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Chapter 1: What is the premise of 'Bad Romance: No Tomorrow'?
Hi, it's Debra Roberts. For the next eight weeks, we're excited to bring you a special series on the 2020 podcast. It's called Bad Romance. The series unravels the shocking true crime stories of love turned lethal. Take a listen.
Weddings are all about the future, a lifetime of tomorrows. A woman in suburban Dallas was days away from that future, but for Laura Grillo, sadly, there will be no wedding, no honeymoon, and no tomorrow.
Happy birthday!
My name's Heather Naber. Laura was my best friend. She was like a ray of sunshine on a cloudy day. Very giving. She always wanted to help people.
Look at you and your bear.
Her kids were her world.
You wear a brother's hat.
So cute. I remember we finally picked out her dress and that perfect outfit for the perfect day. Making the wish, ringing the bell. I kind of talked her into that. I'm glad I did that. I really feel like she, for years, had been searching for home and she found that in Rowlett.
Rowlett's a bedroom community, a lot of rooftops, a lot of people leave town during the day to work in the city.
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Chapter 2: Who was Laura Grillo and what happened to her?
Laura was part of the VIPS program.
What does that stand for?
Volunteer in Police Services. And she even tried out the Emergency Fire Department Ambulance Program. You know Laura, right?
Yeah. I did know Laura from volunteering, police, fire.
Can you go and verify that, sir? I can't right now. Happy Birthday!
Police are left to wonder, why would anyone want to kill a 37-year-old mother of three eight days before her wedding? Was she a robbery victim or could she have been a target?
We didn't have any idea what we were getting into on day one when we responded to this call.
One victim. This was, in our opinion, it was a whodunit.
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Chapter 3: What was Laura's life like before the tragedy?
And he denied that the child was his. He said that she was sleeping with somebody else. He made her get a paternity test and go to his lawyer's office with the results. She was really hurt, and he still wasn't really willing to have anything to do with her until he knew 100% sure that Maria was his.
But when the baby's born, all that is forgotten. John Makris dotes on baby Maria. This suburban home in Rowlett holds the entire family, Laura's kids, the toddler, and Laura's mom and brother. Laura juggles raising the growing family and helping at the kids' school, as well as volunteering at the local fire and police departments.
At Rowlett, we have a program called VIPS and it's Volunteers in Police Service. They wear a modified volunteer uniform and these are citizens of Rowlett. They help us a lot.
Both John and Laura completed our Citizens Police Academy in the fall of 2014 and had become VIPS members for our police department.
When detectives asked John Makris to come in for an interview here at the Rowlett Police Department, it was a building he'd been to many times before as a police volunteer. In the interview room, Detective Cruz Hernandez breaks the news to John Makris that the victim has been identified.
And I told John that I had confirmation that the deceased person was his fiancee, Laura.
I'm sorry for your loss. No, no.
Detectives remember what John said at the scene when they asked him who lived in the house.
He stated that it was him, the kids, his mother, and the victim's brother, but he never did say the victim's name.
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Chapter 4: What did the investigation reveal about the crime scene?
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until it all came crashing down.
Federal investigators raiding two homes owned by hip-hop mogul Sean Diddy Combs.
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Five months into the investigation, police are still searching for Jesus Trevino, that employee who met up with John Makris on the morning of the murder.
If someone could provide us with information to get him located and returned to Texas.
Finally, a tip leads authorities more than 1,000 miles away.
Jesus was ultimately located in the Clearwater, Florida area and taken into custody by US Marshals.
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