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This is Marshall and his mother Alicia. Just feet away inside the trunk lies the
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dead body of Marshall's girlfriend. He has cut her body up and plans [music] to discard it in the remote mountains of
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the Sierra foothills. Over the next several weeks a series of small mistakes [music]
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in Marshall's cover-up would bring him face-to-face with local police and the FBI. Watching detectives unknowingly
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walk past his murder scene and slowly discovering the monster he truly is. You got any idea where she may be?
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Brother, I'm going to keep it a buck with you. I don't know. Have you Have you guys thought about
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maybe she was trafficked? Absolutely. YEP. UGLY BETTY, COME OUT WITH YOUR HANDS UP!
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IT'S approximately 6:30 p.m. in Antioch, California when 24-year-old Alexis Gabe
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is seen at a Chevron gas station. While filling up her car, she receives a message from her boyfriend. "Are you
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still coming over?" She replies, "I can only come by for a bit." After paying, Alexis gets back on the road and by 6:37
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p.m. she's seen arriving at her boyfriend's house. He doesn't know it yet, but she's there to break up with
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him. A decision that will carry far greater consequences than she expects. Two hours pass. Then Alexis's car is
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seen leaving Marshall's house, but something isn't right. The vehicle takes an unusual route, one Alexis never uses
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to get home, and just 12 minutes later, roughly 6 miles away, it pulls into a quiet residential neighborhood. A masked
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figure steps out of the car, noticeably larger than Alexis. Moments later, her phone pings. Did you make it home? And
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as the figure disappears into the distance, Alexis is never seen or heard from again.
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Sheriff's department, I'm looking for Alexis Gabe. Is this a family member or friend? Family member.
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Sister. And how long did you last talk to her? Um no one's heard from her since she went to see her ex-boyfriend last
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night at 8:30. And she's not answering her phone or anything? No, it's going straight to voicemail.
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On the line is Alexis Gabe's sister. Her tone is urgent as she insists on filing
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a missing person's report immediately. To better understand the situation, dispatch sends Officer Rod County to the
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family's home. And that's where he learns why Alexis's family is already fearing the worst.
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Good morning. How you doing? I'm Detective with the police department. I'm going to get some info from you guys
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and I'm going to start looking for Alexis. Definitely. That's okay. Okay. [snorts]
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Did she ever make any like sort of suicide statements? No. Okay. Is she generally pretty happy?
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Yeah. Okay. She's always out with her boyfriend. She's always out? Do you know where she goes a lot of the
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time? With her friend, E and Naria. She's with us yesterday, too. Does she have any mental health issues?
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Is she generally on antidepressants? Yeah, I know. That's That's what she said. That's why she's looking out for
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the doctor. She's seeing the doctor. Okay. Well, they have a accident with her boyfriend, car accident. That's why
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she have a chiropractor appointment. Who is her boyfriend? The one that we don't is Marshall.
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Marshall? >> Marshall Jones, yeah. Okay. >> And then we just find out yesterday the
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friend said, um, Marshall have threatening Alexis if they going to broke up, he's going to kill or going to
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kill Alexis. Oh, okay. And this is Marshall. Marshall, yeah. Okay. Needless to say, the officer knows
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exactly who they need to speak with next. According to Alexis's mother, Marshall Jones is the boyfriend she went
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to see last. But even more troubling is her claim that he had threatened to harm
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himself or Alexis if they ever broke up. As Courtney wraps up his initial search,
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he relays the information to his sergeant. From there, requests are made for street CCTV footage, a real-time
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How y'all doing? Hey, do you know if Marshall home? No. I'm I'm in his house. Yes. Yeah.
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Okay. How y'all doing today? Good. We just playing. Okay. We got to pray. Y'all be safe. Be
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careful now, okay? Okay. Hey, it's fine. I know. Hey. I'm here. You know Alexis? Yeah, I was going to say yeah.
