Angelina Hamrick

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Speaker 3 She was a Russian bombshell and he was an American hero. Their whirlwind romance overseas would reunite them in the USA.

Speaker 10 He was very, very nice man, very respectful,

Speaker 10 very gentleman,

Speaker 10 and she fell in love with him.

Speaker 7 He was in love and she was pregnant. He was excited about becoming a father.
They bought this big house on five acres next to a winery.

Speaker 3 But the life they worked so hard to build would end tragically.

Speaker 5 911, where is your emergency?

Speaker 11 There's a dead body laying at the end of our driveway.

Speaker 13 The body looked like it had been dragged. The clothing was torn.
It was shredded.

Speaker 7 We got there and there was police all over.

Speaker 3 As the mystery unfolds, secrets are exposed.

Speaker 1 There's now this love triangle that they have to investigate.

Speaker 1 Don't bring your boyfriend and your husband on the cruise at the same time.

Speaker 3 The case would culminate with a sting operation worthy of an international spy drama.

Speaker 1 It was like over a thousand dollars worth of recording equipment that she destroyed.

Speaker 1 Basically, the world is narrowing for her.

Speaker 2 From what they're telling me, yeah, there's blood. Please don't show me blood.
Please don't. I'm going to pass out.

Speaker 7 He could not go up against somebody like that because he has a conscience and she doesn't.

Speaker 2 There is no other suspect.

Speaker 13 Everything points to you.

Speaker 3 On Sunday, June 30th, 2019, in the rural town of Butler, Indiana, John and Amy Oliver are preparing to attend a family birthday party.

Speaker 3 Amy's son, Jason Hamrick, and his three young boys, who reside four hours away in Ohio, were also supposed to travel to Indiana to attend the family gathering.

Speaker 7 One of my great nieces was having a birthday party,

Speaker 7 and it was going to be at my mother's,

Speaker 7 and he was going to bring the boys down on Sunday.

Speaker 7 We were just getting ready to leave the house.

Speaker 7 I did call him on Friday and I didn't get an answer and I didn't really worry about it because sometimes when he was working or something like that, you know, he just didn't have time.

Speaker 7 Jason's boys contacted me and wanted to know if I had seen their dad. And I said, well, you guys are supposed to be on your way up here.

Speaker 7 And they said, well, I seen him on Friday and his cars are here, but he's not.

Speaker 6 Amy, she ends up texting Jason. She says, I'm going to call the police in five minutes if you don't respond.
Of course, he doesn't respond.

Speaker 12 And we just looked at each other and, you know, we knew right away there was a problem.

Speaker 7 John said, do you want me to call the sheriff? And I said, yes.

Speaker 3 Sensing something is wrong, Amy and John Oliver asked the sheriff in Bethel, Ohio to make a welfare check on 42-year-old Jason Hamrick.

Speaker 12 These family events were pretty important for Jason, especially a get-together with the birthday party. His children would be able to play with a bunch of kids there, you know,

Speaker 13 and

Speaker 12 he wouldn't miss anything like that. And if he did, you would know.

Speaker 1 Immediately, alarm bells went off for them. They picked up what they were doing, hopped in the car, and took a four-hour drive to get out to Jason's house because they knew something was wrong.

Speaker 3 Born and raised in northern Indiana, Jason Hamrick enjoyed an all-American childhood.

Speaker 7 On the 10th of March, 1977, Jason was born at 8.20 in the evening, and he was a big baby. He grew in to be a real easy kid to be around.
He was quiet, pretty shy.

Speaker 7 He wasn't a kid that got into a lot of sports or anything like that, but he did enjoy cars and he liked to learn all about them.

Speaker 3 Jason's passion for mechanical engineering led him to join the Air Force after he graduated from high school in 1996.

Speaker 12 Jason worked as a mechanic on planes when he first started out in the Air Force.

Speaker 12 He was, you know, basically stationed all over the world.

Speaker 7 He loved to travel and that was one thing he enjoyed about the military. He went to Korea and he was there for a year.

Speaker 3 While in Korea, Jason found love where he never expected it when he met 23-year-old Russian transplant Angelina Vladimirovna.

