1 00:00:11,544 --> 00:00:12,145 >> WE DROPPED JONELLE OFF. 2 00:00:12,145 --> 00:00:13,279 >> Reporter: AND YOU AND YOUR DAD WENT HOME? 3 00:00:13,279 --> 00:00:15,448 >> WE WENT HOME. >> Reporter: IMAGINE HER BEING 4 00:00:15,448 --> 00:00:18,151 TAKEN FROM HER HOME. >> TAKEN 5 00:00:18,151 --> 00:00:20,820 SHE MUST HAVE BEEN TERRIFIED >> I GET A CALL WE HAVE A 6 00:00:20,820 --> 00:00:23,023 MISSING CHILD. >> SHE HAD COME HOME, TAKEN OFF 7 00:00:23,023 --> 00:00:25,692 HER COAT JUST LIKE SHE WAS JUST GOING TO SETTLE DOWN AND 8 00:00:25,692 --> 00:00:29,496 WATCH TV >> IT WAS TRULY BAFFLING 9 00:00:29,496 --> 00:00:32,232 >> NO SIGNS OF STRUGGLE. NOTHING MISSING IN THE HOUSE 10 00:00:32,232 --> 00:00:35,502 >> THERE WERE SHOE PRINTS FOUND AROUND THE OUTSIDE OF THE HOUSE. 11 00:00:35,502 --> 00:00:38,204 >> DOORS ARE GETTING LOCKED. PARENTS WERE WARNING CHILDREN. 12 00:00:38,204 --> 00:00:41,474 IT REALLY ROCKED THIS COMMUNITY. >> EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO LIVED 13 00:00:41,474 --> 00:00:45,645 IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD NEEDED TO BE TRACKED DOWN 14 00:00:45,645 --> 00:00:48,381 I KNOW YOU DID GO OVER TO JONELLE THAT NIGHT 15 00:00:48,381 --> 00:00:50,684 >> ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY NOT. >> THEY DID NOT HAVE PHYSICAL 16 00:00:50,684 --> 00:00:58,858 EVIDENCE ALL LEADS WERE GOING DEAD. 17 00:00:58,858 --> 00:01:01,061 >> I'VE GOT INFORMATION YOU WANT, AND YOU CAN"T HAVE IT. 18 00:01:01,061 --> 00:01:02,662 >> THIS MIGHT REALLY MIGHT BE SOMETHING. 19 00:01:02,662 --> 00:01:04,831 >> Reporter: PRETTY DRAMATIC STUFF. 20 00:01:04,831 --> 00:01:09,069 >> VERY DRAMATIC STUFF >> UNFORGIVABLE. 21 00:01:09,069 --> 00:01:11,771 HOW CAN YOU FORGIVE EVIL >> A CHILD KIDNAPPED 22 00:01:11,771 --> 00:01:14,074 A TOWN HAUNTED A KILLER TAUNTING DETECTIVES 23 00:01:14,074 --> 00:01:25,685 SEE HOW THEY CAUGHT HIM AT LAST. I"M LESTER HOLT, AND THIS IS 24 00:01:25,685 --> 00:01:34,394 "DATELINE. HERE"S DENNIS MURPHY WITH 25 00:01:34,394 --> 00:01:37,630 "FOOTPRINTS IN THE SNOW. >> Reporter: THIS IS THE PLACE 26 00:01:37,630 --> 00:01:39,799 WHERE HE LEFT HER, THIS WINDSWEPT SCRUFF OF LAND 27 00:01:39,799 --> 00:01:43,103 I ALMOST FEEL LIKE WE"RE ON SACRED GROUND OR SOMETHING, I 28 00:01:43,103 --> 00:01:46,339 MEAN, WITH ALL OF THIS PRAIRIE OUT HERE 29 00:01:46,339 --> 00:01:51,244 WAY OFF THE PAVED ROAD NOWHERE. 30 00:01:51,244 --> 00:01:54,981 >> IT"S ENDLESS. >> Reporter: YEAH. 31 00:01:54,981 --> 00:01:57,717 >> GETTING RID OF A BODY OUT HERE IS EXTREMELY EASY 32 00:01:57,717 --> 00:02:01,054 >> Reporter: AND THERE, FOR PASSING DECADES OF WINTER SNOW 33 00:02:01,054 --> 00:02:05,325 AND SUMMER HEAT, SHE LAY ABANDONED, ALONE 34 00:02:05,325 --> 00:02:09,629 BUT NOT FORGOTTEN. >> PART OF THIS STORY TOUCHES SO 35 00:02:09,629 --> 00:02:13,400 DEEPLY ON THAT FEAR THAT WE ALL HAVE AS PARENTS, THAT THERE'LL 36 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:17,237 BE A MOMENT WHERE WE WON"T BE ABLE TO PROTECT OUR CHILD. 37 00:02:17,237 --> 00:02:20,173 >> Reporter: AND THE NEARBY TOWN WAS PARALYZED IN OH-MY-GOD FEAR 38 00:02:20,173 --> 00:02:23,743 FROM THAT VERY FIRST MOMENT WHEN WORD PASSED -- JONELLE MATTHEWS 39 00:02:23,743 --> 00:02:26,479 HAD GONE MISSING >> HE SAYS, "GLO, I DON"T KNOW 40 00:02:26,479 --> 00:02:29,749 HOW TO TELL THIS TO YOU, BUT WE CAN"T FIND JONELLE." 41 00:02:29,749 --> 00:02:33,520 >> I KNEW THE LONGER IT GOES ON, THE LESS CHANCE THAT WE WOULD 42 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:35,689 FIND HER ALIVE >> Reporter: AND NO ONE EVER 43 00:02:35,689 --> 00:02:40,560 QUITE FORGOT THE NIGHT GREELEY LOST ITS INNOCENCE 44 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:47,100 >> IT'LL NEVER BE OVER JONELLE IS ALWAYS THERE. 45 00:02:47,100 --> 00:02:54,641 JONELLE'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE A STORY THAT YOU HAVE TO TELL. 46 00:02:54,641 --> 00:02:59,546 >> Reporter: IT WAS JUST BEFORE CHRISTMAS, DECEMBER 20th, 1984, 47 00:02:59,546 --> 00:03:04,417 IN SMALL TOWN GREELEY, COLORADO. BACK THEN, GREELEY WAS A COW 48 00:03:04,417 --> 00:03:07,687 TOWN ON COLORADO'S EASTERN PRAIRIE, A QUIET PLACE TO SET 49 00:03:07,687 --> 00:03:10,390 DOWN ROOTS AND RAISE A FAMILY. >> GREELEY WAS 50 00:03:10,390 --> 00:03:18,498 50,000 APPROXIMATELY AT THAT TIME 51 00:03:18,498 --> 00:03:21,434 NOW IT"S ABOUT 125,000, 130,000. BUT TO ME IT WAS KIN 52 00:03:21,434 --> 00:03:23,069 OF AN IDEAL MIDWEST TOWN, SMALL MIDWEST TOWN, GOOD PLACE TO 53 00:03:23,069 --> 00:03:25,205 RAISE KIDS, GOOD SCHOOLS >> Reporter: JIM MATTHEWS MOVED 54 00:03:25,205 --> 00:03:32,245 HERE FROM CALIFORNIA WITH HIS WIFE, GLORIA, AND TWO DAUGHTERS, 55 00:03:32,245 --> 00:03:33,847 JONELLE AND JENNIFER YOU KNOW, IT'S INTERESTING 56 00:03:33,847 --> 00:03:39,285 TALKING TO YOUR PARENTS, I HAD THIS KIND OF PICTURE OF GREELEY, 57 00:03:39,285 --> 00:03:46,893 COLORADO, LIKE THE OLD TV SHOWS FROM THE '50s -- 58 00:03:46,893 --> 00:03:49,095 >> I"D SAY THAT'S -- >> Reporter: -- GROWING UP, 59 00:03:49,095 --> 00:03:54,000 JENNIFER >> -- EXACTLY RIGHT. 60 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:55,669 I DIDN'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT BEING OUTSIDE AND PLAYING WITH 61 00:03:55,669 --> 00:03:57,771 MY FRIENDS AND COMING HOME BY DARK AND JUST ENJOYING LIFE. 62 00:03:57,771 --> 00:03:59,372 >> Reporter: THAT DECEMBER, 1984, GLORIA DECIDED TO TAKE A 63 00:03:59,372 --> 00:04:01,541 TRIP BACK TO THE WEST COAST TO VISIT HER EXTENDED FAMILY. 64 00:04:01,541 --> 00:04:03,677 THAT MEANT SHE WOULD MISS CHRISTMAS DAY IN GREELEY 65 00:04:03,677 --> 00:04:06,212 >> YOU KNOW, JONELLE SAID, "WELL, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO 66 00:04:06,212 --> 00:04:09,649 ABOUT CHRISTMAS? AND GLORIA TOLD HER, YOU KNOW, 67 00:04:09,649 --> 00:04:14,054 "WE'LL JUST WAIT ANOTHER DAY AND MOM WILL BE BACK ON THE 26th AND 68 00:04:14,054 --> 00:04:16,256 WE'LL CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS. BUT EVEN WITH GLORIA AWAY IN THE 69 00:04:16,256 --> 00:04:17,824 DAYS LEADING UP TO CHRISTMAS, JIM WAS DETERMINED TO MAKE THE 70 00:04:17,824 --> 00:04:19,459 MOST OF THE SEASON FOR HIS DAUGHTERS. 71 00:04:19,459 --> 00:04:21,594 JENNIFER WAS 16 THEN, JONELLE 12 72 00:04:21,594 --> 00:04:23,797 AND WHAT DID JONELLE IN PARTICULAR THINK ABOUT CHRISTMAS 73 00:04:23,797 --> 00:04:26,366 COMING AROUND? >> SHE LOVED CHRISTMAS 74 00:04:26,366 --> 00:04:28,468 SHE LIKED TO MAKE PRESENTS FOR HER FRIENDS. 75 00:04:28,468 --> 00:04:33,540 >> SHE LIKED TO GET PRESENTS >> AND SHE LIKED TO GET 76 00:04:33,540 --> 00:04:35,675 PRESENTS YEAH, WHO DOESN'T? 77 00:04:35,675 --> 00:04:37,844 >> SHE WAS EXCITED FOR THE GIFTS AND JUST EVERYTHING ABOUT 78 00:04:37,844 --> 00:04:43,683 CHRISTMAS. AND THE SONGS. 79 00:04:43,683 --> 00:04:48,755 >> Reporter: DEANNA ROSS WAS JONELLE'S CHILDHOOD BEST FRIEND, 80 00:04:48,755 --> 00:04:53,626 AND THEY SANG TOGETHER IN THE SCHOOL'S HONOR CHOIR 81 00:04:53,626 --> 00:04:55,795 THEY'D BOTH BEEN REHEARSING HARD FOR THE CHRISTMAS CONCERT THAT 82 00:04:55,795 --> 00:04:59,599 NIGHT OF DECEMBER 20th IT WAS THE LAST BIG EVENT BEFORE 83 00:04:59,599 --> 00:05:02,035 SCHOOL ENDED FOR THE HOLIDAYS. THAT'S JONELLE, RIGHT THERE IN 84 00:05:02,035 --> 00:05:03,937 THE MIDDLE DID JONELLE ENJOY IT 85 00:05:03,937 --> 00:05:05,572 >> SHE LOVED THAT, YES >> Reporter: THAT WAS REALLY HER 86 00:05:05,572 --> 00:05:07,741 SWEET SPOT, RIGHT? >> ABSOLUTELY, YEAH. 87 00:05:07,741 --> 00:05:09,909 >> Reporter: JIM MATTHEWS WAS JUGGLING THE SCHEDULES OF BOTH 88 00:05:09,909 --> 00:05:13,713 DAUGHTERS THAT EVENING FIRST HE DROPPED JONELLE OFF AND 89 00:05:13,713 --> 00:05:18,051 THEN WENT TO WATCH JENNIFER'S BASKETBALL GAME. 90 00:05:18,051 --> 00:05:19,786 HE WASN'T GOING TO MAKE IT BACK IN TIME TO TAKE JONELLE HOME 91 00:05:19,786 --> 00:05:25,658 IS JONELLE STUCK WITHOUT A RIDE? DID SHE HAVE TO FIGURE OUT HOW 92 00:05:25,658 --> 00:05:27,861 SHE'S GONNA GET HOME >> NO, I DON'T BELIEVE SO. 93 00:05:27,861 --> 00:05:30,063 I THINK SHE HAD A RIDE FIGURED OUT, UM, BUT I THINK SHE CAME 94 00:05:30,063 --> 00:05:32,532 WITH US AT THE LAST MINUTE >> Reporter: JONELLE HOPPED IN A 95 00:05:32,532 --> 00:05:35,969 PICK-UP WITH DEANNA AND HER DAD, RUSS ROSS. 96 00:05:35,969 --> 00:05:37,604 WHEN THEY PULLED UP TO THE MATTHEWS' HOME AT ABOUT 97 00:05:37,604 --> 00:05:39,806 8:30 P.M., NOTHING SEEMED OUT OF THE ORDINARY 98 00:05:39,806 --> 00:05:41,474 JONELLE RAN INTO THE HOUSE THROUGH THE GARAGE AND GAVE HER 99 00:05:41,474 --> 00:05:45,745 SECRET SIGNAL. >> SHE WENT INSIDE AND FLICKED 100 00:05:45,745 --> 00:05:47,347 THE LIGHT ON AND OFF TO LET US KNOW THAT SHE'S INSIDE 101 00:05:47,347 --> 00:05:49,949 AND THEN ME AND MY DAD LEFT. >> Reporter: THAT WAS THE OKAY 102 00:05:49,949 --> 00:05:51,718 SIGNAL, HUH? >> YEAH, THE OKAY SIGNAL 103 00:05:51,718 --> 00:05:56,089 >> Reporter: DEANNA AND HER DAD DROVE AWAY 104 00:05:56,089 --> 00:05:58,224 JIM ARRIVED HOME FROM JENNIFER'S BASKETBALL GAME AT 9:30, ABOUT 105 00:05:58,224 --> 00:06:01,227 AN HOUR AFTER JONELLE. 30 MINUTES LATER, JENNIFER 106 00:06:01,227 --> 00:06:04,197 ARRIVED HOME >> I CAME HOME AROUND 10:00, AND 107 00:06:04,197 --> 00:06:06,399 MY DAD HAD ASKED, "DO YOU KNOW WHERE JONELLE IS?" 108 00:06:06,399 --> 00:06:12,172 AND I SAID, "NO. SHE USUALLY CAME HOME AND WOULD 109 00:06:12,172 --> 00:06:13,306 WATCH TV AND NEVER HAD ANY PROBLEMS ABOUT NOT BEING WHERE 110 00:06:13,306 --> 00:06:15,075 SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE >> Reporter: WHAT WAS THE BACK 111 00:06:15,075 --> 00:06:17,777 OF YOUR NECK TELLING YOU, ANYTHING 112 00:06:17,777 --> 00:06:21,047 >> JUST THAT THIS WAS NOT RIGHT. SOMETHING WAS WRONG. 113 00:06:21,047 --> 00:06:25,352 >> Reporter: SO JIM CALLED THE LAST PERSON HE THOUGHT HAD SEEN 114 00:06:25,352 --> 00:06:27,520 JONELLE -- RUSS ROSS >> I CALLED RUSS, AND I SAID, 115 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:31,057 "RUSS, DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT JONELLE? 116 00:06:31,057 --> 00:06:33,927 HE SAYS, "YEAH." HE SAID, "I BROUGHT HER HOME, 117 00:06:33,927 --> 00:06:36,730 AND I WATCHED HER WALK IN. THE GARAGE DOOR WAS OPEN." 118 00:06:36,730 --> 00:06:41,067 AND HE SAID SHE WALKED INTO THE GARAGE AREA AND USED THAT DOOR 119 00:06:41,067 --> 00:06:43,336 TO ENTER THE HOUSE AND THEN SHE FLICKED THE LIGHTS 120 00:06:43,336 --> 00:06:46,473 ON AND OFF TO SAY THAT EVERYTHING WAS FINE. 121 00:06:46,473 --> 00:06:49,743 >> Reporter: JIM KNEW IMMEDIATELY SOMETHING WAS AWRY 122 00:06:49,743 --> 00:06:53,079 THE GARAGE DOOR SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN OPEN. 123 00:06:53,079 --> 00:06:56,316 >> IT WAS NOT OPEN WHEN WE LEFT. >> Reporter: ONE THING WAS 124 00:06:56,316 --> 00:06:59,686 TERRIFYINGLY CLEAR 12-YEAR-OLD JONELLE MATTHEWS WAS 125 00:06:59,686 --> 00:07:02,288 NOWHERE TO BE FOUND. BUT IN THAT GARAGE, CLUES ABOUT 126 00:07:02,288 --> 00:07:05,658 BUT IN THAT GARAGE, CLUES ABOUT WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO HER WERE 127 00:07:22,942 --> 00:07:27,280 REMEMBERS VIVIDLY BEING STARTLED AWAKE BY HER FATHER IN THE DEAD 128 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:31,618 OF NIGHT THAT DECEMBER 20, 1984. >> I REMEMBER FEELING KIND OF 129 00:07:31,618 --> 00:07:34,888 LIKE, WHAT'S GOING ON, WHAT'S HAPPENING, AND NOT REALLY IT 130 00:07:34,888 --> 00:07:37,590 REGISTERING WITH ME, WHAT WAS HAPPENING. 131 00:07:37,590 --> 00:07:39,893 >> Reporter: WHAT HER FATHER WAS SAYING DIDN'T MAKE SENSE. 132 00:07:39,893 --> 00:07:43,063 HER BEST FRIEND, JONELLE MATTHEWS, MISSING? 133 00:07:43,063 --> 00:07:48,501 BUT THE TWO GIRLS HAD JUST PERFORMED IN THEIR SCHOOL'S 134 00:07:48,501 --> 00:07:50,670 CHRISTMAS CONCERT HOURS BEFORE? DEANNA'S DAD HAD DRIVEN THEM 135 00:07:50,670 --> 00:07:55,575 HOME YOU DIDN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO TELL 136 00:07:55,575 --> 00:07:57,744 HIM. THE LAST YOU'VE SEEN HER - 137 00:07:57,744 --> 00:07:59,379 >> RIGHT >> Reporter: -- THAT WAS HER 138 00:07:59,379 --> 00:08:01,381 GOING INTO THE HOUSE >> YES 139 00:08:01,381 --> 00:08:03,183 >> Reporter: BACK AT THE MATTHEW'S HOUSE, LATE AS IT WAS, 140 00:08:03,183 --> 00:08:05,385 HER FATHER JIM CONTINUED TO CALL AROUND TO SEE IF ANYONE KNEW 141 00:08:05,385 --> 00:08:07,020 WHERE JONELLE WAS. NO ONE DID 142 00:08:07,020 --> 00:08:09,189 >> SO, NOW I'M STARTING TO REALLY BE CONCERNED. 143 00:08:09,189 --> 00:08:11,358 >> Reporter: FINALLY, HE CALLED THE POLICE. 144 00:08:11,358 --> 00:08:13,526 OFFICERS FROM THE GREELEY POLICE DEPARTMENT RESPONDED QUICKLY 145 00:08:13,526 --> 00:08:16,229 >> THEY CAME RIGHT AWAY WHEN MY DAD HAD CALLED. 146 00:08:16,229 --> 00:08:18,431 AND WAKING ME UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT TO FINGERPRINT MY 147 00:08:18,431 --> 00:08:21,134 ROOM >> Reporter: OH. 148 00:08:21,134 --> 00:08:23,870 HOW AWFUL FOR YOU. >> IT'S SOMETHING THAT YOU 149 00:08:23,870 --> 00:08:28,208 WANTED TO HAVE DONE SO THAT THEY COULD FIND JONELLE 150 00:08:28,208 --> 00:08:31,044 >> Reporter: POLICE SCOURED EVERY INCH OF THE HOUSE AS JIM 151 00:08:31,044 --> 00:08:34,748 AND JENNIFER STOOD BY IN SILENCE. 152 00:08:34,748 --> 00:08:36,883 AND THEIR HOME WAS RARELY SILENT, ESPECIALLY WHEN THE 153 00:08:36,883 --> 00:08:38,585 EBULLIENT AND SOMETIMES CHEEKY JONELLE WAS AROUND 154 00:08:38,585 --> 00:08:41,254 >> Reporter: BOSSY >> CORRECT 155 00:08:41,254 --> 00:08:44,524 >> Reporter: SASSY >> YES, JUST OPINIONATED. 156 00:08:44,524 --> 00:08:48,928 SHE WAS SWEET AND HAD A TENDER HEART. 157 00:08:48,928 --> 00:08:51,664 BUT I DIDN'T SEE THAT BECAUSE I WAS JUST ROLLING MY EYES TO THE 158 00:08:51,664 --> 00:08:58,672 OTHER MORE DRAMATIC ACTIONS THAT SHE WOULD DO 159 00:08:58,672 --> 00:09:00,340 >> I'LL TELL YOU A STORY ABOUT JONELLE. 160 00:09:00,340 --> 00:09:03,576 IT WAS A SUNDAY NIGHT AND SHE WANTED SOMETHING AND I SAID, NO, 161 00:09:03,576 --> 00:09:08,014 JONELLE. SHE STOMPS OUT THE ROOM. 162 00:09:08,014 --> 00:09:11,184 SHE COMES BACK A FEW MINUTES LATER AND SHE ASKS ME THE SAME 163 00:09:11,184 --> 00:09:13,920 QUESTION. AND BY THAT TIME, I WAS GETTING 164 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:19,893 ANGRY. I SAID NO, JONELLE. 165 00:09:19,893 --> 00:09:23,163 AND SHE STOMPS OUT THE ROOM AND SHE SAYS SUFFER THE LITTLE 166 00:09:23,163 --> 00:09:25,865 CHILDREN AND FORBID THEM NOT >> Reporter: DEANNA SAYS JONELLE 167 00:09:25,865 --> 00:09:31,805 JUST LOVED MUSIC AND BROUGHT ANY SITUATION TO LIFE. 168 00:09:31,805 --> 00:09:33,506 WHAT DID SHE LIKE? WHAT LITTLE GIRL THINGS DID SHE 169 00:09:33,506 --> 00:09:35,575 HAVE? SHE HAD BOY BAND POSTERS ON HER 170 00:09:35,575 --> 00:09:37,243 WALL OR -- >> OH, DEFINITELY. 171 00:09:37,243 --> 00:09:39,079 ONE THAT STICKS OUT IS MENUDO. SHE LOVED MENUDO 172 00:09:39,079 --> 00:09:47,587 >> Reporter: BUT NOW, IN THAT HOUSE CRAWLING WITH POLICE, 173 00:09:47,587 --> 00:09:49,756 THERE WAS NO MUSIC, JUST WORRY THE CLUES WERE MEAGER AT BEST. 174 00:09:49,756 --> 00:10:01,201 JONELLE HAD LEFT HER STOCKINGS ON THE COUCH. 175 00:10:01,201 --> 00:10:02,836 AND SHE'D WRITTEN A NOTE FOR HER DAD TO RETURN A CALL TO ONE OF 176 00:10:02,836 --> 00:10:08,775 HIS EMPLOYEES. POLICE FOUND NO SIGNS OF 177 00:10:08,775 --> 00:10:10,977 STRUGGLE, BUT THE SHOES JONELLE HAD WORN TO THE CONCERT THAT 178 00:10:10,977 --> 00:10:13,113 EVENING WERE INSIDE THE HOUSE AND NONE OF HER OTHER SHOES WERE 179 00:10:13,113 --> 00:10:14,748 MISSING. PERHAPS A SIGN, POLICE 180 00:10:14,748 --> 00:10:17,484 SPECULATED, THAT JONELLE DIDN'T LEAVE THE HOUSE WILLINGLY. 181 00:10:17,484 --> 00:10:18,852 AS DAWN BROKE WITH STILL NO TRACE OF JONELLE, THE GREELEY 182 00:10:18,852 --> 00:10:20,754 POLICE DEPARTMENT DISPATCHED MORE OFFICERS TO THE SCENE 183 00:10:20,754 --> 00:10:22,889 >> I WAS CALLED OUT, UH, I DON"T KNOW, 4, 5:00 IN THE MORNING 184 00:10:22,889 --> 00:10:25,258 >> Reporter: JOHN GATES WAS A GREELEY POLICE DEPARTMENT 185 00:10:25,258 --> 00:10:31,031 DETECTIVE BACK IN 1984 NOW, HE"S THE MAYOR OF GREELEY 186 00:10:31,031 --> 00:10:37,570 >> THERE"S A GIRL THAT'S BEEN MISSING NOW SINCE LAST NIGHT 187 00:10:37,570 --> 00:10:42,976 THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S SEVERAL OPTIONS. 