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Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 12, Episode 12 - Full Episode

May 23, 2019 / 44:24

This episode of Unsolved Mysteries covers the disappearances and deaths of several women, including Colleen Wood, Jean Weaver, Natasha Jennings, and Hannah Velasquez. Key discussions include Colleen's mysterious vanishing after moving to Florida, Jean's tragic death in a suspicious house fire, Natasha's unexplained death during a visit to Carson City, and the violent history of Michael Alfonso, who was involved in Hannah's murder.

Colleen Wood, a former homecoming queen, vanished in December 2000 after embarking on a sailing adventure with her boyfriend John Paul, who has a criminal past. Despite extensive investigations, there is no evidence of foul play, and John Paul remains a person of interest.

Jean Weaver's death was ruled a homicide after a fire in her home, with her husband Gordon suspected of arson and murder. The investigation revealed troubling financial motives and inconsistencies in Gordon's behavior following Jean's death.

Natasha Jennings died under mysterious circumstances while visiting her father in Carson City. Various theories emerged, including drug involvement and potential foul play, but the case remains unsolved.

Hannah Velasquez was murdered by Michael Alfonso, who had a history of violent relationships. The episode highlights the dangers posed by individuals like Alfonso, who have a pattern of abusive behavior towards women.

TL;DR

This episode features the mysterious cases of Colleen Wood, Jean Weaver, Natasha Jennings, and Hannah Velasquez, highlighting disappearances and violent crimes.

