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year old cody griffith from texas, who had also once been on the fringes of the family commune. he had been close to trish and lou thanks to his mom mona. >> my mom and church were really great friends. they would do a lot together. >> cody's mom mona was something of a flower child. >> she was extremely loving, very free spirited. everything was spontaneous. there was really no planning. she could say hey, let's get in the car and drive somewhere. >> could have been a hippie in earlier days? >> maybe. just someone who is extremely loving. very accepting. >> when cody was growing up in corpus christi in the mid 90s, his mom mona was going through a difficult divorce. and financial troubles. she, cody and cody's young sister lindsey, moved in with their good friends trish and lou at the apartment complex. >> i remember lou taking us to baseball practice. my sister and lou taking her home from school in south like that. >> his mom and trish took turns cooking for what was the beginnings of the common. so you really an extended family? >> pretty much. i looked at lou and trish as an uncle. >> so when trish and lou

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>> the sister say that before his mom's death, the castro had a terrifying vision. >> he protected that my mom was going to die. >> devastated. >> it was awful. the >> the outlandish stories were shocking to ron goodwin, a seasoned detective who is about to just govern more about lou castro's power over life and death. and it was about to take the detective back to that summer day in 2003, when trish was drowned in the swimming pool in angels landing. >> her story is that tricia hughes is not an accidental drowning? >> coming up, what emily heard, and then what emily saw. when dateline continues. thee continues. th like that cardboard tv. i told props to switch that out. okay, everyone, that's a wrap. [ bell rings ] wait, you faked this whole thing? i knew it was the quickest way to see you.

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>> for you too? >> absolutely. >> it was really hard. it breaks my heart. >> and it was hard for lou. trish was someone he regarded as his best friend. lou had met trish in the mid 19th, is south texas, as serving after serving in the navy. and for 8 years they were inseparable travelers, moving on to south dakota and ending up in wichita. >> it was very traumatic. >> as the family commune try to come to terms with a tragedy, trish's husband brian embraced his daughter closer. gradually they all got on with their lives. >> and then your what, going back to school? the usual things? >> exactly. >> still, it was hard for the family to put trish's death behind them. and something else was troubling them. emily and sara had a fuzzy recollection that trish wasn't the first person in the family commune to die. they recently had met a teenager who had also once been

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i found out enough that i believed that it should be and somebody else is hands, that they could do something with it. >> daniel laid out his suspicions, painting an alarming picture of the angel's landing commune. a series of mysterious deaths. a code of silence enforced with sickening threats. and a big clue as to where all of the money might have come from. and at the center of it all, the man who called himself, lou castro. even for this veteran of the wars in afghanistan and iraq, according to the authorities, carried its risks. >> did you work with it? >> i did. but i decided this was something i have to do. and the chips will fall with a fall. >> it turns out the authorities were very interested in what you had to say. >> yes. >> sold, in december, 2009, nearly seven years after the wichita investigation began, detectives goodwyn and snider, and the fbi agent sullivan, got their first break. the email from daniel.

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he had to work around the clock. what drove you on this thing? >> they had to be something else he was out there he was hiding from. >> the mystery? >> the mystery of lou castro, mystery identity. >> one thing was for sure, goodwyn wasn't going to let this go. coming up -- yet another member of the commune meets a tragic end. but this time, a light bulb would go off. >> what we saw was a pattern. >> as investigators dig into lou's past, he starts to seem like a ghost. >> there should've been credit records, drivers license records. we could find none. >> when dateline continues. from the world's #1 selling nerve care company. nervive contains alpha lipoic acid to relieve occasional nerve aches, weakness and discomfort. try nervivenerve relief. nurse mariyam sabo knows a moment this pure demands a lotion this pure. gold bond pure moisture lotion 24-hour hydration no parabens, dyes,

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he knew it was coming. >> did you believe? >> it i was skeptical at first, but when you are nine or ten and your mom says this is really what is happening, you give it a little bit more credibility. >> it was not just emily and sarah's mom, others at angels landing believed that lou was a direct descendant of geronimo, and had power to make it rain and bring good health to those at death's door. >> trisha told me about similar instances, where either lou had been dead, or an animal had been dead, or somebody had been really sick, and they made them better. >> did you believe? >> yes. you could also see people, like from the past. like, people that had already died. he could see those people. >> see them, because he said, he was an angel. >> lou said, your mom is right, i am. one hundreds of years old, this is not really my body, i have

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lou's named. >> that was the first time i had see lou castro in the print. >> underlining -- he theorized had a drug case. >> i worked drug cases and unexplained wealth is something that you look at. to determine if that is how this person might be earning their money. >> so, goodwyn set out to collect evidence from angel's landing. it began with a trash bags. maybe inside there was evidence of drugs. incriminating documents, or a fingerprint. so maybe if you can get a fingerprint, somewhere he will be in the system and you will come out with a name? >> that's right. >> you try to get a fingerprint? >> i did. >> and the tech guys can't come up with anything? >> they could not. >> frustrating. there was no evidence of drugs. and nearly three years later, there were still no clues as to who lou castro was. but in 2006, came another shocking coincidence. brian hughes, trisha's husband, an expert 31 year old mechanic

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that his family commune was on the move again. and guess who is going with them? jennifer the realtor and her two girls. what did your dad think? >> my dad was devastated. >> 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. have you had 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's what mom really needed to do. >> the new home for all three was a ten acre many farm north of wichita. they moved in with lou in his family commune in the spread they cold angel's landing. the girl's mom, jennifer, brought the adjoining ten acres and built a second. house and after they added a swimming pool and a dirt track for atvs, the commune little later put up a third. house so what was the routine of the house? >> we were all having meals together and we didn't really do chores. >> while the girl's mom resumed

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her family -- they had recalled that tricia went with a guy way back when. >> a guy named daniel perez. >> have you ever heard that name in all the years trying to figure out who lack after? was >> daniel perez. goodwin immediately contacted the local authorities, and it turned out that there was a record of daniel perez. and it mugshot. >> the fact that to me that day. >> i remember one ron finally got the facts from taxes, and i snatch it out of his hands and say, where did you get that? it was obvious that it was the person that we knew as lou castro. of course now we know they are daniel perez. >> lou castro was daniel perez. born in a taxes in 19 -- that in the mid 1990s but the cases had been dismissed because he was believed to be dead. >> the person believed in south access to be dead for many years. >> he was not dead because you saw him in wichita.

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>> we would go fishing together. she would take me to the pool every day during the summer. things like that. when we were close, but we fought like siblings. >> sara with 16, emily just nine, and a star student. >> i was teachers pet. i was usually one of the top of my class. >> so you are always prepared? >> yeah, i was a suck up. [laughs] >> you said that, i did. it [laughs] >> totally was, i didn't know it then. but i was. >> everything was easy sailing for the girls until their parents lives went in different directions. >> i knew that my parents were getting divorced. i didn't know why. they never fought in front of us or anything. >> that's always tough. orchids that's summer, 2001, their mom jennifer was showing houses to a new client. a man named lou castro, who with his long hair and western hat, looks like a well-heeled young cowboy. >> he seemed really charismatic and outgoing and friendly.

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