The Playboy Murders Season 1 Episode 3
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00:00Modeling was definitely a career that Christina was really passionate about.
00:07For her to be in Playboy, I mean, that's something she'd always wanted to do.
00:13Thousands of women would submit photos every month to be a cyber girl.
00:17You have to be gorgeous, and Pef could have seen something really special in Christina.
00:22But Playboy models get a lot of unwanted attention from men.
00:26It can be a real problem, especially if you find yourself around the wrong person.
00:31There had been prior activity related to Christina.
00:34She did allude to the fact that she thought she may have been drugged.
00:40She heard a man somewhat forcefully telling Christina, don't call the police.
00:46This person had told him perhaps the most chilling detail in this whole case.
00:51I was in complete shock.
00:53Who becomes a victim like this twice in a couple days?
00:56On August 22nd, I was in the detective unit of Lower Marion Township Police Station talking to detectives.
01:14When a call came in about a check the well-being at Christina Craft's residence at a high-end condo complex in Ardmore.
01:20Ardmore is right outside Philadelphia.
01:26It's in a part of the suburbs generally known to be a very wealthy, affluent area.
01:31It's a close-knit community. A lot of people walk to places, a lot of stores, restaurants, bars, things like that.
01:39I wouldn't say it's a high-crime area.
01:40Very wealthy and affluent people who call 911 and call the police for every matter of issue in their life.
01:48Normally, I wouldn't go on a check the well-being.
01:50But I decided to go on this call right away because I was advised by detectives that there had been prior activity related to Christina.
01:57A man named Alex made the call.
02:02He was worried about his girlfriend, Christina, because she wasn't answering her cell phone.
02:07And he couldn't get into the apartment because the interior door was locked.
02:11So we had to force entry into the apartment.
02:20When we got into her room, we saw blood splatter and saw what clearly was a body on a bed with a comforter perfectly placed over top.
02:34We pulled the comforter back, and it's a badly beaten girl.
02:44There's no question that it was a homicide.
02:48I vividly remember walking in thinking that it was probably one of the most gruesome scenes that I had seen.
02:57She had a broken nose. There were fractures of both eyes.
03:01She was strangled to death.
03:06The victim of this brutal homicide was Christina Carlin Craft.
03:14If she was in her mid-30s, she was a Playboy model.
03:18The victim was found strangled in her condo.
03:22Police made that disturbing discovery on Sibley Avenue in Ardmore.
03:26They were called there to make a welfare check.
03:28You don't hear things like this happening here.
03:32Never really heard of anything more than parking tickets and jaywalking, you know?
03:37Hearing a murder or a strangling like that is just traumatizing.
03:42Christina Carlin Craft was the Playboy Cyber Girl of the Week on May 4th, 2009.
03:51Christina grew up in South Jersey along the shore.
03:57From an early age, she was very interested in modeling and the entertainment industry.
04:02In 2000, Christina graduated from high school in Linwood, New Jersey.
04:09And for a couple of years after that, she worked as a waitress in the South Jersey area and in the Borgata in Atlantic City.
04:16In 2003, Christina met Alex, her longtime boyfriend and future fiancee, at the Jersey Shore on Labor Day weekend.
04:23And the two were incredibly close. He was very supportive of her modeling career.
04:31The two were a couple for 15 years until the time of her death.
04:34Christina's father said that she was the light in his life, that as his oldest child, they had a very close relationship.
04:44He valued the time that they spent together.
04:50This is the photo shoot that I actually met Christina at and that we did together.
04:54It was this Maxim & Stuff magazine three-day event. This event was a model search.
05:03There were girls flown in from around the country and her and I were chosen as the Maxim & Stuff magazine model search winners.
05:14We got along great. She's so sweet, very charismatic. She was a lot of fun.
05:20Obviously very stunningly beautiful. I remember looking at her and just thinking with her dark hair and her light blue eyes, like she just was the epitome of a model.
05:30They put her photos in several of the Maxim & Stuff magazines and having that exposure really helped both of our modeling careers take off.
05:40Modeling was definitely a career that she was really passionate about.
05:44For her to be in Playboy, I mean, that's something she'd always wanted to do.
05:50Christina had done some modeling for Maxim and some of those other men's magazines.
