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The Disappearance of his 3rd Wife Exposed the Murders of his Previous Ones - Documentary · The Evolution of Evil - True Crime Stories

• 0:04
  Speaker 1: He told them that she had run off.
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  Speaker 2: He looks over and he sees a skull on the ground.
• 0:15
  Speaker 3: Nothing really adds up.
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  Speaker 2: We got all these other women that he's involved with, well,
• 0:23
  Speaker 2: they're all dead.
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  Speaker 4: This guy is a killing machine.
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  Speaker 5: Every murder is a mystery, but a victim's body is
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  Speaker 5: a sea of evidence. Every fighter is a clue, every
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  Speaker 5: wound a piece.
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  Speaker 6: Of the puzzle.
• 0:49
  Speaker 5: The medical examiner holds the key to unlock their stories
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  Speaker 5: and catch a killer. This is Secrets of the Morgue.
• 1:05
  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 4: Arlington, Texas is located directly in the middle of Dallas.
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  Speaker 6: At for Worth.
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  Speaker 1: Families love being here because Arlington's known to be safe.
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  Speaker 2: There is crime in Arlington, but it's on a much
• 1:25
  Speaker 2: much lower scale.
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  Speaker 5: On a quiet Wednesday night, Detective Evans receives a tip,
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  Speaker 5: one that will pull police into a decade's old mystery.
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  Speaker 2: I was a detective in the Juvenile Division of the
• 1:40
  Speaker 2: Arlington Police Department, and I was assigned for a month
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  Speaker 2: to work missing persons cases because the regular detective it
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  Speaker 2: was often a call comes in to the police department
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  Speaker 2: from some subjects that were concerned about Emalita Reeves.
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  Speaker 5: Her worried friends report that they have not seen or
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  Speaker 5: heard from her since the morning of October eleventh.
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  Speaker 1: Emilina was a Filipino girl. She married Jack Reeves in
• 2:14
  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty seven. He moved her to Texas with the
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: promise of a better life, and no one seemed to
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  Speaker 1: know what happened to her.
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  Speaker 2: So we dispatch a couple of our patrol officers over
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  Speaker 2: to the location to check it out. They go over
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  Speaker 2: to the front door and meet Jack Reeves. They told
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  Speaker 2: him why they were there. They were checking on Emalita Reeves.
• 2:43
  Speaker 2: Jack was very apprehensive and talking with the officers. They
• 2:50
  Speaker 2: had a small child and he had the child up
• 2:52
  Speaker 2: there with him by the door. He exclaims, yes, and
• 2:57
  Speaker 2: Melita's gone. I believe she's with a lover of her.
• 3:00
  Speaker 2: She does this all the time and everything's fine.
• 3:08
  Speaker 1: He told them he was very angry that she was
• 3:11
  Speaker 1: having a relationship with someone else.
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  Speaker 5: But for Detective Evans, this is not case closed. His
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  Speaker 5: first step is getting more information.
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  Speaker 2: Emilita had friends in Arlington that she had been having
• 3:26
  Speaker 2: regular contact with.
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  Speaker 1: When Emilita came to Arlington, she was very isolated, although
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: she did make friends and that's who she depended on.
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  Speaker 1: Her friends completely supported her emotionally. Anytime that she needed
• 3:45
  Speaker 1: to talk, they were there. They really loved Emilita.
• 3:50
  Speaker 2: They were very helpful in giving us information that this
• 3:54
  Speaker 2: is not a normal situation. Emilita would have not left
• 3:57
  Speaker 2: her son in any way just to go off. That
• 4:00
  Speaker 2: was not her behavior or her character.
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  Speaker 5: When five days passed with no word of Emilita, Detective
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  Speaker 5: Tommy Lenore is also a signed to the case.
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  Speaker 6: Going into law enforcement.
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  Speaker 4: Initially, I didn't know if that was going to be
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  Speaker 4: my career choice. It's not a job, it's a lifestyle.
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  Speaker 4: It's my entire world.
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  Speaker 5: The detective's main source of information is the woman who
• 4:30
  Speaker 5: first reported Emilita's disappearance, her friend Mona Lisa.
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: Mona Lisa and Emilita Reeves were very good friends. They
• 4:41
  Speaker 1: spent a lot of time together, were on the phone constantly.
