Actually murdered. Killed in a crime that had never been solved. She was almost a perfect victim. And what about him . He had become the focus in his first wifes mysterious death. Was he a victim too . Im a father, i have a family. I didnt kill janet. I felt horrible for him. You didnt want to believe it. Who would want to believe that . Im lester holt, and this is dateline. Heres josh mankowitc with deadly denial. She found plenty of the wrong guys. Now here in front of her was someone different. We met at a daycare where both of our children went to daycare. Vanessa pond of Salt Lake City was 25 and a single parent when back in 2007 she made raven abaroa. Like vanessa, he was single and raising a child alone. He was very charming. He would always come up with such fascinating dates. He seemed different. He seemed very different. A good guy. Very good guy. And you fell for him. Hard. But along with the charm and the lavish dates, raven also had a story. A horrible, awful story, that w
Something deadly. Shes dead i just came in the house, i saw jan on the floor. He was crying. He was in shock. His whole life was shattered. He said i should probably let you know that my wife was actually murdered. Killed in a crime that had never been solved. She was almost the perfect victim. And what about him . Hed become the focus in his first wifes mysterious death. Was he a victim too . Im a father. I have a family. I didnt kill janet. I felt horrible for him. You didnt want to believe it . Who would want to believe that . Hello and welcome to dateline. Vanessa pond was a single parent looking for a Second Chance at love, and in raven abaroa she thought she found her soul mate. The pair started dating. Then came a chilling admission. Raven told vanessa he was carrying some heavy baggage. More than 2,000 miles away, he was a suspect in his wifes unsolved murder. Still, vanessa clung to the dream that they could live happily ever after. Heres Josh Mankiewicz with deadly denial. Sh
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about to go to bed, as her husband had suggested? correct. she was not in that bed to sleep. when then, prosecutor frank s turn to ravens non 11 call. is your wife conscious? no, she s, like, blue. she s blue? her eyes are open. he says she was dead. her lips were blue, and her eyes were open. but, mike guzman, the admiral is councillor, testified that raven said scum something really different about finding janet. i believe he said to me that she had asked him why do i hurt so bad. that statement he made to mike is extremely important, because that shows she was not dead at the time that he was with her. one of those is a lie. exactly. one item conspicuously absent from a growing pile of states evidence was the weapon.