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Police came to check on a 28-year-old nurse who hadn't shown up for work. Her husband opened the door holding their baby. By then, prosecutors say, she had been dead for three days and her body had been cut apart and thrown out with the trash. Calmly, he told the officer:
"She destroyed that phone, and then she left." She was going to New York or Texas, according to him. He wanted to know if he'd have to file a complaint. And there was something else: she had "mental issues." Two years later, on the witness stand, he finally said it out loud:
"I had a saw, I used the saw." Naresh Bhatt says he found his wife Mamta dead in their bedroom, panicked and cut her apart. In his version she took her own life. He denies killing her.
July 2024, Manassas Park, Virginia. Mamta Kafle Bhatt was a nurse from Nepal and a new mother. Prosecutors say she was killed at home on or about July 30. The next afternoon, cameras at a Walmart filmed her husband buying carpet cleaner, cleaning supplies and body wash.
He didn't want to report her missing, and only did it three days after the police visit. On August 22 he was arrested for concealing a dead body while she was still, officially, a missing person. That December came the first-degree murder charge.
Her remains have never been found. Investigators say blood on a power saw likely matches her DNA. For two years he said he had no idea what happened to her. Now he admits to the saw and the trash bags, and insists the one thing he didn't do is kill her. The jury could get the case this week.
In the video below is the police bodycam from August 2. He holds the baby the whole time. She wouldn't see a psychiatrist, he says, because in her words, "I'm a registered nurse." When the officer asks him to call if she comes back, he answers: "Until Sunday, I don't think so." Then the clip cuts to the courtroom.
Three days, one saw, two years of "she left." A panicked husband, or a man who waited two years for a better story?
He stole $200,000 from his family for a webcam model in Bulgaria. When they cut him off, he shot his mother at her desk, his father on the kitchen floor and his brother still in his scrubs, then sent her more of their money. Two days later a detective sat down across from him:
"Some girl in Bulgaria got basically your college debt." Grant Amato, 29, didn't say a word.
January 2019, Chuluota, Florida. When his family found out where the money had gone, they didn't call police. They wrote him a contract by hand: a recovery plan, limits on his phone and internet, or he had to leave. In the margins he turned down seeing a psychologist. They put him out that evening. He came back that night.
Prosecutors said he killed all three, then left a gun near Cody to make it look like his brother had shot their parents and himself. He stayed in the house with them for hours. The murder weapon was never found.
The bodies were found the next day, after Cody didn't show up for work. Police picked Grant up at a hotel.
The jury convicted him of all three murders. They couldn't agree on death, so he got life without parole. His other brother, Jason, told the court he still loved him.
Then from prison, on a smuggled phone, he started messaging the wife of a "Ghost Adventures" star. Prosecutors said she wanted her husband dead and Amato was supposed to pass his location to a hitman. She pleaded guilty.
In the video below is that interview. At the end Jason tells him he still loves him, "just like Mom, Cody, and Dad loved you." Then he hugs him: "I'm gonna pray for you, brother, 'cause I can't pray for Mom, Dad, and Cody anymore."
His mother, his father and the brother he stole from, all dead in one night over a woman on a screen. Could anyone have stopped him?
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Police came to check on a 28-year-old nurse who hadn't shown up for work. Her husband opened the door holding their baby. By then, prosecutors say, she had been dead for three days and her body had been cut apart and thrown out with the trash. Calmly, he told the officer:
"She destroyed that phone, and then she left." She was going to New York or Texas, according to him. He wanted to know if he'd have to file a complaint. And there was something else: she had "mental issues." Two years later, on the witness stand, he finally said it out loud:
"I had a saw, I used the saw." Naresh Bhatt says he found his wife Mamta dead in their bedroom, panicked and cut her apart. In his version she took her own life. He denies killing her.
July 2024, Manassas Park, Virginia. Mamta Kafle Bhatt was a nurse from Nepal and a new mother. Prosecutors say she was killed at home on or about July 30. The next afternoon, cameras at a Walmart filmed her husband buying carpet cleaner, cleaning supplies and body wash.
