Dr. Insanity - Daughter Leads Police To Her Father's Deadly Murder Rampage

Episode Date: June 18, 2026

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Go! We're going to make sure we get everybody! He's got a rifle! He got a rifle? As far back as you can go. In the middle of this chaos, chaos, police are racing against the clock to save the wounded mother trapped inside, leaving them with no choice but to get creative, even if it means using the shooter's own children

to bring the standoff to an end. He already said he's not coming out until you guys kill him. Oh yeah, he's in the hallway, he shot the drone. Pull back! Come on, come, come. I know what I'm done! It's approximately 6 p.m. on a Saturday evening in an upper-combe. evening in an upper-class lakefront neighborhood in St. Cloud, Florida.

Inside one of the homes, a heated argument erupts between 48-year-old Jose and his wife, Lisvet, one that's about to completely spiral out of control. 911, what's the address of the emergency? I think my dad just saw one's over. My dad is upstairs with the gun. I don't know. He went back to the room. What if you did mom? He just shot her. No, he just shot her.

I was in my bathroom. How many shots are? Fire. After the call disconnects, the St. Cloud Police Department rushes to respond, immediately dispatching 20 patrol cars to the scene. From what officers can gather, two siblings just watched their father shoot their mother, and they could be his next victims. The first to arrive is Rookie Officer Garnesh, with only six months of experience, and as he steps out of his car, he's walking straight into the line of fire. Go inside. Get inside your house.

Get out of the way. Ganesh, hold there. Have the 1027 and the neighbor step out and come immediately north. All the way at the corner on the left is going to be the target residence. 1027 is one house to the north. One house towards us. Officer Garnesh and his partner are positioned roughly 70 feet away from the active shooter's house, waiting for backup.

Moments later, additional units arrive, along with K-9, quickly surrounding the home from both the east and and West. Leading the operation is Sergeant Patrick Mannix. With nearly a decade in law enforcement and awards including Hero of the Year, he's earned a reputation for doing whatever it takes to protect innocent lives. So, knowing a civilian hostage may be critically wounded inside, Mannix understands the clock is working against him. So he quickly devises an extremely bold strategy, completely unaware of the danger he's about to send his men directly into. The sergeant's plan is straightforward, but far from simple. Rush in, take the active shooter by surprise,

and get the two children and their wounded mother out, all while ensuring no civilians or officers are injured. But as Manix and his team approach the house, the shooter inside has a plan of his own. One that doesn't involve surrender, but instead drawing officers into a deadly ambush. Okay, let's move. Do you blood on me anywhere?

Because he's shot at me. I don't know. but all right. The shooter fires, but the round strikes the door instead, miraculously missing Sergeant Manix by less than an inch. But as Manix and his men retreat to cover, a critical problem remains. Officers have yet to secure the south side of the property,

which leads directly into a nearby park. However, rushing over there now would expose them to gunfire from the numerous windows surrounding the home. So, faced with this, reality check, Manix is forced to rethink the strategy from the ground up. With tension rising by the second, SWAT finally arrives on scene along with a sniper and a drone operator, giving Manix his best chance yet to contain the shooter. And, as fate would have it, the most dangerous assignment securing the back of the house, falls to Officer Garnesh.

So with a wounded mother and two children still trapped inside, this rookie officer is about to face the most dangerous moment of his career. Take two. Come on, roll. Come on, come on. I can tell they got him up there. It's Festall back here. Let's go through six seconds.

That's me. 2-760. This is the St. Claude Police Department. Come out with your hands up. I'm going to duck down here and cover the... I don't like standing right here. Yeah. You just hold low like that.

As Officer Garnesh continues issuing commands, SWAT has now surrounded the house. has now surrounded the house from all directions, while a sniper maintains visual on the front entrance. And for the first time since the standoff began, police finally have gained the upper hand. With the standoff closing out on the one hour mark, one officer decides it's time to deploy a drone, hoping to locate both the shooter and the wounded victim inside. But what seems like a smart, tactical move is about to escalate the standoff even further. I'm getting ready to put the drone up.

He shot the drone, he shot the drone. He's all the way down the hallway with a light going on a rifle. It looks like a rifle. He threw the front door. Yeah. You can see him? Yeah. Despite successfully locating the shooter, the drone is shot down, making the suspect even more agitated.

