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Detective
A remote community is rocked when a resident is gunned down in his home.
He was laying on his back in a pool of blood. It's a heinous crime.
Travis's Brother
He was very appreciated within that community. So the big question is, who would do this to him?
Detective
Could the victim's tangled personal life have played a role?
Liz Rogan
They had an ongoing affair going back to at least 2014. It was a very rocky relationship from the text messages.
Detective
An unexpected tip will bring detectives head to head with a dangerous group of criminals and a twisted couple bound by an appetite for destruction.
Liz Rogan
This was his first real girlfriend and he was just Seeing butterflies.
Detective
If you're loving him, he loves you. Like he's going to do anything to protect you.
Liz Rogan
She'd written New Age Bonnie and Clyde riding together till the homic detectives pull us Apart. When you get into a relationship like that, very few things that are good come out of it. This was unfortunately the perfect combination for murder.
Detective
Deep in the expansive wilderness of Cowlitz County, Washington, lies the small town of Riderwood.
Travis's Brother
Riderwood's a neat little community that's set up around national forest and state forest land.
Liz Rogan
It's a rarity that the sheriff's office goes to the town of Riderwood because it's a peaceful place full of retirees.
Detective
But on March 18, 2019, an urgent 911 call forces law enforcement out to this quiet area.
911 emergency. What are you reporting? Okay. What's going on? He's getting scared on the kitchen floor. Okay, okay. He's laying on the kitchen floor.
Deputies with the Cowlitz County Sheriff's Office are immediately dispatched to the scene.
Liz Rogan
Riderwood is at the northern tip of our county border. It's a good 40 minute drive, 45 minute drive to Riderwood. So it's a very remote area. We sped up our response to get to that location. When we arrived on scene by I saw a female sitting outside the home on a truck.
Detective
Like anyone would that respond to this type of scene. She was quite frantic and wanted immediate response from emergency services.
Liz Rogan
So we go in and there was blood all over the floor. There was a large trauma to the face. A quick pulse check helped me verify that the subject was deceased. Slightly cold to the touch, it definitely looked like a gunshot wound to the to the facial area. We don't know if this is a homicide, if this is an accidental shooting. We secured the scene as best we could and waited for our detective unit and Detective Gladson to show up.
Detective
When Cowlitz county detectives arrive, they begin the arduous task of processing the scene for evidence.
The victim is laying on his back in a pool of blood and he had an apparent gunshot wound. The.45 caliber casing was found in the scene.
Liz Rogan
When a gunshot occurs, the closer a gun is held to somebody's body, the closer it is it's going to leave these little black marks that are called stippling. There is stippling all over his face.
Detective
What that indicated to us is that his face was three feet or less from the barrel of the gun when he was shot and killed.
While there's no sign of forced entry, it's clear to detectives where the assailant likely entered and exited the home.
The back door was wide open and there was blood on the exterior of the door which showed that that door was open at the time that he was shot.
Liz Rogan
We have a realm of possibilities here. We were very interested in hearing what the 911 caller had to say. She said her name was Kyan. She said that she was the girlfriend of the deceased. Said that she had come over to check on him because she tried to call him earlier in the morning. She couldn't get a hold of him.
Detective
Cayenne identifies the victim as 47 year old Travis Sieber.
Cayenne was Travis's second alarm clock. Apparently he had some difficulties waking up early in the morning for work, so she decided to drive over to his residence to make sure he was awake. She walked in and found him in the kitchen floor laying on his back in a pool of blood.
Liz Rogan
She was exhibiting shock or disbelief. You could tell it was difficult for her to kind of comprehend what was taking place.
Detective
At this point in time, it is wide open as to who could have done this to Travis. He needed more information.
An avid outdoorsman, Travis Sieber hit the jackpot when he landed in Riderwood, Washington.
Travis's Brother
Travis grew up here in Washington state. Born and raised here. He's one of six siblings. He moved to Riderwood area because he was an outdoorsman kind of guy. So anything related to outside he was definitely interested and active in. He loved fishing, loved hunting, loved chickens, loved working with bees and beehives and making honey.
Detective
A jack of all trades, Travis worked as a logger, a handyman and a driver for his brother's pilot car company.
