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00:11We took him to the evidence room.
00:16And the blanket that she had been wrapped in,
00:22we had done a clear plastic bag.
00:27It still had odor from the decomposing body on it.
00:33You have a husband whose wife is clearly missing.
00:37He doesn't seem to be upset.
00:40We don't have a lot of cooperation.
00:42We're not really welcome at the house in Warren anymore.
00:47Something else is going on within the family.
00:50It wasn't a random robbery that led to a murder.
00:58It was something very personal.
01:02The murder involved satanic practices and rituals.
01:08He tried to cause our death by creating the satanic spell.
01:13When that didn't work, he did it the old fashioned way.
01:22It was a crime committed of anger and fury.
01:29And if I made one misstep, justice would never be served.
01:55Milford, Michigan, a small town on the west side of Oakland County.
02:02A middle class area that's a suburb of Detroit.
02:09It secluded some of the major roads or dirt roads.
02:20On April 14th of 1988, Glenn Ellsworth had read an article about a drug trafficker who had
02:29buried some of his drug proceeds in the woods.
02:33And so he went to dig up treasure.
02:37He noticed what looked like a dirt mound, a yellow bush and a small pine tree potted that had been
02:44set there.
02:46That was all strange to him.
02:48The plants had to have come from somewhere else.
02:51He dug it up a little bit.
02:53He found a bone.
02:57And identified that it was a body.
03:01He thought he found treasure and he actually found hell.
03:07Once the Oakland County Sheriff Department got the call indicating that there may be a human being buried in the
03:15woods, police officers all converged at the scene.
03:23The grave site was just off the two track, just 50 feet into the wooded area.
03:30Evidence technicians meticulously dug around the grave.
03:41The body was wrapped in a heavy black visqueen.
03:47When it was opened up, the remains were greatly decomposed.
03:57The body was determined to be a white female.
04:01And there was jewelry connected to the body.
04:06What that told me was that whoever buried this body wasn't interested in robbing this person.
04:15But instead, it was a crime committed of anger and fury.
04:47The forties and fifties Detroit was robust and
04:50and build up for the big three automobile manufacturers.
04:56But by the time the 60s came, people were leaving the city
05:00and it was rough, the whole scene of Detroit deteriorating
05:03and we were known as the murder capital of the world.
05:16Helen Bezetta was my mother.
05:19We lived in Detroit.
05:21Life was tough for us.
05:25My mother and father got divorced when I was nine years old.
05:28It was an abusive relationship for my mother,
05:31so it was just her and I in a trailer.
05:33And then she met John Bezetta.
05:38John and Helen both worked for Chrysler.
05:41John was in the management team.
05:44Helen was working on the assembly lines
05:46and somehow their paths crossed.
05:49He just lost his wife to cancer.
05:51The relationship went kind of lightning fast.
05:54I think I met him once or twice
05:56and then I found out my mother was marrying him.
06:01He was the love of her life.
06:02They were very happy together.
06:04He was the main breadwinner.
06:05They traveled together frequently.
06:08They went on vacations and he got my mother into golfing
06:11and she loved it.
06:13Helen just had a big heart.
06:15So once John and Helen married, she quit her job.
06:19She was delighted to be the stepmom to John's son, Joseph.
06:25John had four children, but he only had one still at home
06:28and that was the youngest boy, Joseph.
06:31We ended up moving into the Bezetta home in Warren.
06:36Warren, you know, was the neighboring city to East Detroit.
06:42It is very residential.
06:44Lots of families, lots of kids out in the streets.
06:51When I moved into the home,
06:54my bedroom was right next to Joseph,
06:57the youngest boy of the Bezetta family.
07:00Unfortunately, he lost his mother to cancer
07:03and my mom tried to do the best that she could do
07:06as a stepmom.
07:09My relationship with Joseph was not great.
07:16I think Joseph had resentment
07:19that their dad had married so quickly.
07:22He was 17 at the time.
07:23I was 18.
07:25He was into the punk rock music scene,
07:28Sex Pistols and the Ramones,
07:30where I was more of a Bob Seger kind of guy.
07:34Joseph Bezetta used to wear this bathrobe.
