Feb. 26, 2025

The disappearance of Jana Koklich

The disappearance of Jana Koklich

This episode delves into the tragic case of Jana Koklich. When contradictions in her husband Bruce's statements raise suspicions, leading to a deeper scrutiny of their relationship, the facts lead to a deep betrayal.

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05:12 Meet Jana and...

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Season 7

This episode delves into the tragic case of Jana Koklich. When contradictions in her husband Bruce's statements raise suspicions, leading to a deeper scrutiny of their relationship, the facts lead to a deep betrayal.

Timestamps
05:12 Meet Jana and Bruce
07:40 The Mystery of Jana's Disappearance
14:06 The Father’s Troubling Past
23:24 The Business Partner's Alibi
25:01 The Personal Trainer's Connection
32:56 The Search for Evidence
58:08 The Ultimate Betrayal
1:00:57 Arrest and Trial

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Welcome to Unspeakable, a true crime podcast where I tell

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stories of real crimes with real victims, whose cases are

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so shocking that many are left wondering how is this

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even real? I use my experiences in law enforcement corrections,

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and combined with my years as a criminal justice educator,

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dig deep into complex cases of evil acts, some so

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evil many feel they are unspeakable. Warning. Unspeakable as intended

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for mature audiences. If you are easily offended, then I'm

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not your girl. Listening discretion is advised. Hey, y'all, it's

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kJ here and I'm back. I've got a great episode

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for you today. What is going on? If you are

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watching me right now podcast, you'll see I have this

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ridiculous contraption on my thumb because I hurt my finger.

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I hurt my finger and it's not a cool it's

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not a cool injury either. You would think I'd love

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to give you something awesome, but they said it was

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a texting thumb. As unsexy as that is. I'm like,

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for real, I text so much and I message so

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much that I've injured my thumb. So don't y'all tell me.

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I don't answer y'all's messages because it's true. I've got

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the texting thumb to prevent so ridiculous. All right, But anyway,

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I hope you're doing well. I hope your thumbs are

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just moving fluidly because mine sucks. But I'm gonna ask

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you to come with me today to California, California A

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and we're gonna be in the Lakewood north of Long

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Beach area, and this is where Bruce and Jenna Kochlic

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built their dream home. Jana was born on January first,

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nineteen sixty and in her family, she was an only child,

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but that was a perfect thing for their family because

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she was her parents absolute pride and joy. And as

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a young adult, her dream as she grew up was

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that she wanted to go to law school. She had

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been talking about this basically her whole life, that that

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is where she wanted to go and she wanted to

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be a lawyer. But that all changed when she met

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the love of her life, Bruce, and when they met

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and they decided that they wanted to get married and

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start their family, she abandoned those plans of becoming a

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lawyer and she decided, you know what, let's do something different.

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I want to be with you, and I want us

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to build this empire together. And so Bruce had dreams

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that he wanted to build a real estate business, and

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he knew in his heart of hearts that Jana was

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the one. She was the one that could help him

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to succeed because she had what he lacked. Because Jenna,

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she really enjoyed being in the background. She liked doing

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the computer work and the paperwork and all of that,

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while Bruce was really more of the personal side of it.

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He really pulled in with the public relations and got

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people's attention, and he liked being the face of this duo,

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and y'all it worked. She wanted her husband, Bruce to shine,

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and she did her best to put him in the

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best light. And their business was real estate. It was

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with the Remax Company, and their beach office was located

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right there in California in a nice little area, and

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they were starting up. As well as doing their real estate,

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which they were doing really well at, they also were

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working on a little side hustle that they were trying

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to start up a computer software company. So they had

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a lot of things going for them and they worked

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really hard together to build this dream of not having

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just one avenue of cash flow of having multiple businesses

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that they could own and that they could manage. Now.

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According to her colleagues, Jenna was a hard working woman,

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very hard working and described as meticulous too. She had

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a penchant for being punctual. She was always on time.

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She was always prepared and on task, and a very

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the book type of lady. Very professional, very prompt with

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her appointments, and downright just dependable. If you needed her,

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she was there. She was the one that you could

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count one. Now, let's talk about her for a minute.

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She stood five foot seven, one hundred and thirty pounds.

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She had long blonde hair with bangs. But her hair

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looked very consistent with that of like the late nineties.

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It had a little bit of poof to it, you

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know what I'm talking about, in those old school kind

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of like Barbie hairdoos with the longer hair kind of

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maybe had a little flip at the end and then

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the poofy little bangs. But she had blue eyes, very

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very very thick, full lips both top and bottom. She

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had very prominent lips, and I'd say that that was

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really her most prominent feature when you looked at her

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and they were natural. They weren't these duck lips of today.

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These were very natural, thick, nice lips. She was not

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a very heavy makeup wearer, but she absolutely cared about

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her appearance. She wore makeup, but just more of a

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natural tone. And another thing about her is that she

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loved to work out, and she liked to work out

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consistently because she wanted to look her best. She always

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wanted to do the best that she could do and

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be the best that she could be. Bruce Kochlitch's information

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from his younger years. As I was looking for his stuff,

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it was a bit more sparse. I had a little

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bit harder time finding information on him. But I can

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tell you that in his adult life he was very

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successful in business, and he liked it that way too.

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It wasn't like he was kind of in the background

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about it. He was very proud of the businesses and

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the life that he and his wife had built together.

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Jenna was a little bit shorter than Bruce. Bruce was

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obviously now taller than her. I'd say he's somewhere around

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five eleven. That's a guestimation. He's thin, and his features

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are all very narrow and pointed. He had a longer neck,

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very small eyes, his mouth was really really small, average

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average male haircut. He had brown hair, he would lightly

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gel it, and his front two teeth ever so slightly

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crossed in the front of one another. But when you

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look at him, he kind of looks like that guy

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that would work in technology or something really analytical. And

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I don't mean this meanly at all, but if you've

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seen the movie Napoleon Dynamite, Okay, not Napoleon, though, if

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you've seen Napoleon Dynamite, it's his brother. Do you all

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remember his brother? Love that dude, but he kind of

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looks like him, the brother in those movies. And if

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you haven't seen it, go look it up. I'm sure

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I'll put a picture on Facebook or something. But that's

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pretty much what he looked like. But they definitely fit

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together as a couple whenever you're looking at them. They

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had been married for eleven years at the time that

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this story took place, and their lives were very in

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tune with one another. They had similar goals and very

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similar interests, and that kept their love alive. And I

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guess you'd say that's a really good thing, because they

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spent most of their days all day together because they

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they worked together, they worked at the same company. They

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were very good with communication, They were dependent on one another,

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very codependent in their relationship. By day, they worked at

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the business that they built and grew together over the years,

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and by night they were snuggled in together at their home.

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And their home was a beautiful one located in a

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very prime area on a golf course. So they were

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doing well. I wouldn't say that they were overly flashy people,

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but they lived nicely and nothing about them seemed super

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over the top. If anything, their lifestyle seemed very low

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risk and very average American way of life and living.

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And that's why it kind of came as a surprise

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when Bruce filed a missing person's report for Jenna on Tuesday,

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August twenty first of two thousand and one. Literally, I

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went and I looked. Literally the week I started my

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senior year of high school, to be exact. Bruce called

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Jen as friend that she called her ninni, And that

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morning when he made that phone call, he was like, Hey,

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have you seen Jana. I can't. I haven't spoken to her.

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I can't find her. She had no idea where she

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could be what what can I do for you? Though?

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You know, her best friend was willing to help, to

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do anything to try to find her, and Bruce just

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really started crying and was like, you can tell me

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where my wife is. And it almost came across like

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maybe Nini knew something and wasn't wasn't telling him, but

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that just wasn't the case. She genuinely did not know

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where Jana was. But Jenna would normally show up at

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the office around nine ish in the morning, around nine o'clock,

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and their office was really close to their residence too,

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so it wasn't like there was a far commute for

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her to have driven. So the police arrived and they

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were now involved because no one could locate her. So

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they went and they checked the hospitals. They checked for

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any traffic accident reports that may have a woman that's

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un undetermined or or unnamed, but nothing. They couldn't find anything,

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and that's when a detective, her name was Karen Shanka.

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Karen came in and she spoke to Bruce to establish

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a timeline to at least work off of to determine

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when when's the last time anyone had seen her? And

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he said it was Monday morning. He was that morning,

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he said, I kissed her goodbye at six am. We're

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partners at our real estate agency. She usually would get

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here between nine and nine thirty, but she just didn't

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show up after about ten fifteen, maybe somewhere around ten thirty.

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He started asking around the office when Jana never showed up, like, hey,

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have you seen her? Has anyone talked to her? Nobody

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had spoken to her, And that's when he said he

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called her best friend and Ninni hadn't spoken to her either.

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Now they did have a business partner too. His name

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was Chris, And whenever all of this was going down,

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before the detectives or the police got involved, Bruce asked

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Chris to come with him to go look for her

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because he was extremely nervous. And so Chris went back

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to the house with Bruce to go and try to

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check on Jim. And when they got there, everything really

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was in order, but the car, her purse, and her

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cell phone were gone. But the thing was that the

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house alarm was set. It really seemed like she got

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all her shit together. She got ready that morning, then

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she left the house, set the alarm, and then went missing.

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So something had to have happened within that timeframe. And

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I know I've said this a million times, but most

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people that are called in as missing are usually back

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within twenty four hours. But this seemed like a very

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odd situation that may need more attention because of the

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situation and that she was definitely expected to be at

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the office and never made it there, So the questions

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kind of start coming to mind. You know, what was

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her mental state? Was she on any medication that may

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cause a problem, But none of that seemed to be

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an issue. None of that seemed to raise any red

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flags or or anything. So the police decided to back

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up even more and they wanted to trace her last

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known footsteps. So Friday, August seventeenth, Jenna went to an

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Eric Clapton concert with her best friend Nini, and they

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got home after midnight. Now they had planned at that time,

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she and Bruce had planned to have this relaxed weekend together,

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just the two of them, which is exactly what happened.

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And then poof, Monday morning, she never makes it to

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the office after she kisses her husband goodbye, So, needing

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more to go off of the police wanted to get

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into the house and look around. Maybe there was something

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that Bruce had missed that the detectives would be able

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to pick out or to see, and Bruce says, no problem.

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He gives full consent to search the home and the

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police look in every nook and cranny from the trash

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can contents to the caller ID on the phone. I mean,

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they left nothing unturned. And it turned out that something

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was going on at the house okay, and both spouses

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were aware of this, but the had become a problem

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at the house. Neither spouse was wanting to answer it

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because they had been getting these creepy voicemails from a

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male voice and it was really upsetting to Jana. The

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messages would say things like you know me, you need

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to call me, and then it would hang up, and

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neither of them recognized the voice. They even had their

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friends and their family listen to it, but nobody that

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they knew, and nobody in their inner circle could identify

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this voice. They really were at a loss about it.

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But it was very disturbing to Janna obviously was upsetting

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to Bruce, and so they weren't really answering the phone

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on the weekends because of that. So police took a listen,

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and they took notes, and they tried then to determine, Okay,

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are there any enemies that you as a couple may have,

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and this kind of evolved into something else. Okay, so

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when they wanted to know about the enemies, Jenna's father

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came into play here, not because he was the enemy,

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but because his name was Paul Carpenter, and he had

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been someone that was big in the state Senate. He

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was a state senator from California, and maybe they came

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to this conclusion that maybe someone had beef with him

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and had kidnapped Jenna to settle that beef or to

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hurt her father, because her father, Paul Carpenter, was very

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popular with the community that he served, but he had

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gotten tied up at some point in his career in

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some criminal activity. Now I'm not going to say that

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he was, you know, outslinging cocaine and you know, having

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hoes and all that. That's not the type of criminal

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activity that I mean. This is more like the people.

