WEBVTT 00:00:02.507 --> 00:00:05.009 Sean was one of the best preachers I've ever heard. 00:00:05.385 --> 00:00:06.970 When I speak, I know that Jesus 00:00:07.011 --> 00:00:08.638 is speaking through me, amen? 00:00:08.680 --> 00:00:09.931 Amen. 00:00:09.973 --> 00:00:11.808 In the holy atmosphere of church, 00:00:11.891 --> 00:00:14.853 a youth pastor holds sway over his flock. 00:00:15.562 --> 00:00:19.023 Joy joined the youth group to get closer to Sean. 00:00:19.065 --> 00:00:22.068 Joy and Sean were inseparable. 00:00:25.196 --> 00:00:27.699 Joy knew from the beginning that Sean was married. 00:00:29.200 --> 00:00:31.828 But living together just opened the flood gates. 00:00:32.579 --> 00:00:34.914 Their forbidden love defies the church. 00:00:35.582 --> 00:00:38.710 Sean is married to Joy and married to Sheila. 00:00:39.127 --> 00:00:40.628 He's in a polygamous relationship. 00:00:43.089 --> 00:00:45.341 And a need for total control. 00:00:45.383 --> 00:00:49.554 Sean was a calculated master manipulator. 00:00:49.929 --> 00:00:52.348 He was like, this is my girl, 00:00:52.390 --> 00:00:55.185 and I'm making her life into what I want it to be. 00:00:56.019 --> 00:00:57.896 Can quickly turn into... 00:01:00.148 --> 00:01:05.904 A federal ranger starts taking the rocks apart from the shrine. 00:01:05.945 --> 00:01:08.865 They believed that they in fact had a murdered person. 00:01:09.157 --> 00:01:11.117 A killer relationship. 00:01:13.161 --> 00:01:15.830 What kind of a person does that? 00:01:15.914 --> 00:01:20.251 A cold-blooded killer does that. 00:01:25.006 --> 00:01:28.426 There's an unbelievable story in every homicide, 00:01:28.468 --> 00:01:31.471 but there are some stories and some homicides 00:01:31.513 --> 00:01:34.140 that are truly unforgettable. 00:01:35.099 --> 00:01:38.561 And this case in particular, is one that even after 00:01:38.603 --> 00:01:42.649 all my years of experience focusing on relationships and families, 00:01:42.690 --> 00:01:44.734 blows my mind. 00:01:44.776 --> 00:01:46.736 It's a tale of moms and daughters 00:01:46.736 --> 00:01:49.030 of the church and spirituality, 00:01:49.072 --> 00:01:52.075 of absent fathers and father figures, 00:01:52.116 --> 00:01:53.117 of love, 00:01:53.159 --> 00:01:56.079 a whole lot of love and death. 00:01:57.038 --> 00:01:59.958 And it begins in San Diego in the mid-90s 00:01:59.999 --> 00:02:02.919 with a young free spirit named Joy Risker. 00:02:09.342 --> 00:02:13.012 Joy in high school was super bubbly, 00:02:13.054 --> 00:02:16.099 really positive, fun, 00:02:16.140 --> 00:02:18.935 very smart and creative. 00:02:18.977 --> 00:02:20.937 I don't know how anybody 00:02:20.979 --> 00:02:23.648 that hung around Joy for more than an hour, 00:02:23.690 --> 00:02:25.233 couldn't have been in love with her. 00:02:25.275 --> 00:02:28.444 as open-minded, non-judgmental, 00:02:28.486 --> 00:02:32.073 she was willing to listen to different opinions and ideas, 00:02:32.115 --> 00:02:34.367 and she was also open enough to 00:02:34.409 --> 00:02:37.453 share her own concerns or struggles. 00:02:38.663 --> 00:02:39.998 Seven years earlier, 00:02:40.039 --> 00:02:42.375 Joy's father walked out on the family 00:02:42.417 --> 00:02:47.296 and the 16-year-old has been searching for a father figure ever since. 00:02:47.338 --> 00:02:49.257 She is just with a single mom. 00:02:49.298 --> 00:02:50.675 It was just the two of them. 00:02:50.717 --> 00:02:54.053 It was her and her mom versus the world, you know. 00:02:54.095 --> 00:02:56.806 They had a really strong connection. 00:02:56.848 --> 00:02:59.517 Joy wanted to make her mom happy. 00:02:59.559 --> 00:03:02.103 In spite of the tight bond with her mother, 00:03:02.145 --> 00:03:04.105 Joy yearns for more people in her life 00:03:04.147 --> 00:03:06.190 that she can depend on. 00:03:06.232 --> 00:03:08.484 She was very open about not really having 00:03:08.526 --> 00:03:12.030 a lot of other family that she could even call on 00:03:12.071 --> 00:03:13.573 if she needed something. 00:03:13.614 --> 00:03:15.533 In high school, a lot of us had that similar situation, 00:03:15.575 --> 00:03:18.036 so we all kind of looked out for each other 00:03:18.077 --> 00:03:19.787 and became a nice tight knit group of friends 00:03:19.829 --> 00:03:21.664 that were more like family. 00:03:22.749 --> 00:03:25.418 I remember hanging out and having a really good time, 00:03:25.460 --> 00:03:27.962 we'd party at my house, go to raves. 00:03:30.214 --> 00:03:32.008 Joy had a little bit of a wild side, 00:03:32.049 --> 00:03:33.760 all in good fun. 00:03:34.343 --> 00:03:38.139 Joy was straddling that line of being a kid and having fun, 00:03:38.181 --> 00:03:43.519 while also trying to maintain respect for her mom. 00:03:45.104 --> 00:03:47.148 She would tell us like, I can't go out this Saturday, 00:03:47.190 --> 00:03:49.150 because my mom doesn't want me to be going out, 00:03:49.192 --> 00:03:52.153 'cause I'm supposed to be going to church on Sunday. 00:03:52.195 --> 00:03:54.572 Joy would go to church for her mom's sake. 00:03:56.073 --> 00:03:58.576 On one of those Sundays at Gwen's church, 00:03:58.618 --> 00:04:02.955 Joy and her mom meet a dynamic 27-year-old youth pastor 00:04:03.039 --> 00:04:05.208 named Sean Goff. 00:04:05.249 --> 00:04:07.627 Sean was one of the best preachers I've ever heard. 00:04:07.668 --> 00:04:11.047 When I walk, I know that Jesus is walking with me 00:04:11.088 --> 00:04:13.090 and when I speak, I know that Jesus 00:04:13.132 --> 00:04:15.051 is speaking through me, amen? 00:04:15.092 --> 00:04:17.470 He was a very good-looking dude. 00:04:17.512 --> 00:04:21.349 He had the power of a Pentecostal minister, 00:04:21.390 --> 00:04:24.060 but the intelligence of someone who's actually done 00:04:24.101 --> 00:04:26.687 the research and the study on the doctrines 00:04:26.729 --> 00:04:28.439 that he is espousing. 00:04:29.565 --> 00:04:32.068 Sean worked closely with my father, 00:04:32.109 --> 00:04:34.946 who was the chaplain of the church. 00:04:35.029 --> 00:04:37.198 And because Sean was a charismatic person, 00:04:37.240 --> 00:04:38.908 he was mentioned to me, you know, 00:04:38.991 --> 00:04:41.452 as someone I should get to know. 00:04:41.494 --> 00:04:44.163 Everything that Sean did, he became a leader in. 00:04:45.414 --> 00:04:48.125 Gwen believes that Sean is just the right person 00:04:48.167 --> 00:04:50.461 to push Joy closer to God 00:04:50.503 --> 00:04:53.548 and out of the party circuit for good. 00:04:53.589 --> 00:04:56.425 Gwen sought Sean out for advice on how 00:04:56.467 --> 00:04:59.095 to get her daughter more involved in the church, 00:04:59.136 --> 00:05:02.557 on how to get her daughter to not go to raves, 00:05:02.598 --> 00:05:03.766 things like that, 00:05:03.808 --> 00:05:05.393 and Sean was willing to help. 00:05:05.810 --> 00:05:07.436 You see people today, they're walking around 00:05:07.478 --> 00:05:09.021 and wearing their feelings on their sleeve, 00:05:09.063 --> 00:05:10.982 having problems left and right, 00:05:11.023 --> 00:05:12.775 always in some kind of a turmoil. 