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00:00Law enforcement searched for a missing woman.
00:03She was limited to her yard.
00:05There just wasn't a huge footprint.
00:06My first thought as a parent was, why would you leave your child?
00:10My heart sunk because we were eight months behind the eight ball.
00:14It's not a normal encounter that you just come to the door with a card for your attorney.
00:18He tells Ellie something that confuses and disturbs her.
00:21She can't get any straight answers.
00:23I'm not lying about anything.
00:24You did lie to me.
00:26This area would be an ideal location.
00:30To dispose of a body.
00:32That's when I knew something was very, very wrong.
00:35I literally fell to my knees because that is my worst scare.
01:09Being from Kansas, I'm constantly combing newspapers for some kernel of a story that might work for people.
01:17This one jumped out.
01:18And the fact that it took place in Prairie Village, I couldn't believe it.
01:22I grew up there, riding my bike around the sleepy little suburb of Kansas City.
01:27Young girl's mother disappears.
01:30These are pictures of us.
01:31And she can't get any straight answers.
01:38In 2019, 51-year-old Angela Green and her 67-year-old husband Jeff live in the Kansas City suburb
01:45of Prairie Village with their daughter Ellie, who's a college freshman.
01:49Although originally from northern China, Angela has spent most of her adult life in Kansas.
01:56When Angela was in China, she was studying journalism and she had done some modeling work.
02:01Her goal was always to get out of the small town that she grew up in.
02:09Angela had an older sister, Catherine, who she idolized, who had married an American and they lived in Kansas.
02:20Seeing how my parents had built a new life in the U.S., I think she kind of wanted that
02:26same thing.
02:27When friends of Angela's parents introduce her to American businessman Jeff Green, the two hit it off.
02:33And Angela jumps at the chance to start a new life with him in America.
02:38And in the late 1990s, they move in together in Prairie Village, Kansas, near Angela's sister Catherine and her young
02:45nieces.
02:47We just had a really special bond.
02:49It was always just me and my aunt going on little adventures.
02:53I thought she was so beautiful and I wanted to be beautiful like her.
02:58Jeff and Angela wed in 1998, but she has a hard time settling into life in Kansas.
03:04When my aunt came to the U.S., she was always self-conscious about her English, so she really kept
03:10to herself.
03:12Angela's life in America isn't the fairy tale she had in mind.
03:15But that changes in 2000 when she gives birth to her daughter Ellie.
03:19I think when she had Ellie, that made everything make sense for her.
03:24Like, okay, this was all worth it.
03:26But her whole world became Ellie.
03:31In 2022, people interviewed Ellie about this absolute nightmare that she's been living through.
03:38Ellie, first, can you just tell me a little bit of background on your mom?
03:44Yeah, she had me as her only child and she just really, like, poured her heart out to me and
03:53invested all her time in me.
03:56I was also very close with my dad.
03:59We always went to take your daughter to work day and went to his car shows that he competed in.
04:07Jeffrey worked in the IT side for support within the courthouse.
04:12He was involved with woodworking, working with his cars.
04:17Him and my mom seemed happy.
04:20Every couple has his arguments.
04:22I saw them also go through that.
04:24But I knew that they loved each other and I was their main focus.
04:30Angela was concentrating on raising Ellie.
04:33Jeff was working.
04:34I think their situation was pretty routine.
04:37But Ellie grew up basically in a very restricted environment.
04:43Ellie was just really close with her parents and taught to obey her parents and not really question them.
04:52She wasn't allowed to have playdates or sleepovers.
04:54Angela taught her Mandarin so she would have somebody to speak to.
05:01And over the years, Ellie became her confidant and really the only person that she could talk to, especially after
05:09her sister Catherine moved to New York in 2004.
05:14She really made me focus on school.
05:18I mean, she was a tiger mom, but now, like, looking back, I appreciate that.
05:24It made me who I am today.
05:28In 2018, Ellie goes off to the University of Kansas as a freshman, moves into the dorms, makes lots of
05:36new friends, and she's having the time of her life.
05:40But for Angela, her mental health took a steep decline during that period.
05:47I knew that she struggled with me being on my own, but also she wanted to be there for me,
05:53and that struggle really took a toll on her.
05:58Angela had some perhaps undiagnosed mental issues, and she was struggling with the upcoming loss of Ellie in the household,
06:08and not a particularly terrific marriage at that point.
06:15I was their main focus, and that may have possibly strengthened their relationship.
06:21Angela's mental health issues became so pronounced that at one point, Ellie and her father actually had a conversation about
06:30trying to figure out a way to get Angela some professional help.