Travis's Brother
He was a pilot. A pilot is a person that follows oversized roads so they would follow a truck and clear the way, make sure they don't hit bridges, make sure the roads are wide enough, et cetera. He was very appreciated within that community and built a really good reputation. A lot of times he volunteered his work. He had a big heart and I respect.
Detective
Over the years, Travis had two children, but his romantic relationships never seemed to last.
Travis's Brother
He never got married, but he did have female companions in the process. He did have kids, a young man, and then he has a young daughter.
Detective
They had a child that he was paying child support for that didn't currently live with him.
Liz Rogan
Travis lived the life of a bachelor. He liked to go out to the bars and he liked to meet a lot of women.
Detective
And yet he never gave up hope that he would find the one. So when he Met Caian in 2007, he decided to give the relationship A shot.
Travis's Brother
I know Kyann really cared for Travis. I know Travis really cared for her.
Detective
But on March 18, 2019, Cayenne finds Travis shot to death inside his home.
Any homicide investigation, the person of interest is the person to find the victim. So that was my interest in speaking with her right away. Kyan lived with him for a period of one year. But approximately three years prior to this incident, she had moved out of his house and lived in a separate residence a couple miles away. But she still indicated that she was Travis's girlfriend. Cayenne also reported that Travis was the victim of a burglary just a couple months earlier, in January of 2019. She didn't offer up any explanations to enemies. So, you know, obviously robbery, burglary, that could be a motive. But he didn't have a whole lot of cash or other valuables inside of his house. She said that he did have some jewelry, and she noticed that that jewelry was missing. Travis's home had not been ransacked, but what you could tell is in Travis's bedroom, you could see fresh movement off of his dresser. There was dust that indicated things had recently been displaced. One of those items was a DVD player. The other item was a DVR that went to Travis's surveillance system.
Liz Rogan
Travis had security cameras across the entirety of his house from every direction. The wires from the security cameras went to that dvr, which is a hard drive, and would show who was at his house that was ripped out of his bedroom. Travis's cell phone was also taken as well.
Detective
In the murderer's haste to take the DVR equipment, they knocked several envelopes from Travis's dresser onto the floor. The murderer stepped on the envelope on his way out. With the dvr, it was apparent that the shoe print, the shoe impression that was left on the envelope was from the murderer. Because I analyze all of Travis's and Cayenne's shoes, and none of those shoes mask the impression that was left on the envelope.
Detectives wrap up their investigation at the house and notify Travis's family of his death. His brother Calvin arrives on the scene soon after.
He really didn't have much information to offer as to who Travis and his enemies might be, who he didn't get along with, what problems he might be having with people.
Travis's Brother
Travis was not the kind of person that he owed people money or made threats to people. He was not that kind of guy. So the big question is, who would do this to him?
Detective
When detectives ask his brother about Travis relationship with Cayenne, he gives an entirely.
Different description from Kyan's Kian described herself as Travis girlfriend. However, Travis's brother referred to the relationship between Travis and Cayenne is off an on relationship and he didn't know what the current status was. How did Travis treat Cayenne? You know, he was rude to her at times.
Liz Rogan
I mean, either they were together and life was good or he was get the hell out of here. I want nothing to do with you. It seemed Cayenne was much more serious about the relationship than Travis and he said there are several women that were involved with him at the time of his murder.
Detective
It was no secret within Travis's family and friends that he had a multitude of girlfriends that he met women on dating apps and on social media.
Could Travis's exploits with other women have sent Cayenne into a jealous rage?
Travis's relationship with Kyan was certainly very peculiar. Those kind of relationships can go bad easily and it was certainly concern of ours that this relationship could have gone south.
Coming up, the suspect list continues to grow as detectives uncover a salacious secret.
Liz Rogan
She admitted she and Travis had an ongoing affair.
Detective
I'm concerned that this love triangle could have gone bad and a string of.
Crimes will put a Bonnie in and Clyde duo in their crosshairs.
Liz Rogan
It was a dysfunctional relationship from the get go that unfortunately ended up costing someone their life.
Detective
In Riderwood, Washington, detectives have just learned that their murder victim, 47 year old Travis Sieber, was dating other women while involved with his girlfriend and the 911 caller, Kyann Malooch.
