Catherina Voss

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Speaker 1 He was an officer in the Navy serving his country. She was his charismatic wife holding down the fort.

Speaker 7 They really looked like the perfect military family. They had a lovely home.
They had two young children.

Speaker 1 Until this Navy man meets a tragic fate on the night of his return from deployment.

Speaker 5 It was a bloody scene, and his wedding band on his left hand was covered in blood.

Speaker 1 At first, all clues point to a chance encounter.

Speaker 5 You would think it was a random act. The story of the robbery gone bad.

Speaker 1 But appearances can be deceiving.

Speaker 7 She was still a party girl. It didn't matter that she had two children at home.

Speaker 1 The investigation would reveal a deadly romance built on fantasy.

Speaker 3 His MySpace account talks about how he has all this money. He's a famous photographer, filmmaker.

Speaker 7 He was none of the things that he said he was.

Speaker 1 At the center of this twisted plot is a stunning blend of lies, lust, and greed.

Speaker 10 She was spending exorbitant amounts of money.

Speaker 7 It was never enough. You could never have enough.

Speaker 4 You're a manipulative person.

Speaker 11 No, I am not.

Speaker 10 She thought she was going to to get away with this.

Speaker 12 What did she ask you to do? She asked me to take them out.

Speaker 1 Newport News, Virginia, 2007.

Speaker 14 Newport News, Virginia is in close proximity to Norfolk, Virginia. Naval Station Norfolk is the largest Navy base in the world.

Speaker 10 It has a large military population,

Speaker 10 specifically sailors and naval personnel assigned to the surrounding bases.

Speaker 1 At just after 6 a.m. on April 29th, local authorities receive a call that one of those sailors may be in peril.

Speaker 14 Newport News Police Officers.

Speaker 15 Hi,

Speaker 15 I'm sit to see if my husband's gotten into an accident or something and support news.

Speaker 1 The 911 caller, 32-year-old Kat Voss, reports that her 30-year-old husband, Navy Ensign Corey Voss, didn't come home the night before.

Speaker 3 She basically gives them the information about how she sent him to the ATM the night prior to get money so that she could have money to give the kids for their lunches the next day at school.

Speaker 3 And he never returned.

Speaker 14 She had contacted the ship and hospitals looking for him.

Speaker 16 She was very worried and nervous because this is certainly not in keeping with his

Speaker 16 personality.

Speaker 1 Within hours of filing the missing persons report, another 911 call comes in.

Speaker 1 This time from a woman at an area strip mall just down the road from the Voss home.

Speaker 5 A woman who was working at a doctor's office actually was walking to work from her parked car,

Speaker 5 saw a man slumped over in the driver's seat of his truck.

Speaker 3 She called it in because it was a suspicious vehicle and this man needed help immediately.

Speaker 7 When the police came, they realized that it matched the description of the vehicle that Kat had reported missing.

Speaker 14 earlier that day.

Speaker 10 He was discovered deceased in his vehicle. And at this point, it's deemed a homicide investigation.

Speaker 1 The victim also matches the physical description of Corey Voss.

Speaker 1 Police run the license plate number, and the truck belongs to Corey.

Speaker 1 When homicide detectives arrive, they quickly establish the cause of death.

Speaker 14 They discovered that Corey had been shot multiple times. It was a very graphic crime scene.

Speaker 5 He had been shot five times in the abdomen, chest, and arm. It was a bloody scene, and the wedding band on his left hand was covered in blood.

Speaker 7 For something like this to happen to an active service member was especially upsetting and shocking to absolutely everybody.

Speaker 1 At first glance, investigators wonder if robbery could be in play.

Speaker 10 Normally, people that are, you know, trying to commit a robbery or trying to get in and out very quickly, drawing as little attention as possible to them.

Speaker 10 So it seemed like a bit of overkill or just a random robbery. Why was he shot so many times?

Speaker 10 All those are red flags to investigators, where we have to dig deeper into the background of everyone who's involved in Corey's life.

Speaker 1 Corey Voss was born in 1977 in the blue-collar town of Berwin, Illinois.

Speaker 7 Corey Voss grew up in a really loving, close-knit family, but he had been kind of a wild young man.

Speaker 7 His mother had been a little concerned because he hung out with the wrong crowd, but she always had confidence that Corey would find himself and straighten himself out.