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  Speaker 1: So when Mona Lisa had no contact with Emalida, then
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  Speaker 1: she became instantly worried that something had happened to her.
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  Speaker 1: Emilita had trusted Mona Lisa with secrets about her marriage.
• 5:01
  Speaker 6: Emilita is a mail order bride.
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  Speaker 4: Jack Reeves met her through a publication called Cherry Blossoms.
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  Speaker 1: The women who were advertised in these magazines were trying
• 5:16
  Speaker 1: to flee poverty and help their families. Emilita never loved Jack.
• 5:22
  Speaker 1: It was strictly an arrangement that she made so that
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  Speaker 1: her parents would have financial stability that they needed.
• 5:32
  Speaker 5: After further questioning, Mona Lisa reveals an important secret to investigators.
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  Speaker 1: Mona Lisa admitted that she and Emlita were having a relationship.
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  Speaker 2: Because of the strains of her marriage. Emlita was reaching
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  Speaker 2: out for some kind of closeness. Mona Lisa was willing
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  Speaker 2: to meet those needs and be involved with her.
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  Speaker 5: They must now consider what else Mona Lisa may be
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  Speaker 5: hiding about Emalita.
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  Speaker 4: Everyone's a suspect, period. You don't ignore anyone someone is
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  Speaker 4: romantically involved with someone, especially if you have somewhat of
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  Speaker 4: a lover triangle.
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  Speaker 6: That is something we need to look at.
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  Speaker 5: But detectives determine Mona Lisa has a solid alibi.
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  Speaker 4: Mona Lisa was not present at the window of time
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  Speaker 4: that we believe Emilita was disappearing.
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  Speaker 2: She was genuinely concerned about Emilita in her welfare. She
• 6:43
  Speaker 2: seemed to be more of a witness instead of a suspect.
• 6:49
  Speaker 5: But Mona Lisa has an additional secret to share. Emilita
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  Speaker 5: is also having an affair with a man.
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  Speaker 1: Tony is another member of the Asian community in Arlington.
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  Speaker 5: Investigators learned that the night Emalita disappeared, she was supposed
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  Speaker 5: to meet Tony.
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  Speaker 2: We reclued in that he may be involved in this,
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  Speaker 2: so we had to try to find out where Tony was.
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  Speaker 5: Detective Evans tracks him down at his home for questioning.
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  Speaker 2: He said she never showed up. She just never called,
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  Speaker 2: never communicated, and the meeting had never occurred.
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  Speaker 5: Before Tony's story can be verified, police discover a critical
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  Speaker 5: piece of evidence.
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  Speaker 2: They had found Emilita's vehicle abandoned then a Hopper Mart.
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  Speaker 2: It was sitting there, just parked, abandoned, nobody around it,
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  Speaker 2: and so there's a lot of concern here as to
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  Speaker 2: who did she go meet with or if she's being harmed,
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  Speaker 2: maybe someone's holding her against her will.
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  Speaker 5: Investigators rushed to the parking lot to search the abandoned vehicle.
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  Speaker 1: Emily's car was not locked. This was very unusual. Emlida
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  Speaker 1: always locked her car. Her son's car seat was taken
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  Speaker 1: out of the back. She always had it with her
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  Speaker 1: in case she had to take him somewhere. She was
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  Speaker 1: very protective of him.
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  Speaker 2: Emilita was very small in stature, and she would have
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  Speaker 2: to have her driver's seat pushed up pretty close to
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  Speaker 2: the steering whell to be able to reach the pedals
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  Speaker 2: with her feet. But in this case, this car was
• 8:45
  Speaker 2: not set that way. This car seat was all the
• 8:48
  Speaker 2: way back with the headrest back. For a larger.
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  Speaker 1: Person Emily that could not have driven the car the
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  Speaker 1: way that it was found. She would not have gotten
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: out of the car pushed the seat all the way
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  Speaker 1: back as it was.
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  Speaker 6: This is much more than just a regular missing person.
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  Speaker 5: The detectives focus on who could have dumped Emalita's car.
• 9:16
  Speaker 2: There was a location across the street and down a
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  Speaker 2: little bit that Tony did work at, and so you
• 9:23
  Speaker 2: had to consider that he said I didn't see her,
• 9:26
  Speaker 2: I didn't talk to her, and yet he works at
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  Speaker 2: a location that's right across the street from where this
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  Speaker 2: car is found.
