sopher Immanuel Kant once said...
"Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it;
God prohibits it because it is abominable."
Hello and welcome to<i> Case Closed.</i>
Let's welcome out our first case of the day.
Please bring out the litigants.
An innocent life was lost thanks to that sick maniac.
It was a sad, desperate suicide pact.
In memory of him, they should return what's rightfully his.
-Good afternoon and welcome. -Good afternoon.
Laura, you're suing Nuria and Samantha.
Tell me why and what you're requesting to settle this case.
Good afternoon, ma'am. I'm here to sue this family.
Especially her, the mother of my sister's murderer.
My brother's no murderer.
I demand a restraining order.
I want them away from my family.
Okay. Give me the details.
My sister was 15 when she died.
-Your sister? -Yes, my sister Tatiana.
She was 15 when she died.
She was a nice, loving girl.
She loved animals and helping people.
I know she would've never killed herself.
I know her son did it.
Shows how much you knew your sister.
Hold on, please.
-What are you talking about? -Let me tell you what happened.
Six months ago, at 1pm on a Saturday,
she got home and told me
she was going studying at the library.
She was smart like that.
She grabbed her bag and her phone and left.
The library was just around the corner,
so we didn't think much of it.
When I called her to see how she was doing, I told her...
"Hi, Tatiana. How are you?"
Her voice was shaky. She told me she was fine.
"Don't worry, I'll be home around six."
I was worried. That wasn't my sister.
She'd never talked to me like that before.
I was worried when she hung up.
Around 8 PM,
we went to the police station to file a report.
While I was there, the cop asked me for her picture
and her information.
-Here. -Okay.
I gave him all her information, and you know what he told me?
That insensitive jerk told me
she could've been out partying with her boyfriend.
I was so offended. Tatiana would've let us know.
She trusted us. She would've let us know.
She would've told us. That's what worried me.
What happened then?
Can I go on?
The next day, I called her over and over again.
No answer. She was missing.
We went to her school the following Monday,
and that's the first time I heard about Victor, her son.
My brother.
I had never heard of him. Never.
She never mentioned him.
Her friends at school told us they were together.
I was like, "What?
She had a boyfriend named Victor
she never told us about?"
We never met him.
Want to know what people had to say about him?
The called him "The Old-school Vampire."
Can you imagine? That lunatic killed Tatiana.
That was his alter ego.
He was sick, ugly, skinny, with dark circles around his eyes.
He was awful.
I couldn't even tell if he was human or not.
He was, in fact, a vampire who sucked blood and everything.
Where did he come from, though?
I don't know.
When we asked the principal at my sister's school,
we were told he had gone missing too.
That's when we figured out they were probably together.
"They must've run away together."
-And when did you find them? -I'm getting to that.
Four days after this whole incident,
the cops came to our house.
My mother was a nervous wreck.
You want to know what they told us?
"They need you to identify a body at the morgue.
It might be Tatiana's."
-Was it? -Yes, ma'am.
Along with my brother's.
We were half-sisters, but sisters nonetheless.
-How was she? -Awful, ma'am.
Her face was bloated...
Due to the poison she gave my brother.
She was lying there, cold.
-You mean she was dead, right? -Yes, ma'am.
What was the cause of death?
When the coroner called us, he told us...
Sorry.
He told us they had drank rat poison.
I have proof she bought it, ma'am.
She used my card,
but I'm sure this is all your brother's doing.
My sister would've never killed herself.
She had a bright future ahead of herself.
Listen to me, please. Hold it!
Where did they die?
Look, ma'am.
That bastard rented a motel room for three nights.
Three nights, ma'am.
That place didn't even have cameras.
The place was filthy.
He was sick, ma'am. I know he was.
He took her to a motel.
Four days later,
you could smell this awful stench coming from the unit.
That's how they found them, ma'am.
They poisoned each other. I know it was his fault.
And now they want $7,000?
He used my sister's credit card.
I don't know if it was a gift.
What he did with the money is none of my business,
but I'm not returning it.
My mother's sick in the hospital.
That's why she couldn't be here.
Shut up.
You're talking too much and none of it makes any sense.
