WEBVTT 00:00:03.299 --> 00:00:06.469 She had found exactly what she was looking for 00:00:06.511 --> 00:00:07.929 and what she was missing. 00:00:08.805 --> 00:00:11.599 Lawrence came into her life and made her happy. 00:00:12.016 --> 00:00:13.977 He is the ideal partner, 00:00:14.018 --> 00:00:16.604 a stabilizing presence for her rocky past. 00:00:17.480 --> 00:00:21.067 Lisa was injured in a car accident. 00:00:21.109 --> 00:00:23.069 For somebody to make her feel beautiful, 00:00:23.111 --> 00:00:24.279 it was very nice. 00:00:25.071 --> 00:00:27.824 But her sense of security is soon replaced 00:00:27.824 --> 00:00:30.535 by his overwhelming need for control. 00:00:32.078 --> 00:00:35.623 Lawrence did not like Lisa being in the military. 00:00:36.416 --> 00:00:39.544 He would call her two, three, four times a day. 00:00:39.586 --> 00:00:40.545 Every day. 00:00:41.421 --> 00:00:43.339 She left a message on my answering machine. 00:00:43.381 --> 00:00:45.049 "I have something to talk to you about, 00:00:45.091 --> 00:00:46.217 very important." 00:00:46.885 --> 00:00:49.053 And then we never seen her again. 00:00:49.929 --> 00:00:52.056 Lisa just disappeared. 00:00:53.892 --> 00:00:55.101 There was no clues. 00:00:55.143 --> 00:00:56.561 We didn't have nothing. 00:00:57.270 --> 00:01:00.106 An eight year investigation 00:01:00.148 --> 00:01:02.066 uncovers difficult truths. 00:01:02.650 --> 00:01:05.195 He said, "I've got tapes of Lawrence." 00:01:05.737 --> 00:01:06.738 And I'm like, 00:01:06.779 --> 00:01:07.780 "You've got tapes?" 00:01:10.450 --> 00:01:14.662 And reveals the long-sought secret behind 00:01:14.704 --> 00:01:16.539 a killer relationship. 00:01:18.208 --> 00:01:19.626 We start that dig, 00:01:19.667 --> 00:01:21.211 one inch at a time. 00:01:21.252 --> 00:01:23.588 And I find these teeth... 00:01:24.964 --> 00:01:26.466 and I'm like, "Oh my God." 00:01:31.554 --> 00:01:32.680 Divorce. 00:01:32.764 --> 00:01:34.015 It's messy. 00:01:34.057 --> 00:01:35.767 Usually really messy. 00:01:35.767 --> 00:01:37.185 I should know. 00:01:37.227 --> 00:01:38.937 As the judge on Divorce Court, 00:01:38.978 --> 00:01:40.980 I've seen my fair share. 00:01:41.481 --> 00:01:43.483 For 28-year-old Lisa Marto, 00:01:43.524 --> 00:01:45.610 divorce is especially painful. 00:01:45.652 --> 00:01:48.738 Her parents bitterly split when she was a child, 00:01:48.821 --> 00:01:51.532 and Lisa's first marriage ended quickly 00:01:51.574 --> 00:01:54.953 leaving her struggling with little help or support. 00:01:54.994 --> 00:01:57.872 It's why Lisa's marriage to Lawrence Gaudenzi 00:01:57.914 --> 00:02:00.041 in the spring of 1994 00:02:00.083 --> 00:02:03.127 is full of so much hope and promise. 00:02:07.465 --> 00:02:10.385 Lisa had a very privileged childhood. 00:02:10.426 --> 00:02:13.888 Her father had multiple stores at the time, 00:02:13.930 --> 00:02:16.474 on the Boardwalk of Atlantic City. 00:02:16.516 --> 00:02:19.769 And they had a large house with swimming pool 00:02:19.852 --> 00:02:22.021 and multiple fireplaces. 00:02:22.647 --> 00:02:24.816 They used to get taken to school, her and her sister, 00:02:24.816 --> 00:02:26.943 in a Rolls Royce. 00:02:26.985 --> 00:02:30.196 They had an upstairs maid, a downstairs maid. 00:02:30.238 --> 00:02:31.698 That's how she grew up. 00:02:32.323 --> 00:02:34.283 But when Lisa is eight years old, 00:02:34.325 --> 00:02:37.286 her mom and dad fight through a bitter divorce 00:02:37.328 --> 00:02:40.373 and her beautiful life falls apart. 00:02:43.001 --> 00:02:45.962 She grew up with the split family, 00:02:46.004 --> 00:02:47.797 with a father she saw on the weekends 00:02:47.880 --> 00:02:50.049 and mom during the week. 00:02:51.092 --> 00:02:54.012 She wrote to a friend how she would have given up 00:02:54.053 --> 00:02:56.931 all the clothes and all the fancy cars 00:02:56.973 --> 00:03:01.060 to have, you know, one week as a family. 00:03:02.353 --> 00:03:05.648 Unfortunately, it's not her only early trauma. 00:03:06.190 --> 00:03:09.485 As a teenager, Lisa suffers another setback. 00:03:10.528 --> 00:03:13.448 Lisa was injured in a car accident. 00:03:14.157 --> 00:03:16.284 She was about 15, 16 years of age 00:03:16.325 --> 00:03:18.077 and it left some scars on her face 00:03:18.119 --> 00:03:19.412 up in this area. 00:03:19.454 --> 00:03:22.373 She was more self-conscious than anybody else. 00:03:23.082 --> 00:03:27.378 And she had a porcelain plate put in from the dentist. 00:03:29.630 --> 00:03:30.882 At the age of 20, 00:03:30.923 --> 00:03:33.259 looking to put her troubled past behind her, 00:03:33.301 --> 00:03:36.304 Lisa takes off and settles near Palm Beach, Florida, 00:03:36.345 --> 00:03:38.848 where she meets a man named Jim Burdette 00:03:38.931 --> 00:03:40.641 and quickly gets married. 00:03:44.312 --> 00:03:46.272 Lisa is searching for stability, 00:03:46.314 --> 00:03:48.024 but her young husband isn't close 00:03:48.065 --> 00:03:50.318 to being able to provide that. 00:03:50.359 --> 00:03:54.197 She became pregnant, and the reality of being a parent, 00:03:54.238 --> 00:03:56.616 being a father set in, 00:03:56.657 --> 00:04:00.453 and he was not ready for that at that point in his life. 00:04:02.497 --> 00:04:04.665 The couple soon divorces, 00:04:04.707 --> 00:04:08.669 but not before welcoming a baby girl named Lea. 00:04:08.711 --> 00:04:12.632 Sadly, she's born with a debilitating illness. 00:04:13.841 --> 00:04:16.594 Lea had cystic fibrosis, 00:04:16.636 --> 00:04:18.346 so she was very ill, 00:04:18.387 --> 00:04:22.517 and that can be a terminal illness for a child. 00:04:24.685 --> 00:04:29.398 They didn't expect me to live a very long at all. 00:04:30.274 --> 00:04:32.193 So it was really hard on her. 00:04:33.236 --> 00:04:37.657 But my mom was a very strong person, 00:04:37.698 --> 00:04:39.742 mentally and physically. 00:04:41.077 --> 00:04:43.829 Want to know how strong Lisa is? 00:04:43.871 --> 00:04:45.373 She's in her early 20s, 00:04:45.414 --> 00:04:47.375 a single mom with a young daughter 00:04:47.416 --> 00:04:49.710 who's got serious medical issues, 00:04:49.752 --> 00:04:53.089 and she's living on her own with no outside support. 00:04:53.130 --> 00:04:55.091 So what does she do? 00:04:56.509 --> 00:05:00.096 In 1991, five years after her divorce, 00:05:00.137 --> 00:05:02.807 Lisa moves with her six-year-old Lea 00:05:02.848 --> 00:05:05.393 from Florida to Richmond, Virginia 00:05:05.434 --> 00:05:07.562 so she can enroll in pre-law studies 00:05:07.603 --> 00:05:10.231 at Virginia Commonwealth University. 00:05:10.815 --> 00:05:11.774 That's right. 00:05:11.816 --> 00:05:13.484 She decides to become a lawyer. 00:05:15.987 --> 00:05:19.407 Lisa was raised with a lot of material values 00:05:19.448 --> 00:05:22.702 and she did want to be the opposite as an adult. 