Miguel Angel Martinez happened to have a key to Baptist Deacon James Smiley's house because he would sleep there sometimes (the story is already a little murky). In need of money for more cocaine, his group of friends decided to burglarize Smiley's house. Instead, Smiley ended up asleep in the house with two other people. Martinez's friend Miguel Venegas said he received a message from the devil, and he believed he had to take these three lives. Venegas murdered the three victims, and Martinez stabbed Smiley after he was already dead — but Martinez is the one on death row.