00:05:12.817 --> 00:05:15.945 God is not the most important thing in their life, 00:05:15.987 --> 00:05:18.781 it's themselves, amen? 00:05:20.074 --> 00:05:23.369 I don't think Joy expected to go to church and meet a man 00:05:23.411 --> 00:05:26.706 that's attractive and cool and understanding. 00:05:28.624 --> 00:05:32.128 Every Friday, our ministry would have chapel, 00:05:32.169 --> 00:05:35.589 and Joy would just, you know, dance in the halls. 00:05:35.631 --> 00:05:39.468 So Joy joined the youth group to get closer to Sean. 00:05:40.553 --> 00:05:44.181 In Sean, Joy finds a strong male presence, 00:05:44.223 --> 00:05:46.100 while the youth group provides the stability 00:05:46.142 --> 00:05:48.394 she's always craved. 00:05:48.436 --> 00:05:51.314 She trades nightlife for volunteer work at the church 00:05:51.355 --> 00:05:54.150 and ends up becoming Sean's assistant. 00:05:54.191 --> 00:05:57.486 For Joy's mom, Gwen, it's a positive development. 00:05:58.446 --> 00:06:02.491 At work, Joy and Sean were inseparable. 00:06:03.534 --> 00:06:06.037 He came on and started to take care of her 00:06:06.037 --> 00:06:07.830 and started to pay attention to her, 00:06:07.872 --> 00:06:11.167 things that she hadn't had before in her life. 00:06:11.208 --> 00:06:14.545 She had a father figure view towards Sean. 00:06:16.338 --> 00:06:18.466 We were used to seeing her multiple times a week 00:06:18.507 --> 00:06:21.427 and then suddenly it was like getting her out once a week 00:06:21.469 --> 00:06:22.845 was tough. 00:06:22.887 --> 00:06:26.515 Joy had officially gone on to new adventures. 00:06:28.726 --> 00:06:31.979 As someone who has gone to church her entire life, 00:06:32.063 --> 00:06:34.315 I can tell you, there's a sacred trust 00:06:34.356 --> 00:06:37.526 between a youth pastor and his congregant. 00:06:37.568 --> 00:06:40.321 Who in this case happens to be a young woman, 00:06:40.362 --> 00:06:43.240 who now sees him as a father figure. 00:06:43.282 --> 00:06:46.869 And when she's 18, Joy comes to him for guidance. 00:06:48.704 --> 00:06:52.333 She was looking for a way to get out of her mother's house 00:06:52.374 --> 00:06:54.794 and to be independent. 00:06:54.835 --> 00:06:57.254 Sean offers Joy a room in the home that he shares 00:06:57.296 --> 00:07:01.509 with his wife, Sheila, who's also part of the ministry. 00:07:02.426 --> 00:07:06.055 In exchange, he asked Joy to help Sheila keep up the house, 00:07:06.096 --> 00:07:08.557 and babysit their newborn son. 00:07:08.599 --> 00:07:13.020 Joy loved children, so I could see how that would 00:07:13.103 --> 00:07:16.732 also kind of fill that void in her life, 00:07:16.774 --> 00:07:20.653 give her that sense of family that she was missing. 00:07:22.321 --> 00:07:23.864 They had two bedrooms. 00:07:23.906 --> 00:07:24.907 Joy had her own room 00:07:24.949 --> 00:07:27.243 and then Sean and Sheila had a room 00:07:27.284 --> 00:07:30.079 where they kept their young son with them. 00:07:30.162 --> 00:07:32.331 Sean was offering, at least in her mind, 00:07:32.373 --> 00:07:34.333 some sort of freedom. 00:07:34.375 --> 00:07:37.503 Joy's mom, Gwen, is supportive of, 00:07:37.545 --> 00:07:40.756 even encouraged by, the move to Sean and Sheila's. 00:07:40.798 --> 00:07:43.342 What better person to be sharing a roof with 00:07:43.384 --> 00:07:45.302 than your own pastor? 00:07:45.344 --> 00:07:49.223 Her daughter is finally on the right spiritual path. 00:07:49.265 --> 00:07:52.643 Gwen accepted Sean as a father figure for her. 00:07:52.685 --> 00:07:54.853 She saw him as a positive influence. 00:07:54.895 --> 00:07:58.566 So now she's got this strong, charismatic man in her life, 00:07:58.607 --> 00:08:02.361 who's taking care of her and another young woman, 00:08:02.403 --> 00:08:05.281 almost like a sister figure to her. 00:08:05.322 --> 00:08:09.118 Joy's friends and church community are also supportive. 00:08:09.201 --> 00:08:10.661 They see Joy flourishing 00:08:10.703 --> 00:08:12.997 and pastor Sean and his wife, Sheila, 00:08:13.038 --> 00:08:15.457 seem to be a great influence on her. 00:08:15.499 --> 00:08:20.838 Then, in September, 1997, about a year after Joy moved in, 00:08:20.879 --> 00:08:25.259 Sean's friend, Leif, is at the church office one afternoon, 00:08:25.301 --> 00:08:28.137 when an unusual message pops up in his inbox. 00:08:29.096 --> 00:08:31.765 So Sean and I would email back and forth all the time, 00:08:31.807 --> 00:08:35.144 both for work and just for conversation. 00:08:35.185 --> 00:08:37.146 And at the very bottom of the email, 00:08:37.146 --> 00:08:41.608 I saw a conversation between him and an unknown man. 00:08:41.650 --> 00:08:44.737 It appears Sean accidentally copied and pasted 00:08:44.778 --> 00:08:49.450 a message history that was never meant for Leif's eyes. 00:08:49.491 --> 00:08:51.744 It was talking about how Sean was grateful 00:08:51.785 --> 00:08:54.955 that he had performed the ceremony to marry him and Joy. 00:08:57.166 --> 00:08:59.877 Sean is married to Joy 00:08:59.918 --> 00:09:02.463 and married to Sheila -- 00:09:02.504 --> 00:09:04.340 he's in a polygamous relationship. 00:09:08.010 --> 00:09:11.555 If he was outed, it could destroy the ministry. 00:09:12.514 --> 00:09:14.808 I was scared when I heard that Joy was missing, 00:09:14.850 --> 00:09:17.019 because I didn't believe that she would have run off. 00:09:17.853 --> 00:09:21.106 He was very vague about how it happened. 00:09:21.148 --> 00:09:23.442 He described as being accidental 00:09:23.484 --> 00:09:26.528 and he would use the word kill. 00:09:34.661 --> 00:09:39.333 Polygamy, it's an illegal practice in the United States, 00:09:39.374 --> 00:09:41.293 but that hasn't stopped 30-year-old, 00:09:41.335 --> 00:09:45.964 San Diego-based minister, Sean Goff, from pursuing it. 00:09:46.006 --> 00:09:51.720 In August of 1997, Sean takes a second wife, Joy Risker, 00:09:51.762 --> 00:09:56.266 the now 19-year-old woman he nurtured, guided and mentored, 00:09:56.350 --> 00:09:58.435 when she was yearning for direction 00:09:58.477 --> 00:10:01.105 from a male authority figure. 00:10:01.146 --> 00:10:05.025 Turns out the couple was married in secret. 00:10:06.735 --> 00:10:09.863 I called Sean up and said, this is some abhorrent doctrine 00:10:09.905 --> 00:10:11.532 that you're playing with here. 00:10:11.573 --> 00:10:15.953 And at first he denied it, until I read him the email, 00:10:15.994 --> 00:10:18.956 and then he said, "Okay, that's true." 00:10:18.997 --> 00:10:21.458 I'd been friends with him at that point, 15 years. 00:10:21.500 --> 00:10:24.962 Even though I didn't approve what he was doing, 00:10:25.003 --> 00:10:29.007 I also didn't like the idea of making him lose his job. 00:10:29.049 --> 00:10:33.303 Exposed, Sean attempts to justify a choice he made 00:10:33.345 --> 00:10:37.182 that is not only in violation of his own church doctrine, 00:10:37.266 --> 00:10:41.144 it could put him at risk of losing everything he's built. 