00:05:22.743 --> 00:05:25.162 She wanted to serve the public 00:05:25.204 --> 00:05:30.042 and help the underprivileged and get her education 00:05:30.084 --> 00:05:33.796 so that she could achieve her dream of becoming a lawyer. 00:05:35.172 --> 00:05:37.758 To help pay for school and babysitting, 00:05:37.800 --> 00:05:39.593 Lisa takes a full-time job, 00:05:39.635 --> 00:05:43.222 which is where she meets Lawrence Gaudenzi. 00:05:44.473 --> 00:05:47.768 Lisa was working for an auto body shop 00:05:47.810 --> 00:05:50.146 when she met Lawrence. 00:05:50.187 --> 00:05:52.690 Lawrence was a tow truck driver. 00:05:53.399 --> 00:05:56.319 Lawrence came into her life and made her happy. 00:05:57.445 --> 00:06:00.239 Lawrence absolutely charmed Lisa, 00:06:00.281 --> 00:06:01.657 saying all the right things 00:06:01.699 --> 00:06:06.412 about family values and raising children. 00:06:07.955 --> 00:06:12.126 By Christmas 1992, Lawrence and Lisa are spending 00:06:12.168 --> 00:06:13.753 all their time together. 00:06:13.794 --> 00:06:17.298 And she is convinced that unlike her first husband, 00:06:17.339 --> 00:06:19.633 Lawrence is a man who will support her 00:06:19.675 --> 00:06:21.844 and her young daughter. 00:06:21.886 --> 00:06:24.513 A lot of men don't want somebody else's child 00:06:24.555 --> 00:06:26.182 and they don't want to take care of them, 00:06:26.223 --> 00:06:27.975 and Lawrence did. 00:06:28.726 --> 00:06:30.978 She kept telling me, "My biological clock is ticking. 00:06:31.062 --> 00:06:32.688 I want another baby." 00:06:33.856 --> 00:06:38.694 Lisa's wish comes true in November of 1993, 00:06:38.736 --> 00:06:42.281 when she and Lawrence welcome Shelby into the world. 00:06:42.907 --> 00:06:45.242 And six months later, 00:06:45.284 --> 00:06:47.286 Lisa and Lawrence get married, 00:06:47.328 --> 00:06:49.497 moving the family of four to a house 00:06:49.538 --> 00:06:52.333 in a small town outside of Richmond. 00:06:54.293 --> 00:06:57.046 There was a Christmas where, you know, 00:06:57.046 --> 00:06:58.631 he was picking her up and, you know, 00:06:58.672 --> 00:07:00.549 holding her and carrying her around. 00:07:00.591 --> 00:07:05.971 And she had such a beautiful smile going on. 00:07:06.055 --> 00:07:10.226 And she didn't really think she was very beautiful 00:07:10.267 --> 00:07:12.603 as a person because she had been in a car accident 00:07:12.645 --> 00:07:15.272 and had a lot of scar tissue on her face. 00:07:17.274 --> 00:07:22.279 So for somebody to make her feel beautiful was very, 00:07:22.321 --> 00:07:23.823 it was very nice. 00:07:29.161 --> 00:07:32.039 But the honeymoon doesn't last very long. 00:07:32.122 --> 00:07:34.208 The marriage quickly becomes strained 00:07:34.250 --> 00:07:37.753 when Lawrence can't find enough work to support the family. 00:07:38.254 --> 00:07:41.006 Earning a full-time income from towing cars 00:07:41.048 --> 00:07:44.927 was not as easy as it was when he lived in the city. 00:07:45.344 --> 00:07:48.722 Lawrence's ability to provide was questionable. 00:07:50.975 --> 00:07:52.393 Money. 00:07:52.434 --> 00:07:55.145 It's what brings more couples into Divorce Court 00:07:55.229 --> 00:07:56.564 than anything else. 00:07:56.605 --> 00:07:59.316 And not being able to provide for his family, 00:07:59.358 --> 00:08:01.402 it brings out the worst in Lawrence, 00:08:01.443 --> 00:08:05.155 revealing a darker side Lisa has never seen before. 00:08:08.117 --> 00:08:11.412 Everything looked fine on the outside, 00:08:11.453 --> 00:08:15.291 but we were in the bathroom, 00:08:15.332 --> 00:08:18.377 and... 00:08:18.419 --> 00:08:20.546 I was doing her hair and her makeup 00:08:20.588 --> 00:08:22.881 and the towel fell off of her. 00:08:23.340 --> 00:08:25.676 And I seen her legs all bruised. 00:08:27.344 --> 00:08:31.223 I told Lisa then, "You come home with us. 00:08:31.265 --> 00:08:32.891 You take the girls, 00:08:32.933 --> 00:08:34.101 both the girls, 00:08:34.184 --> 00:08:35.728 and you come home with us." 00:08:36.478 --> 00:08:39.648 And she said, "No, everything's okay. 00:08:39.690 --> 00:08:41.608 Everything's been straightened out." 00:08:41.984 --> 00:08:43.360 I said, "Okay." 00:08:46.155 --> 00:08:48.115 By the fall of 1994, 00:08:48.157 --> 00:08:49.616 Lisa is heartbroken. 00:08:49.658 --> 00:08:52.202 She's in another unsupportive marriage 00:08:52.244 --> 00:08:54.621 that is on the verge of a breakup. 00:08:55.372 --> 00:08:58.000 Hoping that if she can take the financial pressure 00:08:58.042 --> 00:09:01.837 off of Lawrence, she can salvage their marriage, 00:09:01.879 --> 00:09:03.964 Lisa takes a dramatic step 00:09:04.006 --> 00:09:06.008 and enlists in the Army. 00:09:06.550 --> 00:09:09.553 One of the things that the military offered her 00:09:09.595 --> 00:09:11.805 would be a chance to gain her, you know, 00:09:11.847 --> 00:09:13.557 legal training through the military 00:09:13.599 --> 00:09:17.019 and then serve in the military as a judge. 00:09:19.813 --> 00:09:23.150 Lawrence reluctantly agrees to take care of the girls 00:09:23.233 --> 00:09:24.985 while Lisa goes through training. 00:09:25.027 --> 00:09:28.530 But instead of appreciating her sacrifice for the family, 00:09:28.572 --> 00:09:30.657 he resents her for it. 00:09:30.699 --> 00:09:31.992 Why? 00:09:32.034 --> 00:09:34.787 Because Lisa's dreams of becoming a military judge 00:09:34.828 --> 00:09:38.415 are at odds with the future he once envisioned. 00:09:38.457 --> 00:09:40.417 As the time comes for Lisa to leave 00:09:40.459 --> 00:09:42.628 for eight weeks of basic training, 00:09:42.669 --> 00:09:45.422 she's worried about leaving nine-year-old Lea 00:09:45.464 --> 00:09:47.049 with her stepfather. 00:09:52.429 --> 00:09:56.141 Lawrence and Lea were not getting along at all. 00:09:56.225 --> 00:09:59.186 So Lea was sent to Florida 00:09:59.228 --> 00:10:00.813 to be with her grandmother. 00:10:00.854 --> 00:10:05.150 So Lawrence only had to care for Shelby at that point. 00:10:07.528 --> 00:10:09.780 The time apart between Lisa and Lawrence 00:10:09.822 --> 00:10:13.033 does little to improve their relationship. 00:10:13.075 --> 00:10:17.037 Lawrence did not like Lisa being in the military 00:10:17.079 --> 00:10:19.873 because Lisa was not accessible. 00:10:19.915 --> 00:10:23.418 He could not call Lisa whenever he so chose. 00:10:23.460 --> 00:10:24.670 And he tried. 00:10:26.588 --> 00:10:29.883 And not only did he call with regularity, 00:10:29.925 --> 00:10:32.177 he showed up a few times 00:10:32.219 --> 00:10:35.138 trying to get her to quit 00:10:35.180 --> 00:10:36.974 or get thrown out 00:10:37.015 --> 00:10:38.559 or come home. 00:10:39.560 --> 00:10:41.562 In spite of Lawrence's best efforts 00:10:41.603 --> 00:10:44.565 to derail Lisa's military career, 00:10:44.606 --> 00:10:49.444 she graduates from basic training in the winter of 1995. 