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00:18There's large swaths of woods behind the truck stop.
00:26The body was out in the open.
00:28In the wild, animals start to devour the body in various different ways.
00:39We had an unidentified victim.
00:43The body was decomposed.
00:44No one saw anything strange out there.
00:48We had no idea who the murderer was.
00:51This is the crossroads of Central Florida, where everything comes together.
00:55That truck stop is a very busy place.
01:00Every minute it takes by, you're not solving the case, and your victim's still a Jane Doe,
01:04the murderer could be 2,000 miles away.
01:07We were able to recreate what our person would have looked like.
01:13That was tremendous, because the true investigation to who did it starts when you know who the victim is.
01:20It's weird to think that someone that you were so close with at one point in your life, that they're
01:27just missing.
01:35I mean, I think he felt emboldened.
01:37I think that he thought he was smarter than us.
01:40Both phones were pinging on the same cell phone tower.
01:44She was murdered execution style.
01:47I don't care if I'm staying up for 100 hours at a time.
01:50I'm going to find out who did this.
02:16Wildwood, Florida is a main hub of railroad industry.
02:22It's a small-town community.
02:28Stair Road 44 runs the width of the state.
02:32And then you have the Florida Turnpike and I-75 all converge in the center of Wildwood.
02:47There's a lot of truck stops.
02:49It tends to be very transient.
02:54And there are a lot of homeless people.
02:57They create a lot of temporary camping locations.
03:04Near the truck stop, behind the adult store, there's a path into the woods.
03:15It had been an extremely warm April.
03:18We'd had so much rain.
03:20It was wet and muddy.
03:27On April 22nd, 2013, we got a call.
03:30We had some kids.
03:32We're back there four-wheeling.
03:3815 yards off the little trail.
03:41There was a body covered by mud.
03:47And they called the police.
03:55The kids took us pretty deep back in the woods, about a half-mile back off the main road, off
04:03of State Road 44.
04:05It's tight and it's very, a lot of ruts, undulations, water, mud.
04:13The body was near a small patch of water.
04:16If there's water, there's gators.
04:19The body made me drugged there.
04:25I mean, you have no idea how that body got there.
04:32The person was wearing what appeared to be a pair of baggy jogging pants, a blouse, and some tennis shoes.
04:40There was no signs of any bags or belongings, and there was no wallet.
04:48At the scene, when we went through it, there was nothing identifiable other than clothing and the glasses.
04:57So we had nothing that said, this is who this person is.
05:02The body was not fully intact.
05:06There was a lot of bones scattered about the scene.
05:11And the skull was separated from the body.
05:18There was a clump of dark brown hair that was pretty long.
05:22And near that was a scrunchie that would normally be associated with putting out women's hair.
05:32There are alligators, coyotes, not to mention insects.
05:38Given what we saw, we believed some animal activity had taken place.
05:47The medical examiner's office responds, and they bring out one of their own investigators.
05:53We were able to find the pieces of the skull and put them back together again.
06:00Actually, at the scene, you could see where there were three distinct bullet holes in the back of the victim's
06:07head.
06:12It was ruled a homicide.
06:14It was ruled a homicide.
06:14But we did not see any shell casings or firearm.
06:21The body was transported to the medical examiner's office where an autopsy was conducted.
06:28The autopsy did confirm that the victim was a white female, 50 to 70 years of age, over 200 pounds.
06:37There was no teeth, no DNA, no way to identify the body.
06:43When they examined the body, inside one of the folds that was skinned, they were able to see the word
06:50Jane in a tattoo.
06:53The problem is, you don't know, is Jane a daughter's name?
06:56Is Jane the victim's name?
06:58We just didn't know.
07:00Without identifying who it is, we can't determine what she was doing,
07:04who she was hanging around, who had motive.
07:09The body was found at I-75 in the turnpike.
07:12This person could be from Connecticut and was driving through
07:15and had no intentions of being here and was killed, and the killer went off to Wyoming.
07:23At this phase of the investigation, given the evidence that we have,
07:26on a scale from 1 to 10, 10 being most difficult,
07:29this is a 9.999.
