In this bonus Sunday true crime episode, we take you from takeoff to the controversial search and investigation of the missing plane, MH370. We speak with aviation expert William Longavisha, who was a professional pilot for many years before turning to journalism, and who has researched and investigated the MH370 findings more than pretty much any other journalist, including those involved with the recent Netflix special.
00:00:17.300We've got some news coming in in the world of MK true crime, more on that next week.
00:00:21.980So all month we're going to be bringing you a Sunday mega episode featuring some MK show true crime coverage.
00:00:29.140Today's includes in-depth features on the missing plane, MH370, the horrifying, horrifying Chris Watts case.
00:00:39.100Once you hear about that case, you never forget it. And the DC sniper saga.
00:00:44.880All right, here it is. Hope you enjoy the program and we will see you Monday.
00:00:50.780Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show and the final day of our hot crime summer week.
00:00:56.420Today we investigate the mystery of MH370, the missing plane.
00:01:02.140You may think you know this story, but you do not know it like this. Oh my gosh.
00:01:08.460We're going to take you from takeoff to the controversial search and investigation with famed writer, author, and journalist, William Longavisha.
00:01:18.740In addition to his journalism, he's also an aviation expert.
00:01:23.220He was a professional pilot for many years before turning to journalism.
00:01:26.820And he has researched and investigated the MH370 findings more than pretty much any other journalist,
00:01:33.520including those involved with that recent Netflix special.
01:46:29.100as soon as she found out she went to cops work with them and as part of the reason he is now in prison0.96
01:46:32.600she was a good guy in the whole thing this woman I don't know and she definitely misled the cops she she tried to tell them oh I didn't know he was married and then they found Google searches by her you know like does the mistress ever get the man I mean she knew she knew that he was married and downplayed her knowledge with the police it doesn't mean she encouraged a murder a triple quadruple murder but it's one of the reasons why this woman has now had to change her name
01:46:58.520she's effectively in witness protection because people blamed her
04:08:36.840have demonstrated a willingness and ability to shoot people of all ages all races all genders0.99
04:08:45.100and they've struck at different times of the day different days at different locations
04:08:51.300we recognize the concerns of the community and therefore are going to provide the exact language
04:09:00.220in the message that pertains to the threat it is in the form of a postscript
04:09:06.820your children are not safe anywhere at any time
04:09:14.420my god the thought of hearing that yeah that would be pretty scary and if you notice the person standing
04:09:23.900behind chief moose at that moment i believe was an fbi agent and um what he said was basically
04:09:32.260exactly what we recommended that he say um and i think my brother had a great deal to do with the fact
04:09:39.020that that line came out because uh he was very very adamant that that people should know that the children
04:09:46.780of this community are being of the entire area are being threatened by these guys so that they would
04:09:51.900protect their kids so that we wouldn't put kids in harm's way and what happened was they wanted to
04:09:59.180just hide the fact that there was a direct threat in the letter but we said it will actually appease the
04:10:06.060shooter if you continue his line of communication if you put it out there he knows it's going to scare
04:10:13.820people he will feel good about it he might calm down because we showed the cover sheet to that
04:10:20.620letter left by the ponderosa but the body of it was per cbs reporting at the time the body of it
04:10:26.540uh read it included a demand for 10 million dollars giving the 16 digit account number and a pin uh that
04:10:33.500was from a stolen bank of america platinum credit card and it included the chilling postscript quote
04:10:38.140your children are not safe anywhere at any time um so yeah so the the the threat had been made and
04:10:45.420now the chief moose was listening to you it's pointless to go out there and tell the community
04:10:51.180that they are safe and that you've got it under control a it's not true and b it's provocative
04:10:55.740to the sniper right absolutely and so what happens at this point is that and this is something we were
04:11:02.060trying to encourage we were trying to encourage communication from the sniper or snipers at this
04:11:08.300point and what happened was they called the the excuse me they called the hotline and very unfortunately
04:11:18.140um when they called they said call me god and people on the task force who took that call
04:11:27.900thought that it was just somebody gaming them oh no and scamming them and uh they actually hung up
04:11:34.780the phone they called back again uh they actually wrote about this and that note um it was very