00:10:52.573 --> 00:10:57.286 Lea was already settled in, in Florida with her grandmother, 00:10:57.286 --> 00:11:03.166 but Lawrence showed up at the graduation with the baby disheveled, 00:11:03.208 --> 00:11:04.459 in dirty clothes, 00:11:04.501 --> 00:11:05.836 without socks. 00:11:05.878 --> 00:11:09.089 This is Virginia in the winter. 00:11:09.131 --> 00:11:12.509 And I think that instantaneously her plan changed 00:11:12.551 --> 00:11:16.513 and she knew that she needed to go home 00:11:16.555 --> 00:11:19.141 and deal with the situation. 00:11:20.851 --> 00:11:24.271 The Gaudenzis make their way to Virginia. 00:11:24.354 --> 00:11:29.860 And after just a day back home, on January 26th, 1995, 00:11:29.901 --> 00:11:33.488 it's time for Lisa to leave her family once again, 00:11:33.530 --> 00:11:36.617 to take the next step in military career. 00:11:39.578 --> 00:11:41.371 That's the weekend Lisa was supposed to report 00:11:41.413 --> 00:11:43.999 to officers training. 00:11:45.751 --> 00:11:50.213 So Lawrence took Lisa to Richmond's bus stop 00:11:50.255 --> 00:11:52.633 and she got out of the car... 00:11:55.636 --> 00:11:57.596 and he'd never seen her again. 00:11:59.348 --> 00:12:01.516 Most cases, you know who the bad guy is, 00:12:01.558 --> 00:12:03.185 but we didn't have nothing. 00:12:04.019 --> 00:12:05.187 Lawrence did not show up 00:12:05.228 --> 00:12:07.022 for his scheduled lie detector test 00:12:07.064 --> 00:12:11.109 and Lawrence and Shelby vanished overnight. 00:12:12.069 --> 00:12:15.155 When the babysitter picked the lock on the door, 00:12:15.197 --> 00:12:18.075 all she saw was the bathroom full of blood, 00:12:18.116 --> 00:12:19.159 everywhere. 00:12:27.667 --> 00:12:31.797 January 28th, 1995. 00:12:31.838 --> 00:12:34.800 Two military policemen knock on Lawrence Gaudenzi's door 00:12:34.841 --> 00:12:39.262 in Lakeland, Virginia to deliver the news that his wife Lisa 00:12:39.346 --> 00:12:43.266 never showed up for officer training camp at Fort Lee. 00:12:45.852 --> 00:12:48.814 Lawrence contacted the sheriff's office 00:12:48.855 --> 00:12:52.025 in Caroline County where they resided. 00:12:53.276 --> 00:12:56.321 In a city of fewer than 30,000 residents. 00:12:56.405 --> 00:13:00.158 Caroline County doesn't have a missing persons division, 00:13:00.200 --> 00:13:02.828 but a detective hears Lawrence out. 00:13:03.078 --> 00:13:05.122 Lawrence told the story 00:13:05.163 --> 00:13:07.541 that he had driven her from where they live 00:13:07.582 --> 00:13:09.376 in Caroline County 00:13:09.417 --> 00:13:13.338 to the bus station in Richmond 00:13:13.380 --> 00:13:16.550 and put her on a bus to go to Fort Lee. 00:13:18.301 --> 00:13:20.387 Lawrence also tells the detective 00:13:20.428 --> 00:13:23.682 he believes he knows why his wife may have left him. 00:13:24.141 --> 00:13:26.852 He says Lisa had disappeared 00:13:26.893 --> 00:13:29.646 because of problems with depression. 00:13:30.188 --> 00:13:32.357 That she had just decided that she wanted 00:13:32.399 --> 00:13:34.860 to get away from everything for a while. 00:13:35.610 --> 00:13:37.195 The sheriff's office interviews 00:13:37.237 --> 00:13:40.866 Lisa's father and stepmother, Joe and Nancy, 00:13:40.907 --> 00:13:43.660 who admit Lisa may have wanted to get out 00:13:43.702 --> 00:13:45.203 of a difficult marriage. 00:13:45.871 --> 00:13:48.206 Maybe she did run away. 00:13:48.248 --> 00:13:50.834 In the very beginning, that's exactly what we thought. 00:13:51.835 --> 00:13:53.670 We thought that she had disappeared. 00:13:53.712 --> 00:13:55.338 She took off. 00:13:56.923 --> 00:13:58.592 To be honest with you, 00:13:58.633 --> 00:14:01.344 we were hoping Lisa had run away. 00:14:03.263 --> 00:14:05.223 But as the days turn into weeks 00:14:05.265 --> 00:14:07.058 with no sign of Lisa, 00:14:07.100 --> 00:14:08.476 her parents know 00:14:08.476 --> 00:14:11.313 there's one telltale sign that their daughter 00:14:11.354 --> 00:14:14.232 may not have left of her own freewill. 00:14:15.775 --> 00:14:18.862 She used to call Lea every day, 00:14:18.904 --> 00:14:20.447 two or three times a day, 00:14:20.488 --> 00:14:23.241 and all phone calls stopped to Lea. 00:14:24.993 --> 00:14:28.246 She had every intention of coming to get me 00:14:28.288 --> 00:14:29.748 as soon as she could. 00:14:29.789 --> 00:14:32.292 To me, it was far-fetched 00:14:32.334 --> 00:14:34.753 to even think that she was running away. 00:14:36.504 --> 00:14:39.883 Never would have Lisa abandoned her children, never. 00:14:39.925 --> 00:14:40.842 Lea came first, 00:14:40.884 --> 00:14:42.177 Shelby came first. 00:14:42.218 --> 00:14:44.220 She adored both of those kids. 00:14:45.513 --> 00:14:48.099 We realized 00:14:48.141 --> 00:14:49.934 Lawrence did something. 00:14:52.896 --> 00:14:55.231 The Marto's shared their concerns about Lawrence 00:14:55.273 --> 00:14:56.691 with law enforcement, 00:14:56.733 --> 00:14:59.944 including the bruises Nancy saw on Lisa's body 00:14:59.986 --> 00:15:01.655 at the start of her marriage. 00:15:02.656 --> 00:15:04.491 So the Carolina County Sheriff's Office 00:15:04.574 --> 00:15:07.452 looks deeper into Lawrence's character 00:15:07.535 --> 00:15:10.830 and his possible role in Lisa's disappearance. 00:15:11.998 --> 00:15:13.750 They interviewed his landlord. 00:15:13.792 --> 00:15:16.002 They interviewed the babysitter. 00:15:16.044 --> 00:15:19.506 They interviewed people around the garage where he worked. 00:15:19.506 --> 00:15:21.216 He had a lot of people convinced 00:15:21.257 --> 00:15:23.051 that he was the poor husband 00:15:23.093 --> 00:15:25.679 whose wife had left him with these children. 00:15:26.054 --> 00:15:27.806 And he was the standup guy. 00:15:27.847 --> 00:15:29.557 He was the hero here. 00:15:30.266 --> 00:15:32.977 You know, "My wife left me and you know, 00:15:33.019 --> 00:15:34.896 I'm doing the best I can." 00:15:35.897 --> 00:15:39.150 Investigators search Lawrence and Lisa's home 00:15:39.192 --> 00:15:41.361 looking for clues to Lisa's whereabouts 00:15:41.403 --> 00:15:44.239 or any evidence of foul play. 00:15:44.531 --> 00:15:46.074 There was just nothing there. 00:15:46.116 --> 00:15:47.158 There was no clues, 00:15:47.200 --> 00:15:48.701 there was no blood stain, 00:15:48.743 --> 00:15:50.120 there was no footprints, 00:15:50.161 --> 00:15:52.455 there was no nothing. 00:15:53.498 --> 00:15:58.461 It's hard to develop a case without something. 00:16:01.297 --> 00:16:02.715 This is troubling, 00:16:02.757 --> 00:16:05.927 but as a prosecutor, I also find it fascinating. 00:16:05.969 --> 00:16:09.597 Right now law enforcement is hearing two different stories 00:16:09.681 --> 00:16:12.475 from two different sides of the family. 00:16:12.517 --> 00:16:15.520 One from the man who says he's a loving husband 00:16:15.603 --> 00:16:18.398 whose wife abandoned him and the children. 00:16:18.440 --> 00:16:21.359 The other from parents who say law enforcement 00:16:21.401 --> 00:16:22.902 is getting it all wrong. 