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00:15I'm working a missing person case and you said you had some information I've never dealt with
00:24anything like this ever in my life she said I am not a good person Katie it was just a
00:34matter of time
00:35before someone really got hurt she said I'm never going to go to jail I'll kill myself before I go
00:51to jail I'm sure that she was coming for me next
01:07in 2016 I was living in Florida my daughter and I were living together near the beach
01:16I was enjoying my job hanging out with some friends occasionally spending a lot of time
01:22with family life was good I was happy actually being single
01:30not really dating maybe meeting a few people from time to time
01:36one day I was on Facebook and I was in a few groups singles groups and I came across a
01:48lady by the name
01:49of Joyce she had a nice smile and I liked her picture suddenly I got a private message and it
01:59happened to be Joyce we exchanged phone numbers and we started talking on the phone for a while
02:07we kind of bonded over the similarities in our professions I was a home health care aide at the
02:14time and I found out she was a registered nurse we talked and we just really enjoyed each other's
02:24conversations and we decided after about a month that we would really like to meet each other in person
02:31Joyce was living in the Atlanta area at the time she said hey why don't you come on up to
02:38Atlanta I'll show
02:39you around I was a little bit nervous but also excited that first weekend that Joyce and I spent together
02:50we
02:50were staying at the Omni Hotel in downtown Atlanta and just learned a lot more about each other she had
02:59told me
03:00that she was legally married however things were rocky and complicated and she and her wife were separated
03:09Joyce painted this beautiful picture for me she was very attractive she dressed very nicely and when we would go
03:18out for dinner
03:20she would pull out stacks of cash out of her pocket tell me I could have whatever I wanted to
03:27eat or drink
03:29Joyce also had told me that she owned a hydroclonic clinic that brought in quite a bit of money
03:37so that was pretty impressive to me she seemed to be very caring and very generous
03:45and she had everything that I was hoping for when it was time for me to go back home we
03:52didn't really
03:53want to part ways we really wanted to continue to spend more time together
04:00after I was dating Joyce for about two months she drove down to Florida to my home to visit me
04:09and we began talking about X's as you do sometimes in relationships and Joyce proceeded to tell me that a
04:20previous girlfriend had gone missing she wasn't sure what happened to her she had begun to cry and she cried
04:31for
04:31just a minute and then she seemed to get happy again and didn't talk about it anymore that day I
04:39didn't really
04:39think much about it but once Joyce went home I thought it seemed a little strange
04:55a couple of months later I went to visit her in Conyers Georgia which is where Joyce was living
05:04she insisted that I stay in a hotel because she had some family staying in her home
05:09and I was okay with it I was just happy to see her again
05:16during that visit Joyce seemed a little more subdued
05:20so I asked her if she was okay and she said she just had a lot weighing on her mind
05:26she couldn't stop thinking about the girlfriend before her wife that had gone missing
05:32I was thinking well maybe this just happened recently she said well she went missing in 2011
05:38that had been five years she said that the police detectives were contacting her
05:48and that they thought that maybe she had some information as to what happened
05:53I asked her if she knew what happened and she was very adamant that she just disappeared and
06:01never heard from her again
06:05by this time Joyce and I had been dating for about six months and she had brought up this missing
06:12girlfriend
06:12about four times the more I listened I finally learned that missing ex-girlfriend's name
06:21was Shondell
06:25when I returned home I thought I'm gonna find out what's going on
06:29it just kind of seemed not normal in my eyes
06:33new at 11 a family is desperate for answers after a Lithonia woman disappeared with no explanation
06:38nearly five months ago I had seen several news stories that were posted online about the missing case
06:45we believe in that you know somebody knew something and wanted this lady missing
06:52but the one that really affected me the most was the one where they interviewed Shondell's mother
06:59this is how Badicia McLeod tells me she spends some days looking out the window hoping for a sign of
07:11her daughter
07:1135 year old Shondell McLeod
07:14no sign no call no choice
07:18me being a mother myself I could never imagine if my daughter was missing and there were no answers
07:26she would never walk away from her family
07:40when the Shondell McLeod case came to me in 2011 I had been with special victims in domestic violence
07:47unit of the Cab County Police Department for roughly 11 years well after receiving the case I went to see
07:54the victim's mother she said the last time she spoke to her daughter was the day before she went missing
08:02there was a tight-knit family the day doesn't go by that she don't speak to her daughter
