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my cousin Lisa hosted a dinner party for her mother's boyfriend and she had several people attend that dinner a Helen stayed after the party helping clean up a little bit and then Helen went home and then didn't hear from Lisa the next day or the next day and was calling Lisa and Lisa wasn't returning her calls which is very unusual and then it went on to Monday and and Helen still hadn't heard from her and then she started becoming a little bit concerned then Helen received a phone call from Lisa's work and they indicated that

Lisa hadn't been in work for a couple of days um and Helen became alarmed because that was completely out of character for Lisa so an Helen drove over to Diamond Heights and when an Helen arrived at Lisa's condo there was police tape surrounding the building neighbors had reported a foul odor coming from Lisa valdez's unit the manager noticed that the door was unlocked he opened up the door and saw a body on the floor basically right in front of where the door opens and he quickly closed the door and called 911 the manager had stumbled

into a murder scene Lisa's body was on the floor at the foot of the bed uh she was in a pretty Advanced state of decomposition there was such a significant amount of blood it was plainly obvious that a violent struggle had taken place that she had met a very violent death the neighbor reported that at about 1:30 early Sunday morning they heard a loud thumping sound above which would have been Lisa's apartment we knew that her mother had left around midnight but the lack of forced entry into her apartment indicated that she had to have

opened the door there was no other explanation we could tell that there was no robbery or burglary involved since her purse and her belongings money and jewelry and whatnot were not taken but on closer investigation detectives make an odd Discovery part of Lisa's hair has been cut off the fixation that her killer must have had with her taking a souvenir the people were terrified because it is a gated community someone can't just walk walk through the neighborhood and gain access to your dwelling it was impossible detectives believe that Lisa was murdered in the early hours

of Sunday May 17th and then on Monday May 18th at 10:00 a.m. the house keeper opened up the door and saw a body on the floor naked heard the voice of a guy and she thought she was interrupting a intimate moment with Lisa and another person so she leaves and then nobody finds Lisa until Wednesday the toilet seat in Lisa's bathroom became a focus of my attention because it was left raised it was inconsistent with a woman living alone inspector schis dusts the seat for fingerprints all of Lisa's friends and family provided Prince and that

allowed me then to compare them to the prince off the toilet seat the fingerprints on the seat belonged to someone other than Lisa and her guests investigators believe they could belong to the killer when the blood droplets on one of Lisa's pillows was examined by the crime lab they were able to determine first that it was not Lisa's blood and that it was of an unknown male profile my mom was the last to see her alive she told me that Lisa had a a date the next afternoon we found out that Lisa was dating a

person named Albert KO and um she was going to have a date with him on Sunday May 17th 1998 but he canceled the date and said he was out to 3:00 in the morning with friends police bring Elbert Kato in for an interview as soon as he arrives they notice a jagged cut on his hand in a violent crime we know that when someone is being stabbed repeatedly that very often the person who's doing the stabbing cuts themselves in the act and so the fact that he had a cut on his hand heightened the suspicion

that he may have been involved in this crime but on June 5th they run tests on Ko's fingerprints and on his DNA neither matches sample found on the scene Kato can't be the killer Lisa received a couple of calls from unknown callers at the we hours of Sunday morning but there were a couple of strange messages left by the 19th caller the 19th caller wants to know if Lisa is home on that fateful night the weird voice messages were identified as coming from Albert Robinson who turned out to be a friend of leis Lisa's coworker

and known her for a few years a few days later Lisa's family holds a memorial service in the chapel of her Elma mat Mills College also in attendance none other than Albert Robinson The Man Behind the odd sounding voicemails Albert Robinson presented a letter to the attendees that was very bizarre he talked about his love for Lisa that they were going to get married and they were going to raise a family a very very completely different take on their relationship than what Lisa shared with her friends and family Lisa was absolutely not dating Albert Albert

was a person that had always struck me as odd when a search warrant was served at his home detectives found photos of Lisa all over his house but once again the DNA and fingerprints failed to match eliminating Robinson and dealing another major blow to the investigation no information was coming in as to who or why anybody would want to kill Lisa and uh they definitely hit a dead end 10 years after Lisa valdez's murder her case remains shelved but inspector scheldes always kept it in the back of his mind and then on September 2nd 2011

I got a phone call from the state the DNA laboratory the cotus laboratory here's the good news you got the hit it's all the markers every single Peak is matching after 10 long years sitting on Ice the case finally heats up the DNA was in the database for all these years and it finally matched to a person named Anthony Quinn Hughes Ronin called me at 9: at night and he said Anthony Quinn Hugh's right middle finger was on that toilet seat that was just icing on the cake cuz now it's two pieces of key evidence

detectives review Lisa's answering machine and find that Hughes had left a message after the murder it was nondescript and not nothing really unusual about it except for the fact that he made it after she was already dead on May 18th did detectives make a crucial error by overlooking the message from Hughes in my view the detectives at the time blew it by not going far enough through Lisa's information on her answering machine they only he went up to 19 people and researched them and Hughes was the 22nd caller investigators also find what appears to be

an old contact for Hughes in Lisa's address book they contacted me in the middle of the night and I asked him to bring Hughes to homicide when we showed him a picture of Lisa Valdez and asked him do you recognize this person Anthony Quinn Hughes said no and then I asked him so you don't know Lisa Valdez and then he did a double take shook his head and he said oh yeah uh we dated in high school and then we hit him with the evidence and particulars of the case DNA from you was found in

Lisa's apartment from 1998 apartment 19 okay you you don't you could have been but you don't remember tell me what is this all about okay Anthony you know what it's all about you know very you know very well that she's not alive anymore no I no you can go ahead and cry you can get emotional and it's good it's good D get something to write with me absolutely and I thought that he was about to write out a confession he asked for a pen and a pad he was bent over and he was like ready

to write and instead of writing he started he took the pen to his neck and his stomach in front of us and um just went into like a little tizzy I want to die you don't want to die I want to die you guys trying to pin something on me have on you you know what we have on you Anthony what was going through my head was why would he do this if he wasn't guilty if he did did in fact not have anything to do with her murder how is it possible that he would

be taking his life now he wants to die now it was about 11:00 on Saturday morning when I told my partner Kevin we still got to find Lisa's mom Helen Valdez and we got to tell her in person after all those years of not knowing it was very very emotional and I get emotional thinking about it just remembering how much it meant to her for some reason Anthony Quinn Hughes decided to murder his old friend Lisa Valdez exactly why remains a mystery during the early arraignments Hughes walked in confident hoty arrogant uh with attitude right

and then during the trial he was a very Meek demeanor hunched over with a Bible in his hand and wearing a cross around his neck so that's all you know that's all an act the jury finds Anthony Quinn Hughes guilty of second deegree murder of Lisa [Music] [Music] Valdez 3 m shy of the Arkansas border this is the neighborhood 13-year-old Shannon Capers calls home on March 8th 1997 she picks her way through the streets and heads into town 6 hours later her family starts to worry by dusk worry ripens into panic and the Caper family

puts a call into to police they get a Call of a missing 13-year-old juvenile the local police call me as a juvenile detective which is normal procedure detective Ben Booth takes the report on Shannon and begins to look around Keepers attended the local Junior High and had a lot of friends none of them however have any idea where she might be after 3 days we went uh to the local news media ran her picture photograph on local news media I also entered her name into ncic which is the National Database for police officers crime information

center by Spring of 1999 Shannon Capers has been gone 2 years the investigation into her disappearance undeniably cold on May 5th Detective Chris Smith is working at his desk when the phone rings at the other end a voice with a story about a bud she actually said the case the girl's name Shannon Capers and said that she knew where she was the caller says the body is buried in the woods behind the apartments where Capers lived the tipster also fingers the man who allegedly put Keepers in the ground a local drug dealer named Maurice Tate