He didn't want to report her missing, and only did it three days after the police visit. On August 22 he was arrested for concealing a dead body while she was still, officially, a missing person. That December came the first-degree murder charge.
Her remains have never been found. Investigators say blood on a power saw likely matches her DNA. For two years he said he had no idea what happened to her. Now he admits to the saw and the trash bags, and insists the one thing he didn't do is kill her. The jury could get the case this week.
In the video below is the police bodycam from August 2. He holds the baby the whole time. She wouldn't see a psychiatrist, he says, because in her words, "I'm a registered nurse." When the officer asks him to call if she comes back, he answers: "Until Sunday, I don't think so." Then the clip cuts to the courtroom.
Three days, one saw, two years of "she left." A panicked husband, or a man who waited two years for a better story?
Update: Guilty of first-degree murder, plus concealing and defiling her body.
Two years of "she left." One "crazy story," as prosecutors called it, on the witness stand. About five hours for a jury to believe neither.
He faces 20 years to life. Sentencing: March 12, 2027. Mamta has still never been found.
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Last December, a Peruvian TV crew walked up to a cell 15,000 feet up in the Andes and read out the name of the man inside: Joran Andreas Petrus van der Sloot. He smiled and told them they'd pronounced it perfectly. Then they asked how he spends his days. He said:
"I read the Bible." Then he recited four lines of Luke 6 to the camera: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. "Amen."
On May 30, 2010, five years to the day after Natalee Holloway vanished in Aruba, a hotel camera in Lima filmed him going into his room with Stephany Flores, a 21-year-old student. He came out alone. Hotel staff found her in that room days later. He pleaded guilty and got 28 years.
In 2023 Peru sent him to Alabama, where he finally admitted he had killed Natalee too. He said he hit her with a cinder block on a beach and pushed her body into the sea. He got 20 years for extorting her mother. Before the sentence, he told the judge he had given his heart to Jesus.
In the video below, he smiles behind the bars, quotes the Gospel, and says he would like a chance to explain to Stephany's parents "why what happened happened." Outside the Alabama courthouse, Natalee's mother had already given her answer: "He is the killer."
This month Netflix brought the case back with "Taken: Natalee Holloway."
Two women. Two confessions. One Bible.
He wants Stephany's parents to hear him out. Natalee's mother heard his confession, and her answer was four words. Should they listen?
Last December, a Peruvian TV crew walked up to a cell 15,000 feet up in the Andes and read out the name of the man inside: Joran Andreas Petrus van der Sloot. He smiled and told them they'd pronounced it perfectly. Then they asked how he spends his days. He said:
"I read the Bible." Then he recited four lines of Luke 6 to the camera: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. "Amen."
On May 30, 2010, five years to the day after Natalee Holloway vanished in Aruba, a hotel camera in Lima filmed him going into his room with Stephany Flores, a 21-year-old student. He came out alone. Hotel staff found her in that room days later. He pleaded guilty and got 28 years.
In 2023 Peru sent him to Alabama, where he finally admitted he had killed Natalee too. He said he hit her with a cinder block on a beach and pushed her body into the sea. He got 20 years for extorting her mother. Before the sentence, he told the judge he had given his heart to Jesus.
In the video below, he smiles behind the bars, quotes the Gospel, and says he would like a chance to explain to Stephany's parents "why what happened happened." Outside the Alabama courthouse, Natalee's mother had already given her answer: "He is the killer."
This month Netflix brought the case back with "Taken: Natalee Holloway."
Two women. Two confessions. One Bible.
He wants Stephany's parents to hear him out. Natalee's mother heard his confession, and her answer was four words. Should they listen?
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On November 26, 2019, police knocked on Lori Vallow's door in Rexburg, Idaho, minutes after they'd left it. Her son JJ, 7, was supposed to be with a friend in Arizona, and the friend wasn't answering her phone. Lori stood in the doorway, smiling, and explained why:
"They were going to Frozen 2 today, so they may be at the movies."
