1 00:00:18,148 --> 00:00:22,631 There's large swaths of woods 2 00:00:22,848 --> 00:00:23,849 behind the truck stop. 3 00:00:26,374 --> 00:00:29,072 The body was out in the open. 4 00:00:29,290 --> 00:00:32,902 In the wild, animals start to devour the body 5 00:00:33,076 --> 00:00:34,425 in various different ways. 6 00:00:39,648 --> 00:00:42,781 We had an unidentified victim. 7 00:00:42,999 --> 00:00:44,348 The body was decomposed. 8 00:00:44,566 --> 00:00:47,482 No one saw anything strange out there. 9 00:00:47,699 --> 00:00:50,963 We had no idea who the murderer was. 10 00:00:51,138 --> 00:00:52,748 This is the crossroads 11 00:00:52,965 --> 00:00:55,707 of Central Florida, where everything comes together. 12 00:00:55,925 --> 00:00:57,492 That truck stop is a very busy place. 13 00:00:59,842 --> 00:01:01,104 Every minute 14 00:01:01,322 --> 00:01:02,888 that ticks by that you're not solving the case 15 00:01:03,063 --> 00:01:04,629 and your victim is still a Jane Doe-- 16 00:01:04,847 --> 00:01:07,197 the murderer could be 2,000 miles away. 17 00:01:07,415 --> 00:01:09,330 We were able to recreate 18 00:01:09,547 --> 00:01:12,594 what our person would have looked like. 19 00:01:12,811 --> 00:01:15,945 That was tremendous because the true investigation 20 00:01:16,119 --> 00:01:20,297 to who did it starts with know who the victim is. 21 00:01:20,515 --> 00:01:22,082 It's weird to think that someone 22 00:01:22,299 --> 00:01:25,955 that you were so close with at one point in your life, 23 00:01:26,129 --> 00:01:28,392 that they're just missing. 24 00:01:28,610 --> 00:01:29,698 JANE WEVER [ON I just found 25 00:01:29,915 --> 00:01:31,438 out my friend's using me. 26 00:01:31,439 --> 00:01:32,918 That's what makes it really curious. 27 00:01:33,093 --> 00:01:35,356 Her check ends up in your bank account. 28 00:01:35,573 --> 00:01:37,097 I mean, I think he felt emboldened. 29 00:01:37,314 --> 00:01:40,274 I think that he thought he was smarter than us. 30 00:01:40,491 --> 00:01:44,234 Both phones were pinging on the same cell phone tower. 31 00:01:44,452 --> 00:01:47,019 She was murdered execution style. 32 00:01:47,194 --> 00:01:49,848 I don't care if I'm staying up for 100 hours at a time. 33 00:01:50,066 --> 00:01:51,328 I'm going to find out who did this. 34 00:02:16,571 --> 00:02:17,702 Wildwood, Florida, 35 00:02:17,920 --> 00:02:22,359 is a main hub of railroad industry. 36 00:02:22,577 --> 00:02:23,839 It's a small town. 37 00:02:28,452 --> 00:02:32,021 State Road 44 runs the width of the state. 38 00:02:32,195 --> 00:02:33,936 And then you have the Florida Turnpike 39 00:02:34,154 --> 00:02:37,374 and I-75 all converge in the center of Wildwood. 40 00:02:46,992 --> 00:02:49,604 There's a lot of truck stops. 41 00:02:49,821 --> 00:02:51,519 It tends to be very transient. 42 00:02:54,478 --> 00:02:56,654 And a lot of homeless people. 43 00:02:56,872 --> 00:02:59,483 They create a lot of temporary camping locations. 44 00:03:04,358 --> 00:03:10,494 Near the truck stop behind the adult store, 45 00:03:10,712 --> 00:03:14,846 there's a path into the woods. 46 00:03:15,064 --> 00:03:17,632 It had been an extremely warm April. 47 00:03:17,849 --> 00:03:20,025 We'd had so much rain. 48 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:21,462 It was wet and muddy. 49 00:03:27,119 --> 00:03:31,559 On April 22, 2013, we got a call that some kids 50 00:03:31,776 --> 00:03:33,213 were back there four-wheeling. 51 00:03:38,870 --> 00:03:42,047 15 yards off the little trail, 52 00:03:42,222 --> 00:03:46,704 there was a body covered by mud. 53 00:03:46,922 --> 00:03:49,054 And they called the police. 54 00:03:55,974 --> 00:03:58,281 The kids took us pretty deep back 55 00:03:58,499 --> 00:04:02,111 in the woods, about a half mile back off the main road, 56 00:04:02,285 --> 00:04:05,636 off of State Road 44. 57 00:04:05,854 --> 00:04:07,290 It's tight. 58 00:04:07,508 --> 00:04:13,514 And it's very-- a lot of ruts, undulations, water, mud. 59 00:04:13,731 --> 00:04:16,734 The body was near a small patch of water. 60 00:04:16,952 --> 00:04:19,607 If there's water, there's gators. 61 00:04:19,824 --> 00:04:22,349 The body may have been drug there. 62 00:04:25,439 --> 00:04:27,658 I mean, you have no idea how that body got there. 63 00:04:32,054 --> 00:04:33,838 The person was wearing what appeared 64 00:04:34,056 --> 00:04:38,016 to be a pair of baggy jogging pants, a blouse, 65 00:04:38,234 --> 00:04:40,280 and some tennis shoes. 66 00:04:40,497 --> 00:04:43,761 There were no signs of any bags or belongings, 67 00:04:43,979 --> 00:04:45,110 and there was no wallet. 68 00:04:47,591 --> 00:04:49,419 At the scene when we went through it, 69 00:04:49,637 --> 00:04:52,857 there was nothing identifiable, other than clothing 70 00:04:53,075 --> 00:04:54,816 and the glasses. 71 00:04:57,688 --> 00:05:02,258 So we had nothing that said, this is who this person is. 72 00:05:02,432 --> 00:05:06,175 The body was not fully intact. 73 00:05:06,349 --> 00:05:07,611 There was a lot of bones 74 00:05:07,829 --> 00:05:10,527 scattered about the scene. 75 00:05:10,745 --> 00:05:13,530 And the skull was separated from the body. 76 00:05:18,274 --> 00:05:21,321 There was a clump of dark brown hair that was pretty long. 77 00:05:21,495 --> 00:05:24,062 And near that was a scrunchie that 78 00:05:24,280 --> 00:05:26,674 would normally be associated with putting up women's hair. 79 00:05:32,114 --> 00:05:34,551 There are alligators, coyotes, 80 00:05:34,769 --> 00:05:38,163 not to mention the insects. 81 00:05:38,338 --> 00:05:40,992 Given what we saw, we believed some animal 82 00:05:41,210 --> 00:05:42,820 activity had taken place. 83 00:05:47,564 --> 00:05:49,218 The medical examiner's office 84 00:05:49,392 --> 00:05:53,004 responds, and they bring out one of their own investigators. 85 00:05:53,222 --> 00:05:56,443 We were able to find the pieces of the skull 86 00:05:56,660 --> 00:06:00,142 and put them back together again. 87 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:01,795 Actually, at the scene, you could 88 00:06:01,796 --> 00:06:05,974 see where there were three distinct bullet holes in 89 00:06:06,191 --> 00:06:07,671 the back of the victim's head. 90 00:06:12,372 --> 00:06:14,504 It was ruled a homicide. 91 00:06:14,722 --> 00:06:18,160 But we did not see any shell casings 92 00:06:18,378 --> 00:06:21,119 or a firearm. 93 00:06:21,337 --> 00:06:22,686 The body was transported 94 00:06:22,904 --> 00:06:24,819 to the medical examiner's office, where 95 00:06:25,036 --> 00:06:28,431 an autopsy was conducted. 