07:38He would put makeup on and he had handcuffs,
07:41he had leather jackets.
07:42He'd put gel in his hair to spike his hair.
07:45Anything to kind of fit into that punk rock scene.
07:49The drastic culture difference between Joseph and myself
07:53was night and day.
07:55We were raised differently.
07:56He came from money and I came from nothing.
08:00I felt if I had stayed there,
08:01I think things would have eventually come to a clash.
08:05Joseph, he was John's baby
08:07and I didn't want to be a guy that would cause a problem
08:10in her new relationship.
08:12I told my mother I need to move out.
08:16I went down to the Air Force recruiter and enlisted.
08:25So in the early part of 1983,
08:27I'm stationed overseas in Germany.
08:30My mother ends up going on a trip to St. Louis
08:34with her husband, John.
08:35He was there to get the minivan plant up and running.
08:39They've been gone for several weeks
08:40and my mother decides that she would come home
08:43earlier than John.
08:44She had a golf outing and a christening for my nephew.
08:56She called her sister Gwen,
08:58telling her that she was coming back home early
08:59and that she would see her at the christening.
09:03She gets home on July 31st of 1983.
09:08She goes to get groceries and a christening gift.
09:23Next day in the afternoon was the scheduled christening,
09:27but she never attended the christening.
09:31My mother knew that there's no way
09:34that Helen would have missed that christening.
09:36There's no way.
09:37And that's when she really became very concerned.
09:41Gwen is calling my mother,
09:43constantly calling the home phone,
09:45and there's nobody answering.
09:48My mother and I went for a ride by the house.
09:51I would have been about 14 years old.
09:54So Gwen arrives at the home in Warren,
09:57and she's a little taken back.
09:59My mother's car's not there.
10:03My mother's not there.
10:06Her groceries were still there.
10:10Like the whole kitchen area is like meticulously clean.
10:15But there's dog hair all over the family room
10:17and the living room,
10:18but nothing in the kitchen.
10:20And there's no sign of my mother.
10:23The whole situation is starting to freak my Aunt Gwen out,
10:28and she starts immediately notifying the other family members.
10:35Carl, have you heard from Helen?
10:37Bill, have you heard from Helen?
10:40She gets a hold of John in St. Louis.
10:42I can't find Helen.
10:44She didn't attend the christening.
10:45She's missing.
10:46John doesn't react to it,
10:48which was odd.
10:51Why was John not agitated?
10:54Why would he not be questioning where his wife was
10:58and why she was not at this event?
11:01Gwen proceeds to go to the Warren Police Department
11:03to file a missing persons report.
11:07And she's turned away because, you know,
11:09my mother hasn't been missing for 48 hours yet.
11:13Next morning, my Aunt Gwen asks the other family members
11:16to come to the house in Warren.
11:19They start trying to retrace, you know, my mother's steps.
11:25And all of a sudden, Frank Bezetta, my uncle, appears.
11:30John didn't come home,
11:31but he called his brother to come to the home.
11:35My mom was like,
11:36no, I, no, no, no.
11:38What is going on?
11:41Finally, Joseph comes home.
11:44Frank Bezetta talks to Joseph.
11:47And Joseph said he doesn't know what happened to Helen.
11:51He was out of the house.
11:53We don't know where she is,
11:54and we don't know where else to look.
11:57I just remember thinking, like,
11:59nothing bad happens in our kind of family.
12:02This isn't real.
12:03How is this happening?
12:07You have a husband whose wife is clearly missing,
12:10and he doesn't seem to be upset.
12:12Seeing that blanket destroyed him.
12:15I was terrified that the satanic rituals
12:18would convince the jury that he was insane when he did it.
12:40Police in Warren, Michigan,
12:41are searching for 39-year-old Helen Bezetta,
12:43who's now been missing for three days.
12:47Nobody has had any sort of contact with Helen
12:49since the night of July 31st, 1983.
12:52Her first night back to the residence
12:53after being in St. Louis,
12:54where she was visiting her husband,
12:56who was on a work trip.
12:58On August 4th,
13:00detectives interview Helen's sister, Gwen.
13:02Then they were able to meet with Helen's stepson, Joseph.
