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00:00Walking into Divas was like walking into a different world.
00:09The vibe at Divas was chains and whips and everything.
00:14Oh, yeah, that was one of my themes.
00:17Beat the out of the sky and take his money.
00:21Rowdier and raunchier could be good descriptive words
00:29for sure.
00:31Bachelor parties came from far and wide.
00:34They would come in with the fiancés and they would still try to hit on you.
00:42It was a surplus of cash.
00:46But it can be dangerous.
00:49You're not always safe.
00:52The strip dancer Rachel Roxanne Ciani danced topless
00:56until her crumbled body was found on Saturday morning.
00:59Rachel was the epitome of the girl next door.
01:04She was going to college to be a musical therapist for special needs children.
01:09In between sets, she'd be out in the back dressing room doing her homework.
01:14She seemed shy. She seemed quiet.
01:18She looked so young to me.
01:20It was mind-boggling thinking who could do this to her.
01:24Rachel had several admirers.
01:27She had a boyfriend.
01:28She had a dating relationship with the DJ.
01:31Your mind starts wondering,
01:33oh, my God, he just got fired.
01:35Now she's dead.
01:36What?
01:37I got nothing left. I got nothing left.
01:39Walking into the motel was the last time she's seen alive.
01:45Police find a stain on the sidewalk.
01:50That looks like blood.
01:52She either jumped, she fell, or she was pushed.
01:56Walking into Divas was like walking into a different world.
02:15It was wild.
02:16There was just more theatrics, a different energy.
02:23Rowdier and raunchier for sure.
02:29Divas was in Bristol, Pennsylvania.
02:33We used to have a night called The Edge,
02:36and they had me in like whips and chains and like,
02:39are you man enough?
02:40Because they knew I'd have no problem beating the out of them
02:44onstage, offstage, and get paid.
02:49We also had hot seats.
02:50They would call them when they would handcuff a guy to the pole.
02:55We'd do a lot of things,
02:56pour our ace down their pants in front of everybody in the club,
02:59jump on them, beat them with their own belt.
03:02But what a crazy thing that was for me to do.
03:06I mean, one time there was some mud wrestling thing up on the stage,
03:10which I did not participate in.
03:13They would advertise like this person against this person,
03:17come see him at a certain time.
03:19So the guys are making bets or throwing money.
03:22Took the championship belt from this girl who had it for five years.
03:27Everybody was making good, crazy money, even the bouncers.
03:35I would see a man walk in the door,
03:37and I would like literally see a dollar sign.
03:39I was like, there's another dollar sign.
03:40That's how I saw them.
03:41Not men, they were dollar signs.
03:43It was a surplus of cash.
03:46Show me the money.
03:48Not every man came in for a lap dance.
03:51A lot of times in that champagne room, mostly the men wanted to talk.
03:57And sometimes if you wanted, you know, more money,
04:02they would ask, oh, flash me or pull your thong down in the back or whatever.
04:07You know, just weird little things like that.
04:09It was an okay way to make some money quick.
04:12But lines can get blurry.
04:17I might go to the diner after work with a customer.
04:21You know, I would do that.
04:22You know, it's like, oh, they seem safe.
04:24Oh, that's a friendly person.
04:26I actually dated one of the customers for a while.
04:29It can be dangerous.
04:31And even with precautions, you're not always safe.
04:36I received a call from the death sergeant at the Morristown Station
04:47who advised me that there was an ATV rider.
04:50He was a hunter and he was looking for deer.
04:52And he came across a girl who was on the ground, lifeless.
05:00After I was notified, I drove up to the scene.
05:03It was a road right near the river, near the Delaware River.
05:08The woman's body was about 100 yards from the road under the bridge.
05:16When we get to her body, it looked like a young girl, her early 20s.
05:23There's a direct line from that bridge to where the body is.
05:27So there's a few possibilities here.
05:29She jumped, she fell, or she was pushed.
