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[Music] Andre McDonald had a very very strict regimen she followed it daily nice drop it that a girl she would
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be at the gym at 5:30 in the morning in the office by 8:00 on March 1st they had
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no indication she would be late she didn't show up for work this was very significant to her
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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 steading and like I start panicking for Andy to be missing is not
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possible the biggest issue for me were the fact that her phone was missing her purse was still there her keys were on
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the counter and her Vehicles were still there if her vehicle's there her purse is there her keys are there if she's
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missing is there a concern of an Abduction the deputies obviously didn't know what to think at this point they
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were just beginning the investigation what we did learn is andreen McDonald a beautiful Jamaican
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woman was brought to the United States by Andre her husband as a major in the Air Force and
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had top secret security clearance they began a assisted living business where they in short order
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became millionaires the picture of the American dream she's not boastful or anything
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like that she just that humble person andreen had a great reputation in not only the
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assisted living community here in San Antonio and we're on the side of the street this morning and we're giving out
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food for those less fortunate she was very very generous with her wealth and her time God bless you kind of a a
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rising star of the of San Antonio absolutely a very much so a rising star they were always laughing together
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they were always joking around the home didn't seem to be in terrible disarray no furniture was
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knocked over or anything was broken I found there was blood on the wall in an area that was kind of odd
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there was blood and hair on a light switch we assumed that something happened there it was a crime scene of
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some sort I was on social media and I saw that initial poster that came out with
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her face and then it says missing on the top Andre is not the person to go take off
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somewhere no one knows where she is supporters for andreen McDonald renewed their search efforts when the
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months went by and the days went by and they haven't found anything in my mind that's not such a bad
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thing because if they're not able to find something that solidifies her being dead I mean she's alive right she's
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[Music] somewhere [Music] [Music] [Music] in the afternoon of March 1st 2019 after
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29-year-old andreen McDonald was reported missing by her mother Moren a bear county sheriff's deputy arrived at
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the McDonald home in an upscale gated community in San Antonio within minutes Sheriff javar Salazar says his Deputy
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made a disturbing Discovery one of my deputies had seen what they believed to be Blood on the wall and possibly
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hair and in the backyard normally beautifully landscaped another troubling clue a random burn
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pile right here I saw the burn pile we found a zipper from Andre's blouse it was Andre's blouse
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mhm Andre's husband Andre Andy McDonald told the deputy that when he woke up he got their daughter Elena to school
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before reporting to laan Air Force Base where he served as a cyber warfare analyst one once he learned andreen was
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missing Andre rushed back home but he quickly headed out the door again to act on a hunch that andreen who suffered
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from migraines might have gone to a nearby hospital for treatment Andre's arrival to the
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hospital was captured by surveillance cameras lead investigator Frank stubs on that tape he comes in you can see him
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asking for McDonald and they tell him there's somebody in room three named McDonald he arrives back to the house
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what does he tell them he tells them that she's in the hospital but when the deputy called the hospital he discovered
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that the McDonald who had checked in was not andreen McDonald Andre told deputies that he'
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rushed back home before seeing his wife because he had left his cell phone at home and wanted to let Moren know he had
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found andreen there was some indication to him that she was there and injured to
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some extent unfortunately the Major's hunch turned out to be wrong when I heard I was oh God I was so upset I was
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just thinking that she's some place that we can find her and for Andre's mother-in-law Jackie who lived in
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Florida there was uncertainty I had called Andre's phone about a thousand times already saying
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andreen whatever it is please please he just called me back what concerned everyone was the fact andreen would
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never just disappear she was known for her sense of responsibility and dedication to her family and
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business how would you describe andreen she knows what she wants and she will never stop until she
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get it I did come in before he did right Andre did defeat me me and she is so excited andreen created an assisted
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living business in San Antonio called Starlight homes when she was just 22 and according to Andre's close friend Andrew
