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Unbreakable

Real-life NCIS agents investigate the murders of a Marine sergeant and his wife 67 days after they wed. Was the motive money, was it racially motivated or was it something else?
Jun 13, 2019 (42:48)

TRANSCRIPT FOR: “NCIS: THE CASES THEY CAN'T FORGET: UNBREAKABLE”

WERE CLOSING IN ON A POTENTIAL SUSPECT:
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TYRONE MILLER, A FELLOW MARINE. >> IN ADDITION TO THE FACT THAT TYRONE MILLER HAD SOME KIND OF ANIMUS AGAINST SERGEANT P, WE GOT INFORMATION THAT MILLER HAD BEEN SHOT DAYS AFTER THE MURDERS. >> IT WAS A SUPPOSED DRIVE- BY SHOOTING. IT DIDN'T SEEM PLAUSIBLE OR REAL TO ME. >> THE FACT THAT HE'D BEEN SHOT TELLS US THAT HE'S PROBABLY INVOLVED IN SOME KIND OF CRIMINAL MISCONDUCT. THAT WAS A DRIVING FORCE FOR US TO GO AFTER TYRONE MILLER. ON OCTOBER 28, WE BROUGHT LANCE CORPORAL MILLER TO OUR OFFICES AT NCIS. MILLER'S INTERROGATION WAS AUDIO- RECORDED. >> INVESTIGATORS ASKED HIM ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT THERE WAS ANY REASON HE DIDN'T LIKE SERGEANT P. >> Reporter: MILLER, WHO WAS UP FOR A PROMOTION WITHIN DAYS, DISCLOSED HE AND HIS SERGEANT SOMETIMES ARGUED. >> Reporter: BUT HE DENIED ANY ANIMOSITY TOWARD HIS MENTOR OF NINE MONTHS. >> DETECTIVES QUESTIONED HIM IN REGARDS TO THE GUNSHOT WOUND THAT HE SUSTAINED. IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE MURDERS IN QUESTION. >> Reporter: AND WHEN THEY QUERIED MILLER ON HIS WHEREABOUTS AT THE TIME OF THE MURDERS ON OCTOBER 15? >> HE DENIED GOING TO JAN AND QUIANA'S RESIDENCE. >> HE CLAIMED THAT HE WAS HOME WITH HIS FAMILY. >> MILLER WAS MARRIED. HE HAD TWO YOUNG CHILDREN, AND HE LIVED ABOARD CAMP PENDLETON. >> Reporter: HE SAID HE HAD ONLY BEEN TO JAN'S HOME ONCE WITH HIS WIFE, MONTHS PRIOR. BUT DETECTIVES DRILLED DOWN. >> THE DETECTIVE TRIED TO BLUFF LANCE CORPORAL MILLER. >> YOU KNOW, THIS IS GOING TO LOOK REALLY BAD. >> TYRONE MILLER STARTED HEDGING ON HIS ANSWERS. >> Reporter: NOW, SLOWLY, TYRONE MILLER'S STORY STARTED UNRAVELING. >> Reporter: THE 20- YEAR- OLD MARINE STATED HE SOMETIMES DROVE THROUGH JAN AND QUIANA'S NEIGHBORHOOD ON HIS WAY TO DRINK WITH FRIENDS. >> Reporter: THAT TIME FRAME COINCIDED WITH THE SLAYINGS! >> THE DETECTIVE CONTINUED TO PRESS LANCE CORPORAL MILLER. >> HE WAS ALSO ASKED ABOUT WHAT TYPE OF CLOTHES HE WORE WHEN HE WENT OUT. >> HE, ON HIS OWN, SPONTANEOUSLY MENTIONED TWO THINGS, THINGS PARTICULARLY TIED TO THIS CASE. >> BLUE BANDANAS. THE PERSON IN THE A. T. M. VIDEO HAD BLUE BANDANAS ON