I tried to ask her you know can you give me a number I can get back in touch with you how do you know this you know where where is this going she hung up later that day A Team forms up along the tree line behind Caper's apartment complex and begin searching more than 10 acres of forest and field by day's end the team has come up with nothing and the search is abandoned two days later Chris Smith's phone rings again his tipster is back on the line telling him they didn't look hard enough the

second call I felt at the time that she knew what she was talking about it wasn't just I think there's a body out here it was look y'all went out there y'all didn't find it it's there you need to go back the caller directs the team deeper into the woods everything was intact this time original investigator Ben Booth joins the search as the day wears on however still nobody the chief smoked a cigar and he discarded a cigar you know got rid of it and it landed right by the skull the chief looks at me

and I look at him and he says you see what I see the human skull is partially concealed lying in a bit of scrub less than a yard outside the team's search grid we red a little bit of leaves away and we could tell that there what appeared to be a bullet o in skull itself the bones are transported back to the state forensics lab where DNA confirms what detectives already suspect The Remains are those of Shannon Capers and her disappearance has officially become a homicide although the trail is 2 years cold detectives have a

single hot lead in the form of an anonymous voice on the phone who knew where the body was and further claims to know the killer we began putting our heads together trying to brainstorm Who would know that this guy that she reported killed this girl who would know that detectives shuffle through Tate's romantic past looking for old girlfriends especially those who might have a reason to talk at the local hospital they happen upon the medical records of a woman who claimed Tate gave her a black eye and an assortment of bruises the patient's name Charice

mcnight we subpoenaed the record from the hospital got a good address on Char's mcnight in San Antonio Texas Cold Case detectives book a plane for Texas and a meeting with the woman they suspect might be their Anonymous voice [Music] they beat on the door they came to the door you know what was the Louisiana police and Texas police she said well okay what what do you want to ask us she wasn't volunteering information at that point but she knew why we were there detectives sit down with mcnight and press her about Tate it's not long

before the 20-year-old begins to worry I'm kind of knowing okay dang you know I'm going go to jail because I told where it was several minutes into the interview she did confess that she had made the Anonymous phone call and she also told us that Maurice Tate is the one who had told her years earlier when Shannon Capers first came up missing that he had killed her as Cold Case detectives suspected mcnight is a woman scorned she tells detectives she and Tate share a child and that Tate beat her and often beatings that cost Tate

his girlfriend silence he broke my nose and he did me real bad so I went home and decided okay now is a better time than no time mcnight tells detectives Tate had gotten Shannon Capers pregnant a fact that did not sit well with Tate and apparently enough reason to kill the 13-year-old mcnight then provides the details he took her to the back um he he say he choked her he shot her and he put her in a hole that he dug mite's story fits with physical evidence found at the crime scene including the Bullet Hole

drilled through Caper skull detectives however need more than an informant's word to make their case for murder they will have to do it the oldfashioned way face to face inside a police interrogation room first of all did you know Shannon Caper we used to mess around just went places together no we never go play she come on my eyes just you know half sick that about it Tate admits he met Capers on the day she disappeared on a back road not far from the woods where Caper's body was found he's not a rookie he knows

what's going on and he's staying as far away as he Poss possibly can from being named as the one who killed Shannon Capers you did go into those woods with her oh yeah see me the war and you did kill him y'all see me wi the war what I saying are you listening to what I'm saying yeah I'm Ling okay I can't be in two placees at one time in two places at one time detectives press Tate as to what he means by that and Tate constructs an alibi centered around his bathtub I can't be

taking a bath and on the back road at the same time that's that's impossible okay so at the time she uh was murdered you were taking a bath there is at least one problem with Maurice Tate alabah police don't know the exact moment of Caper's death there's only one person who knew when she was killed and that's the person who killed her Tate's misstep is the closest Cold Case detectives will get to a confession coupled with Charice MC's testimony mauce Tate is arrested and sits in the Clayborn Parish Detention Center awaiting trial on a single

charge of [Music] murder after 4 days of testimony the case goes to a jury less than 30 minutes later they return a verdict murder in the second degree Maurice Tate receives a mandatory life sentence for killing a 13-year-old he was afraid might be bearing his child this family went for 2 years wondering where their daughter was and in 1999 they learned where their daughter was and what happened to their daughter they went for two more years wondering who did this the murderer was convicted and they were finally able to bury their [Music] daughter it's February

1981 Patricia Clark is watching a basketball game with her husband Joe who works for the Washington County sh sheriff's department when he gets up to go to the kitchen Patricia hears what sounds like an explosion she finds Joe collapsed on the floor from what she thinks is a heart attack the shocking truth would take 33 years to uncover Joe Clark was well known throughout the law enforcement community so it was a big shock at that point to say that Joe had been shot he had been ambushed in his own home you just don't believe it

it changed everybody's Outlook and responsibilities first thing you want to do immediately is secure the crime scene I started on Joe's house that night Joe's wife heard a pop from the kitchen she thought the light bulb had just blew she saw Joe on the floor it was a little bit of blood she thinks his head hit the counter and I looked around there's a plate glass window in his kitchen the window was gone that's when I see the pellets they were pellets from a shotgun and I was beginning to make sense of what happened the

person had gone around the back of Joe's house to where the pl glass window was the shot came from a shotgun from outside that window and an upward angle some of the pallets struck Joe and killed him on the night of the murder the officers identified more than 10 Witnesses who had seen blue Fort Pento Park in the area of the crime scene every witness stated that it was idling as they drove by the driver of the car would put his hand up in a motion similar to what I'm doing to cover his face we

knew that there's no way the guy could have shot and ran into the vehicle in that amount of time we believe that there's two people involved one in the vehicle and one that did the shooting the next day at the crie scene I found a military combat bootprint also left at the scene was a number four Buck shotgun shell so basically at the scene there wasn't a whole lot of physical evidence to collect during Joe's Short career with the sheriff's office I knew he had a lot of passion in in combating the drug use in

Washington County Clark did an interview talking about the presence of Narcotics that was suspected in the area he said he was going to be naming names the following week and arresting people he was interviewed that Friday the article came out the day was killed said this got to be drug related 3 days after the homicide I get a call from the Dispatch Center somebody got shot at this trailer park I pull up I'm the first one there I found the victim on the floor he was a drug dealer another drug related murder that's too big

a coincidence I separate the drugs from the non-drug leads and I talk to members of the drug Community users dealers informance an informant gave me the two names Mr Washington and Mr [Music] Jones He told me they shot the drug dealer in the face I think that Washington Jones was the same people responsible for the homicide of joe clark Washington Jones was from the Kyogre County area we got a whole Kyogre County Sheriff's Office and he said I'm very familiar with him and I have him in jail right now I said we're on our way

I said you all know why I'm here I said I want something you got information I said to tell me about the shooting at the trailer park he goes it was just supposed to be a ripoff ripoff turned into shooty they also said that Mr boner had set it all up I interviewed boner I said well you know I come here talking about Joe he said don't know anything about it wish I could help you when I ask him what about the drug dealer got shot he said I ain't got nothing to do with it

you cannot charge somebody solely on the testimony of a co-conspirator or co-defendant so if he don't talk I got nothing on him and he didn't I had doubts and I thought thoughts running in my mind I followed up every lead I could I wasn't getting anywhere I can't I can't do it so I quit and I went on it was my first homicide and I didn't solve it that's not right and that's what's haunted me [Music] Sheriff minks asked me if I'd be interested in starting up a Cold Case unit and I accepted when we

took over the case again it was over 30 years old Lieutenant Clark's house after he was murdered was occupied by several families but the interior walls were never moved so we asked BCI to bring their scan system in based on the Imaging done at the house it was believed that the shooter stood behind a tree within 31 ft of the house below the window where Joe was standing Joe was stalked it was a sniper type murder and we felt that there was some type of a a grudge just getting to the location and staging himself

that takes a lot of nerve the person who committed the murder knew what he was doing it was an excellent shot after shooting various Links of 12 gaug shotguns what we were able to determine was the shotgun we were looking for was a shotgun used by law enforcement Personnel what police officer would want to kill Joe Clark the original investigators never actually looked at another police officer but we knew about an incident that happened back in 1981 with Matt Boner several months before the murder of Clark Mr Bonner had been arrested for breaking and entering

in route back to the Sheriff's Office Mr Bonner continued to maintain his innocence and then the depy took him down to the bank of the Ohio River he struck him a couple times with his fist boner filed a complaint for abuse against the depy lieutenant Clark was involved in launching the investigation into a deputy named Mitch Rubble Clark made the determination to fire Mitch rubel and I can remember one of the deputies said that Rubble was extremely upset that night he does fit the profile in this investigation Mitch rubel comes from a military background he

served in Vietnam Mitch Rubble was a gun fnati he was driving the sheriff's department to issue number four buck in their shotguns also through our investigation we found out that Mitch drove up blue Pino but it was registered in his wife's name we contacted Mitch dral and asked him if he'd come to the Sheriff's Office so we could interview him on the night of the Mur Mitch had an alibot he told us that there was a guy named Todd Smith and that he had stayed with him that night so of course we wanted to question