07:34This woman was brutally murdered, who killed her.
07:38And how did she end up there?
07:40Buried in the woods.
07:57Fort Charlotte is not a huge town, but it's on the water.
08:04Life was very free there.
08:06It was like you were always on vacation.
08:12we were walking distance to where the water was
08:18when i was about 10 years old my family moved in our apartment
08:23as soon as we got there this lady ran downstairs and introduced herself it was jane wever
08:31at first we were like who's this lady and why is she running downstairs but after we got to know
08:37jane we realized she was like that with everybody at the time she was married to butch they lived in
08:47the apartment above us there was a balcony sometimes we would sit there and she would hang
08:53out with us outside she had a happy life and she enjoyed every minute with her husband butch
09:04jane was very trusting and caring she was always eager to help everybody loved jane
09:22then one day butch had passed away
09:29jane took the death of butch really hard she wanted to make sure that she wasn't alone
09:36so she wanted to have more contact with everybody and she would call she texted
09:45it was really rough for her
09:47a few years after butch died
09:59jane was in contact with an old high school friend on facebook ralph penrod
10:06who i think had a crush on her when she was younger jane decided she was going to move to
10:13kentucky
10:14to be with ralph and jane felt like that was going to be a fresh start for her
10:20after jane moved she always kept in contact the same way that she had always kept in contact before she
10:27she texted all the time she called all the time
10:35but as the days went on we hadn't heard from jane
10:41then on april 4th 2013 one of our mutual friends had called me she told me that she couldn't get
10:48in contact with jane
10:51we contacted ralph penrod and asked him if he knew where jane was
10:58ralph told us that there was a death in his family
11:02and he had left jane in kentucky to be with family
11:07and that he didn't know where she was
11:11he was really concerned that we couldn't get in contact with jane
11:14that was alarming there is no way that jane wasn't going to
11:18contact any of us
11:24april 4th 2013 was the last time anybody spoke to jane
11:28our mutual friend told me that jane had sent a text message saying that she arrived in florida
11:34but she wasn't coming down to port charlotte
11:39there was no punctuation jane had a distinctive way of text messaging she wrote like she spoke
11:48it wasn't written the way that jane wrote i knew that text message wasn't from jane that text message
11:54was from somebody else that's what i knew in my heart that something had happened jane was somewhere
12:01and she needed help we needed to find her
12:07running the man's name through databases we find out that he's a registered sex offender
12:14we got on a plane and flew to las vegas we now have a legitimate suspect in this homicide
12:35this case we had an unidentified victim
12:40that was killed in wildwood here in florida shot three times and buried in the woods
12:45dangerous
12:54We were concentrating on trying to get the victim identified.
12:58We had collected bugs at the scene
13:01and sent them off to a forensic entomologist
13:04who gave me basically a six-day window.
13:08In April 2013, as far as when the crime occurred,
13:13there was no way to identify the body.
13:16I had a blank skull and I needed a reconstruction.
13:21Our medical examiner's office granted permission
13:24for Dr. Kimberly, the forensic pathologist
13:27who does facial reconstructions to take custody of the body,
13:32which was very critical because that was really the only means
13:37to get the victim identified.
13:39I had pulled missing person reports from around the United States,
13:43but there was about 2,000 missing persons matching
13:46the basic description of our unidentified victim.
13:52The investigators began going business to business,
13:55pulling video, talking to people, asking if they heard or saw anything strange
13:59within the time window.
14:02Because it was close to the interstate,
14:04I felt that it was probably somebody not local that committed the crime.
14:09We know that she likely died in April 2013.
14:13We also went back through our FIRs, which are field interview reports,
14:17and we found records on different homeless people that had been in the area
14:20that law enforcement had come in contact with
14:22within the April timeframe that we're talking about
14:24to potentially identify a suspect in this homicide.
14:28We then come upon a name, Edward Antis.
14:35This particular person had a violent history,
14:37and we learned he was in the woods at the time that this was with another female.
14:43It was believed that that woman at the time was wearing the same clothing
14:46and in same physical description as our victim.
14:51To us, that was a hot lead.
