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00:30In Louisiana, lies an area of desolate swampland, known as Whiskey Bay.
00:40Midway between Lafayette and Baton Rouge, it belongs to the Atchafalaya River Basin.
00:49The largest swamp in the United States, covering more than a million acres.
00:55It's a very rural location, very swampy, a lot of open land. It's not developed.
01:07Across Whiskey Bay runs the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge, carrying the Interstate 10 Highway.
01:15It's America's third longest bridge, but this area is infamous for another reason.
01:21During the daytime and nighttime, there is known to be a lot of traffic on the Interstate.
01:28But once you leave that Interstate, it's total darkness.
01:32It's a very secluded area, and at nighttime, you can't see your hand in front of your face.
01:37It's just that dark out in that area.
01:40Because of how dark it can be, it's easy for people to travel this area and sometimes try to conceal evidence, our bodies.
01:48It's around 11 o'clock a.m., I was notified through dispatch and was informed that there was a body in Whiskey Bay.
02:04And once I got that call, just stepped up, went into duty, and proceeded to the body.
02:08I get a phone call.
02:12It's a female called in by a fisherman.
02:14Lo and behold, I head out to the Whiskey Bay area.
02:19The body was floating in the middle of the swampland, so the only way detectives could access it was by boat.
02:27When I made it here, the boat was already here.
02:30The fire department boat was here.
02:31And the chief of the fire department, who's also a coroner investigator, was the one riding the boat.
02:42This is where we launched the boat at for the fire department.
02:45This is where we deployed at.
02:49It was a race against time.
02:52Investigators needed to find the body before vital evidence was destroyed.
02:56Swampy areas like this tend to be in high bacteria environments, usually warm, full of different aquatic animals.
03:15You got alligator, you got snakes, you got everything.
03:18You got fish, you got crawfish.
03:20So the quicker we get to that body, the better off for us, because it could change a scene real quick.
03:27They are likely to eat or at least nibble on the evidence.
03:33What trauma did this environment now cause to the body?
03:37The shallow depth of the swamp also meant much warmer water temperatures.
03:42During that time of the year, April is starting to warm, right?
03:47A terrible factor for a body.
03:50Decomposition can start immediately.
03:56One of the more common things that happens with post-mortem decomposition and is enhanced often in the water environment is the sloughing of the skin.
04:07Since we identify a lot of bodies by fingerprints, if the skin of the hands is sloughing off and decomposing, it's very challenging to get appropriate fingerprints that are usable for identifying a body.
04:22On the interstate, there's a mile marker for each section of the interstate, and we were told it was around a 130 to 132 mile marker area.
04:34So we head west, and lo and behold, around the 131, 132 is where we locate the body.
04:42It was a young Caucasian female that was partially submerged in the water.
04:49When we pull up to the body, you know, we slow down, we go slow, because we don't want to make any waves, because that'll create a wave, and it would also affect the crime scene as well if there's anything laying next to the body.
05:02So we ease up on it, and the body was submerged partially, but it was face down.
05:07As we pull up to the body, I noticed there was a cluster of trees, like little young trees that were growing up in that water right there.
05:14The deceit was observed to be caught up in several of the cypress trees, the stumps and branches that were present within this body of water.
05:24Areas such as these are not easily accessible to most people, which leads investigators to think there was no way she could have naturally gotten to that position.
05:33I'm looking around. I'm trying to figure out, where did she come from? How did she get here?
05:37I'm looking for another boat. Is there a boat brick? Is a boat capsized? Don't see any of that.
05:43But investigators noticed something strange about one of the trees.
05:49On that tree, I remember specifically seeing branches were broken.
05:53So I look up, you know, and there's the interstate.
05:55And at that particular point in time where she's at, when I'm looking up,
05:59it's probably a 20, 25-foot drop from the top of that bridge.
06:03Automatically, I thought she was thrown over the top of the bridge.
06:07And the industry thought it could have been a possible car accident, and somebody got ejected over the edge.
06:13What they discovered next raised more questions about this theory.
06:18Once myself and the guy from the fire department turned her body over, we realized she was completely nude.
06:25Just a nude, deceased body.
06:29There's no way this person could just pop up there out of the blue.
06:34Something had to happen.
06:35They removed the body from the water to investigate further.