05:56And even though those were great, there was something about the Playboy brand that had a little bit more of a mystique to it and seemed a little more special.
06:05On the Playboy.com website, you could join what was called the Cyber Club.
06:09It was a subscription membership and each week they would showcase a nude photo shoot of a different woman and she would be the Cyber Girl of the week.
06:17A Playboy Cyber Girl had an online pictorial. It was very similar to the Playmate pictorial. It was a very glamorous, softly lit nude pictorial and there would be a little blurb about the girl.
06:33You have to be gorgeous, but you also have to have that really like fresh-faced, kind of innocent, but kind of sexy look.
06:44It was a big deal to be a Cyber Girl and it could definitely be a stepping stone to even bigger things.
06:49When the Cyber Girl shoot went live in 2009, I think for Christina that was probably really exhilarating.
06:58Christina would have been invited out to stay at the mansion and do a Playmate test for the magazine.
07:05And after she was selected as Cyber Girl, she would have been invited to all the parties and would have had access to that world.
07:11To meet Hef personally, that's kind of an extra step, kind of have to catch his attention.
07:20Hef could have seen something really special in Christina.
07:25Christina didn't become a Playmate and that was her ultimate goal.
07:31The Playmate selection process is incredibly competitive.
07:35Thousands of women would send in their photos every month to be considered to be a Playboy Playmate.
07:41And from that, only one woman would be chosen each month.
07:45Ultimately, the final decision would be Hef.
07:48And there's so many reasons that Christina may not have been chosen.
07:53Maybe they already had too many brunettes scheduled that year, or maybe they were just looking for somebody with a little bit more of a different story.
08:00She was 26, and unfortunately, in the Playboy world, that was considered a little old.
08:07If you don't make it to that next step of being a Playmate, that could be a huge disappointment.
08:12It could have a big effect on your life because it's not just a goal you didn't reach, but it's something that reflects back on your self-image and how supposedly attractive you are perceived to be.
08:25And it can really be a hit on your self-esteem.
08:27Christina took modeling jobs here and there where she could, and as part of that, she moved to New York City to further her career.
08:37Modeling can be difficult once you've posed for Playboy.
08:42From the outside, it looks like it might be a stepping stone, but once you're there, you realize a lot of brands don't want to work with somebody who's posed dude before.
08:49So I imagine she probably encountered a lot of difficulties that she maybe wasn't prepared for.
08:58When you put yourself out there like that, those pictures are out there forever.
09:02You have to think long-term about your future and, you know, your career down the road.
09:09And not that it's negative at all for some people, but in some light, it can look negative.
09:15Christina's modeling career didn't take off after her Playboy appearance and she was kind of left adrift.
09:20Playboy is a brand really has no, you know, support for women once they're not working for them anymore.
09:31I think they just look at it as, well, you know, we can't babysit all these women for the rest of their lives.
09:38Upon realizing that Ms. Kraft had been murdered, we met with Alex, her fiancee, in the hallway.
09:53I told him, I'm very sorry, but Christina's dead.
09:59He was clearly stricken with grief.
10:03When something like this happens, it's sort of like what we say is an all hands on deck.
10:07I need everybody and anybody that can come in.
10:11Once we were finished with the scene, which took hours, the next step is we need to talk to anybody.
10:18I had my investigators knocking on every resident's door.
10:21Did they hear anything? Did they see anything?
10:24Murder definitely stands out when it happens on Ardmore because they just don't happen that often.
10:30And it's unexpected.
10:32I think folks who lived near Christina were worried that, you know, maybe a killer was going around in the community.
10:41When something like this happens, I think a lot of people automatically assume the worst and panic.
10:46After we received information that Christina was the victim of this murder, we tried to find out as much as we could about her and her past, just given the shocking nature of the crime.
10:59Christina had a very clear online footprint.
11:03And front and center in a lot of the web traffic about Christina was an article from the New York Post about an incident that she had had in 2016 in Manhattan.
11:14There was some sort of dispute over paying her tab and she got into a physical fight with a bar manager.
11:22She was charged with misdemeanor assault, but ultimately the prosecutors in New York dropped the charges against her.
11:28In 2017, she had moved to Ardmore at the suggestion of Alex, her fiancé.