So my first step was to have a sit down interview with Kyann. I had her sit in the front seat of my car while I sat in the driver's seat and I recorded our interview. First of all, just how long you have known Travis? I have known him for, I'd say 12 years. Okay, and how long have you been in a dating relationship? About almost four. During those three years, did you guys have relationships with other people? He would have an open sighted relationship like he would sleep with other people. Okay. There's no other way to say it. Do you know the names of the people he slept with? So you guys haven't been having any problems lately? Okay. And you don't know? Kyan reported that she was last at Travis's house the prior evening and she estimated that she left his house about 9:45pm and she was home the entire time between 9:45pm and 7am the following morning. I asked her if she was okay with us analyzing her phone and she immediately turned her phone over. To the police. Over the course of the four years that you've been dating him, has he had beef with other people as far as somebody wanting to physically try and do anything?
Not that I'm aware of. Once Kyan is released, a deputy approaches Detective Gladson.
The deputy told me that there was a woman just down the hill that wanted to speak with the investigator. I went to the neighbor's house and I spoke with a female who advised that she received a text message from Travis at 5:09 that morning. She wanted to relay that information to me so it would help narrow down the time frame in which Travis was murdered.
Liz Rogan
The neighbor was in the process of of making her daily coffee in preparation to go to a workout class when Travis sent her this high text message at 5am she said she didn't see that text message until her workout class was over and deputies had already arrived. On scene. We found a 5am text message to a neighbor woman who's married to be a little bit odd, but it was indicative to us that Travis was alive.
Detective
At 5am I knew at that point that murder happened sometime between 5am and.
7Am curious about the nature of their relationship, detectives asked the neighbor why Travis would text her so early in the morning.
Liz Rogan
She had admitted she and Travis had an ongoing affair going back to at least 2014. She revealed to us that she was last intimate with Travis about eight days prior to his murder.
Detective
Travis neighbor was about Travis's age. She had a husband that was significantly older. I asked the neighbor if her husband was aware of the affair that Travis had with her and she said he was aware, but he did not think it was ongoing. He thought it had stopped years earlier. I asked her how her husband would react if he had saw a message on her cell phone that came from Travis. She said he would not be happy.
Detectives consider the possibility that her spouse had secretly uncovered the betrayal.
I'm concerned that this love triangle could have gone bad at this point in time. The neighbors are absolutely persons of interest. When I spoke with the husband at his home, he was aware of the past relationship that his wife had with Travis, but he didn't have any animosity or ill will towards Travis stemming from that relationship. They were neighborly with each other.
Liz Rogan
I got over it and I never.
Stephanie Gamolko
Harbored any hard feelings toward Travis because I just thought he wasn't conscious of.
Detective
His actions, what he was doing. We hinted around at the possibility that they were still having an intimate relationship and he was clearly not aware of that.
Liz Rogan
If we're involved with each Other recently. Would you be surprised?
Stephanie Gamolko
I would be very surprised.
Liz Rogan
Would you be upset? Yes.
Travis's Brother
But I truly, really don't think that.
Stephanie Gamolko
In the last several years they had a sexual relationship.
Liz Rogan
I asked him if he had a firearm, and he confirmed that. That they don't have firearms. Never have had firearms. He doesn't believe in firearms. He was very genuine. It just seemed unlikely due to his age and his demeanor, that he was invol.
Detective
The neighbor is just simply not a violent person.
Liz Rogan
We asked the husband if he believed his wife would be involved in the murder of Travis, and he said no.
Detective
I asked the neighbor if she would allow me to look at her phone. She was very reluctant to provide her cell phone.
Liz Rogan
She decided that she had personal things on her phone that she didn't want to share with us. And we ended up seizing her phone pursuant to the application of a search warrant.
Detective
One of the first things we wanted to look at was her communication with Travis in the days leading up to this murder. She had indicated that her and Travis were getting along fine. They were great. The relationship was very friendly.
Liz Rogan
When we searched her phone, we found out that that wasn't so much the case. It was a very rocky relationship. From the text messages, there was strong language from Travis to the neighbor.
Detective
Travis had sent her some messages in which he told her to f off. It was clear that he was frustrated with her being controlling, being overbearing, being jealous.
But the neighbor's more recent texts to Travis are most alarming to detectives.
Shortly after I arrived, she sent him a message that says, I hope you're doing well, wherever you are. She sent him a third message saying that she forgot to give him his Christmas present. I found that really odd why she would send him text messages after she knew he was deceased.