Speaker 1 When he turned 18, Corey dropped out of high school, but he was determined to make his family proud and began taking steps towards a career in the military.

Speaker 17 He took a test for getting into like the military trade, scored really well, and that's when he was like, okay, get my GED

Speaker 4 and I'm going to go and see how far I can get with it.

Speaker 7 He enlisted in the Navy. He was a hard worker and he was smart.
It was really where he belonged.

Speaker 1 After his training was complete, Corey was stationed at Naval Station Norfolk in Norfolk, Virginia.

Speaker 7 Corey's superiors saw a lot of potential in him and while he was there they helped him get his degree, his four-year degree.

Speaker 1 In 1999, with Corey's naval career sailing strong, his personal life caught wind as well.

Speaker 7 Corey Voss goes out with his friends for a regular night of having fun and there he meets Kat Wiggins who's also out that night partying with her friends.

Speaker 7 She was curvaceous and blonde and really got the attention of men easily because she was super outgoing, very bubbly personality. She was the life of the party.

Speaker 1 For Corey, 24-year-old Kat's alluring accent was also a draw.

Speaker 3 She told Corey that she was raised in the Ukraine by a Ukrainian father and American mother and then moved back to the States in Newport News when she was in the eighth or ninth grade.

Speaker 7 Corey was completely smitten with her, and those two really hit it off that night.

Speaker 1 Just three months into their whirlwind relationship, Kat revealed some exciting news to Corey.

Speaker 14 Kat was pregnant and she was pregnant with Corey's child.

Speaker 1 Ready to start a family, Kat gave birth to their daughter Casey in 2000. And one year later, the couple welcomed a son, Corey Jr.

Speaker 7 They really looked like the perfect military family. They had a lovely home, they had two young children.

Speaker 1 In 2005, Corey earned his commission as an officer, and he did his best to give his wife the American lifestyle she envisioned.

Speaker 5 They had a middle-class to a fairly well-off lifestyle for Newport News, where, you know, she didn't have to work. They lived in a nice, nicer part of town.

Speaker 5 They seemed to be pretty comfortable financially.

Speaker 1 Corey made the most of his time at home, knowing that his next deployment was always just around the corner.

Speaker 16 He was a great father.

Speaker 4 He just

Speaker 18 did everything for us, you know.

Speaker 18 took us to places and he played sports with me.

Speaker 5 He played baseball.

Speaker 17 My first memory was riding bikes with him. He would take me and my brother outdoors and go on trails.
That was his thing.

Speaker 17 He just always wanted to take me and my brother and go outdoors and just like do whatever we could.

Speaker 1 However, duty called once again in January of 2007. Corey left his young family behind as he deployed aboard the USS Elrod.

Speaker 1 Several months later, when Corey returned from overseas, his family was there to greet him. Kat even prepared a romantic dinner on April 28th for his first night home.

Speaker 7 Corey is just home from deployment, and he and Kat are spending time at home over a candlelight dinner.

Speaker 7 They'd had a nice dinner, it was time for bed, and Kat realized that she didn't have money for the children's lunches and so she sent her husband to the atm right down the road to get money

Speaker 1 only corey never returned by 6 a.m cat had reported her husband missing

Speaker 1 a few hours later Norfolk police officers identified Corey's body in the front seat of his pickup truck.

Speaker 7 The logical assumption would be that he had been shot in the commission of a robbery since he had gone to the ATM the night before.

Speaker 5 Just based on that, you would think it was a random act. The story of the robbery gone bad sounded plausible.

Speaker 3 We're looking for obvious things. Any damage?

Speaker 3 There's an indication of any sort of fight in the vehicle, any sort of struggle in the vehicle, and whether anything was stolen.

Speaker 1 While no interior items seem to be out of place, authorities note that the truck's tailgate is down and its front left hubcap is missing.

Speaker 14 We needed to determine what the motive was for this killing, and we needed to catch his killer or killers.

Speaker 1 Coming up, having avoided danger on the high seas, had Corey come home only to fall victim to a random robbery?

Speaker 10 You see an unknown individual dressed in all black enter Corey's truck from the passenger's side and point a weapon at him.

Speaker 1 Or was this sailor already behind enemy lines?

Speaker 7 It's overkill, it's personal. The motive is not simply a robbery.

Speaker 1 After finding 30-year-old Corey Voss shot to death in his pickup truck, detectives with the Newport News Police Department suspect that the Virginia-based Navy officer may have been the victim of a robbery gone awry.

