Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Hunting the FBI's Most Wanted Fugitives (ACTIVE BOUNTY)
Wed, 27 Nov 2024
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Chapter 1: What is the story behind John and Julie Ann Dimitri?
This story's a little sensitive to me because this is a story where I failed miserably.
The FBI has launched a manhunt here for a fugitive married couple.
John and Julie Ann Dimitri were very much into the material trappings of the ultra. Their most wanted white collar crime fugitive. It's extremely to find a routine financial fraud spin into a domestic extremist investigation. You asked me to come out and tell you a story from my time in Honolulu. Yes.
Okay.
Chapter 2: Why did the FBI launch a manhunt for the Dimitrians?
I didn't know you were in Honolulu, but yes. Right. This was the American Greed. Yeah, they did an episode of American Greed about this. And I love coming on your show because I get to tell stories that make me look great, right? I get to make me look like this fantastic agent who solves every crime and always gets the bad guy.
This story is a little sensitive to me because this is a story where I failed miserably. There's no happy ending for me, but I'm happy to share it with you in the spirit of transparency. Oh, okay. Okay. Well, I mean, as long as I can get some clicks out of it, I'm willing to put you. I know where your priorities are.
My priorities are to make me look cool, but I'm happy as a friend to come out here and to talk to you because I love doing your show and I like, and I always get good feedback for my appearances. Mostly I do. I also get like, why are you consorting with that guy?
Why are you giving that guy a platform? How dare you?
I know, I get this. So let me give a little bit of background. So there's a fellow named John Demetrian. Ethnically, not that it matters, half Greek, half Filipino. Grew up extremely wealthy in Hawaii, in Honolulu, the island of Oahu. His dad was a medical doctor, probably still is. I don't know what his mom did, it doesn't matter. He went to Punahou High School. Do you know what Punahou is?
Punahou is a school that Barack Obama went to. Oh! Oh, okay. So it is the place for rich kids in Hawaii to go to school. And it's a very great school and the people there are wildly successful. Somewhere along the line, he meets a woman named Julianne Balduesa, who's 100% Filipina. Not super rich, but kind of one of these, I call her a Filipina princess, likes the best of everything. Okay.
And they get married in an expensive wedding ceremony in Waikiki, and they're together. This is the early 2000s, let's say. John was a mortgage loan officer. That's all I've said. That's all you know.
Ethically depraved.
Exactly. So, you know, he's out there, you know, doing mortgages for people, both regular mortgages and kind of cash out mortgages. Because the thing with the people of Hawaii are a lot of them own houses that don't look like much, but they're worth a fortune because the land underneath their feet is worth a fortune because it's an island. They're not making any more.
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Chapter 3: What led to the Dimitrians' mortgage fraud scheme?
So are they – he's not paying off the mortgages. He's just transferring the title to the straw buyers. No, no. I think he's paying off the original mortgage. Oh, okay. Oh, so he is selling it to a straw buyer.
He's getting a new mortgage. Right. The new mortgage, all sorts of shenanigans going on there, right? Because you're signing off saying you're going to live in the house, false income. You're providing fake W-2s. That second mortgage that they're getting to buy this house is crooked as a barrel of snakes. There's nothing good happening there or nothing legal happening there.
Okay.
And the straw buyers, it was never really entirely clear to me what was in it for them. I think some were getting paid. Others were doing it out of Christian goodness to help these people stay in their homes. Oh, those Christians. They're so trusting. Their hearts are in the right place.
Right.
But they're often easy marks for stuff like this. Very trusting. Yeah. So a couple dozen houses they're able to do this with. They don't make a single mortgage payment with the new mortgage. Right.
So they just take it out and don't make one payment.
And you'll be shocked to learn that they also don't invest this money in anything that's valuable. Shocking. Yeah, I know. Are you sitting down? And John and Julianne used this money to live an extravagant lifestyle. They had matching Maseratis. fancy suits. They had a Hummer, a Mercedes. Julie became addicted to expensive lingerie.
She actually at one point went to her certified public accountant asking him if she could claim the lingerie as a tax deduction because she wore it under her clothing while she worked. CPA explained, no, you can't do that. But they... But they are spending money like it's going out of style. But it's not their money. It's the equity that they've extracted from these houses.
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Chapter 4: How did the Dimitrians escape justice?
So I called my friends at the FBI in Honolulu. I'm like, you got someone assigned to this? And they go, yeah, yeah. And they gave me the name of the agent. I didn't know who he or she was. And I go, are you guys doing anything? And they go, yeah, we get a couple leads a week from people who say they've seen the Demetrians. And it's people who are watching my videos and contacting them.
I'm sure it's got to be it. Or see American Greed on reruns. And they go, we run everything down. It's just not them. It's never been them.
Well, they also could be. Mexican. They have that kind of facial... They're ethnically ambiguous. Yes. They could be Filipino. They could be Mexican. They could be maybe Asian. Who knows? They've got that skin, that colored skin that is beige.
Who knows? I talked to an agent down in Alabama after 9-11 attacks because we were... After the 9-11 attacks, we were getting barraged with phone calls from people saying that, hey, listen, my neighbor's Arab. He's super suspicious. He comes and goes all hours of the night. And we were like, all right. And we go, what makes him so suspicious? He's coming and going all hours of the night.
You go talk to the guy. He's like a cab driver. He's the nicest guy in the world. He's not a terrorist. And I go, what did you guys do in Alabama when there's not like an Arab population in your town? And he goes, oh, we got the same calls. And they go... We got some terrorists living next door. And they go, yeah, what do you know about them? They're coming and going. They're real suspicious.
All hours of the night. They're up to nothing. They're up to no good. Do you know their names? Yeah, it's Ramirez and Martinez. So, yeah, but the Demetrians may have that same impact on people where they could be ethnically anything they want. So I wish I had some great punchline for you, but here's the opportunity. American greed has failed me. My Instagram and TikTok have failed me.
Local Hawaii news, YouTube has failed me. I'm counting on Inside True Crime with Matthew Cox to find them. And then if it happens and somehow we're able to weasel our way into the reward, I will split that money with you 50-50.
You imagine some guy sees a couple of people they think are them. They throw a bag over their head, taser them, throw them into a van and drop them off. Cox, Cox, I got them. Throw them out there. I'm like, these are Guatemalans. What are you doing?
They're picking soybeans. Leave them alone.
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