Detectives decide to bring Travis neighbor in for a formal interview. When confronted about the text messages, she's quick to explain her actions.
Liz Rogan
The neighbor told us that she was a very spiritual, deep type of person, and so she felt she was connecting with Travis after he passed. That was strange. Definitely raised some questions. There was no direct evidence on her phone showing that she was at Travis's house that morning. So while there's oddities about her relationship with Travis, we're going back to the drawing board a little bit.
Detective
Circling back to their original suspect. Travis's on again, off again girlfriend. Cayenne detectives received the results from her cell phone.
Liz Rogan
The call detail records for Cayenne's phone showed that when she called Travis the morning of the homicide, she was at her residence. Her story checked out. And the cell phone rush records substantiated that we were able to rule Cayenne out as a suspect in this murder.
Detective
Detectives believe Travis's complicated love life still holds the key to solving his murder.
One of the things that Cayenne initially told us that Travis was missing in addition to the DVR equipment was his cell phone.
Liz Rogan
We wrote search warrants to ping that phone, and we had a pretty small grid area where we believe the phone had been ditched.
Detective
We believed it was discarded along State Route 506. We conducted two search and rescue missions in that area in an attempt to try and locate that cell phone.
Liz Rogan
It was very difficult terrain. There are BlackBerry bushes, steep hills, ravines, creeks.
Detective
Our search and rescue folks were beaten brush for two days trying to find the cell phone.
Liz Rogan
There was a search for it and they were not finding it. And the ping became more and more faint until they weren't able to recover it. So we do a search word to Facebook, the dating sites that he's on, his email, his phone records, and we're identifying all the people that he's in contact with.
Detective
Traps was having a lot of relationships with a lot of different. And some of those women were married women. So there were certainly some concerns that one of these married women's husband found out about the extramarital affair and decided to take matters into his own hands.
Liz Rogan
We're making phone calls, we're looking at the criminal history on people to see if they'd be upset or capable of this. In homicide investigations, you have to look at every possibility. And a lot of times the simplest answer is very close to what happen.
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Detective
Riderwood, Washington police are investigating the shooting death of Travis Sieber and his loved ones are grappling with the magnitude of their loss.
When somebody took him away, they took away a great person. And that's probably the biggest question I have I ask a thousand times a day is why I don't.
Liz Rogan
Move in. This crime definitely had an impact on the Riderwood community. It's a community that people aren't typically locking their door. They don't see any violent crime. I've never heard of a murder in Riderwood before this case. We're spinning our wheels for three weeks just going through data and we're not getting anywhere. We're just waiting until a lead breaks.
Travis's Brother
This was really devastating for my family, my wife, my mother in law, my brother in laws, that waiting in the unknown was very draining. We understood, you know, this is gonna take time. You gotta figure out who did it and why. You know, what's their plan? Is there any evidence of a suspect? And at the time there wasn't, there wasn't anything obvious. So it was a whodunit type type case.
Detective
Then on April 8, Cowlitz county detectives received case breaking information from the Centralia police department nearly 40 miles north.
Liz Rogan
Essentially Centralia PD since mid March was getting rocked by downtown burglaries There was at least a dozen commercial businesses that were burglarized from cell phone businesses, coffee stands, tattoo shops, Mexican restaurant. Mainly they were attacking the cash register and safes, looking for money. It was almost a nightly occurrence.
Detective
They had assembled a task force to specifically focus on ending this commercial burglary ring that they were having.
Liz Rogan
They all had the same mo Same group of individuals committing the burglaries. One of the Centraella patrol officers who had been working a couple of the cases ended up identifying one of the suspects through surveillance videos at the stores.
Detective
Centralia police worked quickly to apprehend the suspect, a 29 year old resident named Patrick Gish.
Liz Rogan
Patrick Gish was the first one identified. We ended up setting up surveillance on residents at South Rock street in Centralia. We entered the residence and located him hiding upstairs and he was taken into custody. Patrick Gish was transported to the police department and wanted to cooperate with law enforcement. He admitted to participating in burglaries.
Detective
But as police press Patrick about the identities of his co conspirators, he reveals a damning piece of information.
