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  Speaker 1: One day in January of twenty eighteen, a police officer
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  Speaker 1: walked through the woods near the small town of Gray, France,
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  Speaker 1: and as he walked, he was looking at the ground
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  Speaker 1: because he was following a literal trail of blood, and
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  Speaker 1: this trail eventually led the officer to the body of
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  Speaker 1: a person who clearly had been shot in the head. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this appeared to be a suicide, but the police officer
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  Speaker 1: had some questions because this was not the first body
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  Speaker 1: that had been found in these woods near the small
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  Speaker 1: town in France. Another body had been found a couple
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  Speaker 1: of months earlier, and it was starting to seem like
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  Speaker 1: there was.
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  Speaker 2: A pattern here.
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  Speaker 1: At around five pm on the evening of October twenty seventh,
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  Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, a twenty nine year old woman named Alexia
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  Speaker 1: Deval drove her car down a cul de sac in
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  Speaker 1: the small, quiet town of Gray, France. She was on
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  Speaker 1: her way to her parents' house to celebrate her nephew's
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  Speaker 1: second birthday, and it was going to be this big
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  Speaker 1: family get together. Her sister, her brother in law, and
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  Speaker 1: her little nephew had come in all the way from Paris,
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  Speaker 1: which was about a four hour drive away, but Alexia
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  Speaker 1: realistically had mixed feelings about seeing them all tonight. So
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  Speaker 1: Alexia had been going through a pretty hard time recently.
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  Speaker 1: She and her husband of thirteen years, Jonathan, have been
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  Speaker 1: trying to get pregnant, and so she'd done several rounds
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  Speaker 1: of fertility treatments, which had thrown her hormones completely out
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  Speaker 1: of whack and seemed to affect her a lot more
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  Speaker 1: than was typical for most women. And then, finally, when
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  Speaker 1: all that had led to her actually getting pregnant, she
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  Speaker 1: unfortunately had miscarried just a couple of months ago, and
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  Speaker 1: so even though Alexia loved her sister's family and got
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  Speaker 1: along with them really well. Her miscarriage was still really
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  Speaker 1: fresh in her mind, and she just knew it was
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  Speaker 1: going to be very difficult for her to be around
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  Speaker 1: her young nephew. It was just a reminder of what
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  Speaker 1: she had lost now. Alexia came to a stop outside
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  Speaker 1: of a gated driveway at the end of the cul
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  Speaker 1: de sac, and she rang the intercom, and then when
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  Speaker 1: the gate opened up, she drove up the driveway toward
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  Speaker 1: a nice house with a very well kept garden. She
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  Speaker 1: parked her car in the driveway behind her father's white
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  Speaker 1: van and then got out of her car. She grabbed
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  Speaker 1: a rap present out of the back seat, along with
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  Speaker 1: a couple of desserts that she'd made, carried them up
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  Speaker 1: to the house and rang the doorbell, and a few
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  Speaker 1: seconds later, her mother, Isabelle Fuyo answered the door the
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  Speaker 1: big smile and led her into the dining room, where
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  Speaker 1: Alexia's father, Jean Pierre, sat at the table talking with
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  Speaker 1: Alexia's brother in law, Gregory, and also her sister Stephanie.
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  Speaker 1: They all stood up and they greeted her, and then
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  Speaker 1: as Alexia began to explain that her husband, Jonathan was
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  Speaker 1: running late, and he'd be here later in a separate
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  Speaker 1: car because the job he'd been working that day as
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  Speaker 1: an electrician had run long. As she was saying all that,
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  Speaker 1: Alexia heard the sound of little feet making their way
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  Speaker 1: towards her. A moment later, her two year old nephew, James,
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  Speaker 1: ran around the corner and threw his arms around Alexia's legs,
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  Speaker 1: and surprisingly, to Alexia's relief, she didn't feel sadness. All
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  Speaker 1: she felt was happiness, and so she bent down and
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  Speaker 1: scooped him up and gave the boy a big hug,
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  Speaker 1: and then she also handed him as birthday present. Eventually,
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  Speaker 1: the group settled in for dinner, and for a while
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  Speaker 1: all of Alexia's worries just kind.
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  Speaker 2: Of faded away.
