Kimberly Bailey

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Speaker 1 He was a handsome private investigator living a life of escapades and intrigue.

Speaker 10 He scored the highest IQ test in the whole Western seaboard of the Army.

Speaker 6 He had a gift for talking with people.

Speaker 4 He had the ability to get them to open up to him.

Speaker 1 Then he disappeared without a trace. It's as if he just walked out the door and poof, vanished into thin air.

Speaker 1 In their hunt for the missing businessman, investigators sort through several leads.

Speaker 3 She was his biggest client, providing the bulk of the company's monthly income.

Speaker 1 He worked on issues related to the Mexican drug cartel. So there's some dangerous territory in his line of work.

Speaker 1 But as more layers begin to unfold, an unexpected cast of characters reveal themselves.

Speaker 3 We received a phone call. She had a client who had information about a kidnap and murder.

Speaker 13 He was putting himself out there as a cartel hitman.

Speaker 1 She accessed highly sensitive, confidential information and gave it to the KGB.

Speaker 3 The hidden microphones were up near his shoulders. So when she leaned in to whisper that to him, it couldn't have been more loud and clear.

Speaker 1 It's August 21st, 1998, in San Diego, California. 16-year-old Ian Post is at the home he shares with his father, Rick, when the phone rings.

Speaker 10 A secretary in my father's office called and said, hey, have you seen your father?

Speaker 1 Ian tells her he hasn't seen his dad in 24 hours.

Speaker 10 And so obviously I tried calling my father. I'm not getting an answer.
So that started to worry me.

Speaker 1 Ian is well aware that his father's work as a private investigator sometimes requires him to leave town at the last minute. But he also knows that Rick never leaves without telling him.

Speaker 10 He would be making preparations that I was going to be with a possible family member or a friend, someone that we trusted, but that was never set up.

Speaker 9 Rick didn't tell his 16-year-old boy that he was going anyplace, took no clothes, took no medications with him.

Speaker 9 That's not a normal business trip. It's suspicious.

Speaker 1 It's as if he just walked out the door and, poof, vanished into thin air.

Speaker 1 Ian grows more concerned when he finds his father's vehicle out front.

Speaker 3 Rick's car was parked in front of his house.

Speaker 3 And the keys to the car were left in the mailbox.

Speaker 1 Ian reaches out to other family members and finds no one else has seen or heard from 52-year-old Rick Post in over 24 hours either.

Speaker 14 His family, his kids, were concerned because they hadn't heard a word from him and that was not like him.

Speaker 15 It was a huge red flag.

Speaker 10 I always knew where he was. I knew something bad had happened.
We were doing everything that we could to figure out where he was.

Speaker 1 Born September 2nd, 1945, Rick Post was a native Californian.

Speaker 10 He was born and raised in San Diego. He entered the Army intelligence back when he was 18.
He scored the highest IQ test in the whole Western seaboard of the Army.

Speaker 10 So they immediately put him into Army intelligence.

Speaker 1 Rick served during the Vietnam War and specialized in radio communications.

Speaker 10 My father being in the Army at a young age, he was very well traveled. This took him to places like Turkey, Germany, all over Europe.

Speaker 1 By his late 20s, Rick was out of the army and married. In 1971, his first son, Orion, is born.
And 10 years later, in 1981, he has a second son, Ian.

Speaker 10 We had a sailboat growing up. We spent a lot of time out in the ocean.
That was something that

Speaker 10 brought him a lot of happiness.

Speaker 1 To support his growing family, Rick drew on his military background background and opened a private investigation firm.

Speaker 10 So my father's company was called Intellisource, based out of Old Town San Diego, and the type of work ranged anywhere from occult investigation to cheating investigation of a spouse or husband, and anything in between.

Speaker 1 Rick wasn't afraid to take on difficult or even dangerous cases.

Speaker 10 He had worked on a case for a woman in Ocean Beach, San Diego. Her son was murdered by a cult named the Rainbow Children.

Speaker 1 He worked on issues related to the Mexican cartel. So there's some dangerous territory in his line of work.

Speaker 4 Rick had a gift for talking with people. He had the ability to

Speaker 15 In the moment, relate to someone and get them to open up to him.

Speaker 13 In his line of work, it is a talent that you can't buy.

Speaker 1 Rick's work life was a success, but his love life was a different story.