But even more concerning, there has still been no update on the two children inside or their injured mother until now. Suddenly, officers notice movement and within seconds, the entire scene descends into chaos. LT, they're sending people our way. Go, let anyone leave. Get it, get it, get it, go, go, go, go. Right here. All right here, come. Stay right here, buddy, stay right here.

Go. Go. We're going to make sure we get everybody. Go, go, go. Get behind the cars, get behind the engine. Go on. They're not going to. You're not going to.

Stay with me. Stay behind this. He's got a rifle, okay? As far back as you can go, please just stay behind vehicles. Amid the chaos, officers successfully evacuate the captive children and nearby families, rushing them behind cover several houses away. A 10-year-old boy and his 24-year-old sister tell officers that the shooter inside is their father, Jose Fontanez.

And the woman who was shot is their mother, Lisvette Figueroa. and despite being terrified and shaken. This episode is brought to you by Activia. You might already be eating yogurt, but not all yogurts are created equal. Activia contains over one billion probiotics per serving to survive and reach the gut alive. When it comes to gut health,

Activia is the number one family doctor-recommended probiotic yogurt brand. Choose Activia. Feel good from the inside out. Visitactivia.ca for more details. Both children are still willing to help. Unaware, they're about to become the key to the entire operation. With time quickly running out for the children's mother, Sergeant Manix shifts his focus towards making direct contact with Jose, hoping negotiators can convince him to surrender before anyone else gets hurt. But interestingly, officers are about to realize the only people capable of reaching the father

and finally bringing the standoff to an end are his own children. Are we trying to get that number for him? They keep asking for it, but I don't know if they ever came through. I'll find out. Thank you. LTE, do you want to put a page out to patrol and have everybody? The officer was telling me the one that is outside my house, on the next door neighbor.

He was telling me that if we got his phone number. So who knows Jose Ortega? They are his kids. Okay, does anyone have a number for Jose? Okay, when I get the number? What is the number? You know what the computer should have it. What does your dad do? What is his job?

He feels like both. Okay, how many guns does he have? They have one that's at the anywhere. I had a license for it. Is it a pistol, a rifle? That's a handgun, figure gun, handgun? Okay. Does he have any military experience?

No. Where are you at? All right, thank you. Give it one sec, stay right here, okay? Dad's in construction, he has one single handgun. No military, no one. Find a better position. Find a better position.

Do we know who should be in the house? They said, I think, mom, but I'll double check. Find out who we all that. I've got a number. Okay. Who's supposed to be in the house? There were me and him, goodbye, they were mine and the father. Okay, so only people in there right now should be your mom and your father.

Yes. Thanks to the rescue children, police have now learned crucial information about Jose, not least, his phone number. So with a direct line to Jose finally established, negotiators would attempt to initiate contact, only to encounter an obstacle. They never saw coming. If you want to try and make contact, that's fine.

I don't know if he'll answer. I doubt he said, mom or daughter said she wasn't answering to him. We'll try. Hey, Jose. Hey, Jose. Alright, this is Patrick in Saint-Coppres-Four. How you doing? I believe we have...

Jose, can you hear me? Oh, English? Okay. Do any English or do you need? Spanish? Okay. Boom momentum, okay? He was shooting at the house in England.

Does the dad speak any English? He doesn't speak in English. No unit's on task. I need one spadding. Okay, you're good. ...officer to my position and not one's event for C&T translation. I can get Cologne to you. I'll send him now.

When we get an accident, let's have them come up until here. I'll cover for now. All right. Just as officers believe they're finally making progress, they discover their suspect doesn't speak any English. doesn't speak any English. It was already a stroke of luck that Jose answered the officer's call in the first place. But now, they're forced to wait even longer for Officer Kolan, a Spanish-speaking officer to arrive on scene. While they wait, investigators can't afford to sit still,

so they turn back to the children for answers. Because if they can uncover Jose's motive behind all of this, they may be finally able to understand how exactly to stop him. Yes. Okay, who called 911 originally? Uh, I, well, we all, and then I was like, So originally, who was the first person I called out? Are we gonna, I just, I just, I just heard, I just talked to her family, so I kept on to call. Okay, so you two are in the house with mom and dad originally,

you guys heard shots and then you guys left or? I ran upstairs, you were screaming for my name. He shot him in front of me. What did you see exactly? I saw my mom running, telling him to stop. Him behind there, I don't understand what was going on. I thought, honestly, I thought, I thought it was a great gun that he was serving her with.

