True Crime with Kimbyr - Part 2: She Left a Halloween Party - Hours Later She Was Dead

Episode Date: November 16, 2025

As the hours turn into days, the questions grow darker. In Part 2 of True Crime with Kimbyr, the investigation intensifies friends retrace steps, family clings to hope, and detectives uncover unsettling details that twist the story even further. What really happened after that final call? Was it a random act of violence or something far closer to home? Join True Crime with Kimbyr as Kimbyrleigha pieces together the clues, exposes hidden truths, and reveals how one Halloween night became a lifelong nightmare. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sarah was the one that decided by that evening to call the police. And she's clear, organized, and specific. She tells the officers exactly what she knows. Halloween weekend plans, the party, the 3 a.m. departure, and the made-it texts, and the photo of one asleep. And then she tells them about the 8.30 FaceTime call as well, in Leilani's last words. There's a girl here. I'll call you back before the line cut out.

She also gives what investigators need most, which is an address. But here's the thing about filing a missing person's report, and I know you're going to know this already. It's not true you have to wait the 24 hours. That's not true anymore. But when you are an adult, you know you're going to hear they're over 18. They can leave. They can go off with a guy. And both of them can decide they don't want to answer their phones. So detectives don't get involved right away. But Officer Christopher Grimm does try to get a hold of Leilani. He realizes there's no GPS pings, it goes straight to voicemail, and he starts calling local hospitals to see if she's been admitted. When she wasn't, he called jails and she wasn't there either.

Leilani's mom is reminded of her last message to her daughter the night she left for Sarah's. She told her to be careful, and she responded that, of course I'll be okay. Of course I'll be safe. Officer Graham noticed that Leelani's phone had not been active after 10 a.m. on that morning. So no social media, no text, no nothing. He calls Sarah, walks through that timeline once again, and then wants to know exactly where she went. Sarah says Wands is in Fairfield, but here's the thing.

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It's in a quiet residential neighborhood, close to Vanne High School, and close to the Travis Air Force Base. This home is not a military residence, though. It's not connected to one service contract with the Air Force. This is an off-base home. There are no cars parked in the driveway. The officers walk up and they knock and they get no answer.

So they decide to walk the perimeter of the house. They don't see anything unusual. But they notice in the back of the house the drapes are open. So they start looking inside. They see nothing out of the ordinary. The house looks completely normal. There is no signs that anything happened in there that would be concerning. But now they reach out to the Air Force base.

They try to get confirmation on Juan's location. And they don't hear back until the next. day, which is October 31st on Halloween. When Juan's first sergeant calls back the detectives, he tells them he's not on base and hasn't been seen for the last several days. Now that's concerning. Because remember, nobody could get a hold of either of them. So it's becoming more obvious that something has happened. Something has to be keeping them from connecting with anyone. However, the sergeant does let them know that Juan's best friend, Damien, is on base. So they decided to set up an interview with him because they know he was at the Halloween party and left

with Juan and Leilani. Now by this time, Detective Dennis Chapman and Brian Hamilton from the Fairfield Police Department are called out. They understand the difference between a teenager that's just not answering texts. And a 19-year-old who never leaves people waiting and ends their last conversation with people yelling in the background and now her phone is dead. The way that these sideshow events go and these fast cars are thinking that possibly they did get in a car accident. Maybe their car flipped over somewhere in a field. They're just trying to figure it out and piece it together. But here's the first time that things get a little confusing.

Because Damien says he doesn't remember Layloni being with him and Juan when they left that last party and went back to Juan's house. Damien remembers getting to the house with Juan but says he passed out. He was asleep until Juan woke him up the next morning for work. And when Damien left, he thought only Juan was there. Well, we already know from what Sarah said that she saw Laylani on FaceTime. She could see that she was at Juan's house, and it was the same house, the same bedroom, where she took that picture of Juan sleeping right next to her.

So who else's house would they have been out, right? Something wasn't adding up. The detectives also noticed Damien's sweating. I mean, that is to be expected. You're being questioned about your best friend being missing and a teenage girl, also missing that he was last seen with. But it does raise some red flags, and you're taking note of it. It could be nothing, but it also could be something.

Leilani's friends are now updated with as much information as the detectives will provide, and they're worried. They continue to post on Snapchat and elsewhere on social media, especially pictures of what Leilani was wearing the last time anyone heard from her or saw her. And the detectives were trying to look at CCTV footage from around the town. They were also calling both of the phones continuously, And all this time, Lainani's mom, she's not sleeping, she's on the phone with police nonstop. It was such an anxiety-inducing situation.

