Hi crime junkies, I'm your host Ashley Flowers and I'm Brett and this is part two of the

case of Maria Marta Garcia Belsoonsi.

When we left off her husband was on trial for her murder and for covering up the crime.

But his defense team had a pretty good case to make against his guilt,

and in a dramatic twist, they pointed the finger at an alternate suspect.

So let's dive back in. the Oh, Now Maria Marta's family had had a couple of theories since they found out that she'd been murdered.

So remember how I said she was involved in a lot of philanthropy?

Well, that sometimes required her to visit neighborhoods with higher crime rates.

Specifically, she did a lot of work with an anti-child trafficking organization.

And O'Rassio says that although he'd never worried about Maria Marta because of her

philanthropy, Carlos had. I mean it required her to appear on TV either at

demonstrations or in interviews trying to publicize cases of missing children.

And by definition, she was bringing attention to bad scary people,

people who had no problem doing bad scary things,

people who kidnap and traffic kids.

So what if she pissed off the wrong bad guy?

So that was a theory that they explored for a minute,

but they quickly decided that maybe that wasn't the most likely.

Maybe the most likely suspect was someone a whole lot closer to home.

A neighborhood man named Nicholas Pachello.

Nicholas's father, a famous race car driver, had actually been one of the

builders of their gated community and Nicholas lived there with his wife and kids, but this

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