96 00:06:28,649 --> 00:06:30,781 The autopsy did confirm that the victim 97 00:06:30,999 --> 00:06:37,527 was a white female, 50 to 70 years of age, over 200 pounds. 98 00:06:39,224 --> 00:06:42,967 There were no teeth, no DNA, no way to identify the body. 99 00:06:43,185 --> 00:06:46,101 When they examined the body, inside one 100 00:06:46,318 --> 00:06:50,410 of the folds of skin, they were able to see the word "Jane" 101 00:06:50,627 --> 00:06:53,021 in a tattoo. 102 00:06:53,238 --> 00:06:54,196 The problem is you don't know. 103 00:06:54,414 --> 00:06:56,416 Is Jane the daughter's name? 104 00:06:56,590 --> 00:06:58,461 Is Jane the victim's name? 105 00:06:58,679 --> 00:07:00,332 We just didn't know. 106 00:07:00,507 --> 00:07:02,159 Without identifying who it is, 107 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:05,033 we can't determine what she was doing, who she was hanging 108 00:07:05,250 --> 00:07:06,513 around, who had motive. 109 00:07:09,211 --> 00:07:11,735 The body was found at I-75 and the Turnpike. 110 00:07:11,953 --> 00:07:14,346 This person could be from Connecticut and was driving 111 00:07:14,521 --> 00:07:17,959 through and had no intentions of being here and was killed, 112 00:07:18,176 --> 00:07:20,222 and the killer went off to Wyoming. 113 00:07:23,051 --> 00:07:24,705 At this phase of the investigation, 114 00:07:24,922 --> 00:07:28,230 given the evidence that we have on a scale from 1 to 10, 10 115 00:07:28,448 --> 00:07:33,714 being most difficult, this is a 9.999. 116 00:07:33,931 --> 00:07:36,543 This woman was brutally murdered. 117 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:38,153 Who killed her? 118 00:07:38,370 --> 00:07:41,852 And how did she end up there buried in the woods? 119 00:07:57,564 --> 00:07:59,783 Port Charlotte is not a huge town, 120 00:08:00,001 --> 00:08:01,089 but it's on the water. 121 00:08:04,135 --> 00:08:06,355 Life was very free there. 122 00:08:06,529 --> 00:08:08,488 It was like you were always on vacation. 123 00:08:12,361 --> 00:08:13,971 We were walking distance 124 00:08:14,189 --> 00:08:17,932 to where the water was. 125 00:08:18,149 --> 00:08:20,282 When I was about 10 years old, my family 126 00:08:20,500 --> 00:08:23,328 moved into our apartment. 127 00:08:23,503 --> 00:08:24,808 As soon as we got there, 128 00:08:25,026 --> 00:08:27,681 this lady ran downstairs and introduced herself. 129 00:08:27,898 --> 00:08:31,249 It was Jane Wever. 130 00:08:31,467 --> 00:08:33,295 At first we were like, who's this lady 131 00:08:33,513 --> 00:08:35,471 and why is she running downstairs? 132 00:08:35,645 --> 00:08:39,649 But after we got to know Jane, we realized she 133 00:08:39,867 --> 00:08:43,087 was like that with everybody. 134 00:08:43,305 --> 00:08:46,526 At the time, she was married to Butch. 135 00:08:46,700 --> 00:08:48,571 They lived in the apartment above us. 136 00:08:48,789 --> 00:08:50,181 There was a balcony. 137 00:08:50,399 --> 00:08:53,054 Sometimes we would sit there and she would 138 00:08:53,271 --> 00:08:54,577 hang out with us outside. 139 00:08:57,667 --> 00:08:59,713 She had a happy life 140 00:08:59,930 --> 00:09:04,892 and she enjoyed every minute with her husband, Butch. 141 00:09:05,109 --> 00:09:08,983 Jane was very trusting and caring. 142 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:13,683 She was always eager to help. 143 00:09:13,901 --> 00:09:15,250 Everybody loved Jane. 144 00:09:23,519 --> 00:09:26,653 Then one day, Butch had passed away. 145 00:09:29,438 --> 00:09:33,747 Jane took the death of Butch really hard. 146 00:09:33,964 --> 00:09:37,272 She wanted to make sure that she wasn't alone, 147 00:09:37,489 --> 00:09:41,581 so she wanted to have more contact with everybody. 148 00:09:41,798 --> 00:09:45,454 And she would call, she texted. 149 00:09:45,628 --> 00:09:47,195 It was really rough for her. 150 00:09:54,768 --> 00:09:56,507 A few years 151 00:09:56,508 --> 00:10:01,949 after Butch died, Jane was in contact with an old high school 152 00:10:02,166 --> 00:10:06,475 friend on Facebook, Ralph Penrod, 153 00:10:06,649 --> 00:10:11,611 who I think had a crush on her when she was younger. 154 00:10:11,785 --> 00:10:13,264 Jane decided she was going to move 155 00:10:13,482 --> 00:10:16,006 to Kentucky to be with Ralph. 156 00:10:16,224 --> 00:10:17,442 And Jane felt like that was going 157 00:10:17,617 --> 00:10:20,576 to be a fresh start for her. 158 00:10:20,750 --> 00:10:24,145 After Jane moved, she always kept in contact the same way 159 00:10:24,362 --> 00:10:26,626 that she had always kept in contact before. 160 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:28,932 She texted all the time. 161 00:10:29,150 --> 00:10:30,194 She called all the time. 162 00:10:34,764 --> 00:10:38,028 But as the days went on, we hadn't heard from Jane. 163 00:10:41,118 --> 00:10:45,166 Then on April 4, 2013, one of our mutual friends 164 00:10:45,383 --> 00:10:46,863 had called me. 165 00:10:47,081 --> 00:10:48,735 She told me that she couldn't get in contact with Jane. 166 00:10:51,651 --> 00:10:53,827 We'd contacted Ralph Penrod and asked 167 00:10:54,044 --> 00:10:57,831 him if he knew where Jane was. 168 00:10:58,048 --> 00:11:02,574 Ralph told us that there was a death in his family, 169 00:11:02,749 --> 00:11:07,362 and he had left Jane in Kentucky to be with family 170 00:11:07,579 --> 00:11:11,540 and that he didn't know where she was. 171 00:11:11,714 --> 00:11:12,846 He was really concerned that we couldn't 172 00:11:13,063 --> 00:11:14,499 get in contact with Jane. 173 00:11:14,674 --> 00:11:15,805 That was alarming. 174 00:11:16,023 --> 00:11:16,937 There is no way that Jane wasn't 175 00:11:17,154 --> 00:11:19,113 going to contact any of us. 176 00:11:24,335 --> 00:11:29,036 April 4, 2013, was the last time anybody spoke to Jane. 177 00:11:29,253 --> 00:11:32,300 Our mutual friend told me that Jane had sent a text message 178 00:11:32,517 --> 00:11:33,954 saying that she arrived in Florida, 179 00:11:34,171 --> 00:11:39,089 but she wasn't coming down to Port Charlotte. 180 00:11:39,307 --> 00:11:41,701 There was no punctuation. 181 00:11:41,918 --> 00:11:45,182 Jane had a distinctive way of texting. 182 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:48,011 She wrote like she spoke. 183 00:11:48,229 --> 00:11:50,927 It wasn't written the way that Jane wrote. 184 00:11:51,145 --> 00:11:53,582 I knew that text message wasn't from Jane. 185 00:11:53,756 --> 00:11:56,411 That text message was from somebody else. 186 00:11:56,628 --> 00:11:59,980 That's when I knew in my heart that something had happened. 