11:39He felt it would be a safer environment for her in Ardmore, not to mention closer to his parents.
11:45He said he wanted to protect her and he just felt like she was more safe there, which is kind of ironic.
11:56He traveled back and forth for work from Ardmore to New York City.
12:01It seemed like Alex lived in New York for his job. He worked during the week and spent weekends here.
12:08I believe he had a really good job and it kept him away a good bit.
12:11I think life was a little bit difficult for Christina, though she recently moved.
12:16She came from New York City and I think she missed Alex and her friends and the excitement of New York City.
12:24So it was quite a change to move to a sleepy Philadelphia suburb.
12:34When I first heard about Christina's murder, it was just an absolute shock.
12:39And I just immediately, like, bursted into tears.
12:49How did this happen?
12:53You know, she was someone that I wouldn't expect to be in this type of situation.
12:59Playboy models get a lot of unwanted attention from men.
13:05It can be a real problem, especially if you find yourself around the wrong person who just has all the wrong ideas.
13:11Police on the main line are searching for a killer after a model is found dead in her condo.
13:27Christina's death drew a lot of media attention, both from local news outlets in the Philadelphia region and beyond.
13:35There were tabloid reporters from Europe who wrote about this.
13:38There were tabloid reporters from New York City who came down to write about it.
13:41I think Christina Kraft's status as a Playboy model, the fact that she's a young, beautiful woman, certainly drove press interest in the story.
13:50A model was found strangled.
13:51When the victim has been a part of Playboy in any way, that's the one thing that gets pulled into the headlines.
13:58It automatically draws eyes.
14:01I think the Playboy brand, when you hear the name, you think sex, you think beautiful women.
14:08It's a mainstream brand, but it's also on the fringes. It's a little salacious.
14:13Christina was a whole person. She wasn't just Playboy model. That was one job she did. She was more than that.
14:29Based on my experience, I knew that I had to treat Alex as a person of interest in the matter.
14:34He called us to the place. He has a long-term relationship with her. He's very concerned about her.
14:38And now I've found her beaten in the apartment.
14:43So I asked him, I said, will you be willing to go back to the police station with our detectives?
14:46I said, it's really important you cooperate and help our detectives in every way with this.
14:50And he was completely forthcoming and agreed to that immediately.
14:55We got a statement from Alex. Now we have to start getting a story.
14:59Any and all information that we can gather, you can't rule anything out.
15:04You have to go down every road you possibly can.
15:06Alex says on August 21st, he had to return to New York City for his job.
15:13He stayed there and he called Christina early morning on the 22nd around 2.30 AM to say good night.
15:21Christina didn't answer though. And Alex called several more times.
15:25But there was no answer from Christina.
15:27Just after 5 AM, Alex was growing concerned. And so he checked the security camera they had at the Philadelphia residence and he noticed some unusual activity.
15:39And this is when Alex decided that he should return to Philadelphia.
15:42Alibis would be checked very quickly. But I think the level of cooperation and the sincerity of cooperation goes a long way.
15:52Detectives are very good at signs of deception and people that are playing a game. He was very cooperative.
15:57The distance, where his location was, that could he have physically been responsible for this, I don't think we ever really got there.
16:06Alex was never really thought to be a suspect.
16:08As investigators tried to find out more about Christina and tracked her movements in the time before her death, they pretty early on discovered that she had filed a police report just a few days earlier, complaining that she had been robbed in her apartment.
16:25The murder happened on August 22nd of 2018. And on August 18th of 2018, she woke up and reported a burglary to our police department.
16:43She had called Lower Marion Police and told them that she had been robbed of some personal items that were pretty valuable. Some designer handbags and some jewelry, I believe a credit card as well.
16:56She told the police that she remembered going to Center City, Philadelphia, and drinking at a hotel in Center City.
17:05When we got there and spoke to Christina about the burglary, she said that she woke up in a daze, that she doesn't remember anything, that she just wasn't feeling right.
17:18She did allude to the fact that she thought she may have been drugged.
17:21There's a lot of people who want to take advantage. I've heard a lot of stories about people, you know, having their drinks drugged and not being able to remember, you know, what happened after a night out. And it's terrifying and it can happen to anyone.
