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00:30In Louisiana lies an area of desolate swampland.
00:34Known as Whiskey Bay.
00:39Midway between Lafayette and Baton Rouge.
00:44It belongs to the Atchafalaya River Basin.
00:49The largest swamp in the United States, covering more...
00:54than a million acres.
00:59It's a very rural location, very swampy.
01:02A lot of open land is not developed.
01:07Across Whiskey Bay runs the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge.
01:12Carrying the Interstate 10 highway.
01:15It's America's third longest...
01:17But this area is infamous for another reason.
01:22During the daytime and nighttime, there is known to be a lot of...
01:27traffic on the Interstate.
01:28But once you leave that Interstate, it's total darkness.
01:32It's a very secluded area.
01:35And at nighttime, you can't see your hand in front of you.
01:37You can't see your face.
01:38It's just that dark out in that area.
01:40Because of how dark...
01:42It can be.
01:43It's easy for people to travel this area and sometimes try to...
01:47feel evidence.
01:48Our bodies.
01:52It's around 11 o'clock a.m.
01:56I was...
01:57notified through dispatch and was informed that there was a body in Whiskey Bay.
02:02And once I got that call, just stepped up, went...
02:07into duty and proceeded to the body.
02:09I get a phone call.
02:12It was a female called in by a fisherman.
02:14Lo and behold, I head out to the Whiskey Bay area.
02:17The body was floating in the middle of the...
02:22swampland.
02:23So 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.
02:32And the chief of the fire department, who's also a corner investigator, was one real...
02:37in the boat.
02:38In the boat.
02:39In the boat.
02:41In the boat.
02:42In the boat.
02:43This is where we launched the boat at for the fire department.
02:46This is where we...
02:47deployed it.
02:48It was a race against time.
02:52Investigators needed to find the body before vital evidence was destroyed.
02:57In the boat.
02:58She in the boat.
02:59And his object was taken.
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03:03The fire department had to tap into form...
03:04Okay?
03:05There is a fire...
03:05Wait for teaching.
03:06But...
03:07In the boat.
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03:09The love report.
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03:15The moon would go home.
03:17The moon would go somewhere.
03:18Oh, many years...
03:19What the moon would go a bit.
03:21When I lived here, oh, Gibbs, he wished her to synergulture across time.
03:24The moon would work to the moon,
03:25Crypt mandom.
03:26They are likely to eat or at least nibble.
03:31On the evidence, what trauma did this environment now cause to the body?
03:36The shallow depth of the swamp also meant much warmer water.
03:41During that time of the year, April is starting to warm.
03:47A terrible factor for a body.
03:50Decomposition can start...
03:51Immediately.
03:56One of...
03:56One of the more common things that happens with post-mortem decomposition...
04:01...and is enhanced often in the water environment is the sloughing of the...
04:06...skin.
04:07Since we identify a lot of bodies by fingerprint...
04:11...if the skin of the hands is sloughing off and...
04:16...decomposing, it's very challenging to get appropriate fingerprints that are usable.
04:21For identifying a body.
04:25On the end of the day...
04:26There's a mile marker for each section of the interstate.
04:30And we were told...
04:31It was around a 130 to 132 mile mark area.
04:35So we head with...
04:36...and lo and behold...
04:37...around the 131, 132...
04:40...is where we located...
04:41...the body.
04:44It was a young...
04:45...cockade...
04:46...asian female that was...
04:47...partially submerged in the water.
04:48...
04:51When we pull up to the body...
04:52...you know...
04:53...we slow down...
04:54...we go slow...
04:55...because we don't want to make any weight...
04:56...because...
04:56...that would create a wave...
04:57...and it would also...
04:58...affect the crime scene as well...
05:00...if there's anything less...
05:01...next to the body.
05:02So we ease up on it...
05:03...and the body was submerged...
05:04...partially...
05:05...but it was facing...
05:06...as we pull up to the body...
05:08...I noticed there was...
05:09...a cluster of trees...
05:10...like a little...
05:11...young trees...
05:12...that were growing up...
05:13...in that water right there.
05:14...
05:16...the deceit was observed...
05:17...to be caught up in several...
05:18...of the cypress trees...
05:19...the stumps and branches.
05:21...that were present...
05:22...within this body of water.
05:24Areas such as these...
05:25...are not easily...
05:26...accessible to most people...
05:27...which leads investigators...
05:28...to think...
05:29...there is no way...
05:30...she could have naturally...
05:31...got into that position.
05:32I'm looking around...
05:33...I'm trying to figure out...
05:34...where did she come from?
05:35How did she get here?
05:36I'm looking for another boat.
05:37Is there a boat brick?
05:39Is a boat capsized?
05:41I don't see any of that.
05:43But investigators noticed...
05:45...something strange...
05:46...about one of the trees.
05:49On that tree...
05:50...I remember specifically...
05:51...see...
05:51...the branches were broken.
05:52So I look up...
05:53...you know...
05:54...and there's the interstate...
05:55...at that particular point...
05:56...in time...
05:57...where she's at...
05:58...when I'm looking up...
05:59...probably 20...
06:00...25 foot drop...
06:01...from...
06:01...to the top of that bridge.
06:02Automatically I thought...
06:04...she was thrown over...
06:05...to the top of the bridge.
06:06And the industry thought...
06:07...it could have been...
06:08...a possible car accident...
06:09...and somebody got ejected...
06:10...over the edge.
06:11What they discovered next...
06:14...raised more questions...
06:16...about this theory.
06:17Once myself and the guy...
06:19...from the fire department...
06:20...turned her...
06:21...the body over...
06:22...we realised...
06:23...it was completely nude.
06:24Just...
06:25...a new...
06:26...deceased body.
06:28There's no way...
06:29...this person can just...
