The Tragic Murders of Gretchen Anthony & Kerry Woolley | Killers Caught On Camera | Forensic Files

[DRAMATIC MUSIC] MAN 1: It just sounds like something bad is happening to her. FEMALE 1: I heard her scream, no, stop it.
MAN 2: I heard some gunshots. MAN 3: Drop it! Whatever it is, drop it! MAN 4: That does not true that I killed my wife.
FEMALE 2: We know what happened because the video tells us what happened. MAN 5: The camera doesn't lie.
[RADIO CHATTER] NARRATOR: This time on "Killers Caught on Camera," in Florida, a woman is recorded
screaming for her life. JARED KENERSON: There appeared to be some signs that there was foul play.
NARRATOR: And in the UK a brutal murder of a woman stabbed more than 50 times in her own home.
I tried to ring them and text her all day. No answers. And I walked into that. Something is not right.
[THEME MUSIC] [POLICE SIRENS] NARRATOR: Jupiter, Florida, a safe community on the East
Coast where crime is half the national average and murder is rare. It was home to Gretchen Anthony, a devoted mother
close to her family and friends. KELLY HANNA: This is such a special place for us.
The sense of community, the sense of fun that we all had here on the afternoons after a long day of fishing or going out on the boat.
And this was a place where Gretchen and I would meet up here with all of our friends and there
would just be a big gathering. NARRATOR: David Anthony was her personal trainer.
Gretchen fell in love, and they got married in 2015. David is tall, handsome, charming, outgoing, funny,
and just very charismatic. And there were instant sparks. She was so in love. They appeared to just have this magical family life.
[OMINOUS MUSIC] NARRATOR: Five years into the marriage, it's March 2020. David had become increasingly volatile.
Gretchen made the decision to file for divorce and moved on. David found the separation difficult
and decided to live with his mother. It wasn't long after that decision to separate that David's mental health started
to decline very quickly. NARRATOR: Then the pandemic hit. Gretchen's family got a message she'd got COVID.
But something about Gretchen's texts didn't feel right. KELLY HANNA: The way the text messages were structured
weren't making any sense. NARRATOR: Her messages were totally out of character. KELLY HANNA: And they try to get in touch
with her via phone calls or text messages and she is not responding. NARRATOR: The family were so concerned,
they decided to involve the police. JARED KENERSON: We started receiving phone calls
from family members and from friends of Gretchen Anthony who were concerned about her.
They were receiving text messages from her phone indicating that she's ill and has COVID-19,
admitted to the hospital, and later transferred to a COVID specialty center. Messages coming from her phone aren't making any sense.
They're not adding up. And so it was just red flag, red flag, red flag. NARRATOR: When Gretchen stopped sharing her location
on her phone, the police talked to Jupiter Medical Center, the last place she said she was going.
We did a check with the staff. And we were able to find that she was not a patient of their hospital.
NARRATOR: Police put in an urgent request for the security footage from inside the hospital
and the parking lot. Gretchen was nowhere. And a missing persons investigation was now underway.
Something very shady was going on. And now I'm absolutely terrified for my friend.
NARRATOR: Her house had been locked up for days. Jupiter police went to her property.
Body cams rolled. Evidence was being gathered for the state attorney's office, which was now involved.
[KNOCKING] CHRICHET MIXON: They've knocked at the door, and they don't get an answer.
Gretchen is not there, but there are some things within Gretchen's residence that causes some concern.
There's just some towels on the washing machine closet that has a substance that was consistent
with a blood-like substance. There's some spray bottles and a clean-up rag on the kitchen counter.
There's a broken picture frame that appeared to be normally hanging on the wall.
NARRATOR: The search showed no sign of Gretchen. Most notably, there is a key broken
off inside of a lock that leads to Gretchen Anthony's garage. [OMINOUS MUSIC] JARED KENERSON: We're not able to initially gain entry
into the garage, which is concerning. NARRATOR: They had no idea what lay behind the locked door.
Law enforcement officers force entry into the garage. There's a very strong odor of cleaning agents.