Speaker 3 The two had an instant chemistry, and Jason was enthralled with the blonde bombshell.

Speaker 9 Angelina met Jason in the Air Force. Her father had a nightclub in South Korea and she was a cocktail waitress out there and she met Jason.

Speaker 3 Angelina was born in Russia in 1986 and she grew up in the town of Vladivostok. The coastal city borders China and North Korea.

Speaker 3 Her father found an opportunity to open a nightclub in Seoul, which led Angelina to the South Korean capital.

Speaker 2 Beautiful girl, very tall, very fashioned.

Speaker 3 She was a little bit quiet, little bit reserved.

Speaker 7 Jason was infatuated with her. She was pretty and funny and loved to travel.

Speaker 10 She said what he was a very, very nice man, very respectful,

Speaker 10 very gentleman.

Speaker 10 And she fell in love with him.

Speaker 3 The couple had what could only be described as a whirlwind romance. But in early 2009, Jason's overseas tour ended, and so did the fun.

Speaker 6 They both go back to their respective countries. She goes back to Russia.
He goes back to North Carolina.

Speaker 3 But the two had fallen in love. And over the phone, Jason asked Angelina to come to America to be with him.
And she agreed.

Speaker 7 He was in love. And as soon as he got back to the States, he did start proceedings, you know, to how to get her over here.

Speaker 3 And what's more, Angelina revealed news that Jason hadn't anticipated.

Speaker 7 She was pregnant. He was excited about becoming a father.

Speaker 7 It was kind of hard on him because he was so far away.

Speaker 3 Unable to make it to the States in time for Jason to be present for the birth of their son, Angelina delivered their first child in Russia in November of 2009.

Speaker 7 She came over in March, and it wasn't long after that that they got married, and then she stayed over here.

Speaker 3 Once in the States, Angelina traded in her blonde locks for her natural brown hair as she settled into her new role as an American mom.

Speaker 3 The military family bounced around the U.S. for the next several years and welcomed two more sons.

Speaker 3 In 2015, 2015, Jason was stationed at an Air Force recruiting office in Cincinnati. 40 miles away in Bethel, Ohio, they found their dream home.

Speaker 9 It was just beautiful. A full deck in the backyard with an in-ground pool.
It was just a very, very pretty two-story house.

Speaker 3 Despite outward appearances, settling in small-town Ohio wasn't an easy transition for Angelina.

Speaker 10 Angelina being lonely

Speaker 10 and because she

Speaker 10 don't have any kind of support community around her,

Speaker 10 I'm thinking her kids, it was

Speaker 2 just

Speaker 10 main goal for her life

Speaker 2 and

Speaker 10 she did everything possible to be with her kids.

Speaker 3 Angelina's sense of isolation paired with Jason's military travel, caused a rift in the marriage.

Speaker 3 That's when Jason made the decision to give up the career he'd worked so hard for to focus on his family.

Speaker 6 Jason was actually looking to retire from the United States Air Force and start a snap-on tools truck business.

Speaker 3 In January of 2018, Angelina convinced Jason that a trip could put the spark back into their marriage.

Speaker 12 They They were having problems and Amy and I went down to Bethel to babysit the kids and they went on a cruise with another couple.

Speaker 3 Joining the Hamricks was another Air Force couple, 32-year-old Michael Drew Clark and his wife.

Speaker 3 Michael worked with Jason as a recruiter in Cincinnati and the two had become friends.

Speaker 3 But when the Hamricks returned from the cruise, it was clear to both Jason and Angelina that the marriage was over.

Speaker 7 I think it was in March of 2018 he filed for divorce.

Speaker 3 The couple agreed to do what was in the best interest of their three young boys and decided to live under the same roof, albeit in separate bedrooms.

Speaker 12 Jason was a good father and he was interested in helping take care of

Speaker 12 and he really wanted the best for him.

Speaker 3 Over the next year, the situation seemed stable. But on June 30th, 2019,

Speaker 3 everything changed.

Speaker 3 After being contacted by Jason's mother, Amy Oliver, deputies from the Claremont County Sheriff's Office soon arrive at the Hamrick's home.

