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Killer Relationship with Faith Jenkins - Season 4 Episode 3 -
Fighting for her life
Fighting for her life
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00:00So full of life, Tiffany had a goal.
00:03She wanted to support this baby.
00:05When a young pregnant woman vanishes without a trace...
00:08He heard Tiffany screaming.
00:11Your mind goes to the worst possible scenarios in your head.
00:15Investigators uncover a toxic family filled with conflict.
00:19I honestly thought that somebody in that family did something to her.
00:25Betrayals.
00:26It wasn't always rainbows and sunshine.
00:30She went through hell and back.
00:32Unspeakable evil.
00:34She was fighting for her life and the life of her baby.
00:38She didn't deserve what happened to her.
00:41And a killer relationship.
00:43None of it made sense.
00:44It didn't make sense because he's a liar and he's a killer.
00:56It's the fall of 2014 and 20-year-old Tiffany Adams is getting her life back on track.
01:07She's eight months pregnant and eagerly awaiting the birth of her first child with her boyfriend, Donnie Barron.
01:13But Tiffany's bright future takes a dark turn when she abruptly disappears.
01:19In Sullivan, Indiana, police have to untangle a complicated web of relationships to solve the mystery.
01:26But who is telling the truth?
01:28And who is carrying a deadly secret?
01:30On Friday, November 7th, I was working by myself that day as a police officer with the city of Sullivan.
01:44Dispatch asked me to respond to the house of Bruce Adams in reference to a missing persons report regarding his daughter, Tiffany.
01:53Local plant worker, Bruce Adams, says his pregnant daughter, Tiffany, disappeared two days ago and no one has heard from her since.
02:04I didn't know where she was at. I could tell something was happening.
02:08Bruce tells the officer that on Wednesday, November 5th, Tiffany and her boyfriend, Donnie, had a few days off work and wanted to come for a visit.
02:16But they lived 30 miles away and didn't have a car.
02:19Bruce went down to pick up Tiffany and Donnie and brought them back to his house.
02:25Then I had to go get something at the store and I came back and Donnie was still sitting on the couch. Tiffany was gone.
02:32Donnie had told him that Tiffany had walked over to her mom's.
02:37Tiffany's parents had been divorced for several years, but her mom, Christina, and stepfather, Brian Orr, lived just 75 yards away.
02:46You walk out Bruce's house and just across the yard, there's where Christina and Brian lives.
02:52And Tiffany had went over there to see her mom and she had not returned.
02:57According to Donnie, Tiffany left the house between 11 and 11.15 a.m.
03:02and had been gone for about two hours.
03:05But as the minutes ticked by, Bruce got a chilling call.
03:09Bruce answered the phone, it was Tiffany's voice, and he thought he heard her yelling, and the phone then went dead.
03:19Within a matter of seconds, the phone rang again.
03:22This time, he heard Tiffany screaming.
03:25She sounds distressed, and he hears Brian Orr's voice in the background.
03:41That sends red flags everywhere.
03:44Brian Orr, Tiffany's stepfather, was known around the community as somebody that you just stayed away from.
03:51There was volatility between Bruce and Brian Orr.
03:56Tiffany, at times, was caught in the middle of it.
04:01Distressed by Tiffany's panicked screams and convinced he heard Brian's voice in the background,
04:07Bruce and Donnie rushed the short distance to the Orr's house.
04:11Brian and Christina were out in the driveway.
04:14When Bruce went over and confronted Brian, Bruce says, I don't want no trouble.
04:21I just want Tiffany.
04:23Brian looks at him with a puzzled look and says, get the hell off my property.
04:30Bruce tries to ask Christina if she knows where their daughter is,
04:34but she doesn't believe Bruce's story that Tiffany's gone.
04:37So he returns home and repeatedly calls Tiffany's cell phone.
04:42He gets no answer.
04:43Tiff, this is your dad.
04:45I'm dying.
04:46I'm worried to death about you.
04:48I'm afraid you're hurt or something bad happened to you.
04:52Daddy loves you.
04:54Let me know you're all right.
04:56After 48 hours pass, Bruce's hope that Tiffany will come back fades.
05:02That's when he calls the police.
05:04I honestly thought that somebody in that family did something to her.
05:12It's not particularly common that a person at eight and a half months pregnant would just up and take off.
05:20Her social media stopped.
05:22She didn't pick up her Friday paycheck.
05:24This girl lived from paycheck to paycheck.
05:26She wasn't gone because she wanted to be.
