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foreign [Music] [Applause] hey it's officer Joseph so you said uh took your purse with her
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right yeah um phone your headphones do you want it it's here police officers first made contact with
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Joe ellidge on October 10 2019. Joe ellitch said that on October 8th he'd gone to sleep with monkey at about 11 11
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30 or so and then he woke up the next morning and then he noticed that monk she was gone vanished
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her phone and her her wedding ring were both um we're both just left on that table I
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can't unlock her phone it's locked and I don't know password at the time that munchie G disappeared
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she was a young married mother she had a child who was one years old I think it's easy to see that Joe would
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have been attracted to munchie for her personality in terms of how caring she was we all know that she's a very
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successful young engineer and she's really good at being a mom and she had hopes for a brighter future and this
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marriage in Joseph Village it first blush Facebook postings you know Instagram you would see what
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appeared to be a happy family these young people got married had a child and circumstances changed
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then arguments happened I talk too much you need to know you don't listen so there was a total of 14 hours of
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audio recorded between the couple right now what's happening is lack of it he actually discovered that
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she was involved in an online relationship and he knew that there were some of these sexually explicit photos
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being sent back correct I found this earlier it's like a journal and it talks about
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her feeling like some secret love I think he's in China right now did she ever express an interest in a future with
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this man that perhaps she'd move back to China there were discussions about a future we checked into whether or not
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there was maybe any contact with Uber cab companies had she bought an airline ticket we were looking for any evidence
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of an electronic footprint I know she was talking to somebody else on the side and whatever she's doing I just hope
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she's safe I would have loved nothing more for her to just appear out of nowhere alive so she could take care of
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her daughter but I knew that wasn't going to be the case we had these boots that were found and
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then we have five Juniper needles that are caked into the boots and these needles where did they come
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from we had three needles that came from that tree right there who would have ever thought it DNA from
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these juniper trees helped solve this crime I've never heard of anything like this before in my
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entire career at 48 hours [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] right there feedback right there on October 15 2019
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Joseph ellage walked into the Columbia Missouri Police Department without a lawyer
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[Music] to tell detectives about the mysterious disappearance of his 28 year old wife
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mungshi ji six days earlier we didn't have any big fights I think the last big fight was actually the week
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before and it wasn't really a big fight um the 23 year old described his wife as
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tense and withdrawn the night before she disappeared so he gave her a massage I was trying to drag it out because I
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wanted to extend the amount of time that we were together doing something according to Joe among Shi eventually
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went to sleep saying she had to be somewhere in the morning last year about three times who does she
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mean and her answer was just quote you mean she wouldn't tell me who she was meaning or where she was yelling what
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she was doing the next morning Joe says he woke up alone his wife was gone he was claiming she had just disappeared
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that she had left her little girl behind her phone was left behind her car her car keys were left behind
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from the beginning then Boone County prosecuting attorney Dan Knight had doubts about Joe's story we were trying
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our best to leave no Stones Unturned but there were a lot of stones Joe told investigators that after his
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wife disappeared he found journal entries on her computer where she'd written about an online emotional affair
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she was having with a man living in China and then last paragraph said like it's sad though that I have no interest
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in my husband the day Joe spoke with detectives he also did an exclusive interview with our
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local CBS affiliate krcg and implied that his wife may have left him for another man I hope that Jesus at least
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with somebody who cares for her you know enough to keep her safe Joe and his family hired attorney Scott Rosenbloom
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who points out there were intimate texts between Monchichi and the man she was communicating with
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sexual in nature very sexual texts like this one where she wrote I want you so much right now
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and did she ever express love for him in any of these communications she did the
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question was had hmongshi run off to be with that man who lived in China where she was born
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[Music] munchie was born during China's one child policy Amy saliday is the G family's attorney but Karen munchy's