06:46I grabbed her ankles, and the coroner grabbed her up under the arms, and we lifted her up,
06:51and we placed her in the body bag inside of the boat with us.
06:54This is where we returned and brought her body up, where the coroner pronounced her dead.
07:02From there, we took her to the morgue.
07:06The next thing that we need to do is try to identify who this young lady is.
07:10She's naked, in the middle of nowhere, no identification.
07:14So we have to identify her so we can start trying to work back and try to see and figure out what has happened to this young lady.
07:23She did have some tattoos that we were able to look at and try to see if we could add anything in the database for tattoos or anything like that, skin markings.
07:31However, there was nothing that would have identified her.
07:33Then, pathologists provided a breakthrough.
07:42In this case, the fingerprints were relatively preserved.
07:45Had she been in the water longer than that, they may have been obliterated.
07:49And oftentimes, bodies in water get something like we call washerwoman fingers.
07:54And it's like when you are in the bathtub too long and your skin begins to wrinkle up.
07:58Then, it may be impossible to get fingerprints until we're able to puff up those ridges.
08:05We will do that by taking a hypodermic needle and putting saline very lightly under the skin just to make that ridge detail in the skin more accessible to doing fingerprints.
08:18Thank God we found her when we did because had she been in there a couple more days or longer, decomposition sets in, it might have been impossible other than dental record.
08:27We actually got lucky with it because we got fingerprints off that body.
08:33While fingerprint databases were searched, the team uncovered something else.
08:39We learned about a traffic accident that it also occurred on the bridge in the general area.
08:44And we had to rule that out because you never know if that crash had something to do with this body.
08:51One of the occupants had a criminal history.
08:54One of them was known to be arrested for transportation or prostitution.
09:00So, you know, was she a kidnap and was she a victim of sex trafficking?
09:06You know, everything started going through our head, you know, human trafficking.
09:10You make your hair on the back of your neck stand up.
09:12Human trafficking is something that's been a huge problem in the United States as well as abroad.
09:24And it essentially involves forcing often young women into having sex for money.
09:30It can involve kidnapping victims and then trafficking them and taking them from state to state.
09:36But from a trafficker perspective, the commodity, of course, is the victim.
09:41And so you don't tend to see murders in human trafficking situations unless it's a drug overdose.
09:48Or it's a bad date that's gone too far.
09:53Or there's been some kind of conflict between the pimp and the victim.
09:59But when the fingerprint results came back, they revealed the victim was 28-year-old mother of two, Elizabeth Farrell.
10:07A store assistant with no known connections to sex trafficking or prostitution.
10:15Blood found in the suspicious accident vehicle also raised doubts.
10:21The DNA was not for Ms. Farrell.
10:25Absolutely nothing to do with that crash.
10:29But Elizabeth Farrell's identification raised another major question.
10:33Well, when they first came back and we realized she was from Humboldt, Texas, I was like, why is she here from Humboldt, Texas?
10:41The city of Humboldt, Texas lies 230 miles west of where Elizabeth was found.
10:49Our next step is trying to figure out how did she get from Texas to here?
10:54Why is she here?
10:56And we're missing a few pieces here and we need to put these pieces together to complete this puzzle.
11:03In Whiskey Bay, Louisiana, detectives are investigating after the naked body of a woman was found in a swamp beneath Interstate Highway 10.
11:27Fingerprints reveal the woman is 28-year-old mother of two, Elizabeth Farrell,
11:32who lived 230 miles away in Texas.
11:36So, how did she get here?
11:39I'm looking on the bank.
11:40I don't see anything disturbed on the banks.
11:43So, I get my detective out and I had him scour that bank to look for anything that stood out
11:50that possibly could have been telling us why this body is in this water.
11:54Because all we had was a body in the water, laying near a bunch of branches, and there's nothing near it.
12:01There's absolutely zero.
12:04As the crime scene offered no more clues, police had to rule out other options.
12:10Could the current of the river have brought Elizabeth's body here, from further upstream?
12:28Trying to determine exactly the path of a body in this region is difficult.
12:32In this region, flow is steady.
12:37And that can transport a body quite a long distance, and certainly put it into various inlets and creeks,
12:43and leave it stranded there for some time.
12:47If it has any current in the water at all, it's going to move that body from where it was originally dumped at.