Episode

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tonight on unsolved mysteries the
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Florida woman meets a man of her dreams
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soon they shot a light together sailing
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around the world but suddenly she
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vanishes could her boyfriend I've had
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anything to do with her disappearance a
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decaying marriage a shocking case of
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arson a wife is dead and her husband is
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on the run a California teenagers
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vacation to Carson City Nevada
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sparks a seemingly innocent summer
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romance does that relationship lead to
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her unexplained death just days later
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what happened to Natasha
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a young woman working two jobs struggles
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to support her daughter then when she
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ends a relationship with a possessive
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man she ends up dead now police need
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your help to find her alleged killer
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Michael Alfonso join me perhaps you hold
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the key perhaps you may be able to help
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solve a mystery
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[Applause]
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in April 1998 51 year-old Colleen wood
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moved from Dayton Ohio to Boca Raton
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Florida living in the Sunshine State was
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a culmination of a lifelong dream the
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charming former high school homecoming
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queen went to work at Lighthouse Point
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Marina as office manager then in
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December 2000 following a hole in
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romance with a former professional race
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driver and Wall Street wizard named John
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Paul Colleen
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suddenly vanished without a trace to
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those who know her it is unimaginable
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that she would not call or write and the
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months following Colleen woods
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disappearance a mystery only deepened
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and police are baffled there is no body
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no suicide note and no evidence of foul
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play
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in fact legally there is no crime and no
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suspect while Colleen is listed as a
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missing person by Fort Lauderdale Police
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her family and friends fear the worst
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detectives would like to talk to one
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person who might be able to shed some
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light on Colleen's fate John Paul but
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months after Colleen was last seen he
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too mysteriously disappeared
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well here she is sometime in early 2000
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Colleen would a divorced mother of two
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grown kids decided to give Cupid another
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chance
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Wow when you said you had a sailboat I
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never imagined she'd be this big in the
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Pacific my mother met Sean Paul through
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a personal ad looking for a sailing
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companion and she was impressed with his
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credentials he said he was a he had an
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MBA from Harvard and in the racing
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circle he was early famous Gavin and he
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was also reputed to be wealthy due to
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his success in the ownership of a mutual
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fund company
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within a few months of their first date
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Colleen and John had become inseparable
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one evening following an intimate dinner
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Colleen shared some of her hopes and
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dreams here's to dreams here's to our
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dreams what is it that you'd like to do
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that you've never done before
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well I've always thought it'd be pretty
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fun to sail around the world why don't
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we do that Colleen was surprised and
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thrilled when John suggested they make
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the voyage together aboard his 55 foot
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schooner island good it was a wild
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adventure torn from the pages of a
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steamy romance novel within a few weeks
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Colleen her soldier condominium and
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entrusted John with investing the net
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proceeds $43,000 a short time later she
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moved in with him aboard Island then
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quit her job yeah would you get some tea
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Coyle I was very very shocked when
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Colleen told me that she was leaving I
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personally was very concerned about her
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selling all of her assets to take this
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trip Colleen are you sure about this I
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mean selling your car and your condo and
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everything seems a little risky putting
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all your eggs in one basket I know but
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you know what this is something I've
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always wanted to do let's face it I'm
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not getting any younger
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might be the only chance I have yeah in
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a minute I got a call Mike before I
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forget about it on December 3rd 2000
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Colleen placed a call to her son in Ohio
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hey she told him Island girl was setting
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Sodor a few weeks and she would be in
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touch soon according to Maureen Canada
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she spoke to Colleen about 10 days later
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on December 13th or 14th to invite her
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to the office Christmas party I called
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her cellphone number
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and she happened to be in Key West at a
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bar with John Paul she sounded fine she
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sounded like she was having a good time
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Tuesday the party came and went and she
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didn't show up but I just assumed that
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something happened where the there was