188 00:10:42,976 --> 00:10:45,145 OF COURSE, YOU"RE HOPING IT'S A GIRL THAT'S RUN AWAY 189 00:10:45,145 --> 00:10:46,846 >> Reporter: YES >> OR MAYBE WITH A FRIEND THAT 190 00:10:46,846 --> 00:10:48,448 DIDN'T COMMUNICATE THAT TO HER PARENTS. 191 00:10:48,448 --> 00:10:50,583 >> Reporter: BY THE EARLY MORNING, POLICE HAD FANNED OUT 192 00:10:50,583 --> 00:10:52,218 ACROSS GREELEY TO SEE IF ANYONE HAD SEEN JONELLE OR KNEW WHERE 193 00:10:52,218 --> 00:10:53,853 SHE MIGHT BE GATES AND HIS PARTNER MOVED 194 00:10:53,853 --> 00:10:56,423 METHODICALLY, ON FOOT, THROUGH THE SNOW 195 00:10:56,423 --> 00:10:59,859 >> WE KNOCKED ON ALL THE DOORS THAT WE COULD. 196 00:10:59,859 --> 00:11:02,062 >> Reporter: YOU'RE A CANVASSER. >> CORRECT 197 00:11:02,062 --> 00:11:03,663 >> Reporter: PATROL OFFICER KEITH OLSON WAS CALLED TO THE 198 00:11:03,663 --> 00:11:05,765 SCENE TOO. THIS IS THE NEIGHBORHOOD, DOES 199 00:11:05,765 --> 00:11:06,933 IT LOOK TO YOUR EYES MORE OR LESS THE SAME? 200 00:11:06,933 --> 00:11:09,135 >> YOU KNOW, WHAT'S IRONIC IS IT LOOKS ALMOST EXACTLY THE SAME. 201 00:11:09,135 --> 00:11:11,304 WE HAVE THE SAME TYPE OF, UH, WEATHER. 202 00:11:11,304 --> 00:11:12,972 THE -- THE SNOW IS COVERING THE LAWNS. 203 00:11:12,972 --> 00:11:15,075 >> Reporter: OLSON WAS TOLD TO CHECK OUT A NEW AND POSSIBLY 204 00:11:15,075 --> 00:11:19,379 IMPORTANT CLUE, UNIDENTIFIED SHOE PRINTS IN THE SNOW LEADING 205 00:11:19,379 --> 00:11:22,182 TO ONE OF THE WINDOWS AT THE MATTHEWS' HOUSE. 206 00:11:22,182 --> 00:11:24,651 >> WE DON"T HAVE A LOT OF FACTS, BUT THERE WERE SHOE PRINTS FOUND 207 00:11:24,651 --> 00:11:42,569 AROUND THE OUTSIDE OF THE HOUSE AS IF SOMEONE WAS LOOKING INTO 208 00:11:42,569 --> 00:11:44,504 THE WINDOWS. >> Reporter: SO THERE'S THE 209 00:11:44,504 --> 00:11:46,139 SIGN, MAYBE OF FOUL PLAY - >> RIGHT 210 00:11:46,139 --> 00:11:48,308 >> Reporter: -- BUT YOU DON"T KNOW 211 00:11:48,308 --> 00:11:49,943 >> AND ALSO, THAT SAME SHOE PRINT IS FOUND WALKING THROUGH 212 00:11:49,943 --> 00:11:51,878 THE GREASE OF THE TWO-CAR GARAGE WALKING TOWARDS A RAKE 213 00:11:51,878 --> 00:11:53,713 >> Reporter: AND OLSON AND OTHERS NOTICED AN ODD DETAIL 214 00:11:53,713 --> 00:11:55,648 ABOUT THAT RAKE. IT HAD BEEN USED TO RAKE OVER 215 00:11:55,648 --> 00:11:58,118 THE SHOE PRINTS -- AS THOUGH SOMEONE HAD TRIED TO COVER THEM 216 00:11:58,118 --> 00:11:59,219 UP INVESTIGATORS DECIDED TO KEEP 217 00:11:59,219 --> 00:12:01,354 THAT INFORMATION CLOSE TO THE VEST, SO AS NOT TO TIP OFF THE 218 00:12:01,354 --> 00:12:03,523 POSSIBLE PERPETRATOR >> THE INFORMATION ABOUT THE 219 00:12:03,523 --> 00:12:05,225 SHOE PRINTS, THE RAKED-OUT SHOE PRINTS, UH, THE FACT HER SHOES 220 00:12:05,225 --> 00:12:07,327 WERE -- WERE FOUND IN THE HOUSE, WAS INFORMATION NOT RELEASED TO 221 00:12:07,327 --> 00:12:11,131 THE PRESS. >> Reporter: LATER THAT MORNING, 222 00:12:11,131 --> 00:12:15,468 DETECTIVE GATES HEADED DOWN THE STREET TO JONELLE'S MIDDLE 223 00:12:15,468 --> 00:12:17,637 SCHOOL TO SEE IF HE COULD LEARN ANYTHING NEW FROM JONELLE'S 224 00:12:17,637 --> 00:12:26,880 FRIENDS AND CLASSMATES >> YOU ASK THE OBVIOUS 225 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:28,581 QUESTIONS. HAS -- HAS SHE BEEN TROUBLED? 226 00:12:28,581 --> 00:12:30,150 IS THERE -- WOULD THERE BEEN ANY INDICATORS 227 00:12:30,150 --> 00:12:31,818 >> Reporter: DID YOU GET ANY RED FLAGS ABOUT JONELLE? 228 00:12:31,818 --> 00:12:33,953 >> UM, NONE WHATSOEVER >> Reporter: SHE HAD NO FRIENDS 229 00:12:33,953 --> 00:12:35,588 SHE WAS GOING TO RUN OFF WITH OR - 230 00:12:35,588 --> 00:12:37,757 >> NOT TO MY KNOWLEDGE. IF MY SISTER WERE TO HAVE RUN 231 00:12:37,757 --> 00:12:39,659 AWAY, SHE WOULD HAVE LEFT A NOTE, BEEN DRAMATIC ABOUT IT, 232 00:12:39,659 --> 00:12:41,561 AND NOT DONE IT FIVE DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS. 233 00:12:41,561 --> 00:12:43,196 THAT WAS A BIG HOLIDAY FOR JONELLE. 234 00:12:43,196 --> 00:12:45,598 SHE HAD PRESENTS TO GIVE TO HER FRIENDS THE NEXT DAY FOR THE 235 00:12:45,598 --> 00:12:47,000 HOLIDAYS RUNNING AWAY AT CHRISTMAS TIME 236 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:50,937 PROBABLY WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ON HER RADAR. 237 00:12:50,937 --> 00:12:54,607 >> Reporter: YOU WOULD SAY IT'D BE OUT OF CHARACTER FOR HER. 238 00:12:54,607 --> 00:12:56,776 >> CORRECT >> Reporter: WHEN JONELLE'S MOM 239 00:12:56,776 --> 00:12:58,945 GLORIA CALLED TO CHECK IN FROM CALIFORNIA, JIM GAVE HER THE 240 00:12:58,945 --> 00:13:06,553 HORRIBLE NEWS. >> HE SAYS, "GLO, I DON"T KNOW 241 00:13:06,553 --> 00:13:09,255 HOW TO TELL THIS TO YOU, BUT WE CAN'T FIND JONELLE." 242 00:13:09,255 --> 00:13:10,890 I MEAN, RIGHT AWAY, I FELT SICK TO MY STOMACH. 243 00:13:10,890 --> 00:13:13,093 >> Reporter: GLORIA MADE PLANS TO TRAVEL HOME RIGHT AWAY. 244 00:13:13,093 --> 00:13:15,261 MEANWHILE, AS INVESTIGATORS RANG DOORBELLS IN GREELEY, FINDING 245 00:13:15,261 --> 00:13:17,964 NOTHING, THEIR GAZE BEGAN TO TURN BACK TO WHERE THE 246 00:13:17,964 --> 00:13:20,667 INVESTIGATION STARTED. >> IN THIS SITUATION IT'S NOT 247 00:13:20,667 --> 00:13:22,869 UNCOMMON FOR A PARENT TO BE INVOLVED 248 00:13:22,869 --> 00:13:45,925 >> Reporter: IS THAT WHY JIM MATTHEWS BECAME A SUSPECT? 249 00:13:45,925 --> 00:13:47,594 >> Reporter: AS CHRISTMAS DAY DAWNED IN GREELEY, THE MATTHEWS 250 00:13:47,594 --> 00:13:50,430 HOME WAS UNCHARACTERISTICALLY QUIET. 251 00:13:50,430 --> 00:13:53,099 THERE WERE NO JOYFUL OUTBURSTS AS 12-YEAR-OLD JONELLE UNWRAPPED 252 00:13:53,099 --> 00:13:58,471 HER PRESENTS THEY SAT UNOPENED BENEATH THE 253 00:13:58,471 --> 00:14:00,640 CHRISTMAS TREE AND HER CONTAGIOUS ENTHUSIASM HAD BEEN 254 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:02,876 REPLACED BY A DARK, UNSPOKEN FEAR 255 00:14:02,876 --> 00:14:05,578 HAD JONELLE BEEN KIDNAPPED OR WORSE? 256 00:14:05,578 --> 00:14:12,052 THIS HAS TO BE JUST UNREAL FOR YOU. 257 00:14:12,052 --> 00:14:15,321 WHAT DO YOU SAY TO ONE ANOTHER >> WE JUST EMBRACE AND, YOU 258 00:14:15,321 --> 00:14:20,694 KNOW, TRYING TO THINK POSITIVELY THAT SHE'S GOING TO, YOU KNOW, 259 00:14:20,694 --> 00:14:27,734 TURN UP. BUT, UH, I DON'T KNOW. 260 00:14:27,734 --> 00:14:29,936 WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE ONE OF YOUR CHILDREN 261 00:14:29,936 --> 00:14:32,072 ARE? >> Reporter: YOU SEARCH FOR THEM 262 00:14:32,072 --> 00:14:34,474 24 HOURS A DAY, 7 DAYS A WEEK. AND THAT'S WHAT THE FAMILY, THE 263 00:14:34,474 --> 00:14:35,875 POLICE, AND THE PEOPLE OF GREELEY MOBILIZED TO DO. 264 00:14:35,875 --> 00:14:39,346 >> STILL HAVE HOPE THAT SHE'LL BE FOUND AND THAT SHE'LL BE 265 00:14:39,346 --> 00:14:41,848 FOUND SAFELY AND WE'RE JUST GOING TO START 266 00:14:41,848 --> 00:14:44,417 GEARING UP OUR EFFORTS IN TWO OR THREE MAJOR CHANNELS TO GET THE 267 00:14:44,417 --> 00:14:50,090 WORD OUT SO THAT PEOPLE CAN SPOT HER. 268 00:14:50,090 --> 00:14:54,394 WE HAD A COUNTYWIDE SEARCH THAT THE POLICE AND A COUPLE OF OUR 269 00:14:54,394 --> 00:15:01,468 BOARD MEMBERS IN OUR CHURCH ORGANIZED AND COORDINATED PEOPLE 270 00:15:01,468 --> 00:15:04,704 FOR THIS SEARCH. >> THE PEOPLE OF GREELEY ARE 271 00:15:04,704 --> 00:15:06,906 LIKE SALT OF THE EARTH, AND THEY PUT THEIR NEEDS ASIDE TO TAKE 272 00:15:06,906 --> 00:15:10,143 CARE OF THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE IN THEIR COMMUNITY. 273 00:15:10,143 --> 00:15:15,048 AND IT'S HUMBLING TO BE ON THE RECEIVING END OF THIS. 274 00:15:15,048 --> 00:15:18,251 >> Reporter: FAMILY FRIEND EILEEN HUFF WAS ONE OF THOSE WHO 275 00:15:18,251 --> 00:15:21,287 RUSHED TO THE FAMILY'S SIDE. WHAT COULD YOU READ IN THEIR 276 00:15:21,287 --> 00:15:25,592 FACES ON WHAT THEY'RE SAYING TO YOU? 277 00:15:25,592 --> 00:15:29,129 >> YOU KNOW, GLORIA AND JIM, THROUGH ALL OF THIS, HAVE BEEN 278 00:15:29,129 --> 00:15:34,567 THE MOST GRACIOUS, KIND, LOVING PEOPLE 279 00:15:34,567 --> 00:15:37,837 AND THAT'S WHO THEY ARE. AND THEY WOULD SHARE, HONESTLY, 280 00:15:37,837 --> 00:15:40,540 HOW THEY FELT. WE WANTED SO MUCH TO ALLEVIATE 281 00:15:40,540 --> 00:15:44,911 THAT PAIN TO DO SOMETHING TO BRING HER HOME 282 00:15:44,911 --> 00:15:48,715 >> Reporter: AS THE INVESTIGATION WAS TAKING SHAPE, 283 00:15:48,715 --> 00:15:51,685 POLICE FOCUSED ON THE MAN WHO HAD BROUGHT JONELLE HOME THAT 284 00:15:51,685 --> 00:15:54,854 NIGHT -- DEANNA'S DAD, RUSS ROSS. 285 00:15:54,854 --> 00:15:57,390 DETECTIVES TREATED HIM FIRST AS A WITNESS, BUT ABOUT A MONTH 286 00:15:57,390 --> 00:16:00,093 AFTER JONELLE DISAPPEARED, THEY BROUGHT HIM IN FOR SOME TOUGH 287 00:16:00,093 --> 00:16:02,829 QUESTIONING. DEANNA REMEMBERS HOW IT STARTED 288 00:16:02,829 --> 00:16:06,066 TO TAKE A TOLL ON HIM. >> IT BOTHERED HIM 289 00:16:06,066 --> 00:16:08,935 BUT WHEN YOU HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE, YOU KNOW, THAT'S HOW HE 290 00:16:08,935 --> 00:16:12,572 FELT, AND HE WAS FULLY COOPERATIVE. 291 00:16:12,572 --> 00:16:15,041 HE UNDERSTANDS WHY -- WHY THEY HAD TO QUESTION HIM THE WAY THEY 292 00:16:15,041 --> 00:16:17,477 DID. >> Reporter: HE WAS THE LAST 293 00:16:17,477 --> 00:16:20,213 ADULT KNOWN TO HAVE SEEN HER >> ABSOLUTELY. 294 00:16:20,213 --> 00:16:24,684 >> Reporter: MEANWHILE, THE GREELEY POLICE DEPARTMENT HAD 295 00:16:24,684 --> 00:16:26,753 FOUND LITTLE PHYSICAL EVIDENCE SO THEY SHARPENED THEIR FOCUS ON 296 00:16:26,753 --> 00:16:28,888 THOSE CLOSEST TO JONELLE IS THIS A STATISTICAL TEMPLATE 297 00:16:28,888 --> 00:16:31,057 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT? START WITH A FAMILY, BECAUSE 298 00:16:31,057 --> 00:16:35,161 STATISTICALLY, THAT OFTEN TURNS OUT TO BE WHO HAS THE ANSWERS TO 299 00:16:35,161 --> 00:16:36,062 THIS THING >> THAT'S ALWAYS IN THE BACK OF 300 00:16:36,062 --> 00:16:39,232 YOUR MIND. BUT IN THIS CASE, IT WASN'T SOME 301 00:16:39,232 --> 00:16:41,401 TEMPLATE IT WAS -- THERE WAS THESE 302 00:16:41,401 --> 00:16:47,374 OUTWARD SIGNS. >> Reporter: ESPECIALLY, 303 00:16:47,374 --> 00:16:49,509 INVESTIGATORS THOUGHT, WITH JONELLE'S FATHER, JIM. 304 00:16:49,509 --> 00:16:51,711 HE TOLD INVESTIGATORS HE DIDN'T NOTICE RIGHT AWAY THAT JONELLE 305 00:16:51,711 --> 00:16:54,381 WAS MISSING. HE SHOUTED HELLO WHEN HE GOT 306 00:16:54,381 --> 00:16:57,083 HOME, BUT DIDN'T MAKE MUCH OF IT WHEN JONELLE DIDN'T ANSWER AND 307 00:16:57,083 --> 00:17:09,029 PROCEEDED TO WRAP A PRESENT BEFORE CHECKING ON HER 308 00:17:09,029 --> 00:17:10,563 CURIOUSLY, ONCE HE CALLED JONELLE'S FRIENDS AND REALIZED 309 00:17:10,563 --> 00:17:12,766 NO ONE KNEW WHERE HIS DAUGHTER WAS, JIM DID NOT IMMEDIATELY 310 00:17:12,766 --> 00:17:14,434 CALL THE POLICE. FIRST HE CALLED HIS PASTOR 311 00:17:14,434 --> 00:17:16,569 >> SO THIS DISAPPEARANCE OF JONELLE IS NOT REALLY ON POLICE 312 00:17:16,569 --> 00:17:19,039 RADAR UNTIL SOMETIME AROUND 11:00, AFTER 11:00 313 00:17:19,039 --> 00:17:20,940 >> ABSOLUTELY. WE HAD NO IDEA UNTIL HE MADE THE 314 00:17:20,940 --> 00:17:22,542 INITIAL CALL >> Reporter: THEN, THE NEXT 315 00:17:22,542 --> 00:17:24,711 MORNING, WITH POLICE SWARMING HIS HOUSE, JIM DID SOMETHING 316 00:17:24,711 --> 00:17:27,447 ELSE THAT SEEMED ODD >> HE WENT DRIVING AROUND FOR 317 00:17:27,447 --> 00:17:30,717 FOUR HOURS OF UNACCOUNTED TIME >> Reporter: THIS IS AFTER HIS 318 00:17:30,717 --> 00:17:35,622 DAUGHTER HAS GONE MISSING? >> YES 319 00:17:35,622 --> 00:17:39,426 >> Reporter: BUT WHAT REALLY PIQUED DETECTIVE OLSEN'S 320 00:17:39,426 --> 00:17:41,061 INTEREST WAS JIM'S STOIC BEHAVIOR 321 00:17:41,061 --> 00:17:42,862 >> HE DIDN'T SHOW A LOT OF EMOTIONS 322 00:17:42,862 --> 00:17:47,067 >> Reporter: DOES THAT MATTER, AFFECT, DEMEANOR 323 00:17:47,067 --> 00:17:49,102 >> IT SHOULDN'T, BUT IT DOES >> Reporter: AND HE WASN'T 324 00:17:49,102 --> 00:17:50,270 SHOWING YOU WHAT YOU"D EXPECT TO SEE? 325 00:17:50,270 --> 00:17:52,472 >> RIGHT I MEAN, HE"S NOT SHOWING HOW I 326 00:17:52,472 --> 00:17:56,810 WOULD REACT IF MY DAUGHTER IS MISSING. 327 00:17:56,810 --> 00:17:58,878 I'D BE HAMMERING ON THE TABLE -- I WANT THIS -- THESE EFFORTS 328 00:17:58,878 --> 00:18:00,613 DONE AND WE HAVE A PERSON WHO IS 329 00:18:00,613 --> 00:18:03,283 DISCONNECTED FROM THE CASE >> Reporter: POLICE HAD NOT 330 00:18:03,283 --> 00:18:04,451 FOUND PHYSICAL EVIDENCE THAT INDICATED JIM HAD SOMETHING TO 331 00:18:04,451 --> 00:18:06,619 DO WITH JONELLE'S DISAPPEARANCE. AND NONE OF HIS BOOTS MATCHED 332 00:18:06,619 --> 00:18:08,788 THOSE RAKED FOOTPRINTS IN THE SNOW 333 00:18:08,788 --> 00:18:12,058 BUT THAT DIDN'T RULE HIM OUT AS A PERSON OF INTEREST 334 00:18:12,058 --> 00:18:15,295 HE KNOWS WHERE THE RAKE IS IN THE GARAGE 335 00:18:15,295 --> 00:18:19,099 >> HE KNOWS EXACTLY WHERE THE RAKE IS. 336 00:18:19,099 --> 00:18:22,736 YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE THAT THE INDIVIDUAL WHO DID THIS FOR SOME 337 00:18:22,736 --> 00:18:24,037 REASON CHOSE TO GO GET THE RAKE OUT OF THE GARAGE AND THEN 338 00:18:24,037 --> 00:18:26,239 RETURN IT TO ITS ORIGINAL POSITION 339 00:18:26,239 --> 00:18:27,807 >> Reporter: NOT JUST THROW IT DOWN ON THE SIDE OF THE HOUSE. 340 00:18:27,807 --> 00:18:29,943 >> RIGHT, RIGHT. SO THERE ARE ALL THESE QUESTIONS 341 00:18:29,943 --> 00:18:32,245 AND JUST CONFUSION >> Reporter: THREE DAYS AFTER 342 00:18:32,245 --> 00:18:35,815 JONELLE'S DISAPPEARANCE, THE FBI JOINED THE INVESTIGATION 343 00:18:35,815 --> 00:18:39,185 THEY THOUGHT A LIE DETECTOR TEST MIGHT PROVIDE SOME CLARITY AND 344 00:18:39,185 --> 00:18:42,422 ASKED JIM MATTHEWS TO TAKE ONE SO HE DID -- AND FAILED IT 345 00:18:42,422 --> 00:18:46,226 >> THE RELEVANT QUESTIONS WERE, "DO YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO 346 00:18:46,226 --> 00:18:51,364 YOUR DAUGHTER," OR, "DO YOU KNOW THE WHEREABOUTS OF JONELLE 347 00:18:51,364 --> 00:18:54,334 MATTHEWS?" THE FBI -- WE'RE ASSUMING 348 00:18:54,334 --> 00:19:00,840 THEY'RE SOME OF THE BEST POLYGRAPHERS IN THE NATION 349 00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:02,442 THEY SAY HE'S DECEPTIVE. >> Reporter: OF COURSE, 350 00:19:02,442 --> 00:19:05,345 POLYGRAPHS ARE REALLY JUST USED FOR GUIDANCE 351 00:19:05,345 --> 00:19:06,279 YOU CAN'T ADMIT THEM IN COURT, I DON'T THINK. 352 00:19:06,279 --> 00:19:08,581 >> CORRECT >> Reporter: BUT WHEN A GUY 353 00:19:08,581 --> 00:19:10,583 FLUNKS ON THE CRITICAL QUESTIONS, WHAT DOES IT TELL YOU 354 00:19:10,583 --> 00:19:13,019 AS THE INVESTIGATOR? >> THAT'S A LEAD THAT NEEDS TO 355 00:19:13,019 --> 00:19:14,387 BE FOLLOWED UP ON. >> Reporter: INVESTIGATOR WERE 356 00:19:14,387 --> 00:19:34,774 GOING TO DO MORE THAN FOLLOW UP. THEY WERE ABOUT TO PUT THE HEAT 357 00:19:34,774 --> 00:19:36,910 >> Reporter: TIME, FOR THOSE COMING OF AGE IN GREELEY DURING 358 00:19:36,910 --> 00:19:39,612 THE EARLY 1980s, WAS MEASURED DIFFERENTLY. 359 00:19:39,612 --> 00:19:42,882 THERE WAS GREELEY BEFORE JONELLE'S DISAPPEARANCE AND 360 00:19:42,882 --> 00:19:45,585 GREELEY AFTER. >> THIS MISSING KID HYSTERIA WAS 361 00:19:45,585 --> 00:19:47,754 GRIPPING THE REST OF THE COUNTRY, BUT IT HADN'T REALLY 362 00:19:47,754 --> 00:19:52,125 HIT GREELEY UNTIL THIS AND EVERYONE WAS KEEPING THEIR 363 00:19:52,125 --> 00:20:03,036 CURTAINS SHUT. THEY WERE LOCKING THEIR DOORS. 364 00:20:03,036 --> 00:20:04,671 THERE WERE PARENTS THAT WERE COORDINATING WHO'S WATCHING 365 00:20:04,671 --> 00:20:06,306 WHICH CHILD. >> Reporter: JOURNALIST 366 00:20:06,306 --> 00:20:08,475 ASHLEY FANTZ, WHO HAS A WELL KNOWN PODCAST ON THE CASE, FELT 367 00:20:08,475 --> 00:20:11,177 IT WAS A WATERSHED MOMENT IN THE LIFE OF THIS SMALL CITY. 368 00:20:11,177 --> 00:20:13,346 >> THE KIDS THAT I TALKED TO, WHO ARE, OF COURSE, ADULTS NOW, 369 00:20:13,346 --> 00:20:15,515 SAID THAT IT COMPLETELY CHANGED THEIR CHILDHOODS 370 00:20:15,515 --> 00:20:17,684 THEY WOULDN'T BE ALLOWED TO GO TO THE PLAYGROUNDS BY 371 00:20:17,684 --> 00:20:19,319 THEMSELVES THEY COULD NO LONGER WALK TO 372 00:20:19,319 --> 00:20:20,920 SCHOOL ALONE AND IT WAS TRAUMATIZING FOR 373 00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:26,893 EVERYONE >> I THINK, BASED ON ALL THE 374 00:20:26,893 --> 00:20:30,196 INFORMATION THAT WE HAVE AVAILABLE, THE CHILD'S BEEN 375 00:20:30,196 --> 00:20:31,531 KIDNAPPED. >> Reporter: REMINDERS OF THE 376 00:20:31,531 --> 00:20:32,866 MYSTERY THAT HAUNTED GREELEY WERE EVERYWHERE, EVEN AT THE 377 00:20:32,866 --> 00:20:37,537 BREAKFAST TABLE. MILK CARTONS WITH THE FACES OF 378 00:20:37,537 --> 00:20:40,507 MISSING CHILDREN FIRST APPEARED IN DECEMBER 1984, THE MONTH 379 00:20:40,507 --> 00:20:47,047 JONELLE WENT MISSING A FEW MONTHS LATER, SHE BECAME 380 00:20:47,047 --> 00:20:48,782 ONE OF THOSE FACES HERSELF I CAN'T IMAGINE WHAT IS GOING ON 381 00:20:48,782 --> 00:20:51,651 WITH YOU IN THIS PERIOD. >> FOR BOTH OF US, THAT'S WHERE 382 00:20:51,651 --> 00:20:54,120 OUR FAITH TOOK OVER. >> Reporter: AS JIM AND GLORIA'S 383 00:20:54,120 --> 00:20:56,823 EXPECTATION TO REUNITE WITH THEIR DAUGHTER SLOWLY DWINDLED, 384 00:20:56,823 --> 00:21:00,060 THEY IMMERSED THEMSELVES IN PRAYER 385 00:21:00,060 --> 00:21:03,863 IT'S THE ONLY WAY THEY KNEW HOW TO KEEP HOPE ALIVE 386 00:21:03,863 --> 00:21:08,501 >> AS CHRISTIANS, WE EXPECT GOD TO ANSWER PRAYER 387 00:21:08,501 --> 00:21:11,438 >> Reporter: JONELLE HAD CERTAINLY BEEN JUST THAT, AN 388 00:21:11,438 --> 00:21:14,708 ANSWER TO A PRAYER AFTER GLORIA HAD GIVEN BIRTH TO 389 00:21:14,708 --> 00:21:16,910 THEIR OLDER DAUGHTER JENNIFER, SHE WANTED ANOTHER CHILD BUT 390 00:21:16,910 --> 00:21:19,612 FOUND OUT SHE COULDN'T GET PREGNANT AGAIN 391 00:21:19,612 --> 00:21:23,450 >> AND WE THOUGHT THERE WERE SO MANY BABIES TO BE ADOPTED. 