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Speaker 4 Texas is considered pretty colorful.

Speaker 4 People don't want to admit this, but everybody owns at least 10 or 15 guns, men and women.

Speaker 4 And we spend most of our time either getting born again, committing minor misdemeanors, or killing each other. That's just simply what we do.

Speaker 4 My name is Jim Skelton. I'm a criminal lawyer, and I've been practicing law here in Texas for well over 30 years.

Speaker 4 I've seen a lot of cases and met a lot of strange people.

Speaker 4 But I've got to say this case involving the Angletons is one of the most bizarre cases I've ever worked on.

Speaker 4 This case involved the murder of a lady named Doris Angleton. She was married to a man by the name of Bob Angleton who was quite well off, had quite a bit of money.

Speaker 4 And outwardly she had what you would call a perfect life. They lived in a real nice area of Houston called River Oaks.

Speaker 4 It's where all the old money people live, where all the young people wanted to move to. She was an attractive, pretty woman.
She had two twin daughters, was a devoted mother.

Speaker 8 My mom was the most beautiful person you could ever imagine. She was just so much fun.

Speaker 4 Well-like, had no enemies in the world that anybody knew of.

Speaker 4 Then one afternoon, she goes home during a softball game.

Speaker 8 She went home to like change. In the third inning, she wasn't there.
So we called

Speaker 8 and no one answered.

Speaker 4 And she shot something like 13 times in her own home in the heart of River Oaks in the heart of Houston.

Speaker 4 One of the crucial pieces of evidence uncovered in this particular case was an audio tape.

Speaker 4 On the audio tape were two men discussing the details of this murder and laying out what happened.

Speaker 10 Yes. You're here.

Speaker 12 But

Speaker 13 These were two people plotting the death of Doris Angleton, Roger and Bob Angleton.

Speaker 4 The first person arrested in this murder was Roger Angleton, as Bob Angleton's older brother.

Speaker 4 After Roger was arrested, sometime later, Bob Angleton was arrested.

Speaker 8 He's not a killer.

Speaker 4 What's really strange about this case, what makes it so interesting, is both of them had evidence incriminating each other that they kept.

Speaker 4 Roger made sure they had evidence incriminating Bob, and on the other side, Bob made sure he had evidence incriminating Roger.

Speaker 4 If you knew both of them had been around either one of them very long, none of that would surprise you. And they neither one trusted each other.

Speaker 4 What's ironical about this whole case is that both of them came up with a scheme to get out of this murder case.

Speaker 4 And to this day, nobody has served any time in the penitentiary for the murder of Doris Angleton.

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Speaker 8 No, it's not hard to remember her.

Speaker 8 I remember really specific things.

Speaker 8 Like every morning we would wake up to her laughing and she had an incredible laugh like

Speaker 8 ha ha ha like really really loud, but really, like, vibrant. I don't know.
It just made you want to get up and go downstairs and be like, what's going on, you know?

Speaker 5 Nikki and Allie Angleton were 12 when their mother, Doris,

Speaker 18 was murdered in 1997.

Speaker 8 We've gone through way more than most kids have gone through.

Speaker 20 I miss her.

Speaker 20 I remember how it was that she'd like to have that way back again.

Speaker 21 And then, four months after the twins lost one parent, they lost the other. On their 13th birthday, their father Bob was taken away from them, too.

Speaker 26 Arrested for killing their 46-year-old mother.

Speaker 20 Did you understand what the charges were against your father?

Speaker 31 That it was first-degree murder?

Speaker 8 Nothing was ever really explained to us very well.

Speaker 33 Nikki and Allie say they have never believed the charges are true.

Speaker 8 Well, I mean, if you knew my dad, then you would know.

Speaker 8 I guess I just know.

Speaker 36 I know him, and he didn't do it.

Speaker 8 That's just the bottom line. And it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks, really.

Speaker 34 Nikki and Allie Angleton were just 15 when we started interviewing them for this story.

Speaker 41 We've been checking in with them through the years, and now, almost 10 years after the murder, the twins are in their 20s and college-educated.

Speaker 41 But this story is still not over for them or their father.

Speaker 7 In the beginning, the question was, who killed Doris Angleton and why?

Speaker 45 Now it's not so much who did it as it is how to prove it.

Speaker 43 And how many times will Bob Angleton have to stand trial for it?

Speaker 20 You don't believe it's going to happen to you if you're not guilty.

Speaker 47 Bob Angleton has always maintained his innocence.

Speaker 42 He spent one full year in jail waiting for his trial.

Speaker 20 You imagine when your children come and visit you when you're in jail, you have to put on an air of everything being okay and that it'll work out

Speaker 20 because they're still counting on you.