05:28Now we have to start digging into the background of Tiffany Adams.
05:40Tiffany Adams is born on June 7, 1994 in Sullivan, Indiana, the second child of Christina and Bruce Adams.
05:47Oh, she was hilarious, man.
05:50She was so full of life.
05:52I mean, it was just nonstop smiling, dancing, singing, just being goofy.
05:59Tiffany was my childhood best friend.
06:02We just ran the streets like hooligans.
06:06She was just an adventurous person.
06:10But family life is anything but easy for Tiffany and her brother Roy.
06:15Tiffany and Roy had a rough childhood.
06:17The family dynamic was chaos.
06:21Christina and Bruce had had an on-again, off-again relationship.
06:27There was a lot of argument going on in that family.
06:32And in 2009, Tiffany's parents split up for good when Christina leaves Bruce and moves in with their neighbor, Brian Orr.
06:42I think at first, when Tiffany's mom met Brian, she was happy for her mom that she had met somebody that she loved and she seemed happy.
06:53Along with a new stepdad, 14-year-old Tiffany gains older step-siblings, Mary and Jonas Orr, and Jonas' wife, Amber.
07:03Jonas had a little boy, and Tiffany really liked going over and visiting.
07:09Tiffany had a really good relationship with Amber, Jonas' wife.
07:12They went shopping together.
07:14They talked on a daily, especially when it came to her nephew.
07:17The blended family seems to get along at first, but the situation soon turned sour.
07:25Brian was so controlling, and Tiffany did not like seeing her mom being treated that way.
07:33Tiffany just wanted a relationship with her mom, and Brian was not having it.
07:37He wanted Chris all to himself.
07:40Tiffany would beg Chris to leave Brian multiple times.
07:44It didn't matter what she said.
07:46Her mother just did not want to leave the relationship.
07:51Tiffany's parents aren't the only ones at war.
07:54Her stepbrother, Jonas, is also drawn into the fray.
07:57Me, I strung, always wanted to fight everybody and be a big bully.
08:03At one time, Jonas was threatening Tiffany and Bruce, and it was just all over the way Tiffany felt like Brian was treating her mother.
08:14Despite the family drama, there's one bright spot in Tiffany's life, her relationship with her doting boyfriend, Donnie.
08:22Donnie, he's a good guy, I think.
08:25Pretty laid-back kind of guy.
08:27They got back together.
08:28In the spring of 2014, when Tiffany's only 19 years old, she discovers she's pregnant.
08:35Tiffany and Donnie take the news in stride, and see this as the start of an exciting new chapter.
08:42Her and Donnie got away from Sullivan, and I felt like Tiffany had a goal.
08:47She got a job, and she wanted to support this baby.
08:50All she ever talked about is how that baby was going to have the best life.
09:02But now Tiffany has been missing for two days, and investigators are looking at those closest to her for answers.
09:09The last thing Bruce remembered her wearing was a red sweatshirt, black pants, and Ugg boots.
09:18After speaking with Bruce, the clock starts there.
09:21I did go over to Brian and Christina's house.
09:25They said no.
09:27I hadn't seen her.
09:28Both their stories matched.
09:29They both stated that they were doing maintenance on a building in town.
09:33And when they got back, that's when they were approached by Bruce and asked the whereabouts of Tiffany.
09:38I asked about the phone call from Tiffany.
09:42I can quote Brian saying, Bruce is a goddamn liar.
09:48He's making it all up.
09:50The lack of concern that we got from Christina and Brian was alarming in a way.
09:56Their demeanor during it all, it was very nonchalant.
10:02Then, Officer Fisher spots something that could provide a clue to where Tiffany went.
10:08As we're talking, we noticed that there's a trail camera on the porch of Brian Orr's house.
10:14The way it's facing, it should see anybody walking up to the house.
10:19Based on the trail camera's position, the SD card would contain footage of Tiffany
10:24if she had come over like her boyfriend, Donnie, suggested.
10:28So, we asked Brian if we could take the SD card and review it.
10:35When Brian opened that camera box up, the SD card was gone.
10:40Somebody took the time, the very day that Tiffany Adams came up missing,
10:46to break into that camera and remove the SD card.
10:49Brian says, Tiffany did it.
10:52That didn't make sense.
10:53We had cadaver dogs, we had tracking dogs, the clock's ticking.
11:03That was her, you know, true love.
11:05They were going to be together forever.
11:07I think Tiffany refused to speak about it because it would cause more chaos.