12:53So, it makes finding the original drop site a little more difficult.
12:59You've also got mangroves, you've got islands, you've got levees.
13:03These are all obstructions, these are all issues that would sort of cause a body to get stuck.
13:09It's a bit like a sort of a random walk effect.
13:12Certainly tracking a body in this area is difficult because it is so complex.
13:16The area where the body was located, the tides and the water level can also affect how things stay,
13:23how they float, how they move.
13:25However, at that time, the water was very calm, so you could tell that she had not moved.
13:32Investigators look to Elizabeth's post-mortem for answers.
13:37In Elizabeth's case, when the body was examined, there were injuries to Elizabeth's body,
13:43around the head and around the chest.
13:45There was blunt force trauma, and what that means is that Elizabeth was hit
13:50with some type of a blunt object, causing damage and bruises.
13:55This was a violent attack.
13:59There were bruises along the neck, in particular.
14:03This leads us to think that maybe there was some type of strangulation,
14:08where the hands are placed around the person's neck, and the neck is squeezed.
14:15Then that person will become unconscious and eventually die.
14:19The pathologist ruled the cause of death would have been asphyxiation by strangulation.
14:25The pathologist made another intriguing discovery.
14:30Lividity is basically the pooling of the blood.
14:38When we lay in a certain fashion, blood pools to the lowest point of gravity.
14:43In Elizabeth's case, there was a lividity pattern that showed she had not been killed and then dumped immediately.
14:52Because the lividity had set or been fixed, once she's moved, that lividity doesn't change.
14:58She was kept someplace on her back in order to allow that lividity to be set.
15:05In this case, likely the trunk of a car for several hours before she was actually dumped where she was found.
15:12The pathologist's determination was that she was murdered before she was placed in the water.
15:20Investigators were now convinced Elizabeth had been murdered, and her body dumped off the interstate highway bridge.
15:26We were able to go forward with the fact that it was definitely ruled a homicide, and there was definitely foul play.
15:39This type of strangulation is a type of death that is very up-close and personal.
15:47That gives us an indication for what direction to take the investigation.
15:51It's very likely that she knew her killer, and perhaps knew them well.
15:57Detectives put Elizabeth's life under the microscope, speaking to those who knew her, including best friend Shannon.
16:05I received a phone call, and he left a message, and so I immediately called him back, and I just said,
16:15Hi, my name is Shannon. He just called me about Liz. Is she okay?
16:19And his response was, No, ma'am. She's dead.
16:24My first reaction, of course, was tears started streaming down my face.
16:28I want to scream bloody murder, and I was ready to go pull one of my dad's hunting rifles out of his safe and go hunt this.
16:35Bleepity bleeped down.
16:37To find out who the killer was, investigators needed to dig into Elizabeth's past.
16:45She was actually probably my first, what I would guess you could call, best friend in my adult life.
16:52She was so petite. She looked like a little living and walking doll.
16:56But she was just always upbeat and chipper.
16:59She never really had a bad thing to say about anybody.
17:01Life hadn't been easy for Elizabeth.
17:06Her mother died when she was 18.
17:09Her mother was deceased. Her father was not in the picture.
17:12And we learned that she had a tough upbringing, but she was a fighter.
17:16She fought.
17:18I think that's why she was so resilient.
17:20She was so resilient because of her tougher upbringing that she did have.
17:24She had to be.
17:27In 2005, she met Jonathan Allay.
17:31They had met at a restaurant, and actually when they first met, he was really sweet and really gentle and really kind to her.
17:37And that's where she fell in love with him.
17:39The couple got married and moved to New Orleans to set up a bar.
17:48It seemed like it was a fairly decent relationship.
17:50However, she finds out she's pregnant and just puts a hold on all their plans in New Orleans.
17:55And they feel like they need some financial support.
17:57It may be emotional support as well, at least from Jonathan's perspective.
18:00So they decide to move back to Humboldt, Texas.
18:02He really wasn't able to hold a steady job very often.
18:07The best job he had, he was welding somewhere, and he wound up breaking his arm and couldn't work, so he lost the job.
18:13And then they wound up losing where they were living.
18:16They were living in a trailer home at the time, and they moved in with his grandmother.
18:23It creates a huge strain in the relationship between Liz and Jonathan for a number of different reasons.