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This is a quote that I found. People said that

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he played politics the way many people played poker, and

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that kind of said something to me that he was

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a risk taker. He had no trouble taking risks in

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all aspects of his life, and part of that was

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that he was on afraid to lose. He flat out

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did not fear loss, and that went both in his

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professional career and personally. He was willing to do a

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lot and risk a lot. So he was very charming

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to the people that he was supposed to represent politically.

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But he also at the same time had become a

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target of an FBI sting and they were trying to

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figure out it had to do with financial stuff. This

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is not something that should be shocking to all of us.

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We all know that there's corruption in politics, and anyone

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who doesn't think there's corruption is nuts or not paying attention.

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So he would become the target of an FBI sting,

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and basically the FBI was contributing money to certain lawmakers

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in exchange for legislative favors. Okay, the way that it

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seems to always go when we always find this out

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our about our political people when it's all said and done.

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So when that happened, he did get caught up in it,

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for sure, and he was convicted in the nineteen nineties

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on racketeering charges extortion, and he got a conspiracy charge,

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but he would get off on a technicality. The jury,

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it would turn out, wasn't given proper instructions whenever they

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were deliberating the case, and so all of it ended

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up being nullified when it was all said and done

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because of that one technicality. But he was forced to

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leave office because of what had happened. Then, three years later,

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in a completely different case, it wasn't even part of

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the same one, he was convicted on eleven counts of

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obstruction of justice and money laundering. So there was a

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whole lot of bullshit going on with her dad. He

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may have been a great friendly handshaker and smiler and

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kissing the babies, but he was doing some dirty deeds

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behind closed doors. And he had illegally funneled seventy eight

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thousand dollars through a Santa Monica public relations firm, is

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what it all boiled down to. Now, Right before he

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was sentenced for this, he up and fled. He ran away.

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Someone who was supposed to represent the people is illegally

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doing all this shit, and then he fled. He flees

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the country. Not only that he fled, he went to

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Costa Rica and his claim of the reason of why

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he went to Costa Rica was that he was suffering

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from prostate cancer and so he wanted to get better treatment.

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And before he left. This is almost comical because they

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would have fire and squatted me if I did this shit,

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but you know people in high places, I guess. But

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he before he left, I want you to know he

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did thoughtfully write a note and he wrote it to

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the judge in the case, and he said, I find

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my drive for survival stronger than my sense of obligation

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to your legal system. Like can you imagine. You know,

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many people are suffering behind bars with medical conditions. They

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don't write a letter to the judge. They're just like,

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screw you, and they put them behind bars. But now

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he's gonna leave, but write a letter first and say

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I don't really feel like serving my time. I'd rather

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go get my balls checked. Whatever. But it was true.

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I will tell you that he may have actually been

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going to get treatment for prostate cancer, but he wasn't

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too sick to enter and win a national bridge tournament

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in Central America. Okay, so he was sick, but he

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wasn't that sick. And because of all of his activities

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and all the things that he was doing. He was

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eventually tracked down the US was able to find him

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after he spent I guess it was like a year.

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It was a little over a year, I think, but

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in Costa Rica. He spent time also in the Costa

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Rican jail once they got him, and then he was

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returned to California. Once he got to California, he was

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then sentenced to seven years in federal prison, but he

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was ultimately released in nineteen ninety nine. So I guess

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you could say that there were probably a lot of

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people that were pissed off that maybe didn't get their favors,

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but he sure as hell got their money, so they thought,

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you know, maybe this has something to do with that

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whole shebang that was going on. So maybe it was

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a revenge situation for that activity. Maybe the voice in

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the creepy voicemails was the kidnapper. But that's really all

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that police had to go on. Now. I also want

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to tell you that Jana's father also at one point

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was in the real estate industry as well as Jana,

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and so they both also dealt with the ugly side

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of the real estate industry or business. And what I

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mean by that is that they had to go deal

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with repo repose of properties where the payments weren't being

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made and such. So this was also looked at as

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a possible lead in that some of these repode properties

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that Jana was dealing with were known to be in

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gang affiliated areas, and so this kind of branched out

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into a whole bunchho. We don't know what happened, but

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she's she's definitely in a position that she could have

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been pissing off a lot of people, or her dad

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could have. So Jana was the one who would actually

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get in her car drive and go collect the rent

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at these properties, and so maybe it was part of

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that situation. Jana was known to carry a gun and

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have that, I guess for protection, but they thought, well,

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may maybe maybe she got robbed whenever she was going

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to collect the funds. They know that she's getting all

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this cash payments from these people, maybe she was robbed. Well,

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this is what I want to say something to all

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my listeners on here. Owning a gun and carrying a

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gun and running your gun are all one thing, but

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a willingness and having a comfort to actually use your

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said weapon is another thing. And I consistently. I constantly

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see women specifically online that will say, oh, I have

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a gun in my purse for safety. Well, please be

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sure that if you're going to carry a gun for

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your safety, that you're also going to take a course

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put on by either your local law enforcement or somebody

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that knows what the hell they're doing, Because a gun

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in your purse is completely useless in a surprise attack.

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You know, your gun should always be on your person.

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You should have your gun close to you where you

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can grab it immediately. If you're scared, you can use it.

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But if you're scared and you have it in your purse,

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all you're doing is opening up an opportunity for the

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bad guy to take it from you and use it

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against you. And I just really would like to push

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that and make sure people understand owning a gun and

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being comfortable and using it, shooting it, reloading it, and

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unjamming it in a situation that's life or death are

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very different. And at the time that I'm recording this,

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I want you to know that our local sheriff's office,

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if you're local to me, living in Compara sheriff's office

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is putting on a concealed carry course, and I would

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suggest it's a very good course. I went through it myself,

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even though I'd already been trained by them, but I

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went through it myself to check it out. Go do it,

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sign up, tell them kJ sent you. I don't care.

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There's no kickbacks or anything for me, but I just

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want you to be safe and be prepared to actually

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use the weapon, not be afraid of it. Jana had

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the gun, but I don't know how comfortable she was

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with it. But regardless of whatever her comfort levels were,

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she hadn't returned and Bruce was still unable to locate her.

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All this time. Later that everyone's out and looking for her,

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Bruce and his family, including Bruce's stepbrother, tried to find her.

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That he gave lots of details to his family, his

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head in his hands, you know, sobbing even though he

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was completely totally devastated. He would tell anyone that would listen,

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everyone that would listen, this is what happened, Please help

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me find her. At one point, he even thought about

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hiring a helicopter, a private helicopter, and getting searchers out

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there to do an aerial search for her, if that

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would have helped but he did mention that her car

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was missing. Remember I told you the keys in the

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car and all that were gone. So police started being

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of the belief that if she was kidnapped at some

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point soon they would be receiving either a ransom note

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or a call in exchange for her return, simply based

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on not only her father's role in the community that

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this could have been, you know, a result of, but

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also her financial status because they were well off. I

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want to make it seem like they were just average joes.

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They were well off. And so police waited and they

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monitored the phones closely to see would a demand call

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come in. But no calls would ever come in for

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a ransom, and no sightings of her were seen. Nobody

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was calling in saying hey, I see I've seen her,

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or I've spoken to her. So the political career retaliation

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theory was quickly ruled out. It just didn't fit any

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scenario and nothing would match and back that up. So

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in the meantime, the police decided, well, you know what,

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maybe we really need to focus on finding her car.

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If we can find her car, then the chances are

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that we could probably locate her. There were still a

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whole lot of people that still need to be vetted,

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and there was still people that they wanted to go

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check out to see that, Hey, would you would they

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have hurt Jana. But finding that car really became a

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central part of finding Jenna. Chris Bodison was going to

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be the business partner that they had in this software

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company that they were starting up. That was his whole

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angle in there in the relationship, and although this was

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not explicitly stated anywhere, people within their social circles really

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got the feeling that Jana wasn't a fan of him.

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She didn't take to him very well. And he also

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coincidentally left town right after her disappearance. So police kind

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of wondered, hmm, would he have really benefited from Jana

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being gone? And what they found was, yeah, he actually

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would have benefited because with her gone, the business now

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would go from a three way split between Jenna, Bruce,

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and Chris to now just being Bruce and Chris because

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of the way that they had set up this business.

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So they obviously ran out and they had to have

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a word with Chris. They were finally able to locate him,

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and when he was speaking with them, he had an alibi.

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He said, look, I've been hanging out for the whole

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weekend with my girlfriend. And they questioned him deeply on

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this and what was he doing, where were you and

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do you have this and that to prove this and that?

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And the truth was he did and he was eventually

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cleared after everything in the questioning was backed up and proven.

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So Chris was ruled out as someone that may have

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had something to actually do with her going missing. So

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whenever police went to go speak with Jana's bestI, Nini,

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they wanted to know what was Jenna like at the

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concert that y'all went to, because we know for a

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fact that she went to the concert with you. And

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Nini said she was happy. She was very happy. She

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also only had one glass of wine and they said

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just one glasser on the whole concert. She said, yeah,

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just one? Well, why why did she limit herself to

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one glass of wine during this hour's long concert? And

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Nini said, look, she had plans. She wanted to get

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home as early as she could and not stay out

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too late because she had an early gem appointment with

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her personal trainer and his name was Dean. She remember,

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I told you she really cared about her appearance. And

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she wanted to work out. So police wanted to go

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learn more about Dean, so they talked to him and

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he says, yes, I absolutely do know Jenna. I've been

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her her personal trainer for the last five years. They said, okay,

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well what was Janna like, what were y'all's relationships like,

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or you know, what did y'all do together? And he says,

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Jena was very punctual, she was a good client. She

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was always there, and she was always on time. And

466
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he added, she's never missed an appointment. If she said

467
00:25:26.880 --> 00:25:28.880
she was going to be there, she was going to

468
00:25:28.960 --> 00:25:34.160
be there. But she missed one appointment for the very

469
00:25:34.240 --> 00:25:37.000
first time ever in all of the five years that

470
00:25:37.000 --> 00:25:40.599
they had worked out together, she missed her appointment on Saturday,

471
00:25:40.759 --> 00:25:44.039
August the eighteenth. That was the morning after the concert.

472
00:25:45.240 --> 00:25:48.359
So every Saturday morning around seven am, they would go

473
00:25:48.440 --> 00:25:52.440
and they would jog next to the beach. So police

474
00:25:52.480 --> 00:25:55.559
were like, well, that's romantic, go running off by the beach.

475
00:25:55.599 --> 00:25:58.440
I wonder if maybe there's more to this relationship than

476
00:25:58.519 --> 00:26:04.559
just this casual business workout trainer relationship. So maybe there's

477
00:26:04.599 --> 00:26:07.359
a fair an affair going on. Maybe there's a relationship

478
00:26:07.400 --> 00:26:12.279
problem that we have going on here, Well, some changes

479
00:26:12.400 --> 00:26:18.680
in recent time would actually lend themselves to that theory. Jana,

480
00:26:19.000 --> 00:26:22.000
like I told you, liked her appearance, but she had really, really,

481
00:26:22.039 --> 00:26:26.319
really been working on her appearance right before her disappearance.