04:11:41.020unfortunate uh but eventually one thing that they did was they called up a priest and they left a voice
04:11:51.180message on that priest voice recording phone recording answering machine sorry voicemail it's been so long
04:12:00.700it's been so long i couldn't even remember what it was anyway on his answering machine and and in that they said
04:12:11.500you should look what happened in and i'm uh and i'm i'm trying to remember the name of town it might
04:12:20.620have been arlington where was that shot fired through the uh through the apple excuse me through the michael's
04:12:26.140store where nobody got hit yes um hold on a second wasn't that that was a michael's in aspen hill maryland
04:12:33.980all right um the i'm talking about yeah before that there was actually a shooting in in um
04:12:39.900montgomery alabama right there you go okay yeah so that was one of the ones that we hadn't yet discussed
04:12:45.820that was on the list right not attributable to the sniper yet but but other murders were happening in
04:12:50.540the country at and around this time and one of them was about to get linked in right and so what
04:12:55.340happened was in the in the message that was left on this priest answering machine they said look at
04:13:02.780the shooting in montgomery and everybody there because we were talking about the first days of
04:13:10.700shootings in montgomery county thought it was montgomery county maryland but somebody came up with the
04:13:17.420idea hmm maybe he's talking about montgomery alabama it could be and so they looked at to see if there were
04:13:26.780any unsolved shootings there and yes there was a store and somebody came in and uh picked up a magazine
04:13:38.780and then left and then a couple of minutes later a bullet goes flying through the window just misses
04:13:44.460a woman behind the cash register and in that case they picked up they had picked up a magazine
04:13:51.420and let me just tell you glossy magazines are the absolute best surface in the world for collecting
04:13:58.300fingerprints if you touch that the oils in your finger will interact with the the the photograph
04:14:06.540that's on the cover and it actually burns it in permanently burns your fingerprint in permanently
04:14:12.220into that picture and if you've ever tried to that's why people who are trying to save magazines will put them in
04:14:17.900plastic sleeves so they don't get destroyed that way well they had a perfect fingerprint which came back to
04:14:25.260a 15 year old named malvo who they were then able to track to a relationship with an older male
04:14:36.140muhammad back in the state who was from the state of washington and they found his car they had he had a caprice they got his license plate
04:14:47.820and they went and the fbi went to his place in the state of washington and basically did a search warrant they found a tree
04:14:55.420stump in his backyard they literally excavated the tree stump shipped it to the lab
04:15:01.020took out lots of different bullets from it and matched them to the shooting the shooter in the dc sniper case so
04:15:08.860we knew then who we were looking for and when that apb had gone out you know with the profile
04:15:15.980and everything meshed together then within 24 hours they were actually spotted by a trucker at a rest stop
04:15:24.140sleeping in the in the caprice and uh the fbi's hrt team moved in there were hundreds of other
04:15:33.020law enforcement and and truckers actually chipped in and helped blocking off roadways and the escape
04:15:40.460routes so that they couldn't get away and they were taken down without anybody any further loss of life
04:15:47.020jim why did they why did they call that in i mean it was it was in a way a confession to say check out
04:15:53.740that the shooting in montgomery i don't know that they knew that they left a fingerprint but they they
04:15:59.500must have known it could potentially be tied to them he felt omnipotent at this point he felt like0.99
04:16:04.940there's no way he felt law enforcement was so stupid they would never catch him he was bragging he was0.99
04:16:10.380trying to get people to realize that he was even better and he'd done much more than they thought0.99
04:16:16.780he did and now it actually gets tracked back to a number of other crimes that occurred in a spree that
04:16:23.260had gone all the way across the us where muhammad was training malvo how to kill people right and0.83
04:16:30.060that's the category that we left out of the initial discussion but i said it was at least 20 people that
04:16:35.900they shot um 13 we went through but there were at least seven more right in the month leading up to
04:16:42.060the dc sniper spree as he was training this young teenager they met as i understand it in the caribbean
04:16:48.940malvo's mother was not the greatest and somehow allowed yeah she allowed him to be just kind of turned
04:16:56.220over to this guy and and and and muhammad started training him to kill and malvo went along with it0.85
04:17:03.420right well what what ended up happening was um it wouldn't be it wouldn't really come out to 11