OVER HIS FACE. AND WHEN THEY ASKED ABOUT WHAT KIND OF SHOES, HE LISTED A WHOLE BUNCH OF SHOES. >> IN THERE, WERE NIKE AIR FORCE ONE SHOES. >> NOW, THIS IS THE SAME BRAND THAT LEFT A TREAD PATTERN INSIDE THE RESIDENCE WHERE QUIANA AND JAN WERE MURDERED. AT THIS POINT, ALL THE FLAGS WENT UP, YOU KNOW. THE HAIR ON THE BACK OF YOUR NECK STANDS UP, AND ALL THE ALARM BELLS GO OFF THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS COULD POTENTIALLY BE ONE OF THE MURDERERS. HE REALLY BECAME OUR SUSPECT NUMBER ONE. >> THE FACT THAT HE WAS NOW ADMITTING THAT HE WAS IN THE AREA, WORE THE SAME TYPE OF SHOES AND THE BLUE BANDANAS. >> THIS WAS A BIG DEAL. THIS WAS A GAME CHANGER. THIS GAVE US ENOUGH PROBABLE CAUSE TO GET INTO HIS RESIDENCE. >> Reporter: INVESTIGATORS RELEASED MILLER BUT GOT A SEARCH WARRANT FOR HIS HOME. >> WE GEARED UP WITH OUR BULLETPROOF VESTS. ALL OF OUR AGENTS HAD THEIR GUNS DRAWN. SOMEBODY HAD LOOKED OUT THE WINDOW RIGHT AS WE STARTED TO DO OUR KNOCK AND ANNOUNCE " POLICE WITH A SEARCH WARRANT, LET US IN ," AND DID NOT OPEN THE DOOR. SO, WE HAD A RAM, AND SO THEY USE THE RAM. THEY HIT THE DOOR, AND WE FLOOD INTO THE RESIDENCE. >> POLICE, GET DOWN! >> THE FIRST THING WE SAW WAS MILLER'S WIFE. AND THEN, AS THE AGENTS KIND OF TURNED THE CORNER, THEY CAME ACROSS LANCE CORPORAL MILLER. NOW, MILLER GRABBED HIS TODDLER, RAISED UP THE TODDLER AND BASICALLY USED HIS DAUGHTER AS A SHIELD AS HE TRIED TO WALK BACK TO THE BACK BEDROOM. WE'RE SCREAMING, " GET DOWN, GET DOWN, PUT YOUR CHILD DOWN! GET DOWN !" >> THE FACT THAT HE HELD THIS CHILD UP AS A SHIELD TO US REALLY GOT ALL OF OUR HEARTS RACING. I MEAN, IT'S A TERRIFYING SITUATION. AS WE SCREAMED AT HIM AND TOLD HIM PUT THE CHILD DOWN, TYRONE MILLER EVENTUALLY COMPLIED. IN MY ENTIRE CAREER, I'VE NEVER SEEN A MARINE OR A CIVILIAN PICK UP THEIR OWN CHILD AND USE IT AS A SHIELD. AFTER WE SECURED LANCE CORPORAL MILLER AND HIS WIFE, WE WENT TO SIT THEM ON THE COUCH. >> Reporter: THEY PROCEEDED TO SEARCH FOR EVIDENCE CONNECTING TYRONE MILLER TO THE MURDERS. IT DIDN'T TAKE LONG >> WE LOOKED DOWN, AND WE SAW ON THE TABLE THERE WAS AN A. T. M. CARD, AND WE WERE SHOCKED. A SHIVER WENT UP MY SPINE. THIS WAS QUIANA PIETRZAK'S A. T. M. CARD RIGHT ON THE TABLE. YOU'D THINK BECAUSE MILLER WAS TALKED TO HOURS BEFORE THE SERVICE OF THE WARRANT THAT HE WOULD GET RID OF ANYTHING THAT ASSOCIATED HIM WITH THE MURDERS. >> Reporter: BUT INVESTIGATORS UNEARTHED A MOUNTAIN OF OTHER BONE CHILLING, DAMNING EVIDENCE. >> SOME OF THE JEWELRY THAT WAS MISSING. >> Reporter: AND HANGING IN MILLER'S CLOSET LIKE