05:36The thing that stood out that she wasn't wearing any shoes,
05:39she was wearing white socks.
05:41And the most important thing that we saw was that, for the most part,
05:45the white socks were completely clean.
05:49You got to realize, if she had walked onto the bridge,
05:52her socks should have had a lot of dirt, a lot of debris, road gravel, items like that.
05:59I went up to the top of the bridge,
06:01and there were some fibers that looked consistent with her sweater.
06:05And then when you looked over the bridge, you can see that there was blood.
06:08So it was almost apparent that someone had draped her body over that bridge and flipped it over.
06:13When you just dump a body off a bridge, it's almost like whether they're alive or dead,
06:19like you're discarding them like trash.
06:20When the medical examiner arrived, they turned her body over.
06:27She had injuries to her head and blood spatters in the back of her neck.
06:34And we also noticed that she had broken fingernails.
06:38So it appeared that she was in some type of struggle.
06:42But we were not able to get any DNA evidence off of her neck or her body.
06:47We don't have any ID.
06:49She doesn't have a wallet on her, nothing.
06:52The only thing that was noted on her was a necklace that had a butterfly on it.
06:59One of the big challenges with the Jane Doe is until you know who the victim is,
07:03you don't really know where to start.
07:05So they then decided they were going to reach out to the media
07:08and put out a description as much as possible of the victim.
07:12Neighbors in this quiet suburban community are in shock.
07:15This story is headlines everywhere in southeastern Pennsylvania.
07:21Who is this?
07:23That's the great mystery at that point.
07:26Once they had put it out to the news, almost immediately they received a phone call
07:32from a gentleman who identified himself as Bill Love.
07:35He said it was one of the managers of a dance club in Bristol, Pennsylvania called Divas.
07:42Divas is in Bristol Township, Pennsylvania.
07:45It's right by the Turnpike Bridge.
07:48You can see New Jersey from where Divas was.
07:53Divas was probably the most well-known gentleman's club in that area.
07:59HBO picked Divas in Bristol for a reality show because the dancers there were truly beautiful women.
08:07I wound up being on that particular docu-series, G-String Divas, and that was exciting.
08:14It was kind of a sisterhood.
08:18We all had a particular goal, whether it was tuition or, you know, financial situation.
08:24I know one young lady.
08:27She was just, I guess, biding time until she went into the Navy.
08:32I know one of the girls I danced with had a master's degree in psychology.
08:36So it was quite a diverse group of ladies.
08:46So the police go to Divas and they talk to the manager.
08:51He said that the description of the victim, her clothing, and more specifically a butterfly pendant that she had matched an employee who had been gone missing for several days now.
09:05He told us she had missed three actual work appointments.
09:11The first shift, he didn't think much of it.
09:13His statement was something like, well, she's a dancer.
09:16They're not always the most, um, acupunctual on their shifts.
09:19But when she missed the second shift, he got a little concerned.
09:22He tried several times to contact her at home, on her phone.
09:28She wasn't getting back to him.
09:31He notified, uh, detectives that he believed, uh, the victim was Rachel Ciani, um, 21 years old.
09:39Someone from work let me know that Rachel, they found her and, uh, she was dead.
09:50I was definitely traumatized by that because I didn't believe it.
09:54I was like, who, what sick joke is this?
09:57Like, huh?
09:58I just, it was surreal.
09:59I couldn't believe it at all.
10:01My initial feeling, obviously horrified and sad, it hit close to home.
10:11My mom told me that she read an article that one of my classmates had been murdered.
10:15And then she told me it was Rachel.
10:17My first reaction was shock.
10:18And then it was just really sadness.
10:20Just that, like, this beautiful soul is gone.
10:27I met Rachel Ciani our freshman year of high school.
10:30We sang in choir together.
10:32Rachel was always very quiet, but very welcoming.
10:35She had a smile for everybody.
