew my dad he was also growing to love him, and it is hard to hear that from somebody that brutally murdered him. >> thats the hardest part for me, that he would still do this, and still take him away knowing the type of person he was, and to follow through with it. >> the forest home where their father cared...

Thats right, pattys my wife. i married her. how dare you touch my wife that way? and i hit him on the head about three, four more times. and it just ended up where i knew for a fact he was dead. >> broke his skull. >> i broke his skull. and i dropped the hammer, and i felt a relief, and i felt exhausted. >> relief? >> relief that i finally got this over with, that i finally did justice for this woman. shell be happy now. >> but to fully please patty, jaime still had much to do. he needed to stag...

Insignificant. i went back to feeling alone. >> and not a man. >> and not a man. it always brings me back to the void of losing my mother. its unbearable. your bones want to come out of your skin from anxiety, start thinking these suicidal thoughts. >> and once when patty was making up with jaime after putting him through one of those awful black and needy days, she revealed a terrible secret. her husband, ron presba, she said, had been beating her. >> i just kept telling her, well, get a divorc...

Rons murder, the two detectives were back at the presba house, investigating another strange and violent crime. >> there was forced entry into the house. there was blood, a kidnap note found at the house. >> what did the note say? >> it was a white piece of paper, printer paper, with cutout pieces or cutout letters from a magazine, glued to it, stating that i have taken her. >> did it occur to either one of you that maybe ramos himself had kidnapped patricia, that he was behind this from the get...

A relationship with her which was in some ways like yours? in other words, he was always trying to please her? >> yes. >> was he ever mean to her? >> not once did i hear him raise his voice. >> not at all? >> not at all. >> this is the ogre who was raping and beating her? did it make any sense? >> didnt make any sense. >> so jaime dropped the whole idea of murder, couldnt possibly kill this lovely man. right? well, no. because patty had made her decision about what was going to happen here at ro...

Them would sit together every afternoon and have tea. rons mother lois says her son was devoted to his two adoring daughters, april and misty, and they to him. >> oh, my gosh. he was like a father and a mother. they didnt have a mother, so he cooked, took care of their laundry and cleaned the house. >> he would do our hair and -- >> french braid our hair. >> french braid our hair. >> grizzly adams french braided your hair? >> he was like a mother/father, and knew how to take care of us and did a...

The location of her husbands murder. the plan, jaime was to lure ron to the pig pen, hit him from behind, load his body into his old suburban and roll it off the side of this mountain road, known by the locals as chili bar. of all the miles of winding road around rons little farm, this was the perfect spot to stage an accident. you see that s curve where the truck is coming around the hill over there? there is no protective barrier. a car can go right down into the valley, hundreds of feet below...