18:29You know, she gives birth to her first child in 2010.
18:33And I think that Liz really feels incredibly alone and lonely in the sense that Jonathan's grandmother is doting, is an understatement, I think, in terms of her relationship with him.
18:45No woman is good enough, you know, for her precious Jonathan.
18:49And I think Liz really feels Jonathan's grandmother doesn't like her and that she's not welcome there.
18:55I think it mainly was kind of, you know, she's taking my son away kind of thing.
18:59She did not like Liz for anything.
19:03Despite the tensions, in 2015, the couple had a second daughter.
19:09According to the people we spoke to over there, they said that she always told them that the grandmother said she was a bad mother.
19:17She just felt like she had no life there.
19:20She was very isolated from the rest of the family.
19:23She did a lot of gaming.
19:25And that's why I think it was her way out.
19:27She was always talking about her games and the people that she was meeting on there.
19:33And she seemed to make friends right and left.
19:36It didn't really matter who they were, where they were from, or anything like that.
19:39She could just make friends.
19:40She increasingly is turning into gaming, I think, as a way to escape the environment that she's living in.
19:49And I think increasingly she finds that that's her only outlet at home.
19:53A way for her to feel, you know, pleasure and to have fun and not to feel all of this, you know, dislike and stress.
20:04She's beginning to have conversations.
20:06She's revealing more about herself and her situation.
20:10She's becoming flirtatious with a couple of guys online.
20:13When I found out that she was actually starting to meet people outside that she had met online, I actually got kind of worried about her because you never know what you're going to actually come across.
20:26They can be one thing online and completely different in person.
20:28And I didn't feel comfortable with that.
20:31And so I made a point to make sure it's like if you have any problems, if you don't feel safe, if you don't feel comfortable, call me.
20:36I'll be there in a heartbeat.
20:38This can be very, very risky.
20:40And at the same time, you know, I wonder how much the situation that Liz was in, in terms of feeling so isolated and so unhappy and so lonely, that for her, it was worth it.
20:54Could Elizabeth's killer be a gamer she'd met online?
20:57Or was it someone closer to home?
21:17In Whiskey Bay, Louisiana, investigators now know murdered mother of two, Elizabeth Farrell, was strangled before being dumped in swampland.
21:27They reached out to her husband and father of her children, Jonathan L.A.
21:33And I asked him if he knew Elizabeth Farrell.
21:38He said, yes, I do.
21:39I said, well, unfortunately, I hate to do so by telephone, but we have located her here in Louisiana.
21:47And I told him, I said, it's not good.
21:50I said, she's deceased.
21:51And his reaction to me on the phone was like, kind of blew me away.
21:56He goes like, really?
21:58Louisiana?
21:59Why is she over there?
22:01And I thought that was strange.
22:03It's extremely odd and not something that I think most investigators see as the first reaction to hearing that your loved one has been found deceased, out of state, unclothed, in a body of water.
22:20When investigators find somebody who is so out of the norm, it's always a red flag.
22:27I say, how did she get here?
22:29So I don't know if she left here a week ago and she just came up missing.
22:32He did not give us any indication as to why Elizabeth would be in Louisiana, how Elizabeth would have been in Louisiana, or how long Elizabeth would have been in Louisiana.
22:42I'm like, this don't sound right.
22:44So there was actually a police officer from Texas that went to that house at the time I called him.
22:51He stepped outside and I said, between me and you, the reaction I'm hearing over the telephone, before I could finish my comment, he said, I'm seeing the same thing you're hearing.
23:01Zero remorse.
23:02Some of the things that he did tell us was concerning the fact that his wife had not been seen by him by his own admission in a week.
23:14And she has two young children.
23:16If, as a parent, you go missing with two young children, the other parent is most times concerned about where that parent may or may not be.
23:25We expect to have some sort of missing persons report by a family member.
23:30However, that was not done.
23:32Detectives uncovered something else concerning about the couple's marriage.
23:41They learned through friends and co-workers that she was in a very volatile relationship.
23:47She'd come to work with scratches, bruises on her from time to time.
23:52And she would tell them that the person she was living with was very violent toward her.
23:59He really started getting physical.
24:00And there was one time she came in, she had a black eye, both lips were busted, and she almost lost her two front teeth.
