young woman pursuing her dreams. She was very smart. She wanted to help people.
She wanted to assist those who were in need. Narrator: But would she also
need saving? She didn't come home that night.
She's not a person to go missing. Everybody tries to keep hope.
Narrator: The investigation will uncover a slew of suspects. ♪
She had been texting an old love interest. She was really having a beef
with the baby mama.
He couldn't pass the
polygraph.
Lies are hard to keep up with. Narrator: But the truth will
be far, far worse. I couldn't do an animal like that.
No, no, no, no, no! She was begging for her life. [ Yelling ]
You really have to be sick in the head to do something like this.
The devil in disguise.
-- Captions by VITAC -- www.vitac.com
♪
Narrator: It's Friday afternoon in Appomattox, Virginia, a quaint town just
outside the city of Lynchburg. [ Clanging ]
Appomattox is pretty much a
small town where everybody knows
everybody.
If something happens,
everybody knows about it.
Narrator: Which explains why at a little after noon, Lisa Henderson's mother receives
a concerned call from her daughter's coworkers.
She got a call from the
dermatologist's office where
her daughter worked.
They were wondering where she was. She didn't come in this
morning?
Her coworkers knew that was
not like her, especially when
they had just seen her that day
before at 5:00.
She didn't call in or
anything, and that's not like
her.
Narrator: Sandra Henderson calls her daughter. [ Telephone ringing ]
But there's no answer. [ Dialing telephone ] Narrator: So, she reaches out
to Lisa's boyfriend, Marquie Williams. She would been over
Marquie's house or be at home. Hello, Marquie? Have you seen Lisa?
No. He said, "I don't know where she's at.
She said she's going to her best friend's house." Okay, I'll check her.
Okay, thank you. [ Dialing telephone ] Narrator: But when Lisa's
mother calls her daughter's friend Jymikca Robertson... Jymikca?
Is Lisa with you? Narrator: ...she doesn't know where Lisa is, either.
I talked to her mom.
I said, "Well, you know, she
didn't come to my house."
At that point, she became
extremely concerned.
My sister called and said,
"Hey, we can't find her."
My mom was like, "She's not answering my phone calls." So, I called her, and it went
straight to voice mail.
I was praying that maybe she
just wanted to get some air,
just leave for a little bit.
Narrator: But by 7:30 that night, after hours of trying to reach her, Lisa's mother can no
longer deny that her daughter has disappeared. When it started getting dark,
I'm like, "Something ain't right." So, I went to the police station
to file a police report. ♪ Narrator: Lisa Henderson had
lived in Appomattox, Virginia, for most of her life. Lisa was born in Charlotte,
North Carolina. We moved up here in 2005. I didn't want to move, but we
had a lot of crime surrounding our neighborhood, and I just wanted to keep them safe.
Narrator: In Appomattox, Lisa grew up a country girl. So, a little bit tomboy-ish.
She's pretty much one of the guys.
We would always be outside.
She's throwing the football with
us.
She played sports. She rode a motorcycle. She went fishing with her
dad, and she really loved her daddy. Narrator: Sadly, Lisa's
father passed when she was only 16. He had diabetes, and we saw
it coming years before it happened. It was very tough for her to
go through her father's death. My sister was always the one taking care of him, giving him
his insulin shots. As a young girl, she took on a lot of responsibility.
Narrator: She also found her calling. Her dad getting sick, she
really started figuring out what she wanted to do. She wanted to be a nurse
because of my dad. Since she was good with what she did with her pops, she
started feeling like she can help others. Narrator: After high school,
Lisa started working in a local dermatologist's office as a medical assistant and enrolled
in nursing school. She was very determined. She definitely kept her head
in the books. Narrator: But she soon met a young man who had her head in
the clouds. Nice bike. You should see the rest of
them. [ Laughs ] He had, like, three or four
motorcycles. She was infatuated with that. His name was Devin Pearson.