13:06He advised that he had not seen her
13:07since the night of July 31st.
13:14Detectives searched Helen's home.
13:17They locate Helen's golf clubs in the garage.
13:20In Helen's golf shoes by the front door,
13:22that led detectives to believe
13:24that she'd gone to her golf outing in the morning
13:26and then possibly returned home following.
13:30Police canvassed the neighborhoods.
13:32A neighbor said Helen had pulled back into the driveway
13:35on August 1st of 1983
13:37in her vehicle right around 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
13:40Helen was still wearing her golf outfit.
13:43She was carrying in grocery bags.
13:45We talked with another neighbor
13:46who would indicate that the vehicle
13:48had left the residence not long after that,
13:50after dropping off those groceries.
14:00Detectives put the vehicle into the law enforcement database.
14:04And then the detectives were able to speak
14:06with some of Helen's family.
14:08Helen's side of the family
14:09was upset that John had not returned
14:11from his business trip early
14:13like they believe a normal person would.
14:17Why would he not be questioning
14:19where his wife was?
14:28It's August 5th.
14:31Helen's biological son, Tom,
14:34who was in the military in Europe,
14:36was granted leave in order to assist the investigation.
14:39I received a phone call from my family
14:41telling me that my mother's been missing
14:45and I'm on an airplane within six hours
14:47of getting notification.
14:50My mother was everything to me.
14:54It's about an eight-hour flight across the Atlantic,
14:57so it's a lot of time for your mind to race
15:01and think of nothing but the worst things.
15:09As detectives continue to speak with family members,
15:12they find out that Joseph and Helen's relationship
15:15is a little bit more rocky
15:16than had originally been stated.
15:19Joseph didn't seem to fit in
15:21or, frankly, want to fit in with us.
15:24Joseph was listening to loud rock-type music,
15:27which they believe to be satanic and antichrist.
15:31Helen, being a Christian woman,
15:33took offense to that.
15:36There was an ongoing feud between Joseph and Helen.
15:44Detectives are now interviewing Joseph Bezetta.
15:46It comes to light that Joseph and a girlfriend,
15:4921-year-old Michelle Grandis,
15:51she had been staying at the residence in the basement,
15:53unbeknownst to Helen.
15:54They believe that she's a bad influence.
15:56They didn't want her staying there
15:57due to her past of being a topless dancer.
16:00My mother caught Michelle Grandis peeing in a bucket in the basement of her home,
16:07and she wasn't even supposed to be in the home.
16:10That set Joseph into a frenzy of,
16:14you're-not-my-mom feelings.
16:19Joseph admitted his lifestyle,
16:20his girlfriend caused a lot of issues within the family,
16:23but he was shocked at the fact that she'd still been missing.
16:27Joseph stated that on August 1st,
16:29he gathered his belongings,
16:30they'd gone out,
16:31done a couple other errands.
16:33Because Michelle's not supposed to be at the house,
16:35Joseph spent the night with his girlfriend,
16:37from Michelle at a local hotel at 15 Mile and Bandai.
16:42Detectives were able to obtain the folio from the hotel.
16:48The detectives verified,
16:50and they checked in right around 8 o'clock.
16:56Michelle was able to verify that
16:58while the relationship was a little bit rocky
17:00between Joseph and Helen,
17:02they'd kind of come to an agreement.
17:04Helen and John would stay out of their relationship
17:07as long as Michelle just didn't come to the house.
17:16August 6th, Helen's husband, John,
17:19eventually returned from his work trip in St. Louis.
17:22He knows there's thousands of people at his house.
17:25He decides to finally come home
17:27to find out where his wife is.
17:33Warren police detectives
17:34speak with Helen's husband, John,
17:36about bank accounts, credit cards,
17:38anything that they could possibly show
17:39if Helen had used before or after that time
17:41to maybe help build this timeline.
17:44But nothing is missing.
17:46The detectives were able to follow up
17:48and confirm that John was in St. Louis
17:50at the time of the missing persons report,
17:52but still not enough for them to solidify
17:54that he is not a suspect.
17:56Detectives relayed to John
17:58the conversations with Joseph
17:59and then also Michelle.
18:01John brushes it off
18:02as this is an internal family-type issue.