24:06He hit her with a casted hand, and that's when he really started getting really bad.
24:11We all tried to get her to call the police on him, because at least it would get him away from her, or maybe her and the girls to a safer point, but she just wouldn't do it, because she did still care about him.
24:22And she would apologize profusely afterwards, and, you know, the same old rigmarole.
24:27When we had this kind of vicious cycle of, you know, violence followed by remorse, we oftentimes can see this progression of violence over time.
24:36One of the things that we discovered in recent years is just what a marker that, and a predictor that is for danger.
24:50We did want to look at Jonathan Ali a little bit harder in making sure that we cooperate with everything that he said.
24:57Jonathan was brought in for questioning.
25:04Two of my detectives went over there, and they spoke to him.
25:09Hi, Jonathan. You doing all right, man?
25:11I'm not in the place.
25:13Right now, we're investigating a very serious offense, okay?
25:17When they got to meet Mr. Ali for the first time in person, it wasn't the exact same story he was telling me over the phone.
25:23So there was a lot of inconsistencies.
25:24When was the last time you saw her Thursday?
25:30Initially, he told us that he hadn't seen her a week, and then it turned to, well, he saw her on Thursday, and it went from there.
25:38Tell me what happened to you Thursday.
25:40I came home in the bedroom.
25:42No one was closed, so I figured the baby was sleeping.
25:47He said that, you know, he heard the baby crying, the young man crying.
25:52But he went there and learned that Elizabeth wasn't there anymore.
25:57The Xbox was gone, closed, a couple of new times.
26:03And he hadn't seen her since.
26:05There was a lot of tension in the house.
26:09It just didn't click anymore.
26:10This was the first time Jonathan revealed his marriage was on the rocks.
26:16During that phone call with him, he didn't mention anything about, like, the relationship, anything like that.
26:21The two detectives that did speak to him, he told them that they hadn't been intimate in a few years.
26:26And they had some problems in the marital situation.
26:29You could tell that he was a little uneasy in talking to the detectives
26:59about the situation.
27:01I didn't do this.
27:03You won't forgive us for taking the life.
27:06I didn't do this.
27:10Well, who did it?
27:11I don't know.
27:13With no hard evidence against him, Elizabeth's husband was free to go.
27:17But then there was a development that would turn the investigation on its head.
27:25She was actually meeting people online and trying to find somebody to help her escape, get her to another state even.
27:34And she actually did go on a couple of dates with some people she met online.
27:38When she was gaming with one online from Oklahoma, and this guy actually came in from Oklahoma to Texas to Umba and met her, and they spent a night at a hotel.
27:51So here we go.
27:54You know, was it domestic or was it something else?
27:58Was it this guy came down who was a serial killer from God knows where that preyed upon this young lady and killed her?
28:05And so back to square one again.
28:10You know, we know we got a murder.
28:12Now we're going to figure out who is the murderer.
28:15It is risky to meet somebody that we don't know, that we've never met in person, online.
28:22Less so in a public place, but to meet somebody in a hotel or a place where you're going to be intimate for the first time, I think, can be seen as risky.
28:30This guy could be a stalker.
28:31He could be a predator.
28:32There have been plenty of cases of people who have been catfished, and they think they're getting one person, and then somebody turns up who's nothing like they said they were going to, or even worse.
28:42But she is willing to take a risk.
28:46We were able to determine who that person was.
28:50We were able to make contact with that person via telephone.
28:53When we heard that we had found Elizabeth here in Louisiana, deceased, his reaction to us was a hundred times more emotional than her actual husband.
29:08And we knew immediately, upon speaking to him, he could prove where he was at.
29:12He had an alibi.
29:13We knew for a fact, he had never came to her anywhere near the state of Louisiana.
29:19And we were able to eliminate him as a suspect in this homicide.
29:25Investigators once again zeroed in on Jonathan Ale.
29:29They needed to place him on the interstate highway bridge over Whiskey Bay and work out his motive for coming here.
29:36The body of water, along with the bridge, is a pretty isolated area, with only two exits on an 18-mile road leading to that location.
29:52Given the remote location of Whiskey Bay, it's not uncommon for investigators to see body dumps.
29:58We've got calls in that area before.
30:01Years ago, there was a serial killer working that area, dumping bodies off in that area.