It seemed like they were getting close to settle down, but some situation happened that
they went their own separate ways. Narrator: Although just what
happened remained a mystery. She just didn't want to talk about it.
She was, like, shut down. She just started being quiet, start staying in her room a lot.
Narrator: Eventually, Lisa regrouped and focused on finishing school.
She really poured herself into school, like, just doing something all the time, just
keep busy. Narrator: Including taking an additional job to support
herself at a Lynchburg distribution center. That's how she met Marquie.
And she just fell so in love with him. Narrator: Marquie had
recently split up with the mother of his two children. She talked highly of him.
She talked about his kids. She talked about how she did care about him, that he really
cared about her.
Friends figured that Marquie
was more of a rebound
relationship rather than
anything serious.
She really didn't talk about the future, about them or anything.
Narrator: Instead, Lisa was focused on her own future. She was working at the
dermatologist's office. She was trying to go get another certificate under her belt.
She was serious about her career, and she was serious about what she wanted to do in
life. Narrator: But now, on the evening of April 6, 2018, Lisa's
bright future is suddenly shrouded in darkness. Her family and her friends
hadn't received any contact from her and began to worry about her whereabouts.
My sister went to the police and say, "We need to find my daughter.
There should be a missing-person report out right now because this is not like her, and we
know that there is a problem." Narrator: Hoping to get a line on Lisa's whereabouts,
detectives with the Campbell County Sheriff's Office get in touch with her cellphone
provider. They conducted an emergency ping of her phone.
Pinging her phone would be a
course of action that one might
take when trying to locate a
missing person.
Narrator: Unfortunately for detectives, the ping fails to give the phone's current
location. Which most likely meant that Lisa's phone was either powered
off, or the battery was dead. Narrator: However, detectives aren't left empty-handed.
They were able to tell us that last location of the telephone.
Last time her phone was
pinging and showing activity was
in Campbell County on
Sage Drive.
It was hitting a tower where Marquie Williams, her boyfriend, lived at the time.
♪
Narrator: In April of 2018, 22-year-old Lisa Henderson was well on her way to becoming a
fully qualified nurse. She wanted to go as far as she could go.
She was very smart.
And her family was very
excited about her
accomplishments and what she was
becoming.
She was destined for success.
She was a person who we knew was
gonna take the family to the
next level.
Narrator: But now Lisa's mother has reported her missing, and detectives with the
Campbell County Sheriff's Office has traced her last-known location to the trailer
belonging to her boyfriend, Marquie Williams.
So, that was certainly a good
place for us to start.
Before I had him come in, I
wanted to know as much about him
as possible.
So, I checked him out as much as I could. Narrator: Detectives don't
find any record of arrests. Once I was satisfied, I made that phone call.
He was very cooperative on the telephone. Wanted to help in any way he
could. Alright, thank you. Narrator: Early the next
morning, Marquie comes into the sheriff's office to give a formal statement to detectives.
It was more of a fact-finding effort, basically just verifying when he had last seen
Ms. Henderson. I was just fishing for as much information as I could get,
hoping that he may have some answers for us or give us a direction to go in.
Mr. Williams, how's your relationship with Lisa? We're good.
My sister was always happy. She said she was always happy with him.
He maintained that everything was fine with the two of them, that there were no problems.
When was the last time you talked to her? Uh...Thursday night.
He told us that him and Lisa and a friend of his, Felix Jefferson, had been
together at his place on the night of the fifth. What time did she leave?
She left at, like, 11:00 or so. I'm gonna head out, okay?
Alright, baby. Goodbye. Alright.
That was the last time he saw her. Did she say where she was
going? Yeah, she said she was going to stay at Jymikca's.
Marquie said that after Lisa
left, his friend Felix stayed
all night at his place and that
he had driven Felix home the
following morning.
Okay, we'll be in touch. Felix Jefferson was basically his alibi.