Liz Rogan
He told the detectives about a murder that occurred in Ryderwood. He said that one of the other suspects in the burglary used a.45 caliber pistol to murder a guy where he shot him in the face near his back door. We were aware that there was a homicide in Riderwood. So all this information was relayed to Detective Gladson.
Detective
It was never released that the gunshot one was to the face. It was never released that it was by a.45 caliber gun. So with Patrick knowing those two things, we certainly want to talk to him right away.
Cowlitz county detectives immediately respond to the Centralia Police Department to speak with Patrick.
He's obviously providing information. He described the gun.
Liz Rogan
It was a police issue. 45 with the grip safety. It's like black. He also told us that the suspect took the DVR to the security system and the cell phone belonging to the victim and got rid of it.
Detective
Patrick explains that the suspect is one of his fellow accomplices in the burglary ring.
Liz Rogan
Patrick Gish told us his friend Anthony Dupuisy Green, who goes by Tony, committed murder.
Detective
This is the first time that I had heard the name Anthony Dupuis Higraine in our investigation. How long have you known Tony? I met him in prison. How long ago? 2016.
Liz Rogan
Tony's not a stranger to the criminal justice system. He's been in and out throughout a good portion of his life. Gish got out, came back to Centralia, and then Tony got out and reconnected with Gish committing burglaries. The way it sounded was that Tony was the leader of this, this band of thieves breaking into these businesses.
Detective
According to Patrick, he and Tony have been crashing at the home of Tony's girlfriend, 43 year old Liz Rogan.
How long you been staying with him out there? Couple months.
Travis's Brother
You had told me that he was with their.
Detective
One of the Burberries. Yeah, it was me and him at the Foxy Lady.
Liz Rogan
Which one in the video was brandishing the gun? Police face. That's Tony.
Detective
I don't mess with guns.
Liz Rogan
When Tony and Gish and the others were out committing these burglaries, they would use Liz's car and Liz would act as a lookout for them while they were breaking into the businesses.
Detective
With this information, Centralia police secure a search warrant for Liz's home, but she isn't there. On her property, however, they make a crucial discovery.
Liz Rogan
One of the huge pieces of evidence that was recovered from Ms. Rogan's residence was the firearm. It was determined to be the firearm.
Detective
That was used in the murder.
Liz Rogan
The gun was just in hiding, in plain sight, if you will. There was a bag that was hanging on the fence at the front of the residence. I looked into the bag and there's a Colt.45, 1911 sitting in the back.
Detective
Three weeks after Travis Sieber's murder, Cowlitz county and Centralia police agencies have uncovered the murder weapon at Liz Rogan's residence. Detectives surveil the home in hopes Liz will return.
Liz Rogan
Liz showed up later in the day. She was a little nervous and apprehensive. She was hesitant and answering questions. Liz was actually transported to the Centralia Police Department to give an interview.
Detective
When Cowlitz county detectives sit down with Liz and question her about Travis Sieber, she explains an unexpected connection.
How do you know Travis? I met him back in 2014 online.
Online.
Do you remember what site that was? POF. You met him in 2014 on plenty of Fish. Okay. And when you met him on Plenty of Fish, did you guys meet up? Once he came to the house. We talked for about an hour and then he left. We talked a few times on the phone and then lost touch.
According to Liz, she kept her dating profile active, which is where she met Tony Depuise Greene in late 2018.
And they began dating in just the months prior to this murder.
Liz Rogan
They hit it off fast. They were out spending money, going to casinos.
Detective
It wasn't long after they began dating that they started committing burglaries together. And a lot of Them.
Liz Rogan
When you look at Liz's history, she is not a stranger to the criminal justice system. None of these folks really were.
Detective
They enjoyed this Bonnie and Clyde lifestyle. They were like they were eating it up.
But Liz claims that not long into their relationship, she began to encounter a darker side to Tony.
What kind of relationship did you and Tony have? In the beginning, it was good.
And then how did it change?
He started becoming very aggressive. She implied that that Tony was very controlling, that she was fearful of him. Tony has been described as having an explosive temper.
Liz Rogan
One night, Tony was going through her dating websites and found a message from Travis to her.
Detective
Who reached out to who? A few months ago, when you guys recently reconnected again, Travis reached out to you. What was his conversation with you?
