Real people, real crimes, real life drama. Brian Briminger was a typical Marine, that kind of an all-American kind of persona. He was assigned to a color guard in Washington, D.C. There's pictures of him in the White House, with President George W.
Bush. From the outside looking in, it seemed like Brian Briminger had everything going for him. In 2011, after having served seven years in the Marine Corps, Brian Briminger leaves the Marines. He decides to go to Panama.
And his plan is to decompress, take some time off, and get to the Marine Corps. My sister was deeply in love with the man named Brian Briminger. All she wanted was to be with him and love him. They were so mentally in love, I think she was very proud of him, because he was a Marine.
She used to say things like, I'm with a Marine. Yvonne went down to Panama's Bryant to start a new life. That's where Yvonne wanted to be. It was perfect.
I am Michelle Vellin, so I love how my sister is Yvonne Baudelli. She likes to carry Okey, she likes to dance. Did Yvonne like it here? She loved it here.
Just love it here. In the middle, in Bocas de Toto, this is the house they were renting in, Brian Briminger and Yvonne Baudelli. Yvonne told her family members that everything was good. She painted a very happy picture.
Through emails, she made it seem like everything was fine and well. The reality of it was that her and Briminger were fighting constantly. After I'd heard stories of fights, I could understand why she would want to leave. She fell off the radar screen.
She just went away one day. Her email stopped. Her communication stopped. Everybody lost contact with her.
There's no immigration records. It indicates that she left Panama. There's no book for this. There's no book for Dummies on what to do when your sister is gone missing.
Karen Arrow from the outside appears to be a tropical paradise, but it's a swampy hill. I call it Devil's Island because some terrible things took place at night. Brian Briminger has done nothing. Zero to help with the search for Yvonne.
We are in Central America in some jungle in some swamp looking for Yvonne. After the middle, it really be unbelievable. This is unbelievable. What no one knew is that Brian Briminger had a secret.
He was living a double life. Brian Briminger moved to California, hooked up with Kristen Workoven, and they got married. Kristen worked at the White House, and that's where she and Brian met. And his life is going on like normal.
And her knife will never do the same. What did you do to her, Brian? We knew that there had been foul play. We knew he was the last one to see her alive.
Brian's coming out with his golf clubs. Let's go, guys. And this is what I know. Okay, you can roll in.
Let's go. My sister went down to Panama with a Brian. Brian returned and my sister didn't. Brian Briminger was exceptionally eric.
But what he didn't account for was this family's fervor to find what happened to their daughter and their sister. Brian Peter van Sant with CBS News. We'd like to ask a couple questions. It's an easy thing to tell the truth.
He told a lot of lies. That's what led to his demise. My Peter van Sant, tonight on 48 Hours, Devils Island. 48 Hours will be back in 90 seconds.
In the spring of 2012, Brian Briminger was living the high life in Southern California. Just months removed from a decorated Marine Corps career, Briminger was happily married and living in the suburbs. When I look at the pictures of Brian and Kristen, I just see a couple in love and super sincerely happy and just in a way that I'm going to see her. I'm happy and just enjoying the day at the beach in La Hoya.
These joyful newlywed photos of Brian and Kristen Briminger were a shock to Yvonne Baldelli's family. They expected her to be in the picture. It wasn't their wedding day, but they came in their wedding attire in a limousine and champagne flowing. Photographer Jack English had no idea of the intrigue behind these happy images that Brian had proposed to Kristen just days after Yvonne disappeared in Panama.
She looked very happy, very in love as if she found her Prince Charming. Prince Charming? A man who had just left Yvonne Baldelli in Panama two weeks earlier? How could this happen?
We traveled to the remote islands of the Caribbean coast of Panama to find out. Up ahead is the island of Caranero, where Yvonne and Brian, who the locals called Brim, came to live in September 2011. It's a place where they could chase their dream. Why do they decide to go to Panama?