And it's also Halloween, which makes it even more eerie and creepy to think about, to think that something terrible could have happened on a holiday where people are running around with masks on looking like goblins and vampires and beasts and monsters. You can't really focus on anything else when you're a parent in this situation. Violet couldn't relax. She needed answers. But let's go back to Damien for a minute.

As the detectives are interviewing him, they ask all the normal questions in a missing person's case. But because he looked so nervous, Detective Chapman turned up the heat with a question you always ask in these circumstances to stir things up, to ruffle some feathers, if you will. He says, if they're dead, just let me know where they are. And the response that he got from Damien,

he referred to it as a Hollywood response, like in the movies. movies. Damien audibly gulped really hard. In all the years, Detective Chapman has been asking that same question to try to elicit a response. He hadn't got one like that. So it just was odd, as though Damien was holding back. That is a physical action to swallow, to choke down your words. So Detective Chapman called this reaction unbelievable. He took note because Damien, he was shaking. His palms were wet with sweat. It was It was odd. It was unusual. And it's not every day, though, that you're sitting face to face with detectives, with your boss waiting outside the door, with your best friend and the girl he was seeing missing. So it would also be understandable if you were super nervous. However, it's what happened next that turned things from a wellness check to them just trying to locate someone who had seen her last to a full-on investigation into Leilani's whereabouts. Because even though detectives were involved, they were They hoped that at any moment she was going to walk through her front door or call them.

But somebody else calls them. The roommate. He's at home now. At the house he shares with Juan, he's gotten the message that detectives left with their card to please call them. The roommate is also the landlord, and I'm going to call him Jake. He tells detectives they can meet him back at the house on Cascade Lane, so they rush back over and right when Jake opens the front door to speak with them, the detective's smell

bleach. And in order for them to be able to smell it the way that they did, there would have had to be a major cleanup at that home. And that is probable cause enough to get a search warrant, but they didn't need one, because Jake let them come inside. And not only was the smell of bleach super overpowering, but they didn't even have to call in special analysts to see what appeared to be blood in the hallway that led to the stairs and then a trail of blood into the garage. This is a crime scene. and it was immediately locked down. The roommate that I'm calling Jake is questioned, and he says he works nights.

He hasn't seen one in about a week, and he says, I know who Lailani is, she's been here before, but I haven't seen her in months. It's still Halloween. Those in Lailani's friend group, who would normally celebrate are feeling a lot less festive. I think it could feel wrong, dressing up,

being scary, being a monster, when your friend could be dead. And that's what the investigators were suspected. And that's because crime scene technicians who combed Juan's house for clues located would appear to be a small hole in the wall in his bedroom that could have come from a bullet. There is also no mattress on Juan's bed. A pillowcase is missing among other bedding that's not there. So this is a problem.

Putting it all together with the blood, they knew that this was serious. And it added to the urgency to find Juan and Lelani and fast. But I want to jump to that same thing. evening. It's Sunday Halloween evening on October 31st. Detectives are now pulled over at a turnout off of Corral de Tierra Road just outside of Salinas, California, almost three hours away from Wands' rental home in Fairfield. Detectives are stepping over gravel and grass, and they're looking down a ravine, and they see a blanket. They already know what they're going to find, but they follow all the rules and protocols. They put up cones, they photograph

the scene, they make note of everything that might be evidence before anyone says anything out loud. It's the same pattern of blanket that matches the bedding that was on one's bed. And that mattered. Deputies hold traffic far enough back that the scene stays quiet, but this is a very rural area, so there's not that many cars passing through this small two-lane road. Sometimes I wonder if someone's body would ever be found in a place like this. It's so vast. And just 25 feet down this slope. into a small valley where the blanket was located is a body wrapped inside. She's a white female lying face down, unclothed from the waist up, only in underwear and socks.

There's dried blood, rain matter, and bone fragments seen in her hair, and she was carefully turned over, and at that point it was obvious they had found Lailani. They transferred her to a body bag and then transported her to the Monterey County morgue. And then they contacted the Salano County coroner. They had her sent to Fairfield for an official identification and an autopsy. That blanket is collected as evidence, and there isn't really anything else at the scene

that appears to be connected to her murder. And if you're wondering how they found her, how they knew and how they got there this fast, only a day after she was reported missing, how they knew exactly where to stop the car on those winding rural roads in the middle of nowhere, it's because of who was sitting in the backseat of one of the patrol cars. Juan.