10:37In chorus, we both sang alto, uh, so which is, I would call it, the color part of the music.
10:43And it's such a neat feeling when you hear your voices blend.
10:46We would kind of look at each other like, oh, I heard that.
10:49That was good.
10:50We sound good.
10:51So it was, it was fun.
10:54Rachel and I didn't have a whole lot of, uh, financial privilege.
10:58And so our values were just placed on, I want to work hard.
11:01I want to get out of school.
11:03I want to, you know, make a life for myself.
11:06And so we didn't get caught up in cliques and social issues and all that stuff in high school.
11:11My home life was that things were tight.
11:14Um, and I have a feeling that things were tight for her too.
11:17I know it surprised my mom when she found out her line of work.
11:22But to me, that was just a job.
11:24That's, you do what you need to do.
11:26She was going to college, trying to pay her way through college.
11:30And that's why she danced.
11:31One of her dreams to be a musical therapist for special needs children.
11:35That's what she was studying so hard for.
11:37She saw an avenue to getting through college, to getting to the career that she wanted.
11:42And so dancing was a means to an end.
11:45It wasn't, oh, I can't wait to do this for the rest of my life.
11:48Rachel was a young person exploring and growing and, you know, still a child basically.
11:59So as soon as the manager identifies the body, the police immediately focus on divas.
12:09They want to interview anybody who knew Rachel.
12:13Uh, the last time they saw her, where she was, and who she was with.
12:17We learned that Rachel had several admirers.
12:21Um, she had a boyfriend who was currently incarcerated in one of the county jails.
12:28She had an on-again, off-again dating relationship with the DJ.
12:31Um, and then unfortunately there was also an incident where, uh, she had, uh, an admirer that, uh, almost went a little too far.
12:40We learned that there was a former cook at Divas that was obsessed with Rachel.
12:48He even went around calling her his girlfriend.
12:52It wasn't uncommon for him to show her unwanted attention that he apparently was warned about.
12:57It was told to us that it was almost a stalking-type relationship.
13:01It got to the point where Rachel complained about him, and he got let go.
13:05So then your mind starts thinking crazy things, like, oh, my God, the other day they fired him.
13:11Now she's dead.
13:13My stage name was Paris, because I was hoping to make enough money to eventually go there.
13:27Kimberly and Paris are two different people.
13:29They're so far apart on the spectrum.
13:34Kim was naive.
13:36Paris was going to get that money.
13:38That's how that works.
13:41You'll find out, well, most of us who dance, it's your alter ego, I suppose.
13:46What you wish you could be or what you would not allow for your personal self.
13:51It's either or.
13:52You pick your poison.
13:54Rachel Ciani was the epitome of the girl next door.
14:01Roxanne was her stage name.
14:02Foxy Roxy.
14:03Rachel and Roxy were two different people.
14:08Rachel was definitely soft-spoken.
14:10Roxy, forget it.
14:13She was a spitfire if you mess with her.
14:15She was not playing.
14:16I was like, pfft, nobody's messing with her.
14:21It was mind boggling thinking who could do this to her.
14:24Definitely one of the biggest oh my Gods of my life.
14:30The strip dancer Rachel Roxanne Ciani found brutally murdered.
14:47For 18 months, the Ben Salem woman had danced topless at the Bristol strip joint known as Divas International
14:53until her crumbled body was found under the Pennsylvania-New Jersey Turnpike bridge on Saturday morning.
14:59We knew we had several people that we had to interview in order to zero in on someone that was responsible for her death
15:10or people that were responsible for her death.
15:12We had to speak with the cook who was obsessed with Rachel.
15:16Was he so infatuated with her that either A, it got out of hand
15:20or he felt that if he couldn't have her, no one else could?
15:23He did admit that he had a thing for Rachel, that he did want to be involved in a dating relationship,
15:41but that she had no interest in it.
15:44Is there a potential motive for the cook to have done Rachel in?