Todd Smith so me and John went and interviewed him and we talked to him in my unmarked patrol car he admitted that MIT spent the night there but they said they didn't go nowhere but we didn't believe that we interviewed him for about 4 hours only when we offered him police protection did he finally open up and say I'll tell you the story Todd was at his apartment and Mitch knocked on the door Mitch asked him do you have any of these shotguns here at the house and uh Todd had one that Mitch had given

him earlier and he asked for that shotgun he gives it to Rubble they get in rubble's blue Fort Pinto they go by Lieutenant Clark's house rubu gets out of the vehicle Todd sits there and waits he said he waited there so long and he was starting to get scared starting to get frightened Smith goes back to his house a short time later Rubble showed up to Smith's house at which point Rubble starts threatening him Todd Smith provided us enough information that our belief was that Mitch Rubble was likely to shoot him we're going to do

everything in our power to recover the murder weapon Todd Smith told us that one of Mitch rubel's military buddies owned it at that time we learned that Mitch rubel's Air Force buddies were having a yearly reunion at a military museum near Columbus Ohio we go out and talk with each of these military friends the last door we knocked on he asked if he had ever purchased a weapon off of Mitch rubal and the gentleman stated that he had the gun was so unique and there was so few of them out there that we believed we

had the right gun it was a needle in the ocean that we found Mitch Rubble had been terminated by Lieutenant Clark so he has the motive to kill him and now we got the murder weapon so we knew it was time to execute the arrest of MIT Rubble for the murder of Lieutenant Joe Clark on a chilly morning 4 days before Christmas the halls of alanka sister Elementary School Buzz with holiday excitement but something is wrong sixth grade teacher 25-year-old Christy Mor is missing Christy was never late for school I thought what you know it

was just so unlike her so I called her apartment about five times nothing I left messages christe where are you we're worried about you and that's when I called her mother my mom was kind of in a panic saying you know Christy didn't show up for work today which was really odd we didn't know what to do Christie's family lives 2 hours away principal Harry Goodman volunteers to check on her himself so I pull up to her apartment and her car is iced over and I knew something was wrong Christy was my middle sister Christy

was the kind of person that she always was smiling always energetic she was that kind of person also you know just kind of try to make everybody laugh okay this was christe and I at our senior prom in May of 1985 she was a very kind person she was the kind of person that would really do anything for you and I know a lot of people say that but she truly was I ran outside the door and slammed it shut and I was in shock I remember I was staggering going from apartment to apartment pounding

on the door just screaming and finally somebody let me inside and I called 911 within minutes of Harry's frantic 911 call police and rescue units arrive at christe's apartment when the officers entered they did see uh the body of a young woman to their immediate left in the living room she had some significant facial injuries there were marks around her neck so potentially a strangulation was involved she's SED from the waist down with the exception of her socks and her clothing that she had from the waist up were were pushed up to her uh upper

chest any detective would have a a logical conclusion that there was a sexual assault involved here it was immediately apparent that there was a struggle that ensued right inside the door as evidenced by the scuff marks both on the floor on the frame the door on the door the struggle continued into the living room there was bodily fluid on the carpet so they cut the carpet out around that stain and it was eventually sent to the lab for processing and Analysis police begin canvasing the neighborhood a woman who lived in the same complex said that

right around 7:15 that morning she was walking her dog she saw a light colored or a white colored vehicle parked in the the Overflow parking lot which was directly across the street from Christy's townhouse she saw what she described as a white male with a muscular type build stringy dark hair exit that vehicle and walk into the area of christe's apartment across the street as she was observing all this her roommate came out and as they were engaging conversation they heard this really loud kind of high-pitched scream they weren't sure if it was Christy or

not but it came from the direction of her apartment so the detectives developed a sketch of the person that was seen in the area that morning christe usually left for work around 7:30 to 7:45 in the morning this was a murder that occurred in broad daylight so this was really a Brazen act for somebody to enter into the apartment and leave without being seen so it was very frustrating for detectives at the time the community was on edge and they wanted to know who had committed this this heinous [Music] act as the investigation moved forward

there were at least 500 people interviewed detectives they were interviewing everybody imaginable the detectives also learned about a couple of peeping Tom incidents that occurred right there in Christy's Town housee complex although the Peeping Tom incidents were reported and they were investigated that led nowhere because uh the description given was very general they were leaving no stone on turn trying to find information to build on and move forward just couldn't do it for the next two years few leads develop the days turned into weeks and weeks turned into months and months turned into years by

1995 there were at least, 1500 people that were interviewed nearly 60 people that had been cleared as suspects in this case and then at this point in time the case is what investigators would uh say became cold I knew that the case could always be solved because of the DNA evidence and I knew that technology was changing I knew that um just getting the additional resources would be able to help help uh to solve the case a second DNA test of the sample from christe's apartment is submitted reigniting the case I remember seeing these pictures

come out and I again had that fresh hope I had that fresh hope that wow this is something even further with technology and this could be it we're hoping that some tips that are going to be generated are going to provide us some useful information in the investigation well that didn't happen things just weren't transpiring the way I thought they were going to yeah I got to admit like I said it was it was it was deflating but we all just persevered and the goal was to never give up here 25 years after Christy Mur

murder there is New Hope thanks to the genetic genealogy technology used to capture Joseph D'Angelo the infamous Golden State killer that's when I got started thanks to the original crime scene investigators we had DNA both from Christie herself and from the carpet that was underneath her we were able to upload that to Jed match and then wait for the relatives to appear I knew that the suspect was going to have some Latin American ancestry and specifically Puerto Rican because the snapshot phenotype had also predicted that the suspect was going to have some Latin American ancestry

and so I dug very deep into the local Lancaster newspapers finally she gets a hit there was a article that talked about how he liked to cook Puerto Rican food D because his biological father was Puerto Rican and that was like Hallelujah that was the moment where I knew that Raymond row was very likely Christy M's killer Raymond row had been living in the community and had remained in the community the entire time since 1992 he was a DJ at House Parties which ultimately led to him becoming quite successful DJing at local nightclubs the moniker

that he used was DJ freeze in later years he became a wedding DJ that had quite a successful business we were able to uh dig deeper into his background and his criminal history and he he did not have uh any prior felony convictions which uh was clear why he had not been in the Cod of database Raymond row did strongly resemble the profiles but in order to make an actual arrest you have to obtain a DNA sample that is going to match the DNA sample that has been entered into the kotus database there was surveillance

teams established with uh the assistance of the Pennsylvania State Police the Pennsylvania State Police followed Raymond to an event at a local elemente school at the closing of that event he left behind a water bottle and a cup containing a piece of chewing gum they were able to compare it to multiple swabs were taking from Christy's body at autopsy so there was no question that Raymond row was responsible for this murder our working theory is that he was potentially obsessed with her and had stocked her and had been the Peeping Tom and had watched her

and tracked her movements uh leading up to this crime but as far as what the exact motive was is anyone's guess here to avoid the death penalty Raymond row pleads guilty to murder in the first degree rape and burglary he is sentenced to life without the possibility of parole plus 60 to 120 years I think that we definitely were able to get Justice for christe and also for her family it's reassuring to know that her killer will spend the rest of his life in prison I was home with my mom and I remember my mom