06:35There would be moments that Ellie described her mom as possibly being bipolar.
06:42Angela told Ellie that she worried that something was wrong with her mentally, but she didn't seek any treatment.
06:51Historically, she had not wanted to see a doctor for any reason.
06:58Unlike her mother, Ellie's excited by the chance to experience the world outside of their home.
07:04She formed new relationships and was bolder with exploring, going on vacations or trips.
07:17By mid-June, Ellie's freshman year of college is behind her, and she's making plans for her summer that do
07:22not include spending a lot of time at home.
07:25Ellie said, yes, I'm going to live at home.
07:28Oh, but I have this job, so I'm going to be gone doing that, and oh, I have this boyfriend,
07:32Zach, and I want to spend time with him.
07:34It upset her mom.
07:36I knew my mom was increasingly upset, but I never knew why.
07:41I've never been able to figure it out, and I probably never will.
07:45You can only imagine that she felt so isolated to begin with, and now her only link with the outside
07:51world was pulling away from her, and she erupted.
07:56Angela had told Ellie, if you don't ever want to be home, then why don't you just leave?
08:03And Angela took some of Ellie's things and just threw them by the door and was like, just leave.
08:06I'm done with you.
08:08Instead of, like, dealing with it, she just decided to, you know, push me away and kick me out.
08:13Our son, Zach, said that Ellie had been kicked out of her house, and I said, let's have her come
08:21here until things blow over.
08:24Ellie knew when her mother lost it, the best thing to do was get out and let things simmer back
08:30down.
08:32I was waiting for an apology from my mom.
08:34I expected to get home the next day.
08:36I never would have imagined that it had blown up as much as it has.
08:41She didn't reach out to me like she had always done.
08:45She never got that call from her mom.
08:48The night of the fight became the very last time that she ever saw her.
09:00After four days pass, Jeff reaches out to invite his daughter, Ellie, back home.
09:06Jeff texted Ellie and said, your mom is gone.
09:12She's at a hospital getting help for her mental health problems.
09:19He said he, along with mental health aides, had ambushed her in a parking lot and then taken her away
09:27to some sort of mental institution.
09:35There were a lot of people by my side about time.
09:39In 2022, Ellie talked to us about when she first learned that her mom was gone.
09:45My dad told me that my mom was taken to a mental institution.
09:50And I asked him, you know, where that was, and he would never give me a sweet answer.
09:56Ellie described to me that horrible moment of learning that her father had committed her mother to a psychiatric hospital.
10:05And quickly, one of her first things she asked was, where is she? I want to go see her.
10:09Ellie was really frustrated that her dad wouldn't give her any information about where her mom was.
10:18I asked to go visit her, and he said he had already done so, and that she tried to get
10:24physical with him.
10:25Jeff kind of told her that it wasn't safe to visit.
10:33Two weeks later, Jeffrey reached out to Ellie and said, hey, come to the house. Let's clean it up a
10:38little bit.
10:39We'll put some pictures up of mom so that when she gets released, we can support her.
10:45Jeff made her go through all of her mom's clothes and only pick out a few outfits to keep.
10:51And Ellie thought, when my mom gets back, she's going to be so mad that we're, like, getting rid of
10:55her clothes.
10:58Then, on July 16th, nearly a month after Ellie last saw her mother, what seems like a tragic situation goes
11:05from bad to worse.
11:09Her dad had texted her and said, I have something to discuss with you.
11:15And then, around 11 o'clock at night, we heard someone in the driveway.
11:20Jeff got out of his car and then, with no emotion, told Ellie, Angela died of a stroke.
11:30And she just crumbled and collapsed.
11:33I was shattered.
11:35I mean, when I was told that, I literally, like, fell to my knees in the driveway.
11:41Like, I fell on the ground.
11:43That was my worst fear, was I was losing my mom.
11:52At that point, Jeff robotically beelined back to his car, got in, then drove away.
12:01Zach burst into our room and he said, Ellie's mom died.
12:04So, my husband and I sat straight up and, like, wait, what?
12:10And we came downstairs and Ellie was there just in complete shock, like a shell of herself.
12:16And we hugged and we cried.
12:17And my first thought, as a parent of three children myself, is why wouldn't he have taken Ellie with him
12:24when her mom died?
12:26Why would you leave your child?
12:33The day after the kids were told that Angela died, on July 17th, we invited Jeff to come over to
12:39our house for lunch.
12:41Ellie tried to ask for more details.
12:44Are we going to have a memorial or anything?
12:49And Jeff just shut it down.