00:16:22.944 --> 00:16:25.697 That the man who claims to be a perfect husband 00:16:25.738 --> 00:16:27.740 is anything but. 00:16:30.994 --> 00:16:32.996 The sheriff absolutely believed 00:16:33.037 --> 00:16:37.417 that Lisa had run off and left him, 00:16:37.458 --> 00:16:39.878 which was unfortunate because it left 00:16:39.919 --> 00:16:43.798 a lot of undone detective work. 00:16:45.258 --> 00:16:48.761 Everybody believed him that she had run off, 00:16:48.803 --> 00:16:52.432 and therefore Lisa was simply a missing person 00:16:52.473 --> 00:16:54.392 and not the victim of a crime. 00:16:55.560 --> 00:16:57.645 With the community on his side, 00:16:57.645 --> 00:16:59.898 Lawrence lets law enforcement and his friends know 00:16:59.939 --> 00:17:03.776 that Lisa's disappearance seems to fit a pattern. 00:17:05.987 --> 00:17:09.073 Lawrence claimed that Lisa was a disgruntled housewife 00:17:09.115 --> 00:17:11.784 and she had ran away before. 00:17:11.826 --> 00:17:15.872 He had told everybody she ran away from her first husband, 00:17:15.914 --> 00:17:17.290 which was Jim. 00:17:19.292 --> 00:17:21.127 Investigators attempt to follow up 00:17:21.169 --> 00:17:23.630 on Lawrence's claim that Lisa had run away 00:17:23.713 --> 00:17:26.424 from her first husband, Jim Burdette. 00:17:26.466 --> 00:17:28.426 But Jim has fallen off the map. 00:17:28.468 --> 00:17:31.054 No one in Lisa's family has from him 00:17:31.095 --> 00:17:32.764 since the couple divorced 00:17:32.805 --> 00:17:36.935 and the local police are unable to find any trace of him. 00:17:37.518 --> 00:17:40.438 Now, months into the missing persons investigation, 00:17:40.480 --> 00:17:44.108 law enforcement is no closer to finding Lisa 00:17:44.150 --> 00:17:46.444 than the day she vanished. 00:17:46.486 --> 00:17:49.113 Joe was not a happy person. 00:17:49.155 --> 00:17:52.575 Caroline County did very little. 00:17:52.617 --> 00:17:55.703 My husband and I felt exhausted. 00:17:56.579 --> 00:17:59.999 And this case caused him to have a heart attack. 00:18:03.419 --> 00:18:05.880 For my family, it was like a daily thing 00:18:05.922 --> 00:18:09.425 that I got to see pain in their eyes every day. 00:18:10.343 --> 00:18:12.428 The pain is made worse when, 00:18:12.470 --> 00:18:14.430 nine months into her disappearance, 00:18:14.472 --> 00:18:16.974 the Army declares Lisa AWOL 00:18:17.016 --> 00:18:19.435 and dishonorably discharges her. 00:18:20.895 --> 00:18:23.272 Joe was so disgusted that he says, 00:18:23.314 --> 00:18:24.941 "I've had it. I've had enough. 00:18:24.982 --> 00:18:26.317 They're not doing nothing. 00:18:26.359 --> 00:18:28.194 The sheriff's departments are doing nothing. 00:18:28.236 --> 00:18:29.904 I can't take no more." 00:18:31.239 --> 00:18:33.366 And he was ready to give up. 00:18:35.910 --> 00:18:38.371 And I says, "I'm not." 00:18:40.707 --> 00:18:44.544 With Lisa gone, Lawrence raises Shelby on his own 00:18:44.585 --> 00:18:48.715 and makes himself available to investigators at any time. 00:18:48.756 --> 00:18:52.552 Yet, despite Lawrence's cooperation with law enforcement, 00:18:52.593 --> 00:18:55.304 Lisa's family still doesn't accept 00:18:55.346 --> 00:18:57.473 that she just left on her own. 00:18:57.515 --> 00:18:59.559 And they can't imagine her husband 00:18:59.600 --> 00:19:02.687 didn't play a role in her disappearance. 00:19:06.065 --> 00:19:09.527 And Joe finally, he started to come out of it 00:19:09.569 --> 00:19:12.738 and he decided he was putting his foot down. 00:19:12.822 --> 00:19:15.074 He wasn't going to let it beat him. 00:19:17.076 --> 00:19:22.415 So Joe and myself wrote a letter to the governor of Virginia 00:19:22.457 --> 00:19:24.750 and our governor in New Jersey. 00:19:24.834 --> 00:19:28.463 We wanted this case to be taken off the back burner. 00:19:30.089 --> 00:19:31.674 We wanted something done. 00:19:33.676 --> 00:19:36.179 With intense pressure from the Martos 00:19:36.220 --> 00:19:38.681 and no new developments in the case, 00:19:38.764 --> 00:19:42.393 Caroline County investigators ask Lawrence Gaudenzi 00:19:42.435 --> 00:19:44.770 to come in for a polygraph test. 00:19:46.063 --> 00:19:47.565 A whole week went by. 00:19:47.607 --> 00:19:50.151 He calls, "I'm sick, I can't come in." 00:19:51.235 --> 00:19:52.361 Lawrence did not show up 00:19:52.403 --> 00:19:54.405 for his scheduled lie detector test 00:19:54.447 --> 00:19:58.576 and Lawrence and Shelby vanished overnight. 00:20:00.036 --> 00:20:01.954 Lawrence went MIA. 00:20:06.167 --> 00:20:08.211 Let me paint you a picture. 00:20:08.252 --> 00:20:10.922 Your wife is missing for two years, 00:20:10.963 --> 00:20:12.632 the local police investigation 00:20:12.673 --> 00:20:15.009 into her disappearance has stalled, 00:20:15.051 --> 00:20:17.720 and your in-laws don't trust your story. 00:20:17.762 --> 00:20:19.680 So they demand police call you in 00:20:19.722 --> 00:20:21.933 to sit for a polygraph test. 00:20:21.974 --> 00:20:23.935 Most people would make a beeline 00:20:23.976 --> 00:20:25.645 straight to law enforcement, right? 00:20:25.686 --> 00:20:27.230 Set the record straight. 00:20:27.271 --> 00:20:30.024 But what does Lawrence Gaudenzi do? 00:20:30.066 --> 00:20:32.151 He stalls for a week and then, 00:20:32.193 --> 00:20:34.946 with his three-year-old child Shelby in tow, 00:20:34.987 --> 00:20:37.448 mysteriously disappears. 00:20:37.990 --> 00:20:42.995 Lawrence's move changes the course of this entire investigation. 00:20:44.330 --> 00:20:47.124 A local agency only has so much resources to work with. 00:20:47.166 --> 00:20:49.961 And the state police has lots of resources. 00:20:50.002 --> 00:20:52.088 That's why they turned it over. 00:20:52.129 --> 00:20:53.297 So we had to go back and talk 00:20:53.339 --> 00:20:56.634 to all these people over and over again. 00:20:57.927 --> 00:20:59.261 So the state police opened it up 00:20:59.303 --> 00:21:02.306 as a homicide investigation. 00:21:02.807 --> 00:21:04.266 We couldn't prove that she was dead, 00:21:04.308 --> 00:21:07.144 but we could pretty well prove that she wasn't alive. 00:21:07.186 --> 00:21:11.857 Everybody leaves a signature somewhere, 00:21:11.941 --> 00:21:13.734 whether you're getting mail, 00:21:13.776 --> 00:21:15.403 whether you're getting a check, 00:21:15.444 --> 00:21:17.822 all of this stopped. 00:21:18.656 --> 00:21:22.743 So that, to us, proved that she was not alive. 00:21:23.661 --> 00:21:26.038 But we had no body. 00:21:27.164 --> 00:21:29.125 What the state police do have 00:21:29.166 --> 00:21:31.419 is a bunch of new witnesses they've unearthed 00:21:31.460 --> 00:21:34.296 through their revitalized investigation. 00:21:34.338 --> 00:21:37.299 One of these witnesses is a close friend of Lisa's 00:21:37.341 --> 00:21:39.927 who wasn't interviewed before. 