getting a phone call from my aunt Dave's mom he hadn't come home for supper honestly the first thought I when he didn't come home I thought uh oh he's in trouble he stayed out later than he should have you know and then I thought well it's not like him though she sent his older brothers out to look for him uh his places that he would normally look they checked everywhere Dave wasn't one for confrontation he wasn't one that liked to fight he wouldn't defend himself as quickly as he would defend others he was very affectionate

always hugging his mom telling his mom he loved her and his older sister Virginia he was out every day on his bike riding around and he'd always tell his mom every time before he left the house I love you Mom I'll be back and off he'd go on his bike back on August 21st of 1985 I saw that there was numerous firemen searching the area down by uh the railroad tracks uh I checked and found out that a young boy had been missing initially I thought it was a runaway that he might have been staying

at some friends houses or something like that Dave's Bike was found by his sister Virginia it was on the railroad tracks in the bushes Virginia was devastated when they found the bike it made the realization that you know there was definitely something wrong and we just needed to find out what it was Dave's Bike was like his right arm he wouldn't go anywhere without it he wouldn't just leave a behind chenny took it hard and she wanted people to do things and she kind of felt I think helpless it was really frustrating that you know

the police couldn't come up with anything my aunt cried just nonstop she would just come to our house I could still picture her sitting in the chair and just crying and crying as time went on days turned into weeks and then months we had no idea where he was or who he was with or if he was even okay my brothers and I walked all over scopal Haven and I think we've hung these on every telephone pole put them in every grocery store every storefront window that we could possibly find and all hopes of trying

to get some information there were many times I took extra walks uh in what would be the uh train yard uh again checking the box cars and the Caboose that were left there checking the bushes in the area uh I figured if anything had happened to David it would have had to have been somewhere in that area and there was no David I was contacted to respond to an address over on Cadwell street because of something that had been found a skookul Haven resident has found a skull in the woods not far from his home

initially the family over on Cadwell Street had lost a cat and uh they went up into the woods behind their house and when he was up there looking for the cat he found the skull I couldn't imagine why anyone would would disturb the remains of someone they found call the police get them there get them to see everything intact as it was I've heard of people finding bones and going back to the house and telling the police where they're at but not collecting them and uh bringing them back the man who found the skull takes

investigators back into the woods where there are even more buns there was a very small opening between the trees and you could see that there were human remains laying on the ground and there was clothing uh that was associated with it the fact that the remains had a white T-shirt and writing on it was possibly from the Republican and uh blue jeans that pretty much sealed the deal that it was David that had been found investigators have no Witnesses and no other physical evidence so they asked an anthropologist to examine David's bones in addition to

teeth marks left by animals Mong finds a fracture on the back of David's skull so what happened in the case of David Reed as something clearly hit his head and those suture lines sprung open from each other did he fall like hit his head on a rock that could have happened so the cause of death of David is listed as undetermined one individual named Kathy came forward with information about David getting into a a blue van she even supplied registration from the van uh we immediately had that broadcast across the county we were able to

run numerous ways of that license plate you know a b instead of an eight and we tried running it various uh different ways to come up with a vehicle that it would match and none of it was successful I was sitting in my office one day and individual came in and introduced himself as uh Trooper Bob betnar and that he had been assigned to reopen a cold case of uh David Reed when I had heard about David's case I lobbied for her I wanted to be a part of it betnar focuses on the interviews police

conducted when David first went missing this individual did have ties to David Reed's family specifically his sister and his older brothers he did not cooperate with the initial investigation he did not like the police because he was a drug dealer but he was also incarcerated at this time and when the police went to talk to him in jail he wanted nothing to do with them when I approached the this guy he was shocked that I wanted to talk to him about the death of David Reed there were always rumors circulating about an abduction that took

place that there was a van that may have abducted David and and took him away from the area I'm not only given the owner of a light blue colored van but I'm given the identity of an individual that resides in Skoal Haven that's a nefarious individual that's sexually abusing children he fit our profile we're all excited that you know we may have solved this case in a short matter of time and they're like hey Rob he's here you know he's here to talk to you and they're thinking he wants to talk to me for this

case it was crazy it was surreal but the explanation was much more innocent than that he was there for his annual Megan laot registration when investigators dive deeper into this possible suspect record they discovered that he was in federal prison when David went missing it was very disheartening to exclude the Megan's Law offender I remember one of my immediate supervisors even coming to me and asking uh are we done now are you satisfied you know you took a shot at it um it was a good run betar hasn't run out of steam yet we were

going to put this case on TV and uh David Reed's uh sister Virginia she was going to be the face of this case we went out looking for Witnesses one of the red flags that people in the community had raised to us is that after David's disappearance Joe guer disappeared Joseph Guyer was not only a local smalltime drug dealer but he used to grow his own marijuana plants back behind his house in fact in the wooded area where David Reed's body was found I remember hearing stories that you know Joe Gyer would be at parties

telling people people well if you want to murder somebody do it in scho County cuz you can get away with it the family would tell the police that and you know I don't know if they took it seriously or or what they did but not at the time at least detectives want to question the now 40-year-old gger he does walk into the barracks and he had told us that he had only seen David around town once and then he ends up by my house dead um he barely knew him he had no alibi he had

nothing and he was boxed in he knew it and he breaks guer tells trooper bedar I was there I saw it and it was John Fry in 1985 John Fry is smaller kid he's a kid that would get in trouble drinking alcohol the story was that John Fry punched David in the face uh David fell backwards and and he hit his head and that's what happened John Fry gives us a consistent statement with Joe Gyer only he indicates that Joe Gyer is the person that hit David Reed and not him we were given very specific

facts as to how David died we wanted to take that scenario to an anthropologist to get a professional opinion because of Janet mang's work and her examination of David we were in fact able to get the cause of Manor changed to blunt force trauma and the manner of death to homicide now it's game on for the first time in 23 years we can make an arrest for criminal homicide in David Reed's case John Fry was a right-handed person Joe was left-handed David had a fracture on the right side of his face and we felt if

two individuals were facing each other if there were going to be a fight that fracture on the right side of the face would have been more consistent of being struck by a left-handed person we got the warrant issued on August 20th and really for symbolic purposes we wanted that arrest made on that anniversary date mixed emotions come into play again because we're finally getting him arrested he's finally going to pay for what he did but then it's the you had 23 years of freedom to walk around Joe gager is charged with third deegree Murder Men

Slaughter tampering with physical evidence and abuse of a corpse guer explained to us that he was growing marijuana plants and he had discovered that David was stealing his plants and that he was angry infuriated by this ker and Fry found David Near The Empty caboose on the railroad tracks a known hangout spot for the young boy he confronted David in the train and John Fry was there and that during the uh confrontation he admitted to uh punching David and that when uh David fell backwards uh he hit his head off of a a metal object

after he hit David he said he started crying they panicked and they went downtown and then went back to the train car hoping he wasn't there and unfortunately David was still there he thought he was dead and rather than notifying anybody he took the coward's way out and he hit his body I'm glad that you know and that he did have to tell what happened in his plea deal but I think that a lot of it like the crying they they told me he cried a lot I think that was more because he was caught

because in court he showed no remorse a judge sentences gger to no more than 2 years behind bar Joe took away my friend he took away my cousin I wish he had the opportunity to grow up as I did you know it just seems so unfair and I'm so sorry that his life was cut so short at 2 a.m. 25-year-old Antoinette kovar gets into her car and drives home from work she turns the key and steps into her kitchen inside a masked stranger waits in the darkness I had my hand on the handle but he

was behind me and had his hands over my eyes in my mouth and said don't say a word I'm not going to hurt you the next thing I remember he was kind of dragging me from the back to the bedroom during the attack kovar's bedside phone continues to ring she tells the rapist it's her boyfriend and he'll be coming home soon with that the man abruptly stops and makes for the front door he said don't you come after me or I'll come back well at that instant when I heard the screen door close I said