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Russell in order to start the business Andre he liquidated his 401k Andre bankrolled her dreams and he sold the
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BMW that he owned they were doing so well they were doing everything that would make any mother
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proud Starlight homes thrived and under Andre's watch the tiny homebased business transformed into a
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multi-million dollar Enterprise in just seven years when I started my assistant living I only started with three
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residents today Starlight homes this the living we have two locations in the San
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Antonio area childhood friend Mandy says Andre's success was born out of humble beginnings growing up in Portland
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Jamaica we didn't have a lot and so we figured if we wanted to get somewhere in life it would be in America that's where
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the dream was Andre's dream of coming to America came true at 19 when she met Andre he was also a native of Jamaica
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who at the time was a captain in the US area Air Force Andre had returned home to Port Antonio in May of 2009 to attend
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a funeral where he met andreen who was 10 years younger was there an attraction right from the beginning she was excited
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when she met him excited about the captain in the Air Force they both decide for her to come
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to America they married that July was happy to know he had met somebody that he could have a life with that life
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would soon include a baby girl Elena Elena was at the center of andrene's world which made her disappearance so
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perplexing says Jackie I don't think andin would just get up and walk away and leave
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Elena and nobody hear from her that evening a forensic crime unit examined those stains in the bathroom
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and confirmed the initial belief that they were blood while you were going through the house was Andre there yes he
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was did you see any signs of bruising on his body any signs of of any injuries that perhaps he'd been in a struggle
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nothing that we could that we could determine investigators were hoping Andre had some answers but he said the
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last time he had seen his wife was the night before and they said what Andre described raised more questions than
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answers he had told them they had come home from the tax preparers office and that that they had argued
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over um uh the business and he went up the road got some gas and just cooled off we were able to obtain video
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evidence of him going to the Shell station Andre said when he returned home he and andreen went to separate
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bedrooms but according to investigators what Andre didn't mention was the text exchange that happened at the gas
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[Music] station for investigators the text messages found on Andre's phone revealed
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a marriage in turmoil including allegations of betrayal accusations of unfaithfulness in these text messages
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correct that's correct we have uh a printed copy would you mind reading these from his phone
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andreen responds if you bring up aubit again I will divorce you myself auin Hall a businessman living in Port
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Antonio Jamaica who according to investigators was Andre's ex-boyfriend and potentially her current curent lover
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in response to Andre's threat of divorce Andre texts I don't care if you get a divorce you brought auin into our life
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auin dated andreen when she was a teenager say investigators Andre's close friend Mandy says the two rekindled
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their romance in 2017 during one of her philanthropic trips to the island auin has always been
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that first love it wasn't something andrin got over emotionally Mandy says They carried on their Affair in secret
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until the summer of 2018 when andreen got two new tattoos an initial a tattooed on her hand and a date tattooed
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on her wrist Andy was definitely suspicious of what it meant with a Suspicious Mind Mandy says Andre went to
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work to solve this tattoo mystery he went and he did his own digging it was on social media where Andre discovered
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an interesting photograph of auin branded with the same exact tattoo that was also on Andre's hand and those
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numbers 14376 their ain's birthday day month and year she told me that she impulsively
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got the tattoo she knew it was something stupid to do enraged Mandy says Andre threatened divorce unless andring cut
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off contact with auin covered up her tattoos and promised to never travel to Jamaica without him she did cover up the
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tattoos she didn't want to lose half of everything she worked hard for at Andre's 40th birthday party Mandy
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says by all outward appearances the McDonald's seemed to be getting along but just 13 days later on March 1st
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2019 that's when andrin disappeared the once festive home had transformed into a crime scene as
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investigators worked the McDonald residence until 2 the next morning when they couldn't locate Andre's cell phone
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investigators checked to see if her credit cards or passport had been used all dead ends we came up dry on on on
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all of these inquiries at this point all we had was a missing person within hours
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of his wife's disappearance Andre McDonald was a person of interest he stopped answering questions and lawyered
