i mean, your parents are the wild. nobody expected a mother of three being murdered sleeping in her home. the usual suspects, her husband, they were going to a contentious divorce. you have a man who is there on the property when she is being murdered? yes, we looked intensely at him. we wanted to bring in her sister, we. was there jealousy and competition between the sisters? we just thought somebody is going to talk. that is one powerful secret. absolutely. that kind of had two out of nowhere. absolute shock. i mean, heartbroken. rockford, michigan. perched on the river just north of grand rapids, is an outdoor paradise. but this piece is fragile, easily pairs by one troubling phone call. the kind of call that often begins a story like this. rene did not meet up with a sweat friend that she was supposed to go and grab a beer with. it was a saturday afternoon in the summer of 2006. so this friend called her dad and they said that she n
Dateline: Renee Pagel Murder Twist Leaves Andrea Canning Speechless, “I Have No Words”
Dateline investigates the 2006 murder of 41-year-old, mother of three
Renee Pagel. She was found dead in her bed, just five days after she had donated one of her kidneys to a man in her small town of Courtland Township, Michigan. But her death was no medical calamity: she was brutally murdered stabbed several times.
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At the time of her death, Renee was going through a messy divorce with her husband
Michael Pagel, who wanted full custody of their children as well as the house and reportedly alimony of $2000 a month.
Homicide of West Michigan’s Renee Pagel to be Featured on Dateline Friday
The 2006 murder of Renee Pagel, a 41-year-old mother of three, shook the West Michigan community. Pagel, who was recovering from surgery after donating a kidney to a father of one of her student s, was killed in her Rockford-area home.
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While police had a primary person of interest, they were unable to charge him due to his solid alibi, Wood TV 8 reports. The case eventually went cold. But friends and family never gave up: A social media page Justice for Renee Pagel and a website WhoKilledRenee.com were started in the years that followed her murder.
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