And the garage appears to be damp. Based on what we found in the residence, we became more concerned about where Gretchen Anthony was.
There appeared to be some signs that there was foul play. That leads us to believe that something transpired
in Gretchen's garage. NARRATOR: Bodycams picked up disturbing witness statements about an incident 24 hours
before Gretchen went missing. We were approached by one of her neighbors that was across the way--
--who wanted to know if we were there for the attack that happened at the residence on days previous.
NARRATOR: Another neighbor noticed white stains down the driveway. There was some type of cleaning
agent running from under Gretchen's garage almost consistent with someone was doing some type of cleaning
inside of the garage. NARRATOR: The police knew they had to work fast. They needed to track down her estranged
husband, David Anthony. They went to his mother's house where he'd been living since the separation from Gretchen.
Bodycams recorded the encounter. All detectives knew was that David told his mother
he was heading for Costa Rica. We're looking to find Gretchen Anthony most-- most importantly.
Finding him may help find her. NARRATOR: Luckily, detectives got a breakthrough as images from the cameras at the hospital
revealed an ominous twist. JARED KENERSON: We were able to get video from the Jupiter
Medical Center. We were able to show early morning video of Gretchen Anthony's vehicle coming into the property
and being parked on the northeast portion of the parking lot. CHRICHET MIXON: And there's an individual
who got out of Gretchen's vehicle, except it wasn't Gretchen. Tall individual dressed in dark clothing.
We still don't know where Gretchen is and if she's OK. So now I'm terrified. I'm absolutely terrified for her.
[SIRENS WAILING] NARRATOR: Evidence from the cameras was adding up. Inside Gretchen's home, detectives discovered
a gold mine of footage. CHRICHET MIXON: Gretchen has multiple cameras inside of her residence.
NARRATOR: After feeling unsafe from David's increasingly violent behavior during their separation,
Gretchen set up a complete home security system. KELLY HANNA: She was filing for divorce.
And that was it, they were done. David just could not handle that information. So someone like David Anthony might, in these kinds
of situations, think, well, but you've committed to me, and you are mine now. And we made that promise.
And now that you're not wanting to keep that promise/you want to leave me, that isn't an acceptable course of action.
A really common theme is this idea that men have or some men have that they possess or own women.
And the problem is with that, once you feel like you're losing this, effectively, object, this then turns
into a situation where you go, no, but no one else is allowed to have her. She's mine.
And that can subsequently turn to justifications for extreme behavior, extreme violence,
and saying, well, if I can't have her, then literally nobody else can. And I will destroy her.
CHRICHET MIXON: Search warrants were executed to obtain the footage from the cameras.
We are counting on the surveillance footage from her house to give us some answers.
That is potentially what could give us the biggest lead or the most information about what
transpired in her residence. NARRATOR: But there was some bad news. CHRICHET MIXON: There were some cameras that were missing.
NARRATOR: Video equipment in the garage had been taken down. Detectives tried to find out if the footage
was backed up online. Meanwhile, police started to track David's and Gretchen's phone.
Essentially what's happening is they're able to get an update, let's say, every 15 minutes as
to the location of her phone. And we learn these phones are traveling together. And they are traveling together away from Jupiter, Florida.
JARED KENERSON: They were able to say on the 25th that-- that her phone was in Pensacola, Florida.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC] CHRICHET MIXON: We are able to see David getting money from the ATM.
We see him going inside of a store. We see him going inside of the pawn shop. And not just in Palm Beach County, but as he
travels north, hours away outside of the county. We contacted that jewelry store.
They were able to provide us with some video footage of him in the store, also his vehicle outside of the store.
CHRICHET MIXON: We also have surveillance footage of him pawning more jewelry that belonged to Gretchen.
NARRATOR: Police continue to track both cell phones and follow them heading west across the southern states.
CHRICHET MIXON: Gretchen's phone is pinging in close proximity to David's phone.
You never see Gretchen with him in any other surveillance. You see his dog occasionally, but you never see Gretchen.