She liked the fact that they could live on the beach, you know, pretty reasonable price down there. Yvonne's sister, Michelle Valenzuela, says Brian wanted to become a singer, performing in bars and clubs. With her beloved dog, George Amaya, and Han, Yvonne brought two sewing machines in hopes of starting a clothing business. Stepmother, Lillian Foste.
She was going to make bathing suits and sell them to tourists. I knew she was excited, and she didn't have any reservations. It sounded like she had a real plan for the future. She did, and she thought that she found her paradise her perfect place.
Michelle recalls how her younger sister Yvonne, recently divorced, was smitten with Brian when they first started dating in 2009 in Southern California. I don't think she was physically attracted to him. That was a big part of it. And while Yvonne seemed to be falling in love with Brian, big sister Michelle wasn't so sure.
As far as emotionally from my sister, Yvonne would put 100% into you, and she would expect that back. And I didn't get that impression that she was receiving that. That concerned me. She deserved that.
After Yvonne was laid off from her management job with Procter & Gamble, and Brian ended his career in the Marines, the two decided to make a fresh start and reinvent themselves in Panama. Settling in this house, they quickly fell in with the local expats. Did you think they were in love? No, apparently.
It seems so. Joan and Stephen Crabtree own the Cosmic Crab, a funky resort and waterfront bar where Brian would sing for his supper. He played here at the Cosmic Crab a couple of nights a week, and they were frequent visitors here. They were very nice people.
Penny Tom, owner of another waterfront bar, also let Brian play for food and free booze. Lots of booze. They used to drink a lot, so they were always happy. What's a lot?
A lot. And Jim Merton says Brian's drinking may have gotten in the way of his singing. He played a guitar good, but when he started to sing, that's when it went away. What was it like?
Mmm, like a hand-dog on a porch. She looked very happy in the pictures, and she was really enjoying herself there. I know it would be a place that she would like. For Yvonne's father, Jim Faust, the constant stream of joyful phone calls and emails, describing the couple's Panama adventures, was reassuring.
Yvonne's emails were stories of exactly what her life was like down there, and I could picture it, and I could close my eyes. And it was like I was there, I couldn't imagine all the things. Emails like this one. She says, Hi Sis.
Brian, already working at local restaurants and bars. We love it. We wake up and go running, then swim in the ocean every morning. And so Yvonne's family thought all was well in paradise, and that Brian might be the one for Yvonne.
I believe that they were going to get married. That's what I thought was going to happen when they got down there. But then, right around Thanksgiving, 2011, three months after they arrived in Panama, the happy emails and calls from Yvonne started to drop off. For Michelle, a sisterly instinct started to kick in.
That's what sent me off. It was the fact that they were coming up frequent. The emails from her, and then they stopped completely. Two weeks passed.
Then, on December 14th, Michelle finally got a text, but it wasn't from Yvonne. There was a number I didn't recognize, and a text message on there said, this is Brian Maymaker Ringgan's to pick up my truck. Michelle was shocked. Brian was back in the U.S.
I sat up, called that number, for only thing on my office, where's my sister? He says, didn't she get my email? I said, I haven't received any emails from anybody. It's been a few weeks.
I said, I'll call you back. So I went to my computer. Michelle discovered an email she had overlooked. It was from Brian, who had never written before.
The one from him stated, I'm sure you've heard by now that Bonnie and I are no longer together. I called him right back. I asked him, like, what happened? And he said, I had got in a fight, because she had found out that he had a child from somebody else.
That's somebody else? Kristen Workholven. The two had a baby girl in 2010. Since Yvonne was unable to have a child because of a medical condition, the discovery must have been earth shattering.
Brian then said Yvonne, just up and left. I said, did she leave the note? No. Has she tried to call you since?
No. Do you know where she's at? No. And I said, I haven't heard from her.
