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 prison
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 genders
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 like
04:16:04.940there's no way he felt law enforcement was so stupid they would never catch him he was bragging he was
04:16:10.380trying to get people to realize that he was even better and he'd done much more than they thought
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 and
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 it
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 back
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 that
04:21:25.420kind of stuff that was all just garbage what it actually was was his wife had gotten custody of
04:21:31.420their children he was pissed off and he was going to kill his wife so that he could then regain custody of
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 people
04:21:45.100and then shoot his wife as part of this hoping that it would just be one seen as one of the random
04:21:53.660victims and nobody would suspect him diabolical he would be awarded his children back here is muhammad's
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 just
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 him
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 that
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 right
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 wait
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 they
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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