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So Gabe? Yeah, I'm sorry. Gabe. >> Gabe. Yeah, I don't know. Um, her mom told me that she didn't come
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home. So, yeah, cuz I I spoke to her brother and friends and they're concerned. Oh,
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I'm concerned, too. When was the last time you spoke to her or saw Um, you know what? I can
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I'm calling my Yeah, I'm the same way. Yeah, I don't Um, so she might call her. Uh, I talked to her throughout the day
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yesterday. I want to say 6:38 is when she told me that she was outside. Um, she Here? Yeah.
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I let her in. We hung out for a couple hours. She left around 9:00. Did Did say where she was going? Um,
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yeah, but I got to show you the text messages. She said that uh The more you can give me the better, man. I Yeah, I
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was about to say. I remember her saying, "This is from today. It's not delivering. I've been trying to call
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her." Um I was like, "Are you still coming over? You must still be sleeping." She's like,
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"I can only come by for a bit today." I was like, "Okay." Um, cuz she was doing some other stuff for
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her job that she was doing some running around for it. Okay. Do you have any idea where she may be? You know
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brother, I'm going to keep it about what you said. I honestly thought she went to
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go smoke with her friend Ria when she left here. Ria? Ria, Maria, Ria. Oh, Maria.
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>> Yeah. Okay. Um, I thought she went to go smoke with her cuz usually she won't tell me, you know
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what she's doing till she's already doing it. Mhm. Um, so I thought she went there and but then when I kept on
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calling by like 11:00 and I wasn't getting anything. Okay. Did she Did she seem out of sorts
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when she came over yesterday? Was she on her normal self? Whatever that may be. Yeah, I mean she came in, we hugged, we
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kissed, we uh she watched me uh, you know, do my little heist on GTA, you know, playing
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my game and what not. I mean, we had We watched Family Guy. Okay. It was fine. When she left, did you Did you see her
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Did you see her leave? Um Yeah. I say yeah because I mean, I opened the garage door as she left. So,
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I mean Okay. You opened the You opened the garage door? Yeah. All right. At first glance, Marshall appears far more
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willing to help than Alexis's family hinted towards. But, as he recounts his last encounter with Alexis,
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>> [music] >> his demeanor is oddly detached, at times even attempting to make light of the
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situation. It's the kind of behavior that doesn't go unnoticed. But, before wrapping up the interview, the officer
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would ask one of the strangest questions possible at a moment like this. Do you have a cuz I want to be able to
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follow up with you and How are you two You guys two You dating? Yeah. How long y'all been together?
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Like three going on four years. >> Okay. All right. And I showed you my call log text messages
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>> You ain't got her strapped down in the house like a slave or nothing? No, I know
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No, I know you have to ask because it's a serious situation and I appreciate you
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trying to make light of it, but no. Okay. I do not. All right. All right. On that strange note, the interview wraps
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and the officer calls his sergeant only to learn that while this conversation was taking place, a major discovery had
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just been made a few miles away. On a residential street in Antioch, Alexis's family comes across their
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daughter's car while organizing their own search and spreading the word on social media. Police are immediately
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informed of this discovery and the car is towed and seized for forensic analysis. Inside the car, some troubling
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details quickly stand out. The keys are still in the ignition, the door is unlocked, and personal items are
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missing. After removing and analyzing the car's infotainment unit, investigators are able to track Alexis's
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precise movements before her disappearance. And [music] just 12 minutes before the car was abandoned, it
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had been at Marshall's house, not her friend Maria's as he had previously implied. These findings, along with the
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alleged death threat, prompt investigators to move Marshall from a person of interest to the primary
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suspect in Alexis's disappearance. The following day, two detectives arrive at Marshall's house suspecting he's the
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last person to see her alive and may have been withholding vital information. However, they're also here for something
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else, something that will catch him completely off guard. Hey, y'all. Um >> What's the name of the apartment? I'm
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not a detective, miss, real quick. Are you Alexis's uh boyfriend? Boyfriend, okay. What's
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your name? Marshall. Marshall, okay. Yeah, we're still looking for her. Have you heard from her at all or I have not.
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I've been trying to call her. I've been texting my text messages aren't getting delivered. My
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phone calls are going straight to voicemail. Got you. Okay. Hmm. Yeah, basically at this point like I think
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this is the last place that we know that she was at. Right. And >> So, we're just obviously that's why
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we're kind of keying in on this area, you know. I understand. And like I was telling her mom like hey, I saw her.