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  Speaker 1: She was really close with everybody at the table, especially
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  Speaker 1: her mother and her sister Stephanie, and being around them
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  Speaker 1: always put her in a good mood. Alexia's husband, Jonathan,
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  Speaker 1: finally arrived sometime around a thirty and he, along with
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the group, had a wonderful night eating
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  Speaker 1: and drinking and chatting. After dinner was cleaned up, Alexia's
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  Speaker 1: father did go to bed, but everybody else stayed up
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  Speaker 1: and they all just continued having this nice time until
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  Speaker 1: around eleven PM, when Alexia said it was really time
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  Speaker 1: for her and Jonathan to head home. They both had
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  Speaker 1: early mornings ahead of them. Jonathan had some errands to
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  Speaker 1: run in the morning, and Alexia was hoping to get
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  Speaker 1: a workout in a few minutes later. On the drive home,
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  Speaker 1: Alexia sat in the passenger seat of Jonathan's car. She'd
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  Speaker 1: left her own car at her parents' house because she'd
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  Speaker 1: been drinking, and she was planning to pick it up
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  Speaker 1: when they came back the next day. Alexia and Jonathan's
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  Speaker 1: house was on a quiet residential street only about a
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  Speaker 1: mile away from Alexia's parents' house, and as they made
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  Speaker 1: their way down the road, Alexia glanced out the window
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  Speaker 1: at a particular house that was just up the street
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  Speaker 1: from where they lived, and as she looked at it,
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  Speaker 1: she frowned. The neighbor who lived in that house had
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  Speaker 1: an adult grandson who had been harassing Alexia all summer.
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  Speaker 1: He'd been a obsessed with her and would call and
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  Speaker 1: text her constantly, to the point where Alexia didn't feel
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  Speaker 1: safe even going out for a jog around the block
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  Speaker 1: when she was by herself. Now, Fortunately, the harassment had
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  Speaker 1: stopped a couple of months ago, but only because the
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  Speaker 1: man had been committed to a mental hospital. But Alexia
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  Speaker 1: didn't really know how long it would be until he
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  Speaker 1: got out again, or if he'd already been released. She
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  Speaker 1: didn't know, so it just sort of felt like a reprieve,
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  Speaker 1: not a long term solution. But on this night, at
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  Speaker 1: least there was nobody peering out at her from the
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  Speaker 1: neighbor's window. A minute later, their car pulled into their
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  Speaker 1: garage and Alexia and Jonathan got out, And as Alexia
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  Speaker 1: went from the garage into the main house, she passed
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  Speaker 1: by a treadmill in the corner of the garage, which
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  Speaker 1: had broken down a few weeks ago. She asked Jonathan
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  Speaker 1: if he'd gotten around fixing it yet, and he said no.
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  Speaker 1: Alexia just sighed. It was supposed to be a very
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  Speaker 1: cold and gloomy morning the next day, and so it
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  Speaker 1: looked like she was going to have to run outside.
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  Speaker 1: The following morning, around eleven am, Jonathan walked up to
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  Speaker 1: the door of Alexia's parents' house and rang the doorbell,
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  Speaker 1: and as he did, he sort of gave a worried
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  Speaker 1: look over his shoulder.
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  Speaker 2: At Alexia's car, which was still parked where they'd left
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  Speaker 2: it the night before.
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  Speaker 1: Jonathan took a deep breath and tried not to show
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  Speaker 1: how anxious he felt as Alexia's mother, Isabel, answered the
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  Speaker 1: door and then, in a very shaky voice, Jonathan said
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  Speaker 1: hello and asked her if she'd seen or heard from
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  Speaker 1: her daughter recently, and when Isabel said she had not,
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  Speaker 1: Jonathan completely lost his composure. He said that morning Alexia
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  Speaker 1: had gone out for a jog but not come back,
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  Speaker 1: and now he was starting to get really worried. He
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  Speaker 1: explained that he'd tried texting Alexia, but she still hadn't answered,
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  Speaker 1: and by this point she should have been home a
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  Speaker 1: long time ago, so something was wrong. A moment later,
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  Speaker 1: Jonathan saw Stephanie and Gregory coming out of the guest
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  Speaker 1: room with very concerned looks on their faces. They joined
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  Speaker 1: Jonathan and Isabel at the front door and asked what
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  Speaker 1: the commotion was about, and so Jonathan sort of frantically
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  Speaker 1: re explained the situation and asked if either of them
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  Speaker 1: had heard from Alexia in the last hour or so,
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  Speaker 1: but they shook their heads and said they hadn't, But
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  Speaker 1: Stephanie showed Jonathan that she had received a text from
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  Speaker 1: Alexia at nine point thirty that morning, just to say
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  Speaker 1: that she was going out for this jog, but after that,
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  Speaker 1: none of them had received any text or calls from Alexia.
