The Man With a Thousand Faces
A troubled man with a violent past conceals a dark secret behind his twisted smile. When he confesses three days before trial, the horrifying truth about his sadistic murders finally emerges.
Welcome to one of the most disturbing cases I've ever covered.
Jamie Osuna. The man with a thousand faces.
His crimes are so horrific, some details remain unreleased to public.
Three days before trial, he confessed everything.
Jamie was born March 7, 1988, in Bakersfield, California.
His mother Michelle was just nineteen years old.
His biological father was twenty-one.
From day one, their relationship was violent and abusive.
Even before Jamie was born, the violence never stopped.
While pregnant, his father kicked Michelle in the stomach.
Physical damage was visible on Jamie's ear.
A cleft that would mark him forever.
But what unseen damage had been done inside?
They divorced just over a year after Jamie's birth.
Michelle soon met another man named Jeff.
Things escalated quickly between them.
But Jamie's biological father did not take it well.
One day he held a knife to Jeff's throat.
He was arrested but released immediately.
Then he vanished from the story completely.
Michelle was finally free to move forward with her life.
She married Jeff and brought her two sons into his home.
They were not wealthy. They had to scrape by.
But money was not the real problem.
Jeff didn't want Michelle's children. He wanted only her.
The events that followed were unimaginable.
On a fishing trip when Jamie was still an infant.
Jeff grabbed the car door while driving down the highway.
He pushed Jamie, still in his car seat, out of the moving vehicle.
Amazingly, the car seat landed upright on the pavement.
Jamie had no visible injuries.
They decided not to take him to the hospital.
Years later, brain damage would be discovered.
Jamie's half-brother was also suffering under Jeff's hand.
Jeff threw a fork at him. It stabbed him deeply.
The boy moved in with his grandparents and found safety.
But Jamie had no escape from the nightmare.
Jamie begged his mother to let him go too.
His grandmother refused. The grandfather hated him.
No one ever explained why he was rejected.
Jamie was trapped in hell with no way out.
Jeff had two more children with Michelle soon after.
And something twisted happened between them.
He was a loving father to his own biological children.
But his hatred for Jamie only grew much stronger.
At family dinners, Jamie had no food on his plate.
He sat and watched his siblings eat their meals.
When they finished, Jeff threw Jamie's food on the floor.
He made the boy eat like a dog from the hard ground.
Jeff would lock Jamie outside in the pouring rain.