So, as soon as we finished that interview, we were off to find Felix Jefferson.
♪ Narrator: The search takes them into downtown Lynchburg.
We made phone contact with Felix. He wanted to meet us in downtown
Lynchburg, which he did, on foot.
Felix agreed to meet with
detectives, but he didn't seem
eager to talk.
Felix was very tight with his information. I had to pry that information
out of him. Narrator: He also claims not to know much about Lisa.
He said that the only times he had talked to Lisa was in the presence of Marquie.
She was at his trailer Thursday night, right? Yeah.
We all hung out for a while. He did confirm that he was at Marquie's house on the fifth,
that Lisa was present, and that at some point in time, Lisa decided she wanted to leave, and
she went out and left. What time did she leave? I don't know, sometime
before midnight. That was the same thing that Marquie had stated.
Thanks. We'll be in touch. Thank you. You're free to leave.
Alright. Narrator: With Marquie and Felix an apparent dead end,
detectives issue a "Be on the Lookout" for both Lisa and her vehicle.
Publicizing her disappearance was very important. You're getting a description, a
picture of her vehicle out so that citizens can be looking for it or help locate it.
Narrator: Then, seeking more information, detectives turn to Jymikca Robertson, the friend
Lisa was supposedly going to stay with on Thursday night. She confirmed that she had
been texting to Lisa on the night of the fifth.
Based on the timeline, those text messages lined up with when Lisa was at Marquie's trailer.
Lisa was supposed to come back to Jymikca's to stay with her that night.
The details all corresponded with what Marquie and Felix had already told
detectives. Narrator: But according to Jymikca, Lisa never showed.
The next morning, when I still didn't hear anything, I started to really worry.
So, I actually went to Marquie's house by myself to see if she was there.
Narrator: Jymikca didn't find Lisa, but she did find Marquie. Have you seen Lisa?
I thought she came to your house. He said, "She left from here
and was coming to your house." I said, "Well, you know, she didn't come to my house.
Did she go home?" I don't think so. Her mama called a while ago and
said she didn't show up for work. He told me he was gonna go
looking for her, but he had to go buy his child some Pampers. Jymikca's story seemed to
confirm what Marquie told detectives, but something she said did raise a red flag.
Narrator: Her name is Danielle Whitman. There was some bad blood
between Danielle and Lisa. She had a lot of problems with Danielle.
She came over there, and the
baby mama was there.
They had words.
Narrator: But now detectives want to know, did Danielle and Lisa end up having more than
just words?
They both trying to fight for
this man.
You know how girls are. They jealous. So, you know, things gonna
happen.
Narrator: Detectives n Campbell County, Virginia, have learned that Lisa Henderson
has a long history of trouble with a woman named Danielle Whitman.
Danielle had two kids with
Lisa's current boyfriend,
Marquie Williams.
She was also living with his
mother.
Something ain't right about
that picture.
If she's staying at the house,
he's messing with her.
Narrator: But did Marquie and Danielle's ongoing relationship have something to do with Lisa's
disappearance?
Lisa and Danielle had kind of
had words before.
Narrator: To try to find out exactly what may have happened between them, deputies bring
Danielle Whitman in for questioning. I did conduct an interview
with her at the sheriff's office. It did not last long.
She wasn't very helpful or
cooperative.
She was bitter about the whole situation. She didn't like talking with me
at all. Narrator: She also admits to not liking Lisa.
I believe it was just a
jealousy of who she was as a
person.
Could have been that she
didn't want my sister around her
kids.
Narrator: Whatever the reason for their troubled relationship, Danielle denies having anything
to do with Lisa's disappearance.
She said she got home from
work a little after 7:00 that
night, and Marquie was there
watching the kids.
Narrator: Danielle's also adamant that she didn't go over to Marquie's trailer later that
night. A lot of time, Lisa will go on over Marquie's house.
The baby mama will come over
there.
And they'd get to arguing.
