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>> reporter: at sedgwick county district court in wichita, kansas. >> "you must determine whether the defendant is guilty or not guilty." >> reporter: daniel perez, aka lou castro, went on trial. he was charged with the first-degree murder of trish hughes. with sexual crimes including child exploitation, and fraud. eventually 28 counts in all. there were no charges in any of the other mysterious deaths. emily and sara would both testify, at the time not wanting to make public their identities, and face down the accused who'd controlled them both for so many years. >> reporter: i can't imagine ...

And as the clouds lifted over angel's landing, shiny new rights appeared in the drive. >> before trish died, there were three corvette's and everybody else had an suv. and then after trish died, it got more and more and more extravagant. >> more vehicles -- >> higher price vehicles. >> the salesman must of been licking their chops to see him coming. >> they were. we all had the dealerships owner's cellphones. >> speed i'll? >> yeah, yeah. >> in fact, we lou spent 1 million and a half dollars on cars in just a few years. in his lavish generosity didn't stop on the family. seven civil minded lou...

>> reporter: wichita detective ron goodwyn had listened in horror as emily and sara revealed the awful story of trish hughes's murder at angels landing. but nothing, not the email from daniel, the story about trish's drowning, or his wildest suspicions about lou castro, could prepare him for what he was about to hear next. >> emily, here's the really difficult part of your story. and i'll let you tell as little or as much of it as you like. but you seemed right away to be sharing the bedroom with lou. >> i was. >> as a fourth grader. >> yes. i was -- i was ten. >> ten years old? >> yes. and i ...

>> like, arthur was mean. and daniel was kinder. >> reporter: but you didn't wanna meet either of these alternate personalities, huh? >> no. no. >> amber was the angel of death. so, she would come around when somebody was going to die. >> reporter: he could see who was going to die? was that something he -- >> yes. >> reporter: said was in his powers? >> right. >> reporter: and did you ever see that personality in him? >> i did. he wouldn't blink. he would get this terrible grin that just looked evil. >> reporter: the sisters say before their mom's death, castro had a terrifying vision. >> he ...

Ron goodwyn was scarcely able to take in the story of the cult, and the occult, at angels landing. sisters emily and sara recounted that lou castro, whose real name was daniel perez, had brainwashed them into believing that he was a seer, and that he took on the personalities of dark manipulative angels who could predict someone's death. they said they believed it really happened. eight months after castro's arrest, emily at last took the detective back to 2003, and the tragic death of trish hughes. this was a different story than the one she told at the time back when she was 11, and it began...