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500-500. That's

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500-500. They

1:48

were a military couple building a

1:50

family together. He

1:52

wanted to marry her. He was ready to be

1:54

there for her and the baby. She

1:57

loved the idea of having a whole family with

1:59

him. But

2:03

a violent crime would destroy their chance

2:05

at a happy ending. There

2:08

was what appeared to be gunshot wounds to

2:10

her chest area. A

2:13

staged crime scene indicates that the

2:15

subject had a plan to commit

2:17

the crime and had a plan

2:19

to make an effort to confuse

2:21

the investigation. The

2:23

search for the killer was struck across

2:25

the halls and unearthed a

2:28

myriad of scandals and secret love

2:30

affairs. She was maybe harboring

2:32

some type of hope that she could have

2:34

him to herself. They certainly are red flags

2:37

that there is some sort of danger in

2:39

this relationship. If he could not

2:41

have her, he was going to kill her. It

2:44

was the worst emotional and physical pain that

2:46

I have ever felt in my life. I

2:49

am a little crushing. Southern

3:05

Maryland is a quiet suburban

3:07

community nestled within the bustling

3:09

metropolis of Baltimore and Washington,

3:11

D.C. Fort George

3:13

Meade, Army base. It's been

3:15

there for a very long time. The

3:17

base is quite a

3:19

large base these days. Severin

3:21

is sort of the community that surrounds

3:24

the base. A lot of people

3:26

that work in the Army and the armed forces

3:28

live in that community. A

3:49

maintenance worker in a

3:52

townhome community had discovered an

3:54

open sliding rear door of

3:57

a townhome. It

3:59

was just odd. I don't think the maintenance

4:01

worker had any indication of who was

4:03

inside, but clearly recognized something wasn't

4:05

right. I thought that the best that the police check

4:08

it out. The

4:11

Anne Arundel County Police arrived. They

4:15

find an open door with

4:17

no one answering. So

4:19

initially, they don't know what they're dealing with.

4:21

You know, did someone just leave a door

4:23

open? Is this some

4:25

sort of robbery? Is it

4:27

something else? Is anyone there or

4:30

is anyone hurt? Does anyone need assistance? The

4:36

residence itself was like a

4:38

townhouse without a basement. Two stories, you know,

4:40

ground level. And then a second story where

4:42

all the bedrooms were. They decided to go

4:44

ahead and enter the apartment to check to

4:46

see if anything was going on. The

4:49

responding officers started to clear the downstairs area

4:51

and then they went upstairs. When

4:54

we went up the upstairs of the townhouse, they

4:57

looked at the master bedroom and then we saw

4:59

a body line on the floor. It

5:05

was apparent that the woman was

5:08

deceased. Upon

5:12

closer inspection, the officer realizes

5:15

there's a second victim. There's

5:19

not only was an adult

5:21

female lying prone on the floor,

5:24

the infant child was

5:26

cradled in her arms. When

5:30

the officer moved closer to

5:32

the individuals, the baby made

5:35

some movement and some sound and the

5:37

officer was relieved that the child was

5:39

alive. He

5:43

picked up the child and brought her

5:45

outside to the paramedics for, you know,

5:47

immediate assessment. Detectives

5:52

are immediately called to the scene.