Speaker 38 In July of 1998, more than a year after the murder, the trial finally got underway.

Speaker 8 This is of me and Allie. That was the day we testified.

Speaker 7 The girls told jurors their father was an innocent man.

Speaker 8 It was like a big deal because we were like the main, you know, witnesses to help him.

Speaker 53 By far, the best piece of evidence against Bob was a garbled audio tape of two men planning Doris's murder.

Speaker 49 That's up to you.

Speaker 40 The prosecution claimed one of the voices was Bob.

Speaker 34 But in the end, the jury thought the voices on the tape were too muffled to identify, and they could not be sure if one of them was Bob.

Speaker 8 That's the day he got acquitted.

Speaker 16 And the girls got their father back.

Speaker 8 We have to be like incredibly thankful for what we have right now. You know, we have this great house and this great dad.

Speaker 8 You know, who we can spend time with whenever we want.

Speaker 50 Yeah, this is Alan.

Speaker 32 She doesn't throw like that anymore.

Speaker 38 For the next few years, they settled into what you could call

Speaker 25 normal teenage life.

Speaker 8 I need your keys to the coffee. I need money.

Speaker 53 When you heard not guilty, did you think it was over?

Speaker 37 Oh, absolutely.

Speaker 54 But it was far from over.

Speaker 13 I'd love to get him. Yeah, I'd love to have another shot at trying him again.

Speaker 34 Lynn McClellan is the prosecutor who lost the state's case against Bob in 1998.

Speaker 13 I'm totally shocked.

Speaker 13 This is totally contrary to what I thought the verdict was.

Speaker 18 But he's still convinced that Bob Angleton is a guilty man.

Speaker 30 I wonder why you just didn't say, we gave it our best shot. Didn't work out.

Speaker 53 Let's move on.

Speaker 13 Because I didn't think the verdict was correct. You shouldn't get away with

Speaker 13 murder.

Speaker 8 I thought this was done, you know.

Speaker 8 We all thought this was done.

Speaker 57 But it wasn't.

Speaker 41 Bob Angleton was arrested for Doris' murder again.

Speaker 15 Mr. Angleton was arrested outside his home this morning at approximately 10 a.m.

Speaker 59 Three and a half years after being acquitted of murder by the state of Texas, he was now facing a federal murder charge.

Speaker 61 This is exactly the same crime.

Speaker 18 Angleton's attorney, Mike Ramsey, said the new charges amounted to double jeopardy trying someone twice for the same crime.

Speaker 24 That's unconstitutional.

Speaker 17 And we shouldn't have two trials. Just because there's an acquittal and some sore DAs for getting beat.

Speaker 30 Isn't that double jeopardy? No.

Speaker 13 It's not a double jeopardy when the feds try you for a state case.

Speaker 13 If they have a federal case that they can make, then they have the right to make that.

Speaker 34 Bob's only consolation this time was...

Speaker 21 Mr.

Speaker 47 Drangleton, how you feeling?

Speaker 53 Pretty good.

Speaker 31 He got out on bail. What's next to Dragonfly?

Speaker 20 I have to think about preparing myself and my family for the possibility that I will be in jail for the rest of my life.

Speaker 20 That's scary.

Speaker 3 Must be someone behind things, Dragon.

Speaker 7 As his second trial approached, Bob prepared for the worst.

Speaker 8 Okay, I know I got an A in 101, 101, my acting class.

Speaker 7 He went to visit his daughters, who had started college that fall, to say what he feared could be his final goodbye.

Speaker 8 Your damn is really pretty, and you

Speaker 60 it is, isn't it? You've said to them, What, if I may ask?

Speaker 20 I may go away to jail for the rest of my life.

Speaker 20 That means when you need something, you can't call me for my advice.

Speaker 60 That means I don't exist.

Speaker 60 Some people might ask why you just don't get up and leave.

Speaker 20 I'm not allowed to.

Speaker 20 I'm not in a situation where I can make plans. The only plans that I have to make right now are in case I am found guilty.

Speaker 20 Because the minute that I am found guilty, I will have no time to make any plans.

Speaker 24 When Angleton told me that back in 2003, he was being somewhat less than honest.

Speaker 7 In fact, Bob did have a plan, one that he'd been working on, for more than a year.

Speaker 64 And then just four days before the start of his second trial, Bob Angleton followed his plan and walked out of his Houston home for the very last time.

Speaker 61 We couldn't find Bob.

Speaker 61 He didn't answer his phone.

Speaker 8 And I started getting lots of calls from lawyers asking us if we knew anything.

Speaker 23 At first, his attorney feared the worst.

Speaker 60 You thought he might have killed himself.