Speaker 13 Angelina Hamrick allowed them to enter the home and

Speaker 13 they expressed why they were there.

Speaker 3 Having not yet spoken to Jason's parents, Angelina seems surprised to learn that Jason is feared missing.

Speaker 8 Is it normal to go a day or two without talking to him or having contact with him?

Speaker 9 Yes.

Speaker 5 She said that even though they were staying in the same house, they both came and went as they chose.

Speaker 5 Was anybody supposed to come and pick him up?

Speaker 8 Were you supposed to go anywhere?

Speaker 14 Well, even if he stopped, he wouldn't tell me.

Speaker 1 Angelina told the officers the last time she had seen him was on Friday evening, that she took the boys out to get pizza.

Speaker 1 When she came home, she didn't see him, but she assumed that he was asleep in his bedroom because at that point they had separate bedrooms.

Speaker 3 As deputies continue their conversation with Angelina, one steps away to see if Jason's recruitment office has heard from him, and they offer up a disturbing lead.

Speaker 15 Officers on scene spoke to one of the people he worked with at his recruiting station, and in that conversation, they were concerned that Jason may have even been suicidal.

Speaker 3 Coming up, fears mount about the serviceman when they discover something else missing.

Speaker 13 They did discover an empty handgun box, a 9mm semi-automatic handgun, and the whereabouts of that gun were unknown.

Speaker 3 But a blunt admission sets the the investigation on a new course.

Speaker 15 Do you have a man that you see other than him?

Speaker 2 Oh, do you? My husband's ex-Co-Watcher.

Speaker 3 Concerns are mounting in Bethel, Ohio, regarding the whereabouts of 42-year-old Air Force Tech Sergeant Jason Hamrick.

Speaker 3 Missing for two days, allegations have surfaced that the serviceman may be in danger.

Speaker 5 Deputies on the scene spoke to Jason's commander at the Air Force.

Speaker 5 Things that he said about Jason's mindset, it led me to believe that Jason may have been suicidal at that point because of what was going on in the relationship.

Speaker 5 Jason's vehicle was still at the house, so we knew that he either got picked up by a friend or he left on his own on foot.

Speaker 1 Given the fact he's going through this divorce and his marriage is over, Jason possibly being suicidal was something that the missing persons report officers considered and something they looked at.

Speaker 3 Jason's 33-year-old estranged wife, Angelina, reiterates that it wasn't unusual for her not to see or speak to Jason for days.

Speaker 1 Her representations of their relationship was we might live in the same house, but I don't know where he goes. He doesn't know where I go.

Speaker 3 While the Claremont County deputies hunt for Jason, Angelina consents to a search of the home.

Speaker 5 She was very cooperative. She allowed him to check the property.

Speaker 5 There was no indications of any foul play. It was well kept.
It was clean. There weren't any obvious stains.
There weren't any indications of a struggle.

Speaker 3 Though Jason's car is accounted for, his phone is not. And there's something else missing.

Speaker 13 They did discover an empty handgun box, box, a 9mm semi-automatic handgun, and the whereabouts of that gun were unknown.

Speaker 3 Hoping to spare the children from the police presence, Jason's mother and stepfather arrived from Indiana.

Speaker 1 They were probably only at the house for 15 or 20 minutes to pick up the boys. At that point, they knew that something horrible had happened.

Speaker 3 At 7:48 p.m., the family's fears fears come true when the sheriff's office receives a 911 call from a neighbor of the Hamrex.

Speaker 1 He and his wife lived about half a mile away from the Hamricks on the same road, Swings Corner Point Isabel Road.

Speaker 13 They were away running errands, and on their return, they looked over to the side and observed something in the ditch line.

Speaker 3 911, where is your emergency?

Speaker 2 There's a dead body laying at the end of our driveway. Oh, my God.

Speaker 2 I'm sorry?

Speaker 11 Yes, it's laying in the ditch.

Speaker 2 It's a man, and my wife just wants to have seen it.

Speaker 13 After we received the 911 call, I responded to that scene.

Speaker 13 The body was face up, and it was clothed. But what got our attention was that the body was covered with grass clippings.