5:57

The victim was on the ground. was

6:00

what appeared to be gunshot wounds to

6:02

the chest area. Obviously,

6:05

the consideration was that this was likely

6:07

a homicide situation. When

6:12

I responded to the crime scene, there's numerous

6:15

police cars and members of

6:17

the military responded to

6:19

the crime scene, specifically

6:21

Sergeant McDaniel. A

6:24

detective came over to talk to me and I'm

6:26

like, I have two female soldiers that live in

6:28

that apartment. What's going on? Sergeant

6:33

McDaniel informs detectives that

6:35

the residence belongs to

6:37

24-year-old Army Specialist Carlin

6:39

Ramirez. Sergeant

6:41

McDaniel also informed us that there

6:44

was another adult female roommate that lived

6:46

in the apartment, that her name was

6:48

Marissa. He

6:51

also stated that he knew the

6:54

roommate Marissa was away on vacation. He

6:58

was concerned because Carlin hadn't arrived at work

7:00

that morning. Based

7:03

on Sergeant McDaniel's statement, detectives

7:05

believe the woman inside the

7:07

townhome is Carlin. I

7:11

woke up to my phone just ringing

7:13

over and over. There was a police

7:15

officer on the phone and

7:18

I knew, I knew something bad happened. And

7:22

all I could ask was, is

7:25

she okay? Is she told me no? During

7:29

the investigation of Carlin's murder,

7:31

we resulted in her victimology.

7:42

Growing up in Del Rio, Texas,

7:44

Carlin Ramirez always understood the value

7:47

of family and tradition from a

7:49

young age. Carlin's

7:53

family was very important to

7:55

her. She always had

7:57

nothing but awesome stories to tell.

8:00

tell me. She went

8:02

to college for a few years, got her

8:04

associate's degree and then decided that the military

8:06

would probably be a better fit for her.

8:09

I think mostly because our mother

8:12

was in the military when she was younger

8:14

right before she had my sister, Carlin. And

8:17

then of course her aunt was also a

8:19

retired veteran from the military. So

8:21

she saw it as my family

8:23

did it. Maybe it's a good

8:25

fit for me. She wanted to see the

8:27

world. She wanted to help people. She just

8:30

had this hunger and this drive to want

8:33

to do better and want to be better and want to make the

8:35

world a better place for everybody. When

8:38

she deployed to South Korea in 2013, Carlin met the

8:40

man who would

8:43

change her life forever.

8:46

35-year-old chemical weapons specialist,

8:48

Malik Kearney. In

8:52

the military, he was highly

8:54

regarded and highly decorated

8:56

for the work that he did. He

8:58

earned several awards and was well thought

9:00

of by his colleagues in the military

9:03

and he took great pride in his

9:05

military service. Malik was

9:07

a lot older and more mature. Carlin

9:10

just thought that physically he was very attractive.

9:12

She would tell me she liked the way

9:14

that he held his confidence. He was a

9:16

very independent, very confident man. He

9:19

really knew what he wanted. She

9:21

felt completely ahead over heels for him. Malik

9:26

also fell in love with the beautiful 22-year-old

9:28

Carlin. After

9:33

nearly six months of dating, it

9:35

was clear to friends and family

9:37

that the relationship had grown serious.

9:42

She got home for Thanksgiving for

9:44

the first time and then she was like, hey,

9:46

I have a surprise. I'm pregnant. Shortly

9:53

after, Malik proposed and Carlin

9:56

readily accepted. Before

9:59

the couple had At the time to

10:01

get married, however, Carlin was reassigned

10:03

to Fort Meade, Maryland. Malik

10:07

was supposed to come over to Fort

10:09

Meade with Carlin so they could be

10:11

together and continue the relationship, but

10:14

his orders were denied. He

10:17

was sent to South Carolina while she was

10:19

so pregnant and she was living in Maryland.

10:24

On April 23, 2015, Malik joined Carlin and Maryland

10:29

for the birth of their daughter. We

10:33

walked in and you just saw the

10:37

biggest smile on Carlin's face and

10:39

how proud she was of her

10:41

sweet little precious daughter and

10:44

just was so ecstatic to show

10:46

off. Three

10:51

months later, Carlin and Malik tied

10:53

the knot. The four new

10:55

military roles were enforced that would

10:57

prohibit their relationship. They

11:00

got married mid-July in South Carolina.

11:02

Someone got ordained

11:04

and married them very quickly.