that's too bad and I jumped up grabbed my it was a robe sitting on the my stationary bike I grabbed that wrapped it around my bottom and I ran out the front door after him but he was gone I was in the middle of the street he was gone Antoinette kovar runs back to her house and dials 91 1 Police arrive and discover that the rapist entered through an unlocked window in the living room they dust the house for fingerprints but find only those of Antoinette kovar suggesting the rapist wore gloves meanwhile kovar is taken

to the emergency room where an examination yields a sample of her attacker seen and possibly his DNA now all this victim can do is wait for the police to make an arrest over the next 2 months they identified four four more rapes all occurring on the south side of St Louis all with the same Mo a single man face covered wearing gloves and carrying a gun he marks his crime with a signature Behavior performing oral sex on his victim before raping her after the attack he adds a final Twisted detail he would make them bathe

after he raped them I guess to destroy evidence he thought you know his thinking was he could destroy evidence that way St Louis mobilizes a task force to hunt for a man detectives are now calling the Southside rapist 3 months after its Inception the task force is out of working leads and there are no new cases to follow the team is dissolved the investigation goes cold and stays cold for nearly 3 [Music] years 1:00 a.m. sex crimes detective Mark Chambers is working alone at his desk when the phone rings the voice on the line is

that of a woman who has just been raped apparently the rapist came through a kitchen window cuz we found the kitchen window open where he had Cotten in came through a kitchen window and came upstairs he was wearing a ski mask he was armed with a gun he had gloves on his hands and he did basically the same thing that the siide rapist had done in the past it appears the Southside rapist may have returned St Louis detectives need hard evidence they send a Sean sample from their victim to be compared to the DNA profile

developed from the prior assaults the DNA is a match detectives expand their investigation geographically hoping to get a fix on their suspect's reach we decided to call a a meeting of all the interested departments from the from the area to see if any of them had had any any similar occurrences 33-year-old Jennifer Jer lives in a small house with her 8-year-old son after putting him to bed one winter evening jeer relaxes on her couch within 30 minutes she has fallen fast asleep the next thing I knew somebody apparently had shut the light off and was

sitting on my lap facing me and he said if you make any noise I'll effing kill you you hear me I'll eing kill you the man threatens Jer with what appears to be a gun he forces her into the bedroom and begins to sexually assault her finally the rapist gets up and leaves the room when J is convinced he's no longer in the house she wakes up her son and drives them both to the police station detectives escort Jer to the hospital where she is examined using a rape kit doctors collect evidence from the victim's

body and send it to the crime lab for DNA testing 6 weeks later DNA confirms investigators suspicions and Jennifer jeer becomes the 13th confirmed victim of the Southside [Music] rapist Eugene fro and his girlfriend are spending a quiet Saturday night at home when fro Hears A noise in the yard outside well we heard a loud boom and uh looked out the vertical blinds and and seen the face and then he seen mine and then he turned around and started running down the street the man jumps into a van and drives away clad only in a

pair of shorts frigo grabs his keys gets into his car and gives Chase i11 yeah I was at my house I heard somebody kicking the cars and everything and I looked out the window and there was somebody on my porch the guy's me he ran away his car with park at the end of my street I got him in front of me right now his license PL is MP Missouri okay I got the pl but I need you to stop following him okay this guy is moving now I'm I'm letting him go okay you let

him go you tell me where you are the police Sasser runs the license plate number fro provides but determines that the plates are stolen then detectives enter the tag number into the Regional Justice information system or Regis this database acts as a cross check allowing Sasser to see if any other law enforcement agency has run the plates within the past 5 months four months earlier inspector Dennis Simpson had been working surveillance on a house suspected of trafficking narcotics part of that surveillance was uh monitoring who went in and out of the house uh writing down

license plates of vehicles that came and went and U one of the license plates that I wrote down happened to be one detective Sasser was interested in Sasser begins surveillance on the house where Dennis Simpson first observed the stolen plates 14 Days Later a van bearing the tag number appears in the driveway we drove over to the address and I asked who owned the vehicle and a person named Dennis rabbit uh said he was the owner of the vehicle and I said uh well guess what I got to want it on this vehicle you know

you're with me after 4 hours of proclaiming his innocence rabbit agrees to provide Cold Case detectives with his fingerprints and the DNA sample investigators then have no choice but to release their suspect back into sus Society I was working on the computer and I was like oh my God it's him I about I I I even said it in the lab I was I looking at the computer I was like oh my God about fell off the chair Mary Beth Carr has matched rabbit's DNA profile to the genetic signature of the Southside rapist but Dennis

rabbit it appears has decided to run 6 months after the DNA match was first made St Louis's Southside rapist has once again again made good his escape a mother calls the police to report that her 15-year-old daughter is missing she found a a note that had a person's name by the name of Nathan babbit um a phone number and a room number the phone number comes back to the freeway Inn officer Scott Parsons and his partner follow up with a knock on the door of room 121 a middle-aged man answers he saw both of us

standing in our uniforms and raised his hands and said you know she told me she was 18 and anytime somebody begins their conversation with the police officer when she told me she was 18 there's probably going to be a problem while Parsons keeps an eye on the suspect his partner checks the man's social security number a slew of felony warrants from St Louis comes back on one Dennis rabbit Albuquerque notifies the FBI that Dennis rabbit is in custody I'm laying in bed on a Sunday morning 10:00 in the morning Paul Winson from the FBI calls

me up and says we've got him any on March 3rd Dennis rabbit is extradited out of New Mexico back to detectives set up a video camera and Dennis rabbit agrees to make a clean breast of it and Dennis basically bled his heart you know he told us everything he would get into details of the color of the victim's car uh it was amazing the things that he would remember they went to the living room and before I woke her up I turned the light out mhm and then iost her I also had a fake pistol

with me and uh I took her in the bedroom and I raped him Dennis rabbit is describing the rape of 33-year-old Jennifer jeer after 2 hours he has added 23 other names to the list of women he has violated rapid eventually pleads guilty to 49 charges of sexual assault and is sentenced to five consecutive life sentences thank God they got the right guy and I didn't have to testify and go through it all over again cuz I surely could have dragged it out and for what reason I don't know he admitted to it and I

was glad that it was over on a November afternoon a 14-year-old stands on a Seattle street corner and sticks out her thumb Kathy Divine is unhappy with life and determined to run away as two friends watch Kathy accepts a ride from a man in a pickup truck I remember it is about 3 hours after she left one of the girls that was with her um got a case of conscience and called my mom said I just thought you might need to know to know that she had accepted a ride with a complete stranger and just

all of a sudden disappeared from our site and then never take anything with her she had most of her personal belongings were her home we knew she was in trouble Bill Divine talks to police and reaches out to family and friends 2 days later there is still no word a father begins to fear the worst not a phone call nothing and at that point by Sunday night I was convinced that she would never call us because she would have called by them I was terrified about it I really was on December 6th Barbara sailing Works

her way through the trees picking up litter left behind by campers in a small depression Barbara sees what she thinks is a large mannequin and walks over to investigate I was going to pick it up as trash and when I got closer I noticed her buttocks and it was definitely not a mannequin Barbara reports the F to police sheriff's detectives from thirston County Converge on the scene she was facing uh face down uh in the salal her face was uh pretty badly uh I'm going to say eroded away if you will they were missing the

one shoe and they she was wearing a jacket the pockets had been cut her uh pants panties had been cut from the middle of the back right down to the crotch her breast had been cut working quick quickly detectives process the scene a light but steady rain falls making it difficult to preserve valuable evidence investigators take note of a rope pieces of a chainlink bracelet a tire track and shoeprint Jane Do's body is transported to the medical examiner's office where investigators try to identify their victim and rebuild the last moments of her life due to