392 00:21:23,450 --> 00:21:27,153 >> Reporter: IT'S A VERY GENEROUS THING TO DO 393 00:21:27,153 --> 00:21:29,989 ABOUT SIX MONTHS LATER, THE ADOPTION SERVICE CALLED. 394 00:21:29,989 --> 00:21:35,428 AND THERE SHE WAS, ANOTHER DAUGHTER, JONELLE. 395 00:21:35,428 --> 00:21:37,630 >> AND I REMEMBER WHEN I FIRST SAW JONELLE, I PUT MY FINGER 396 00:21:37,630 --> 00:21:40,900 DOWN CLOSE TO HER, AND SHE GRABBED IT WITH HER HAND 397 00:21:40,900 --> 00:21:44,137 AND I WAS SURPRISED ABOUT HOW STRONG SHE WAS FOR - 398 00:21:44,137 --> 00:21:48,475 >> 3 WEEKS 3 WEEKS. 399 00:21:48,475 --> 00:21:51,211 >> Reporter: 12 YEARS LATER, THAT PRESENT FROM HEAVEN WAS 400 00:21:51,211 --> 00:21:53,346 GONE GLORIA, I'M THINKING YOU HAVE TO 401 00:21:53,346 --> 00:21:55,515 BE HUNGRY FOR INFORMATION FROM THE AUTHORITIES. 402 00:21:55,515 --> 00:21:57,684 WHAT DO YOU HAVE WHAT CAN YOU TELL US 403 00:21:57,684 --> 00:22:03,123 DO YOU HAVE ANY LEADS? DID YOU STAY ON THE POLICE 404 00:22:03,123 --> 00:22:05,291 >> NO, I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING. I JUST - 405 00:22:05,291 --> 00:22:07,494 >> YEAH, WE JUST -- YEAH, WE JUST LET THE POLICE DO THEIR 406 00:22:07,494 --> 00:22:11,264 THING. I MEAN, THEY'RE THE 407 00:22:11,264 --> 00:22:13,433 PROFESSIONALS. >> Reporter: BUT JIM KNEW THAT 408 00:22:13,433 --> 00:22:16,703 MIGHT BLOW BACK ON HIM POLICE HADN'T STOPPED WONDERING 409 00:22:16,703 --> 00:22:19,406 ABOUT HIS BEHAVIOR AND DEMEANOR THE DAY AFTER JONELLE WENT 410 00:22:19,406 --> 00:22:24,844 MISSING. >> I THINK IN MOST CASES, YOU 411 00:22:24,844 --> 00:22:27,080 HAVE TO ASSUME THAT SOMEONE CLOSE TO THE VICTIM MIGHT HAVE 412 00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:30,817 BEEN INVOLVED. SO IT WAS PRO FORMA THAT HE 413 00:22:30,817 --> 00:22:32,986 BECAME A SUSPECT >> Reporter: JIM SAYS HE 414 00:22:32,986 --> 00:22:35,188 EXPECTED THE POLICE SCRUTINY, EVEN WELCOMED IT 415 00:22:35,188 --> 00:22:38,091 AFTER ALL, HE HAD NOTHING TO HIDE 416 00:22:38,091 --> 00:22:40,093 THAT CALL TO HIS PASTOR INVESTIGATORS WONDERED ABOUT, 417 00:22:40,093 --> 00:22:43,329 THE ONE HE MADE BEFORE HE CALLED POLICE TO REPORT JONELLE 418 00:22:43,329 --> 00:22:46,599 MISSING? WELL, IT WAS SIMPLY A FATHER 419 00:22:46,599 --> 00:22:50,403 OVERCOME WITH ANXIETY AND LOOKING TO HIS SPIRITUAL MENTOR 420 00:22:50,403 --> 00:22:55,308 FOR ADVICE ON WHAT TO DO NEXT. >> I DECIDED TO CALL MY PASTOR 421 00:22:55,308 --> 00:22:58,111 WHO WAS -- I WAS VERY CLOSE TO AND REALLY RESPECTED AND TOLD 422 00:22:58,111 --> 00:23:00,213 HIM WHAT HAPPENED. AND HE SAID, "JIM, I WOULDN'T 423 00:23:00,213 --> 00:23:03,350 MESS AROUND WITH THIS. MAYBE YOU SHOULD CALL THE 424 00:23:03,350 --> 00:23:05,652 POLICE." >> Reporter: WHEN THE FBI GOT 425 00:23:05,652 --> 00:23:09,489 INVOLVED IN THE INVESTIGATION, JIM SAYS HE COOPERATED FULLY 426 00:23:09,489 --> 00:23:12,292 BUT HE WASN'T PREPARED FOR HIS VOLUNTARY POLYGRAPH TO TURN INTO 427 00:23:12,292 --> 00:23:15,428 A FULL ON "YOU DID IT" KIND OF GRILLING 428 00:23:15,428 --> 00:23:18,698 >> THE FBI AGENT WAS TRYING TO GET ME TO CONFESS. 429 00:23:18,698 --> 00:23:21,935 AND I CAN'T READ A POLYGRAPH I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT 430 00:23:21,935 --> 00:23:25,739 POLYGRAPHS AND HE WOULD TELL ME THAT I WAS 431 00:23:25,739 --> 00:23:35,515 LYING, AND HE WOULD SAY, "LOOK AT THE POLYGRAPH," AND SAY, 432 00:23:35,515 --> 00:23:37,717 "YOU"RE LYING HERE YOU'RE LYING HERE. 433 00:23:37,717 --> 00:23:40,353 WELL, I KNEW I WASN'T LYING. >> Reporter: POLICE HAD COMPARED 434 00:23:40,353 --> 00:23:41,521 HIS BOOTS TO THE FOOTPRINTS IN THE SNOW 435 00:23:41,521 --> 00:23:44,090 THEY WENT THROUGH HIS CAR WITH A FINE TOOTH COMB AND FOUND 436 00:23:44,090 --> 00:23:45,825 NOTHING. SO JIM WAS ANNOYED WHEN, TWO 437 00:23:45,825 --> 00:23:50,163 MONTHS AFTER THE FBI POLYGRAPH, GREELEY PD ASKED HIM TO TAKE 438 00:23:50,163 --> 00:23:54,000 ANOTHER LIE DETECTOR TEST. >> THEY WERE KIND OF GIVING ME 439 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:58,638 KIND OF THE SAME THING THAT THE FBI GAVE ME, THAT KIND OF 440 00:23:58,638 --> 00:24:01,074 GETTING ME -- TRY TO CONFESS >> Reporter: THAT REPEAT TACTIC 441 00:24:01,074 --> 00:24:04,878 WAS APPARENTLY TOO MUCH FOR JIM. HE LOST HIS PATIENCE WITH 442 00:24:04,878 --> 00:24:07,614 INVESTIGATORS AND LOST THE LOW-KEY DEMEANOR THAT HAD SO 443 00:24:07,614 --> 00:24:09,382 BOTHERED THEM. >> ARE YOU TELLING ME YOU DIDN'T 444 00:24:09,382 --> 00:24:11,384 ABDUCT YOUR DAUGHTER >> ABSOLUTELY. 445 00:24:11,384 --> 00:24:16,322 >> ARE YOU SURE? >> AND I'M TELLING YOU I DON'T 446 00:24:16,322 --> 00:24:17,957 KNOW WHERE MY DAUGHTER IS. I'M TELLING YOU -- 447 00:24:17,957 --> 00:24:27,167 >> WHO DID IT? WHO DID IT THEN? 448 00:24:27,167 --> 00:24:28,802 BE SITTING HERE? >> I DON'T KNOW. 449 00:24:28,802 --> 00:24:34,808 TELL ME. >> I -- I DO NOT KNOW WHERE SHE 450 00:24:34,808 --> 00:24:36,443 IS OR WHO TOOK HER THAT'S IT. 451 00:24:36,443 --> 00:24:38,645 >> ARE YOU SURE? >> ABSOLUTELY. 452 00:24:38,645 --> 00:24:40,246 ABSOLUTELY SURE. I DON'T WANT TO RAISE MY VOICE 453 00:24:40,246 --> 00:24:42,482 AND GET EMOTIONAL. BUT THAT'S NOT MY STYLE. 454 00:24:42,482 --> 00:24:44,584 BUT I WILL >> Reporter: ONCE AGAIN, HE WAS 455 00:24:44,584 --> 00:24:49,989 TOLD HE HAD FLUNKED THE LIE DETECTOR 456 00:24:49,989 --> 00:24:51,624 THAT'S WHEN JIM SAYS HE"D HAD ENOUGH 457 00:24:51,624 --> 00:24:53,827 >> I JUST GOT TIRED OF BEING THE MAIN SUSPECT 458 00:24:53,827 --> 00:24:55,428 AND I JUST SAID, "LISTEN, I HAVE DONE" -- I GOT MAD 459 00:24:55,428 --> 00:25:00,367 "I HAVE DONE EVERYTHING I CAN TO BE COOPERATIVE WITH YOU. 460 00:25:00,367 --> 00:25:02,469 I'VE TOLD YOU THE TRUTH EVERY SINGLE TIME. 461 00:25:02,469 --> 00:25:04,637 I'M FED UP WITH THIS." >> Reporter: BUT NO MATTER WHAT 462 00:25:04,637 --> 00:25:06,272 JIM TOLD INVESTIGATORS, HE COULD NOT SHAKE THEIR SUSPICION. 463 00:25:06,272 --> 00:25:08,475 AND SOON IT SEEMED EVERYONE IN GREELEY KNEW HE WAS A SUSPECT, 464 00:25:08,475 --> 00:25:11,044 INCLUDING CLOSE FAMILY FRIEND EILEEN HUFF. 465 00:25:11,044 --> 00:25:12,812 >> I HEARD VIA PEOPLE WHO WORKED IN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, "OH, 466 00:25:12,812 --> 00:25:24,724 HE'S -- HE WAS THE GUILTY PARTY. 467 00:25:24,724 --> 00:25:27,127 AND I JUST THOUGHT, "IF YOU ONLY KNEW JIM MATTHEWS, HE'D BE THE 468 00:25:27,127 --> 00:25:28,528 LAST PERSON YOU'D THINK. >> Reporter: EILEEN THOUGHT THAT 469 00:25:28,528 --> 00:25:30,130 THE ONLY WAY TO PUT ALL THE SUSPICIONS TO REST WAS TO FIND 470 00:25:30,130 --> 00:25:31,798 JONELLE, HOPEFULLY ALIVE AND SO SHE CAME UP WITH AN 471 00:25:31,798 --> 00:25:33,867 AUDACIOUS PLAN AND THIS IS THE WHITE HOUSE 472 00:25:33,867 --> 00:25:35,602 SWITCHBOARD. HELLO. 473 00:25:35,602 --> 00:25:37,237 >> YES >> Reporter: HOW CAN I DIRECT 474 00:25:37,237 --> 00:25:38,838 YOUR CALL? >> YES 475 00:25:55,855 --> 00:25:58,091 >> Reporter: BY FEBRUARY 1985, SEVERAL MONTHS HAD PASSED 476 00:25:58,091 --> 00:26:01,828 WITHOUT ANY SIGNIFICANT LEADS IN THE JONELLE MATTHEWS CASE. 477 00:26:01,828 --> 00:26:05,632 BUT EILEEN HUFF WAS DETERMINED NOT TO LET THE CASE TURN COLD. 478 00:26:05,632 --> 00:26:08,902 SO SHE AND SEVERAL OTHER FRIENDS OF JIM AND GLORIA'S FORMED A 479 00:26:08,902 --> 00:26:14,341 GROUP CALLED "RESCUE JONELLE." WHAT YOU GOT THERE, EILEEN 480 00:26:14,341 --> 00:26:20,313 >> UM, THESE WERE POSTERS FROM BACK IN 1984 AND '85 SHOWING 481 00:26:20,313 --> 00:26:22,449 JONELLE AT THE CHOIR CONCERT >> Reporter: THEY DIDN'T JUST 482 00:26:22,449 --> 00:26:25,151 PUT UP FLYERS AROUND TOWN, OR EVEN LIMIT THEM TO COLORADO. 483 00:26:25,151 --> 00:26:28,521 THEY SENT THEM TO POLICE DEPARTMENTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY 484 00:26:28,521 --> 00:26:31,157 AND TO AMERICAN EMBASSIES ALL OVER THE WORLD 485 00:26:31,157 --> 00:26:35,061 SO YOU'RE THINKING EILEEN WAS WHAT -- LET'S KEEP HER PICTURE 486 00:26:35,061 --> 00:26:38,231 IN FRONT OF PEOPLE LET'S SEE THE NAME AND MAYBE 487 00:26:38,231 --> 00:26:41,067 SOMETHING GOOD WILL COME OF IT >> WELL, MY FEELING WAS SOMEONE 488 00:26:41,067 --> 00:26:45,405 SOMEWHERE IS GOING TO SEE HER PICTURE, KNOW THE STORY OF WHAT 489 00:26:45,405 --> 00:26:49,075 HAPPENED TO JONELLE, AND WE'RE GOING TO FIND HER, AND WE'RE 490 00:26:49,075 --> 00:26:52,345 GOING TO FIND HER ALIVE. >> Reporter: THEY ALSO KNEW 491 00:26:52,345 --> 00:26:55,081 FLYERS WEREN'T ENOUGH. TO REACH AS MANY PEOPLE AS THEY 492 00:26:55,081 --> 00:26:58,852 COULD, THEY PLANNED TO GET JONELLE'S FACE ON TV 493 00:26:58,852 --> 00:27:02,589 SO THEY STARTED WORKING THE PHONES, FIRST TO REGIONAL, THEN 494 00:27:02,589 --> 00:27:05,392 NATIONAL NEWS AND TALK SHOWS, ALL THE WAY TO THE WHITE HOUSE 495 00:27:05,392 --> 00:27:09,195 >> I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS, BUT I JUST KEPT GOING AFTER IT 496 00:27:09,195 --> 00:27:11,798 >> Reporter: SOMEHOW EILEEN GOT ONE OF PRESIDENT REAGAN'S 497 00:27:11,798 --> 00:27:14,067 ADVISORS ON THE LINE AND PERSUADED THEM TO MAKE SURE THE 498 00:27:14,067 --> 00:27:16,836 PRESIDENT MENTIONED JONELLE WHEN HE TALKED ABOUT THE ISSUE OF 499 00:27:16,836 --> 00:27:21,174 MISSING CHILDREN IN AN UPCOMING TV ADDRESS 500 00:27:21,174 --> 00:27:24,444 >> AMERICAN CHILDREN DISAPPEAR FROM THEIR HOMES OR 501 00:27:24,444 --> 00:27:27,147 NEIGHBORHOODS EVERY YEAR CAUSING, AS WE CAN ALL 502 00:27:27,147 --> 00:27:30,417 UNDERSTAND, HEARTBREAKING ANGUISH. 503 00:27:30,417 --> 00:27:33,653 FOR EXAMPLE, I LEARNED ABOUT JONELLE MATTHEWS OF GREELEY, 504 00:27:33,653 --> 00:27:39,092 COLORADO, WHO WOULD HAVE CELEBRATED A HAPPY 13th BIRTHDAY 505 00:27:39,092 --> 00:27:42,862 WITH HER FAMILY JUST LAST MONTH. BUT FIVE DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS, 506 00:27:42,862 --> 00:27:46,099 JONELLE DISAPPEARED FROM HER HOME 507 00:27:46,099 --> 00:27:48,802 >> Reporter: EILEEN'S PERSISTENCE AND DETERMINATION 508 00:27:48,802 --> 00:27:51,071 HAD ACHIEVED SOMETHING REMARKABLE 509 00:27:51,071 --> 00:27:53,606 AND NOW THE PHONES AT THE GREELEY POLICE DEPARTMENT 510 00:27:53,606 --> 00:27:56,443 WOULDN'T STOP RINGING. THEIR TIP LINE WAS FLOODED WITH 511 00:27:56,443 --> 00:28:00,280 MORE THAN A THOUSAND LEADS >> IT WAS AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF 512 00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:02,415 TIPS AND SO THE POLICE WERE JUST 513 00:28:02,415 --> 00:28:04,584 TRYING THEIR BEST TO HANDLE ALL OF THEM. 514 00:28:04,584 --> 00:28:07,854 THIS IS A REALLY TINY POLICE DEPARTMENT BACK IN THE 515 00:28:07,854 --> 00:28:11,124 EARLY '80s, AND THEY WERE CHASING THINGS DOWN. 516 00:28:11,124 --> 00:28:14,928 BUT, OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, THEY ALL TURNED OUT TO BE DEAD. 517 00:28:14,928 --> 00:28:17,630 >> Reporter: THE MATTHEWS FAMILY, THE WHOLE CITY OF 518 00:28:17,630 --> 00:28:21,401 GREELEY, WAITED DESPERATELY FOR A BREAK IN THE CASE. 519 00:28:21,401 --> 00:28:26,806 THEY WAITED A MONTH, A YEAR, THEN TWO 520 00:28:26,806 --> 00:28:29,542 >> THERE IS A SOMBER, MAYBE DARK CLOUD OVER CHRISTMAS, ESPECIALLY 521 00:28:29,542 --> 00:28:31,711 FOR MY FAMILY. AND I JUST REMEMBER ASKING MY 522 00:28:31,711 --> 00:28:33,880 MOM, "IS IT ALWAYS GONNA TO BE THIS WAY?" 523 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:37,050 AND SHE, AT THE TIME, WAS LIKE, "YES." 524 00:28:37,050 --> 00:28:42,622 >> Reporter: THE CASE LANGUISHED 525 00:28:42,622 --> 00:28:46,059 THEN, IN 1989, ALMOST 5 YEARS SINCE JONELLE DISAPPEARED INTO 526 00:28:46,059 --> 00:28:49,662 THIN AIR, KEITH OLSON, NOW A DETECTIVE, WAS ASSIGNED TO TAKE 527 00:28:49,662 --> 00:28:52,932 ANOTHER LOOK ONE REPORT HE HAD NEVER SEEN 528 00:28:52,932 --> 00:28:55,101 BEFORE RAISED THE DETECTIVE'S EYEBROWS 529 00:28:55,101 --> 00:28:58,338 AND IT WASN'T ABOUT JIM MATTHEWS 530 00:28:58,338 --> 00:29:02,175 >> ONE OF OUR OFFICERS, DURING THE NEIGHBORHOOD CANVASS, HAD 531 00:29:02,175 --> 00:29:04,878 KNOCKED ON THE DOOR OF THE NEIGHBORS DIRECTLY ACROSS THE 532 00:29:04,878 --> 00:29:09,249 STREET FROM THE MATTHEWS FRANCIS DRAKE WAS LIVING THERE 533 00:29:09,249 --> 00:29:14,120 AND, UH, FRANCIS DRAKE TOLD THE OFFICER THAT, UH, HER SON HAD 534 00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:16,856 BEEN VISITING THAT NIGHT AND THAT HE MAY HAVE SAW SOMETHING 535 00:29:16,856 --> 00:29:19,559 >> Reporter: AND HIS NAME IS WHAT 536 00:29:19,559 --> 00:29:24,431 >> NORRIS DRAKE. >> Reporter: A POSSIBLE WITNESS? 537 00:29:24,431 --> 00:29:27,167 TO OLSON'S ASTONISHMENT, NO ONE HAD BOTHERED TO CONTACT DRAKE OR 538 00:29:27,167 --> 00:29:35,275 FOLLOW UP WITH HIS MOTHER. SO OVER YOUR SHOULDER HERE, 539 00:29:35,275 --> 00:29:37,610 THAT -- THE GREEN EXTERIOR, THAT WAS JONELLE MATTHEWS'S HOUSE 540 00:29:37,610 --> 00:29:45,685 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> Reporter: DETECTIVE OLSON 541 00:29:45,685 --> 00:29:47,253 SHOWED US JUST HOW CLOSE DRAKE'S HOUSE WAS TO JONELLE'S 542 00:29:47,253 --> 00:29:52,158 OH, IT IS DIRECTLY ACROSS. IF YOU WANTED TO KEEP EYES ON 543 00:29:52,158 --> 00:29:54,327 THE COMINGS AND GOINGS AT THE MATTHEWS' HOUSE, THAT'S A PRETTY 544 00:29:54,327 --> 00:29:56,062 GOOD VANTAGE POINT >> AND HIS MOTHER SAID THAT WHEN 545 00:29:56,062 --> 00:29:58,098 HE LEFT THAT EVENING, AROUND 9:00, 9:15 OR SO, HE SITS IN HIS 546 00:29:58,098 --> 00:30:00,300 VEHICLE FOR A WHILE -- FOR A WHILE, AS IF HE'S WATCHING 547 00:30:00,300 --> 00:30:02,502 SOMETHING. >> Reporter: THAT WAS EXACTLY 548 00:30:02,502 --> 00:30:04,104 THE TIME FRAME IN WHICH INVESTIGATORS ESTIMATED THAT 549 00:30:04,104 --> 00:30:06,272 JONELLE HAD DISAPPEARED AND BEFORE JIM MATTHEWS RETURNED 550 00:30:06,272 --> 00:30:09,109 HOME AT ABOUT 9:30 SO JUST WHO WAS NORRIS DRAKE 551 00:30:09,109 --> 00:30:11,177 WHAT THE DETECTIVE FOUND MADE HIM WONDER WHY THE INITIAL 552 00:30:11,177 --> 00:30:15,081 INVESTIGATORS NEVER CONTACTED HIM OR TOOK A CLOSER LOOK AT 553 00:30:15,081 --> 00:30:17,117 HIM. AT THE TIME OF JONELLE'S 554 00:30:17,117 --> 00:30:19,853 DISAPPEARANCE, DRAKE WAS UNEMPLOYED, STRUGGLING WITH DRUG 555 00:30:19,853 --> 00:30:23,656 AND ALCOHOL ADDICTIONS AND STAYING AT THE HOUSE OF HIS BEST 556 00:30:23,656 --> 00:30:28,528 FRIEND, A MAN NAMED DAVE WHEN THE DETECTIVE INTERVIEWED 557 00:30:28,528 --> 00:30:30,697 DRAKE'S EX-GIRLFRIEND, SHE TOLD HIM THAT DRAKE HAD A PROPENSITY 558 00:30:30,697 --> 00:30:32,866 FOR VIOLENCE >> HE HAD BEATEN HER UP. 559 00:30:32,866 --> 00:30:36,102 HE HAD BROKE INTO HER HOUSE AFTER THEY SPLIT UP. 560 00:30:36,102 --> 00:30:38,271 HE WAS CURRENTLY ON PROBATION FOR -- FOR BURGLARY AND ASSAULT 561 00:30:38,271 --> 00:30:40,774 ON HER >> Reporter: THAT PUTS HIM RIGHT 562 00:30:40,774 --> 00:30:42,642 IN THE THEORETICAL FRAME, WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT. 563 00:30:42,642 --> 00:30:45,045 >> YES HE HAD TOLD HER THAT, "IF I KILL 564 00:30:45,045 --> 00:30:48,648 YOU, NO ONE WILL EVER FIND YOUR BODY." 565 00:30:48,648 --> 00:30:52,452 HE HAD TOLD HER HOW HE WOULD, UH, CONCEAL HIS -- HIS 566 00:30:52,452 --> 00:30:55,722 FOOTPRINTS, AND EVEN SHOWED HER HOW TO CONCEAL, UH, FOOTPRINTS 567 00:30:55,722 --> 00:30:57,891 IN THE MOUNTAINS BY USING A TREE BRANCH TO WIPE OUT THE SHOE 568 00:30:57,891 --> 00:31:01,161 PRINTS SO ALL THESE THINGS ARE GOING, 569 00:31:01,161 --> 00:31:03,329 "WOW." >> Reporter: BUT THAT WASN'T 570 00:31:03,329 --> 00:31:06,900 ALL. HIS EX-GIRLFRIEND TOLD DETECTIVE 571 00:31:06,900 --> 00:31:10,437 OLSON THAT DRAKE HAD A FETISH FOR PRE-TEENS, ESPECIALLY FOR 572 00:31:10,437 --> 00:31:15,275 YOUNG GIRLS WHO LOOKED A LITTLE BIT OLDER, LIKE JONELLE. 