00:21:40.010 --> 00:21:42.304 And now tells a story of the night 00:21:42.346 --> 00:21:45.015 Lisa and Lawrence came home from Florida 00:21:45.057 --> 00:21:47.643 after basic training graduation. 00:21:50.646 --> 00:21:54.483 They dropped the baby off at her friend's house 00:21:54.525 --> 00:21:57.570 and asked if she could keep the baby overnight 00:21:57.611 --> 00:22:00.114 so that they could have time to talk through 00:22:00.156 --> 00:22:02.366 all of the issues in their marriage. 00:22:04.160 --> 00:22:07.705 When they came back, she told the friend, 00:22:07.747 --> 00:22:09.206 "I'm going to divorce him." 00:22:10.249 --> 00:22:14.336 Lisa looked up and Lawrence was standing at the screen door. 00:22:17.715 --> 00:22:21.761 Now in conjunction with Lawrence's disappearance, 00:22:21.802 --> 00:22:25.723 the jarring revelation pushes state police investigators 00:22:25.765 --> 00:22:27.516 to reconsider everything 00:22:27.558 --> 00:22:30.227 Lawrence has ever told law enforcement. 00:22:34.607 --> 00:22:37.526 According to his statement, when Lisa went missing, 00:22:37.568 --> 00:22:40.863 Lawrence took her to the bus station in Richmond 00:22:40.946 --> 00:22:43.157 and dropped her off. 00:22:43.199 --> 00:22:46.869 We actually found a guy that worked there back in 1995, 00:22:46.911 --> 00:22:48.370 and said, "Here's the bus schedule." 00:22:48.412 --> 00:22:52.124 But there is no bus that goes from Richmond, Virginia 00:22:52.166 --> 00:22:55.169 to Fort Lee, which is only 20 minutes away. 00:22:56.128 --> 00:23:00.591 That was the beginning of a long line of 00:23:00.633 --> 00:23:01.759 lies. 00:23:03.511 --> 00:23:06.931 With Lawrence looking more and more guilty, 00:23:07.014 --> 00:23:10.434 state police conduct an all-agency manhunt 00:23:10.476 --> 00:23:13.103 to try to find the man who they believe 00:23:13.145 --> 00:23:15.231 caused the disappearance of his wife 00:23:15.272 --> 00:23:17.066 and now of his child. 00:23:17.650 --> 00:23:20.277 Everybody in my family was baffled at how 00:23:20.319 --> 00:23:22.112 somebody like that could just easily 00:23:22.154 --> 00:23:23.864 slip through the cracks. 00:23:24.323 --> 00:23:28.202 My husband, not knowing where any of the girls were, 00:23:28.244 --> 00:23:29.620 it broke his heart, 00:23:29.662 --> 00:23:32.414 it just... 00:23:32.456 --> 00:23:33.832 He was beaten. 00:23:33.874 --> 00:23:35.501 That really beat him down. 00:23:37.586 --> 00:23:41.257 Could you imagine being Joe Marto, Lisa's father, 00:23:41.298 --> 00:23:42.883 your daughter is missing, 00:23:42.967 --> 00:23:45.261 the police believe it's a homicide, 00:23:45.302 --> 00:23:47.554 and making matters even worse, 00:23:47.596 --> 00:23:50.891 your youngest granddaughter has been taken by the man 00:23:50.933 --> 00:23:53.269 you believe killed your daughter. 00:23:53.310 --> 00:23:55.145 And this goes on for years, 00:23:55.187 --> 00:23:56.730 literally. 00:23:56.772 --> 00:24:00.234 Despite the non-stop efforts of the Virginia State Police, 00:24:00.276 --> 00:24:04.655 the case goes cold for five years. 00:24:07.199 --> 00:24:10.286 Lisa's father hired a private detective 00:24:10.327 --> 00:24:11.870 to try to find her. 00:24:11.912 --> 00:24:15.958 They were constantly talking to the state police. 00:24:16.000 --> 00:24:17.376 He spent an enormous amount of money 00:24:17.418 --> 00:24:18.877 trying to find his daughter. 00:24:18.919 --> 00:24:20.379 She was his life. 00:24:20.421 --> 00:24:22.256 He was so proud of her. 00:24:22.297 --> 00:24:26.635 She had accomplished so much in such a short time. 00:24:31.849 --> 00:24:34.059 And then, in 2002, 00:24:34.143 --> 00:24:37.688 Joe and Nancy's persistence pays off. 00:24:38.480 --> 00:24:40.607 They finally got some media attention. 00:24:40.649 --> 00:24:43.694 There was a local newscast that was broadcast 00:24:43.736 --> 00:24:48.282 with Lawrence's picture asking if the public had seen him. 00:24:49.283 --> 00:24:53.328 And someone called in a tip 00:24:53.370 --> 00:24:56.999 that they had seen him in 00:24:57.041 --> 00:24:59.710 the Harrisonburg, Virginia area. 00:25:01.295 --> 00:25:03.047 The state police descend 00:25:03.047 --> 00:25:04.840 on the town of Harrisonburg, 00:25:04.882 --> 00:25:09.553 120 miles from Lisa and Lawrence's home in Richmond. 00:25:09.595 --> 00:25:15.017 One of our agents located him and Shelby 00:25:15.058 --> 00:25:18.145 and confronted him and asked him 00:25:18.187 --> 00:25:20.355 if he was Lawrence Gaudenzi. 00:25:20.397 --> 00:25:22.024 And he said, "No." 00:25:22.441 --> 00:25:25.235 The man says his name is Randy Evans 00:25:25.277 --> 00:25:28.197 and his young daughter's name is Logan. 00:25:28.197 --> 00:25:31.408 Investigators think maybe they have the wrong guy, 00:25:31.450 --> 00:25:34.036 as it's been years since cops last laid eyes 00:25:34.077 --> 00:25:35.829 on Lawrence Gaudenzi. 00:25:36.455 --> 00:25:38.373 But fortunately he had gotten 00:25:38.415 --> 00:25:41.293 a pretty unique tattoo on his chest. 00:25:41.335 --> 00:25:44.379 So the agent asked him, "Let me see, 00:25:44.421 --> 00:25:45.464 let me see your chest." 00:25:45.506 --> 00:25:47.299 So he opened his shirt. 00:25:47.341 --> 00:25:50.385 And at that point in time that he identified Lawrence. 00:25:56.683 --> 00:25:59.853 By 2002, it's been seven years. 00:25:59.895 --> 00:26:04.858 Seven years since Lisa Gaudenzi was last seen alive. 00:26:04.900 --> 00:26:07.903 But there's an incredible development. 00:26:07.945 --> 00:26:10.948 Lisa's husband, Lawrence, has just been discovered 00:26:10.989 --> 00:26:13.534 after five years on the run. 00:26:13.575 --> 00:26:15.911 Now he's in custody after a tip, 00:26:15.953 --> 00:26:19.414 having stolen the identity of a missing homeless man 00:26:19.456 --> 00:26:21.166 named Randy Evans. 00:26:22.292 --> 00:26:26.797 Police did not have enough evidence to arrest him 00:26:26.838 --> 00:26:30.717 for Lisa's disappearance or murder, 00:26:30.759 --> 00:26:34.930 but they did have fraud charges on him. 00:26:37.099 --> 00:26:40.185 So they were able to arrest him on those grounds, 00:26:40.227 --> 00:26:42.938 which allowed them to buy some time 00:26:42.980 --> 00:26:45.649 to try and get him to confess 00:26:45.691 --> 00:26:49.319 or provide information on Lisa's whereabouts. 00:26:50.362 --> 00:26:52.739 Lawrence not only took on a new identity, 00:26:52.781 --> 00:26:56.118 he also changed his daughter Shelby's name to Logan 00:26:56.159 --> 00:26:58.578 and got married to another woman 00:26:58.620 --> 00:27:01.456 who raised the child as her own. 00:27:01.498 --> 00:27:06.044 All this deception is exposed with Lawrence's arrest. 00:27:09.256 --> 00:27:13.468 So I found out that my dad was not who he said he was. 00:27:13.510 --> 00:27:18.432 And I find out that I am not who I thought I was. 00:27:19.224 --> 00:27:22.102 A couple hours later my mom, Linda May, had told me, 00:27:22.144 --> 00:27:24.396 "You know, your name is not Logan Evans. 