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  Speaker 4: That in itself would establish Tony as a suspect.
• 9:42
  Speaker 7: When you have infidelity, you've added another person into the mix.
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  Speaker 7: You have jealousy, you have rage, you have motives. All
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  Speaker 7: of these dynamics have to play into an investigator's mind
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  Speaker 7: as to what direction this investigation.
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  Speaker 6: Is going to take.
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  Speaker 5: Detectives interrogate Tony again, pushing hard for information.
• 10:03
  Speaker 4: When we explain to Tony that you are, in fact
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  Speaker 4: a potential suspect, he wasn't happy.
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: He offered to take a holygraph examination and he passed.
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  Speaker 4: That gives credence to the fact that he may not
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  Speaker 4: be responsible for Emalita's disappearance.
• 10:25
  Speaker 5: Not only does the line detector test put Tony in
• 10:27
  Speaker 5: the clear, he offers up another potential suspect.
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  Speaker 2: Tony believed that Jack was responsible. He and Emlita had talked.
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  Speaker 2: She was very unhappy Jack and very afraid for her safety.
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  Speaker 5: Evans and Lenore called Jack Reeves down to the station
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  Speaker 5: for a formal interview.
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  Speaker 2: Jack is overly giving of information. We find out that
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  Speaker 2: he was married back in the seventies when he was
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  Speaker 2: in the military, to a lady named Sharon Reeves, and
• 11:04
  Speaker 2: he said, oh, she died of suicide. She died from
• 11:11
  Speaker 2: a gunshot wound, so you go really.
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  Speaker 5: As the interview continues, Jack reveals that he met his
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  Speaker 5: next wife while stationed in South Korea as a sergeant
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  Speaker 5: in the US Army.
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  Speaker 1: Meyong was a very slight Asian girl. She had had
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: at least a two year relationship with her while he
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  Speaker 1: was in Korea. He promised her a better life in
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  Speaker 1: the United States.
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  Speaker 6: Jack tells us that he and Meong went fishing at
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  Speaker 6: Lake Whitney.
• 11:45
  Speaker 4: While he was out looking for crickets for fishing bait,
• 11:49
  Speaker 4: Meon was on a flotation device and had apparently fallen
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  Speaker 4: off that flotation device. Then she drowned in about four
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  Speaker 4: foot of water. The things that are coming together during
• 12:03
  Speaker 4: this interviews just incredible.
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  Speaker 5: For detectives. Two dead wives and one missing wife raises
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  Speaker 5: all kinds of red flags. They call in medical examiner
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  Speaker 5: doctor Jeffrey Barnard to investigate Sharon's suicide.
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  Speaker 3: Being a forensic pathologist is like putting together a jigsaw
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  Speaker 3: puzzle because you take multiple pieces of information and ultimately
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  Speaker 3: you put them together to come up with as.
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  Speaker 2: Clear a picture as you can.
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  Speaker 3: We act as spokesman for those persons who died, and
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  Speaker 3: so you want to give them a voice, and by
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  Speaker 3: giving them a voice, you want to be able to
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  Speaker 3: state what happened.
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  Speaker 5: First, doctor Barnard takes a hard look at sharon reeves
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  Speaker 5: reported cause of death.
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  Speaker 3: Ruling it a suicide, not sending the body for an
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  Speaker 3: autopsy was not inconsistent with the way cases were handled
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  Speaker 3: in the seventies. They took the word of the husband
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  Speaker 3: and they went on with it.
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  Speaker 5: But now that investigators have good reason to question Jack's
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  Speaker 5: version of events, they decide to re examine the case.
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  Speaker 3: It could be accident, it could be suicide, it could
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  Speaker 3: be homicide, or it could be undetermined. It may be
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  Speaker 3: painful for the family, but the truth is what you're seeking.
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  Speaker 2: We got all these other women that he's involved with,
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  Speaker 2: well they're all dead.
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  Speaker 4: He's either got the worst luck in the world, all right,
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  Speaker 4: this man is killing people.
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  Speaker 5: The search is still underway for Jack Reeves's missing wife, Emalita,
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  Speaker 5: but the investigation has now expanded to include two of
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  Speaker 5: his former wives.
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  Speaker 2: This case had to become much bigger than we thought.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't just about Emlita per se, although that was
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  Speaker 2: the goal and the focus was to find her, but
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  Speaker 2: there was a lot of things that Jacket said in
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  Speaker 2: a mission interview that needed to be followed up on.
