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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 ...

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...

Live a life like he wants to live. he will stop at nothing, including, you know, murder and rape. and he didn't stop at anything to get what he wanted. >> reporter: after the investigators presented all their evidence to the da, they waited until castro had completed his 2-year federal prison sentence, then they immediately rearrested him and he ended up being charged with 28 counts: first-degree murder, child exploitation as well as multiple counts of sexual crimes and fraud. kansas v daniel perez was heading to the court. as witnesses filed into the courtroom, the investigators wondered if t...

Her daughter lindsey; the death of brian hughes under a collapsed vehicle; that inexplicable head-on tragedy in which sara's and emily's mom jennifer died? and trish hughes's drowning. as the investigators called everyone with links to castro, the phone trail took goodwyn to south texas. >> it took us to south texas because patricia hughes the victim in the drowning was from beeville, texas. >> reporter: goodwyn questioned trish's family and a sister recalled trish had gone with a guy way back when. >> a guy by the name of daniel perez. >> reporter: had you ever heard that name in all your yea...

Didn't know and tell them all of these terrible things in terribly, graphic detail that had happened when i was 10. >> reporter: and there were more witnesses, another four young women from three states, alleged victims unaware of one another, agreeing that lou castro claimed malevolent angels were controlling him as he assaulted them sexually. >> reporter: so the m.o. of -- >> yes. >> reporter: attacking his victims was similar. >> they didn't know each other. >> thousands of miles apart. >> and their story is essentially the same. >> reporter: but it was the fraud charges that revealed the b...