Let me take a break so I don't go nuts.
-Good afternoon, ma'am. -Good afternoon.
As you can see, I'm distraught, same as her mother.
I wouldn't wish this pain on anyone.
It was a tragedy.
Did you suspect Victor might've been depressed?
-Did he have any suicidal... -He was different, ma'am.
-He was quiet. -He was bullied in school.
He liked vampire movies. Vampire books too.
That was his main problem at school.
That's why the other kids stayed away from him.
He was bullied because of his dark circles,
because of how thin he was...
Did he paint them on, or did he actually have dark circles?
He had dark circles. That was his alter ego.
Besides that, he was a normal kid.
It hurt him to be pushed away because of his personality.
-He was a loner. -Did he ever mention
hurting or killing anyone?
No.
Did he talk about death? Was he attracted to it?
Did you check his browsing history?
I did. I checked his Facebook.
What I have here proves this wasn't only my brother's doing.
They planned this together.
-Victor met her... -Bring it here.
-Did they make a pact? -Yes.
She blames my son, but they did it together and that proves it.
They planned it together, ma'am.
This is Victor's page, right? Let's see.
"I hate my life. I feel like dying.
Like easing the pain and living without a heart.
All I have left is for my body to destroy itself.
I like knowing that fear can't paralyze my mind.
I want to become a being of the night.
I'd give my blood away to become a real vampire.
Lucifer will reward me. I'm his most devoted follower."
-So he was into Satanism... -See? He was crazy.
He might've seen that in a movie.
He was a good kid.
Seeing something in a movie is not the same as developing...
I don't know. A certain impulsive attraction.
I don't know. It's just weird.
-Let's continue reading. -That's proof she was in on it.
In these text messages, he tells her...
"Hi, babe. Another sleepless night.
Almost 36 hours.
I love feeling tired and unresponsive."
Then she says...
"Babe, please get some sleep. You'll get sick.
I'm worried. Take a one-hour nap.
I'll bring you some vitamins tomorrow.
Promise me you'll have something to eat, please."
And then he says...
"Seven more hours of darkness. Don't worry.
This strengthens my soul.
I'm still working on our plan to kill everyone.
I hate them. Let's make them puke blood.
I looked up the poison you told me about.
It leaves a trace. Doesn't matter, though.
We'll kill them all."
I don't believe my son was capable of anything like that.
I don't know where they got it.
People do stuff like this on Facebook.
He wasn't like this before.
She's blaming him for her death, but...
They planned it together.
On that other document,
you can see they used her credit card to buy the poison.
Mine, by the way, but I can assure you he killed her.
-He manipulated her. -She bought it.
So you're telling me she was the one who bought it, right?
-With your money. -She was manipulated.
The investigator told us
they used fake IDs to check into the motel.
-You have a witness, right? -Yes, ma'am.
Please bring them out.
She'd never heard of my son.
Tell me something. What's the $7,000 for?
No one's said anything about it.
That was his college fund.
Like I said before, he was responsible.
He might've been different, but he was a good kid.
That money was transferred to her sister's account
two days before this tragedy.
So your son transferred the money to her account
without telling you why.
This was two days before everything went down.
-They were planning something. -Yes, ma'am.
First of all, I want to clear my son's name.
I want people to know he was not a murderer.
And yet here we are,
talking about a police report you have no proof of filing.
-I'm sure you did it, right? -Yes.
And I bet no one was charged, either.
This was ruled as a suicide.
They couldn't tell if it was a suicide or a homicide.
Thing is, even if it was ruled a homicide, they both died.
We can only assume it was a suicide pact.
He was two years older than my sister.
So? They were both minors.
-What's your name? -Karem.
I went to high school with Victor.
You're here on behalf of the plaintiff.
Yes, ma'am.
I went to high school with Victor.
He loved watching people suffer.
-She's lying. -No, I'm not.
He was a cutter.
And on top of that, he loved licking his own blood.
He loved blood.
Suicide was his answer to everything.
Watching dead people wasn't enough for him.
He loved watching them suffer.
-See? He's a murderer. -Liar.
What's that?
Proof of what he posted online.
Not only did he like watching people suffer, but animals too.