482
00:26:27.119 --> 00:26:30.119
Not only was she working out constantly, but she was

483
00:26:30.160 --> 00:26:33.119
losing weight and she also had gone and gotten her

484
00:26:33.160 --> 00:26:38.000
teeth done. She went and got veneers. So, hmm, she's

485
00:26:38.000 --> 00:26:40.400
wanting to look better. Who is she wanting to look

486
00:26:40.440 --> 00:26:44.079
better for? Kind of becomes the question. And another one

487
00:26:44.759 --> 00:26:48.440
of Jana's friends, her name was Connie. Connie also trained

488
00:26:48.599 --> 00:26:52.400
with Dean, So they went to investigators went to talk

489
00:26:52.440 --> 00:26:55.559
to Connie and say, hey, what was their relationship like,

490
00:26:55.599 --> 00:26:57.599
what did you see whenever y'all were working out, or

491
00:26:57.640 --> 00:27:00.000
what is Dean like whenever he is training with you?

492
00:27:00.680 --> 00:27:05.680
And Connie said that she never, ever, on any occasion,

493
00:27:05.839 --> 00:27:09.960
ever saw Connie and Dean flirting with one another. She

494
00:27:10.039 --> 00:27:12.440
said there was never any sexual tension in the air.

495
00:27:12.839 --> 00:27:17.039
There was never any hint of anything that she ever

496
00:27:17.079 --> 00:27:19.319
saw that would say that the two were more than

497
00:27:19.480 --> 00:27:26.480
just a client instructor relationship. She said that Dean was

498
00:27:26.480 --> 00:27:30.240
a very professional and calm individual, that the relationship that

499
00:27:30.319 --> 00:27:32.880
she always saw was very professional and by the book.

500
00:27:33.279 --> 00:27:36.359
So police kind of went, okay, well, that doesn't sound

501
00:27:36.400 --> 00:27:40.920
like a screaming relationship or affair. So they really went

502
00:27:40.960 --> 00:27:45.240
in to screen Dean's alibi for whenever Jannah went missing,

503
00:27:45.599 --> 00:27:48.799
and they found again all of his statements seemed to

504
00:27:48.839 --> 00:27:52.759
pan out. There was absolutely zero evidence of anything inappropriate

505
00:27:52.799 --> 00:27:55.240
between the two of them relationship wise. There were no

506
00:27:55.640 --> 00:27:59.640
texts or calls or anything like that. She just really

507
00:28:00.400 --> 00:28:02.839
wasn't the type of woman to cheat. She was not

508
00:28:02.960 --> 00:28:05.119
the type of woman that would run off or have

509
00:28:05.160 --> 00:28:08.359
a secret lover. And this was what everyone who knew

510
00:28:08.400 --> 00:28:11.319
her backed up. She just was not that type of woman.

511
00:28:11.480 --> 00:28:14.599
She was loyal and she followed the rules, and that

512
00:28:14.640 --> 00:28:19.559
included relationship rules. So when they talked to Dean, they said,

513
00:28:19.599 --> 00:28:21.279
did you talk to her? I mean, did you even

514
00:28:21.319 --> 00:28:24.160
see or what happened? He said no, He said, actually

515
00:28:24.680 --> 00:28:27.039
I called her cell phone when she didn't show up,

516
00:28:27.119 --> 00:28:30.160
she didn't answer. I then called her house phone and

517
00:28:30.559 --> 00:28:33.880
she didn't answer at the house either, And he said, look, really, honestly,

518
00:28:34.000 --> 00:28:37.079
did kind of concern me because I've never not had

519
00:28:37.079 --> 00:28:39.680
her show up. But I'm in no position to do

520
00:28:39.799 --> 00:28:42.240
much else. I mean, I'm just her personal trainer. I'm

521
00:28:42.240 --> 00:28:43.920
not gonna go show up at her house. So he said,

522
00:28:43.960 --> 00:28:46.480
I just went about my day, but it did kind

523
00:28:46.480 --> 00:28:50.519
of make me wonder why she never called and never showed. Well,

524
00:28:50.519 --> 00:28:54.799
it turned out Jenna also had another appointment that day.

525
00:28:55.160 --> 00:28:57.400
She had a massage that was booked for two pm,

526
00:28:57.480 --> 00:29:01.559
and she was gonna go get that massage with her BESTII. Well,

527
00:29:02.000 --> 00:29:05.480
she no showed for the massage as well. So when

528
00:29:05.519 --> 00:29:09.400
that had happened, Niini called both Janna's phone and she

529
00:29:09.480 --> 00:29:12.440
called Bruce's phone looking for Jenna, but neither of them

530
00:29:12.599 --> 00:29:17.039
answered the phone. So police asked Bruce about that. They're like, well,

531
00:29:17.039 --> 00:29:18.440
hang on a minute. She was supposed to have all

532
00:29:18.440 --> 00:29:22.200
these appointments, she didn't show up for those, and you know,

533
00:29:22.200 --> 00:29:24.759
it's kind of curious that neither of you answered the

534
00:29:24.839 --> 00:29:29.119
phone whenever her best friend was calling. But again he said, no,

535
00:29:30.160 --> 00:29:34.160
we were supposed to have this relationship weekend together that

536
00:29:34.240 --> 00:29:36.599
we agreed we were going to focus on one another,

537
00:29:37.079 --> 00:29:38.839
and we agreed we were not going to be using

538
00:29:38.839 --> 00:29:40.960
our cell phones during this weekend because we wanted to

539
00:29:41.039 --> 00:29:43.880
just throw out all the craziness of the world. And

540
00:29:43.960 --> 00:29:46.400
just focus on one another and spend our time together.

541
00:29:47.160 --> 00:29:50.519
So while this is admirable and I think that's great

542
00:29:50.599 --> 00:29:53.559
for a relationship for y'all to invest in one another,

543
00:29:54.559 --> 00:29:57.240
police kind of took issue with one part of that,

544
00:29:58.200 --> 00:30:00.880
and their problem was this, Okay, great, let's say that

545
00:30:00.920 --> 00:30:04.400
y'all want to focus on one another and really rekindle

546
00:30:04.599 --> 00:30:07.839
or whatever have a loving relationship that weekend. That's awesome.

547
00:30:08.160 --> 00:30:10.640
The problem the police had with it is that they

548
00:30:10.680 --> 00:30:14.839
were both in the real estate business, and anyone who

549
00:30:14.920 --> 00:30:19.359
sells real estate knows that your entire livelihood revolves around

550
00:30:19.440 --> 00:30:22.640
leads that you get from phone calls, and those phone

551
00:30:22.640 --> 00:30:25.279
calls tend to be heavier on the weekends because that's

552
00:30:25.319 --> 00:30:27.599
when people are off, that's when they're searching for houses,

553
00:30:27.599 --> 00:30:30.200
that's when they're driving around seeing the signs and calling

554
00:30:30.200 --> 00:30:32.759
the real ters. So it wasn't, you know, this obvious

555
00:30:32.839 --> 00:30:35.440
red flag flying, But the police really did find that

556
00:30:35.559 --> 00:30:37.599
curious that you'd be willing to throw out your entire

557
00:30:38.079 --> 00:30:42.839
livelihood potential to spend time with one another. On top

558
00:30:42.839 --> 00:30:46.039
of the fact, she nos showed for two appointments, so

559
00:30:46.119 --> 00:30:52.799
a more detailed questioning into Bruce's whereabouts were necessary for

560
00:30:52.839 --> 00:30:55.440
them to get a more specific timeline for what Bruce

561
00:30:55.599 --> 00:30:58.839
was doing. So he says, sure, I'll lay it out

562
00:30:58.880 --> 00:31:01.160
for you. He said that month day morning, I went

563
00:31:01.200 --> 00:31:03.119
and I looked at several properties that I needed to

564
00:31:03.240 --> 00:31:07.160
check out. He said. Then before all of that was done,

565
00:31:07.200 --> 00:31:09.480
before I got back to the office, and he said,

566
00:31:09.480 --> 00:31:11.839
I got to the office around eight thirty. This was

567
00:31:12.000 --> 00:31:14.799
some early morning running that I did, he said. After

568
00:31:14.880 --> 00:31:16.359
he got to the office, he did a little bit

569
00:31:16.400 --> 00:31:18.559
of work and then he went and he attended a

570
00:31:18.640 --> 00:31:22.880
funeral that was verified from nine point thirty to eleven AM.

571
00:31:22.920 --> 00:31:25.799
When the funeral was over, I went back to the office.

572
00:31:25.920 --> 00:31:29.640
By eleven I was already trying to call her. I

573
00:31:29.640 --> 00:31:32.200
had called the house all the coworkers said. He was

574
00:31:32.240 --> 00:31:34.680
pretty shook up. He couldn't find her. That's when he

575
00:31:35.119 --> 00:31:37.160
and Chris went to the house to look for her

576
00:31:37.799 --> 00:31:40.440
and didn't find anything except her car and all the

577
00:31:40.799 --> 00:31:43.000
things she would likely need for the day missing. So

578
00:31:43.039 --> 00:31:45.759
they went and the police spoke to the coworker Chris again,

579
00:31:46.119 --> 00:31:48.480
and they were like, dude, tell us what happened. Step

580
00:31:48.480 --> 00:31:50.240
by step when you got to the house, he said,

581
00:31:50.279 --> 00:31:53.160
we pulled up, he said, we went in the house,

582
00:31:53.440 --> 00:31:55.160
and they said, when you went in the house, Bruce

583
00:31:55.200 --> 00:31:57.640
said that the alarm was on. Did you see him

584
00:31:57.720 --> 00:32:01.759
deactivate the alarm? And yes, the alarm was on. I

585
00:32:01.839 --> 00:32:06.039
personally watched him undo the burglar alarm before either of

586
00:32:06.119 --> 00:32:09.519
us went further into the house. He said, they're just

587
00:32:10.480 --> 00:32:12.079
I was with him the whole time and he was

588
00:32:12.119 --> 00:32:15.119
never out of my sight. And the police were like, well, damn,

589
00:32:15.160 --> 00:32:17.400
you know, they're thinking that there really wasn't any time

590
00:32:17.759 --> 00:32:20.240
for him to have committed the crime of doing something

591
00:32:20.279 --> 00:32:23.200
to her, disposing of her and then have all these

592
00:32:23.400 --> 00:32:27.920
I mean, his whereabouts were very much accounted for. Police

593
00:32:27.960 --> 00:32:30.440
did find out though, through their questioning, that the couple

594
00:32:30.480 --> 00:32:33.319
had a housekeeper and that she kept a very regular

595
00:32:33.640 --> 00:32:38.759
and a very time oriented schedule when she was there,

596
00:32:39.400 --> 00:32:42.839
and she had been their housekeeper for the last nine years.

597
00:32:43.079 --> 00:32:45.440
So she been housekeeping here for a hot minute. It

598
00:32:45.480 --> 00:32:47.440
wasn't like this was her first rodeo and she didn't

599
00:32:47.480 --> 00:32:51.960
know these people, so they wanted to speak with her

600
00:32:52.079 --> 00:32:54.319
one on one. Her name was Consuelo, which I thought

601
00:32:54.319 --> 00:32:58.480
was so cute and charming. Consuelo the housekeeper. So when

602
00:32:58.519 --> 00:33:02.400
they speak to Consuelo, she come across as very truthful

603
00:33:02.599 --> 00:33:07.039
and very fond of Jana. She said that my boss

604
00:33:07.279 --> 00:33:10.799
is kind, She's always friendly to me. We have a

605
00:33:10.799 --> 00:33:14.559
great relationship whenever we are around each other. She couldn't

606
00:33:14.559 --> 00:33:18.039
think of anything that was out of the ordinary in

607
00:33:18.160 --> 00:33:21.680
the home, and nothing that seemed strange between the couple

608
00:33:21.759 --> 00:33:24.440
and she had been doing their laundry and cleaning their

609
00:33:24.440 --> 00:33:28.480
house for nine years. The only thing, as they kept going,

610
00:33:28.519 --> 00:33:31.079
there's nothing out of place, nothing that you can think of.