18:05He's really not a bad kid.
18:08But nonetheless,
18:09the detectives have to look
18:10at every possible avenue with Joseph.
18:15But Joseph had no criminal history.
18:18He's got nothing in his record
18:19that would show that he's a violent individual.
18:21And nothing else has come up
18:23to show that this is specifically
18:25someone who would be involved.
18:27There's nothing to possibly tie
18:28John and Joseph with Helen's disappearance.
18:36That same day,
18:38detectives get a phone call
18:39from the Oakland Mall,
18:41which is in Troy, Michigan.
18:44They had located Helen's vehicle.
18:48The Oakland Mall
18:49was like a hotbed for criminal activity
18:51at the time.
18:52Different assaults and crime
18:53had occurred at that mall.
18:55Helen wore flashy clothing.
18:56She wore bright colors
18:57that would draw attention to her.
18:59Investigators were starting to believe
19:00that something horrible happened to her,
19:01that she was possibly abducted and robbed.
19:05Something's not right.
19:06Something bad has happened to my mother.
19:30Helen's been missing for approximately six days.
19:34Her car's been found abandoned
19:36in a neighboring jurisdiction
19:37at the Oakland Mall.
19:40Finding the car
19:41is another huge piece of the puzzle.
19:43It's a new lead
19:43into what might have happened with Helen.
19:46Helen didn't go to Oakland Mall.
19:48That seemed so strange to me.
19:53Evidence technicians are called to the scene
19:55and they're able to dust for fingerprints
19:57and collect any sort of evidence.
20:07We started to organize searches.
20:10County by county.
20:11My Uncle Bill got a map
20:13and cut things into grids
20:15and we asked for help from the church.
20:16We asked for help from the community.
20:19We got people walking through woods
20:21and roaming fields
20:22looking for a body of my mother.
20:26The family, they're receiving tips
20:29that are coming directly to them,
20:30coming to the police department.
20:33Fingerprints come back from the vehicle.
20:37Unfortunately, there wasn't any sort of evidence
20:39that would help find Helen.
20:45And then on August 11th,
20:47detectives get a big break in this case.
20:54Detectives received a phone call
20:55from an anonymous male
20:56who stated that Helen's body
20:58was located in Harrison Township
21:00and they were able to locate an area
21:02that was described by the anonymous caller.
21:05The farm was located within about 12 miles
21:07of Helen's home,
21:09close proximity to the mall.
21:11It's secluded.
21:13If you're looking to possibly get rid of a body,
21:15this would be the place to do it.
21:17The police department took it extremely seriously.
21:20They had a canine division,
21:22a helicopter division.
21:24They searched that whole entire 400-acre farm.
21:28No stone was left unturned.
21:33And we're still unable to locate Helen's body.
21:37So frustrating for these detectives
21:39and these officers.
21:41It begins to weigh on you.
21:49Detectives start going back
21:51and speaking with families.
21:54We don't have a lot of cooperation
21:55from the Bezettas.
21:57We're starting to feel
21:58that we're not really welcome
21:59at the house in Warren anymore.
22:02John's home
22:03and he's not supportive or doing anything.
22:06You have a husband
22:07whose wife is clearly missing,
22:08but John doesn't seem to be upset.
22:10The way that he's acting
22:11is drawing attention.
22:12Is there something else
22:13that maybe that might have been going on
22:14within the family?
22:19Detectives go up into his finances,
22:21looking for any sort of evidence,
22:22whether he's flush with some sort of money
22:24or whether he's maybe having financial issues.
22:31They were unable to locate anything
22:33that would show that he had made
22:35any sort of large purchases
22:36or payments to anybody
22:37that they found to be suspicious.
22:49It's mid-September.
22:50It's been six weeks
22:52since Helen's disappearance.
22:53The leads have been exhausted.
22:56Since she's been missing
22:57for such an extended period of time,
22:59they obtained dental records of Helen.
23:03We kept looking and searching,
23:05but my 30 days of emergency leave
23:08to come home to find my mother is up.
23:12I still have nothing.
23:13I've got to fly back.
23:15I'm angry.
23:16When you're in the military,
23:18that connection back home is important.