She didn't give detectives any information, other than that call was only around 30 seconds
or so. Narrator: After that, the detectives let her go.
But they're not quite done with Danielle. There was some animosity
there, and she was still obviously close to Marquie and his mother.
She was entwined in the family. So, all those things make her a person of interest.
It was entirely possible that Danielle was lying. She could have been there
waiting when Lisa left Marquie's trailer Thursday night. That was certainly discussed,
and the thought ran through our minds. Narrator: Hoping to get a
better picture of what happened Thursday night, detectives subpoena phone records for Lisa,
Marquie, and Marquie's friend Felix.
We throw a big blanket when
we do phone records, just in
case we need to see who's
talking to whom and match up
phone calls.
Narrator: Felix Jefferson's phone records show that he was telling the truth when he said
his only contact with Lisa was through Marquie. There were no phone calls
between the two of them. When we looked at the phone records, there was no
relationship whatsoever. Lisa's phone records also confirmed that she was texting
with her friend Jymikca Robertson on Thursday night.
Those text messages took place while Lisa was there at Marquie's.
Narrator: However, Lisa's phone records also reveal that Jymikca wasn't the only person
she was texting that night. The investigators identified another number, which belonged
to Devin Pearson. Narrator: Devin was an old boyfriend of Lisa's.
Lisa was hurt about the breakup. She was really hurt about it.
Narrator: Do the text messages suggest some sort of reconciliation?
Maybe instead of going over to Jymikca's, Lisa decided to meet up wit Devin instead.
Narrator: Detectives only know one thing for sure. That was the last activity on
her phone. Narrator: When detectives search Marquie's phone records,
they show that he had been trying to locate Lisa after she'd gone missing.
He was blowing her phone up, wanting to know where she was. Narrator: But more important
for detectives, Marquie's phone records also reveal that Danielle had been lying to them.
Danielle claimed she had only talked to Marquie for about 30 seconds.
But the records show that the call was more than just a quick check-in.
We don't know what those conversations entailed, but we do know he was talking to her
for 20 minutes. Obviously, it was now important to find out what they
were talking about. Narrator: However, before detectives can follow up on
either lead, there's a new development. Detective Dudley.
Someone called police and said they had spotted Lisa's care abandoned in Lynchburg.
Alright, thank you. Bye. We had put out, of course, a BOL, Be on the Lookout, for that
car. Once we found that, I knew something was wrong.
My sister, she is not gonna just dump her car.
rator: On Sunday afternoon, detectives searching for 22-year-old Lisa Henderson
receive a tip about the location of the missing woman's car.
At this point, it had been
more than 48 hours since Lisa
had disappeared.
That car was found on Sunday.
It was located over in the city
of Lynchburg.
Someone who lives in that area
called the
Lynchburg Police Department.
Narrator: News of the discovery is no comfort to Lisa's friends and family.
That's when I started to
really worry, and I felt like at
that point something bad had
happened to her.
She wasn't gonna leave that
car on no side, no road.
I was thinking maybe somebody must have kidnapped her or something.
This could be a situation where foul play is involved. Her vehicle's unattended.
She hadn't reached out to her family. She didn't keep her appointment
with her friend. All those things didn't bode well.
Narrator: After locating Lisa's car, detectives have it towed to the police impound lot
for evidence technicians to search. We were looking at any of her
personal property that might be in there, any fingerprints or biological evidence.
Narrator: The search yields few clues for detectives, but it does offer some hope for Lisa's
family.
There weren't any traces of
blood or any other evidence of
foul play.
I tried to stay optimistic.
Even when they found her car,
I'm thinking sometimes people
just go away for a few days.
Narrator: With no leads from Lisa's car, detectives bring Marquie's ex and the mother of
his children, Danielle Whitman, in for a new round of questioning.
Since her interview, detectives had learned that she lied to them.
