Love, Obsession & Murder

0:00 The rain had not stopped falling over Kenosha, Wisconsin for four straight days in May twenty twenty. Dark clouds hung low above the quiet apartment buildings on Fifteenth Street. The streets glistened beneath flickering street lights, puddles collecting along cracked sidewalks, while thunder rolled somewhere far in the distance. It was the kind of night where most people stayed inside, locked their doors, and waited for morning. But for Sadie Beam, something felt terribly wrong. She had been calling her boyfriend Rosalio Gutierrez for nearly twenty four hours.

0:34 Every call went straight to voicemail, every text remained unanswered. That wasn't like him. Rosalio was dependable, a father of two, a man who coached children's sports teams, loved dancing, and never ignored the people he cared about. By the evening of May nineteenth, anxiety had turned into panic. Sadi drove through the rain to Rosalio's apartment complex, hoping maybe his phone had died or he'd fallen asleep after work. But the moment she stepped out of her car, an uneasy silence settled over her.

1:09 The screen door to his apartment was slightly open. She called his name, no answer. Her pulse quickened as she approached the window. Then, with trembling hands, she pulled back the blinds. Blood. There was blood everywhere. Nine one one, what's the address of your emergency? Sadie's voice shook violently. I was doing a wellness check on a good friend of mine that I was dating, and I found blood on the floor. She could barely breathe. This isn't normal, Something's wrong. Within minutes, Kenosha police officers arrived at the apartment.

1:45 Detectives cautiously stepped through the doorway and entered a scene that would haunt many of them for years. Blood stained the walls, blood splattered across the ceiling, blood soaked into the floor, smeared along furniture, sprayed a crossed the kitchen, table and couch. It looked less like a home and more like the aftermath of unimaginable violence. But there was one terrifying problem. Rosalio Gutierez was nowhere to be found. There was no body, no sign of forced entry, no indication anyone had burglarized the apartment, just blood, endless blood.

2:22 Investigators immediately noticed strange details scattered Throughout the apartment, furniture had been moved, A large stain on the floor suggested someone had lain their bleeding for a long time, and in the center of the room were faint, rectangular outlines where a rug had once been. The rug was gone. To detectives, that detail screamed louder than anything else. Carpets are often used to transport bodies. As crime scene technicians photographed every inch of the apartment, detectives began piecing together Rosalio's final hours.

2:55 One early theory quickly emerged. Rosalio may have answered the door late that night and immediately suffered a brutal attack before stumbling back into the apartment, bleeding profusely as he fought for survival. But who would want him dead? The answer came almost immediately his girlfriend's ex boyfriend, Zachariah Anderson. Sadie described him as obsessive, controlling, and unable to accept the end of their relationship. She and Zachariah had spent years together and shared three children, including their teenage daughter Olivia.

3:28 Their relationship had been turbulent for years, but by twenty nineteen, Sadie had finally decided enough was enough. Zachariah refused to let go. He showed up uninvited, started arguments, tracked her movements, watched her house, called constantly, and when Sadie began dating Rosalio, things escalated into something far darker. Investigators learned Zachariah had become fixated on Rosalio. He monitored him online, photographed him, tracked Sadie's whereabouts, and according to Sadie, he had even threatened Rosalio.

4:04 Before then came the interview that changed everything. Sadie brought her daughter Olivia to the police station. The teenager looked nervous, exhausted, torn between fear and guilt. Then she began talking. She described knights when her father drove her to Sadie's home to spy on her mother and Rosalio. He allegedly instructed Olivia to cover her mouth with her shirt so her breath wouldn't fog the windows while peeking inside. She told detectives her father hit a phone inside an air theent to secretly listen to conversations happening in the house, and then Olivia revealed something chilling.

4:41 Her father had removed the registration papers from his truck and refused to put them back. When Sadie asked why, Olivia said, he said maybe he'd have Rosalio followed for fun. Detectives listened carefully as the teenager described her father's obsession in disturbing detail. It became painfully obvious that Olivia had been manipulated into helping him stalk her own mother. That same night, police arrested Zachariah Anderson for stalking. During questioning, Anderson denied everything. I'm not stalking her.

5:15 It's all exaggerated. She's trying to make me look bad. Every accusation was met with an excuse. When detectives confronted him about secretly placing phones, he denied it. When asked about watching Sadie's house, he minimized it. When confronted with Olivia's statements, he blamed misunderstandings. But investigators noticed something else. Zachariah never seemed shocked that Rosalio was missing. Instead, he acted annoyed, almost inconvenienced. Then police searched his home, and what they found intensified the horror of the investigation.