Speaker 15 Based on the size of the body and the deceased didn't have any hair, we were pretty confident that the physical descriptions we had were consistent with Chase and Hammer.

Speaker 3 Investigators brush off the grass to reveal the source of their victim's injuries.

Speaker 13 Grass clippings were placed on top of the face, over the torso, the legs. There was no question in our minds that someone was trying to cover up or conceal the body.

Speaker 13 We discovered what appeared to be a head wound. We suspected it to be a gunshot.

Speaker 5 There was no weapon in sight.

Speaker 5 Not seeing a weapon that would eliminate self-harm. I was pretty confident we had a motor on our hands.

Speaker 3 Detectives find evidence that suggests how the body got there to begin with.

Speaker 5 The clothing was

Speaker 13 torn.

Speaker 5 It was

Speaker 13 shredded. So we discovered that the body looked like it had been dragged.

Speaker 13 We knew that if his body had been dragged there or shot, that we may have a second crime scene.

Speaker 3 Jason Hamrick's body is taken to the Claremont County Medical Examiner's office while detectives scour the scene for trace evidence.

Speaker 13 Once we completed our investigation at the body location, we traveled up a half mile to the Hamrick residence.

Speaker 1 They tell Angelina, hey, we'd like you to come down to the sheriff's office for an interview, and she agrees.

Speaker 3 Once at the station, investigators notify Angelina they've found what they believe to be the body of her husband. But her response seems strange to police.

Speaker 2 How did it happen?

Speaker 13 I don't know.

Speaker 2 I don't know.

Speaker 2 Is it blood?

Speaker 2 I'm sorry. Is it blood?

Speaker 2 Well, from what they're telling me, yeah, there's blood. Please don't show me blood.
Please don't. I want to pass out.

Speaker 8 She refuses to identify the body. Angelina Hammer tells the police that she's squeamish.

Speaker 3 Angelina then shares her whereabouts the night Jason disappeared.

Speaker 5 She told me that they were outside and they were having a bonfire and that at some point Jason went inside the residence. She told me that she last saw Jason around 9 p.m.

Speaker 5 She claimed he was sleeping on the couch. And at that point, she had taken the boys to go get pizza.

Speaker 5 So the Friday, when you guys come home from the pizza, you didn't see him after that?

Speaker 14 His door was shut in his room, and I was in his sleep.

Speaker 3 After that, Angelina claims she didn't bother to check on him and reaffirms she had no idea he was missing.

Speaker 5 She was cooperative. When we asked her for things, such as her credit card, to verify that she had made a pizza purchase, she offered up that information readily.
She even provided a receipt.

Speaker 3 Then, out of nowhere, Angelina drops a bombshell.

Speaker 2 Let me ask you this: Do you have a man that you see other than him? Uh, yeah,

Speaker 2 his name is Drew.

Speaker 13 Drew?

Speaker 2 How do you know Drew?

Speaker 2 Uh, it's my husband's ex-co-worker.

Speaker 1 Angelina and Michael Clark, whom she refers to as Drew, begin their affair in October of 2017.

Speaker 1 They basically meet at one of Jason's work functions. They get drunk and they have sex.
And their relationship starts from there.

Speaker 3 Angelina admits they continued their affair ever since that initial encounter.

Speaker 2 Do you love Drew?

Speaker 9 Yes.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 14 He's going through the keywords right now, too.

Speaker 2 Basically, because of me.

Speaker 3 Detectives now consider the theory that even though Michael Drew Clark was technically still married, he may have had a jealous motive to commit murder.

Speaker 3 Detectives let Angelina go and shift focus to their new person of interest, Michael Drew Clark.

Speaker 5 Once she mentions that she's having an affair, that's important information because that would give someone else a motive to commit this crime or to hurt Jason.

Speaker 3 Coming up, detectives find evidence that puts Jason's murder close to home.

Speaker 13 When we took the tarp and we spread it out, there had been a large void cut out of this tarp, large enough for a body to be placed in.

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Speaker 9 She said to me that night, the courts are really giving me no choice but to either take the kids and go back to Russia or to kill them.