573 00:31:15,275 --> 00:31:22,349 >> HE TELLS HIS GIRLFRIEND AT THE TIME THAT HE'S OBSESSED 574 00:31:22,349 --> 00:31:26,686 WITH, UH, YOUNG WOMEN, CHILDREN, THAT ARE -- ARE JUST DEVELOPING 575 00:31:26,686 --> 00:31:32,092 INTO WOMEN >> Reporter: OLSON COULD NOT 576 00:31:32,092 --> 00:31:34,260 FIND ANYTHING ON THE BOOKS ABOUT DRAKE'S ALLEGED ADOLESCENT 577 00:31:34,260 --> 00:31:36,429 OBSESSION, BUT HE SAYS ANOTHER WOMAN WHO HAD HUNG OUT WITH 578 00:31:36,429 --> 00:31:38,098 DRAKE AS A YOUNG TEENAGER TOLD HIM A SIMILAR STORY. 579 00:31:38,098 --> 00:31:40,266 AND NO ONE KNEW WHERE NORRIS DRAKE HAD BEEN FOR 580 00:31:40,266 --> 00:31:42,435 SEVERAL CRITICAL HOURS ON THE NIGHT JONELLE DISAPPEARED. 581 00:31:42,435 --> 00:31:45,672 HIS MOTHER TOLD POLICE CANVASSERS THAT HE LEFT A BIT 582 00:31:45,672 --> 00:31:50,110 AFTER 9:00 P.M BUT DRAKE DIDN'T RETURN TO HIS 583 00:31:50,110 --> 00:31:54,481 FRIEND'S HOUSE WHERE HE WAS STAYING UNTIL MORE THAN FIVE 584 00:31:54,481 --> 00:31:56,516 HOURS LATER. HIS FRIEND'S SISTER WAS SLEEPING 585 00:31:56,516 --> 00:31:59,219 ON THE COUCH AND SAW HIM WALK IN A BIT AFTER 2:00 A.M 586 00:31:59,219 --> 00:32:03,723 >> AND THEN SHE TELLS ME -- EVEN MORE INTERESTING IS, HE WAKES UP 587 00:32:03,723 --> 00:32:08,461 IN THAT MORNING AND TELLS ME THAT A 12-YEAR-OLD GIRL HAD BEEN 588 00:32:08,461 --> 00:32:10,630 KIDNAPPED FROM HER HOUSE ACROSS FROM HIS MOTHER'S HOUSE LAST 589 00:32:10,630 --> 00:32:13,333 NIGHT AND THAT HE HAD TALKED TO THE POLICE ABOUT IT AND WAS ON 590 00:32:13,333 --> 00:32:16,703 SCENE WHEN THE POLICE WERE DOING THE INVESTIGATION. 591 00:32:16,703 --> 00:32:19,339 >> Reporter: AFTER JONELLE'S CASE WENT PUBLIC, HIS FRIEND"S 592 00:32:19,339 --> 00:32:21,675 SISTER BECAME SO SUSPICIOUS OF NORRIS DRAKE SHE SENT A DETAILED 593 00:32:21,675 --> 00:32:25,845 ACCOUNT OF WHAT HE TOLD HER THAT MORNING TO A POLICE OFFICER 594 00:32:25,845 --> 00:32:28,548 FRIEND IN DENVER THAT STATEMENT NEVER MADE ITS 595 00:32:28,548 --> 00:32:32,886 WAY INTO JONELLE'S CASE FILE, SO THE GREELEY POLICE NEVER KNEW IT 596 00:32:32,886 --> 00:32:35,622 EXISTED. >> AND WHEN I INTERVIEW HER, SHE 597 00:32:35,622 --> 00:32:39,426 READS ME THIS STATEMENT THAT SHE HAD WRITTEN SO MANY YEARS AGO. 598 00:32:39,426 --> 00:32:41,561 IT WAS IF I WAS GETTING A FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT OF THE CRIME 599 00:32:41,561 --> 00:32:43,229 >> Reporter: PLAY BY PLAY. >> RIGHT 600 00:32:43,229 --> 00:32:45,832 >> Reporter: SO NORRIS DRAKE IS A GUY YOU WANT TO TALK TO. 601 00:32:45,832 --> 00:32:47,567 >> RIGHT >> Reporter: AND MAYBE LOOK AT 602 00:32:47,567 --> 00:32:50,337 THE SHOES IN HIS CLOSET. >> RIGHT 603 00:32:50,337 --> 00:32:52,972 >> Reporter: DRAKE GOT DIVORCED SEVERAL YEARS BEFORE JONELLE 604 00:32:52,972 --> 00:32:56,242 WENT MISSING HIS EX-WIFE TOLD JOURNALIST 605 00:32:56,242 --> 00:33:00,146 ASHLEY FANTZ THAT HE HAD ABUSED HER AND EVEN POINTED A GUN TO 606 00:33:00,146 --> 00:33:02,782 HER HEAD >> THIS WAS ONE OF THE MOST 607 00:33:02,782 --> 00:33:06,052 UPSETTING MOMENTS IN MY REPORTING OF THE STORY 608 00:33:06,052 --> 00:33:08,722 FROM THE MOMENT WE STARTED TALKING, SHE ACTUALLY STARTED 609 00:33:08,722 --> 00:33:10,957 CRYING, AND A DEEP, GUTTURAL CRY. 610 00:33:10,957 --> 00:33:14,728 AND SO AFTER I GOT OFF THE PHONE WITH HER, I THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, 611 00:33:14,728 --> 00:33:19,099 IT'S POSSIBLE. MAYBE NORRIS DRAKE DID IT. 612 00:33:19,099 --> 00:33:22,369 >> Reporter: IT WAS TIME TO BRING IN NORRIS DRAKE. 613 00:33:22,369 --> 00:33:24,070 >> I KNOW YOU DID GO OVER TO JONELLE THAT NIGHT - 614 00:33:24,070 --> 00:33:44,891 >> NO, SIR >> -- AND WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR 615 00:33:44,891 --> 00:33:47,360 >>> Reporter: FIVE YEARS AFTER JONELLE MATTHEWS HAD 616 00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:49,262 DISAPPEARED, POLICE THOUGHT THEY FINALLY HAD THEIR FIRST BIG 617 00:33:49,262 --> 00:33:53,099 BREAK IN THE CASE. THE SUSPECT, A MAN NAMED 618 00:33:53,099 --> 00:33:55,168 NORRIS DRAKE DETECTIVE OLSON WAS TOLD THAT HE 619 00:33:55,168 --> 00:33:58,438 HAD AN AFFINITY FOR ADOLESCENT GIRLS AND A VIOLENT STREAK 620 00:33:58,438 --> 00:34:01,207 AND INVESTIGATORS HAD PLACED HIM ACROSS THE STREET FROM JONELLE 621 00:34:01,207 --> 00:34:05,545 WHEN SHE WAS HOME ALONE AT THE TIME OF HER DISAPPEARANCE. 622 00:34:05,545 --> 00:34:07,714 DETECTIVE KEITH OLSON WAS RELISHING THE MOMENT WHEN HE 623 00:34:07,714 --> 00:34:11,051 WOULD FINALLY COME FACE-TO-FACE WITH DRAKE 624 00:34:11,051 --> 00:34:13,720 SO YOU'RE IN AN INTERVIEW ROOM AT THE POLICE STATION? 625 00:34:13,720 --> 00:34:18,058 >> SURE, AND WE BELIEVE THERE'S A CHANCE WE CAN GET THIS GUY TO 626 00:34:18,058 --> 00:34:20,093 CONFESS. >> HI, KEITH 627 00:34:20,093 --> 00:34:21,361 HOW ARE YOU? >> I'VE GOT THE JONELLE MATTHEWS 628 00:34:21,361 --> 00:34:23,463 CASE >> OKAY. 629 00:34:23,463 --> 00:34:26,733 >> I'M SURE YOU'VE FIGURED OUT WE NEEDED TO TALK TO YOU 630 00:34:26,733 --> 00:34:28,868 >> Reporter: DRAKE SEEMED HONEST ENOUGH ABOUT HOW HIS FRIEND DAVE 631 00:34:28,868 --> 00:34:32,172 LENT HIM HIS PICKUP TRUCK TO VISIT HIS MOM THAT NIGHT, AND 632 00:34:32,172 --> 00:34:34,908 ABOUT THE TIME HE LEFT HER HOUSE TO GO BACK HOME. 633 00:34:34,908 --> 00:34:39,312 AFTER THAT, THOUGH, DETECTIVE OLSON SENSED, THE 634 00:34:39,312 --> 00:34:43,083 TRUTH STOPPED. >> I JUST NOTICED, I HAD LOOKED 635 00:34:43,083 --> 00:34:45,719 ACROSS THE STREET, AND JONELLE'S GARAGE DOOR WAS UP AND THE 636 00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:47,387 LIGHTS WERE ON >> IN THE GARAGE 637 00:34:47,387 --> 00:34:49,522 >> UH-HUH. >> OKAY. 638 00:34:49,522 --> 00:34:52,225 OKAY >> AND I DON'T REMEMBER SEEING 639 00:34:52,225 --> 00:34:57,697 ANY VEHICLES >> AND AFTER YOU LEFT YOUR 640 00:34:57,697 --> 00:35:02,569 MOM'S, DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU WENT 641 00:35:02,569 --> 00:35:04,471 >> PROBABLY STRAIGHT BACK TO DAVE'S 642 00:35:04,471 --> 00:35:05,839 >> OKAY. DO YOU KNOW FOR CERTAIN IF YOU 643 00:35:05,839 --> 00:35:08,041 DID? >> I'M SURE I DID BECAUSE DAVE 644 00:35:08,041 --> 00:35:10,143 REALLY DIDN'T LIKE ME TOOLING AROUND IN HIS PICKUP 645 00:35:10,143 --> 00:35:12,312 SO I'M SURE I WOULD'VE WENT STRAIGHT BACK OVER THERE 646 00:35:12,312 --> 00:35:17,217 >> Reporter: THAT, OLSON THOUGHT, WAS A LIE 647 00:35:17,217 --> 00:35:19,519 DAVE'S SISTER, WHO HAD BEEN SLEEPING ON THE COUCH THAT 648 00:35:19,519 --> 00:35:21,054 NIGHT, TOLD OLSON THAT DRAKE DIDN'T RETURN TO THE APARTMENT 649 00:35:21,054 --> 00:35:23,423 UNTIL AFTER 2:00 AM, MORE THAN FIVE HOURS AFTER DRAKE SAID HE 650 00:35:23,423 --> 00:35:24,924 LEFT HIS MOM'S BUT WHAT DRAKE SAID NEXT WAS THE 651 00:35:24,924 --> 00:35:33,099 KIND OF "WAIT-A-MINUTE" MOMENT THAT MADE THE DETECTIVE BELIEVE 652 00:35:33,099 --> 00:35:35,268 DRAKE KNEW WHAT HAD HAPPENED T JONELLE. 653 00:35:35,268 --> 00:35:38,538 >> WHAT INFORMATION DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE CASE 654 00:35:38,538 --> 00:35:42,909 >> WELL, I REMEMBER REAL WELL THAT THEY THOUGHT A GANG OF KIDS 655 00:35:42,909 --> 00:35:47,247 HAD COME ACROSS THE BACK FIELD THEY JUMPED THE FENCE AND THEN 656 00:35:47,247 --> 00:35:50,817 SOMEHOW NABBED HER AND THAT THEY HAD EVEN FOUND 657 00:35:50,817 --> 00:35:53,219 EVIDENCE WHERE THEY HAD TAKEN A RAKE OUT THERE AND RAKED OVER 658 00:35:53,219 --> 00:35:56,489 THEIR TRACKS >> Reporter: THE RAKED 659 00:35:56,489 --> 00:35:59,192 FOOTPRINTS IN THE SNOW THAT INFORMATION WAS KNOWN ONLY 660 00:35:59,192 --> 00:36:02,328 TO THE POLICE AND THE MATTHEWS FAMILY, WHO HAD PROMISED TO KEEP 661 00:36:02,328 --> 00:36:06,733 IT SECRET. IF DRAKE WAS THE PERPETRATOR, 662 00:36:06,733 --> 00:36:08,902 THAT WAS A HUGE SLIP HE'S GOT TOO MUCH INFORMATION? 663 00:36:08,902 --> 00:36:12,205 >> NORRIS DRAKE SAYS THAT HE WAS PROVIDED THE INFORMATION 664 00:36:12,205 --> 00:36:15,342 POSSIBLY BY HIS MOTHER FROM A PHONE CALL EARLIER IN THE 665 00:36:15,342 --> 00:36:22,048 MORNING. AND SHE TOLD HIM ALL THIS STUFF. 666 00:36:22,048 --> 00:36:24,117 >> Reporter: BUT HOW COULD DRAKE'S MOM KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT 667 00:36:24,117 --> 00:36:26,252 CASE DETAILS POLICE HAD KEPT A LID ON 668 00:36:26,252 --> 00:36:28,421 BY NOW, DETECTIVE OLSON WAS CONVINCED THAT DRAKE WAS HIDING 669 00:36:28,421 --> 00:36:30,156 SOMETHING. DRAKE AGREED TO ACCOMPANY POLICE 670 00:36:30,156 --> 00:36:32,792 FOR A SEARCH OF HIS MOTHER'S HOUSE WHERE HE WAS CURRENTLY 671 00:36:32,792 --> 00:36:34,961 RESIDING WHEN HE RETURNED TO THE 672 00:36:34,961 --> 00:36:37,664 INTERROGATION ROOM, OLSON AMPED UP THE PRESSURE, HOPING DRAKE 673 00:36:37,664 --> 00:36:41,468 WOULD CRACK. FIRST HE CONFRONTED HIM ABOUT 674 00:36:41,468 --> 00:36:43,636 THE RAKE >> FOR CRYING OUT LOUD 675 00:36:43,636 --> 00:36:50,176 I WOULDN'T EVEN REPEAT SOMETHING LIKE THAT IF I WAS THE GUILTY 676 00:36:50,176 --> 00:36:53,980 ONE. >> HERE'S SOMETHING 677 00:36:53,980 --> 00:36:56,649 THAT'S -- YOU KNOW -- THAT POINTS TO YOUR INVOLVEMENT IS 678 00:36:56,649 --> 00:36:58,318 THE USE OF THAT TRUCK AND THEN THE UNACCOUNTED FOUR TO SIX 679 00:36:58,318 --> 00:37:01,588 HOURS AFTER YOU LEAVE YOUR MOTHER'S PLACE 680 00:37:01,588 --> 00:37:04,257 >> GOD, YOU CAN'T DO THAT TO ME THOUGH 681 00:37:04,257 --> 00:37:13,533 >> WE ALSO HAVE WITNESSES WILL TESTIFY YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT 682 00:37:13,533 --> 00:37:15,702 THE CASE BEFORE IT COULD HAVE EVEN BEEN ON THE MEDIA 683 00:37:15,702 --> 00:37:18,405 >> NO, THERE'S NO WAY. >> Reporter: DETECTIVE OLSON 684 00:37:18,405 --> 00:37:19,606 THOUGHT HE HAD DRAKE WHERE HE WANTED HIM, SO HE WENT FOR THE 685 00:37:19,606 --> 00:37:22,776 JUGULAR. >> I THINK YOU TOOK JONELLE. 686 00:37:22,776 --> 00:37:25,512 AND I ALREADY TOLD YOU THAT. I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU DID WITH 687 00:37:25,512 --> 00:37:31,484 HER. >> IT DIDN'T HAPPEN. 688 00:37:31,484 --> 00:37:34,754 >> WELL, IT DID HAPPEN AND THE EVIDENCE INDICATES THAT 689 00:37:34,754 --> 00:37:40,727 WHATEVER IT WAS, WHATEVER THE CAUSE OF HER DISAPPEARANCE, YOU 690 00:37:40,727 --> 00:37:44,064 WERE INVOLVED. >> Reporter: OLSON PUSHED AND 691 00:37:44,064 --> 00:37:47,233 PUSHED, BUT DRAKE DIDN'T BUDGE >> I HAVE TO SAY THAT THE REASON 692 00:37:47,233 --> 00:37:57,577 YOU WENT INTO THE MATTHEWS RESIDENCE WAS PURELY FOR SOME 693 00:37:57,577 --> 00:38:01,381 ENJOYMENT WITH A YOUNG GIRL. >> KEITH, I SWEAR TO YOU AND 694 00:38:01,381 --> 00:38:03,516 JESUS CHRIST AND EVERYONE, I DID NOT EVER GO IN THAT HOUSE. 695 00:38:03,516 --> 00:38:06,786 I NEVER CROSSED THE STREET I DIDN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO 696 00:38:06,786 --> 00:38:11,124 WITH IT. ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY 697 00:38:11,124 --> 00:38:13,860 I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. >> HOW MANY PEOPLE THAT I BRING 698 00:38:13,860 --> 00:38:16,529 IN HERE DO YOU THINK SWEAR TO GOD THAT THEY DIDN'T DO IT 699 00:38:16,529 --> 00:38:19,799 YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING >> WELL, OKAY. 700 00:38:19,799 --> 00:38:21,468 YEAH >> YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? 701 00:38:21,468 --> 00:38:23,603 >> BUT KEITH, THIS IS ONE OF THESE CLASSIC CASES WHERE YOU 702 00:38:23,603 --> 00:38:25,772 REALLY GOT THE WRONG GUY I REALLY AM INNOCENT 703 00:38:25,772 --> 00:38:28,041 >> Reporter: SO WHERE DOES HE STAND AT THE END OF THAT 704 00:38:28,041 --> 00:38:30,110 WAS HE STILL ON YOUR -- YOU THOUGHT HE WAS GOING TO BE GOOD 705 00:38:30,110 --> 00:38:33,413 FOR THIS >> OH, ABSOLUTELY. 706 00:38:33,413 --> 00:38:37,751 I MEAN, EVERYTHING JUST SEEMED LIKE, "THIS HAS TO BE THE GUY. 707 00:38:37,751 --> 00:38:39,919 >> Reporter: OLSON WOULD NOT GET ANOTHER STAB AT DRAKE, WHO LEFT 708 00:38:39,919 --> 00:38:43,723 POLICE HEADQUARTERS AND PROMPTLY LAWYERED UP. 709 00:38:43,723 --> 00:38:47,060 IT HAD BEEN FIVE YEARS SINCE JONELLE DISAPPEARED, WHICH MADE 710 00:38:47,060 --> 00:38:50,263 IT UNLIKELY FOR INVESTIGATORS TO FIND PHYSICAL EVIDENCE THAT 711 00:38:50,263 --> 00:38:53,600 WOULD IMPLICATE DRAKE. SURE ENOUGH, THEY HADN'T FOUND 712 00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:55,702 ANYTHING IN HIS MOTHER'S HOUSE OLSON EVEN TRACKED DOWN THE 713 00:38:55,702 --> 00:38:58,738 PICKUP TRUCK THAT DRAKE DROVE THAT NIGHT 714 00:38:58,738 --> 00:39:04,411 BUT AGAIN, ZILCH >> THERE WAS JUST NOTHING THERE 715 00:39:04,411 --> 00:39:06,012 TO INDICATE THAT UH, ANY, ANY, UH, CRIME HAD OCCURRED INSIDE 716 00:39:06,012 --> 00:39:09,783 THE PICKUP TRUCK CERTAINLY NO BULLET HOLE AND NO, 717 00:39:09,783 --> 00:39:14,921 UH, BLOODSTAINS OR BLOOD, UH, PATTERNS OR ANYTHING 718 00:39:14,921 --> 00:39:16,322 >> Reporter: OLSON THOUGHT HE HAD A STRONG CIRCUMSTANTIAL CASE 719 00:39:16,322 --> 00:39:19,559 AGAINST DRAKE. BUT HE KNEW THAT IF HE WANTED 720 00:39:19,559 --> 00:39:21,227 THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY TO CHARGE HIM, HE WOULD NEED PHYSICAL 721 00:39:21,227 --> 00:39:24,030 EVIDENCE OR A CONFESSION AND HE HAD NEITHER 722 00:39:24,030 --> 00:39:27,767 >> HERE'S THE PROBLEM. WE HAVE NO PROOF THAT 723 00:39:27,767 --> 00:39:29,936 JONELLE MATTHEWS IS DEAD I MEAN, AND WE HAVE NO CRIME 724 00:39:29,936 --> 00:39:33,740 SCENE. AND WE HAVE NO BODY. 725 00:39:33,740 --> 00:39:37,043 >> Reporter: THE INVESTIGATION INTO THE DISAPPEARANCE OF 726 00:39:37,043 --> 00:39:39,746 JONELLE MATTHEWS HAD ONCE AGAIN REACHED A DEAD END, AND A 727 00:39:39,746 --> 00:39:42,415 FRUSTRATED DETECTIVE OLSON RELUCTANTLY WALKED AWAY. 728 00:39:42,415 --> 00:39:44,050 SOUNDS LIKE YOU STILL HAVE QUESTION MARKS ABOUT 729 00:39:44,050 --> 00:39:48,288 NORRIS DRAKE IN THE BACK OF YOUR MIND, HUH? 730 00:39:48,288 --> 00:39:50,590 >> WELL, THAT'S BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, HE WAS INDELIBLY, UH, 731 00:39:50,590 --> 00:39:53,860 BURNED INTO MY MIND OVER ALL THESE YEARS. 732 00:39:53,860 --> 00:40:00,400 AND SO IT'S A SCAR THAT'S ALWAYS GONNA BE THERE 733 00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:02,569 >> Reporter: AND THERE THE CASE SAT FOR MORE THAN TWO DECADES, 734 00:40:02,569 --> 00:40:08,541 UNTIL TWO NEW DETECTIVES INHERITED IT 735 00:40:08,541 --> 00:40:10,710 MAYBE IT WAS FRESH EYES OR BLIND LUCK, BUT IN THE ALMOST 736 00:40:10,710 --> 00:40:13,413 30,000 PAGES OF EVIDENCE, THEY FOUND A NAME 737 00:40:13,413 --> 00:40:35,335 SOMEONE WHO HAD APPARENTLY BEEN SAYING REPEATEDLY, "I KNOW 738 00:40:35,335 --> 00:40:38,071 >> Reporter: AT THE SUNNYVIEW CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE, FRIENDS 739 00:40:38,071 --> 00:40:42,909 OF JIM AND GLORIA MATHEWS, COME TOGETHER TO SAY GOODBYE TO 740 00:40:42,909 --> 00:40:46,212 JONELLE. IN 1994, TEN YEARS AFTER JONELLE 741 00:40:46,212 --> 00:40:50,550 MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARED, HER FAMILY AND FRIENDS GATHERED TO 742 00:40:50,550 --> 00:40:56,523 REMEMBER >> THIS WAS TURNING HER OVER TO 743 00:40:56,523 --> 00:40:59,225 GOD -- AND SAYING, GOD, SHE'S -- SHE'S OBVIOUSLY IN YOUR HANDS, 744 00:40:59,225 --> 00:41:01,394 AND WE TRUST YOU >> IS THAT YOU ACCEPTING SHE'S 745 00:41:01,394 --> 00:41:03,563 GONE >> YES, I THINK THAT'S PART OF 746 00:41:03,563 --> 00:41:06,299 IT >> I COULD NEVER SAY THAT SHE 747 00:41:06,299 --> 00:41:11,204 WAS DEAD I COULD NEVER ACCEPT THE FACT 748 00:41:11,204 --> 00:41:14,974 THAT SHE WAS NOT ALIVE >> Reporter: JONELLE'S CASE HAD 749 00:41:14,974 --> 00:41:19,245 TURNED COLD, BUT THE GREELEY POLICE NEVER FORGOT ABOUT IT 750 00:41:19,245 --> 00:41:22,082 AS DECADES PASSED, IT CONTINUED TO CHANGE HANDS FROM ONE 751 00:41:22,082 --> 00:41:25,285 INVESTIGATOR TO ANOTHER, IN THE HOPE THAT A PAIR OF FRESH EYES 752 00:41:25,285 --> 00:41:29,122 WOULD SEE SOMETHING OTHERS HAD NOT. 753 00:41:29,122 --> 00:41:33,093 IN 2013, IT LANDED ON THE DESK OF DETECTIVE ROBERT CASH 754 00:41:33,093 --> 00:41:34,561 >> IT WAS MY TIME TO TAKE IT AND SEE WHAT I COULD DO WITH IT. 755 00:41:34,561 --> 00:41:39,432 >> HERE YOU GO >> YES 756 00:41:39,432 --> 00:41:42,302 IT WAS AN ABSOLUTE, UH, PUZZLE >> Reporter: CASH DECIDED HE 757 00:41:42,302 --> 00:41:44,904 NEEDED A PARTNER, AND ENLISTED MIKE PRILL TO HELP HIM SOLVE THE 758 00:41:44,904 --> 00:41:47,107 MYSTERY. PRILL IS A DETECTIVE WITH A 759 00:41:47,107 --> 00:41:51,277 KNACK FOR MAKING SENSE OF COMPLEX CASES. 