187 00:12:00,197 --> 00:12:02,286 Jane was somewhere, and she needed help. 188 00:12:02,504 --> 00:12:04,593 We needed to find her. 189 00:12:07,683 --> 00:12:10,468 Running the man's name through databases, 190 00:12:10,686 --> 00:12:14,298 we find out that he is a registered sex offender. 191 00:12:14,516 --> 00:12:16,736 We got on a plane and flew to Las Vegas. 192 00:12:16,910 --> 00:12:19,260 We now have a legitimate suspect 193 00:12:19,477 --> 00:12:20,740 in this homicide. 194 00:12:35,232 --> 00:12:36,407 In this case, 195 00:12:36,625 --> 00:12:40,803 we had an unidentified victim that 196 00:12:41,021 --> 00:12:44,415 was killed in Wildwood, here in Florida, shot three times 197 00:12:44,633 --> 00:12:45,765 and buried in the woods. 198 00:12:54,774 --> 00:12:56,297 We were concentrating on trying 199 00:12:56,514 --> 00:12:57,907 to get the victim identified. 200 00:12:58,125 --> 00:13:01,084 We had collected bugs at the scene 201 00:13:01,302 --> 00:13:06,133 and sent them off to a forensic entomologist, who gave me 202 00:13:06,350 --> 00:13:10,920 basically a six-day window in April 2013, as far 203 00:13:11,138 --> 00:13:13,227 as when the crime occurred. 204 00:13:13,444 --> 00:13:16,317 There was no way to identify the body. 205 00:13:16,534 --> 00:13:21,583 I had a blank skull, and I needed a reconstruction. 206 00:13:21,801 --> 00:13:24,586 Our medical examiner's office granted permission 207 00:13:24,804 --> 00:13:27,371 for Dr. Kimberly, a forensic pathologist who 208 00:13:27,589 --> 00:13:32,986 does facial reconstructions, to take custody of the body, 209 00:13:33,203 --> 00:13:34,944 which was very critical. 210 00:13:35,162 --> 00:13:36,903 Because that was really the only 211 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:39,949 means to get the victim identified. 212 00:13:40,167 --> 00:13:42,604 I had pulled missing person reports from around the United 213 00:13:42,822 --> 00:13:45,302 States, but it was about 2,000 missing 214 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:47,609 persons matching the basic description 215 00:13:47,827 --> 00:13:49,741 of our unidentified victim. 216 00:13:52,832 --> 00:13:55,530 The investigators began going business to business, 217 00:13:55,747 --> 00:13:57,314 pulling video, talking to people, 218 00:13:57,532 --> 00:13:59,577 asking them if they heard or saw anything strange 219 00:13:59,795 --> 00:14:02,058 within the time window. 220 00:14:02,276 --> 00:14:04,408 Because it was close to the interstate, 221 00:14:04,626 --> 00:14:07,585 I felt that it was probably somebody not local 222 00:14:07,803 --> 00:14:09,413 that committed the crime. 223 00:14:09,631 --> 00:14:10,632 We know that she 224 00:14:10,850 --> 00:14:13,417 likely died in April 2013. 225 00:14:13,635 --> 00:14:16,333 We also went back through our FIRs, which are field interview 226 00:14:16,551 --> 00:14:18,858 reports, and we found records on different homeless people 227 00:14:19,075 --> 00:14:21,686 that had been in the area that law enforcement had come 228 00:14:21,861 --> 00:14:23,775 in contact with within the April time frame 229 00:14:23,950 --> 00:14:25,734 that we're talking about to potentially identify 230 00:14:25,908 --> 00:14:27,954 a suspect in this homicide. 231 00:14:28,171 --> 00:14:34,830 We then come upon a name, Edward Antis. 232 00:14:35,004 --> 00:14:37,964 This particular person had a violent history. 233 00:14:38,181 --> 00:14:40,314 And we learned he was in the woods at the time, 234 00:14:40,531 --> 00:14:42,838 that this was with another female. 235 00:14:43,012 --> 00:14:44,230 It was believed 236 00:14:44,231 --> 00:14:45,754 that that woman at the time was wearing 237 00:14:45,928 --> 00:14:48,670 the same clothing and same physical description 238 00:14:48,888 --> 00:14:51,760 as our victim. 239 00:14:51,934 --> 00:14:53,196 To us, that was a hot lead. 240 00:14:53,414 --> 00:14:55,982 It had to be followed up immediately. 241 00:14:56,199 --> 00:14:58,985 Running the man's name through databases, 242 00:14:59,202 --> 00:15:02,118 we find out that he is a registered sex offender. 243 00:15:02,336 --> 00:15:05,295 And we searched, trying to locate him at homeless camps. 244 00:15:07,819 --> 00:15:10,213 But we couldn't find Edward Antis. 245 00:15:10,431 --> 00:15:12,302 He had disappeared. 246 00:15:15,392 --> 00:15:18,656 However, that same day we did find that Mr. 247 00:15:18,874 --> 00:15:21,050 Antis had a food stamp card. 248 00:15:21,268 --> 00:15:25,272 And that card had been recently used in Las Vegas. 249 00:15:25,489 --> 00:15:27,970 We thought he was running. 250 00:15:28,188 --> 00:15:30,842 We got on a plane and flew to Las Vegas. 251 00:15:31,017 --> 00:15:32,192 Now we're riding high. 252 00:15:32,409 --> 00:15:35,412 We now have something legitimate, 253 00:15:35,630 --> 00:15:39,199 a potential suspect in this homicide. 254 00:15:39,416 --> 00:15:41,592 We just got to go out there and find him. 255 00:15:48,425 --> 00:15:50,123 Based on the information we have, 256 00:15:50,340 --> 00:15:52,777 we start going to some of these different locations 257 00:15:52,952 --> 00:15:56,390 where we believe that Mr. Antis had been. 258 00:15:56,607 --> 00:15:58,827 With the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, 259 00:15:59,001 --> 00:16:05,268 we were able to locate Mr. Antis at a local bus stop. 260 00:16:05,486 --> 00:16:08,924 We did interview Edward Antis extensively. 261 00:16:09,098 --> 00:16:11,622 He did live in the woods, the same woods 262 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:14,495 where the victim was murdered. 263 00:16:14,712 --> 00:16:16,671 He was with a woman in Las Vegas. 264 00:16:19,239 --> 00:16:21,763 She hadn't been with him that long. 265 00:16:21,981 --> 00:16:24,722 Once we established Antis had a violent history, 266 00:16:24,940 --> 00:16:26,333 she wanted to go back home. 267 00:16:28,857 --> 00:16:29,989 Ultimately, we 268 00:16:30,206 --> 00:16:31,816 learned that the woman that he was with 269 00:16:31,991 --> 00:16:34,428 was the same woman that had been in the woods with him 270 00:16:34,645 --> 00:16:35,995 in Sumter County, Florida. 271 00:16:36,169 --> 00:16:40,129 And so she was not our unidentified victim 272 00:16:40,347 --> 00:16:42,784 from the homicide. 273 00:16:43,002 --> 00:16:46,744 Mr. Antis was not a suspect anymore. 274 00:16:46,962 --> 00:16:49,834 But we still have to get this victim identified 275 00:16:50,009 --> 00:16:52,185 and find a suspect to solve this case. 276 00:16:58,017 --> 00:17:02,021 We're still waiting for the facial reconstruction. 