But he says, I didn't kill her. He wasn't just talking to detectives. He was pointing. He was telling them where to drive, which exit to take, where to turn, where to pull off. It wasn't vague. It was exact. Even though he didn't have an address, he had been there when Lailani was thrown down the side of the ravine. How did this happen?

Let's back up. After questioning Damien, Detective Chapman knew that the military could demand that Juan come to base or be sanctioned. Juan cared about his career. So eventually, he made his way to speak with Chapman. And as they begin questioning him, they get a phone call that Damien has something to add to his earlier interview. Damien comes down. They put him in a room right next to Juan, and they're pretty sure that when he heard that Juan was being questioned, he wanted to come clean. because he had lied.

But first, let's go to Juan. He gives them the exact same information that Damien had. And to recap, that was, we saw Leilani at the party, but she didn't go back to my house that night. We don't know anything about where she could be. But both of their stories contradict with Sarah, and we already know. She saw her in that bedroom on FaceTime.

And Juan's not talking. But Damien was, so they focused their attention on him. Damien says he did not hurt Leilani. That was true. But he did lie about something. Leilani did come home with them to Wans. And Wan and Lailani went up to Juan's bedroom, and he passed out on the couch in Juan's living room downstairs.

His sergeant couldn't find him the next morning, so they called Wahn. Juan woke him up, he left for the base, and that was it. But then, later that afternoon, Juan calls him for a favor. He says, hey, can you go to Walmart and pick up some cleaning supplies, bleach, extra towels, stain removers.

For some reason, and I don't know why, Damien does it without questioning it. What are friends for, right? But it was a little strange. And once Damien gets to Wans, he tells the detectives, he's told that Lailani's dead, that her body has already been removed, that she has been killed, and that he needs to clean up because they're being ordered to. So we've got to back up a little more. Who's giving them orders?

Well, Damien only knows what he saw once he got there. So Chapman goes back in the room to talk to Juan. And he has heard everything between these thin walls. There's no sense in lying. So he lays it all out. He's like, well, you already know everything. So let me tell you how it went down. He said after the Halloween party, he, Damian and Lailani went back to his place.

And he and Lelani were asleep upstairs. After Damien leaves for base, Juan hears the front door open. and he hears rummaging around the house. So he jumps out of bed to find a girl that he was seeing recently standing inside the house. Now apparently she still had a key. Her name is Jessica Kintanilla.

And they'd only been seeing each other for maybe a month between the time Laylani had first met Juan a year ago, and they had drifted apart to when Juan called it off with Jessica before Leilani started talking to him again in September, the month before. So he startled that she's there, He wants her to leave, especially because they're not together anymore and he's got another girl in his bed. The timing is not good.

He tells her this, but she insists she needs to grab her things that she left there, including a bracelet and about $5,000 in cash. So she pushes past him, runs up the stairs towards his room, and he's trying to avoid a bad situation. So he runs after her. He tries to get to the door before she does, but she makes it inside. She grabs her bracelet off the dresser, and then she proceeds to the bed. And clearly, she can tell someone is in his bed, with the covers pulled up over them. So she yanks the covers down, and it's Lelani hiding underneath. Laylani doesn't know this girl, but Jessica knows all about Lelani.

Jessica is an OG at the side shows. She was actually the girl that tried pulling Lailani out of one's car a few weeks back. Jessica was extremely jealous of Laylani, and it even begged Juan not to talk to her anymore. Jessica goes off. She's screaming. She's yelling at Laylani. She's calling her a bitch. She's accusing Juan of cheating on her, but they're not together. She's threatening them and cussing and being loud. Juan finally pushes her towards the stairs. They go back downstairs. They're arguing about this entire situation while Laylani facetimes Sarah. So this is what Sarah was hearing in the background. Juan and Jessica

yelling. This was the girl Le Lonnie was referring to when she said, there's a girl here. Juan thinks that he's settled things because Jessica storms out the front door and Juan goes back upstairs to apologize to Leilani and explain that Jessica's a hothead. She's insecure and jealous and they only hung out for a month. And he can't believe that she just did that. But he doesn't get a chance. Because within just a minute of her walking out that door, she's back wielding a gun. already pointing it straight ahead as she barges through Juan up the stairs and into his bedroom, walks right up to Laylani, who's confused and scared, and she points it at her head. And without hesitation, she pulls the trigger while looking at Juan and saying,

this is your fault. Juan is shocked. He's frozen. He cannot believe what he has just witnessed. And Jessica yells, you made me do this. obviously going psycho on him, now pointing the gun at him and telling him he better help fix this.