JJ had been dead for two months. The last time anyone saw him was at school on September 23. His sister Tylee, 16, hadn't been seen since a trip to Yellowstone on September 8.
Earlier that day, in the video below, she tells the officers JJ is "in Arizona" with her friend Melanie. Then, without being asked: "So I look like a suspect, but I'm a good person." And about Melanie: "Don't tell anybody her name."
Melanie Gibb wasn't at the movies, and JJ hadn't been with her in months. That same day Lori's new husband, doomsday author Chad Daybell, called Melanie and told her not to pick up when Rexburg police called. He and Lori had married on a Hawaii beach on November 5, seventeen days after his wife Tammy died.
Instead of helping look for the kids, the couple flew to Hawaii. Police found both children in June 2020, buried on Chad's property.
In May 2023 an Idaho jury convicted Lori of murdering JJ and Tylee and conspiring to murder Tammy. Life without parole. A year later Chad got the death penalty for all three killings. On November 2, Lori's lawyers asked the Idaho Supreme Court for a new trial, and the court still hasn't ruled.
Police stood at her door that day, heard the lies and left. Should they have pushed harder, or was there nothing more they could do?
On November 26, 2019, police knocked on Lori Vallow's door in Rexburg, Idaho, minutes after they'd left it. Her son JJ, 7, was supposed to be with a friend in Arizona, and the friend wasn't answering her phone. Lori stood in the doorway, smiling, and explained why:
"They were going to Frozen 2 today, so they may be at the movies."
JJ had been dead for two months. The last time anyone saw him was at school on September 23. His sister Tylee, 16, hadn't been seen since a trip to Yellowstone on September 8.
Earlier that day, in the video below, she tells the officers JJ is "in Arizona" with her friend Melanie. Then, without being asked: "So I look like a suspect, but I'm a good person." And about Melanie: "Don't tell anybody her name."
Melanie Gibb wasn't at the movies, and JJ hadn't been with her in months. That same day Lori's new husband, doomsday author Chad Daybell, called Melanie and told her not to pick up when Rexburg police called. He and Lori had married on a Hawaii beach on November 5, seventeen days after his wife Tammy died.
Instead of helping look for the kids, the couple flew to Hawaii. Police found both children in June 2020, buried on Chad's property.
In May 2023 an Idaho jury convicted Lori of murdering JJ and Tylee and conspiring to murder Tammy. Life without parole. A year later Chad got the death penalty for all three killings. On November 2, Lori's lawyers asked the Idaho Supreme Court for a new trial, and the court still hasn't ruled.
Police stood at her door that day, heard the lies and left. Should they have pushed harder, or was there nothing more they could do?
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Ten weeks after she was kidnapped, she walked into a San Francisco bank with an M1 carbine and covered the customers on the floor. She was 20. Her grandfather was William Randolph Hearst.
April 15, 1974. Hibernia Bank, 1450 Noriega Street. Patty Hearst had been taken by the Symbionese Liberation Army on February 4, two weeks before her 20th birthday. Her family said she was a hostage. The bank camera said something else.
That’s her in the video. Then the SLA released her voice on tape: "My gun was loaded and at no time did any of my comrades intentionally point their guns at me."
She had a message for everyone still defending her: "For those people who still believe that I’m brainwashed or dead, I see no reason to further defend my position."
In May, six SLA members died in a shootout with Los Angeles police. One of them, Nancy Ling Perry, had been inside the bank with her. In June, Hearst eulogized her on tape. Fahizah, she said, "taught me to shoot first and make sure the pig is dead before splitting."
She ran for another 15 months. On September 18, 1975, the FBI found her in San Francisco with Wendy Yoshimura. On the booking form she listed her occupation as "urban guerrilla." She weighed 87 pounds.
At trial in 1976, her lawyers said she had been brainwashed. The jury convicted her. She got 35 years, later cut to seven.
