told erin s husband jon she needed to talk to him and by then she was singing a very different tune about erin corwin. nicole found out that chris was having an affair with aaron. i didn t actually, this was the i did know at the time. you re totally clueless. yes. this is a bombshell to hear this news. the it was a bombshell, it was earth shattering. but john says he still left his wife and was committed to his marriage. i tried my hardest to make it work. they are you in this for life? yes. this marriage? definitely. she was always trying to fix something instead of replacing it and i was trying everything i could to fix it. he said the entire time he and aaron reconciled and even patch things up with chris and nicole. i started hanging back out with us. really?
erin and john grew close with their fellow marine corps neighbors, including nicole and chris lee. a couple originally from our alaska. erin s mom, laura christened nicole, and john an error in, come together all the time. i was happy. you know, that she had this. erin and nicole shared a common passion for horses. i was excited when erin and nicole met because nicole was into horses and i knew erin needed the horses. nicole introduced aaron to the white court rescue ranch and its owner isabelle. you re not far away from 29 palms. no, 45 minutes. is this not only a sanctuary for the animals but maybe a little bit for the rain corps wives? yes. isabelle started the ranch in 2004. the spouses come to the ranch when their husbands are their fiancée s or boyfriends are out in the field. they have nothing to do, most of them don t work. and they get very lonely. loneliness is probably the biggest problem that they have.
i was honestly ready to struggle. chris but detectives soon learned something more explosive. remember, erin had recently found out she was pregnant. she told her friend that she believed the father of her baby was her lover, chris, not her husband. did you think the possibility existed that he did find out that this affair had not ended like he had thought and that this law be might not even be his? that s heavy stuff for someone to deal with. john realized that was very likely not his kid. which again, it brings motive to the spouse. did you have anything to do with your wife s disappearance? no, i did not. everybody who knew me personally knew that there was no way i could do that. but john says marines on the base who didn t know him well seemed suspicious. you could tell that they would look at me differently and i been trying to stay home because of it. were you not able to do your
probably starting to dwindle. there was her miscarriage in early 2014. john said it was heartbreaking and erin had trouble coping. she became very enclosed and depressed. would stay at home. and i m definitely not the one that actually speaks his emotions, i ve kept them bottled up my whole life. and she felt like i didn t care about it. and i did. it actually hurt me a whole lot. it really took a toll on our relationship. and erin s mom, laura, knew the young married couple had many problems. we gave each of our kids a certain amount of money when they got married. and they kept just behind things, and all of a sudden i think that huge chunk of money was not there. you struggled with finances? definitely, yeah. pay is not that great but we had food on the table. we just don t have any money for extracurriculars. was that hard for erin? i know it was an issue with her credit card. yes. it was hard. we ended up racking up debt and
where summer temperatures climb well past 100 degrees. we literally drove around joshua tree national park all day trying to find any signs, any clues of where she might have been. do you see anything, any signs of her? her car, a piece of clothing a piece of clothing, anything? nothing. there s a certain protocol detectives follow when investigating a missing person. start small and close to home. that inner circle of friends and family, the ones who know the person best. so when john corwin reported that his wife aaron had disappeared, it was natural they would look at him. like with any investigation you start closest to the source of the missing person. so we had a lot of questions for john. investigators learned that one s childhood sweethearts erin and john settled in 29 palms, things were far from perfect. their relationship wasn t intertwined, we knew that it was a relationship that was