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possibly rough seas and they couldn't
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make it back on the boat she didn't
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cause for Christmas Christmas Eve and
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after New Year we everyone was really
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worried friends family asking - haven't
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you heard we know she would have called
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I tried to call her on her cell phone
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and the
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have been closed Michael immediately
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contacted the police in Florida but
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there was no evidence of any crime days
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turned to weeks than months still there
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was no sign of Colleen wood we spent the
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best part of January and February
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calling back and forth with the Coast
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Guard and FCC just trying to in some way
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identify and locate this boat back in
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Ohio
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Colleen's son searched the internet in
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hopes of finding an address or phone
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number for John Paul what he discovered
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gave him grave concerns I ran across an
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article that said that he had served
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time in prison that he went to a federal
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penitentiary for approximately 15 years
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serving time for an attempted murder I'm
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still thinking they're on a boat but I'm
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thinking she's on a boat with a killer
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or a possible killer it turned out
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Connie's boyfriend was a mastermind
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behind a drug smuggling ring in the
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early 80s and tried to kill his partner
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in crime for allegedly ratting him out
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John Paul was paroled in 1999 and met
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Colleen less than a year later his plan
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to sail around the world was in direct
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violation of his parole family and
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friends were certain Kali knew nothing
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about John Paul's past however his
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prison record wasn't the only thing that
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had some people troubled John would
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later give three different accounts of
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his relationship with Colleen which he
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says ended on the rocks
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John allegedly told version 1 to his
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daughter according to Michael she said
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Colleen to become irate over an incident
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involving one of her father's old
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girlfriends and ended the relationship
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when I heard that she had broken up in
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December I was panicked completely
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panicked Michel pleaded with John Paul's
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daughter to have her father call him
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three days later he did and a second
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version of the story emerged he told me
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that they had an argument he said I
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didn't remember what it is about but
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after the argument she left the boat and
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then she came back with her football
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player boyfriend she gathered all of her
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belongings and she left the boat
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and he hasn't seen her since I filed a
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missing-persons report immediately with
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the Fort Lauderdale Police Department in
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April 2001 some four months after
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Colleen was last heard from detectives
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mark shot well and al stone or assigned
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to the case their investigation quickly
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led to some suspicious activity on
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Colleen's credit cards in a two-month
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period between mid-december to
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mid-february in excess of 80
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transactions cash advancements totaling
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over $40,000 had occurred on Colleen
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woods cards we were able to come up with
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good solid physical evidence that not
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only did Colleen would not make any of
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the transactions they were not made with
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her consent
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if Colleen wasn't withdrawing cash from
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the ATMs than who was the police are
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still investigating and would only say
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it was a woman perhaps more than one
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also raising suspicion or two ads that
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appeared in a local newspaper
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both of these ads were placed in the
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name of Colleen wood using her credit
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cards both of the ads were ordered by a
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male the first ad that ran in early
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December was in the Help Wanted section
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looking for a first mate on the boat the
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second ad that ran mid-december was in
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the romance mail seeking female section
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had the heirs been placed by John tall
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detectives were sure they did know the
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second I had began running on December
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16 2008 the same time Maureen Canada had
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spoken to Colleen by phone
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according to Maureen Colleen told her
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then that she was partying with John and
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Key West and everything was fine
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detective Shotwell and stone righteous
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to hear about the events of December
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2000 from John Paul himself they finally
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tracked him down in May 2001 it was then
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according to detectives that John
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offered his third version of the
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break-up with collie like to ask you a
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few questions about Colleen would John
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Paul said that in mid-december he and
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Colleen had a large fight over money
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that Colleen would owed him money and it
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made no effort to repay it