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This is the last time, you know, and I just I'm worried, you know, and it's she's missing.
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And that just means that she's missing. It doesn't necessarily mean something happened to her. So, I'm really trying
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not to let my mind wander. Her friends have I'm not going to say they've been putting me under scrutiny, but they make
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they're making me feel like I did something and I didn't. >> Okay. Yeah, I mean anytime and
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boyfriend, right? And and that's what I'm saying, you know, everybody handles stress different, you know, and so I
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just We just want to rule everything out, anything weird that happened here, so you know what I mean? Then we can
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move on to hey, let's go look another area and see where she's at, you know. I understand. You
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Are you cool if we go inside and look around real quick? Um it's not my house. It's my stepdad's, so I mean
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>> Right. >> [music] >> Yeah, I mean I can call him real fast and see. Yeah, that's fine. Go ahead.
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Clearly uncomfortable with the request, Marshall agrees to call his stepfather, the homeowner of the house. And as they
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wait for his approval, detectives would slowly begin to suspect there's something inside the house neither
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Marshall nor his stepfather wants them to find. Hey Dad, um Alexis went missing.
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And the police just want to go through the house real fast just to show that everything's
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fine. Is that okay? Okay. Um he said that one of you could go in, you would like the other one to stay out
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here. No problem. Sure. You have a flashlight or anything? I don't. Yeah, me neither. You want to go
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in? Sure. All right. Hold that for me. All right. What's your dad's name? Leslie. Leslie,
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okay. And that's the one you were talking to on the phone? Yes. All right. He said one of us can come in?
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Cool. Thanks, man. Do you want me to leave the door open? Yeah. Yeah, that'd be good.
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I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'll come around. Anything of hers that's here? Um I mean, there might be some clothes that
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she left over. Okay. Um it's going to be in my room. My room's a mess. That's fine.
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Cool. This your room? This is my room. Yeah. I know. Like I said, it's a mess. >> Yeah, happens, bro. Yeah. Um
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You guys drink together, I'm assuming? Uh yeah. That's the house. As the officer moves through the house,
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Marshall's room quickly stands out, left in complete disarray. And as he inspects
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the room further, little does he know this very place holds subtle clues and will soon become a crime scene.
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Is there upstairs? No, it's just one story. Thank you. And then this is other people's rooms?
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Yeah. Did you want to go in the backyard or Uh probably not. All right. I'm going to close this door.
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Nothing out of the ordinary. This room is in absolute mess. He does. Focusing on the mess, the officer
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overlooks the attic, a place hiding a terrifying secret. And it's no accident. Marshall has been guiding him through
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certain areas, carefully steering him away from others. But despite the search turning up nothing, officers aren't done
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with him just yet. There's something else they want to ask. Um no contact from her? None whatsoever. Okay. Phone's
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been off, you tried to call her, I'm assuming? Indeed. Okay. Uh do you mind hanging out with him real
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quick so we can I'm going to ask you something. Would you be willing to give us your cell
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phone for a forensic download? Oh, yeah. Okay. So, I'm able to do all that stuff. What is a forensic download
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again? It just shows me all the information on your phone for a certain period of time.
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>> Oh, okay. >> shows like, "Hey, was this phone here the whole time?" >> Oh, yeah, sure.
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>> Stuff like that. >> Okay. Okay. Sure it's fine. And then I would just have you sign like a consent
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form. Okay. >> Um and then you can bring it down, sign the consent form down at the PD. Mhm.
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And then I'd I'd take your passcode, and then I would do it that way. Okay. Uh they want to they want to do a
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forensic download just to make sure that, you know, my phone is where I said it was, i.e. where I said I was. I put
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it down there in the end. >> Yeah. But she was still here when he got home? Interestingly, detectives not only gain
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access to Marshall's phone, but also learn that his stepfather was allegedly at the house at the same time Alexis was
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there. So, they make a note to speak with the homeowner as soon as possible to see if his account aligns with
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Marshall's. Shortly afterwards, Marshall gets into his stepfather's car and follows the officers to the station. As
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he drives, officers ahead notice something strange. He appears anxious, swerving slightly with something large
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in the back of his car obstructing his view. In reality, Marshall isn't just nervous. He's just realized he's driving
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straight to the police station with a car full of incriminating evidence. About 10 minutes later, Marshall arrives
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at the station trying to steady himself, quietly questioning why he brought this
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car in the first place. And the second he steps out, he realizes the officers are on to him.