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>> JAN PIETRZAK'S DRESS BLUE UNIFORM, THE UNIFORM THAT MARINES ARE MOST PROUD OF. >> THEY ALSO FOUND FOUR SHELL CASINGS IN A PLASTIC BAGGIE. >> COMPLETELY MATCHED THE NUMBER OF ROUNDS THAT WERE USED TO EXECUTE QUIANA AND JAN. WE FOUND A HANDGUN, SHOTGUNS, NUMEROUS PISTOLS AND OTHER LONG GUNS. ONE OF THOSE WEAPONS LATER TURNED OUT TO BE THE MURDER WEAPON. >> Reporter: AND RIGHT THERE, IN A BLACK

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>> TWO THINGS THAT WERE REALLY INTEGRAL TO THIS INVESTIGATION. >> A HOST OF BLUE BANDANAS, THE MECHANICS BRAND GLOVES THAT WE HAD SEEN ON THE A. T. M. SURVEILLANCE VIDEO. >> Reporter: INVESTIGATORS LATER RECOVERED A PAIR OF SNEAKERS WHICH WOULD MATCH ONE OF THE FOOTPRINTS AT THE CRIME SCENE. AND SURPRISINGLY, THEY DISCOVERED A STASH OF ODD ITEMS IN MILLER'S HOME UNRELATED TO THE MURDER INVESTIGATION. >> NUMEROUS IDENTIFICATION CARDS, JEWELRY AND OTHER ITEMS-- LOTS OF IT-- THAT WOULD INDICATE THAT POTENTIALLY THESE PEOPLE WERE INVOLVED IN MORE THAN JUST JAN AND QUIANA'S MURDERS. >> TYRONE MILLER IS PLACED IN CUSTODY, WAS BROUGHT BACK TO NCIS. >> Reporter: ... BAREFOOT AND IN HANDCUFFS. >> Reporter: HE DOESN'T REQUEST AN ATTORNEY AND KEEPS TALKING, AND, DESPITE THE MOUNDS OF INCRIMINATING EVIDENCE... >> MILLER STILL CONTINUED TO DENY THE FACT THAT HE WAS INVOLVED IN THE MURDERS. >> Reporter: AFTER NEARLY AN HOUR OF GRILLING, MILLER BREAKS. >> HAVE YOU SEEN QUIANA'S A. T. M. CARD? THAT WAS REALLY THE BREAK OF TYRONE MILLER'S INTERROGATION. >> HE STARTED MAKING ADMISSIONS ABOUT ACTUALLY BEING INVOLVED. >> Reporter: BUT MILLER MINIMIZED HIS ROLE. >> DESCRIBED GOING TO SERGEANT PIETRZAK'S HOME, REALLY, TO COMMIT A ROBBERY. >> TRIED TO PLANT EVIDENCE TO MAKE IT APPEAR THAT IT WAS RACIALLY MOTIVATED. >> HE IMPLICATED TWO OTHER MARINES, EMRYS JOHN AND ALSO KEVIN COX. >> Reporter: 18- YEAR- OLD LANCE CORPORAL EMRYS JOHN, LIKE MILLER, WORKED UNDER JAN. 20- YEAR- OLD PRIVATE KEVIN COX WAS AN ELECTRICAL TECHNICIAN IN THE SAME SQUADRON. >> MILLER CLAIMED THAT EMYRS JOHN ACTUALLY SHOT BOTH JAN AND QUIANA. >> Reporter: KEVIN COX, MILLER CLAIMED, WAS EQUALLY INVOLVED. >> Reporter: INVESTIGATORS WOULD SOON LEARN OF ANOTHER ACCOMPLICE, A FOURTH MARINE. >> THIS PERSON WENT BY THE MONIKER OF " PSYCHO ." WE LEARNED THAT PSYCHO WAS KESAUN SYKES. >> Reporter: EMRYS JOHN, KEVIN COX AND 21- YEAR- OLD PRIVATE KESAUN SYKES, WHO WAS A CLERK IN AN ARTILLERY SQUADRON AND LIVED IN FALLBROOK, WERE ALL BROUGHT IN FOR QUESTIONING. >> IN