00:00Connie was 23 years old at the time of her disappearance.
00:04The last time she was seen was at her house, located in the city of Lockport, in the state of
00:10Louisiana.
00:11It was a Friday and Connie had returned from work at around 6.30 p.m.
00:17And the next day, her husband Dale claimed he got up at 7 o'clock a.m.
00:24because the house phone started ringing.
00:26And according to his statement, Connie was on the other end of the line.
00:31And Connie supposedly told him that she had gone out with a friend.
00:37Not long before, Connie had found out that her husband was having an extramarital affair with a woman named Donna
00:43Foret.
00:45Connie, being angry with her husband, had reportedly started talking to a man named Ted.
00:52On February 21, the disappearance was officially reported to the authorities.
00:57Hearing Dale's version, they thought there might not be much to investigate.
01:02It seemed like a voluntary disappearance.
01:06The house didn't look messy, and since there was no suspected murder,
01:11they didn't look much into the place where Connie was last seen.
01:15For years, they tried to locate Ted without success, and Connie's disappearance went cold.
01:21In February, Dale sold the residence where he lived with Donna to a woman named Joyce.
01:26She was the one who bought this residence,
01:29and this woman would later sell the house again to a family with the last name Knight.
01:34And this was in November 1991.
01:40On November 6, 1991, the work began.
01:44Using heavy machinery, they ended up breaking part of the concrete area in that backyard.
01:51On November 10, a Sunday in 1991,
01:56Jerry Knight, the husband, was cleaning the yard.
02:01And also the debris from this concrete area,
02:05which was when he came across the jawbone of a skeleton.
02:10The complicated thing about this case,
02:12and it's also a story that is studied in universities due to its complexity,
02:17was that finding the remains in the house,
02:20which no longer belonged to Dale,
02:22was considered circumstantial evidence.
02:26At the trial, it had to be proven that Dale buried the body parts in the residence,
02:30and there was no way to prove this,
02:33because there was no other evidence.
02:36This case is unfortunately one of the most interesting,
02:40inconclusive ones we've covered so far,
02:42because we don't know what the motive was.
02:44The most obvious motive was that Dale wanted to get rid of his wife
02:48to start a new relationship with Donna.
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