The motive is now clear: The criminals were after the 96-year-old's fortune! In 2020, Pauline Macareno, the gang's ringleader, had already swindled the senior citizen. The deception involved documents related to the villa and the property. "In their eyes, Mrs. Alberts lived too long. Macareno thought the lady would die quickly – then the property would have fraudulently passed into her possession," Sheriff Bill Brown said at a press conference. "And so, the acceleration of Violet Alberts' death is what's behind the murder." Brown said that colleagues had spent an incredible "10,424 hours working to unravel the complex web" of the crime. The authorities have only released three of the four images of the suspects, as Basmadjian suffered a medical emergency at the time of his arrest: "The prognosis for his recovery is bleak," police sources say.