Speaker 1 Now they face the difficult task of notifying Corey's wife, Kat, of his death.

Speaker 7 Authorities go to her home to inform her that they have found her husband and that he was dead.

Speaker 7 And Kat, she instantly was hysterical and emotional and crying and very upset to the point where the authorities thought they might have to take her to the hospital.

Speaker 1 Kat is given time to collect herself.

Speaker 1 Eventually, she recounts the events leading up to Corey's disappearance.

Speaker 14 Corey Voss had just returned from a deployment aboard the USSL ride. He and Kat had had a romantic dinner.
The kids were in bed.

Speaker 14 Corey had left about 11 o'clock that evening to go to the ATM to withdraw some money for the kids' lunch, and then

Speaker 14 he did not come back home.

Speaker 1 Kat says she became very worried when she awoke and realized Corey still hadn't returned home.

Speaker 10 Kat contacts the ship to see if he may have returned for any reason.

Speaker 10 She also contacted the local hospitals and as well as Newport News Police Department to ascertain if anyone had been involved in a traffic accident, of which Newport News Police Department told her that they had had no traffic accidents that evening.

Speaker 10 So Kat reports him as missing.

Speaker 1 News of the sailor's death hits Corey's two young kids kids the hardest.

Speaker 17 They take me and my brother, you know, into our rooms and kind of just like tell us. And it was like the worst experience ever.

Speaker 17 Dropped to the floor, like didn't even, couldn't even really comprehend at that age.

Speaker 17 You know, they're gone.

Speaker 18 I think it's something that you would see in like a movie

Speaker 18 or just something that doesn't seem real.

Speaker 1 Investigators' next move is to notify the naval station that one of their own has been killed. And word spreads like wildfire.

Speaker 3 When one of our Navy members are involved in some sort of crime or a victim of some sort of crime, NCIS is usually assigned to that local police department to assist them.

Speaker 10 It was obviously on the news, in the media, and to have an active duty naval member killed. And obviously, at first, you don't have any eyewitnesses, you don't have any suspects.

Speaker 10 So to happen in this community was very shocking and concerning to the residents.

Speaker 1 In hopes of seeing who may have attacked Corey, Investigators acquire surveillance footage from the Langley Federal Credit Union, Union, where Kat believes Corey had gone to withdraw money.

Speaker 14 The footage was very grainy, but it did show that Corey came to the ATM and he was attempting to withdraw money.

Speaker 10 He attempted three times to withdraw money.

Speaker 3 We actually pulled the ATM transactions from there and we see that Corey attempts to withdraw $60.

Speaker 3 That came back insufficient funds. Same thing with $40, same thing with $20.

Speaker 1 The video shows Corey returning to his truck. Moments later, Corey is taken by surprise.

Speaker 10 On the surveillance video of the bank, you see an unknown individual dressed in all black enter Corey's truck from the passenger side and point a weapon at him.

Speaker 10 The view was somewhat obstructed and blocked to further identify that person.

Speaker 3 You see the car drive away.

Speaker 3 We assume that based on the location where Corey's vehicle was found adjacent to the bank that they just pulled off and then Corey was shot and killed in his vehicle.

Speaker 10 Based on the limited number of facts known at the time, it was a consideration consideration that this individual is trying to commit a robbery, hoping to get an amount of money, and then gets angered because they don't get any money.

Speaker 1 The more detectives consider this theory, the more unlikely they find it.

Speaker 3 People that are going to commit robbery, they want to do their business, get some sort of tangible thing from that person, whatever that might be. and leave and get out of there.

Speaker 3 This particular instance with the murder of Corey is overkill. So this seemed like it was something personal.

Speaker 1 Investigators take a deep dive into Corey's life to see if they can identify any possible enemies.

Speaker 10 When talking with Corey's executive officer and other individuals that work with him on the ship and in the Navy, No one had anything bad to say about Corey.

Speaker 1 When investigators circle back to Corey's bereaved widow, she too struggles to identify a motive.

Speaker 10 So no indication that there was anything amiss at home.

Speaker 10 It all seemed that he had a good marriage with cats.

Speaker 10 His family life seemed normal.

Speaker 7 Authorities were stumped as to who might want to harm Corey Voss. He was so well loved.
They were going on not knowing where to turn next.

Speaker 1 Then, within 24 hours of Corey's death, a phone call comes in that offers up hope.