00:27:24.438 --> 00:27:26.481 Your name is Shelby Marto." 00:27:26.523 --> 00:27:29.026 Then, my mom is missing. 00:27:29.067 --> 00:27:30.736 My actual mom is missing 00:27:30.777 --> 00:27:32.487 and nobody knows where she is. 00:27:37.326 --> 00:27:39.536 They've got Lawrence locked up for a year 00:27:39.578 --> 00:27:41.872 on the identity theft charge. 00:27:41.913 --> 00:27:43.582 So they've got a one-year window 00:27:43.623 --> 00:27:45.834 to build a homicide case against him, 00:27:45.876 --> 00:27:47.419 because once he's released, 00:27:47.461 --> 00:27:51.256 there's a good chance he'll disappear forever. 00:27:51.256 --> 00:27:53.341 Detectives redouble their efforts 00:27:53.383 --> 00:27:56.136 and in talking to people who crossed paths with Lawrence 00:27:56.178 --> 00:28:00.307 over the years, they uncover a curious piece of information. 00:28:01.183 --> 00:28:03.226 It seems that Lawrence Gaudenzi 00:28:03.226 --> 00:28:07.814 was together with Lisa's first husband, Jim Burdette, 00:28:07.856 --> 00:28:11.735 just days after she went missing back in 1995. 00:28:12.486 --> 00:28:15.655 It's a long shot, but Agents Collins and Lyons 00:28:15.697 --> 00:28:17.991 follow up on the lead. 00:28:19.576 --> 00:28:21.036 We couldn't find Jim. 00:28:21.078 --> 00:28:23.872 We actually contacted his mother first. 00:28:23.914 --> 00:28:26.666 She said she didn't know where he was. 00:28:26.708 --> 00:28:28.627 It's a possibility that he was dead. 00:28:30.128 --> 00:28:32.172 Detective Collins travels to Florida 00:28:32.214 --> 00:28:34.007 and searches the neighborhood where Jim 00:28:34.049 --> 00:28:36.134 was last known to be living. 00:28:36.176 --> 00:28:39.179 Amazingly, after just several hours, 00:28:39.221 --> 00:28:42.390 he spots Burdette on a dusty back road. 00:28:42.432 --> 00:28:44.851 This dirt road in the middle of Florida, 00:28:44.893 --> 00:28:46.895 in the middle of July, in 100 degrees, 00:28:46.937 --> 00:28:50.482 a guy walking down the road with a briefcase. 00:28:50.524 --> 00:28:52.734 He was blind from cataract. 00:28:52.776 --> 00:28:55.487 I said, "Hop in." 00:28:55.529 --> 00:28:57.030 And he said, "Okay." 00:28:57.697 --> 00:28:59.574 He really wanted to talk. 00:28:59.616 --> 00:29:02.410 And when we got back to the police station, 00:29:02.452 --> 00:29:04.871 we asked him what was in the briefcase, 00:29:04.913 --> 00:29:05.872 and he opened it up. 00:29:05.914 --> 00:29:09.709 It was the corsage that he had 00:29:09.751 --> 00:29:12.045 from when him and Lisa were married. 00:29:12.629 --> 00:29:13.880 Now this gentleman is homeless, 00:29:13.922 --> 00:29:15.131 and he's been carrying this around 00:29:15.173 --> 00:29:17.551 for years and years and years. 00:29:20.345 --> 00:29:23.056 Jim said that when Lisa went missing, 00:29:23.098 --> 00:29:24.850 a day or two afterwards, 00:29:24.891 --> 00:29:26.810 Lawrence called him 00:29:26.852 --> 00:29:29.271 and asked him to come up and help him. 00:29:29.896 --> 00:29:32.774 So, so Jim was suspicious. 00:29:32.816 --> 00:29:34.109 So he went up. 00:29:35.193 --> 00:29:36.903 What happens next is something 00:29:36.945 --> 00:29:39.656 you wouldn't even read in a Hollywood script. 00:29:39.698 --> 00:29:41.575 With his sight heavily impaired, 00:29:41.616 --> 00:29:45.287 Jim Burdette has taken to carrying a small tape recorder 00:29:45.328 --> 00:29:48.456 to help him remember things he can't write down. 00:29:48.456 --> 00:29:52.586 And that small device just so happens to be in Jim's pocket 00:29:52.627 --> 00:29:54.296 when he visits Lawrence. 00:29:55.964 --> 00:29:57.924 And the funny thing was, he said, 00:29:57.966 --> 00:29:59.884 "I've got tapes of Lawrence." 00:29:59.926 --> 00:30:01.636 And I'm like, 00:30:01.678 --> 00:30:02.762 "You've got tapes?" 00:30:02.804 --> 00:30:04.889 He said, "Yeah, I've got tapes." 00:30:04.931 --> 00:30:06.474 So in that briefcase that he'd been carrying 00:30:06.516 --> 00:30:09.144 for years and years were these recordings. 00:30:09.185 --> 00:30:12.063 Of course, that was of extreme interest to us. 00:30:16.693 --> 00:30:19.446 On the tapes there was a lot of conversation 00:30:19.446 --> 00:30:21.781 of just small talk, 00:30:21.823 --> 00:30:25.368 but there was one specific conversation. 00:30:26.578 --> 00:30:30.623 Lawrence asked Jim if he could help him go bury a dog. 00:30:32.709 --> 00:30:34.294 According to Jim's statement, 00:30:34.336 --> 00:30:36.921 Lawrence puts in the car a duffel bag 00:30:36.963 --> 00:30:40.050 and a couple of shovels and they drive. 00:30:40.800 --> 00:30:41.885 For the first time, 00:30:41.926 --> 00:30:45.138 the investigators feel a surge of hope. 00:30:45.180 --> 00:30:47.599 Maybe the duffel bag that Jim observes 00:30:47.640 --> 00:30:50.477 contains Lisa's remains. 00:30:50.560 --> 00:30:54.564 Was Jim a witness to the burial of his ex-wife's body? 00:30:55.565 --> 00:30:58.068 Jim said, "I think we went out to Interstate 95." 00:30:58.109 --> 00:31:00.487 And so he said, "It wasn't too long, but we turned." 00:31:00.570 --> 00:31:03.198 He said, "It was next to a store we turned." 00:31:03.239 --> 00:31:05.992 I even brought Jim back to Virginia 00:31:06.034 --> 00:31:10.121 and we would try to at least get a grid area 00:31:10.163 --> 00:31:12.707 of a couple miles to hone in on. 00:31:13.041 --> 00:31:15.251 But the search goes nowhere. 00:31:15.293 --> 00:31:19.214 And the one-year window runs out for investigators. 00:31:19.255 --> 00:31:23.426 By the end of 2003, Lawrence is released from jail 00:31:23.468 --> 00:31:27.347 after serving his sentence for the stolen identity charge. 00:31:27.388 --> 00:31:30.308 And with him go the investigators hopes 00:31:30.350 --> 00:31:32.769 for a resolution to Lisa's case. 00:31:35.772 --> 00:31:37.023 In my experience, 00:31:37.065 --> 00:31:39.984 some of the biggest turnarounds in cold cases 00:31:40.026 --> 00:31:42.654 happen when witnesses are re-interviewed, 00:31:42.695 --> 00:31:44.197 sometimes years later. 00:31:44.239 --> 00:31:46.741 Time can often do the trick, 00:31:46.783 --> 00:31:50.370 helping reveal previously hidden information. 00:31:50.411 --> 00:31:53.373 Agent Collins knows this all too well. 00:31:53.456 --> 00:31:56.334 So he decides to go back and talk again 00:31:56.376 --> 00:31:58.753 to one of Lisa's old babysitters. 00:32:02.632 --> 00:32:05.510 She was a young teenage girl that lived downstairs 00:32:05.593 --> 00:32:08.596 and would help Lawrence with the child. 00:32:08.680 --> 00:32:12.225 So she had told every investigator the same story 00:32:12.267 --> 00:32:14.435 for years and years and years and years. 