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we're going to begin with an investigation into the murder of a young Florida nurse and a startling Discovery
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by police 26 year old Diana duvet was last seen leaving a bar in 2014 with her on-again off-again boyfriend who
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investigators found some bizarre lies in his past when they dug into his life Michelle Miller reports now on the
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search for Juve and her killer for this week's 48 Hours here's an early look on Saturday June 21st 2014 Lieutenant
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Matt Harrelson and Sergeant Brad Metz with the Vero Beach Police Department began searching for Diana duvet and her
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on-again off-again boyfriend Mike Jones they were last seen together leaving a bar the morning before we're in a
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million different directions trying to find her and him Diana's mother Lena knew something was wrong when Diana
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didn't return her calls and texts I was trying to tell everybody who would listen if she's not calling me it's
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because she can't you can see the sheer fair and panic and Lena's eyes I said lean I promise you I'm gonna get your
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daughter back for you one way or another investigators learned that about 12 hours after Diana disappeared Mike Jones
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was spotted withdrawing money from a bank he said you know I'm not feeling that well I'm going to be gone for a
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couple of days I've got some things I got to take care of Jones worked at PNC Bank where he thrived at his job Urban
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wealth management he had a lot of multi-million dollar accounts a lot of people trusted him with a lot of money
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but Mike Jones also told a lot of stories according to Ellie Sexton who once dated him Mike told me that his
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sister was dating Jason Aldean and that he was adopted by Ronald Reagan's son after three days of searching for Diana
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investigators Trace Jones's cell phone pings to Melbourne Florida they alerted local police who found
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Diana's car parked in a Publix parking lot when investigators arrived they made a startling Discovery Diana's body was
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found in the trunk of her car there are certain things in this job that you can't unsee you can't unlive
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you'll never forget well it's always haunting when you hear police talk like that Michelle Miller
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joins us now from London where she is covering tomorrow's coronation Michelle good morning what do investigators think
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happened to Diana well they believe that Diana left the bar with Jones and at some point he took
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her back to their apartment they had an argument and that's where he beat and strangled her to death and it wasn't the
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first time according to prosecutors they say he attempted the same thing only months earlier but she got away this is
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apparently a pattern of behavior with him not just with Diana mentally and physically abusing women but was part of
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his past well we clearly see him in the video at the bank Michelle did they find
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and prosecute Mike Jones they did and they found him through a series of cell phone pings followed
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those pings too which led them to a Hampton Inn they found him there they arrested him they charged him he was
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convicted and sentenced to life in prison and that is where he is now all right Michelle we'll be back to you
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in a moment to talk about that coordination thank you very much for now and you can see Michelle's full report
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where is Diana duvet on 48 hours tomorrow night at 10 9 Central here on CBS and on Paramount Plus