Speaker 1 By the late 90s, Rick was twice divorced with four kids.

Speaker 10 I lived between two different homes. So, you know, I would visit with my father, I'd visit with my mother, but it was always that way.
So that was pretty normal.

Speaker 1 By the late 90s, business was thriving so much that Rick took on a protege.

Speaker 1 He hired an aspiring young PI, John Krueger.

Speaker 10 John Krueger worked in my father's office maybe about a year and a half. John had wanted to get his own license.

Speaker 1 In 1997, Rick landed his most prominent client yet, millionaire Kimberly Bailey.

Speaker 1 Born in Oklahoma, Kimberly was raised in the quaint town of Stillwater.

Speaker 6 Kimberly was somewhat enigmatic.

Speaker 1 She was seemingly a loner. The only thing we know about her private life is that she came from an apparently very troubled childhood in Oklahoma.

Speaker 1 She traveled the world looking for endangered medicinal plants.

Speaker 18 Kimberly Bailey bought a ranch in Falbrook, California with the stated intent to use it as a place to grow natural medicines that she was gathering from all over the world.

Speaker 19 It was beautiful, you know, 33 acres, avocado trees everywhere, a nice big ranch house.

Speaker 20 She was very pretty, highly intelligent.

Speaker 1 Kimberly also had a second business selling cutting-edge medical devices.

Speaker 15 She had a business known as Astro Pulse.

Speaker 14 And the idea was that by using electrical currents, you could cure pretty much anything.

Speaker 3 Astro pulse was a black box that had some controls and dials on them. The user would hold in.
The box would send electric currents through their body.

Speaker 1 By 1997, Kimberly was in her early 40s and had amassed a sizable fortune.

Speaker 1 She was this Zen holistic practitioner who made a lot of money.

Speaker 22 Business was outstandingly successful.

Speaker 15 The word of mouth would spread.

Speaker 22 And she had many, many, many people ordering her black box.

Speaker 18 She built up hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Speaker 1 But Kimberly worried that those closest to her were trying to undo what she had built.

Speaker 15 Kim was rather paranoid.

Speaker 22 She always believed that somebody was watching her or after her.

Speaker 1 She thought that some of her employees were stealing from her.

Speaker 3 So Kimberly Bailey hired Rick Post to conduct investigations.

Speaker 1 Rick enlisted his new right-hand man, John Kruger, to help him on the case. Rick worked closely with Kimberly.
The suave PI and beautiful businesswoman made an instant connection.

Speaker 3 She was his biggest client, providing the bulk of the company's monthly income. At some point, that relationship evolved into one of a romantic nature.

Speaker 1 But after a short and passionate fling, Rick decided it was best to steer clear of anything serious.

Speaker 10 I do remember my father telling me at our home that he wanted to keep this relationship professional, that he did not want to have a romantic relationship with her.

Speaker 1 Despite the brush off, Kimberly and Rick maintain their professional relationship.

Speaker 1 With the holistic guru as one of his most prominent clients, Rick seems to be in his professional prime.

Speaker 1 Until the PI suddenly vanishes on August 20th, 1998, throwing his family into a panic.

Speaker 10 All of his belongings he would take with him were there at the house. So that alone itself was something that triggered, you know, kind of an emergency response.

Speaker 10 Over the course of that week, my brother and I had been looking for him. We had been contacting airlines.
I don't think I slept at all really that first week.

Speaker 1 Then his son Ian gets a troubling phone call from John Kruger.

Speaker 10 John Krueger says, We got this voicemail here at the office. I think you should hear it.

Speaker 7 Okay, I'll be right over.

Speaker 13 He plays it for me.

Speaker 3 The voicemail was Rick's voice and was directed to his office staff saying that he was going to be in Mexico for a few days. Yeah, he was fine not to worry about him.

Speaker 1 The voicemail was left the day before Rick went missing. John feels confident that the message means Rick is okay.

Speaker 1 But Ian and other family members have their doubts.

Speaker 10 It really wasn't what my father was saying. It was his candor, the way he spoke.

Speaker 3 His voice sounded worried, forced, coerced. It did not sound like a natural thing.
They all knew something was very wrong.

Speaker 1 With concerns mounting, Rick's family files a missing persons report in August 1998.

Speaker 12 Missing person investigations can be very intense.

Speaker 5 The longer someone stays disappeared, the greater the chances that they will never be found.