760 00:41:51,277 --> 00:41:53,546 >> WHEN HE GIVES ME THIS CASE, I GO ABOUT THE PROCESS OF 761 00:41:53,546 --> 00:41:55,749 ORGANIZING IT. >> BRINGING IT KICKING AND 762 00:41:55,749 --> 00:41:57,884 DRAGGING INTO THE MODERN ERA, RIGHT? 763 00:41:57,884 --> 00:42:01,154 >> KICKING AND DRAGGING. >> Reporter: IT TOOK DETECTIVE 764 00:42:01,154 --> 00:42:03,890 PRILL FIFTEEN MONTHS TO CREATE A COHERENT, ALL-ENCOMPASSING CASE 765 00:42:03,890 --> 00:42:16,369 FILE AND WHEN IT WAS ALL DONE, THE 766 00:42:16,369 --> 00:42:18,571 SAME-OLD PERSONS-OF-INTEREST EMERGED FROM THE PAGES 767 00:42:18,571 --> 00:42:21,808 JIM MATTHEWS, RUSS ROSS, AND NORRIS DRAKE, WHO HAD DIED IN 768 00:42:21,808 --> 00:42:30,250 2007 OF AN OVERDOSE, BUT WAS STILL A SUSPECT. 769 00:42:30,250 --> 00:42:33,486 BUT PRILL ALSO NOTICED SOMEONE NEW, A VERY ODD CHARACTER WH 770 00:42:33,486 --> 00:42:35,655 HAD BEEN DANCING AROUND AT THE FRINGES OF THE CASE. 771 00:42:35,655 --> 00:42:38,091 A GUY NAMED STEVE PANKEY >> HE WAS SOMEONE THAT CAME UP 772 00:42:38,091 --> 00:42:39,426 IN MY REVIEW OF THE ORIGINAL INVESTIGATION. 773 00:42:39,426 --> 00:42:41,127 AND HIS NAME WOULD POP UP IN TWO PARAGRAPHS, IN TWO REPORTS AND 774 00:42:41,127 --> 00:42:47,567 NEVER AGAIN. >> Reporter: WHO WAS STEVE 775 00:42:47,567 --> 00:42:49,269 PANKEY? TURNED OUT HE HAD SOME CURIOUS 776 00:42:49,269 --> 00:42:51,371 CONNECTIONS TO PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THE CASE. 777 00:42:51,371 --> 00:42:52,972 FOR INSTANCE, THE MATTHEWS FAMILY BELONGED TO THE SUNNY 778 00:42:52,972 --> 00:42:54,607 VIEW CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE. AND STEVE PANKEY ONCE WORKED 779 00:42:54,607 --> 00:42:56,242 THERE AS A CUSTODIAN >> HE'D WORKED FOR THEM, GOTTEN 780 00:42:56,242 --> 00:42:58,111 FIRED AND BEEN EXCOMMUNICATED -- >> YES 781 00:42:58,111 --> 00:43:00,046 >> FROM THE CONGREGATION >> YES 782 00:43:00,046 --> 00:43:02,215 >> Reporter: PANKEY REPORTEDLY HELD A GRUDGE AGAINST THE ENTIRE 783 00:43:02,215 --> 00:43:09,622 CONGREGATION AFTER THAT. HE ALSO KNEW RUSS ROSS, STILL A 784 00:43:09,622 --> 00:43:15,261 SUSPECT IN THE CASE. ROSS HAD BEEN PANKEY'S BOSS AT A 785 00:43:15,261 --> 00:43:17,430 7 UP DISTRIBUTORSHIP IN THE 1970S, AND THERE SEEMED TO BE 786 00:43:17,430 --> 00:43:19,666 BAD BLOOD BETWEEN THEM >> HE ALLEGED THAT RUSS HAD BEAT 787 00:43:19,666 --> 00:43:22,302 HIM UP AT ONE POINT AS A SUPERVISOR AT 7UP. 788 00:43:22,302 --> 00:43:27,741 SO ALTHOUGH THAT HAPPENED IN 1978, 79, STEVE, TO THIS, DAY 789 00:43:27,741 --> 00:43:30,977 STILL DESPISES MR. ROSS. >> Reporter: BUT EVEN MORE 790 00:43:30,977 --> 00:43:33,680 INTRIGUING TO CASH AND PRILL WAS THAT PANKEY HAD REACHED OUT TO 791 00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:39,119 POLICE SOON AFTER JONELLE DISAPPEARED. 792 00:43:39,119 --> 00:43:41,254 >> HE MADE A PHONE CALL, AND SAID, I -- I HAVE INFORMATION ON 793 00:43:41,254 --> 00:43:47,093 JONELLE. AND I HAVE PRETTY GOOD EVIDENCE 794 00:43:47,093 --> 00:43:48,895 THAT SHE WAS DEAD OR SHE IS DEAD 795 00:43:48,895 --> 00:43:55,535 BUT I DON'T WANT TO SHARE ANY MORE OF MY INFORMATION UNTIL YOU 796 00:43:55,535 --> 00:43:56,703 TELL ME WHAT YOU KNOW IN THIS INVESTIGATION. 797 00:43:56,703 --> 00:43:58,705 SO - >> THAT -- THAT'S REALLY WEIRD 798 00:43:58,705 --> 00:44:09,549 >> VERY. >> Reporter: IT TURNED OUT 799 00:44:09,549 --> 00:44:11,718 PANKEY HADN'T JUST CONTACTED LAW ENFORCEMENT THAT ONE TIME. 800 00:44:11,718 --> 00:44:13,353 HE'D REACHED OUT REPEATEDLY THROUGH THE YEARS. 801 00:44:13,353 --> 00:44:14,954 FOR SOME REASON NO ONE EVER GOT BACK TO HIM. 802 00:44:14,954 --> 00:44:16,823 HE WAS CONTINUALLY DISMISSED BY ONE INVESTIGATOR AFTER THE 803 00:44:16,823 --> 00:44:18,725 OTHER. >> IT WAS SOMEBODY WHO HAD BEEN 804 00:44:18,725 --> 00:44:20,360 TAPPING THE SHOULDER OF LAW ENFORCEMENT FOR DECADES. 805 00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:22,529 >> AND HE'S ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT THE JONELLE CASE 806 00:44:22,529 --> 00:44:28,068 >> CORRECT >> AND HE WENT INTO THE DISCARD 807 00:44:28,068 --> 00:44:29,602 BIN. >> YES 808 00:44:29,602 --> 00:44:31,771 >> Reporter: IN APRIL OF 2019, 34 YEARS AFTER PANKEY FIRST 809 00:44:31,771 --> 00:44:33,640 CALLED GREELEY POLICE, CASH GOT HIM ON THE PHONE 810 00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:38,845 >> HELLO >> HI. 811 00:44:38,845 --> 00:44:42,082 I'M LOOKING FOR STEVE PANKEY PLEASE 812 00:44:42,082 --> 00:44:44,284 >> THIS IS STEVE PANKEY. >> Reporter: BUT SUDDENLY PANKEY 813 00:44:44,284 --> 00:44:47,554 FEIGNED TOTAL IGNORANCE ABOUT JONELLE'S DISAPPEARANCE. 814 00:44:47,554 --> 00:44:49,723 >> IT SEEMS TO BE THAT YOU'RE FOCUSED ON PEOPLE IN THE MONTHS, 815 00:44:49,723 --> 00:44:55,128 WEEKS, DAYS, THE NIGHT THAT SHE DISAPPEARED, AND IF THAT'S YOUR 816 00:44:55,128 --> 00:45:06,039 FOCUS I CAN'T HELP YOU >> Reporter: 817 00:45:06,039 --> 00:45:08,208 AND -- UNPROMPTED --PANKEY MADE A POINT OF DENYING ANY PERSONAL 818 00:45:08,208 --> 00:45:09,809 INVOLVEMENT IN JONELLE'S DISAPPEARANCE. 819 00:45:09,809 --> 00:45:12,045 >> I WAS NEVER AT JONELLE MATTHEW'S HOUSE. 820 00:45:12,045 --> 00:45:14,714 MY FIRST KNOWLEDGE THAT JONELLE MATTHEWS EXISTED AND DISAPPEARED 821 00:45:14,714 --> 00:45:25,525 WAS SIX DAYS AFTER THE FACT. >> Reporter: BUT DURING A 822 00:45:25,525 --> 00:45:32,065 RAMBLING 45 MINUTE CONVERSATION, PANKEY HINTED HE KNEW THINGS 823 00:45:32,065 --> 00:45:34,267 ABOUT THE CASE -- THINGS ABOUT RUSS ROSS, BUT HE WOULDN'T SHARE 824 00:45:34,267 --> 00:45:35,869 ANYTHING UNLESS HE COULD GET SOME GUARANTEES. 825 00:45:35,869 --> 00:45:41,207 >> I'M NOT GOING TO SAY ANYTHING UNTIL I HAVE A FIRM DEAL THAT 826 00:45:41,207 --> 00:45:42,909 CAN'T BE BROKEN. >> PANKEY'S RESPONSE TO ROBERT 827 00:45:42,909 --> 00:45:44,778 WAS, IS I WANT MY ATTORNEY. I NEED TO WORK A DEAL. 828 00:45:44,778 --> 00:45:50,517 I NEED -- I NEED SOME PROTECTIONS. 829 00:45:50,517 --> 00:45:52,719 >> WHO NEEDS A DEAL UNLESS THEY'VE GOT A PROBLEM? 830 00:45:52,719 --> 00:45:54,320 >> AND WHAT IS HIS PROBLEM YOU KNOW, IT WAS THAT 831 00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:55,955 CONFOUNDING. >> Reporter: CASH AND PRILL 832 00:45:55,955 --> 00:45:57,590 STARTED ASKING AROUND ABOUT PANKEY. 833 00:45:57,590 --> 00:46:01,928 A PORTRAIT OF A QUIRKY, BELLIGERENT, CHARACTER QUICKLY 834 00:46:01,928 --> 00:46:03,663 EMERGED. BUT IT WAS A CALL WITH PANKEY'S 835 00:46:03,663 --> 00:46:05,699 EX-WIFE ANGELA HICKS THAT SUDDENLY TURNED THE DECADES OLD 836 00:46:05,699 --> 00:46:08,134 COLD CASE RED HOT. >> SHE SAID, "OH, GOSH, YOU 837 00:46:08,134 --> 00:46:10,070 KNOW, I'VE BEEN -- I'VE BEEN WAITING SO LONG FOR YOU TO CALL. 838 00:46:10,070 --> 00:46:12,339 >> Reporter: ANGELA DESCRIBED A CHILLING INCIDENT FROM 1999. 839 00:46:12,339 --> 00:46:15,041 SHE AND PANKEY, STILL MARRIED THEN, HAD MOVED TO IDAHO 840 00:46:15,041 --> 00:46:18,211 HE CAME HOME ONE DAY AND SAID HE HAD TRIED TO TALK TO THE POLICE 841 00:46:18,211 --> 00:46:20,914 THERE ABOUT THE JONELLE MATTHEWS CASE, BUT THEY WOULDN'T LISTEN 842 00:46:20,914 --> 00:46:25,285 TO HIM >> SHE WAS TAKEN ABACK AND 843 00:46:25,285 --> 00:46:30,690 REMEMBERED THE CASE FROM GREELEY AND KIND OF INQUISITIVELY SAID, 844 00:46:30,690 --> 00:46:32,892 "JONELLE MATTHEWS?" UM, TO THAT, SHE SAID, STEVE PANKEY LOOKED AT 845 00:46:32,892 --> 00:46:36,663 HER AND SAID, "WELL, YOU DON'T THINK I WOULD HURT HER, DO YOU? 846 00:46:36,663 --> 00:46:38,865 SHE -- WELL, SHE LOOKED JUST LIKE YOU." 847 00:46:38,865 --> 00:46:42,102 >> HOW CREEPY WAS THAT >> SHE SAID THAT IT MADE HER 848 00:46:42,102 --> 00:46:47,574 BLOOD RUN COLD >> Reporter: THAT INCIDENT 849 00:46:47,574 --> 00:46:51,911 TRIGGERED A FLOOD OF MEMORIES ABOUT JONELLE MATTHEWS' 850 00:46:51,911 --> 00:46:57,817 DISAPPEARANCE AND PANKEY'S PECULIAR BEHAVIOR, WHICH, ANGELA 851 00:46:57,817 --> 00:46:59,486 TOLD POLICE, STARTED THE DAY AFTER JONELLE DISAPPEARED. 852 00:46:59,486 --> 00:47:05,458 IT WAS THE FRIDAY BEFORE CHRISTMAS, 1984. 853 00:47:05,458 --> 00:47:10,864 >> STEVE TELLS HER, "HEY, WE'RE GONNA GO TO CALIFORNIA FOR 854 00:47:10,864 --> 00:47:12,532 CHRISTMAS." AND THIS WAS A TRIP THAT THEY 855 00:47:12,532 --> 00:47:14,668 WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO BE GOING ON. AND SUDDENLY, HE WANTS TO GET 856 00:47:14,668 --> 00:47:16,403 OUT OF TOWN. AND SHE FINDS THAT A LITTLE BIT 857 00:47:16,403 --> 00:47:19,172 CURIOUS. >> Reporter: THE TRIP ENDED JUST 858 00:47:19,172 --> 00:47:21,808 AS ABRUPTLY AFTER PANKEY GOT INTO A FIGHT WITH HIS FATHER 859 00:47:21,808 --> 00:47:22,876 THE PANKEYS DROVE BACK TO GREELEY ON CHRISTMAS DAY 860 00:47:22,876 --> 00:47:24,477 >> ON THE WAY BACK TO GREELEY FROM CALIFORNIA, HE SEEMS TO BE 861 00:47:24,477 --> 00:47:26,579 OBSESSED WITH LISTENING TO ANY STORY THAT SHE CAN FIND ON THE 862 00:47:26,579 --> 00:47:29,883 RADIO ABOUT THIS MISSING GIRL IN GREELEY, JONELLE MATTHEWS. 863 00:47:29,883 --> 00:47:35,355 THEY GET HOME AND MORE BIZARRE THINGS HAPPEN. 864 00:47:35,355 --> 00:47:38,458 >> HE GOES INSIDE, COMES BACK OUT IN COVERALLS, AND THEN 865 00:47:38,458 --> 00:47:45,432 STARTS DIGGING IN THE FRONT YARD OF THE RESIDENCE 866 00:47:45,432 --> 00:47:48,201 >> Reporter: THIS WASN'T JUST QUIRKY BEHAVIOR. 867 00:47:48,201 --> 00:47:53,573 IT SOUNDED DOWN RIGHT INCRIMINATING. 868 00:47:53,573 --> 00:48:01,881 AND IT CONTRADICTED WHAT PANKEY HAD TOLD THEM ABOUT NOT BEING 869 00:48:01,881 --> 00:48:06,353 AWARE OF JONELLE'S DISAPPEARANCE UNTIL ALMOST A WEEK LATER. 870 00:48:06,353 --> 00:48:09,055 >> I ENLISTED AN ORGANIZATION CALLED NECROSEARCH TO DO SOME 871 00:48:09,055 --> 00:48:10,690 GROUND PENETRATING RADAR, TO SEE IF -- IF THERE WAS ANYTHING 872 00:48:10,690 --> 00:48:12,325 THERE BURIED IN THE FRONT YARD OR SOME SORT OF DISTURBANCE OR 873 00:48:12,325 --> 00:48:14,894 JUST SOMETHING >> Reporter: THEY FOUND NOTHING, 874 00:48:14,894 --> 00:48:16,129 BUT AFTER EVERYTHING DETECTIVES CASH AND PRILL READ AND HEARD 875 00:48:16,129 --> 00:48:17,764 FROM STEVE PANKEY, AND FROM HIS EX-WIFE, HE WAS NOW IN THEIR 876 00:48:17,764 --> 00:48:19,399 CROSS HAIRS AS A NEW AND VERY PLAUSIBLE SUSPECT. 877 00:48:19,399 --> 00:48:21,501 ESPECIALLY AFTER A SHOCKING DISCOVERY THAT PUT THE JONELLE 878 00:48:21,501 --> 00:48:23,169 MATTHEWS STORY BACK ON THE FRONT PAGES FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MORE 879 00:48:23,169 --> 00:48:25,872 THAN 30 YEARS. >> WE'RE ESSENTIALLY RIGHT 880 00:48:25,872 --> 00:48:28,408 THERE. IT WAS RIGHT IN THIS LOCATION 881 00:48:45,959 --> 00:48:48,661 >> Reporter: IN THE SUMMER OF 2019, STEVE PANKEY HAD EMERGED 882 00:48:48,661 --> 00:48:51,865 AS A NEW PERSON OF INTEREST IN THE JONELLE MATTHEWS CASE. 883 00:48:51,865 --> 00:48:57,837 THEN, ON JULY 15TH, OUT OF THE BLUE, DETECTIVE CASH GOT A CALL. 884 00:48:57,837 --> 00:49:00,540 A CONSTRUCTION CREW DIGGING AN OIL PIPELINE IN A REMOTE PART OF 885 00:49:00,540 --> 00:49:04,811 THE COUNTY HAD MADE AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY. 886 00:49:04,811 --> 00:49:09,749 >> THEY'D FOUND UNIDENTIFIED REMAINS THAT HAD BEEN LIFTED UP 887 00:49:09,749 --> 00:49:12,852 WITH, UH, EARTH MOVING EQUIPMENT. 888 00:49:12,852 --> 00:49:17,257 >> Reporter: CASH HURRIED TO THE SCENE, ABOUT 20 MILES FROM 889 00:49:17,257 --> 00:49:20,026 GREELEY. DETECTIVE PRILL MET HIM THERE. 890 00:49:20,026 --> 00:49:25,098 >> IT WAS KIND OF DUSK I REMEMBER IT WAS, UH, YOU KNOW, 891 00:49:25,098 --> 00:49:27,033 VERY, VERY HOT THEY'D ALREADY FLOWN A DRONE 892 00:49:27,033 --> 00:49:29,436 AROUND THE AREA TO KIND OF GET, UH, AN IDEA OF KIND OF THE WHOLE 893 00:49:29,436 --> 00:49:33,139 AREA >> Reporter: THE CHANCE 894 00:49:33,139 --> 00:49:35,675 DISCOVERY, IN A VAST OPEN FIELD, WAS HUMAN, SKELETAL REMAINS. 895 00:49:35,675 --> 00:49:38,411 CASH WENT IN FOR A CLOSE LOOK. IT TOOK HIS BREATH AWAY. 896 00:49:38,411 --> 00:49:46,486 >> I GO AND LOOK, UM, SEE THE SKULL, SEE THE BRACES. 897 00:49:46,486 --> 00:49:48,655 >> Reporter: BRACES ON THE TEETH? 898 00:49:48,655 --> 00:49:50,790 JONELLE WORE BRACES BACK IN 1984 899 00:49:50,790 --> 00:49:53,460 >> THEN IMMEDIATELY I SEE CLOTHING THAT IS IN AND AROUND 900 00:49:53,460 --> 00:49:56,162 AND ATTACHED TO THE -- TO THE SKELETAL REMAINS 901 00:49:56,162 --> 00:49:59,432 >> WE'RE ESSENTIALLY RIGHT THERE. 902 00:49:59,432 --> 00:50:01,901 IT WAS RIGHT IN THIS LOCATION WHERE WE'RE STANDING 903 00:50:01,901 --> 00:50:03,236 >> I KEEP COMING BACK TO THE REVELATION THAT THERE'S HER 904 00:50:03,236 --> 00:50:04,838 BRACES STILL ON, RIGHT >> RIGHT 905 00:50:04,838 --> 00:50:06,973 >> MM-HMM. >> NO QUESTION WHO YOUR 906 00:50:06,973 --> 00:50:10,143 DISCOVERY IS AT THAT POINT >> RIGHT 907 00:50:10,143 --> 00:50:12,379 >> AND THE CLOTHING. >> YEAH. 908 00:50:12,379 --> 00:50:13,980 >> SHE'S DRESSED EXACTLY AS SHE WAS, UH, AT -- AT THE CHOIR 909 00:50:13,980 --> 00:50:16,449 RECITAL, EXCEPT THAT SHE HAD A COAT ON. 910 00:50:16,449 --> 00:50:18,284 >> YEAH. >> YEAH. 911 00:50:18,284 --> 00:50:24,758 AND SHE HAD THAT DISTINCTIVE, UH, SHIRT AND BLOUSE AND 912 00:50:24,758 --> 00:50:28,028 EVERYTHING ELSE. THERE WAS NO DOUBT WHEN YOU 913 00:50:28,028 --> 00:50:30,196 LOOKED AT HER, IT WAS HER. >> Reporter: THEY HAD FOUND 914 00:50:30,196 --> 00:50:31,831 JONELLE. A DNA SAMPLE CONFIRMED THE 915 00:50:31,831 --> 00:50:34,167 IDENTITY IT WAS A MATCH TO JONELLE'S 916 00:50:34,167 --> 00:50:36,136 BIOLOGICAL PARENTS BUT THERE WAS NO DNA FROM ANYONE 917 00:50:36,136 --> 00:50:38,304 ELSE THE CAUSE OF DEATH SEEMED CLEAR 918 00:50:38,304 --> 00:50:40,473 TOO. IT LOOKED AS THOUGH JONELLE HAD 919 00:50:40,473 --> 00:50:43,443 BEEN SHOT THROUGH THE HEAD NO BULLETS OR SHELL CASINGS WERE 920 00:50:43,443 --> 00:50:45,311 FOUND. >> I ALMOST FEEL LIKE WE'RE ON 921 00:50:45,311 --> 00:50:47,514 SACRED GROUND OR SOMETHING I MEAN, WITH ALL OF THIS PRAIRIE 922 00:50:47,514 --> 00:50:49,683 OUT HERE AND - >> OH, YEAH. 923 00:50:49,683 --> 00:50:51,618 >> RIGHT >> AND THIS IS WHERE THIS POOR 924 00:50:51,618 --> 00:50:56,723 KID WAS FOR DECADES, HUH >> RIGHT 925 00:50:56,723 --> 00:50:58,858 >> FOR 35 YEARS. AND THINK OF THE WORLD THAT'S 926 00:50:58,858 --> 00:51:00,560 CHANGED WHILE SHE WAS HERE >> WINTERS AND SUMMERS AND HERE 927 00:51:00,560 --> 00:51:02,696 SHE IS >> WHO CALLS JONELLE'S PARENTS 928 00:51:02,696 --> 00:51:05,965 >> I CALL JONELLE'S PARENTS. AND, YOU KNOW, REALLY JUST KIND 929 00:51:05,965 --> 00:51:08,668 OF CAME OUT WITH IT THAT WE -- WE -- WE HAVE FOUND SOMETHING, 930 00:51:08,668 --> 00:51:10,303 AND WE BELIEVE THAT IT'S JONELLE. 931 00:51:10,303 --> 00:51:12,472 >> Reporter: JIM AND GLORIA HAD MOVED AWAY YEARS EARLIER, BUT 932 00:51:12,472 --> 00:51:20,313 SAY THEY STILL THINK OF GREELEY AS HOME. 933 00:51:20,313 --> 00:51:22,816 AND THAT'S WHERE THEY DECIDED TO HOLD A MEMORIAL SERVICE AND 934 00:51:22,816 --> 00:51:24,951 BURIAL FOR THEIR DAUGHTER -- 35 YEARS REMOVED FROM HER 12TH 935 00:51:24,951 --> 00:51:30,323 BIRTHDAY >> WE HAD A HUGE TURNOUT AGAIN, 936 00:51:30,323 --> 00:51:34,094 400 PEOPLE FEELING THE LOVE OF THE PEOPLE 937 00:51:34,094 --> 00:51:38,398 AROUND US THAT WAS TREMENDOUS SATISFACTION TO BE ABLE TO DO 938 00:51:38,398 --> 00:51:43,837 THAT, I GUESS, IS THE BEST WAY I CAN SAY IT TO BE ABLE TO PUT OUR 939 00:51:43,837 --> 00:51:47,107 DAUGHTER TO REST >> Reporter: WITH THEIR CASE NOW 940 00:51:47,107 --> 00:51:49,275 A HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION, THE DETECTIVES SET ASIDE THEIR 941 00:51:49,275 --> 00:51:57,951 PREVIOUS SUSPECTS TO FOCUS ON STEVEN PANKEY, WHO WAS LIVING IN 942 00:51:57,951 --> 00:52:01,254 IDAHO. AFTER JONELLE'S FUNERAL, THEY 943 00:52:01,254 --> 00:52:05,291 DECIDED TO TAKE A ROAD TRIP. >> WE HAVE TO GO TO IDAHO. 