277 00:17:02,195 --> 00:17:04,980 And so we were doing everything we could to move 278 00:17:05,154 --> 00:17:08,636 the investigation forward. 279 00:17:08,853 --> 00:17:10,855 We put out BOLOs-- "be on the lookout for." 280 00:17:11,030 --> 00:17:14,816 And we put out information and details to many agencies, 281 00:17:15,034 --> 00:17:18,820 especially in Florida, like how our unidentified victim was 282 00:17:19,038 --> 00:17:20,778 killed near a truck stop area. 283 00:17:20,996 --> 00:17:23,042 One of the theories was that there might have been a truck 284 00:17:23,259 --> 00:17:27,916 driver involved just because of where their body was located. 285 00:17:28,090 --> 00:17:31,267 And so every minute that ticks by that you're 286 00:17:31,485 --> 00:17:34,183 not solving the case and your victim is still a Jane Doe-- 287 00:17:34,401 --> 00:17:36,664 the murderer could be 2,000 miles away. 288 00:17:39,014 --> 00:17:40,755 I got a phone call from a North Florida 289 00:17:40,972 --> 00:17:42,191 law enforcement agency. 290 00:17:42,409 --> 00:17:44,715 They had a murder investigation, 291 00:17:44,933 --> 00:17:46,978 a female left on the side of the road 292 00:17:47,153 --> 00:17:49,372 that a semi truck driver was the suspect in the case. 293 00:17:49,590 --> 00:17:52,332 My victim was killed near a truck stop area, 294 00:17:52,549 --> 00:17:54,029 an area frequented by truckers. 295 00:17:54,203 --> 00:17:57,772 So the question was, is this person my killer? 296 00:18:15,268 --> 00:18:17,008 We believe that the person suspected 297 00:18:17,183 --> 00:18:20,055 for the murder of our unidentified victim 298 00:18:20,229 --> 00:18:22,797 was a truck driver because my victim 299 00:18:23,014 --> 00:18:26,279 was killed near a truck stop. 300 00:18:28,324 --> 00:18:30,109 I got a phone call from a North Florida 301 00:18:30,283 --> 00:18:31,848 law enforcement agency. 302 00:18:31,849 --> 00:18:34,722 They had a murder that they believed that a semi truck 303 00:18:34,939 --> 00:18:35,984 driver was involved in. 304 00:18:42,991 --> 00:18:46,081 I immediately drove to North Florida, 305 00:18:46,255 --> 00:18:48,910 met with the investigators, and worked with them 306 00:18:49,128 --> 00:18:52,870 over the next 24 hours or so, hoping that maybe this was 307 00:18:53,088 --> 00:18:55,960 going to be a lead in my case. 308 00:18:59,050 --> 00:19:02,184 We staked out a couple places waiting for the truck driver, 309 00:19:02,402 --> 00:19:05,535 the person suspected who might be involved in this murder 310 00:19:05,753 --> 00:19:10,453 investigation, to return so the other agency in North Florida 311 00:19:10,671 --> 00:19:13,978 could serve their search warrant on them. 312 00:19:14,153 --> 00:19:16,938 Finally, we found what we were looking for, 313 00:19:17,156 --> 00:19:18,765 the semi truck driver. 314 00:19:18,766 --> 00:19:24,772 I was present when that agency conducted a search warrant. 315 00:19:24,989 --> 00:19:27,688 Unfortunately, there was absolutely no ties 316 00:19:27,905 --> 00:19:30,169 through cell phone records or anything 317 00:19:30,386 --> 00:19:34,042 found inside that vehicle back to my homicide. 318 00:19:34,216 --> 00:19:39,265 Ultimately, that truck driver was not our murderer. 319 00:19:39,482 --> 00:19:43,399 It was deflating because we had to go back to square one, 320 00:19:43,617 --> 00:19:45,401 back to the drawing board. 321 00:19:53,670 --> 00:19:55,237 The last time 322 00:19:55,455 --> 00:19:59,198 Jane Wever had been seen was on March 1, 2013, when she had 323 00:19:59,415 --> 00:20:03,419 driven from Florida to Kentucky to stay with her high school 324 00:20:03,637 --> 00:20:05,204 friend, Ralph Penrod. 325 00:20:08,294 --> 00:20:10,861 Jane Wever's friends were especially concerned 326 00:20:11,079 --> 00:20:14,343 because on April 4th, all communication 327 00:20:14,561 --> 00:20:15,910 from her had stopped. 328 00:20:16,127 --> 00:20:19,914 And there was no trace of her, no word from her. 329 00:20:20,131 --> 00:20:21,742 Myself and my friends 330 00:20:21,959 --> 00:20:25,354 spent countless hours on the phone checking hospitals, 331 00:20:25,572 --> 00:20:27,661 looking for any car accidents that might have happened 332 00:20:27,878 --> 00:20:29,402 between Kentucky and Florida. 333 00:20:29,619 --> 00:20:32,666 We tried to contact anybody in Kentucky that knew 334 00:20:32,883 --> 00:20:34,276 where Jane might have been. 335 00:20:34,494 --> 00:20:36,278 There was no leaf left unturned. 336 00:20:44,765 --> 00:20:46,375 It's weird to think that someone 337 00:20:46,593 --> 00:20:51,424 that you were so close with at one point in your life, 338 00:20:51,641 --> 00:20:55,254 that they're just missing. 339 00:20:55,471 --> 00:20:56,603 It felt unreal. 340 00:21:05,133 --> 00:21:06,743 We tried to contact the police 341 00:21:06,961 --> 00:21:09,833 and let them know that we needed Jane 342 00:21:10,051 --> 00:21:11,270 entered as a missing person. 343 00:21:11,487 --> 00:21:14,621 And they wouldn't take us seriously 344 00:21:14,838 --> 00:21:17,450 because we were in Florida. 345 00:21:17,667 --> 00:21:21,454 I think that they thought that she was just an adult 346 00:21:21,671 --> 00:21:25,109 and she could do whatever she wanted to do. 347 00:21:25,284 --> 00:21:26,894 A few months went by. 348 00:21:27,111 --> 00:21:30,941 We kept in contact with Greensburg Police in Kentucky. 349 00:21:31,159 --> 00:21:36,556 And eventually, we got them to enter Jane as a missing person. 350 00:21:43,954 --> 00:21:46,261 On June the 10th, I was assigned 351 00:21:46,435 --> 00:21:49,308 Jane's missing persons case. 352 00:21:49,482 --> 00:21:52,702 So we wanted to run Jane through a national database 353 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:55,139 to see if there have been reports that could help 354 00:21:55,314 --> 00:21:56,706 us locate this missing woman. 355 00:22:01,276 --> 00:22:05,846 My initial thoughts was that Jane and her friend Ralph 356 00:22:06,063 --> 00:22:07,630 had maybe had a falling out or something 357 00:22:07,848 --> 00:22:11,330 and that she had just went somewhere else. 358 00:22:11,504 --> 00:22:13,593 Investigators learned that Jane 359 00:22:13,810 --> 00:22:15,812 had moved in with Ralph in March, 360 00:22:16,030 --> 00:22:20,556 possibly searching for a romantic relationship with him. 361 00:22:20,774 --> 00:22:22,471 So we wanted to look at the house 362 00:22:22,689 --> 00:22:24,865 and see if there's any evidence that anything 363 00:22:25,082 --> 00:22:26,649 had happened there. 364 00:22:26,867 --> 00:22:29,957 The house was vacant because Ralph had left Greene County 365 00:22:30,174 --> 00:22:31,741 and moved to Florida. 