14:53It had to be followed up immediately.
14:56Running the man's name through databases,
14:58we find out that he is a registered sex offender.
15:02And we searched, trying to locate him at homeless camps.
15:07But we couldn't find Edward Antis.
15:10He had disappeared.
15:15However, that same day,
15:17we did find that Mr. Antis had a food stamp card,
15:21and that card had been recently used in Las Vegas.
15:25We thought he was running.
15:28We got on a plane and flew to Las Vegas.
15:31Now we're riding high.
15:32We now have something legitimate.
15:35A potential suspect in this homicide.
15:39We just got to go out there and find him.
15:48Based on the information we had,
15:50we start going to some of these different locations
15:52where we believed that Mr. Antis had been.
15:56With the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department,
15:59we were able to locate Mr. Antis at a local bus stop.
16:05We did interview Edward Antis extensively.
16:09He did live in the woods,
16:11the same woods where the victim was murdered.
16:14He was with a woman in Las Vegas.
16:19She hadn't been with him that long.
16:21Once we established Antis had a violent history,
16:25she wanted to go back home.
16:29Ultimately, we learned that the woman that he was with
16:31was the same woman that had been in the woods with him
16:34in Sumter County, Florida.
16:35And so she was not our unidentified victim
16:40from the homicide.
16:43Mr. Antis was not a suspect anymore.
16:46But we still have to get this victim identified
16:50and find a suspect to solve this case.
16:58We're still waiting for the facial reconstruction.
17:02And so we were doing everything we could
17:04to move the investigation forward.
17:08We put out bolos to be on the lookout for,
17:11and we put out information and details to many agencies,
17:15especially in Florida,
17:16like how our unidentified victim
17:18was killed near a truck stop area.
17:21One of the theories was
17:22there might have been a truck driver involved
17:24just because of where their body was located.
17:27And so every minute it ticks by,
17:30that you're not solving the case,
17:32and your victim's still a Jane Doe.
17:34The murderer could be 2,000 miles away.
17:38I got a phone call from a North Florida
17:41law enforcement agency.
17:42They had a murder investigation.
17:44A female left on the side of the road.
17:47A semi-truck driver was the suspect in the case.
17:49My victim was killed near a truck stop area,
17:52an area frequented by truckers.
17:54So the question was,
17:56is this person my killer?
18:02A female left on the side of the road.
18:11A man who was killed by a truck driver.
18:14We believed that the person suspected
18:16for the murder of our unidentified victim
18:20was a truck driver,
18:21because my victim was killed near a truck stop.
18:28I got a phone call from a North Florida law enforcement agency.
18:31They had a murder that they believed that a semi-truck driver was involved.
18:42I immediately drove to North Florida, met with the investigators, and worked with them
18:49over the next 24 hours or so, hoping that maybe this was going to be a lead in my case.
18:58We staked out a couple places waiting for the truck driver, the person suspected, who might
19:04be involved in this murder investigation, to return so the other agency in North Florida
19:10could serve their search warrant on them.
19:14Finally, we found what we were looking for, a semi-truck driver.
19:19I was present when that agency conducted a search warrant.
19:25Unfortunately, there was absolutely no ties through cell phone records or anything found
19:30inside that vehicle back to my homicide.
19:34Ultimately, that truck driver was not our murderer.
19:39It was deflating, because we had to go back to square one, back to the drawing board.
19:53The last time Jane Weaver had been seen was on March 1st, 2013, when she had driven from
20:00Florida to Kentucky to stay with her high school friend, Ralph Penrod.
20:08Jane Weaver's friends were especially concerned because on April 4th, all communication from her had stopped.
20:15There was no trace of her, no word from her.
20:20Jane Weaver Myself and my friends spent countless hours on the phone, checking hospitals, looking for any car accidents that
20:27might have happened between Kentucky and Florida.
20:29We tried to contact anybody in Kentucky that knew where Jane might have been.
20:34There was no leaf left unturned.
20:44It's weird to think that someone that you were so close with at one point in your life, that they're
20:53just missing.
20:55It felt unreal.