TURN, EACH ONE OF THE SUSPECTS DENY IT. >> Reporter: COX AND SYKES EVENTUALLY CRACKED, BUT THEY TOO DENIED SHOOTING THE NEWLYWEDS. >> THEY TRIED TO MINIMIZE THEIR OWN RESPONSIBILITY AND POINT TO EMRYS JOHN AS THE SHOOTER. >> THOUGH THE SUSPECTS TOLD A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT OF A STORY, WE WERE ABLE TO PIECE TOGETHER PRETTY MUCH WHAT OCCURRED. >> THE FOUR MARINES WENT UP TO JAN AND QUIANA'S RESIDENCE IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF OCTOBER 15-- EVERYONE EXCEPT FOR COX-- DISGUISED WITH BANDANAS, AND THEY WERE WEARING GLOVES. >> THEY LOADED THE WEAPONS THAT THEY HAD WITH THEM, AND THEY FIRST TRIED TO SNEAK IN COVERTLY. ONCE THEY WERE UNABLE TO DO THAT, THEY ALL HID. >> THEY ACTUALLY SENT COX TO KNOCK ON THE DOOR, BELIEVING THAT JAN WOULD OPEN THE DOOR TO A FELLOW MARINE. >> WHEN JAN ANSWERED, THEY RUSHED HIM AT GUNPOINT, AND THEY HOGTIED HIM. THEY PUT A GAG IN HIS MOUTH. >> THEY WERE UPSET THAT THEY DID NOT FIND THE TYPES OF MONEY OR ITEMS THAT THEY BELIEVED THEY COULD ROB FROM JAN AND QUIANA. >> THE MONEY THAT SERGEANT P HAD CLAIMED THAT HE HAD. SO, THEY TORTURED THE COUPLE UNTIL THEY GOT QUIANA'S A. T. M. PIN NUMBER. THE INVESTIGATION REALLY SHOWED THAT MILLER REALLY WAS THE MASTERMIND BEHIND THIS. IT WAS MILLER WHO DEVISED THE PLAN. IT WAS MILLER WHO HANDED THE WEAPON OVER TO JOHN. >> THEY USED THE SOFA CUSHIONS AS SILENCERS. >> AND IT'S MILLER WHO SAID, " END THEM ." >> Reporter: INVESTIGATORS SEARCHED THE BARRACKS, HOMES AND SOME CARS OF MILLER'S ALLEGED CO- CONSPIRATORS. >> EACH ONE OF THESE SUSPECTS HAD PHYSICAL EVIDENCE. >> ALL VERY, VERY POWERFUL EVIDENCE LINKING EACH OF THEM TO THE MURDER. >> Reporter: INCLUDING THE SAME TYPES OF SNEAKERS DETECTIVES HAD IDENTIFIED AS MAKING SOME OF THE OTHER FOOTPRINTS AT THE CRIME SCENE. >> ALL THE ASSAILANTS WERE CHARGED WITH FIRST- DEGREE MURDER. >> Reporter: EMRYS JOHN WAS CHARGED AS THE SHOOTER. >> ALL THE SUSPECTS PLED NOT GUILTY. >> (\ SIGHS \) MAN. MONSTERS. IT WAS JUST UNBELIEVABLE. >> NEVER IN MY WILDEST IMAGINATION WOULD I HAVE EVER THOUGHT IT WAS A MARINE THAT DID THIS. NOT ONE MARINE, BUT FOUR OF THEM. FOUR OF THEM. THESE WERE FOUR BLACK MARINES, AND THEY KILLED QUIANA. >> THEY LOST THEIR LIVES FROM THE HANDS OF THE BROTHERS? THAT DESTROYED ME COMPLETELY. I JUST FELL ON THE FLOOR. I JUST COULDN'T BELIEVE IT. ARE YOU SURE? I WON'T ACCEPT IT! I WANT TO CRY. I WANT TO SCREAM. I WANT TO VOMIT. >> MADE ME SICK TO MY STOMACH. MARINES I HAD WORKED WITH. THE DAYS FOLLOWING THE MURDERS, EMRYS JOHN, TYRONE MILLER, I STILL