00:10:41.186 --> 00:10:43.981 He said to me, "All of these great leaders 00:10:44.022 --> 00:10:47.401 in the Old Testament, such as Moses or Abraham, 00:10:47.442 --> 00:10:50.070 they were all polygamous. 00:10:50.112 --> 00:10:54.199 Sean was able to make rational and believable cases 00:10:54.241 --> 00:10:59.246 for whatever he was trying to do, based on the scripture. 00:10:59.246 --> 00:11:02.374 Each of the wives lived in a separate bedroom 00:11:02.416 --> 00:11:05.878 and Sean would just alternate between bedrooms, 00:11:05.919 --> 00:11:09.256 and Sheila agreed with it because she was raised 00:11:09.256 --> 00:11:13.552 to believe that the man was the ultimate authority. 00:11:14.928 --> 00:11:17.514 I actually called Sean's brother and told him 00:11:17.556 --> 00:11:22.102 what was going on and what should I do? 00:11:22.144 --> 00:11:24.396 His brother has always been no nonsense, 00:11:24.438 --> 00:11:27.316 and he said, "You need to tell him he has to tell 00:11:27.316 --> 00:11:31.612 the ministry he's working for, or you will." 00:11:33.488 --> 00:11:38.160 If he was outed, it could destroy the ministry, 00:11:38.201 --> 00:11:40.454 it could cost people their jobs, their livelihoods, 00:11:40.495 --> 00:11:43.248 bring disgrace upon people of faith. 00:11:43.290 --> 00:11:46.501 He just needed to end his relationship. 00:11:46.543 --> 00:11:48.962 Sean's brother also gets in touch 00:11:49.004 --> 00:11:52.799 with Joy's mother, Gwen, who is shocked to discover 00:11:52.841 --> 00:11:56.178 that the man she'd grown to see as her daughter's mentor, 00:11:56.219 --> 00:11:58.847 has taken her as his bride. 00:11:58.889 --> 00:12:02.225 I don't think her mother was open to the idea of polygamy. 00:12:02.267 --> 00:12:05.604 Societally, culturally speaking, even in her church, 00:12:05.645 --> 00:12:06.938 it's unacceptable. 00:12:06.980 --> 00:12:09.483 But I do think that Sean was so coercive 00:12:09.524 --> 00:12:12.944 that he could make her mom believe maybe 00:12:12.986 --> 00:12:16.865 it was not so outlandish. 00:12:17.407 --> 00:12:22.746 At the same time, she wanted to make Joy feel supported. 00:12:24.498 --> 00:12:29.628 So Joy's mom finally came around and accepted him 00:12:29.669 --> 00:12:31.254 as Joy's husband. 00:12:32.130 --> 00:12:33.548 With Gwen's support, 00:12:33.590 --> 00:12:36.802 Sean feels even more validated and resolute 00:12:36.843 --> 00:12:38.637 in the sanctity of his marriage, 00:12:38.678 --> 00:12:40.055 and tells Leif 00:12:40.097 --> 00:12:44.059 he has no intention of discontinuing his lifestyle. 00:12:44.101 --> 00:12:46.645 I had to tell the ministry what he was doing. 00:12:46.686 --> 00:12:50.315 And at that point, he was kicked out of church. 00:12:56.655 --> 00:12:58.573 I was in complete disbelief. 00:13:00.492 --> 00:13:04.704 I told her, I said, "Joy, if you ever want out, 00:13:04.746 --> 00:13:06.540 I am here for you." 00:13:06.581 --> 00:13:09.543 Joy's response was, "This is what I want, 00:13:09.584 --> 00:13:12.587 this is where, you know, God wants me." 00:13:14.297 --> 00:13:16.925 Now that her secret is out at church, 00:13:16.967 --> 00:13:19.970 Joy shows up at a party and shares the news 00:13:20.011 --> 00:13:22.389 with her old high school friends. 00:13:22.472 --> 00:13:24.724 There was Joy and we hadn't seen her 00:13:24.766 --> 00:13:26.268 or heard from her in years. 00:13:26.309 --> 00:13:28.687 That just made everybody feel so warm and happy 00:13:28.728 --> 00:13:30.147 to see her again. 00:13:30.188 --> 00:13:31.940 As the night progressed, 00:13:31.982 --> 00:13:34.067 she decided to tell us all 00:13:34.109 --> 00:13:37.237 about what had been happening in her life. 00:13:39.072 --> 00:13:41.575 I was just, okay, 00:13:41.616 --> 00:13:43.285 tell me more about that, 00:13:43.326 --> 00:13:44.578 I'm not gonna judge you, 00:13:44.619 --> 00:13:47.455 and that was true. 00:13:47.497 --> 00:13:53.712 But I also, once the whole story came out and how they met, 00:13:53.753 --> 00:13:56.631 I certainly started to have growing concerns. 00:13:57.173 --> 00:13:59.593 I felt a bit disappointed to be honest, 00:13:59.634 --> 00:14:06.308 because I know Joy was looking for someone to be her guy. 00:14:06.349 --> 00:14:09.019 And I don't see how that was gonna happen 00:14:09.060 --> 00:14:11.104 in a polygamous relationship. 00:14:12.147 --> 00:14:13.940 Despite their concerns, 00:14:13.982 --> 00:14:17.068 Joy assures her friends that she's happy. 00:14:17.110 --> 00:14:19.279 She just swore like, "No, he has a big heart 00:14:19.321 --> 00:14:21.197 and he's a good person." 00:14:21.907 --> 00:14:24.826 And that he was good for her. 00:14:25.869 --> 00:14:27.746 Joy feels isolated. 00:14:27.787 --> 00:14:30.206 She's been kicked out of her church community 00:14:30.248 --> 00:14:31.416 and she can't fully connect 00:14:31.458 --> 00:14:34.252 with her high school friends anymore. 00:14:34.294 --> 00:14:37.714 All of this drives her closer to the people who actually 00:14:37.756 --> 00:14:39.174 do share her beliefs, 00:14:39.215 --> 00:14:42.093 and especially to Sean. 00:14:42.135 --> 00:14:44.929 In 2000, when Joy is 22, 00:14:44.971 --> 00:14:47.182 she and Sean welcome their first child, 00:14:47.223 --> 00:14:49.267 a son named Snow. 00:14:49.309 --> 00:14:52.646 The family is elated by its new addition, 00:14:52.687 --> 00:14:56.316 but the next day, they receive heartbreaking news. 00:14:59.319 --> 00:15:03.198 Joy's mother died the day after her child was born. 00:15:06.993 --> 00:15:08.536 Joy really cared about her mom a lot, 00:15:08.620 --> 00:15:12.123 and I think wanted to make her mom proud of her. 00:15:12.165 --> 00:15:14.292 It was just the two of them, that was it, 00:15:14.334 --> 00:15:16.878 that's who Joy had, you know, was her mom. 00:15:18.129 --> 00:15:20.507 And now her mom is gone. 00:15:20.507 --> 00:15:24.511 Without her mom and friends around, 00:15:24.594 --> 00:15:28.556 Joy has no choice but to rely a lot on Sean. 00:15:28.640 --> 00:15:31.142 She also relies on Sheila, 00:15:31.184 --> 00:15:34.479 the two women support each other and the family. 00:15:34.521 --> 00:15:37.690 Joy and Sheila started off a little rough, 00:15:37.732 --> 00:15:39.234 they had arguments, 00:15:39.275 --> 00:15:41.778 but I think they just liked each other. 00:15:41.820 --> 00:15:45.323 Sheila would watch the boys when Joy was at work or school 00:15:45.365 --> 00:15:48.993 and Joy would watch the boys whenever Sheila was at work. 00:15:49.035 --> 00:15:52.705 Sheila said she saw Joy as a sister. 00:15:56.501 --> 00:16:00.338 A year later, Joy discovers she's pregnant once again. 00:16:00.380 --> 00:16:02.340 Sean decides to hold a shower 00:16:02.382 --> 00:16:05.760 and invite some of Joy's old church friends. 