944 00:52:05,291 --> 00:52:07,694 I WANT TO SEE THIS GUY >> Reporter: THE METICULOUS 945 00:52:07,694 --> 00:52:09,295 DETECTIVE PRILL SPENT A LOT OF THE 9 HOUR DRIVE READING ABOUT 946 00:52:09,295 --> 00:52:12,532 PANKEY -- TRYING TO LEARN EVEN MORE ABOUT HIM AND WHAT MADE HIM 947 00:52:12,532 --> 00:52:15,268 TICK PRILL COULDN'T HELP BUT THINK -- 948 00:52:15,268 --> 00:52:17,370 WHAT A STRANGE LIFE PANKEY HAD LED. 949 00:52:17,370 --> 00:52:19,539 >> HE LEFT GREELEY SOMEWHAT UNDER THE COVER OF DARKNESS. 950 00:52:19,539 --> 00:52:21,708 PACKED UP HIS FAMILY, UNANNOUNCED AND SPLIT. 951 00:52:21,708 --> 00:52:23,910 >> Reporter: IN THE YEARS AFTER JONELLE DISAPPEARED, THE PANKEY 952 00:52:23,910 --> 00:52:26,579 FAMILY MOVED TO SEVERAL DIFFERENT STATES BEFORE SETTLING 953 00:52:26,579 --> 00:52:29,816 IN IDAHO IN THE 1990S. >> DURING THAT TIME, STEVE IS 954 00:52:29,816 --> 00:52:33,620 TAKING A JOB AS A MORTICIAN IN ANY OF THE CITIES THAT THEY LIVE 955 00:52:33,620 --> 00:52:36,356 IN >> WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THAT? 956 00:52:36,356 --> 00:52:40,126 >> IT'S WEIRD. HE HAD A -- HE HAD THIS 957 00:52:40,126 --> 00:52:45,532 PROCLIVITY TO BE AROUND DEAD PEOPLE 958 00:52:45,532 --> 00:52:48,201 >> Reporter: OF COURSE, LOTS OF PEOPLE WORK AS MORTICIANS. 959 00:52:48,201 --> 00:52:50,370 NOTHING WEIRD ABOUT THAT BUT THE DETECTIVES WERE NOW 960 00:52:50,370 --> 00:52:52,539 LOOKING AT EVERYTHING ABOUT PANKEY WITH A SUSPICIOUS EYE -- 961 00:52:52,539 --> 00:52:55,241 LIKE THE FACT THAT HE WOULD NEVER LAST AT ANY JOB FOR VERY 962 00:52:55,241 --> 00:52:59,112 LONG PRILL CALLED IT DABBLING 963 00:52:59,112 --> 00:53:02,315 >> AND WHEN HE WASN'T DABBLING, HE WAS FILING FRIVOLOUS 964 00:53:02,315 --> 00:53:06,086 LAWSUITS >> AND RUNNING FOR OFFICE. 965 00:53:06,086 --> 00:53:08,254 >> AND RUNNING FOR OFFICE. >> I'M YOUR NEXT GOVERNOR. 966 00:53:08,254 --> 00:53:11,057 >> RIGHT RIGHT. 967 00:53:11,057 --> 00:53:16,696 >> Reporter: PANKEY HAD ACTUALLY RUN FOR SEVERAL OFFICES, 968 00:53:16,696 --> 00:53:18,064 INCLUDING TWO EXTREMELY LONG SHOT CAMPAIGNS FOR GOVERNOR IN 969 00:53:18,064 --> 00:53:25,105 IDAHO. >> DIDN'T HAVE A CHANCE AT ANY 970 00:53:25,105 --> 00:53:26,740 OF THOSE THINGS. >> NO, NO. 971 00:53:26,740 --> 00:53:28,875 >> HELLO EVERYONE, THIS IS YOUR BEST FRIEND STEVE PANKEY 972 00:53:28,875 --> 00:53:31,077 >> STEVE PANKEY IS RUNNING AS THE REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR FOR 973 00:53:31,077 --> 00:53:33,146 IDAHO GOVERNOR. HE HAS TRADITIONAL CORE VALUES WITH A 974 00:53:33,146 --> 00:53:36,116 BIBLICAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVE. 975 00:53:36,116 --> 00:53:38,084 >> TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A SAFE, PROSPEROUS, AND MORAL IDAHO. 976 00:53:38,084 --> 00:53:40,220 >> INTERMIXED WITH ALL OF THIS IS HIS -- HIS HALF TRUTHS, 977 00:53:40,220 --> 00:53:44,557 CLAIMING HE HAD A DEGREE IN CRIMINOLOGY. 978 00:53:44,557 --> 00:53:46,159 HE DIDN'T. THAT HE'S AN ORDAINED PASTOR 979 00:53:46,159 --> 00:53:48,328 HE WAS NEVER >> Reporter: THE MORE PRILL 980 00:53:48,328 --> 00:53:50,997 READ, THE MORE BEWILDERING THINGS GOT 981 00:53:50,997 --> 00:53:53,933 >> I MEAN, THERE ARE MOMENTS THERE WHERE I'M READING SOME OF 982 00:53:53,933 --> 00:54:03,410 THE THINGS THAT PANKEY HAS WRITTEN AND THERE'S A LOT OF 983 00:54:03,410 --> 00:54:05,545 WRITTEN AND THERE'S A LOT OF WTFS GOING ON. 984 00:54:05,545 --> 00:54:07,180 VERY STRANGE COMMENTS THAT HE IS WRITING IN MOTIONS THAT HE FILED 985 00:54:07,180 --> 00:54:09,883 IN COURT WHAT I CAME AWAY WITH IS THAT 986 00:54:09,883 --> 00:54:13,153 HE'S ENDLESSLY, ENDLESSLY, ASSERTING THAT HE HAS SOME 987 00:54:13,153 --> 00:54:16,389 INFORMATION ON JONELLE'S DISAPPEARANCE. 988 00:54:16,389 --> 00:54:18,558 >> Reporter: REMARKABLY, IN LEGAL FILINGS UNRELATED TO 989 00:54:18,558 --> 00:54:21,294 JONELLE MATTHEWS, PANKEY WOULD WRITE SOMETHING ABOUT HER 990 00:54:21,294 --> 00:54:23,430 DISAPPEARANCE. ONE EXAMPLE -- PANKEY WAS 991 00:54:23,430 --> 00:54:25,565 ARRESTED FOR DISTURBING THE PEACE IN A BANK, THE CHARGES 992 00:54:25,565 --> 00:54:27,967 WOULD LATER BE DROPPED, BUT PANKEY FILED A COURT PETITION 993 00:54:27,967 --> 00:54:30,470 SAYING THE ARREST WAS "AN ATTEMPT TO FORCE" HIM TO, 994 00:54:30,470 --> 00:54:33,673 "BECOME AN INFORMANT," IN JONELLE'S CASE -- ADDING THAT HE 995 00:54:33,673 --> 00:54:36,142 FEARED HE "WOULD GET THE DEATH PENALTY FOR REVEALING THE 996 00:54:36,142 --> 00:54:38,545 LOCATION OF MS. MATTHEWS BODY. WHAT DID THAT HAVE TO DO WITH 997 00:54:38,545 --> 00:54:41,247 THE INCIDENT IN THE BANK ABSOLUTELY NOTHING 998 00:54:41,247 --> 00:54:45,085 WHAT ON EARTH WAS STEVE PANKEY UP TO? 999 00:54:45,085 --> 00:54:46,720 WHEN CASH AND PRILL FINALLY ARRIVED AT PANKEY'S IDAHO HOME 1000 00:54:46,720 --> 00:54:49,189 ARRIVED AT PANKEY'S IDAHO HOME FOR THAT SURPRISE VISIT, THEY 1001 00:55:09,042 --> 00:55:11,745 PRILL HAD DONE THEIR HOMEWORK ON STEVE PANKEY BUT STILL DIDN'T 1002 00:55:11,745 --> 00:55:14,948 KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN THEY RANG THE INTERCOM AT HIS HOUSE 1003 00:55:14,948 --> 00:55:16,616 CASH RECORDED THE CONVERSATION >> STEVE, HEY, IT'S ROBERT CASH 1004 00:55:16,616 --> 00:55:21,688 WITH GREELEY POLICE. HOW ARE YOU? 1005 00:55:21,688 --> 00:55:24,224 >> ARE YOU AT MY DOOR? >> I AM. 1006 00:55:24,224 --> 00:55:28,595 >> AND WHAT DID YOU WANT >> Reporter: WHAT IS IT LIKE 1007 00:55:28,595 --> 00:55:33,500 TALKING, ENGAGING STEVE PANKEY IN CONVERSATION? 1008 00:55:33,500 --> 00:55:36,736 >> VERY STRANGE. >> HE BEGAN TALKING ABOUT THINGS 1009 00:55:36,736 --> 00:55:39,606 UNRELATED TO ANYTHING THAT WE WERE EXPECTING 1010 00:55:39,606 --> 00:55:42,676 YOU KNOW, PERSONAL ASPECTS OF HIS HISTORY, OF -- OF HIS SEXUAL 1011 00:55:42,676 --> 00:55:49,182 ORIENTATION, THINGS THAT JUST WERE SO FAR AWAY FROM WHERE WE 1012 00:55:49,182 --> 00:55:52,419 WANTED TO GO >> I HAVE A HOMO -- A BISEXUAL 1013 00:55:52,419 --> 00:55:57,290 HISTORY. A LONG BISEXUAL HISTORY. 1014 00:55:57,290 --> 00:56:00,026 YOU CAN GO ON THE INTERNET AND IT'S THERE 1015 00:56:00,026 --> 00:56:02,696 >> Reporter: THAT WAS A PUZZLING THING TO SHARE 1016 00:56:02,696 --> 00:56:04,297 THE DETECTIVES, OF COURSE, WERE THERE TO TALK ABOUT 1017 00:56:04,297 --> 00:56:06,032 JONELLE MATTHEWS THEY TRIED STEERING THE 1018 00:56:06,032 --> 00:56:07,634 CONVERSATION IN THAT DIRECTION SO THE PRESIDING QUESTION IS, 1019 00:56:07,634 --> 00:56:13,540 "WHY ARE YOU SO INTERESTED IN THE JONELLE MATTHEWS CASE? 1020 00:56:13,540 --> 00:56:15,709 >> YEAH. WHY WON'T YOU TELL US? 1021 00:56:15,709 --> 00:56:19,512 I MEAN, HELP US. >> Reporter: ANYTHING COME OUT 1022 00:56:19,512 --> 00:56:24,417 >> NO. >> Reporter: ONCE AGAIN, PANKEY 1023 00:56:24,417 --> 00:56:27,120 SAID HE WOULD NOT TALK WITHOUT HIS ATTORNEY OR AN AGREEMENT IN 1024 00:56:27,120 --> 00:56:31,424 PLACE TO PROTECT HIM AND THAT WAS THAT. 1025 00:56:31,424 --> 00:56:36,262 BUT THE LONG DRIVE TO IDAHO WASN'T A WASTE OF THE 1026 00:56:36,262 --> 00:56:38,465 DETECTIVES' TIME WHILE THEY WERE THERE, PANKEY"S 1027 00:56:38,465 --> 00:56:41,167 EX-WIFE ANGELA AGREED TO SIT DOWN FOR A RECORDED INTERVIEW. 1028 00:56:41,167 --> 00:56:43,336 >> I MEAN, THIS IS NOT MY USUAL, EVERYDAY THING, SO 1029 00:56:43,336 --> 00:56:46,973 >> YOU CAN RELAX >> OKAY. 1030 00:56:46,973 --> 00:56:49,242 >> Reporter: OVER SEVERAL HOURS, ANGELA TALKED ABOUT HER LIFE 1031 00:56:49,242 --> 00:56:51,378 WITH STEVE PANKEY, RECOUNTING HIS SUSPICIOUS BEHAVIOR WHEN 1032 00:56:51,378 --> 00:56:53,079 THEY RETURNED FROM THAT UNPLANNED ROAD TRIP AFTER 1033 00:56:53,079 --> 00:56:55,715 JONELLE DISAPPEARED. >> SO WE GET HOME, AND THEN 1034 00:56:55,715 --> 00:57:02,188 WE'RE BARELY -- BARELY HOME, AND HE GOES IN THE YARD AND STARTS 1035 00:57:02,188 --> 00:57:07,060 DIGGING. >> Reporter: ANGELA ALSO HAD 1036 00:57:07,060 --> 00:57:08,661 LOTS OF OTHER STORIES ABOUT HER EX-HUSBAND'S STRANGE OBSESSION 1037 00:57:08,661 --> 00:57:10,330 WITH THE CASE, LIKE HOW HE ONCE JUMPED OUT OF HIS SEAT IN CHURCH 1038 00:57:10,330 --> 00:57:12,465 WHEN THEIR PASTOR SAID HE WAS CERTAIN JONELLE WOULD BE FOUND 1039 00:57:12,465 --> 00:57:14,300 ALIVE. >> AND THEN HE IS UP AND DOWN 1040 00:57:14,300 --> 00:57:16,770 THE AISLE AND AT THE BACK AND KINDA PACING BACK THERE SAYING, 1041 00:57:16,770 --> 00:57:19,039 "PROPHET -- FALSE PROPHET. SO THEY TAKE HIM TO THE FOYER, 1042 00:57:19,039 --> 00:57:21,074 AND, I MEAN, EVERY TIME THAT FOYER OPENED, HE WAS JUST 1043 00:57:21,074 --> 00:57:23,276 YELLING OUT THERE. >> Reporter: DETECTIVE, IS THAT 1044 00:57:23,276 --> 00:57:30,784 EVIDENCE, OR IS IT JUST KIND OF A CURIOSITY? 1045 00:57:30,784 --> 00:57:35,121 >> TAKEN BY ITSELF, IT'S A CURIOSITY, AND THAT'S WHAT THIS 1046 00:57:35,121 --> 00:57:38,892 ENTIRE INVESTIGATION WAS, WAS ANY ONE THING MEANT NOTHING. 1047 00:57:38,892 --> 00:57:41,594 TWO THINGS, CURIOUS. THREE THINGS, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH 1048 00:57:41,594 --> 00:57:45,365 WHEN YOU START FINDING YOURSELF WITH HUNDREDS AND YOU'RE PUTTING 1049 00:57:45,365 --> 00:57:48,068 IT ALL TOGETHER, IT'S DAMNING EVIDENCE 1050 00:57:48,068 --> 00:57:50,770 >> Reporter: BY THE END OF THEIR CONVERSATION WITH ANGELA, CASH 1051 00:57:50,770 --> 00:57:53,573 AND PRILL HAD NO DOUBTS ABOUT STEVE PANKEY 1052 00:57:53,573 --> 00:57:55,108 SO AS YOU GUYS WENT BACK IN THE CAR, WHAT DID YOU THINK? 1053 00:57:55,108 --> 00:58:00,046 THAT WAS KIND OF AN INTERESTING EXPERIENCE, HUH? 1054 00:58:00,046 --> 00:58:01,614 >> YEAH, I THINK BY THE TIME THAT CAR WAS PUT INTO DRIVE, I 1055 00:58:01,614 --> 00:58:04,317 KNEW PANKEY WAS A SUSPECT IN THIS CASE. 1056 00:58:04,317 --> 00:58:07,020 >> Reporter: THEY WERE DONE TRYING TO TALK TO PANKEY, BUT 1057 00:58:07,020 --> 00:58:10,223 RETURNED TO HIS HOUSE TO EXECUTE A SEARCH WARRANT, SEIZING HIS 1058 00:58:10,223 --> 00:58:12,392 ELECTRONIC DEVICES HIS BROWSER HISTORY WAS FILLED 1059 00:58:12,392 --> 00:58:14,527 WITH SEARCHES ABOUT JONELLE. AFTER REFUSING TO TALK TO 1060 00:58:14,527 --> 00:58:16,730 DETECTIVES ABOUT THE CASE, PANKEY, NOW THE PRIME SUSPECT, 1061 00:58:16,730 --> 00:58:20,600 DECIDED TO START TALKING TO PRACTICALLY ANYONE ELSE WHO 1062 00:58:20,600 --> 00:58:26,940 WOULD LISTEN >> ON DECEMBER 20, 1984. 1063 00:58:26,940 --> 00:58:28,508 >> Reporter: IN AN INTERVIEW WITH NBC STATION 1064 00:58:28,508 --> 00:58:30,677 KTVB, PANKEY FINALLY REVEALED THE MYSTERIOUS DETAILS OF WHAT 1065 00:58:30,677 --> 00:58:32,278 HE'D BEEN CLAIMING HE KNEW ABOUT JONELLE BACK IN 1984 1066 00:58:32,278 --> 00:58:35,048 PANKEY SAID IT WAS JUST SOMETHING HIS FATHER-IN-LAW, A 1067 00:58:35,048 --> 00:58:40,420 CARETAKER AT A CEMETERY, HAD TOLD HIM 1068 00:58:40,420 --> 00:58:44,057 >> A COP HAD COME TO HIM AND SAID THAT HE HAD A BODY THAT 1069 00:58:44,057 --> 00:58:46,359 NEEDED TO BE BURIED IN A CASKET. THEY NEVER MENTIONED THE NAME 1070 00:58:46,359 --> 00:58:52,332 JONELLE MATTHEWS THEY NEVER MENTIONED ANY NAME. 1071 00:58:52,332 --> 00:58:56,670 THAT'S THE TOTAL OF MY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE DISAPPEARANCE OF 1072 00:58:56,670 --> 00:59:00,807 JONELLE MATTHEWS, OKAY THAT'S IT. 1073 00:59:00,807 --> 00:59:02,575 THERE AIN'T NOTHING MORE >> Reporter: IN OTHER 1074 00:59:02,575 --> 00:59:05,278 INTERVIEWS, PANKEY OFFERED UP PROVOCATIVE CONSPIRACY THEORIES 1075 00:59:05,278 --> 00:59:07,480 ABOUT THE CASE ONE OF THEM WAS ABOUT GREELEY 1076 00:59:07,480 --> 00:59:11,751 MAYOR JOHN GATES, WHO WAS A DETECTIVE IN 1984 AND RESPONDED 1077 00:59:11,751 --> 00:59:17,223 TO THE MATTHEWS' HOUSE THE NIGHT JONELLE WAS REPORTED MISSING 1078 00:59:17,223 --> 00:59:20,460 >> I GET A CALL FROM A JOURNALIST IN IDAHO WHO SAID, 1079 00:59:20,460 --> 00:59:22,595 "HEY, MAYOR GATES, ARE YOU AWARE THAT STEVE PANKEY HAS NAMED YOU 1080 00:59:22,595 --> 00:59:25,899 AS A SUSPECT IN THE DISAPPEARANCE OF 1081 00:59:25,899 --> 00:59:28,234 JONELLE MATTHEWS?" >> Reporter: YOU 1082 00:59:28,234 --> 00:59:32,372 THAT YOU'RE -- >> YEAH. 1083 00:59:32,372 --> 00:59:35,075 >> Reporter: -- YOU'RE PART OF A PLOT 1084 00:59:35,075 --> 00:59:36,710 >> RIGHT AND, UH, I -- YOU KNOW, I DON'T 1085 00:59:36,710 --> 00:59:38,845 FIND MYSELF SPEECHLESS VERY OFTEN. 1086 00:59:38,845 --> 00:59:40,480 I THINK I WAS PROBABLY SPEECHLESS THAT DAY. 1087 00:59:40,480 --> 00:59:42,649 >> Reporter: CASH AND PRILL CALLED THIS LATEST GAMBIT THE 1088 00:59:42,649 --> 00:59:44,818 "PANKEY PUBLICITY TOUR." >> IN FULL STEVEN PANKEY 1089 00:59:44,818 --> 00:59:47,520 FASHION, HE WENT ON A CRUSADE. >> Reporter: "I'M GOING TO NOW 1090 00:59:47,520 --> 00:59:49,956 TELL THE WORLD ABOUT STEVEN PANKEY. 1091 00:59:49,956 --> 00:59:52,525 >> YES >> MY NAME IS STEVE PANKEY 1092 00:59:52,525 --> 00:59:56,363 >> Reporter: PANKEY ALSO FOUND TIME TO RUN FOR OFFICE AGAIN, 1093 00:59:56,363 --> 01:00:00,467 THIS GO "ROUND FOR SHERIFF IN IDAHO. 1094 01:00:00,467 --> 01:00:03,737 >> I HUMBLY ASK FOR YOUR VOTE. I"M STEVE PANKEY, AND I APPROVED 1095 01:00:03,737 --> 01:00:08,575 THIS AD. >> ONE OF HIS CAMPAIGN SLOGANS 1096 01:00:08,575 --> 01:00:11,945 WAS, "NO HANKY WITH PANKEY." >> Reporter: BACK IN COLORADO, 1097 01:00:11,945 --> 01:00:15,081 CASH AND PRILL WERE PAYING CLOSE ATTENTION TO EVERYTHING PANKEY 1098 01:00:15,081 --> 01:00:18,885 WAS SAYING AS THEY QUIETLY BUILT THEIR CASE WITH PROSECUTORS 1099 01:00:18,885 --> 01:00:23,523 ROBERT MILLER, LACY WELLS, AND THE ELECTED D.A. OF WELD COUNTY, 1100 01:00:23,523 --> 01:00:25,392 MICHAEL ROURKE THEY BELIEVED PANKEY HAD TALKED 1101 01:00:25,392 --> 01:00:27,560 HIMSELF INTO A MURDER CHARGE, AND THEY PRESENTED THEIR 1102 01:00:27,560 --> 01:00:30,296 EVIDENCE TO A GRAND JURY >> WE PRESENTED OUR INFORMATION 1103 01:00:30,296 --> 01:00:34,601 TO THE GRAND JURY THROUGH DETECTIVE CASH, THROUGH 1104 01:00:34,601 --> 01:00:36,836 DETECTIVE PRILL. >> Reporter: THE DETECTIVES LAID 1105 01:00:36,836 --> 01:00:39,472 OUT A DETAILED TIMELINE OF THE SUSPICIOUS BEHAVIOR AND 1106 01:00:39,472 --> 01:00:42,742 STATEMENTS MADE BY PANKEY OVER THE DECADES. 1107 01:00:42,742 --> 01:00:45,445 DETECTIVE PRILL HAD EVEN DEVELOPED A THEORY OF HOW 1108 01:00:45,445 --> 01:00:48,148 JONELLE WAS KILLED BASED ON THE FACT THAT HER COAT HAD BEEN 1109 01:00:48,148 --> 01:00:52,519 TURNED INSIDE OUT WHEN THEY FOUND HER REMAINS. 1110 01:00:52,519 --> 01:00:54,554 SO WHAT DID THAT TELL YOU? WHAT'S THE PICTURE THAT CAME 1111 01:00:54,554 --> 01:00:56,423 TOGETHER >> WELL, IT BECAME FAIRLY CLEAR 1112 01:00:56,423 --> 01:00:58,792 TO ME THAT THIS COAT HAD BEEN PULLED OVER JONELLE'S HEAD 1113 01:00:58,792 --> 01:01:01,761 >> Reporter: TO CONTROL HER? >> PERHAPS 1114 01:01:01,761 --> 01:01:04,464 OR SHE WAS TRYING TO GET AWAY. AND HE REACHED OVER HER HEAD AND 1115 01:01:04,464 --> 01:01:09,336 GRABBED THE COAT AND THEN SHE PULLED AWAY TO THE 1116 01:01:09,336 --> 01:01:13,106 POINT WHERE THE CUFFS AND HER HANDS ARE IN THE ARMPITS OF THE 1117 01:01:13,106 --> 01:01:15,809 COAT, AND IT'S AT THAT POINT THAT SHE WAS LIKELY SHOT 1118 01:01:15,809 --> 01:01:18,978 >> Reporter: PROSECUTORS TOLD THE GRAND JURORS IT ALL ADDED UP 1119 01:01:18,978 --> 01:01:21,815 TO A STRONG CIRCUMSTANTIAL CASE. >> THEY VERY QUICKLY TURNED 1120 01:01:21,815 --> 01:01:25,085 AROUND AND SAID, "HERE'S YOUR INDICTMENT 1121 01:01:25,085 --> 01:01:28,288 GO GET HIM." >> Reporter: ON OCTOBER 12th, 1122 01:01:28,288 --> 01:01:32,125 2020, THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT DETECTIVES CASH AND PRILL DID. 1123 01:01:32,125 --> 01:01:34,828 THEY ARRESTED STEVE PANKEY AT HIS HOME IN IDAHO. 1124 01:01:34,828 --> 01:01:38,665 HE WAS CHARGED WITH FIRST-DEGREE MURDER 1125 01:01:38,665 --> 01:01:40,266 PANKEY WOULD SOON BE TELLING HIS STORY AGAIN. 1126 01:01:40,266 --> 01:01:42,502 >> WHEN YOU SHOT JONELLE MATTHEWS IN THE 1127 01:01:42,502 --> 01:01:44,637 FOREHEAD, WAS SHE BEGGING FOR HER LIFE 1128 01:01:44,637 --> 01:01:47,340 >> Reporter: THIS TIME, HE'D BE TALKING TO HIS MOST IMPORTANT 1129 01:01:47,340 --> 01:01:49,542 TALKING TO HIS MOST IMPORTANT AUDIENCE YET -- A JURY OF HIS 1130 01:02:07,060 --> 01:02:11,364 BEEN CHARGED WITH FIRST-DEGREE MURDER FOR KIDNAPPING AND 1131 01:02:11,364 --> 01:02:16,803 KILLING JONELLE MATTHEWS DETECTIVES KNEW THE CASE AGAINST 1132 01:02:16,803 --> 01:02:18,471 HIM WASN'T A SLAM DUNK IT DOESN'T HAVE ALL THAT STUFF 1133 01:02:18,471 --> 01:02:24,377 THAT JURIES ABSOLUTELY CRAVE >> CORRECT 1134 01:02:24,377 --> 01:02:30,316 >> Reporter: OBVIOUS MOTIVE. THERE'S NO WEAPON. 1135 01:02:30,316 --> 01:02:31,918 THERE'S NO DNA THERE'S NO EYEWITNESS. 