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  Speaker 1: Jonathan was crying at this point, and so Alexia's family
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  Speaker 1: tried to assure him that, you know, Alexia would probably
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  Speaker 1: just show up at the house any minute here, like
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  Speaker 1: nothing's going on. I'm sure she's just running late. And
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  Speaker 1: Jonathan he wanted to believe this, but this was completely unusual,
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  Speaker 1: Like this was not normal for Alexia to be gone
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  Speaker 1: for this long without being in touch.
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  Speaker 2: It just didn't make sense.
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  Speaker 1: It was at this point that Jonathan's brother in law, Gregory,
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  Speaker 1: reached out and put his hand on Jonathan in a
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  Speaker 1: sort of comforting way and just said, look, if it
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  Speaker 1: makes you feel any better, I'll go back with you
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  Speaker 1: and we can literally go look for Alexia together, or
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  Speaker 1: at least be together until she comes back. Jonathan didn't
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  Speaker 1: really know what to do, but he was very thankful
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  Speaker 1: and said, yep, that would be great, and so a
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  Speaker 1: couple of minutes later, the two men got in Gregory's
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  Speaker 1: SUV and they began driving back towards their house, but
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  Speaker 1: Jonathan actually navigated him through the streets along the running
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  Speaker 1: route that Alexia usually took to see if maybe they
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  Speaker 1: could find her. They drove down all the side streets
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  Speaker 1: looking for her, and then when they reached the edge
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  Speaker 1: of town, Jonathan and Gregory got out of the car
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  Speaker 1: and began checking the paths leading into the countryside and
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  Speaker 1: also the ditches and the banks of the river, but
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  Speaker 1: they didn't find Alexia anywhere, and then eventually they just
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  Speaker 1: drove back to Jonathan and Alexia's house as if maybe
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  Speaker 1: she'd finally come home with an explanation for all this,
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  Speaker 1: but she had not come home. At this point, Jonathan
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  Speaker 1: was completely beside himself, and so Gregory, doing his best
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  Speaker 1: to stay calm, said you know what, let's go to
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  Speaker 1: the hospital and see if Alexia had turned up there.
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  Speaker 1: A few minutes later, when they stopped in the parking
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  Speaker 1: lot of the local hospital, Jonathan jumped out of the
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  Speaker 1: car and ran towards the main entrance, where two nurses
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  Speaker 1: were taking a cigarette break. Jonathan told these nurses that
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  Speaker 1: he was here looking for his wife and that she'd
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  Speaker 1: gone on a run three hours ago and no one
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  Speaker 1: knew where she was now, and maybe she's here so
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  Speaker 1: the nurses, who could clearly tell this was an emergency,
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  Speaker 1: they put out their cigarettes and went inside to check
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  Speaker 1: the register.
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  Speaker 2: But a minute later they came.
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  Speaker 1: Back and told the men that no Alexia Daval had
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  Speaker 1: not been admitted that morning.
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  Speaker 2: She was not here.
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  Speaker 1: the nurses just said, look, you've.
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  Speaker 1: mister ballin. Later that afternoon, a police officer named Adeline
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  Speaker 1: Po sat across from Jonathan in a room at the
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  Speaker 1: Gray Police station as he explained what had happened with
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  Speaker 1: his wife that she was missing. Jonathan also gave a
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  Speaker 1: description of what Alexia had been wearing when she went
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  Speaker 1: out running, bright pink shoes, black leggings, and a red jacket,
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  Speaker 1: so pretty easy to spot. And then after describing her
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  Speaker 1: and sort of realizing the weight of what he was
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  Speaker 1: here for, he just put his head in his hands
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  Speaker 1: and continued to weep, as he had been doing much
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  Speaker 1: of the morning. Now, Po could obviously tell that Jonathan
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  Speaker 1: was very upset here, but she had to ask the
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  Speaker 1: question that was our forming in her mind. So as
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  Speaker 1: delicately as possible, she asked Jonathan if his wife had
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  Speaker 1: any suicidal tendencies or any reason she might have run
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  Speaker 1: off without telling anybody. Jonathan looked up really quickly and
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  Speaker 1: just shook his head and said no, and said that
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  Speaker 1: overall his wife was very happy and definitely not suicidal. However,
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  Speaker 1: as he sat there thinking about it, he said she
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  Speaker 1: had been taking hormones for fertility, and realistically, those hormones
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  Speaker 1: appeared to have affected her really badly. For example, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: she would lose control of her emotions entirely and even
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  Speaker 1: become violent, or in other instances, he said that she
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  Speaker 1: would even have memory lapses where she wouldn't even know
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  Speaker 1: what she was doing when she was doing it. It
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  Speaker 1: was like she had become this different person. Po nodded
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  Speaker 1: and just listened to Jonathan and wrote down everything he
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  Speaker 1: was saying, and then when he was done, she followed
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  Speaker 1: up and said, you know, can you think of anybody
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  Speaker 1: who might have had a problem with alexia? And for
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  Speaker 1: a moment, Jonathan just sat there in silence, kind of
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  Speaker 1: mulling over the question, and then suddenly his eyes went wide,
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  Speaker 1: like he had just realized something. He told p Oh
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  Speaker 1: that they had a neighbor who had been completely obsessed
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  Speaker 1: with alexia earlier that year. He said his name was Arnault.