Speaker 1 Coming up, police locate the last known person to be seen with the missing PI.

Speaker 3 She and Rick Post had gone down to Mexico for a work trip.

Speaker 10 She dropped them off at the airport and then she drove back.

Speaker 3 This seems really weird.

Speaker 1 And just as local authorities hit a dead end, the FBI receives a bizarre call.

Speaker 3 She said she had a client who had information about a kidnap and murder.

Speaker 3 She was asking for blanket immunity for her client.

Speaker 1 By late August 1998, over a week has passed since private investigator Rick Post disappeared.

Speaker 1 After hearing a suspicious voicemail Rick left at the office, Ian and his brother report the 52-year-old as missing to the San Diego PD.

Speaker 1 The police must do their due diligence before they decide that an all-out search has to take place.

Speaker 10 Their position was, the nature of your father's work requires him to go on stakeouts where people aren't supposed to know where he's at. So this seems very fitting for his line of work.

Speaker 1 San Diego police visit Rick's private investigation firm, IntelliSource, where they speak with employees, including John Kruger.

Speaker 3 It would be typical in a missing person's investigation to try and interview as many family members, friends, co-workers as can be found to try and find out what does this person typically do?

Speaker 3 Is this very unusual? Where might they have gone?

Speaker 1 John tells detectives that the last time he saw his boss was on August 20th, almost three weeks prior. Rick was leaving the office with his biggest client, Kimberly Bailey.

Speaker 1 San Diego detectives immediately tracked down Kimberly at her avocado farm.

Speaker 3 When investigators first talked to Kimberly Bailey, she explained that she and Rick Post had drove down to Mexico for a work trip.

Speaker 1 Kimberly says that on August 20th, while in Tijuana, she and Rick stopped for a meal.

Speaker 4 While at a restaurant in Mexico, Rick was approached by two men who had a conversation with him.

Speaker 12 At the conclusion of the conversation, Rick told Kimberly that he needed to make a business trip to Mexico City.

Speaker 3 Rick had requested she drop him off at the Tijuana airport, drive his car back up north of the border, leave it at his house, and put the keys in the mailbox.

Speaker 1 She tells detectives that she's been worried sick since Rick's disappearance.

Speaker 15 The investigators knew that the information they had didn't add up, but all they had was Kimberly Bailey and John Kruger saying, yeah, he left town.

Speaker 3 It's always harder to conduct an investigation of an American citizen being missing in a foreign country because all we can do is pass pass the information along through our international liaison.

Speaker 1 Without much to go on from John and Kim, investigators pour over Rick's client list and find no shortage of potential leads.

Speaker 3 There's potential for there to be a lot of trails to follow because of the types of cases he had worked in his past.

Speaker 1 But those leads all fall flat.

Speaker 5 The local investigators talked to Rick's family. They talked to Rick's co-workers, and it all led to a dead end.

Speaker 10 I didn't know if I was going to ever hear anything further regarding this. It just was possible that no one would ever knew.

Speaker 1 By January of 1999, Rick has been missing for over four months, and the Post family is beginning to lose hope.

Speaker 1 Then, out of the blue, FBI agents at a field office in San Diego, California get an unexpected phone call.

Speaker 3 We received a phone call from the U.S. Attorney's Office about an attorney named Colleen Cusack, who said she had a client who had information about a kidnap and murder, a person from San Diego.

Speaker 1 Before she will reveal the name of the victim, Colleen attempts to negotiate a deal for her client.

Speaker 3 She was asking for a blanket immunity for her client in order to discuss the matter.

Speaker 3 The United States Attorney's Office does not generally offer blanket immunity to people up front without hearing what they have to say. So that conversation never went anywhere.

Speaker 1 The phone call ends abruptly, but agents follow up with San Diego Police.

Speaker 3 We started reviewing some of the missing persons files at the San Diego Police Department.

Speaker 12 We had a few facts that they did get from this initial phone call at a certain date and time, and it matched up with the missing persons report of Rick Post disappearing in Mexico.

Speaker 3 After that, there were ongoing negotiations wherein the U.S. Attorney's Office was trying to get Ms.
Cusak to bring her client in and explain what they knew, but that also never materialized.

Speaker 1 After hitting yet another dead end, in May of 1999, FBI agents circle back to Rick's employee, John Krueger.