30:06What could draw a killer to these waters, 230 miles from Texas?
30:13During the time of this homicide, there was a TV show that we were featured on that aired early 2016 that talked about our geography and, you know, how people discard bodies and things in our area based on the geography of our area.
30:34It featured bodies being dumped at Whiskey Bay here in Louisiana, in our parish.
30:41Possibly he may have watched that show.
30:43Further findings from the autopsy confirmed the police's theory that Elizabeth was dropped over the side of the bridge.
30:52Elizabeth had puncture wounds that were from the branches of trees, indicating she was pushed off or thrown off the bridge.
30:59Her body hit those, and they would cause post-mortem injuries, which we can determine were not the actual cause of death.
31:07We know that because through the autopsy, when we find bruises or damage to a body, we can actually make a small incision in those bruises to determine if there is something we call vital force.
31:21If there is vital force, then that person was alive when those injuries occurred.
31:27That's bleeding into the tissue.
31:29When we incise those wounds and we find out that there is no vital force, then we know that those are post-mortem injuries.
31:39But investigators still had to prove Jonathan had come to Whiskey Bay.
31:44We found out Elizabeth did not drive.
31:48She had no driver's license.
31:50She had no vehicle.
31:51We learned from work, co-workers, that he brought her to work and picked her up from work.
31:56While my two detectives are over there, Jonathan Adley pulls up in a car.
32:00On the back window, there was a small American flag in about the middle part of the window.
32:05The detective made note of it.
32:07We started looking for surveillance cameras.
32:09It took hours of surveilling through video, not only by me, but by multiple detectives.
32:17During this time, it's two-ish, three-ish in the morning.
32:21I'm in my office and my detective runs in there and, quote, I got that son of a bitch.
32:29And I'm like, got what?
32:31He said, I got the car from Humboldt, Texas, here, right near Whiskey Bay.
32:39He was able to locate that in these hours' worth of video footage and camera footage that we saw,
32:45that even had the American flag sticker on the back that we were able to cooperate.
32:51Jonathan Adley's car had as well.
32:54I said, you've got to be kidding me.
32:56I think it was like 7.58 p.m. the night before we found the body.
32:59That vehicle is eastbound and at 9-something is back westbound.
33:05And, like, okay, who's driving that car?
33:11That vehicle was registered to his grandmother.
33:15So I find a phone number for her.
33:18Come to find out, she says she was at a campground in another part of Texas.
33:23I find this campground that she was in.
33:25I actually speak to the manager.
33:27Manager says, confirm.
33:29In fact, she was here during the time we think this body was done.
33:36The only other person who had access to the car was Jonathan's uncle.
33:42So now we're down to two.
33:44We're down to Jonathan Adley or the other gentleman living in the residence.
33:47The uncle.
33:48We could verify from where he was at.
33:51We knew he had an alibi, a silent alibi.
33:53He even told us that when he had came home, Jonathan wasn't there.
33:59The car wasn't there.
34:00The grandmother wasn't there because she was at this campground in Gross Bay, Texas.
34:05So he had went to bed.
34:11I think it was around 12.45 or something like that that morning.
34:15He got up to go get something to drink.
34:17And that's when he noticed Jonathan had just came in.
34:20So where was Jonathan at the whole time?
34:27The answer would come from a surprising source.
34:30He had a five-year-old daughter who had to be interviewed about what may or may not have happened that day.
34:37What she saw, what she didn't see.
34:39Because children are very observant.
34:41And even though they don't know that they are seeing something that may be pertinent to an investigation,
34:47they only know what they see.
34:48It's very, very important that if you're going to interview a child witness,
34:53that they're done with somebody who's been trained very specifically in how to interview children.
34:58And that involves things like, you know, maybe playing games with this child, putting this child at ease,
35:03having toys in the room, asking open-ended questions.
35:07Because the last thing you want to do is lead a child.
35:11Children are naturally compliant with adults.
35:13And so it is important to have a trained forensic interviewer.
35:17And they did.
35:18I don't think any adult could have been a better witness than this child was.
35:23She told a whole story that her dad said he was going on an adventure.
35:29It's going to be a long ride.
35:30They leave in the daytime and they come back late at night.
35:33And her dad said, this could take a while.
35:38She said, I'm sitting in the back with my other little sister.
35:41And my dad's driving her.