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  Speaker 2: So when we found out about Sharon Reeves, Tommy basically
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  Speaker 2: tasked me find out what that's about.
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  Speaker 5: Jack was just twenty one years old in nineteen sixty
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  Speaker 5: one when he married Sharon.
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  Speaker 1: Sharon was a very sweet person, very Christian, and Jack
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  Speaker 1: was the bad boy. He kind of swept her off
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  Speaker 1: her feet. Jack joined the Service. He had a twenty
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  Speaker 1: five year career in the service, and he ended up
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  Speaker 1: in Korea.
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  Speaker 5: But Jack, being deployed over ten thousand miles away takes
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  Speaker 5: a heavy toll on their marriage.
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  Speaker 1: She had met someone that she fell in love with,
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  Speaker 1: and she decided that it was time to leave Jack.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as he got the divorce papers in Korea,
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  Speaker 1: he asked for an emergency lead and he flew home
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: immediately to confront Sharon. He said that he had come
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: home and wanted to work things out. She was very conflicted,
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  Speaker 1: he said, over whether she should leave her marriage and
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: leave the children. He said that Sharon was despondent and
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  Speaker 1: that she had committed suicide.
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  Speaker 8: We don't have a lot of evidence on this topic,
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  Speaker 8: but it's not very common for a failed marriage to
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  Speaker 8: end in suicide. That's not a very common outcome.
• 15:39
  Speaker 5: Detective Evans makes a call to the police who originally
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  Speaker 5: investigated the death of Sharon Reeves years before.
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  Speaker 2: I said, we are dealing with a missing person right
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  Speaker 2: now by the name of Emilita and she is married
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  Speaker 2: to Jack Reeves. We have learned that Sharon died from
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: a suicide.
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: The police dig up the old report written when Sharon
• 16:04
  Speaker 5: died and give it to doctor Barnard.
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  Speaker 3: This case started out with a Justice of the Peace
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  Speaker 3: just ruling it a suicide and not sending the body
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  Speaker 3: for an autopsy. We had mister Reeves's statement that they
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: had had intercourse who went to a shower and that
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  Speaker 3: he came out and there she was dead.
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: Jack Reeves claimed that she sat on the edge of
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  Speaker 4: the bed and put the gun to her chest and
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  Speaker 4: pulled the trigger.
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  Speaker 6: With her toe and shot herself in the chest and.
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  Speaker 3: Died triggering with the toe. It's somewhat unusual, but you know,
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: some people end up deciding to do something unusual because
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: they're thinking process at the time is not normal anyway.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: On the toe that had been used to pull the
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: trigger of the shotgun, the skin was cut.
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: In trying to determine if a scene is staged, you
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: have to take a lot of things into account. One,
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: what is the scene and does the scene make sense
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: for what is being presented as? But let it have
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: very much to work with.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't have that crime scene unit at that time,
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  Speaker 2: they had a guy that would come out and take
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: photographs when they had a crime scene, and so they
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: had one photograph.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: Missus Reeves was on the bed, laid out on her back,
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: and the shotgun was standing up between her legs as
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: her legs dangled over the bed. That just didn't really
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: add up to what I would expect in a case
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: like that if you lean over and trigger the shotgun,
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: if she's standing up, she's going to fall forward. She's
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: not going to fall back like that if she sat
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: up and triggered the shotgun. The idea that the shotgun
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: would just drop down and fall perfectly standing up straight
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: also didn't make any sense.
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: Investigators meet with the team that originally worked on Sharon's case.
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  Speaker 2: They took us into this huge conference room and it
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  Speaker 2: was the chief, the former chief. The officers that were
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: there back then retired. Their attitude was, you know what,
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: we screwed this up, and what are we going to do?
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: We all agreed that was very important was to exhume
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: the body and to conduct the second autopsy.
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: Doctor Barnard hopes that even after sixteen years, Sharon's body
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: will reveal new evidence.
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  Speaker 3: The main focus was to determine what features you can
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: identify about the wound. Could you determine range of fire,
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: where they're selight perforations, which clearly would take it away
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: from being a contact wound? Was that the kind of
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: wound that I had seen in a suicide shotgun to
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: the trunk before?
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: In Texas, when somebody dies, we don't have to get
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: permission for family members or anything else to absume a body.