366 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:37,573 There wasn't any evidence that any foul play had happened. 367 00:22:37,791 --> 00:22:40,359 So my belief at that time was that she 368 00:22:40,576 --> 00:22:42,535 had left Greensburg, Kentucky. 369 00:22:49,498 --> 00:22:51,152 Looking for a missing person, you 370 00:22:51,370 --> 00:22:53,459 want to talk to their friends or family, who they live with. 371 00:22:53,676 --> 00:22:56,505 We were able to find Ralph in Florida 372 00:22:56,723 --> 00:22:58,507 and talk with him on the phone. 373 00:22:58,725 --> 00:22:59,682 Were you living 374 00:22:59,900 --> 00:23:01,118 in Greensburg at the time? 375 00:23:01,336 --> 00:23:02,858 RALPH PENROD Yes. 376 00:23:02,859 --> 00:23:04,383 And when did Jane come up to Kentucky? 377 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:06,036 RALPH PENROD [ON I would say about 378 00:23:06,254 --> 00:23:07,951 five days before Mom died. 379 00:23:08,169 --> 00:23:09,562 On the conversation with Ralph, 380 00:23:09,779 --> 00:23:11,738 he stated that he went to Vanceburg 381 00:23:11,955 --> 00:23:14,828 for his mother's funeral, which is up next to Ohio. 382 00:23:15,045 --> 00:23:17,744 And when he came back, Jane was gone, that Jane had left. 383 00:23:17,961 --> 00:23:19,093 RALPH PENROD I think I 384 00:23:19,310 --> 00:23:21,008 was up here for about 10 days. 385 00:23:21,225 --> 00:23:24,011 I told Jane, "You can stay here in the house," you know. 386 00:23:24,228 --> 00:23:27,406 And when I came back home, there was no Jane. 387 00:23:27,580 --> 00:23:30,409 So you got home about the end of March, 388 00:23:30,583 --> 00:23:31,627 and she was gone? 389 00:23:31,845 --> 00:23:32,628 RALPH PENROD Yes. 390 00:23:32,846 --> 00:23:34,107 Yes. 391 00:23:34,108 --> 00:23:35,152 Has Jane tried to contact 392 00:23:35,370 --> 00:23:36,544 you any since March? 393 00:23:36,545 --> 00:23:38,068 RALPH PENROD No, no. 394 00:23:38,286 --> 00:23:40,810 I moved down to Florida in May, and I got a new phone. 395 00:23:41,028 --> 00:23:42,158 All right. 396 00:23:42,159 --> 00:23:43,683 And I'll be looking into all that. 397 00:23:43,900 --> 00:23:45,554 If I have any more questions, I'll just give you a call. 398 00:23:48,644 --> 00:23:51,212 We knew that his mother had died, 399 00:23:51,430 --> 00:23:53,649 so that didn't really raise suspicions. 400 00:23:53,867 --> 00:23:56,565 But in missing persons, I don't necessarily have suspects. 401 00:23:56,783 --> 00:23:59,438 But we continued to search for Jane. 402 00:24:09,448 --> 00:24:12,146 Talking with her friends, we learned that Jane 403 00:24:12,363 --> 00:24:15,584 calls on a weekly basis. 404 00:24:15,802 --> 00:24:21,851 So I found out that her phone number came back to Metro PCS. 405 00:24:22,069 --> 00:24:23,897 We contacted them. 406 00:24:24,114 --> 00:24:26,421 We couldn't get a search warrant for her phone 407 00:24:26,595 --> 00:24:28,162 information because there wasn't 408 00:24:28,379 --> 00:24:31,470 any evidence that any foul play had happened to Jane. 409 00:24:31,687 --> 00:24:35,691 It's not illegal for a person not to call their friends. 410 00:24:35,909 --> 00:24:41,088 We learned the phone was shut off on May the 5th, a month 411 00:24:41,305 --> 00:24:43,307 after her last text messages. 412 00:24:43,482 --> 00:24:47,311 That is concerning, but not completely alarming. 413 00:24:47,486 --> 00:24:50,271 Because maybe Jane didn't pay the bill 414 00:24:50,489 --> 00:24:53,492 and then just got a different phone. 415 00:24:53,666 --> 00:24:55,929 We learned that she was receiving a Social Security 416 00:24:56,146 --> 00:24:58,627 pension from her late husband. 417 00:24:58,845 --> 00:25:01,064 And we tried to determine where Jane's Social 418 00:25:01,282 --> 00:25:02,892 Security benefits were going. 419 00:25:03,110 --> 00:25:05,025 I thought that if she went somewhere else, 420 00:25:05,242 --> 00:25:08,942 she would have a forwarding address. 421 00:25:09,159 --> 00:25:10,073 She did not. 422 00:25:10,291 --> 00:25:13,816 So I did find that concerning. 423 00:25:14,034 --> 00:25:15,775 One of Jane's friends had told us about Jane 424 00:25:15,992 --> 00:25:17,516 opening a bank account. 425 00:25:17,733 --> 00:25:19,996 I was able to go to the bank and given 426 00:25:20,214 --> 00:25:21,520 them a description of Jane. 427 00:25:21,694 --> 00:25:23,434 And the tellers were able to remember and say, 428 00:25:23,609 --> 00:25:25,872 yes, that woman was in here, and we 429 00:25:26,089 --> 00:25:29,179 haven't seen her since then. 430 00:25:29,397 --> 00:25:30,703 Of course, they couldn't give me her banking 431 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:33,140 information without a warrant. 432 00:25:33,357 --> 00:25:36,839 So we were not able to use that information that could help 433 00:25:37,057 --> 00:25:38,667 us locate her or find her. 434 00:25:41,540 --> 00:25:45,195 We've been trying to locate this missing woman for months. 435 00:25:45,413 --> 00:25:48,155 During the summer, there wasn't a whole lot of information 436 00:25:48,372 --> 00:25:49,721 that we were getting. 437 00:25:49,722 --> 00:25:51,811 But I tried to do the job that I would want 438 00:25:52,028 --> 00:25:53,508 somebody to do for my family. 439 00:25:53,682 --> 00:25:55,815 I never stopped looking for Jane. 440 00:26:04,867 --> 00:26:06,303 At this point 441 00:26:06,521 --> 00:26:08,741 in our homicide investigation, we have a dead body 442 00:26:08,958 --> 00:26:10,525 in Wildwood, Florida. 443 00:26:10,699 --> 00:26:13,310 We have indicators that violence has taken place. 444 00:26:13,528 --> 00:26:16,096 But we didn't know who the victim was yet. 445 00:26:16,313 --> 00:26:17,750 At that point, in the homicide 446 00:26:17,967 --> 00:26:20,143 investigation, we knew we had a white female, 447 00:26:20,361 --> 00:26:22,189 50 to 70 years of age. 448 00:26:22,406 --> 00:26:25,932 And any hot leads that we had, those had been exhausted. 449 00:26:28,238 --> 00:26:29,588 The big break 450 00:26:29,805 --> 00:26:32,025 in the case came when we got the final rendition 451 00:26:32,242 --> 00:26:35,071 from Dr. Kimberly. 452 00:26:35,289 --> 00:26:36,290 Dr. Kimberly 453 00:26:36,507 --> 00:26:39,467 does facial reconstructions. 454 00:26:39,641 --> 00:26:40,686 And she was able 455 00:26:40,903 --> 00:26:43,558 to utilize their tools to create 3D 456 00:26:43,732 --> 00:26:47,301 composites based on the skull. 