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You know what you both have in Um yeah, blankets and whatnot. Uh wait, do you actually have to search it or can
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you just look around cuz this isn't It's my dad's car and I don't >> we Yeah, I mean I kind of just want to
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lift the gate so I can see inside, you know. Uh Again, it's not my car, it's my dad's
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and you have my phone so I I you I'll open the gate for you though so that way you can look inside.
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>> great. We went to the drive-in so tried to get her a little me some water. I mean, you can look in the bag. That's
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her Philly cheesesteak. Um any of this hers? Uh no. This is Cuz we would like to collect a
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DNA sample from her. Right? So we have a reference on file so was she back here? Uh yeah, but I don't
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So is any of this like None of this is hers. Uh I don't I don't know. Uh would you mind if we like took a
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blanket to test it? Um I would because Yeah. All right. Um and does she normally sit up in the
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front seat? Um yeah. Okay. Well, let's try to find her. Well, we're not You don't want us to
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look under the blankets or what? She would like to look under the Okay. blankets. I don't want you to think I
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have a dead body or anything in here. >> cuz we're being all Yeah. Okay. So there's This is your your step
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dad or your like real dad? My step dad. Gotcha. All right, cool. Naturally, Marshall's unwillingness to
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show what's in the trunk immediately raises red flags for the officers. Once it's opened, they find multiple
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blankets, pillows, and food waste with Marshall insisting that he and Alexis used the car as a bed at the drive-in.
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With suspicion mounting, they get Marshall to sign a consent form, download the data from his phone, and
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then return it to him. And as they let him go, detectives believe the contents of Marshall's phone may finally reveal
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what he's been hiding. Unaware that this entire investigation is about to start going downhill.
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The next day, as investigators prepare to review the data from Marshall's phone, they notice the download process
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has failed, leaving them with nothing. Realizing Marshall's willingness to cooperate may already be reaching its
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limits, detectives decide not to push any further for now and instead turn their attention elsewhere. There's still
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one person they haven't spoken to yet. Marshall's stepfather, the homeowner who was allegedly inside the house the same
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night Alexis disappeared. If something happened to her that night, he may have witnessed it. With that in mind, they
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drive back to the house to speak with him, where they'll begin to suspect that not everyone wants them to discover the
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truth behind Alexis's disappearance. Hey, Mr. Clark. Hey, what's Hey. We're just trying to follow up on
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everything going on with Alexis. Um we haven't talked to you We haven't talked to you yet.
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Marshall had said that you were here when Alexis was here on Wednesday night. Did you see Alexis here on the 26th?
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Yeah, that's what you I come and she's here, she's here, she's she's not I don't see I see I don't You don't recall
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seeing her car here? No, I did not. And you don't you don't remember was her talking to her that
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night? No, I didn't see her there that night. Well, that night I was there. How's
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Marshall holding up with all this? He's um he's upset. No, for sure. >> I mean I mean
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um just now finding out that his girlfriend's coming up missing. I mean I found out yesterday with the note coming
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in the the the flyer. Oh, yeah. >> and stuff. Uh saying that she's missing. I'm like,
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"What the hell is going on?" What What was she like? Is just an everyday person? Like She's good.