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Speaker 3 Hours after a body is found that's presumed to be that of Air Force officer Jason Hamrick, dental records prove what the family had feared.

Speaker 1 They actually do confirm that it's Jason's body.

Speaker 3 They also discover that the bullet that entered the top of his head lodged in his jaw and was a 9mm,

Speaker 3 the same caliber as the gun missing from the Hamrick home.

Speaker 3 Investigators begin to look into Angelina Hamrick's confessed lover.

Speaker 5 She admitted to me that she was having an affair with one of Jason's former coworkers, a man named Michael Andrew Clark. Immediately after, we put out a bullo.

Speaker 3 While police search for Michael, who now lives in Texas, authorities call Jason's family in Butler, Indiana to give them the tragic news.

Speaker 7 This kind of sounds awful. It was a relief.

Speaker 3 I was so afraid we would never know what happened to him.

Speaker 3 The following morning, investigators make the four-hour drive to to speak with Jason Hamrick's mother, stepfather, and three children in person.

Speaker 3 Detectives ask the Olivers about the affair between Angelina and Michael Drew Clark.

Speaker 7 He told my mother that he thought she was having an affair.

Speaker 7 And actually, my mother is the one that told me.

Speaker 3 The Olivers share that Jason believed the affair began in 2017 before the couple had separated.

Speaker 3 And apparently, even though Michael had been restationed in Texas, Angelina devised a plan to keep their affair going.

Speaker 1 In January of 2018, Angelina and Michael decide it's a great idea to go on a cruise with their two spouses and each other. So all four of them go on a cruise together.

Speaker 7 And they weren't gone very long and Jason called and said, I'm coming home. Can you pick me up at the airport? airport?

Speaker 7 And I believe that's when he found out she was having the affair.

Speaker 1 Don't bring your boyfriend and your husband on the cruise at the same time.

Speaker 7 In March of 2018,

Speaker 2 he

Speaker 7 filed for divorce.

Speaker 7 And then that's when things really got wicked.

Speaker 7 At the beginning, they both were allowed to live in the house. But she went to the courts and said he was disruptive.
And so they made him leave.

Speaker 3 Jason was forced to move out. And for the next year, he agonized over not being able to be with his boys every day.

Speaker 12 She had custody of the children and was living in the house. So then he was kind of living in small apartments, hotel rooms, whatever.

Speaker 3 At the same time, Jason was ordered to pay Angelina $1,700 a month for child support.

Speaker 7 They had all this money set back and ready for retirement, and it all went to the divorce. So he was just emotionally a wreck.

Speaker 3 But things changed in February of 2019 when Jason learned from his young children they were often alone for hours at a time.

Speaker 5 Angelina would Uber at nights, and she would leave her children alone while she was out Ubering.

Speaker 1 That became an issue in the divorce, and is actually the main reason why the custody switched back to Jason, and Jason got residency of the marital residence again.

Speaker 5 She didn't have a steady job. She wasn't able to make it without getting some kind of financial support from Jason.

Speaker 7 She was sleeping in her car,

Speaker 7 and Jason said, I can't let her do that. I just can't let that go on.

Speaker 3 Despite the rocky custody battle, Jason was determined to create a stable home for his boys, ages 10, 7, and 2.

Speaker 7 Jason went ahead and left her come back.

Speaker 7 And there was an extra room in the house anyway.

Speaker 3 Investigators next speak to the two eldest Hamrick boys. They recall sitting around the bonfire at 9.30 p.m.
and hearing a loud noise when their parents were inside.

Speaker 3 But with it being so close to the 4th of July, they assumed it was a firecracker.

Speaker 6 The middle child, who was seven at the time, he was thirsty. They were sitting at the bonfire for like an hour or two at that point and he wanted to go get some water.

Speaker 6 So he goes up toward the sliding glass door of the house.

Speaker 8 What he sees in that moment is his father laying on the couch, seemingly asleep with a blanket or a pillow covering up his face.

Speaker 6 His mom wouldn't let him go inside to get that glass of water.

Speaker 5 She told him she would get it.

Speaker 7 So he saw it.