06:31...pop up there...
06:33...out of the blue.
06:34Something had to happen.
06:36They removed the body...
06:40...from the water.
06:41...to investigate further.
06:46I grabbed her ankles...
06:47...in the corner...
06:48...grabbed up...
06:49...under the arms...
06:50...and we lifted her up.
06:51...and we placed her...
06:52...in the body bag...
06:53...inside of the boat with us.
06:56...and this is...
06:57...where we returned...
06:58...and brought her body up...
06:59...where the coroner...
07:00...pronounced her dead.
07:01...and from there...
07:02...we took her...
07:03...to the morgue.
07:06The next thing...
07:07...that we need to do...
07:08...is try to identify...
07:09...who this young lady is.
07:10She's naked.
07:11...in the middle of nowhere...
07:12...um...
07:13...no identification...
07:14...so we have to identify her...
07:15...so we can...
07:16...and start...
07:17...trying to work back...
07:18...and try to see...
07:19...and figure out...
07:20...what...
07:21...has happened...
07:22...to this young lady.
07:23She did have some tattoos...
07:24...that we...
07:25...we were able to look at...
07:26...and try to see...
07:26...if we could add anything...
07:27...in the database...
07:28...for tattoos...
07:29...or anything like that...
07:30...skin markings.
07:31...however...
07:32...there was nothing...
07:33...that would have...
07:34...identified her.
07:36Then...
07:37...pathologists...
07:38...provided a breakthrough.
07:42In this case...
07:43...the fingerprints were...
07:44...relatively preserved.
07:45Had she been in the...
07:46...water...
07:46...longer than that...
07:47...they may have been...
07:48...obliterated...
07:49...and oftentimes...
07:50...bodies in water...
07:51...get something...
07:51...we call...
07:52...washer woman fingers...
07:53...and it's like...
07:54...when you are...
07:55...in the bathtub too long.
07:56...and your skin...
07:57...begins to wrinkle up...
07:58...then it may be...
07:59...impossible to get...
08:00...fingerprints...
08:01...until...
08:02...we're able to...
08:03...puff up...
08:04...those ridges.
08:05We will do that...
08:06...we're taking a...
08:07...hypodermic needle...
08:08...and putting saline...
08:09...very lightly...
08:10...under the...
08:11...the skin...
08:12...just to make that...
08:13...rich detail...
08:14...in the skin...
08:15...more accessible to...
08:16...doing fingerprints.
08:17Thank God...
08:18...we found the one we did...
08:19...because...
08:20...have she been in there...
08:21...a couple more days...
08:21...for a longer...
08:22...decomposition sets in...
08:23...it might have been...
08:24...impossible...
08:25...other than...
08:26...dental record.
08:27We actually got lucky...
08:28...with it...
08:29...because we got...
08:30...fingerprints off that body.
08:31While fingerprint databases...
08:34...were searched...
08:35...the team...
08:36...and covered...
08:37...something else.
08:38We learned about...
08:39...a traffic accident...
08:40...that it...
08:41...also occurred on the bridge...
08:42...in the general area...
08:43...and we had to rule that out...
08:45...because...
08:46...you never know...
08:47...if that crash...
08:48...had something to do...
08:49...with this body.
08:51One of the occupants...
08:52...had a criminal history.
08:54One of them...
08:55...was known...
08:56...to be...
08:57...arrested...
08:58...for transportation...
08:59...of prostitution.
09:00So...
09:01...you know...
09:01...was she...
09:02...kidnapped...
09:03...and...
09:04...was she a victim...
09:05...of sex trafficking?
09:06...You know...
09:07...everything started...
09:07...going through...
09:08...our heads...
09:09...you know...
09:09...human trafficking.
09:10You make your hair...
09:11...on the back...
09:11back your neck stand up.
09:16Human trafficking is something that's been a huge...
09:21problem in the United States as well as abroad and it essentially involves forcing...
09:26often young women into having sex for money.
09:31It involves kidnapping victims and then trafficking them and taking them from state to state.
09:36From a trafficker perspective, the commodity of course is the victim.
09:41And so you don't tend to see murders in human trafficking situations.
09:46Unless it's a drug overdose or it's a bad day.
09:51That's gone too far or there's been some kind of conflict between...
09:56the pimp and the victim.
09:59But when the fingerprint results...
10:01the victims came back.
10:02They revealed the victim was 28 year old mother of two.
10:06Elizabeth Farrell, a store assistant with no known connections.
10:11Blood...
10:12blood...
10:13blood...
10:14blood...
10:16blood...
10:17found in the suspicious accident vehicle...
10:18also raised doubts.
10:21The DNA...
10:22The DNA...
10:23was not...
10:24for Ms. Farrell.
10:25Absolutely nothing...
10:26nothing to do with that crash.
10:27But Elizabeth Farrell's identification...
10:31raised another major question.
10:33When it first came back and we realized she was from...
10:36Humboldt, Texas.
10:37I was like, why she's here from Humboldt, Texas?
10:41The city of Humboldt, Texas lies 230 miles west of where Elizabeth...
10:46was found.
10:49Our next step is trying to figure out how...
10:51how did she get from Texas to here?
10:53Why is she here?
10:54Why is she here?
10:56This is a few pieces here and we need to put these pieces together...
10:59to complete this puzzle.
11:01very Seal.
11:03Thanks...
11:06In Whiskey Bay, Louisiana, detectives are investigating after the...
11:11The naked body of a woman was found in a swamp beneath Interstate Highway 10.
11:16Fingerprints reveal the woman is 28-year-old mother of two.
11:21Elizabeth Farrell, who lived 230 miles away in Texas.
11:26So, how did she get here?
11:29I'm looking on the bank, I don't see anything.
11:31Everything disturbed on the banks.