So I saw her in the blood. She had a trip tomorrow to go to California for work. So I had to do her nails. We were talking and she was telling me about fighting. And while he was fighting, that he was infusing her cheating like always. According to Jose's daughter, the attack on their mother was the result of weeks of paranoia over Lisvets. alleged affair with her boss. Paranoia that became so intense, Jose had begun stalking Lisvet

and even secretly placing recording devices in the home. And with that, detectives realized that if Jose is capable of snapping and shooting someone over unconfirmed accusations of cheating, reasoning with him will be incredibly difficult, even with a Spanish translator present. Nevertheless, they have to try. Approximately one hour and 15 minutes into the standoff, Officer Colan finally arrives on scene. But as he prepares to make contact with Jose, he has no idea the shooter is about to make officers question everything they think they know about the situation and who they're truly up against. Jose, can you hear me? Jose?

Jose, I don't know. Jose, I'm officer, Colon, with the Department of Police in San Claude. You are you? You are? You are well? Okay, what is what is what is? What's what is the How do you get some of the

breath and not some stress today, okay? Yeah, I just, I just re-take a breath. Who, who? A little, you're, a little, too. A nene is a child with the inside. How old is the child?

And how old is the child? How old is the child? How is the child? How is the child? kid of 10 years. Okay. Okay, Jose, you can come to out of the house where we're not for that we're going to. It's for, it's for to talk about what's what's going to.

Because we know. Jose, so we're, we're we're going to some of those different. So what we're to know is that's all the good and to, and to exercise not that we're going to do that. Jose is the television that's on the television that's

the television that's on the what you want right now, I don't know, I'm going to say that I'm going to go out for us to us can help you, Jose. No, I've got to you, Jose? Yes, I heard. You're going to go out for out.

Let's say, let's go a man. Jose makes the bizarre claim that the gunshots officers heard were actually coming from the television inside the house, despite police witnessing him fire multiple rounds. He also insists his 10-year-old son is still inside the home. The same boy officers had just helped escape with his sister moments earlier. It quickly becomes clear that Jose is either desperately trying to manipulate police or is deeply detached from reality. Either way, negotiators don't challenge his lies and instead continue trying to convince him to step outside. But as the call drags on for the next 20 minutes,

Their worst fears are slowly becoming a reality. Jose has no intention of surrendering. By now, the standoff has begun taking a visible toll, not only on the officers, but also on Lisbets' children and friends who anxiously wait on the street knowing that every wasted minute could cost the innocent mother her chance at survival. And, unsurprisingly, tensions are about to boil over as one of Lisvettes's close friends begins confronting officers over their circumstances

officers over their strategy. I'm not telling you how to do your job, but can you go in? So there's a whole set of situation we have to follow, okay? But the longer it takes, the longer she's gonna bleed. I hear you, we have to be careful, because then if we start having this... He already said he's not coming out until you guys kill him. Okay, okay, so we get an ambulance now. Please, please, please, please, please.

So, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're... There's nobody else in there. I promise you. I just need somebody to get there. She's bleeding. Let's take a breather, okay? She's bleeding only.

The less the chance she has. However, think it like this, right? Let's say he brought one of his buddies and head him away in there. And if we didn't, but if he did, right? We don't know that before. He came alone. He came along.

He was coming in. I understand, but we don't, we don't know that. We, we, we, everything we base up, fast. As we start sending officers to a save her, now they die, it's going to be a whole other battle just to get around now. As officers desperately try to calm the fury of that,

crowd, negotiations with Jose appear to be going nowhere, so Manix begins coordinating tactical preparations for the worst-case scenario. Believing Jose is becoming increasingly restless inside the house, and with no update on Lisvettes condition, a dangerous confrontation may soon become unavoidable. Their next moves must ensure the victim is saved, no officer is injured, and ideally that the suspect is taken into custody alive. Hey, with the three of us here, let's go over assignments in case he does come out. Okay.