REMEMBER THEM CRACKING JOKES, EMRYS JOHN BEAR- HUGGING ME FROM BEHIND. I TOOK IT HARD ON MYSELF FOR NOT SEEING SIGNS. >> I DON'T THINK WE COULD REALLY WRAP OUR HEADS AROUND THE DETAILS THAT WE WERE FINDING OUT. >> THIS WASN'T ONE SPONTANEOUS BAD DECISION THAT GOT OUT OF HAND INSIDE THE PIETRZAK HOME. >> THIS WASN'T THE ONLY VIOLENT CRIMES THEY WERE DOING. >> WE SLOWLY STARTED LEARNING ABOUT THE DOUBLE LIVES THEY WERE LEADING. >> MARINES DURING THE DAY AND CRIMINALS AT NIGHT. THEY WERE COMMITTING HOME INVASIONS AND BURGLARIES. >> THEY HAD A MANNER IN WHICH THEY DID THESE CRIMES, VERY CAREFULLY PLANNED. >> Reporter: INVESTIGATORS NOW SUSPECTED TYRONE MILLER GOT THE GUNSHOT WOUND THAT INITIALLY CAUGHT THEIR ATTENTION WHEN HE WAS OUT WITH SOME OF THESE MARINES, LOOKING TO COMMIT A ROBBERY. >> THEY WERE RIDING AROUND WITH GUNS. ONE OF THEM DROPPED THEIR GUN, WHICH THEN ACCIDENTALLY FIRED, STRIKING MILLER IN THE REAR. >> Reporter: AS THE DEFENDANTS WENT ON TRIAL WITH SOME POINTING THE FINGER AT EACH OTHER, JAN AND QUIANA'S MOTHERS WERE NERVOUS, ESPECIALLY WHEN JURORS RETURNED FROM DELIBERATING. >> WE GOT WORD THAT THE VERDICTS WERE IN. WE WERE SITTING THERE JUST TRYING TO KEEP OURSELVES TOGETHER. I WASN'T 100 % SURE. >> I WAS SITTING NEXT TO FAYE. PRACTICALLY, I BLACK OUT. >> INVESTIGATIONS FOR NCIS ARE NEVER LIKE THE TV SHOW WHERE EVERYTHING'S OVER IN 45 MINUTES. PROSECUTION CAN TAKE YEARS, AS WELL. >> THE WAIT WAS AGGRAVATING. >> BUT, BY THEN, WE WERE ON THE DETERMINED MODE TO SEE THIS THROUGH. WE WANTED THEM PUNISHED. >> PART OF THE REASON IT TOOK SO LONG IS BECAUSE THERE WERE SO MANY MOVING PARTS, HUNDREDS OF PIECES OF EVIDENCE. >> Reporter: IN MARCH 2013, NEARLY FIVE YEARS AFTER QUIANA AND JAN WERE EXECUTED, THREE OF THEIR KILLERS-- NOW DISHONORABLY DISCHARGED MARINES-- WENT ON TRIAL ON MULTIPLE CHARGES INCLUDING ROBBERY, SEXUAL ASSAULT, AND FIRST- DEGREE MURDER. >> WE DECIDED TO BREAK THE CASE UP INTO TWO. THE FIRST TRIAL WAS TYRONE MILLER, EMRYS JOHN AND KEVIN COX. >> Reporter: KESAUN SYKES WOULD BE TRIED A YEAR LATER BECAUSE OF LIMITED COURTROOM SPACE. >> ALL THREE WERE FACING THE DEATH PENALTY. >> Reporter: THE STAKES WERE HIGH FOR EVERYONE. >> IT WAS ONE OF THE MOST COMPLEX AND COMPLICATED DEATH PENALTY CASES I THINK WE TRIED IN THIS COUNTY. IT WAS ALSO MY FIRST DEATH PENALTY CASE. I THINK THE BEST WAY TO DESCRIBE IT IS APPREHENSION. >> I DID NOT MISS A DAY. PEOPLE SAY QUIANA LOOKED LIKE ME, AND I WANTED THEM TO SEE MY FACE. I WANTED THEM TO REMEMBER WHAT THEY DID. >> Reporter: THE PROSECUTION SET OUT TO PROVE