11:33So, I get my detective out and I had him...
11:36Scour that bank to look for anything that stood out that possibly could...
11:41Have been telling us why this body is in this water.
11:44Because all we had was...
11:46So, the body in the water...
11:48Led near a bunch of branches...
11:49And there's nothing near it.
11:51There's absolutely zero.
11:54As the crime scene...
11:56Offered no more clues.
11:58Police had to rule out other options.
12:01Could the current of the river have brought Elizabeth's body here?
12:05From further...
12:06Upstream.
12:11Upstream.
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12:40Upstream.
12:16Trying to determine exactly
12:21the path of a body in this region is difficult.
12:25In this region, flow...
12:26The flow is steady, and that can transport a body quite a long distance.
12:31It can certainly put it into various inlets and creeks
12:34and leave it stranded there for some time.
12:36If it has any current in the water at all, it's going to move that body.
12:41From where it was originally dumped at.
12:43So, it makes finding the original...
12:46drop site a little more difficult.
12:49You've also got mangroves, you've got...
12:51you've got islands, you've got levees.
12:53These are all obstructions, these are all issues.
12:56that would sort of cause a body to get stuck.
12:59It's a bit like a sort of a random...
13:01walk effect.
13:02Certainly tracking a body in this area is difficult because it is so complex.
13:06The area where the body was located, the tides and the water level.
13:11can also affect how things stay, how they float, how they move.
13:15However, at that...
13:16At that time, the water was very calm, so you could tell that she had not moved.
13:21Investigators look to Elizabeth's post-mortem for answers.
13:26In Elizabeth's case, when the body was examined, there were...
13:31injuries to Elizabeth's body around the head and around the chest.
13:35There was...
13:36blunt force trauma.
13:37And what that means is that Elizabeth was hit with some type of a...
13:41blunt object, causing damage and bruises.
13:46This was a violent attack.
13:49There were bruises along the neck...
13:51in particular.
13:52This leads us to think that maybe there was some...
13:56some type of strangulation.
13:57Where the hands are placed around...
14:01the person's neck.
14:02And the neck is squeezed.
14:04The neck is squeezed.
14:05The neck is squeezed.
14:06Then that person will become unconscious and eventually die.
14:11The pathologist ruled the cause of death would have been asphyxiation by strangulation.
14:16The pathologist made another intriguing decision.
14:21discovery.
14:22Levitity is basically the pooling of the blood.
14:26When we lay in a certain fashion, blood...
14:31the blood pools to the lowest point of gravity.
14:34In Elizabeth's case, there was a...
14:36Levitity pattern that showed she had not been killed and then...
14:41dumped immediately.
14:42Because the Levitity had set or been fixed...
14:46she's moved...
14:47that Levitity doesn't change.
14:48She was kept someplace...
14:51on her back...
14:52in order to allow that Levitity to be set.
14:56in this case...
14:57likely the trunk of a car...
14:58for several hours before she was actually dumped.
15:01where she was found.
15:02The pathologist's determination was that she was murdered...
15:06before she was placed in the water.
15:09Investigators were now...
15:11convinced Elizabeth had been murdered...
15:13and her body dumped off the interstate highway...
15:16the highway bridge.
15:21in the water.
15:22We were able to...
15:24go forward with the fact that it...
15:26was definitely ruled a homicide...
15:28and there was definitely foul play.
15:31This type of strangulation...
15:33is a type of death...
15:34that is very up close and personal.
15:36That gives us an indication...
15:38for what direction...
15:39to take the investigation...
15:41it's very likely that she knew her killer...
15:43and perhaps knew them well.
15:47Detectives put Elizabeth's life...
15:49under the microscope.
15:51speaking to those who knew her...
15:53including...
15:54best friend Shannon.
15:56I received a phone call...
15:59I received a phone call...
16:00and he...
16:01left a message...
16:02and so...
16:03I immediately called him back...
16:04and...
16:05I just...
16:06I said...
16:07Hi, my name is...
16:06Shannon.
16:07He just called me about...
16:08Liz.
16:09Is she okay?
16:10And his response was...
16:11No, ma'am.
16:11She's dead.
16:14My first reaction...
16:16of course...
16:17as tears started streaming...
16:18down my face...
16:19I want to scream...
16:20bloody murder...
16:21and I was ready to go...
16:21pull one of my dad's...
16:22hunting rifles out of his safe...
16:23and go...
16:24hunt this...
16:25bleepity bleep down.
16:26To find out who the killer was...
16:29investigators needed...
16:31to dig...
16:32into Elizabeth's past.
16:35She was actually...
16:36probably my first...
16:38what I would guess you could call...
16:39best friend...
16:40in my life.
16:41in my adult life.
16:42She was so petite...
16:43she was just...
16:44she looked like a little living...
16:45walking doll.
16:46that she was just always...
16:48upbeat and chipper.
16:49She never really had...
16:50a bad thing to say about it.
16:51anybody?
16:54Life hadn't been easy...
16:55for Elizabeth.
16:56her mother died...
16:57when she was 18.
16:58her mother was deceased...
17:00her mother was deceased...
17:01her father was not...
17:02in the picture...
17:03and we learned that...
17:04she had a tough upbringing...
17:05but she was...
17:06she was a fighter...
17:07she...
17:08she fought.
17:09I think that's why...
17:10she was so resilient.
17:11She was...
17:11because of her tougher...
17:12upbringing...
17:13upbringing...
17:14that she did have...
17:15she had to be.
17:16in 2005...
17:19she met...
17:20Jonathan Alley...
17:21they had met...
17:22at a restaurant...
17:23and actually...
17:24when they first met...
17:25he was really sweet...
17:26and really gentle...
17:26and really kind to her...
17:27and that's where...
17:28she fell in love with him.