11:07

Their rush to get married was because she was

11:09

a lower enlisted soldier. He was a senior and

11:12

they had a timeline where they had to, you

11:14

know, put something on paper before it was not

11:16

allowed anymore. November of the year they got married

11:18

is when that rule changed. She

11:21

was just so happy. She was happy with her

11:23

baby. She was happy with

11:25

her man and she was happy that

11:27

he wanted to build a family, take

11:29

care of both of them. By

11:33

August 2015, Carlin

11:35

had returned to work. She

11:38

and Malik began making plans for him

11:40

to join her in Maryland. But

11:44

just a few weeks later, all

11:46

their dreams for the future come

11:49

crashing down in an instant when

11:51

police discover Carlin's lifeless body inside

11:53

her home. In

11:57

that bedroom, the bedding had been pulled. off

12:00

on the ground near where the victim was laying. It

12:03

was clear that some sort of confrontation had

12:05

occurred. When we first

12:07

looked at the victim, her underwear and shorts

12:09

had been sort of pulled down. The underwear

12:12

was around her knees area. There

12:15

was slight bruising on her as

12:18

well as scratches. We do

12:20

have to consider the possibility that

12:22

this was a sexual assault. Choosing

12:30

up, the search for a killer leads

12:33

police to confront someone close to

12:35

the victim. So

12:38

then, he has another... Detectives

13:00

in Severn, Maryland are investigating

13:02

the shooting death of

13:04

24-year-old Army Specialist Carlin

13:06

Rude. Carlin

13:08

was found on the floor of

13:10

her bedroom, cradling her four-month-old daughter,

13:12

who was left un-homed. This

13:18

murder shocked the community as

13:20

well as just completely surprised

13:23

and devastated her family. It

13:27

was the worst emotional and physical pain that

13:29

I have ever felt in my life. You

13:33

get waves of how it felt that day and

13:35

it was... At

13:43

the crime scene, Carlin's body is removed

13:45

by the coroner for autopsy and

13:48

detectives collect crucial evidence. There

13:54

was actually one bullet that was laying

13:56

on the floor in relatively short

13:58

order of firearms. experts from

14:00

Anne Arundel County were able to determine

14:02

that those bullets were fired from a

14:04

.357 caliber revolver. As

14:12

we continue to search the crime scene, we

14:14

located a condom wrapper in the

14:17

living room on the main level and

14:20

in the trash can not far from the

14:22

condom wrapper, we located a condom. These

14:27

things were all collected as evidence and

14:29

it certainly added to the possibility that

14:31

some sort of sexual assault had occurred.

14:34

We know that we have a forensic

14:36

process to look into that, which would

14:38

be done during the autopsy.

14:42

I'm hoping to gather more information about

14:44

Carlin. Detectives question

14:46

her supervisor, Sergeant Leroy McDaniel.

14:51

Sergeant McDaniel told me that her

14:53

husband, Milly Kearney, was actually stationed

14:55

in South Carolina

14:57

in Fort Jackson and

14:59

they were physically separated

15:02

due to their different

15:04

military assignments. But

15:07

Sergeant McDaniel's revealed that life for

15:09

the newlyweds was not as blissful

15:12

as expected. Detectives

15:15

learned that a month earlier,

15:17

Carlin had called with surprising

15:19

information. I

15:22

received a phone call at night

15:24

from Carlin and

15:27

Milly expressing that

15:29

Carlin had developed a physical relationship

15:31

with another soldier. Milly

15:38

was enraged upon learning about Carlin's affair.

15:42

He forced her to report it to

15:45

her line of command because it's

15:48

one thing that's not allowed. Sergeant

15:53

McDaniel's told detectives that he was

15:55

required to report the extramarital affair,

15:58

which carried a stiff-tied knife. under

16:00

the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

16:04

That subsequently led to a reduction

16:07

in rank and loss of pay for both

16:09

Mr. Mirez and the other service member. My

16:14

sister was stripped of everything that she earned because

16:17

of what she did. He was not

16:20

proud of her so far. It made her feel

16:22

terrible because it's not who she was as a

16:24

person. According

16:27

to Sergeant McDaniel, after the

16:29

demotion, Carlin and Malik's relationship

16:32

only continued to spiral. Once

16:36

you made her report herself, she

16:38

did still try to stick it out, but

16:41

he got more obsessive and

16:43

more demeaning toward her. Ultimately,

16:47

Carlin asked Malik for a divorce.