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  Speaker 1: And he'd been obsessively calling and texting her so many
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  Speaker 1: times that Alexia had actually had to block his number
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  Speaker 1: and had actually talked about how she was fearful of
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  Speaker 1: going out alone because of this neighbor. But just a
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  Speaker 1: couple of months earlier, he had been sent to a
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  Speaker 1: psychiatric hospital, and because he was literally removed from the neighborhood,
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  Speaker 1: the harassment had stopped, but Jonathan said they were kind
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  Speaker 1: of worried that at some point he would come back
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  Speaker 1: and then he would be a problem again. And realistically,
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  Speaker 1: Jonathan said, he could be home now.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't know. I don't know where he is.
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  Speaker 2: He Oh was obviously very intrigued by.
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  Speaker 1: This, and so after this interview was over with Jonathan,
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  Speaker 1: she and her investigative team began digging into this Arnaul
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  Speaker 1: guid to see where he was and what was going
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  Speaker 1: on with him, and pretty quickly they discovered that while
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  Speaker 1: Arnault had gone to that psychiatric hospital that was true,
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  Speaker 1: he was not there anymore.
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  Speaker 2: He had been released.
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  Speaker 1: And so that night another officer with the Gray Police
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  Speaker 1: knocked on the door of Arnau's mother's house where Arnaut
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  Speaker 1: was staying, which was about an hour away from Alexia.
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  Speaker 1: And Jonathan's house. After the officer knocked, a middle aged
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  Speaker 1: woman answered the door, and when the officer asked if
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  Speaker 1: she was Arnaut's mother, she said she was. The officer
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  Speaker 1: looked past her and he could see there was this
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  Speaker 1: disheveled looking young man sitting right inside, and he asked
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  Speaker 1: the mother if if that was our No, and again
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  Speaker 1: the woman said yes. At this point, the officer asked
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  Speaker 1: the mother if he could come inside, because he said
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  Speaker 1: he needed to speak privately with her son. The mother
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  Speaker 1: and Arnaux in the background both seemed very confused by this,
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  Speaker 1: but after a minute they both agreed and the officer
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  Speaker 1: came inside. And so the officer went inside the house
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  Speaker 1: and sat down in the living room with our No
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  Speaker 1: while Arnaul's mother went to the kitchen to give the
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  Speaker 1: men some privacy. And then once the mother was gone,
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  Speaker 1: the officer looked at our No and just said.
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  Speaker 2: He had some questions about Alexia Deval.
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  Speaker 1: Arnault immediately looked down at this question like he was
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  Speaker 1: in bar and couldn't even look at the officer. Then
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  Speaker 1: he looked back up again and told the officer that
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  Speaker 1: he had bipolar disorder and sometimes when he was in
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  Speaker 1: a manicked state he acted inappropriately towards women, including Alexia.
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  Speaker 1: The officer followed up about all those messages that apparently
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  Speaker 1: our no had sent to Alexia that summer, like what
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  Speaker 1: was going on with that, and Arnau admitted that he
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  Speaker 1: had done that, but he insisted it really was no
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  Speaker 1: big deal. He said that he and Alexia knew each
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  Speaker 1: other because they had been neighbors at one point, and
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  Speaker 1: they'd also hung out in a group setting once, and
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  Speaker 1: so him being in touch with her was not totally weird,
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  Speaker 1: like they had a real connection. But Arnault clarified that
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  Speaker 1: when Alexia told him to stop contacting.
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  Speaker 2: Her, he did and that was the end of it.