17:31the couple got married...
17:33and moved to New Orleans...
17:34to set up a bar.
17:36it seemed like...
17:38it was a...
17:39fairly decent relationship...
17:40however she...
17:41she finds out...
17:42she's pregnant...
17:43and just puts a hold...
17:44on all their plans...
17:45in New Orleans...
17:46and they felt...
17:47they need some...
17:46financial support...
17:47it may be...
17:48emotional support...
17:49as well...
17:50at least from...
17:51Jonathan's perspective...
17:52so they just...
17:51decided to move back...
17:52to Humboldt, Texas...
17:53he really wasn't...
17:55able to hold a steady...
17:56job very often...
17:57the best job he had...
17:58he was welding...
17:59somewhere...
18:00and he wound up...
18:01breaking his arm...
18:02and could...
18:01it didn't work...
18:02so he lost the job...
18:03and then they wound up...
18:04losing...
18:05losing their...
18:06where they were living...
18:06in a trailer home...
18:07at the time...
18:08and they moved in...
18:09with his...
18:10grandmother...
18:11it creates a huge...
18:14strain...
18:15in the relationship...
18:16between Liz...
18:17and...
18:18and Jonathan...
18:19for a number...
18:20of different reasons...
18:21you know...
18:22she gives birth to her...
18:21first child...
18:22in 2010...
18:23and I think that Liz...
18:24really feels...
18:25incredibly...
18:26alone...
18:27and lonely...
18:28in the sense that...
18:29Jonathan's grandmother...
18:30is...
18:31doting...
18:32is an understatement...
18:33I think...
18:34in terms of her...
18:35relationship with him...
18:36no one...
18:36that woman is good enough...
18:37you know...
18:38for her precious Jonathan...
18:39and I think Liz...
18:40really feels...
18:41that Jonathan's...
18:42grandmother...
18:43doesn't like her...
18:44and that she's not...
18:45welcome there...
18:46I think it mainly...
18:47was kind of...
18:48you know...
18:49she's taking my son away...
18:50kind of thing...
18:51she did not like Liz...
18:52for any...
18:51anything...
18:52Despite the tensions...
18:55in 2015...
18:56the couple...
18:57had a second daughter...
18:58according to...
19:00the people we...
19:01spoke to over there...
19:02they said that...
19:03she always told them...
19:04that...
19:05the grandma...
19:06said she...
19:06was a bad mother...
19:07she just felt like...
19:08she had no life...
19:09that...
19:10she was very...
19:11isolated...
19:12from the rest...
19:13of the family...
19:14she did a lot...
19:15of gaming...
19:16and that's what I think...
19:17was her...
19:18way out...
19:19she was always...
19:20talking about...
19:21her game...
19:21names...
19:22and the people...
19:23that she was...
19:24meeting on there...
19:25and...
19:26she seemed...
19:27to make friends...
19:28right and left...
19:29anything like that...
19:30she could just...
19:31make friends...
19:32she...
19:33increasing...
19:34the family...
19:35is turning into...
19:36gaming...
19:37I think...
19:38is a way...
19:39to escape...
19:40the environment...
19:41that she's...
19:42living in...
19:43at home...
19:44a way for her...
19:45to feel...
19:46you know...
19:47pleasure...
19:48and...
19:49to have fun...
19:48and not to feel...
19:49all of this...
19:50you know...
19:51dislike...
19:52and...
19:53stress...
19:54she's...
19:55beginning to have...
19:56conversations...
19:57she's revealing more...
19:58about herself...
19:59and her situation...
20:00she's becoming...
20:01flirtatious...
20:02with a couple of guys...
20:03online...
20:03when I found out...
20:07that she was actually...
20:08starting to meet...
20:09people outside...
20:10that she had met...
20:11online...
20:12I actually was...
20:13got kind of...
20:14worried about it...
20:13because you never know...
20:14what you're gonna...
20:15actually come across...
20:16they can be one thing...
20:17online...
20:18and completely different...
20:18in person...
20:19and I didn't feel...
20:20comfortable with that...
20:21and so I made a point...
20:22to make sure...
20:23it's like...
20:24if you have...
20:23any problems...
20:24if you don't feel...
20:25safe...
20:26if you don't feel...
20:27comfortable...
20:28call me...
20:29I'll be there...
20:30in a heartbeat...
20:31all the time...
20:32you know...
20:33I wonder how much...
20:34the situation...
20:35that Liz was in...
20:36in terms of feeling...
20:37so isolated...
20:38and so unhappy...
20:39and so lonely...
20:40that for...
20:41for her...
20:42it was...
20:43worth it...
20:44Could Elizabeth's...
20:45killer...
20:46a gamer...
20:47she'd met online...
20:48or...
20:49was it someone...
20:50closer to home...
20:51or...
20:52all the time...
20:53all the time...
20:54all the time...
20:55all the time...
20:56all the time...
20:57well...
20:58all...
20:59all the time...
21:00alright...
21:01this...
21:02that's...
21:03really...
21:04it's...
21:05but...
21:06we stopped...
21:07here...
21:08to be...
21:09we can't...
21:10see...
21:12there...
21:13we can't...
21:14all the time...
21:16you...
21:17to...
21:18i've made a lot of...
21:19I mean...
21:20I hate to do so by telephone, but we have located her here in Louisiana.
21:25And I told him, I said, and it's not good, I said, she's deceased.
21:30And his reaction to me on the phone was like, kind of blew me away.
21:35He goes like, really? Louisiana? Why is she over there?
21:40And I thought that was strange.
21:44It's extremely odd.
21:45And not something that I think most investigators see as the...
21:50The first reaction to hearing that your loved one has been found deceased...
21:55Out of state, unclothed, in a body of water.
22:00When investigators find somebody who is so out of the norm, it's always a...