08:08I knew that this wasn't just an average missing person case this wasn't a case that somebody actually got
08:15up and needed a break from their family and walked away it this was something more serious than that
08:23on the day Shondell went missing Sunday September the 25th of 2011 she was supposed to report to work
08:34at a nursing home facility where she was a cook it was her responsibility to open the kitchen
08:44she never made it to work that morning when Shondell's co-worker arrived a few hours later
08:54she found the back door slightly ajar and all the lights in the kitchen were off
09:02she was very scared at that point and went to the management to report that Shondell hadn't made it to
09:07work and the back door was open
09:11Shondell is not someone who misses work she was a very dedicated and devoted employee and when they
09:18weren't able to get her on the phone they were very concerned later that evening Shondell didn't show
09:27up to a family dinner at her mother's house so Shondell's mother contacted the police
09:37when detectives started working the case they immediately tried to determine if there was any
09:44activity that would indicate that Shondell was still alive and maybe had gone off on her own
09:49they looked at Shondell's bank account her credit cards her telephone records nothing was found
09:58I learned while speaking to Ms. McLeod that her daughter was involved with Joyce Pelzer
10:06after I learned more about Shondell I had googled Joyce's name
10:16a news story popped up that immediately listed her as a person of interest
10:23I was taken aback I wasn't quite sure what it was that I was dealing with should I cut off
10:32contact
10:33is she a terrible person but maybe what I'm reading isn't true and at this point I had fallen in
10:45love
10:45with her and wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt Joyce told me that Shondell was the type
10:55of
10:55person that wanted a lot of nice things and so she and Shondell bought a house together Joyce told me
11:04that Shondell had good credit but that Joyce had all the money and so they decided that Shondell would get
11:12the loan in her name but Joyce would pay for everything according to Joyce she put all the
11:19money down on the house she paid to have the house remodeled new floors new lighting fixtures new kitchen
11:30things seemed to be going well but a short time later Shondell just did not want to be with Joyce
11:38anymore Shondell wanted Joyce to leave
11:44Joyce was furious that Shondell broke up with her that she had kicked her out of the home
11:53in July just mere months before Shondell went missing Joyce was talking to some of their mutual
12:00friends and seemed obsessed like she couldn't leave it alone she pleaded with their mutual friends to get
12:07Shondell to talk to her and made Shondell feel very uncomfortable Joyce's behavior became really
12:16concerning to the point where Shondell got a gun she was telling people that if anything happened to
12:25her that it was Joyce Shondell reported to the police that Joyce had broken into the home that they used
12:32to
12:32live in together and threatened to kill her Shondell had to get a temporary protective order blocking Joyce
12:41Peltzer from having any contact with Shondell from what Joyce told me when Shondell was at work one day
12:50Joyce decided to go and take everything out of the house and just clean her out she had taken
13:02everything down to the light fixtures the light plate covers she took Shondell's beloved cookbook
13:11collection and threw it in the trash this was someone doing anything they could to cause pain
13:28after talking to Shondell's mother it was plain to me that this was a violent relationship so I reached
13:36out to Miss Pelzer I explained to her that I need to speak to her it's about Shondell missing she
13:43said she
13:44hadn't seen Shondell since they broke up and she said she had moved out of the home that her and
13:51Shondell
13:52shared and had moved in with Miss Rosalind Lewis Rosalind Lewis was a relationship that Joyce had during the
14:02course of Shondell and Joyce's relationship but Joyce is sleeping with both of them Shondell's mother was
14:10telling me this Shondell knew that Joyce was out there doing something and and she just wanted out of the
14:17relationship after speaking to Miss Pelzer on the phone her and Rosalind Lewis came into my office
14:30I interviewed Joyce first how do you know Miss McCloud we dated for about five and a half six
14:38years when was the last time you seen her about a couple of weeks ago she had called me because
14:45she
14:45she wanted some stuff that I have in the storage
14:49How was the conversation? It was fine we hugged, chatted a little while she'd been with the dogs
14:54that was that. What broke her up? Uh she just said it wasn't working anymore and she wanted something
15:02different I wanted something different. I didn't really see a caring person that was in a relationship with
15:12somebody for that length of time and when I told them that they was missing it was just like it
15:17didn't
15:18faze her. She said well she's not missing. She told me she was going back to her country she was
15:25tired of
15:25her family and after interviewing the family I kind of figured that wasn't true. I explained to her that I
15:33need to
15:33know the timeline of everything that happened when Miss McCloud went missing September 25th 2011.