16:51

He would call her constantly, trying to convince

16:53

her to stay. Don't leave, don't leave. She's

16:57

like, no, I don't want this. I don't want this for

16:59

me. I don't want this for my baby. Carlin

17:03

Ramirez requested a no-contact

17:06

order be issued

17:08

by the Army against Malik Kearney. Malik

17:12

Kearney was to have no further

17:15

contact directly or indirectly with

17:17

Carlin Ramirez. She

17:19

put in the no-contact order, so he wouldn't just open her house.

17:21

She didn't want to deal with it. She said, I'm done. I'm

17:24

done with the whole relationship. Armed

17:28

with this new information, detectives head

17:31

to South Carolina to speak with

17:33

Carlin's husband on August 27th. Before

17:37

we arrived there, his commanding

17:39

officer in Chaplin advised

17:42

Malik that Carlin had passed away,

17:44

but they did not say what had happened there. When

17:50

Detectives sit down with Malik,

17:52

he appears devastated. Emily.

18:15

Seemed upset and. Ah he cries.

18:19

He said the he will cooperate. Fully.

18:51

With it as a family members

18:53

and his friends a contact Carlin.

18:56

To try to convince her to work on

18:58

their merits he was having a off and

19:01

the fact that she was humming annoyed with

19:03

his see. A. Book

19:22

Movie. He swears he would never harm

19:24

the mother of his child. When

19:28

detectors Eskimo league about his whereabouts

19:30

the day of Carlin's murder, he

19:32

provides and. He

19:56

was home. Alone. On.

20:14

It would have been a a

20:16

lengthy travel does a meeting at

20:18

work both days. Before

20:30

releasing, the league, detectives request

20:32

his cell phone and he

20:34

quickly complies. Moink

20:37

also offer that we can. Search his

20:39

car we can search his apartment

20:41

and allowed us to take dna

20:43

samples as. A

20:46

search of his car didn't

20:49

reveal anything of value. I

20:51

checked his Gps and did

20:53

not see any reason addresses

20:55

in Maryland. Well,

20:59

detectives and beliefs phone for forensic

21:02

examination. The next set their sights

21:04

on the man with whom Carlin

21:06

had become. Will move will

21:08

Imho. We

21:11

learn thats not only was she

21:13

involved with her a Strange Has

21:16

and Lily Kearney, she was involved

21:18

in a in our office romance

21:20

with another soldier who is married.

21:25

She's married, she married so please have

21:27

a look at him, find out if

21:29

he had some motivation to. When

21:34

detectors. Received a forensic results from

21:36

the condom collected at the. Crime

21:39

Scene. Their suspicions only

21:41

continue to grow. Ultimately,

21:44

we discovered that his dna was found

21:46

on for the pond. Instead

21:53

of Maryland, detectives have discovered that

21:55

twenty two year old Carlin

21:58

Ramirez was having an affair. prior

22:00

to her murder. The

22:03

day after her body was discovered,

22:05

detectives attend her autopsy. The

22:11

postmortem examination concluded

22:13

that Carla Ramirez was shot

22:15

three times. Any

22:18

one of those shots would have been

22:20

fatal, but two of the shots were

22:22

in her chest area. All

22:25

three were contact wounds. In

22:32

this case, the postmortem examination made

22:34

clear that there was

22:36

no sexual assault immediately prior to

22:38

her death. The

22:41

victim's underwear pulled down around her ankles.

22:43

It indicates a staged crime scene. The

22:46

person who committed the crime was

22:49

very methodical and was

22:51

trying to throw investigators off

22:53

of their sex. Points

22:57

away from a crime of opportunity or

22:59

a robbery gone wrong to a very

23:02

much premeditated crime. Detectives

23:07

immediately tracked down Carla's lover

23:09

and bring him in for questioning.