12:53No, I'm not doing that.
12:54I'm not ready.
12:55I would try and talk about mom.
12:57And he just would shut down and get sad every, at least in the time.
13:01I'm thinking, this feels a little awkward that his wife has died and nobody's talking about it.
13:08Whenever Ellie would dare to ask her father about what had happened to her mother, he had a litany of
13:13excuses.
13:14It's too painful.
13:15It made him too sad.
13:18He just completely gaslighted her whenever she tried to approach him with a question.
13:25I had no reason to believe at that time that there was something wrong, like not to trust my dad.
13:33Not only is Jeff refusing to talk to Ellie about her mom's death, but he also doesn't want her to
13:38mention it to her sister, Catherine.
13:40Her sister was in New York.
13:43So Jeff kept saying, it's not the right time.
13:45Wait till things are like settled down a little bit.
13:55For Ellie, finding out that her mom had died, all she really had left was her dad.
14:02And so she really followed his lead and trusted him.
14:06I went to therapy.
14:08I had a psychiatrist.
14:09I just didn't know what anxiety was.
14:11I didn't know what depression was.
14:12I didn't know what I was going through, but I knew I needed to talk about it.
14:19Ellie wanted to reach out to her aunt and cousin, but she was the dutiful daughter who followed her dad's
14:28wishes.
14:28And he was saying, it's not time yet.
14:30I'm not ready yet.
14:32After months of frustration with her father always giving an excuse as to why he wants to keep Angela's death
14:38a secret,
14:39Ellie realizes that she has to be the one to tell her mom's sister.
14:42I just had like a big pit in my stomach and I called Michelle's mom and I just could get
14:49out the two words, like mom's dead.
14:57I called my mom and she said, hold on, your cousin Ellie is on the other line.
15:03She said that her mom died.
15:04And I was like, oh my God, okay, talk to her.
15:08Michelle waits for her mother to get off the phone with Ellie and calls her back to get details about
15:13Angela's death.
15:15My mom said, Ellie just kept saying that she died on the 16th.
15:18And so my mom was like, today's February 13th.
15:21How could she have died on the 16th?
15:23And Ellie said, no, she died July 16th.
15:26And so then my mom was just in complete shock.
15:33I called Ellie and asked her to walk me through what happened.
15:40She said that her dad had ambushed Angela in a grocery store parking lot and then taken her away.
15:49And then as soon as I heard that, I thought, as a lawyer, there's absolutely no way that would have
15:53happened without any court order or judge ruling.
15:56And so then every time I kind of asked another question, Ellie just didn't know anything.
16:01Ellie can't tell Michelle what facility Angela was in, who notified her father about Angela's death, or even where Angela's
16:09body is.
16:09I just said, okay, well, do you have her death certificate?
16:14If we have this, we can see where she died, how she died, who signed off on the death, so
16:19that we could get some answers.
16:21I told Ellie that she had to go to the vital records office in Topeka, Kansas to get a copy
16:26of her mom's death certificate.
16:28Ellie drives to Topeka the next day, February 14th, to look for the death certificate.
16:34The clerk was able to find her marriage certificate, but there was no death certificate.
16:41That's when I knew something was very, very wrong.
16:52After we found out there was no death certificate in Kansas, for my aunt Angela, I thought either she died
17:00in a different state, or authorities were never alerted of it, or she was still alive.
17:09All just bizarre possibilities at that point.
17:13After learning that there is no death certificate in Topeka for her mother, Ellie gets in her car and drives
17:21straight back to Prairie Village to her father's house.
17:25Ellie said she asked him, where did mom die? And then he said, Kansas. And then she said, no, she
17:32didn't.
17:33I tried to look for her death certificate, and there wasn't one for her in Kansas.
17:38And so then Jeff had said that I thought it was Kansas, but maybe not. I'll have to go check.
17:43You can provide me any proof?
17:46When Ellie told me what had happened, she slowly started to realize how bizarre everything was.
17:53So that day, I called the Prairie Village Police Department.
17:57On February 15, 2020, Michelle called winning a welfare check on her aunt, Angela Green.
18:05She stated that nobody had seen her for a long time, and that she had been told that Angela had
18:10passed away.
18:12Prairie Village officers responded to Angela's home.
18:15And at that time, Jeffrey actually pulled into the driveway.
18:19The officers said, hey, we're here to check the welfare of Angela.
18:24And he says, she's out with friends.
18:28He gave them consent to come inside and look for Angela, which they did.
18:33There were no signs of Angela, and officers asked Jeffrey if Angela was alive,
18:38because they had heard reports that she had died, and Jeff said she was alive,
18:42and that it was crazy.