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  Speaker 1: But this caught the officer's attention because, according to Alexia's husband, Jonathan,
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  Speaker 1: the only reason that all the calls and texts had
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  Speaker 1: stopped was because Alexia literally had to block Arnau's phone number.
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  Speaker 1: So the officer just cut to the chase here and
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  Speaker 1: told Arnau that Alexia was missing, and then before Arnau
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  Speaker 1: could say anything, the officer asked him where he'd been
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  Speaker 1: that morning at nine am, and Arno said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I was right here.
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  Speaker 2: I was at home with my mom. For a moment, the.
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  Speaker 1: Officer just stared at our not trying to read his
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  Speaker 1: body language to see if maybe he was being deceptive
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  Speaker 1: or not. So eventually the officer just stood up and
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  Speaker 1: went into the kitchen where the mother was, and he
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  Speaker 1: asked the mother, where was your son this morning? And
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  Speaker 1: she told the officer with sort of a bewildered look
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  Speaker 1: in her face, that he was here with me all morning.
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  Speaker 1: And so at this point it was clear to the
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  Speaker 1: officer that, you know, if the mother was telling the
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  Speaker 1: truth here, it would officially rule out Arn as a suspect,
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  Speaker 1: because you know, he was here. But the officer also
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  Speaker 1: knew that generally speaking, mothers do not make the best alibis,
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  Speaker 1: because mothers are known to lie, cheat, steel, and do
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  Speaker 1: anything to protect their kids. The following afternoon, on Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: October twenty ninth, Chief Officer Frank Peretis glanced out his
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  Speaker 1: office window as yet another news van sped past outside
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  Speaker 1: down the usually quiet streets of Gray. By now, Alexia's
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: disappearance had blown up into this huge national news story,
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: and this was making it really difficult for Perettis, who
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: was in charge of the investigation. Now it was still
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: early in the investigation, but already he and his investigators
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: were being hounded by reporters and camera crews at every step.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: Perettas closed his eyes and tried to focus on what
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: his next step should be. The search effort was well underway.
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: They had called in reinforcements from nearby towns and even
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: organized search teams with volunteers from the public. At that
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: very moment, law enforcement was also using drones and dogs
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: to scour the town and the surrounding woods. Perettas's investigation
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: team had also searched Jonathan and Alexia's home by now
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: secretly hoping they might find something to pin the disappearance
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: on Jonathan, but there was no blood, no sign of
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: a struggle, and no clues that gave them any direction there.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: And also all of Alexia's other family members, her parents
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: or sister Stephanie, and her brother in law Gregory, they
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: could all vouch for each other's whereabout on the morning
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: of Alexia's disappearance, they claimed they had all been at
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: the house together and so without any real leads, Perettas
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: had gotten so desperate for any information that he'd literally
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: told his team to set up checkpoints out in the
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: streets and just stop random people and ask them if
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: they had seen or heard anything that could help them
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: find Alexia. And now, as Perettas sat in his office
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: wondering what he was going to do today, he heard
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: a knock at his door, and a moment later, one
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: of his investigators entered with fairly surprising news the checkpoints
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: actually had turned up something. Perettez listened intently as the
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: investigator explained that a number of people he'd spoken to
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: had mentioned a van. Now, no one had actually seen
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: the van themselves, but they all appeared to have heard
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: the same rumor that apparently there was a man driving
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: around the area in this white van, and he was
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: known to harassed girls and women right out on the street. Now,
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: at first glance, you know, Peretz was worried that perhaps
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: this was just like an unfounded rumor, and he remembered
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: there were actually two men in Alexia's family who literally
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: drove white vans. Her father, Jean Pierre he owned one,
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: and her husband, Jonathan, he drove one for work. On
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: the afternoon of Monday, October thirtieth, so a little more
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: than two days after Alexia went missing, Perettaz brought his
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: car to a stop next to a news van parked
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: in the middle of the woods about four miles outside
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: of town. Minutes ago, he had received a call from
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: an officer in the field telling him that Alexia's body
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: had been found, and so Perettas had driven out to
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: the scene as fast as he could. But now that
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Perettas was here at the crime scene, he could tell
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: obviously he was late to the game, because a news
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: crew was already here setting up their cameras near a
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: row of police barriers, and Perettas was disappointed to see
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: this because he'd hoped that if and when her body
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: was discovered, if she was found dead at that time,
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: he would have had at least one suspect or hopefully
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: multiple suspects identified and under surveillance before the word got
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: out to the general public that Alexia was found dead.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: But now he obviously would not.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Get that chance.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Peretta's side climbed out of his car and flashed his
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: badge to an officer, who led him around the barriers
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: and into the crime scene. Perettas approached one of the