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  Speaker 2: So Jack is totally unaware that any of this is
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: going on.
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: On December fourteenth, nineteen ninety four, sharon re sealed casket
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: is transported to doctor Barnard's morgue.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: It was a long shot that her body would be intact,
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: but it depended on a lot of things, depending on
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: how much water had gotten into the ground, what sort
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: of a coffin she was in.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: She just may be soup, She may be totally you know,
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: been floating in water. The body may be unexaminable.
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: With so much riding on the results, Detective Evan decides
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: to observe the autopsy.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: I never really stood in the room where there's dead
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: bodies everywhere. It was quite sobering to see death in
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: that way. When they opened up the casket. Sharon was
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: like clay. Doctor Bernard was totally fascinated because that was
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: something we could work with.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: Although her body was covered in mold, she actually was
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: more mummified. After we got the mold removed, she was
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: in pretty good shape and that's what allowed me to
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: have more to examine.
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: Doctor Barnard focuses on the site of the gunshot wound.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: When the shotgun is ignited, then you can have multiple projectiles.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: You can take the barrel tip out up to around
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: maybe three feet, Then all the projectiles will enter into
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  Speaker 3: the body and you'll have a single hole.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: As you pull.
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  Speaker 3: Further away, the projectiles start to satellite around the main
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: entrance defect. At that point, I'm talking about the barrel
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: tip being several feet away from the body at the
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: time of discharge.
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: Unmasking a murderer depends on the experienced eye of doctor Barnard.
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  Speaker 3: What can I tell about that firearm injury? That became
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: the central question. If I found there were bird shot
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: perforations that spread around the entrance wound, there was no
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: question that was a homicide without any reserve.
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  Speaker 5: But when doctor Barnard looks for the perforated pattern to
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: the wound, he can't find it. What he does uncover
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: is signs that the funeral home may have obscured the
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: wound as part of their preparation for burial.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: They had certainly washed the body. I didn't see any
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: obvious soot, so I couldn't tell whether this was a
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: tight contact wound or if it was a loose contact
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: wound that the funeral hom it cleaned up. I couldn't
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  Speaker 3: come up to a conclusion, so I really wasn't convinced
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: what the range of fire was.
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: With the wound pattern concealed. Doctor Barnard turns to another approach,
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: studying the angle of the kill shot to the body.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: If they're doing it themselves, it's a suicide. They're trying
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: to make sure they're hitting significant organs like the head
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: or the heart, something like that, and the trajectory is
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: direct on. It could be sharply upward, it could be
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: sharply downward, but it usually is straight on. This was
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: certainly anything but that.
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: The investigation into the disappearance of Jack Reeves's wife, Emalita
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: has grown to include the death of his previous wife, Sharon.
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: Doctor Barnard believes that determining the trajectory of the gunshot
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: that killed her will help them prove if her death
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: was suicide or murder.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: I make a standard decision in the body, and then
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: you identify where did the projectiles go. Is it going
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: from the right side to the left side, is it
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: going up or down? You take the entrance area, and
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: then you take the steel rod and you connect it
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: and you can really see the approach that the projectiles win.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: In this case, they went into the left side of
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: her chest, and that was a fairly substantial angle. It
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: was an unusual trajectory. I thought suicides, you don't typically
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: see that.
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: To work out the exact details of how the gun
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: was fired, investigators attempt to reconstruction.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: I knew what things you would need and what measurements
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: you would take. What is the distance from the armpit
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: region down to the fingertips, What is it from the
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: groin to the toes.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: We found a young lady that worked with our department
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: that had basically the same arms, links, foot size, everything.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: We found not the gun that was used, but of
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: one that was like that gun. Doctor Bernard, he would say,
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: this is the way that the weapon would have to
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: be held in order to get this wound track. If
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: she held it that way, there was no way that
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: she could reach that trigger and hold it in the trajectory.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: We took multiple photographs, we took videos, and we were
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: able to show that that can't be done.
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: All of the information that we gathered from the reconstruction
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: challenged a self inflicted gunshot one and supported the fact
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: that Sharon Reeves was shot and killed by another person.