Brian. And he said, well, I'm sure she's fine. But Michelle had her doubts about that story. And 10 days later, when Brian called and still wanted to pick up his truck, Michelle said she had another plan.
I said, when you come to pick up the struggle, be here. That's my problem. And I think it's a good idea that you go with me to the police department. Since you're the last one to see her, we can fill out a missing person's report.
Because now we're already in mid-December. And I haven't heard anything from her. And that's not right. Something's wrong.
In December of 2011, Michelle Valenzuela was still worried about her missing sister. So she went back to her computer where she found another overlooked message, this one from Yvonne. Hi, Sis, just an update. Brian and I are no longer together.
I should have trusted my instincts that he is lying cheating ass. I'm headed to Costa Rica with a man I met when we first got to focus. What do you think when you read the scene? I just wasn't sure there's some things in there that didn't feel right to me.
Her head was spinning. Could have really run off with another man after learning that Brian had a love child? All he wanted to do was be a mother. That's all she ever wanted to do was be a mother.
And I find out that Brian headed to the child. She said everything she had to go to the other end of the world to be with this man. And he didn't tell her about that. I'm questioning what her mental state is right now.
She's art broken. In Upstate New York, Jim and Lillian Faust also felt the turn of events was just so out of character for their daughter. Her life could change so abruptly. And she's like, oh well, I'm going with this guy.
And Costa Rica. That made absolutely, positively no sense to me. Also making no sense, three weeks had passed since Yvonne had emailed from Panama. But then out of the blue, she said a new email.
It was strange. Miss you and everyone at home starting to get a little homesick. I'm working on plans to get home as early as a second week of January. I've been living with cliffhangers for a while.
Love you, Sis, Yvonne. While strange, the email was also reassuring for her family who was happy to learn Yvonne would soon return to California. So I stopped worrying. I figured, okay, she knows that in January we're having a family get together.
She's going to be there. Do you feel she's safe at this point? I was so worried, but I was satisfied with it for the moment. On the same day that email arrived, so too did Brian Briminger, knocking on the front door of Michelle's LA home to pick up his truck.
What did you see on his face? What was his demeanor like? It was just in a hurry. It was calm.
It was very brief. All business. Get his stuff, get his truck. After Brian got his pickup truck, Yvonne's emails stopped.
16 long days passed until on January 6th, 2012, Michelle wrote her sister. The subject worried. I just want to make sure you weren't kidding after someone pretending to be you. There's my paranoid suspicious mind or maybe too many 48 hours.
Did you ever hear back from your sister again? No, that's the last email. Michelle was still hopeful that she would appear at that family reunion, but Yvonne never showed up. At that point, when we met with my dad and I told him, you haven't heard from her, he said, oh, no, something's wrong.
Something's wrong. And I tried to have to leave Panama. That's just my feeling. By now, Michelle was convinced her sister never ran off to Costa Rica with another man.
So her instinct was to learn where Yvonne's emails were really coming from. So I went to my cousin and asked him to please check it out. Because like I said, I haven't had glue. The cousin, a technology whiz, said tracking Yvonne's emails would be easy.
All he needed was their IP addresses. So we searched the emails Yvonne had supposedly sent from Panama and Costa Rica. As well as that email, Brian had sent from near Dana Point, California. The cousin made a startling discovery.
The one from Panama came from Panama and then the one that was supposed to be with her being in Costa Rica came from the United States. Where in the United States? One of them looked like they were coming from Dana Point. That email, Michelle says, originated from where Brian was now living near Dana Point, California.
It was the evidence Michelle said. And the evidence Michelle had been looking for. He was sharing the same IP address. So Yvonne's email is coming from Brian's computer.
Yes. The family's worst fear had come true. It appeared Brian had hacked into Yvonne's email account and was impersonating her. But why?
That's when I knew that he did something to her. And I'm missing person. It's murder now. It's murder.
Is my sister's dead and I'm never going to see her again? But Michelle had no time to mourn. She took that new evidence down to the FBI where she met with special agent Andrew Masters. Michelle down his way.