Speaker 61 Well, it's happened to me. I've had clients that killed themselves in the face of trial.

Speaker 32 Angleton wrote about what he did next in a journal, which his daughters have read.

Speaker 8 Going to jail for life is a for sure dead end, so this is the only choice.

Speaker 46 But the choice Bob made did not involve leaving this world,

Speaker 35 just leaving the country. Armed with a fake passport, a fake driver's license, and a fake social security card,

Speaker 42 bob angleton had decided to become a fugitive i'm sorry we couldn't talk in person but angleton ended up far from home and had become very difficult for us to reach but he was still eager to talk even if it couldn't be face to face

Speaker 65 when you walked out of your house that day what were you feeling when you closed the door behind you how did i feel uh scared Very unsure. Am I going to make this? Is this the right thing to do?

Speaker 3 He says he decided to flee for the sake of his daughter I figure their best peace of mind would occur if I was safe and that was the only idea that I could come up with was to flee

Speaker 8 imagine trying to prepare your life for the possibility that you'll never hold or hug your children your friends ever again

Speaker 65 you brought money with you

Speaker 66 yeah I had some in a suitcase that was checked and some in my carry-on.

Speaker 41 How much?

Speaker 66 To my recollection, it was like about $135,000.

Speaker 60 It's a good thing they didn't lose your baggage.

Speaker 66 That's correct. It's a good thing they did.

Speaker 57 Bob and his money bags landed safely at his first destination, Amsterdam.

Speaker 67 When you're walking down that hallway towards the airport exit, my mind was still constantly, constantly racing as to whether this was the right thing to do or not.

Speaker 38 Bob knew he had committed a crime by fleeing the country, but he didn't think he had a choice.

Speaker 7 Bob says he told federal prosecutors who'd killed his wife, but they were not listening.

Speaker 8 But there is so much more to the story that nobody knows.

Speaker 7 Including a confession letter from the man who admitted he'd killed Doris Angleton as an act of revenge against Bob.

Speaker 7 It was a letter jurors were never allowed to see.

Speaker 30 At what point did you start suspecting your brother immediately?

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Speaker 50 Why did Bob Angleton decide to become become a fugitive?

Speaker 7 He'd been acquitted of murder in one trial, and as he faced a second trial, he had a powerful alibi.

Speaker 42 He wasn't anywhere near the crime scene,

Speaker 49 and he had an entire girls' softball team to prove it.

Speaker 21 The afternoon of April 16, 1997, started like any other.

Speaker 27 Doris Angleton dropped off her twin girls for an hour of softball practice before the start of the game.

Speaker 40 Bob was the team's coach.

Speaker 41 After the game,

Speaker 48 Bob drove the girls straight home.

Speaker 20 As I pulled up into my spot, I noticed the back door was open.

Speaker 20 Now I was concerned. I'm at my residence.

Speaker 71 Back door is ajar. My wife, to my best knowledge, was home.
I'm getting no answer in the house. I have children with me in the car.

Speaker 3 I'll get someone out there.

Speaker 29 Police officers entered the home, then broke the news to Bob.

Speaker 20 He came out, walked up to me, looked me in the eyes, and said,

Speaker 20 Was your wife wearing a white shirt?

Speaker 20 The message is clear. To me, it was clear.

Speaker 52 Doris Angleton's body was found lying in the hallway next to the kitchen.

Speaker 46 She'd been shot seven times in the face, five times in the chest.

Speaker 8 I remember he didn't say anything. I started bursting out crying because I knew by his face that she was dead.

Speaker 37 You see where somebody left their purse, where somebody

Speaker 37 set their keys down.

Speaker 37 Just like she was stopped in midstep.

Speaker 7 Doris' brother, Steve McGowan, walked through the house the day after Doris was murdered.

Speaker 37 Nothing was disturbed. No glass was broken on the door.
There's no forced entry.

Speaker 37 The only reason anybody was in there was simply to kill my sister.

Speaker 37 Why?

Speaker 37 Show me a good reason why.

Speaker 8 Everyone loved her. She was that person that, you know, everyone wished they were.

Speaker 34 Before he fled to Amsterdam to avoid a second trial, he couldn't stop talking about his late wife.

Speaker 20 I mean, she was a perfect wife. She was a perfect mother.
She was a perfect lover.

Speaker 20 She was perfect in every way. Especially when I was thinking of holes and Bob is here.

Speaker 8 Every day we'd come home. We'd have perfect dinner set up for us.
Always had everything we wanted. I mean, it was perfect.

Speaker 38 The girls say their father had no reason to destroy all that.

Speaker 4 The murder in Avalon Place remains the mystery.

Speaker 42 Police were calling.

