zip tied my legs, duct taped my hair. there s no words. i m sitting there just, hysterical. it s terrifying. reporter: she thought he was mr. right. a confidence harmful surgeon until the good doctor seemed to turn sinister. he had put his hands over my head and said, go ahead and try and leave. i didn t know where else to go. she just wroebg down. , she just sits down. unravel not just one murder scheme but two. so tphoul you have a man and a woman who both want their x euz. it was just unreal. i didn t think this was happening. these detectives had a plan and you were a big part of it. oh my god. it s just it s the worse it he ll hroel wepb tom nothing was at it seemed. to understand how a nice looking couple ended up at the table talking to two people they thought were hit men, we need to go back to the beginning when megan varacas had just met a charming dr. named leon jacob. here s wrists in tábgs tápbgs. in the binning. she was giddy, charmed. i do
you just wonder how this could happen. it seems very surreal. a quiet night at home shattered by a gunshot. she came out of the shower and i heard a pop. and there s blood. a young life dying on the floor. she wasn t talking at all. i m asking, what happened here? i was utterly confuse. so many different stories about what might have happened. he said many things that night. maybe someone shot something at the house. at one point he said it was 80% suicide. police had their own theory. i thought, oh, man, there s something going on here. we don t see a lot of women commit suicide naked. his stories weren t adding up. but something else was it adding up either. a key piece of evidence. we went to the house and we walked in and we think, ha. would in the stake in measurement send an innocent man to prison? or free a guilty one? we thought it was over. we thought this was settled. one suspect, so many stories, only one of them could be true.
decide punishment. in the penalty phase, prosecutors called a new witness. leon s ex-wife, any. she testified in vivid detail that leon was abusive. what did the defendant tell you? that was my punishment for calling the police. was holding me in the bed with a knife to my throat. this defendant cannot be trusted to live among us. a guilty verdict without the appropriate punishment is hollow. there s something you want out of the punishment phase? i would never want him to be able to do this to somebody else. because if it wasn t me, it wasn t valerie, if it wasn t any, it s going to be somebody else. and that needs to stop. the jury sentenced leon to life in prison. afterwards, meghan addressed him directly. while you sit in jail i hope you think of me. the girl that you called poor and undereducated. this is because of me big you will be in prison for life. i was really proud of her. i think he took an incredible courage on her part to see this
in texas they can decide punishment. in the penalty phase, prosecutors called a new witness, leon s ex-wife. she testified in vivid detail leon was abusive. what did leon tell you? ing that was my punishment for calling the police, being held in bed with a knife to my throat. there s something you want out of the punishment phase. i would never want him to be able do this to somebody else because if it wunltds me, if it wasn t valerie, if it wasn t annie, it s going to be somebody else, and that needs to stop. the jury sentenced leon to life in prison. afterward meghan addressed him directly. while you sit in jail i hope you think of me, the girl who s poor and uneducated. because of me, you ll be in prison for life. i was really proud of her. it took courage to see this