NARRATOR: As the net tightened, Gretchen and David's phones are located in Las Cruces, New Mexico, less than an hour
from the Mexican border. [SIRENS BLARING] It was a race against time to find them.
Detectives in Florida asked Las Cruces police for an urgent traffic stop. POLICE: We need officers to block on Main Avenue.
NARRATOR: But Gretchen was not in the truck. They spoke to David. He didn't provide any information as to her location.
And he didn't provide any information that would indicate that he had committed a crime against her.
NARRATOR: It was the same truck scene outside Gretchen's house seven days earlier.
The police had no idea what lay beneath the tarp. There was evidence that Gretchen's cell
phone was with David's. Police impounded his pickup truck. JARED KENERSON: So at this point,
we had a reason to take his car. We didn't have a reason to take him into custody.
We're still evidence gathering, so we want to gather as much evidence as possible
to find Gretchen's whereabouts. He gives a lot of statements about conspiracy theories
that-- of things at Gretchen's job that she has uncovered. And for her own safety, she's essentially gone into hiding,
NARRATOR: Las Cruces police let David go but kept his vehicle and the unknown contents
under the tarp. Back in Jupiter, cybercrime specialists worked hard to retrieve the camera footage from the night
Gretchen went missing. We were able to write a search warrant that was addressed
to a surrounds company. We were also able to obtain footage from the cloud. A crucial part of this investigation
was the video footage that we ultimately reviewed from Gretchen's house. The NARRATOR: Footage stored in the cloud included video recordings
from the missing cameras. Detectives immediately got to work, hoping it would reveal exactly what happened to Gretchen.
There is a camera that is on the patio of Gretchen's home. It's still dark outside, although it's
the early morning hours. And you see what appears to be a tall male individual. This person lurking on her patio.
They're moving around very slowly, methodically. It is unclear as to what they're doing.
We don't know whether Gretchen hears someone outside. The surveillance shows that person
was in Gretchen Anthony's porch for quite some time before she answered the door.
Gretchen comes to her door, her door swings out, and this person is behind the door.
NARRATOR: Some of the footage was so graphic it was never released. The same person is tall, male, dressed in all black.
We see this person taking Gretchen or dragging Gretchen or forcing Gretchen to the garage
as he muffles her screams. He uses the same garage where the key was broken in the lock.
There is footage of what appears to be the back of what we believe to be Gretchen's head.
And she is on the floor of her garage. And there is this tall male dressed in all black moving
around Gretchen's garage. And there is one camera that captures this individual as he turns around and looks
directly into the camera. And that person was David Anthony. One of those videos captured David looking up at the camera
and taking it down and tossing it across the room. CHRICHET MIXON: At this point, we are convinced that David
Anthony has killed Gretchen. NARRATOR: It was enough to issue an arrest warrant.
Then, out of nowhere, Detective Kenerson got a call from their chief suspect. JARED KENERSON: The person calling me was David Anthony.
He conveyed a message to me on some alleged circumstances as to why Gretchen may have been in danger.
NARRATOR: But the call ended abruptly. David was now on the run close to the Mexican border.
They had just a few hours to catch him. Detective Kenerson headed to Las Cruces, New Mexico.
This is when we were able to execute a search warrant on David's car, which they had seized for us.
NARRATOR: David was still at large, but the manhunt became even more urgent when they discovered what was in the back of the truck.
Cameras from Gretchen's garage and a voice-controlled Alexa device. JARED KENERSON: She used the Echo devices in her garage
to turn the lights on. During the attack, Gretchen Anthony attempted to have Alexa summons help.
The audio files are disturbing. NARRATOR: It sounded like she was muffled. [RADIO CHATTER]
JARED KENERSON: After we completed the investigation on his vehicle, we then went searching for David Anthony.
[SIREN WAILING] [RADIO CHATTER] NARRATOR: With David just a few miles from the Mexican border
and driving to Costa Rica, every minute counted. Homeland Security deployed the latest tracking technology.