He better help get rid of her, or she will kill him and kill Damien and whoever else she has to in order to make him comply. At which point, Jessica still holding the gun at Juan calls her older brother, 27-year-old Marco Cantania. He's a felon who just got released from prison

and is on parole for attempted murder. She tells him, I've got an issue. I fucked up. I need your help. The plan is to go to Marcos. But first, they wrap Lelani up in the comforter. They take the stained bedding off and wrap that up with her too. They drag her down the stairs and out into the garage where they leave her. And at this point, they use what they have to try to clean up some of the blood,

but they don't have enough cleaning products. We're going to get back to that. Now, at this point, they load her into the trunk of Juan's prized possession, his souped-up Cadillac CTSV. Juan explains the detectives during his interview that he's following Jessica's orders because she has a Glock tucked into her waistband of her sweatpants, and he's afraid of what she might do. She just killed someone, so he doesn't want to resist. Jessica gets in the driver's seat and Juan and her drive to Home Depot. They're both wearing black hoodies and medical masks over their nose and mouth. This is what they buy. Two shovels,

Two shovels, lighter fluid, a lighter, duct tape, and pliers. Jessica's plan is to bury Lailani. But first, she was going to pull out all of her teeth with pliers, so she would not be able to be identified by dental records, and she was going to burn her and then bury her remains. Jessica knows they're going to have to split up because they have a lot to do, but first, Jessica drives her and won over to her brother Marco's house. Once they get there, she gets out,

Her brother gets in to talk to Juan, a guy that he's never met, and in no uncertain terms, he tells him, if my little sister goes down for this, you will go down for this. And I'm not afraid to go back to prison. All three of them now get back into Juan's car with Jessica driving and Marco having the plan of what to do with Lelani's body. They go back, put her body into the trunk of the Cadillac, and they drive three hours away to a very remote area out in Monter, where they pull off to the side of the road, and Leilani is taken out of the trunk, and Marco and Jessica throw her down the ravine. Now, I can't tell you why they did not carry out their other plans,

but according to Juan, he said they didn't have time. They were going to come back, pull all of her teeth out, set her on fire, and then bury her. Jessica tells Juan to call Damien. She knows that that is his best friend, his ride or die. He's not going to ride him out. Tell him to go get cleaning. supplies and meet back over at Juan's house. Jessica and Marco drop Juan off and they take his car.

At this point, they're going to dispose of the shovels and everything else. Juan does as he's instructed. He calls Damien, tells him to get the cleaning supplies in an air mattress since his needed to be disposed of, and he meets Damien and he reveals the truth. And they begin cleaning the house. And afterward, they just lay low. At this point in the interview, Juan gets into a patrol car. and he instructs detectives where to look for Leilani's body. And luckily, she was still there. And Jessica had not had a chance to come back and continue her plan. This seems like the truth, but they can't just take Juan's word for it.

They need to hear her from Jessica. Juan says he has no idea where she is, that she's stolen his car, and they should be on the lookout for a black Cadillac CTSV. This is the car that he is so proud of, the one he cleans spotless for shows and revs the engine to impress girls, and now it's being used as a getaway car. But it's not exactly covert. It's loud.

It's a high-performance version of a luxury CTS sedan. It's got a really souped up V8 engine, and it's very recognizable. As a matter of fact, one of the Fairfield officers had even seen it in town, and he remembered it because he was into cars. So he's on a mission to track it down, and Juan is taken into custody,

and Leilani's family is notified. And it's heartbreaking. She's only been gone since the previous day. So all of her family and friends, they have banned together, they're planning to start looking for her and handing out flyers. They had a bunch of them made. And they had gathered people together to hopefully find her alive. So you can imagine how crushing it was for Violet to get that call.

