Lonely Husband Kills His Wife, Records Everything

I don't care what you did and I'm sorry about what I did just please come home please just please this is Joseph Paul the wise and his deteriorating relationship with his wife Lauren is slowly ruining his life I'm driving and I'm crying I don't want to go without you I'm sorry I will do better I promise over the years Lauren had lost her feelings for Paul but Paul's love for her had only grown stronger and to cope with slowly losing the love of his life Paul turned to drinking sending his mental state into a downward spiral his love for Lauren would turn into hate hatred and all of a sudden you're like oh I'm just innocent victim now leave why don't you attack me in front of the camera why don't you talk to me like you did a minute ago and that's what this is about and I'm angry and it's hard for me to live with Paul could only bear the pain for so long his complex emotions turned into Obsession leading him to stalk Lauren where he soon discovered she was going on dates with other men eventually enough was enough good night Lauren I hope you sleep well on the night of January 7th 2018 Lauren de wise would be found dead in her bedroom it was confirmed that Paul was responsible uh I live at 1308 it's a next door neighbor she just came over inp and said somebody shot her roommate what makes this case specifically so interesting is that Paul recorded his entire mental downfall from the start of his issues with Lauren all the way to the tragic end for the past 6 months I've worked with a handful of police stations District Attorneys and news networks to gather the entire recorded life of Joseph Paul deise this is his full story this was a letter to Lauren written by Paul on July 24th 2017 it indicates the first real sign of Paul and Lauren's relationship problems but also Paul's dark tendency of self-hatred I have no excuse for what happened last night I am a very bad person for you right now I hate myself I do not deserve you I have no reason to be loved by you or the kids I ruin everything you deserve someone way better than me Paul wrote this letter just hours after a heated argument with Lauren where he lost his temper and screamed at her all in front of their three children this was likely one of many arguments that took place in the home because after this incident Lauren would leave their home stating I'll only return for the kids looking at the letter it's clear that Paul felt immense guilt for screaming in front of his children perhaps even more than most would and there's a very good reason for that in his journal Paul would often write about growing up in an abusive household in one entry he described walking in on his father screaming and choking his mother her face turning purple from the strangulation perhaps Paul felt he had followed in his Father's Footsteps by becoming aggressive towards Lauren in front of their children something that likely embarrassed him but instead of a izing for his Outburst he chose a different path he would begin manipulating his children convincing them that he had done nothing wrong even going as far as recording these statements to show Lauren later on how do you feel about what I have with Lauren I'm angry and sad and I don't know I'm upset I'm mad I don't understand it's overwhelming um the only damage that I feel that has been done by um is honestly Lauren I mean everything was fine until she decided that she wanted to do what she did was that my fault was I a bad husband to Lauren no are you glad it's just going to be me you jillan n now why because Mama moved away y Lauren had moved out of the house and Paul's attempts at manipulation only pushed her further away in turn his abandonment issues worsened spiraling into paranoia over the thought of Lauren falling in love with someone else there are numerous examples of Paul's paranoia but certain examples are particularly notable one thing Paul would consistently do over these years was send Relentless barrages of text messages they would usually start out in a calm collect way I respected you and so did the community now you are someone else you aren't building love in the family anymore mostly insecurity and frustration and sadness but would quickly spiral into unintelligible rants of self-hatred and aggressive accusations now I am depressed again how can you not care how can you make me deal with this by myself why won't you save us I'm sick again and my counselor had to cancel I I am a pathetic piece of crap now I am completely alone my life is ruined my money is gone my body is broken my wife doesn't care about me except to hurt me you are abusive you you I am crazy now great job always ending with some type of accusatory comment likely to make Lauren feel guilt over not being there for him another thing he would regularly do was contact people in Lauren's Life One notable example ex Le would be towards Lauren's female coworker who Paul suspected to be bisexual I would appreciate it if you would stay away from my wife you are not a good influence for her and she is acting like a single woman I don't not trust you as I reached out to you and you ignored me my wife needs family oriented friends not friends that married people and aren't friends enough to help in crisis Paul's messages to Lauren and her friends continued for months growing increasingly emotional over time but Lauren would rarely respond reading his Diaries it's clear this deeply upset Paul he felt like he was losing the woman he loved desperate for a reaction he soon turned to sending her videos instead hoping that would finally grab her attention I don't care what you did and I'm sorry about what I did just