Murder in Mexico

Jake Merendino's cousin, Jenny Sojka, recalls hearing of Jake's brutal murder. "We were in total disbelief," she says.

XXX recalls Jake Merendino's way with words, and making someone feel special when he spoke with them. Merendino also, he says, began spending big, when he inherited money from his parents.

Taylor Langston thought the luxury sports car and thousands of dollars her fiancé, David Meza, was raking in was from an accounting job.