22:05I said, how did she get it?
22:08So I don't know if she left here a week ago and she just...
22:10He did not give us any indication as to why Elizabeth...
22:15Would be in Louisiana, how Elizabeth would have been in Louisiana, or how long Elizabeth went.
22:20I don't know if it would have been in Louisiana.
22:22I'm like, this don't sound right.
22:24So it was actually a police officer.
22:25From Texas, that went to that house, at the time I called him, he's...
22:30He stepped outside, and I said, between me and you, the reaction I'm hearing over the...
22:35The telephone, before I could finish my comment, he said, I'm seeing the same thing you're hearing.
22:40Zero remorse.
22:45Some of the things that he did tell us was concerning the fact that his wife had...
22:50not been seen by him by his own admission in a week, and she has two young children.
22:55If, as a parent, you go missing with two young children, the other parent...
23:00is most times concerned about where that parent may or may not be.
23:05We expect to have some sort of missing persons report by a family member.
23:09However, that...
23:10was not done.
23:13Detectives uncovered something else...
23:15concerning about the couple's marriage.
23:20They learned through friends and co-workers that she was in a very volatile...
23:25relationship.
23:26She come to work with scratches, bruises on her.
23:30From time to time to time.
23:31And she would tell them that the person she was living with...
23:35was very violent toward her.
23:37He really started getting physical.
23:39And there was one time...
23:40when she came in, she had a black eye.
23:42Both lips were busted.
23:43And she almost lost her two front teeth.
23:45He hit her with a casted hand.
23:47And that's when he really started getting really bad.
23:51We all tried to get her to call the police on him...
23:53because at least it would get him away from her.
23:55or maybe her and the girls to a safer point...
23:57but she just wouldn't do it...
23:58because she did...
24:00and she would still care about him.
24:01And she would apologize profusely afterwards...
24:03and, you know...
24:05Well, we have this kind of vicious cycle of, you know...
24:09violence...
24:10followed by remorse.
24:11We oftentimes can see this progression of violence over time.
24:15being less and less sorry...
24:17more and more blaming on the victim...
24:19that they somehow caught...
24:20caused this to happen.
24:21One of the things that we've discovered in the recent years...
24:24is just...
24:25what a marker...
24:26and a predictor that is for danger.
24:28We did want to look at...
24:30Jonathan Ali...
24:31a little bit harder...
24:32and...
24:33making sure that we cooperated...
24:35everything that he said.
24:40Jonathan was brought in for questioning.
24:42The two of my detectives went over...
24:45and they spoke to him.
24:46Hey, Jonathan.
24:47You doing alright, man?
24:48Hey, Jonathan.
24:49You doing alright, man?
24:50you doing alright?
24:51you doing alright, man?
24:52Right now we're investigating a very serious offense, okay?
24:54...
24:56When they got to meet Mr. Ali for the first time in person,
25:00it wasn't exactly...
25:00the exact same story he was telling me over the phone.
25:02So there was a lot of inconsistencies.
25:05When was the last time you saw her, Thursday?
25:09Initially, he...
25:10He told us that he hadn't seen her in a week,
25:12and then it turned to, well, he saw her on Thursday, and...
25:15and it went from there.
25:18Kevin, what happened to you better today?
25:19I came home.
25:20In her bedroom, no one was closed, so I figured maybe...
25:25He said that, you know, he heard the baby crying.
25:30The young man cried.
25:31He went there and learned that Elizabeth wasn't there anymore.
25:35And the Xbox was gone.
25:38Closed.
25:40And he hadn't seen her since.
25:45There was...
25:45There was a lot of tension in the house.
25:48It just didn't click anymore.
25:50This was the first time Jonathan revealed his marriage was on the rocks.
25:55During that phone call with him, he didn't mention anything about, like, the relationship, anything like that.
26:00The two detectives that did speak to him, he told them that they hadn't been intimate in a few years.
26:05And they had some problems in the marital situation.
26:10And they were here.
26:11Yeah.
26:12How many times?
26:13One time.
26:15How'd you get the bruises on me, uh, knuckles and stuff?
26:18They're not bruises, they're just carried.
26:20From what?
26:22I'm not sure.
26:25Have you ever been to Louisiana before?
26:27Yeah.
26:28When's the last time you've been to Louisiana?
26:30A few years ago.
26:34You could tell that...
26:35He was a little uneasy in talking to the detectives about the situation.
26:40I didn't do this.
26:42You won't forgive us for taking the life.
26:45Blind turns to this.
26:49Well, he did it.
26:50I don't know.
26:52With no hard evidence against him, Elizabeth...
26:55His husband was free to go.
27:00But then...
27:00There was a development that would turn the investigation on its head.
27:05She was actually meeting people online and trying to find somebody to help her.
27:10escape, get her to another state even.
27:13And, um, she actually did go on.
27:15A couple of dates with some people she met online.
27:18Well, she was gaming with one online.
27:20I'm from Oklahoma.
27:22And this guy actually came in from Oklahoma.
27:25She went to Texas to Umba and met her, and they spent a night at a hotel.
27:30So, here we go.
27:33You know, was it domestic?
27:35Or was it something else?
27:38Was it this guy came down who was a serial killer from...
27:40God knows where that preyed upon this young lady and killed her?
27:45So, back to square one again.
27:49You know, we know we're...
27:50We know we've got a murder.
27:52Now we've got to figure out who is the murderer.
27:55Yeah.
27:55It is risky to meet somebody that we don't know, that we've never met in person.
28:00So, you know, we've got to meet somebody in a hotel or a place where you're going to be in.
28:05And the ultimate for the first time, I think, can be seen as risky.
28:09This guy could be a stalker.
28:10You'd be a predator.