17:39Christina had just moved to this new city. She had previously lived in New York City, where all of her friends were. So here she is in this new city, probably not knowing very many people.
17:49You know, someone took advantage of her vulnerability at that moment.
17:53We got a statement from her, and I remember that she was very, very upset. This seemed to really impact her. She felt violated. She like made references of not feeling safe. We told her we were going to do everything we can.
18:10My detectives were able to get a hold of the surveillance video from the condo complex.
18:17Between Christina's statement to them and the surveillance footage from the building, investigators were able to deduce that at some point, a gentleman gave Christina a ride back to her building from Philadelphia.
18:32And he ends up fitting her description of the ride share driver that she used that night.
18:39I think it was three something in the morning when Christina and the driver arrived back at her apartment and she was passed out in the backseat of the car.
18:49So he took the liberty to take her keys, go into her condo.
18:54It was just before four in the morning. And he spent over an hour and a half inside, presumably burglarizing Christina Kraft's condo.
19:12He came down holding a box full of Christina's personal belongings that she had later reported stolen.
19:19And then he's seen in video coming back in with Christina Kraft, helping her into the lobby.
19:24And he kind of puts her down on the ground and he steps out again.
19:27And then he comes back in, helps her into the elevator.
19:31We ended up putting out some pictures because there were some video and pictures of the suspect in the lobby.
19:37The man in the video scene going into Christina's apartment was African-American, wearing just sort of nondescript clothing.
19:44Police are looking for a man accused of stealing items from the victim's apartment just days before her death.
19:53Christina did come over to the police station to try to talk to us again.
19:56So clearly she was just still really upset, worried, kind of looking for guidance.
20:01What's going to happen? Will I ever get my stuff? Am I safe?
20:04Investigators can look into her credit cards and they find that some of her credit cards were used at a nearby convenience store.
20:16They get images and videos from those convenience stores and they're able to match them up with the surveillance video from the apartment.
20:23Investigators were able to recognize the person who used it as Andre Melton from prior arrests of his.
20:29Andre Melton was considered dangerous by detectives.
20:34They were concerned about him returning to the apartment and there was some urgency to apprehending him.
20:41There was a decision that we were going to attempt to get a search warrant signed for who we believe to be the suspect's residence in Philadelphia.
20:50On the morning of August 22nd, the day that Christina's body is found, they get a warrant for Andre Melton's arrest.
20:59They go to his last known address and they find the things that were missing from her home.
21:05Again, expensive stuff, you know, jewelry, bags, things like that.
21:09But they can't find him.
21:11He's on the run.
21:13The detectives are alarmed about what they've discovered because he had a violent history.
21:18We knew he knew the layout of Christina's apartment.
21:22So it was logical to think that Andre Melton could be the killer.
21:27He was looked at as a murder suspect because what are the chances?
21:31Who becomes a victim like this twice in a couple of days?
21:37Police have no clue where Andre Melton, who was wanted for the robbery.
21:40Yes.
21:41There was a community concern in general about, are we still in danger?
21:55Andre Melton led police on a little bit of a cat and mouse as they tried to find him.
22:00Police are dealing with two investigations here.
22:03One, the burglary involving the model.
22:05The second, her death.
22:06There was so much going on.
22:08We were looking at who committed the homicide.
22:10Where are we going to find Andre Melton?
22:13The two seemed like they may have been connected.
22:16You started thinking, well, okay, they came back or something happened.
22:19I remember being up for days.
22:28The detectives, none of us had slept.
22:31We had been up because we knew that we had to resolve this.
22:34And then things started to develop.
22:36We started to be able to get some video surveillance from the condo building itself.
22:41On the night of Christina's murder, there's clear footage of her exiting her building and heading towards Philadelphia.
22:48Hours later, there is additional footage of her returning to her building, being escorted by an unidentified man.
22:58They come in.
22:59It's shortly after three in the morning.
23:01They walk in together and they get in the elevator and they go up.
23:05Anytime her door opens, the security system alerts and records a time.
23:12It was like 3.08, door opens.
23:14So they both go inside.
23:16And then there's no other door movements until almost ten minutes after five in the morning.
23:23There's about a two-hour window.