Speaker 10 The turning point in the investigation is when Newport News Police Department receives a call on their tip line.

Speaker 3 They find out Cat Voss was having affairs with men while Corey was deployed.

Speaker 1 Coming up, the caller caller reveals the depths of Kat's deception.

Speaker 7 Cat boss was bringing men home on a regular basis while her children were asleep upstairs.

Speaker 1 And sinister desires come to the surface.

Speaker 10 He wanted to have Corey's life. He wanted to be Corey.

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Speaker 1 24 hours after 30-year-old naval officer and father of two Corey Voss was found shot to death in a strip mall parking lot, investigators have yet to identify a suspect in his murder.

Speaker 7 They interviewed his colleagues on the ship, his friends, his family, and from all intents and purposes, it seemed like Corey had no enemies.

Speaker 7 He was a great guy, which made it very difficult to figure out who wanted Corey Voss dead.

Speaker 1 Then, on April 30th, a tip line set up by the municipal and federal task force investigating Corey's death yields a promising lead.

Speaker 14 There was a call that came in, and the individual indicated that the police need to take a closer look at Kat.

Speaker 7 That person was one of Kat Voss's best friends. She had spent a lot of time with her and had a lot of knowledge on the inner workings of Kat Voss's life.

Speaker 7 As soon as she saw news footage that morning of of a truck with a murdered Corey Voss in it, she knew to call the authorities.

Speaker 1 Kat's longtime friend, Ashley Doyle, arrives at the Newport News Police Department ready for an interview.

Speaker 7 They would learn from Ashley Doyle that Kat was still a party girl. It didn't matter that she had two children at home.

Speaker 14 Kat was an individual who craved attention and certainly from men.

Speaker 14 She loved the fact that that when Corey was gone and he was deployed, she had the freedom to go out.

Speaker 7 Kat Voss was bringing men home on a regular basis while her children were asleep upstairs to have any number of sexual affairs.

Speaker 1 Ashley reveals that Kat had a unique tactic when it came to attracting the opposite sex.

Speaker 10 Ashley, you know, disclosed that she would often be at the bars portraying a Ukrainian accent.

Speaker 1 But according to Ashley, Kat wasn't even born there.

Speaker 14 She was born and grew up in Newport News, Virginia.

Speaker 5 It was just a way for her to seem exotic and seem cool or seem different. She liked the idea of being from somewhere else, so she tried to play that part.

Speaker 14 Kat even told Corey's family that she was from Ukraine. She spoke with an accent all the time.
We're starting to see Kat is a very selfish person and looked out for herself at the expense of others.

Speaker 1 Ashley says in late 2006, during Corey's deployment several months before his murder, Kat began a full-blown relationship with a man she met online, Michael Draven.

Speaker 10 Kat had met an an individual on MySpace by the name of Michael Draven, who was essentially her boyfriend.

Speaker 1 Investigators find Michael Draven has a robust online presence.

Speaker 3 His MySpace account talks about how he has all this money. He's a famous photographer, filmmaker.

Speaker 7 He put forth a fascinating profile.

Speaker 7 Eyeliner, fedora, movie maker, making six figures in a really lovely home. He seemed to be an up-and-coming photographer and really a mover and shaker in the world.

Speaker 1 But as investigators dig deeper, they find that, like Kat, Michael also enjoyed pretending to be someone he wasn't.

Speaker 3 Michael Draven is not his real name.

Speaker 7 Michael Draven was none of the things that he said he was. His name was Anthony Neff.

Speaker 10 He lived with his mother in Newport News, Virginia, and to earn money he delivered papers. So he didn't have the successful filmmaking career as he portrayed himself to having.

Speaker 10 We learned through his family he had actually changed his name to Michael Draven to mirror the character out of the movie The Crow.

Speaker 7 Michael Draven and Kat Voss were a perfect match because neither of them were real people. They were both people who had giant outsized imaginations of who they actually were in life.

Speaker 1 But the biggest red flag comes when investigators look at Michael's social media posts in the days following Corey's death.

Speaker 14 Draven was actually posting photos of Kat and Corey's children indicating that they were his children.

Speaker 10 Michael Draven

Speaker 10 wanted to be Corey.

Speaker 10 He wanted to have Corey's life and be involved with Kat and the children just like as if he were her husband and he was their father.

Speaker 1 Did Michael go so far in his desire to be Corey to actually kill?