00:16:06.302 --> 00:16:09.347 I went to the baby shower of her second child 00:16:09.389 --> 00:16:12.725 and she seemed to be the old Joy that I knew. 00:16:12.767 --> 00:16:15.186 We were playing all the baby shower games, 00:16:15.228 --> 00:16:18.606 so measuring the belly and different things, 00:16:18.690 --> 00:16:22.360 then Sean seemed to be in rare form. 00:16:23.111 --> 00:16:25.029 Just, I'm in charge and I'm the boss, 00:16:25.071 --> 00:16:26.781 and look at my world. 00:16:28.241 --> 00:16:30.577 I avoided really speaking with him, 00:16:30.577 --> 00:16:34.247 I wasn't sure what I would say 'cause this was 00:16:34.289 --> 00:16:36.499 not the situation that I wanted my friend in, 00:16:36.541 --> 00:16:39.711 but I went because I wanted to support her. 00:16:41.045 --> 00:16:45.091 Nine months later, Joy and Sean are invited to attend 00:16:45.133 --> 00:16:47.635 one of her high school friend's weddings. 00:16:48.511 --> 00:16:51.347 This was the first time we met Sean. 00:16:52.515 --> 00:16:55.059 Sean definitely had a commanding presence with her, 00:16:55.101 --> 00:16:56.895 like, go get me another drink, 00:16:56.936 --> 00:16:58.354 go get me, do this. 00:16:58.396 --> 00:17:01.274 And it was like, this is my girl 00:17:01.316 --> 00:17:05.403 and I'm making her life into what I want it to be. 00:17:05.445 --> 00:17:10.867 It was clear that she was feeling stuck and not happy. 00:17:10.909 --> 00:17:14.871 She did say that they were arguing more 00:17:14.913 --> 00:17:19.042 and that she had shared that she wanted more freedom. 00:17:19.834 --> 00:17:23.129 He never let her out of his sight that night. 00:17:23.630 --> 00:17:25.798 Sean was very controlling and very much trying 00:17:25.840 --> 00:17:28.092 to dominate her. 00:17:30.511 --> 00:17:33.014 I remember her saying, "I don't wanna hurt Sean, 00:17:33.056 --> 00:17:34.849 but I'm also not happy." 00:17:36.059 --> 00:17:39.228 I made the assumption that she was trapped, in a way. 00:17:40.188 --> 00:17:43.608 At the wedding, we all made plans to see each other again 00:17:43.650 --> 00:17:46.277 real soon, and she said, she'd get a hold of us. 00:17:48.947 --> 00:17:51.824 But Joy never does get a hold of them. 00:17:51.866 --> 00:17:53.952 And when they try to reach out to her, 00:17:53.993 --> 00:17:56.287 their calls go unanswered. 00:17:56.329 --> 00:17:58.665 Okay, we've been calling her, no word. 00:17:58.706 --> 00:18:00.667 We went by her house, no word. 00:18:00.708 --> 00:18:03.878 And then we find out, it was about a week, 00:18:03.920 --> 00:18:05.755 nobody's heard from her. 00:18:07.715 --> 00:18:13.262 And when we found out that her kids were at home, 00:18:13.304 --> 00:18:15.348 we knew something was definitely wrong. 00:18:15.390 --> 00:18:18.101 That was immediately, there's something wrong. 00:18:23.981 --> 00:18:26.484 It's late September of 2003 00:18:26.526 --> 00:18:30.947 and 25-year-old Joy Risker's friends fear she's missing. 00:18:30.988 --> 00:18:33.950 The last time they saw her, Joy divulged that she's 00:18:33.991 --> 00:18:38.329 in a polygamous marriage with a preacher named Sean Goff. 00:18:38.371 --> 00:18:41.124 And she's really unhappy. 00:18:42.333 --> 00:18:44.961 Joy's friends started calling Sean, 00:18:45.002 --> 00:18:46.921 saying, "Where is Joy? 00:18:46.963 --> 00:18:48.339 What happened?" 00:18:49.465 --> 00:18:52.844 He told them that Joy had run off to Europe 00:18:52.885 --> 00:18:55.054 and that she had left the kids behind 00:18:55.096 --> 00:18:57.306 and that he was distraught. 00:18:58.391 --> 00:19:01.227 I was scared when I heard that Joy was missing, 00:19:01.269 --> 00:19:03.146 because I didn't believe that she would have run off. 00:19:03.187 --> 00:19:06.566 I didn't think that she would do that to her kids. 00:19:06.607 --> 00:19:08.025 It didn't seem right. 00:19:09.318 --> 00:19:11.696 Worried that they still haven't heard from her, 00:19:11.737 --> 00:19:15.491 Joy's friends reach out to law enforcement on October 5th 00:19:15.533 --> 00:19:17.410 and report her missing. 00:19:17.452 --> 00:19:20.496 One of the things that's so interesting about this story, 00:19:20.538 --> 00:19:24.500 is that those friends don't say anything to police 00:19:24.542 --> 00:19:26.377 about her polygamous marriage. 00:19:26.419 --> 00:19:28.671 It's an important fact to leave out. 00:19:31.174 --> 00:19:34.135 This was my second month in that unit. 00:19:34.177 --> 00:19:36.846 So up to then all my cases were pretty mundane. 00:19:36.929 --> 00:19:38.764 It was, you know that wife that took off? 00:19:38.806 --> 00:19:40.766 She came back the next day. 00:19:40.766 --> 00:19:43.603 A great majority of missing person cases, 00:19:43.644 --> 00:19:45.480 people would eventually come back. 00:19:45.521 --> 00:19:47.273 So I received the report 00:19:47.315 --> 00:19:49.984 and first I talked to Joy's husband. 00:19:52.195 --> 00:19:56.157 Sean said to Linda, that Joy left him 00:19:56.199 --> 00:19:58.034 and that he was stuck with the kids, 00:19:58.075 --> 00:19:59.952 that she had taken money. 00:19:59.994 --> 00:20:02.747 He just seemed off balance and distraught 00:20:02.747 --> 00:20:07.210 and upset about what had happened. 00:20:07.251 --> 00:20:10.546 He said Joy had reconnected with an old boyfriend 00:20:10.588 --> 00:20:13.216 and that they had exchanged emails 00:20:13.257 --> 00:20:17.970 and they had decided to backpack through Europe together. 00:20:18.012 --> 00:20:21.349 So I asked for her email. 00:20:21.390 --> 00:20:24.352 I needed more information about the boyfriend. 00:20:25.561 --> 00:20:28.689 Detective Koozin also reaches out to Joy's friends 00:20:28.731 --> 00:20:30.650 to see what they may know. 00:20:33.444 --> 00:20:37.865 A few friends said they did receive emails after she left, 00:20:37.865 --> 00:20:42.245 stating that she had run off with an old friend 00:20:42.286 --> 00:20:45.122 and that she just needed time. 00:20:46.123 --> 00:20:47.583 There were a couple of friends that said, 00:20:47.625 --> 00:20:51.587 "Yeah, I could see her, you know, just taking off. 00:20:51.629 --> 00:20:54.090 She's always talked about wanting to go to Europe, 00:20:54.131 --> 00:20:56.217 so I could see her doing that." 00:20:57.218 --> 00:21:00.346 The messages seemed to lend support to Sean's statement, 00:21:00.388 --> 00:21:04.517 but those closest to Joy feel that something is off. 00:21:06.936 --> 00:21:09.230 I was contacted by detectives 00:21:09.271 --> 00:21:14.151 and I was just like, there is no, no, no way, 00:21:14.193 --> 00:21:16.112 ever, she would do that. 00:21:16.153 --> 00:21:18.114 She would not have left her children, 00:21:18.155 --> 00:21:20.074 just, no matter what. 00:21:20.116 --> 00:21:22.827 In the back of my mind, I'm thinking, 00:21:22.827 --> 00:21:25.454 no, she wouldn't have left her two sons, 00:21:25.496 --> 00:21:27.456 but then I'm thinking, 00:21:27.498 --> 00:21:29.166 I don't know, would she, or wouldn't she? 00:21:29.208 --> 00:21:31.627 She's so much younger than him. 00:21:31.669 --> 00:21:35.172 The way their friends described her, very happy-go-lucky, 00:21:35.214 --> 00:21:38.217 she had all these things she wanted to do. 00:21:38.259 --> 00:21:41.220 Was she a person who could say, you know, "I need to take 00:21:41.262 --> 00:21:44.515 time out for myself and improve myself 00:21:44.557 --> 00:21:46.851 and then come back and be a better person, 00:21:46.934 --> 00:21:48.769 be a better mother." 