15:49Yeah, sure.
15:50That's an occupational hazard when you're a dancer at a gentleman's club,
15:55is that you have some stalkers.
15:57And he was obsessed with Rachel Ciani.
16:02But there has to be more evidence, there has to be more eyewitness testimony.
16:07We don't have any physical evidence, no video footage.
16:10There was no DNA evidence.
16:12And the detectives realized that they don't have enough to charge him at this point with the murder of Rachel.
16:21We executed a search warrant on the car, but there was also no trace evidence, DNA evidence, blood,
16:45or anything to show that she was attacked or even murdered inside that vehicle.
16:52Her car was removed, and it was so hard.
16:55Going into work and not seeing her car there was, uh, it put holes in my soul.
17:01Like, I couldn't, it was, it was a gut punch.
17:07Rachel was friends with everyone.
17:09She was four foot nothing.
17:11She was the tiniest little thing.
17:13Um, not even a hundred pounds.
17:16She definitely seemed reserved and modest.
17:20You know, we wore thongs, G-strings, right?
17:23And I noticed that her tan line was a full bottom cover tan line,
17:30where I tanned in a tanning bed back then, in the nude, so I wouldn't have tan lines.
17:36In between sets, she'd be out in the backdresser room doing her homework.
17:41I mean, that's a little hard in the strip club, but she did it.
17:45So, yeah, she was really trying to survive.
17:50My mom was very upset to think of me being 22 and, oh my God, somebody my age is gone.
17:58And even when I was 22 and kind of processing that, it was, oh my God, her birthday's in two and a half weeks,
18:05and she didn't make it.
18:07You know, it was just a really weird thing to process and very sad.
18:14After we go to the car, one of our detectives was speaking with, uh, William Love, the manager of Divas.
18:21He advised that the last person that he knows that saw Rachel alive was another dancer by the name of Alexis.
18:29The detectives, uh, interviewed her good friend Alexis.
18:36She said that night the two of them had hung out at the bar for a little while.
18:40It was close to 2 o'clock in the morning.
18:42Alexis' shift ends, and Rachel and Alexis go out in Alexis' car, and a Bristol Township police cruiser pulls into the parking lot.
18:54It's well lit.
18:55And Alexis thinks to herself, well, this is my cue to leave.
19:01She drives Rachel over to Rachel's car, which was close to the entrance of the club.
19:10They had both noticed someone that, uh, approached the door of Divas, and, uh, the person started banging on the door.
19:18And Rachel saw that it was Jack D'Onoffa, one of her regular customers.
19:24So she says, oh, let's go out, I'm gonna go talk.
19:26I'm gonna go talk to Jack and see what's going on.
19:31Alexis asked Rachel if she wanted to wait around, if she was okay.
19:34And she said, no, it's, it's Jack. I'm, I'm okay. You can take off.
19:38She gets out of the car and goes over to him.
19:42And that's the last time Alexis sees Rachel heading over this man pounding on the doors of the club.
19:57When I first heard about Rachel, one of my first thoughts was, that could have been me, easily.
20:04I was once drugged at that club. I was roofied.
20:08Right at the end of my shift, somebody managed to put something in my drink and I lost it.
20:16I literally lost consciousness.
20:23And I had a few people that were quite obsessed.
20:27It's like, it's not all fun and money.
20:30I was looking over my shoulder and you had to be aware.
20:36That's a real thing in the industry.
20:38That's a real thing.
20:40And it shouldn't be, you know, anybody else can go to work and make their money and not be, have their lives jeopardized.
20:47In fact, I quit shortly after that because I felt it's really not safe, even though it's an upscale gentlemen's club.
20:57We found out that it wasn't uncommon for Jack to show up literally at closing or right before closing.
21:03A lot of times he would bang on the door and if the bouncers were there, they would open the door and it would let him in and he would hang out.