Rather than the 30 seconds she claimed, her phone call with Marquie the night Lisa
disappeared had actually lasted 20 minutes. You say you talked on the
phone for about 30 seconds. Yeah. He say good night to the kids.
[ Sighs ] Well, here's the thing.
When I confronted her that
the information she was giving
me was not true, I showed it to
her through the phone records.
Can you explain that? She ended the interview and said that she would be obtaining
an attorney. I want a lawyer. Danielle's reaction didn't
exactly convince detectives that she had nothing to do with Lisa's disappearance.
Narrator: However, she's not the only person detectives are interested in.
After talking to Danielle, they also bring Devin Pearson in for an interview.
Devin was the man Lisa had been texting with shortly before she disappeared.
He and Lisa had once been romantically involved sometime ago.
He told me that they had been texting and talking a little bit, but that's as far as it
went, that there were no immediate plans for them to be together or to start a
relationship.
They were communicating by text or phone call now. He had texted with her up
until around 11:00 p.m. The same time the text messages had stopped with Jymikca, they
stopped with him, as well. And he had not been able to get in touch with her since then.
He thought that Lisa wanted someone to just listen about she had been thinking about breaking
it off with Marquie. Narrator: And now, in hindsight, Devin thinks those
last messages from Lisa might have been a cry for help.
Detectives are initially skeptical of Devin's claim. If Devin had something to do
with Lisa's disappearance, he would have had every reason to point the finger at Marquie.
Narrator: But then, after the interview, he lets detectives look through his phone and read
Lisa's texts. He was very forthcoming. The context of their text was
about Marquie and the fact that Lisa did not want to be with him anymore.
Just like that, Devin had given Marquie a motive. If Marquie had found the text
messages that Devin was exchanging with Lisa, he'd have probably been upset and angry.
He was this quiet guy, but
behind closed doors, he might
have been the bad guy.
Narrator: Detectives are determined to find out. Called Marquie to come back
to the sheriff's office and ask him to take a polygraph. It's not admissible in
Virginia, but it is a tool that we are able to use to get to the truth of matters in a lot of
cases. He agreed to take the polygraph test.
So, we brought him in the next day. He kept things pretty much the
same as before. He just maintained his story that Lisa left, and that's the
last time he saw her.
They're asked that same question several different ways. And he said that he didn't.
Narrator: But the polygraph says different. He came up deceptive during
that polygraph examination.
Narrator: Detectives investigating the disappearance of Lisa Henderson have reason to
suspect her boyfriend, Marquie Williams, knows more about the missing nursing
assistant than he's been telling.
When detectives brought
Marquie in for a polygraph exam,
the results suggested that he
had been lying to them.
He's being asked, "Do you
know for sure where Lisa is?"
He said that he didn't, and the results seemed to indicate that he did.
Narrator: Although, when detectives confront Marquie with the results, his reaction takes
them by surprise.
He did break down and cry at
some point after that polygraph,
but it wasn't talking about
Lisa.
He was crying, telling me that he had never been in any trouble.
He ended that interview, and he asked for an attorney. Narrator: With Marquie
refusing to talk, detectives descend on his trailer with a search warrant.
Detectives were looking for
traces of blood or any other
indications of foul play.
Narrator: Detectives don't find any blood, but they don't come away empty-handed.
We did seize multiple firearms from his residence.
There was, I want to say, 18
or 19 guns taken from the home.
He was there during that time, and he never asked about Lisa, where the investigations
were going. When he brought all the guns out, he addressed me and said,
"Make sure you take care of my babies." ♪
Narrator: And as far as detectives could determine, he'd acquired all of them legally.
We ran all the guns. I don't recall any of them being stolen weapons.
So, we didn't have anything to hold him on. Narrator: The search a bust,
detectives decide to take another run at Felix Jefferson. I know I'm being lied to.
So, I need to find out why. My thinking is that he's probably gonna be the weaker
link. Narrator: At first, Felix refuses to crack.
