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tomorrow night 48 Hours looks at the case of a woman's body discovered near a Florida Highway investigators wanted to
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know if the victim had any connection to a nearby motel room and the blood that they found inside so they identified her
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they then learned about a romantic relationship that may hold the key to her murder Peter vant has a story for 48
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hours in April 2018 in the Sleepy Florida Gulf Coast Town of East Point it appeared a killer had struck I received
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the call that body was located off of Highway 98 Lieutenant Ronnie Jones from the Franklin County Sheriff's Office was
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the lead investigator badly beaten and with no identification the woman became a Jane Doe her Killer's identity was
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also a mystery what you worry about then is are they Loos in our community what type of individual am I dealing with or
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individuals less than 24 hours later Jones received a call about another crime scene at the nearby Sportsman's
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Lodge motel room 15 as soon as I came in I noticed a bed this whole area was covered and had blood stains on it what
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did that tell you I just put two and two together and I automatically put that back to the um body that was found the
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day before a luminol test for traces of human blood revealed even more the whole
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entire bathroom lit up that Jane Doe was later identified as as een seiden a young 31-year-old female in the Miami
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area and DNA test would soon confirm it was Eileen's blood in the motel room investigators uncovered surveillance
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footage from a local store showing Eileen with two people the day of her murder the two were later identified as
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Zack Abel and Christina araho Jones discovered the three had an unconventional relationship the three of
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them were always together but the three of them weren't together when Zach and Christina seen here in a toll booth
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photo left Franklin County the morning that Eileen's body was found assistant prosecutor Jared Patterson we needed to
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know what happened inside that hotel room outside of three people entered and two came out carrying a
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body wow Peter vanan is with us in the studio it was interesting how he said the three of them were all always
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together what did they learn about the relationship was there a relationship between the three of there was there was
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a relationship called a thruple and called called A thruple for those who don't know that word it's a polyamorous
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I sound like an anthropologist relationship and at the time of the murder the three of them were living
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together working together and loving together mhm does that mean Zach and Christina are were suspects in the case
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right away they're the two suspects and right away they started pointing fingers
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at one another saying that's your killer over there and the big question in this
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case is who would the jury believe so they each blamed each other they each each other but there's evidence that
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both of them participated in the beating of eileene that led to her death wow so
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what else did they find in that motel room Peter in that motel room when the first investigator went in there was a
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strong smell of vinegar suggesting a cleanup had been done there was a shower curtain rod that had a bloody palm print
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on it that had been used as a weapon that was linked to one of the suspects and in the bathroom itself inside that
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room they did a luminol test which L up like a Christmas tree suggesting a lot of the struggle had occurred inside that
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bathroom I guess we have to wait for Sunday Saturday rather to hear what the motive is or would you like to share
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with the class at this time yeah the motive today is still um in question there's a lot of speculation that it was
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jealousy yeah Peter vanand thank you very much you will have to watch Saturday who killed Eileen siden in room
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