1136 01:02:31,918 --> 01:02:33,586 >> YES IT WAS UNUSUAL, TO SAY THE 1137 01:02:33,586 --> 01:02:35,221 LEAST. >> Reporter: THERE WAS ALSO NO 1138 01:02:35,221 --> 01:02:36,856 EVIDENCE TO SHOW HOW JONELLE WAS TAKEN FROM HER HOUSE OR WHEN AND 1139 01:02:36,856 --> 01:02:39,125 WHERE SHE WAS SHOT BUT PROSECUTORS WERE STILL 1140 01:02:39,125 --> 01:02:40,126 CONFIDENT. THE TRIAL STARTED IN OCTOBER OF 1141 01:02:40,126 --> 01:02:42,228 2021 REPORTER ASHLEY FANTZ WAS IN THE 1142 01:02:42,228 --> 01:02:45,498 COURTROOM. PAINT ME A PICTURE AS THE TRIAL 1143 01:02:45,498 --> 01:02:48,201 OF STEVEN PANKEY BEGINS. >> THE TRIAL FELT TENSE TO ME. 1144 01:02:48,201 --> 01:02:52,138 THIS WAS SUCH A STORIED CASE IN GREELEY AND, YOU KNOW, IN 1145 01:02:52,138 --> 01:02:54,140 THE '80s AND IT WAS ALMOST LIKE YOU HAD, 1146 01:02:54,140 --> 01:02:56,309 YOU KNOW, GHOSTS OF THE PAST SITTING THERE. 1147 01:02:56,309 --> 01:02:59,112 >> Reporter: PROSECUTORS PLANNED TO PROVE THEIR CASE WITH THE 1148 01:02:59,112 --> 01:03:07,187 MOUNTAIN OF WORDS SPOKEN AND WRITTEN BY PANKEY HIMSELF. 1149 01:03:07,187 --> 01:03:10,457 WELD COUNTY D.A. MICHAEL ROURKE THOUGHT THAT WAS A WINNING HAND. 1150 01:03:10,457 --> 01:03:15,862 >> FOR 37 YEARS, JUSTICE FOR JANELLE HAS BEEN DENIED. 1151 01:03:15,862 --> 01:03:18,098 THAT CHANGES BEGINNING TODAY BASICALLY WHAT I'M TELLING THEM 1152 01:03:18,098 --> 01:03:19,866 IS, "LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, YOU'RE NOT GONNA HEAR DNA 1153 01:03:19,866 --> 01:03:21,267 EVIDENCE I"M GONNA ASK YOU TO RELY UPON 1154 01:03:21,267 --> 01:03:22,869 EVIDENCE WHICH IS AS OLD AS TIME. 1155 01:03:22,869 --> 01:03:26,740 STATEMENTS STATEMENTS OF THE DEFENDANT. 1156 01:03:26,740 --> 01:03:29,409 STATEMENTS AND BEHAVIORS THAT WILL LEAD YOU TO BUT ONE 1157 01:03:29,409 --> 01:03:33,179 CONCLUSION -- THAT HE IS THE INDIVIDUAL WE HAVE BEEN LOOKING 1158 01:03:33,179 --> 01:03:36,449 FOR FOR 37 YEARS >> Reporter: PROSECUTORS 1159 01:03:36,449 --> 01:03:42,389 PRESENTED AN AVALANCHE OF DOCUMENTS. 1160 01:03:42,389 --> 01:03:46,693 THE CENTERPIECE WAS EXHIBIT 209, A 75-PAGE TIMELINE PREPARED BY 1161 01:03:46,693 --> 01:03:49,929 DETECTIVE PRILL LISTING VIRTUALLY EVERYTHING 1162 01:03:49,929 --> 01:03:52,599 STEVEN PANKEY HAD SAID ABOUT JONELLE OVER THREE DECADES 1163 01:03:52,599 --> 01:03:55,902 >> EXHIBIT 209 WAS THE COMPILATION OF 37 YEARS WORTH OF 1164 01:03:55,902 --> 01:03:58,571 LAW ENFORCEMENT EFFORT IT DETAILED HIS LIFE, ALL OF THE 1165 01:03:58,571 --> 01:04:02,342 STATEMENTS THAT HE'S MADE ABOUT JONELLE MATTHEWS OVER THE COURSE 1166 01:04:02,342 --> 01:04:05,245 OF TIME. >> Reporter: FOR D.A. ROURKE, 1167 01:04:05,245 --> 01:04:07,714 ONE THING IN EXHIBIT 209 STOOD OUT ABOVE ALL OTHERS -- A LETTER 1168 01:04:07,714 --> 01:04:14,220 PANKEY HAD WRITTEN TO PROSECUTORS. 1169 01:04:14,220 --> 01:04:16,556 ROURKE CALLS IT PANKEY'S "ALIBI LETTER." 1170 01:04:16,556 --> 01:04:18,058 >> IT'S AN INCREDIBLY DETAILED ALIBI, NOT IN A BELIEVABLE 1171 01:04:18,058 --> 01:04:19,626 SENSE. HE REMEMBERS STANDING AT THE 1172 01:04:19,626 --> 01:04:21,728 WINDOW WATCHING THE SNOW CONDITIONS AND THINKING WHETHER 1173 01:04:21,728 --> 01:04:23,430 HE'S GONNA BE ABLE TO LEAVE THE NEXT MORNING ON A TRIP TO 1174 01:04:23,430 --> 01:04:25,598 CALIFORNIA BUT WE PULLED THE WEATHER 1175 01:04:25,598 --> 01:04:27,767 REPORTS. WE KNOW THERE'S HARDLY ANY SNOW 1176 01:04:27,767 --> 01:04:29,936 ON THE GROUND. HE TALKS ABOUT REMEMBERING THAT 1177 01:04:29,936 --> 01:04:32,605 HE HAD GONE TO THE GAS STATION AND BOUGHT A SIX PACK OF PEPSI 1178 01:04:32,605 --> 01:04:34,808 WHO REMEMBERS THAT 35 YEARS LATER? 1179 01:04:34,808 --> 01:04:37,143 >> Reporter: PROSECUTORS, I SEE SO MANY RED FLAGS IN THAT STORY, 1180 01:04:37,143 --> 01:04:38,578 I CAN'T COUNT THEM >> MM-HMM. 1181 01:04:38,578 --> 01:04:41,815 >> Reporter: DO YOU ALSO >> YES 1182 01:04:41,815 --> 01:04:43,416 >> Reporter: PROSECUTORS TOLD THE JURY THERE WAS ONLY ONE WAY 1183 01:04:43,416 --> 01:04:47,153 TO INTERPRET ALL THOSE STATEMENTS PUT TOGETHER BY 1184 01:04:47,153 --> 01:04:52,092 DETECTIVE PRILL. THEY WERE THE PRODUCT OF A 1185 01:04:52,092 --> 01:04:53,893 KILLER'S GUILTY CONSCIENCE AND IT TURNED OUT THAT PRILL 1186 01:04:53,893 --> 01:04:55,829 BECAME YOUR PANKEY WHISPERER >> HE PUT THE ENTIRE CASE 1187 01:04:55,829 --> 01:04:58,565 TOGETHER FOR THE JURY, FOR THEIR UNDERSTANDING THROUGH THIS 1188 01:04:58,565 --> 01:05:00,734 DOCUMENT >> Reporter: AFTER THREE DAYS OF 1189 01:05:00,734 --> 01:05:05,071 PRESENTING STEVEN PANKEY IN HIS OWN WORDS, THE PROSECUTION 1190 01:05:05,071 --> 01:05:08,875 TURNED TO ITS STAR WITNESS, PANKEY'S EX-WIFE ANGELA. 1191 01:05:08,875 --> 01:05:11,578 SHE OFFERED AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT OF HER EX, A MAN WITH A SHORT 1192 01:05:11,578 --> 01:05:16,116 FUSE WHO INSISTED ON VERY STRICT RULES FOR HIS FAMILY 1193 01:05:16,116 --> 01:05:19,686 IT WAS A HOUSEHOLD WITH A LOT OF "THOU SHALT NOTS." 1194 01:05:19,686 --> 01:05:22,956 >> ONE DAY I WAS IN THE KITCHEN. I HAD MY STEREO ON, AND HE CAME 1195 01:05:22,956 --> 01:05:26,760 IN THE NEXT THING I KNOW I HEAR 1196 01:05:26,760 --> 01:05:32,665 CRASHING, SMASHING YOU KNOW, "NO MORE MUSIC, NO TV, 1197 01:05:32,665 --> 01:05:38,672 NO RADIO, NO NEWSPAPERS. THIS IS GOING TO BE A GODLY 1198 01:05:38,672 --> 01:05:44,644 HOME." >> Reporter: ANGELA REMEMBERED 1199 01:05:44,644 --> 01:05:47,914 HOW PANKEY SUDDENLY ABANDONED THOSE RULES DURING THAT 1200 01:05:47,914 --> 01:05:50,617 UNPLANNED CHRISTMAS 1984 ROAD TRIP, OBSESSIVELY ORDERING HER 1201 01:05:50,617 --> 01:05:52,619 TO FIND REPORTS ABOUT JONELLE ON THE CAR RADIO. 1202 01:05:52,619 --> 01:05:54,988 THE MESSAGE TO THE JURY WAS CLEAR. 1203 01:05:54,988 --> 01:05:56,656 THIS WAS JONELLE'S KILLER MAKING SURE THERE WAS NOTHING IN THE 1204 01:05:56,656 --> 01:05:58,792 NEWS CONNECTING HIM TO THE CRIME. 1205 01:05:58,792 --> 01:06:01,528 >> AND THAT'S ALL HE WANTED TO LISTEN TO ON THE RADIO 1206 01:06:01,528 --> 01:06:04,230 >> HE KEPT HAVING ME FLIP TO FIND -- TO FIND MORE NEWS 1207 01:06:04,230 --> 01:06:09,302 REPORTS ABOUT IT >> Reporter: PROSECUTORS WERE 1208 01:06:09,302 --> 01:06:11,237 CONFIDENT ANGELA'S DETAILED TESTIMONY WOULD COMPARE VERY 1209 01:06:11,237 --> 01:06:12,939 FAVORABLY TO THE SOMETIMES CONTRADICTORY, STRANGE THINGS 1210 01:06:12,939 --> 01:06:15,775 PANKEY HAD WRITTEN ABOUT THE SAME EVENTS. 1211 01:06:15,775 --> 01:06:17,711 >> YOU START TO HAVE THIS REAL CONTRADICTION BETWEEN THE 1212 01:06:17,711 --> 01:06:24,250 ANGELA HICKS, UM, AND HER INCREDIBLE MEMORY AND THESE 1213 01:06:24,250 --> 01:06:26,553 WRITINGS OF A GUY WHO, BY ALL ACCOUNTS, SHOULDN'T HAVE 1214 01:06:26,553 --> 01:06:31,791 ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS >> Reporter: THEN ANGELA 1215 01:06:31,791 --> 01:06:36,730 DESCRIBED A DISTURBING NOTE IN HER HUSBAND'S HANDWRITING. 1216 01:06:36,730 --> 01:06:38,598 SHE'D FOUND IT IN THE TRASH, YEARS AFTER JONELLE DISAPPEARED. 1217 01:06:38,598 --> 01:06:40,500 IT HAD BEEN TORN INTO LITTLE PIECES 1218 01:06:40,500 --> 01:06:43,269 >> ONE OF THE THINGS NOTATED IN HIS HANDWRITING ON THIS PIECE OF 1219 01:06:43,269 --> 01:06:47,507 LEGAL PAPER WAS, "SNOW OUTSIDE THE MATTHEWS HOUSE WAS RAKED." 1220 01:06:47,507 --> 01:06:49,909 >> Reporter: POLICE SAY THEY NEVER REVEALED THE FACT THAT THE 1221 01:06:49,909 --> 01:07:02,155 SHOE PRINTS IN THE SNOW AT THE MATTHEWS HOUSE HAD BEEN RAKED 1222 01:07:02,155 --> 01:07:05,392 OVER PROSECUTORS BELIEVED ANGELA'S 1223 01:07:05,392 --> 01:07:07,027 TESTIMONY ABOUT THE NOTE SHE FOUND WAS POWERFUL EVIDENCE THAT 1224 01:07:07,027 --> 01:07:08,695 PANKEY KNEW ALL ABOUT THE PRINTS BECAUSE HE WAS THE ONE WHO MADE 1225 01:07:08,695 --> 01:07:10,663 THEM >> SHE WAS ONE OF THE MOST 1226 01:07:10,663 --> 01:07:12,198 COMPELLING WITNESSES I'VE EVER HAD ON THE STAND 1227 01:07:12,198 --> 01:07:13,566 AND WE TOOK A BREAK FOR THE DAY, AND I WAS LIKE, "WOW, THAT WAS 1228 01:07:13,566 --> 01:07:15,201 AN AMAZING WITNESS." >> Reporter: TAKE HER OUT OF THE 1229 01:07:15,201 --> 01:07:16,736 CASE -- WHAT DO YOU HAVE >> NOTHING 1230 01:07:16,736 --> 01:07:18,905 >> Reporter: SHE'S THAT IMPORTANT? 1231 01:07:18,905 --> 01:07:21,041 >> YES WE DON'T MAKE THIS CASE WITHOUT 1232 01:07:21,041 --> 01:07:22,642 ANGELA HICKS >> Reporter: NOW IT WAS TIME FOR 1233 01:07:22,642 --> 01:07:24,344 THE DEFENSE. AND THE UNPREDICTABLE 1234 01:07:24,344 --> 01:07:27,514 STEVEN PANKEY WOULD MAKE AN UNUSUAL CASE FOR HIMSELF FROM 1235 01:07:27,514 --> 01:07:35,588 THE WITNESS STAND. >> THE BIBLE SAYS, "MAKE SURE 1236 01:07:35,588 --> 01:08:00,347 YOUR SINS WILL FIND YOU OUT. >> Reporter: STEVEN PANKEY'S 1237 01:08:00,347 --> 01:08:02,015 DEFENSE ATTORNEY ANTHONY VIORST BELIEVED IN HIS CLIENT'S 1238 01:08:02,015 --> 01:08:04,150 INNOCENCE. AFTER THE STATE RESTED, IT WAS 1239 01:08:04,150 --> 01:08:06,886 HIS TURN TO TELL THE JURY WHY. >> MR. PANKEY IS INNOCENT, 1240 01:08:06,886 --> 01:08:09,055 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, BECAUSE THERE IS NO PHYSICAL EVIDENCE, 1241 01:08:09,055 --> 01:08:12,859 OR REALLY NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER CONNECTING HIM TO THIS CRIME 1242 01:08:12,859 --> 01:08:16,129 NO FINGERPRINTS, NO DNA. THERE ARE NO WITNESSES 1243 01:08:16,129 --> 01:08:17,731 SO IT'S ALL CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE, NUMBER ONE 1244 01:08:17,731 --> 01:08:23,169 AND CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE CAN BE MISLEADING. 1245 01:08:23,169 --> 01:08:34,047 >> Reporter: ONE OF THE DEFENSE'S BIGGEST PROBLEMS WAS 1246 01:08:34,047 --> 01:08:35,648 THE POWERFUL TESTIMONY OF THE STATE'S STAR WITNESS, PANKEY'S 1247 01:08:35,648 --> 01:08:37,817 EX-WIFE ANGELA VIORST POINTED OUT THAT ANGELA 1248 01:08:37,817 --> 01:08:39,519 HAD WAITED 15 YEARS BEFORE REACHING OUT TO POLICE ABOUT THE 1249 01:08:39,519 --> 01:08:42,288 CASE AND HE TRIED TO GIVE THE JURY A 1250 01:08:42,288 --> 01:08:43,323 REASON TO QUESTION HER MOTIVE FOR SPEAKING OUT NOW 1251 01:08:43,323 --> 01:08:44,891 >> HE WAS A SORT OF A DOMINEERING TYPE OF HUSBAND, AND 1252 01:08:44,891 --> 01:08:48,328 SHE MAY HAVE BEEN SORT OF GETTING HER REVENGE BY 1253 01:08:48,328 --> 01:08:49,696 TESTIFYING AGAINST HIM AT HIS TRIAL. 1254 01:08:49,696 --> 01:08:53,500 SHE HAD REASON TO BE UPSET WITH HIM, AND SHE HAD REASON TO 1255 01:08:53,500 --> 01:08:55,669 DIVORCE HIM. BUT SHE DOESN'T HAVE A REASON TO 1256 01:08:55,669 --> 01:08:57,303 ACCUSE HIM OF COMMITTING A MURDER 1257 01:08:57,303 --> 01:08:59,439 >> Reporter: WHEN VIORST GOT HIS CHANCE TO QUESTION ANGELA, HE 1258 01:08:59,439 --> 01:09:02,142 TRIED TO DEMONSTRATE WHY SHE HAD GOOD REASONS TO RESENT PANKEY. 1259 01:09:02,142 --> 01:09:04,778 >> HE DID NOT TREAT YOU PARTICULARLY WELL DURING THE 1260 01:09:04,778 --> 01:09:08,581 MARRIAGE, DID HE >> NO, HE DID NOT. 1261 01:09:08,581 --> 01:09:11,885 >> OKAY, HE DIDN'T PROVIDE WELL FOR YOU FINANCIALLY, DID HE? 1262 01:09:11,885 --> 01:09:15,121 >> NO. >> Reporter: ANGELA SAID PANKEY 1263 01:09:15,121 --> 01:09:19,459 INHERITED AN ULTRACONSERVATIVE VIEW ON MARITAL ROLES FROM HIS 1264 01:09:19,459 --> 01:09:23,196 FATHER, WHO ONCE DESCRIBED A WIFE'S PLACE TO HER IN A CRUDE, 1265 01:09:23,196 --> 01:09:27,067 OFFENSIVE MANNER >> WHAT HE HAD SAID IS YOU 1266 01:09:27,067 --> 01:09:30,337 SHOULD OBEY YOUR HUSBAND AS UNTO THE LORD, AND IF YOUR HUSBAND 1267 01:09:30,337 --> 01:09:32,472 ASKS YOU TO STAND UP ON A TABLE IN THE MIDDLE OF A RESTAURANT 1268 01:09:32,472 --> 01:09:34,140 AND DANCE NAKED, YOU SHOULD DO IT 1269 01:09:34,140 --> 01:09:39,479 >> SO THAT'S KIND OF AN OLD FASHIONED VIEW OF MARRIAGE, 1270 01:09:39,479 --> 01:09:41,648 ISN'T IT >> I THOUGHT SO. 1271 01:09:41,648 --> 01:09:43,950 >> YEAH, AND STEVE HAD AN OLD FASHIONED VIEW OF MARRIAGE AS 1272 01:09:43,950 --> 01:09:47,587 WELL >> YES 1273 01:09:47,587 --> 01:09:50,056 >> Reporter: AFTER DEALING WITH ANGELA'S TESTIMONY, THE DEFENSE 1274 01:09:50,056 --> 01:09:51,391 SHIFTED ITS FOCUS TO AN ALTERNATE SUSPECT. 1275 01:09:51,391 --> 01:09:54,060 VIORST THOUGHT HE HAD A GOOD ONE IN NORRIS DRAKE. 1276 01:09:54,060 --> 01:09:57,897 >> WE PRESENTED EVIDENCE THAT HE DID HAVE AN INTEREST IN YOUNG 1277 01:09:57,897 --> 01:10:01,167 GIRLS OF -- YOU KNOW, WHO ARE ABOUT JONELLE'S AGE. 1278 01:10:01,167 --> 01:10:03,303 WE PRESENTED EVIDENCE THAT HE WAS THERE AT THAT EXACT LOCATION 1279 01:10:03,303 --> 01:10:04,938 RIGHT AROUND THE TIME THAT SHE WAS DROPPED OFF. 1280 01:10:04,938 --> 01:10:06,539 >> Reporter: YOU THOUGHT HE WAS A VIABLE SUSPECT 1281 01:10:06,539 --> 01:10:09,042 >> ABSOLUTELY. I MEAN, I REALLY THINK HE'S THE 1282 01:10:09,042 --> 01:10:13,780 ONE WHO DID IT >> Reporter: GIVING THE JURY AN 1283 01:10:13,780 --> 01:10:16,349 ALTERNATE SUSPECT TO THINK ABOUT AND CHALLENGING ANGELA'S 1284 01:10:16,349 --> 01:10:21,221 CREDIBILITY WERE CENTERPIECES OF THE DEFENSE STRATEGY 1285 01:10:21,221 --> 01:10:22,922 BUT WHAT ABOUT STEVEN PANKEY'S CREDIBILITY? 1286 01:10:22,922 --> 01:10:24,491 VIORST KNEW PUTTING HIM ON THE STAND WOULD BE RISKY 1287 01:10:24,491 --> 01:10:26,659 THIS IS A GUY WHO'S GOTTEN IN TROUBLE BY TALKING TOO MUCH. 1288 01:10:26,659 --> 01:10:28,595 >> RIGHT >> Reporter: AND YET HERE YOU'RE 1289 01:10:28,595 --> 01:10:30,430 GOING TO GO TO THE TOTALLY VULNERABLE SITUATION OF SWORN 1290 01:10:30,430 --> 01:10:32,065 TESTIMONY. >> RIGHT 1291 01:10:32,065 --> 01:10:34,200 YOU DON'T ALWAYS KNOW WHAT STEVE IS GOING TO SAY. 1292 01:10:34,200 --> 01:10:37,971 >> Reporter: PANKEY MADE THE FINAL DECISION 1293 01:10:37,971 --> 01:10:40,440 HE WOULD TESTIFY AND AFTER SWEARING TO TELL THE 1294 01:10:40,440 --> 01:10:44,944 TRUTH, HE DID A REMARKABLE THING. 1295 01:10:44,944 --> 01:10:55,255 HE TOLD THE JURY HE'S A LIAR >> THE BIBLE SAYS, "MAKE SURE 1296 01:10:55,255 --> 01:10:59,559 YOUR SINS WILL FIND YOU OUT. SO I BEGAN A SERIES OF LIES. 1297 01:10:59,559 --> 01:11:04,397 I HAD TOLD SO MANY LIES OVER THE YEARS. 1298 01:11:04,397 --> 01:11:07,667 I DIDN'T KNOW HOW YOU CAN -- IT'S JUST IT HAS TO -- IT HAS TO 1299 01:11:07,667 --> 01:11:12,072 MAKE SENSE AND IT ALL DOESN'T 1300 01:11:12,072 --> 01:11:14,741 >> Reporter: AND PANKEY'S REASON FOR LYING ABOUT JONELLE? 1301 01:11:14,741 --> 01:11:16,910 HE SAID IT WAS TO EXACT REVENGE ON PEOPLE HE DIDN'T LIKE -- 1302 01:11:16,910 --> 01:11:21,281 RELATIVES, CO-WORKERS, LAW ENFORCEMENT. 1303 01:11:21,281 --> 01:11:27,721 >> "CAUSE I HATED THE POLICE IT WAS ALL IN ONE TO SAY I'VE 1304 01:11:27,721 --> 01:11:30,957 GOT INFORMATION THAT YOU WANT AND YOU CAN'T HAVE IT. 1305 01:11:30,957 --> 01:11:36,396 IT WAS A POLITE WAY OF FLIPPING THEM THE BIRD. 1306 01:11:36,396 --> 01:11:38,565 IT WAS PURE HATRED ON MY PART. >> Reporter: JIM AND 1307 01:11:38,565 --> 01:11:41,234 GLORIA MATTHEWS WERE THERE AND COULD NOT BELIEVE WHAT THEY WERE 1308 01:11:41,234 --> 01:11:44,504 HEARING. >> HERE HE'S TRYING TO DEFEND 1309 01:11:44,504 --> 01:11:47,207 HIMSELF IN A WAY, BUT HE'S TELLING US THAT ALL HE'S DONE IS 1310 01:11:47,207 --> 01:11:50,110 THROUGHOUT THE YEARS IS -- IS HE'S LIED. 1311 01:11:50,110 --> 01:11:54,781 >> HOW DO WE KNOW THAT HE'S NOT LYING WHEN HE WAS TESTIFYING 1312 01:11:54,781 --> 01:11:58,118 THAT HE WAS LYING? >> YEAH, IT WAS BIZARRE. 1313 01:11:58,118 --> 01:12:00,220 >> Reporter: PANKEY DIDN'T HOLD BACK WHEN IT CAME TO ANGELA. 1314 01:12:00,220 --> 01:12:09,929 HE SAID HER STORY ABOUT HIM SIMPLY WASN'T TRUE 1315 01:12:09,929 --> 01:12:14,234 >> I HAD NEVER IMAGINED THAT ANGIE WOULD BE AS BIG AS LIAR AS 1316 01:12:14,234 --> 01:12:16,970 I AM >> Reporter: ANGELA HAD 1317 01:12:16,970 --> 01:12:19,172 TESTIFIED ABOUT HER UNHAPPY MARRIAGE 1318 01:12:19,172 --> 01:12:21,307 ON THE STAND, PANKEY SAID HE NEVER HAD ROMANTIC FEELINGS FOR 1319 01:12:21,307 --> 01:12:23,443 HIS WIFE HE RECALLED TALKING TO ANGELA 1320 01:12:23,443 --> 01:12:30,417 ONE NIGHT WHEN HE DECIDED TO SLEEP ON THE COUCH 1321 01:12:30,417 --> 01:12:33,186 >> I TURNED AND TOLD HER MAKING LOVE TO HER WAS AN ACT OF MERCY, 1322 01:12:33,186 --> 01:12:39,659 NOT PASSION. I DIDN'T MEAN TO BE OVERLY 1323 01:12:39,659 --> 01:12:42,862 GROSS, BUT I THINK YOU CAN SURMISE FROM THAT KIND OF, LIKE, 1324 01:12:42,862 --> 01:12:45,565 WHAT THE RELATIONSHIP WAS LIKE >> Reporter: HERE WAS PANKEY 1325 01:12:45,565 --> 01:12:48,835 HIMSELF OFFERING AN ANECDOTE ABOUT HOW POORLY HE TREATED 1326 01:12:48,835 --> 01:12:51,004 ANGELA A STORY THAT WAS AS MEAN AS IT 1327 01:12:51,004 --> 01:12:53,139 WAS GRATUITOUS >> I MEAN, HE VOLUNTEERED THAT 1328 01:12:53,139 --> 01:12:58,578 BELIEVE ME, I DIDN'T ASK HIM THAT QUESTION. 