23:12

We went back and we

23:15

spoke with Carla's co-working individual

23:17

that she had a relationship

23:19

with. That

23:21

individual was devastated to

23:24

learn about Carla's passing. He was

23:27

overcome with emotion. The

23:30

sergeant told the police that he was an angry

23:32

at Carla and actually that the pair had been,

23:35

continued to see each other even after they were demoted.

23:38

There was still some talking between them and

23:41

seeing each other kind of in secret.

23:45

When detectives confront the man with the

23:47

DNA evidence, he tells detectives that the

23:49

last time he saw Carla was August

23:51

23rd, two days before she was found

23:54

murdered. We

23:56

did learn that he visited Carla's

23:58

house. and on

24:00

Sunday evening, he actually lived nearby.

24:03

They had an intimate encounter. That

24:05

encounter, according to him, was a

24:08

consensual encounter. We knew

24:10

from Carlin's roommate that they were dating

24:12

and Carlin had sought a babysitter that

24:14

evening for her baby. The

24:17

man tells detectives that the condom

24:19

found in Carlin's trash can was

24:21

thrown out after they were together

24:23

on August 23rd. He

24:26

was extremely cooperative. He

24:29

was forthcoming in his relationship

24:31

with her. He

24:34

provided his cell phone that he used

24:36

to correspond with Carlin. He

24:39

allowed us to search his car. He

24:41

allowed us to search his living quarters.

24:44

He wanted to assure us that he had nothing

24:47

to do with her death. When

24:50

detectives pressed the man about his whereabouts

24:52

the day before Carlin was found, he

24:54

claims he was at home all night. He

24:58

turned his cell phone over and he

25:00

consented to a polygraph. He did very

25:02

well in the polygraph and did not

25:04

show deception during the polygraph. His

25:07

cell phone showed his phone was

25:09

not anywhere close to Carlin. We

25:12

couldn't develop any evidence that he left his house

25:14

that night to go to Carlin's house. His

25:17

alibi checked out. They determined him to

25:20

be truthful in terms of what he said, so

25:22

we were able to eliminate him as

25:24

a suspect. Just

25:30

when detectives think they've hit another dead end, a

25:34

new lead surfaces. Going

25:38

through Carlin's cell phone, I

25:40

also learned that she recently

25:42

met another individual who

25:45

was in the military but

25:47

in a different state. However,

25:49

Carlin recently started to date

25:51

this individual. On

25:55

August 24th, the day before we discovered Carlin murdered, I saw a

25:57

man who was in the military. that

26:00

there was communication in Carlin's phone

26:02

that she was texting, asking him

26:05

to spend some time with her.

26:11

Detectives do immediately contact the individual

26:13

and bring him in for questioning.

26:17

He explains that he had hooked up

26:19

with Carlin a week earlier. Carlin

26:24

and I decided to go to Virginia

26:26

Beach to visit my family. It

26:28

was a night that we decided to have a

26:30

girls' night, a mom's night out. She

26:34

went on the dance floor and had a

26:36

dance off with some guy. He was

26:39

actually an old high school friend. They hit

26:41

it off. They ended up exchanging

26:43

numbers and they texted

26:46

me. He

26:48

confirmed that two days before they had

26:50

been together, the two decided to have

26:52

dinner and they were intimate at that

26:54

time. Carlin texted him

26:56

the next day and wanted him to come back so

26:59

they could be together again. He declined.

27:04

Carlin was seeking companionship.

27:07

She was very far away from her family

27:09

and her roommate was also

27:11

out of town and she

27:14

seemed to be a little lonely. The

27:18

second paramour was extensively

27:20

interviewed. He was found to be

27:23

truthful. It

27:25

was determined both from his cell-site

27:27

information from his telephone as

27:29

well as his account of the events

27:32

of the 24th of August. He

27:34

was not anywhere near Severn, Maryland at

27:37

about the time of her death. With

27:42

the investigation at a standstill,

27:44

detectives revisit Malik Kearney as

27:46

a possible person of interest.

27:50

They comb through his cell phone records

27:52

to confirm his whereabouts the night of

27:54

Carlin's murder. As

27:57

investigators accumulated data from

27:59

the... various service providers.