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mother would say that we only ever wanted one child we wanted to give all of our love
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to this child monkey is like the the kid all the parents would want Yao Lee is a
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Chinese immigrant and an assistant prosecutor in Boone County who helped Dan Knight communicate with mungshi's
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parents they are really really proud of her and I know how hard it is to get into a top university in Shanghai and
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Beijing the competition is really intense and she did that and then she came to the University of
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Missouri in 2012. where she finished up her undergraduate studies and then she also obtained her
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master's degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering this was a brilliant woman correct absolutely one
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of her professors hired her right out of school at his bio materials company nanova where Joe also worked Joe grew up
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in Kansas City he then came to the University of Missouri and he studied engineering and he met monkey at Nova
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biomaterials my understanding is is that she was a supervisor the two quickly fell in love and a year and seven months
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into their relationship Joe proposed he took a knee on a trail in Rockbridge Memorial state park called The Devil's
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ice box two weeks later they were married well I believe there was a rush to get married because monkey's Visa was
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about ready to expire it's a really foreign concept for American citizens to understand the stress that a immigrant
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is facing she's fully capable to support herself financially but she cannot get this green card
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so this really changes the power dynamics of a marriage nearly five months into the marriage hmongshi was
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offered a big job and then she found out she's pregnant among she and Joe decided she should
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turn down the job to be a full-time mom even though at the time she was the sole
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income earner Joe had quit working to finish school in October 2018 their baby was born so
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the dynamic of the of this marriage monchi was completely isolated from all the support system that she can have
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the little baby is the only thing she has her one Lifeline was a daily call with
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her mother in China it was their ritual so when hmongshi didn't call on October 9 2019 her parents sent a friend living
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nearby to check on her yeah for a couple days and it was only after that visit the day after he set his wife
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vanished that a seemingly unconcerned Joe ellidge finally called police to report her missing uh anything
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um but he didn't call 9-1-1 Joe called the non-emergency 3-1-1 do you find that suspicious
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absolutely absolutely it would be natural for him to have reported this immediately
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instead Joe would tell police that the day he woke up and found his wife missing he went on two long leisurely
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drives in her car with their baby in the back seat looking for new hiking trails
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there's just a big area that's all it's all green on a cool mess and so I wanted
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to go and see if there were walking paths back there naturally that raised eyebrows did you lock your door when you
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left the apartment yeah if she comes home how's she gonna get back in you've got her keys her car her
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phone's in the house she can't even call anybody [Music] yeah I don't know detectives and Dan
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Knight suspected Foul Play but there was no physical evidence no blood no weapon
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no Witnesses no body there was also no evidence that mungshi took off with that man in China and then also
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uh it became apparent early on that monk she would not have abandoned her child her one-year-old daughter she was a
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great mother during his interview with detectives Joe gave them access to his phone and on it
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they found something stunning 10 hours of secretly recorded conversations with his wife like this
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one I'd like to discuss our relationship and I am kind of ready to discuss the end of
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it as well Joe told mankshi that he wanted to divorce her I don't like being married to you I don't like living with
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you it's been a terrible relationship I'm eager to end it he was asking her whether or not she was going to
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basically cooperate and if not he was going to tell the judge that she had been abusive to him should I mention in
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court that you're abusive to me should I asked them to deport you but that was nothing says dan Knight
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compared to the nearly four and a half hours of secretly recorded audio they found on mungshi's phone and what was on
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those conversations of significance unvarnished Joe ulich if you came back from this way I've told you before it
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ain't gonna be pretty [Music] foreign [Music] it was October 29 2018 about a year
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before mongxi ji would disappear when she secretly recorded her husband Joe going ballistic for nearly an hour you
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want me to break you want me to hurt somebody [Music] it all started weeks earlier after Hmong
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Shi gave birth and her parents flew in from China to stay with them it is Chinese custom for grandparents to stay
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and help for 100 days a custom that infuriated Joe I don't want your mom here your mom is causing problems your