Speaker 7 For Bob, there was no mystery.

Speaker 18 The night of the murder, he told police he knew who killed his wife, a man who'd been on the run since the day after Doris' murder.

Speaker 39 His name?

Speaker 18 Roger Angleton, Bob's brother.

Speaker 48 And Bob says his brother had a motive to hurt him and his family.

Speaker 68 Well, my brother and I had a little bit of a history.

Speaker 7 Bob says he and his brother had been rivals from the start.

Speaker 27 Bob was always the more successful son, and Roger was jealous.

Speaker 20 Roger said there was resentment that I was a favorite child. Looking back at it, I guess he was what you would consider a problem child.

Speaker 42 And frequently, Roger was just goofy.

Speaker 33 Do you remember him at all?

Speaker 8 Yeah yeah he was really funny.

Speaker 5 Funny. Yeah.

Speaker 8 I don't remember that much about him but I remember he always made us laugh.

Speaker 20 Roger was a clown. He really was a child that never grew up.

Speaker 42 Roger couldn't hold a steady job while Bob was supporting a family in style earning around one million dollars a year.

Speaker 20 I put it on the level of being a successful doctor or a successful lawyer.

Speaker 26 But Bob wasn't a successful doctor or lawyer.

Speaker 18 Far from it.

Speaker 30 There's no polite term for it?

Speaker 57 There really isn't.

Speaker 39 It was an unusual job.

Speaker 72 What term do you use to describe what you do?

Speaker 20 You know, generally you just call yourself a bookie or bookmaker.

Speaker 57 That's right.

Speaker 34 Bob Angleton was a bookie.

Speaker 24 He took bets on sporting events, which is illegal in Texas, but his business was booming and he realized he needed help.

Speaker 45 At the time, his brother Roger needed a job, so despite their troubled past, Bob hired hired him.

Speaker 64 It turned out to be a big mistake.

Speaker 51 Less than a year later, in the summer of 1990, Bob fired his brother.

Speaker 34 And that's when things started getting nasty.

Speaker 20 He felt like I owed him some money.

Speaker 12 Roger believed Bob had cheated him out of a lot of money, $200,000.

Speaker 20 Months later, he showed up on Halloween dressed as a big bunny rabbit.

Speaker 20 There was a method to his madness.

Speaker 37 What was that?

Speaker 20 To get in close with the family again. Little did I know that was his build-up to this extortion plot of his.

Speaker 39 It almost worked.

Speaker 29 After winning back his brother's trust, Roger convinced Bob he'd scheduled a closing for him on a real estate deal.

Speaker 63 He told Bob to bring along $200,000 in cash and to meet him beforehand in this parking lot.

Speaker 20 He's sitting in the back seat, eyes glazed, saying, I want the money.

Speaker 20 Bob, I want the money.

Speaker 51 Roger pointed a gun at him.

Speaker 42 Roger had a hard time keeping his mouth shut, and he told the whole story to his lawyer, Jim Skelton.

Speaker 5 He planned to kill Bob unless Bob paid him.

Speaker 4 He's telling you about it.

Speaker 20 Basically, what he had done was just try to rob me.

Speaker 19 Bob was able to speed away without getting shot.

Speaker 6 And Roger did not get his money.

Speaker 20 Well, that's, I think, was the moment that I realized that he was truly off the edge.

Speaker 7 Roger wasn't about to give up.

Speaker 73 Bob says Roger knew another way to hurt him.

Speaker 33 Remember how he put it?

Speaker 20 Yeah it put me out of business.

Speaker 44 There is one agency that scared Bob to death and Roger knew it.

Speaker 21 It is every bookie's nightmare.

Speaker 13 The IRS.

Speaker 20 At first I didn't take him seriously. Then he actually did make phone calls to customers posing as an IRS agent.
And I quickly started losing customers.

Speaker 60 Bob realized Roger could actually shut down his bookie business so he finally agreed to start paying off Roger.

Speaker 65 How much a month?

Speaker 20 $2,500.

Speaker 39 That worked for a while but Bob says Roger demanded even more money and in 1997 he made one more threat.

Speaker 39 Bob says he received a letter from Roger saying if he didn't get the money, quote, I will hurt you in a way that will be with you for the rest of your life.

Speaker 20 Looking back at it, yeah, of course I should have taken it seriously.

Speaker 7 Bob says he ignored the letter, and six weeks later, Doris Angleton was dead.

Speaker 20 Whoever walked through that door was getting blown away.

Speaker 20 That's what I think.

Speaker 64 That's Bob's story.

Speaker 73 So why didn't police believe him?

Speaker 32 Because they started learning about him.

Speaker 39 and his marriage.