11:13Nothing is adding up.
11:14Eight months pregnant Tiffany Adams has been missing for two days.
11:25And investigators in Sullivan, Indiana, are on the hunt for the mother-to-be.
11:30Her father, Bruce, thinks she's met with foul play.
11:33Tiffany's mom and stepfather, Christina and Brian Orr, are telling people she's simply run off.
11:40And a trail camera that could have revealed where she went is mysteriously empty.
11:45But is it a coincidence or a cover-up?
11:52The first person we honestly wanted to talk to was her boyfriend at the time.
11:57Donnie Barron is the one that said to Bruce that she went over to Brian and Christina's.
12:02But there was no evidence that she went to Brian and Christina's.
12:05So did Donnie hurt her?
12:06Investigators need to talk with Donnie.
12:10But he's nowhere to be found.
12:13Bruce was the one who made the report.
12:16However, her boyfriend that she lived with didn't.
12:20And he's the last one to have seen her.
12:22We had made phone calls to his phone and they went to voicemail.
12:26That only increased the suspicions that Donnie was somehow involved in her disappearance.
12:31Police go by Donnie's last known residence where he lived with Tiffany.
12:36But he's not there.
12:38With Donnie unable or unwilling to take their cause,
12:42investigators turn to Tiffany's social media to gain insight into their relationship.
12:48What kept surfacing is love and affection.
12:54Looking back at her history on social media,
12:57she was very excited to carry this child.
13:00But we learned through our investigation that Donnie was not with Tiffany
13:05at the time she became pregnant.
13:08So that added a whole other dimension to this case.
13:13If Donnie isn't the father, who is?
13:16As investigators keep scrolling, they discover a disturbing post.
13:21On October 1st, just five weeks before Tiffany disappeared,
13:25she wrote,
13:27My baby's father is seriously worthless.
13:30Tiffany had said that she didn't believe that he wanted anything to do with the baby.
13:35We start, you know, going into relationships, boyfriends,
13:40and we learn the father of the child she is carrying is Artem McHenry.
13:46In 2011, three years before she starts dating Donnie, Tiffany falls in love.
13:58When Tiffany met Artem, she was through the roof.
14:01He was very, very attractive.
14:03He just filled her completely.
14:06She had it set that that was her, you know, true love,
14:10that they were going to be together forever.
14:13They actually moved in together a couple days after meeting.
14:17But despite their intense feelings, the romance has its problems.
14:22It was a very rollercoaster kind of relationship.
14:26Sometimes I could see Artem being a little controlling,
14:28but I think that was more Tiffany being jealous because, you know,
14:34anybody look sideways at him, she'd start barking.
14:38Artem and Tiffany's relationship ends as abruptly as it started.
14:43In March of 2014, eight months before Tiffany's disappearance, the two break up.
14:49Tiff called me crying and said, he laughed, he laughed, he laughed.
14:53She was completely heartbroken.
14:56I think Tiffany took it extremely hard, but Tiffany was never one to be by herself.
15:02So regardless of the heartbreak, she was going to find someone else.
15:07And that's when she met Donnie.
15:10It's only weeks after meeting Donnie that Tiffany discovers she's pregnant.
15:16She was so shocked.
15:17She's like, what am I going to do?
15:19And then she got excited because she loved kids.
15:22Artem didn't believe it was his at first.
15:25She was so mad at Artem.
15:27Donnie Barron, he loved Tiffany, and he was willing to raise that baby,
15:32take that baby as his own.
15:34She had told me, I'm going to love this baby more than that I ever had loved.
15:42Two days after Tiffany Adams went missing, investigators are juggling multiple suspects.
15:54Her stepfather, Brian, her boyfriend, Donnie, and now her ex and the father of her unborn child, Artem.
16:01Did Artem want harm to come to Tiffany?
16:04Did Artem want harm to come to the unborn baby?
16:07Maybe there was some kind of jealousy there because here you have Donnie who is stepping up.
16:15That kind of puts Artem in a bad light.
16:18So we got to find Artem McHenry, get his side of what he knows.
16:23While they look into Tiffany's current and former boyfriends, three days after she was last seen,
16:30investigators are able to analyze location data from Tiffany's cell phone provider.
16:34And what comes back to us is a longitude and a latitude of where that phone last communicated with the tower.
16:43It was on County Road 300.
16:45That was five miles from Sullivan, Indiana.
16:48As you're driving east on County Road 300 north, you have part of the lake on each side of the road.