21:09There were a court group of regulars that would come into the club and in particular, Jack Donofa and they would actually sit back at kind of the bartender's station, you know.
21:21I always got the impression that it was more of a male bonding type of a outing, like a meeting place where they all had a meeting place where they all had a meeting place.
21:31something in common with each other, whether it was the food, the women, the music, or all of it.
21:52We learned that Jack Donofa went there every Tuesday night, he would eat, he would play pool, smoke cigars, watch the dancers. Jack was a businessman in Doylestown. He was married, he didn't have any children.
22:16And this was one of his little things where he would go to blow off steam.
22:23And Jack's wife was okay with him going there at times that she would go and meet with him if she had to pick him up.
22:32I just thought it was cool because, see, I had a lot of couples that liked me, so it didn't bother me or make me think any way that his wife would bring him there.
22:42We did see her from time to time, and she seemed really nice. And, I mean, she had to be nice. She was dropping her husband off to the strip club every Tuesday.
22:55He was always friendly, he was always respectful, he was always generous. He was just a consistently good guy, somebody who you would trust.
23:05Yeah, Jack had money, and he wanted to spend it. Jack was friends with most of the dancers, but he was obsessed with Rachel. He loved him some Rachel.
23:18He'd be like, here's $100, go in the back and get her. Because she'd be back there studying. So, like, he wanted all of her attention all the time.
23:28He was like an ATM machine. He would give Rachel Ciani $100 just to sit with him for an hour. He would give her so much money that she told the other dancers she didn't have to get up on the stage to dance for dollar bills.
23:45We also learned that it wasn't uncommon for him to stay at the motel that was attached to Divas.
23:52Divas was connected to the Econo Lodge, actually connected. They were in the same building. You know, you went in one door and there was the hotel.
24:01So, it was typical for a client to, if they got too drunk, stay at the hotel.
24:08We found out that Jack had a DWI, prior DWI, so that's why he stayed next door. He didn't want to drive home after a night of drinking.
24:17When detectives interviewed her good friend Alexis, Alexis gave a statement to the police that Rachel was last seen with Jack, one of the patrons they knew from the bar.
24:33Before Alexis left, she observed a Bristol Township police officer come into the parking lot.
24:42We realized that we needed to speak with this officer. Was he one of the last people that saw Rachel alive?
24:57The patrolman gave a statement in which he had pulled into the parking lot due to the fact that it was well lit.
25:02He had a report he was finishing and he knew it was around 2.30 in the morning.
25:06It was apparent to the officer that Rachel and Jack were friendly.
25:12He saw them converse for a little bit and he saw them both walk from the Diva's establishment into the entrance of the Econo Lodge
25:21and observed them walk down the hall past the front desk into the hotel.
25:28They confirmed that Donafa has checked in on Tuesday the 28th, a little after 11 p.m.
25:43The night desk clerk gave him the keys to room 223 on the second floor of the hotel.
25:48And he checked out Wednesday the 29th at about 4 a.m.
25:53After speaking with the clerk at the hotel, we decided to walk around the back to see if we can find anything that belonged to Rachel.
26:03While walking on the sidewalk, I noticed there was a big brown stain.
26:09So I had a piece of paper from my notebook and I wiped it.
26:13And when I looked at it, it was red. It was actually blood.
26:17While looking at this blood stain, we looked up and we realized that it was right underneath that window of room 223,
26:28the same room where Jack Donafa stayed.
26:30I went to Rachel's funeral for the number one reason is realizing that could have been me.
26:46It could have been anybody.
26:47And as a mother, also thinking how horrible it is to lose a child, I just really felt compelled to go.
26:57And so I did, and I met, it was her stepmother.
27:02But I remember her coming up to me and asking me, was I a dancer?
27:05And I said, not anymore.
27:07And she, you know, was very motherly and urging, don't ever do that again.
27:12Don't go back to it.
27:13But it was a very gut-wrenching experience.
27:17So I can't imagine what her family must have gone through and probably still goes through.