18:44He wouldn't know why anybody would say that she had died.
18:47I got a call from one of the officers saying, oh, boy, you really got it wrong.
18:52I was just like, no, no, no, no, no.
18:56He's been telling his daughter that her mom died in July.
19:00And so I thought, they need to speak with Ellie.
19:03The following day, Ellie leaves her college dorm at KU
19:06and goes to the Prairie Village Police Department and files a missing persons report.
19:12Ellie and I went in to talk to two officers.
19:17And while we were sitting in there, Jeff happened to call.
19:22So the police recorded him talking to Ellie.
19:27Ellie says, hey, what happened to mom?
19:30I got a call at work that she was going to the hospital to get checked out.
19:36And then I got a call that she was being evaluated,
19:40and I couldn't see her until the following weekend.
19:43Where was that?
19:45Well, that's that.
19:48I need to see if I can find out.
19:51He goes into talking about how he was at work,
19:55and someone from the facility called him.
19:58I got a call that she had passed away,
20:00and funeral things, and what do I want to do?
20:04And I'm like, oh my God, and it's crazy time,
20:07and I can't hardly think straight.
20:09And I got a call that someone's going to come by the house
20:11and pick up money for the cremation,
20:14and I got an urn, and they dropped the urn back by.
20:16And when it was all done by phone,
20:19even now that I think about it, it was like...
20:21When was that?
20:23That was back in July.
20:25We were kind of helping her ask questions.
20:29So who came by for the cremation?
20:32Oh, I don't know.
20:33Male, about 45.
20:36Caucasian, dark-haired, that's all I can remember.
20:38And where's the ash of that now?
20:40I got the urn back, and I didn't check it
20:45until just this past weekend, and I opened it up,
20:47and it's empty, so there weren't a way I shouldn't have it.
20:51The police can't believe what they're hearing.
20:53Something is not adding up.
20:56Around September, I saw somebody walking from the house
21:00out into the street, got in the car, and left,
21:01and I was a couple blocks away,
21:04and I didn't think much of it.
21:06Looking back on it, it's like,
21:07that's right size for Angela.
21:09And occasionally I'll notice that I think
21:12something's got quite where it was before.
21:16And I didn't think anything about
21:18the possibility of this still being alive
21:21until you told me that
21:24there's no death certificate,
21:26and it's like, oh my gosh,
21:28we'll make a shoe alive.
21:30That didn't make any sense at all.
21:32We kept getting these strange
21:35pieces of information.
21:42Jeff was always just changing his story,
21:45but he's doing it very nonchalantly.
21:48I thought, well, that's weird.
21:51She gets off the phone with her father
21:53and then continues filling out
21:56the missing persons report
21:57that starts the investigation.
22:00We became suspicious right away.
22:02There was no record of any death.
22:04We contacted numerous hospitals,
22:08mental hospitals,
22:09never had any record of Angela.
22:11We checked for death certificates nationwide.
22:14There was no death reports,
22:15and we know that you cannot cremate somebody
22:19without any sort of death certificate.
22:21We did look at every possible transportation
22:24by boat, by train, by bus,
22:28to see if there was any way
22:30that she did leave on her own.
22:32And none of those were fruitful.
22:36Angela lacked the social media footprint
22:39and some other footprints
22:41that other people have,
22:43such as credit history,
22:45bank cards, different things like that.
22:47My parents were telling her,
22:50you need some sort of way to build credit.
22:51You should get a credit card.
22:55They knew that Jeff did not have
22:57Angela's name on the house seat,
22:59and her response was,
23:02no, Jeff told me I don't need to.
23:04So she never had a credit card.
23:08We talked to all the neighbors.
23:10They thought that something was out of the normal for sure.
23:13They hadn't seen Angela for a long time.
23:15They said Angela used to be seen
23:17fairly frequently taking care of her yard
23:19and the flowers and the medians
23:21around the neighborhood.
23:23The summer came up
23:25and Angela wasn't out as usual.
23:27I'd asked other neighbors
23:29and they thought
23:31maybe she had gone to China.
23:33She had a, uh,
23:35almost like a ghost-like presence
23:37in the community.
23:38I mean, people would see her,
23:39maybe going to the grocery store,
23:41but really didn't speak to anybody,
23:43couldn't speak to anybody.
23:45So the next day
23:46after Ellie files
23:47the missing persons report,
23:50detectives from the
23:51Prairie Village Police Department
23:52travel to Lawrence
23:54and they meet Jeff
23:56at the property
23:58that he had purchased
23:59months earlier.