611
00:33:31.720 --> 00:33:35.400
The only thing that she could even muster up as

612
00:33:35.599 --> 00:33:39.960
even saying it was different, was that she said, well,

613
00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:43.720
you know, I did always, or I do always change

614
00:33:43.759 --> 00:33:47.480
the bedding in the master bedroom on tuesdays. Those are

615
00:33:47.519 --> 00:33:50.160
the days that I changed the bedding. I've always done

616
00:33:50.160 --> 00:33:53.440
that the entire time that I've cleaned this house. The

617
00:33:53.480 --> 00:33:55.839
only thing that she could think of, after she sat

618
00:33:55.880 --> 00:33:59.799
there and really racked her brain, was that the week prior,

619
00:34:00.039 --> 00:34:02.279
whenever she made the bed, she said that she had

620
00:34:02.319 --> 00:34:04.440
put sheets on the bed that were these white and

621
00:34:04.519 --> 00:34:08.039
black sheets, and they had cursive writing on them. The

622
00:34:08.079 --> 00:34:12.199
words incursive were things like happiness and love and just

623
00:34:12.400 --> 00:34:16.400
these really happy words that might be incursive on the sheets,

624
00:34:16.920 --> 00:34:20.440
but on the week of Jana's disappearance, which would have

625
00:34:20.519 --> 00:34:26.199
been Tuesday, August fourteenth, she changed the sheets, but she

626
00:34:26.400 --> 00:34:28.880
noticed that they weren't the same ones that she had

627
00:34:28.880 --> 00:34:31.760
put on the week prior. So she did think that

628
00:34:31.800 --> 00:34:33.760
was kind of strange. Usually it's the same sheets she's

629
00:34:33.880 --> 00:34:37.519
changing that she put on the week prior. Also, she

630
00:34:37.599 --> 00:34:40.840
said there was only a full size flat sheet on

631
00:34:40.880 --> 00:34:43.039
the bed when she went in to change the bedding.

632
00:34:43.280 --> 00:34:45.440
And okay, I'm gonna tell y'all right now, and I

633
00:34:45.480 --> 00:34:48.000
bet you there's some women with me right now. No

634
00:34:48.039 --> 00:34:50.719
offense to the dudes. But as soon as she said

635
00:34:50.719 --> 00:34:53.039
there was only a flat sheet on the bed, I

636
00:34:53.079 --> 00:34:55.960
thought to myself, A man did it? A man is

637
00:34:56.000 --> 00:34:59.719
involved with this bed change, because no woman that I

638
00:34:59.800 --> 00:35:02.239
know is. Maybe it's where I'm from and how I

639
00:35:02.280 --> 00:35:05.039
was raised, but where I'm from, you better have a

640
00:35:05.039 --> 00:35:07.679
fitted sheet on that damn bed. My grandma would roll

641
00:35:07.719 --> 00:35:10.519
over in her grave, or she would blow around in

642
00:35:10.559 --> 00:35:12.400
her ashes, however you want to call it. But she

643
00:35:12.519 --> 00:35:14.840
would die if she thought that I put just a

644
00:35:14.880 --> 00:35:17.800
flat sheet on a bed. Ain't no way. So when

645
00:35:17.800 --> 00:35:20.599
I heard that flat sheet, hands down, a man did it.

646
00:35:20.639 --> 00:35:22.639
A man put that sheet on that bed. How many

647
00:35:22.639 --> 00:35:24.519
of y'all agree with me? Y'all got to talk to

648
00:35:24.559 --> 00:35:26.920
me on this one. But right there, I knew man

649
00:35:27.000 --> 00:35:30.440
changed the sheets done. The thing too, was that it

650
00:35:30.480 --> 00:35:33.280
was a queen size bed and that one full sheet

651
00:35:33.320 --> 00:35:35.760
that was laid over the bed on top was a

652
00:35:35.800 --> 00:35:42.039
full size sheet. Those are man signs. Okay, in nine years.

653
00:35:42.639 --> 00:35:46.199
They had never changed their own sheets in nine years,

654
00:35:47.400 --> 00:35:50.280
so this really caught her attention. And then when she

655
00:35:50.320 --> 00:35:53.159
went to go do the laundry, she didn't see the

656
00:35:53.199 --> 00:35:55.760
sheets in the laundry room either what she expected. You know,

657
00:35:55.840 --> 00:35:58.000
maybe someone threw up, maybe someone had an accident, you know,

658
00:35:58.039 --> 00:36:00.400
may maybe spilled some wine on the bed, but they

659
00:36:00.440 --> 00:36:03.679
weren't in the laundry room either. She also noticed when

660
00:36:03.719 --> 00:36:06.639
she was cleaning the bathroom that a towel was missing

661
00:36:06.639 --> 00:36:08.760
from the master bath. So I guess they had a

662
00:36:08.800 --> 00:36:11.599
set number of towels and she couldn't find one of them. Okay, well,

663
00:36:11.639 --> 00:36:14.559
maybe that got thrown out because it got stained with

664
00:36:14.599 --> 00:36:17.480
the wine. I don't know, but that's kind of was

665
00:36:18.079 --> 00:36:21.079
another thing she noticed that was missing. So the police

666
00:36:21.079 --> 00:36:22.960
were kind of now wondering if maybe someone had come

667
00:36:22.960 --> 00:36:26.960
into the home and taken Jena. But Jena was taken

668
00:36:27.000 --> 00:36:29.559
as well as these items that they couldn't find. Maybe

669
00:36:29.599 --> 00:36:31.519
she was hurt and maybe they were covering up the

670
00:36:31.519 --> 00:36:35.159
evidence by taking it with them outside of the outside

671
00:36:35.159 --> 00:36:37.440
of the bedroom. Whoever it was that did this. But

672
00:36:37.679 --> 00:36:41.079
referring back to what Bruce said in his questioning, the

673
00:36:41.199 --> 00:36:44.679
house was locked, the alarm was on, there was no

674
00:36:44.880 --> 00:36:47.679
force to entry to the house. There's no kidnapper in

675
00:36:47.760 --> 00:36:51.280
America that's gonna go set the alarm when they leave

676
00:36:51.320 --> 00:36:57.239
the house. So on August the seventh of two thousand

677
00:36:57.280 --> 00:37:00.000
and one, Jena had now been missing for a seventh

678
00:37:00.079 --> 00:37:03.480
than full days and the police really had no solid leads.

679
00:37:03.800 --> 00:37:06.320
They knew that she drove a nineteen ninety six white

680
00:37:06.360 --> 00:37:10.800
Pathfinder and guess what it was found. It was called

681
00:37:10.840 --> 00:37:14.880
in and found on a place called California Street. There

682
00:37:14.960 --> 00:37:19.400
was no purse, no gun, no cell phone in the car,

683
00:37:19.559 --> 00:37:23.159
none of that was there, which were the very items

684
00:37:23.199 --> 00:37:26.760
that Jana would never have left without. So it's like, Okay,

685
00:37:27.079 --> 00:37:30.039
the car is here, Jenna's stuff isn't here. Did she

686
00:37:30.119 --> 00:37:32.920
take it with her and leave the vehicle here? But

687
00:37:33.079 --> 00:37:36.280
when they searched the vehicle, they did find an item

688
00:37:36.320 --> 00:37:39.199
in the back in the cargo area, and it was

689
00:37:39.239 --> 00:37:42.639
a very simple item. It was a feather. They found

690
00:37:42.679 --> 00:37:46.599
one feather in the back of the car and looking

691
00:37:46.639 --> 00:37:49.239
at it, the detectives felt like that might have been

692
00:37:49.840 --> 00:37:53.159
a pillow, a feather from a pillow, which going back

693
00:37:53.159 --> 00:37:56.960
and looking at the records, they would find that a

694
00:37:57.000 --> 00:38:01.519
pillow was also missing from the master bed. There was

695
00:38:01.599 --> 00:38:06.079
also in that trunk a very large stain that appeared

696
00:38:06.440 --> 00:38:10.000
to be blood next to where the feather was laying.

697
00:38:10.079 --> 00:38:12.000
So you don't have to be a friggin genius at

698
00:38:12.000 --> 00:38:13.880
this point to know that this is not good what

699
00:38:13.960 --> 00:38:17.599
they have found. So police felt at this point that

700
00:38:18.000 --> 00:38:20.840
they were no longer looking for Jana alive and that

701
00:38:20.920 --> 00:38:24.760
this was more likely to be a body recovery situation.

702
00:38:26.239 --> 00:38:30.480
So on August thirty first, a search team of over

703
00:38:30.559 --> 00:38:34.840
one hundred and forty people was created to search this

704
00:38:35.079 --> 00:38:37.400
area near where the vehicle was. And it was a

705
00:38:37.440 --> 00:38:42.000
petroleum field because where this car was parked it wasn't

706
00:38:42.000 --> 00:38:45.000
a good area of town, but the oil fields and

707
00:38:45.079 --> 00:38:47.400
the wells and all of that were in this area.

708
00:38:47.480 --> 00:38:49.960
And in that area there was also a bunch of

709
00:38:49.960 --> 00:38:54.719
really deep holes that from oil exploration, and that would

710
00:38:54.719 --> 00:38:57.559
seem like a really likely place that they possibly whoever

711
00:38:57.599 --> 00:39:00.360
these people were, could have dumped a body. So they

712
00:39:00.440 --> 00:39:02.760
searched for a very long time with all these people,

713
00:39:03.159 --> 00:39:06.840
but they ended up finding nothing. But sixteen days after

714
00:39:06.920 --> 00:39:09.079
Jana had been gone, this would have been September, the

715
00:39:09.159 --> 00:39:13.519
fifth police conducted another search of the couple's home, and

716
00:39:13.639 --> 00:39:15.840
this time when they went into the house, they came

717
00:39:16.039 --> 00:39:19.800
armed with luminol. And luminol we all know that's basically

718
00:39:19.800 --> 00:39:22.480
the spray that whenever you spray it down, it will

719
00:39:22.519 --> 00:39:25.920
react with the hemoglobin in blood, and even if it's

720
00:39:25.960 --> 00:39:28.199
invisible to the naked eye, it's going to light up

721
00:39:28.239 --> 00:39:31.800
like a Christmas tree if there's been blood in that area.

722
00:39:32.039 --> 00:39:35.480
They didn't find any, but they only found they didn't

723
00:39:35.480 --> 00:39:37.039
find a bunch of blood. Let me put it that way.

724
00:39:37.199 --> 00:39:41.079
They did find one single drop of blood one and

725
00:39:41.119 --> 00:39:43.840
it was found on the master bedroom floor and it

726
00:39:43.920 --> 00:39:48.880
was near the bed, which they swapped well, needing some

727
00:39:49.039 --> 00:39:52.280
DNA or something that they could compare this blood too.

728
00:39:52.679 --> 00:39:55.199
They went into the bathroom and they found Jana's hair brush,

729
00:39:55.400 --> 00:39:58.800
which they took the hair for comparison, and lo and behold,

730
00:39:58.840 --> 00:40:01.639
once it came back from the left. That blood droplet,

731
00:40:01.800 --> 00:40:05.280
just one tiny blood droplet, did match that of janis

732
00:40:05.559 --> 00:40:07.360
Now I'm gonna tell you this, that doesn't mean shit.

