Fiancée speaks out after ex-boyfriend shoots and kills her husband-to-be: "My whole world was taken away."

For Patrick De La Cerda and Jessica Devnani, 2018 was shaping up to be a year to remember.  OPERATOR: 911, where is your emergency? DEPUTY [body cam video, shouting into the building]:  Sheriff's Office! If you're inside, you need to announce yourself now!" WKMG NEWS REPORT: Deputies say someone shot right through his front door. OFFICER: Whose house is this? OFFICER [to Jessica]: Ma'am, come over here. Stay here behind the tree. PATRICK DE LA CERDA VOICEMAIL: "I love you, good night, sweet dreams. In the morning I'll call you, I'll send you a text when I wake up a little later, all right? Love you. … Good night, bye." WKMG NEWS REPORT: In a strange twist, News6 has discovered the young man has been shot at before … GREGORY BENDER VOICEMAIL: "Call me back, talk to me."  GREGORY BENDER VOICEMAIL: "I'll talk to you soon, I hope."  GREGORY BENDER: "I'm giving instructions. And I'm going to have my plan put into action." DET. WEAVER: OK, call him and put him on speakerphone. JESSICA DEVNANI:  You ruined my life. … You got your revenge, and you ruined my life.  GREGORY BENDER: I saw what happened on the news, I want to tell you, I feel sorry for you.  JESSICA DEVNANI: You said, "Enough is enough. I can't do this. I'm going to hire a hitman. I'm gonna kill him." JESSICA DEVNANI: But that's why I want to find out if it is you, like … RICHARD PARKER [to Jessica in court]: You started dating Patrick in June. Why are you dining with Greg and going to Greg's house in November of 2017 if you're happily moving on with Patrick?  ASHLEY TERWILLIGER: Patrick de la Cerda was the victim of a murder, A detailed and meticulously thought-out murder plan and a tragic ending in which he was shot four times in the head, face, chest and hip. RICHARD PARKER: We will show that there's more than just one or two people that have motive and opportunity in this case. JESSICA DEVNANI: He would message me saying if I didn't leave Patrick, he would harm Patrick. JESSICA DEVNANI: "Think about it. If I don't hear from you or the cops call again, I'll just do what I said and move on." PROSECUTOR ANDREW URBANAK: Did you actually see these videos?   ANDREW URBANAK: What did he do with it? RICHARD PARKER: Why are you dining with Greg and going to Greg's house in November of 2017 if you're happily moving on with Patrick? RICHARD PARKER [to Jessica]: Did Max De La Cerda comment in a very positive way regarding your appearance?  MAX DE LA CERDA: What you are asking me makes no sense! … I don't think that has nothing to do with Patrick's murder.  RICHARD PARKER: Your girlfriend said that you were in fact staying with her//is it her memory that's wrong or is it yours? ANDREW URBANAK: Were you married to Mr. Bender?  DAYMARA SANCHEZ: It was a plan to kill the guy. COURT OFFICIAL: Don't talk to anybody in the courtroom. RICHARD PARKER: How about any hair or skin or DNA, anything like that from the scene that was helpful to your investigation?  ASHLEY TERWILLEGER: So, the burner phone … is the cellphone that made the call to Max De La Cerda that morning at 7:18 a.m.?  ANDY URBANAK: He couldn't take that Jessica left him and wouldn't come back to him because of Patrick De La Cerda. RICHARD PARKER: This case is about the difference between a fantasy and reality. JUDGE: It's my understanding you have a verdict… WITNESS: We can see the entrance wound on the right side of the face. JUDGE: Madame clerk, if you can please read the verdict. PATRICIA RONZE: And I want to thank all of you for having put evil where it belongs. JESSICA DEVNANI: You will not win. You have only lost. I hope you feel some peace Patrick. Rest assured the man who took your life is going to pay with his own life now. MAX DE LA CERDA: I will miss my son. … And I regret that I wasn't there for him to save him (cries).  MAX DE LA CERDA [addressing Bender]: I hope they keep you in jail until you die there, until you die. Because the moment you step out, I'm going to finish you off. I'm going to peel you like an onion. The same thing you did to my son.

"I was looking forward to getting married," she tells "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant.  "We're going to have, like, the fairy-tale life." CALLER:  ... has been shot and killed! JESSICA DEVNANI: My boyfriend's house and his dad's house. GREGORY BENDER: Hello. GREGORY BENDER: What are you talking about? GREGORY BENDER: No. That's not. No, no, no, I didn't say that. GREGORY BENDER: No, it's not. I'm your friend. I did not do this. JESSICA DEVNANI: I did. JESSICA DEVNANI: He had given it to Patrick. JESSICA DEVNANI: Because the defendant was threatening, and I was trying to calm him down. And he said that if I went to see him, he would not harm anyone. ANDREW URBANAK: Same objection judge, still a hearsay statement. MAX DE LA CERDA: It might be mine, sir. I'm constantly on the go. I work here, I work there, I don't keep track of phones, I don't keep track of time. …  so, what point are you trying to make? I don't know! DAYMARA SANCHEZ: Yes. DET. CHAD WEAVER: The guy is Patrick? DET. CHAD WEAVER: Uh, no, sir. SGT. AMRHINE: Yes RICHARD PARKER: People should not be judged on their worst thoughts just because they put them to paper. But that's what they're doing in this case. JUDGE: It's my understanding you have a verdict. Is that correct? CLERK [reads verdict]: We the jury find the defendant, Gregory Bender, as follows guilty of the charge of first-degree murder as charged in the indictment. ANDREW URBANAK: Mr. De La Cerda, Max, you have to address the judge, you have to address the judge.

Patrick proposed just six months after they began dating – and ordered a custom-made engagement ring for Jessica. "He never got to give it to me," says Jessica. OPERATOR:  When did that happen? JESSICA DEVNANI: Hello.  ANDREW URBANAK: Did that cause some strife between you and Patrick and your relationship? DEFENSE [to Max De La Cerda]: Would you say you had a good relationship with her? DAYMARA SANCHEZ: Yes. ANDY URBANAK: The state would rest at this time. MAX DE LA CERDA: You understand that?