They told her that Laylani was gone. And it was unbelievable. She said she could not even feel her body. She went numb. She was in total shock. total shock. She couldn't believe that it was true. She later said she doesn't even remember knowing how to breathe in that moment. And she was the one responsible for letting all of Leilani's friends know what happened. And of course, you can just imagine how devastated they were. They said that it felt

surreal. Now, one of the first things her mother wanted to know is who did this. And they explained, they thought it was Jessica Kentania, and that name was not familiar. It was explained to her that it was a possible love triangle. However, they weren't sure, and unfortunately, they hadn't found Jessica yet. That was not the news her loved ones wanted to hear. It was also confusing, but it wasn't long before Juan's noisy Cadillac, with its unmistakable sound, came racing down a local road and was spotted and pulled over. Jessica was inside, and she was completely calm. She said nothing to them. They put in handcuffs and they took her back to the station. Detective Hamilton actually sat down with her. And she's polite, she's talkative, she's even friendly, sort of like very nonchalant, almost

annoyed that she has to be called down there on Halloween. She even went to a party the night before. She was acting very inconvenienced by having to sit at a police station. But soon he started breaking her down, starting with the easy questions. Jessica was born October 9th of the year, 2000 and she had just turned 21, three weeks ago. So she wasn't that much older than Leilani. She's also a mother of two and she was in the middle of a divorce. She was working two jobs at the time. One is a caretaker at an assistant living facility and this is a role that suggests someone that's compassionate and patient, someone that's able to care for people who are vulnerable. She was also a dental assistant. And from the outside, she did look like a pretty normal girl.

outgoing, pretty, hardworking, likes have fun. But she does admit that she has toxic traits, her words. When asked about a relationship with Juan, she acted like they were completely together as girlfriend and boyfriend. She's like, we have a really good relationship. It's just me. I have toxic traits. And she went on to elaborate that she tends to start arguments over nothing.

When she asked what she was doing over the weekend, she said she went to a couple Halloween parties, and then Detective Hamilton asked her what Juan was doing. At first, she said he was with me all weekend. But then he said, what about Friday night? And she backtracks. She says, oh, except Friday. He went out with Damien to a party in Sacramento,

but he came to my house afterward. That's kind of confusing. Because we know that Layloni went back to Juan's place. So Hamilton's trying to process all of this. He asked Jessica, when was Juan over? She said, oh, it was the middle of the night. He has a key to my house, used to stay here from time to time. He just came right in and got into bed with me. Really?

Hamilton was like, that's not what Juan said. He also said you were never his girlfriend. She didn't respond to that. So Hamilton asked what she knew about Laylani. Jessica said, I don't even know her. I've seen her around at the sideshow and she's cool with everyone there, but she's not in a relationship with Juan. She wasn't dating him. But Hamilton is pushing her a bit. He's like, Really? That's interesting. Are you sure that Layloni wasn't in a relationship, wasn't Juan's girlfriend before you met him and started seeing him back in August? And she's like, oh, I don't know anything about them ever being together. I don't know who she is, like I said. Well, they were hoping to have more luck with Marco, who had also been called to the station. And because he was on parole,

he did not want to get in any more trouble. So he did start to speak with them. He says, listen, I don't know one at all. I don't know what he did. I don't know how my sisters involved? I just met him this morning when he came over to drop off shovels, a gun, and ammo at my house telling me to get rid of them. They ask, are you still in possession of these items? And he says, yeah. And they made arrangements to get them from him. But in the meanwhile, he explains, he doesn't even know if that gun was used for a crime or anything like that. But they were in the back of one's vehicle. That's all he knows. At the same time, they're making calls around to people who knew Jessica, including some of Lelani's friends. And the picture that everyone else

else's painting was much different. She was known as very jealous, confrontational, quick to escalate situations, and very unpredictable and dangerous, that she carried around a gun and waved it around, and as a matter of fact, like I told you, she was the girl that was seen smashing a liquor bottle over another woman's head at a party not too long before this. She's also the one that tried to pull Lailani out of Juan's car at the show.

They begin pressing her about all this information, and she wanted to speak with her brother. They thought this might be a good opportunity for them to be alone and possibly implicate one another. I don't know why people talk when they know they're being recorded. It's beyond me. But they get in that room together. And at first, they're being very covert.

They're kind of nodding, gesturing, speaking so soft. You can't really make out what they're saying. But it seems like Jessica is overconfident. And that gets the best of her. She's mocking the detectives. She's telling her brother, they don't have shit on us. Don't talk to them. And he was telling her, they say I'm going to go down as an accessory to murder because I got

rid of the shovels. She literally tells him, there is nothing to link us, dude. They're fucking lying. I caught them in a lie. And I had to roll my eyes. Jessica caught them in a lie? It seems like she really doesn't know how detectives operate. They're allowed to fabricate things in order to get a confession.