15:42Okay let's go with uh the 25th that's gonna be Sunday. What was this going on?
15:47It broke about like about 10 something. What'd you do after that?
15:51Watch TV. Did you go out anytime?
15:55Nope. After getting her side of the story I spoke to Miss Lewis. Roz said they was together all day.
16:05They didn't leave the house. During this investigation we got a search warrant on his
16:12Pelzel's cell phone. We can't say for sure where Joyce was when Shondell went missing but what we can
16:20say from her telephone records is that she was out of her home network and that is in direct
16:26contradiction to what Joyce and Rosalind told the police. So I locked her off a false statement.
16:35At this point Joyce was my main person of interest. During this time I was monitoring her jail calls
16:43to see if I can just pick up anything on this case. My thing was eventually she's going to talk
16:50out. But the lady was good. She said nothing. So I had to let Miss Pelzel out of the jail.
16:59Joyce told me that the police asked to see her computer but they found nothing and she kind of
17:07laughed and said of course they didn't because I have nothing to do with this. All of the evidence that
17:14we
17:15gathered points right back to Joyce. But nobody's telling us how this lady went missing or where she's at.
17:26I worked this case strong for over a year but I wasn't getting enough leads on it.
17:35It's always challenging when you sort of feel in your gut that something has happened but you can't
17:42prove it. There wasn't a physical struggle at her house. There wasn't a murder weapon.
17:50There wasn't any evidence anywhere else that anything had happened to Shondell.
17:56I stayed in contact with Shondell's mother. I just wanted to bring some kind of closure to this family.
18:12The more times that Joyce and I got together, the more I thought about Shondell going missing.
18:20I had never known anybody that had been involved in a situation like this.
18:25But the more that she talked about Shondell, she seemed to become more agitated, more defensive.
18:33And a couple of times when I decided to ask Joyce for a little bit more information,
18:41she would reply by saying, what are you, the cops?
18:45I just kind of let it go. I didn't want to cause any problems.
18:52We still had a good time. She was very loving as long as I went along with whatever it was
19:00that she
19:00wanted to do. The next time that I went to visit her, I was sitting at her dining room table
19:11with her
19:12and a couple of family members. She and one of the family members got into a heated discussion and
19:20the family member stood up and looked at me to let me know that Joyce is a fraud and a
19:29phony and she uses
19:30people and told me that I needed to be careful because Joyce was still involved with her wife, Rosalyn.
19:42Joyce had brought up Ros to me on several occasions, but she had said that she was separated.
19:53When I asked her about the relationship, she said, think whatever you want, Katie.
20:00I kind of got my answer without really getting an answer. I then began to wonder, what else is there?
20:10What else could she possibly lie about?
20:16My first impression of Joyce was I didn't like her.
20:22Rosalyn used to always tell me, Erica, you know, give her a try. She's really nice.
20:27I really like her. She's funny. And I was like, you're being gullible and you can't see it.
20:34I don't know what's wrong with this woman, but she's not everything.
20:39Rosalyn to me is the big sister, the friend, the confidant. She was everything to me.
20:48We have a huge family and everyone cared for Joyce and they welcomed her in.
20:54So she was a part of our family. They were together for a very long time before they got married.
21:03Rosalyn didn't share a lot with me when it came to her relationship with Joyce once they were married.