Jimmy Carter commuted the sentence on January 29, 1979. She walked out three days later, after about 22 months. In 2001, on his last day in office, Bill Clinton pardoned her.
One carbine. Twenty-two months. Two presidents.
She ended the bank tape with one sentence: "I am a soldier in the People’s Army." A victim reading a script, or a soldier who meant every word?
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In 1999 he broke into George Harrison's house at 3:30 in the morning and stabbed the former Beatle in the chest until his lung collapsed. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity and sent to a hospital "without time restriction."
He was out in less than two years. By then, George had been dead for seven months.
That's George's wife Olivia in the video, telling what happened the night she fought the man off with a fireplace poker.
December 30, 1999, Friar Park, Henley-on-Thames. Since John Lennon was shot in 1980, George had lived behind high walls, barbed wire and floodlights. Michael Abram, 33, from Liverpool, got over the wall, threw a stone piece of a garden statue through a window, and came in with a knife. George went downstairs to face him, chanting Hare Krishna to throw him off. Abram stabbed him again and again. One wound punctured his lung. Olivia hit Abram with a brass poker, then a lamp, until the police arrived. George later said he truly believed he was dying on that floor.
Abram believed George was a witch who had possessed him, and that God wanted him dead. He'd been in and out of psychiatric hospitals since 1990 with paranoid schizophrenia, and a month before the attack he'd been removed from a psychiatric ward after allegedly attacking a nurse. In November 2000, at Oxford Crown Court, three psychiatrists testified, and the judge told the jury to find him not guilty by reason of insanity. The Harrisons asked to be told if he was ever up for release. The judge said no: that was a matter for doctors.
George survived with part of his lung removed. Afterward he joked that the intruder "wasn't a burglar, and he certainly wasn't auditioning for the Traveling Wilburys." But the cancer he had beaten in 1998 was back. He died on November 29, 2001, at 58. His son Dhani says the attack "definitely took years off his life."
In July 2002, an independent panel ruled Abram fit to leave the secure hospital in Rainhill, near Liverpool, and he was moved to a hostel. The Harrison family said they hadn't been told in advance and called the decision "upsetting and insulting." Abram said he was no longer a risk as long as he took his medication. By 2005, the Liverpool Echo reported, he had joined his local Citizens Advice Bureau, a charity that helps people with legal and money problems.
A Beatle bleeding on his own floor. Less than two years in a hospital. A volunteer job helping strangers.
Was that justice for a sick man, or did the system protect everyone except the people he tried to kill?
Ten weeks after she was kidnapped, she walked into a San Francisco bank with an M1 carbine and covered the customers on the floor. She was 20. Her grandfather was William Randolph Hearst.
April 15, 1974. Hibernia Bank, 1450 Noriega Street. Patty Hearst had been taken by the Symbionese Liberation Army on February 4, two weeks before her 20th birthday. Her family said she was a hostage. The bank camera said something else.
That’s her in the video. Then the SLA released her voice on tape: "My gun was loaded and at no time did any of my comrades intentionally point their guns at me."
She had a message for everyone still defending her: "For those people who still believe that I’m brainwashed or dead, I see no reason to further defend my position."
In May, six SLA members died in a shootout with Los Angeles police. One of them, Nancy Ling Perry, had been inside the bank with her. In June, Hearst eulogized her on tape. Fahizah, she said, "taught me to shoot first and make sure the pig is dead before splitting."
She ran for another 15 months. On September 18, 1975, the FBI found her in San Francisco with Wendy Yoshimura. On the booking form she listed her occupation as "urban guerrilla." She weighed 87 pounds.
At trial in 1976, her lawyers said she had been brainwashed. The jury convicted her. She got 35 years, later cut to seven.
Jimmy Carter commuted the sentence on January 29, 1979. She walked out three days later, after about 22 months. In 2001, on his last day in office, Bill Clinton pardoned her.
One carbine. Twenty-two months. Two presidents.
She ended the bank tape with one sentence: "I am a soldier in the People’s Army." A victim reading a script, or a soldier who meant every word?