So I thought it was funny that she's trying to catch them in a lie like it's her job. She thinks she's smarter than the police. Don't they all? But then she starts really obviously talking about the crime because she uses the word body. She asked her brother, what did you tell them about the body? Why would you even talk about that at that point?

Her brother knows that they're in over their head. This is not his first rodeo. He doesn't want to be in even more trouble. He didn't pull the trigger, so he stops interacting. But they have what they need. And both Jessica and Marco, are arrested. She's charged with murder and he's charged as an accessory. Damien and Juan agreed to testify against Jessica and her brother, and they are given immunity and not

charged with the crime. The news traveled fast. After news of a 19-year-old being killed after a Halloween party, of course people are speaking out, including family members and a family friend, Michelle Smith. She talked about how hard it was when her friend, LeLani's mother Violet, told her that Lailon's mother, Lonnie had been killed. What are your best friends calls and says, her daughter passed away? Like, you can't. Sorry.

There's no words. There are no words. You know, the details which are not on the news or even more shocking. Lonnie, as far as I know, she was dating one of the individuals. And that's pretty much all I know about that. Honestly, those three people need to like really just be convicted and never shown the light of day.

She was a mature and responsible adult and a loving person. This is a senseless tragedy. And it's just been a really heartbreaking for everyone involved. Wonderful young woman caught in a horrible situation. It's every parent's worst nightmare. Yes, there were things that were not being shared with the public. For example, Leilani's autopsy. She had been shot one time in the right side of

of her head, the bullet passed through her brain, fractured her skull, and came out the back, right side of her head. It then became lodged in a wall inside Juan's bedroom, and it was found inside that wall and collected his evidence. And as it turns out, that gun that was given to Marco to hide or get rid of, it was tested, and ballistics showed it was not the firearm used in Leilani's murder, and that weapon has never been found.

They did, however, use Blue Star, which is like luminal and they saw it light up in Juan's bedroom as well as the floor of the garage. So both of those areas had a lot of blood there and it was cleaned up. There were just smears and marks and you could tell what happened there. After Jessica's arrest, detectives begin looking through her phone. They do the text extractions, the GPS reports, and she definitely knew who Laylani was and even bragged to one of her friends through a text message about what happened at Sideshow, about how she knew that Lailani had a physical relationship with Wan. That was in a text. How she knew? She said, because I walked in on it.

This was sent back on October 17th. So it seemed like her aggression and jealousy was building up. In that same message thread, she talked about how she kicked Lailani out of Juan's car and everyone thought it was funny because they thought she was going to fight her. It proved that she attacked her that night because she knew, that Leilani was seeing Juan again, and that her and Juan were over. Her GPS data showed she was in all the places she said she wasn't.

She tried to make it look like Juan came to her house, but GPS showed she came to Juan's house. It also showed she was at the place where Leilani's body had been found. Now, the things I thought were ironic is that Jessica clearly wanted to be known in the sideshow community. She always wanted to be in the driver's seat,

and she didn't like another girl like like Leilani sitting in one's car. Well, it's the same car that gave her away. And it truly seemed as though this woman was living in her own world in this little bubble. And when it came to her pride, wanting to be known as the most popular and being with the most popular guy in that small community, her ego was so crushed when he didn't want to be with her

and he chose to go back with Leilani. He kept choosing Leilani over her and wanting a relationship with Leilani instead of Jessica. And she was just trying to be with her. trying to find a way to work herself back in Juan's life and get Leilani out of the picture. Even Leilani's family said that Juan did not have a reason to hurt her. So they knew from the beginning it had to be Jessica, even when she was trying to spin a different narrative. Three years later, in November of 2024, Jessica Yassena Kintinia and her brother Marco

Antonio Kintinia finally stood trial for the murder of 19-year-old Leilani Marie Beecham. Three years after the four-hour window that changed everything. We finally hear this case under oath. We're not having to guess anymore. We're watching the state put each piece together. They walk through the entire record, one witness at a time. Prosecutors kept it really simple and chronological the same way that I've been laying it out for you. I think the most damning evidence would be Sarah's testimony that she saw Leilani at Wands

and the picture of Juan sleeping that was sent through Snapchat. The digital evidence didn't lie, and that goes for all Jessica's GPS and her text messages as well. The state's theory. It's very simple. Jessica came into that bedroom on October 30th because she knew that Leilani was there with Juan. She was obsessed, and she wanted to prove that she wasn't going to let another woman upstage her. She saw Leilani in the bed, and within that morning window, she was shot, and Jessica and her brother discarded her body. The state doesn't need a why to prove the who and the what.