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: But one of the real big questions in all of
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: this was the cut to her toe.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: The injury to the toe was a mark which I've
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: still never seen from someone triggering a weapon. It curved
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: opposite the direction that I felt that it would have
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: curved if she had even triggered it with her toe,
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: so it didn't make any sense. The fact that it
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: survived sixteen years also made me think this is a
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: post mortem artifact. Someone had created that wound. This is
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: a homicide.
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: With the puzzle pieces of Sharon's death finally coming together,
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: investigators now fear the worst for a missing wife, Emalita.
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: Her marriage to Jack has a chilling parallel with Sharon's.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Emilita had plans to divorce Jack. She had told her
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: friends that he had agreed to a divorce when Sharon
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: had said that she was going to divorce him, and
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: served him with divorce papers. Two weeks later, Sharon was
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: dead when Emilita told her friends that she was divorcing
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Jack and that she had told him, then Emlida disappeared.
• 26:22
  Speaker 8: One of the reasons why people kill is that they
• 26:25
  Speaker 8: are financially motivated. They have something at stake they look
• 26:29
  Speaker 8: to inherit a person's finances. They might have a health
• 26:33
  Speaker 8: insurance or life insurance policy that they're seeking to cash
• 26:37
  Speaker 8: out on. These types of killings are very different from
• 26:40
  Speaker 8: killings that are motivated in a fit of rage.
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: While the search for Emalita continues, investigators also examined the
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: death of Jack's other wife, Myong, who died in nineteen
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: eighty six.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: When Miong's body lay in the funeral home, her sister
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: noticed bruises and scratch on mean Miong was deathly afraid
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: of water. Whenever they would go to the beach together,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: she would never even go wading into the ocean. Her
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: sister didn't believe that Meon accidentally drowned. She told Jack
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: at that time that she wanted an autopsy done to
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: find out exactly why she had died. He immediately had
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: her cremated so that there was no possibility that an
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: autopsy could be performed. It was impossible for authorities to
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: build any kind of a case against Jack for Meong's
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: death because there was no evidence, so they had to
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: rule it an accidental death.
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: Even now, eight years later, without a body, there is
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: no way to reopen an investigation. But suspicion of Jack
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: Reeves reaches a peak, and.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: We know from what happened with Sharon's case and then
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: Meyong He's case. Jack's been doing this for many years,
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: basically pulling the wool over everybody's eyes, and when something
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: happens and he don't like it, then he gets rid
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: of him and he gets another one.
• 28:16
  Speaker 7: If somebody kills somebody and they find a sense of
• 28:20
  Speaker 7: gratification from it and they find ease in doing it,
• 28:26
  Speaker 7: they get cocky and they get confident, and if they
• 28:29
  Speaker 7: haven't been caught the first time, they feel they won't
• 28:32
  Speaker 7: be caught the second time.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: This guy's never going to stop. This is who he
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: is and this is how he operates unless somebody finally
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: says this is enough.
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: Detectives Evans and Lenore vow to stop Jack and get
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: justice for Sharon Meong and his missing wife, Emalita.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: People loved and cared about her. She had a life
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: here and she had friends here. I take that very serious,
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: and I want to get some kind of resolution. I
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: was contacting Jack's half sister and husband to see what
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: they knew.
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: When Jack hears that investigators are asking questions about his
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: past wives, he charges into the station.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Jack showed up at the police department with new evidence
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Emily was alive. He said that she was still sending
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: money home to her parents in the Philippines, and he
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: had proof that money had been taken out of the
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: account and sent to her parents overseas.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: Jack claimed, well, she's still sending money, She's still doing
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: these things, all these things. In other words, she's still alive.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: She still sending money.
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: A simple trip to the bank allows the detectives to
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: trace the transfer.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: It actually was not her sending money, it's him sending money.
• 30:01
  Speaker 6: He wanted to manipulate us.
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: He thought he was smart, He thought he was crimly sophisticated.
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: But Jack is so confident he challenges the detectives to
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: broaden the search.
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: He wanted me to come back out to the house
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: because he wanted me to look for blood. That's when
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: we started to turn the tables on him, and I said, well, look,
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: we'll come out and look at your house.
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: I got no problem with that.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: I keep in mind this was nineteen ninety four.
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: Nineteen ninety four was right at the cutting edge of DNA.
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: Very few people knew about DNA, myself included. But I
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: told Jack, I'm going to go out and look at
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: your carbon, but I'm not going to look for blood.
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: I said, I'm going to use this new technology, DNA.