Because we are contact here. Yep. All right. I need one. I need one lethal. I need one hands and one verbal. I'll do verbal. Waiter's got verbals.

I'll take it. I'll hold. So here's how this is going to work. If he does come out and he does start walking this way, Porterfield, you're going to stay deadly. Cologne, you're going to switch to less lethal. Jess, you're going to go hands with him. Got it? Yes, yes.

And you're going to go voice. Oh, today, I'm down the rifle is it? A loud one. All right, and so whatever we do, we are not leaving this position. Got it? Even if he comes out, runs back in, we are not leaving. What was that way, Jerry? I said if he starts fighting with him on the ground and we see there's nothing visible in his hands, I'm going to sling this, taser.

With Sergeant Manix's plan now set in motion, officers hold their positions, waiting for the green light on whether Jose will surrender or whether they'll be forced to escalate the situation and make entry. But unbeknownst to Sergeant Manix, he's no longer at the center of what happens next, as the final phase of the standoff is about to be initiated, not by him, but by Jose's own son. At this point, with Jose continuing to resist police commands, his daughter attempts to call him herself, desperately trying to convince him to surrender. But the call goes unanswered.

Then Jose's 10-year-old son tries calling him. And this time, the call connects. The father and son speak for several minutes before Jose suddenly hangs up. Although it's unclear exactly what was said, moments later, Jose calls officers back with an update they never saw coming. Jose, me oje, Officer Column, another way. Okay, you're fine? Yes.

Because you... I'm going to give you? You're going to give him? He's coming up. Okay. He said it's coming out. Okay. Jose, let me case, when it's out for

out of the man, okay? Leave the pistola there, right? Okay. Yeah, you're going to out the front door, without,

without, okay? If you can't get the camisa, more, still. Against all odds, Jose suddenly says he's ready to surrender.

With adrenaline racing for everyone on the scene, officers hold their position from all their position from all directions while the sniper watches over the front entrance, anxiously waiting for Jose to emerge. But after everything that's happened, police have no way of knowing whether he's telling the truth or sitting up one final ambush. Only wager on verbal.

Let them know that. Let them know that. Only wager on verbal. Stay off PA once he makes his exit. Stay on zero. This is a safe box in the army. The back is the front. He's away for me!

Stop! Hey, you get it off! Only two hours of gunfire, failed negotiations and uncertainty, Jose finally surrenders, and is placed in the back of Officer Garnesh's patrol car to be transported to the St. Cloud Police Department. But even with the shooter out of the picture, the scene is far from over. With a children's mother still somewhere inside the house, officers finally prepare to make entry, only to realize they're too late. As officers move through the home, up the stairs, and into the house,

into the bathroom, they make a devastating discovery. The children's mother, Lisvet, lies deceased beside five spent nine millimeter casings in a pool of her own blood. Standing beside her body, officers are left wondering whether they could have done things differently, and whether entering sooner might have ultimately changed the outcome. As the scene is being secured, Jose has already arrived back at the station and is placed inside an interrogation room. Interestingly, as he waits for a Spanish student, translator to arrive, he lies across the table as though he is the victim, the one who has been wronged. When the translator finally arrives, Jose largely confirms the story detectives had already

heard from his daughter. According to Jose, two weeks earlier, he placed a recording device after becoming convinced Lisvette was cheating with her boss. Jose claims he heard another man's voice on the recording, fueling his paranoia and rage up until the day of the shooting. The same day Lizvette was preparing to leave for a work trip. And though Jose admits to shooting his wife, perhaps most revealing of all, he tells detectives he never retrieved the weapon from the bathroom because he didn't want to look at her. Following this harrowing interrogation, Jose is charged with first-degree premeditated murder, along with two counts of attempted first-degree murder of a law enforcement officer. As of June 26, he remains in custody,

awaiting a trial date. And while this case left Florida shaken with how jealousy and insecurity transformed a father of two into a cold-blooded killer, our next case takes us to Maryland, where a soon-to-be father unleashes a level of evil that investigators still struggle to comprehend. Inside this gas station, Tori is in the middle of a heated argument with a clerk after refusing to pay for an iced tea, and this is where all hell breaks loose. But police would soon learn this isn't even Tori's first kill, because when officers forced their way through his front door,

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