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Her killer tried to burn the evidence, and failed - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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