35:42And they asked where mom.
35:43Mom didn't come.
35:44This is the lane he stopped in.
35:48And the little girl told a forensic interviewer, she said, he parked in the middle of the road,
35:53which she thinks is the middle of a lane.
35:55It's kind of similar to a lane, but it's very, this is the shoulder, very narrow.
35:58The description matched the exact point on the highway where her mother's body was dumped.
36:06She said in the interview that she remember her dad getting out of the car.
36:10He was being very careful not to get run over.
36:13And he removed something from the back, but I couldn't tell where there was.
36:16And proceeded back to Humboldt, Texas and told a little girl he couldn't find the magic road they were looking for.
36:21She could be a very powerful witness.
36:24And she certainly in this case turned it on its head.
36:46Detectives are investigating the murder of Elizabeth Farrell from Texas, found strangled in a Louisiana swamp.
36:58Their prime suspect is Elizabeth's violent husband, Jonathan.
37:03Despite claiming he hadn't been to Louisiana for years, he was picked up on highway cameras near the Whiskey Bay dump site.
37:11And his daughter confirmed they'd gone there.
37:13In listening to the child's forensic interview and then Jonathan's interview, the inconsistencies were vast.
37:22Jonathan advised that he was at the home for the majority of the day.
37:26And the child definitely stated something different.
37:29The fact that they had all left the home on a big adventure.
37:33To watch that interview was heartbreaking.
37:35This little girl was so articulate.
37:37And she even told us, sometimes my daddy gets mad at my mommy.
37:41And she said, my daddy would fuss saying that you spend more time online with your friends than you do with me.
37:46You're always gaming.
37:48Based on the investigation and everything that we were able to learn, we were able to get enough probable cause and reach that level to make sure that we were able to obtain an arrest warrant.
37:58It was enough to get a judge to sign a warrant for second-degree murder of Elizabeth Farrell.
38:09They arrested him over in Omo, Texas, as what they call a fugitive from state Louisiana.
38:13When I finally heard that they had arrested him, I was ecstatic.
38:19What he did to Elizabeth, it made me incredibly angry.
38:24All I wanted to do was walk up to that SOB and slap him across the face.
38:29But I let justice do its thing.
38:32Then, the investigation took another unexpected turn.
38:38So, while in jail in Texas, waiting to come here, he got a little diarrhea of the mouth.
38:47He befriended another gentleman that was in his jail.
38:52And the gentleman asked him, you know, what you in here for?
38:56And he said, murder.
38:57And he goes into detail about how he murdered Elizabeth.
39:04After interviewing his cellmate, detectives could finally piece together the final hours of Elizabeth's life.
39:13He is clearly somebody who is treating her as a possession and somebody he can abuse, he can control.
39:19So, it doesn't surprise me that the incident that leads to her death is when he goes through her phone, which, of course, is an invasion of privacy,
39:29and finds these messages that are enraging to him, that he thinks are a violation of his ownership of her.
39:36We learned through the investigation that on her phone, he possibly located some information that shows she was possibly being intimate with somebody else.
39:44Elizabeth had been exchanging messages with her online romance.
39:49He feels that because she is his possession, she can't leave him unless he says it's okay.
39:57So, I think he's got, in so many respects, the classic personality and thought processes of a domestic violence perpetrator.
40:06He had threatened her a hundred times.
40:08If she ever tried to leave and take the girls, he would kill her.
40:10And I think she was getting ready to start trying to leave.
40:13And that's when the worst that he could do happened.
40:19When she comes out of the bathroom, he comes in behind her and he grabs her and he chokes her.
40:24Jonathan did tell that jailhouse cellmate that he put her in a chokehold until she stopped reading or what he thought.
40:34He said she was dead.
40:36He laid her down.
40:38He let her go.
40:39He said, then she, like, she gasped for air.
40:42He said, I panicked.
40:43And that's when I started stomping on her neck, kicking her throat.
40:46What we think, somebody's been injured, our first thought is, we need to get help for them.
40:53And so there is something about that stomping.
40:56It's just that annihilation that is just particularly chilling.
41:01Once hearing the statements that Jonathan Ali made to the jailhouse cellmate,
41:07it all corroborated what the autopsy had found about the blunt force trauma,
41:12everything to her chest and to her upper body.