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Yeah. [clears throat] I mean she's a she's a good young lady. She never brought drama to your house or anything
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like that or What couple of I mean there aside from couple of drama. >> [laughter]
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>> Yeah. I mean they never argued in front of me. >> Right. But like she never brought any
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outside BS to your house or anything like that. No. Is Marshall around? I know one of the
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detectives was trying to reach him and he hadn't returned his phone call. Marshall's not here. He said he said
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he's going to go talk to his mom. Okay. His mom don't really I don't want to say it like that. With
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this information, police now know where to look for Marshall next, his mother's house. What catches the officers off
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guard, however, is Leslie's refusal to confirm being with Marshall and Alexis the night she disappeared, directly
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contradicting what Marshall had previously told investigators. Now faced with more questions than answers,
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officers leave to figure out their next move. From this point forward, the investigation into Alexis's
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disappearance quietly begins to shift in a much darker direction. Please, Lord. During the next several days, police
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visit Marshall's mother, Alicia Clark, looking for her son. But suspiciously, she claims she hasn't seen him since the
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night his girlfriend, Alexis, vanished. By now, investigators begin to consider a troubling possibility. Marshall may be
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on the run and his family may even be covering for him, but their biggest piece of evidence is still to come. Just
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as the investigation seems to stall, CCTV [music] footage is recovered from the route Alicia's car took the night
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she vanished. For roughly 12 minutes, the car is seen speeding from Marshall's home to the
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residential area where it's eventually abandoned. A masked figure is seen stepping out of the car, noticeably
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larger than Alexis with a more masculine build. As detectives begin tracking the
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figure's movements through nearby cameras, they watch it move calmly for over a mile until it arrives somewhere
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completely unexpected, Marshall's mother's house. This development makes investigators certain that the masked
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figure was none other than their prime suspect, Marshall. And with that, an emergency search warrant for his home is
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secured immediately. On February 1st, more than a dozen officers arrive at the house convinced there is far more inside
00:24:04
than Marshall originally let them see. Oakley PD, search warrant. Open up. Break the door. Break the door with your
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foot. Yeah, hold it for a second. Break the door. Yes. We need that pry. You got the pry? Pry bar?
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Oakley PD! Come out with YOUR HANDS UP! HANDS UP! CHECK THE LEFT. Check the left. I got a
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door on the right. Check that door. Left is clear. Oakley PD, COME OUT WITH YOUR HANDS UP!
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SEARCH WARRANT! CLEAR. WHAT'S THAT? QUICK. AS officers move through the house, neither Marshall nor his stepfather are
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anywhere to be found. But then, as they prepare to enter the garage, it doesn't take long for a violent discovery to
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emerge. Smell it? Smells like dead body. Yep. In the laundry room. Okay. Harper? Yeah. I can smell it coming from
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this way. Right here, yeah? Yeah, right in here. I got a big whiff. >> Yep. What about the backyard?
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Crawl space? Yep. Multiple officers begin to notice a distinct smell, one they believe to be
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the odor of a decomposing body. The scent appears to be coming from the laundry room and leads up towards the
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attic. So, officers prepare to investigate and brace themselves for the worst. It looks undisturbed.
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Do you Are we agreeing? Um looks like it's opened before. I don't know. It's right here, it is. Yeah. Yeah, it's
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pointing straight out to the garage. Yeah. >> So, that's the thing is like we got to
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check the crawl space. Okay. Did anybody check inside that SUV or take a peek inside? I didn't see
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anything, it's locked. >> Okay. Scott, I'm going to have this door closed for a second.
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I mean, there's pathways where they walked for electrical, but I don't see No footprints, no drag marks? No, I
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mean, it's just you can see where they're walking, Okay. doing something but I don't
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And they said they could smell something right where it kind of where you're at Logan. Like there's Like there's a vent
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it's coming from the vent kind of right >> Yeah, once we hit this area and start
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walking to the garage is where I smelt it. Mhm? Smells like blood and hair. Yeah.
00:27:12
You see? Black hair. Look at That paint Could be blood. All right, let's just flops.
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Let's clear out. After following the stench, officers come up empty-handed, but they do
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uncover what appears to be dried blood. After clearing the entire house, officers are still unable to locate the
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source [music] of the smell, so a K9 unit is called in. If human remains are hidden somewhere on the property, this
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dog may be their best bet on finding them. I don't know if I got a big whiff right in the laundry room. Smelled like
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Just dead body. All right, let's see if he gets No worries. That's nothing. So that is it heading down to the other
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thing he's looking for? He's checking. Okay, good girl. And that's the attached garage.