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: I said, DNA is pretty remarkable. I said, Once an
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: individual dies, molecules from the body just die. And when
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: they die, sometimes their microscopic and they just leave and
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: they flake off the body. I said, it's part of
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: the process of decomposition. And I said what that means
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: is that if Emalita just died in your home, we're
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: going to be able to find out because we're going
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: to find her displace DNA in that home. Can I
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: come out and do that? Can I scope your carpet
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: with that? He said, yeah, but not tonight. I said sure.
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: We set up a surveillance team on his house just
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: to watch. The following morning, he had a crew out
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: there that was moving parts of his carpet. I told Buddy,
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: it's time now to clip this guy. We're not playing
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: his games anymore.
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: Investigators make their move.
• 31:37
  Speaker 6: They get a.
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: Warrant to arrest Jack Reeves for murder.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: Jack thinks that we're looking for him Alita. So when
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: we get him arrested and we take him to the
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: jail and the judge is standing before him and she
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: reads out the charge and says that he is being
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: arrested for the murder Sharon Reeves, he just about falls out.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: He goes, what are you talking about, Sharon reed I
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: don't know what you're talking about.
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: As Jack Reeves is held for trial for the murder
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: of his wife, Sharon, investigators get unexpected news. See in
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: Emilita's case.
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: If there was ever any evidence of divine intervention, this
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: investigation was it. I got a call from the Texas
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: ranger that was assisting in our investigation, and he told
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: me that near Lake Whitney, a body was found by
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: some hunters in a shallow grave and the body was
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: that of a female.
• 32:38
  Speaker 6: I didn't need to hear anything else. I knew it
• 32:41
  Speaker 6: was Emlida.
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: Detectives and the Medical examiner's team arrived at the site.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: The body was buried in this shallow grave and Fox's
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: couts those kinds of things that got to the body
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: and picked it clean.
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: When body scattered by animals, it becomes much more challenging
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: because you're trying to determine what is animal trauma, and
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: sometimes that is very difficult.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: They coordin off the scene and they take little brushes
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: and finally brush the dust in the dirt away until
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: they find every little minute piece of body that they
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: can in order to put this body back together.
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: One piece of the skeleton gives police the answer they need.
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: We positively identify Emily through dental records.
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: One year after Emily the Reeves has reported missing, she
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: is declared dead. Now investigators need to prove it was murder.
• 33:51
  Speaker 6: The ultimate crime has taken a human life.
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: I like to know that by making sure justice is
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: served in some small way, we bring peace to those
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: people who have lost their loved one.
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: An autopsy maybe the only way to discover what really
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: happened to Amalita.
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: There's no evidence of a gunshot wound. There's no evidence
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: of stabbing, anything of that nature. If you don't have
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: any other trauma to the body, none to the head,
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: then you want to look to see if we have
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: any evidence of strangulation.
• 34:24
  Speaker 9: In cases of strangulation, you can have fracture of the
• 34:27
  Speaker 9: hyoide bone, and that's usually an indication of excessive force
• 34:31
  Speaker 9: applied to the neck by the person committing the strangling.
• 34:36
  Speaker 9: The hyoid bone is an arc or U shaped bone
• 34:40
  Speaker 9: high up in the neck and it's attached to other structures.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: In the neck.
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: In a skeletonized remain or in a decomposing case, looking
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: for the hyoid bone can be fairly challenging, dependent on
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: how decomposed they are. If they're skeletonized, it's a very
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: fragile bone.
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: When Emilita's remains were recovered, we didn't find the hired
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: bom so we just don't know exactly how Jack Reeves
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: killed her.
• 35:11
  Speaker 5: Investigators worry Emilita's murder may never be solved until they
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: learn of a possible witness.
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: Jack and Emilda had a son who was four years
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: of age at that time.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: We had him in with some forensic interviews the juvenile psychologist.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: He was doing some things, playing with dolls, or making
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: statements that she was concerned about, like mom and dad fighting, choking, bathroom, bathtub.
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: Detectives take the young boy out to Lake Whitney to
• 35:49
  Speaker 5: see what he can remember.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: This was not a camping area. This is off the road,
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: off the beaten path. This was an area where people
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: don't go. But he is familiar with the area. He
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: just takes off and starts walking. He's not uncomfortable, he's
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: not apprehensive, and he's walking towards the area where I
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: Melita was at. He points out this hole before we
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: even get to it to see it, and he says,
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: what's up for that hole over there? He wouldn't know
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: that unless you were familiar with the area. I believe
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: that he was there when this murder occurred, most likely
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: and Alita was choked or drowned. And I believe that
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: he was there when all this went on, when the
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: grave was dug, but when his mom was put.