Speaker 3 He asked us if he could call his attorney and talk to her before answering our questions.

Speaker 6 She said, Of course.

Speaker 3 He then said, My attorney would like to speak to you first and handed the phone over to us.

Speaker 3 And it was calling QSAC.

Speaker 3 At that point, we quickly made the connection that Rick Post is not just a missing person.

Speaker 3 Rick was murdered. And John Kruger has information directly related to the kidnap and murder of Rick Post.

Speaker 1 But whatever John knows, he isn't willing to share.

Speaker 3 He would not talk with us, but definitely raised our level of suspicion into his role in this case.

Speaker 1 Investigators turn back to the other person of interest in this case, Kimberly Bailey.

Speaker 1 As it turns out, Kimberly already has her own file at the FBI.

Speaker 3 We saw we had an open investigation on her related to her company Astro Pulse. She was claiming that these were medical devices that cured cancer.

Speaker 1 Could Kimberly's fraudulent business dealings be linked to Rick's disappearance?

Speaker 4 The investigation had kind of come to a standstill.

Speaker 14 They started conducting a surveillance of the ranch that Kimberly Bailey owned up in Falbrook.

Speaker 3 Kimberly Bailey did exhibit a lot of odd behaviors. She did not like talking on the phone.

Speaker 3 She preferred to meet people in person, would often speak in a whisper as though she thought or feared she was being surreptitiously recorded somehow. She had that kind of paranoid mindset.

Speaker 4 They knew that in addition to Kimberly, there were some other people living in there.

Speaker 12 So the case agents finally decided, let's go up and talk to people up there and see what we can find out.

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Speaker 1 And an undercover sting reveals a horrifying plot.

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Speaker 1 FBI agents in San Diego suspect that private investigator Rick Post was kidnapped and murdered in Mexico.

Speaker 1 There are two names in his missing persons file that have garnered their attention.

Speaker 1 John Kruger and Kimberly Bailey.

Speaker 4 Usually in an investigation, you try and talk to your main subjects last.

Speaker 16 You want to have as much information as possible when you go into that interview, because then it allows you to know if what they're telling you is false.

Speaker 1 In November of 1999, after seven months of surveillance fails to turn up any new leads, agents pay a visit to Kimberly's Fallbrook Avocado Ranch.

Speaker 1 When they arrive, they're greeted by two employees, husband and wife, Bruce and Svetlana.

Speaker 7 This woman woman identified herself as Svetlana Olga Rodnikova.

Speaker 5 This moment was a jawdropper for the agents.

Speaker 18 Svetlana was someone that is known to virtually every FBI agent who joined the agency during the 1980s and 1990s.

Speaker 9 Back in the early 80s, an agent in Los Angeles by the name of Richard Miller,

Speaker 9 he was working counterintelligence against the Soviets.

Speaker 9 And Svetlana, she'd been used as a source in those cases.

Speaker 9 And they became intimate.

Speaker 1 Svetlana, like something right out of a James Bond movie, seduced an FBI agent,

Speaker 1 accessed highly sensitive, confidential information, and gave it to the KGB.

Speaker 14 Svetlana was was sentenced to 18 years, served nine,

Speaker 12 and after that was in danger of losing her status to stay in the United States.

Speaker 4 And in fact,

Speaker 15 one step ahead of INS, essentially moved back to Mexico.

Speaker 16 While down there, came into contact with Kimberly.

Speaker 3 Agents talked to her, explained why they were there, why they were there looking for Kimberly.

Speaker 19 He goes, well, we're investigating the Rick Post murder, and can we talk to

Speaker 19 then lana and i look at each other you know because here's the fbi she's here illegally and reporting as if she was still in mexico

Speaker 1 svetlana tells the agents that kimberly is away at a yoga retreat

Speaker 1 She also says that she and Bruce have been working and living at Kimberly's ranch for around six months.

Speaker 1 In that time, they forged a friendship with the quirky millionaire.

Speaker 19 On the surface, she's brilliant, she's pretty, a little bit paranoid. She thought the satellites were listening to her and that people were after her.

Speaker 1 However, Svetlana claims Kimberly trusted her.

Speaker 1 One day, she began confiding in her about her breakup with Rick Post.

Speaker 19 She was a woman scorned. She was in love with Rick.
He dropped her as a girlfriend. The real problem was jealousy.