16:54Why would it ping here?
16:56There's no houses right here.
16:59We were dragging the bottom of the lake.
17:01We had cadaver dogs.
17:04We had tracking dogs.
17:06We spent several nights in winter temperatures out here with these dogs.
17:12But it was nothing that led us anywhere in the investigation.
17:16The clock's ticking.
17:18One week after she disappears, there's still no sign of Tiffany.
17:22But her boyfriend, Donnie, does resurface.
17:26And the investigators have plenty of questions.
17:28Donnie stayed at a house very close by to Bruce's.
17:34That's where we eventually made contact with him.
17:38Why did it take so long for us to reach you?
17:40You didn't reach out to us.
17:42We didn't really understand his need to disappear.
17:46Obviously, that makes someone suspicious.
17:48He said he was stressed out after her disappearance.
17:51I don't think he knew how to handle that.
17:55Donnie seemed very concerned.
17:57He truly thought something bad had happened to her while she was at Brian's place.
18:05While they still can't reconcile Donnie's actions, Bruce backs up one major part of his story.
18:11He told us that Donnie was with Bruce whenever Bruce got that phone call from the landline.
18:18That had Tiffany distressed on the other end of the line.
18:21Investigators still have to consider that Bruce might be lying about Donnie being with him during that phone call.
18:27But unless they can prove otherwise, Donnie has an alibi.
18:30So detectives move on to Tiffany's ex and the father of her baby, Artem McHenry.
18:36Artem McHenry lived in Linton, Indiana at the time of her disappearance.
18:40That's approximately 30, 40 miles away from where Tiffany's dad's house was in Sullivan.
18:46Law enforcement proceeds to where he lives for questioning.
18:51Have you heard from her?
18:52Have you seen her?
18:53Can you give us anything?
18:55Artem didn't know what had happened to Tiffany.
18:57He suspected Donnie had maybe been involved in it.
19:00Then they asked Artem where he was on November 5th when Tiffany disappeared.
19:06During that time that she was reported missing,
19:08Artem said he was working for the family business doing construction work.
19:12So we had to closely examine Artem and his whereabouts at the time of her disappearance
19:17and confirm Artem's alibi.
19:20It's now been more than a week since Tiffany vanished and investigators continue their search.
19:25But it's well known that the longer someone is missing,
19:28the less chance there is of finding them alive or at all.
19:33I couldn't sleep for days.
19:35You know, I just searched the tracks.
19:37I searched the woods.
19:40We would do search parties where we'd have like 20, 30 of us walking.
19:44We were all concerned, especially with how pregnant she was.
19:47Days turning into weeks without finding her, you lose a lot of hope.
19:51By Christmas, Tiffany has been missing for seven weeks, and her due date is fast approaching.
20:00Then, at the end of December, nearly eight weeks after Tiffany first disappeared,
20:06the Sullivan police get a call.
20:08December 30th, 2014, the chief's phone rings.
20:12He answers it, and the alarm on his face, he looks at us.
20:20He hangs up the phone and says, we've got to go.
20:22I think we've found her.
20:25And it's not good.
20:30For almost two months, the police in Sullivan, Indiana,
20:33have been searching for 20-year-old Tiffany Adams,
20:36a mother-to-be who's just days away from her due date.
20:39On December 30th, 2014, investigators make a gruesome discovery
20:45five miles north of town, and the search for answers takes a tragic turn.
20:52We get a phone call from a local farmer
20:56that he had been combining his corn field.
21:01It was a cloudy, gloomy day, and the field was muddy.
21:05And all of a sudden, he sees this bright color laying on the ground.
21:11He got down off his tractor.
21:13He realizes this is a person.
21:17He could tell by the clothing, by the hair,
21:21that it was a young female.
21:24I noticed that the corn stalks all around her were trampled down.
21:31That led me to believe that there was some sort of struggle.
21:36There was a red sweatshirt twisted around her neck,
21:42and her clothing matched what was described when Tiffany was missing.
21:48An autopsy confirms the body in the corn field is Tiffany Adams.
21:55The coroner concluded that she died by strangulation.
22:00I had been a policeman for a long time.
22:01That was the hardest autopsy I'd ever been part of.
22:08The reality of that baby dying,
22:15it's not the way
22:18life is supposed to be.
22:22In the autopsy, closer examination was made of the sweatshirt
22:30that was tied around her neck.
22:32In that sweatshirt was her hair
22:36that had been pulled out of her scalp.