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: There and left there as sad as it is, as
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: incredibly evil as it is. That's the world of Jack Reeve.
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: He's an irrational cycle path. But now we need to
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: prove what we believe happened to Emlita.
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: As investigators close in on Jack Reeves for the murder
• 37:12
  Speaker 5: of his wife, Emilita. The trial for Sharon Reeves murder begins.
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: The case rests on doctor Barnard's reconstruction of the shooting.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: We had to prove in the demonstration that there was
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: no way that Sharon could have reached that trigger if
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: the gun was held in that position.
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: We brought out a model and take the model to
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: show roughly where the entrance was and where the shotgun
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: trajectory went.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: That was all forensics measurements, diagrams, drawings to convince a
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: jury that this couldn't happen this way.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: Doctor Barnard's work proved that it was not possible for
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: her to have had a self inflected gunshot.
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: With the jury announces their verdict, Jack was found guilty
• 38:15
  Speaker 5: of murder of homicid.
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: He got thirty five years for sharing. Her family was
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: just ecstatic a point of tears, were crying because they
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: had believed that this had occurred way back then. So
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: it was extremely satisfying and emotional.
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: But investigators fear this one sentence isn't enough.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: With thirty five years, there was a possibility that he
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: could have gotten out in seven and this was a
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: big concern he would be able to have another victim.
• 38:53
  Speaker 5: Police want to put Jack away for good. They have
• 38:59
  Speaker 5: no way to charge him from Young's suspicious death. Their
• 39:05
  Speaker 5: one hope is to trace the clue given by Jack
• 39:08
  Speaker 5: and Emlita's son about the fight in the bathroom.
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: It raises our attention because what it kind of shows
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: is that dad had done something to mom that was
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: in a violent way in the bathtub, and you think, well,
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: maybe it could have been drowning, maybe it could have
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: been choking.
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: Investigators believe there may be a way to scientifically determine
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: that Emilita was drowned. They decided to search her grave
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: for particular traces of water.
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: Diatoms are found in water, and there were diatoms found
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: close to where her torso was and in the area
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: where her torso is is also going to be where.
• 39:48
  Speaker 6: Her lungs were.
• 39:51
  Speaker 9: The diatoms in the lake near her body did not
• 39:54
  Speaker 9: match the diatoms that were found in her lungs. Therefore,
• 39:58
  Speaker 9: the diatoms that were found in her came from a
• 40:01
  Speaker 9: body of water somewhere else.
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: If you take into account water enters the airway, they're
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: no longer able to exchange oxygen, so the brain doesn't
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: get oxygen and ultimately they die from it. Certainly, when
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: you're struggling that it would be a very horrifying way
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: to die.
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: Based on information that was given to us and based
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: on our analogy of how did Emlita die, we believed
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: that Jack killed her in the.
• 40:34
  Speaker 6: Bathtub of his home.
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: Jack Reeves has charged with the murder of his wife, Emilita,
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: and for the second time in a year, stands before
• 40:43
  Speaker 5: a jury, which.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: A jury heard that that child had been taken to
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: the scene and saw his mother be buried out there
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: all alone like a dog. Their countenance was like, Oh
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: my god, how dare you? There was no way you're
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: gonna get away with that.
• 41:11
  Speaker 5: Jack Reeves is convicted and sentenced to ninety nine years
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: in prison.
• 41:16
  Speaker 6: We were very satisfied when this happened.
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: Doesn't bring him Alida back, so there's nothing happy, but
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: it was just a feeling of relief. Look at the
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: timeline with this man, every four or five or six
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: years a woman is killed.
• 41:33
  Speaker 6: You do the math.
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: How many lives we've saved by getting him and putting
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: him in prison. I think that really affects me more
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: than anything.
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: We couldn't have done it without the science. We couldn't
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: have done it without the forensics.
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: I think what it taught me was, don't ever make
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: an assumption that you cannot come up with an ant
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: sort A body can be buried for many years and
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: you can still get evidence, and you can still draw conclusions.
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: You can we speak for the dead.