733
00:40:07.639 --> 00:40:11.039
That could have been menstrual blood. Sorry, she could have

734
00:40:11.079 --> 00:40:13.519
been undressed putting on her pajamas in the bedroom and

735
00:40:13.559 --> 00:40:15.840
a drop of blood fell out. It could have been

736
00:40:15.880 --> 00:40:18.159
from a small cut on her leg from shaving and

737
00:40:18.239 --> 00:40:23.280
it dripped down on the floor. But the fact that

738
00:40:23.400 --> 00:40:25.599
when they went and looked in the back of the

739
00:40:25.719 --> 00:40:28.440
car and they swabbed that stain in the back of

740
00:40:28.480 --> 00:40:31.440
the car and they sent that to the lab, that too,

741
00:40:31.599 --> 00:40:35.039
came back as a match for Jana's blood. So the

742
00:40:35.079 --> 00:40:37.000
amount of blood found in the back of that car

743
00:40:37.119 --> 00:40:39.480
led most people to think that she was injured and

744
00:40:39.639 --> 00:40:42.480
or more likely dead, and that her dead body had

745
00:40:42.519 --> 00:40:44.880
been placed in the back of her very own vehicle.

746
00:40:45.119 --> 00:40:48.679
So maybe one drop alone doesn't mean much, but we

747
00:40:48.760 --> 00:40:50.400
now got a whole lot of blood in the back

748
00:40:50.400 --> 00:40:53.800
of her own vehicle. So Bruce was now really the

749
00:40:53.840 --> 00:40:57.519
only person to have seen her alive the entire weekend.

750
00:40:57.519 --> 00:40:59.760
So the police decided to go back to Bruce and

751
00:40:59.800 --> 00:41:02.199
really focus on him, and they said, all right, man,

752
00:41:02.320 --> 00:41:04.400
you've given us all this information. We appreciate all of

753
00:41:04.440 --> 00:41:06.320
your help, but we would really like to give you

754
00:41:06.360 --> 00:41:09.920
a polygraph test or a light detector test to sort

755
00:41:09.960 --> 00:41:11.519
out some of the things that you have said. And

756
00:41:11.599 --> 00:41:16.239
he readily agreed, no problem, let's do it. He did ask, though,

757
00:41:16.280 --> 00:41:19.320
when he got there, could he have the questions ahead

758
00:41:19.320 --> 00:41:24.239
of time? Well, no, that would go against any type

759
00:41:24.239 --> 00:41:27.280
of policy, because part of the polygraph is that we

760
00:41:28.000 --> 00:41:29.800
don't want you to be prepared and able to calm

761
00:41:29.840 --> 00:41:32.159
yourself down or anything. We want to get your genuine

762
00:41:33.440 --> 00:41:36.440
response that your body gives whenever a lie is detected

763
00:41:36.440 --> 00:41:38.440
and your blood pressure goes up and your sweating goes

764
00:41:38.519 --> 00:41:41.360
up in all of that, well whenever, he asked to

765
00:41:41.360 --> 00:41:43.719
have the questions ahead of time, and he was denied.

766
00:41:44.079 --> 00:41:45.920
He then came back and said, look, I spoke to

767
00:41:45.960 --> 00:41:48.159
my attorney and the attorney said that I do not

768
00:41:48.280 --> 00:41:50.079
need to take this polygraph test. It would not be

769
00:41:50.079 --> 00:41:54.800
in my best interest. He did, though, to decide to

770
00:41:54.880 --> 00:41:57.960
do something, and I want to tell you what that is.

771
00:41:58.920 --> 00:42:01.880
He didn't want to just sit back and wait for

772
00:42:02.119 --> 00:42:06.079
days to continue to pass and his wife's body not

773
00:42:06.199 --> 00:42:08.880
be found, so he didn't take the polygraph test, but

774
00:42:09.000 --> 00:42:11.719
he did call a local TV station and hold a

775
00:42:11.719 --> 00:42:14.920
press conference, and in that press conference, he offered up

776
00:42:14.960 --> 00:42:19.119
a one hundred thousand dollars reward for Janna's safe return.

777
00:42:19.400 --> 00:42:22.400
And I listened to those interviews. He was very genuine,

778
00:42:22.679 --> 00:42:25.320
he was very concerned, and he was offering up a

779
00:42:25.400 --> 00:42:28.760
whole lot of money to get his wife back. And

780
00:42:28.800 --> 00:42:33.119
there's got to be somebody who knows something was really

781
00:42:33.119 --> 00:42:35.480
with the idea that he was going off of. And

782
00:42:35.519 --> 00:42:39.840
this press conference got a lot of attention in the community.

783
00:42:40.159 --> 00:42:42.880
Everybody by now knew about this case, and a whole

784
00:42:42.920 --> 00:42:44.679
lot of people wanted to have a good outcome. She

785
00:42:44.760 --> 00:42:47.559
was a good woman and here's her husband pleading and

786
00:42:47.639 --> 00:42:51.559
offering up a ton of cash to bring her home. Well,

787
00:42:51.760 --> 00:42:53.960
it did get a lot of attention. But this attention

788
00:42:54.280 --> 00:42:57.880
also included a couple of women in the community, and

789
00:42:57.920 --> 00:43:01.360
they all called in because they had had some information

790
00:43:02.079 --> 00:43:05.239
after that award that reward money was put up. They

791
00:43:05.360 --> 00:43:10.280
decided to come forward because they all had very similar stories.

792
00:43:10.360 --> 00:43:14.000
It was kind of interesting. All of them said that

793
00:43:14.239 --> 00:43:19.199
Bruce had asked them out on a date recently. One

794
00:43:19.280 --> 00:43:23.039
lady we even went in to be super specific. She

795
00:43:23.199 --> 00:43:26.639
worked at the bank where he went. So he went

796
00:43:26.679 --> 00:43:28.599
in and asked her out on a date while he

797
00:43:28.679 --> 00:43:31.960
was doing a bank transaction. Another lady worked at an

798
00:43:32.119 --> 00:43:36.079
escrow office, and he asked her out on a date. Now,

799
00:43:36.159 --> 00:43:40.360
she was quite frank when she said, I wasn't interested

800
00:43:40.719 --> 00:43:43.599
at all. She was kind of like whenever he asked

801
00:43:43.599 --> 00:43:47.679
her out on the date. And then one day a

802
00:43:47.840 --> 00:43:52.440
neighbor of Bruce and Janis found a note on her vehicle.

803
00:43:52.800 --> 00:43:55.960
It was early morning time, and that note asked her

804
00:43:56.320 --> 00:43:59.360
if her granddaughter would be interested in going out on

805
00:43:59.400 --> 00:44:03.719
a date with him. It wasn't until all of these

806
00:44:03.760 --> 00:44:07.039
women saw his face on TV though, that they made

807
00:44:07.079 --> 00:44:11.840
the connection to the missing wife situation, and they all realized, well,

808
00:44:12.199 --> 00:44:14.480
maybe we should call in. I'm not saying they called

809
00:44:14.480 --> 00:44:16.960
in for the money. I'm just saying they did make

810
00:44:16.960 --> 00:44:19.920
the connection between the face and being asked out. But

811
00:44:19.960 --> 00:44:23.360
one hundred thous hmm, maybe they called in on that

812
00:44:23.480 --> 00:44:27.800
regard to you know. So every one of them, though,

813
00:44:28.800 --> 00:44:31.000
said we want to tell this story because this woman

814
00:44:31.039 --> 00:44:34.880
is missing. And they also all said we denied him

815
00:44:35.039 --> 00:44:37.840
a date because every one of them said that he

816
00:44:37.960 --> 00:44:41.960
was creepy, every one of them. So if you're catching

817
00:44:41.960 --> 00:44:43.840
the vibe here I'm trying to give out about this guy.

818
00:44:44.079 --> 00:44:47.320
None of them really liked him, so clearly he wasn't

819
00:44:47.400 --> 00:44:51.440
quite the grieving spouse that he was once thought to be. Well,

820
00:44:51.519 --> 00:44:55.679
Jana had a friend named Jan. Jana's friend Jan got

821
00:44:55.679 --> 00:44:58.840
to thinking about a conversation that she had with Jana

822
00:44:59.239 --> 00:45:01.920
about wanting a family really bad. She was thinking about

823
00:45:01.920 --> 00:45:03.960
her friend being missing, how horrible this was, and was

824
00:45:04.039 --> 00:45:06.639
kind of reminiscing over some of their last few conversations.

825
00:45:07.199 --> 00:45:09.880
And one of the last conversations they had, Jana said

826
00:45:10.159 --> 00:45:12.079
she was super excited because they were going to be

827
00:45:12.159 --> 00:45:15.760
adopting a baby. They had filled out the paperwork already,

828
00:45:16.280 --> 00:45:18.760
and when the two women had the conversation, both of

829
00:45:18.800 --> 00:45:23.360
them were very excited about this big change. Jana wasn't able,

830
00:45:23.400 --> 00:45:24.920
for whatever reason, to have a baby of her own,

831
00:45:25.159 --> 00:45:27.119
and so she was so excited that her and Bruce

832
00:45:27.159 --> 00:45:29.039
were finally going to bring this baby that she had

833
00:45:29.079 --> 00:45:32.639
wanted for so long into their home. This was about

834
00:45:33.320 --> 00:45:36.239
a month or two, I guess before her disappearance. But

835
00:45:36.360 --> 00:45:40.159
a month before she disappeared, Jana was out to eat

836
00:45:40.199 --> 00:45:43.000
again with that friend Jan, and she asked, Hey, how

837
00:45:43.079 --> 00:45:46.000
was the adoption going, How are you excited? Did y'all

838
00:45:46.039 --> 00:45:48.639
find a baby? Is there someone that y'all linked up with?

839
00:45:49.159 --> 00:45:53.079
And Jana surprisingly snapped back at her real quick and said,

840
00:45:53.079 --> 00:45:57.280
there's not going to be an adoption, and that snapback

841
00:45:57.519 --> 00:46:00.360
wasn't mean though, it was almost like a sex add

842
00:46:00.679 --> 00:46:04.239
defensive snap back towards her friend. And so the friend

843
00:46:04.320 --> 00:46:07.639
kind of looked over and got the feeling that Bruce

844
00:46:07.760 --> 00:46:09.840
was the one that had put a stop to this

845
00:46:09.920 --> 00:46:15.880
whole adoption situation, even though Jan really wanted that, and

846
00:46:16.000 --> 00:46:20.320
Jan also knew that Bruce had not always been a

847
00:46:20.360 --> 00:46:23.559
really good husband to Jana. This is one of those

848
00:46:23.599 --> 00:46:27.559
things that we all put out a face for people, right,

849
00:46:27.559 --> 00:46:29.559
we all put out an image, But your really really

850
00:46:29.559 --> 00:46:31.840
close friends know more about you than the average bear

851
00:46:31.880 --> 00:46:35.599
would know. And that's where these friends kind of came

852
00:46:35.639 --> 00:46:41.719
into play. Jenna had shared with Jan that she had

853
00:46:41.880 --> 00:46:46.599
caught Bruce asking other women out in the past, but

854
00:46:47.320 --> 00:46:49.960
they always worked through it, and they worked through these

855
00:46:49.960 --> 00:46:55.159
hard times and they were gonna make their marriage work. Jana, though,

856
00:46:56.199 --> 00:47:00.119
had become increasingly tired of this mundane marriage and the

857
00:47:00.159 --> 00:47:03.079
divide between the two spouses just had continued to widen.