Speaker 20 She was ready to move on.

Speaker 37 She filed for the divorce in February and two months later she was murdered.

Speaker 7 Although investigators had little to tie Bob Angleton to the murder of his wife, they never took their eyes off him.

Speaker 42 And the more they dug up, the more they believed Bob had a few reasons to want his wife dead.

Speaker 49 For starters, Doris had filed for divorce just two months before she was murdered.

Speaker 31 What was your reaction?

Speaker 27 Shock, surprise.

Speaker 20 Because to me, I thought things were pretty good. And to her, obviously, she was seeing another side of it.

Speaker 34 She wants a divorce, and she wanted to have her fair share of the estate.

Speaker 42 According to Tom O'Connor, Doris's divorce attorney, she was about to become a very rich woman.

Speaker 33 So altogether, I mean, he had millions to lose.

Speaker 62 I mean, are you comfortable saying that? Yeah.

Speaker 30 Were you in a mood to give her half your money?

Speaker 20 I hate to say that we were in a situation that was so comfortable, it wouldn't have really made a difference. It irked me, but it didn't get me that angry.

Speaker 73 But there was more.

Speaker 29 When Doris thought her husband might not pay her what she wanted, Just like Roger, she threatened to expose Bob's multi-million dollar, strictly cash bookie business to the Internal Revenue Service.

Speaker 33 Is that a motive for murder?

Speaker 20 No.

Speaker 20 And there is no motive for murder.

Speaker 31 There's plenty of motives for murder.

Speaker 20 There's not enough motive for murder

Speaker 20 for anybody.

Speaker 21 But police kept digging and found what they thought was one more potential motive.

Speaker 9 Their marriage towards the end was not good. You know, she would stay on the internet most of the night.
in chat rooms and stuff.

Speaker 42 Doris told her close friend and hairdresser, Larry West, that she was having an affair with a man she met online.

Speaker 9 In fact, just a week before Doris's murder, she was in the salon and she was telling me about the boyfriend and she had been to see him that prior weekend.

Speaker 23 Bob says he never even knew about the affair.

Speaker 20 I did not know about any boyfriend until after she was dead. Go give mommy a hug.

Speaker 38 Even with all that information, there still wasn't enough to tie Bob to his wife's murder.

Speaker 24 And Bob was still insisting to police that his brother was the killer.

Speaker 60 It took two months to find Roger, but police finally arrested him in Las Vegas.

Speaker 7 And that's when they found that audio tape in Roger's briefcase.

Speaker 55 I still think he'll blow it away.

Speaker 11 No, I'll have to find the one just blowing.

Speaker 51 It was a conversation between two men planning Doris's murder.

Speaker 47 Boom, boom, boom.

Speaker 20 And then, when she's down, they go up to it and finish.

Speaker 7 Everyone thought the voice of the trigger man was Rogers. But it was the other voice that intrigued prosecutor Lynn McClellan.

Speaker 55 No, I mean, he didn't see my window.

Speaker 30 When you first heard that tape, did you think

Speaker 35 gotcha?

Speaker 37 Gotcha, Bob?

Speaker 37 Yeah.

Speaker 51 McClellan was convinced it was Bob Angleton.

Speaker 18 the brains behind the operation and the man who'd pointed police toward Roger in the first place.

Speaker 10 You're waiting.

Speaker 11 She comes in.

Speaker 55 Right? Yes,

Speaker 10 you hit her.

Speaker 12 Right.

Speaker 11 So that means you kill her and go.

Speaker 26 For McClellan, it wasn't just the speaker's voice that was convincing.

Speaker 48 It was the words he used.

Speaker 31 What are you going to do with the dog?

Speaker 74 I thought you decided you're just going to put her in a little cage.

Speaker 13 What other hitman worries about what you do with the dog? The owner of the dog, Bob Angleton.

Speaker 51 I don't know if there's no cutting fingers off it.

Speaker 11 You said don't at the time.

Speaker 11 They have the finger to take it down.

Speaker 13 You're killing the woman.

Speaker 18 Why do we care if we cut her finger off or not?

Speaker 13 But Bob didn't want that. He didn't want that.

Speaker 13 Some hitman is not going to be telling Roger, okay, when she comes home, she always go to the bathroom.

Speaker 18 How would he know?

Speaker 74 Well, the other motion detector points from the corner that you face in the front of my house. And so, if they're both on,

Speaker 74 there's no way that you can go anywhere in my details.

Speaker 13 He talks on the tape about my house.

Speaker 59 If you move in my

Speaker 13 cuss word house, you know, you're nailed.

Speaker 30 Is that your voice on the tape? No, because I have to tell you, I listened to the tape, and pardon me for saying this, but I thought it sounded like you.