She was a spy. When they brought that to us, we knew that there's absolutely foul play ball. The FBI immediately launched an investigation into a Vons disappearance with Masters taking charge. Yvonne's family then contacted the State Department.
I call the embassy and the embassy tells us there was no record of her ever leaving Panama and no record of her ever entering Costa Rica. Yvonne's family couldn't wait any longer. They traveled to Panama to find answers. The FBI made a move as well targeting Brian Brimager as a person of interest.
Brian didn't realize what exactly the FBI is capable of. With the FBI investigation underway in the States, Yvonne's family met up with legendary investigator Don Winter in Panama City. Why is it when something goes bad with an American citizen in Panama? You get the phone call.
I've already put away or helped to put away three serial killers. So when bad things happen, they know that to come to me when they don't know what else to do. Winter is an ex-US intelligence officer with an uncanny ability to solve murders. Jim and Lillian tell Don the story of their daughter's disappearance.
And Brian's claim that she's run off with another man. I think the chances that she's running around in Costa Rica somewhere with some other did are down there zero. Here's a deal. This is what happened.
This is what we think is going on. It's not the first time. Winter, a CBS news consultant has worked on a case with 48 hours. We're going to go take a look at this yellow trimaran.
The Intrepid investigator helped solve the murder of American sailor Don North as 48 hours reported in 2011. Just on a personal side in all of this. Can you believe you and I are doing this again? No, absolutely not.
I tell you what. It's amazing. Winter is convinced Brian Briminger is involved. His strategy put pressure on the Panamanian government to act.
When Don Winter speaks. People listen. Yeah. Winter's game plan also called for Jim and Michelle to give blood for DNA tests should any remains be found.
And when Yvonne's family travels hundreds of miles from Panama City to the tropical island where she disappeared. Evo Lee by Lee. The Panamanian police are persuaded to hold a press conference to plea for information. The family has been experiencing living nightmare for quite a few months and we continue to appeal to anyone who knows absolutely anything about Yvonne's disappearance to come forward.
Panamanian police announced for the first time that Yvonne is the victim of foul play and named Brian Briminger as the suspect. This news conference reverberated around the world. Police say within weeks of her disappearance Briminger returned to the US got engaged and married another woman. Tonight the FBI is calling him a person of interest.
Riding a momentum of the press conference they printed flyers, found out to neighborhoods and the village searching for their own clues. The I own recompense. It's a bittersweet search for a von's niece Lauren Vier in a place that is no longer a paradise. There's nothing here for us until we find her.
That's why we're here. But the family's quest is starting to get results. Witnesses who knew the couple come out of the woodwork describing Brian's verbal and physical abuse. To me it was a scary person.
It was not the kind of person I wanted to be around. Local bar owner Jeff Solzman saw it firsthand on Yvonne's face. As I recall it was black eyes and blackness around the face and bruises. Was she self-conscious about it?
She was trying to hide it and not speak of it. It was very painful to learn that he had hit her, that she had bruises, that she had black eyes. Those things were very difficult to learn. The realization that Yvonne may have been murdered is setting in.
Where could Yvonne's body have been dumped? Well just feet in front of that house you've got thousands of square miles of water. Well if you just go 20 yards from the shoreline it's impenetrable swamp. Try to find something in there.
But that's exactly what Yvonne's family, investigators and volunteers set out to do. Entering what could be Yvonne's swampy graveyard. Describe this area that has to be searched just how difficult a place is it. It's jumble, it's tropical, so you have every kind of bug and critter that you can think of.
Spider's and snakes and you know it's not a place to go slogging around through. Struggling through the muck, the spiders and the rancid water. The smallest discovery raises hope. A purse.
A medicine bottle. A mysterious sinkhole. I kept asking myself, I want to find Yvonne. But do I want to find Yvonne?