24:00Ellie told us that
24:01Jeff had purchased
24:02a residence in Lawrence, Kansas,
24:03which is where
24:04the University of Kansas is.
24:05He was going to fix
24:06that residence up
24:07and let Ellie
24:08and her roommates live there.
24:10Detective Wakefield
24:11knocks on the door.
24:13Then the door opens
24:14and we're met
24:15by Jeffrey Green.
24:16I immediately identified myself
24:18as a detective
24:19with the police department,
24:21but Jeff didn't say
24:22anything to me.
24:23He just handed me
24:23a card of a attorney.
24:27It's not a normal encounter
24:28that on the first time
24:29I knock on your door,
24:30you just come to the door
24:31with a card for your attorney.
24:33That's very unusual
24:34and definitely made me think
24:35that there was more going on.
24:41At that moment,
24:42my heart sunk
24:43because we were eight months
24:45behind the eight ball.
24:46We knew that this was going
24:49to be a challenging case.
24:51With Angela missing
24:52for nearly eight months,
24:54the police go to work
24:55searching for evidence
24:56that can point
24:57to what happened to her.
24:58We contacted Jeff's brother
25:00and his sister-in-law
25:01to see what they knew
25:03about Angela
25:04and what had happened to her.
25:05They told us that Jeff
25:07told them
25:08that Angela died of a stroke
25:10at their house
25:11in Prairie Village.
25:13That was obviously concerning.
25:15Now we've had
25:15three different stories
25:16of what happened to Angela.
25:18The police realized
25:20the story that Jeff's
25:22brother and sister-in-law
25:23were telling them
25:25about that final night
25:28was different than the story
25:30that they had told Ellie.
25:32On the day when Ellie
25:34filed the missing person's
25:36report for Angela,
25:38she had also called
25:39Jeff's family members
25:40to let them know
25:41what was going on.
25:43And they said,
25:44there may have been
25:45an accident involved
25:46and your dad really
25:47needs to get a lawyer.
25:48We immediately thought,
25:50okay, they know more
25:51than Ellie knows.
25:52But by the time Ellie
25:54was able to get a hold
25:54of Jeff's family members
25:56again, they just refused
25:57to speak with her.
25:59Family members
25:59reprimanded me
26:00for asking questions.
26:01They were like,
26:03why can't you just
26:03let it go?
26:06I've seen the nasty text
26:07that his side of the family
26:08text sent Ellie
26:09for just asking
26:10a simple question like,
26:11hey, do you want
26:11to get lunch?
26:12And then being,
26:12if you dare speak
26:13about your dad,
26:14there is no way
26:14I'm getting lunch with you.
26:16And then her being like,
26:17how can I not ask questions?
26:20I believe the family
26:22knows exactly
26:22what happened to Angela.
26:34While we were talking
26:35to Ellie,
26:35we learned that Jeff
26:36had the house
26:37in Prairie Village.
26:38He had the house
26:39in Lawrence, Kansas.
26:41And he also had
26:42a friend that had
26:43some property
26:43in Olathe, Kansas,
26:44where Jeff stored
26:45like a trailer
26:46that had some tools
26:47in it, a car.
26:49In early March,
26:50the police obtained
26:51a warrant
26:51for the Prairie Village
26:52house,
26:53as well as the property
26:54in Olathe.
26:55But there isn't
26:56enough evidence
26:56to obtain a warrant
26:57for the Lawrence house
26:58since he bought it
26:59after Angela disappeared.
27:01Law enforcement
27:02searched for a missing woman
27:04in two different areas
27:05in Johnson County.
27:06The first outside
27:07of a home in Prairie Village,
27:09the second near a business
27:10in Olathe.
27:12We did have cadaver dogs
27:13that went through
27:14the backyard.
27:15We didn't find
27:16any signs of blood
27:17or anything like that
27:19in the house.
27:20We did recover
27:21Angela's ID,
27:23her purse,
27:24her passports.
27:25It would be very difficult
27:27for somebody
27:28to continue
27:29to have a lifestyle
27:31without having
27:32her driver's license
27:33and passport.
27:36While police
27:37search the Prairie Village
27:38house,
27:39Detective Taylor
27:39heads to the 35-acre
27:41storage area
27:42that Jeff's friend
27:43owns in Olathe,
27:45all of which
27:46Jeff has access to.
27:47About 70 law enforcement
27:49officers and cadets
27:51from eight different
27:51departments searching
27:52the large piece of property
27:54on North Woodland Street
27:55that includes open spaces,
27:57wooded areas,
27:57and a pond.