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mom said what really infuriated Joe was that monk she was standing up to him and
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saying that she needed her mother if I don't take care of my own body my own house is not responsible for me or their
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family I agree she's helping me to do that and I know it I don't like that woman I don't think
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you should either the tension was just to the breaking point and there's yelling there's cussing and Yao Lee says
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Joe really despised it when monk she and her mother Kay Wren spoke Chinese in his
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presence that's a stressor for him because everything that he doesn't understand he would assume the worst
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when mongshi's father returned to China Joe decided to take back control says Amy saliday munchy's mother was making
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Chinese dumplings fantastic dumplings she's making them for his birthday and he doesn't like how
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she's using The Cutting Board I called it The Cutting Board incident prosecutor Dan Knight says it's an incident that
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seems Petty but it led to an explosive argument don't do my finger like that he was demanding that his mother-in-law
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leave the residence immediately and permanently never to return did mongji's Mother stand up to him would she stand
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up to him and could that have triggered this cutting board incident monk she's mother like monkey wanted Harmony more
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than anything else there was no standing up to Joe saying I'm gonna make it go away
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it was a one-way Street it was Joe's way or the highway you're not the god I say mom don't stay here she don't stay
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here among she pleaded with Joe to let her mother stay he responded with insults and profanity what is the matter
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with you brainless he told her that she was incapable because she was a woman you think you're so empowered because of
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the society you're still just a woman it was a calculated effort on his part to Gaslight her to try to brainwash her to
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bring her under his control Joe was also threatening explaining how he conquers nature a cryptic comment
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that Dan Knight believes was a metaphor for wanting to hurt mungshi you know how
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I conquer nature I kill it I grab his head and break his neck that's how you conquer [ __ ] nature
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once your mother of course was in shock it's just really difficult for her to understand why this young man is so mad
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and so angry at her at everything hmongshi felt so helpless that she called Joe's mother Gene Geringer who
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drove two hours to try and mediate oh no choice I had to call you I'm sorry he's
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gonna come back and just I don't know unpredictable things gonna happen monk she recorded that meeting as
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well I'm not here to choose sides I'm here to try to be neutral and just give advice even in his mom's presence Joe
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was not shy about expressing hateful even violent thoughts about his mother-in-law do I just smack her do I
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just beat her down you wanted to I have that craving yes you can I'm not going to go there the evidence that we
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had was that he was making his mother-in-law Karen kneel to him and bow to him Joe would eventually apologize to his
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mother-in-law but he still forced her to leave before the 100 days were up she thought that apology was sincere
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or otherwise she wouldn't have left and then believing that things might get better
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Yao Lee translated mongshi's journals for the prosecutor's office and says things didn't get better but Hmong Shi
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couldn't walk away and even she is confused of why I just cannot get out of this relationship that's her
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constant question to herself Dan Knight thinks hmongshi felt trapped by her immigration status in just five months
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she was set to have another interview where she would be applying to get her permanent green card
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a little over two weeks after Hmong she vanished the Columbia Police Department announced it was opening a criminal
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investigation into her disappearance that same day police showed up at Joe's Apartment he's with his mother to
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detectives at the scene are asking her where is munchie do you know where she is Joe was arrested but not in
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connection with his wife's disappearance but on suspicion that he had physically
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abused their daughter we have become aware that there was some bruising so do you know what we're talking about yeah
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this is through Karen her mother monk she had told her that she'd observed bruising on the buttocks and Karen
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suggested that monk she confront Joe about this Joe then admitted that he had done this to the little girl tell me
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exactly what happened she was crying a lot one night I think I just pinched her butt a little bit to me that was a ruse
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to get him incarcerated Joe's defense attorney Scott Rosenbloom he was a young parent maybe he made a mistake but there
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was no other indication that he was abusive towards his daughter none whatsoever
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held on a five hundred thousand dollar Bond his mother took custody of his daughter and Dan Knight set about
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proving his theory about what happened to mongshi I thought from pretty much the very beginning this eventually was