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but the alleged inconsistent stories or
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at all the detectives claimed had them
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troubled My partner and I both noticed
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that he was becoming increasingly more
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nervous I found it unusual that he
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seemed to have so little concern over a
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woman that he lived with that he loved I
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haven't seen her since you know just a
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very unusual interview very little
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compassion showed on his part or if you
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can think of anything else that may help
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us out would appreciate it if you'd give
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us a
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despite the allegations of suspicious
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behavior and the inconsistent stories
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regarding John and his breakup with
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Colleen there is no solid evidence to
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indicate he had anything to do with her
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disappearance
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in fact John Paul may have no knowledge
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whatsoever about the mystery surrounding
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Colleen wood
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he has not been named a suspect in the
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case we have no body no physical
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evidence to show us what happened to
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calling but I can tell you it's not good
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I don't believe Colleen wood is with us
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anymore I know she's gone it's scary to
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know that something like this can happen
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to someone who's so close to you you
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think it happens to everybody else but
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you know what I'm everybody else we need
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to find out what happened we need to
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know if indeed he's responsible for the
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death of my mother I really want to see
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justice served
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john-paul is apparently left town
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violating the terms of his parole
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detectives would like to find him to
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question him again about the
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disappearance of Colleen wood
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go do it according to her family
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Jean Weaver's troubled marriage is
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nearing itself let's be done with this
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joke of a relationship that we're saying
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is a marriage that we're saying is a
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family they say that after 17 years
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together she tells her husband Gordon
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she is seeking the divorce this is done
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Gees family says they are concerned they
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claim they have always considered Gordon
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strange a reclusive loner who never
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attended any family functions they are
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uncertain how he will react
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two days after G's decision her sister
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Kathy becomes worried Jean almost
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compulsively punctual is 45 minutes late
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for a family gathering Kathy and her
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husband Tom are driving to her home to
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discover why we get to the house and I
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mean I'm panicking by then I heard this
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beeping noise I didn't know what it was
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I was thinking hey I don't understand
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this and then it hit me that was the
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fire alarm it was smoke obscuring the
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windows and I screamed at time
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as firefighters raced to the scene Cathy
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and Tom try to determine if gene is in
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the house but the thick smoke is too
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stifling to penetrate three minutes
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later that firefighters arrived in the
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basement they discover that the fire's
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intensity has caused water pipes to
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burst
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they also discovered gene Weaver a
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valiant effort is made to save her life
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and then please chief comes over and
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said she's gone
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I just ran and I ran and I screamed and
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I screamed
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I just can't begin to say how special
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gene was investigators in White Bear
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Lake Minnesota determined that the fire
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causing a death of gene Weaver was
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deliberately set burn patterns were
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consistent with a case of arson an
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autopsy revealed that gene had sustained
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a head injury but died from smoke
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inhalation the police believed gene had
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been murdered
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they Angie's family turned a suspicious
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eye on her husband Gordon Weaver
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Gordon Weaver had every advantage in
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life yet seemed destined to struggle he
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was a son of wealthy parents but was
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plagued by financial problems he had a
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high IQ but experienced deep bouts of
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depression as a golf and tennis club ian
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was failing he witnessed gene build a
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successful career in the human resources
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industry her family wondered if his
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disintegrating relationship with gene
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had led him to a desperate Act we wanted
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so much to find out that it was just a
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horrible accident that he had nothing to
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do with it
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but the more time passed you know I
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started to think that Cordy had actually
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killed Jean it was unbelievable
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but I believed it geez family claims
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almost from the beginning her marriage
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to Gordon was troubled
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they say the joy gene rarely experienced
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as a wife she found as a mother as a
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years past her love for her son grew but