21:10But I always told my sister, keep your head on a swivel.
21:14And if anything go down, even though I'm the little sister, I'm still your sister, you know?
21:21So then she started telling me that Joyce was cheating.
21:25And that's when I was like, whoa.
21:28Joyce was lying about where she was going, who she was going out with.
21:32Lies upon lies upon lies.
21:35Ros was, she was hurt. My sister went back, as Joyce said, it will never happen again, you know?
21:42She was very manipulative and just lied about everything.
21:52After about a year of Joyce and I seeing each other, Joyce seemed to want to be in control of
22:00everything that we were doing, where we would go to eat. If I was going to travel to Georgia to
22:08see her,
22:08or if she was going to come and travel to see me.
22:12We would still do things together, but Joyce's demeanor seemed to be increasingly aggressive as time went on.
22:22One day, I was visiting her in Conyers at her home, and she decided to take a shower.
22:33She got into the shower, and I let her know that I was going to go to the store, and
22:40that I would be right back.
22:43As I walked through the house,
22:48Joyce came flying out of the shower, grabbed me around my neck, and told me that I was not going
22:55anywhere.
22:58She then moved a little closer to the kitchen counter and picked up a knife and held that against my
23:06neck.
23:09Inside, I was afraid, but I never let her know that I was afraid. I just remained calm.
23:17She said, you're not going to leave me. You don't leave until I tell you you can leave.
23:26And she kept squeezing my neck tighter and tighter.
23:30And I said, can you just let me go, and we can go to the store.
23:38And she finally let me go. She put the knife down on the counter.
23:42And then she turned around and gave me a hug and started to laugh. And she said, you know I
23:47love you.
23:49You know I wouldn't do anything to you. And she just proceeded about her day and acted as though none
23:58of that even ever happened.
24:02It was as if I was looking at somebody that I had never seen before.
24:08From that point on, I never showed Joyce any rejection for fear of something happening to me.
24:18One night, Joyce looked at me, kind of worried.
24:25She said, Katie, I want to tell you something.
24:31I killed Shondell.
24:40Then she proceeded to tell me what had actually happened.
24:47Shondell had gone to work early in the morning, and it was still dark.
24:54Joyce had hired a hitman to take Shondell and hold her hostage for a couple of days.
25:05They rented some heavy equipment to dig a very large hole somewhere out in the North Georgia woods where nobody
25:14would ever go.
25:17And then they took her to the edge of this very large hole, and they tasered her, which caused her
25:27to fall down into this hole.
25:32And they covered up the hole with dirt and left her there.
25:43After she shared this very devastating news with me, she dried her eyes and just got right back to being
25:52happy again.
25:54And I knew this girl was crazy.
26:00I didn't think about calling the police.
26:03I was completely overwhelmed, and at that point, I was pretty frightened.
26:11I wasn't sure what she was capable of next.
26:15I decided that I should probably distance myself from Joyce and cut off ties as quickly and as smoothly as
26:25I could.
26:28One day, I was out with some friends near my home in Florida, and I got a phone call from
26:36my mother that there was a detective trying to get in touch with me.
26:41And she gave me the phone number of a detective guest.
26:46Even though the case went cold, detective guest never gave up on it.
26:51He researched and tracked Joyce's life, who she was seeing, where she was living, and he kept tabs on her.
26:59This is a case I've been pushing for like seven, eight years.
27:03Finally, I discovered that Joyce had been in a relationship with Katie Long.
27:09I wanted to see if Joyce actually just said anything to Katie about her past.
27:17Detective Guest let me know that he was investigating a missing persons case.
27:23He wanted to know if I knew anything about Shondell going missing.
27:30And I said yes.
27:32So, I met with Detective Guest in August of 2018.
27:39Tell me exactly what was told to you by Miss Joyce Pelzer.
27:46Yes.
27:46What did she say?
27:49She said, I knocked off my ex-girlfriend, Shondell.
27:56And I said, knocked her off, meaning.
27:59And she said, Katie, I killed my ex-girlfriend.
28:05Did that scare you?
28:07Yes, very much so.