04:17:09.740years later when malvo spoke publicly and he did this to his great uh i don't know detriment because
04:17:18.540speaking about this in jamaica which is a an extremely homophobic place to this day they consider if you
04:17:27.820if you're a male and you're sexually victimized by a male they consider that homosexual activity
04:17:33.820on the victim's part i mean it has nothing to do with the victim's sexuality has to do with
04:17:38.780an older person taking taking advantage of a younger person but malvo came out and said that when muhammad
04:17:45.660picked him up out of this shelter basically he was homeless his mother had abandoned him his mother
04:17:50.780had abandoned him at several times already in his life uh before the time he reached 15 years of age
04:17:56.940and his father was completely absent in his life um he he muhammad came in and said i'll be your father
04:18:04.940figure uh you know i'll train you i'll i'll make you a man and he slowly was grooming him into this
04:18:11.660sexual victimization and he was also training him to become a killer at first it was target practice and
04:18:20.380then it evolved into human murder sick the the car can we talk about it because once you guys got
04:18:32.060to look at the car things would become much more clear about how they were getting away with this
04:18:37.820how they were approaching the can you talk about what the car told you yeah sure well first of all the
04:18:44.060car was a very old caprice but one of these large oversized cars that would never make it today
04:18:50.780because it's so big and and it's a gas guzzler what they did was they cut a little hole out in the back0.55
04:18:58.620by the license plate so that you could basically fold down the seats and lay inside and stick just
04:19:06.460the point of the rifle out of the rifle barrel out of that hole and there was enough room for you to
04:19:12.780see the sight to sight your target but you can also see how it would limit them from shooting very high
04:19:21.020or very low because you have a very limited uh entrance where the the the gun barrel could be
04:19:30.460protruding from so most of the sound of the shot is going to be contained within that trunk uh if they
04:19:38.060weren't wearing headphones in there they would have blown their their eardrums out if they kept
04:19:43.820firing that weapon in such a close space but we understand that a number of the shootings were done
04:19:49.420by muhammad and some of them were quote training shots done by malvo wow they may have been the ones
04:19:57.980that people survived because it's very difficult for us to think that that malvo at such a young age would
04:20:04.940have been able to carry out the shootings that happened in the beginning and at least uh at least
04:20:10.140in in one of the cases we know that that somebody saw malvo driving away uh from the scene that was
04:20:20.140the uh spots of any more michaels and they also had he he's spoken about how he admits to killing people
04:20:27.340himself but he also says he was the lookout he would make sure that there was no one in the line of
04:20:33.340fire not not for that person's protection but just so that they didn't have that many witnesses and it
04:20:37.180was a clear shot so one would scout and the other one would kill and they had done something with the
04:20:42.620back seat to make it possible i guess to lie down you know from from the back seat straight into the
04:20:47.820trunk so i assume on your belly you can you know be in shooting position yes absolutely and and but
04:20:54.460what was even more disturbing than everything that had been that had come out was when we found out uh
04:21:02.620that that muhammad's actual motive although he said what he was doing is training malvo to be a
04:21:10.540killer and that he wanted to create a school for kids his age and he would train all of them and he'd form an
04:21:17.660army to just take over and and and fight the oppression that that he grew up in and and that0.97
04:21:25.420kind of stuff that was all just garbage what it actually was was his wife had gotten custody of0.98
04:21:31.420their children he was pissed off and he was going to kill his wife so that he could then regain custody of0.99
04:21:38.540his children and what he did was he made this whole plan up so that he could kill a whole bunch of people0.97
04:21:45.100and then shoot his wife as part of this hoping that it would just be one seen as one of the random0.68
04:21:53.660victims and nobody would suspect him diabolical he would be awarded his children back here is muhammad's1.00
04:22:01.020ex-wife on how she found out uh that he was the suspect and and what she thought this sought three
04:22:08.700the way i found out that it was john was when atf knocked on my door and said that they were
04:22:14.780gonna name john as the sniper and so they asked me well do you think that he would do something
04:22:22.860like this and i was like well i don't know yeah i said well why would you think that i said well
04:22:30.540he said he could take a small city terrorize it they would think it would be a group of people and it