457 00:26:47,518 --> 00:26:49,825 Her rendering was spot on. 458 00:26:50,043 --> 00:26:53,263 We now have a picture of who our victim is. 459 00:26:56,353 --> 00:26:58,268 Financial records can absolutely give 460 00:26:58,486 --> 00:27:01,271 you a blueprint for motive. 461 00:27:01,489 --> 00:27:02,925 Jane was an easy target. 462 00:27:03,143 --> 00:27:06,450 He had to figure out a way to take her money 463 00:27:06,625 --> 00:27:07,756 and get rid of Jane. 464 00:27:24,643 --> 00:27:25,731 Somebody's loved 465 00:27:25,948 --> 00:27:27,297 one died alone in the woods. 466 00:27:32,868 --> 00:27:35,479 But now that we had a great composite that 467 00:27:35,654 --> 00:27:37,656 was part of investigative work, we 468 00:27:37,830 --> 00:27:40,615 decided to go on a press junket where we talked 469 00:27:40,789 --> 00:27:43,313 about our victim, what we knew, and see 470 00:27:43,531 --> 00:27:47,056 if we can generate some leads. 471 00:27:47,274 --> 00:27:48,188 So, of course, 472 00:27:48,405 --> 00:27:49,972 all the leads are coming in. 473 00:27:50,190 --> 00:27:54,716 Unfortunately, as you deal with this for months, 474 00:27:54,934 --> 00:27:57,937 the leads didn't turn out to be anything. 475 00:27:58,154 --> 00:28:03,203 Finally, after six months, we received a call. 476 00:28:07,381 --> 00:28:09,209 In November of 2013, 477 00:28:09,426 --> 00:28:12,778 I was at work, and I had some downtime. 478 00:28:12,995 --> 00:28:15,563 And I pulled up the Doe Network, 479 00:28:15,737 --> 00:28:21,525 which is a website where I can find unidentified people. 480 00:28:21,700 --> 00:28:24,398 I was scrolling through unidentified people 481 00:28:24,615 --> 00:28:27,314 in Kentucky and Florida. 482 00:28:27,531 --> 00:28:32,449 I clicked on one of the numbers and I opened it up and-- 483 00:28:32,667 --> 00:28:37,063 it was gut wrenching. 484 00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:41,197 I knew as soon as I saw that picture that that was Jane. 485 00:28:44,287 --> 00:28:47,726 It was one of the saddest moments of my life. 486 00:28:47,943 --> 00:28:49,510 I didn't want to believe what I saw. 487 00:28:52,165 --> 00:28:54,341 I went and called the Sumter County, 488 00:28:54,558 --> 00:28:59,563 and I told them that person was not unidentified. 489 00:28:59,738 --> 00:29:01,783 She had a name, and her name was Martha Jane Wever. 490 00:29:17,625 --> 00:29:19,670 I talked to Jaime Gonzalez. 491 00:29:19,845 --> 00:29:22,804 She sent me a picture. 492 00:29:23,022 --> 00:29:28,375 It was like I was looking at a mirror image of the composite 493 00:29:28,592 --> 00:29:32,509 that Dr. Kimberly had done. 494 00:29:32,727 --> 00:29:35,382 Her hair was up, and you could see on her shoulder 495 00:29:35,599 --> 00:29:38,211 that Jane tattoo plain as day. 496 00:29:38,428 --> 00:29:41,867 There is 100% no doubt that was my victim. 497 00:29:46,306 --> 00:29:48,221 There are two investigations going on. 498 00:29:48,438 --> 00:29:51,006 We have a homicide where we didn't know who the person was. 499 00:29:51,224 --> 00:29:53,400 Greensburg is investigating a missing person's report 500 00:29:53,617 --> 00:29:56,577 who they do know is missing. 501 00:29:56,795 --> 00:29:58,884 It wasn't until we were able to get her identified, 502 00:29:59,101 --> 00:30:00,842 call up there, that the two investigations are 503 00:30:01,060 --> 00:30:03,105 forced together. 504 00:30:03,323 --> 00:30:05,804 I mean, that was huge. 505 00:30:05,978 --> 00:30:09,155 The true investigation to who did it starts when 506 00:30:09,372 --> 00:30:10,460 you know who the victim is. 507 00:30:12,898 --> 00:30:15,030 Once we talked to Detective Norris 508 00:30:15,248 --> 00:30:17,380 and the positive identification was made 509 00:30:17,598 --> 00:30:22,821 and Jane had been found, the missing persons case is closed. 510 00:30:22,995 --> 00:30:26,955 But the homicide investigation in Florida has been ramped up. 511 00:30:29,915 --> 00:30:33,483 Detective Norris was able to procure search warrants 512 00:30:33,701 --> 00:30:38,662 to access phone records, Social Security monies, bank records. 513 00:30:45,017 --> 00:30:47,715 When we received the financial records, 514 00:30:47,889 --> 00:30:50,152 what we found was that Jane was collecting pensions 515 00:30:50,370 --> 00:30:51,675 and she was living day to day, just like 516 00:30:51,850 --> 00:30:54,156 every other regular American. 517 00:30:54,374 --> 00:30:59,161 And she had this source of income that was sustaining her. 518 00:30:59,379 --> 00:31:00,902 The pension fund check 519 00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:02,948 that Jane got from her late husband 520 00:31:03,165 --> 00:31:05,776 was actually a federal pension. 521 00:31:05,951 --> 00:31:08,170 There had been multiple transactions where 522 00:31:08,388 --> 00:31:09,998 the funds had been diverted from one account 523 00:31:10,216 --> 00:31:11,434 to another to another. 524 00:31:14,524 --> 00:31:17,701 After Jane's death, her pension check 525 00:31:17,876 --> 00:31:23,403 was going into the bank account of Ralph Penrod for months. 526 00:31:28,234 --> 00:31:30,323 I basically told Detective Norris 527 00:31:30,540 --> 00:31:34,544 that after the death of her husband, 528 00:31:34,762 --> 00:31:38,809 Butch, Jane moved to Greensburg, Kentucky 529 00:31:38,984 --> 00:31:39,854 with Ralph Penrod. 530 00:31:44,728 --> 00:31:46,426 While she was in Greensburg 531 00:31:46,643 --> 00:31:49,472 in this relationship, I believe Ralph 532 00:31:49,690 --> 00:31:52,693 was using that relationship in order to get 533 00:31:52,911 --> 00:31:55,870 her to give the finances. 534 00:31:56,044 --> 00:31:57,611 And that's what she did in moving all 535 00:31:57,828 --> 00:31:59,918 these finances over to him. 536 00:32:00,092 --> 00:32:02,877 And then suddenly she was gone. 537 00:32:05,575 --> 00:32:07,055 At that time, 538 00:32:07,273 --> 00:32:09,579 obviously, Ralph Harold Penrod is suspect number one. 539 00:32:28,337 --> 00:32:30,644 In November 2013, 540 00:32:30,861 --> 00:32:32,907 Kentucky State Police identified 541 00:32:33,081 --> 00:32:35,605 the missing woman, Jane Wever, as the murder victim 542 00:32:35,823 --> 00:32:37,303 in Florida. 543 00:32:40,045 --> 00:32:43,962 As detectives dig deeper into Jane's financial records, 544 00:32:44,179 --> 00:32:47,704 police realized that Ralph Penrod took advantage of Jane 545 00:32:47,922 --> 00:32:49,402 for her pension checks. 546 00:32:49,619 --> 00:32:51,230 He's not just a friend. 547 00:32:51,447 --> 00:32:52,448 He's the prime suspect. 