Liz Rogan
And that message upset Tony. So Tony comes up with the idea to rob Travis. And that idea consists of Liz distracting Travis. And while they're engaged inside, Tony is going to burglarize the residence.
Detective
According to Liz, on March 17, Tony told her to take him to Travis house so they could execute the plan.
Did you call Travis before you arrived, text him, Facebook, anything? Just showed up. Did he talk about what he wanted you to do before you arrived? He said, just go in the house and get his attention. So he let you come in the house and he has to use the bathroom. What happened next? Came out of the bathroom, and it wasn't even 30 seconds. He was getting on the front door. Did Travis open the door initially for him? He started to open the door, and he pushed it, shut it, and he locked it. He said it was. And I said, just go. He stopped. What did Travis do next? He just stood there and he stared at me, and I was just. So I just went home. I opened the door, and I ran.
Off the porch, and I was standing.
In the driveway looking around, trying to see where he was. She was yelling for Tony, but she realized that he ran around to the back door because she could hear the yelling and screaming back there. And then she heard the single gunshot. She said she panicked and she wanted to leave, but she couldn't leave because Tony had the keys. When Tonally finally emerges from Travis's residence, he's got what she described as these black boxes in his hands that he's carrying. And he gets in the passenger seat and they drive off. What do you think would have happened if he'd have drove by Travis's house and said, I can't find the thing? Okay, don't tell me that he had people watching. She portrayed herself as the victim throughout this whole thing and portrayed Tony as the monster.
When detectives press Liz about Tony's whereabouts, she says she doesn't know, but authorities are able to track down his relatives nearby.
A detective showed up and he's like, hey, can I ask you a few questions? And I was like, yeah, of course. Like, I have nothing to hide, you know?
Tony's family is stunned to learn of his alleged involvement in Travis Sieber's murder.
I was shocked and kinda bummed. I was like, how could he have done this? I didn't really know what to think. What we learned was that Tony had a dysfunctional upbringing. He had a difficult childhood. Tony and I, my brothers and sisters.
Liz Rogan
I believe there's nine of us that I know of.
Detective
He spent most of his teenage years in and out of juvenile. When he became adult, he continued that trend. He spent most of his adult life in prison.
Liz Rogan
Tony was a very violent person. He has a long history of violent crimes.
Detective
He was released from prison just months before this murder.
Liz Rogan
Tony gets out of prison and he meets Elizabeth Rogan.
Detective
According to Tony's family, he and Liz shared a passionate connection.
Liz Rogan
Tony was infatuated with Liz. This was his first real girlfriend. And he was just seeing butterflies.
Detective
If he knows you're loving him, he loves you like he's going to do anything it takes to protect you, to love you, to cherish you, no matter what it be. It wasn't long after they began dating that Liz moved Tony into her house.
After speaking with Tony's family, authorities finally track him down. When he arrives at his home, he is taken into custody without incident.
I brought Tony into an interview room. I read him his rights, and I told him this was regarding the murder that occurred in Riderwood, expecting a significant response and a reaction from him. And that's all he did, was smile. He lawyered up.
Liz Rogan
As they say, he was very confident and cockney.
Detective
There's certainly a lot of more evidence that needs collected to prove his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. But at this point, I have established probably cause that he committed this crime.
Authorities also arrest Liz Rogan and charge her with Travis's murder.
Liz claimed that she acted under duress because she did what Tony told her to, because he had a gun. I later spoke with other people who are closely connected to both Liz and Tony, and they advised that the relationship wasn't at all that way, that Liz could hold her own and that she oftentimes told Tony what to do. She's trying to be dismissive of her involvement and pin this all on Tony.
When detectives Search Liz's car. Their suspicions are confirmed when the search.
Liz Rogan
Warrants served on Liz's car.
Detective
A diary's located inside. The front cover of that diary, she had written the new age. Bonnie and Clyde riding together until the wheels fall off and the homicide detectives pry us apart.
Liz Rogan
Usually you see remorse in situations like that and Liz is glorifying it and making it romantic in her diary.
Detective
Coming up, authorities face change challenging questions as they prepare for their day in court.
He told me that the man was on top of her and she was yelling, help, help. He painted this picture of unwelcome sexual behavior. Then he came to the rescue.