04:22:36.220would only be me i mean i'm i wonder jim was did anybody ask her so when we had a sniper problem
04:22:46.460on our hands did you ever think that could be my ex-husband i don't i think in general people when
04:22:53.740things terrible things happen uh generally people in the community don't think it's going to happen to
04:22:59.340them and we still feel like this distance i think in this particular case um you know i've spoken to
04:23:07.420her personally about this um i think she was she was not at all especially the white van of it and and
04:23:15.900all that all these distractions that were out there and and since he never he didn't specifically tell
04:23:23.180her that he would be a sniper but he did say he could terrorize the town and and kill a bunch of
04:23:29.580people and then kill her and everybody would think it would be all part of that same plan so so what i
04:23:34.700really what about malville okay but i don't think she knew either i just i just i just wondered if you
04:23:39.820know it occurred to her after that threat um how do you take a you know not well treated i guess not
04:23:46.460well raised but not terrorist 15 year old boy and turn him into what he calls a monster malvo is
04:23:54.140still sitting in prison i'll set it up with this soundbite from him um not long ago this is soundbite
04:24:01.100six i mean i was a monster it is if i mean if you look up the definition i mean that's what a monster is
04:24:10.540i was a ghoul i was a thief i i stole people's lives and i did i did someone else bidding just0.86
04:24:19.260because they said so i mean that is the definition of a monster
04:24:26.620that was him speaking of the washington post in 2012 yeah i think what happened was a combination of
04:24:33.820remember i talked about the genetics loading the gun personality psychology aiming it
04:24:40.380and and the experiences pull the trigger i think in his case um because he was born um in in a
04:24:46.940situation that was not only poverty stricken but you know he himself had been taken advantage of a
04:24:54.540number of times and you know not just sexually with muhammad but other things that had happened to
04:25:00.620him and he was basically booted from place to place and living on the streets scrapping for himself he
04:25:06.140didn't feel connected to society at all and the fact that muhammad was sexually victimizing him1.00
04:25:12.700which is manipulating him and grooming him both as a sexual abuse victim and as a killer what he did
04:25:20.540was the choice of weapon the separation between the shooters and the victims gave muhammad the ability to tell
04:25:31.180to teach malvo that they're nobody you don't know them they don't know you there's no connection here
04:25:38.220it's easy to do and i think just it was a perfect storm uh both the needs that this
04:25:45.260kid had and he had to have the potentiality i mean i don't know how much anger and rage had built up
04:25:51.900inside of him but certainly being victimized over and over again by muhammad and the same person that0.97
04:25:58.860you looked up to the same person that you thought of as a father figure because you didn't have one
04:26:04.140this is what he was searching for in his life it was a really it was a deadly combination my god he
04:26:09.980starts hurting you and he starts making you hurt others here's a little bit more of malvo recounting
04:26:16.940how it was that muhammad took hold of him sought seven he gave me his time
04:26:21.820his time his time that's the only thing we possess and where we invested tells what we value he gave me
04:26:30.220his time he was consistent even though the consistency was madness he was consistent he gave me his time
04:26:42.780wow his time muhammad's time ran out on november 10th 2009 when he was executed by lethal injection
04:26:51.660he designed he declined to make a final statement he was 48 years old when he died he was 41 years old
04:26:58.380at the time of his arrest um and the the courts and the legislatures the supreme court have gone
04:27:06.300round and round on the younger of the pair on malvo because the supreme court well would eventually rule
04:27:13.100that it is unconstitutional to uh in 2012 they ruled to get to pass down mandatory life sentences
04:27:20.060without parole for juvenile offenders that it violates the eighth amendment prohibition on
04:27:25.020cruel and unusual punishment and therefore what to do with malvo so he'd been tried in a couple of
04:27:31.740different states and in virginia they did change the law to um to not allowing life without parole sentences
04:27:41.500for juveniles so he can't have a life sentence without parole right you know there right now
04:27:48.060but if he were paroled from virginia then he would have to begin serving his maryland sentence
04:27:54.860and there's a question about whether he could ever get out or whether he would just be in jail
04:27:58.220in perpetuity because one state after the other would start executing their sentences against him
04:28:02.380i don't know you tell me because malvo's attorneys right now are seeking sentencing release or release
04:28:08.620or release which seems that seems impossible to me well i don't know i'm not sure what's going to