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: forensics experts who was taking photos and placing yellow numbered
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: markers around on the ground, and Perettas introduced himself as
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: the lead investigator. The expert then led him over to
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Alexia's body, which was lying on the ground between two
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: tree trunks, covered by a white bed sheet. Her pink
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: running shoes were poking out from under the sheet, and
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Perettas noticed that her feet and the sheet were both
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: partially burned, as if someone had tried to set them
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: on fire at some point. Once the scene had been
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: fully photographed, Perettas bent down and lifted the sheet to
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: get a better look at Alexia's body. She was lying
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: on her back, and there were bruises all over her face,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: and there were also marks on her neck that looked
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: like they were from strangulation. And right away Perettas noticed
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: a couple of things that were unusual. First, Alexia's hands
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: were placed neatly in the pockets of her coat, as
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: though her body had been placed there on the.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Ground with a lot of care.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Second, despite the beating that Alexia's face, had apparently taken
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: her glasses or placed perfectly on her face, and so
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: to Perettees, it seemed like whoever killed Alexia had felt
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: some sort of remorse afterwards. It was as though the
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: killer had committed this incredibly violent murderer. But then had
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: tried to kind of put everything back in order afterward,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: and this made Perettas think that Alexia's killer was very
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: likely someone who knew Alexia and not a stranger who simply,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: you know, accosted her during a jog. Just then, Peretta's
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: heard somebody call his name and he stood up to
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: take a look. Nearby, there was a forensics tech that
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: was waving him over, and so Perettas walked over and
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: the attech showed Perettez what he had just found. It
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: was a gray plastic cap that looked like it belonged
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: on some kind of spray can. Peretta's thought, you know,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: maybe this could help explain these strange burn marks on
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: the bed sheet and also Alexia's shoes. You know, the
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: killer had probably sprayed something on the body to try
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: and help it catch fire, but it didn't work as
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: well as they thought it would. Just then, another forensics
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: tech called Peretas over to them to show him something
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: else they had found, tire tracks in the dirt. Perettaz
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: immediately thought about that tip that he had been given
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: about this man with this person driving around town harassing
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: women and girls, and he wondered if maybe that was
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: true that this van was involved and that these had
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: been left by the killer when they were transporting Alexia's body.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: And so as this forensics expert began taking photographs of
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: the tire tracks, Peretz made a mental note to examine
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: the tires of every suspect family member and other persons
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: of interest they came across, just in case one of
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: them was a match. And so Peretz was about to
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: turn his attention back to the body when he noticed
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: one more unusual thing out.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: In the woods.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: There was this young man who did not appear to
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: be a reporter, just kind of wandering around out there
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: in the trees, almost lurking near the crime scene. And
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: so immediately Peretaz went over to the sky and demanded
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: to know what he was doing. And at this the
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: man went completely wide eyed and just started stuttering, like
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: he was totally caught off guard. Eventually, the guy managed
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: to mumble that he was just out here picking mushrooms,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: but Perettes could tell he was obviously lying that was
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: not why he was out here, and so, operating on
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: sort of a gut instinct, Perettes pulled out his handcuffs
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: and placed the man under arrest. Later that same afternoon,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: just hours after Alexia's body had been discovered in the
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: woods outside of town, Perettaz sat down at a table
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: at the Gray police station across from this suspicious young
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: man he just arrested for lurking near the crime scene
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: for no clear reason, and Perettaz was pleased. I mean,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: he'd only been in charge of what was now a
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: murder investigation for a couple of hours, and here he
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: was about to speak to a legitimate suspect, really like
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: the first suspect who was in custody. But as soon
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: as Perettes actually began speak to this suspect, he realized
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: that the young man's stutter was not really a sign of.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: Him being nervous.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: He actually had speech issues, and he struggled to speak
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: at all even when he wasn't nervous. The man was
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: eventually able to explain that his name was Anthony and
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: he was twenty nine years old. He said he lived
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: with his parents in Apremont, another small town about five
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: miles away, and he admitted that he had lied about
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: being there to pick mushrooms, and so Paretta's pressed Anthony
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: to explain then why he was there and Anthony, I mean,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: he seemed a little embarrassed as he began to explain,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: But what he said was he didn't know Alexia personally.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: He had just heard about her disappearance in the news
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: and he wanted to help with the search effort. But
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Anthony said he couldn't read or write, so he had
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: not been able to fill out the paperwork to join