21:05Jane Weaver We tried to contact the police and let them know that we needed Jane entered as a missing
21:10person, and they wouldn't take us seriously, because we were in Florida.
21:17I think that they thought that she was just an adult, and she could do whatever she wanted to do.
21:24Jane Weaver Weaver A few months went by, we kept in contact with Greensburg police in Kentucky, and eventually we
21:32got them to enter Jane as a missing person.
21:44June the 10th, I was assigned Jane's missing persons case.
21:49So we wanted to run Jane through a national database to see if there have been reports that could help
21:55us locate this missing woman.
22:01My initial thoughts was that Jane and her friend Ralph had maybe had a falling out or something, and that
22:08she had just went somewhere else.
22:11Jane Weaver Investigators learned that Jane had moved in with Ralph in March, possibly searching for a romantic relationship with
22:19him.
22:21So we wanted to look at the house and see if there's any evidence that anything had happened there.
22:26The house was vacant because Ralph had left Greene County and moved to Florida.
22:34There wasn't any evidence that any foul play had happened, so my belief at that time was that she had
22:40left Greensburg, Kentucky.
22:49Looking for a missing person, you want to talk to their friends or family, who they live with.
22:53We were able to find Ralph and Florida, and talked with him on the phone.
22:59Were you living in Greensburg at the time?
23:01Yes.
23:02And when did Jane come up to Kentucky?
23:05I would say about five days before my life.
23:08On the conversation with Ralph, he stated that he went to Vanceburg for his mother's funeral, which is up next
23:14to Ohio.
23:15And when he came back, Jane was gone, that Jane had left.
23:18I think I was up there for about 10 days.
23:20And I told Jane, he stayed here in the house, you know.
23:24And when I came back home, it was no Jane.
23:27So you got home about the end of March, and she was gone?
23:32Yes.
23:33Has Jane tried to contact you any since March?
23:37No, I moved down for May, and I got a new phone.
23:41All right, and I'll be looking into all that.
23:43If I have any more questions, I'll just give you a call.
23:48We knew that his mother had died, so that didn't really raise suspicions.
23:53But in missing persons, I don't necessarily have suspects, but we continued to search for Jane.
24:09Talking with her friends, we learned that Jane calls on a weekly basis.
24:15So I found out that her phone number came back to Metro PCS.
24:22We contacted them.
24:24We couldn't get a search warrant for her phone information because there wasn't any evidence that any foul play had
24:30happened to Jane.
24:31It's not illegal for a person not to call their friends.
24:35We learned that the phone was shut off on May the 5th, a month after her last text messages.
24:43That is concerning, but not completely alarming, because maybe Jane didn't pay the bill and then just got a different
24:51phone.
24:53We learned that she was receiving a Social Security pension from her late husband,
24:58and we tried to determine where Jane's Social Security benefits were going.
25:02I thought that if she'd went somewhere else, she would have a forwarding address.
25:09She did not, so I did find that concerning.
25:13One of Jane's friends had told us about Jane opening a bank account.
25:17I was able to go to the bank and give them a description of Jane, and the tellers were able
25:22to remember and say,
25:23yes, that woman was in here, and we haven't seen her since then.
25:29Of course, they couldn't give me her banking information without a warrant.
25:33So we were not able to use that information that could help us locate her or find her.
25:41We've been trying to locate this missing woman for months.
25:45During the summer, there wasn't a whole lot of information that we were getting,
25:50but I tried to do the job that I would want somebody to do for my family.
25:53I never stopped looking for Jane.
26:05At this point in our homicide investigation, we have a dead body in Wildwood, Florida.
26:10We have indicators that some violence has taken place, but we didn't know who the victim was yet.
26:16At that point in the homicide investigation, we knew we had a white female, 50 to 70 years of age,
26:22and any hot leads that we had, those had been exhausted.
26:28The big break in the case came when we got the final rendition from Dr. Kimberly.
26:35Dr. Kimberly does facial reconstructions.
26:39She was able to utilize their tools to create 3D composites.
26:45Based on the skull, her rendering was spot on.
26:50We now have a picture of who our victim is.
26:56Financial records can absolutely give you a blueprint for motive.