28:11There have been plenty of cases of people who have been catfished
28:14and they think they're getting one.
28:15One person and then somebody turns up who's nothing like they said they were going to or even were.
28:20But she is willing to take a risk.
28:25We were able to determine who that person was.
28:29We were able to make contact.
28:30We were able to contact with that person via telephone.
28:34He heard.
28:35That we have found Elizabeth here in Louisiana deceased.
28:38His reaction to us.
28:40Was a hundred times more emotional than her.
28:45Her actual husband.
28:47And we knew immediately his opponent speaking to him.
28:50He could prove where he was at.
28:51He had an alibi.
28:53We knew for a fact he had never.
28:55He came to her anywhere near the state of Louisiana.
28:59And we were able to eliminate.
29:00Him as a suspect in this homicide.
29:04Investigators once.
29:05Once again zeroed in on Jonathan L.A.
29:09They needed to place him on the.
29:10Interstate Highway Bridge over Whiskey Bay.
29:13And work out his motive for coming.
29:15Here.
29:20The body of water along with the bridge is a pretty.
29:25isolated area with only two exits on an 18 mile road leading to that location.
29:30Given the remote location of Whiskey Bay, it's not uncommon for investigation.
29:35Investigators to see body dumps.
29:38We've got calls in that area before.
29:40Years ago, there was a serial killer working in that area.
29:43Dumping bodies off in that area.
29:45What could draw a killer to these waters?
29:49230.
29:50Miles from Texas.
29:53During the time of this homicide.
29:55There was a TV show that we were featured on that aired early.
30:002016 that talked about our geography and.
30:05you know, how people discard bodies and things in our area.
30:10based on the geography of our area.
30:13It featured bodies.
30:15These bodies being dumped at Whiskey Bay here in Louisiana in our parish.
30:20Possibly he may have watched that show further findings from the autopsy.
30:25This confirmed the police's theory that Elizabeth was dropped over the side of the bridge.
30:30Elizabeth had puncture wounds that were from the branches of trees.
30:35indicating she was pushed off or thrown off the bridge.
30:38Her body hit those.
30:40And they would cause post-mortem injuries.
30:43Which we can determine were not the actual.
30:45cause of death.
30:46We know that because through the autopsy, when we.
30:50find bruises or damage to a body, we can actually make a small incision.
30:55in those bruises to determine if there is something we call vital.
31:00force.
31:01If there is vital force, then that person was alive when those injuries.
31:05occurred.
31:06That's bleeding into the tissue.
31:08When we incise those wounds.
31:10And we find out that there is no vital force.
31:12And we find out that there is no vital force.
31:13Then we know that those are post-mortem injuries.
31:15But investigators still had to.
31:20To prove Jonathan had come to Whiskey Bay.
31:24We found out.
31:25methodology that Elizabeth did not drive.
31:26She had no driver's license.
31:27she had no vehicle.
31:28got the advice.
31:29Was a lawyer
31:30We learned from work, co-workers, that he brought her to work
31:33and picked her up from work.
31:35While my two detectives are over there, John finally pulls up in a car on the back window.
31:41There was a small American flag in the middle part of the window.
31:44Detective made note of it.
31:46We started looking for surveillance cameras.
31:49It took hours.
31:50It took hours of surveilling through video, not only by me, but by multiple.
31:55During this time, it's 2-ish, 3-ish in the morning.
32:00I'm in my office and my detective runs in there and...
32:05Quote, I got that son of a bitch.
32:08And I'm like, got what?
32:09He said...
32:10I got the car from Humboldt, Texas, here, right...
32:15but near Whiskey Bay.
32:18He was able to locate that in these hours.
32:20There was an hour's worth of video footage and camera footage that we saw that even had...
32:25the American flag sticker on the back that we were able to cooperate.
32:30John...
32:30Jonathan Ali's car had as well.
32:33I said, you've got to be kidding me.
32:34As I think of...
32:35It was like 7.58 p.m. the night before we found the body.
32:39That vehicle is...
32:40eastbound.
32:41And at 9-something, it's back westbound.
32:45And like, okay...
32:48Who's driving that car?
32:50That vehicle was registered to his grandmother.
32:54So...
32:55I found a phone number for her.
32:57Come to find out, she says she was at a campground.
33:00In another part of Texas, I find this campground that she was in.
33:04I actually speak to the...
33:05the manager.
33:06The manager says...
33:07Confirmed.
33:08In fact, she was here.
33:10During a time...
33:11We think his body was dunked.
33:12During a time...
33:13We think this body was dunked.
33:15The only other person who had access to the car was Jonathan's uncle.
33:20So now we're down to two, we're down to Jonathan Ali or the other gentleman.
33:25Living in the residence, the uncle, we can verify from where he was at, we can't.
33:30We knew he had an alibi, a silent alibi.
33:33He even told us that when he had...
33:35He came home, Jonathan wasn't there, the car wasn't there, the grandmother was.
33:40He wasn't there because she was at this campground in Grospeck, Texas.
33:45So...
33:45He had went to bed.
33:50I think it's at around 12.45 or something like that that morning, he got up.
33:55To go get something to drink.
33:57And that's when he noticed Jonathan had just came in.
34:00So...
34:00Where was Jonathan at the whole time?
34:05The answer would come from a surprising source.
34:10He...
34:10He had a five-year-old daughter who had to be interviewed about what have made...
34:15or may not have happened that day, what she saw, what she didn't see.
34:18Because children are very observant and even...
34:20they don't know that they are seeing something that may be pertinent to anybody.
34:25They only know what they see.
34:28It's very, very important that if you're going...
34:30to interview a child witness, that they're done with somebody who's been trained very...
34:35specifically in how to interview children.
34:38And that involves things like, you know, maybe playing games...
34:40with this child, putting this child at ease, having toys in the room, asking open...