23:25That man who entered the building is not seen leaving the building,
23:29which led investigators to believe that he somehow exited another way.
23:33She's on the second floor.
23:35She has a balcony.
23:36She has a slider to the balcony.
23:38And around 5 a.m., the slider opens.
23:43The rear balcony isn't that high off the ground.
23:45You could easily, you know, go out and jump off and, you know, get away that way.
23:51We know they didn't leave the front door because we never got a chime.
23:54We never got a time stamp.
23:56The balcony door chimed once and presumably someone went out.
24:00We had detectives on the ground searching and looking for evidence.
24:05And then some of our detectives found what looked like it might be a foot stomp in the ground,
24:12which would be easily explained as somebody jumping off of the balcony.
24:16We knew that Andre Melton knew the intricacies of her condo.
24:24He had a criminal history, but I wouldn't say there was anything that would lead us to say,
24:28it looks like this guy would be a prime candidate to commit a murder.
24:31So from August 22nd through the 25th, all of our detectives were retracing every step of Christina's that we could.
24:42They went to Center City and pulled surveillance camera images to see if they could figure out where she was.
24:55And from those images, they were able to chart her movement from her destination when she first came to Philadelphia,
25:02all throughout Center City as she walked down different streets and around different bars and nightclubs.
25:09At this point, it was a matter of gaining all this footage and then putting it together to come up with a timeline.
25:14It was very tedious.
25:15When we looked at the video, I could see Christina with a murder suspect walking with her arms around one another.
25:25I remember Broad and 13th was where they got into a rideshare.
25:29And that's when the car took them back to Christina's, to her condo.
25:35That unidentified man was not Andre Melton.
25:39So police now had another suspect that they had to locate.
25:45Police put out an alert basically saying that they were looking for information about this murder.
25:50And they were asking the press to distribute that information and try to drum up tips for them.
25:56If anyone has any information, please contact police.
26:01They put out two sets of surveillance image.
26:04One from the night that Andre Melton came back to her apartment.
26:08And the other depicting the man she was seen entering her apartment with on the night she died.
26:13Investigators didn't know whether they were related at the time.
26:18So they put both out to the public and said, we are looking for information on both of these men.
26:23Please contact us.
26:24On August 23rd, I get a phone call.
26:31This person identifies himself as Andre Melton.
26:35I was a little surprised that I'm talking to the guy that we were looking for.
26:39And he wanted to make it clear.
26:41He said, I stole her stuff.
26:43But I'm not going down for a murder.
26:46When Playboy was training Playmates on how to handle the media.
27:00That was great.
27:01But I think there could have also been some additional training in how to keep yourself safe.
27:07How to handle maybe judgment you might face, you know, going forward in life.
27:13There should have been a seminar for Playboy models on how to handle this kind of thing.
27:17Detective Vice was not convinced at all by his conversation with Melton.
27:30He thought, okay, even if he is not the person who committed the murder, he was likely involved in some way.
27:37So this interview did very little to convince him of Melton's innocence.
27:45Early on, there was speculation that these two gentlemen were connected in some way.
27:51But ultimately, as investigators learned more about each individual, they found that that was not the case.
28:00Investigators continued to solicit tips.
28:03One of which came from a gentleman who was a driver.
28:09Who said that he recognized the man and the woman in the photo as somebody that he had actually given a ride to from Philadelphia to Ardmore on the night of the murder.
28:25My detectives interviewed the driver that had picked up Christina and the suspect that night.
28:31There was nothing that seemed like anything was forced.
28:36He said that Christina had approached him and actually flagged him down instead of using the app.
28:42And said that she needed a ride because there were some people on the street harassing her.
28:45So after some convincing, the driver agreed, took Christina and this other man to their destination in Ardmore.
28:57He said during the ride they appeared to be very friendly, very affectionate with each other.
29:02When they arrived in Ardmore, it became apparent that Christina did not have any money to give him, despite promising him earlier, I will pay you in cash for the ride.
29:16She offered him an American Express credit card, which he had no way of taking.
29:21The man that Christina was with offered him $100 cash if he were to stay parked outside his building for 10 to 15 minutes while they went inside.
29:31He exchanged phone numbers with this person and the person promised to call him when he was ready.
