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andreen McDonald started an assisted living business in San Antonio Texas when she was just 22 years old when I
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started my Assisted Living I only started with three residents today Starlight homes assister
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the living we have two locations in the S are the business Starlight homes grew into a multi-million dollar business in
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less than seven years childhood friend Mandy says andreen success was born out of humble
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beginnings growing up in Portland Jamaica we didn't have a lot and so we figured if we wanted to get somewhere in
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life it would be in America that's where the dream was andrene's dream of coming
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to America came true at 19 when she met her husband Andre a native of Jamaica Andre was a captain in the US Air Force
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at the time Andre had returned home to Jamaica in May 2009 to attend a funeral where he met andreen who was 10 years
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younger was there an attraction right from the beginning she was excited when she met him excited about the captain in
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the Air Force they both decide for her to come to America they married 2 months later
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and eventually settled in San Antonio later Andre was promoted to a major in the Air Force I was happy to know he had
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met somebody that he could have a life with that life would soon include a baby girl Elena Elena was at the center of
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Andre's world making her disappearance on March 1st 2019 so perplexing I don't think andrene would
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just get up and walk away and leave Elena and nobody hear from her Andre McDonald had a very very strict regimen
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she followed it daily nice drop it that a girl she would be at the gym at 5:30 in the morning in
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the office by 8 eight on March 1st they had no indication she would be late she didn't show up for
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work this was very significant to her employees they called the gym and found out she never showed up to the gym which
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is like a religion to her after calling Andre repeatedly it's going to voicemail
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you know the anxiety starts steadying in like I start panicking for angine to be
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missing is not possible the biggest issue for me were the fact that her phone was missing her
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purse was still there her keys were on the counter and her Vehicles were still there there was blood and hair on a
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light switch we assumed that something happened there it was a crime scene of some sort investigator Frank stubs
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believed he had discovered key evidence that implicated Major Andre McDonald and
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his wife's disappearance on the second day of the investigation authorities located items stained with andrene's
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blood inside the family's trash can but there was a problem none of the evidence
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collected proved that a murder had actually occurred turning a missing person's case into a homicide case is
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very difficult authorities quickly moved in and placed him under arrest not for murder daughter love my family but for
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tampering with evidence based upon a torn receipt found at the house listing the items he had purchased from a
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hardware store there was a shovel there was an axe an axe uh there was a like a hatchet kind of Mall there was trash
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bags there were gloves and a couple of gas cans what's at play here it appeared to us that now that his wife is missing
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um it pointed to the disposal of her body Andre's arrest left his mother Jackie in a State of Shock and disbelief
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I saw that Andre was taken into custody and I just collapsed I know he loved Andre why would he harm her in for
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Andre's mother Andre's arrest left her head spinning oh God Andre could not H andreen that's what I was saying but who
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else