22:40And more importantly, husks off the corn stalks.
22:43That pretty much solidified that the attack took place there.
22:48The murder happened in that corn field.
22:52After we had a positive identification on Tiffany,
22:55we did then inform the family.
22:58I cared for her so much.
23:01I still think one day she woke me up.
23:06She don't woke me up.
23:09It just never even happened.
23:15More than ever,
23:16detectives are determined to get justice
23:18for Tiffany Adams and her unborn son.
23:21The answer might lie in her phone records.
23:24Detectives have already established
23:26where Tiffany's phone last pinged
23:28on the day she went missing.
23:30Now that it's a homicide,
23:32they subpoena her full phone records
23:34to find out who she was communicating with
23:36on that fateful day.
23:39When you look at her phone records,
23:41prior to the panic phone calls made to Bruce Howell,
23:45there are text messages.
23:48Now, we were not able to see the message body,
23:52but we did have the phone numbers,
23:55and that information is key.
23:57A total of 14 messages were exchanged
24:00between Tiffany's phone
24:01and a single number on the day she disappeared.
24:04Well, when you look at those phone records,
24:06you come up with a number
24:08that was registered to Jonas Orr
24:13and his wife, Amber.
24:15That's Tiffany's stepbrother.
24:17Jonas and Amber used the same phone.
24:21They only had one phone between them.
24:23When Tiffany begged her mom to leave Brian,
24:26Amber and Jonas sided with his father, Brian Orr.
24:29But would either of them go so far as to hurt Tiffany?
24:33Jonas was also known to have that temper.
24:37I myself had dealt with Jonas
24:39and his wife, Amber, quite a bit.
24:42We'd known Jonas to be very protective of Brian.
24:46Investigators don't know what the messages say
24:48or who sent them,
24:49so they bring Jonas Orr, Tiffany's stepbrother,
24:52in for questioning.
24:54We asked Jonas if he had communicated with Tiffany,
24:57categorically denied it.
24:59Said he hadn't talked to Tiffany,
25:00hadn't seen Tiffany since September.
25:02And his statement was,
25:04if anybody was talking to Tiffany on the phone,
25:08it must have been Amber.
25:10So then we want to talk to Jonas' wife, Amber.
25:14Amber claimed she had no contact with Tiffany as well.
25:18We showed her the phone records,
25:20laid them out,
25:21times, date,
25:23and said,
25:24your husband said,
25:26this is you.
25:29She blew up.
25:32She says there's no way
25:34that she communicated with Tiffany Adams
25:36on or about November the 5th.
25:39Investigators ask Amber to hand over the phone,
25:42but she claims that it was a prepaid sale
25:44and they no longer have it.
25:46So who texted Tiffany on the day she disappeared?
25:49Why in the world would they be lying to us?
25:57Just two days after the body of Tiffany Adams
26:00is found in a cornfield,
26:02statements made by her stepbrother Jonas
26:03and his wife Amber aren't lining up.
26:06Police records show that one of them
26:08was communicating with Tiffany
26:10on the day she disappeared.
26:12But Jonas and Amber both deny it.
26:14Investigators need to dig further
26:17so they review what Bruce Adams said
26:19when he filed the missing person report.
26:23Bruce stated that the day she went missing,
26:26Jonas Orr was driving around
26:28close to Brian's house on his golf cart.
26:30It was about three in the afternoon.
26:32Jonas and Amber had told us
26:35that they never left the house
26:37on November the 5th.
26:40So I asked Bruce, what were they doing?
26:43Did they go in the house?
26:44He said, no.
26:46Jonas was fiddling with something
26:48on the front porch.
26:50Was Jonas tampering with the trail camera
26:52on Brian Orr's front porch?
26:53And if so, did he take the SD card?
26:56Regardless, even if Jonas did meet up
26:59with Tiffany that morning,
27:00how would they get to the cornfield
27:02five miles away?
27:03Jonas didn't own a car.
27:05Nothing is adding up.
27:07We have our people of interest,
27:09but we're not getting
27:11any credible information from them.
27:13While detectives try to separate
27:15fact from fiction,
27:17Tiffany's friends and family
27:18gather to honor the vibrant young woman
27:20who couldn't wait to be a mother.
27:22I went to Tiffany's celebration of life.
27:27It was beautiful.
27:30She was there with us.
27:31We could all feel it.
27:32We went out and we had them
27:35Japanese, like, kites.
27:40We dicked them off and said prayers.
27:45Our mom showed up, too.