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: the official search party, so instead he'd just driven out
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: to the woods in his own car to look for
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Alexia himself. But while he was out there, you know,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: the police showed up and clearly there was something going on,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: and when Perettas walked over to him, Anthony said he
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: got scared and just lied and said, oh, I'm out
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: here picking mushrooms. Like he said, it was just embarrassment.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: And as Peretta sat there listening to the story, he
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: wasn't quite sure what to make of it, or really
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: what to make of Anthony. I mean, Anthony's demeanor seemed
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: almost childlike, but his behavior was not childlike. It was
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: very adult like and pretty suspicious. So Perettas followed up
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: by asking him what he was doing on the morning
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: of October twenty eighth, which was the morning Alexia went missing.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Anthony said he'd woken up at his parents' house and
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: had breakfast with them before he went out with his
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: girlfriend and also another friend, and he gave Perettas their
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: names and also their phone numbers so they could confirm it.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: So Paretta stepped out of the room and he did
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: exactly that.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: He called the various phone numbers and spoke to the
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: people in Anthony's life, and they.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: All corroborated his alibi.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: So despite how suspicious Anthony had been acting, Perettas had
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: no choice but to let Anthony go. A week later,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: on November fifth, a march was organized in Alexia's honor.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Ten thousand people turned out to show their support for
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Alexia's family and also to protest violence against women and
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Hidden among this huge crowd was a pair of police
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: officers who'd been assigned to follow Alexia's husband, Jonathan de Ball.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: At this point, Jonathan really was looking like the most
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: obvious suspect, since he was the husband and also the
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: last person to see Alexia alive. So the police had
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: tapped his phone and put him under surveillance. But all
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: they had learned so far from the phone taps was
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: that Jonathan made frequent calls to Alexia's family, to his
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: own siblings and his friends to talk about how much
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: he missed his wife, and the officers who were literally
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: following Jonathan around found that he really rarely left his
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: house except to visit Alexia's parents, which he did almost
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: every day. But so far, it was like none of
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Jonathan's behavior actually seemed really suspicious at all.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: And now at.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: This big march, the investigators stood in the crowd and
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: watched as Jonathan hobbled his way up the steps to
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: the podium, followed by Alexia's mother and father, And in fact,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Jonathan was trembling so much by the time he got
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: up there that Alexia's parents had to physically prop him
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: up before he could begin reading his speech to the crowd.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: And so at this point the investigators just kind of
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: exchanged a glance. Either they were wasting their time following
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: an obviously grieving husband with nothing to hide, or Jonathan
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: was like a world class actor giving the performance of
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: a lifetime. But the investigators knew that until new evidence
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: presented itself, there was really nothing they could do but
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: you know, watch and wait, which included watching Jonathan and
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: just seeing what he did. They were also still waiting
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: on the tire analysis from the crime scene, but they
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: didn't expect much to come from it.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: At this point.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: The creepy white band story seemed to be more like
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: an urban legend in this town. And so, you know,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: as the weeks turned two months and still there was
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: no progress on this case, the investigators, including parentees, began
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: to wonder if this case.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Would ever be solved.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: But then all of a sudden, new evidence did appear,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: and when it did, the the investigators realized they might
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: have been following the wrong lead this whole time, because
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: while they'd been focused on surveilling Jonathan, a second body
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: had just turned up in the.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: Woods outside of Gray.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: On the evening of Saturday, January sixth, twenty eighteen, Chief
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Officer Perettes was at his desk pouring over the evidence
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: that had been flooding in all day. The new victim,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: whose body had been found earlier that same day in
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: the woods very close to where Alexia's body had been found,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: was a thirty eight year old father of three.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: He looked to have died.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: From a gunshot wound to the head, although according to
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: the autopsy report, the man had a blood alcohol level
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: of almost zero point four.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: Percent, which is huge.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: I mean, that can be fatal on its own, or
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: at the very least knock somebody unconscious. Investigators had found
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: gunpowder on the man's hand, so for now they were
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: treating his death as a suicide. But the more Paradas
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: looked into the evidence, the less convinced he became that
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: he was looking at a suicide because, you know, a
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: gun had been found at the scene, but it had
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: not been located very close to the dead man's body.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: In fact, the gun was found one hundred and thirty
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: feet away from the body, in a trash can. The