00:21:50.104 --> 00:21:51.647 Keeping an open mind, 00:21:51.689 --> 00:21:55.359 detective Koozin looks deeper into the email Sean provided 00:21:55.401 --> 00:21:58.446 and makes contact with Joy's ex-boyfriend 00:21:58.487 --> 00:22:00.322 and supposed lover. 00:22:01.282 --> 00:22:03.659 He was living in Massachusetts, 00:22:03.701 --> 00:22:06.495 and he said, "Yeah, we had texted back and forth 00:22:06.537 --> 00:22:07.872 I think once, 00:22:07.955 --> 00:22:09.165 but it was just kinda like, hey, how's it going? 00:22:09.206 --> 00:22:12.126 Kind of thing, but no, we don't have any plans, 00:22:12.168 --> 00:22:14.295 we weren't gonna meet." 00:22:14.336 --> 00:22:17.548 And he hadn't seen her for years. 00:22:17.590 --> 00:22:19.133 I believed him. 00:22:19.550 --> 00:22:22.178 If Joy didn't run off with her ex, 00:22:22.219 --> 00:22:23.721 where could she be? 00:22:25.639 --> 00:22:28.142 Now we knew we had to get going on this one, 00:22:28.184 --> 00:22:29.810 we needed to find her immediately. 00:22:30.728 --> 00:22:33.189 Considering that maybe Joy didn't just 00:22:33.230 --> 00:22:36.150 run off on her own, the detectives decide 00:22:36.192 --> 00:22:40.196 to examine Joy's phone activity over the last few weeks, 00:22:40.237 --> 00:22:43.532 hoping to uncover any cell tower locations 00:22:43.574 --> 00:22:46.327 that might point to her whereabouts. 00:22:46.368 --> 00:22:49.580 The last call that Joy had made was to Sean. 00:22:50.581 --> 00:22:53.083 That last call from Joy's phone was placed 00:22:53.125 --> 00:22:58.047 at 9:34 PM on September 19th, 2003. 00:22:58.506 --> 00:23:01.926 Sixteen days prior to her friends reporting her missing. 00:23:02.968 --> 00:23:07.014 Joy's phone records completely drop off after that. 00:23:07.765 --> 00:23:12.102 There's no more interactions with friends, 00:23:12.144 --> 00:23:13.771 cell site, nothing. 00:23:15.397 --> 00:23:18.359 Anyone who's ever watched a true crime show can tell you 00:23:18.400 --> 00:23:20.903 that when a cell phone goes dead, 00:23:20.986 --> 00:23:22.446 it's not a good sign. 00:23:22.488 --> 00:23:25.866 Either Joy got rid of her phone when she left, 00:23:25.908 --> 00:23:27.826 or someone did it for her. 00:23:27.868 --> 00:23:30.496 But what's even more troubling to investigators, 00:23:30.537 --> 00:23:36.377 is that Sean never mentioned anything about Joy's last call in his initial interview. 00:23:37.628 --> 00:23:39.171 Sean was withholding. 00:23:39.213 --> 00:23:41.840 That was a big red flag for me. 00:23:43.133 --> 00:23:46.387 I called Sean and I asked him about that. 00:23:46.428 --> 00:23:49.890 He said that weekend that Joy had disappeared, 00:23:49.932 --> 00:23:52.184 they had had a big argument 00:23:52.226 --> 00:23:55.020 and he had left the house. 00:23:55.104 --> 00:23:58.107 Joy had called, asking him to come back, 00:23:58.107 --> 00:24:00.526 that they needed to talk about it. 00:24:01.986 --> 00:24:04.780 And so he came back, 00:24:04.822 --> 00:24:06.156 they went to bed 00:24:06.198 --> 00:24:09.201 and then the next morning he woke up 00:24:09.243 --> 00:24:12.621 and he saw Joy leaving with two suitcases 00:24:12.663 --> 00:24:16.166 and getting into a car and driving off. 00:24:20.295 --> 00:24:22.715 And it's like, Sean, why didn't you mention that before? 00:24:22.756 --> 00:24:24.466 That's big. 00:24:30.264 --> 00:24:33.517 Twenty-five-year-old Joy Risker was last seen 00:24:33.559 --> 00:24:35.310 almost three weeks ago. 00:24:35.352 --> 00:24:38.939 Her husband Sean has just revealed important details 00:24:38.981 --> 00:24:41.066 to detectives in San Diego. 00:24:41.108 --> 00:24:44.820 Details he failed to provide in his initial interview. 00:24:46.572 --> 00:24:49.950 To me, it was odd that he waited so long 00:24:49.992 --> 00:24:55.205 to go into detail on how he knew that Joy had left. 00:24:55.247 --> 00:24:59.793 The fact that she packed and got into a car 00:24:59.835 --> 00:25:02.880 and drove off with an old boyfriend. 00:25:02.921 --> 00:25:05.966 Sean's behavior is bizarre, 00:25:06.008 --> 00:25:10.137 but what comes next is beyond bizarre for Detective Koozin, 00:25:10.220 --> 00:25:11.680 it's shocking. 00:25:12.723 --> 00:25:14.516 Very good friend of Joy's told me 00:25:14.558 --> 00:25:16.351 "Well, you know he has another wife." 00:25:19.104 --> 00:25:22.191 He's married to Sheila and to Joy 00:25:22.232 --> 00:25:24.318 and they live together in the house. 00:25:25.444 --> 00:25:26.904 I mean, all this time, I've been talking to people 00:25:26.945 --> 00:25:28.572 and they were holding that back. 00:25:28.614 --> 00:25:30.949 It's like, why didn't you tell me that? 00:25:32.201 --> 00:25:35.078 During the first calls, they thought Joy might come back. 00:25:35.120 --> 00:25:37.289 And so they thought, well, when she comes back, 00:25:37.331 --> 00:25:39.541 is she gonna get in trouble? 00:25:39.583 --> 00:25:41.877 Now she's been gone for how long? 00:25:42.711 --> 00:25:44.379 Well, maybe she's not coming back. 00:25:45.839 --> 00:25:48.842 The startling revelation forces Detective Koozin 00:25:48.884 --> 00:25:52.888 to reconsider everything she's learned so far. 00:25:53.889 --> 00:25:55.307 That's where you got to go sit down, okay, 00:25:55.349 --> 00:25:58.060 and then you read through all this stuff again. 00:25:58.101 --> 00:26:00.521 Along with Sean, it also provides her 00:26:00.562 --> 00:26:02.940 with another person of interest. 00:26:03.273 --> 00:26:07.236 Sheila, the other wife lived in the house. 00:26:07.819 --> 00:26:10.572 I mean, what was her relationship with Joy? 00:26:13.033 --> 00:26:15.494 I did some work on Sheila and then just showed up 00:26:15.536 --> 00:26:17.120 at her workplace. 00:26:17.204 --> 00:26:19.581 It's always best to do a little surprise. 00:26:20.207 --> 00:26:22.459 We told her we're looking into the Joy Risker 00:26:22.501 --> 00:26:25.921 missing person case and she was a little shocked. 00:26:26.797 --> 00:26:29.716 And so Linda starts to question, 00:26:29.758 --> 00:26:31.677 "Did she let you know that she was leaving? 00:26:31.718 --> 00:26:33.887 Did she leave any clothes behind?" 00:26:33.929 --> 00:26:36.098 And Sheila was like, "Well, I don't know. 00:26:36.139 --> 00:26:38.809 She just left and didn't say anything." 00:26:39.977 --> 00:26:43.063 That's when she told me that the weekend Joy 00:26:43.146 --> 00:26:48.360 had disappeared, she had gone to Santa Barbara with the three kids. 00:26:49.069 --> 00:26:52.072 When I asked Sheila why she went to Santa Barbara, 00:26:52.114 --> 00:26:56.285 she said, "Well, Sean wanted a special weekend with Joy." 00:26:56.326 --> 00:27:00.789 She goes, "Yeah, I came back and Sean just said she had gone." 00:27:01.498 --> 00:27:04.001 Yeah, that was interesting. 