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up at 2: p.m. the next day an undercover investigator assigned to watch the McDonald's house noticed that the garage
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had been damaged and Andre was backing out of the driveway the investigator followed him
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to a nearby gun shop where were additional investigators who were called to the scene observed Andre purchasing a
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9mm handgun and ammunition we were under the assumption that he was purchasing a
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gun to probably harm himself when Andre walked back to his car investigators confronted him their
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violent takedown may be disturbing to viewers investigators moved to detain the Air Force Major and turned him over
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over to military authorities for a mental evaluation meanwhile investigators returned to the house with a search
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warrant and checked Andre's car while there some objects caught their eye there was a shovel there was an axe an
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axe uh there was a like a hatchet kind of Mall there was trash bags there were gloves and a couple of gas cans and
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there was more inside the garbage can in the house was a receipt from Lowe's that had
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been torn up detectives were able to obtain surveillance footage from the hardware store items that were purchased
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the day after andreen went missing this is Andre McDonald coming into the Lowe's
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he's going to purchase several items you can see him with a basket here you can see there's a shovel in the basket now
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he comes up here there's two gas cans there's a a mall or a hatchet here's that axe what's at play
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here it appeared to us that now that his wife is missing um it pointed to the disposal of her
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body look at that cart full of ill will right yes and in the corner of the garage investigators would uncover what
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they say was the most damning evidence of all we found a hammer and clothing in the garbage the clothing that we found
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appeared to be Andre's clothing investigators say they found traces of Blood on the pocket of these genes
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what's on the claw hammer that's of Interest the lab determined that there was the presence of blood on the hammer
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and the DNA that they obtained from that that blood sample was from entering we concluded that that hammer was probably
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used at as the murder weapon this is significant very [Music] significant 48 hours into the
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investigation detective stubs believed he had discovered key evidence that implicated Major Andre McDonald in his
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wife's disappearance investigators located those items stained with Andre's blood inside the
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family's trash can this missing person's case had become much more Sinister and it's pointing toward
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what the evidence was pointing towards a murder but there was a problem none of the evidence collected proved that a
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murder had actually occurred turning a missing person's case into a homicide case is very
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difficult on March 3rd 2019 the Air Force concluded its evaluation of Andre and released him Civil Authorities
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quickly moved in and placed him under arrest my daughter my family what do you have to say about this entire invest but
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it wasn't for murder Major Andre McDonald was arrested for tampering with evidence based upon that torn receipt
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found at the house listing the items he had purchased from the hardware store Andre's arrest left his mother
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Jackie in a State of Shock and disbelief I saw that Andre was taken into custody and I just collapsed I know he
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loved andrin why would he harm her and for and and's mother Andre's arrest left her head spinning oh
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God Andre could not hurt andreen that's what I was saying but who else adding to everyone's sense of shock
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confusion and suspicion was Andre's decision to stop cooperating with detectives Andre's face told us there
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was no way in hell we were going to break him and make him tell tell us what had happened Sheriff Salazar went on
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local TV asking for help we are asking anybody with any information on her whereabouts to give us a call at 210
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335 soon after the community of San Antonio along with family and friends came out in droves to look for and dream
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including a volunteer search Party formed by former Air Force Airman Bobby green Bobby took us out to one of the
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areas where he searched for and dream right now we're behind a hospital we thought he might have taken her here to
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a wooded area as you walk through here what are you looking for you would look at tree branches that had been pushed
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away something that was cut fresh uh tire tracks how many miles did you cover it was hundreds of miles as search
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efforts continued Andre McDonald was released from jail on where is Andre with his wife absent Andre took over
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management of Starlight homes search efforts continued although investigators say Andre didn't take part days would
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eventually turn into months of dead ends as the search for andreen went on investigators dug further into the
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couple's relationship learning that they had business problems as well as romantic
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ones in WhatsApp message shared with friends there are arguments over who really was the brains behind their