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Okay, can we go in there? Yes. Okay, good girl. Did you guys see that or did I don't I don't know. We didn't bring
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that in. You said to up the wall here? >> Mhm. Yeah. So it's just checking odor.
00:28:49
As I said, you work canine, so we didn't get final. And that was the kind of thing where it's like, I have some weird
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odor, but it's not all of her behaviors, which was more what we had there. And of
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course, you and I both know there could be You could have vacuumed up a tissue that had bloody nose. All right, good
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Okay, good girl. 20? It's not saying anything. Huh? All right, that's all we got.
00:29:11
Somewhat surprisingly, the handler isn't fully convinced the dog has detected human remains. However, several
00:29:18
indications suggest it has picked up on something [music] suspicious, as it repeatedly returns to Marshall's room,
00:29:24
sits in one spot while staring at its handler, and most [music] alarmingly, begins clawing at the wall, a sign the
00:29:31
odor may be coming from the attic, but even after multiple additional searches and with more canine units brought in,
00:29:38
officers are left with troubling yet inconclusive results. Small traces of blood, the presence of bleach and other
00:29:46
cleaning supplies, and a missing shower curtain. Following these discoveries, officers secure the scene and begin
00:29:52
working to obtain real-time location data for Marshall's phone, now fully suspecting they have a homicide on their
00:29:58
hands. Over the next several weeks, officers are seemingly no closer to finding Marshall. Neither his mother nor his
00:30:08
stepfather appear willing to cooperate any further. But every time the investigation seems like it's losing
00:30:14
momentum, Alexis Gabe's family keeps pushing forward, pressuring police to find their daughter and bring her
00:30:20
justice. That pressure soon begins to pay off when investigators finally obtain a real-time location warrant for
00:30:27
Marshall's phone and discover he's moved to Vacaville, California, roughly an hour and a half from his home. After a
00:30:34
quick check, they find out exactly where that location leads, his sister's house.
00:30:39
So, officers quickly head to her address hoping to find Marshall there. What's your name? Ariana. Ariana, I'm
00:30:47
James. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Obviously, you know why we're here, right? I do.
00:30:53
When he got here, he was awesome. While he was here, that's when I saw the first flyer for Alexis. And that's when
00:31:02
I started putting the pieces together what could be. I said, "Get your Tomorrow, you got to be gone. I [music]
00:31:08
I want nothing to do with this." And his gun was underneath I I lost my What was their relationship like between
00:31:16
Alexis and Marshall? So, it got toxic over the last year and a half. He was a lot more torn up about them breaking up
00:31:26
than about her being missing. [music] I will say that irrefutably. Looking back on it, my brother does have sociopathic
00:31:33
and narcissistic tendencies about himself. Your mom and Marshall are close, right?
00:31:37
>> Yes. Do you think that she's helped him out in any way? Will she get in trouble?
00:31:43
I I hope not. I mean, I hope in the end of all this, she'll be as cooperative as you are. Because
00:31:50
ultimately, your brother made the choice that he made, right? >> So, do you think he went to Vegas? No.
00:31:56
[music] I believe I believe this is the number that he's using. If you guys want to
00:32:01
take it, that's fine. Most worryingly for officers, Ariana seems to suspect someone else may be helping Marshall
00:32:08
evade police. However, Ariana also gives them something significant. Marshall's new phone number. So, after wrapping up
00:32:16
the interview, investigators move quickly to track his location. This is when they discover that Marshall's phone
00:32:21
is pinging all the way back to his mother, Alicia Clark's house. Up to this point, Alicia has been telling police
00:32:28
she doesn't know where Marshall is. Now, detectives begin to suspect [music] she's lying and may even be actively
00:32:34
hiding from police. Over the next few hours, [music] police secure an emergency search warrant for
00:32:41
Alicia's house. Officers rush to the location knowing full well Marshall could disappear again at any moment. But
00:32:48
little do they know the lead they're following is actually a setup. Open the door for police. Search
00:32:58
warrant, come to the door. Hello. That's okay. Just open the door for me. Thank you.
00:33:09
All right, ma'am. Come on out, please. I can take the dog that's sleeping upstairs. I understand.