23:22And something's missing.
23:29And in my case, it was my mother.
23:51Finally, the Warren police detectives
23:53received information
23:54from River Rouge Police Department,
23:56which is located directly south of Detroit.
23:57They were investigating a homicide
24:00of an individual
24:01who had possible ties
24:02to the city of Warren.
24:04The victim was handcuffed to a bed
24:07and beaten and strangled to death.
24:11The suspects listed in their case
24:14are Helen's stepson, Joseph,
24:16and his girlfriend, Michelle.
24:21Who would have a motive
24:22to try and kill Helen?
24:24We took Mr. Bezetta
24:26down to the evidence room.
24:27It still had odor
24:29from the decomposing body.
24:51Detectives in Warren, Michigan
24:52had been looking for missing mom,
24:54Helen Bezetta, for six weeks.
24:57Helen returned home on July 31st.
24:59Had a normal golf date
25:01that she had with friends.
25:02And Helen's stepson, Joseph,
25:04was possibly the last one to see her.
25:08An ongoing homicide investigation
25:10in a neighboring jurisdiction
25:11has brought attention
25:13to Helen's stepson, Joseph,
25:14and his girlfriend, Michelle.
25:18River Rouge Police Department
25:21had a homicide of a gentleman
25:23named Bob Nock
25:25who was acquainted with
25:27and knew both Joey and Michelle.
25:31To be connected with two possible homicides
25:33in such a short period of time,
25:35it's something that you can't just ignore.
25:38According to the people we interviewed,
25:41Joey and Michelle
25:42were allegedly trying to shake Bob Nock's down
25:45for $5,000
25:46so they could go out to California.
25:50Detectives also found out
25:52and murdered,
25:53frequented a punk rock bar
25:54that Michelle was employed at.
25:59They receive information
26:01that puts someone
26:02who possibly looks like Michelle
26:04at the victim's home
26:05right around his time of death.
26:07It's another huge break.
26:09It almost solidifies the feeling
26:11that Joseph was possibly involved
26:12with Helen's disappearance.
26:14With this new information,
26:16the warrant detectives obtained
26:17search warrants
26:18allowing them to go back
26:19and search them as at a home
26:20in hopes to find new evidence
26:22that could possibly connect them
26:23to the River Rouge murder.
26:26Evidence technicians do an overview,
26:29taking photos of everything
26:30inside the home.
26:32While detectives are conducting
26:34a search warrant on the residence,
26:37River Rouge is interviewing
26:38Michelle and Joseph.
26:40They're extremely cooperative.
26:41They answer all the questions
26:42that are asked by the detectives
26:44regarding River Rouge's homicide.
26:49Revenant's techs conduct a search
26:50of the room
26:51where the River Rouge homicide occurred.
26:53They obtain fingerprints
26:55and other evidence.
26:57Nothing came back
26:58for a match of Michelle and Joseph.
27:01And also,
27:02they provide alibis.
27:04And detectives were able
27:05to verify that alibi.
27:08They had to let them go.
27:09Again, they were stuck at a dead end.
27:14Everybody's frustrated.
27:15They're thinking that, yes,
27:16Michelle and Joseph
27:17have to be involved in this.
27:18But nothing actually
27:20points directly to them.
27:23Detectives exhausted
27:24all possible leads.
27:27And that's how both cases
27:29begin to grow cold.
27:31And detectives are left
27:32with absolutely nothing to go on.
27:37Weeks grew into months.
27:39Months into years.
27:50John Bezetta waited
27:52less than 18 months
27:53before he legally
27:54divorced my mom.
27:57John Bezetta
27:58not only divorced my mother,
27:59but he remarried another woman
28:01almost immediately.
28:03You don't even know
28:04where my mother's body is.
28:06Or do you?
28:08And he took all
28:09of my mother's assets,
28:10everything.
28:13No man in the world
28:15that I've ever known
28:16acts like that.
28:24June of 1985,
28:25it's been several years
28:26since the disappearance
28:27of Helen.
28:27They've exhausted
28:28all avenues.
28:30Helen is still listed
28:31as missing in any sort
28:32of law enforcement databases.
28:33Again, the case
28:34has grown cold.