Detectives in Cowlitz County, Washington have arrested Liz Rogan and her boyfriend Tony Depuise Green for the murder of Travis. While the crime's true mastermind is still unclear, authorities believe that Liz played a much larger role than she has claimed.
She's dating a 26 year old man who will do essentially whatever she asks of him. She's getting to live this wild, crazy lifestyle all on his dime, all on his crime, and she's just enjoying every minute of it.
When detectives execute a search warrant on Liz and Tony's cell phone records, they find more evidence that links the couple to the January burglary Travis girlfriend Cayenne had told them about.
And what this communication between Tony and Liz revealed on January 18, two months to the day before the murder was. They went out there with a specific plan for Liz to go in and distract Travis. While Tony burglarized his house, she's feeding.
Liz Rogan
Travis drinks, trying to get him to pass out, all the while texting Tony, telling Tony valuables here, telling him what there is to take.
Detective
Eventually, Travis gets to the point where he is intoxicated. Tony's telling Liz there's not much here. Where am I supposed to look? I don't see any money, you know, not much for valuables. And they decide to get out of there.
Liz Rogan
That was really the, the key discovery in the case, key evidence because it told us a lot more about what was going on and that was that two months later they would return and Tony would murder Travis Seaver.
Detective
Working alongside the Centralia police, Cal lets detectives find evidence that bolsters their case against Tony.
Liz Rogan
At the scene. On an envelope, there was a shoe tread impression. We had the lab analyze that and ultimately the lab found it belonged to a certain type of FUBU shoe. Detectives were able to get surveillance video that showed Tony wearing a FUBU shoe, which became very important.
Detective
We found five instances before the murder in which we found Tony on video. In all five of those instances, he's wearing black midnight FUBU shoes. Also, Patrick Gish, the informant, and Liz told me that Tony wore black FUBU shoes up to the point of the murder and that he had not seen him wear those same shoes after the murder.
While detectives are unable to recover the sneakers, the evidence is overwhelming. But as authorities prepare for trial, Tony makes a startling claim.
I was interested in listening to Tony's phone calls from prison after this murder. And in those phone calls, he painted this picture of Travis having unwelcome sexual behavior towards Liz. And he came to the rescue. I had had a visit with him in prison and Tony told me that he heard screaming. He went up to the window and had seen that the man was on top of her with his pants down. And she was yelling help, help. And he tried to get in the door. And the guy had met him at the door with a gun. And they wrestled around for a little bit and Tony ended up with the gun and shot him. There was no evidence whatsoever that Liz was ever attacked by Travis that day. There was no evidence at all that there was an actual struggle, physical struggle between Travis and Tony anywhere near the back door. What we do know is the back door was open where I believe Tony just marched in, stuck the gun right in trav phase. He pulled the trigger.
Liz Rogan
I think Travis was killed because Tony was infatuated with Liz. I think there is a jealousy factor. It was a dysfunctional relationship from the get go that unfortunately ended up costing someone their life. And when you get into a relationship like that, very few things that are good come out of it. Liz and Tony's personalities, when you, when you put those together and you factor in Tony's violent nature, and then you take Liz where she's very self centered and romanticizes Tony's behavior. This was unfortunately the perfect combination for what we saw.
Detective
Ultimately, Liz is given the opportunity to reduce her charges.
Liz Rogan
There was an agreement reached with Liz through her attorney that she would agree to testify truthfully against Tony in his trial and she would plead guilty, ultimately to murder in the second degree and a 15 year sentence.
Detective
With the prospect of Liz testifying against him, Tony also accepts a plea deal.
Liz Rogan
We ended up making an offer to Tony to plead guilty to murder in the first degree and 45 years in prison.
Detective
We're very fortunate that he received a 45 year sentence. I don't know that I've ever investigated a murderer who I felt was more likely to kill again than I feel about Tony. He's just a dangerous individual and he needs to be in prison. Liz is equally dangerous. I don't believe that she's sad that Travis's family is grieving. I believe that she's sad that she's sitting in prison.
Liz Rogan
Throughout this investigation, Liz never grasped the concept of what she did. She glorified what they did, and she was the catalyst to what happened.
Travis's Brother
She should have gotten. She's the one that caused the ultimate outcome of this investigation. If it wasn't for her, this would have never happened. Now we don't have Travis and the family grieved for years. Nothing will change that. The way to remember Travis was he was very caring. He had a big heart. He definitely loved his family, you know, and he's missed.