Speaker 64 A lot like you.

Speaker 5 Frankly.

Speaker 4 Well, you're wrong.

Speaker 13 There is no explanation for the words on that tape coming from anybody else. other than Bob Angleton.

Speaker 33 It was all the police needed to arrest Bob Angleton for murder.

Speaker 42 And Lynn McClellan was prepared to offer his brother Roger, the trigger man, a very sweet deal.

Speaker 30 A deal that could have resulted in him walking out the front door of the jail, a free man.

Speaker 5 Yes.

Speaker 7 All Roger had to do was testify against his brother Bob and describe their murder for hire plan.

Speaker 60 I mean, did you expect this deal to be accepted?

Speaker 18 Yes.

Speaker 60 You expected Roger to say, you bet, I'll do this.

Speaker 29 But what McClellan didn't know, and neither did Bob, was that there were even more secret audio tapes out there.

Speaker 27 Roger had already started talking, and the listener was all ears.

Speaker 8 Before I knew it, I was sucked right in, and I really didn't feel like I had a choice. I tried to plot where bullets entered and exited.

Speaker 7 When Vanessa Leggett heard about the high-profile case, she started visiting Roger Angleton in jail.

Speaker 24 At the time, she was just an aspiring true crime writer looking for a story.

Speaker 7 And this time, she got lucky.

Speaker 18 Very lucky.

Speaker 63 Whose idea was it to kill Doris?

Speaker 8 According to Roger, it was Bob's.

Speaker 60 Do you believe that?

Speaker 8 Yes, I do.

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Speaker 42 Roger Angleton loved to talk.

Speaker 16 And Vanessa Leggett, an aspiring true crime writer, loved to listen.

Speaker 8 He wanted the truth to be known.

Speaker 19 In January of 1998, Leggett visited Roger in jail.

Speaker 16 and tape recorded about 50 hours of conversations.

Speaker 8 Bob had asked him for some help on something that he had a problem.

Speaker 3 I knew he was dead certain. How would he act? He described that he was calm and determined, focused, and he thought about it himself.

Speaker 34 According to Roger, Bob wanted his wife dead, and he asked Roger for help.

Speaker 8 Bob said he's having a problem with Doris, for the words that he used, and that he asked Roger to help him have her killed.

Speaker 24 Roger confessed to Vanessa that he was the man who killed Doris.

Speaker 8 He said that he came in through the front door at around seven o'clock that evening and he waited for her.

Speaker 8 When he felt she was really close, he said, I jumped out on two feet with both guns. Here's what I remember.
I think I shot two or three guys or four times.

Speaker 20 So he finished her off.

Speaker 8 And she died immediately, and he wanted her to die immediately.

Speaker 7 Roger said the brothers had made a deal.

Speaker 57 Bob would pay him to kill Doris, disappear, and keep quiet forever.

Speaker 8 Roger asked Bob to give him 24 hours to get out of town.

Speaker 41 Remember when Bob went to the police after the murder and told them Roger killed his wife?

Speaker 20 What was going through his mind?

Speaker 6 Rage.

Speaker 7 Roger said that too was all just part of the plan.

Speaker 8 So Roger wrote out letters that were threatening to Bob saying you owe me money. If you don't I'm going to hurt you or someone you love.

Speaker 8 Pay up.

Speaker 24 Roger Engleton confided the same story to his attorney, Jim Skelton.

Speaker 4 The fee was for a million dollars. I think that was it.
It was supposed to be in a hundred thousand down and a hundred thousand dollars every year for 10 years.

Speaker 33 But their elaborate plan unraveled, Roger said, when he got arrested in Las Vegas and police found that audio tape in his briefcase.

Speaker 7 Roger told Leggett that he recorded his brother helping him plan the murder in case he ever needed the tape to use against him.

Speaker 56 Skelton believes the tape was Roger's insurance policy.

Speaker 4 He kept a lot of incriminating evidence on the murder he could later use to blackmail Bob if Bob didn't pay him the money.

Speaker 28 Did you hire your brother to kill your wife?

Speaker 20 No.

Speaker 65 Did you ever talk about it?

Speaker 20 No.

Speaker 26 Bob says there never was was a plan.

Speaker 42 His theory is that Roger wanted to destroy him, and so Roger not only killed Doris, he also tried to frame Bob as his accomplice by making a fake audio tape.

Speaker 28 You think he wrote out a script, or?

Speaker 20 Who's to say what my brother did?

Speaker 20 My brother always was a volatile, crazy sort of person.

Speaker 60 Well, how could he have gotten somebody to say all that stuff?

Speaker 20 Roger could have gotten anybody to do anything.