Speaker 1 What's more, Kimberly told Svetlana money was missing from her business.

Speaker 7 That she believed that Rick Post was stealing money from her.

Speaker 12 This was the one-two-punch that sent her over the edge.

Speaker 1 And then Svetlana says Kimberly revealed her darkest secret.

Speaker 3 Kimberly Bailey had actually confided in Svetlana that she had orchestrated the kidnap and murder of Rick Post.

Speaker 21 The problem that we had was

Speaker 3 we didn't see a way that we would be able to use information or testimony coming from a former convicted espionage agent. How do we get around that?

Speaker 18 They solved it.

Speaker 7 by getting Svetlana to agree to wear a wire recording device.

Speaker 12 I think she was scared of Kimberly,

Speaker 16 and I think there was was a fear motive in her status in the United States.

Speaker 5 She was actually back in the United States illegally.

Speaker 1 A few weeks later, Kimberly asks Svetlana to pick her up from the airport in Phoenix and drive her back to California.

Speaker 1 The nine-hour car ride presents the perfect opportunity.

Speaker 3 Our agents wired up the car in advance and also wired Svetlana up with hidden recording devices.

Speaker 1 It takes a little prompting from Svetlana to get Kimberly talking.

Speaker 1 Kimberly says that John Kruger had called her in August 1998 with some concerning information about his boss, Rick Post.

Speaker 9 She had been told by Kruger that Post had been taking her money and then sleeping with other women.

Speaker 3 She was so enraged that she just had to prove a lesson to him.

Speaker 1 Kimberly reveals that she asked John Krueger to help her hire some muscle.

Speaker 14 John had become acquainted with an individual by the name of Humberto Aribe,

Speaker 4 Mexican national,

Speaker 4 who was purporting to have connections to the cartel.

Speaker 1 Kimberly paid 25-year-old Umberto approximately $40,000 and then lured Rick Post to Mexico on August 20th.

Speaker 4 The trap was set. Kimberly went down to Mexico with Rick Post.

Speaker 17 They stopped at a pharmacy. Rick waited in the car.

Speaker 13 Kimberly got out of the car,

Speaker 17 supposedly to go into the pharmacy.

Speaker 13 Two men hired by Uribe approached the car.

Speaker 17 forced Rick out of the car and took him away.

Speaker 1 After Richard is kidnapped, Kimberly gets inside of Richard's car, turns around and heads back to San Diego, where she drops off his car at his own home.

Speaker 3 Once they had Rick, Pose, and Tijuana, Iribe

Speaker 3 forced him to make the call that the family heard, where he said, don't worry about me, I'm in Mexico City.

Speaker 1 According to Kimberly, Umberto and his two associates tortured Rick for the next five days.

Speaker 24 He duct taped to a chair, and then he took some pliers and pinched his fingernails.

Speaker 3 Svetlana shared with us that once Rick was kidnapped,

Speaker 3 Kimberly Bailey said she continued to travel back down to Mexico to the safe house where he was being kept to observe his torture.

Speaker 1 After five days of torture, Rick still hadn't confessed to stealing from her.

Speaker 24 Rick said, I admit that I've sucked with other women.

Speaker 24 He's always denied stealing anything.

Speaker 1 Kimberly tells Svetlana that she told your rebay to build an underground prison and keep him there for the rest of his life.

Speaker 24 He said, this is dangerous for us. We don't like staying up all night watching these die.

Speaker 1 Then, Kimberly reveals to Svetlana that she is sharing her story with her because she needs her help.

Speaker 3 She asked Svetlana if she knew anybody, any hitmen who she could hire to kill John Krueger and kill Umberto Eribe.

Speaker 3 Svetlana, to her credit, rolled with it, took it right in stride and said, yeah, she did know somebody.

Speaker 1 So the decision was made, let's put a bow on this.

Speaker 23 Kimberly Bailey wants a hitman.

Speaker 18 So the FBI decided, we'll give her a hitman.

Speaker 1 Coming up, agents set up a sting.

Speaker 9 So she bent over me and whispered in my ear for an hour.

Speaker 1 And learn of her next plan for bloodshed.

Speaker 11 And she would have been literally the last person standing in the room with a bloody knife.

Speaker 1 Over a year after Rick Post's mysterious disappearance, his former client and lover, Kimberly Bailey, unwittingly confesses to his murder during a secretly recorded conversation with former KGB spy, Svetlana Ogorodnikova.

