In this episode of Crime Watch Daily Updates: The brutal murders of 53-year-old Vicki Friedli, her 55-year-old boyfriend Jon Hayward, and Vicki’s 18-year-old daughter, Becky Friedli. The three of them had been gunned down in their home in the tranquil neighborhood of Pinyon Pines and set on fire on the night of September 17, 2006.
Firefighters and Sheriff’s deputies found Vicki and Jon’s body inside the home. Vicki had been shot in the head, Jon in the chest. Outside, Becky’s lifeless and charred body had been left in a wheelbarrow. She was so badly burned that her cause of death could not be determined.
Fingers soon pointed to Becky’s ex, Robert Pape, and his best friend, Cristin Smith. My friend Luis Bolaños joined the investigation and thanks to him, thousands of tips flooded in, many of which pointed a finger at Robert Pape. Luis believes Becky was the main target of the homicide, with Jon and Vicki killed as collateral damage.
It took 7 years for Robert and Cristin to finally get arrested and charged with murder. Then, six months later, in October 2014, the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office dropped charges against the men.
Between the time of the crime and their arrests, Cris received two Purple Hearts from serving as a U.S. Army Ranger, and Robert got married, then divorced.
Despite prosecutors dropping the charges, Cris and Robert weren’t free just yet. They were arrested again in 2016 and stood trial in April 2018. Robert and Cris were both convicted of two counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of Vicki and Jon. Robert was found guilty of second-degree murder in connection with Becky’s death, but Cris was acquitted on that charge.
They were both sentenced to life without parole and have appealed their convictions.
Now, let’s take a look back at the massacre of a teen just starting out her life, her mom, and her mom’s boyfriend.
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I would say that our justice system needs change so that true justice is always right and truth
What would have been the real motive here!😊
They still deny their crimes; their families deny their crimes and were so disrespectful to the victims' family in court.
The title is misleading. They didn't get justice yet…there have been no convictions.
I have a gut feeling that this was NOT the first rodeo of "killing" by Becky's ex (and his pal). Glad that the family got some justice and that the dedicated Investigator had a passion to see it through!!
SAD
It just shows thar politics will suppress anything, even a triple homicide. So sad 😞
Please do a story on Bunny Brown from Washington state
I'm familiar with this case, but it is impossible to watch without some visual, it is impossible to understand what she is saying.
So lazy LE work in the beginning..
Thank God for Lewis, doing the polices job
Im Soooo happy shows and snippits everyday
Obviously another law enforcement failure but I'm not surprised. Didn't old Kamala get away with keeping people on death row by withholding evidence that could exonerate them, and now she's VP. California sucks they are part of the reason the Country sucks so bad. Thank goodness for that P.I.
I AM NOT READING FROM A CUE CARD!!! HOW MANY FACE LIFTS HAVE YOU HAD????? YOU LOOK HORRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think that billboard was a brilliant move.
Holy guacamole 🥑 this case is full of twists and turns. Crazy
My god was there only 6 people who lived in this town? How are they all so connected?
I remember this case I watched it on my TV.i was hoping this case would get solved.i hope other case on that show gets solved soon and there will be updates in the real soon that the podcast Anna reports
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