34:45and ended questions because the last thing you want to do is lead a child.
34:50Children are naturally compliant with adults, and so it is important to have a trained...
34:55forensic interviewer, and they did.
34:59I don't think any...
35:00My dad thought it could have been a better witness than this child was.
35:03She told a whole story that her dad...
35:05said he was going on an adventure.
35:08It's going to be a long ride...
35:10in the daytime, and they come back late at night.
35:12And her dad said...
35:14this...
35:15this could take a while.
35:16She said,
35:17I'm sitting in the back...
35:18with my other little sister.
35:19And...
35:20and my dad's driving her...
35:21and they asked where mom...
35:22mom didn't come.
35:26This is the lane he stopped in...
35:27and the little girl told a forensic interviewer...
35:29this is the lane he stopped in...
35:30and the little girl told a forensic interviewer...
35:30she said...
35:31he parked in the middle of the road...
35:32which she thinks is the middle of a lane...
35:33kind of similar to a lane.
35:35but it's very...
35:36this is the shoulder...
35:37very narrow.
35:39The description...
35:40matched the exact point on the highway...
35:42where her mother's body was dumped.
35:45and she said...
35:46in the interview...
35:47that she'd remember her dad...
35:48getting out the car...
35:49he was beating very...
35:50careful not to get run over...
35:51and he removed something from the back...
35:53but I couldn't tell what it was.
35:55and proceeded back...
35:56to Humboldt, Texas...
35:57and told a little girl...
35:58he couldn't find the magic world...
35:59they were looking for.
36:00she could be a very powerful witness...
36:02and she is certainly in this case.
36:05turned it on its head.
36:10like hey change Ma...
36:12it is weird at you.
36:13It decided to Embalph Sapien to...
36:14however a few days later...
36:16the chick who died here...
36:17let me here...
36:18and he came wrong and found...
36:19things I have been a...
36:21問ed in...
36:22that boy!
36:23she knew...
36:24did that boy!
36:25bye wird!
36:27you can this boy!
36:29if it wasn't difficult to tell...
36:30there was her rather...
36:31she's called the night...
36:32you neverettes...
36:34who nunca was in the bo songs
36:35didn't even go any other considering too...
36:37alec THEY...
36:38wives who're putting up...
36:39she keeps making some trails in sisterhood...
36:15Detectives are investigating the murder of Elizabeth.
36:20Elizabeth Farrell from Texas, found strangled in a Louisiana swamp.
36:25Their prime suspect is Elizabeth's violent husband.
36:30Jonathan, despite claiming he hadn't been to Louisiana for years,
36:35he was picked up on highway cameras near the Whiskey Bay dump site and his
36:40daughter confirmed they'd gone there in listening to the child.
36:45Elizabeth Farrell's forensic interview and then Jonathan's interview,
36:48the inconsistencies were bad.
36:50Jonathan advised that he was at the home for the majority of the day and
36:55the child definitely stated something different.
36:57The fact that they had all left the home on a big end.
37:00To watch that interview was heartbreaking.
37:03This little girl was so articulate.
37:05And she even told us sometimes my daddy gets mad at my mommy.
37:10And she said, my daddy would fuss saying that you spend more time online with
37:13your friends than you do with me.
37:15She's gaming based on the investigation and everything that we were able to learn.
37:20And we were able to get enough probable cause and reach that level to make sure that
37:25we were able to obtain an arrest warrant.
37:27It was enough to get a judge to sign a warrant.
37:30For second degree murder of Elizabeth Farrell.
37:35The arresting moving normal Texas as when they come.
37:40They call a fugitive from state Louisiana.
37:43When I finally heard that.
37:45They had arrested him.
37:46I was ecstatic what he did to Elizabeth.
37:49It made.
37:50It made me incredibly angry.
37:51All I wanted to do is walk up to that.
37:53It made me incredibly angry.
37:54All I wanted to do is walk up to that.
37:55SOB and flap him across the face.
37:58But I let judge.
38:00Let's just do its thing.
38:01Then the investigation took another unexplained.
38:05So while in jail in Texas.
38:06So while in jail in Texas.
38:10Waiting to come here.
38:11Waiting to come here.
38:12Waiting to come here.
38:13He got a little diarrhea tomorrow.
38:15He got a little diarrhea in his mouth.
38:16He befriended a.
38:18Another gentleman that was in his jail.
38:20And the gentleman asked him.
38:23You know.
38:24What you in here for?
38:25He said murder.
38:26And he goes into detail about.
38:30How he murdered Elizabeth.
38:31After interviewing his cell mate.
38:35Detectives could finally piece together.
38:37The final hours of Elizabeth's life.
38:40He is clearly somebody who is treating her as a possession.
38:45And somebody he can abuse.
38:47He can control.
38:48So it doesn't surprise me.
38:50That the incident that leads to her death.
38:53Is when he goes through her.
38:55Her phone.
38:56Which of course is an invasion of privacy.
38:57And finds these messages.
38:58That are in radio.
39:00Raging to him.
39:01That he thinks are a violation of his ownership of her.
39:05We learned through the investigation.
39:06That on her phone.
39:07He possibly located some information.
39:09That shows she was.
39:10Possibly being intimate with somebody else.
39:14Elizabeth had been.
39:15Exchanging messages.
39:16With her online romance.
39:20He feels that because she is his possession.
39:22She can't leave him.
39:23Unless he says it's okay.
39:25So I think he's got in so many respects.
39:27The classic.
39:28Personality.
39:30And thought processes.
39:31Of a domestic violence perpetrator.
39:35He had threatened her a hundred times.
39:36If she ever tried to leave.
39:37And take the girls.
39:38He would kill her.
39:39And I think she was.
39:40Getting ready.