28:35River Rouge's case
28:36had also grown cold.
28:50April 14th of 1988,
28:55detectives received a call
28:56stating that a body
28:59had been discovered,
29:00buried in the woods
29:02off of Hickory Ridge Road.
29:18On my arrival,
29:20the evidence detects
29:21had already started
29:22processing the grave site.
29:26The body was wrapped
29:28wrapped in a heavy
29:29black visqueen.
29:31And when it was opened up,
29:33you could also tell
29:34that the body
29:34had been wrapped
29:35in a quilt material.
29:38Most of the tissue
29:39had been eaten away.
29:42Once the medical examiner
29:44was finished
29:45with his examination
29:46on the scene,
29:48the body was transported
29:50to the ME's office
29:52for autopsy.
29:56The medical examiner
29:57began to go through
29:58the body.
30:00There were some clues.
30:02They found blonde hair.
30:04There were no shoes.
30:07The body
30:08had a noose
30:10around its neck.
30:15The body was determined
30:17to be a white female.
30:18She had been
30:21initially handcuffed.
30:23Clothing was
30:24female skirt
30:26and top
30:27and in
30:28the back pocket
30:33were golf tees.
30:51Five years
30:52had passed
30:53since Helen disappeared.
30:55But then
30:56there was a grisly discovery
30:59in the woods
31:00of Milford, Michigan.
31:05The treasure hunter
31:07found a body
31:08buried
31:08in the woods.
31:17Four days later
31:19on the 18th of April
31:21from the dental records
31:23the medical examiner
31:24made positive identification
31:26of the remains
31:27as being Helen Bezetta.
31:35I'm back in Europe
31:36in the military.
31:37I get a call
31:38from my Aunt Gwen
31:39that they found
31:40my mother's remains.
31:42It's a grim notification
31:44but it's not shocking.
31:46We knew she didn't
31:47just walk away
31:47and stay gone
31:48for five years.
31:50As painful as it was
31:52it was much better
31:53than never knowing.
32:01Once it was determined
32:03that the body
32:03in a shallow bay
32:04in the woods
32:05was Helen Bezetta
32:06we asked ourselves
32:08who would have a motive
32:09to try and kill Helen.
32:11Clearly there was
32:12one person
32:13who didn't like her.
32:16Joseph Bezetta.
32:18Our next step
32:20was to reach out
32:20to John Bezetta
32:22Helen's husband.
32:25According to
32:26Mr. Bezetta
32:27it was contentious
32:28between his son
32:29Joseph
32:29and his wife
32:30Helen.
32:32We took
32:33Mr. Bezetta
32:34down to the evidence room.
32:36We had
32:37the blanket
32:38that she had been
32:39wrapped in
32:40and he looked
32:42at that
32:44identified it
32:46as yes
32:46that's a quilt
32:48that came
32:48from my house.
32:51He was tearing up.
32:54The body
32:55was wrapped
32:55in a blanket
32:57that came
32:58from the Bezetta house.
33:01The husband
33:02wasn't at the house
33:02because he was
33:03out of town.
33:04The only one
33:05who had access
33:06to that house
33:07was his son
33:08Joseph Bezetta.
33:11Seeing that blanket
33:13destroyed him
33:14he knew
33:15Joseph was involved.
33:18Interviewing
33:19several individuals
33:20Michelle Grandis
33:21Joey's girlfriend
33:23had grown up
33:24in Highland Township
33:25where the body
33:27was found.
33:28The question becomes
33:30how do we put them
33:31together
33:31together at the wooded
33:32area.
33:35The evidence
33:36technicians went back
33:38to further examine
33:40the gravesite.
33:41They noticed
33:43on a tree stump
33:44that there were
33:45red paint
33:45scrapings.
33:50They found
33:51a small piece
33:53piece of metal
33:54that was painted
33:55red.
33:56In reviewing
33:58the reports
33:59from River Rouge
34:00it was disclosed
34:01that they had done
34:02a search warrant
34:03on Joseph's car.
34:06Joseph
34:07had a red car.
34:11The car
34:12had been taken
34:13to a River Rouge
34:14local repair shop
34:16and according
34:17to the repairman
34:18they were backing
34:19the car up
34:19with the door open.