decomposition the medical examiner is unable able to determine if the victim was strangled to death or had her throat cut as detectives on the scene suspected there is considerable evidence of sexual assault including seen collected from the body of Paramount importance putting a name to the dead girl on the table we couldn't put her in the county as a resident and we're wondering you know how she got here hitchhiking was of course the the first thing that came to her mind if Jane do is a hitchhiker the first place detectives want to look is the

closest major city that would be Seattle a sketch of the girl as well as clothing and jewelry are shown on the local news Sher Divine is at home watching and I knew it immediately she had a patch that was a a dragon very unique because she'd taken it off another piece of clothing and I looked at my mom and I said Mom that's Kathy you need to call the police thirston County's Jane D is identified as Kathy Divine a team of detectives moves into Seattle and begins working the streets near where Kathy was last seen

alive her friends provide at best a sketchy description of the pickup Kathy climbed into and most importantly no one can provide a description of who was driving the truck in time the investigation falters and Cathy Devine's murder goes into the cold files detective scour Seattle looking for for someone who might have caught a glimpse at the truck Divine climbed into when that fails they return to thiren County detective Paul barclift begins to read through police reports filed around the time of divine's death almost immediately one report catches his eye first thing I come across was

cen's truck burning in the middle of the night cden is William cosden Jr a local Thug with a violent past the mysterious early morning fire coupled with cen's bad boy reputation and the fact that Kathy deine was last seen getting into a pickup are enough to Peak the interests of detectives then a couple of tips filter in and William cden moves from a topic of Interest into the realm of suspect we had two tips uh mailed in anonymously suggesting William Cen Jr is who we should look at it was an anonymous tip and you'd really

never know what to expect but when there's two of them certainly somebody ought to take some notice and we did detectives dig into cen's past and find more than just the local bully in 1967 he was charged in the rape and murder of a woman in Maryland and served time in an asylum for the criminally insane cden left the east coast and moved to the Pacific Northwest where he got a job working for his father at a local truck stop just off Interstate 5 sits the restover truck stop a place where truckers stop to gas

up and hitchhikers catch their next ride the truck stop Community is one that is tight-knit especially when the law comes calling at that time nobody was saying anything all of them jobs kind of depended on it but finally I got one guy that gave me a statement the witness claimed he saw William cden on the day his truck burned and that cden had blood on his clothing when the witness asked cden about the blood cden claimed he was poaching deer a few hours later cen's truck went up in Flames if he had killed Kathy deine

any evidence was Gone with no other Witnesses and the truck destroyed detectives have nowhere to go with their investigation William Cen is put on the back burner in the summer of 2001 Cen is in jail for raping another woman Jeremy sand Anderson is a forensic scientist for the state of Washington in August of 2001 he extracts a DNA profile from Seaman collected in the Cathy Divine homicide Sanderson develops a full genetic profile runs it through the state DNA database and turns up nothing and after I had done that without a hit then just as this

housekeeping item well could you could you run his blood sample also we we found this um maybe it'd be valuable so so go ahead why don't you try it out the sample detectives give Sanderson is William cosin's the analysis is straightforward the results unequivocal what DNA analysts call a 13 Locus match pretty much as good as it gets the probability of selecting somebody else at random and they're coincidentally also having a matching profile that was found to be shared between uh William cin and the Seaman sample was approximately 1 in 71 trillion the DNA match

proves Cen had sex with the victim not that he killed her Cold Case detectives need to sit down with Cen get him talking and hope he makes a mistake Hower pulls out the DNA test results and informs cden of the 1 in 71 trillion match weighing against him I says well if you never had any contact with Catherine before before you never seen her before you never had sex with her or anything else how did your sperm get in her vagina and his only response to that was I haven't killed anyone it's got to be

a mistake Hower knows he has cusden in a tight spot I started doing a bunch more follow-up work locating and interviewing other Witnesses and there were still a lot of them still alive one of the people investigators speak with is David Pon a regular at the truck stop cen's father owned did you see anything suspicious in the back of that truck seen that sleeping bag was all blaz and then I seen that brown W St for shoe it had some kind of dark laces in it Pan's description matches the shoes Kathy Divine was wearing when

she disappeared one of which was never found it is the final p to a puzzle of murder with William cden at its very center on March 8th 2002 he is charged with rape and murder 4 months later a jury convicts him and he is sentenced to life in [Music] prison Marlene major disappeared in 1980 one year later a jawless toothless skull fragment was found in the woods not far from her home local police have always always suspected Marlene's husband Bill major of doing away with his wife but in the days before DNA the toothless skull

could not be positively identified with Marlene's body or any other proof of Foul Play the case has languished for the better part of two decades it's a cold case it's as cold as it gets Lana Bramble was 4 years old when her mother Marlene disappeared my dad basically told us that she was drug addict Al coholic prostitute you know who just really didn't care about us and that she had run off with another man after a childhood of sexual abuse at the hands of her father Bill major Lana grew to distrust his tales about Marlene

and eventually began to suspect him of murder as an adult she confronted him you know just tell me what she did with her body so we can bury her and I'll leave you alone I said I won't force the issue won't try to get you prosecuted you know you can just live your Mar little life and he laughed at me and his specific words to me were if you think I'm going to tell you where your mother's body is you're crazy so at that point I told him I said okay fine it's [Music] on in

the winter of 2000 Lana begins sewing the seeds of her discontent in the Boon County Courthouse her pleas take root in the office of the newly elected prosecutor Linda t Smith I have a passion for trying to close cases and this is one of those perfect cases where you feel like you have to commit everything that you possibly can re every resource available to you so that you can tell this family we've done we have done everything that we could possibly do Smith calls upon special investigator Todd Kenner his first task transform marleene major from

missing to dead of course the first thing one of the most important things was doing the DNA identification of of the skull uh so we contacted the daughter so she could do a swap using the process of mitochondrial DNA samples from the skull fragment are compared to those from Lana Bramble the results indicate that the two samples are maternally linked in other words the skull must belong to Marlene major you that's the information we needed then of course my next step was I contacted the family said it is Marlene positively after 20 years the whereabouts

of mar Le major is no longer a mystery the case is then handed to forensic anthropologist Emily Craig who examines the skull and transforms Marlene major from dead to murdered there was a gunshot wound to the Head the exit wound was right here in the top of the skull in addition to the gunshot wound Dr Craig finds evidence of attempted decapitation there were Cuts here here here here here here straight across in a line using a thick bladed cutting instrument such as an axe the killer attempted and probably succeeded in decapitating Marlene major then he

turned his blade to her jaw there were striations right through here that indicated to me that there was a deliberate attempt to remove those ligaments or sever those ligaments with a knife because as soon as you get through those ligaments all the way around the joint then the jaw will come off a killer who shot Marlene major then decapitated her and removed her jaw to obscure her identity one by one the pieces of the puzzle are falling into place forming as they do an image of Bill major now the state looks to Major's own words

to make the picture complete one philosophy that I've always had is that you you need a statement from a defendant I don't care if it's a denial if it's a go to hell or if it's a complete confession just anything that Nails them into their version of what took place in 1996 major allegedly confessed to the crime during a phone conversation with his father he says I killed marene I said you little bastard obviously that statement is a great statement but there was a lot of animosity between Jim major and Bill major and so you

know the credibility of that type of witness is automatically suspect the alleged confession was never recorded now Cold Case detectives hope to get a second admission on [Music] tape investigators Todd Kenner and Tim carahan traveled to the home of Jim major in the spring of 2000 major agrees to a wire tap on his phone as he calls his son Bill and discusses the details of an alleged murder confession made 4 years earlier hello hello what are you up to I just finished breakfast just finished breakfast but Christ SES it's lunchtime basically asked him what we

were after was one to confirm that the conversation did play take place in 96 and to get what details he could out of him Bill I said I'm calling you up I want to know know something he what's that I said why won't you tell me where you buried marene immediately you know there was what I recall pause on the phone I keep getting calls from Lana and she wants to know where her mother is so that she can get the bones and put them in a casket and have closure yeah and put me in