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: only explanation would be he shot himself and then put
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: the gun in the trash can and then somehow wandered
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty feet away before collapsing and dying.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: That was possible, albeit highly unlikely. Being shot in the
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: head typically is immediately incapacitating or lethal, But it is
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: possible he could have shot himself and lived long enough
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: to travel one hundred and thirty feet.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: It just seemed very unlikely.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: So now Perettas sat back in his chair and just
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: tried to think. It was strange enough to have two
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: violent deaths in this same quiet town, let alone, to
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: have the bodies be found basically in the exact same
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: spot in the surrounding woods. It just seemed too coincidental
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: not to be looked into. So he had to wonder,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: you know, maybe there was a connection between this man's
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: death and Alexius. But later that same month, as Peretta's
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: skinned over a document that had just derived from the
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: crime lab, he wasn't thinking about that second body in
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: the woods anymore because this new document in his hands
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: was an expert analysis of those tire tracks that had
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: been found in the woods near Alexia's body, and the
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: analysis showed that there was a tiny defect in the
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: tread of one of the tires, and this defect was
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: so specific that the experts had been able to determine
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: exactly which vehicle left those tracks in the woods, and
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: this vehicle just so happened to be a white van.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Perettas felt his pulse quicken as he kept on reading,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: and a moment later he reached for his phone and
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: he called a supervisor to tell him the good news.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: He knew the identity of Alexia's killer.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Based on that.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: Tire track analysis. And also other evidence, including an eventual
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: confession from the killer. This is how police beleeb Alexia
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: de All was killed. The killer was almost blind with rage.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: They slammed Alexia's head against a nearby wall and then
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: hit her over and over again, and then they wrapped
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: their hands around her neck and they squeezed for so
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: long they lost track of time. They were just crushing
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: her neck, and then finally they couldn't feel her pulse
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: under their fingers anymore. Then, looking down at Alexia's motionless
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: body on the ground, they realized the severity of what
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: they had just done, and so the killer, in a panic,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: crouched down next to her and actually tried to wake
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: her up, but it was too late. She was dead,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: and so now they're really panicking. They thought about maybe
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: killing themselves out of guilt, but they were too scared
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: to go through with it, so instead they hatched a
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: plan to get rid of Alexia's body. The killer very
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: carefully put Alexia's glasses back on her face, and then
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: they lifted her up and they carried her body out
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: to their vehicle. Then they drove out to the woods
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: and dragged her body by the feet to a secluded
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: spot deep in the trees, where they hoped nobody would
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: ever find her. They covered Alexia's body in a sheet,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: and then they sprayed the sheet with this foam that
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: they thought was flammable, hoping that once they lit it
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: on fire, it would help dispose of the body. But
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: when they got their lighter out and held the flame
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: to the sheet, it didn't really work. And so finally,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: when it was clear they were not going to be
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: able to burn the body here, the killer just left
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: her there and then drove away in their white van,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: getting home in time to dispose of all the evidence,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: take a shower, and start the next phase of the
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: cover up, which was to knock on Alexia's mother's door
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: in a fake panic, asking if anybody had seen her daughter.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Because Alexia's killer was her own husband, Jonathan, it turns
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: out Alexia never even went for a run on the
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: morning of October twenty eighth. She was murdered the night before,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: after she and Jonathan had gotten back from her parents' house.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: They had gotten into a big fight, which obviously resulted
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: in her death. From the outside, Jonathan and Alexia appeared
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: to be a very happy couple, but in reality, they'd
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: been arguing more and more often, primarily because they were
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: not able to have a baby. It was causing a
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: lot of friction in their marriage. And so on the
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: night of October twenty seventh, in the middle of this
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: horrible fight they're having, Jonathan grabbed his keys and tried
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: to leave, but Alexia told him to stop running away
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: from their problems and tried to literally take the keys
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: from him, and according to Jonathan, that's when he just
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: snapped and he killed her. And then he used his
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: workman to dispose.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: Of the body.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: As for that second body that was found in the
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: woods months later, that was determined to be a suicide
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: and completely unrelated to Alexia's death. Jonathan was arrested on
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  Speaker 1: January twenty eighth, twenty eighteen, and two days after his arrest,
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  Speaker 1: he confessed to the murder. At the end of his
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  Speaker 1: trial in twenty twenty, he was convicted and sentenced to
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  Speaker 1: twenty five.
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  Speaker 2: Years in prison. Thank you so much for watching.
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