27:47She didn't stay very long,
27:48because we all were just,
27:50mm-mm.
27:51You have no business being here.
27:52Meanwhile, detectives are convinced
27:59Tiffany's cell phone
28:01and the contents of her text messages
28:03are the key to finding her killer.
28:05So once again,
28:07they return to the data
28:08hoping to eliminate suspects.
28:11Tiffany's cell phone
28:12made that panic call
28:14from the exact spot
28:16that her dead body was found.
28:18So we know where Tiffany was at
28:21at the time of the trouble calls,
28:22and we know where Bruce was at.
28:24She had called the house phone.
28:27They were in two very different places.
28:30That's all established by phone records.
28:33There were accusations
28:34that Donnie Varon
28:36had done something to her,
28:37that those assumptions
28:38can quickly be extinguished
28:40because he was standing beside Bruce
28:42when those phone calls were made.
28:44So that was critical.
28:46What about Brian Orr?
28:48Because Bruce and Donnie
28:49confronted Brian and Christina
28:51minutes after the harrowing phone call,
28:53they too could not have been
28:55five miles away committing the murder.
28:57Those people hated each other.
28:59They wouldn't have ever lied for each other.
29:02So she had to be with someone else.
29:05Then there's Tiffany's ex
29:07and father of her unborn baby,
29:09Artem McHenry.
29:11We were able to track back
29:13through cell phone technology
29:15and confirm Artem's alibi.
29:18He was 50 miles away
29:19working on a job site.
29:21That leaves Jonas and Amber Orr
29:24as the only viable suspects.
29:26But the critical question still remains.
29:28How could they have made it
29:30to the cornfield without a car?
29:32As the investigation continued,
29:33Amber said Jonas sometimes
29:36borrowed a vehicle from a friend of his.
29:39The friend is named Jim Fish.
29:42And when investigators track him down,
29:45Jim confirms that on the day
29:46Tiffany disappeared,
29:48Jonas borrowed his Chevy Blazer.
29:50All of a sudden, Jonas,
29:52on that day,
29:53was in Jim Fish's vehicle.
29:55That is direct contradiction
29:57to what Jonas told us.
29:59He didn't leave the house.
30:01According to Jim Fish,
30:02Jonas borrowed the Blazer
30:04on a regular basis,
30:05often driving Jim's fiance to her job
30:08and then returning the car later
30:10to the sawmill where Jim worked.
30:12On November the 5th,
30:13Jonas took Katrina to work
30:15in Linton, Indiana.
30:17Around 1130,
30:18Jonas was to leave his house
30:20to make it to the sawmill
30:22to return the Blazer.
30:24But on this particular day,
30:26Jonas said that the Blazer broke down
30:28and Jonas never made it to the sawmill.
30:32Jim said he hadn't had
30:33any mechanical problems at all.
30:35He was actually baffled
30:37by Jonas claiming
30:38that the Blazer had broken down.
30:40If Jonas lied about not leaving his house,
30:43is he also not telling the truth
30:44about the Blazer breaking down?
30:46Detectives can't help but wonder
30:48what else Jonas Orr is lying about,
30:50so they bring him in
30:51for a second round of questioning.
30:53We talked to guys who remember
30:56a time when you were in Jim's truck
30:59and you were broke down.
31:01I mean, I couldn't tell you
31:02exactly when that happened,
31:04but yes, it did break down.
31:05Jonas said that the Blazer had broken down
31:08and that some strangers
31:11had stopped to help him.
31:15They gave him a pair of jumper cables.
31:18He tells me that he borrowed their cell phone
31:31and that that's the phone
31:33that he used to text his wife.
31:35So we've been able to figure out
31:37which day it was that you were broke down
31:40and used the stranger's phone.
31:43But that day is November the 5th, 2014.
31:45So I couldn't tell you, honestly?
31:47Yeah, it is.
31:48I don't have to record this.
31:50In a follow-up interview with detectives,
31:52Amber says she remembers Jonas texting her
31:55about the car breaking down,
31:57but that she didn't recognize the number.
31:59But when investigators look at Amber's phone records
32:01and trace the unknown number,
32:03it turns out the owner of the phone
32:05is no stranger after all.
32:08It belongs to Tiffany Adams.
32:11We learned that Tiffany
32:12had just got a new phone number.
32:15She'd only had it a matter of days.
32:18It's a crucial discovery
32:19that could only mean one thing.
32:22The story Jonas is telling police
32:24is a total lie.