jail for Life there was no denial there he he's basically saying if I tell the truth I'm going to jail Christ at least you could be decent enough to say where you dumped her I'll tip her where the where the body is if you let me know and then she's going to bounce it right back on me again then I'll have them Kentucky cops coming up here to arrest me and take me back down there again they didn't get you yet it's been too long there's no such thing as too long he's confirmed conversation took

place he's confirming that he did this horrible thing she pulled a gun on you you took it off her and shot it right yeah that's one story that that was your story that's what you told me but you told me you killed her well at the time I was in jail and I was pretty well upset that's when the cop said we got him we got him the conversation between Father and Son provides Cold Case detectives with the one element they have been missing if it's recorded it's evidence the suspect's own voice confirming what they

have long suspected Bill ma killed his wife Marlene almost 20 years ago you have pulled off the Perfect Crime haven't you no I wouldn't call it perfect don't you even feel bad for killing her I don't have any kind of conscience about anything anything well you are one tough bastard that think that the son I raised could do such a thing not long after Bill major hangs up the phone with his Dad he is arrested and charged with murder in the first [Music] degree at trial a mountain of physical and circumstantial evidence together with the

defendant's own voice cast a long Shadow over major it takes the jury less than 1 hour to find him guilty of murdering his wife and then dismembering her body to obscure her identity to sit down and think about how he would have would have manipulated her head to pull her teeth out and to remove her lower jaw remind you of horror movies that you watched on TV and the thinking of her looking her eyes looking up at him has as he's pulling her teeth out that's a person without any uh feeling Bill major is sentenced

to life in a Kentucky prison for some the sentence is too light they no good son of a at hang him myself if I could get my hands on them for Bell and Marlene's daughter Lana the verdicts bring some relief some comfort to soothe the painful memories of a family torn apart by the sins of a father I've always felt a certain amount of guilt over her death because in my mind and I know my brother feels the same way she died to protect us trying to protect us from him and I sat there and

I thought she's finally going to be at peace Chuck and Cheryl met through a mutual friend um and just hit it off right away I think it's the first time she fell in love I mean she had other boyfriends but she knew Chuck was the one all she wanted to do was get married and start a family October 6th 1979 Chuck and Cheryl were married I was the flower girl I got to wear the pretty dress my brother I had never seen him happier the couple moves into a town home in a quiet Aurora neighborhood

they have family nearby and a close network of friends their candle was super super nice they would have friends over a lot every Wednesday was her heal cleaning day laundry day everybody knew the fact that she was home all day on Wednesdays Chuck went to work went home for his launch so we could have launch with Sherry uh was there for a while and then he left and went back to work there was something laying by the front door was out of place there was also um some laundry um that was kind of knocked over

he called out to her he walked up the steps is when he found her as he got to the top of the stairs he saw her hanging from the door knop with an iron cord around her neck he attempted to do CPR on her and then he ran downstairs and he ran to the neighbor's house the neighbor was a nurse and they called an ambulance or the police he continued to do CPR on her until the paramedics arrived cherl was my daughter my first born I called her Sherry from the time she was born she

was always a mama's girl we were about four years apart we always got along even though there was a big age Gap she would play Barbies with me we were really close you have to look at the husband uh first because he's the closest one and that that's tough because they're grieving at the loss of a loved one Not only was chak his spouse he was also the last person to see her alive and he was the one who found her body so he fit all three criteria of what would make the number one suspect

Chuck you went through many many hours of questioning they would go for his story again and again and again and it it took a toll on him Chuck was very angry with the police department because in his mind he loved this woman so much how could you ever consider me as a suspect it never crossed my mind that Chuck ever hurt her never crossed my mind we spoke with Chuck who obviously said that he was working that day um we checked into his whereabouts between 2:30 and 6:00 p.m. and confirmed that he was seen on

job sites investigators rule Chuck out and scour the crime scene for Clues they looked for evidence of Laton prints on door handles on her purse on some of the items that were collected a lot of the prints were smeared smudged and and they had overlays so they didn't identify a suspect during her autopsy her fingernails were clipped and there was an apparent blood stain under one of the fingernails one thing we know is that the murder weapon was something that was close by her sister said that she last spoke with Cheryl at 300 p.m. that

day on the phone and then at 3:30 neighbors of the adjacent apartment heard a door slam and then they heard several loud thuds and then at 6:00 p.m. is when Chuck gets home and finds her so the timeline was basically 3:00 p.m. to 6 that we were looking at detectives look for a connection between Cheryl's murder and a string of burglaries in her neighborhood part of their initial investigation was uh to determine whether somebody had uh encountered Cheryl linett home when they were attempting to burglarize her home the Halls recently had a deadbolt installed on

their door that deadbolt was intact there did not seem to be anything Disturbed within chery Lin's apartment and there really wasn't items of value that were [Music] missing Larry Galloway worked at the same cable company as chalk Larry and my sister went to high school together him and his wife would socialize with Sher and Chu they kind of became casual friends I think she always thought of him as a little bit odd he showed up there about 2 weeks before her murder while Chuck was at work and he stayed for approximately 20 minutes he made

her feel uncomfortable so much so that she told a friend about his unexpected visit Mr Galloway answered questions about his whereabouts his relationship with Cheryl linal and her husband between the hours of the murder he was at his parents home mowing the grass he also tells police why he visited Cheryl home before the murder he was there to talk about some Union business Chuck was a Union steward Larry Galloway had been fired from his position at the cable company and my brother was able to save his job through the union there was another time that

my brother was unable to save Larry's job they weren't able to get any more information from Galloway and there were no other leads for them to follow the cops really had no choice but to move on initially the investigator spoke with Larry Galloway and he gave his Albi and said he had no knowledge of the murder again his name kept coming up as someone that could have possibly been involved there were several people that were asked to take polygraph tests Mr Galloway declined and ceased any cooperation with uh the investigation moving forward once Larry Galloway

refused to cooperate once chuck had been ruled out as a suspect then that's where I think they hit that wall it was eating at me every day that went by so I called Larry and I said to him Larry you're going to get what's coming to you one day and he said bring it on and hung up it was like an explosion inside of me he just didn't seem to care what happened to her we felt like we were kind of backed into a corner in 1997 advancements in technology and DNA had started to uh

evolve Larry Galloway refuses to give police a DNA sample prosecutors take the case to a grand jury which issues a subpoena ordering Galloway to provide a DNA sample his lawyers appeal the order to a judge the judge rule that there was insufficient evidence to force Mr Galloway to provide a DNA sample he got away with not giving his DNA I was thinking if I could just get my hands on you our hopes were once again just absolutely shattered Chuck I believe wholeheartedly suffered from PTSD he would just start crying for no reason he had two

boys and he loved them with all of his heart but there was still in the back of his mind this terrible thing that had happened to [Music] him I had 10 years of law enforcement experience when I began looking into Cheryl Hall's murder case in my mind there's only one person that knows what happened and that person is Larry we set up surveillance on uh Larry Galloway's residence and sat there for about 2 and 1/2 hours until he left the residence with another gentleman he drove to the Chili's restaurant we maintain a visual on him

while he was eating his meal after he left the restaurant that's when we went up to the table to collect his straw and utensils and napkin the swabbing from the straw matched the blood stain under her fingernails this was the break that the case needed this was what the family had been waiting for we walked up to Larry Galloway and advised him that he was under arrest Larry had no emotional reaction didn't ask any questions I told him the a warrant was for murder and he put his hands behind his back and was very compliant

just hours after the arrest detectives question Larry Galloway there is absolutely no doubt that you were there when this occurred no doubt we just want to know we just want to know why okay that's all we want to know is why this happened I can't answer it why can't you answer me on that because I didn't do anything anything you didn't do anything last nothing when you say nothing like like that and you've got a lot of stuff what are you talking about oh you [Music] know he showed no remorse we both knew without a

doubt that we had the right guy prosecutors prepare for trial and quickly realize their case is far from Air typed there were a number of obstacles uh in this case one of the challenges was the volume of DNA that was recovered from the crime scene this was a case that was built on DNA so any inconsistency was a significant concern we made a decision to resolve the case by way of a plea agreement to hold him as accountable as I believe that we could based on the evidence we took the plea deal because we're not