27:01Jane was an easy target.
27:03He had to figure out a way to take her money
27:06to get rid of Jane.
27:25Somebody's loved one died alone in the woods.
27:32But now that we had a great composite that was part of investigative work,
27:37we decided to go on a press junket where we talked about our victim, what we knew,
27:42and see if we can generate some leads.
27:47So, of course, all the leads are coming in.
27:51Unfortunately, as you deal with this, for months, the leads didn't turn out to be anything.
27:59Finally, after six months, we received a call.
28:07In November of 2013, I was at work, and I had some downtime,
28:12and I pulled up the Doe Network,
28:15which is a website where I can find unidentified people.
28:21I was scrolling through unidentified people in Kentucky and Florida.
28:27I clicked on one of the numbers, and I opened it up, and...
28:32it was gut-wrenching.
28:37I knew as soon as I saw that picture that that was Jane.
28:44It was one of the saddest moments of my life.
28:47I didn't want to believe what I saw.
28:52I went and called Sumter County,
28:54and I told them that person was not unidentified.
28:59She had a name, and her name was Martha Jane Weber.
29:06Oh.
29:17I talked to Jamie Gonzalez.
29:19She'd sent me a picture.
29:22It was like I was looking at a mirror image
29:26of the composite that Dr. Kimberly had done.
29:32Her hair was up, and you could see on her shoulder
29:35the Jane tattoo plain as day.
29:37There is 100% no doubt that was my victim.
29:46There are two investigations going on.
29:48We have a homicide.
29:49We didn't know who the person was.
29:51Greensburg is investigating a missing persons report
29:53who they do know is missing.
29:56It wasn't until we were able to get her identified,
29:59call up there, and the two investigations are forced together.
30:02I mean, that was huge.
30:05The true investigation to who did it
30:08starts when you know who the victim is.
30:12Once we talked to Detective Norris
30:15and the positive identification was made
30:17and Jane has been found,
30:19the missing persons case is closed.
30:22But the homicide investigation in Florida
30:25has been ramped up.
30:29Detective Norris was able to procure search warrants
30:33to access phone records,
30:35Social Security monies, bank records.
30:44When we received the financial records,
30:47what we found was that Jane was collecting pensions
30:50and she was living day-to-day
30:51just like every other regular American.
30:54And she had this source of income
30:56that was sustaining her.
30:59The pension fund check that Jane got from her late husband
31:02was actually a federal pension.
31:05There had been multiple transactions
31:07where the funds had been diverted
31:09from one account to another to another.
31:14After Jane's death,
31:16her pension check was going in a bank account
31:19of Ralph Penrod
31:21for months.
31:27I basically told Detective Norris
31:30that after the death of her husband, Butch,
31:36Jane moved to Greensburg, Kentucky
31:38with Ralph Penrod.
31:44While she was in Greensburg
31:46with this relationship,
31:48I believe Ralph was using that relationship
31:51in order to get her to give him the finances.
31:55And that's what she did
31:57in moving all these finances over to him.
32:00And then suddenly,
32:01she was gone.
32:05At that time,
32:06obviously, Ralph Harrell Penrod
32:08is suspect number one.
32:28In November 2013,
32:30Kentucky State Police identified
32:32the missing woman, Jane Weber,
32:34as the murder victim in Florida.
32:39As detectives dig deeper
32:41into Jane's financial records,
32:43police realized that Ralph Penrod
32:46took advantage of Jane
32:47for her pension checks.
32:49He's not just a friend.
32:51He's the prime suspect.
32:56The finances were crucially important
32:59because by investigating
33:00those financial records,
33:01we were able to get the audio
33:02from the conversations,
33:04from the banking institutions,
33:05which led us to believe
33:07what their relationship was.
33:11The day that Jane arrived
33:13in Kentucky,
33:15she transferred her pension check,
33:19direct deposit,
33:20from her bank account
33:22to Ralph's account
33:24in Greensburg, Kentucky.
33:28You could actually hear
33:29Ralph in the background
33:31helping her
33:32with the account number.
33:36I moved.
