who he would trust, who he was around. in building their case, they would have to disprove rudy s version of events the day kristine disappeared. he told police he took kristine to queens mall and dropped her off at a health food store near her house. he claims that was the last he saw of her. i did a canvass of almost every store, going up and down to see if they saw kristine, see if they saw anything on that day. and nobody saw anything on that day. the next step was to figure out where he might have taken her. since october of 1998, they ve searched abandoned buildings and spoken to hundreds of people. here s what we re going to do. we re going to go to cam rogers place which is right behind us over here. that s a cousin of rudy s and owns a body shop in queens. they suspect he might have been involved. when we were doing our investigation in the beginning, we found out that tim was a close cousin of rudy and could help him under these conditions. there s a drive-in pla
the case has led us to the conclusion that she s been the victim of a homicide. but still no arrest. her sister angel remains defiant and focused on charlie chorman. i spent a whole year researching criminals and domestic violence because i wanted to see who i was dealing with. angel said charlie s violent nature became more apparent as she spoke to more of anna s friends. i saw him grab her, throw her up against the wall, choke her. put his arms on her neck and left marks where his hands had been. as part of his course on investigations, gil alba helps angel to reconstruct what might have happened on anna s final day. we re at the place where anna marie and charlie resided for a few months, and then anna finally moved out because she couldn t take the abuse anymore. he could have came home after say killing her and come her and changed his clothes and washed his hands and did something.
after anna s disappearance, her family was stunned to learn he had been imprisoned in 1988 for 4 1/2 years for running what police called new york city s largest stolen car ring. anna s family made another shocking discovery. five months after he was released from prison, his sister-in-law, elizabeth bump, vanished without a trace. it was rumored the two were having an affair. as soon as he gets out of jail, bump disappears. then he starts dating my sister that following year. he was a control freak, an abuser. boom, she disappears. who else could it be? anna s step-dad, phil, went to confront charlie. after a half hour of questions, phil got the impression charlie was not telling him the truth. i asked him how it was that he wasn t looking for anna marie after she had disappeared. and he certainly stopped coming around and everything else. and he told me it was because of
telephone conversation that afternoon. i called the police because it s been a couple of days. and they tell me, oh, she s off in atlantic city somewhere. anna s sister, angel, told police she suspected anna s boyfriend, charlie chorman, of foul play. she had made a comment to my aunt that if anything ever happened, it was charlie that was responsible. according to friends and family, anna and charlie had a volatile relationship. charlie had a history with my sister. it was a typical domestic abuse relationship where he s beating the crap out of her for four years. angel believed anna must have come to harm. she had left behind $1,200 in cash at her mother s house. and even more dear, her dog, odie. she would have never left her dog. she would have never left her money. she would have called.