Speaker 7 I think he just didn't realize it until, you know, when he put it all together, that he was probably dead at that time.

Speaker 3 The boys say after their mom took them to get pizza, they came home, ate, and went to to bed. They never went downstairs to check on their dad and never saw him again.

Speaker 3 Could Jason have been killed while the boys were right outside the house?

Speaker 3 Back in Bethel, Ohio, a warranted search is underway at the Hamrick's home to find proof.

Speaker 13 As we were walking around the rear of the deck, behind the pool, there was a large pool covering, a tarp, if you will, just bundled up, rolled up behind the decking.

Speaker 13 When we took the tarp and we spread it out, there had been a large void cut out of this tarp,

Speaker 13 large enough for a body to be placed in.

Speaker 13 We never did find the missing tarp, but as we continued combing through grass along the roadway, We discovered more fabric of what we suspected to be tarp fragments.

Speaker 13 Not only that, we discovered blue gene material.

Speaker 3 The fragments of fabric are found on the road exiting the Hamrick property.

Speaker 8 Because of where the fragments were located, that gave the investigators an idea that there may have been some sort of mechanism used to drag the body down the roadway.

Speaker 3 The evidence outside suggests the murder was committed inside.

Speaker 13 One would think that, you know, somebody shot in the head would create and produce a lot of blood. When we were at the scene, we didn't see that.

Speaker 3 But the naked eye can only see so much.

Speaker 3 Police call in a forensics team to search for blood residue, but are forced to wait until a team can be dispatched from Cincinnati.

Speaker 3 During their canvas of the area, police question neighbor and winery owner Pat Hornick, and she shares a chilling last encounter with Angelina on the evening of June 28th.

Speaker 9 It was a Friday evening, a busy evening, and Angelina came over and went up to the tasting bar.

Speaker 9 I had gone over to her and said, you look really sad. What's going on?

Speaker 9 And she started about how he has the courts on his side.

Speaker 3 Pat's story paints a picture of a woman embroiled in a bitter custody dispute.

Speaker 9 She said to me that night, the courts are really giving me no choice but to either take the kids and go back to Russia or to kill them.

Speaker 9 And I remember my immediate response was, Angelina, that's not the answer.

Speaker 9 Then she left after that. It was probably eight o'clock.

Speaker 3 Coming up. A person of interest becomes a potential ally for law enforcement.

Speaker 3 Those things you've admitted to having thoughts of running away to Mexico and Russia with the kids.

Speaker 3 And detectives shine a new light on the evidence.

Speaker 13 It literally lit up like a Christmas tree. Right then and there, we knew where Jason Pamrick had been murdered.

Speaker 3 On July 1st, 2019,

Speaker 3 two days after the body of Jason Hamrick is found, Bethel law enforcement suspect his estranged wife, Angelina, committed the crime.

Speaker 3 On the same day, investigators make contact with Air Force Tech Sergeant Michael Drew Clark to inform him of his former co-worker's death.

Speaker 1 He lives in Texas. So the officers called Michael Clark.
He answers the phone and talks to Sergeant Berger and immediately confirms, yes, Angelina and I are having this affair.

Speaker 5 He was very forthcoming and he even went on to tell me that he and Angelina had discussed killing Jason numerous times.

Speaker 16 She discussed shooting him, she discussed stabbing him, she discussed poisoning him.

Speaker 3 Michael claims he didn't think Angelina was serious, so he played along.

Speaker 3 And he is adamant he was nowhere near the Hamrick house the weekend of Jason's death. He says the last time he visited Ohio was two weeks earlier.
Based on cell phone records, police believe him.

Speaker 13 His whereabouts, we confirmed, were in the state of Texas at the time of Jason Hamrick's murder.

Speaker 5 I asked if he'd be willing to record conversations with Angelina Angelina to get any information, and he said he was willing to do so.

Speaker 3 Michael's desire to further prove his innocence leads detectives to get a wiretap up and running and record the couple's call.

Speaker 1 What you hear in those conversations is that she has no concern about Jason. She doesn't care.

Speaker 1 And in fact, her comments are, well, I don't know what the divorce court's doing because now the other parent's dead, so I should just have custody.