00:33:15
She's okay. All right. Are you able to wait for her to bring her out here for a minute while
00:33:19
we service this warrant? Um I'm not. Anybody else inside? No. After escorting Alicia and her daughter
00:33:33
outside, officers move in to search the house, but they find no one else inside.
00:33:38
They do, however, spot a working camera outside the home, one they immediately begin trying to obtain a warrant for.
00:33:45
Despite Marshall's absence, the forensics team insists that his phone is still actively pinging inside the house.
00:33:52
By now, investigators know something isn't adding up. So, they prepare to question Alicia starting with the very
00:33:59
reason they're here in the first place. Where's the best place? I slept in my bed last night.
00:34:08
What happened to you? What's going on? So, we're obviously here for a reason and there's a couple of reasons. Uh
00:34:13
we're here for Marshall's phone. So, uh we know it's here, but we don't want to tear your house
00:34:20
apart too much. So, if you could direct us to it so we don't have to like mess anything up. But you Where Where is
00:34:26
the phone? It's upstairs in my closet and the green Hawaiian shirt that was in there.
00:34:37
Now, I have a question. What do you guys need it for? You guys cloned it. So, the cell phone thing, uh they went
00:34:42
and did the the download, um but some of the files got screwed up, so we don't have everything.
00:34:50
Um so, we need that, and plus we know that he's had the phone after that. So, that's the evidence that we're looking
00:34:56
Strangely, Alicia appears unusually cordial with the detectives despite [music] having her house breached. She's
00:35:03
even admitted to holding a wanted suspect's phone, yet treats it as if it's nothing serious. By now,
00:35:10
investigators are more than suspicious of her involvement. They're convinced she not only knows where Marshall is,
00:35:16
but more importantly, what he did to Alexis. Do Do you Where's He's obviously not
00:35:22
here, so do you know where Marshall is? You have to go. I do not know. Okay. I do not know. I have intentionally told
00:35:28
him, "Do not tell me where for just the situation. I don't want to know." So, you're distancing yourself?
00:35:37
Oh god, no, not at >> Okay. Not at all. I just know This This is This isn't who we are.
00:35:46
I mean And we don't believe that. Yeah, I mean >> They are not >> We We just You guys are just doing your Right. We
00:35:53
have to We have to try our best to get answers, right? So, that's why we're doing
00:35:57
>> I'm definitely not distancing my my son. That's Okay. That's That's not the reason.
00:36:03
What do you know? I know that the two of them had a solid relationship. I mean, for
00:36:14
Valentine's Day, um he wanted to get her an edible arrangement, [clears throat] couldn't afford it.
00:36:21
And so, he went and got the chocolate, all of the stuff. He built her an edible arrangement. I like that.
00:36:28
I mean that's the kind of guy he is. I've told him since he was younger, "When you're dating,
00:36:35
you want to make sure that you are so good to her, she's going to be comparing every other
00:36:41
guy to you." Right away, this description of Marshall doesn't quite align with what
00:36:48
investigators believe about their suspect, especially given his sister's earlier claims that he's a narcissist
00:36:54
and a sociopath. If Alicia is fully aware of her son's alleged crime, then defending his character like this is not
00:37:02
only disturbing, it's something most people would find nearly impossible to do. Sensing this may be more difficult
00:37:09
for her than she's letting on, detectives decide to shift their approach, appealing to her emotions,
00:37:15
hoping that if this is all an act, it's about to break. Cuz I mean, obviously, we're still looking.
00:37:22
She's still out there somewhere. And things don't look good. Yeah, it's hard to it's hard to look that family in
00:37:29
the face and tell them, "Hey, look, we we don't really have anything to tell you." Have you guys thought about maybe
00:37:34
she was human trafficked? So, you guys thought that before? I've heard that some people posting stuff on
00:37:41
on the internet and stuff, but a lot of people are not they don't have a good grasp on how human
00:37:48
>> [music] >> trafficking works. Right. You can't just snatch up a 24-year-old, 170-lb female.