858
00:47:03.760 --> 00:47:07.360
Jenna wanted a family, and Bruce wanted to chase the

859
00:47:07.440 --> 00:47:10.840
money and build a financial empire. And they really had

860
00:47:10.880 --> 00:47:13.440
come to an impasse about what they were going to

861
00:47:13.480 --> 00:47:15.760
do now in their lives, and they weren't getting along

862
00:47:15.840 --> 00:47:19.639
about it. Come to find out, here's the bell ringer

863
00:47:19.719 --> 00:47:24.039
right here. Each of them each held a one million

864
00:47:24.119 --> 00:47:29.559
dollar policy on the other spouse. So talking to the neighbors,

865
00:47:29.559 --> 00:47:32.119
that's where they were verified that letter that was found

866
00:47:32.320 --> 00:47:34.280
on the car talking about the cops went and did that.

867
00:47:35.119 --> 00:47:37.719
The cops also found out when talking to the neighbors

868
00:47:37.960 --> 00:47:40.840
that one of them heard a fight between Bruce and

869
00:47:40.960 --> 00:47:44.719
Jenna on Saturday morning and it was loud, like the

870
00:47:44.800 --> 00:47:47.000
neighbor was able to make it out what was going on.

871
00:47:47.360 --> 00:47:49.119
And then the neighbor said, and then it sounded like

872
00:47:49.199 --> 00:47:51.960
maybe they were moving furniture or something. It just got

873
00:47:52.000 --> 00:47:55.119
to where there was like this rumbling type of noise. Well,

874
00:47:55.119 --> 00:47:57.559
this was now October of two thousand and one. Jena

875
00:47:57.639 --> 00:47:59.920
had been gone now for two months. No one had

876
00:48:00.199 --> 00:48:03.519
heard or seen from her. This is when a caller

877
00:48:03.599 --> 00:48:09.239
calls in and says that I saw a white pathfinder

878
00:48:09.840 --> 00:48:14.239
parked on California Street. But it was parked in front

879
00:48:14.280 --> 00:48:18.440
of a home about a week before Jannah went missing.

880
00:48:19.559 --> 00:48:23.000
So they asked the caller, Okay, well what about it.

881
00:48:23.239 --> 00:48:25.719
The car was in a different spot, and the caller says, yeah,

882
00:48:25.840 --> 00:48:29.000
and I saw a white person get out dressed in

883
00:48:29.039 --> 00:48:32.199
a white dress shirt and it stood out. This person

884
00:48:32.239 --> 00:48:34.960
looked really suspicious and that's why it kind of stood

885
00:48:34.960 --> 00:48:37.199
out to the collar. As the caller started putting the

886
00:48:37.199 --> 00:48:40.519
timeline of this woman going missing, and then that pathfinder

887
00:48:40.719 --> 00:48:43.559
and all of it started coming together. So the authorities

888
00:48:43.800 --> 00:48:48.960
did discover that missing car of Jenna's parked in a

889
00:48:49.039 --> 00:48:52.280
vacant garage and that car was in the twenty four

890
00:48:52.360 --> 00:48:55.920
hundred block of that California avenue. This is the one

891
00:48:55.960 --> 00:48:58.800
I mentioned earlier, and this was in the Signal Hill

892
00:48:58.920 --> 00:49:02.239
area of Long Each, California. Now why do I bring

893
00:49:02.320 --> 00:49:06.800
this up because this is a predominantly black neighborhood. This

894
00:49:06.880 --> 00:49:10.559
is not a mixed neighborhood or one where you would

895
00:49:10.559 --> 00:49:14.840
see white people really walking around. And the caller specifically

896
00:49:14.880 --> 00:49:17.800
said that he saw a white person get out of

897
00:49:17.800 --> 00:49:19.960
that car and that the car had been parked on

898
00:49:20.039 --> 00:49:23.400
the street. So police decided to put together a few

899
00:49:23.480 --> 00:49:26.360
lineups to see if the caller could id the man

900
00:49:26.679 --> 00:49:30.199
that he saw walking away from the vehicle. One of

901
00:49:30.239 --> 00:49:33.760
the lineups had the personal trainer in it, Dean. One

902
00:49:33.840 --> 00:49:36.880
of the lineups had Bruce the husband in it, and

903
00:49:36.920 --> 00:49:40.440
then the other one had the business partner, Chris in it,

904
00:49:40.800 --> 00:49:43.119
So all of them were in different lineups, and all

905
00:49:43.159 --> 00:49:46.400
three lineups were shown separately to this person. And it's

906
00:49:46.440 --> 00:49:49.320
important to note this is a good strategy by the

907
00:49:49.360 --> 00:49:52.880
police because if they had put all three of the

908
00:49:53.920 --> 00:49:58.079
men that were potential suspects Dean, Chris the coworker, and

909
00:49:58.119 --> 00:50:00.760
Bruce the husband, if they had put them all in

910
00:50:00.800 --> 00:50:06.519
the same lineup, then that would leave reasonable doubt I

911
00:50:06.559 --> 00:50:08.960
guess in the eyes of a jury if they looked

912
00:50:08.960 --> 00:50:14.119
at this, because if three people were suspects and three

913
00:50:14.159 --> 00:50:16.599
of them were in a lineup of six people, well

914
00:50:16.639 --> 00:50:18.480
then you could argue, well, of course he picked one

915
00:50:18.480 --> 00:50:20.159
of the people you think is a suspect. It was

916
00:50:20.159 --> 00:50:23.039
a fifty percent shot. But what they did was they

917
00:50:23.039 --> 00:50:27.039
broke it up to where it was one out of six,

918
00:50:27.239 --> 00:50:29.599
then one out of six, and then one out of six.

919
00:50:29.840 --> 00:50:32.360
So it really made the chances less that this person

920
00:50:32.400 --> 00:50:35.480
would pick someone that could have possibly been a potential

921
00:50:35.519 --> 00:50:37.199
suspect if you didn't realize that. I just wanted to

922
00:50:37.199 --> 00:50:40.000
point it out. So they split them up into these

923
00:50:40.039 --> 00:50:44.920
three different lineups to decrease that odds of being picked substantially,

924
00:50:45.519 --> 00:50:49.280
And after looking at all three lineups separately, the caller

925
00:50:49.639 --> 00:50:52.480
picked none other than Bruce as the man that he

926
00:50:52.559 --> 00:50:55.559
saw walking away from the vehicle. And this would have

927
00:50:55.599 --> 00:50:58.800
been the Sunday that the two of them were supposedly

928
00:50:58.840 --> 00:51:01.719
home alone having the couple's weekend. So what it kind

929
00:51:01.760 --> 00:51:04.159
of looked like was that maybe Bruce took the car

930
00:51:04.320 --> 00:51:09.679
purposefully went and left it in a poor, impoverished, traditionally

931
00:51:09.719 --> 00:51:14.920
black neighborhood with the windows down and the keys left

932
00:51:14.920 --> 00:51:18.400
in it. Because the reason I say that is that

933
00:51:18.599 --> 00:51:22.320
later on some people that lived in the neighborhood said, well,

934
00:51:22.320 --> 00:51:25.280
you know, we saw some neighborhood kids taking a white

935
00:51:25.639 --> 00:51:30.039
pathfinder around for a joy ride that same weekend. So

936
00:51:30.159 --> 00:51:32.360
I mean, what do you think happened. The white man

937
00:51:32.440 --> 00:51:34.599
brings a car, drops it off in a neighborhood where

938
00:51:34.800 --> 00:51:37.920
no white people live, the windows are down, and the

939
00:51:38.000 --> 00:51:40.360
next thing you know, you see kids in the neighborhood

940
00:51:40.360 --> 00:51:42.000
have taken it and they're driving around having the time

941
00:51:42.000 --> 00:51:44.360
of their lives and it it's not rocket science to say, hmm,

942
00:51:44.400 --> 00:51:47.880
that's probably what happened. So they go and they canvass

943
00:51:47.920 --> 00:51:49.880
the area and they talked to some teenagers and the

944
00:51:49.920 --> 00:51:53.559
teenagers say, yes, we did. We found the suv. It

945
00:51:53.679 --> 00:51:56.800
was unlocked and we thought it was abandoned. They said, okay,

946
00:51:56.800 --> 00:51:58.400
when did you find this car? They said it was

947
00:51:58.400 --> 00:52:03.920
about eight o'clock on August the twentieth. So the boys

948
00:52:03.960 --> 00:52:07.639
said that the car's front windows were rolled down, which

949
00:52:07.679 --> 00:52:10.480
went along with what the police suspected. They said they

950
00:52:10.519 --> 00:52:13.119
found a purse in it, and that purse had Jana's

951
00:52:13.159 --> 00:52:16.559
wallet in it. They found her cell phone, they found

952
00:52:16.559 --> 00:52:19.360
her keys, and they found a gun, and all of

953
00:52:19.400 --> 00:52:22.360
it was in plain sight, right there for these for

954
00:52:22.440 --> 00:52:24.480
these kids to see. So they said, we kind of

955
00:52:24.519 --> 00:52:27.239
rifled through all of her personal belongings and then we

956
00:52:27.360 --> 00:52:30.280
threw the bag out. They said, okay, well where did

957
00:52:30.280 --> 00:52:31.639
you throw it out? They said, well, we threw the

958
00:52:31.719 --> 00:52:33.800
bag and the phone on top of one of these

959
00:52:33.840 --> 00:52:37.360
apartment buildings that they pointed out. They said, we sold

960
00:52:37.360 --> 00:52:40.119
the gun and then we took the car for a

961
00:52:40.199 --> 00:52:42.039
joy ride. I mean, hell, we found a free car.

962
00:52:42.360 --> 00:52:44.679
So they were very open and upfront and honest about

963
00:52:44.679 --> 00:52:48.159
what they had done with the stuff. They didn't realize though,

964
00:52:48.280 --> 00:52:51.880
until a week later, that the news was showing the

965
00:52:52.000 --> 00:52:55.280
very car they're joy riding in, and they realized, oh shit,

966
00:52:55.360 --> 00:52:58.239
this might be linked to some type of murder, and

967
00:52:58.320 --> 00:53:02.800
so they took the car and parked it, and then

968
00:53:02.840 --> 00:53:05.960
they came forward with all of their evidence because they

969
00:53:05.960 --> 00:53:07.480
didn't want to be tied to a murder, like, look,

970
00:53:07.480 --> 00:53:08.920
we didn't have shit to do with this woman, if

971
00:53:08.960 --> 00:53:11.039
she's dead. We just found the car and all the

972
00:53:11.079 --> 00:53:14.079
stuff in it. And according to some local reports that

973
00:53:14.119 --> 00:53:18.280
I read, there was a local minister who advertised to

974
00:53:18.360 --> 00:53:22.079
that local community, if you will return the gun, I'll

975
00:53:22.079 --> 00:53:25.400
give you one hundred dollars reward. It'll be anonymous if

976
00:53:25.400 --> 00:53:27.519
I can just get the weapon. And I thought, man,

977
00:53:27.559 --> 00:53:30.239
what a great use of our clergy to say, no

978
00:53:30.360 --> 00:53:32.039
questions asked, I'll give you one hundred bucks. Just give

979
00:53:32.079 --> 00:53:33.360
me the gun back so we can figure out what

980
00:53:33.400 --> 00:53:38.719
happened to this lady. Bruce's own step brother also was

981
00:53:38.800 --> 00:53:41.239
kind of starting to cock his head up and kind

982
00:53:41.239 --> 00:53:44.559
of squint at what his brother had told him about

983
00:53:44.559 --> 00:53:47.840
what was going on he said, you know, my trust

984
00:53:47.920 --> 00:53:50.320
and my belief in Bruce kind of started to feel

985
00:53:50.360 --> 00:53:53.559
really misplaced because a lot of things that were now

986
00:53:53.599 --> 00:53:57.440
happening sure did seem a lot more than coincidence. So

987
00:53:57.559 --> 00:54:00.079
here was the timeline now that they came up with.