But they do address motive through everything we know, her history, the confrontations, the past incidents involving Jessica's temper and her violence. But Jessica's team argues the classic, it wasn't premeditated, let's downgrade the charges. This was heat of passion. It was just an ugly moment that spiraled out of control. And they also float that it was an accident. Their version of events is that Juan pulled the gun, on Jessica to get her to stop arguing with him, and she hit his arm, the gun went off, and

Lailani caught a bullet. She was in the crossfire. They asked jurors to give her second degree or manslaughter instead of first-degree murder. The problem for them is that the evidence doesn't match that story. The single shot up close with gunshot residue and stippling on Lelani's head, it was intentional, direct, and purposeful. And then there's the cleanup. The transport, the silence afterward. can't claim an accident with a coordinated cover-up. And Marco's attorney wants to push distance between him and his sister. He didn't pull the trigger, he only cooperated later. Consider his role very limited.

That may help its sentencing, but it doesn't in unringing the accessory bill. The facts show that after the fact he helped move Lailani and tried to erase things at the scene. After five weeks of testimony, the jury comes back with a verdict. Jessica's guilty of first-degree murder and Marco is guilty of accessory after the fact. For this family, it's not closure. The word never fits, but it is recognition that the system saw what happened and justice was served. Jessica sentenced to 25 years to life with lifetime parole supervision if she's ever released. And Marco receives four years, even including his prior history with a past attempted murder.

And you know what's sad is that Leilani's little sister, she did an interview, and it was heartbreaking to hear her say that she didn't think that was enough time for someone who took her sister away. She was so little when this happened, and her memories of Leilani were so sweet. It just shows you that that ripple effect reaches so wide. One heartless decision, one impulsive, erratic,

and selfish decision heard so many people. But Jessica did this to her same. She got what she deserved. But there was anger from Laylawny's family and friends. They felt like the immunity deal for Damien and Juan was not enough. But detectives did point out, you know, these men were discharged from the military. They lost their jobs. They lost their careers. But Amy said it best.

She said, my best friend is gone because of him. She was talking about Juan. And I feel that I do. But it was Jessica's actions that caused Layloni's doubt. However, in these cases, I always have assumptions I think we all do. I might not always say it, but I think we might be thinking the same thing. He was seeing these girls back to back. Maybe he was lying to Jessica, or maybe there were reasons that she was upset,

but that does not justify murder in any way we twist it to try to make it make sense. It's a senseless crime. Laylawny was a person. She's creative, generous. generous. She was 19 years old. She loved her siblings, so much so she even had her little sister's name tattooed on her arm, a student, building a life towards cosmetology, design, and business, a girl who had so much to look forward to. I think with young people, I'm not going to say they feel invincible, but sometimes when you're a teen, you're 19, you're having fun, you really don't think of all the

consequences. And this is in no way saying that she did anything wrong, but I know there's going to be people that are going to say, why are you hanging in that crowd? Asking those kind of questions and almost putting the blame on the victim. But we shouldn't. No one's asking to die because they want to go to a party, look sexy, or even sleep with a guy. So just try to be sensitive. And remember, she was 19. Only 19.

If there's any lesson in this, I would say it applies to Jessica. There's no place for anger to turn into murderous rage. I don't really like the cliche people use when they say, no one can make you feel a certain way. But instead, I've learned we do feel. We want to react. But there is a learning lesson when it comes to anger. It has been proven that that feeling when we get upset

when someone cuts us off in traffic or they say something bad about us, it only lasts 90 seconds. That's it. So if you can just wait the 90 seconds and forget about it and cool down, put it out of your head, don't dwell, you can overcome it. Because those decisions that are made in that 90-second window, when you're full of anger, they usually come back to hurt you in the long run.

After that 90 seconds, any lingering anger is because a person chooses to continue the emotional loop, they call it, by dwelling on the thoughts that initially cause their anger. So set a timer, breathe, and move on, 90 seconds. If you can process these moments better each time, you're going to be a lot more stress-free. It's taken me a very long time to learn this and implement it, but I promise it's worth it. I want to thank you so much for being here for Laylonia's story. Please be safe, and I will see you in my next video. Bye.