Speaker 1 You're not trying to take the kids away, are you?

Speaker 2 No.

Speaker 2 Okay. Not anymore at this point.
Okay, good. But I'm not trying to keep them away from another parent anymore, right?

Speaker 2 Right.

Speaker 3 The recorded conversations fail to capture Angelina confessing to Jason's murder, but something she says gives investigators an idea.

Speaker 5 Angelina had been asking Drew to come to Ohio to be with her.

Speaker 5 It was decided that we would get a rental car, recording devices, and rent a hotel room for Drew so that he could have some privacy with Angelina in hopes that we could get statements from her recorded.

Speaker 1 So July 4th, Michael Clark flies into Cincinnati to assist with the sting operation. The plan was for them to go out to dinner and then go to a hotel room in the area.

Speaker 5 There were several detectives that were on scene at the hotel to be close by in case something happened.

Speaker 6 But as soon as Angelina saw Michael Drew Clark, she started touching his body everywhere to see if he had bugs on him, like wires.

Speaker 1 She is acting suspicious of him basically right away.

Speaker 3 When the couple arrives at the hotel, the sting operation implodes.

Speaker 1 After about an hour or so, Michael freaks out, leaves the room, says, I'm not doing it anymore.

Speaker 5 While he was out of the room, Angelina actually destroyed two of the cameras.

Speaker 1 It was like over $1,000 worth of recording equipment that she destroyed and, you know, wrote a lovely little letter.

Speaker 5 They came across a note left behind that said, all Americans are.

Speaker 3 With the sting a bust, detectives confront Michael Drew Clark.

Speaker 5 It was pretty evident to me that he had told Angelina that they were being recorded, that we had set this up, even though he denied it.

Speaker 1 They take him back to the sheriff's office. He agrees at that point to take a polygraph examination.

Speaker 1 While they're there doing that, Angelina shows up at the sheriff's office.

Speaker 13 I didn't have an interview room since Mr. Clark was in our interview room, so I chose to speak with her in the lobby.
I simply put a voice recorder in my pocket and just began talking with her.

Speaker 2 I just realized that you guys keep me in bravery.

Speaker 2 You're looking in the wrong place.

Speaker 2 You're not looking in the wrong place.

Speaker 2 There is no other suspect.

Speaker 13 Angelina, everything points to you.

Speaker 2 I think it's joking.

Speaker 3 Angelina is allowed to leave as her lover, Michael Drew Clark, agrees to a polygraph test.

Speaker 15 During the polygraph examination, Drew was asked, do you know for sure who killed Jason Hamrick? And he responded no.

Speaker 15 And the result was that he was not telling the truth.

Speaker 1 They confront him with the fact that he failed the polygraph and he just sort of collapses.

Speaker 15 He then admitted that he received a phone call from Angelina Friday night. and she told him, I did it.

Speaker 3 According to Michael, Angelina said she had found the key to the safe where Jason kept his nine millimeter handgun.

Speaker 5 Angeli told him that she had done it while Jason was sleeping on the couch and that there was a large mess.

Speaker 1 He tells her to get rid of the body. She tells him, I'm going to go take the boys to get pizza and then I'm going to take care of this.

Speaker 5 Michael Clark was taken into custody after taking the polygraph.

Speaker 5 At that point, it was evident that he had lied to us about his knowledge about the murder, and we did charge Drew with conspiracy to commit aggravated murder.

Speaker 3 The next morning, police arrive at the Hamrick home and place Angelina under arrest.

Speaker 1 Angelina was charged the next morning on July 6, 2019 for aggravated murder.

Speaker 3 As Angelina sits behind bars, detectives get word that the forensics team has made a startling discovery.

Speaker 8 In this particular case, they utilized what's called Blue Star.

Speaker 8 It's a chemical reactive agent that can react to hemoglobin in blood, whether that's active blood or blood that has been cleaned up.

Speaker 13 In the area where we believe Jason Hamrick was shot as he laid on the couch, we sprayed the floor and it literally lit up like a Christmas tree.

Speaker 13 Right then and there, we confirmed where Jason Pamrick had been murdered.