Speaker 1 And was Kat pulling the strings?

Speaker 1 Investigators decide to take a look at Kat's financial records.

Speaker 10 Kat, as the spouse of the next of kin of Corey, upon his death, pretty immediately received the $100,000 death benefit from the military. That's normally paid out fairly quickly.

Speaker 1 While the case stalls, detectives keep a close watch on Kat's accounts. And in the three months following Corey's murder, they notice her spending has spiraled out of control.

Speaker 10 She was spending exorbitant amounts of money.

Speaker 10 She went on a trip to the outer Banks of North Carolina with Michael Draven and with the children, spending money at the hotel, restaurants, jewelry, clothing.

Speaker 14 She put Draven up in an apartment and paid the rent for this apartment so that he was able to move out of the trailer with his mom.

Speaker 3 Kat had blown through that money in about three months.

Speaker 14 The entire $100,000 she had blown.

Speaker 19 Kat was initially due an additional $400,000 from Corey's life insurance policy.

Speaker 10 However, before she could receive the full amount, she had to be cleared of any involvement or any wrongdoing related to the death of Corey.

Speaker 3 Unbeknownst to her, The detectives had put a hold on her money because she was under investigation.

Speaker 3 Now, Kat did not know that at the time, and she she was obviously getting very upset because she wasn't getting the rest of her money.

Speaker 14 Kat was sending emails to the insurance company discussing how difficult it was for her psychologically, emotionally, that she was unable to pay her bills.

Speaker 14 Obviously, receiving this money and how quickly she burned through the money and what she was spending it on was a clue to us that perhaps the motive for this killing was money.

Speaker 1 Investigators have plenty of suspicions, but what they need is proof. They place wiretaps on both Kat and Michael's cell phones.
The move works. The couple begins communicating almost non-stop.

Speaker 7 They're speaking to each other constantly. It's very clear, though, that they're nervous and very scared of what's going to happen next.

Speaker 15 We want some money.

Speaker 11 More money.

Speaker 1 Coming up, investigators close in on a new suspect.

Speaker 21 Said that you and David was talking.

Speaker 4 Uh-huh.

Speaker 14 All of us just gasped because it was a surreal moment. You don't get this every day.

Speaker 1 And when investigators confront Michael Draven, his loyalty to cat will be tested.

Speaker 4 And you could not do that.

Speaker 12 No,

Speaker 12 I can't tell her.

Speaker 1 In the months after the murder of U.S. Navy Ensign Corey Voss, investigators are squarely focused on his wife Kat and her lover, Michael Draven.

Speaker 3 So we had wiretaps on Draven and Kat's cell phones and home phones.

Speaker 3 The whole point of the wiretap was to try to elicit conversations between them so that we we could determine whether, number one, confirm their relationship, also determine if they talk about Corey's murder.

Speaker 14 During the review of these conversations, Kat indicated that she had been talking to someone named David.

Speaker 18 You and David was talking.

Speaker 6 Uh-huh. You told him what's going on?

Speaker 15 Yes, I did. He wanted more money.

Speaker 6 More money.

Speaker 10 So that led to who is this David and what is his involvement with this investigation.

Speaker 3 Once that name was being said, we researched Draymond's MySpace account and determined that he had a friend by the name of David Runyon.

Speaker 10 What we learned about David Runyon was that he was in fact in the Army at one point. He was a sharpshooter in the Army.

Speaker 1 On December 11th, almost eight months after Corey's murder, detectives make a bold move.

Speaker 7 They staked out his home, and as soon as David Runyon left, they executed a search warrant.

Speaker 10 Within that residence at the trailer, we located a backpack that belonged to David Runyon. And in that backpack, we found a handwritten shopping list.

Speaker 10 And on that list was a tarp, boots, a knife, and a black hooded sweatshirt.

Speaker 14 That's very important because the individual that entered Corey's vehicle at the ATM at Langley Federal Credit Union was wearing all black.

Speaker 10 We found that a box of Winchester 357 ammunition.

Speaker 10 Five rounds were missing from that box, which is important because there were five rounds fired at Corey Voss. And ultimately, you know, that is what killed him.

Speaker 1 After trailing David Runyon, officers pull him over and place him under arrest.

Speaker 10 David was cooperative, seemingly unfazed by the traffic stop, didn't show any emotion to the police or to the agents that were there. We conducted the search of his vehicle at that time.