00:27:04.751 --> 00:27:08.005 You have to question why would Sheila 00:27:08.046 --> 00:27:12.592 not question Joy missing or leaving her children? 00:27:15.929 --> 00:27:19.391 She had explained to us that Sean and Joy were 00:27:19.433 --> 00:27:25.063 having problems, so she thought that makes sense to me. 00:27:25.981 --> 00:27:28.483 Investigators aren't sure if Joy is 00:27:28.525 --> 00:27:30.110 dead or alive, 00:27:30.152 --> 00:27:32.487 or if Sheila has anything to do 00:27:32.529 --> 00:27:34.072 with her disappearance, 00:27:34.114 --> 00:27:36.366 but it's looking more and more plausible 00:27:36.408 --> 00:27:38.076 that Sean did. 00:27:40.245 --> 00:27:43.206 It's a red flag that Sean would want Sheila 00:27:43.248 --> 00:27:45.459 and all three kids out of the house the weekend 00:27:45.500 --> 00:27:47.335 that Joy disappeared. 00:27:48.462 --> 00:27:52.382 Also, why didn't he tell me about Sheila before? 00:27:52.883 --> 00:27:54.176 So I said, "Hey, you know, is it okay 00:27:54.217 --> 00:27:56.344 if I come over tomorrow morning?" 00:27:56.386 --> 00:27:59.181 He said, "Yeah, nine o'clock, fine." 00:28:00.140 --> 00:28:02.517 But I never got there because that evening, 00:28:02.559 --> 00:28:05.228 he actually went into the police department. 00:28:06.855 --> 00:28:09.858 Linda Koozin, by questioning him, 00:28:09.900 --> 00:28:11.526 asking for phone records, 00:28:11.568 --> 00:28:13.153 interviewing Sheila, 00:28:13.236 --> 00:28:16.531 puts so much pressure on him that he felt he needed 00:28:16.573 --> 00:28:19.576 to come to the police station to explain himself. 00:28:22.704 --> 00:28:26.333 When Sean arrives at the San Diego Police Department headquarters, 00:28:26.374 --> 00:28:29.503 he meets with veteran detective John Tefft. 00:28:29.544 --> 00:28:30.962 We take him into the interview room. 00:28:31.004 --> 00:28:33.006 I introduced myself to him. 00:28:33.048 --> 00:28:35.634 He basically tells me about the relationship, 00:28:35.675 --> 00:28:37.219 that he had this relationship, 00:28:37.260 --> 00:28:39.805 that he had two wives and that this wife 00:28:39.846 --> 00:28:41.515 wanted to go missing. 00:28:42.474 --> 00:28:45.811 He then told me that there was an accident 00:28:45.852 --> 00:28:48.021 and that she was killed. 00:28:51.233 --> 00:28:53.902 When I then used the word murder, 00:28:53.944 --> 00:28:55.695 he then corrected me and said, 00:28:55.737 --> 00:28:57.197 "No, she was killed." 00:29:02.035 --> 00:29:04.037 In California, and most states, 00:29:04.079 --> 00:29:05.622 there's a difference between killing someone 00:29:05.664 --> 00:29:07.082 and murdering someone. 00:29:08.250 --> 00:29:10.377 You may be driving down the street and someone jumped 00:29:10.377 --> 00:29:12.963 in front of you and you run over and kill them, 00:29:13.004 --> 00:29:15.423 doesn't mean you murdered them. 00:29:15.465 --> 00:29:17.968 Murder has malice of forethought. 00:29:19.094 --> 00:29:20.595 So obviously he knew the difference, 00:29:20.637 --> 00:29:22.055 I clearly knew the difference, 00:29:22.097 --> 00:29:24.891 and so we would dance around this. 00:29:27.519 --> 00:29:29.145 The more I pressed him about the details 00:29:29.187 --> 00:29:30.814 of this accidental killing, 00:29:30.855 --> 00:29:34.734 the more I pressed him about the details of where her body is. 00:29:34.776 --> 00:29:35.944 At that point, he then says, 00:29:35.986 --> 00:29:37.612 "I don't wanna talk to you anymore, 00:29:37.654 --> 00:29:39.281 I'd like to have an attorney." 00:29:39.990 --> 00:29:41.950 So we ended the interview. 00:29:41.992 --> 00:29:45.453 We arrested him for murder and we put in jail. 00:29:48.164 --> 00:29:51.751 We are looking at a hacksaw, 00:29:51.793 --> 00:29:53.336 a shovel, 00:29:53.378 --> 00:29:54.713 an ice pick, 00:29:54.754 --> 00:29:56.715 a sledge hammer, 00:29:56.756 --> 00:29:58.341 a tarp. 00:30:04.264 --> 00:30:08.018 After claiming she left their family of her own free will, 00:30:08.059 --> 00:30:10.312 Sean Goff, a minister, 00:30:10.395 --> 00:30:11.605 spiritual guide 00:30:11.646 --> 00:30:14.524 and a trusted mentor to his young wife, 00:30:14.566 --> 00:30:17.235 knows exactly what happened to her. 00:30:17.277 --> 00:30:19.029 She's not missing, 00:30:19.070 --> 00:30:21.990 Joy Risker is dead. 00:30:23.992 --> 00:30:26.786 He was very vague about how it happened. 00:30:26.828 --> 00:30:29.706 He described it as being accidental 00:30:29.748 --> 00:30:32.876 and he would use the word kill. 00:30:32.917 --> 00:30:35.712 I would use the word murder and he would correct me. 00:30:35.754 --> 00:30:39.174 No, "I killed her, I didn't murder her." 00:30:41.968 --> 00:30:43.678 The partial confession is enough 00:30:43.720 --> 00:30:46.806 to keep Sean in jail for 72 hours, 00:30:46.848 --> 00:30:49.976 but not enough to charge him with murder. 00:30:51.144 --> 00:30:53.313 The race is on to gather evidence. 00:30:53.396 --> 00:30:56.191 And the first stop is back at Sean's home, 00:30:56.232 --> 00:30:57.609 with his other wife. 00:30:58.234 --> 00:31:01.446 I interviewed Sheila, and when I sat down with her, 00:31:01.488 --> 00:31:03.782 I don't know if Sheila is just a key witness 00:31:03.823 --> 00:31:05.742 or is she a co-conspirator? 00:31:07.077 --> 00:31:09.954 So I was very understanding, I was talking to her 00:31:09.996 --> 00:31:13.666 and Sheila says she is with the kids in Santa Barbara, 00:31:13.708 --> 00:31:17.962 Sean calls her says, "Hey, Joy's gonna move on, 00:31:18.004 --> 00:31:20.465 she's gonna leave and in fact, when you get home, 00:31:20.507 --> 00:31:22.300 she's not gonna be here, 00:31:22.342 --> 00:31:23.676 and I won't be here 00:31:23.718 --> 00:31:26.679 'cause I'm gonna assist her in her moving on, 00:31:26.721 --> 00:31:29.015 and when you get home, 00:31:29.057 --> 00:31:31.142 there was an accident. 00:31:31.184 --> 00:31:32.393 We had a little minor accident, 00:31:32.435 --> 00:31:34.354 wasn't a big deal." 00:31:34.395 --> 00:31:37.857 He said, "When Joy left, she got injured 00:31:37.899 --> 00:31:40.944 and there might be some blood in the room. 00:31:41.486 --> 00:31:44.197 Can you go home and clean up the mess?" 00:31:45.156 --> 00:31:46.741 At the time, Sheila, 00:31:46.783 --> 00:31:50.203 she didn't even ask why or what happened. 00:31:50.245 --> 00:31:52.455 Instead, she chose to believe Sean. 00:31:52.497 --> 00:31:54.833 That's the kind of hold he had on her. 00:31:56.084 --> 00:31:57.669 You have to remember, 00:31:57.710 --> 00:32:03.716 Sheila had been controlled by his manipulations for years. 00:32:03.758 --> 00:32:07.303 So, at that point, she was inclined to believe him, 00:32:07.345 --> 00:32:09.097 almost no matter what he said. 00:32:10.765 --> 00:32:13.726 When I was talking to her, Sheila was cooperative, 00:32:13.768 --> 00:32:17.564 she answered my questions, she appeared very candid. 