please come home I don't want I don't want to restrict this by myself and I love you please just [ __ ] please please I work two jobs I W do anything I won't be here I'll be working all the time just come home please please come home I'm sorry I sorry so angry I Have A New Perspective now Paul's emotional swings indicate a deep fear of Abandonment likely stemming from his childhood with Lauren he was angry and controlling without her he was desperate and self-pitying when she responded it would briefly ease his distress but unfortunately for Paul Lauren would stop responding Al together on November 14 Paul's worst fears of Abandonment would come true he would discover clues that Lauren had started going out again and later that same week he signed up for vsync GPS tracking services and registered her phone to the system Paul would start stalking her he would take pictures of Lauren and the various bars she would go to and store them away to confront her with later but on November 14th things took a dark turn when when while stalking her Paul discovered Lauren in her car with a co-worker named Kevin making out it seemed to confirm his deep fear of being abandoned as he stood there watching it all unfold Kevin would eventually leave the vehicle allowing Paul to rush in and let Lauren know he saw everything that just happened he'd pull out his phone to record but would only capture a few seconds it was an accident I'm sorry Paul would go on to take Lauren's phone texting Kevin an array of angry messages however eventually Lauren would escape the situation approximately 22 hours after this had taken place Paul would find Lauren with a different man Brian the two were simply co-workers but Paul wasn't going to take any chances so again he would go up to the car this time confronting the man instead of Lauren this man had absolutely no no intimate relationship with Lauren so he retaliated against these claims even punching Paul in the face there another good-looking man Paul was Furious however instead of begging Lauren to get back together he would ask her to grab her final belongings from the house and never come back this was a sharp distinction from the previous weeks and even months it seemed like Paul's ongoing desperation for Lauren had bizarrely turned into hatred Lauren would oblige and go on to take her items from the house but Paul wouldn't stop there the next morning he would take to Facebook making a public post stating has anyone in Boseman not kissed my wife last night I caught Lauren making out with this man in her car outside of a bar she is the best liar I have ever known Paul had turned to retaliation and his video recordings made that clear yes I've been drinking I'm having beer but I'm not wasted I'm very upset I put up the [ __ ] for years I didn't realize it because I was blind and that's what this is about and I'm angry and my children are angry my baby's angry and it's hard for me to live with it's very difficult it's all about shutting you down but in Boseman there's all these young 30s somethings with tons of money that Lauren's chasing she loves that and she's going to step up from me and our family and get ahead I'm angry I don't want her to keep her job I would like to protect the community from her I'm sure I will be now Outcast now because you know who tells the truth anymore right Paul continued to bombard Lauren with texts stalk her and most of all fuel his chronic alcoholism which only worsened his anger issues at one point even telling Lauren's friend at a local bar quote I've killed people before and I'm not afraid to do it again the final straw in Paul's downward spiral came in an incident completely unrelated to Lauren while out walking with his daughter Paul would begin threatening a homeowner whose dogs were barking at him from behind a fence when the man confronted him an enraged Paul pulled out a pocketknife and stabbed him in the hip and Paul would record the entire event okay we just got attacked by these people's dogs this is my baby baby did you think that dog was going to get you I did too and then this man attacked me behind the dog after this woman baby I'm sorry I withdrew my life my knife to defend myself against this man who took me down with a single leg take down as the last resort when my back was on the floor I struck up with a knife I struck the man you put that knife away they pulled the dog away now the dog's gone you okay baby I'm so sorry you stood here and antagonized dogs the aggression you stood here antagonizing the dogs look what you're doing to I'm blocking my baby from this woman look what you're doing to your this is the aggression these people have they threatened us when we tried to walk by crazy let's get out of here are you tell are you crazy or what hey the cops are coming for you you're crazy you guys are going to be out of here I'm so glad you've been uncovered for you are you better chill the [ __ ] out that's right I should you kicked me and I put you on the ground that's right so that you can figure out what's going on okay baby that's right on the tra Don't Run Away don't threaten me and [ __ ] come my yard [ __ ] cut me drop the door I dropped it get on the ground now do not move it's okay hand behind your back it's okay hand behind your back do not move it's okay baby luckily for Paul the homeowner had technically put his hands on him first so the stabbing was considered self-defense and while he would walk away with no charges this event would signify that Paul was not afraid of violence and in fact seemed to endorse it on January 6th 2018 at 11:56 a. m. Paul would text Lauren in inviting her over for some soup Lauren would never reply at 3:36 p.