28:09I've never dealt with anything like this ever in my life.
28:13She had me fooled in the beginning.
28:16But you think she committed this murder?
28:18I very much believe that she had to do with the murder of this girl.
28:26She said, Katie, I'm never going to go to jail.
28:29I'll kill myself before I go to jail.
28:33What Miss Long gave us was a new beginning.
28:37I believe Katie Long did not reach out to the police because she was scared of Miss Pelzer.
28:43I told her to be careful.
28:45You didn't leave Joyce Pelzer.
28:48Joyce did not like rejection.
28:51And what would happen if you left Joyce Pelzer?
28:55What happened to Shondell McCloud?
29:00After my interview with Detective Guest, he asked me to keep in touch with Joyce as much as I could,
29:08as long as I was comfortable and felt safe to do so.
29:13I had built a rapport with her where she did trust me and felt comfortable to share information with me.
29:21I wanted Katie to record her conversation with Miss Pelzer, and she agreed to it.
29:29I was actually happy to do so because any little bit of information might help to either solve
29:39a situation or prevent something further from happening.
29:47Joyce called me one late afternoon and let me know that she was going to take a little road trip
29:54to New Orleans.
29:57She said, there's just something I have to take care of and it's going to be taken care of.
30:04I knew that Joyce was referring to her estranged wife, Rosalyn, because she had told me that she had relocated
30:12to New Orleans.
30:14Ros had come to New Orleans to take care of my dad.
30:18At that time, her and Joyce were already separated. She had told her that she wanted a divorce.
30:25In Rosalyn's and Joyce's marriage and financial situation, Rosalyn did hold down the fort.
30:33Joyce was lying about her jobs, lying about going to work, not paying some of the bills.
30:40So Rosalyn, she cut all the lights off. She didn't stop paying utilities.
30:45Rosalyn took her name off the lease.
30:48Joyce was calling billions and billions of times, telling her to come home.
30:55She missed her wife. She's sorry. But Rosalyn, she was fed up and she was done.
31:02Up until that point, Ros had never mentioned that Joyce could be dangerous.
31:12On that phone call, Joyce started to tell me about a little .25 handgun that she had purchased from a
31:21guy off the streets in Atlanta.
31:25So I went and grabbed my old cell phone.
31:30I put the phone call on speaker and recorded with my other phone.
31:37She seemed to be on a mission.
31:42You want to put a bullet in her head?
31:45Yeah.
31:46Uh-huh.
31:49Houston, if you killed her, you wish you could go underground?
31:54Yeah.
31:55Underground.
31:58I mean, you lay low.
32:00Yeah.
32:02For the rest of your life.
32:08In the tape, Joyce is telling Katie she's going to lure Rosalyn back to Georgia, get a hotel room,
32:15and when she pulls up, get in the car with her and just shoot her.
32:19She also says, I wanted to call Detective Guest and tell him that Roz killed Shandell.
32:27So Joyce was going to set up Roz to take the fall for Shandell McCloud's murder.
32:33When I was recording the phone call, I was becoming increasingly nervous about something happening to Roz.
32:43I knew that she was serious.
32:47After I spoke with Joyce on the phone, I thought that Roz should know what Joyce's plans were.
32:54So I contacted her through Facebook.
32:58Being the other woman, I was thinking maybe she would be angry with me.
33:05But she, in fact, was very willing to talk to me.
33:09I told her that I thought that Joyce was after her.
33:13I said, she's on her way there and she's looking for you.
33:18Roz was very adamant about going to the police station immediately.
33:33My wife is here in town.
33:37She threatened me a few weeks back.
33:41Her, well, I guess now it's her ex-girlfriend because the woman, don't mess with her anymore,
33:46called me and said that Joyce is in town and she says that she's on the field.
33:56And when I pulled in my parents' driveway, as I was back up into the driveway,
34:01I saw her sell her car and come that way.
34:03She had her head turned, but I know what she looks like.
34:07We had been together for 14 years, so I definitely know what she looks like.
34:11I don't think that she would call the police once a fucking time ago.