32:26Jonas was using Tiffany's phone to text Amber.
32:30He tells me that he's out broke down
32:32and some stranger stopped just coincidentally.
32:35They loaned him his soon-to-be-murdered
32:38stepsister's cell phone
32:40so he could text his wife.
32:42Well, like I said,
32:45I don't know whose phone it was.
32:46I was never really used to this phone.
32:49I said, here's the problem,
32:51and I pushed the phone records over to him.
32:53I said, that's Tiffany Adams' phone.
32:56And Tiffany Adams,
32:57right in the middle of your text messages,
33:00called Bruce's house.
33:02None of it made sense.
33:03It didn't make sense
33:04because he's a liar
33:05and he's a killer.
33:10Tiffany completely lost it on him.
33:12All the skeletons come out.
33:14This was a huge, huge undertaking.
33:17It was one of the most unbelievable things
33:19that has ever occurred
33:20in my law enforcement career.
33:22The investigators looking into the murder
33:29of Tiffany Adams
33:29have discovered Tiffany's stepbrother,
33:32Jonas Orr,
33:33was in possession of her cell phone
33:35the day she disappeared.
33:37Jonas claims he had car trouble
33:38and had to borrow a phone
33:40to let his wife, Amber,
33:41know he was running late.
33:43It turns out that was just another lie.
33:46The car didn't break down.
33:48But why would Jonas lie about anything?
33:51Detectives find their answer
33:52buried in an old police report.
33:57Approximately a year prior
33:59to Tiffany's murder,
34:01Tiffany showed up
34:02at the Sullivan Community Hospital.
34:05Tiffany wanted to be examined
34:07for an assault.
34:10She claimed to the officer that day
34:12that she had been raped
34:13by Jonas Orr.
34:16But after speaking with the officer,
34:18Tiffany declined to press charges
34:21against her stepbrother.
34:23I think Tiffany refused to speak about it
34:25because it would cause more chaos
34:27between her mom and Brian and her
34:31when she just wanted so badly
34:32to have a relationship with her mom.
34:34In early September,
34:36two months before Tiffany disappeared,
34:38things finally came to a head
34:40between Tiffany and Jonas.
34:43There was a blow up
34:44at the Dollar General and Sullivan.
34:46There was a big verbal altercation
34:49in which law enforcement was called.
34:51Jonas was accusing Tiffany
34:52of running her mouth about his dad.
34:55Tiffany completely lost it on him.
34:57I mean, she let all her anger out.
34:59All the skeletons come out.
35:01Tiffany once again brought up
35:02the rape allegation against Jonas Orr.
35:05In response, he took legal action.
35:08We filed for a protective order,
35:09a restraining order,
35:10to shut her up
35:12so she would quit talking about it
35:14out in public.
35:17Jonas insisted the allegation was false
35:19and he was never charged with the crime.
35:22But was it a potential motive for murder?
35:25The most common theory was
35:27the day that Tiffany disappeared,
35:31Jonas had been driving Jim Fish's blazer.
35:33I think that the same time
35:36that Tiffany walked out of Bruce's house,
35:40Jonas is driving right by his dad's house.
35:44We don't really know
35:46why Tiffany got in the blazer.
35:49I believe that happened in that driveway
35:52right in front of that deer camera.
35:55That is the only explanation
35:57that Jonas had to go get that SD card.
36:01Had we have been able to recover that SD card,
36:05we'd have had a picture of her
36:07getting in the blazer with Jonas.
36:09While the missing SD card is never located,
36:12Tiffany's phone records show her traveling
36:14five miles north of Sullivan to the cornfield.
36:18We believe Jonas drives out to the country
36:22where no one could see them.
36:24I think that Tiffany jumped out
36:26and took off running across that cornfield.
36:28There was a fight and a struggle.
36:29She was fighting for her life
36:31and the life of her baby.
36:34And he strangled her to death.
36:37But if Jonas killed Tiffany,
36:39why did Bruce hear Brian Orr's voice
36:42in the background of her terrifying last phone call?
36:46Their voices are similar.
36:47I could see why Bruce thought
36:51that Brian had killed Tiffany.
36:52On January 20th, 2015,
36:57nearly three months after Tiffany Adams was killed,
37:00police believe they have enough
37:02to arrest Jonas Orr.
37:04The investigators are sure they've got their man,
37:26but the case against Jonas is largely circumstantial.
37:30What they need is hard evidence.
37:32No one's DNA was found on her clothing
37:37other than hers.