34:22And at that point
34:23we went back
34:23and interviewed
34:24the family
34:25and friends.
34:26It was disclosed
34:27that Joseph
34:28was heavily
34:29into drugs.
34:30Into Satanism,
34:32devil worshipping.
34:33He wore
34:34a black leather jacket
34:36with chains
34:37and a pair
34:38of handcuffs
34:39hanging from
34:40the shoulder
34:41area of the jacket.
34:43The fact
34:44that there were
34:44handcuffs
34:45on Helen's body
34:47led right straight
34:49back to
34:49Joey Bezetta again.
34:52We determined
34:54after analysis
34:55the noose
34:56tied around
34:57her neck
34:58was a bathrobe
34:59belt
35:00made of terrycloth.
35:03Through the
35:04assistance
35:04of Helen's
35:05siblings
35:06we learned
35:06that Joseph
35:07used to wear
35:08a bathrobe
35:09around the house
35:10all the time
35:11with a pinkish
35:12reddish color.
35:17we now have
35:18two prime
35:19suspects.
35:20We made
35:21arrangements
35:21to have
35:22Michelle and
35:22Joey taken
35:23into custody.
35:24They were
35:25under surveillance
35:26at their
35:26residence
35:27in Waterford
35:28while we were
35:29doing this.
35:32June 15th
35:33of 88
35:34we obtained
35:36the arrest
35:36warrants
35:36and proceeded
35:37over to
35:38their residence.
35:44and they
35:45were arrested
35:45taken into
35:47custody
35:47in the early
35:48morning hours.
35:51Once
35:52they were
35:53arrested
35:53we learned
35:54that Michelle
35:55and Joseph
35:55had been
35:56married
35:57four days
35:58before.
36:00I think
36:01once Helen
36:02was found
36:03they understood
36:04that they
36:04were going
36:04to be
36:05charged.
36:06Witnesses
36:07had said
36:08that shortly
36:09after Helen
36:10had disappeared
36:11Joey had
36:12given Michelle
36:13an engagement
36:14ring.
36:15She's now
36:16Michelle
36:16Grandis
36:17Bozzetta
36:17they got
36:18married
36:18so that
36:19the spouse
36:19could not
36:20testify
36:20against the
36:21other spouse.
36:23I was
36:24worried
36:24that I
36:25may not
36:26have enough
36:26evidence
36:27to actually
36:27convince a
36:28jury
36:29that they
36:29were the
36:30people
36:30that
36:30committed
36:30the
36:31murder.
36:33I knew
36:34if I
36:35made one
36:36misstep
36:36justice
36:37would never
36:38be served.
36:40I was
36:40terrified.
37:02June 15th
37:031988
37:06after Helen
37:07was dug up
37:08from this grave
37:09in the woods
37:09two people
37:11were arrested.
37:12Helen's
37:13stepson
37:14Joseph
37:14Bozzetta
37:15and his
37:16wife
37:17Michelle
37:17Bozzetta.
37:19They each
37:21got separate
37:21attorneys.
37:22So my
37:24strategy was
37:25I was going
37:26to present
37:27absolutely
37:28every
37:29strap of
37:29evidence
37:30to get
37:30one to
37:31flip on
37:31the other.
37:38Ultimately
37:39it worked.
37:41Michelle
37:42came to
37:42us and
37:43tried to
37:43convince us
37:44that Joseph
37:45committed the
37:46murder.
37:48She asserted
37:49that Joseph
37:50was abusive
37:51toward her
37:52and he
37:53wasn't involved
37:54in the actual
37:55murder at all.
37:56Her testimony
37:58convinced
37:58Joseph
37:59to raise
38:01an insanity
38:01defense.
38:05prior to
38:06the trial
38:06Joseph
38:07Bozzetta
38:08gave us
38:09an interview.
38:09He told
38:10us that
38:11Michelle
38:11Bozzetta
38:12was actively
38:13involved in
38:14planning the
38:15murder and
38:16in participating
38:17with the
38:18murder.
38:21But he
38:23said I'm
38:23not guilty
38:24of murder
38:24because I
38:26was insane
38:27at the time
38:27that I did
38:28it.