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her devotion da garden withered what
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Jean would say about Courtney is that he
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would withdraw into himself for many
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years I just felt sorry for him because
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he seemed unhappy and just couldn't have
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a normal relationship with jeans and she
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wasn't happy at all
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but she thought it was the best for
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their son to remain together as a family
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a family crisis forced Jean to
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reevaluate her marriage her third sister
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Patty was diagnosed with terminal brain
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cancer patty died and and that is what
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precipitated Jean into thinking life is
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too short to stay married I am asking
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Gordon for a divorce according to Jean
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sisters Gordon reacted to her divorce
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plans by asking her an ominous question
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he said have you told anyone this
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and jeanne eagels no what we left
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because we said you know as if you
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wouldn't tell your sisters that you were
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going to get a divorce but you know and
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now I think why didn't why didn't that
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hit me why didn't I say Jean make sure
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you tell him that everyone knows you're
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gonna get a divorce
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but I can't explain why that didn't
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occur to me just three days after jeans
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alleged conversation with her sisters
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she was found dead that morning her son
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was at a soccer game and Gordon said he
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divided his time working at his office
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and running errands Gordon returned home
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immediately after police contacted him
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by phone we were not able to give him a
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whole lot information at that time and
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he was asked to volunteer I come to the
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police department to speak to one of our
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investigators which was myself mr.
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Weaver and my Frandsen path which we
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heard I'm afraid your wife passed away
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I'm sorry
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some of his mannerisms or behavior was
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not what one would expect having come
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home and finding his house you know
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surrounded by evidence tape and then
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being told that his wife was you know
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killed in the fire and we began to
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suspect that he was possibly involved
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and the death of Jean Weaver detective
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Brown secured Gordon's permission to
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have forensics experts examine the
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clothes he was wearing that day on them
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they found traces of two flammable
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liquids that they also found on jeans
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body investigators also learned that
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jeans life insurance policies totaling
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more than three hundred and fifty
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thousand dollars were due to lapse just
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two days after she was killed the sole
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beneficiary was Gordon jeans sister
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Kathy rise guard believes she knows what
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happened
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I believe Gordon went to confront Jean
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and I believe he pushed her or shoved
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her she had a wound to the head and
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he panicked and he stepped my sister on
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fire my sister was alive when he set her
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on fire because of the fire
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some water pipes burst in the basement
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the water pipes appeared to contain the
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fire to the laundry room area and also
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help preserved her body to the point
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that the medical examiner could do a
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complete autopsy and locate the head
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injury and some other physical evidence
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12 days after jeans death gordon weaver
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was arrested for her murder he was soon
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released on bail
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the FBI says a three hundred thousand
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dollar cash bond was provided by his
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parents four months later while awaiting
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his indictment hearing he borrowed his
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parents car
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they said he was going to Chicago for a
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vacation alone two days later the car
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was found abandoned in Summit Illinois a
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suburb of Chicago bloodstains found
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inside a pair to indicate that Gordon
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Weaver had been the victim of a violent
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carjacking forensics experts determined
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the blood was human but were unable to
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determine if it was Gordon's the timing
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of things is just all too coincidental
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for him to disappear or be carjacked
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that's a week before that he is going to
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be indicted by a Ramsey County grand
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jury for first-degree murder it doesn't
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make any kind of sense at all did Gordon
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staged his disappearance or did he
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indeed meet with foul play as his
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parents say they firmly believe two days
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after his car was found an unexpected
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phone call apparently solved the mystery
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it was received by a business associate
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of Gordon's this individual identified
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the person as Gordon Weaver
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Gordon Weaver asked if they found his
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car this co-worker spoke with him for
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just a very brief time and then Gordon
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Weaver hung up we do not believe in any
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way shape or form the Gordon Weaver is