Speaker 3 Coming up, Angelina's premeditation is on full display.

Speaker 1 11 days before the murder, she was Googling about poison, doing a string of searches about how to illegally get children over to Russia.

Speaker 8 She either had to take the kids and flee without him knowing and without his permission, or kill him.

Speaker 3 On July 6th, 2019, Angelina Hamrick and her lover, Michael Drew Clark, both sit in jail for the murder of Jason Hamrick, with Angelina believed to be the shooter.

Speaker 5 Michael Clark lied to us about his knowledge about the murder and his prior discussions with Angelina, but we were pretty confident that he wasn't physically in Ohio to help commit the murder.

Speaker 3 For her part, a search of Angelina's internet activity in the weeks leading up to the murder showed a clear level of premeditation.

Speaker 1 On June 17th, 2019, so 11 days before the murder, she was googling about poison.

Speaker 1 Then actually the day of the murder, June 28th, 2019, she is on her phone doing a string of searches about how to illegally get children over to Russia.

Speaker 1 They've got a divorce hearing in a few days, and basically the world is narrowing for her.

Speaker 8 She either had to take the kids and flee without him knowing and without his permission or kill him.

Speaker 3 Investigators believe Angelina put her plan into motion on the night of June 28th.

Speaker 1 She leaves the winery around 8 p.m.

Speaker 1 She starts a bonfire in the backyard with her sons, and Jason goes inside the house.

Speaker 1 She left the bonfire at some point that night and goes inside the house.

Speaker 1 She goes upstairs, she gets the gun, and she comes downstairs

Speaker 1 and she shot him in the head while he was laying on the couch.

Speaker 1 She basically covered him up temporarily with some blankets and pillows.

Speaker 1 She takes the boys out to get pizza. She picks up the pizza.
They go home. They eat.
She puts the boys to bed. Like nothing happened.

Speaker 3 Michael Drew Clark's confession helps authorities theorize what happened next.

Speaker 1 She cuts out a section of that pool tarp.

Speaker 1 She rolls his body onto the pool tarp, attached his body to the back of the van, drove him down the road either as far as she could get him or as far as she dared.

Speaker 5 I believe she used the grass clippings to try to conceal his body.

Speaker 5 And then Angelina had taken several hours to clean up as best she could.

Speaker 3 Prosecutors also assume Jason's phone and the gun were disposed of under the cover of night.

Speaker 6 They don't have the murder weapon, but you can paint this picture that that living room was filled with blood. Somebody cleaned it, and she was the only one there.

Speaker 3 In July of 2019, an Ohio grand jury hears the charges against Angelina Hamrick and Michael Drew Clark.

Speaker 3 And Michael catches a break.

Speaker 1 We did present conspiracy to commit aggravated murder. They declined to indict Michael Clark for those charges and instead indicted him on obstructing justice.

Speaker 1 And that was based on his lies to law enforcement.

Speaker 3 In exchange for his testimony against Angelina, Michael Drew Clark is sentenced to six months in jail.

Speaker 3 Angelina is indicted for first-degree murder with Michael as the state's star witness.

Speaker 3 After several COVID-related delays, Angelina's trial concludes on April 29th, 2021. It takes a jury less than two hours to reach a verdict.

Speaker 8 Angelina Hamrick was sentenced by the Court of Common Pleas to a 30-year-to-life sentence.

Speaker 7 It was such relief.

Speaker 7 You know, the satisfaction is

Speaker 7 the justice that was done.

Speaker 3 But for a family that has lost so much, the verdict comes as cold comfort.

Speaker 9 It's It's a sad, sad situation, the whole thing, and the kids are the ones that are going to be suffering for it.

Speaker 7 I would want him to know how proud I was of him.

Speaker 7 I don't know if there was anything he could have done

Speaker 7 differently when it came to her.

Speaker 7 He could not go up against somebody like that because he has a conscience

Speaker 7 and she doesn't.

Speaker 1 Angelina Hamrick is currently housed at Dayton Correctional Institution. She isn't eligible for parole until 2052.
She will be 65 years old.

Speaker 3 Jason Hamrick's mother and stepfather are raising their three grandchildren.