29:3820 minutes went by. He didn't hear anything from the passenger, so he simply decided to leave and return to work in Philadelphia.
29:48Around 4 a.m., Christina somehow, in a very charged situation, was able to contact her cousin.
30:04And although Christina didn't leave a message or speak, her cousin could hear the background.
30:10And what she heard was a man forcefully telling Christina, don't call the police.
30:18On August 26th, police got a call from a man who said that he knew the identity of the person seen with Christina in the surveillance footage that was released to the media.
30:30This was somebody he had been roommates with in a psychiatric facility in Philadelphia.
30:37So they check out that tip and they were able to trace him back to an incident in Love Park in Center City, Philadelphia.
30:44At one point, he followed a woman into the family court building and started harassing her.
30:52He began causing a scene in the building, kicking windows, screaming and yelling.
30:56So he was taken into custody and he was put on a 72-hour hold, a psychiatric hold.
31:05This person had told him perhaps the most chilling detail in this whole case.
31:10He said that he had recently strangled a woman and had bragged about the event and said that there's no other feeling quite like feeling somebody's life escape them as you choke them.
31:21Unfortunately, he was admitted as a John Doe and so the police weren't able to learn much at all because he was able to check out before they were ever able to interview him.
31:34As all this is playing out, they get a call from a family member who lives in Philadelphia and saw the video that police released.
31:43They identified the suspect was Jonathan Harris.
31:47He'd recently been released from prison.
31:51Jonathan Harris had served a sentence for robbery.
31:56He had just been released on July 15th, five weeks before Christina's murder.
32:02By the time they identified him as a suspect, he was already in the wind.
32:13On August 28th, we issued an arrest warrant for Jonathan Harris for homicide and related charges in the death of Christina Kraft.
32:20The police were concerned Harris was considered to be dangerous and unpredictable.
32:27They were worried that it was only a matter of time before he hurt someone else.
32:31They needed to apprehend him right away.
32:33Once we positively identified Jonathan Harris as the subject, we had to find him.
32:42So we started doing some searching, find family members, find friends, find anybody that we can that can talk to us about where he may or may not be.
32:50And at one point, detectives spoke to his sister and we ultimately learned that there was a bus ticket that was purchased and that Jonathan was on that bus and that he was headed to Pittsburgh.
33:05The Philadelphia investigators contacted the Pittsburgh Fugitive Task Force to let us know that their suspect, Jonathan Harris, was on his way to Pittsburgh.
33:15We did all our background as far as his criminal history, as far as photographs so everyone would know what he looked like.
33:24Police say that 30-year-old Jonathan Harris had just been released from prison in July.
33:30Harris definitely had significant criminal history, nothing like a homicide in his past, but forcible felonies as far as robbery, drug dealing, burglary.
33:38We printed out pictures, made copies, so everyone was actually carrying a photograph of the last arrest photo.
33:49Philadelphia told us exactly when the bus would be arriving from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, so we had the team in place so that we cut off his avenues of escape.
34:00And we were lying and waiting in a trap for Jonathan Harris to arrive in Pittsburgh.
34:19We had a car out that saw the bus coming into the area, so we knew the bus was going to arrive.
34:24We were all in communication on radio. We were ready and waiting as the bus started to offload passengers.
34:33I was very close to the doors that the people disembarked the bus from.
34:40He was probably 30 feet away from me when the bus pulled up and about the third person off the bus.
34:45We let him walk off the bus. I'm looking at height and weight and build, and I'm very certain that this is our guy.
34:56As I approached him, I cornered the suspect Jonathan Harris against a wall.
35:00At the time he realized that I was probably a cop, I could see his eyes dart left and right, looking at possibly trying to get away, and it was too late at that point.
35:15When I confronted him, he did give me a fake name, trying to say that he wasn't Jonathan Harris.
35:20We were pretty sure that he was, and we did take him into physical custody there.
35:26We contacted Philadelphia's task force and let them know that we had him in custody.
35:30They immediately sent detectives out from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh.
35:37The detectives from Montgomery County sat in a room with him and tried to get a statement from him about what had happened on the night of Christina's murder.
35:44Initially, he told them that he had seen Christina around, that he recognized her from being in Philadelphia.