5:52 In the backyard stood a large burn pit, still smoldering despite nearly a week of heavy rain. Officers found partially burned claes, clothing, and a bleach container inside the ashes. The fire had been kept alive deliberately. Inside Zachariah's minivan. Detectives smelled bleach immediately after opening the door. The carpet in the back had been torn out, Stains covered the floorboards. Then investigators discovered a wal Mart receipt. On the morning of May eighteenth, hours after Rosalio vanished, Zachariah had purchased garbage bags, latex gloves, and bottles of bleach using cash two investigators.

6:31 It painted a terrifying picture clean up, a disposal, an attempt to erase a human being, but without a body. Prosecutors still faced a monumental challenge. They needed proof Rosalio was dead and proof Zachariah killed him. The search expanded rapidly. More than ten law enforcement agencies descended on properties connected to Anderson, including his family's tree farm. Cadaver dogs searched wooded land, drone scanned fields from above, divers searched deep water quarries nearby. Nothing, no remains, no weapon, no Rosalio.

7:10 It was as though he had vanished from the earth. Then the crime lab found something tiny a microscopic speck of blood hidden inside the rear panel of Zacharia's minivan. The sample was so small technicians worried testing it could destroy it entirely, but after days of analysis, the DNA result finally came back the blood belonged to Rosalio Gutierrez. Detectives finally had the breakthrough they needed. Rosalio had never been inside that van willingly, and Zachariah himself admitted he had never even met him.

7:44 The case transformed from a missing person's investigation into a homicide prosecution. As investigators dug deeper into Zacharia's electronics, they uncovered a disturbing digital obsession. His laptop contained folders dedicated entirely to Rosalio, screenshots of social media pages, photos of him with his children, details about his construction business, more than twenty five photographs. It wasn't casual curiosity, it was fixation. Months passed, Rosalio never contacted his family again. No phone activity, no bank transactions, no social media, no calls to his children.

8:24 He had disappeared completely. In twenty twenty three, nearly three years after Rosalio vanished, Zachariah Anderson finally stood trial. The court room was packed. Prosecutors argued the evidence told a clear story jealousy, obsession, stocking, murder, and concealment. The defense countered with one central point, no body, no murder, weapon, no eyewitnesses, no direct proof. They argued the prosecution had built its case entirely on assumptions. But then Olivia took the stand. Thirteen years old, she faced her father in open court.

9:03 The court room fell silent as she recounted the knights spying on her mother. She demonstrated how her father told her to cover her face while peeking through windows. At one point, she broke down, crying, I didn't realize this would be this hard. Then something happened Jurors would never forget. As Olivia testified, Zachariah appeared to gesture toward her with his hands, as if signaling her to stop talking, to stay quiet. The moment sent a wave of tension through the courtroom. Even now, prosecutors believed he was trying to control her.

9:37 Another devastating witness soon followed, Rosalio's father. When shown the last photograph his son had sent before disappearing, emotion overwhelmed him. My boy never reached out to me again. The courtroom wept alongside him. Then prosecutors introduced testimony from one of Zachariah's former cellmates. According to the inmate, Zachariah confessed in jail. He claimed he stabbed Rosalio, blacked out, wrapped the body in garbage bags, and disposed of it piece by peace. The inmate also revealed a disturbing nickname others had given Anderson in jail, Houdini, because, according to him, he made a body disappear.

10:19 After weeks of testimony, the case went to the jury. The decision came back guilty on all counts, first degree intentional homicide, stalking, hiding a corpse. As Rosalio's family entered the courtroom for sentencing, many wore Chicago Cub's colors in honor of the man they lost. His mother delivered a heartbreaking statement, my only son was taken so savagely, with so much rage and hatred. Then Olivia spoke directly to the father she no longer recognized. Did you ever love me? She asked? Or was I just a pawn?

10:55 Even then, Zachariah denied everything. I didn't kill anybody. I'm innocent. But the judge was unmoved. He sentenced Zachariah Andersen to life in prison without the possibility of parole. And yet, even after the conviction, one painful mystery remains unsolved. Rosalio Gudierez has never been found, no grave, no remains, no final goodbye. Somewhere, hidden beneath years of silence lies the answer. His family still desperately seeks where is Rosalio, And until that question is answered, the story will never truly end.