m. Paul would text Lauren asking if they were still meeting for tomorrow Lauren would reply what for I'd like to pick up my daughter and spend time with her this seemed to upset Paul so he would go on his by this point usual rant to Lauren sending messages such as I beg you please don't destroy us I love you and will do whatever it takes hours later at 10:58 p. m.

Lauren would reply no thank thank you a 2-hour Gap would proceed with no text messages between the two however Paul was completing other tasks during this time first Paul can be seen on CCTV at the Town Pump Gas Station at 12:34 a. m. additionally Paul would take a photo from his phone minutes after while blurry this photo shows Lauren's current home in the distance as well as a GPS tracking device inside the vehicle following this photo Paul would send a final text message saying I know I'm not supposed to text you now but I can't sleep please please please come home I miss you and love you so much please I love you we all do please just come home please 911 what's the address of your emergency uh Idaho Street Belgrade from next to our neighbor she just came over in spck and said somebody shot her roommate should it just happened yeah she said it just happened she needs ambulance hand place okay where is the person that shot the neighbor [ __ ] who who shot who shot the guy's name was Paul dewise the Paul dewise is the one that shot the person that's what she said yeah she said her roommate Ashley is the one that's still alive do we know where Paul is now she she doesn't know if he's still in the house that's why she ran okay all right is Ashley bleeding seriously was she bleeding seriously yes she said yes okay Lauren and her roommate Ashley were shot on the morning of January 6th their neighbors would hear The Gunshot and rush to the home finding what they saw as a deceased Lauren and a severely wounded Ashley Additionally the neighbors would name Paul the wise as the shooter officers would waste no time and rush to the scene immediately where are we at what's going on told I I sted a friends last night and I just came in and I saw that my back door had been broken in so I went to the back and I could see Footsteps in the snow so I ran up to my room to see if my roommate was okay I have two roommates one of them is dead and the other one is in her room and she's still alive and she needs help and I ran because I didn't know if he was still in the house okay so you you don't know if there's somebody else in the house I don't think so but I don't know okay Lauren looks like she's been a while and Ashley's asked me for help and I ran not working the street is this door open yes okay so we have two people upstairs is that what you're telling me okay got but we don't know if there's anybody else in the house is that correct okay not asle okay one apparent Dead one still alive she said I ran out as soon as I saw that I have no idea if there's still anybody else in there or not okay so this is open see any footprints in the snow leading up here okay you ready yep belr police police department anybody inside come out I'm going this way okay I got stair wheell police 3 where are you at pit clear how many people are inside we're making entry how many people okay ser they're coming no great please show me your hands we got doors on the left and right he I've been here please please don't shoot me who shot you no what are you do shoot me I'm not going to shoot you what are you do shoot me one female down thece I'm behind you you need medical in here now please don't shoot me we're not going to shoot you ma'am my name's Ashley Ashley what's going on who shot you nobody oh what happened I don't know please come here who did are you the police I'm the police right here where are you I'm right here can you see me where are you I'm right here where Ashley was temporarily blind with a bullet wound to the back of her head and several others across her body she had no idea where she was and wasn't even aware she had been shot here are you the police I'm the police yes show me your face there I'm right here can you see me no can you see anything no no no okay ma'am I'm right here can you hear me are I'm right here can you feel my hand shoot me what please don't shoot me I'm not going to shoot you where do you hurt I I don't hurt anywhere you don't hurt anywhere no are you going to hurt me no I don't want to hurt you okay please help me we're going to help you Ashley Ashley was not in a communicative State at this point making this about as difficult a situation as you can get as a police officer regardless this officer would do a heroic job of remaining calm as he continued to talk to Ashley and ensure she stayed awake fortunately medical staff arrived quickly and Ashley would be rushed to the hospital whether or not she would survive remain to be seen But the officer can rest assured knowing that he did everything possible to keep her alive the other victim Lauren would be pronounced dead on the scene while this is devastating another problem still had to be solved and solved fast as the shooter had not yet been located got the garage cleared yep he cleared the garage we got tracks everywhere can you move that bed frame or the mattress clear got a man door can we go out that yeah clear we're clear is there tracks going over the top of the fence or anything no negative how about this way there tracks going around that way okay is our gate open the house was clear meaning whoever killed Lauren had fled