28:01

They ascertained that Sergeant Kearney's

28:04

telephone was indeed present in

28:06

South Carolina on the evening

28:09

of the 24th into the

28:11

morning of the 25th of August 2015. They were able

28:13

to identify the

28:16

closest cell

28:18

towers to his apartment and it

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28:25

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28:33

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28:48

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See site for details. It's

31:02

been two days since police in

31:04

Severn, Maryland discovered Carlin Ramirez

31:07

dead from an apparent homicide.

31:10

So far, her estranged husband, Malik

31:13

Kearney, has had a solid alibi.

31:16

But when detectives begin breaking down

31:18

his cell phone records, they discover

31:20

he had installed an app that

31:22

was deleting data from his cell

31:24

phone. Most

31:28

of the data had been wiped clean

31:30

from his phone. But forensic investigators

31:32

were able to recover certain deaths

31:34

and cases. We

31:37

learned through phone

31:39

records that there were a

31:41

tremendous amount of communication, text

31:44

message and calls to a

31:46

person labeled Dodo. When

31:51

we did the research on that number, we were

31:53

able to realize that it belonged to a woman

31:55

named Dolores Delgado. Delores

32:00

is a 30-year-old Army veteran

32:02

living in Merritt Island, Florida.

32:07

Delores Delgado was originally from New Mexico. She'd

32:10

been in the military and apparently served at least

32:12

a tour in Iraq. She

32:14

had since moved to Florida

32:16

after her departure from the

32:18

military to pursue a

32:21

career in the medical field. Hoping

32:26

to learn more about Delores' connection

32:28

to Malik, detectives

32:31

traveled to Florida to confront her.

32:33

I responded

32:35

to Delores' apartment and I introduced myself.

32:37

Her response was to the

32:39

effect of, oh, do you want

32:42

to talk to me about Malik? And

32:46

I told her, yes, I do want to talk to

32:48

you about Malik, actually. She

32:51

agreed to accompany us

32:53

to a local police station where we

32:55

could learn more about her and interview her.

33:01

Detectives sit down with Delores and

33:03

ask her to elaborate on her

33:05

relationship with Malik. She

33:08

starts by telling detectives that their relationship

33:10

began in 2008, six

33:13

years before Malik met Carlin.

33:17

Delores told me that she had

33:19

met Malik while they were deployed

33:21

together overseas. She and

33:23

Malik had been involved in

33:25

an on-again, off-again relationship over

33:28

several years. They

33:30

would seek each other out during different

33:33

training and try

33:35

to keep in touch through

33:37

Facebook and text messages, and

33:40

they often would visit each other depending on

33:42

where they were. Delores

33:46

Delgado described her relationship with

33:48

Kearney as being very complicated.

33:51

She was aware that he

33:53

had other women in his life, and

33:56

she also had other men in her life.

34:01

But Delores claims she never wanted

34:04

to come between Malik and his

34:06

wife, Carlin. Delores

34:10

stated that Malik

34:12

was trying very hard to get back

34:14

with his wife, Carlin, and that

34:17

she was actually providing relationship advice

34:20

so that they could succeed in

34:22

the marriage. When

34:27

she was confronted about what happened

34:29

and did she know anything about the

34:31

murder, she

34:39

said no, she didn't know about the murder,

34:41

and she didn't have anything to do with

34:43

it. She denied any responsibility or any knowledge.

34:48

Delores tells detectives that she had

34:50

been with Malik on August 24th. She

34:54

said that that night of the murder,

34:57

she was at his apartment and she

34:59

said he was there. I

35:03

asked her if Malik

35:05

borrowed her car and she

35:07

said that Malik had not, that Malik

35:09

was asleep in the bedroom. As

35:15

detectives hear Delores' statement, they

35:18

must consider one glaring detail

35:20

from Malik. Telling

35:23

the police that she was with Malik, that

35:25

contradicts what Malik had said, he had told

35:29

police that he had been alone. Before

35:36

releasing Delores, detectives seize her

35:38

phone. As they

35:40

scour the explicit messages, they

35:42

come across one from Malik

35:44

and it raises major concerns.