I mean I want to know where she is. But do I want to see her in these swampy areas? Then they find a passport. We find a US passport.
The front page here. We're in London. None of it is Yvonne's. But back in the United States the FBI confronted Brian Brimager.
We went and knocked on his door. He answered and invited us in. He was expecting us. FBI special agent Andrew Masters questioned Brian Brimager for more than four hours while he babysat his young daughter.
He was a special agent Andrew Masters along with special agent K. Rormiras approaching a parking dam in attempt to have a consensual moderate interview with Brian Brimager. We weren't sure if he was going to break down and confess to having a part in her disappearance and murder. Or if he was going to become angry or if he was going to kick us out.
Brian stuck to his story. Yvonne left him for another man. I come back home and there was a note that said, and I quote, going to Costa Rica with a man I've been talking to F. In evidence, Brian began to stumble.
Brian is kind of late out there man. The IP addresses are not coming back from Costa Rica or Panama. Okay. They're coming back from here.
Okay. So if she's not hanging out around here then somebody sent a email right? How did they see them all get sent? You know anybody?
It would have her or her account? Then something caught Masters I. As soon as I walk in I see a white Sony vial, which is a computer. A laptop computer exactly.
And we knew that Yvonne owned a white Sony vial laptop that she had taken with her Panama. What are you thinking? I'm thinking we may very well have your own computer right here. Master's hunch was spot on.
It was Yvonne's computer. But why was it in Brian's condo? And would it help unravel the mystery of Yvonne's disappearance? Take the journey with Yvonne's family as they search the jungles of Panama now at 48hours.com.
Even though he was under the FBI's microscope, Brian Bremerger remained a free man, living with his family on the outskirts of San Diego. Kristen worked for a defense contractor, while Brian, unemployed, spent much of his time golfing. Recognize that now? Yes, I do.
That's Brian. In the summer of 2012, we showed Yvonne's sister, Michelle, video of Brian's new life. What goes through your room when you see him? Well, honestly, it's not surprising, Yvonne, I know what he's capable of.
He thinks he got away with murder. So what you have here is a person killed my sister and can walk away, he's got free. You're ready, Brian, how about this? Don't call him.
Just a few months after that FBI interview, we came face to face with the suspected killer. Brian, Peter Van Sant with CBS News. We'd like to ask a couple of questions. Could you please talk to us?
Did you murder Yvonne Baldelli? You can speak to us. You can answer that question. Brian, why won't you speak with us?
Did you have anything to do with her disappearance? Well, Brian heads off to enjoy another carefree day on the greens. The FBI was turning his life upside down, interviewing everyone he knew, including his wife, Kristen. What had Brian told her about why he was living in Panama?
He told Kristen that he is going down to Panama to decompress after leaving the Marine Corps and that he was going with some Marine Corps friends. Did Kristen urge Brian to leave Yvonne? No, Kristen didn't even know Yvonne had existed. So we lied to Kristen, absolutely.
Apparently, all those lies didn't matter to Kristen. According to her, Brian is the greatest thing to ever happen to anybody. For that's something she didn't want to share with us, went 48 hours, knocked on her door. Hi, Kristen.
Kristen and Brian with CBS News. Is there any way we can talk? Meanwhile, as special agent masters took several investigative trips to Panama, a different portrait of Brian Bremerger emerged. We talked to many people that would socialize with him at bars, and we learned about all the domestic violence that he brought upon her, the choking, the dragging, the berating.
After speaking with friends and neighbors of Yvonne and Brian, special agent masters became certain the couple had a violent fight on November 26, 2011. After Yvonne learned that Brian had fathered a child with Kristen. I already meant probably escalated, and at some point Brian decided he was done with her, and he was going to kill her. Crucial evidence was also discovered on Yvonne's laptop, the very computer master saw when he first questioned Brian.