immediately and while he may have gotten away several Clues would be left behind the most obvious being a trail of bloody Footprints leading from the east side of the house over to the back door at the time this was a small irrelevant detail however this would become one of the leading pieces of evidence to solve the case later on by nothing short of a miracle Ashley would survive the brutal attack she would undergo mult multiple emergency surgeries fracture treatments and blood transfusions this was a blessing for not only Ashley and her family but for the detectives working on the case because if Ashley could recall what had happened and who shot her solving this case would become a whole lot easier but before we dive deeper into the case let me tell you about today's sponsor ship station every 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com and use code Insanity to sign up for your free trial that's shipstation. com code Insanity now let's get back to the video so after Ashley had briefly recovered from her surgeries detectives would sit down for a formal interview the goal of the interview was to help her recall crucial details about the incident by asking specific targeted questions in hopes of triggering memories that might have been buried due to the trauma so obviously you know we're here to talk to you yes I do and I know this is kind of a tough question but can you tell me do you remember anything at all when I got shot mhm no but no I do not remember being shot at all well yeah you're you know you're a lucky gu but everything that I hurt you know you're a fighter it's a miracle I'm alive I thank God every day um it's really a miracle it is the detective would continue asking questions for another 30 minutes but unfortunately Ashley was unable to answer anything whatsoever again officers were left confused as to who this killer was and why this happened in the first place due to the lack of physical evidence detectives decided to talk to more witnesses in order to determine a primary suspect audrea the neighbor who called for help had reported Paul as the potential killer during the 911 call so with this in mind officers decided it was imperative to speak with audrea to better understand why she would make these claims and she would waste no time letting officers in on Lauren's abusive relationship with Paul we went golfing once this summer okay well she actually had worked out at my gym I'm I'm a personal trainer at Big Sky barbell and she had come in one day and I saw bruise on her and I remember saying dude what happened to her leg she said oh I just ran into something and I said 100 mph softball what happened to your leg she just dismissed it couple months later we were golfing and she said they' lived here about a year and she said I can't believe I've never told anybody this but I think I need to leave Paul he beats me all the time mhm and I used to contact me every day one day would be thank you ruined my life to I can't believe you're helping my wife to I'm so sorry this is all my fault it has nothing to do with you you did nothing I mean he's got a schizophrenic chain of messages that I never responded to anyway yesterday it's actually been fairly C she went over to his house for the um her their daughters they have a three-year-old daughter she Drfour on okay audrea was well aware Paul was an abusive and psychotic husband prior to Lauren's death based on audrea claims her suspicion of Paul's involvement would only grow stronger I left last night around 9 she had just gotten out of the bath and she had actually said something to me like I'm just so happy here I feel safer than I felt in years and I remember leaving I left around 9:30 and I got home this morning I got home around 8 and when I walked in I looked down and in my my back door frame two pieces of wood were laying on the floor and I ran up stairs to see if La was okay she not okay I I literally like well the door had been Pro open and it she always smok I walked up and I could see L there I didn't walk it all the way in her room I just looked at her and was like it looked to me like what he said when I was there but I could I didn't even my brain went to gunshots because he has like a like a bicyclist pulled him open like cut him like got close to him in traffic once he pulled a pistol on bicycle he pulled a pistol on Lauren before he got banned from a BNB BNB gu yeah based on Ashley's claims Paul was not only an abuser but also notoriously threatened people with the same weapon used to kill Lauren it was becoming more and more clear that Paul was who detectives ultimately needed to speak with safely getting Paul to the police station for questioning was something that needed to be done with extreme precaution whoever killed Lauren was armed with a 22 caliber pistol and if Paul was responsible a dangerous scenario could occur if police contacted him directly so in order to safely secure him officers devised a complex plan for his arrest Paul's house would be heavily surveyed the day of the arrest the moment Paul left his house the surveillance team would notify the arrest team of his direction of travel in in order to leave his neighborhood Paul would have to exit either to the West on South 19th Avenue or east on South 3rd Avenue units would be blocking both streets and a high-risk felony stop would be used to take dewise into custody with this plan officers were granted an arrest warrant for Paul and immediately the operation would go underway at 9:00 a. m.