04:28:16.140happen i will say this i mean malvo was pretty messed up at the time of his arrest i've seen some of the
04:28:23.020art that he produced when he was in his cell uh some of his statements at the time were very very
04:28:30.380negative he had been really pushed over to the dark side i mean i'm not saying that he didn't make
04:28:35.740choices but he made 15 year old choices um and sometimes that can be reversed uh when you hear
04:28:42.380him speak today he says a lot of the right things he may one day be able to convince a parole board that
04:28:47.900he's been rehabilitated whether that's true or not i don't know but i do think that the way at least the
04:28:55.260way the law is right now if he does get released from virginia he will be serving time in in maryland
04:29:02.700and i don't see that he that he'll be able to uh ever get out yeah i don't i think even our
04:29:10.780current soft on crime policies don't go to the likes of the dc sniper uh understanding of the two he
04:29:17.740was not the most culpable uh but you don't you can't kill and terrorize that many people and walk free
04:29:23.340again he did get married in prison it always never ceases to amaze me never ceases to amaze me jem
04:29:28.860these women who marry prisoners i don't know what you could do a whole profile on them i'm sure right1.00
04:29:34.060this this woman she started writing to him then she went in they said it was beautiful they were
04:29:40.460allowed to hold hands the institution was very accommodating his state prison in virginia um
04:29:46.380he's enriched her life as much as she has enriched his i mean i don't know what that says about her life
04:29:51.500and uh one of his original trial attorneys comes out and says he's met the bride very impressive
04:29:56.780young lady educated her eyes are wide open close in age to malvo who's now 37 and uh they are quote
04:30:04.620soul mates according to the lawyer well i think there's there's a lot involved in that psychology
04:30:11.340and it happens very often i mean it happened with ramirez here in california i mean they made him into a
04:30:16.860rock star all these women were were literally throwing themselves at him it was really wait0.98
04:30:22.380which guy was that remind me uh rescindes no ramirez the night stalker here in california stalker
04:30:29.180yeah he he he did he killed a lot of people he was very brutal he was very bloody it was
04:30:34.540i mean some of the stuff i can't even recount that what he did but one of the problems is that i think
04:30:42.060the women that typically will do this some of them are very religious and they feel like they0.56
04:30:47.260are they have a mission to save these people um others uh feel so insecure and insignificant in their
04:30:56.060own life that they want some connection to something famous or even infamous and it's actually kind of
04:31:03.820safe you can be next to a serial killer but be safe because that serial killer is in prison for the rest
04:31:12.700of his life so you can maintain this connection have this um this this proximity to fame and yet not have
04:31:21.500the risk so it's a very very strange psychology that that puts people in this place but as you said it
04:31:29.740happens so often and so many of these killers who i like to forget the names of actually end up getting
04:31:38.060married to to mainly women on the outside who who have this kind of complex yep it happened with uh with
04:31:46.220uh eric menendez too somebody married him i just feel like these women who would spend their lives like
04:31:51.660that when you know it's not like every man's a peach but at least the ones who you know you can actually
04:31:56.940touch might be a more fruitful place to cast your your rod and reel um i don't i i don't have a lot
04:32:05.660of sympathy i have to say i don't think that they should let this guy out of jail i will say that as
04:32:10.780now the virginia law has been softened consistent with the u.s supreme court ruling uh they're now
04:32:15.900looking at getting the sentencing release from maryland which would be next up to hold him and we're
04:32:21.900told a decision in maryland could come this month on that so it's a very it's a timely discussion
04:32:27.740we're having i don't think the odds are in his favor i mean maryland is pretty blue even virginia
04:32:33.180is these days but not that blue and i gotta leave it on this note jim because you spent a lot of years
04:32:39.260at the fbi i know your brother did too uh thoughts on the difference then and now the way we look at our
04:32:46.620fbi the way america thinks about its fbi you know the partisan politics that have been on display out
04:32:52.140of that organization over the past few years and i know you're retired now but how how you think about
04:32:58.140it well i certainly still know a number of people who continue to work for the fbi and and and and we
04:33:04.700have sort of a lift serve that that we correspond all the retired agents together and and to a man and
04:33:12.380woman everybody's very upset with the image of the fbi now and and unfortunately some of the really