41:15When we looked at this case, we found some anomalies.
41:18And those anomalies were the injuries and the bruising around the head and neck.
41:22And so he actually admitted that he stomped on her neck.
41:26We find this again through the autopsy because the very delicate bones and the cartilage in that area may be crushed.
41:32And then the sick part about it all, he told this gentleman that once he did kill her,
41:42he had sex with her body and that he ejaculated on her face.
41:47And then once we got a hold of some phones he had,
41:50we found some stuff in the phone where he had pictures of and was Googling of sex with dead bodies.
41:58So he was a sick person.
42:02He had some sick thoughts.
42:04This last act of having sex with her is a way to degrade her further.
42:11It is his last act of kind of domination control over her.
42:16I can't think of anything that would be more dehumanizing and more humiliating.
42:20And to turn somebody into such an object,
42:23they're in a situation obviously now where they have absolutely no control over anything.
42:26Um, it's just, it's horrifying.
42:32Detectives uncovered more clues about why Jonathan Alley chose Whiskey Bay to dump his wife's body.
42:39He also made a comment to the inmate at the jail in Texas
42:44that he thought if he threw it in the swamps here in Louisiana, the alligator's where he'd be.
42:49When you have bodies of water that are high in alligator population,
42:57many offenders think that this is a great place to get rid of their evidence
43:01as the alligators will scavenge on the remains.
43:05However, in most cases, alligators are predators.
43:08They are not scavengers.
43:09Meaning that unless they have live prey,
43:12they're usually not interested in what's in the water.
43:14I'm 66 years old, born and raised here.
43:19And I have yet to find one person that's ever been eaten by an alligator in the state of Louisiana.
43:27I mean, within 40 feet, I got alligators in my house.
43:30So, and they've never attacked me.
43:34Again, go back to his sick mind, you know, an alligator's going to be a perfect scenario.
43:38He's going to eat the body, and we're never going to discover her,
43:41and they'll never know where she went.
43:43And he figured it'd be a good spot to go because nobody would catch him.
43:46Well, he found out it was a parish sheriff's office,
43:50knows a little something about that.
43:54Jonathan Alley was finally extradited to the state of Louisiana,
43:58where investigators attempted to interview him.
44:01It's been a long road, brother.
44:05It's been a long road.
44:06Yes, it has.
44:07Jonathan, this is exactly what I explained to you in the car.
44:10You have the right to remain silent.
44:11Anything you say you can, we'll just get you in the court of law.
44:13You have the right to talk to a lawyer and have him present with you
44:15while you're being questioned.
44:16You understand that?
44:17Yes, sir.
44:19And he immediately lawyered up on us then.
44:21He said, not talking.
44:24And that was the last conversation we had with him was that night.
44:27Alley returned to the jurisdiction of his home state, Texas,
44:39where he pleaded guilty to the second-degree murder of his wife, Elizabeth.
44:44He struck a plea deal and was jailed for 35 years.
44:49The one time he told the truth, he had to save his ass,
44:53to say, hey, you know, I don't want to die in Louisiana prison.
44:56Then I can go over there in Texas and get a better deal,
44:59which turns out to be 35 years there versus life here.
45:03He thought of just himself and nobody else.
45:06For me personally, it can be kind of frustrating when pleas are given.
45:09However, in this case, it was the best-case scenario,
45:12him taking a plea and saving his children from having to go through a trial.
45:19As far as I'm concerned, it's an injustice.
45:22He is not serving what he should serve for what he did.
45:27He is evil incarnate, as far as I'm concerned.
45:32You know, you look around, water, woods.
45:37What kind of death of death?
45:39A water grave.
45:40You know, you don't do animals that.
45:43He treated her like garbage throughout the swamp.
45:46That tells you right there what kind of person he is.
45:49And this was the burial he gave her.
45:52Mr. Ali thought that he could just throw her off his bridge and just wash his sins away.
45:56He washed his ass straight to prison.
45:59And that's where his final destination should be.
46:03I do miss her every single day.
46:06I wish I could talk to her every day.
46:08And then I wish she was still here.
46:09And Jonathan was gone.
46:14It's really that simple.
46:18Because you don't find people like that very often.
46:21A friend like that is completely priceless.
46:24It's really that simple.
46:49Gracias por ver el video.
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