Speaker 14 In the center console of the vehicle, underneath the compartment, we discovered a photograph of Kat and Draven, and we also discovered a map of the Tidewater, Virginia area.

Speaker 1 The map offers the most damning clue.

Speaker 14 What was important about this map was handwritten on the map, Corey's name.

Speaker 14 Also, Langley Federal Credit Union, and a description of Corey's car down to the part that his tailgate on his truck would be down and that he was missing a hubcap.

Speaker 14 When we found the map in the vehicle, all of us just gasped

Speaker 14 because it was a surreal moment. You don't get this every day.

Speaker 1 27-year-old David is arrested on the spot and taken in for questioning.

Speaker 21 You've got a map in the console of your truck of Newport News, Virginia.

Speaker 6 And somewhere in here, you've got written Langley Federal Credit Union,

Speaker 21 97 Gray Ford Ranger, Hubcat missing, tailgate down, J.

Speaker 6 Morris Boulevard, Corey.

Speaker 5 Could you explain that for me?

Speaker 8 I don't remember writing that.

Speaker 21 You have a picture of Michael Draven and Cat Boss.

Speaker 19 All we're asking you to do is confirm what we already know.

Speaker 4 We're asking you to tell us that Cat and Draven put you up to this.

Speaker 5 They're going to make you up to be a monster, man.

Speaker 5 You're going to be a hired killer.

Speaker 1 No matter how much pressure investigators exert, David remains unfazed.

Speaker 8 I don't know if it sounds like me, I need you to laure.

Speaker 1 Word of David's arrest has somehow made its way to Michael and Kat.

Speaker 14 Wire was still up. We were still monitoring conversations between Kat and Draven.

Speaker 14 And at that point in time, they had learned that David had been arrested for Corey's murder. And Draven was completely agitated about this news and very distraught.

Speaker 1 Once they begin their search for Michael, investigators don't have a hard time finding him.

Speaker 7 Michael Draven was so despondent that people called in reporting seeing this man wandering around Newport News looking very upset and sad, potentially suicidal.

Speaker 7 And authorities were really worried at that point that Michael Draven would kill himself and that they wouldn't be able to question him. So they immediately went out looking for him.

Speaker 14 They located him essentially roaming around on the street. And that's when they picked him up and transported him to the police station to interview him.

Speaker 1 At the police station, Michael is ready to tell all and readily admits his involvement in the plan to kill Corey Voss.

Speaker 1 Michael tells them that that back in January, Kat first brought up the idea of murdering Corey, and she wanted Michael to do it.

Speaker 12 What did she ask you to do? She asked me to take him out.

Speaker 6 Well, what did that mean to you?

Speaker 12 Shoot him?

Speaker 6 Or strangle him or kill him? And you could not do that.

Speaker 12 No,

Speaker 12 I can't tell a person.

Speaker 1 But Michael says he didn't have to look further than his friend, David Runyon.

Speaker 16 Michael Draven met Runyon at the hospital.

Speaker 5 They were both human guinea pigs.

Speaker 16 They would get, you know, locked up for a week or two, get paid money to take these experimental drugs.

Speaker 7 So Michael Draven asks David Runyon if he knew anybody that could kill somebody for him.

Speaker 7 David Runyon says he's happy to do that himself.

Speaker 14 David Runyon's motivation was money, and he saw an opportunity

Speaker 14 and when it presented himself he jumped on it.

Speaker 7 Once Michael Draven figures out that David Runyon is all in, the three start communicating, Kat, Michael, and David, to figure out a plan.

Speaker 10 The plan was that, you know, Kat would obviously create this roux, so to speak, to send Corey to the Langley Federal Credit Union ATM on this particular night around this particular time and that she and Michael had coordinated with David to make it look like a robbery and in fact kill Corey.

Speaker 7 Kat and David agree on the amount, the $20,000 that he's going to get for killing Corey Voss.

Speaker 1 According to Michael, nine days before the murder, Kat took one final step in preparation.

Speaker 14 Kat had opened the account at the credit union prior to his death, setting up the location of the murder. Just a couple of miles away from their home.

Speaker 1 Coming up, the tables turn as now Kat is the one falling into a trap. I'm so over the place and I'm freaking out, okay?

Speaker 14 I'll try to get you right now.

Speaker 1 And faced with the truth, Kat bears all.