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going to wind up being a murder case things just had to develop so you're telling me that these trees
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that we are standing among right now helped solve this case absolutely foreign what do you think happened to mungshi ji
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chat now on Facebook and Twitter [Music] on October 25th 2019 police executed a search warrant over at Joe ellidge's and
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Monkey's apartment that was the same day Joe ellidge was arrested on suspicion of
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child abuse among she had been missing for a little over two weeks these officers they were on the ball they were
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able to find some things that were great evidence in this case prosecutor Dan Knight police collected from his
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backpack writings different writings notes Joe had apparently written to himself about how to respond to
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questions from reporters and investigators one of those I labeled as being a script with what to tell the
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police another thing that he had written was that he was to speak about monkey and the present tense rather than the
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past tense she's a very dedicated person she's hard worker and I really like that
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that's important to me why would a man who was claiming his wife had walked away have to remind himself to not speak
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about her in the past tense because she killed her detectives looked for possible evidence
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in every corner of the apartment and on a hunch also took this muddy pair of Joe's boots into evidence just in case
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down the road they might be relevant something was amiss yes and they they sensed it
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and they took him this search for among she became a hunt for her remains starting by retracing the long leisurely
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drives that Joe said he took with his baby in the back seat while only he knew that his wife was missing
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in um it was a nice day and so I just I just wanted to go out but every lead was
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just another dead end so Dan Knight made a bold move I decided to go ahead and file charges murder in the first degree
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without a body charges were filed while Joe was still in jail on abuse charges meanwhile Dan
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Knight stepped up the search for monkey's body these are the cell tower records that we
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had in this case this is his cell phone then Joe's cell phone according to Joe's cell phone records he
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had spent 30 minutes by the lamine river the day he claimed among Shi disappeared
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something he had not told police convinced her body was here authorities searched for months there was even a
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memorial on the river attended by mungshi's Mother by March of 2020 we'd really given up
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we needed to do something to be able to say goodbye [Music] then a year later with Joe ellage still
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awaiting trial a hiker was making his way through this wooded area the very Park where Joe had proposed to monk she
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a flash of color in the dirt caught his eye it was a purse he had this walking stick and he kind of flipped that purse
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around just a little bit he noticed that there were these shoes and then he saw something that looked
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like with maybe a skull in fact it was a skull munchy's skull she had finally been found that's right
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that's right it was it was a miracle [Music] there's a moment for a parent Yao Lee had a video conference with
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mongshi's parents who were both back in China they didn't see anything oh use see
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is their tears they now knew their daughter was dead but how and why were still a mystery
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sadly even the medical examiner's office couldn't say what killed mongshi was there damage to her bone structure yes
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unnatural damage that yes there was four ribs were broken all the way through do you believe that those broken ribs
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are evidence of physical abuse of of a physical attack of a massive catastrophic blow to her back all the
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way these through and through breaks that she would have been in agonizing pain Dan Knight was building a theory of what
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happened to hmongshi and items collected about a year and a half earlier were about to become key
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for one thing Joe's cell phone records put him near mungshi's burial site the day he reported her missing what were
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the weather conditions like that day unfortunately for Joe unfortunately for justice it was raining
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Dan had those muddy boots and a hunch was about to pay off as you can see right here there is soil that is caked
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onto These Boots mud and gravel on the soles of Joe's boots were set out for analysis along with foliage stuck in the
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mud so we've got 12 different types of vegetation in these boots Dan Knight decided to send Joe's boots
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to a lab at the Missouri Botanical Garden where juniper tree needles were carefully removed from the soles for DNA
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testing plants have DNA just like people absolutely yeah yeah every organism Christine Edward Edwards is a plant
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population geneticist who never dreamed she become a CSI investigator in a murder case they wanted to see if there
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was some way that we could match the vegetation in the boots to the the site where a woman's remains were found
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these are two samples that were collected from the the left boot right here once we knew that we could get usable