988
00:54:00.599 --> 00:54:06.039
On August eighteenth, into the morning of the nineteenth, around

989
00:54:06.159 --> 00:54:09.440
one thirty ish in the morning, Jenna returned from the concert.

990
00:54:09.960 --> 00:54:12.880
Then early Saturday morning, that's when the neighbors said that

991
00:54:12.920 --> 00:54:16.719
they heard arguing and during that exact same time as

992
00:54:16.760 --> 00:54:20.440
when Bruce claimed that they were sitting down reading and

993
00:54:20.519 --> 00:54:25.519
watching some TV. Then on Sunday he says, oh, yeah,

994
00:54:25.559 --> 00:54:27.920
we went out for a walk too. Bruce says, we

995
00:54:27.960 --> 00:54:30.079
went out for a walk, we talked to some neighbors,

996
00:54:30.519 --> 00:54:33.039
blah blah, blah blah blah. Well, the police go back

997
00:54:33.039 --> 00:54:35.039
out and they start talking to the neighbors again and

998
00:54:35.079 --> 00:54:37.480
they're like, did you speak with Bruce and what were

999
00:54:37.559 --> 00:54:42.519
all conversations about. But none, none, zero of those neighbors

1000
00:54:42.840 --> 00:54:46.320
could ever remember speaking to him. Matter of fact, they

1001
00:54:46.320 --> 00:54:50.079
were very adamant we never spoke to Bruce. And they

1002
00:54:50.159 --> 00:54:54.000
added that it was really weird because after the first

1003
00:54:54.000 --> 00:54:56.880
time the police talked to the neighbors. Bruce was out

1004
00:54:56.920 --> 00:55:00.840
walking and he was making conversations with the neighbors that

1005
00:55:00.880 --> 00:55:03.199
he normally didn't make conversation with, and was like, yeah,

1006
00:55:03.280 --> 00:55:05.920
remember when I spoke to you on Sunday, And multiple

1007
00:55:05.920 --> 00:55:08.239
neighbors were thinking themselves, I didn't talk to you on Sunday.

1008
00:55:08.599 --> 00:55:12.599
I never saw you on Sunday. So the police say, okay, well,

1009
00:55:13.679 --> 00:55:15.880
what were the neighbors wearing, Bruce, whenever you went out

1010
00:55:15.880 --> 00:55:18.239
and you talked to him on that Sunday, And wouldn't

1011
00:55:18.280 --> 00:55:21.199
you know, Bruce couldn't tell them what anybody that he

1012
00:55:21.239 --> 00:55:23.880
spoke to was wearing on that Sunday, even though he

1013
00:55:23.960 --> 00:55:28.599
was adamant he had spoken to multiple neighbors. So Bruce's

1014
00:55:28.599 --> 00:55:31.400
whole thought was that there must have been a carjacking

1015
00:55:31.599 --> 00:55:35.400
or a kidnapping. Maybe the voicemail person was involved. But

1016
00:55:35.679 --> 00:55:38.199
all of this was investigated and all of it was

1017
00:55:38.239 --> 00:55:41.800
deemed to not be part of what it was going on.

1018
00:55:41.920 --> 00:55:44.639
None of the evidence was backing that up. Bruce was

1019
00:55:44.679 --> 00:55:47.760
the only one with a motive for Jenna to be gone.

1020
00:55:47.960 --> 00:55:50.920
To be gone, their marital assets would have all been his.

1021
00:55:51.360 --> 00:55:55.119
There's a million dollar life insurance policy. And then to boot,

1022
00:55:55.360 --> 00:55:58.519
he had the ability to be with all of these

1023
00:55:58.559 --> 00:56:01.880
women that Obviously Bruce didn't seem to be grieving Jana

1024
00:56:02.280 --> 00:56:05.440
being gone or his wife being missing, because the whole

1025
00:56:05.480 --> 00:56:11.639
time that Jenna's missing, he did not take any part

1026
00:56:11.719 --> 00:56:14.960
in the search for her. He allegedly, by the way,

1027
00:56:14.960 --> 00:56:17.119
I'll say allegedly, but you read through the lines here,

1028
00:56:17.519 --> 00:56:22.400
actually visited prostitutes. He went and visited prostitutes throughout his

1029
00:56:22.559 --> 00:56:26.679
marriage too. He had been busted doing this, and he

1030
00:56:26.719 --> 00:56:29.559
did not support Jana's wish to adopt a child because

1031
00:56:29.599 --> 00:56:33.760
that would have tied him to her permanently after her disappearance.

1032
00:56:34.360 --> 00:56:38.760
He then solicited those multiple females and acquaintances for sex,

1033
00:56:39.320 --> 00:56:42.199
which they denied him for the dates. And something else

1034
00:56:42.239 --> 00:56:44.599
I found that blew my mind that I never saw

1035
00:56:44.639 --> 00:56:47.559
in majority of reporting was what if I told you

1036
00:56:47.639 --> 00:56:52.480
he also asked his own eighteen year old niece to

1037
00:56:52.559 --> 00:56:57.480
have sex with him. You know what I'm saying, This

1038
00:56:57.599 --> 00:57:00.599
dude has way more problems than just not being a

1039
00:57:00.639 --> 00:57:03.920
good husband. And then if she was missing, he wouldn't

1040
00:57:03.920 --> 00:57:06.599
have a kid to look out for because he didn't

1041
00:57:06.599 --> 00:57:08.840
want to adopt a kid anyway. Divorce would have made

1042
00:57:08.880 --> 00:57:11.519
him split it all, murder would have given it to

1043
00:57:11.599 --> 00:57:14.519
him all. And police were really honing in now that

1044
00:57:14.639 --> 00:57:16.559
he seemed to be the strong one with the motive,

1045
00:57:16.679 --> 00:57:19.039
and this was their belief. The police believed that he

1046
00:57:19.119 --> 00:57:22.360
killed her Saturday morning. They believe he killed her Saturday

1047
00:57:22.400 --> 00:57:27.039
morning in her bed, possibly while she was asleep. So

1048
00:57:27.400 --> 00:57:30.440
they think that he shot her in the head. And

1049
00:57:30.480 --> 00:57:33.719
they may have had their fights, but she trusted him

1050
00:57:33.800 --> 00:57:36.599
enough to have enough regard for her in her life

1051
00:57:36.880 --> 00:57:41.280
to not kill her. But she was dead wrong, painfully wrong.

1052
00:57:41.920 --> 00:57:44.559
She went to bed Friday night with plans for the

1053
00:57:44.599 --> 00:57:46.920
next morning of working out and going to get a

1054
00:57:46.960 --> 00:57:50.119
massage with her friends and laying next to her the

1055
00:57:50.199 --> 00:57:53.159
man that she married and that she loved and they

1056
00:57:53.159 --> 00:57:55.119
took vows to love each other for the rest of

1057
00:57:55.159 --> 00:57:59.880
their lives, but also the same man who would callous

1058
00:58:00.559 --> 00:58:03.400
planned to end her life. All she had to do

1059
00:58:03.800 --> 00:58:06.400
was fall asleep first. This is the most this is

1060
00:58:06.440 --> 00:58:11.719
the ultimate betrayal. He shot her, and with her brain decimated,

1061
00:58:12.039 --> 00:58:14.199
he then wiped up the headboard with a towel from

1062
00:58:14.239 --> 00:58:16.679
their bathroom and then he threw it on top of her,

1063
00:58:17.320 --> 00:58:20.840
rolled her up in their marital bed sheets, her bloody

1064
00:58:20.840 --> 00:58:23.920
pillow included remember her pillow was missing, and then he

1065
00:58:23.960 --> 00:58:26.519
stuffed her in the back of her own car, and

1066
00:58:26.599 --> 00:58:30.320
her body would remain in that garage for a day

1067
00:58:30.400 --> 00:58:34.679
or two for that weekend basically, and that's why they

1068
00:58:34.679 --> 00:58:38.440
were able to find that large bloody spot. The reality

1069
00:58:38.480 --> 00:58:40.159
is kind of gross, but the reality of it is

1070
00:58:40.199 --> 00:58:43.639
that police believe and investigators believe that this was purge

1071
00:58:43.920 --> 00:58:48.159
from her decomposing body. Basically, your body starts decomposing the

1072
00:58:48.239 --> 00:58:50.719
minute that you die, and eventually your body's going to

1073
00:58:50.800 --> 00:58:53.920
release the fluids where it's laying, and so her body

1074
00:58:53.960 --> 00:58:56.440
released those fluids in that puddle in the back of

1075
00:58:56.480 --> 00:58:59.920
the vehicle. And then Sunday he started up that car

1076
00:59:00.079 --> 00:59:02.559
where her dead body had been wrapped up and laying

1077
00:59:02.679 --> 00:59:06.519
for two days, and he dumped her body somewhere unknown

1078
00:59:06.960 --> 00:59:10.239
before he left the car in a bad neighborhood, hoping

1079
00:59:10.599 --> 00:59:15.400
and praying to frame someone who would steal it. And

1080
00:59:15.800 --> 00:59:17.880
you know, it was kids that picked up that car,

1081
00:59:17.960 --> 00:59:19.880
and damn it, they weren't right to take that car,

1082
00:59:20.000 --> 00:59:24.679
but he was willing to set up people kids in

1083
00:59:24.719 --> 00:59:27.800
hopes that they would steal that car so that he

1084
00:59:27.840 --> 00:59:30.320
could wash his hands of this, and he easily could

1085
00:59:30.360 --> 00:59:32.719
have walked home because where the car was found was

1086
00:59:32.719 --> 00:59:36.679
only four miles from their house. If piece of shit

1087
00:59:36.960 --> 00:59:40.119
had a picture in the dictionary, Bruce's face would have

1088
00:59:40.119 --> 00:59:43.960
been plaster right there underneath it. All Jennah wanted, y'all

1089
00:59:44.199 --> 00:59:47.079
was a family. She wanted a baby, and he couldn't

1090
00:59:47.079 --> 00:59:50.480
even give her that basic desire of a woman. No

1091
00:59:50.599 --> 00:59:53.880
wonder all the other women were repulsed by him. He's

1092
00:59:53.880 --> 00:59:57.400
not a good man. The woman who was dedicated to

1093
00:59:57.440 --> 01:00:01.360
him in all ways, worked with him, built a successful

1094
01:00:01.480 --> 01:00:07.280
life with him. All he did was reject her, deny

1095
01:00:07.360 --> 01:00:11.599
her a baby, and then destroy her in hopes of

1096
01:00:11.639 --> 01:00:14.440
finding a different wife when he got tired of the

1097
01:00:14.480 --> 01:00:18.320
first one. I read that Jenna did all the paperwork,

1098
01:00:18.480 --> 01:00:21.360
all of the hard work in the office, the taxes,

1099
01:00:21.639 --> 01:00:27.000
the mundane in and out paperwork of business, while Bruce

1100
01:00:27.079 --> 01:00:30.880
ran around being the face and the personality of it all.