About two weeks before her murder, Yvonne took this disturbing selfie. That photo shows a massive black eye on her left eye, and swelling in her left cheek. In a way, from the grave, Yvonne helped you in this investigation. Yvonne helped us tell the story.
Yes. Absolutely. And there was more chilling evidence. We found the Yahoo searches, in which he searches how to remove blood from a mattress.
When did he do that? He did that about 10, 30 in the morning, the night after Yvonne was murdered. Masters discovered even more evidence in Costa Rica, where Brian is seen withdrawing cash from Yvonne's account. We were able to obtain those 18 photos.
So we have Brian using Yvonne's debit card to extract money from her account. And master says there is no doubt that Brian used Yvonne's laptop to send those emails to her family. So we went looking for Brian Bremerger, again, to get answers. Hey, Brian, I need to talk to you.
How do you explain the fact that Yvonne's email that said she was in Costa Rica, that she sent to people, was actually sent by you from here in California? Can you answer that? You knew she was dead when you sent that email, didn't you? Brian, we really want you to talk to us, answer some questions.
He's never said a word. Never said a word to us. He will not answer any questions. And what about Yvonne's dog, George Amay, which had not been seen since she disappeared?
Don Winter has a theory. He knew that she loved that dog, and that if the dog was running around, he knew that anything she said about her taking off with some guy to Costa Rica, everybody would immediately know it was crap. So we had to get rid of the dog, too. In his investigation, Don Winter unwittingly found a key piece of evidence on Brian's Facebook page, where he had sold this machete.
After Yvonne disappeared, Imager made a comment about the knife, he's like, yeah, that used to be mine. I brought it down with me when I came down from the States. And the chilling part is he made a comment that said, I've only used it to chop up one stripper. That's just chilling.
Special Agent Andrew Masters needs to get his hands on the machete to see if it was used in Yvonne's murder. Incredibly, he was able to track down the person who bought it from Brian in Panama. This is the machete that Brian bought in the United States and took down with him to Panama. Can you pick it up for me?
It's very heavy. It's weighted, and it would inflict a lot of damage. Investigators had the machete. They had the email, and they had caught Brian in multiple lives.
Soon, someone would stumble upon the most important evidence of all. Don Winter shares some of the details of his investigation now at 48hours.com. We seek answers, justice, and help. Summer, 2013.
Nearly two years have passed since Yvonne Baldelli's disappearance. You feel like you're reading a book, a terrible mystery, a murder mystery, and there's no answer. On June 26, 2013, the final chapter of this mystery began to unfold. A former Marine who family member say murdered his girlfriend before the day.
FBI special agent Andrew Masters slapped the cuffs on Brian Bremerger. What did you say to him? You're under arrest. He said, turn around, put your hands behind your back.
He needed the answer for his crime. How did you learn that Brian had been arrested? Truth be told. I received a text from my dad said they got the SOB.
And I sat down in a sense of relief, because now they believed us. Brian Bremerger was charged with 13 felonies relating to the cover-up of Yvonne's death, but not murder. Assistant US attorneys Shane Herrigan and Mark Conover were lead prosecutors. At that point, without having found the body, we didn't have quite enough to bring the murder charge.
But that would soon change. Human remains have been found on a Panamanian island. A local worker clearing some brush on the island where Brian and Yvonne lived came upon this duffel bag. And when he unbuckled the clasp, he found Yvonne's skeletonized remains.
By the time she was found two years later, it was only about. A DNA test confirmed it was Yvonne. Her remains were found just a few hundred yards from where the family had spent days searching. I wanted to tell Michelle personally.
When I first heard the possibility that they found Yvonne, my first reaction was, for me, it's good news, because I just feel good. We can nail this bastard. While the family's prayers had been answered and autopsy confirmed the hellish fact that Yvonne had been dismembered. This is the actual device that was used to dismember Yvonne.
The most likely cause of death was being stabbed in the back, at least twice. Despite overwhelming evidence and proof that Reminger had repeatedly lied, his wife Kristen continued to stand by him. Kristen may I ask, do you still believe in your husband's innocence? Can you just tell us that?