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dead his family has indicated that that
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is that is what they believe but the
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phone call makes it all crystal clear
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that Gordon Weaver did not die in that
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vehicle on that night Gordon Weaver
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still on the run why should he be off
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somewhere and Jean the most beautiful
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person that you could imagine is gone
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forever if I knew then what I knew now I
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would never have left Jeanne alone for a
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second
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a summer afternoon in Carson City Nevada
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Sandra Jennings receives an urgent call
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from her brother Clarence he's trying to
00:24:20
locate a 16 year old daughter Natasha
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who's visiting them from California miss
00:24:26
kasha I had called home
00:24:29
my sister answered the font I asked her
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if Tasha for songs she set the phone
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down she she peeked out the back door
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she didn't see her so she went upstairs
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that's why your screen
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Clarence I found it Tasha she's on the
00:24:50
floor she's not breathing I told her
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well hang up right now call 911 I'm on
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my way
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[Music]
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tragically Natasha Jennings was already
00:25:03
dead when the paramedics arrived
00:25:06
ultimately three theories in the cause
00:25:08
of her death would emerge involving
00:25:10
accusations of drug abuse sexual assault
00:25:12
and murder along the way the reputations
00:25:15
of Natasha and her family will be
00:25:17
subjected to salacious rumor and
00:25:19
innuendo and of this day how Natasha
00:25:22
Jennings died remains a mystery Natasha
00:25:29
Jenni's lived with her mother in
00:25:30
Southern California when she was very
00:25:34
young her parents divorced a situation
00:25:36
that affected Natasha deeply in fact
00:25:39
Natasha had hoped her visit to Carson
00:25:41
City would spark a stronger relationship
00:25:44
with her father I told her no at first I
00:25:47
said no you're not going but then I I
00:25:50
didn't want to put her in the middle of
00:25:51
our disagreements but what I feel
00:25:55
towards her father is my own business
00:25:57
and doesn't involve her that is her
00:26:00
father among her circle of friends
00:26:03
Natasha was a sensitive one as soon as
00:26:06
she met someone they were her friend
00:26:08
she always had something good to say she
00:26:11
was outgoing most caring person I've
00:26:15
ever met she just kept everyone that she
00:26:17
knew close to her heart
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sadly Ingrid Kotar would now only have
00:26:22
those cherished memories of her best
00:26:24
friend to hold on to
00:26:29
Natasha's last day began uneventful II
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she had lunch with her aunt at 1:00
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later that afternoon
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Clarence Jennings placed several calls
00:26:41
to his daughter he had become
00:26:46
increasingly worried when he was unable
00:26:48
to reach her
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when police arrived at the scene they
00:26:54
found natasha has her added founder
00:26:56
slumped across the bedroom floor her
00:26:59
hair was damp as if she had just bathed
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an electric fan inexplicably lay on top
00:27:05
of her
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anytime you have a young individual
00:27:11
that's deceased for no specific apparent
00:27:14
cause or reason it's suspicious it's
00:27:18
treated as a homicide until such time as
00:27:20
we can shift gears and and say that it's
00:27:23
something else although there were no
00:27:28
outward signs of trauma to Natasha's
00:27:30
body investigators quickly developed
00:27:33
their first theory attention was
00:27:37
directed at a young Carson City man
00:27:39
Natasha had become close to whom we will
00:27:41
call Chris allegations had already been
00:27:44
raised that Chris had sexually assaulted
00:27:46
her just days before the investigation
00:27:50
revealed that Natasha and Chris had
00:27:52
joined a group of friends at an
00:27:53
impromptu party the get-together dragged
00:27:56
late into the night those who had been
00:28:00
drinking were invited to wait until
00:28:02
morning to drive home no one saw what
00:28:05
Natasha and Chris did the rest of the
00:28:08
night according to Ingrid Qatar her
00:28:18
friend in California a confused and
00:28:21
traumatized Natasha called the following
00:28:23
morning to tell her something had
00:28:25
happened after the party Natasha told me
00:28:30
she had blacked out from she was
00:28:34
drinking and she had blacked out and
00:28:35
that Chris had a raped her do you know
00:28:39
where Natasha lives
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Chris was interrogated however
00:28:46
detectives concluded that whatever may
00:28:48
have happened between him and Natasha
00:28:49
his actions had not been criminal the
00:28:54
autopsy report was conclusive that that
00:28:56
she was not sexually assaulted as soon
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as the Tasha's mother learned of her
00:29:03
death she rushed to Carson City and I
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spoke with everybody that she was around
00:29:11
I went to places that she had been I
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[Music]
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handed out flyers I'm in thousands upon
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thousands upon thousands Tammy stilton's
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efforts brought a new and unexpected
00:29:26
theory to light I was at the shopping
00:29:29
center passing out flyers when a woman
00:29:31
approached me and she was very scared
00:29:36
anything she was very skittish in
00:29:40
watching over her shoulder and and she
00:29:44
says um I know what happened to your
00:29:46
daughter
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she wrote her telephone I'm down suppose
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here suppose call me
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the woman claimed that Natasha's father
00:29:54
Clarence was a drug informant for local
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law enforcement authorities she said
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drug dealers had found out and killed
00:30:02
Natasha in retaliation my ex-wife had
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asked me is there any possibility that
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they might have had something to do with
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it in retaliation for my being an
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informant for the police department and
00:30:18
my jaw dropped I've never never been an
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informant for the police department led
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by Natasha's mother a group of relatives
00:30:28
confronted one of the Carson City
00:30:30
detectives assigned to Natasha's case
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and we asked him if you know if he was a
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word that Clarence was or Natasha's
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father was a informant you know and he
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didn't deny what at all he said yes he
00:30:44
was aware of it I can say based upon our
00:30:47
records and the records of the Nevada
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Division of Investigations which would
00:30:53
be more typify two state narcotics
00:30:55
Clarence Jennings was not nor was he
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ever a documented informant for either
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agency how long have you known etosha
00:31:04
Jennings but soon yet another theory the
00:31:07
third would redirect the course of the
00:31:09
investigation authorities still believe
00:31:13
the drug connection could have played a
00:31:14
vital role in Natasha's death but with a
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stunning new twist
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did you ever see Natasha use any kind of
00:31:21
drugs no Tosh would never use drugs
00:31:25
investigators were now speculating that
00:31:27
Natasha had brought about her own death
00:31:29
by overdosing on drugs they focused on
00:31:35
two pieces of evidence a scrap of
00:31:37
plastic recovered on a landing outside
00:31:39
Natasha's bedroom contained traces of
00:31:42
methamphetamine commonly known as speed
00:31:44
and cocaine
00:31:46
and an examination of Natasha's body had
00:31:49
revealed a minut amount of the drugs in
00:31:51
her nostrils the cocaine and