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successful business in one andreen tells Andre Starlight Holmes is my idea my dream and
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would not have happened without my drive back then friends like Andrew Russell became worried about the potential for
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violence and I have text message from andreen that's saying someone is going to snap
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Andrew told investigators that the couple's war of words turned physical the night before a Christmas party at
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their home in 2018 where the McDonald's got into a physical altercation so when I went into the
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kitchen Andy and andrene were grappling on the floor the next morning they were laughing about it I did feel
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uncomfortable after that I thought the the situation had become toxic just over 2 months later andrene's
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blood was spilled in her home and she vanished finally on the evening of July 11th 2019
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133 days after andreen had gone missing there was a break in the case about 7:30
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this evening uh the bar County Sheriff's Office patrol deputies were dispatched to this location for a report of some
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human remains that were found skeletal remains were located in a farmer's field just 6 miles from the
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McDonald home this man Clifton cundi made the discovery Clifton had taken out his tractor to retrieve a cow skull that
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had been spotted right along the tree line of the property I saw the what appeared to be a human skull in front of
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the cow skull that must have been a shock a shock yes officials determined that the human
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skeletal remains belong to andreen McDonald her sister Cindy Johnson I was at a church praying for
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andrin I couldn't do anything I broke down it hit us like a storm cuz we still wasn't thinking like
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that never I never saw this coming less than 48 hours later Andre McDonald would be arrested and charged
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with his wife's murder see more evidence from the case at 48 hours.com Andre's family had waited for
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justice for 4 years it hurt every night before I go to my bed I think about her be County assistant
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District Attorneys Steven spear Lauren Scott and Ryan groomer would prosecute McDonald for the murder of his wife and
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dream but the prosecution would face an uphill battle despite the evidence found
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at the McDonald home the hammer and the blood the prosecution could not say for sure how andreen died because and's body
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was out in the elements in that field for all of those days medical examiner's office was unable to specify what
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exactly caused Andre's death and does that step complicate your preparation no it absolutely does we say he caused her
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death however we don't know how if Andre murdered his wife what do you believe was his motive I believe it was largely
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because he felt emasculated she was such a rising star had control of these businesses and and I think he was
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jealous of that McDonald who pleaded not guilty was represented by some of the top defense lawyers in San Antonio John
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conver Zoe Russell and John Hunter how would you respond to the notion that what caused all this was his
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Envy of his wife's success I I don't see any evidence of that Andre is a major in
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the Air Force I mean he's incredibly successful on his own right Major Andre McDonald had been
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under house arrest since April of 2021 but days before his trial was set to begin January 17th
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2023 McDonald who had remained silent about his wife's death began telling an extraordinary story beginning with his
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own mother Jackie says her son told her andrene's death was an accident he looked at me and he said Mom
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I'm going to tell you the truth and he started to cry McDonald then called Andre's mother and sister Cindy who put
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the call on speaker phone he gave the family for the first time details of what happened according to him according
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to him yes it was a phone call that stunned his defense team was it shocking to you that he had done this shocking is
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a good word for it yeah the entire context of the case changed his best thought would be to tell a story in
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court McDonald would get to tell his story but not before the prosecution laid out its case in opening State
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ladies gentem inside the trash B in the garage a hammer that hammer has blood on it it is the victim's
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blood the defense intended that Andre's death was an accident this is not a murder case it is
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a case about the degree and level of responsibility with evidence of accident a mutual
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fight all of which happens in the blink of an eye the prosecution also called forensic pathologist Dr James fig who
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testified that andring skeletal remains had severe injuries consistent with being struck by a blunt object she had a
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fractured spinal cord a broken rib and a split jaw but the pathologist could not
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determine what exactly had caused andrene's death so the way that I have phrased her cause
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of death is homicidal violence including blunt force trauma after 6 days of testimony and 33
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Witnesses the prosecution rested the defense had only one witness defense calls Major Andre McDonald McDonald