Speaker 16 Each brother was pointing the finger at the other.

Speaker 53 According to Bob, the whole murder for hire story was part of an elaborate lie dreamed up by Roger to incriminate Bob.

Speaker 20 If I was going to hire somebody to do something, why would I hire a person that had been extorting me?

Speaker 31 Because it would give him a motive and it would divert attention away from you and here was a guy who wanted to hurt you, so he killed your wife. It made a good story, good cover.

Speaker 68 If they want to convict me, if they want to find me guilty, they have to have a theory of why I it.

Speaker 20 To me, it makes no sense.

Speaker 27 Back in 1998, when that first trial began, the state of Texas thought it had a decent case against Bob, especially with that audio tape from Roger's briefcase.

Speaker 20 You're waiting.

Speaker 11 She comes in. Right? Yes.
You hit her. Right.

Speaker 22 Prosecutor Lynn McClellan had no idea what was about to hit him.

Speaker 16 McClellan was about to offer Roger the plea deal, testify against Bob, and get out of jail.

Speaker 7 But Roger chose a different way out.

Speaker 13 He committed suicide the day before we were supposed to meet.

Speaker 43 Roger Angleton shocked everyone when he committed suicide in his jail cell by cutting himself more than 50 times with a razor.

Speaker 45 But what he left behind was an even bigger surprise, and this one could change everything.

Speaker 60 Roger left a suicide note that said he killed Doris on his own.

Speaker 27 Bob was not involved, and the murder was exactly what Bob had been saying it was all along, an act of revenge.

Speaker 39 The note read in part, I began an elaborate plan to frame Robert for Doris's death as further leverage to get my money.

Speaker 63 He is innocent.

Speaker 8 He did tell me that he had planned to kill himself to save his brother.

Speaker 35 Vanessa believes, as strange as it sounds, Roger killed himself and left that note because he'd promised his brother he'd take the wrap for killing Doris.

Speaker 8 He even showed me this letter over a week before he ended up dead and told me that he had to do this to help his brother so that hopefully his brother would get off.

Speaker 30 You have to be worried about those notes going into trial. Here's a guy saying, I did it all.

Speaker 57 Although the prosecutor's star witness had flipped sides on him and killed himself, in the end, it didn't really matter.

Speaker 7 McClellan convinced the judge that Roger's suicide note was hearsay and therefore inadmissible.

Speaker 60 So you're confident that the jury is going to convict him?

Speaker 13 Well, I think in worst case scenario, we have a hungery.

Speaker 7 Going into trial, McClellan was left with that audio tape found in Roger's briefcase as the best evidence against Bob.

Speaker 19 He hired an audio expert who once worked for the FBI

Speaker 34 to identify Bob's voice.

Speaker 60 The structure of these voice bars, their characteristics, are different, consistently different.

Speaker 59 Steve Kane spent hours analyzing the tape.

Speaker 13 I expected him to say that it was either I can't tell or that it's Bob's voice.

Speaker 28 So what happened?

Speaker 13 And I called him up and he said, I've got some bad news for you.

Speaker 72 I am very confident. that it is not Robert Engleton's voice that is on this tape.

Speaker 30 So what happens in the heart of a prosecutor when he hears those words?

Speaker 13 Ah, it kind of drops to the bottom of your vein.

Speaker 7 Kane had no idea whose voice it was, but that didn't matter to Bob's defense attorney, Mike Ramsey.

Speaker 72 The truth of it is, it was a godsend.

Speaker 61 I mean, how can you have a better piece of evidence fall in your lap?

Speaker 20 It's a lawyer's dream.

Speaker 34 Bob Angleton's dreams were about to come true.

Speaker 18 After listening to that tape over and over again, the jury acquitted him, and the state of Texas had to set set him free.

Speaker 43 Can't get much happier than I feel right now.

Speaker 40 But federal prosecutors were now determined to get him.

Speaker 33 Three and a half years later, they did.

Speaker 15 The first two counts of this indictment.

Speaker 63 And they planned to use evidence the state never used.

Speaker 54 The Vanessa Leggett tapes, the ones where Roger Angleton tells her all about the murder for hire plan laid out by the two brothers.

Speaker 43 Facing a second trial, bob angleton saw only one way out

Speaker 10 run

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Speaker 56 The prosecution claimed the defendant is a risk to flee.

Speaker 5 Bob Angleton boarded a plane in Texas to leave his past behind, even though he had no specific plans for his future.

Speaker 43 What was the plan?

Speaker 65 How are you going to live? Hell of a question.

Speaker 67 I wasn't that well prepared. I would be able to subsist at at least for six months to a year and then in turn find myself some type of employment.