Speaker 3 Not only did Kim lay out the entire scenario and her involvement, Kruger's involvement, Iribe's involvement with the kidnap and murder, she also approached Svetlana for help in eliminating Kruger and Iribe.

Speaker 11 She was going down a road where she would have been literally the last person standing in the room with a bloody knife.

Speaker 1 Svetlana agrees to work with investigators once again in a sting operation on December 22nd, 1999, almost a year and a half since Rick's disappearance.

Speaker 3 Svetlana worked with us to help set up a meeting between Kimberly Bailey and who she thought was a hitman that Svetlana was connected to.

Speaker 13 So a meeting was arranged in a hotel room.

Speaker 12 Fortunately for us, the professional hitman was in fact a professional FBI agent.

Speaker 1 Agent Nick McKean takes on the role of hitman.

Speaker 9 Before I met with her, I talked with Svetlana about Kim Bailey and just asked her what kind of person she was. What could I expect her to do?

Speaker 3 We wired up the hotel and Kimberly Bailey and the FBI undercover agent met to discuss Kim's request.

Speaker 1 When she arrives, it's clear that Kimberly's infamous paranoia is in full swing.

Speaker 9 I think she was a little skittish.

Speaker 9 And what I wanted to do was put her at ease, make her feel like I was the guy that she would want to hire.

Speaker 1 Kimberly refuses to talk about the hits. Instead, she pulls a laptop computer out of her bag.

Speaker 1 Kimberly tries to type out the death wish,

Speaker 1 and the laptop does not work.

Speaker 1 Since she can't type her request, Kimberly is forced to say it out loud.

Speaker 9 And so she bent over me and whispered in my ear for an hour.

Speaker 3 The irony is, when she leaned in to whisper that to him, it couldn't have been more loud and clear.

Speaker 1 Kimberly reveals that her hit list has changed since she spoke with Svetlana.

Speaker 1 Only one name remains the same.

Speaker 9 She wanted three people killed. She wanted John Krueger.

Speaker 9 She wanted her attorney, and then she wanted her gardener.

Speaker 6 And I, for the life of me, I couldn't get her to tell me why she wanted her gardener killed.

Speaker 7 Still don't know.

Speaker 1 Kimberly is clear that the murders should not look like intentional killings.

Speaker 9 I told her it will stage an accident.

Speaker 7 You know, something violent will happen to them. They will die.

Speaker 5 Kimberly gave the undercover agent $10,000 as a down payment.

Speaker 1 FBI agents are able to secure arrest warrants for Kimberly and her co-conspirators.

Speaker 3 Unfortunately, at the time that we had the operation ready to go, John Kruger was the only person in the country, and he was arrested first.

Speaker 1 On April 4th of 2000, John Krueger is arrested in San Diego.

Speaker 1 Later that month, authorities locate 54-year-old Kimberly at an airport in Mexico City.

Speaker 1 Armed with 14 pieces of luggage and a Canadian ID,

Speaker 1 it's clear that she's on the run.

Speaker 3 Kimberly Bailey was later arrested at an airport in Mexico and extradited to the United States.

Speaker 1 Kimberly refuses to talk and maintains her innocence.

Speaker 1 Meanwhile, Umberto Uribe remains free in Mexico.

Speaker 1 He is a Mexican national. It oftentimes can take a long time to extradite someone from Mexico to the United States when there is a murder case.

Speaker 1 Prosecutors begin preparing for Kimberly's trial. In addition to Svetlana, they are able to secure another star witness.

Speaker 3 John Kruger was the first to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit kidnapping and offer cooperation to the government.

Speaker 1 John tells investigators that it all started when he became upset with Rick for not paying him what he felt he deserved.

Speaker 1 John Krueger is a bit of a disgruntled employee at the company. He's only making $15 an hour.
He sees that Richard Post is reeling in the dough.

Speaker 1 So John lied. and told Kimberly Rick was stealing from her.

Speaker 3 It was actually John Krueger who dripped the first poison into Kimberly Bailey's ear. Knowing how paranoid Kimberly Bailey was, knowing that this would enrage her.

Speaker 1 When Kimberly asked him to help her find a hitman, he obliged.

Speaker 3 John Krueger orchestrated this plot to get rid of Rick Post so that John could take over the business.