-God, no. -This is a possum. Ew!
She could've gotten those pictures anywhere.
Please bring out the defendant's witness.
He was attracted to death, I see.
So much he ended up killing my sister.
Question.
Did you ever take him to a specialist?
We had no idea he was into this.
He lived in his own bubble.
He was quiet. Never did we imagine...
-So he was quiet, huh? -Yes.
He did tell us that when he met her sister
it was protecting her from some bullies at school.
Why was she being bullied?
Apparently she had just started in this school.
My brother saw some students trying to set her hair on fire.
That's how they met each other.
I wasn't aware of any of this.
ewert and Dr. Geysha Menendez.
Sorry.
She thinks Tatiana's a good, kindhearted girl,
but that couldn't be further from the truth.
I went to school with both of them.
One day I was in the bathroom when she entered.
I recognized her voice because we took some classes together.
She was arguing.
She sounded scared. Saying that the plan was a go.
"We'll poison everybody."
She said she couldn't take being bullied anymore
and how the plan was ready to go.
I exited the stall and confronted her.
"What are you doing? This is crazy."
I told her I'd report her to the cops
and to the school principal.
She was so scared she left.
How much did they pay you to say that?
-How much? -I heard her.
-Hold on! -How much did they pay you?
-Did you talk to the principal? -Yes.
-Did you tell her? -Yes.
-What about the cops? -No.
You didn't.
You told the principal and assumed she'd call them.
And they went missing the next day.
-Yes. -Okay. Perfect.
These children obviously had mental health issues.
Yes, ma'am.
Just the fact that they did what they did.
The way they acted.
Their families had no idea who they really were.
Their whole plan was to keep their feelings to themselves.
I'm not sure if they wanted to commit mass murder
or simply kill themselves.
Maybe they never planned to kill themselves.
Maybe things changed while they were making arrangements
and they ended up killing themselves.
-An accident, you mean. -Exactly.
Now, cases like these are worrisome.
Parents seem to turn a blind eye to their children
when they're showing these types of behaviors.
His mother calls him "Quiet" and "Strange."
Quiet and strange could just be the beginning.
Let me have him checked by a psychologist.
-Teenagers... -Hold on, please.
One of the signs of depression in teenagers is isolation.
They might cut themselves.
They become uninterested in things they used to love.
They're short-tempered and tend to isolate their families.
These are all signs we should be aware of.
-You know why? -And never judge.
Exactly.
Suicide is the second-leading cause of death
amongst teenagers, especially between the ages of 10 to 24.
Rat poison seems to be the latest trend.
That's right.
I know it's hard to admit,
but this happens far more often than we'd like to admit.
Not too long ago, there was a case in Palo Alto, California,
where a group of teenagers killed themselves in couples.
Apparently, them browsing the dark web ended up in tragedy.
That and lack of parental supervision.
It should be noted that of the 800,000 suicides per year
in the United States, over 15%...
-Are committed by minors. -Minors, ma'am.
The lack of supervision, not only from their parents,
but also from schools...
It's like that presidential candidate used to say...
"It takes a village."
I'd go as far as to say
they had some kind of mental illness.
In the end, this tragedy could've been avoided
simply by identifying some of the signs
we usually tend to ignore due to our own daily routines.
That, or we see the fact that our children are different
as a good thing.
Pay attention and take action. My ruling...
I'm sorry you're this upset, Laura.
I'm sorry you don't want to see things for what they are
and you want to blame someone else for it.
It's hard to accept when our young, loved ones
have such a dark side.
I understand. I advise you to look for help.
Someone who can help you and your family
deal with this awful situation.
Now, about that restraining order.
If you return what's rightfully theirs,
they'll leave you alone.
There won't be a need for such thing.
That money being transferred to someone
he knew was going to kill herself...
Because they planned this together...
I don't understand the reason behind it.
He didn't leave a note or anything.
That transfer makes no sense and that money belongs to them.
What about my mom? She has no insurance, ma'am.
Wait a second.
Not even in her wildest dreams did your mother
think she was going to get that money.
Do what's right.
Return their money immediately.
Case closed! That's that.
It's not fair, ma'am.
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