My mom found her and said she might have slipped in the shower. She was in the Fetal Position in this bathtub. You could see marks on jessicas neck. Police said were going to rule this as a homicide. Reporter detectives using new technology to view this crime scene in extreme detail. There is no forced entry, no tool marks. There was blood on the couch. Who could have done this . They said usually it is someone close. An investigation focusing on friends and family. They brought up the association with the motorcycle gang. We came off as kind of a tough guy. We fool around a little bit. And he threatened to take out my whole entire family to get custody of our kids. Wow. Reporter a chilling story of danger and duplicity. We would try to figure out who did this. He knew the whole time. This is the ultimate betrayal. Hello and welcome to dateline. Jessica nelson was a Hard Working Single mom who kept her loved ones close. And then one morning, she was found dead in the house she shared w
that is your worst nightmar imagining what is happening to your child a note with big demands left by mysterious kidnapper who seemed to know all, se all. they are watching the house and then the victim hersel calls. her mom jumping into work with police, would hand over th ransom herself if i didn t jump the mone properly, that would be the en of her she dropped the cash all right but who picked it up that s where everything went wrong? that s where everything wen wrong. kidnapping case about to go way off script her story did not mak sense. what was really going on? i ve been a cup for 11 year and i blush when i listen to the tape a story with more twists an turns in the florida roads trying to find this missin mom. this case was not going t turn out like a lot of peopl assumed. thanks for joining us i m lester holt. whenever someone is kidnappe it triggers a race against tim as police often joined by th victims family begin a frantic search that s w
and this is dateline now she s a married mothe of two she was a kindergarten teacher there s nothing about her life that would raise any red flags she amazed them all her whole group of girlfriends at the gym she was totally dedicated say how, they re turnaround you ve gotten smaller. a stunning 200 pound weight loss, and a whole new life cam without. you can see tha transformation you can see the confidence i her. then, she was gone. missing at school. i caught all the girlfriend will find you one where the other. the clues, an email to he husband, and a secret she wa reluctant to share kind of a bombshell how there was possibly seein another man. what was really behind he sudden disappearance that would be the most mind-blowing twist of all. do you think that heather would still be alive if sh hadn t gone through this transformation the welcome to dateline. heather jones, a motivationa teacher, had shed pounds and her past she was starting to
everything else or that was an alibi okay, so did i do with? her that s what we re asking, chris. chris was talking to hi story, but the biggest break and the case was about t happen what chris didn t know is that wall detectives were turning u the heat inside th interrogation room, outsid they sent some cadaver dog over to the mall to se different s car, and now the team at the mall wanted to speak with detective immediately. they said the dog jus hammered his car they said they re all over it. they found the scent of human remains. i don t know why the cadave dogs in my car i do. they don t just hit on anybody s cars, they don t you don t cars on the blue what is it they re traine to detect? i mean, when - de gaulle position. wallace had chris against the ropes, and was finally going to get some answers, not just about what happened, bu why. the startling revelation. how those radical makeover
what s the chances that you and are staying the same hotel in the same, room at the sam time and not knowing each other what s the chances of, tha jasmine? he refer back to queens photo, and tauntingly asked if this is a woman stacey, that a monowitz claimed he was with the night cleaners of duct it showed us not, stacey but? it s her word against mine. no, it s more than that now how is more because we have independent people that i do you there s something more to, i and this one is not telling th truth, you need to be on the top that is telling. it and if she is telling the truth, holy bleep you re in lot of trouble but, as monowitz maintain you did nothing wrong, but not only, that he said, he could prove it he had a secret recording, tha was going to clear his name. coming up well, you can searc everything i own, you re not gonna find anything. the battle to get a hold of that recording and then, what it reveals. when you heard that tape,