27:58They searched 35 acres
28:00of land.
28:01A dive team searched
28:02a pond on the site.
28:04We canvassed that area
28:06and watered by grids
28:08and searched for any
28:11human remains
28:12of Angela Green.
28:17Actually,
28:18as you look
28:18straight right that way,
28:20there are two trailers.
28:22For sure,
28:23one of them
28:24is Jeff's.
28:26I thought
28:27they were going to
28:28find human remains.
28:31We collected evidence
28:33and did DNA swabs
28:35of the trailers.
28:37That did not
28:39come back
28:39with any evidence
28:40related to Angela Green.
28:44You can see
28:46the buildup
28:46of dirt
28:47among the trees.
28:48There was a time
28:49when it was basically
28:50flat,
28:51but in February
28:52of 2019,
28:54they began excavating
28:56for the new
28:57Johnson County Courthouse.
28:58In the eight months
28:59since Angela's
29:00disappearance,
29:01construction had begun
29:02on the new
29:03Johnson County Courthouse.
29:04Everything
29:05they had excavated
29:06had been dumped
29:07in that storage lot.
29:08There was a steady
29:10daily stream
29:11of thousands
29:12and thousands
29:13of loads
29:14of dirt
29:15coming in here.
29:16Maybe, you know,
29:1720, 30, 40 feet
29:18of dirt
29:19that was going to be
29:20put on top
29:20of that whole area.
29:22So while we were
29:23doing our investigation,
29:25we had different terrain
29:26from eight months
29:28prior when Angela
29:30went missing.
29:32This area
29:33in Olathe
29:34would be
29:34an absolute
29:35ideal location
29:37to dispose
29:38of a body
29:39under 30 feet
29:41of soil
29:43on top of it.
29:44By the summer
29:45of 2020,
29:46with no one
29:47coming forward
29:48with information
29:49about Angela's
29:50disappearance,
29:50and without the capacity
29:52to dig 30 feet
29:53down into the dirt,
29:54the Prairie Village
29:55police call
29:57in the FBI.
29:59In August
29:59of 2020,
30:01I became involved
30:02with the Angela Green
30:03missing persons investigation.
30:04One of the things
30:05that I do
30:05in a missing persons
30:06investigation
30:07is we try
30:07to understand the victim.
30:09And in this case,
30:10she didn't work anywhere.
30:11She was pretty limited
30:12to going to the store.
30:13Her yard,
30:14there just wasn't
30:15a huge footprint.
30:16So the FBI
30:18provided the Prairie Village
30:19Police Department
30:19with resources
30:20to conduct additional
30:21physical searches.
30:23And we're continually
30:24trying to find
30:25potential leads
30:26and more avenues
30:27for us to follow up on.
30:28By the end
30:29of 2020,
30:30a year and a half
30:31after her disappearance,
30:33Michelle and Ellie
30:35decide that they've
30:36got to take matters
30:37into their own hands
30:38by posting videos
30:41on TikTok
30:42about Angela's disappearance.
30:45Welcome to part one
30:46of Who the F Did My Aunt Marry?
30:49I just felt
30:50so defeated.
30:52I'm confident
30:53that Jeff
30:55was involved
30:55with what happened
30:57to Angela.
30:58And so one day
30:59I just decided
31:00to make
31:01a TikTok video
31:03talking about
31:04what happened
31:05to my aunt
31:05and how ridiculous
31:08Jeff's different stories
31:09have been.
31:10My aunt went missing
31:11almost over two years ago
31:12under very suspicious
31:14circumstances
31:14in Prairie Village, Kansas.
31:16The next morning
31:17when I woke up,
31:18it had a couple million views.
31:21I think Jeff
31:22intended for Angela
31:24to be forgotten about.
31:26With the support
31:28that I got
31:29from social media,
31:30I wanted to make sure
31:30that kind of the exact
31:31opposite would happen.
31:33Thank you all
31:34so much for your support.
31:36I became familiar
31:37with this case
31:38because I discovered
31:40this whole media campaign.
31:42I mean,
31:43it went viral.
31:44This is my mom.
31:46These are pictures of us.
31:48I have been publicly
31:49advocating for my mom
31:50for almost a year now.
31:52My mom is still missing.
31:54Michelle and I
31:54created a petition
31:56called Justice
31:57for Angela Green.
31:58Ellie and I
31:59had set up
32:00a GoFundMe
32:01to raise money
32:03to be able to hire
32:03private investigators.