Don't touch me, Carol. Then, for Yvonne's family, another cruel tragedy struck in the spring of 2014. Michelle, who had dedicated her life to finding justice for her sister, now faced another deadly enemy. She was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer.
I'm still out to fight for my life, and I'm still out to fight for my sister. This was Michelle in June of 2014. And this was her just three months later. Today we're going.
I'm going to be giving a good position. Weakened by cancer and given just weeks to live. You saw me swear for your first time. Michelle, a crucial witness, agreed to tell her story while she still could.
Brian Bremerger would sit directly across from her. Don't try to ignore him. As soon as I can. And who is Brian Bremerger?
They defended him. Do you see him in the courtroom here today? Yes, I do. Would you please point to him and describe where he has seated for the record?
He's sitting at the end, taking off it. Damn. Michelle passed out after the exhausting testimony. It was a courageous act of love for her sister.
This might be the last thing I get to do for her. Over and over and over again because it'll be on camera forever. Days later, she died. It took years of diplomatic and legal wrangling.
But in early 2015, the government of Panama finally agreed to let Brian be tried for murder on American soil. We came to conclusion that the only way that Brian Bremerger would face justice for his murderous act is if he was charged and convicted here in the United States. Brian pleaded not guilty. The case was heading for trial in 2016 when investigators made another dramatic discovery.
Yvonne's blood and DNA were found under the machete's handle. So these three screws were undone. The handle opens up and inside they find blood. Right, they removed these three and just pulled it out here and conducted the testing on the blade and the inferior portion of the handle and found blood.
Whose blood? Yvonne. Yvonne Baldale. Yvonne Baldale.
This now is a slam dunk. You know that this is the tool used to dismember her. It was that that made Brian finally realize he was not going to get out of it. He was not going to lie his way out.
It's over. It's done. He had cleaned the blade, but he hadn't cleaned underneath the handle. And it was that additional evidence.
It believe eventually led Mr. Brimager to plead guilty. Within a week Brimager pleaded guilty to second degree murder while the other charges were dropped. And later at his sentencing, finally admitted after nearly five years of lies to killing Yvonne Baldale.
And I think if you look up on the dictionary, evil, and you see Brian's picture in there, he's the ultimate carnage of evil in my mind. In open court, Brimager apologized to Yvonne's family. But his words rang hollow. Brian Brimager is a con artist.
He had our daughter, Comme. He had his new wife, Comme. He had her family, Comme. He was able to live a double life, sometimes a triple life.
And people buy what he says by his action show that he's not the person he says that he is. Brian was sentenced to 26 years in federal prison. With the case over, Yvonne's remains were returned to her family and laid to rest at sea. To get her remains back and be able to give her a dignified resting place, I can sleep better at night knowing that she's not rotting in some jungle or deep in the ocean somewhere, knowing that she loved the ocean, knowing that we were able to put her in a place that she loved.
We brought her home, and I know that that was thanks to a lot of work of a lot of unsung heroes. I know. In a way, two people were honored this day, Yvonne and her beloved sister Michelle, who battled a marine to the end, and won. She's definitely a hero.
She never gave up. To her dying day, she gave all she had. Kristen and Brian Brimager are still married. She continues to support and visit him in federal prison.
Brimager's prison term ends in February 2037. Help us solve this crime. It was a savage murder. A stunning model.
She was quite the trophy. Married to a multi-millionaire. This is where the assailant got her from behind, knocked her to the ground. I slit her throat.
Eight years. No arrest. And there are no fingerprints. No, nothing at all.
There are clues. The sketch. Who is this? Is this the guy that murdered my sister?
The letter. And now that was a shock. Cut out in little bitty, individual, different letters. I mean, why are you talking to me?
I want to find out who murdered my sister. CSN, CBS News, always on.