the next day Paul would exit his house in his Chevrolet Suburban he'd turn west onto South 19th Avenue where an officer would be waiting for him and quickly pull the vehicle over open up the door keep both hands up okay go ahead and get out get out your hands up hands up walk over here turn around look away from me walk backwards keep coming keep coming stop get on the ground get on the ground do not move do you understand me take him to the back of my car all right the plan had worked perfectly and Paul was quickly brought to the Boseman police station for his first for Al interrogation at this point Paul knows exactly why he's here his wife had been found murdered he also knows that logically an innocent man wouldn't have that kind of information in the first place what makes this interrogation particularly interesting is that despite knowing this Paul subconsciously steers the conversation towards his wife hi my name's Justin I'm went the do police department okay uh Sor had remember at this point there has been no mention of Lauren whatsoever what do you do for work I've been staying home dad for quite a while man it's the hardest job there is had a couple little accidents and I end up we end up switching rolls and end up staying home yeah now we're going through a transition right now though so is that right yeah so what kind of transition um we're separated oh yeah and in fact she was supposed to get baby today so it's so it's been tough I hurt my knee back in June and we had a lot of problems since then and I had surgery in August and it's just it just uh it caused a lot of problems the detectives still haven't mentioned Lauren I've had a bunch of injuries in the last few years and she's pissed off at me about that was it work related and what did you do before you stayed at home um well I was a school teacher for 15 years I taught science before moved Montana here no in Pensacola Florida oh really mhm okay it's have a biology degree ni yeah that's how my wife and I met oh really yeah she was we both taught next door to each other yeah she liked my coffee once again Paul brings up his wife unprompted while this is interesting it's not enough to serve as evidence so the detectives decide it's time to apply more pressure um so the reason that I wanted to talk to you is there were some issues that happened uh over at Lauren's house last or this morning and I just kind of wanted to touch B base with you to see um if you were over there at all if um kind of where you were um this morning that kind of thing what happened well um someone broken into the back door of her her place and so from what I understand you guys were separated and working on a divorce that's that's kind of where we're at sure right well uh not not really she isn't well the the person that came in ended up shooting her so she she's dead yeah so oh my God so that that's why we're talking to you because you guys are going through a divorce and and from what I understand and that's we need to time to figure out what's going on this is news to me I don't know anything about it well let me let me just say right off the bat regardless of your relational issues I understand I love her Lauren's very important to you I love her and I'm so sorry that you're going through this right now this [ __ ] if let's say for you think I did it I didn't do it we we got to we got to look at the big say you did would never do anything I'm asking you to give us any information that you can about anything whether it was you or not it's hard to tell whether Paul is genuinely anxious over his wife's passing or if he's simply putting on a convincing act panicking not over grief but over the realization that the detectives are closing in on him notably Paul would quickly regain his composure and instead redirect the conversation towards Lauren quickly painting himself as a victim of her actions my hands are tingling you I've been having panic problems I never had before never I didn't know what a real panic attack was like just since you got here no since um since we started going through this crap now it started in like July she's going through like a midlife crisis and you know she's staying gone she's coming home late and drunk um I caught her cheating yeah two days in a row with two different people in the car you know and uh and the second time I asked her to leave well Paul may think that painting her in a bad light is a smart move in reality it only establishes that he had a strong motive for Revenge at this point the detectives decide it's time to start constructing a timeline hoping to pin Paul to a version of events they can systematically dismantle so is there anything you can think of anything that would help us at all I can't think right now let's just start with a basic timeline so start with let's say what you do during a normal day yesterday was Saturday right right so when you woke up were your other kids already awake were they all three still asleep or you said jener yeah okay but the teenagers were in bed M that's what teenagers did yeah yeah um that's about it nothing exciting I mean I was just in my chair all day uh I think I go to Walmart or go out to eat or anything like that no no trips outside no didn't go anywhere the detective asks this question because they have CCTV footage placing Paul at a gas station at 12:34 a. m.