00:32:20.400 --> 00:32:22.527 We had to run down leads involving her, 00:32:22.610 --> 00:32:25.905 like checking her gas, credit cards, 00:32:25.947 --> 00:32:28.074 to see if she went to the hotel, 00:32:28.116 --> 00:32:29.784 how long was at the hotel? 00:32:29.826 --> 00:32:31.327 What was her cell site, 00:32:31.369 --> 00:32:32.453 her phone records? 00:32:32.495 --> 00:32:34.038 What did they depict? 00:32:34.080 --> 00:32:37.083 The receipts and cell tower information 00:32:37.125 --> 00:32:40.420 confirm Sheila was in Santa Barbara with the kids 00:32:40.461 --> 00:32:42.755 the weekend of Joy's disappearance. 00:32:43.047 --> 00:32:45.758 We were very confident that she was not involved 00:32:45.800 --> 00:32:48.136 in making Joy disappear. 00:32:49.012 --> 00:32:52.140 With Sean still in jail on the 72-hour hold, 00:32:52.181 --> 00:32:54.934 detectives ask Sheila if she'll consent to a search 00:32:54.976 --> 00:32:56.311 of their home. 00:32:56.352 --> 00:32:57.729 She agrees. 00:32:58.354 --> 00:33:01.149 There's chemicals that our forensic people spray 00:33:01.190 --> 00:33:02.442 where blood will illuminate 00:33:02.483 --> 00:33:03.901 even though you've cleaned it up 00:33:03.943 --> 00:33:05.570 and you've you think you got it all, 00:33:05.653 --> 00:33:06.821 it's still in the cracks, 00:33:06.863 --> 00:33:09.616 it's in the crevices of the floor. 00:33:09.616 --> 00:33:10.908 When people get stabbed, 00:33:10.950 --> 00:33:12.827 blood will spatter and go places 00:33:12.869 --> 00:33:14.829 and you can tell the directionality 00:33:14.871 --> 00:33:16.414 of what's going on. 00:33:17.373 --> 00:33:21.085 There were droplets of blood on some of the walls 00:33:21.127 --> 00:33:22.587 in the living room 00:33:22.670 --> 00:33:24.005 and the bedroom -- 00:33:25.048 --> 00:33:27.759 as if someone bled 00:33:27.800 --> 00:33:30.094 and was moving at the same time. 00:33:30.637 --> 00:33:32.096 Like possibly being chased 00:33:32.138 --> 00:33:34.515 or trying to get away from someone. 00:33:35.183 --> 00:33:38.353 The victim was stabbed multiple times. 00:33:38.811 --> 00:33:41.022 It appeared to end in the bathroom, 00:33:41.064 --> 00:33:43.816 where there was large pools of blood. 00:33:44.442 --> 00:33:46.110 During the search, 00:33:46.152 --> 00:33:49.655 detectives also gain access to Sean's computer. 00:33:49.655 --> 00:33:51.491 When we collected the computer, 00:33:51.532 --> 00:33:53.951 a forensic examination was done 00:33:53.993 --> 00:33:57.413 and the emails that were sent to Joy's friends 00:33:57.455 --> 00:33:58.873 came from this computer 00:33:58.915 --> 00:34:01.626 that belonged to Sean. 00:34:02.293 --> 00:34:05.421 We've now connected Sean to the computer 00:34:05.463 --> 00:34:06.756 and the emails. 00:34:09.509 --> 00:34:11.636 The forensic evidence at the house 00:34:11.677 --> 00:34:14.722 is enough to charge Sean with murder, 00:34:14.764 --> 00:34:16.599 but he still isn't talking. 00:34:16.682 --> 00:34:18.893 And without Joy's body to prove the case 00:34:18.935 --> 00:34:20.853 beyond a reasonable doubt, 00:34:20.895 --> 00:34:23.314 I can tell you as a former prosecutor, 00:34:23.356 --> 00:34:28.069 it's going to be difficult securing a conviction at trial. 00:34:28.403 --> 00:34:30.071 So investigators get a warrant 00:34:30.113 --> 00:34:32.407 for Sean's credit card statements, 00:34:32.448 --> 00:34:36.160 hoping to track his movements the weekend Joy went missing. 00:34:36.202 --> 00:34:37.745 And fingers crossed, 00:34:37.829 --> 00:34:40.456 to ultimately locate her body. 00:34:41.541 --> 00:34:44.752 We are looking at his credit cards 00:34:44.794 --> 00:34:47.755 prior to Joy going missing 00:34:47.839 --> 00:34:50.007 and then we found out 00:34:50.049 --> 00:34:52.468 that he made a purchase at a hardware store. 00:34:54.428 --> 00:34:56.347 A hacksaw, 00:34:56.389 --> 00:34:57.765 a shovel, 00:34:57.765 --> 00:34:59.350 an ice pick, 00:34:59.392 --> 00:35:01.561 a sledgehammer, 00:35:01.602 --> 00:35:02.770 a tarp. 00:35:04.772 --> 00:35:07.233 We never found those items afterwards. 00:35:08.359 --> 00:35:13.322 So Sean knew that he was gonna kill her ahead of time. 00:35:14.323 --> 00:35:17.785 And we also learn that he had rented a car 00:35:17.869 --> 00:35:20.538 when Joy went missing 00:35:20.580 --> 00:35:22.331 and he drove it 800 miles. 00:35:23.875 --> 00:35:26.002 From the mileage on the rental car, 00:35:26.043 --> 00:35:29.964 detectives believe that Sean may have disposed of Joy's body, 00:35:30.006 --> 00:35:34.135 somewhere approximately 400 miles from San Diego, 00:35:34.176 --> 00:35:36.470 but that still leaves an area of more than 00:35:36.512 --> 00:35:40.975 half-a-million square miles where her remains could be. 00:35:41.017 --> 00:35:44.604 And that hopelessness is an unsettling reality 00:35:44.645 --> 00:35:46.898 for Joy's friends and family. 00:35:49.567 --> 00:35:52.653 We just wanted to find her body 00:35:52.737 --> 00:35:56.407 so that she can be properly laid to rest. 00:35:58.826 --> 00:36:02.747 I was just pissed and sad. 00:36:02.747 --> 00:36:04.707 When he turned himself in, 00:36:04.749 --> 00:36:06.542 he was definitely presenting himself 00:36:06.584 --> 00:36:08.920 as the one who was hurt. 00:36:09.462 --> 00:36:11.005 It was just lies. 00:36:13.883 --> 00:36:16.844 Law enforcement search turns up nothing. 00:36:16.886 --> 00:36:20.806 But three months later, in January, 2004, 00:36:20.806 --> 00:36:23.100 two hikers walking along a trail, 00:36:23.142 --> 00:36:25.478 discover something horrifying, 00:36:25.519 --> 00:36:27.938 in Maricopa County, Arizona. 00:36:28.356 --> 00:36:32.985 Almost exactly 400 miles away from San Diego. 00:36:33.861 --> 00:36:36.530 They could smell decomposition. 00:36:36.572 --> 00:36:38.991 They saw this little debris of rocks, 00:36:39.033 --> 00:36:41.202 like a little makeshift grave. 00:36:42.912 --> 00:36:47.833 A federal ranger comes out and he starts 00:36:47.875 --> 00:36:52.588 taking the rocks apart from the shrine 00:36:52.630 --> 00:36:55.800 and he notices an arm. 00:36:57.426 --> 00:36:59.011 And hair. 00:37:01.430 --> 00:37:05.935 And right away, he knew that this was the body of someone. 00:37:14.151 --> 00:37:15.778 As a former prosecutor, 00:37:15.820 --> 00:37:18.531 I'm sad to say, my work calls me to come across 00:37:18.572 --> 00:37:21.033 some truly horrifying sights, 00:37:21.075 --> 00:37:23.035 ones I'd rather unsee. 00:37:23.452 --> 00:37:25.329 And I'm sure that's exactly what was going through 00:37:25.371 --> 00:37:29.291 the mind of the federal ranger who unearthed a body 00:37:29.333 --> 00:37:32.128 from a pile of rocks in the Arizona desert, 00:37:32.169 --> 00:37:35.005 on January 10th, 2004. 00:37:37.216 --> 00:37:39.468 The bones on the face were crushed, 00:37:39.510 --> 00:37:42.513 the upper and lower jaws were missing. 00:37:42.555 --> 00:37:44.348 And you didn't have the fingers. 