33:37I don't live in Port Charlotte,
33:38no one.
33:39And I got a new bank
33:40to direct deposit pass.
33:42What is the name of the bank
33:43that we're switching to?
33:44What's the name of the bank?
33:46Hold on a minute.
33:46He's going to give them a call.
33:48Community Trust Bank.
33:50Everything's been taken care
33:51of going forward.
33:52All right.
33:53Thank you very much.
33:54Now, congrats.
33:55However, there was
33:56another recording.
33:58And she talks about
33:59how her roommate,
34:02Ralph Penrod,
34:03is taking her money.
34:07How may I help you?
34:08Yeah, this is more than whatever.
34:10I just found out
34:11my friend is using me,
34:13so I want to change it back
34:14to the Port Bank.
34:16A short time later,
34:18there's a third recording.
34:20Jane calls the pension
34:24and asks them
34:25to change the direct deposit
34:27back to Ralph Harold Penrod's account.
34:31Yeah, I wanted my main payment
34:32to go in this account.
34:35Do you want to do
34:35insurance bank?
34:36Yes.
34:37It's my voice
34:39in the account.
34:40Financial records
34:41can absolutely give you
34:42a blueprint for motive.
34:44Why did this person
34:45kill this person?
34:48But it doesn't mean
34:50we were able to
34:51solve the crime
34:52or how to Jane Weaver
34:54end up in
34:55wildwood Florida
34:56buried in the woods.
35:03I was able to obtain
35:04Jane's phone records
35:05and I also
35:07got phone records
35:08for Ralph Harold Penrod.
35:10Jane and Ralph's phone
35:12had traveled
35:13from Kentucky
35:14to Florida.
35:17In April 2013,
35:18both phones were pinging
35:20on the same cell phone tower
35:22at State Road 44
35:23and I-75
35:24for a considerable amount
35:25of time.
35:26the same location
35:28where the body was found
35:31and then
35:32Jane's phone went off
35:34and Ralph's phone
35:35traveled to Ralph's house
35:36into Varys, Florida.
35:42Looking at the phone records,
35:44knowing that Jane's phone
35:45went off,
35:47there was no doubt
35:49in my mind
35:50that Jane had been murdered
35:52at that moment in time.
35:57At this point,
35:58I applied for an arrest warrant
35:59charging Ralph
36:00with murder.
36:03Of course,
36:04Ralph didn't know that.
36:08I talked to Ralph
36:09and asked him
36:10if he would agree
36:11to an interview with me
36:12and he said,
36:13absolutely.
36:16When you're interviewing people,
36:17you hope that you're
36:19going to lock them
36:19into a story of lies
36:21or a house of cards
36:22that you could crumble
36:24down the road.
36:25You know,
36:26the Kentucky State Police,
36:26I guess they've been looking
36:27into Jane being missing now
36:29for months and months
36:30and months.
36:30They've talked to you
36:31on the phone.
36:31Yeah,
36:32I was talking to some
36:33police man.
36:34I don't...
36:35Sitting in that interview room,
36:37I think that Ralph thought
36:38he was smarter than us.
36:39He had been in contact
36:40with Trooper Dinkin.
36:41I think he felt
36:42he had gotten away with it.
36:44I mean,
36:44I think he felt emboldened.
36:45You said you never
36:46gave me any money, right?
36:47You guys didn't share money?
36:49No.
36:51How'd she get money?
36:52Do you know?
36:54Yeah,
36:54some I don't know.
36:56Okay.
36:57Of course,
36:59I knew
37:01that Ralph was still
37:02receiving her pension fund check.
37:06How did Jane's check
37:07ended up getting
37:08into your bank account?
37:19He didn't really
37:20have an answer for that.
37:21That's what makes it
37:22really curious.
37:23That's what makes it
37:23really strange.
37:24Her check ends up
37:26in her check
37:26that she gets monthly
37:27ends up in your bank account
37:28and you're the sole
37:29account holder on it, Ralph.
37:31I got a headache.
37:33You got a headache?
37:34We're asking you
37:35how her check
37:38gets the body
37:38holder in her account
37:40at Community Trust Bank.