He basically, at that point, was maintaining the same statements he had given before.
Narrator: But the detectives keep pressing. I thought it was time to
change the strategy with Felix and go from interview to interrogation.
It helped, I believe, to get Felix to think it was time to start talking, to try to start
serving himself.
Felix told detectives that he didn't witness the crime, that he had just helped Marquie get
rid of the evidence. When he finally started admitting it, he did admit that
they took the car over there and dropped it off, that Marquie drove the car and that he picked
him up. And then they went down and disposed of the evidence at the
James River. Felix told us that they threw her keys and her phone into the
river.
I did pry very hard with him about finding her body, how important it was for her family,
to give her family some relief and at least knowing that she's not, you know, laying out
somewhere. That seemed to help a little bit.
He was the follower, and he just did whatever Marquie told him to do.
Marquie needed help taking that car down to Lynchburg. So, he did it.
Marquie needed help disposing of her body. So, he did it.
Narrator: Finally, Felix admits that he knows exactly where Lisa's body is.
He's saying that he had went with Marquie to dispose of her body in the wooded area off of
Plum Branch Road in Campbell County. He knew roughly how to get there
from Marquie's home. ♪ ♪
And he took us to that area. We walked that area for quite some time.
Narrator: And a few hundred yards off the main highway, they find Lisa.
The body was not covered. She was laying there clothed, with no attempt to hide the
body. It looked like she'd been out there probably five days.
Narrator: However, the body is still in good-enough condition for the detectives to
realize that Felix has been lying to them. She wasn't strangled.
This was something completely different. Hey!
Shoot her! Her body was riddled with bullet holes.
That evening, I was gonna try
to take a nap.
As soon I lay down, I felt
something brush over me.
It was like a cool air that came across me. And I lay down and probably
maybe a minute and a half or two minutes, her cousin Toya had called me, and I kind of figured
what she was gonna tell me when I picked the phone up. And I felt that breeze was her
letting me know before anyone told me that she was found.
Narrator: Felix Jefferson has just led detectives to where he and Marquie Williams dumped
Lisa Henderson's body in the woods outside Lynchburg, Virginia.
He's stating that Lisa had
been strangled by Marquie, but
that's certainly not the case
here.
She had been shot.
You could see bullet holes in
some of her garments she was
wearing.
And some of her injuries to her head and scalp and face, gunfire had caused some of it.
And we found evidence beside her, shell casings consistent with that.
We picked up eight or nine shell casings. Narrator: While the coroner
and CSI arrive to process the scene, officers tackle the grim task of informing Lisa's family
their agonizing wait is over.
The sheriff had came to our
house.
He went straight to the point.
He was like, "We found Lisa."
Oh, no -- not my baby. My heart just dropped.
You're saying what?
"Lisa was murdered."
And from that point, I just hollered. I screamed.
I just lost it. Everybody lost it.
I didn't want to believe it.
I'm thinking, "This cannot be
true.
This is not us.
We cannot be going through
this."
Narrator: While Lisa's family struggles with the tragic news, detectives haul Felix Jefferson
back into the interrogation room and confront him about his lies. We were able to look at him
and say, "Felix, she wasn't strangled."
There were obvious gunshot
wounds there.
That's where his story evolved, to well, yes, Marquie did shoot her.
He never could give us a reason of why Marquie wanted her dead.
Hold on for a second. Hey. Come on. Let's go talk.
He said that sometime during the night of the fifth that Marquie and Lisa went to
Marquie's bedroom, closed the door... Who the hell you texting?!
It was likely what happened
inside Marquie's room tied in
with what Lisa's ex, Devin, had
told them.
The texts that she was texting at night, that she said she didn't want to be with him
anymore. I believe that he read those text messages.
I believe that that triggered his anger. I just think he made the
decision that if she wasn't gonna be with him, then she wasn't gonna be with anybody.