1101
01:00:30.920 --> 01:00:34.000
And that's fitting because hard work was below him, just

1102
01:00:34.039 --> 01:00:37.519
a facade of greatness. That's all he could do. It

1103
01:00:37.559 --> 01:00:40.880
took his wife that he humiliated over and over again,

1104
01:00:41.039 --> 01:00:44.119
access prostitutes while he was married to her, treated her

1105
01:00:44.159 --> 01:00:46.960
like a piece of trash, She's the one doing the

1106
01:00:46.960 --> 01:00:49.679
hard work, putting the backbone in the whole business, while

1107
01:00:49.719 --> 01:00:52.599
you're over smiling and you sound like her fucking dad

1108
01:00:52.639 --> 01:00:55.960
is what he sounds like. And the DA felt like

1109
01:00:56.000 --> 01:00:58.360
this was more than enough evidence to warrant an arrest,

1110
01:00:58.519 --> 01:01:01.679
and Bruce was arrested for them of his wife, Jana,

1111
01:01:01.880 --> 01:01:04.559
and how financially well off were they all, he could

1112
01:01:04.599 --> 01:01:06.440
have divorced her and still lived a good life. You

1113
01:01:06.440 --> 01:01:08.280
know how I know that because he was able to

1114
01:01:08.320 --> 01:01:12.079
post a one million dollar bail when it was set

1115
01:01:12.599 --> 01:01:16.920
he posted it himself. And then on February eighteenth of

1116
01:01:17.000 --> 01:01:19.880
two thousand and three, his trial took place. And the

1117
01:01:19.920 --> 01:01:23.119
biggest issue, as I'm sure you can realize, is Jana's

1118
01:01:23.159 --> 01:01:26.719
body was never found. It was still missing at the

1119
01:01:26.760 --> 01:01:30.000
time of the trial, and this makes it circumstantial at

1120
01:01:30.039 --> 01:01:33.559
best this case, and usually whenever there's no body, the

1121
01:01:33.639 --> 01:01:38.079
stats are really low in bodyless crime convictions. People want

1122
01:01:38.079 --> 01:01:41.519
to have a body, and Bruce really seemed to enjoy

1123
01:01:41.559 --> 01:01:45.320
the fact that Jana was never found. He came across

1124
01:01:45.360 --> 01:01:49.239
as very confident in court. He wanted to testify on

1125
01:01:49.280 --> 01:01:51.760
his own behalf. Do you know how stupid you have

1126
01:01:51.880 --> 01:01:53.920
to be to testify on your own behalf in this

1127
01:01:54.039 --> 01:01:56.719
type of case. I know I just said it was circumstantial,

1128
01:01:56.719 --> 01:01:59.000
but how confident do you have to be with the

1129
01:01:59.039 --> 01:02:03.679
evidence that is against you to this point? But incredibly,

1130
01:02:04.559 --> 01:02:09.280
the deliberation went on for six days, and if you

1131
01:02:09.360 --> 01:02:11.960
know anything about a trial, that is not a good

1132
01:02:12.000 --> 01:02:15.400
sign for the prosecution. Six days that means we've got

1133
01:02:15.440 --> 01:02:17.920
a lot of doubt that they're working through. And when

1134
01:02:17.920 --> 01:02:22.119
the jury returned, they announced that they were hopelessly hung

1135
01:02:22.559 --> 01:02:27.639
and a mistrial was declared. But do not fret. I'm

1136
01:02:27.679 --> 01:02:29.119
not here to give you bad news. I'm here to

1137
01:02:29.119 --> 01:02:32.559
give you justice news. Because the DA decided that he

1138
01:02:32.559 --> 01:02:35.840
would not walk away from this case, he decided that

1139
01:02:35.880 --> 01:02:40.480
he would try him again, and eight months later, still

1140
01:02:40.559 --> 01:02:45.159
convinced that Jana was killed by her husband, this DA

1141
01:02:45.239 --> 01:02:47.880
decided to take that case on again. He was convinced

1142
01:02:47.920 --> 01:02:51.320
that Jana was murdered and that someone that someone being

1143
01:02:51.320 --> 01:02:55.039
her husband, should be held accountable. The issue that the

1144
01:02:55.119 --> 01:02:58.599
juror seemed to feel in the first trial wasn't if

1145
01:02:58.679 --> 01:03:02.599
he did it, but why he did it. So in

1146
01:03:02.639 --> 01:03:05.079
the new trial, the DA decided to take a whole

1147
01:03:05.119 --> 01:03:09.840
new angle. At the prosecution, and he focused more on

1148
01:03:09.880 --> 01:03:13.480
the facts and less on the motive, and the jury

1149
01:03:13.679 --> 01:03:15.920
seemed to understand it when it was laid out that way,

1150
01:03:16.119 --> 01:03:18.599
because they came back in less than one day with

1151
01:03:18.719 --> 01:03:23.559
a guilty verdict. And this is good to hear, okay,

1152
01:03:24.079 --> 01:03:27.320
But I want you to know that listening to Jana's

1153
01:03:27.320 --> 01:03:31.880
mother's defeat in the media interviews and in the victim

1154
01:03:32.000 --> 01:03:34.960
impact statement, saying things like I wish I could have

1155
01:03:35.039 --> 01:03:39.639
her body to do a proper burial is heartbreaking. A

1156
01:03:39.719 --> 01:03:42.760
conviction is great, but think about her mama, who doesn't

1157
01:03:42.760 --> 01:03:44.760
even have her daughter's body, doesn't even know where her

1158
01:03:44.760 --> 01:03:49.920
final resting place is. One thing she says, She said,

1159
01:03:50.239 --> 01:03:53.960
you took my daughter, and alongside that, you also took

1160
01:03:54.000 --> 01:03:56.840
her father's desire to live, because y'all, for all her

1161
01:03:56.840 --> 01:04:02.360
father's faults, her father loved her and whenever she went missing,

1162
01:04:02.760 --> 01:04:06.199
he stopped having the will to even live, to seek treatment,

1163
01:04:06.239 --> 01:04:09.440
to even go on because his baby girl was dead.

1164
01:04:09.599 --> 01:04:11.480
And you have to still be able to empathize with

1165
01:04:11.559 --> 01:04:15.559
that as a daddy. Janna's mother, though, to me, is

1166
01:04:15.599 --> 01:04:18.360
the ultimate loser in all of this. You can't just

1167
01:04:18.400 --> 01:04:21.039
help but shake your head and just pity for this woman.

1168
01:04:21.599 --> 01:04:23.960
She's dealt with a lot. That's a strong woman for

1169
01:04:24.039 --> 01:04:26.480
all that she's been dealing with. He was given fifteen

1170
01:04:26.559 --> 01:04:28.960
years to life at sentencing, and he spent his days

1171
01:04:29.000 --> 01:04:31.920
now at the California Institution for Men. And I want

1172
01:04:31.960 --> 01:04:34.280
you to know he has been up for parole multiple

1173
01:04:34.280 --> 01:04:39.039
times since twenty seventeen, and he has been consistently denied

1174
01:04:39.199 --> 01:04:43.039
the opportunity. His most recent denial was in twenty twenty one.

1175
01:04:43.280 --> 01:04:46.119
And I say, good, sit your ass right there where

1176
01:04:46.119 --> 01:04:51.719
you deserve to be. Only a selfish, heartless, pompous coward

1177
01:04:52.320 --> 01:04:55.000
would kill the woman that he vowed to love and

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cherished forever and stuff her in the back of her

1179
01:04:57.719 --> 01:05:00.719
own car to rot until he could find it safe way,

1180
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in his eyes, to go and dump her. And I

1181
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also think of the calculated attempt that he did to

1182
01:05:06.239 --> 01:05:10.000
frame someone by placing the car in a high crime area.

1183
01:05:10.280 --> 01:05:15.199
To think that some teenagers could have possibly been framed

1184
01:05:15.480 --> 01:05:18.719
and charged with Jenna's murder because they stole the car,

1185
01:05:18.800 --> 01:05:20.679
which I again will tell you is bad. You don't

1186
01:05:20.679 --> 01:05:23.280
steal a car, but they didn't kill her, their dumb

1187
01:05:23.400 --> 01:05:26.480
kids stealing a car. And to know that he thought

1188
01:05:26.519 --> 01:05:30.119
that through. A grown man thought that through and was

1189
01:05:30.199 --> 01:05:34.320
willing to let some I would argue disadvantaged teams just

1190
01:05:34.559 --> 01:05:36.760
by the likes of where they come from. To take

1191
01:05:36.760 --> 01:05:40.440
the fall for something he did is just unconscionable. The

1192
01:05:40.480 --> 01:05:43.239
path of destruction that this man leaves in the wake

1193
01:05:43.280 --> 01:05:47.159
of anyone in anywhere that he touches. All of these

1194
01:05:47.239 --> 01:05:50.599
years to have passed, y'all, and Jenna's body has never

1195
01:05:50.679 --> 01:05:54.320
been found. It is twenty twenty five, and somewhere she

1196
01:05:54.480 --> 01:05:59.760
lay unclaimed but certainly not unloved, And that man will

1197
01:05:59.800 --> 01:06:04.280
not say where he dumped her body. Her mama, her daddy,

1198
01:06:04.480 --> 01:06:07.440
and her sister deserved closure to this and they never

1199
01:06:07.599 --> 01:06:11.679
got it. It is the ultimate disrespect, the ultimate when

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01:06:11.679 --> 01:06:14.400
a daddy hands over the hand of his daughter to

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01:06:14.519 --> 01:06:17.880
another man to honor and to cherish and to take

1202
01:06:17.920 --> 01:06:19.840
care of her, and then he turns around and he

1203
01:06:19.960 --> 01:06:23.679
murders her, dumps her body, and then refuses to even

1204
01:06:23.679 --> 01:06:27.360
tell you where it is. You're a fucking piece of trash.

1205
01:06:27.599 --> 01:06:29.880
The level of disrespect that you were showing that family.

1206
01:06:31.280 --> 01:06:34.079
Jannah wanted to be a mama. She wanted a normal

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01:06:34.119 --> 01:06:36.519
life with a child to raise as her own, and

1208
01:06:36.559 --> 01:06:42.760
that opportunity was stripped from her. She was a kind person,

1209
01:06:43.000 --> 01:06:46.880
she was a benefit to society. So we all lost,

1210
01:06:47.039 --> 01:06:50.199
is my argument. When she was killed, a best friend

1211
01:06:50.480 --> 01:06:53.960
was lost, a daughter was lost, a sister was lost,

1212
01:06:54.239 --> 01:06:58.039
and a mama to a parentless child needing to be

1213
01:06:58.079 --> 01:07:02.519
adopted was never a adopted It was a loss. No

1214
01:07:02.559 --> 01:07:08.639
one deserves this and all over nothing. And considering Bruce's

1215
01:07:08.840 --> 01:07:13.559
legitimate nerd status and his inflated self confidence, I'm beyond

1216
01:07:13.760 --> 01:07:17.559
unimpressed that divorce and murder were the only two options

1217
01:07:17.639 --> 01:07:21.760
that he could come up with, and then he chose murder, Like, dude,

1218
01:07:21.760 --> 01:07:25.679
you're a walking douchebag and you chose murder as your option.

1219
01:07:26.639 --> 01:07:28.079
I mean, hell, I'm just gonna tell you, I don't

1220
01:07:28.119 --> 01:07:30.920
get it. Because he was way too busy being rejected

1221
01:07:30.920 --> 01:07:33.199
by women to have the audacity to go around and

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01:07:33.280 --> 01:07:47.079
kill one.