Speaker 1 Between John and Svetlana, the case against Kimberly is strong.

Speaker 1 But prosecutors will soon learn that Kimberly Bailey's will to remain free may be even stronger.

Speaker 1 Kimberly is fight to the death. And it just seems so natural for her to say, I'm not making any deal with anybody.
I'm going to trial because she thinks she's impenetrable.

Speaker 1 Coming up, a shocking claim rocks the courtroom.

Speaker 15 Rick wasn't dead.

Speaker 16 He was living off her money somewhere in Mexico.

Speaker 1 And the twists keep coming.

Speaker 16 You could say that that is the ultimate Hollywood movie ending to a twisted story like this.

Speaker 1 Kimberly Bailey's trial gets underway in 2002.

Speaker 1 The millionaire and entrepreneur is accused of orchestrating the kidnapping, torture, and murder of her one-time lover and private investigator, Rick Post.

Speaker 1 For Rick's family, it's been four years since they last saw him, and the trial has been a long time coming.

Speaker 10 When the court cases happened, it took over again, and we had to relive it again to listen to the horrible details of what they did to my father.

Speaker 10 It was,

Speaker 7 you know, pretty horrific.

Speaker 1 Prosecutors argue that Rick's murder was driven by a deadly combination of revenge and paranoia.

Speaker 6 He was tortured in an effort to get him to cough up a confession on stealing money from her.

Speaker 4 Unfortunately, it appears the problem for Rick was he hadn't stolen any money from her, so he had nothing to confess to.

Speaker 1 On the stand, Svetlana and John walk the jury through Kimberly's cold-hearted scheme. But Kimberly's attorneys argue that not only are these witnesses unreliable, but Rick Post is still alive.

Speaker 18 Kim Bailey's position through the the entire trial was that Rick wasn't dead.

Speaker 16 That Rick stole a lot of money from her, and he was living off her money somewhere in Mexico.

Speaker 1 In July, the jury finds Kimberly Bailey guilty of kidnapping.

Speaker 1 But without a body, they deadlock on the murder charge.

Speaker 1 When it came to the murder, even though we know she said a million times she wanted him killed, there was no body.

Speaker 1 Kimberly fires her attorney and represents herself at her sentencing on the kidnapping conviction.

Speaker 14 Never a good move.

Speaker 5 That's probably the worst type of representation you can have.

Speaker 1 Kimberly receives life plus 10 years in prison.

Speaker 1 John Kruger is rewarded for his cooperation.

Speaker 3 After John Krueger pled guilty, the judge saw fit to sentence him to 12 years in prison.

Speaker 10 I think 12 years was laughable.

Speaker 10 John kicked this whole thing off, blame to my father, saying that he had stolen money.

Speaker 10 He knew the type of person that he was telling this to.

Speaker 1 It takes five more years for the third perpetrator of the crime, hitman Umberto Iribe, to face justice.

Speaker 15 He got popped in Mexico by the authorities down there on an unrelated homicide case.

Speaker 23 Arrangements were made for extradition to bring him back up to the United States to face trial in the Rick Post murder.

Speaker 4 He got 25 years.

Speaker 12 Is that long enough for taking a human life?

Speaker 5 I don't think so.

Speaker 1 Umberto's trial marks the end of a long and painful chapter for the Post family.

Speaker 10 We had a memorial service for my father, and we put a plaque down, and we had a ceremony for him. So that was for us being able to kind of help us to move on.

Speaker 1 In 2008, Kimberly Bailey was diagnosed with cancer in prison.

Speaker 3 She refused any medical treatment and insisted on only using one of her Astro Pulse black box devices to treat her cancer.

Speaker 7 And she died in 2008.

Speaker 16 You could say that that is the ultimate Hollywood movie ending to a twisted story like this.

Speaker 3 The sad thing is,

Speaker 3 a father was murdered, never came home to his son, or the rest of his family.

Speaker 10 There was so much more

Speaker 10 to him.

Speaker 10 You know, the man,

Speaker 10 his work, his craft, his care for his children,

Speaker 7 ultimate family man.

Speaker 10 He was my father, and he was my best friend.

Speaker 6 Svetlana Ogorordnikova passed away in 2022 after a prolonged illness.

Speaker 1 John Kruger was released from prison in 2010. Umberto Oribe was released from prison in December of 2022.