00:37:45.850 --> 00:37:49.979 So the body could not be identified through her fingerprints, 00:37:50.020 --> 00:37:51.355 or dental records, 00:37:51.397 --> 00:37:55.192 but they were able to determine it was female, 00:37:55.234 --> 00:37:58.112 and they extracted some DNA from the body 00:37:58.154 --> 00:38:02.074 through the bone marrow and then put it in their data bank. 00:38:04.201 --> 00:38:06.036 When the DNA was submitted into 00:38:06.078 --> 00:38:08.706 the FBI national data bank, 00:38:08.747 --> 00:38:13.502 it connected to the San Diego data bank 00:38:13.544 --> 00:38:17.047 and identified the body as Joy Risker. 00:38:19.383 --> 00:38:22.511 Wow, we were like ecstatic, so relieved. 00:38:22.553 --> 00:38:25.431 The one thing that you needed was that body, 00:38:25.472 --> 00:38:26.557 and you've got it. 00:38:27.766 --> 00:38:30.060 It's enough for prosecutors to feel ready 00:38:30.102 --> 00:38:31.228 to go to trial. 00:38:31.270 --> 00:38:33.522 And in July, 2006, 00:38:33.564 --> 00:38:35.024 Sean finds himself, 00:38:35.065 --> 00:38:38.360 not in front of a wrapped congregation of devotees, 00:38:38.402 --> 00:38:41.030 but rather a jury of his peers. 00:38:42.406 --> 00:38:46.076 He tried to make it look like she came after him 00:38:46.118 --> 00:38:49.622 with a knife and that they struggled with this knife 00:38:49.663 --> 00:38:53.042 and he stabs her accidentally, 00:38:53.083 --> 00:38:56.462 but then he panicked and stabbed her a second time. 00:38:57.630 --> 00:39:00.132 At that point, she kind of just went limp. 00:39:02.426 --> 00:39:04.595 I couldn't believe that she was dead. 00:39:06.430 --> 00:39:08.390 If I call the police, 00:39:08.432 --> 00:39:09.516 they're gonna arrest me, 00:39:09.558 --> 00:39:10.643 they're going to charge me with murder 00:39:10.684 --> 00:39:13.938 and I'll be away from my kids forever. 00:39:14.730 --> 00:39:18.233 It seemed totally fake. 00:39:18.817 --> 00:39:22.780 And his fake cry was ridiculous. 00:39:23.739 --> 00:39:25.741 Law enforcement agrees. 00:39:25.783 --> 00:39:28.202 After a thorough investigation, 00:39:28.243 --> 00:39:30.204 their theory on Joy's fate 00:39:30.245 --> 00:39:32.206 and her husband's role in it, 00:39:32.247 --> 00:39:34.041 is spine-chilling. 00:39:34.083 --> 00:39:38.045 Just based on the things that he did 00:39:38.087 --> 00:39:42.424 and how manipulating and controlling that he was, 00:39:42.466 --> 00:39:44.760 it appeared to me that he was 00:39:44.802 --> 00:39:49.807 the kind of person that did not want her to leave him. 00:39:50.015 --> 00:39:52.643 That that would kind of be like, I would say, 00:39:52.685 --> 00:39:54.645 kind of leave a stain on him, like, you know, 00:39:54.687 --> 00:39:56.689 you're not this perfect guy. 00:39:57.356 --> 00:40:01.610 So I think Joy ended up wanting to meet with Sean. 00:40:01.652 --> 00:40:02.778 She wanted to leave, 00:40:02.820 --> 00:40:05.239 she expressed that she was gonna leave, 00:40:05.280 --> 00:40:08.701 but Sean somehow managed to lure 00:40:08.742 --> 00:40:11.620 Joy to having dinner at a restaurant. 00:40:11.662 --> 00:40:15.666 When they get back to the house, 00:40:15.708 --> 00:40:18.585 Sean came after her with a knife. 00:40:19.878 --> 00:40:23.298 The way the blood was captured on the wall, 00:40:23.340 --> 00:40:25.217 showed she was chased. 00:40:25.801 --> 00:40:27.553 There was multiple stab wounds, 00:40:27.594 --> 00:40:29.847 not two, more than that. 00:40:31.265 --> 00:40:33.851 And she eventually goes down, 00:40:33.892 --> 00:40:36.645 the large pools of blood showed that she was later 00:40:36.687 --> 00:40:39.732 taken into the bathtub 00:40:39.773 --> 00:40:42.192 and we believe that's where she was dismembered. 00:40:47.698 --> 00:40:50.367 He thinks that he can get away with the perfect crime 00:40:50.409 --> 00:40:52.536 by removing her fingers, 00:40:52.578 --> 00:40:54.163 by removing her teeth. 00:40:55.289 --> 00:40:57.958 He then took these various parts of her body 00:40:58.000 --> 00:41:02.212 and then he traveled from San Diego to Phoenix 00:41:02.254 --> 00:41:05.632 and he would stop periodically behind like dumpsters 00:41:05.674 --> 00:41:08.093 and dumped the various parts 00:41:08.135 --> 00:41:09.511 and continue moving east 00:41:09.553 --> 00:41:12.222 until he had basically her torso left. 00:41:13.891 --> 00:41:17.311 He went off the road and took a shovel 00:41:17.352 --> 00:41:19.313 and then he buried her there. 00:41:19.354 --> 00:41:22.065 He basically covered her with rock 00:41:22.065 --> 00:41:23.859 and made like a grave. 00:41:25.402 --> 00:41:27.696 And when he got back to the house, 00:41:27.738 --> 00:41:31.366 Sean sent these emails to people, 00:41:31.408 --> 00:41:34.578 making it seem like Joy sent the emails. 00:41:34.620 --> 00:41:36.330 When you take everything in totality 00:41:36.371 --> 00:41:38.707 and you put it all together, 00:41:38.749 --> 00:41:40.375 the evidence is there. 00:41:40.417 --> 00:41:42.377 The premeditation, 00:41:42.419 --> 00:41:43.754 the malice, 00:41:43.795 --> 00:41:45.339 behind closed doors, 00:41:45.380 --> 00:41:46.673 the real evil comes out. 00:41:50.969 --> 00:41:53.013 After five days of testimony, 00:41:53.096 --> 00:41:57.142 the jury comes back with a verdict in just three hours. 00:42:00.103 --> 00:42:01.688 We, the jury in the above entitled cause, 00:42:01.730 --> 00:42:03.899 find the defendant, Sean Barclay Goff, 00:42:03.941 --> 00:42:05.734 guilty of the crime of murder. 00:42:08.320 --> 00:42:12.908 Sean is sentenced to 26 years behind bars. 00:42:12.950 --> 00:42:16.286 He's currently serving his time at Valley State Prison 00:42:16.328 --> 00:42:18.830 in Chowchilla, California. 00:42:18.872 --> 00:42:20.624 I don't think it's possible to feel like 00:42:20.666 --> 00:42:22.751 justice can be fully served, 00:42:22.793 --> 00:42:26.546 because what he did is forever, 00:42:26.588 --> 00:42:28.215 and he still gets to live. 00:42:29.633 --> 00:42:32.386 And the extra victims in this whole story 00:42:32.427 --> 00:42:33.428 are the children. 00:42:33.470 --> 00:42:36.807 I just hope that they know truly, 00:42:36.848 --> 00:42:39.226 how wonderful their mother was. 00:42:42.020 --> 00:42:44.564 Joy was too vibrant, she was too big 00:42:44.606 --> 00:42:47.317 for someone as small-minded as Sean. 00:42:52.656 --> 00:42:55.409 Sean Goff twisted the words of the Bible, 00:42:55.450 --> 00:42:57.786 to justify his behavior. 00:42:57.828 --> 00:43:01.415 His marriages to both Sheila and Joy were not about love 00:43:01.456 --> 00:43:02.791 or commitment 00:43:02.833 --> 00:43:05.335 or devotion to anything 00:43:05.377 --> 00:43:09.047 except his all-consuming need to exert control. 00:43:09.089 --> 00:43:11.675 And when Joy pushed back against that control 00:43:11.717 --> 00:43:13.677 and wanted to leave him, 00:43:13.719 --> 00:43:15.637 rather than letting her go, 00:43:15.679 --> 00:43:17.472 he turned their marriage 00:43:17.514 --> 00:43:19.808 into a killer relationship.