39:41To start trying to leave.
39:42And.
39:43That's when.
39:44The worst.
39:45The worst.
39:46That he could do.
39:47Happened.
39:48When she comes out of the bathroom.
39:50He.
39:50He comes in behind her.
39:51And he grabs her.
39:52And he chokes her.
39:53Jonathan did tell the jailhouse.
39:55That he was a cellmate.
39:56That he put her in a choke hold.
39:58Until she stopped reading.
39:59Or.
40:00Or.
40:01What he thought.
40:02He said.
40:03She was dead.
40:04He said.
40:05She was dead.
40:05He laid her down.
40:06He let her go.
40:07He said.
40:08Then she like.
40:09She gasped for air.
40:10He said.
40:11I panicked.
40:12And that's when.
40:13I started stomping on her neck.
40:14Kicking her throat.
40:15What we think.
40:16Somebody's been injured.
40:18Our first thought is.
40:19We need to get.
40:20Help for them.
40:21And so.
40:22There is something about that.
40:23Stopping.
40:24It just that.
40:25Annihilation.
40:26That is just particularly.
40:28Chilling.
40:30Once hearing the statements.
40:31That Jonathan Ali made.
40:32To.
40:33The jailhouse.
40:34Self.
40:35All made.
40:36It all.
40:37Cooperated.
40:38What the autopsy had found.
40:39About the blunt force trauma.
40:40Everything.
40:41To her chest.
40:42And to her upper body.
40:43When we looked at this case.
40:45We found.
40:46Some anomalies.
40:47And those anomalies.
40:48Were the.
40:49The injuries.
40:50And the bruising.
40:51Around.
40:50The head and neck.
40:51And so.
40:52He actually admitted.
40:53That he stomped.
40:54On her neck.
40:55We.
40:55Find this again.
40:56Through the autopsy.
40:57Because.
40:58The very delicate bones.
40:59And the cartilage.
41:00In that area.
41:00May be crushed.
41:01And then.
41:02The sick.
41:03And then.
41:04The sick.
41:05Part about it all.
41:06He told this gentleman.
41:07That once.
41:08He.
41:09Did kill her.
41:10He had sex.
41:11With her body.
41:12And then.
41:13He ejaculated.
41:14On her face.
41:15And then.
41:16Once.
41:17We got a hold.
41:18To some phones.
41:19He had.
41:20We found.
41:21Some stuff.
41:22In the phone.
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42:13Texas, that he thought if he threw it in the swamps here in Louisiana, the alligators
42:18were either.
42:18When you have a body.
42:23There are sprays of water that are high in alligator population.
42:26Many offenders think that this is a great place.
42:28To get rid of their evidence as the alligators will scavenge on the remains.
42:33However, in most cases, alligators are predators.
42:36They are not scavengers.
42:38Meaning that unless they have live prey, they're usually not interested in what's in the water.
42:43I'm 66 years old, born and raised here.
42:48And I have yet to find one person that's ever been eaten by an alligator.
42:54In state of Louisiana.
42:55I mean, within 40 feet, I got alligators.
42:58In my house.
42:59So, and they have never attacked me again.
43:03Go back to his sick mind.
43:04You know, an alligator is going to be a perfect scenario.
43:07He's going to eat the body.
43:08And we're never going to discover her.
43:09And they'll never know where she went.
43:11And he figured it'd be a good spot.
43:13He had to go because nobody would catch him.
43:14Well, he found out it was a parish sheriff's office.
43:18He knows a little something about that.
43:23Jonathan Alley was finally extradited to the state of Louisiana, where investigators
43:28attempted to interview him.
43:29It's been a long road, brother.
43:33Jonathan, this is exactly what I explained to you.
43:38You're in the car.
43:39You have the right to remain silent.
43:40Anything you say you can move against you in court of law.
43:42You have the right to talk to a lawyer.
43:43And having breakfast with you while you're being questioned.
43:45You understand that?
43:46Yes, sir.
43:47And he...
43:48And he immediately lawyered up on his den.
43:50He said, not talking.
43:52And that was...
43:53The last conversation we had with him was that night.
43:58He threatened to standeder at a time.
44:03Yeah.
44:03Ale returned to the jurisdiction of his home state, Texas.
44:08Where he pleaded guilty to the second-degree murder of his wife, Elizabeth.
44:13He struck a plea deal and was jailed for 35 years.
44:18The one time he told the truth and to save his ass, to say, hey, you know,
44:23I don't want to die in Louisiana prison.
44:25I can go over there in Texas and get a better deal.
44:28Which turn?
44:28Seems out to be 35 years there versus life here.
44:32He thought it just happened.
44:33For me personally, it can be kind of frustrating when pleas are given how
44:38ever in this case, it was the best-case scenario, him taking a plea and saving
44:43his children from having to go through a trial.
44:48As far as I'm concerned, it's an injustice.
44:52He is not serving.
44:53What he should serve for what he did.
44:56He is evil incarnate as far as I'm concerned.
44:58You know, you look around.
45:03Water, woods, what kind of death did that?
45:08A water...
45:08You know, you don't do animals that.
45:12He treated her like garbage.
45:13Throughout the swamp.
45:15That tells you right there what kind of person he is.
45:18And this was the burial he gave her.
45:21Mr. Ali thought that he could just throw her up.
45:23Get off his bridge and wash his sins away.
45:25He washed his ass straight to prison.
45:28And that's where his final destination should be.
45:32I do miss her.
45:33I do miss her every single day.
45:34I wish I could talk to her every day.
45:36And then I wish she was still here.
45:38And Jonathan was gone.
45:43It's really that simple.
45:47Because you don't find people like...
45:48that very often.
45:49A friend like that...
45:51is completely priceless.
45:53A friend like that.
45:55Yes.
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