32:05And through the GoFundMe,
32:07Steve Rich
32:08had reached out
32:08and said
32:09that he was
32:10a private investigator
32:11and he was willing
32:13to take on
32:14the case pro bono.
32:16And so Ellie and I
32:18gave our blessing
32:19to do so.
32:20I was able to forge
32:22a very good working
32:23relationship
32:23with the two of them.
32:25I've studied
32:26the escalation
32:28of troublesome relationships.
32:31I talked to
32:32the next door neighbor.
32:33They described
32:34Jeff as
32:36a very mysterious guy
32:38and pretty controlling
32:41from what I've read.
32:43Jeff and Angela's relationship.
32:46That is the recipe
32:47for confrontation.
32:48I do believe
32:50that the night
32:51of the argument
32:52with Angela,
32:53after Ellie
32:54left the home,
32:55things escalated
32:56between Jeff
32:58and Angela
32:59and regardless
33:00of who started it,
33:02she ended up dead.
33:04As Steve continues
33:06to search
33:06for any information
33:07on where Angela
33:08ended up,
33:09Ellie pursues
33:10her own investigation,
33:11consistently recording
33:12her conversations
33:13with her father.
33:15Ellie was still
33:16in contact
33:17with Jeff.
33:18He continued
33:19to pay for her schooling.
33:20I think he was
33:22basically trying
33:22to keep
33:23their relationship.
33:24I'm frustrated
33:26with you.
33:27Very, very frustrated
33:29and offended
33:32and also
33:33pretty ashamed
33:34of your behavior.
33:35First off,
33:37how stupid
33:38do you think
33:38I am?
33:39I don't think
33:40you're stupid.
33:41I don't know
33:41why you seem
33:44to have a storyline
33:45that I need to follow
33:46and then you get upset
33:48and then follow it.
33:49I don't have a storyline.
33:51You're the one
33:51that has a storyline.
33:53Oh, no, no.
33:54I'm not lying
33:55about anything.
33:56You did lie to me.
33:58No, I didn't.
34:00He was like,
34:01I don't like being
34:02cross-examined.
34:03I was firing questions
34:04at him and he either
34:06like avoid it
34:07or lie lies upon lies,
34:10but like little breadcrumbs
34:11that would lead me on,
34:13but then they'd always
34:13be dead ends
34:14like every single time.
34:16Jeff was surprised
34:17that Ellie was really
34:18pushing him
34:19on certain things.
34:21His stories
34:22were bizarre.
34:24Do you don't remember
34:26what happened?
34:27Like, literally
34:29a year ago?
34:30Yeah.
34:31Yeah, she left
34:33and I don't know
34:33much after that.
34:34She would not leave.
34:36She would call me
34:38and find me.
34:40She knows where I am.
34:41This is ridiculous.
34:51The following summer,
34:53Ellie goes to
34:54the house of Lawrence
34:55and is shocked
34:57to see
34:58her mother's favorite flowers,
35:00hostess,
35:00planted
35:01in the backyard.
35:03These flowers
35:04that Angela grew
35:06in their garden
35:07at the Prairie Village
35:09home were dug up
35:11and brought
35:11to the Lawrence property.
35:14Then Ellie went
35:16on the Dr. Phil show
35:18and told them
35:19that she noticed
35:21something really strange
35:23in their garden.
35:26and they had asked her
35:28to collect soil
35:30from the area
35:32where Jeff replanted
35:33the hostas
35:33and that they would
35:35send it for testing.
35:38I took different samples
35:40of this mound
35:41that my dad
35:41had planted
35:42my mom's flowers on.
35:44I had like
35:46private investigators
35:46on the other side.
35:48I was like
35:48FaceTiming them.
35:49Then I zipped them all up
35:51and I shipped them off
35:52to California
35:53where they were.
35:54They put it out
35:55in their field
35:57in three separate piles
35:58and they had their dogs
36:01go out.
36:02Each of the dogs
36:03sat down
36:04at the dirt piles.
36:06They told her
36:07that the dogs
36:08had hit on
36:09possible
36:11decommed bodies there.
36:14We took that information
36:15to our district
36:16attorney's office.
36:17We were able
36:18to get the search warrant
36:19for the yard
36:20in Lawrence
36:21that Jeffrey
36:22had purchased
36:23back in November of 2019.
36:26We were really hoping
36:28that Angela's remains
36:29were in the backyard.
36:34We sifted the dirt
36:36and we did not find
36:39any evidence
36:40of human remains
36:41or decommed bodies there.
36:44I think we were hopeful
36:47and then ultimately
36:48disappointed
36:49when not much
36:50came of that.