Stephanie Gamolko
Tony and Liz no longer communicate. He blames her for their unequal sentences. Liz Rogan is scheduled for release in 2032. Tony DePuise Green is scheduled for release in 2061.
Travis's Brother
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Episode: BONUS: Liz Rogan and Tony DePuisaye-Greene (Snapped: Killer Couples)
Release Date: July 16, 2025
In this gripping bonus episode of Snapped: Women Who Murder, Oxygen delves into the dark and twisted relationship between Liz Rogan and Tony DePuisaye-Greene, unraveling their involvement in the heinous murder of Travis Sieber. This detailed summary offers an in-depth look into the case, providing listeners with all the critical developments, insights, and conclusions drawn by the investigators.
On March 18, 2019, the tranquil community of Riderwood, Washington, was shattered by the brutal shooting of Travis Sieber. Detectives were called to the scene where Travis was found lying on his back in a pool of blood with a gunshot wound to the face ([02:01]-[04:47]). The swift response by the Cowlitz County Sheriff's Office marked the beginning of a complex investigation.
Detective: "He was laying on his back in a pool of blood. It's a heinous crime." ([02:07])
Travis Sieber was a beloved member of the Riderwood community, known for his love of the outdoors and his roles as a logger, handyman, and driver for his brother's pilot car company. Despite his two children, Travis led a bachelor life, frequently engaging with numerous women through dating apps and social media ([07:18]-[08:49]).
Travis's Brother Calvin: "He was not the kind of person that he owed people money or made threats to people. He was not that kind of guy." ([11:20])
Travis's on-again, off-again girlfriend, Cayenne Malooch, became the initial person of interest. Their tumultuous relationship, characterized by Travis's multiple affairs, raised suspicions about possible motives rooted in jealousy ([12:09]-[13:07]). Concurrently, Travis's neighbor, who had an affair with him, also emerged as a person of interest after suspicious text messages were discovered ([15:06]-[20:54]).
The case took a significant turn when Centralia Police apprehended Patrick Gish, a participant in a local burglary ring. Gish provided crucial information linking Liz Rogan and her boyfriend Tony DePuisaye-Greene to Travis's murder. He revealed that Tony was the gunman who killed Travis and that Liz was complicit in their criminal activities ([26:03]-[31:59]).
Detective: "Patrick Gish told us his friend Anthony Dupuis Green, who goes by Tony, committed murder." ([29:39])
Liz Rogan and Tony DePuisaye-Greene were arrested based on overwhelming evidence, including the recovery of the murder weapon at Liz's residence and incriminating diary entries glorifying their criminal partnership ([31:59]-[40:47]). The detectives uncovered that Liz orchestrated the murder plot out of jealousy over Travis's past relationships, manipulating Tony into executing the crime ([34:00]-[42:00]).
Detective: "Liz is equally dangerous. I don't believe that she's sad that Travis's family is grieving." ([45:55])
During the trial, Liz Rogan admitted to her involvement under duress but ultimately accepted a plea deal, agreeing to testify against Tony in exchange for a reduced sentence. Tony, facing a 45-year sentence, maintained his narrative of rescuing Liz from alleged unwelcome advances by Travis, a claim unsupported by evidence ([43:13]-[46:32]).
Detective: "Authorities believe that Liz played a much larger role than she has claimed." ([40:47])
The tragic murder of Travis Sieber left the Riderwood community in mourning and highlighted the perilous consequences of dysfunctional relationships. Liz was sentenced to 15 years, with her release scheduled for 2032, while Tony received a substantial 45-year sentence, ensuring he remains incarcerated until 2061. Travis's family continues to grieve their loss, remembering him as a caring and beloved individual ([47:02]-[47:18]).
Travis's Brother Calvin: "If it wasn't for her, this would have never happened. Now we don't have Travis and the family grieved for years." ([46:32])
This episode meticulously chronicles the unraveling of Liz Rogan and Tony DePuisaye-Greene's sinister plot, offering listeners a compelling narrative of deceit, manipulation, and ultimately, justice served. By weaving together testimonies, investigative breakthroughs, and expert analysis, Snapped: Women Who Murder provides a comprehensive exploration of one of Riderwood's most shocking crimes.