37:43she asked me to
37:44and she took
37:46she owed me
37:49$29,000.
37:50I gave her $29,000.
37:52Jane,
37:52what would you
37:53$29,000 do?
37:54I told Ralph
37:55that that whole thing
37:56didn't make any sense
37:57and that where did he
37:58get the cash from
37:59to give Jane
38:00$29,000 in cash.
38:03No,
38:04I went to a home.
38:05I mean,
38:05damn,
38:06I've been up here
38:07long enough.
38:08My back hurt
38:09I told you.
38:11What I knew then
38:12was Ralph's freedom
38:13was about to come
38:14to an end.
38:15There,
38:16you want to stand up
38:16for me?
38:18You going to turn around
38:19and put your hands
38:19behind your back?
38:20Do you have a warrant
38:21in your arrest
38:21for murder?
38:22Murder?
38:23For murder.
38:23For the murder
38:24of Jane Weaver.
38:27What you got there?
38:30I never been charged
38:31with murder
38:32before.
38:33He did.
38:50In November of 2013,
38:51we were able
38:52to bring murder charges
38:53against Ralph Penrod
38:55for the murder
38:55of Jane Weaver.
39:05After he had left
39:06Greensboro, Kentucky,
39:08we believe Ralph
39:08drove Jane back
39:09to Florida.
39:11And when he pulled
39:12off the interstate
39:13behind the truck stop,
39:16Ralph Penrod
39:17lured her
39:18to a location
39:19that was far enough
39:20back.
39:28And then Jane
39:30was shot three times.
39:34Was brutally murdered
39:36and buried in the woods.
39:39Ralph got his money,
39:41left her there,
39:42and just continued
39:44living his life.
39:52When you get
39:53to the trial,
39:54the biggest challenge
39:54that the prosecution
39:55had to face
39:55is we didn't have
39:57any physical evidence.
40:00And also,
40:00you're talking
40:01about multiple jurisdictions
40:03and bringing them
40:04all together
40:04and making sure
40:05that the information
40:05got across to the jury.
40:07The prosecution
40:08believed Ralph
40:10was a manipulator.
40:12Jane was a vulnerable
40:13person,
40:14an easy target
40:16to take advantage of.
40:18He fostered
40:19that relationship
40:20in order to ultimately
40:22take her money,
40:23sign over all her accounts.
40:25And when he got
40:26to a point
40:27where he thought
40:28his footing
40:28was where it needed
40:29to be,
40:31he had to figure out
40:33a way to get rid of Jane.
40:36There was no DNA evidence.
40:38There wasn't a smoking gun.
40:39I didn't even have the gun.
40:42And I had a lot
40:43of circumstantial evidence.
40:46Ralph Penrod
40:47had suddenly acquired
40:49additional monies
40:50that were certainly
40:51upping his status.
40:54We had evidence
40:56that Jane was moving
40:57all these finances
40:58over from her pension fund
41:00to him.
41:01Both their phones
41:02were still together
41:03when they got to the location
41:04in the center of Wildwood.
41:06And then Jane's phone
41:07went off.
41:10There would be no reason
41:12for them to pull
41:12into those woods
41:13other than to murder Jane.
41:22Ralph's defense attorney
41:23did a good job
41:24in defending him.
41:27But they didn't have
41:28anything significant
41:29evidentiary-wise.
41:35The jury found
41:37Ralph Harold Penrod
41:38guilty of secondary murder
41:40in the death
41:41of Jane Weaver.
41:45Getting justice
41:45for the family
41:46and Jane Weaver
41:47is a great relief.
41:48I mean,
41:48it was an absolute relief.
41:54It breaks my heart
41:56knowing that
41:57Jane trusted
41:58this man.
42:01she didn't see
42:02the bad
42:02in anybody.
42:05She loved people
42:06so much
42:06and she would do
42:06anything to help
42:07anybody.
42:12I feel her
42:13in my heart.
42:17It's the only place
42:18that she'll
42:20still feel alive
42:21is through the memories
42:22I have
42:23of her.
42:25and those memories
42:27will be
42:28with me forever.
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