Narrator: Felix says he had no idea what Marquie was planning when the couple emerged
from the bedroom. Let's go for a ride. You good?
Yeah, we good. Where? I don't know.
I just -- I just feel like driving. Come on.
♪ Narrator: Although, based on what Felix says, during their
drive, Lisa could sense something was up. This the place.
He said that there was some talk between the two about their relationship.
[ Nervously ] You remember that time we went to the beach and that great place that we
stayed at? I think she was trying to make Marquie think of the good
times. She's trying to connect with him in an emotional way.
My take on that is she was begging for her life. Narrator: But Marquie's mind
was made up. Felix says that when he got out of the car, Marquie gave him a
gun. What are you doing? What are you doing?!
No, no, no, no, no! Yeah! Let's go. No, I don't want to go!
I don't want to go! I don't want to go! They forced her to go back.
They forced her. No! She's scared of the dark.
I'm serious. Shut up. I think she absolutely knew
what was gonna happen to her. Why do you keep doing this to me?!
♪
I think she probably tried to get away. [ Yelling ]
Shoot her! They shoot her in the back. [ Yelling ]
His statements are, the next thing he knows, Marquie is shooting at her, and he starts
yelling at Felix to shoot at her, also. [ Gunfire ]
Felix says he's scared if he don't shoot at her that Marquie is gonna shoot him.
So, Felix says he shoots once or twice, maybe, and is not even sure if he hits her.
♪ ♪ Narrator: After his
confession, detectives place Felix under arrest. He may have been relieved in
a certain sense that it was out in the open now, and he didn't have to keep looking over his
shoulder to see if law enforcement was coming for him. Narrator: But what Lisa's
friends and family want to know is how soon would they be coming for Marquie?
When I heard that Felix was
arrested, I was happy.
I knew Marquie needed to be arrested. When they arrested Felix, I
was, like, "I know Marquie did this." I was like, "Why you all
won't lock him up?" But they need all this evidence. Narrator: Most of all,
detectives need to corroborate Felix's story.
When detectives got the
autopsy report, the findings
confirmed that there were two
shooters.
The autopsy showed nine bullet holes, and it was shown to be from two different
weapons. We had .45-caliber bullet, and then .38, which would have
been the .38 revolver used by Felix Jefferson. We were able to corroborate some
of the things that Felix is telling us. Pieces of the puzzle were put
together. The prosecutor was satisfied. That enabled us to just go
ahead and arrest Marquie. ♪ We went out to Marquie's
mother's residence. It was satisfying to place him under arrest.
Narrator: Marquie's arrest is even more satisfying for Lisa's family.
My mom? That's all she wanted was Marquie to be arrested.
So, it was a relief. I was really happy, just happy.
Narrator: Unlike Felix, Marquie makes no further statements to detectives.
Marquie Williams thought himself to be smarter than anybody else involved in this
case. Narrator: Faced with overwhelming evidence,
Felix Jefferson pleads guilty to murder. He got 43 years, with
20 suspended. Had it not been for him, I believe this case would have got
solved, but it would have took a lot longer. Narrator: Marquie Williams
ultimately also pleads guilty. This could have been a capital case because if you
abduct somebody in the state of Virginia, it's one of the qualifying reasons you can get
the death penalty. And that young lady was kidnapped and taken to that
location. No, no, no! So, for him to plead, that
was him saving himself. Marquie was sentenced to life in prison without the
possibility of parole.
Narrator: For Lisa Henderson's grieving family, it's not nearly enough.
I wanted him to get the death penalty.
Be glad he in jail, but he's
still living.
I'm glad he got what he got,
but, end of the day, it still
don't help me.
I'm not the same.
It put a hole in my heart.
Narrator: It's a pain they
hope no other family has to
endure.
Just cherish and love all
your loved ones, man, because
you never know.
The next day, you might not have
them.
Don't wait to give people
their flowers after their gone,
man.
Let them know, like, "I love
you."
Let your peoples know.