35:48

While reviewing the text messages

35:51

of Delores' phone, there

35:53

was a text message exchange prior

35:55

to the murder where Malik

35:57

texts her and says, Gun

36:00

is so dang loud.

36:05

The revelation that Dolores and Malik had

36:07

been discussing of Gun prompts

36:09

detectives to dig further into

36:11

Dolores' digital history. They

36:15

start with her social media accounts. And

36:19

looking at the social media postings recovered

36:21

from Dolores still on his phone, they

36:25

saw a reference to her sale of .357 caliber

36:28

ammunition. Investigators

36:33

were aware that the

36:36

murder weapon was a .357 caliber revolver. The

36:44

ammunition included a

36:46

photograph of a price tag in

36:48

the name of the business where

36:50

the ammunition came from. We

36:53

contacted that store and

36:55

learned that in fact

36:57

Dolores had previously owned a

37:00

.357 handgun. We

37:06

had linked Carlin Ramirez's

37:08

death to that gun. We

37:11

had linked that gun to Dolores

37:13

Delgado because she purchased it.

37:17

And we had the text messages from

37:20

Malik Kearney, no no, that

37:22

Gun is so dang loud. It

37:25

was a critical compilation of evidence.

37:31

As the investigation was going on, we found

37:33

out that Malik Kearney had moved from Fort

37:36

Jackson, had sought a transfer to Texas.

37:40

And we found shortly after that, Dolores

37:43

Delgado moved to the same area of

37:45

Texas. And so we realized they were

37:47

together, they were in close proximity, and

37:51

felt that we needed to take action quickly. arrest

38:00

Dolores Delgado and Malik Kearney

38:02

in San Antonio, Texas. The

38:06

grand jury returned an indictment

38:09

against Malik Kearney and Dolores

38:11

Delgado for interstate

38:13

travel to commit domestic

38:15

violence resulting in the death of

38:17

Carla Ramirez and

38:19

the use of a firearm in her death. The

38:23

arrest of Malik Kearney and

38:26

Dolores Delgado made national news.

38:28

The national news coverage benefited

38:31

investigators significantly because it caused

38:33

a witness to come forward

38:35

in Florida who knew

38:38

Dolores Delgado. The

38:43

witness claims that Dolores had asked

38:45

him for help discarding a gun

38:47

in late August He

38:52

said they disassembled a revolver,

38:54

attempted to destroy the serial

38:56

number on that revolver and

38:59

then threw the parts of the

39:01

gun into the water off this

39:03

fishing pier. The

39:07

witness leads detectives to the Banana

39:09

River where he claims Dolores disposed

39:12

of the gun. Fortunately

39:16

it was not too deep in that

39:18

area so the four pieces were recovered.

39:22

The FBI lab were able to establish

39:25

that it was in fact the same

39:27

serial number of the revolver

39:29

that Dolores had purchased from that gunshot.

39:34

They were able to take the barrel

39:36

from that gun, they actually attached it

39:39

to a new gun to conduct

39:41

test fires, bullets that

39:44

were fired down that barrel

39:47

for the same signature marks of

39:49

the bullets that were recovered at the scene. and

40:00

Sybours Delgado, but without Malik's

40:02

cooperation, authorities fear they'll face

40:05

a she said, she said

40:07

at trial. I

40:10

100 believe that they needed each other to

40:12

complete this. I don't think that either one

40:14

of them would be courageous enough to pull

40:16

the trigger or fight themselves. They

40:19

did it because they had each other and when

40:21

they came down to it, and they had to

40:23

because they believed each other, which is exactly

40:25

what happened. In

40:37

October 2016, investigators have arrested Delores

40:39

Delgado and

40:43

Malik Cuny for the brutal

40:45

murder of 24-year-old Carlin Ramirez.

40:49

Hoping to solidify their case

40:51

against Malik, authorities decide to

40:54

give Delores an opportunity to come.