27:22Yeah.
27:32There's now a pool of blood outside Jack's window from the second floor, which is right away very telling, very suspicious.
27:39At this point in the investigation, we need to get inside the room where Jack stayed at.
27:46During the search or the examination of the room, we see a window where leads right outside to the ledge, just above where the blood stain was found.
27:58And we see fibers that are on the edge of the window.
28:03We don't know if those fibers are from Rachel's sweater or from a sheet or a cover that was in the hotel room.
28:14And we also find in the shower what an apparent blood stain or a blood drop.
28:23They find some blood in the shower, but nothing you can make a case out of.
28:30Unfortunately, we had learned that the room had been rented or used by several people since then, and it had been clean almost every day.
28:39So without any firm evidence found from room 223, the police widened their investigation at the hotel.
28:48I was involved in an interview of two individuals that were actually in the room below him.
29:01One of the individuals gave me a statement that he was woken up approximately 3 a.m. by some kind of a noise.
29:10He couldn't remember if it was a scream or a loud noise, and then he listened, didn't hear anything else, and went back to sleep.
29:19So the clerk was very familiar with Jack.
29:35Her shift was Tuesday night when he was there, so she knew his routine.
29:41When he didn't follow his routine, she noticed it.
29:48Jack did check in that night around 11 o'clock, but she advised us that she saw Jack around 3 o'clock in the morning through the window running in the parking lot,
29:58which is not what he normally does, and it caught her attention.
30:03The clerk also advised us that normally Jack would check out around 7 o'clock to go to work the next day.
30:09She saw him leave around 4 o'clock in the morning.
30:14What raises the night desk manager's attention is that he throws the keys on the front desk,
30:22and normally he's very friendly, he jokes, but he's very abrupt with her, very short.
30:29And he just wants to check out, and he leaves without saying anything.
30:34She thinks it's unusual.
30:36All of these things just stuck in her mind being odd.
30:40Due to the fact that he was the last person known to be with Rachel,
30:44the fact that there was what appeared to be presumptive human blood outside his room,
30:49his running around in a parking lot at 3 o'clock and hurriedly showering and leaving,
30:54shortly thereafter, led us to believe that he was our prime suspect at that point.
31:05The detectives went to Jack's residence, ended up approaching,
31:09knocking on the door, ringing the doorbell, his wife answered.
31:12They identified themselves to her, told her that they needed to speak to her husband,
31:17and then it was in reference to a homicide they were investigating.
31:21As soon as she finds out it's about the death of a dancer at Divas,
31:26his wife says, I knew this was going to happen one day.
31:30I knew this was going to end with police.
31:32I definitely told the investigators that Jack was hot and cold.
31:44He loved to drink.
31:46He could be funny and happy, but he could be a nasty drunk,
31:50like a nasty vulgar drunk, cursing,
31:53and if he didn't get what he wanted, like a spoiled child.
31:57He thought he was entitled.
32:00He thought he had full reign and was able to do what he wanted
32:04and get away what he wanted.
32:06But even though he could be really nasty,
32:08Rachel and Jack were friends.
32:10None of us would have been scared to go anywhere with Jack.
32:14I wasn't.
32:15I know that she wasn't.
32:17I mean, he was harmless.
32:27During his interview, he advised detectives that he had known the victim, Rachel,
32:36for approximately two years.
32:37And he made it seem like she was very friendly with him
32:42and that she jokingly said that she would have sex with him.
32:45But he stated he would never do something like that.
32:47He's married.
32:48He tries to portray Rachel as this flirt
32:52who somehow had a crush on him.
32:55He's asked, well, do you think that anybody would want to harm her?
33:00So he tells the police, well, you know, she's had a lot of stalkers.
33:05She hooks up with losers.
33:07And then he points the finger at the cook.
33:10The cook at Divas, he was obsessed with Rachel Ciani.