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DNA out of the the forensic samples that we took from the boots then we needed to
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match them to the the trees at the site Christine's colleague Alex linyan was tasked with collecting sample needles
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from the juniper trees surrounding mongshi's grave site how do you do it pick it up off the ground or go up
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through the trees so we have to go all the way up to the trees and this involved a ladder in a 10 15 foot long
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pole pruner so that we could make sure that the needles that we were getting came from the exact tree that it was so
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we couldn't just get it from the ground it had to be from the tree each sample was stored and numbered and back at the
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lab they were compared to the needles found on Joe's boots these two lines here are the genotype of one of the
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samples from the boots and this one is from the tree that is overhanging the grave site and as you can see the lines
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match up and that moment for you when you realized you had a match it was really exciting
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we got him he was there no doubt he was there no doubt in my mind he was there scientifically confirmed yes just like a
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fingerprint just like DNA blood DNA that is presented in trial this is just as reliable exactly exactly the same
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technology even so what you're telling me is these trees that are all around us here
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played a role in solving a murder absolutely yes Dan Knight says it's only the second murder case he knows of where
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tree DNA has been used as evidence [Music] we're closing in on Joe so I expected at
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trial for there to be another defense besides oh monk she must have just run off and gone to China do you solemnly
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swear to tell the truth the whole truth and Dan Knight was right [Music] on November 1st 2021 Joe ellidge went on
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trial for the murder of his wife Mung shiji the question is what happened in that
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apartment and Joe's attorney Scott Rosenbloom pivoted to a new explanation about what happened to hmongshi Joe
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didn't mean to kill his wife what happened was a tragic accident thanks to this juniper tree and its DNA
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Joe could no longer claim that Hmong Shi had run away he now had to admit that he buried his
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wife in a shallow grave he had no intent not certainly not murder that's not even
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close Joe did have something to do with monxi's death said Rosenbloom but it was
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not murder he took jurors back to October 8 2019 the day hmongshi died and as they go into the evening hours he
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asked her if he if she wants a massage tries to initiate sex chiver Buffs him she says no
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Joe now admits he knew about his wife's online affair with that man in China Rosenbloom said and on this night he
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confronted her he's upset he's hurt and he wants to take his daughter for a walk
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she lunges towards him and pushes him and he pushes her pushes her into the countertop Joe
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claims that's when monk she broke her ribs the defense called Dr Keith Norton the pathologist who conducted mongshi's
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autopsy and he said that it was possible yes but it would have to be a very forcible push
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does Joe maintain that she initiated this physical encounter 100 she came after him well I mean she wanted to
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prevent him from leaving with their daughter he claimed in his new story that she attacked him do you
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buy any of that of course size difference of course not he's twice as big as hers and again she lunges at him
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and he pushes her away and she falls this time on her back and he hears the thud of her head hitting the ground
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Joe claims Hmong Shi was knocked nearly unconscious and then got up and went to bed in the morning when the baby started
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crying Hmong she didn't wake up and he's sort of violently shaking her are you all right are you all right and
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it is abundantly clear at that point in time that his wife is dead why did Joe lie
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he was scared he made a choice an erratic irrational choice is that someone who's in a panic state or is
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that a killer who's trying to to cover up his crime I believe it was evidence of extreme panic
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that story was very clever but it wasn't what happened prosecutor Dan Knight says all the proof
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he needs that Joe's story is made up are those four broken ribs you know how painful it is to break a single rib she
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would have had to have been to a hospital right oh sure there's no doubt about it
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Knight says he keeps going back to Joe's story about giving monkey a massage that
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night and believes that's when he killed her I don't know if he put his hands around her neck and he strangled the
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life out of her I don't know if he maybe forced her face into a pillow but I know
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one thing for sure that murder was horrific a premeditated murder says night fueled
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by months of growing anger he hated monk she with everything he had I'll find a happier life this I
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I have you here to stand in his own defense anybody you all may be seated and insisted that he