548 00:32:56,975 --> 00:32:58,759 The finances were crucially 549 00:32:58,977 --> 00:33:00,543 important because by investigating 550 00:33:00,761 --> 00:33:02,109 those financial records, we were 551 00:33:02,110 --> 00:33:04,373 able to get the audio from the conversations 552 00:33:04,591 --> 00:33:07,159 from the banking institutions, which led us to believe 553 00:33:07,376 --> 00:33:08,595 what the relationship was. 554 00:33:11,685 --> 00:33:15,123 The day that Jane arrived in Kentucky, 555 00:33:15,341 --> 00:33:20,172 she transferred her pension check direct deposit 556 00:33:20,389 --> 00:33:24,045 from her bank account to Ralph's account 557 00:33:24,263 --> 00:33:25,786 in Greensburg, Kentucky. 558 00:33:28,354 --> 00:33:32,271 You could actually hear Ralph in the background helping 559 00:33:32,488 --> 00:33:33,837 her with the account number. 560 00:33:35,970 --> 00:33:37,145 JANE WEVER I moved. 561 00:33:37,363 --> 00:33:38,886 I don't live in Port Charlotte no more. 562 00:33:39,060 --> 00:33:40,322 And I got a new bank. 563 00:33:40,540 --> 00:33:41,976 Can you direct deposit that? 564 00:33:42,150 --> 00:33:43,804 OK, what is the name of the bank 565 00:33:44,022 --> 00:33:45,457 that we're switching to? 566 00:33:45,458 --> 00:33:46,633 What's the name of the bank? 567 00:33:46,850 --> 00:33:48,113 Hold on a minute. He's going to give it. 568 00:33:48,330 --> 00:33:49,678 RALPH PENROD [ON Community Trust. 569 00:33:49,679 --> 00:33:50,898 Community Trust Bank. 570 00:33:51,072 --> 00:33:51,985 OPERATOR [ON Everything's been 571 00:33:51,986 --> 00:33:53,509 taken care of going forward. 572 00:33:53,727 --> 00:33:54,379 All right, thank you very much. 573 00:33:54,380 --> 00:33:55,816 Now I can rest. 574 00:33:56,034 --> 00:33:58,471 However, there was another recording. 575 00:33:58,688 --> 00:34:03,215 And she talks about how her roommate, Ralph Penrod, 576 00:34:03,432 --> 00:34:04,912 is taking her money. 577 00:34:07,175 --> 00:34:08,611 How may I help you? 578 00:34:08,829 --> 00:34:10,439 Yeah, this is Martha Wever. 579 00:34:10,657 --> 00:34:14,226 I just found out my friend's using me so I want to change 580 00:34:14,443 --> 00:34:16,445 it back to the Forcht Bank. 581 00:34:16,663 --> 00:34:18,143 A short time later, 582 00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:20,319 there's a third recording. 583 00:34:20,536 --> 00:34:26,020 Jane calls the pension and asks them 584 00:34:26,194 --> 00:34:29,067 to change the direct deposit back to Ralph 585 00:34:29,241 --> 00:34:30,807 Harold Penrod's account. 586 00:34:31,025 --> 00:34:32,374 JANE WEVER [ON Yeah, I want my May 587 00:34:32,592 --> 00:34:35,160 payment to go in this account. 588 00:34:35,377 --> 00:34:36,900 Community Trust Bank? 589 00:34:37,075 --> 00:34:38,163 JANE WEVER Yes, 590 00:34:38,380 --> 00:34:40,382 it's my boyfriend's account. 591 00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:42,471 Financial records can absolutely give 592 00:34:42,689 --> 00:34:44,604 you a blueprint for motive. 593 00:34:44,821 --> 00:34:46,345 Why did this person kill this person? 594 00:34:49,130 --> 00:34:53,091 But it doesn't mean we were able to solve the crime, 595 00:34:53,308 --> 00:34:56,006 how did Jane Wever end up in Wildwood, 596 00:34:56,181 --> 00:34:58,313 Florida, buried in the woods. 597 00:35:03,579 --> 00:35:06,060 I was able to obtain Jane's phone records. 598 00:35:06,234 --> 00:35:10,108 And I also got phone records for Ralph Harold Penrod. 599 00:35:10,282 --> 00:35:13,154 Jane and Ralph's phone had traveled 600 00:35:13,372 --> 00:35:17,550 from Kentucky to Florida. 601 00:35:17,767 --> 00:35:21,597 In April 2013, both phones were pinging on the same cell phone 602 00:35:21,815 --> 00:35:25,558 tower at State Road 44 and I-75 for a considerable amount 603 00:35:25,775 --> 00:35:31,651 of time, the same location where the body was found. 604 00:35:31,868 --> 00:35:34,567 And then Jane's phone went off and 605 00:35:34,784 --> 00:35:36,786 Ralph's phone traveled to Ralph's house 606 00:35:37,004 --> 00:35:39,572 in Tavares, Florida. 607 00:35:42,662 --> 00:35:46,405 Looking at the phone records, knowing that Jane's phone went 608 00:35:46,622 --> 00:35:50,322 off, there was no doubt in my mind 609 00:35:50,539 --> 00:35:54,152 that Jane had been murdered at that moment in time. 610 00:35:57,242 --> 00:35:59,809 At this point, I applied for an arrest warrant 611 00:36:00,027 --> 00:36:03,465 charging Ralph with murder. 612 00:36:03,683 --> 00:36:05,641 Of course, Ralph didn't know that. 613 00:36:08,470 --> 00:36:10,777 I talked to Ralph and asked him if he would 614 00:36:10,994 --> 00:36:12,387 agree to an interview with me. 615 00:36:12,605 --> 00:36:16,174 And he said absolutely. 616 00:36:16,348 --> 00:36:18,044 When you're interviewing people, 617 00:36:18,045 --> 00:36:21,222 you hope that you're going to lock them into a story of lies 618 00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:25,661 or a house of cards that you could crumble down the road. 619 00:36:25,879 --> 00:36:27,010 You know, the Kentucky State Police, 620 00:36:27,185 --> 00:36:28,663 I guess they've been looking into Jane 621 00:36:28,664 --> 00:36:30,449 being missing now for months and months and months. 622 00:36:30,666 --> 00:36:31,841 They've talked to you on the phone? 623 00:36:32,059 --> 00:36:33,582 Yeah, I was talking to some policeman. 624 00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:34,931 I don't know. 625 00:36:35,149 --> 00:36:37,020 Sitting in that interview room, 626 00:36:37,195 --> 00:36:39,197 I think that Ralph thought he was smarter than us. 627 00:36:39,414 --> 00:36:41,938 He had been in contact with Trooper Dicken. 628 00:36:42,156 --> 00:36:43,984 So I think he felt he had gotten away with it. 629 00:36:44,202 --> 00:36:45,638 I mean, I think he felt emboldened. 630 00:36:45,855 --> 00:36:47,205 You said she never gave you any money, right? 631 00:36:47,379 --> 00:36:48,293 You guys didn't share-- 632 00:36:48,510 --> 00:36:49,294 share money? 633 00:36:49,511 --> 00:36:50,469 No, I-- 634 00:36:50,686 --> 00:36:51,817 no. 635 00:36:51,818 --> 00:36:52,340 How'd she get money? 636 00:36:52,558 --> 00:36:53,775 Do you know? 637 00:36:53,776 --> 00:36:56,214 You ask stuff I don't know. 638 00:36:56,388 --> 00:36:57,345 OK, yeah. 639 00:36:57,563 --> 00:36:59,956 Of course, I 640 00:37:00,174 --> 00:37:03,960 knew that Ralph was still receiving 641 00:37:04,178 --> 00:37:06,136 her pension fund check. 642 00:37:06,311 --> 00:37:09,009 How did Jane's check ended up getting into your bank account? 643 00:37:15,233 --> 00:37:17,017 I don't know. 644 00:37:17,235 --> 00:37:18,714 You don't know? 645 00:37:18,932 --> 00:37:20,760 He didn't really have an answer for that. 646 00:37:20,977 --> 00:37:21,891 Well, that's 647 00:37:22,109 --> 00:37:23,588 what makes it really curious. 