00:31:54
methamphetamine can lead to increased
00:31:57
body temperature hyperthermia I think
00:32:00
she probably took a bath to cool down
00:32:03
and she was in the process of drying her
00:32:05
hair when she collapsed most likely a
00:32:08
spasm they said she was on a five-day
00:32:15
drug and drinking sex party and I was I
00:32:22
know I just I know my daughter she
00:32:26
wouldn't used
00:32:28
the official investigation report states
00:32:31
that the medical examiner found no drug
00:32:33
residue and Natasha's system during
00:32:35
autopsy if you snort cocaine on Monday
00:32:40
and you're deceased on Friday and we do
00:32:44
a toxicology we may find remnants of the
00:32:47
drug perhaps in your nose or maybe an
00:32:49
injection point or something like that
00:32:51
but the actual toxicology of your blood
00:32:55
in urine and whatnot may may produce a
00:32:58
zero amount today the investigation has
00:33:04
hit a dead end for Tammy Stilton
00:33:07
all the theories and endless speculation
00:33:09
have only produced frustration and more
00:33:12
questions all I wanted was answers for
00:33:16
somebody to talk to me explain to me
00:33:18
what's been going on with her but nobody
00:33:20
will nobody has the unfortunate part is
00:33:24
I don't have an answer for the mother
00:33:30
this girl was 16 years old she had her
00:33:33
entire life ahead of her and we don't
00:33:35
have any answers we don't have the
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bottom line
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I didn't want her to go and I was kind
00:33:52
of mad at myself because I had felt it
00:33:56
10 then didn't take heed to those
00:33:58
emotions
00:34:01
I had actually sent her a note telling
00:34:03
her that I want her to come home she
00:34:07
didn't make it back
00:34:10
officially the investigation into the
00:34:12
1997 death of Natasha Jennings is still
00:34:15
open at a hotel room in Elgin Illinois
00:34:27
Michael Alphonso has reached a breaking
00:34:29
point desperately willing to go to any
00:34:33
lengths to save a relationship his
00:34:38
girlfriend
00:34:39
single mother Josefina Gonzales has
00:34:42
agreed to meet with him to listen to his
00:34:44
final plea but Michael refuses to accept
00:34:47
her decision after Alfonso stabs her he
00:34:54
tries to escape the Josefina's
00:34:56
two-year-old child although severely
00:35:00
wounded Josefina fights back she saves
00:35:03
her son by punching Michael Alfonso's
00:35:05
own knife into his back he drops a child
00:35:09
and bleeding flees into the night
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[Music]
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Josefina Gonzales and her son recovered
00:35:17
from the 1994 attack Michael Alfonzo was
00:35:21
arrested when he sought treatment for
00:35:22
his wounds
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Alfonzo would be convicted of aggravated
00:35:26
battery and served four years in prison
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tragically Josefina Gonzales would not
00:35:31
be the last of Alfonso's relationships
00:35:33
to allegedly end in violence in June
00:35:39
2001 Hannah Velasquez separated from her
00:35:42
husband was working two jobs to support
00:35:44
her young daughter unfortunately for
00:35:47
Hannah Michael Alfonso also worked at
00:35:50
one of those companies and he had henna
00:35:53
in his sights
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saw me oh you got like five minutes now
00:35:59
I came in here just to ask you out to
00:36:02
dinner tonight
00:36:03
yeah tonight okay I get off around 8:00
00:36:06
so if you would I come around Hannah's
00:36:08
relationship with Michael Alfonzo
00:36:10
continued to grow as her own marital
00:36:12
relationship deteriorated she didn't
00:36:16
talk about any relationship with him but
00:36:18
she always said I'm alive right now I
00:36:20
got to do what I can right now and she
00:36:23
was a one in a good future for for her
00:36:25
and for her her daughter hennas second
00:36:28
job was at a local fast food restaurant
00:36:30
she had shared with a co-worker the
00:36:32
difficulty she was having with her
00:36:34
estranged husband Hannah was having
00:36:37
marriage problems I said you just got to
00:36:39
communicate with each other and
00:36:41
everything will be okay and then about a
00:36:46
few days later an all starts getting
00:36:49
these phone calls at work and this man
00:36:58
starts calling like every other day
00:37:00
there then I asked her I says who is
00:37:04
this man calling you at work and she
00:37:06
would not answer me now she would not
00:37:09
tell me sure yeah we're just friends
00:37:10
everything's fine she signed to what I'm
00:37:12
doing I know what I'm doing this okay
00:37:14
ma'am fine but Renee Anderson's
00:37:17
concerned for her young friend would
00:37:19
prove prophetic when Hannah Velasquez
00:37:22
made a decision to reconcile with her
00:37:24
husband she would see Michael Alfonso's
00:37:27
darker side Michael Alfonso was an
00:37:36
aggressive violent man when he doesn't
00:37:37
get his way he gets angry many of his
00:37:41
friends tell us that they're scared of
00:37:42
him that they don't know which way he's
00:37:44
going to turn because he's so
00:37:45
unpredictable
00:37:46
[Music]
00:37:49
did you hear me listen to me okay
00:37:51
nothing you're not going anywhere you
00:37:53
don't break up with me
00:37:54
or I hurt you and your family
00:38:00
[Music]
00:38:04
and I was so frightened by Alfonso's
00:38:07
threats that she notified authorities
00:38:11
Velasquez this guy was seen as
00:38:13
threatening me she did not want to
00:38:15
pursue any criminal charges at the time
00:38:17
because she was deathly afraid of
00:38:18
retaliation by Michael Alfonso something
00:38:24
a pretty clear pattern of Michael
00:38:27
Alfonso's behavior has emerged here it
00:38:29
seems as though when he begins to date a
00:38:31
woman and the relationship goes sour he
00:38:35
gets angry at the woman and does not
00:38:36
want them to leave and what he does is
00:38:38
he reacts with violence the day after
00:38:42
Hannah's altercation with Michael
00:38:44
Alfonso Alfonso reportedly confronted
00:38:47
her at the restaurant where she worked
00:38:52
42 what one customer told me some man
00:38:55
comes up to her and they start arguing
00:38:58
there was a very heated argument from
00:39:00
what the customer told me hennas husband
00:39:03
who also worked at the same restaurant
00:39:05
was taking a rest break in his car on
00:39:08
the other side of the building and had
00:39:10
no idea his wife was in danger
00:39:27
one of the witnesses was in an
00:39:29
automobile waiting in the drive-thru
00:39:31
line for food Michael walked directly at
00:39:33
her vehicle and walked between her car
00:39:35
and the drive-thru and she looked at his
00:39:37
face and noticed that he had a smirk on
00:39:39
his face
00:39:41
another witness reported the hooded
00:39:43
assailant ran toward a dark-colored car
00:39:47
there was a person that noticed a black
00:39:50
Firebird type of a vehicle drive away at
00:39:53
a high rate of speed
00:39:55
we know from records that Michael
00:39:58
Alfonso owns a 1994 black colored
00:40:00
Pontiac Firebird I'm holding hello and I
00:40:09
said to her hold on and I'll hold on
00:40:12
everything's going to be okay surrounded
00:40:16
by her friends and co-workers Toddie
00:40:18
eight year old Hannah Velasquez
00:40:20
struggled for life Hannah would not win
00:40:24
that fight she was pronounced dead
00:40:26
shortly after being taken to a hospital
00:40:30
when an all-points bulletin went out for
00:40:32
the capture of Michael Alphonso police
00:40:35
learned there were in search of a career
00:40:36
criminal
00:40:38
before Alfonso served a four year prison
00:40:41
term for the attack on Josefina Gonzales
00:40:43
he had served time for a 1989 rape even
00:40:49
then investigators knew Alfonso was a
00:40:51
threat to society but were disappointed
00:40:54
by the leniency of the court we asked
00:40:58
for length year prison sentence the
00:41:00
judge disagreed with us and didn't feel
00:41:02
that Alfonso posed a threat to the
00:41:05
community
00:41:06
of course history's proved differently
00:41:09
he is a tremendous threat to any woman
00:41:12
who he becomes involved with authorities
00:41:15
were also suspicious of Alfonso's
00:41:17
involvement in the unsolved 1992
00:41:19
disappearance of a young woman he was
00:41:21
dating
00:41:24
Suman Ouyang reportedly informed Alfonzo
00:41:27
she intended to break up with him and
00:41:29
return to her husband and was never seen
00:41:31
alive again any woman that he gets
00:41:36
involved in a relationship with is in
00:41:38
grave danger unless they exceed to all
00:41:40
his demands and remained his loyal
00:41:42
servant they are in danger of being
00:41:44
raped or killed two months after her
00:41:49
disappearance the body of suma near yang
00:41:51
was discovered in a remote area she had
00:41:56
been shot in the head but despite the
00:42:02
suspicions of law enforcement
00:42:04
Michael Alfonzo was currently awarded
00:42:06
only for the murder of Hannah Velasquez
00:42:08
and for the friends and family of henna
00:42:12
the grieving has just begun this guy
00:42:33
doesn't deserve to be helped or he
00:42:35
doesn't deserve anything I mean he
00:42:37
doesn't even deserve to live because
00:42:39
he's all he's taking you know other
00:42:42
human beings life so if if anyone is is
00:42:47
helping him he doesn't deserve no help
00:42:49
he deserves to be behind bars
00:42:53
[Music]
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[Music]
00:43:09
[Music]
00:43:20
[Music]
00:43:26
every mystery has a potential to be
00:43:28
solved it may take months may take years
00:43:31
or it may occur during our next edition
00:43:35
unsolved mysteries
00:43:37
[Music]
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[Music]
00:44:11
[Applause]
00:44:12
[Music]
00:44:13
[Applause]
00:44:15
[Music]