00:32:15.478 --> 00:32:17.355 During the investigative process, 00:32:17.397 --> 00:32:20.859 I observed that there's more that she wanted to say. 00:32:21.943 --> 00:32:23.945 Only thing she was concerned about 00:32:23.987 --> 00:32:25.780 was Lawrence coming to get her. 00:32:25.822 --> 00:32:28.074 She was petrified of Lawrence. 00:32:32.412 --> 00:32:35.874 Lawrence told the babysitter to clean up the house, 00:32:35.915 --> 00:32:38.334 but don't go into the bathroom. 00:32:39.752 --> 00:32:41.462 So what do you think she does? 00:32:43.298 --> 00:32:45.258 She was scared to death. 00:32:51.556 --> 00:32:53.224 For eight heartbreaking years, 00:32:53.266 --> 00:32:57.729 Lisa Gaudenzi's family has agonized over her disappearance. 00:32:57.770 --> 00:32:59.897 But without a confession from Lawrence Gaudenzi 00:32:59.939 --> 00:33:02.233 or solid physical evidence, 00:33:02.275 --> 00:33:06.279 they may never solve the mystery of what happened to Lisa. 00:33:08.239 --> 00:33:11.576 Most cases, you know who the bad guy is, 00:33:11.576 --> 00:33:13.953 but you know, it all goes down to proof 00:33:14.912 --> 00:33:16.706 and that's what we didn't have. 00:33:17.498 --> 00:33:19.125 We didn't have nothing. 00:33:21.294 --> 00:33:23.963 Going over the list of potential witnesses, 00:33:24.005 --> 00:33:27.425 detectives focus on the name of a teenage babysitter 00:33:27.467 --> 00:33:29.093 who worked for Lisa 00:33:29.135 --> 00:33:32.305 and lived in the Gaudenzi's basement suite. 00:33:32.972 --> 00:33:35.767 For years, she had denied knowing anything 00:33:35.808 --> 00:33:38.269 about Lisa's disappearance. 00:33:39.020 --> 00:33:41.731 This babysitter, she lives in Georgia. 00:33:41.773 --> 00:33:43.483 I went down there to talk to her. 00:33:43.566 --> 00:33:46.110 She was petrified of Lawrence. 00:33:47.987 --> 00:33:50.406 And she said that when Lisa came home 00:33:50.448 --> 00:33:54.786 from the military break, and there was some arguments. 00:33:54.827 --> 00:33:57.038 One night she was underneath the deck, 00:33:57.080 --> 00:34:01.417 smoking a cigarette and Lawrence came over out the top 00:34:01.459 --> 00:34:04.045 and he carried this green duffel bag. 00:34:04.087 --> 00:34:07.048 So he left and he was gone for about 20 minutes 00:34:07.090 --> 00:34:10.259 and he came back with no duffel bag. 00:34:13.805 --> 00:34:15.807 And then he came in the house 00:34:15.848 --> 00:34:17.433 and his feet were all dirty. 00:34:17.475 --> 00:34:18.935 And he walked into his bedroom, 00:34:18.976 --> 00:34:21.354 which he kept locked at all times. 00:34:21.396 --> 00:34:23.356 And then he left the house. 00:34:26.776 --> 00:34:30.696 Lawrence told the babysitter to clean up the house, 00:34:30.696 --> 00:34:32.615 but don't go into the bathroom. 00:34:36.828 --> 00:34:39.956 So this girl was 14 or 15 years old. 00:34:39.997 --> 00:34:42.208 So what do you think she does? 00:34:45.086 --> 00:34:48.840 When the babysitter picked the lock on the door, 00:34:48.881 --> 00:34:51.843 she went into the bathroom, 00:34:51.884 --> 00:34:54.512 and all she saw was the bathroom full of blood, 00:34:54.554 --> 00:34:55.638 everywhere. 00:35:00.560 --> 00:35:02.895 She was scared to death 00:35:02.937 --> 00:35:07.358 and she never told this story to anyone before. 00:35:08.609 --> 00:35:10.194 With this new evidence, 00:35:10.236 --> 00:35:14.198 investigators hope to get back into the Gaudenzi's old home. 00:35:15.783 --> 00:35:19.120 After Lawrence left there, was a guy in the house 00:35:19.162 --> 00:35:21.747 that was in the house since Lawrence left. 00:35:21.998 --> 00:35:23.416 So we got a search warrant. 00:35:23.457 --> 00:35:26.919 We use luminol, which you spray luminol on in the dark 00:35:26.961 --> 00:35:28.754 and it illuminates So when you find blood.ant. 00:35:28.796 --> 00:35:30.631 But problematically, 00:35:30.715 --> 00:35:33.676 it also illuminates Clorox. 00:35:33.968 --> 00:35:35.970 So when we did the bathroom, 00:35:36.012 --> 00:35:39.765 it lit up like a Christmas tree. 00:35:39.849 --> 00:35:41.893 and sent it to the lab, lab says, 00:35:41.934 --> 00:35:43.978 "We can't tell you it's blood, 00:35:44.020 --> 00:35:47.106 but we can tell you there's a lot of Clorox has been in there." 00:35:48.983 --> 00:35:51.611 Doc Lyons and I went to a prosecutor 00:35:51.652 --> 00:35:53.070 and spelled it all out. 00:35:53.112 --> 00:35:55.448 And he was a new prosecutor 00:35:55.489 --> 00:35:59.785 and he had just prosecuted another big case in that county. 00:35:59.785 --> 00:36:01.996 And he said, "Let's do it." 00:36:02.997 --> 00:36:05.833 On May 16th, 2008, 00:36:05.875 --> 00:36:09.962 more than 13 years after Lisa went missing, 00:36:10.004 --> 00:36:13.007 Lawrence Gaudenzi is charged with her murder. 00:36:14.008 --> 00:36:16.636 And even though her body has never been found, 00:36:16.677 --> 00:36:20.973 prosecutor's hope that the accumulation of powerful evidence, 00:36:21.015 --> 00:36:23.267 the fact that Lawrence changed his identity, 00:36:23.309 --> 00:36:25.603 the statement from the babysitter, 00:36:25.645 --> 00:36:27.855 the blood residue at the house, 00:36:27.938 --> 00:36:31.150 and the old tapes from Jim Burdette's suitcase 00:36:31.192 --> 00:36:33.027 will be enough for a conviction. 00:36:33.319 --> 00:36:36.656 And I agree, it looks like a solid case. 00:36:37.073 --> 00:36:39.075 In Virginia, when court starts, 00:36:39.116 --> 00:36:40.785 they bring in all in the witnesses 00:36:40.826 --> 00:36:43.996 that are going to testify and they swear you in. 00:36:45.498 --> 00:36:48.834 My personal feeling is that when Lawrence looked up 00:36:48.876 --> 00:36:51.379 and saw all of these people, 00:36:51.420 --> 00:36:53.798 some of them he hadn't seen in 15 years, 00:36:53.881 --> 00:36:55.424 that he had lied about, 00:36:55.466 --> 00:36:59.011 and people who saw him as he really was, 00:36:59.053 --> 00:37:02.598 I think he had one of them oh my God feelings. 00:37:03.349 --> 00:37:06.310 So I'm on the stand and presenting evidence. 00:37:06.352 --> 00:37:08.521 The cassettes that Jim Burdette had, 00:37:08.562 --> 00:37:10.022 I have them in my hand. 00:37:10.064 --> 00:37:13.401 The prosecutor says I'm going to play the first one. 00:37:13.442 --> 00:37:15.569 Gets ready to play it. 00:37:15.611 --> 00:37:19.615 And the defense attorney asked if we could take a break. 00:37:20.241 --> 00:37:23.994 That's when we knew that he knew that he was sunk. 00:37:26.956 --> 00:37:28.499 Lawrence turned around and wanted 00:37:28.541 --> 00:37:30.209 to take a plea at that point. 00:37:31.293 --> 00:37:33.170 As part of his plea deal, 00:37:33.212 --> 00:37:37.550 Lawrence provides excruciating painful details 00:37:37.591 --> 00:37:39.885 of what he did to Lisa's remains. 