Las Cruces' police traced his car on the move. Outside a convenience store, David Anthony
was cornered at gunpoint. David was arrested and taken into custody for-- for the arrest warrant for back in Florida
for second-degree murder and kidnapping. NARRATOR: Finally, Detective Kenerson had his suspect.
David Anthony, Gretchen's estranged husband, was confronted with the gruesome footage from Gretchen's home.
JARED KENERSON: I presented the surveillance video of him. We presented evidence of what happened.
Actual evidence that we obtained. David kept telling us that Gretchen was still alive.
NARRATOR: Despite his denials, he'd been caught on camera at the crime scene. Even when police showed David the video evidence,
he denied he caused her any harm. We presented evidence to him. We presented evidence that we actually
had to show what he did. I know he's the one who did it. CHRICHET MIXON: David Anthony was subsequently charged
with second-degree murder. NARRATOR: But police still had no idea where Gretchen's body was.
CHRICHET MIXON: Not having a body in a murder case is difficult. Jurors expect to see a body, right?
If you're saying this person is-- is dead and the person you've charged killed this person, show
it to me, which makes sense. NARRATOR: Then a new witness came forward with a critical clue as to where her body might be.
It narrowed the search to a busy part of Jupiter but wasn't specific enough to find her body.
David continued to maintain his innocence. Desperate to get some sort of closure for Gretchen's family,
Chrichet Mixon changed her approach. CHRICHET MIXON: Her family didn't want to go to sleep every night wondering where
Gretchen was in the world. And they wanted to have a place where her daughter could
go to, her mother could go to, her sisters, her friends could go to and know that she was there.
Defense counsel approached me wanting to discuss potential negotiations. So as a part of these negotiations,
David was going to tell us where Gretchen was. Denying the families the ability to see and often bury,
of course, their loved ones is a major barrier to grief. And it's a major barrier to move on.
So if we look at the escalation of violence to femicide, which is the killing of girls and women,
we can see usually a clear pattern, especially in intimate partner relationships.
And it starts with, as you might expect, male aggression. Then there's victim blaming.
So the man is saying, you are making me do this. Then there is an escalation, so the violence gets worse.
After that, there's resistance by the woman, who then says no, you know, this is not acceptable.
Then the woman usually tries to leave the relationship, which is met with consequences.
NARRATOR: David Anthony gave up his claims of innocence and decided to swap the location of Gretchen's body
for a shorter sentence. On the morning of December 21, 2020, his attorney provided the location
of Gretchen Anthony's body. PILOT: One traffic, one red tag. NARRATOR: Cameras on helicopters and mapping technology
got involved in the search for Gretchen's body. PILOT: Juliette, Charlie, Zulu, Kilo, 2, 6.
And last eight is going to be Bravo Alpha 001781. I wanted her to not be there. And I wanted her to be OK.
But I knew the reality was we were going to bring Gretchen home, just not in the way
that anyone would have wanted. PILOT: 3800 block of Kirk Road. NARRATOR: They close in on the site.
CHRICHET MIXON: There's a cadaver dog on scene. There were crime scene investigators who began
the search for Gretchen's body. NARRATOR: Nine months had passed since Gretchen went missing.
At this point, her body may not be identifiable. JARED KENERSON: This is the location
where we located Gretchen Anthony's body on December 21, 2020. Just south of that large, I believe it's an oak tree.
In that lower area of the ground, that's where Gretchen was recovered. It's not a hugely secluded area.
We're able to identify her on scene and-- and let her family members know that. CHRICHET MIXON: We were able to see tattoos on her.
And there was one in particular. And I recall, there was a detective who yelled out about one of her tattoos that she had.
NARRATOR: Medical examiners determined Gretchen died from multiple stab wounds to her neck and torso.
CHRICHET MIXON: I don't know where this investigation would-- would be without surveillance footage,
without those cameras inside of Gretchen's house, without the cameras from the ATM, or from the pawn shop.
I don't know that we would have gotten to an arrest of David Anthony for murdering Gretchen.