34:17The night that Joyce drove down to New Orleans,
34:21Joyce thought that only Roz was at home with my dad.
34:24But once she got there, I had cousins that was also there.
34:28And I think that's what spooked her and scared her away.
34:34Y'all need to find out where she is, because I don't know what her plans are,
34:37because she threatened to kill me.
34:53I don't know what her plans have come through this.
34:58I've been good to this woman.
35:01And for her to try to kill me now.
35:04Kill me, come here.
35:07I'm not understanding.
35:12It is frightening to know that someone who my sister brought into our life
35:16could potentially want to harm her.
35:20At that point for me, that's when it got real.
35:23I didn't know the extent of how crazy Joyce was.
35:32Katie called Roslyn and told her that she probably need to call a detective guest.
35:38At this point, Roz is afraid for her life.
35:42I drove all night getting to New Orleans.
35:45When I got to town, I went to Roz's house.
35:49I said, well, why?
35:50Why does she want to kill you?
35:51I said, what do you think?
35:53Why does she want to kill you?
35:55Roz was so fearful of Joyce, she told me nothing.
35:59She told me nothing about Shondell McCloud's case,
36:04Joyce's involvement in that.
36:05She said nothing.
36:08I told Roz she needed to be careful.
36:12Well, she's going to be coming after you next.
36:15Roz wanted a divorce from Joyce.
36:18She said, I'm never going back.
36:20She's lied to me too many times.
36:22She won't stop cheating.
36:23She's crazy.
36:26But Joyce was not willing to sign those papers.
36:29Her whole thing was, Roz and I'm going to do better.
36:32I will be a better wife.
36:33I will be a better friend.
36:35I will be a better lover.
36:37So let's give us another chance.
36:42Several months later, Joyce called me and she was pretty upset.
36:48I tried to get any other information out of her that I could,
36:53but she just wasn't doing a whole lot of talking.
36:58And she let me know she was going to go back to her wife and for me to never call
37:03her again.
37:06She didn't want Roz to go.
37:08Roz was adamant.
37:09She was like, I'm just going to fly up there and I'm going to make her sign these papers.
37:14And I remember telling her, Roz, are you crazy?
37:18No, you're not going to go fly anywhere where Joyce is to get her sign the papers.
37:23This girl can be crazy and you don't know what she would do.
37:27No, absolutely not.
37:30No, I'm not going to go fly anywhere.
37:42Connie's 911, where's your emergency?
37:44Oh, yes, ma'am.
37:45I'm calling from Motel 6 Coneyard.
37:47Motel 6 Coneyard, what's going on there?
37:50Somebody's screaming and hollering.
37:54I think there's a stabbing.
37:55Can you send somebody immediately, officer?
37:58We're sending someone.
38:06On December the 10th at about 1035, Coneyard's police received a call of a trouble unknown
38:12at the Motel 6 located in the city of Coneyard's.
38:16They said it was a stabbing.
38:22When I arrived, the first responding officer was already there.
38:31She's bleeding profusely from the abdomen.
38:33We was able to identify the female as Rosalyn.
38:37Ros, listen to me.
38:40I need you to hold still, okay?
38:42You're okay.
38:43I need you to hold still, okay?
38:46Rosalyn is laying in the doorway, blood's on the door, it's all over the room.
38:51598 radio, we've got multiple stab wounds.
38:54She's in and out of consciousness, breathing pretty heavily at this time.
38:58We knew that we had a serious situation that had happened
39:01and it didn't look very promising for Rosalyn at the time.
39:04Ros, who did this?
39:09Who?
39:10Joyce.
39:11Joyce?
39:12Yeah.
39:13Okay.
39:14Do you know Joyce's last name?
39:17Pelzer?
39:19Who is she to you?
39:22She's your wife?
39:24Okay.
39:26You're doing good.
39:27Just hang tight for me, okay?
39:32Once I learned that Roz was stabbed by a female named Joyce, who was her wife,
39:38I then started assigning duties for people to try to identify who Joyce was.
39:44Meanwhile, EMS had arrived and were attending to Rosalyn.
