Julissa Trapp
Appearances
Dateline NBC
Good & Evil
There's only one person. She said, I know him. I said, who? And she said, his name's Frank Cano. He's a registered sex offender.
Dateline NBC
Good & Evil
I soon realized I'm not just dealing with one. We're dealing with two. Two sex offenders wearing GPS bracelets.
Dateline NBC
Good & Evil
Let me just say, there was a lot of rosaries that were being prayed for sure.
Dateline NBC
Good & Evil
Well, we started reading the text messages and started seeing how prolific they were at hunting.
Dateline NBC
Good & Evil
Hunting on almost a daily basis and how... Nonchalant they were about it. It was almost like ordering takeout. When you start reading, what do you feel like today? Asian or Mexican?
Dateline NBC
Good & Evil
Cats. Be careful. When the cat knows it isn't getting away, it's gonna fight.
Dateline NBC
Good & Evil
I could hear the desperation in Frank Cano's voice. That desperation just kind of sent a hair on the back of my neck, and I said, no, I'm not waiting anymore.
Dateline NBC
Good & Evil
On a bicycle. Yes. He had a little collision with one of our surveillance units and a little flying over the handlebars, and he was taken into custody.
Dateline NBC
Good & Evil
I knew this was going to be a lot different than any other interview I had done.
Dateline NBC
Good & Evil
How are you? And I knew this was going to be a lot different than any other interview I had done. He's cunning, manipulative.
Dateline NBC
Good & Evil
He watched me very carefully. If I swallowed too hard, if I looked at him differently, you know, he would say, what's wrong?
Dateline NBC
Good & Evil
When I said where? So he was constantly trying to keep a poker face to continue to elicit information from him.
Dateline NBC
Good & Evil
She was on a conveyor belt. Only her feet were exposed. And initially, the workers there thought it was a mannequin.
Dateline NBC
Good & Evil
As he was hurting Martha... She told him, I didn't believe in God, but I do now. There's a part of me that's grateful that she found God at the end. It's disturbing to me that in response he said, you picked a hell of a time to start believing in God. I'll never forget that.
Dateline NBC
Good & Evil
We did a lot of research, and we had every intention to try to dig for them.
Dateline NBC
Good & Evil
It's frustrating. It's frustrating knowing that they're here and we can't bring them home. That. It's like the one thing that the mothers want, and I get it. And to not be able to do that, it feels, it's incomplete.
Dateline NBC
Good & Evil
We had no idea who she was. We had no idea where she came from. How did she end up there?
Dateline NBC
Good & Evil
All of these women have a special meaning for me. And when it got thrown out, I had a really hard time.
Dateline NBC
Good & Evil
Fair to say that your intention was to pick up a prostitute and ultimately kill her?
Dateline NBC
Good & Evil
And then I thought, maybe I prayed that rosary a little too hard because now we've got two statements in.
Dateline NBC
Good & Evil
She was on a conveyor belt. Only her feet were exposed. The workers thought it was a mannequin. Her last hours on earth were not pleasant.
Dateline NBC
Good & Evil
I think that The more you allow yourself to feel, the better you're going to be as a detective. And we have to go to the dark places in order to find answers. The quicker we can get in and out, you know, the better it is for all of us.
Dateline NBC
Good & Evil
How can this happen? Why were they not being monitored? But it was definitely a hard question to get from the mothers themselves as well. Why wasn't it cut sooner?
Dateline NBC
Good & Evil
He looks at me and he goes, you're missing one. which caught me off guard and I tried not to show too much emotion. And I said, okay. And that was the first time I learned about Jane Doe was from him.
Dateline NBC
Good & Evil
She said she was from Compton, but... I feel a responsibility because Jane Doe is not a missing person. She's an unknown, and I feel like if I don't look for her, who will? I know there is a family out there wondering where she is.
Dateline NBC
Good & Evil
I just think because she's so helpless. You're on the street, you're working as a prostitute, and you run into Steve Gordon and Frank Cano, and your last hours on this earth are horrific. And then they discard you like trash.
Dateline NBC
Good & Evil
Even though it is a landfill, I mean, it is quite peaceful when it's quiet.
Dateline NBC
Good & Evil
I... Not only do I have to go tell her she's dead, I have to tell her that... she's one of these girls. So that's going to be hard, I think.
Dateline NBC
Good & Evil
If you want to buy drugs, Beach Boulevard's where you come. If you are looking for a girl, Beach Boulevard's where you come. A lot of them came from good, stable families that just happened to run in to the wrong guy who somehow got them into the job. I mean, these pimps are really good about breaking down the women and getting control over them.
Dateline NBC
Good & Evil
A lot of predators will start with prostitutes because they think that people won't miss them.
Dateline NBC
Good & Evil
We literally went from each little motel to each little motel, showing her picture and having the clerk run her name to see if she had stayed there.
Dateline NBC
Good & Evil
They were all given pictures of what the trash looked like that was around her. If it looks similar, take pictures of what's inside.
Dateline NBC
Good & Evil
There was a lot of visits to my local church saying, please don't let me screw this up.
Dateline NBC
Good & Evil
He tells us we never throw trash out at customers' homes. We always bring it back to Hardy Windows.
Dateline NBC
Good & Evil
It's that same blue plastic wrapping. And it was almost like I was looking at the same trash I had seen on the conveyor belt.
Dateline NBC
Good & Evil
It was a combination of frustration, but okay, all right, we're moving somewhere.
Dateline NBC
Good & Evil
I had heard a story on the news that there was three missing prostitutes in the city of Santa Ana. Which is right next door, basically. Right next door, yes.
Dateline NBC
Good & Evil
I do. There's been plenty of times that I've been angry with our Maker because you have to wonder, why does this happen? I mean, I wish He would talk back to me and tell me. That would be very helpful. But I just have to figure out what happened. Just read the clues, collect the puzzle pieces. And the more you can kind of keep a neutral mind, the easier the puzzle pieces fit together.
Dateline NBC
Good & Evil
But... You know what? It might work now. Why not? It's a Hail Mary, but let's try it.