But for those cameras, we would've-- we would have never known. NARRATOR: Due to COVID regulations,
no grand jury could be assembled. David Anthony was convicted of kidnapping and second-degree murder, sentenced
to 38 years in prison. JULIA SHAW: We all miss the radiant, beautiful, smiling, vibrant person that she always was,
and the energy she brought to everybody she met. And just the happiness that she just gave to everyone.
So it's hard to go on. And I miss my friend. I miss my friend. Well, I'm glad David's in prison.
You have no right to take another human being's life and steal that person from people who loved her
and people she loved. She's gone, and you're still here. And, thankfully, you're in prison.
And you get to think about that for a very, very long time. [RADIO CHATTER] [SIREN WAILING]
NARRATOR: A crucial part of the evidence gathered against David Anthony was the footage captured by the cameras in the home
and on the body. [KNOCKING] [RADIO CHATTER] Recording everything and everyone they came into contact with.
[SOMBER MUSIC] Emi Polito is an expert forensic video analyst who's worked on hundreds of cases in the UK.
EMI POLITO: Contrary to common belief, body-worn cameras are always recording. But it's not until the point where the officer pressed
the start button that that footage then becomes a video file that can then be retrieved later.
NARRATOR: And often, it's crucial evidence, as in the case of Kerry Woolley. In the United Kingdom, the West Midlands,
with over 400 violent crimes a day, at its heart the city of Birmingham. Back in early 2020, Kerry Woolley
had returned to dating after divorcing the father of her two children. She met 38-year-old Ian Bennett.
And they started to go on the occasional date. The pair enjoyed spending time together.
And for a few weeks, it seemed to be going well. [OMINOUS MUSIC] In July, Ian and Kerry enjoy a night out.
But early the next morning, police respond to an emergency call. Terry had been found brutally murdered in her bedroom.
Digital forensic experts searched for any crucial evidence captured on camera. Dr. Vaselsios Karagiannopoulos is a leading expert
in criminal law and cybercrime at the University of Portsmouth. [INAUDIBLE CHATTER]
VASELEIOS KARAGIANNOPOULOS: The police is equipped with bodycam footage. And that helps them gather evidence
as things might unfold. It's got a very wide angle. So you can see we're actually looking
through the eyes of the police officer at the scene. The cam will record if there's any kind of evidence lying
around or if any other people come in or out of that might have been witnesses. NARRATOR: The bodycam recorded Ian
Bennett's witness statement. He was the last person to see her alive. Professor Coral Dando is a former police officer,
who now applies psychological research to camera footage to understand criminal behavior.
CORAL DANDO: When police arrived, he was standing outside. He provided them with a uninvited and very detailed
account of his movements and his whereabouts. And, you know, his account seems fairly plausible.
VASELEIOS KARAGIANNOPOULOS: He is looking very distraught, quite shaken, trying to figure out what has happened.
He's calling his mother. NARRATOR: He didn't refer to Kerry by name. Looking quite shaken again and explaining what's happened
to his mother on the phone. CORAL DANDO: When we look at the context of a horrific murder
scene, something is not right. Smoking, I see. Talking on his phone. A little bit of eye blinking, suggesting a bit of tears.
But he's not traumatized by the looks of it. He was very calm. This very nuanced very detailed, very sort of,
at the time, plausible account of his movements and his whereabouts. And this struck me straight away as being a red flag and quite
a significant red flag from a psychological point of view. Certainly having someone who just spills everything,
entrusts, immediately tell you every single thing that they did that day is not abnormal,
as is someone being very upset and calling their mom. They're acting through what they think
people need to see to make them not look suspicious. So when we go back to that first scene,
we think of the oversharing. We think of the-- the calling performatively in front of the police, the mom,
and the almost crying there. That now feels like a performance. But at the time, that would have been really
difficult for police to spot because that could also be a normal reaction. We're looking for signs of nervousness,
but nervousness looks different for different people. We're looking for things like inconsistent stories.
We're looking for things like avoiding eye contact. CORAL DANDO: He is the one that has found her and really
quite shocked and upset. So I just wanted to knock on-- NARRATOR: Ian's tears did not convince the police.