00:37:40.469 --> 00:37:44.849 He admitted to wrapping her body in a sleeping bag, 00:37:44.932 --> 00:37:47.059 putting her in a metal drum 00:37:47.101 --> 00:37:50.062 and covered her with muriatic acid 00:37:50.104 --> 00:37:51.730 to get rid of the body. 00:37:52.731 --> 00:37:56.360 Lawrence doesn't explain why he killed Lisa 00:37:56.402 --> 00:37:58.362 or how he killed Lisa, 00:37:58.404 --> 00:38:02.533 and leaves out the most important detail of all. 00:38:03.284 --> 00:38:06.454 When the judge asks him, "Where did you put the body?" 00:38:06.495 --> 00:38:08.539 "I don't remember," he told the judge. 00:38:09.790 --> 00:38:14.587 Lawrence's plea deal earns him 25 years behind bars, 00:38:14.628 --> 00:38:16.422 but without Lisa's remains, 00:38:16.463 --> 00:38:19.550 her family knows there will be no closure. 00:38:22.970 --> 00:38:25.097 Then, out of the blue, 00:38:25.139 --> 00:38:28.976 after 12 months in Georgia's Augusta Correctional Center, 00:38:28.976 --> 00:38:32.563 Lawrence reaches out to try for one last deal. 00:38:33.355 --> 00:38:35.399 Lawrence wrote me a letter that told me 00:38:35.441 --> 00:38:38.402 that if I could get his sentence reduced, 00:38:38.444 --> 00:38:41.197 he would try to lead us to where her body was. 00:38:48.871 --> 00:38:50.664 After being locked up for a year 00:38:50.706 --> 00:38:52.917 for the murder of Lisa Gaudenzi, 00:38:53.000 --> 00:38:56.253 her ex-husband Lawrence reaches out to law enforcement 00:38:56.295 --> 00:38:57.880 with a desperate plea. 00:38:59.715 --> 00:39:01.592 Telling the lead agent on the case 00:39:01.634 --> 00:39:05.179 that he will reveal the location of Lisa's remains 00:39:05.220 --> 00:39:09.391 in return for a reduction of his 25 year prison sentence. 00:39:14.313 --> 00:39:17.316 He agreed to take us to where 00:39:17.358 --> 00:39:20.235 he thought that he had dropped the body. 00:39:20.277 --> 00:39:24.531 Now you got to remember, this has been 13, 14, 15 years 00:39:24.573 --> 00:39:26.992 since Lawrence killed Lisa. 00:39:28.285 --> 00:39:29.662 So you have Lawrence in a car. 00:39:29.703 --> 00:39:31.956 You have two U.S. Marshals with them. 00:39:31.956 --> 00:39:35.584 You have 30 or 40 police officers are standing by 00:39:35.626 --> 00:39:38.420 in locations in case anything were to occur. 00:39:38.462 --> 00:39:41.215 He said that he left three containers, 00:39:41.256 --> 00:39:43.759 three empty muriatic acid containers, 00:39:43.801 --> 00:39:47.346 in the wood line where he had dropped this body. 00:39:48.430 --> 00:39:52.184 So we're riding along and he says, "Whoa, let's stop here." 00:39:54.269 --> 00:39:56.522 So we go down and they started walking the wood lines 00:39:56.563 --> 00:39:58.190 and lo and behold, 00:39:58.232 --> 00:40:01.777 we find three empty containers of muriatic acid 00:40:01.819 --> 00:40:04.822 that had been there for 14 years. 00:40:06.115 --> 00:40:07.574 They were plastic containers. 00:40:07.616 --> 00:40:10.703 All lined up one, two, three. 00:40:10.744 --> 00:40:12.538 And I'm like, "Oh my God, 00:40:12.579 --> 00:40:16.125 we might have the location where she was left." 00:40:17.084 --> 00:40:19.253 So then where do you start to search? 00:40:21.296 --> 00:40:22.464 I'm thinking to myself, 00:40:22.506 --> 00:40:24.550 "We ain't gonna find nothing here." 00:40:25.759 --> 00:40:28.846 If there were remains, the animals have carried them off 00:40:28.887 --> 00:40:31.056 and all of this sort of stuff. 00:40:33.517 --> 00:40:36.186 So I looked down and as I'm walking, 00:40:36.228 --> 00:40:38.480 I see this red thread. 00:40:39.106 --> 00:40:43.527 Why would there be a red thread in this environment, you know? 00:40:45.112 --> 00:40:47.739 And all at once we find remnants of a sleeping bag... 00:40:48.782 --> 00:40:50.742 the fibers out of a sleeping bag. 00:40:51.869 --> 00:40:53.328 And then we start that dig, as you know, 00:40:53.370 --> 00:40:55.289 one inch at a time. 00:40:55.330 --> 00:40:57.207 Go down about a couple inches 00:40:57.249 --> 00:40:59.251 and I find these teeth. 00:40:59.585 --> 00:41:01.628 These teeth did not look human. 00:41:02.087 --> 00:41:05.340 When Lisa was a teenager, she was in a bad car accident 00:41:05.382 --> 00:41:08.343 and she had a lot of dental work. 00:41:08.385 --> 00:41:10.512 I mean, it was like, 00:41:10.554 --> 00:41:11.847 I can't believe this. 00:41:15.559 --> 00:41:17.227 And the only reason we found her 00:41:17.269 --> 00:41:19.771 was because of her accident. 00:41:21.190 --> 00:41:23.734 I was always told by her, 00:41:23.775 --> 00:41:25.819 "You may not be where you want to be, 00:41:25.861 --> 00:41:28.238 but you're always right where you're supposed to be." 00:41:29.907 --> 00:41:31.325 It was where she was supposed to be 00:41:31.366 --> 00:41:33.285 so that we could find her. 00:41:36.747 --> 00:41:38.290 With the dental bridge, 00:41:38.332 --> 00:41:42.711 we were allowed to give her a headstone at the cemetery. 00:41:43.795 --> 00:41:45.505 She's buried in the military cemetery 00:41:45.547 --> 00:41:47.299 on the east coast of Florida. 00:41:48.050 --> 00:41:50.719 And... 00:41:50.761 --> 00:41:52.930 her name on the headstone 00:41:55.390 --> 00:41:57.643 is Lisa Marto, 00:41:57.684 --> 00:41:59.770 not Gaudenzi. 00:42:02.105 --> 00:42:05.609 So she don't have to lay all eternity with that name. 00:42:06.818 --> 00:42:08.612 When I think about my mom's dreams, 00:42:08.654 --> 00:42:10.656 it is just, she wanted to be a judge. 00:42:10.697 --> 00:42:13.784 She wanted to create this beautiful life for her family. 00:42:13.825 --> 00:42:16.411 And that's all she ever really wanted. 00:42:16.453 --> 00:42:18.872 I wish I could just tell her thank you 00:42:18.914 --> 00:42:21.833 for trying to give me a better life. 00:42:23.210 --> 00:42:26.088 She'd always see the best in people. 00:42:26.129 --> 00:42:29.633 She always thought she could help try to change them 00:42:29.675 --> 00:42:31.718 or help fix them. 00:42:31.760 --> 00:42:33.512 And being that I'm still alive, 00:42:33.553 --> 00:42:37.182 I'd say she managed to find a way to do that. 00:42:41.061 --> 00:42:44.940 Lisa Marto was obviously a remarkable woman, 00:42:44.982 --> 00:42:48.527 a woman who never had a chance to fulfill her destiny 00:42:48.568 --> 00:42:51.571 as a military lawyer and as a judge. 00:42:51.822 --> 00:42:53.907 That's something that hits close to home. 00:42:54.449 --> 00:42:56.410 Lisa believed her second husband 00:42:56.451 --> 00:42:58.328 would support her and her children 00:42:58.370 --> 00:42:59.788 through thick and thin, 00:42:59.830 --> 00:43:01.623 for better or worse. 00:43:01.665 --> 00:43:03.458 It turned out to be worse. 00:43:03.500 --> 00:43:05.377 He was a cold-blooded killer 00:43:05.419 --> 00:43:06.795 and a coward. 00:43:06.837 --> 00:43:09.631 Ironically, it was her first husband 00:43:09.673 --> 00:43:11.591 who had failed her in marriage 00:43:11.633 --> 00:43:14.386 that redeemed himself by fighting for her 00:43:14.428 --> 00:43:16.430 and finding justice. 00:43:16.471 --> 00:43:18.432 But not before it turned 00:43:18.473 --> 00:43:21.143 into a killer relationship.