May 24, 2026 · 42 min · 12 segments
A Peruvian healthcare worker gets a second chance at love until he’s found murdered in his Westminster, Calif. apartment. Investigators set out to discover whether his new bride is a grieving widow or…
May 22nd, 2014.
It's a little after 10 a.m. when police in the quiet bedroom community of Westminster, California receive a disturbing 911 call.
An individual by the name of James Luna was on the call and a female could be heard in the background.
She was frantic.
We have an emergency.
Uh, my husband's not responding.
What's going on there? Uh, he's face down on the stomach, but he has blood.
I don't want to move him.
Is he breathing? Uh, I, I don't think so.
I don't think so.
I can't see him moving.
James explains that the crying woman is his neighbor, 37-year-old Olga Vasquez.
James told us that he heard Olga frantically yelling for help, so he calls 911 and helps translate.
He says Olga told him she came home to find her bedroom drenched with blood.
She believes her husband, 58-year-old Adrian Zapata, has been murdered.
At what time did you know him? She, she just got back.
She just got back.
She's taking the kids to school.
So he was fine this morning when you- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They made contact initially with, uh, Olga Vasquez, where she directed them to Adrian Zapata, deceased, in his bedroom.
Adrian had several injuries on his neck that seemed to resemble stab wounds with an unknown object.
He also had blunt force trauma to the back of his head.
He was laying face down with his head on a pillow.
He had a, a sheet over his lower half of his body.
May 22nd, 2014.
It's a little after 10 a.m. when police in the quiet bedroom community of Westminster, California receive a disturbing 911 call.
An individual by the name of James Luna was on the call and a female could be heard in the background.
She was frantic.
We have an emergency.
Uh, my husband's not responding.
What's going on there? Uh, he's face down on the stomach, but he has blood.
I don't want to move him.
Is he breathing? Uh, I, I don't think so.
I don't think so.
I can't see him moving.
James explains that the crying woman is his neighbor, 37-year-old Olga Vasquez.
James told us that he heard Olga frantically yelling for help, so he calls 911 and helps translate.
He says Olga told him she came home to find her bedroom drenched with blood.
She believes her husband, 58-year-old Adrian Zapata, has been murdered.
At what time did you know him? She, she just got back.
She just got back.
She's taking the kids to school.
So he was fine this morning when you- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They made contact initially with, uh, Olga Vasquez, where she directed them to Adrian Zapata, deceased, in his bedroom.
Adrian had several injuries on his neck that seemed to resemble stab wounds with an unknown object.
He also had blunt force trauma to the back of his head.
He was laying face down with his head on a pillow.
He had a, a sheet over his lower half of his body.
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Caught at the Hotel
Surveillance leads detectives to a revealing rendezvous.
Lingerie in the Trunk
Police pop trunk, find unsettling surprise inside.
Secret Phone Timeline Breakthrough
Phone records outline haunting minute-by-minute murder timeline.
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