33:15He wanted to have her as his girlfriend in the worst way.
33:20But the police dismissed him as a suspect.
33:23They don't have any direct evidence against the cook.
33:27And so they asked Jack, where were you that night?
33:31What were you doing?
33:33He said he was at Divas, that he was there for several hours drinking,
33:36that he had left that establishment and went to another place.
33:39He says at Divas, he had had six beers or six shots,
33:43some incredible amount of alcohol.
33:45And now he's at a second bar drinking even more.
33:50He claimed a friend drove him back to the motel that was attached to Divas,
33:56and that he walked straight in and went to sleep.
33:59He said he was asleep in his room by 2 o'clock.
34:01He was never banging on the door.
34:03He was never seen talking to Rachel,
34:06never walked into the motel with her.
34:08Now my antennas are definitely going up.
34:10It's contradicting what not only a friend of the victim stated,
34:15but a police officer.
34:16They begin to confront him,
34:18how his story is completely different from the eyewitness accounts.
34:22He is emphatic.
34:24He says, I was not with her.
34:26He had nothing to do with her death.
34:28Also during the interview, one of the detectives sees injuries,
34:33like scratch marks on Jack's arm and confronts him about it.
34:38Rachel had broken fingernails on her hand.
34:42The detectives were immediately thinking that she was the one that injured
34:46and scratched Jack during a struggle.
34:48And Jack immediately is uncomfortable and says that a sign fell on his arm at work
34:53and dismisses it.
34:55At this point, his demeanor had completely changed.
34:59He basically refused to answer any further questions.
35:03He gets up, calls his wife, calls his father.
35:07He tells his father how he feels that he's going to be arrested soon.
35:12And the detectives are like, where did this come from?
35:16He's telling us that he didn't do it,
35:18but now he's telling his father that, you know,
35:20I think I'm going to be arrested soon.
35:22So this was a huge red flag for everyone.
35:27But all the evidence that we had was circumstantial.
35:30We didn't have a confession.
35:32We didn't have a video of him hurting her.
35:35But there's still no direct evidence linking him to the crime,
35:38so he's free to go.
35:40You know, in a situation like this, as an investigator detective,
35:45it doesn't feel that great when you have to let your prime suspect,
35:48you know, walk away.
35:49But legally, that's what we have to do at times,
35:51until the charges are authorized.
35:53At this point, the detectives realize that the stakes are high.
36:03We need to gather more eyewitness testimony and physical evidence
36:08that can link him to Rachel's death.
36:10Rachel's body was found in New Jersey,
36:13but she was last seen in Pennsylvania.
36:16We feel that he probably drove her over to New Jersey
36:21to dump her body from the bridge.
36:25We realized that the Delaware River Bridge Authority
36:29has cameras, surveillance cameras, at the tolls.
36:33We had to look at video footage from the bridge
36:36to see if we can see a truck that resembled Jack Donoffa's truck.
36:43On the night of question, 28th going into the 29th,
36:47one of the tapes showed a red Dodge pickup truck,
36:52which is what Jack owned,
36:54traveling through the turnpike around 313.
36:57This is in the days before EZPass.
37:01You know, you had to stop and take a ticket
37:04to get onto the New Jersey Turnpike from Pennsylvania,
37:07and they see a red pickup truck.
37:12And in the back of that red pickup truck is a body.
37:27What you can see is a truck
37:29that's identical to Jack Donoffa's truck.
37:32And then when the truck was going through the toll,
37:36you can see a body in the back that was wearing clothing
37:40that was identical to Rachel's clothing.
37:43It was approximately 3.13 a.m.,
37:47and approximately half an hour later,
37:50the truck returns with no body in the back of the pickup truck.
37:54Unfortunately, because of the quality of the video,
37:59we weren't able to see who was driving that truck
38:03or a license plate.
38:04So our next challenge is placing Jack Donoffa in that truck.