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described the evening of February 28th 2019 while at the tax preparers office with his wife he discovered that andren
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had started a new business a year earlier without his knowledge look at that signifi to you basically all that
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meant to me pretty much that she was robbing me after a heated argument that evening McDonald says he left the house
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to cool off at that gas station McDonald says they continued their argument over
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text and when he returned home he raised the possibility of divorce and splitting
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their business in half she became extremely irate at the thought of splitting the business charges into the
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room to confront me so when she comes into the room you know I turn around and she comes like right up in my face so at
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that moment he spits in my face so at that point I grabbed her cuz she's like right in front of me so I grabbed their
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head I think we had like a a clash of heads and I think it opened up like a cut somewhere on her face McDonald said
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andreen ran into the bathroom and turned on the lights when andreen saw her bloody face in the mirror McDonald
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claims she attacked him his testimony may be disturbing to some viewers when she comes she's like
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throwing like some punches so I'm trying to like duck down and like keep my head
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my face from getting hit with the blows I remember like grabbing her like tripping her and then she like Falls and
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that's when I kick her like twice the second kick I think I heard like some type of
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weing and then also like in the background I could hear like some footsteps the footsteps of their young
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daughter Elena McDonald said he left to put Elena back to bed and when he returned about 30 minutes later his wife
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was dead I became like pretty frantic at that point because you know she's dead on the floor you never thought I need to
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in cross-examination prosecutor spear asked if McDonald had thought about calling
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911 I never thought about calling anybody to revive a dead person my purpose at that point was simply to get
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her out of the house so that my seven-year-old daughter wouldn't see her mother laying on the floor dead after
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putting Elena back to bed McDonald said he dumped Andre's body in this field stripped her naked and returned home to
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burn her clothing which left that burn patch in the backyard but what about Andre's Blood on the yellow hammer on
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the face of it the evidence doesn't Square with McDonald's account of an accident McDonald had an explanation for
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that he testified that when investigators finished searching his home he went back to the field Before
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Dawn angry and armed with the yellow Hammer a can of gasoline and a plan my plan was to hit the person that
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caused this whole circumstance and you felt it was her fault right it's absolutely her fault what did you do
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with the gasoline I poured it on her and then I used the the lighter and set it on fire
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McDonald said when the flame subsided that's when he attacked his wife's corpse with the yellow Hammer I hit her
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in the face the neck and I just like hit her again as I was walking away why that
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last blow as I was walking away yes I guess I was still angry when I was walking away after that gruesome test
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Tony the defense shifted gears and tried to refocus the jury on their theory of the crime and for the first time the
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defense brought up why McDonald acted the way he did that night have you always believed you acted in
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self-defense yes I've always believed that from the very beginning thank the defense played videos showing andrin
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giving her husband a piggyback ride and working out would you describe and andren is a
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very strong powerful woman yes I would straight up according to McDonald his wife could lift up to 300 lb yes
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ma'am when she attacked you were you in fear yes I wasn't fear of you know being
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harmed during that that whole situation they wants you to forget and disregard about all his actions closing
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arguments defense Council said that this is self-defense folks this is not self-defense it's time
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to hold this man responsible for what he did and it's time to find him guilty of
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murder Andre McDonald did not intentionally or knowingly murder andream McDon he acted in self-defense
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and your duty and your obligation is to say not guilty thank you after 6 days of
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testimony the jury got the case all the jury approximately 11 hours into their deliberation the jury sent a note to the
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judge that says we're hopelessly dead law what do you make of Andre McDonald's claim of self-defense chat now with the
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48 Hours team on Facebook and X [Music] after almost 11 hours of deliberating the jury was deadlocked unable to decide
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if Andre McDonald was guilty of murder manslaughter or Not Guilty by self-defense everything was said in the
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courtroom all the evidence were were there he confessed understand what he did they saw his demeanor I don't know