37:39We impounded Jim Fish's blazer
37:42to see what evidence might be left behind.
37:46In the passenger seat,
37:48they found a red fiber,
37:51and that thread was a match
37:54to Tiffany Adams' sweatshirt.
37:58The case is literally hanging by a thread.
38:02But will it be enough to convince a jury
38:05that it was Jonas who took the lives
38:07of Tiffany Adams and her unborn child?
38:10He never admitted to anything,
38:12but I knew he killed her.
38:15And now we have to prove it.
38:16Police in Sullivan, Indiana,
38:24have charged Jonas Orr
38:25with the murder of his stepsister Tiffany Adams
38:28and her unborn son.
38:29Still, the case is far from closed.
38:32A fiber from Tiffany's sweatshirt
38:34seems to place her in an SUV
38:36Jonas was seen driving
38:38on the day she disappeared.
38:39But the investigators need to prove
38:41that it was Jonas
38:42who was using Tiffany's phone
38:44to text his wife, Amber.
38:46There's just one problem.
38:49We searched the entire cornfield
38:51for Tiffany's phone.
38:52Could not come up with it.
38:55Based on the GPS coordinates
38:57from Tiffany receiving the phone calls
38:59from Bruce,
39:00we concluded that the phone
39:02had to have been dumped
39:04in Sullivan Lake.
39:05When the weather broke
39:08and the ice was off of the lake,
39:11we had divers dive that lake.
39:15This was a huge, huge undertaking.
39:18Nobody believed
39:20that we could find a cell phone
39:21that had been laying
39:23at the bottom of a muddy lake.
39:25The divers had been in the water
39:26for about an hour,
39:28and one of the divers came up
39:29with a cell phone in his hand.
39:31It was one of the most
39:35unbelievable things
39:36that has ever occurred
39:37in my law enforcement career.
39:40We were told
39:41there won't be anything
39:42on that phone.
39:43You'll never find anything on it.
39:45They were wrong.
39:47The information that was found
39:48on that phone was invaluable.
39:51Erased text messages
39:53between Jonas Orr
39:54and his wife
39:56on the day that Tiffany Adams
39:58was murdered.
39:58In one exchange,
40:01the outgoing text
40:02from Tiffany's phone reads,
40:04the blazer broke down.
40:06Amber replies,
40:08who is this?
40:09When asked,
40:10who is this?
40:11From Amber,
40:12Jonas uses his own name.
40:15He's willing to lie
40:16to his wife
40:16to buy time
40:18to cover his tracks.
40:19It only makes sense
40:20if you're trying
40:21to get by with murder.
40:22And based on the evidence,
40:24the investigators believe
40:26Amber was never involved.
40:27Jonas acted alone.
40:30It was very clear
40:30that Jonas was the one
40:32who killed Tiffany Adams.
40:34Cell phone pings proved
40:35to be the final nail
40:36in the coffin.
40:38The exact location
40:39where Jonas sent the text
40:40was the cornfield
40:41where Tiffany's body
40:43was found.
40:44That really cinched
40:46this case.
40:48He was caught.
40:49We were able
40:49to pull all the pieces
40:51together.
40:53On June 27, 2016,
40:56Jonas Orr goes to trial.
40:58It takes the jury
40:59less than one hour
41:01to find him guilty
41:02of murdering Tiffany Adams
41:04and her unborn son.
41:06Jonas is sentenced
41:07to 130 years.
41:08He will spend the rest
41:12of his life
41:12in prison
41:15where he belongs.
41:18Justice, in my opinion,
41:20was served.
41:21Today, Tiffany's loved ones
41:24remain determined
41:25to keep her memory alive.
41:28She's always going
41:29to be in my heart.
41:30She's always got a piece
41:30of my heart.
41:32She does.
41:33Tiffany Adams was loving.
41:37She was caring.
41:39She was kind.
41:41She didn't deserve
41:42what happened to her.
41:44I loved her so much.
41:50Tiffany, I love you
41:51with all my heart.
41:53I'll never forget you.
41:56I'm mad at once.
41:59To everyone who knew her,
42:01Tiffany Adams
42:01was a source of love
42:03laughter and light.
42:05Her smile could brighten
42:06any room.
42:07But that light
42:08was extinguished
42:09by a man consumed
42:11by anger and rage.
42:13In one unthinkable act,
42:15he didn't just take one life,
42:17he stole two.
42:19A bright future
42:20and a future life
42:21destroyed
42:22by a killer relationship.
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