00:37:55
I mean, I'm just going to be straight up with you. Do you think you Do you think Marshall had anything
00:37:59
to do with it? God, no. No. No. Even if there's evidence that would suggest that he has something to do with
00:38:08
it. You guys would have to prove it beyond a reasonable >> Obviously. I don't want to leave you thinking with
00:38:15
the you know, the lack of a better term, just I know. Oh God, no. No. Not all. >> There's a reason
00:38:24
uh I mean, I can only leave you with that. I can't I can't like >> even saying too much.
00:38:31
You tell me anything >> don't want I don't want you to like to just Like I just said, I mean, we've we've
00:38:37
done we've been agencies here and the DA's offices that we've all been working on this for 3
00:38:42
months now. We've looked every which way. Despite the detective's best efforts, Alicia doesn't appear to budge. And the
00:38:50
worst part is that her dismissive attitude seems to work. Although officers inside managed to locate
00:38:56
Marshall's phone, they find it's been wiped [music] completely clean. And with nothing concrete tying Alicia to the
00:39:02
disappearance, investigators are once again forced to leave empty-handed. [music] With no body, no confession, and
00:39:09
no idea where Marshall may have gone, Alexis' case [music] slowly starts going cold.
00:39:16
Months go by with no new leads on Marshall's whereabouts. But then, investigators finally secure a warrant
00:39:24
and obtain the CCTV footage from his mother's house. And as detectives start analyzing the footage, they begin to
00:39:30
understand how Marshall managed to stay one step ahead of investigators for so long.
00:39:38
Inside these large plastic bags, [music] investigators believe are Alicia's remains and suspect Marshall's mother
00:39:46
was aware of it. Following these developments, [music] investigators reach out to Marshall's sister and learn
00:39:51
he has a friend at an apartment complex in Kent and may be hiding there. Using travel records, CCTV footage, and
00:39:58
anonymous tips, they zero in on a specific location, the Skyview 3322 Apartments. On June 1st, more than
00:40:06
[music] 4 months after Alexis Gabe disappeared, the task force moves in to serve a murder warrant and finally
00:40:12
arrest [music] Marshall. But as they arrive and prepare to breach, nothing about this operation is about to go as
00:40:19
planned. Police don't Open the door. Door is locked. Open the door and do it now.
00:40:51
Do it now. We're done. You are under arrest. Open the door and do it now. Come out.
00:41:05
Yeah, he got in and came to the door with a knife. After emerging with a kitchen knife,
00:41:10
Marshall is shot [music] multiple times by three officers. Despite immediate medical aid, he is pronounced dead at
00:41:17
the scene. The following day, Paul Beard, chief of the Oakley Police Department, holds a
00:41:23
press [music] conference announcing that Alexis Gabe's case is now officially being treated as a homicide and that
00:41:29
Marshall Curtis Jones had been charged [music] with her murder before being shot and killed. But any real sense of
00:41:36
closure for Alexis's family would not come until much, much later. On November 3rd, while metal detecting
00:41:45
near Jackson Road in Plymouth, a local resident discovers what he believes to be human remains and immediately calls
00:41:52
911. When officers arrive, they're left speechless. Scattered across the mountains are the remains of a young
00:41:59
woman. A forensic odontologist is brought in and using dental records confirms the remains are those of Alexis
00:42:06
Gabe. >> [music] >> In the aftermath, her family expresses a mix of devastation and relief. They
00:42:14
continue pushing for charges against Marshall's mother and hold memorials in Alexis's honor. To this day, Alexis's
00:42:20
[music] family continues demanding justice and launching a petition criticizing the Contra Costa County
00:42:26
District Attorney's office for its handling of the case and calling for stronger accountability for victims'
00:42:30
[music] families. But despite these efforts, Marshall's mother is only temporarily detained. Without sufficient
00:42:37
evidence, [music] she is never charged as an accomplice. And the same is true for the rest of Marshall's relatives,
00:42:43
something that continues to infuriate Alexis's family to this day. As of now, there is still no definitive motive for
00:42:51
Alexis's murder, only that their relationship was deeply toxic. [music] And perhaps, when Alexis finally decided
00:42:58
to break up with him, Marshall made a final, irreversible decision. If he couldn't have [music] her, then no one
00:43:04
could.