Ian's mother, Linda, arrived on the scene. CORAL DANDO: Straight away, she is a little bit more believable.
You don't get this outpouring of-- of information. NARRATOR: Linda didn't ask about Kerry.
She was more concerned about her son's welfare. CORAL DANDO: You just get these questions
about where her son is. Where's my son? You know, what are you doing with my son?
What's happened to my son? Is my son OK? So she's just asking a series of questions.
NARRATOR: Ian was taken into custody, while the forensic team got to work. The autopsy revealed Kerry was smothered,
strangled, and died from 54 stab wounds to the neck and upper torso. Investigators pulled both Kerry and Ian's phone records
and discovered there was already some tension between the two. They'd only been dating on and off for a few weeks,
but Ian was accusing a friend of Kerry's of sleeping with her. One of the interesting aspects of this case
is it would seem as if Ian believed he was in a relationship with the victim. Ian was the sort of person that wanted to control and manage
his partner's behavior. Or maybe he's not had any successful relationships before, and this is the first one
that he felt was going to go somewhere real or perceived. And the fact that she didn't behave in the way
that he expected was enough to trigger this response. The relationship doesn't have to be real.
In the perpetrators mind, it exists. NARRATOR: Police dug deeper and discovered disturbing
internet search records. CORAL DANDO: This has turned into I'm going to go and confront her.
And maybe that has turned into a row of some sort. Or maybe he's thought, right, OK, I'm going to kill her.
Because both things happen in coercive and controlling relationships. NARRATOR: It seemed like an intent to harm,
but police still needed more evidence. Ian was at Kerry's flat that night, but claimed he left at about 1:00 AM.
Police checked CCTV footage in the area to verify his statement and found him on camera.
The closer he gets to the-- the camera, the better the overall resolution of the area that we're looking.
So even though we have CCTV here recorded at nighttime, we still have sufficient illumination from the street
to allow to discern quite a fair contrast of detail, certainly, with his face. With his clothing as well, which can be quite important as well
for identification purposes. We can see here, Ian actually leaving the flat late at night carrying a bag.
NARRATOR: The second camera tracked him to a local park still holding the bag. Minutes later, close observation showed he was traveling light.
But what is interesting about these two clips, they a few minutes apart. And in the first one, we are seeing the suspect potentially
carrying a plastic bag, which, again, is consistent with what we've seen in previous footage.
And then a few minutes later. And, again, we can tell from the timestamps, we can see a person of similar appearance
to the one we've just seen, but without the carry bag. NARRATOR: Even in the dark, the CCTV images were clear.
The CCTV has developed a lot during the last 10, 20 years. In the old days, it was more like a corroborative piece
of evidence. During an investigation, you would have police officers knocking at people's doors, getting witness statements,
trying to get some traditionally forensic evidence like fingerprints or DNA. So the rules have effectively reverted.
CCTV is now the first source of evidence for an investigation, usually. Then corroborated with other pieces of evidence.
NARRATOR: A third camera provided another breakthrough, a mysterious car. VASELEIOS KARAGIANNOPOULOS: So in addition to regular CCTV,
there is a police-controlled system of cameras called the Automatic Number Plate Recognition System,
ANPR for short. And this can be used to record license plates and identify vehicles of interest
and show us the movements of those vehicles across the country. NARRATOR: Despite it being the middle of the night,
investigators were able to identify the car. It belonged to Linda, Ian's mother.
When they impounded the car, they made a discovery that changed the course of the investigation.
There was a dashcam that was recording everything that was going on. NARRATOR: And Ian was seen throwing
something into the canal. Steve Jones is a former police officer, an expert in the cameras that are now the key tools
in evidence gathering. Dashcams have now become a common practice right across the world.
Most dashcams will automatically record when the ignition systems are engaged or activated.
The dashcam will capture the scene wherever that driver takes the vehicle. The police realize that the footage, not just for road
traffic collisions, but for general crime incidents, that can be invaluable. In the Kerry Woolley murder case,
the dashcam from the mother's car, from Ian Bennett's mother's car, proves to be
a pivotal piece of evidence. NARRATOR: Police pulled to the dashcam footage from the night Kerry died.