THESE FORMER MARINES USED THEIR MILITARY SKILLS TO PLAN AND CARRY OUT THE MURDERS. >> I THINK THAT WAS IMPORTANT TO REMIND THE JURY WAS THAT THESE ARE UNITED STATES MARINES. EACH OF THESE MEN HAVE BEEN TRAINED ON HOW TO OPERATE ON SMALL TEAMS, TO OPERATE FIREARMS, TO ACT COVERTLY. THEY USE ALL OF THAT TRAINING TO HELP THEM COMMIT MURDER. >> EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS CRIME WAS PREMEDITATED. YOU CAN'T EXPECT TO ROB SOMEBODY YOU KNOW AND THEN NOT BE TURNED IN. >> Reporter: DANIEL DELIMON INTRODUCED POWERFUL FORENSIC EVIDENCE. >> INSIDE MILLER'S RESIDENCE, THE MECHANICS BRAND GLOVES THAT WE HAD SEEN ON THE A. T. M. HAD A SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF QUIANA'S D. N. A. WITH EMRYS JOHN, WE FOUND A PAIR OF SHOES THAT HAD SERGEANT PIETRZAK'S BLOOD. >> Reporter: AND THE SHOES INVESTIGATORS HAD SEIZED FROM ALL THREE DEFENDANTS MATCHED THE FOOTPRINTS AT THE CRIME SCENE. >> THE SHOE IMPRESSIONS WERE CONSISTENT WITH EMRYS JOHN'S SHOES, WITH TYRONE MILLER'S SHOES, WITH KEVIN COX'S SHOES. >> Reporter: TO BOLSTER THEIR CASE, THE PROSECUTION PRESENTED TESTIMONY FROM A FELLOW MARINE. >> HE HAD EXTREMELY SPECIFIC INFORMATION THAT WAS NEVER DISCLOSED TO THE PUBLIC IN ANY WAY. >> Reporter: HE TOLD INVESTIGATORS MILLER AND JOHN, SHORTLY AFTER THE MURDERS, CONFESSED THEIR INVOLVEMENT. >> TYRONE MILLER AND EMRYS JOHN ADMITTED RESPONSIBILITY FOR WHAT HAPPENED TO SERGEANT PIETRZAK. EMRYS JOHN ADMITTED HE WAS THE SHOOTER. >> Reporter: AS FOR THE MOTIVE... >> THEY WENT THERE TO DO TWO THINGS, GET MONEY AND GET REVENGE. >> Reporter: TYRONE MILLER WAS THE ONLY DEFENDANT TO TAKE THE STAND. HE CHANGED HIS STORY AND TOLD THE JURY MURDER WAS NOT ON HIS MIND THAT NIGHT. >> HE ESSENTIALLY TOLD THE JURY THAT THERE WAS NO PLAN TO COMMIT ROBBERY, THAT THEY WERE JUST THERE TO CONFRONT SERGEANT PIETRZAK AND IT ALL SORT OF SPIRALED OUT OF CONTROL. HE HAD BUILDING FRUSTRATION OR HATRED BECAUSE SERGEANT PIETRZAK HAD ALLEGEDLY TRIED TO KILL HIS PROMOTION. THE EVIDENCE DIDN'T BEAR THAT OUT. >> ALL OF THE DEFENSE ATTORNEYS ARGUED IN COURT THAT THEIR CLIENTS DIDN'T PLAY MAJOR ROLES AND ULTIMATELY THAT THEY SHOULD BE SPARED FROM THE DEATH PENALTY. >> Reporter: AFTER A FOUR- MONTH TRIAL AND LESS THAN THREE DAYS OF DELIBERATIONS, JURORS CAME BACK WITH THEIR VERDICTS. >> I GRABBED ON HENRYKA AND HELD TIGHT. >> I WAS SITTING NEXT TO FAYE. WE WAS HOLDING HANDS, HEADS DOWN. I DIDN'T HEAR ANYTHING. AND FAYE IS TELLING ME THAT THEY GOT GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY. >> Reporter: THE THREE FORMER