39:49She was really fighting hard for her life. She was definitely a fighter.
39:58Once we were able to get Rosalyn to the ambulance,
40:02we could really investigate the crime scene.
40:08It was obvious it was a violent attack inside that room.
40:13We did observe a knife laying on the floor that was covered in blood.
40:19It was one of the worst crime scenes I've been on.
40:25Reviewing the video of the room, you could tell by the movement of the curtains that there was
40:30an outright fight inside the room. It almost appeared at one point that someone was trying to
40:36yell through the window because the curtain held open for a moment before it quickly closed back.
40:43The door opens and Joyce exits the room and Rosalyn falls to the ground inside the doorway.
40:51I observed Joyce walking toward her vehicle on the sidewalk with no shoes on and only was wearing sops.
41:01She then got into a little trot to her car where she got in the car and then exited the
41:06parking
41:06lot at a high rate of speed.
41:14Rosalyn had been stabbed 34 times by Joyce. She was transported to the hospital,
41:21but unfortunately she succumbed to her injuries.
41:27I was home with some friends and I get a phone call
41:32to find out that my sister had been murdered by Joyce.
41:38The most horrific phone call I've ever had gotten.
41:44It didn't register in my head that Joyce could have stabbed my sister to death.
41:54I can't even scream because I'm, I'm so numb. I'm so in disbelief.
42:03This is a dream and someone is lying to me. It wasn't a dream. Joyce murdered my sister in cold
42:11blood.
42:14About three hours after the initial call to the hotel, we were working a full-blown murder investigation at this
42:20point.
42:21What we had learned was Joyce had kind of lured Rosalyn to the hotel room.
42:27Rosalyn went there, what we feel was the intent to serve divorce papers on Joyce.
42:35Could that have provoked Joyce to stab my sister as many times as she did?
42:41I believe that rage came from somewhere and she unleashed it on my sister.
42:52We have no idea where Joyce may be headed, but we needed to make sure we could find her as
42:58fast as possible.
43:00We obtained the phone number for Joyce and we contacted the phone company and requested a ping on the phone
43:08so we can determine the direction that she may be traveling.
43:11While we were waiting to get the ping back from the phone, we found out that she had a past
43:16with female identified as Katie Long.
43:21When our ping returns about two hours after the request,
43:25the phone pings indicated to us that Joyce was headed south toward Florida.
43:33We learned that Katie Long resided in Florida.
43:38We were afraid that her life may be in danger because she knows she had killed Shondale.
43:45My phone starts to ring and it's Joyce.
43:49I did not answer the call.
43:52We continued to get pings on Joyce's phone.
43:56Every ping we got, she was getting closer to Florida.
44:00She continued to call approximately 25 times.
44:06Georgia State Patrol saw Joyce Pelzel's vehicle on I-75 South and attempted to initiate a traffic stop on her.
44:18She refuses to stop and began to increase her speed.
44:24Georgia State Patrol decided to initiate a pit maneuver on the car.
44:35When Georgia State Patrol got Joyce's car immobilized and they were approaching the vehicle,
44:44Joyce raises a gun and points it toward the direction of the officers.
44:48They began to open fire on the vehicle.
44:57Striking Joyce one time in the neck.
45:01At approximately 2.30 p.m., the call stopped.
45:12Joyce did not die from the gunshot wound.
45:16She was transported to a local hospital for treatment of her injuries.
45:21When she then died from that incident, it was like the lady had nine lives.
45:29On early Tuesday morning, December 11th, 2018, I got a phone call from Detective Guest.
45:37And all he said was,
45:40Roz is dead, Joyce is in custody, I will be in touch.
45:47I couldn't wrap my head around the fact that she killed Roz.
45:53I couldn't wrap my head around the fact that she could have been coming to also kill me.
46:03Once she was able to be released from the hospital,
46:05she was then transported to Rockdale County Jail for the charge of murder of Roz.
46:12Now that Joyce was in jail, and I had the opportunity to interview her once again,
46:19hopefully she would, at this point, tell me what exactly happened to Shondell McCloud.