VASELEIOS KARAGIANNOPOULOS: This is Ian getting rid of something in the river. But this is his mother's car dashcam.
And we can see the same scene. NARRATOR: The footage from the car identified the man as Ian Bennett.
Police dredged the canal and found a knife. The blade was heavily bent out of shape.
VASELEIOS KARAGIANNOPOULOS: The dashcam is actually what cements this case in terms of actually establishing
that what we've got on the CCTV footage is Ian Bennett actually getting rid of evidence
and his mother helping him. NARRATOR: DNA on the knife matched both Kerry and Linda.
CORAL DANDO: Their lie script and the account that they've developed between them straight away can be undermined by CCTV
and also the dashcam footage from the mother's own car. You can clearly see that she was involved
in the aftermath in terms of helping him to dispose of the knife. NARRATOR: The dashcam footage gave police
the evidence they needed. All the dashcam evidence that was collected alongside all
the CCTV footage that the investigators had helped them build a very, very strong
case against the suspect. These days, if you want to commit a murder, you're really going to struggle not to be caught on camera.
NARRATOR: Police now had enough to charge Ian with murder and arrest Ian's mother, Linda, for assisting an offender
and perverting the course of justice. It's a really interesting question, isn't it?
Whether you would help your own child cover up a crime. I think there's a lot of people who would say, of course,
I would. Of course, I'd help my child, either because I believed that they had to do it or I believed they were innocent
or if I knew that they actually did go through with it, I just wanted to keep them out of prison.
Whereas other people would definitely say the opposite and say, no, I'd encourage my child to hand
themselves in immediately. And I think it's one of those things that you probably just have absolutely
no idea how you would react until it happens to you. CORAL DANDO: If he's a coercive controller, a control freak,
which it seems as if he was, then he will have been manipulating and managing his mother.
We also know that this is cyclical behavior. And he may have experienced it or seen
it with his mother's partner. It may have been a husband, may have been his father,
may have been his stepfather. [SOMBER MUSIC] NARRATOR: In December 2021, the case went to trial
at Birmingham Crown Court. The jury took just two hours to find Ian guilty. The cameras were crucial to the conviction of the killer.
EMI POLITO: There are so many opportunities for investigators to find evidence on video.
Now we have evidence from mobile phones, body-worn cameras, dashcam vehicles, drone footage, aerial footage.
Without all these multiple camera sources, a lot of cases would be abandoned. NARRATOR: Ian was sentenced to at least 25 years in prison.
Linda was given three years. VASELEIOS KARAGIANNOPOULOS: It was that crucial dashcam
footage alongside the CCTV and all the other digital evidence that helped the investigators crack the case really quickly.
And it shows us how collecting evidence from the various different digital sources
can speed up a case significantly. [DRAMATIC MUSIC]

As COVID-19 hits the United States in March 2020, the family of Gretchen Anthony grows suspicious when they receive concerning texts from Gretchen’s phone that seem out of character and create cause for concern about her whereabouts and safety. Could her estranged ex-husband have anything to do with it? And in the UK, when Kerry Woolley’s body is discovered, police grow suspicious of her boyfriend, Ian Bennett. When they investigate Kerry’s boyfriend, they are left stunned by the dash camera footage they find on his mother’s car. Is it possible that this mother and son duo could be responsible for this heinous murder?

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Gretchen Anthony and Kerry Woolley's murders reveal domestic violence and the power of surveillance footage in solving crimes.

Key points

Gretchen's Mysterious Disappearance. Gretchen Anthony goes missing under suspicious circumstances, raising alarms among her family and friends.
The Shocking Evidence. Surveillance footage reveals a chilling scene, leading to the arrest of David Anthony.
The Role of Technology in Crime Solving. CCTV and dashcam footage played a pivotal role in solving Kerry Woolley's murder case.

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Episode quotes

Something is not right.

1:00WatchMar 2, 2023

Tension

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