MARINES WERE CONVICTED ON TWO COUNTS EACH OF FIRST- DEGREE MURDER AND OTHER CHARGES. EMRYS JOHN WAS CONVICTED AS THE ACTUAL SHOOTER. TYRONE MILLER, ALONE, WAS CONVICTED OF SEXUAL ASSAULT. >> TYRONE MILLER AND EMRYS JOHN WERE GIVEN THE DEATH PENALTY, AND KEVIN COX RECEIVED LIFE WITHOUT POSSIBILITY OF PAROLE. >> BUT IT STILL DIDN'T BRING MY CHILDREN BACK. >> Reporter: A YEAR AND A HALF LATER, ON AUGUST 5, 2014, PRIVATE KESAUN SYKES WAS ALSO CONVICTED ON MULTIPLE CHARGES INCLUDING THE SEXUAL ASSAULT, AS WELL AS ROBBERY AND TWO COUNTS OF FIRST- DEGREE MURDER. HE, TOO, RECEIVED THE DEATH PENALTY. >> EVERY INVESTIGATION STICKS WITH YOU. BUT THIS ONE, IN PARTICULAR, IS ONE THAT YOU'LL NEVER FORGET. THEY WERE TRULY INNOCENT PEOPLE. >> Reporter: IT'S BEEN MORE THAN TEN YEARS SINCE THE PASSING OF JAN AND QUIANA. THE PAIN AND HEARTACHE FOR THEIR FAMILIES IS UNMEASURABLE, BUT A RECENT DELIVERY TO HENRYKA FROM THE PROSECUTOR BROUGHT HER SOME COMFORT. >> THIS IS ORIGINALLY JAN'S UNIFORM, THE ONE WHEN HE MARRIED QUIANA. WE DIDN'T KNOW THAT WAS STOLEN FROM THE HOME UNTIL THE TRIAL. A PIECE OF HIM IS FINALLY HOME. (\ SIGHS \) THIS IS MY SON. THIS IS WHAT'S LEFT. >> Reporter: IN CALIFORNIA, QUIANA'S FAMILY FINDS PEACE BY VISITING HER EVERY WEEK. >> MY HOME AWAY FROM HOME. >> Reporter: WHEN HENRYKA IS IN TOWN, BOTH MOTHERS VISIT THEIR CHILDREN'S GRAVESITE TOGETHER. BUT WHEN THAT'S NOT POSSIBLE... >> HI. I'M GOOD. I'M WITH OUR KIDS. I ALWAYS CALL HENRYKA WHEN I'M HERE, AND I PUT HER ON SPEAKERPHONE. SHE WOULD TALK TO JANEK IN POLISH. >> (\ SPEAKING IN POLISH \) >> THAT WAS OUR LITTLE THING TO BE TOGETHER WITH OUR CHILDREN. THAT'S HOW WE STAY CONNECTED. >> Reporter: A CONNECTION THAT IS TRULY UNBREAKABLE. >> AS MOTHERS, WE'VE ALWAYS HELD ONTO EACH OTHER BY HAND, BY PHONE, WHATEVER IT TAKES. >> WE GIVE EACH OTHER STRENGTH. >> WE'RE BONDED FOR LIFE. SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE, QUIANA AND JANEK. SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE. I LOVE YOU BOTH. FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE FOR THE MEN WOMEN AN FAMILIES AT THE NAVY MARINE CORPS. >> MOTHERS AND THEIR BABIES WERE RECEIVING SUBSTANDARD CARE. MIDWIVES ARE NOT TRAINED TO MANAGE HIGH- RISK PREGNANCIES. >>\ MOTHERS AND BABIES AT RISK. >> I WAS UP AGAINST THE LARGEST HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION IN INDIANA. >>\ WOULD \ YOU \ BLOW THE WHISTLE? \ SHE DID. >> PEOPLE WERE BEING HARMED. THINGS HAVE TO CHANGE NOW! >>\" WHISTLEBLOWER ," FRIDAY.

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