648 00:37:23,589 --> 00:37:24,807 That's what makes it really strange, 649 00:37:25,025 --> 00:37:27,027 that her check ends up in-- her check 650 00:37:27,245 --> 00:37:28,898 that she gets monthly ends up in your bank account 651 00:37:29,116 --> 00:37:31,249 and you're the sole account holder on it, Ralph. 652 00:37:31,466 --> 00:37:33,251 I got a [bleep] headache. 653 00:37:33,425 --> 00:37:34,556 You got a headache? 654 00:37:34,774 --> 00:37:36,036 We're asking you how-- 655 00:37:36,254 --> 00:37:37,471 how her check-- 656 00:37:37,472 --> 00:37:38,821 How Jane's monthly check-- 657 00:37:39,039 --> 00:37:40,345 gets deposited in your account. 658 00:37:40,562 --> 00:37:41,345 gets deposited in your account 659 00:37:41,346 --> 00:37:42,521 at Community Trust Bank. 660 00:37:42,738 --> 00:37:46,742 Well, she asked me to and she took-- 661 00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:49,223 she owed me 20-- 662 00:37:49,397 --> 00:37:50,485 29,000. 663 00:37:50,703 --> 00:37:52,095 I gave her 29,000. 664 00:37:52,270 --> 00:37:54,054 Jane owed you $29,000? 665 00:37:54,272 --> 00:37:57,275 I told Ralph that that whole thing didn't make any sense 666 00:37:57,492 --> 00:37:59,799 and that where did he get the cash from 667 00:38:00,016 --> 00:38:03,324 to give Jane $29,000 in cash? 668 00:38:03,542 --> 00:38:05,107 Nah, I want to go home. 669 00:38:05,108 --> 00:38:08,721 I mean, [bleep], I think I've been up here long enough. 670 00:38:08,938 --> 00:38:09,852 My back hurts. 671 00:38:10,070 --> 00:38:11,201 I told you everything. 672 00:38:11,376 --> 00:38:13,900 What I knew then was Ralph's freedom 673 00:38:14,117 --> 00:38:16,076 was about to come to an end. 674 00:38:16,294 --> 00:38:18,165 Sir, you want to stand up for me? 675 00:38:18,339 --> 00:38:19,297 You're going to turn around and put 676 00:38:19,471 --> 00:38:20,558 your hands behind your back. 677 00:38:20,559 --> 00:38:21,734 You have a warrant 678 00:38:21,951 --> 00:38:23,083 for your arrest for murder. - Murder? 679 00:38:23,301 --> 00:38:24,388 DARREN For murder. 680 00:38:24,389 --> 00:38:26,869 It's for the murder of Jane Wever. 681 00:38:27,087 --> 00:38:28,306 What you got there? 682 00:38:30,830 --> 00:38:33,093 I never been charged with murder before. 683 00:38:33,311 --> 00:38:35,878 Jeez. 684 00:38:50,415 --> 00:38:51,981 In November of 2013, 685 00:38:52,199 --> 00:38:55,289 we were able to bring murder charges against Ralph Penrod 686 00:38:55,463 --> 00:38:58,553 for the murder of Jane Wever. 687 00:39:06,039 --> 00:39:07,954 After he had left Greensboro, Kentucky, 688 00:39:08,171 --> 00:39:11,740 we believe Ralph drove Jane back to Florida. 689 00:39:11,958 --> 00:39:15,004 And when he pulled off the interstate behind the truck 690 00:39:15,222 --> 00:39:19,357 stop, Ralph Penrod lured her to a location 691 00:39:19,531 --> 00:39:20,575 that was far enough back. 692 00:39:29,323 --> 00:39:31,586 And then Jane was shot three times. 693 00:39:35,373 --> 00:39:37,244 Brutally murdered 694 00:39:37,418 --> 00:39:40,116 and buried in the woods. 695 00:39:40,334 --> 00:39:43,206 Ralph got his money, left her there, 696 00:39:43,381 --> 00:39:45,818 and just continued living his life. 697 00:39:52,651 --> 00:39:54,087 When you get to the trial, 698 00:39:54,304 --> 00:39:55,697 the biggest challenge that the prosecution 699 00:39:55,915 --> 00:40:00,572 had to face is we didn't have any physical evidence. 700 00:40:00,789 --> 00:40:03,270 And also, you're talking about multiple jurisdictions 701 00:40:03,444 --> 00:40:05,272 and bringing them all together and making sure 702 00:40:05,446 --> 00:40:08,318 that the information got across to the jury. 703 00:40:08,493 --> 00:40:12,410 The prosecution believed Ralph was a manipulator. 704 00:40:12,627 --> 00:40:16,196 Jane was a vulnerable person, an easy target 705 00:40:16,414 --> 00:40:19,155 to take advantage of. 706 00:40:19,373 --> 00:40:21,027 He fostered that relationship in order 707 00:40:21,244 --> 00:40:25,466 to ultimately take her money, sign over all her accounts. 708 00:40:25,684 --> 00:40:28,164 And when he got to a point where he thought 709 00:40:28,382 --> 00:40:31,733 his footing was where it needed to be, 710 00:40:31,951 --> 00:40:36,651 he had to figure out a way to get rid of Jane. 711 00:40:36,869 --> 00:40:38,261 There was no DNA evidence. 712 00:40:38,436 --> 00:40:39,654 There wasn't a smoking gun. 713 00:40:39,872 --> 00:40:42,527 I didn't even have the gun. 714 00:40:42,744 --> 00:40:46,792 But I had a lot of circumstantial evidence. 715 00:40:47,009 --> 00:40:48,489 Ralph Penrod had suddenly 716 00:40:48,707 --> 00:40:50,796 acquired additional monies that were 717 00:40:51,013 --> 00:40:54,539 certainly upping his status. 718 00:40:54,756 --> 00:40:58,673 We had evidence that Jane was moving all these finances over 719 00:40:58,891 --> 00:41:01,241 from her pension fund to him. 720 00:41:01,459 --> 00:41:02,808 Both their phones were still 721 00:41:03,025 --> 00:41:04,636 together when they got to the location 722 00:41:04,853 --> 00:41:06,551 in the center of Wildwood. 723 00:41:06,768 --> 00:41:10,946 And then Jane's phone went off. 724 00:41:11,164 --> 00:41:13,732 There would be no reason for them to pull into those woods 725 00:41:13,949 --> 00:41:15,081 other than to murder Jane. 726 00:41:23,437 --> 00:41:27,223 Ralph's defense attorney did a good job in defending him. 727 00:41:27,441 --> 00:41:30,966 But they didn't have anything significant, evidentiary wise. 728 00:41:36,494 --> 00:41:38,452 The jury found Ralph Harold Penrod 729 00:41:38,626 --> 00:41:42,021 guilty of second degree murder in the death of Jane Wever. 730 00:41:45,024 --> 00:41:46,852 Getting justice for the family of Jane 731 00:41:47,069 --> 00:41:48,506 Wever is a great relief. 732 00:41:48,723 --> 00:41:49,898 I mean, it was an absolute relief. 733 00:41:54,033 --> 00:41:56,557 It breaks my heart knowing 734 00:41:56,775 --> 00:42:01,344 that Jane trusted this man. 735 00:42:01,519 --> 00:42:05,174 She didn't see the bad in anybody. 736 00:42:05,392 --> 00:42:06,741 She loved people so much and she would 737 00:42:06,959 --> 00:42:08,830 do anything to help anybody. 738 00:42:13,095 --> 00:42:14,532 I feel her in my heart. 739 00:42:17,317 --> 00:42:20,929 It's the only place that she'll still 740 00:42:21,147 --> 00:42:26,413 feel alive is through the memories I have of her. 741 00:42:26,587 --> 00:42:30,765 And those memories will be with me forever.