41:00

We spoke with Delores Delgado. We gave

41:02

her a snapshot of the evidence

41:04

that we had accumulated against her

41:07

because we believed that she was

41:09

an accessory in a critical

41:11

part of the crime, but we

41:13

did not believe that she pulled the

41:16

trigger and executed Carlin Ramirez. We believed

41:18

Malik Cuny did that. She

41:22

agreed to tell the truth. She agreed

41:24

to testify against Malik Cuny if

41:26

necessary. As

41:31

detectives listen, Delores offers a

41:33

full confession. She tells

41:35

them that on the afternoon of August 24th,

41:38

she arrived at Malik's apartment according

41:41

to his direction. Delores

41:45

provided the firearm, the ammunition,

41:48

and her vehicle. Malik

41:52

asked Delores to stream movies and use

41:54

his cell phone while he was gone,

41:56

so it appeared that he was home

41:59

the whole time. time providing

42:01

an electronic alibi. He

42:04

then took Delores's car and drove

42:06

to Maryland. According

42:11

to Delores, when Malik returned to

42:13

the apartment early the next morning,

42:15

he gave her a play-by-play of

42:17

the murder. Malik

42:21

described to her he

42:23

let himself inside Carlin's house

42:25

by using a key that he already

42:27

had and was met

42:29

by Carlin and he

42:32

forced her to go upstairs. Delores

42:35

said that Malik told her that while

42:37

he was there that Carlin tried to

42:39

fight him and tried to fight the

42:42

gun away and his first

42:44

shot missed her

42:46

and the rest of his shots. We

42:53

pulled down her underwear and took off her pants to make it

42:55

look like there was some sort of sexual

42:58

assault. He placed

43:00

a baby in her arm

43:02

and then he headed out the back door.

43:08

I think Delores was maybe harboring

43:11

some type of hope that if

43:13

Malik killed his wife that somehow

43:15

he would come back to home.

43:17

That she could have him to

43:20

herself. The nature

43:22

of the relationship is difficult to understand and

43:24

was toxic in such a way that together

43:26

they would plan the murder of

43:29

Carlin Ramirez. Delores

43:33

Delgado entered a plea of guilty

43:35

to conspiracy to commit interstate travel

43:37

to commit a crime of violence

43:40

against Carlin Ramirez. A

43:43

guilty plea was accepted by the court and

43:46

then we prepared for trial against Malik

43:48

Kearney alone. On

43:52

July 16, 2018, the trial against

43:56

Malik Kearney begins in federal

43:58

court in Baltimore. The

44:00

prosecution's star witness is

44:03

Dolores Delgado. Dolores'

44:07

testimony was very powerful to the

44:09

jury. It

44:11

showed essentially this control that he

44:13

had over women. In this

44:16

case, they wanted this control over Carlin. He

44:19

truly didn't want anybody else to have Carlin, and

44:21

that she wasn't giving in, so he decided to

44:23

kill him. Despite

44:29

Malik's defense team attempting to shift blame

44:31

solely to Dolores, on August 9, 2018,

44:34

the jury sides with the prosecution. Malik

44:41

Cairny was found guilty by the jury

44:43

of both counts. The

44:47

interstate traveled to commit domestic violence

44:49

against his wife, Carlin Ramirez, and

44:51

that violence resulted in her death.

44:55

As well as the use of a

44:57

firearm in that domestic violence charge causing

44:59

the death of Carlin Ramirez. Malik

45:03

Cairny was sentenced to life without

45:06

parole, plus 10 years. Dolores

45:10

Delgado was sentenced to 17 years, plus 4.

45:19

It really is a terrible thing. It's a

45:21

pain you have to live with forever. We

45:23

never forget. It's changed all of

45:26

our lives. It dimmed all

45:28

of our lives a little bit. When

45:30

people bring her up and they have memories about her,

45:33

of course, we love to hear it. We

45:35

talk about it, too. It's the way that

45:38

we keep her alive. She

45:41

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45:46

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