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loved his wife even though there was tension in the marriage he would have these arguments he both
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thought you were misunderstand and there would be a Reconciliation and you would
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love each other that's right the defense tried to get jurors to relate to the sometimes stormy nature of Joe and
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Monkey's marriage moments of arguing common with many couples Joe claimed his wife was responsible for much of the
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tension uh she would raise her voice uh yelled and she wouldn't listen to me very well
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they wanted to paint her as the aggressor they wanted people to feel like it was her fault
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Amy saliday and Yao Lee were in the courtroom regularly texting updates to mungshi's mother who was unable to
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travel she didn't believe a bit of it and that was very emotional for her when Dan Knight finally had his chance
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to question Joe ellage he point blank asked Joe how he killed the mother of his child
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she'd maybe stand up on top of her and jump on top of her back no it just suffocate her no
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after nearly two weeks of testimony detailing the audio recordings digital evidence cell tower data and the tree
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DNA linking Joe to mungshi's burial site both sides delivered their closing arguments
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Rosenbloom asked for manslaughter and Dan Knight asked for first degree murder Justice ladies and gentlemen much she
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deserves just we were all nervous and we hoped that the jury would see the case the way that
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we saw it more evidence in the case at 48hours.com we've all come to know munchie
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[Music] and so I think we all felt that connection to her and we hoped that Justice would be served
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Mr ellidge would you please stand to receive the verdict it was 7 P.M on November 11 2021 and
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after deliberating for nearly seven hours the jury had its verdict we the jury find the defendant Joseph Dwayne
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ellage guilty of murder in the second degree guilty of second-degree murder the jury believed that Joe killed
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mongshi but not with premeditation Yao Lee says Hmong shi's parents were very pleased they weren't nervous about the
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conviction at all they believe this is a fair system but the day wasn't over yet the jury
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would now hear testimony in the penalty phase I had to turn around very quickly late
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at night and start presenting evidence Dan Knight wanted life in prison the defense asked for 10 years I feel
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various diet and I feel angry the state called several of monkey's friends who spoke about the
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impact of her death that hurt us that make us huge pain and heal your sorrow the defense called only
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one witness to plead for Mercy Joe's mother Gene Geringer it's very disturbing it's heartbreaking because
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it's so out of his character it was midnight when the jury got the case again a little over an hour later
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we the jury declare the punishment for a term of 28 years Mike believes the jury gave Joe one year
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for every year of mongshi's short life informed mongshi's parents I don't think the numbers matter to them I think the
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truth matters the most that's what is frustrating I don't think there will ever ever know the whole truth of what
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actually happened all they can look forward to now is to be able to help raise their
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granddaughter says family attorney Amy salad I hope that she can be raised to know
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her mother's Chinese culture and to know her mother's family in December 2022 mangshi's parents and Joe's mother
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reached an agreement the child will spend her summers in China and the rest of the year with Gene Scott Rosenbloom
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says she is in good hands Gene and her husband are great parents she makes it her business to include the
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maternal grandparents in the baby's life Dan Knight would not discuss the child's
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future but he did say this about the trauma already suffered by mongshi's Daughter number one
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she was in the apartment at the time that Joe killed monkey her mother one of these days she's going to find out about
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that second thing is when Joe drove around the next day monk she was in the trunk and their little
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girl was strapped into a car seat but the thing that she's also going to find out about is that Joe would have been
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just fine with her going the rest of her life thinking that her mother abandoned
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her foreign I want her daughter to know that she was a great mother she was dedicated she
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loved her with all of her heart I want her to be remembered for her smile and how friendly and outgoing she
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was Hmong shiji's Legacy of accomplishment dedication and love lives on in her baby girl and in the hearts of
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those whose lives she touched everybody sees the goodness in her that's why everybody is so connected with her
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[Music] thank you [Music] a son with Secrets he just lied to everybody his parents vanished you know
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cars go off the road things happen what happened to the halder seats not making any sense it's taking weirder and
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weirder turns nobody saw this coming 48 hours Saturday on CBS and streaming on Paramount Plus
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