38:09What they noticed almost immediately was that the car seemed to be very clean,
38:25as if it had just recently been through a car wash and or detailed.
38:28They weren't just going to take the truck at face value.
38:32They searched that thing headlight to taillight.
38:35Upon further examination of Mr. Donoffa's pickup truck,
38:39it had a bed liner.
38:40We immediately removed the bed liner of the truck,
38:43turned it upside down,
38:44and sure enough, there were reddish-brown stains consistent with blood.
38:49Once we got that bed liner on, I was like, bingo, that's it, he's done.
38:56They ultimately took samples of the dried blood
39:00and submitted those samples to the lab.
39:02They used a sample of that
39:04and a sample from the sidewalk at the hotel,
39:07and ultimately DNA revealed that it did come back to our victim, Rachel Ciani.
39:14As a result of everything that all the detectives found,
39:18the prosecutor's office determined that we should arrest Jack Donoffa
39:24for the murder of Rachel Ciani.
39:26He didn't look surprised.
39:28He just told his wife to call his father
39:31and said that he wasn't going to talk to us anymore about it.
39:34He wanted an attorney.
39:37I last saw the girl at 11 o'clock after I spoke, they joined with her.
39:40That's a fact.
39:41The facts are police say that the 35-year-old Donoffa
39:44was the last person to see Ciani alive.
39:47The murder charge comes from Burlington County, New Jersey,
39:50where the body was actually found.
39:52We're surmising that there was some type of struggle
39:54that Rachel and Jack had inside the hotel room.
39:58We don't know if it was Jack wanted to have sex with her,
40:02if it was over money or drugs or whatever.
40:06At some point, Rachel had become incapacitated.
40:10He was unsure if she had died or what,
40:15wanted to get rid of her body.
40:16He put her out on the ledge of that window
40:19and tried to drop her down into his truck,
40:22and that's when she hit her head on the sidewalk.
40:27Put her in the back of his pickup truck
40:30and dropped her over the bridge.
40:41I was shocked to hear that Jack was accused of her murder.
40:45I was really shocked because he was part of the family, if you will.
40:53It was really horrifying, and it really made me think about
41:00just people in general, how, what makes them flip.
41:05That was a turning point for everyone who didn't believe it was Jack.
41:08Still sent shockwaves, of course,
41:10because this person you thought you knew.
41:13You thought you had a great judge of character,
41:15and I don't know that you could do this, which horrified me.
41:23Rachel's death, at least locally,
41:25had a little bit of a shockwave in that community
41:28that they started actually protecting their girls more.
41:31There are other dancers that aren't at as high a risk.
41:34Because of how devastating this was to everybody that knew Rachel.
41:59The big thing in this case that sticks out in my mind
42:01is the fact that she was only 21 years old.
42:03You know, had really an entire life ahead of her.
42:06Unfortunately, it was ended.
42:10The saddest and most angering thing about this
42:15is how easily women are victims of crimes.
42:20So maybe we take our clothes off.
42:23It doesn't give somebody the right to our body,
42:25and that was devalued, her body, her life.
42:30I think some of the misconceptions are people want to paint her as a partier or a wild child
42:36because of her employment, and that wasn't the case at all.
42:41She knew what she wanted to get out of life, and she was working hard to get to it.
42:46She inspired me. I wanted to be like that.
42:50Like, I wish I had that kind of motivation.
42:53I don't know if she's just missed. She's missed.
42:58So she claims that she's just zmien.
43:00She said you, there's nothing he doesn't know.
43:01And that's the description there is.
43:03And with the lack of patience.
43:04I want to be sure.
43:05If you could forget them.
43:07She's invisible and will forget yourstÀndiciones.
43:09NapoleonĂĄpel.
43:10Which has been no same.
43:12What is this曠erous?
43:13Which has decided to be a great consequence?
43:15The correct opinion?
43:17Yeah.
43:18And that's why I'll find others pretty virus.
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