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what was um the problem for jurors Brandon meden I voted for murder and I saw that we were six and six and Rudy
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Ruiz at no point did any juror think that he was innocent or that it was self-defense the problem was wording
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because people really picked apart the definitions of murder and recklessness the jury of Six Women and
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six men spent hours discussing whether McDonald Had intentionally murdered and or if he had recklessly killed her
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making it manslaughter murder carries a life sentence manslaughter up to 20 years and
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I think most of us could agree that whatever happened it was Reckless he left her on the
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ground and he did not render Aid now the trick was to try and convince the other
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jurors that it was murder but as the deliberations continued some of the jurors had been
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swayed with nine now for manslaughter mí says the biggest factor in swaying the vote was Andre McDonald's testimony
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there was so little evidence and so a lot of people believe because we don't know anything else other than what he
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has told us that we have to take what he told us and he was actually able to convince a lot of the jurors we had that
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one jur that he said well I've kicked someone I never intended to kill them medine Ruiz and a third jur were the
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staunch holdouts for murder no one was going to change anyone's mind the judge then invoked what's called an Allen
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charge urging the holdout jurors to reconsider the evidence and reach a unanimous decision after another hour of
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deliberations a verdict he Mr McDonald please stand with your counsil to the count of murder charging the
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indictment the jury finds the defendant not guilty of the offense of murder has charged in the indictment and
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guilty guilty of the offense of manslaughter Andre McDonald was found not guilty of murder but guilty of the
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Lesser charge manslaughter Andre's sister Cindy was in disbelief IM Slaughter after he spoke with no
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remorse no love nothing at all and use Hammer strip her clothes throw gasoline on her burnt her and they gave him
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manslaughter that's crazy I I am going to struggle with this daughter until the day I
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die the prosecution had a mixed reaction to the verdict I was just disappointed however the jury rejected his
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self-defense argument and held him accountable for at least something for the defense Andre McDonald may not have
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walked out a free man but this is a win despite how I believe that this is a self-defense case I do respect the
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outcome and Dre's best friend Mandy Hall he's there to tell this story he's there
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to make up whatever he wants to make up she she doesn't she can't do do that because he took that away from
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her Cindy now sees that phone call from McDonald before the trial in a whole new
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light as a calculated ploy to deflect blame it's four years it took him 4 years for him to recognize that he did
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what he did and then all of a sudden he's um reaching out to us to let us think that
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he's been responsible he didn't mean anything he is lying all a lies it's all a lie after the verdict Sheriff Salazar
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reached out to andrene's Father a retired member of the Jamaican army with an unusual
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offering I did present Mr Anderson with a gift uh I asked my Deputy to remove the handcuffs from from Andre as they
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put him back into the um cell and I gave I presented those cffs to to Mr Anderson
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I wanted them to feel some sort of connection to at least sending him away to to
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prison I want to tell you that we really appreciate it thank you very much God bless
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you godess for Andre's mother nothing about this tragedy makes sense her daughter and the Beautiful Life she had
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created are gone andreen McDonald who came to America became a successful entrepreneur and found her purpose in
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serving others sadly the business she created is now closed I miss her very much most times when I think about her I
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just it's like I feel like giving up and in those times marine and Cindy lean on
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one another we're blessed to have each other to take us through this sad Journey um when I'm weak my mom is
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strong when my mom is weak I am strong we have to be strong for Alena Elena now 12 years old is the glue
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that binds this fractured family a family that still includes Andre's mother Jackie though she is mainly left
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with the memories and the pain of what once was I think I heard for Alena more than
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I heard for everyone no child should ever have to go through what she went to Moren and Cindy are now raising Elena
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it's bitter sweet cuz we have Elena Elena reminds us so much of andreen can momy a
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kiss love [Music] you [Music] a young wife and mother found with a strange mix of drugs at her system hey
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there's a needle right here that makes you stop breathing if you have too much was it murder investigators turned to
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her journals for answers how crucial were those journals very 48 hours Saturday on CVS streaming on Paran
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