38:28He began
38:29to talk
38:30about
38:30satanic
38:31rituals
38:32and
38:33satanism.
38:34We learned
38:35that he
38:36tried to
38:37cause
38:38Helen's
38:38death
38:39initially
38:39by creating
38:41the satanic
38:42spell
38:42in which
38:44her plane
38:44would crash
38:45and she
38:46would die.
38:47When that
38:48didn't work
38:49Joseph and
38:50Michelle
38:50did it
38:51the old
38:51fashioned way.
38:53Joseph
38:53said on
38:54August 1st
38:55he and
38:55Michelle
38:56Bozzetta
38:56were waiting
38:57at home
38:58for Helen.
39:01Michelle
39:02said it's
39:02time to
39:03do it.
39:04He took
39:05a baseball
39:06bat.
39:16While she
39:17was flailing
39:18around he
39:19used the
39:20handcuffs to
39:21put her
39:22hands together
39:24took the
39:25bathrobe belt
39:27strangled
39:28Helen so
39:29tightly
39:29he said he
39:30was afraid
39:31that if he
39:31had pulled
39:32the bathrobe
39:33belt
39:33any tighter
39:35he may
39:36decapitate
39:37Helen.
39:40They took
39:41the blanket
39:42and some
39:43of the black
39:43visqueen
39:44and they
39:45wrapped
39:45Helen's
39:46body with
39:46it.
39:48And they
39:49dumped
39:50Helen's
39:50car in
39:51Oakland
39:51County.
39:53They
39:54then drove
39:54to a
39:54local
39:55nursery
39:55bought
39:56some
39:56plants.
39:57They
39:58then
39:59buried
39:59her
39:59in the
40:00woods
40:00of
40:01Milford
40:01Michigan.
40:04They
40:05planted
40:06the
40:06plants
40:06hoping
40:07that they
40:07would
40:07grow
40:08and
40:08camouflage
40:08the
40:09burial
40:09site.
40:11And
40:11for five
40:12years
40:12they acted
40:14like they
40:14had nothing
40:14to do
40:15with this
40:16murder.
40:19ultimately
40:20Joseph's
40:21confession
40:21became a
40:23linchpin
40:23of this
40:24prosecution.
40:29So in
40:301989
40:31Joseph
40:32Bozzetta
40:33and Michelle
40:34Bozzetta
40:34went to
40:35trial in
40:36Oakland County
40:36Circuit Court
40:37in Michigan.
40:38We ended
40:39up with
40:39two juries
40:41listening to
40:42each of the
40:43cases
40:43simultaneously.
40:47my fear
40:48was
40:49that
40:49the
40:50satanic
40:50rituals
40:51and the
40:51unbridled
40:53brutality
40:53of it
40:54all
40:54would be
40:56able to
40:56convince
40:56the jury
40:57that he
40:57was insane
40:58when he
40:58did it.
41:01In
41:02November
41:02of 1989
41:03after a
41:04two-week
41:04trial
41:05the jury
41:05went out
41:06to
41:06deliberate.
41:08Shortly
41:09after
41:10they came
41:10back
41:10with their
41:12verdicts.
41:13Guilty
41:14of murder
41:15in the
41:15first
41:15degree
41:16for
41:16Joseph
41:17Bozzetta
41:18and guilty
41:19of second
41:20degree
41:20murder
41:20for
41:21Michelle
41:21Bozzetta.
41:22The jury
41:23just didn't
41:24buy into
41:24the insanity
41:25part.
41:26They felt
41:26he was
41:26completely
41:27sane.
41:28It meant
41:29imprisonment
41:30probably for
41:31the rest
41:31of his
41:32life.
41:33Michelle
41:34Bozzetta
41:34got 20
41:35to life.
41:45We
41:46always
41:46thought
41:46of
41:46her
41:48as
41:49having
41:49an
41:49angel
41:50looking
41:51after
41:51us.
41:53She
41:54gave us
41:54a good
41:54moral fiber
41:55and compass.
41:57I've
41:58tried to
41:58be a
41:58good man.
41:59I just
42:00wanted to
42:01make her
42:02proud.
42:02to
42:03him.
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