35:59Christina was by herself in Philadelphia in the suburbs.
36:04She missed her friends and the exciting lifestyle of New York City.
36:07So I think she was going out to recapture some of that.
36:10I think the reason why she was going out and grabbing a drink by herself is she's probably lonely.
36:18She was by herself. When you're by yourself, you're going to get approached.
36:27It started out very friendly by all accounts, but just hours later, the evening took a terrible turn.
36:35He mentioned that he was pretty high on the day of the murder.
36:38He had smoked some marijuana, he had used cocaine, he had been drinking, and he also mentioned to using K2, which is a street name for what is essentially synthetic marijuana.
36:51He says that they met in Center City, and that they were going back to her apartment, and he had an ounce of cocaine that he was going to sell her.
36:59She says that she's not going to pay him for the cocaine, and he gets angry.
37:04He's scared because he needs this money, and so he says there was a physical altercation. At one point, she hit him with a wine bottle, and things got out of hand.
37:13Harris was adamant that he had nothing to do with Christina's death, that when he left Christina's apartment, she was perfectly fine.
37:22But the detectives could see that there were some inconsistencies with Harris' story.
37:28They knew that a coroner's examination found that Christina had no cocaine in her system whatsoever.
37:33They took a little bit of a break. They gave him some time to think, and they came back and said, did you tell us the whole truth?
37:46Police are able to kind of pull some strings on a story, and it starts to fall apart, and it doesn't take very long for him to just spill his guts.
38:00He admitted that he had lied. He lied about the two of them doing cocaine, and crucially, he lied when he said that he had nothing to do with her death.
38:11He admitted on the second statement that he did indeed kill Christina.
38:16Her last breath was at his hands. He even made a comment after he was in custody that, well, she was still breathing when I left.
38:29I don't believe that. I don't think there's any possibility that Christina Kraft was breathing when he left.
38:37He admitted that after he killed her, he covered her body with clothing, with an area rug that was in her apartment.
38:45He admitted to changing into her clothing because his was covered in blood, and he admitted to jumping from her balcony to ground level to hide himself from the cameras out front of her building.
38:58Harris was charged with first- and third-degree murder.
39:01Andre Melton was arrested in December 2018, which was several months after Harris had been taken into custody.
39:14Police had been looking for him for quite some time and ultimately caught up with him when he was arrested in Philadelphia on a minor drug possession, and they noticed that he had this open warrant for robbery in Montgomery County.
39:27Melton was later found guilty for robbing Christina and was sentenced to state prison.
39:38The murder case went to trial, and Jonathan Harris pleaded not guilty.
39:43There was a lot of evidence in this case. This was a really airtight investigation by detectives.
39:49It would have been extremely difficult for Harris and his attorney to insert any doubt into the minds of jurors about who had killed Christina, how she had been killed.
39:58What Harris was trying to avoid was first-degree murder, which in Pennsylvania carries a mandatory life sentence, and was trying to argue that this was third-degree murder, which is 20 to 40 years in prison.
40:11But the jury found Harris guilty of first-degree murder, and he was sentenced to life in prison.
40:17A Philadelphia man accused of murdering a one-time Playboy model has been found guilty on all charges.
40:24That sentencing, Alex Ciccatelli, her fiancé, got to address Jonathan Harris, and, you know, he called him a coward, that he, you know, strangled and choked a, you know, a woman much smaller than him.
40:38And he also said how hurtful and painful this had been for the family.
40:43Alex said, it wasn't bad enough that you killed my fiancé, but then you also had to come out with this line and just slander her and drag her through the mud with this line about the cocaine.
40:54She doesn't have any cocaine in her system. They never found any cocaine or traces of cocaine in her apartment.
40:59And her fiancé says, as long as he's known her, she's never used cocaine.
41:03She loved modeling. I think she liked being in front of the, you know, the camera.
41:12Her aunt had mentioned to me that one of Christina's best moments was how she was able to work with Playboy.
41:19I think Christina had modeled for so many years, and modeling is a career that isn't always going to be lifelong.
41:31You have to have other careers kind of in place to kind of take over that fulfillment in your life.
41:38I hope, moving forward, that Christina is able to work with her.