Speaker 11 What was he on here?

Speaker 11 We're

Speaker 11 going to find someone to take Corey out.

Speaker 1 In his confession on December 13th, 2007, Michael Draven admitted to participating in the murder for hire plot that claimed the life of Naval Officer Corey Boss.

Speaker 1 Michael says on the night of April 29th, 2007, Kat sent Corey out on an errand that she hoped he would never return from.

Speaker 5 She sends him out to the ATM and asks him to withdraw money.

Speaker 5 He goes to the ATM like the dutiful husband doing what his wife had asked him to do.

Speaker 10 But the bank account only had $5 in it due to the fact that

Speaker 10 Kat had recently opened that account and it was a minimum of $5

Speaker 10 to open it, which is why when Corey was trying to withdraw the money from the ATM, he could not withdraw the money due to insufficient funds.

Speaker 1 Investigators believe Kat purposely left insufficient funds in the account to give hired hitman David Runyon enough time to ambush Corey.

Speaker 1 Once in the truck, David ordered Corey to drive to a strip mall parking lot across the street.

Speaker 7 When he pulls into the parking lot across the street from the ATM, he shoots Corey boss five times.

Speaker 1 Michael insists that he wasn't present for the murder, only the planning.

Speaker 3 Draven was totally blindsided with love with Kat, but I also believe that Kat controlled him.

Speaker 1 Despite the recorded conversation about paying david runyon michael claims they never gave him anything

Speaker 12 she never gave him anything i never gave him anything

Speaker 1 investigators are ready to arrest cat and they ask for michael's help

Speaker 14 newport news police had uh draven call cat from the police station and tell her that he had been questioned and he was being released and that she needed to come and pick him up.

Speaker 1 Cops are all over the place, and I'm freaking out, okay?

Speaker 14 I'll find the gate right now.

Speaker 7 Cops were hiding and waiting for her to pull up, and as soon as she does, they take her into custody and bring her inside for an interrogation.

Speaker 1 During the interview, detectives immediately notice Kat has dropped the Ukrainian accent. And without preamble, she places blame for the murder on Michael Draven.

Speaker 2 I feel like I was gonna get pushed and pushed, and now I'm mad because I'm feeling it wasn't used.

Speaker 21 Y'all came up with an idea?

Speaker 6 No, he came up with this idea.

Speaker 6 What was the idea?

Speaker 11 For

Speaker 11 him to find someone to take Corey out.

Speaker 1 Investigators call her bluff.

Speaker 21 You're a manipulative person.

Speaker 6 No, I am not.

Speaker 21 You've manipulated everyone.

Speaker 14 It was clear that she was not going to take 100% ownership of Corey's murder, and she was, in fact,

Speaker 14 deflecting the blame and indicating that it was not her idea.

Speaker 1 By the time the case makes its way into the hands of prosecutors in 2008, they are determined to hold all three players accountable.

Speaker 7 The crime was considered a federal one and not a local or a state because of the fact that Corey Voss was a military member.

Speaker 16 The feds initially wanted to get the death penalty against all three of them.

Speaker 14 Kat ended up taking a plea because this was a death penalty investigation in case, and she wanted to take that off the table.

Speaker 16 But it was up to the United States Attorney in exchange for her pleading guilty.

Speaker 11 He gave Kat a life sentence.

Speaker 14 Both Michael Draven and David Runyon went to trial.

Speaker 14 For Draven, he was found guilty and sentenced to life without parole.

Speaker 14 And David Runyon was sentenced to death.

Speaker 1 With Kat's guilty plea, the motive that investigators suspected all along is confirmed.

Speaker 10 She thought she was going to get away with this. She would come out with, you know, $500,000 richer and be able to live her life with Michael Draven.

Speaker 7 She sought to find men who would support her and her spending ways, but it was never enough. You could never have enough.

Speaker 14 There is no doubt that Cat Voss was the driving force behind Corey's death.

Speaker 14 Clearly, she stopped at nothing to get what she wanted.

Speaker 18 I feel like I just have nothing to say to my mom after what she did.

Speaker 18 I don't know if I would ever forgive her.

Speaker 17 I want my dad to be remembered as someone who put family first and also worked at bettering themselves so that they could take care of, you know, the legacy they have.

Speaker 4 Neither Kat nor Michael are eligible for parole.

Speaker 22 David Runyon sits on federal death row in an Indiana prison.

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