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This episode stands out for the following:

  • 85
    Most intense
  • 80
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  • 75
    Most heartbreaking
  • 75
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Episode Highlights

  • Colleen Wood's Mysterious Disappearance
    Colleen Wood vanished without a trace after moving to Florida, leaving her loved ones in despair.
    “It is unimaginable that she would not call or write.”
    @ 02m 28s
    May 23, 2019
  • The Tragic Death of Jean Weaver
    Jean Weaver died in a suspicious house fire, leading to investigations into her husband.
    “Investigators determined that the fire causing Jean's death was deliberately set.”
    @ 15m 58s
    May 23, 2019
  • Natasha Jennings' Untimely Death
    Natasha Jennings was found dead under mysterious circumstances, leaving many questions unanswered.
    “To this day, how Natasha Jennings died remains a mystery.”
    @ 25m 22s
    May 23, 2019
  • The Mysterious Death of Natasha Jennings
    Natasha's death remains unsolved, leaving her family searching for answers.
    “This girl was 16 years old she had her entire life ahead of her”
    @ 33m 30s
    May 23, 2019
  • Michael Alfonzo's Violent History
    Alfonzo's past reveals a pattern of violence against women, culminating in murder.
    “He doesn't even deserve to live because he's taking other human beings' lives”
    @ 42m 35s
    May 23, 2019

Episode Quotes

  • I know she’s gone. It’s scary to know that something like this can happen.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 12, Episode 12 - Full Episode
  • She was the most beautiful person that you could imagine.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 12, Episode 12 - Full Episode
  • I didn't want her to go and I was kind of mad at myself.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 12, Episode 12 - Full Episode
  • He doesn't even deserve to live because he's taking other human beings' lives.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 12, Episode 12 - Full Episode

Key Moments

  • Colleen's Dream02:05
  • Vanishing Act02:26
  • Tragic Fire15:21
  • Suspicious Husband16:19
  • Mystery Remains25:29
  • Unanswered Questions33:12
  • Violence Unleashed37:51
  • Tragic Loss40:20

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