Speaker 38 But just after he arrived in Amsterdam, Bob learned he wouldn't have to plan that far ahead.

Speaker 38 As soon as I walked up to the immigration or passport agent, when he put his hands on the passport,

Speaker 67 I knew right then and there I was done.

Speaker 54 The fake passport he was using looked a little too fake.

Speaker 67 He started rubbing at it, looking at it.

Speaker 67 I think in my mind I was thinking, should I turn around and run?

Speaker 67 No, that's not smart.

Speaker 34 Bob was taken into custody by Dutch officials after just 24 hours on the run.

Speaker 50 You were surprised when you heard that he had fled?

Speaker 6 I was angry, disappointed,

Speaker 60 and somewhat surprised. I didn't expect him to run.

Speaker 7 Stan Schneider was the only attorney on Bob's defense team who agreed to keep representing him after he fled the country.

Speaker 65 Did you blame him for running?

Speaker 18 Probably not.

Speaker 6 I thought that we had a chance of winning, but the pressure of another trial, who knows what a jury would do.

Speaker 24 The United States immediately asked the Dutch government to extradite Bob back home, and his Dutch lawyers didn't have much hope.

Speaker 6 They said the United States never loses.

Speaker 14 They always win.

Speaker 6 Every case, they always win.

Speaker 13 And

Speaker 14 that was preparing Bob for the worst.

Speaker 24 Angleton's lawyers argued an international treaty signed by the U.S.

Speaker 17 protects against double jeopardy and prohibits the Dutch government from sending Bob back to Houston to face murder charges a second time. Not only did this court agree, so did the prosecutor.

Speaker 18 So, Bob the bookie beat the odds and won big.

Speaker 35 The Dutch government refused to extradite him for murder.

Speaker 45 So, did you start seeing Bob

Speaker 60 living his life in Amsterdam amidst the tulips?

Speaker 53 No.

Speaker 34 Bob might not have to face murder charges, but he was not about to go free.

Speaker 65 The Dutch courts finally did agree to extradite him, but not before the U.S.

Speaker 59 agreed to prosecute him only on new charges of passport and tax fraud.

Speaker 33 Beats the heck out of murder, doesn't it?

Speaker 14 Sure does.

Speaker 34 In September of 2004, Bob was brought back to the U.S.

Speaker 21 He pled guilty to passport and tax fraud and was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison.

Speaker 75 This is your second time to see Ted.

Speaker 34 The only good news for Bob's daughters, who are now living in California, is that Bob was moved to a prison nearby.

Speaker 24 To this day, Nikki and Allie say they still believe their father is innocent.

Speaker 8 It's just like me and Nikki and our dad. So that's what we consider our family.
That's our family. So, I mean, anytime that we can see him, we go see him.
Yeah.

Speaker 8 We owe that to him.

Speaker 8 We do.

Speaker 8 Look, those kids have been through hell,

Speaker 8 and they need to contact with me. It's really important.

Speaker 59 We've been talking to Bob by phone from his prison cell this whole time.

Speaker 7 With the Dutch court ruling that he could not be tried for Doris' murder again, we asked Bob that one all-important question one last time.

Speaker 28 Did you hire Roger to kill Doris?

Speaker 3 No.

Speaker 28 Did you hire anybody to kill Doris? No.

Speaker 60 And you say that now, even though

Speaker 60 you have that Dutch ruling in your hands? Well, the ruling doesn't make a difference. The truth is the only thing that really counts.

Speaker 7 While Bob spends his time behind bars, federal prosecutors are likely to spend their time trying to figure out a way around the Dutch court ruling and prosecute him again for Doris' murder.

Speaker 7 And even the Bookie's lawyers are betting they will.

Speaker 65 Your best guess, will Bob Angleton ever be a free man again?

Speaker 14 Probably not. If you put the numbers to it, what are the odds?

Speaker 28 Yeah, the odds are against the Bookie.

Speaker 14 It's a long shot.

Speaker 26 But Angleton's daughters, Nikki and Allie, are still betting that their father will one day be free again.

Speaker 62 Do you think he'll be around for you? I mean, that he'll be able to come to your weddings.

Speaker 44 Oh, yeah,

Speaker 8 he will. We're gonna have to arrange that

Speaker 8 around his schedule. Well, I'm not getting married for a long time.

Speaker 8 Yeah, we're just gonna put it off for a while.

Speaker 5 You'd wait 12 years or however long?

Speaker 15 Yeah,

Speaker 8 yeah, for sure. There's no way.
There's no way I would get married without him there.

Speaker 8 It'll all work out. It'll all work out.

Speaker 56 Robert Engleton was released from prison in 2012.

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