gamblers Justice for Sherry was was definitely not worth gambling as part of his flea agreement Galloway must admit that he murdered Cheryl Hall but he doesn't have to say why he killed the young woman why would you do that to her why would you harm her I if I could just know why then I think maybe I could live with it a little [Music] better we got a call saying that Larry Galloway was out of jail and I'm thinking how could he be out of jail he hasn't even served his 5 years just a few

months later the family faces another heartbreak Cheryl's widower Chuck Hall succumbs to the cancer he'd been fighting for several years my brother got to die knowing that the world knew that he was not a murderer and that pece to him and to me and losing my brother was very hard but I knew he was going to be with his wife with the love of his life it was really really foggy out Jackie was at work it was about 5 or 6:00 and she wasn't getting off till like 9 or 10 and she called the house

and asked if she could pick me up when she got off work and when I went and asked my mother she said it's foggy enough there's liable to be a murder tonight and you're not going anywhere Jackie was my very best friend to this day I'll be honest with you I feel like maybe it wouldn't happened if my mom had let me go that night [Music] in June of 1985 Jackie Johns has just turned 20 years old and lives in the Tiny Town of Nixa a rural cattle ranching Community nestled in the Ozarks she was

just a typical 20-year-old with a bevy of friends everyone in the area knew her and uh she was a friendly Charming outgoing young girl Jackie worked as a waitress in the Nix silbo Cafe it used to be attached to what we called the sail Barn where they had cattle auctions and so forth it was a very casual restaurant that's where I met Jackie years before she'd been a waitress there for some time a bunch of cowboys they come in with dirt and probably cow or horse manure or whatever on their boots and we would serve

them Jackie always served them with a smile all of us girls probably flirted at one point Jackie and me both I mean probably more so her Jackie would work at the cafe and her boyfriend Cody actually worked at the sailb bar he was a very quiet type guy a few years older in the process of getting a divorce but it wasn't final yet and she just fell head over heels for him oh I'll never forget that day my dad called and he said oh they found Jackie's car along on the highway and I thought oh

gosh that silly girl has run out of gas I thought she probably had spent the night with someone and just left her car over there because that was something she would do we she was really spontaneous about just oh I'm going to have fun I'll just go do this I get a phone call from my friend Dana she was at the cafe and she said is Jackie with you and I said no but I could hear something in her voice and I'm like why what's up and then she's like they found her car on 160

and she's not in it and I lost it I was just numb the call goes out to Christian County Sheriff Dwight McNeil who was just 33 years old and new to the job there was a blood that had spattered about the inside of the vehicle there were a pair of jeans located that had one leg turned inside out there were some women's undergarments it was clear clear from the volume of blood that uh someone had been seriously injured Andor died as a result of the activity in that car as the search for Jackie continues Sheriff

mcneel questions her boyfriend Cody Cody is one of the last people to see her before she arrived at the convenience store so that was extremely important to get him eliminated as a suspect as quickly as possible Cody tells police that he was home alone when Jackie went missing but has few other details to offer he's a tough guy he's a cowboy and uh ranch hand and not the kind of guy that wears his emotions on his sleeve there was no one to corroborate his Alibi but no one had anything to say about Cody he wasn't

a violent type of person a jealous type of person 4 days after Jackie disappeared her parents get a phone call that confirms their worst fears I was actually my mom and dad's house and the phone rang and it was one of my dad's friends they they were camping down at the Lake Springfield and he called to say they found the body two fishermen had located a body uh floating in Springfield Lake which was approximately 4 and 1/2 miles 5 miles north of where a car was discovered the body was still floating of a nud female

but there was no question that of who it was the autopsy on Jackie's body revealed that she died as a result of blunt force trauma and that um she had been um apparently raped there were puncture wounds that were consistent with the lugs that were on the face of the bumper Jack we were also able to recover a seaman sample which was fortunate considering the length of time that she'd been in the lake 4 days after Jackie's body is found the family lays her to rest desperate for any kind of lead Sheriff mcneel sets up

a hotline for tips on the case hoping that someone in the small town saw something suspicious that night it doesn't take long two men who were purchasing fuel on that night at the convenience store had seen a very distinctive pickup truck backed into a bank parking lot directly across the street from the convenience store it was white over powdered blue it was the 60s model Chevrolet Cheyenne and this particular truck had Uh custom aftermarket wheels on it the odds of their being two trucks that looked like that in Southwest Missouri at that time were very

very remote deal believes the truck belongs to Gerald carahan the son of a prominent Nixa businessman everyone in Nicks is pretty familiar with the carahan family Gerald's father had been involved in a number of successful Ventures including The Foundry that was located just about a mile south of the sailb Barn Cafe Gerald carahan was a very cleancut professional looking fellow and came into the office for his interview as cool as he could be but professing that he would do anything he could to help the investigation he knew Jackie he admitted that in the interview from

The sailb Barn Cafe and we said we have witnesses who placed Gerald's truck at the scene where Jackie was last scene he denied that stated that he was at home car H Alibi is his 19-year-old stepdaughter we made contact with his stepdaughter uh who told us that uh she and Gerald had been out to dinner on that evening but it was her story that they arrived back home and Gerald never left the house again which was absolutely inconsistent with the eyewitnesses who'd seen his truck at the uh convenience store carahan also tells investigators that Jackie

had briefly worked for his family's business she quit there were allegations that Gerald had hit on her while she worked there and then continued pursuing her after she left then another witness calls in about that one-of a kind truck and that witness turned out to be Gerald carnahan's brother if you drive straight across Highway 160 from the convenience store the road makes a sweeping curve at that time there was a large Hayfield on the right just west of Gerald's parents home and Jackie John's home and he saw Gerald's truck parked in that field at that

intersection the brother says that Gerald asked him not to give this information to police we asked Gerald to take a polygraph examination which he agreed to do but the following day at the appointed time he failed to show up Dwight mcneel now has deep suspicions about carnahan's Alibi with no fewer than three Witnesses saying his truck was near the crime scene that night but the sheriff still has no solid proof linking carahan to the murder itself but the alas prosecutors to charge cardan with tampering with evidence by pressuring his stepdaughter to give him an alibi

the grand jury sends cardan to trial on the tempering charge based on the Highly Questionable Alibi he gave to police the judge throws out the charges for lack of physical [Music] evidence a young woman I think she was around 18 was walking down the street when Gerald carahan pulls up next to her and attempts to kidnap her and she managed to get away but he has apprehended it was really bizarre because you know if you're Gerald Carnahan you know everyone in town knows who you are and he attempts to kidnap an 18-year-old in a uh

a part of town that was not at all secluded and he wasn't even alone a friend of his was driving the car so it was really a strange situation I think there was a sense that he considered himself Untouchable he was convicted of the attempted kidnapping but did not receive a lengthy sentence uh just a few years DNA is becoming more mainstream now and we can do a lot more than we could but because the swab had been in the water for multiple days it was a big concern that that may be for not but

we decided decided to do it anyway so at this point we start trying to get a search warrant to get a DNA sample from Mr carahan himself and we told him that we had a a search warrant for his DNA and we said this is about the Jackie John's um death investigation and um I saw a small little tear right coming down the corner of his eye Sergeant Dan Nash collects the DNA Swap and rushes it by plane to the state's main crime lab in Jefferson City there was an urgency because Gerald made frequent trips

to China he still had his passport he had married a woman from China so we had this great sense of we need to get it done quickly before he has a chance to leave the country I think like at 5:30 in the morning my phone rangs and I remember Jason saying we got a match it's him prosecutor Carol Moore charges carahan with the rape and murder of Jackie John's the family agrees to wave the death penalty to shorten the trial in the hope that Jackie's ailing 83-year-old father will live long enough to see Justice served

and then the judge read the verdict he's guilty of first- degree murder he's guilty of R the jury sentenced him to two consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole it's not really closure but I feel like there was Justice you know finally