46:25Ms. Proza, what we're going to do is going to be questioning you about
46:29Shondell McCloud being missing.
46:32One thing I can pretty much remember from that is that I ended up leaving the household
46:38for the second party.
46:40Who was the second party?
46:41Rozalyn Lewis.
46:43Okay.
46:44She was jealous of Shondell.
46:47How was she killed?
46:48And I'm not sure if they shot her, or if they don't know how they just pushed it.
46:53I'm not sure.
46:54When they picked her up, was a taser used on her?
46:57Because Roz had to come back and give you details.
47:00She had to boast about it.
47:02Roz cursed me out.
47:05And she said it was Hando.
47:09Joyce ends up telling the police exactly what she said she was going to do in the phone call
47:15to Katie Long.
47:16She blamed Rozalyn, and she said that she was just a bystander.
47:20But no one believed it.
47:24The allegations that Joyce have made toward my sister is the most disrespectful,
47:31beyond evil.
47:33And the reason why you're blaming things on Rozalyn is because she's not here to defend herself.
47:39Do I believe that Rozalyn had anything at all to do with the Shondell's murder?
47:43Absolutely not.
47:46Is Shondell buried in that park, Arabian Park?
47:51She here now.
47:53Okay.
47:55After we did a search on Arabian Mountain,
47:58we didn't find Shondell's body there.
48:02We found nothing.
48:04But I felt I had enough evidence to charge Joyce Pelzer for the murder of Shondell McLeod.
48:21Ultimately, Joyce Pelzer took a plea offer out in Rockdale County
48:26to the murder charges involving Rozalyn Lewis.
48:32We went to the hearing for her to be sentenced.
48:35When Joyce walked out of the doors into the courtroom, she showed no signs of remorse.
48:43When she was asked to say something, she held her head down and she never answered.
48:50You're sitting there in a courtroom with people who adored Rozalyn.
48:58And you don't have anything to say to this family.
49:02Not even an I'm sorry.
49:08You should ride in jail for the rest of your life.
49:26After Joyce was sentenced, Detective Guest came back to the DeKalb County District Attorney's office.
49:34And asked us to take another look at the suspected murder of Shondell McLeod.
49:40Detective Guest pointed out to us that we now had a third-party confession from Katie Long.
49:48I knew that we had a case that we could present to a jury.
49:52It was the state's theory that Joyce was enraged about the breakup, about losing the home,
50:00and had decided to seek revenge.
50:04We believe that Shondell was kidnapped from her work and then held for some amount of time
50:10for ultimately being taken to the Arabia Mountain area where she was killed and buried.
50:16No body was recovered.
50:18But at this point, we have motive, we have opportunity, and we have a confession.
50:32In November 2023, I attended Joyce's trial and testified against her regarding her confession
50:40in the murder of Shondell.
50:43I had not seen Joyce since 2018.
50:48I was sitting in the stand watching her walk across the courtroom floor,
50:54being escorted by two guards with chains around her ankles and handcuffs on her arms.
51:03And it was very chilling for me, very emotional to see her in a completely different light
51:14than the day that I had met her.
51:19When I was on the stand and answering questions, I actually stopped in the middle and broke down.
51:29She never looked up from the table, not once.
51:43Chondell's family will never get her back.
51:46And this verdict and the sentence that Joyce will have to serve doesn't change that.
51:55But there is now some measure of justice.
52:01This case is important to me because I'm a father myself, I have daughters.
52:05And if one of my kids went missing, God forbid,
52:10I would want somebody to work it the same way that I worked it.
52:16No parent should have to lose a child in the hands of somebody else
52:20and not let it be investigated all the way through.
52:29I feel very lucky to be alive today.
52:33I am extremely confident that after Joyce carried out the murder of Roz,
52:40I'm sure that she was coming for me next.
52:45I am mostly back to my old self, happy, enjoying life.
52:51I will be honest and say that the situation with Joyce still to this day affects my life.
52:59I don't think it's something that I will ever completely get over.
53:07But I have learned to cope with it.
53:13I have learned to do the movie.Topof
53:21Good night
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