04:33:22.140negative things i mean i think the most horrific thing that that came out against the fbi was was the
04:33:29.900lack of involvement in the nasser investigation um but i think a lot of the political things that have
04:33:37.020happened uh are happening way way way up here but the agents the street agents the the people who
04:33:43.980dedicate their lives and careers and put their lives on the line not the administrators not the the
04:33:49.500leaders of it but the people who put their lives on the line they have remained absolutely the same
04:33:57.340throughout all of this and i hope and they will continue to and i think that's the saving grace grace for
04:34:02.460the fbi you don't you don't become an fbi agent because you know you do it for the money you don't
04:34:09.180become an fbi agent because you're you're lazy and and you can't find something else to do the fbi picks
04:34:15.660and i'm not trying to be you know self-aggrandizing here i feel very lucky to have had the opportunity
04:34:21.660to become an fbi agent and to work there for 22 years but the fbi picks people there are hundreds of
04:34:28.540thousands of people who apply to the fbi and not that many get picked up every year maybe a thousand
04:34:36.060every year and and the fact is there's only about 14 000 agents in the whole country and around the
04:34:42.300world so it's a very picky job and it's very difficult to get in it's very difficult to maintain
04:34:48.460your job there and part of that is the excellence that they demand from you and i think that that
04:34:55.180excellence has not changed and it is what's going to save the image of the fbi uh because literally
04:35:02.140the people who have who have laid down their lives for people in the fbi and and we lost quite a few
04:35:09.660agents in the last few years some of them were first responders on 9 11 and got cancer and others
04:35:16.540there were two agents that were killed in florida just executing a child sex crimes warrant search
04:35:22.860warrant at a house and it's just it's a dangerous job and the people that do it are good people
04:35:29.820unfortunately um i think when when law enforcement officers or agents get involved in politics or
04:35:38.380political decisions it can never go right yeah it brings shame upon the whole organization to your
04:35:45.020credit i should point out you obviously were an fbi supervisory special agent a profiler 22 years with
04:35:50.540the fbi investigated all sorts of cases bankruptcies serial killers public corruption
04:35:55.980sex crimes abductions homicides on it goes but there are only 25 profilers out of 14 000 fbi agents and
04:36:04.940you were one of them very competitive so to your credit uh you had an amazing career with them and
04:36:10.540continue and now speaking about these stories you have a production company xg productions we talked
04:36:15.420about am i dating a serial killer which you can find on audible if you want to hear more about that
04:36:19.580a different host but she gets into it and then another one called best case worst case that's on
04:36:24.940spotify and apple and you're in that one and that seems to be kind of what what we're doing here
04:36:30.460taking listeners behind police lines giving them unparalleled access to law enforcement looking back
04:36:35.660at some of the most memorable cases that they were on uh sounds like you guys you've got a bunch of
04:36:40.300episodes are they out now it sounds as we have over 300 episodes yeah that's amazing yeah and uh
04:36:47.740basically francie hakes who's a former state and local and federal prosecutor uh she and i host best
04:36:54.220case worst case we talked to cops and lawyers and related law enforcement professionals about their
04:37:01.020careers and what's the best case and the worst case that they remember from their career and what that
04:37:06.620does is it shows people what the the spectrum the continuum of the kinds of cases that law enforcement
04:37:13.260has to live with and also the kinds of people that make up law enforcement there's there's what 17 000
04:37:20.620law enforcement agencies in the united states over 500 000 uh officers and agents and and they're very
04:37:28.220diverse group of people but only a few make the bad choices that make the headlines the rest of them
04:37:35.980dedicate their lives literally put their lives on the line and and many of them lose their lives
04:37:41.180over the course or get injured over the course of their careers but they are a good group of people
04:37:47.260who are trying to do good and help people stay safe and stop crime um and that's uh that's a really
04:37:54.540laudable thing and that's something of which the public needs to be reminded uh those of us on our
04:38:01.180show uh have very close connections family family connections with law enforcement try to remember that
04:38:05.980uh in all of this madness when the reporting hits that's dishonest and politically driven thank you
04:38:11.180for your service and to be continued i will thank you for doing this i appreciate the opportunity to be
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