36:53The case is far
36:54from just sitting
36:56in the back burner
36:57in a filing cabinet
36:58somewhere.
36:59The Privilege Police,
37:01the FBI,
37:02the DA,
37:03they want this thing solved.
37:05In the summer of 2022,
37:06I told Mr. Green
37:07that this case
37:08isn't going away,
37:09that we're going to
37:10continue to follow up
37:11on it
37:11and we're going to
37:12find the truth
37:13of what happened
37:13to Angela.
37:15After years of trying
37:16everything she can
37:18to find out
37:18what happened
37:19to her mother,
37:20Ellie decides
37:21to put the case
37:22behind her.
37:23She moves to Colorado
37:24to finish college
37:25and tries to move
37:26on with her life.
37:28The last time
37:29that Ellie saw Jeff,
37:31Ellie said to him,
37:32I know you won't
37:33say anything now,
37:34but before you die,
37:36can you at least
37:36write me a letter
37:37of what happened
37:39to mom?
37:40And that's the last time
37:41she saw or spoke with him.
37:43I don't think that
37:44it's right for you
37:45to just shove someone's
37:47iPhone with a rag,
37:48like for someone
37:49to just get missing
37:50and for it all
37:51to be okay.
37:52So I have got my job
37:54out of my life.
37:57I don't speak to him
37:58anymore.
38:01Yeah.
38:03I still hope
38:04that he'll give me
38:05the answer
38:06because I'm his daughter.
38:07I would hope
38:08that he'd give me
38:09that peace of mind.
38:11Although Angela
38:11has now been missing
38:12for six years,
38:14in addition to the police
38:15and FBI,
38:16both Ellie's cousin,
38:17Michelle,
38:18and Steve Ridge
38:19have not given up
38:20the search.
38:22Yeah,
38:22that's his truck
38:23right there.
38:25What are you going to do?
38:26I'm going to go see him.
38:28All right.
38:28I'm going to go see
38:29if old Jeff
38:30will come to the door.
38:39I have some information
38:40on Angela
38:41that I wanted
38:41to share with you.
38:43And who are you?
38:45I'm Steve Ridge.
38:46I'm a private investigator.
38:47I've been working
38:48on the case
38:49for three or four years.
38:50All right,
38:51well, you can drop off
38:51whatever you want,
38:52but we're not going
38:53to have a conversation.
38:57The Iowa private
38:58investigator,
38:59Steve Ridge,
39:00is offering reward money
39:01out of his own pocket
39:03to help find Angela Green
39:05or her remains.
39:07I had put up
39:08a reward offer
39:09of $50,000.
39:11I would gladly pay
39:13that out at this point
39:14to know where
39:15Angela is buried.
39:17Every single day
39:18for years,
39:19my aunt has been
39:20the first thing
39:21that I thought about
39:22when I woke up
39:22and the last thing
39:23I thought about
39:23before I go to bed.
39:25I don't have peace
39:27and I don't think
39:29that I'll ever get that
39:30until I figure out
39:30what happened to her,
39:31which is why
39:32I refuse to give up
39:35on sharing her story
39:36and really trying
39:37to get answers.
39:39The goal is to determine
39:40what happened to Angela.
39:41The more people
39:42that know about that
39:43and the more people
39:44that know that something
39:45did happen
39:45or that she is missing,
39:46it helps the investigation.
39:49Our agency needs
39:50someone to come forward,
39:52but we firmly believe
39:53that family
39:54and or a friend
39:56of Jeff Green
39:57knows exactly
39:58what happened.
40:00I think that people
40:02who surround Jeff
40:03and are protecting him now
40:05need to recognize
40:06that he has not
40:08and will not
40:09protect them
40:10and that justice
40:13can be served
40:14with their involvement.
40:17But I promise
40:18that Jeff
40:19will never know
40:20a single day of peace
40:22until we figure out
40:24what happened.
40:24It's important
40:25to never go up.
40:28I know that's my own dad
40:29and that's hard,
40:30but your actions
40:31have consequences
40:32and he's wronged me
40:34in so many ways
40:34that it's important
40:35to get justice.
40:38It's exactly
40:39what our mom would want.
41:16There's a girl
41:17behind this story.
41:18And those demons
41:19bothering me about her.
41:21She was murdered
41:22brutally.
41:24Anybody that does
41:25anything like that
41:26is a monster.
41:27Her voice was shaking
41:29and she was scared.
41:30Who could have done this?
41:32Now it's time
41:32to hear the truth.
41:34This is a long time coming.
41:35This is a long time coming.
41:35This is a long time coming.
41:35This is a long time coming.
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