1329 01:12:58,578 --> 01:13:00,747 >> Reporter: A LOT OF PANKEY'S TESTIMONY WASN'T ABOUT 1330 01:13:00,747 --> 01:13:04,684 RESPONDING TO QUESTIONS. IT WAS A STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS 1331 01:13:04,684 --> 01:13:08,288 THAT OFTEN DIDN'T SEEM TO HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE CASE 1332 01:13:08,288 --> 01:13:13,126 AGAINST HIM OR MAKE ANY SENSE. >> I BELIEVE THAT WE ARE LIVING 1333 01:13:13,126 --> 01:13:15,261 IN THE LAST DAYS, AND AFTER THIS LIFETIME, THERE'LL BE A THOUSAND 1334 01:13:15,261 --> 01:13:17,430 YEARS MILLENNIUM >> Reporter: VIORST STEERED 1335 01:13:17,430 --> 01:13:19,632 PANKEY BACK TO THE ALL THE STATEMENTS HE'D MADE ABOUT 1336 01:13:19,632 --> 01:13:24,571 JONELLE, INCLUDING THE LETTERS TO LAW ENFORCEMENT AT THE HEART 1337 01:13:24,571 --> 01:13:26,673 OF THE PROSECUTION'S CASE. HE GAVE PANKEY A CHANCE TO 1338 01:13:26,673 --> 01:13:28,808 EXPLAIN THAT >> AGAIN, WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE 1339 01:13:28,808 --> 01:13:33,179 OF THOSE LETTERS >> THEY THOUGHT THAT I WAS 1340 01:13:33,179 --> 01:13:36,950 CRAZY. SO THE PURPOSE OF MY LETTERS WAS 1341 01:13:36,950 --> 01:13:39,085 TO PROVE THEIR POINT >> Reporter: PANKEY WAS AN 1342 01:13:39,085 --> 01:13:42,322 UNUSUAL WITNESS, TO SAY THE LEAST. 1343 01:13:42,322 --> 01:13:44,457 BUT UNDER CROSS-EXAMINATION, HE CONTINUED TO INSIST HE HAD 1344 01:13:44,457 --> 01:13:47,160 NOTHING TO DO WITH JONELLE'S MURDER 1345 01:13:47,160 --> 01:13:49,863 STILL, THERE WAS ONE FINAL QUESTION D.A. MICHAEL ROURKE 1346 01:13:49,863 --> 01:13:52,565 WANTED THE JURY TO HEAR. >> WHEN YOU SHOT JONELLE 1347 01:13:52,565 --> 01:13:55,268 MATTHEWS IN THE FOREHEAD, WAS SHE BEGGING FOR HER LIFE 1348 01:13:55,268 --> 01:13:57,971 >> NEVER HAPPENED. >> DID YOU LOOK IN HER EYES? 1349 01:13:57,971 --> 01:14:00,173 >> NEVER HAPPENED. >> NO FURTHER QUESTIONS. 1350 01:14:00,173 --> 01:14:03,410 I DIDN'T CARE WHAT HIS ANSWER WAS. 1351 01:14:03,410 --> 01:14:07,714 I WANTED THE JURY TO HAVE THAT IMAGE IN THEIR MIND OF THAT GUN 1352 01:14:07,714 --> 01:14:09,883 BEING POINTED AT THAT LITTLE GIRL'S HEAD. 1353 01:14:09,883 --> 01:14:12,052 >> Reporter: THE JURY WOULD HAVE ITS HANDS FULL TRYING TO FIGURE 1354 01:14:12,052 --> 01:14:16,389 OUT STEVEN PANKEY. DEFENSE ATTORNEY VIORST SAYS HIS 1355 01:14:16,389 --> 01:14:18,725 CLIENT'S UNUSUAL WAYS AND OBSESSION WITH JONELLE MATTHEWS 1356 01:14:18,725 --> 01:14:21,261 DO NOT MAKE HIM A KILLER WHAT IS GOING ON WITH 1357 01:14:21,261 --> 01:14:25,565 STEVE PANKEY >> THE ANSWER IS HE'S A MENTALLY 1358 01:14:25,565 --> 01:14:28,268 ILL PERSON CRAVING ATTENTION THAT'S THE ANSWER THAT I OFFERED 1359 01:14:28,268 --> 01:14:30,437 TO THE JURY, AND THAT'S THE ANSWER THAT I FIRMLY BELIEVE IS 1360 01:14:30,437 --> 01:14:33,707 TRUE >> Reporter: THE PROSECUTION 1361 01:14:33,707 --> 01:14:35,842 CAUTIONED THE JURY NOT TO FALL FOR THAT ARGUMENT. 1362 01:14:35,842 --> 01:14:40,680 >> HE'S NOT SOMEONE THAT HAS A MENTAL HEALTH DISORDER 1363 01:14:40,680 --> 01:14:43,416 HE IS A MASTER MANIPULATOR DON'T LET THIS SELF-PROCLAIMED 1364 01:14:43,416 --> 01:14:47,187 MASTER MANIPULATOR MANIPULATE YOU. 1365 01:14:47,187 --> 01:14:51,858 >> Reporter: AFTER THREE WEEKS OF TESTIMONY, BOTH SIDES WERE 1366 01:14:51,858 --> 01:14:54,227 FEELING CONFIDENT. THE MATTHEWS FAMILY, WHO'D BEEN 1367 01:14:54,227 --> 01:14:59,532 IN COURT EVERY DAY, WEREN'T SURE WHAT TO THINK. 1368 01:14:59,532 --> 01:15:01,801 BUT AS WITH SO MUCH WITH JONELLE'S STORY, IT WAS OUT OF 1369 01:15:01,801 --> 01:15:04,504 JONELLE'S STORY, IT WAS OUT OF THEIR HANDS. 1370 01:15:22,722 --> 01:15:25,959 TRIAL WAS NOW IN THE HANDS OF THE JURORS 1371 01:15:25,959 --> 01:15:29,195 THEY DELIBERATED FOR A DAY -- THEN ANOTHER -- AND ANOTHER -- 1372 01:15:29,195 --> 01:15:32,365 WITH NO VERDICT. >> I THINK THAT WE FINALLY 1373 01:15:32,365 --> 01:15:34,534 REACHED A TIPPING POINT IN DAY TWO WHERE WE'RE THINKING TO 1374 01:15:34,534 --> 01:15:36,336 OURSELVES, "WHAT IS THIS JURY DOING? 1375 01:15:36,336 --> 01:15:40,507 AND WE'RE STARTING TO GET NERVOUS AT THAT POINT. 1376 01:15:40,507 --> 01:15:42,175 >> Reporter: THE JURORS FINALLY CAME BACK, BUT NOT WITH A 1377 01:15:42,175 --> 01:15:45,912 VERDICT. THEY WERE DEADLOCKED 1378 01:15:45,912 --> 01:15:48,081 THE JUDGE DECLARED A MISTRIAL. MICHAEL, HOW MUCH OF A DEPTH 1379 01:15:48,081 --> 01:15:50,183 BOMB IS THAT >> OH, IT WAS HUGE 1380 01:15:50,183 --> 01:15:52,385 WE'RE STANDING THERE THINKING -- AND I KNOW I'M STANDING THERE 1381 01:15:52,385 --> 01:15:54,087 THINKING WE'RE GOING TO DO THIS AGAIN. 1382 01:15:54,087 --> 01:15:56,756 THERE'S NO WAY WE'RE NOT GOING TO TRY THIS CASE AGAIN 1383 01:15:56,756 --> 01:16:00,026 >> Reporter: THE DECISION WAS MADE WITHOUT ANY HESITATION. 1384 01:16:00,026 --> 01:16:03,263 STEVEN PANKEY WOULD FACE A SECOND TRIAL 1385 01:16:03,263 --> 01:16:06,032 WHILE PREPARING FOR IT, PROSECUTORS RECEIVED AN 1386 01:16:06,032 --> 01:16:10,904 INTRIGUING LETTER FROM AN INMATE AT THE WELD COUNTY JAIL, SOMEONE 1387 01:16:10,904 --> 01:16:13,039 NAMED PATRICK CALLAS, THE SAME JAIL WHERE PANKEY WAS BEING 1388 01:16:13,039 --> 01:16:16,810 HELD PROSECUTOR LACEY WELLS 1389 01:16:16,810 --> 01:16:20,747 >> HE TALKED ABOUT THIS RELATIONSHIP HE HAD DEVELOPED 1390 01:16:20,747 --> 01:16:23,383 WITH MR. PANKEY OVER THEIR SHARED, UM, BELIEFS. 1391 01:16:23,383 --> 01:16:27,220 AND IT WAS KIND OF A RELIGIOUS BASED RELATIONSHIP 1392 01:16:27,220 --> 01:16:30,957 THEY WOULD PRAISE GOD TOGETHER >> Reporter: HE ALSO SUGGESTED 1393 01:16:30,957 --> 01:16:34,761 HE HAD SOME INFORMATION. SO DETECTIVE PRILL WENT TO THE 1394 01:16:34,761 --> 01:16:39,065 COUNTY JAIL TO MEET THE INMATE, WHO DESCRIBED A CONVERSATION HE 1395 01:16:39,065 --> 01:16:42,335 HAD WITH PANKEY. >> PANKEY CAME TO THIS INMATE 1396 01:16:42,335 --> 01:16:45,605 AND SOUGHT FORGIVENESS FOR WHAT HE DID TO JONELLE. 1397 01:16:45,605 --> 01:16:48,308 AND THAT WHATEVER IT WAS HE DID TO THAT LITTLE GIRL WAS BETWEEN 1398 01:16:48,308 --> 01:16:49,943 STEVE AND GOD. >> Reporter: SO HE'D BOOKED 1399 01:16:49,943 --> 01:16:51,678 HIMSELF A DAY ON THE WITNESS STAND. 1400 01:16:51,678 --> 01:16:53,747 >> HE DID. OH, YEAH 1401 01:16:53,747 --> 01:16:56,449 >> Reporter: THE JURY WOULD HEAR FROM INMATE CALLAS 1402 01:16:56,449 --> 01:16:59,185 AND THERE WAS ANOTHER IMPORTANT ADDITION TO THE PROSECUTION'S 1403 01:16:59,185 --> 01:17:01,921 WITNESS LIST FOR THE SECOND TRIAL, A WOMAN NAMED 1404 01:17:01,921 --> 01:17:05,158 DEBBIE MOON. WHAT HAPPENED TO DEBBIE MOON 1405 01:17:05,158 --> 01:17:06,760 THIS IS SOMEONE WHO HAD AN INCIDENT WITH PANKEY BEFORE 1406 01:17:06,760 --> 01:17:10,030 JONELLE, RIGHT >> SHE WAS IN A RELATIONSHIP 1407 01:17:10,030 --> 01:17:13,266 WITH HIM BACK IN 1977. THEY WERE MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH 1408 01:17:13,266 --> 01:17:16,036 TOGETHER SHE HAD, UM, COME TO THE 1409 01:17:16,036 --> 01:17:19,105 REALIZATION THAT SHE WANTED TO BREAK UP WITH HIM. 1410 01:17:19,105 --> 01:17:20,874 HE TOOK HER OUT ON THE COUNTY ROADS AND ASSAULTED HER. 1411 01:17:20,874 --> 01:17:25,245 >> Reporter: DEBBIE MOON TOLD POLICE THAT PANKEY HAD RAPED 1412 01:17:25,245 --> 01:17:27,113 HER, BUT SAID WHEN SHE WAS TOLD IT WAS A CASE OF HE SAID/SHE 1413 01:17:27,113 --> 01:17:31,718 SAID, SHE DECIDED NOT TO PRESS CHARGES. 1414 01:17:31,718 --> 01:17:33,887 45 YEARS LATER, SHE STILL STOOD BY HER ALLEGATION. 1415 01:17:33,887 --> 01:17:36,589 AND THE JUDGE DECIDED TO LET HER TESTIFY, OVERRULING A DEFENSE 1416 01:17:36,589 --> 01:17:40,960 OBJECTION. >> WE HAD A BIG ASK OF HER 1417 01:17:40,960 --> 01:17:44,698 SHE HAD LEFT THE STATE OF COLORADO BECAUSE OF MR. PANKEY 1418 01:17:44,698 --> 01:17:46,900 AND HAD NEVER RETURNED >> Reporter: AHA 1419 01:17:46,900 --> 01:17:48,868 >> SHE CAME BACK FOR THE SECOND TRIAL TO BRING JUSTICE FOR 1420 01:17:48,868 --> 01:17:51,237 JONELLE. >> Reporter: STEVEN PANKEY'S 1421 01:17:51,237 --> 01:17:54,240 SECOND MURDER TRIAL BEGAN IN OCTOBER, 2022. 1422 01:17:54,240 --> 01:17:56,710 THE PROSECUTION HAD THOSE TWO NEW WITNESSES, BUT THE HEART OF 1423 01:17:56,710 --> 01:17:58,878 THE CASE REMAINED THE SAME THE STATE WOULD RELY ON PANKEY'S 1424 01:17:58,878 --> 01:18:02,649 OWN STATEMENTS TO PROVE HIS GUILT. 1425 01:18:02,649 --> 01:18:04,818 D.A. ROURKE'S OPENING ARGUMENT HAD A FAMILIAR RING TO IT. 1426 01:18:04,818 --> 01:18:09,122 >> THE DEFENDANT IS THE PERSON THAT POLICE WERE LOOKING FOR FOR 1427 01:18:09,122 --> 01:18:11,858 37 YEARS >> Reporter: PANKEY HAD TWO NEW 1428 01:18:11,858 --> 01:18:14,027 LAWYERS THIS TIME. PUBLIC DEFENDER PETER HARRIS 1429 01:18:14,027 --> 01:18:18,598 USED PRETTY MUCH THE SAME PLAYBOOK FROM THE FIRST TRIAL. 1430 01:18:18,598 --> 01:18:23,737 >> NOT ONLY IS THERE NO DNA. THERE'S NO FINGERPRINTS. 1431 01:18:23,737 --> 01:18:29,642 THERE'S NO MURDER WEAPON THERE IS NO WITNESS. 1432 01:18:29,642 --> 01:18:32,379 >> Reporter: HARRIS TOLD THE JURY THERE WAS STRONG EVIDENCE 1433 01:18:32,379 --> 01:18:36,182 IN THE CASE, BUT NOT AGAINST HIS CLIENT 1434 01:18:36,182 --> 01:18:40,520 IT IMPLICATED NORRIS DRAKE HARRIS CALLED DRAKE THE 1435 01:18:40,520 --> 01:18:44,624 "ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM. >> THERE IS EVIDENCE TYING HIM 1436 01:18:44,624 --> 01:18:47,560 TO THIS CRIME. THERE IS EVIDENCE ABOUT 1437 01:18:47,560 --> 01:18:50,263 OPPORTUNITY FOR HIM TO HAVE COMMITTED THE CRIME. 1438 01:18:50,263 --> 01:18:53,566 >> Reporter: THE STATE'S STAR WITNESS WAS STILL PANKEY'S 1439 01:18:53,566 --> 01:18:56,836 EX-WIFE ANGELA BUT EVEN THOUGH DEBBIE MOON"S 1440 01:18:56,836 --> 01:19:00,407 STORY WAS ABOUT AN INCIDENT THAT HAPPENED YEARS BEFORE JONELLE 1441 01:19:00,407 --> 01:19:05,011 WAS KILLED, PROSECUTORS THOUGHT HER TESTIMONY WAS PIVOTAL. 1442 01:19:05,011 --> 01:19:07,180 DID DEBBIE MOON GIVE THE JURY A DIFFERENT VIEW OF THE ACCUSED 1443 01:19:07,180 --> 01:19:09,382 AND THAT HE'S NOT JUST THE GOOFBALL DOWN ON MAIN STREET, 1444 01:19:09,382 --> 01:19:12,419 BUT HE COULD BE A VIOLENT CHARACTER? 1445 01:19:12,419 --> 01:19:14,254 >> SHE, I THINK, COMPLETED THE INCOMPLETE PICTURE THAT THE JURY 1446 01:19:14,254 --> 01:19:18,591 HAD PREVIOUSLY HAD OF THE DEFENDANT. 1447 01:19:18,591 --> 01:19:20,727 THERE WAS THAT ONE ADDITIONAL PIECE THAT REALLY GAVE THE JURY 1448 01:19:20,727 --> 01:19:28,301 SOME INSIGHT INTO WHO THIS GUY REALLY IS. 1449 01:19:28,301 --> 01:19:30,403 >> Reporter: THERE WAS A MOMENT DURING A BREAK IN DEBBIE'S 1450 01:19:30,403 --> 01:19:32,105 TESTIMONY THAT PROSECUTOR WELLS SAYS SHE'LL NEVER FORGET 1451 01:19:32,105 --> 01:19:34,274 >> SHE STARES AT MR. PANKEY. >> Reporter: HMM 1452 01:19:34,274 --> 01:19:36,376 >> AND SHE STARES AT HIM UNTIL HE LOOKS AWAY FIRST. 1453 01:19:36,376 --> 01:19:38,611 >> Reporter: DEB MOON DOES >> DEB MOON DOES 1454 01:19:38,611 --> 01:19:40,847 AND I THINK THAT -- THAT WAS HER SAYING, "I'M HERE GIVING JONELLE 1455 01:19:40,847 --> 01:19:42,382 A VOICE. AND HE TURNED AWAY IN SHAME. 1456 01:19:42,382 --> 01:19:46,219 >> Reporter: PANKEY DECIDED NOT TO TAKE THE STAND, BUT HE BECAME 1457 01:19:46,219 --> 01:19:48,955 A SURPRISE WITNESS FOR THE STATE ANYWAY WHEN THE JUDGE ALLOWED 1458 01:19:48,955 --> 01:19:52,158 PROSECUTORS TO PLAY HIS TESTIMONY FROM THE FIRST TRIAL 1459 01:19:52,158 --> 01:19:54,461 FOR THE JURY >> I HAD TOLD SO MANY LIES OVER 1460 01:19:54,461 --> 01:19:57,564 THE YEARS. >> Reporter: WHEN THE JAILHOUSE 1461 01:19:57,564 --> 01:20:00,734 INFORMANT PATRICK CALLAS TESTIFIED, HE SAID HE ASKED 1462 01:20:00,734 --> 01:20:03,903 PANKEY IF HE KILLED THE "LITTLE GIRL" HE WAS TALKING ABOUT 1463 01:20:03,903 --> 01:20:07,307 HE SAID PANKEY NODDED YES AND THEN PRAYED FOR FORGIVENESS. 1464 01:20:07,307 --> 01:20:13,780 THE D.A. THOUGHT THAT TESTIMONY WAS SO COMPELLING, HE USED THE 1465 01:20:13,780 --> 01:20:15,949 INFORMANT'S WORDS TO CONCLUDE HIS CLOSING ARGUMENT 1466 01:20:15,949 --> 01:20:18,485 >> LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE DEFENDANT DID CONFESS TO THIS 1467 01:20:18,485 --> 01:20:22,455 CRIME, THROUGH PATRICK CALLAS. "PAT, I NEED FORGIVENESS." 1468 01:20:22,455 --> 01:20:28,962 "FOR WHAT? "FOR THAT LITTLE GIRL. 1469 01:20:28,962 --> 01:20:33,867 "DID YOU KILL HER? "THAT"S BETWEEN ME AND GOD." 1470 01:20:33,867 --> 01:20:36,036 HE LOWERED HIS HEAD AND HE NODDED 1471 01:20:36,036 --> 01:20:44,110 >> Reporter: DEFENSE ATTORNEY JESSICA BRAZIL MADE THE CLOSING 1472 01:20:44,110 --> 01:20:47,914 ARGUMENTS FOR PANKEY >> MR. PANKEY SEEKS ATTENTION, 1473 01:20:47,914 --> 01:20:50,717 IS PARANOID ABOUT LAW ENFORCEMENT. 1474 01:20:50,717 --> 01:20:57,624 EVERYONE HAS SOMEONE LIKE THAT IN THEIR LIFE WHERE THEY'RE JUST 1475 01:20:57,624 --> 01:21:00,694 A LITTLE OFF THAT DOESN'T MAKE THEM A 1476 01:21:00,694 --> 01:21:01,628 MURDERER BY ANY MEANS. >> Reporter: THIS JURY 1477 01:21:01,628 --> 01:21:03,563 DELIBERATED FOR LESS THAN TWO DAYS AND THIS TIME REACHED A 1478 01:21:03,563 --> 01:21:07,367 DECISION THE JUDGE READ THE VERDICT 1479 01:21:07,367 --> 01:21:09,502 >> WE, THE JURY, FIND THE STEVEN DANA PANKEY GUILTY OF 1480 01:21:09,502 --> 01:21:13,273 MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE MURDER, FELONY MURDER. 1481 01:21:13,273 --> 01:21:16,076 >> Reporter: GUILTY OF FIRST-DEGREE MURDER. 1482 01:21:16,076 --> 01:21:21,414 >> WHAT A MOMENT, I MEAN, JUST KNOWING WE GOT THE MATTHEWS SOME 1483 01:21:21,414 --> 01:21:28,455 CLOSURE IN THIS LIFELONG SAGA THEY'VE BEEN THROUGH AND -- AND 1484 01:21:28,455 --> 01:21:30,090 GOTTEN SOME JUSTICE FOR THE CITY OF GREELEY AND OUR COMMUNITY 1485 01:21:30,090 --> 01:21:32,092 >> Reporter: DETECTIVE PRILL WAS SITTING AT THE PROSECUTION TABLE 1486 01:21:32,092 --> 01:21:33,960 WHEN THE VERDICT WAS ANNOUNCED >> YOU GOT TO KEEP A STRAIGHT 1487 01:21:33,960 --> 01:21:37,130 FACE, NOT REACT TO THE TEARS AS THEY START ERUPTING BEHIND US. 1488 01:21:37,130 --> 01:21:39,299 WE FOUND JONELLE WE WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO 1489 01:21:39,299 --> 01:21:45,238 WE IDENTIFIED A SUSPECT AND ARRESTED HIM 1490 01:21:45,238 --> 01:21:50,110 THAT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN JUST AMAZING TO GET TO THE -- TO 1491 01:21:50,110 --> 01:21:52,278 THAT FINAL THIRD PART. >> I MEAN, IT STILL DOESN'T 1492 01:21:52,278 --> 01:21:55,515 BRING JONELLE BACK AND, UM, IT'S STILL SOMETHING 1493 01:21:55,515 --> 01:21:58,251 HORRIFIC HAPPENED TO OUR FAMILY. BUT HAVING EARTHLY JUSTICE AND 1494 01:21:58,251 --> 01:21:59,919 CLOSURE IS PRICELESS, AND IT FEELS REALLY GOOD. 1495 01:21:59,919 --> 01:22:01,521 >> Reporter: THERE REALLY IS VALUE TO THAT? 1496 01:22:01,521 --> 01:22:03,656 >> AMAZING >> Reporter: BEFORE SENTENCING, 1497 01:22:03,656 --> 01:22:08,495 WITH JONELLE'S CONVICTED KILLER JUST FEET AWAY, THE MATTHEWS 1498 01:22:08,495 --> 01:22:11,197 FAMILY WAS GIVEN A CHANCE TO SPEAK. 1499 01:22:11,197 --> 01:22:13,900 >> THIS CRIME HAS HAUNTED OUR FAMILY ALL THESE YEARS 1500 01:22:13,900 --> 01:22:21,074 I TOLD HIM, YOU KNOW, HE CLAIMS TO BE A CHRISTIAN. 1501 01:22:21,074 --> 01:22:24,077 AND I SAID, "BUT YOUR LIFE DOESN'T SHOW THAT. 1502 01:22:24,077 --> 01:22:26,980 >> Reporter: GLORIA MATTHEWS TENDERLY REMEMBERED HER YOUNGER 1503 01:22:26,980 --> 01:22:29,683 DAUGHTER >> AS MOM, I REMEMBER MUCH 1504 01:22:29,683 --> 01:22:34,554 YES, SHE'S FEISTY. YES, SHE'S OPINIONATED 1505 01:22:34,554 --> 01:22:38,324 BUT SHE'S ALSO TENDERHEARTED, SENSITIVE, AND LOVING. 1506 01:22:38,324 --> 01:22:42,095 >> Reporter: THE JUDGE HANDED DOWN A LIFE SENTENCE WITH A 1507 01:22:42,095 --> 01:22:44,264 CHANCE FOR PAROLE AFTER 20 YEARS, THE JUSTICE SYSTEM"S 1508 01:22:44,264 --> 01:22:47,467 FINAL ANSWER TO THE CRUEL AND SENSELESS MURDER OF 1509 01:22:47,467 --> 01:22:50,737 JONELLE MATTHEWS JIM AND GLORIA WERE GRATEFUL, 1510 01:22:50,737 --> 01:22:53,440 BUT STILL THINK STEVEN PANKEY HAS A LOT TO ANSWER FOR. 1511 01:22:53,440 --> 01:22:56,743 GLORIA, YOU'RE A CHRISTIAN CAN YOU FORGIVE HIM? 1512 01:22:56,743 --> 01:23:03,750 >> NO. >> WE CAN FORGIVE HIM, BUT WE 1513 01:23:03,750 --> 01:23:06,486 CAN'T FORGIVE WHAT HE DID. THERE'S A DIFFERENCE IN -- IN MY 1514 01:23:06,486 --> 01:23:14,060 MIND >> I CAN'T FORGIVE HIM 1515 01:23:14,060 --> 01:23:18,932 HE SHOT OUR DAUGHTER OTHER CHRISTIANS SAY THAT I NEED 1516 01:23:18,932 --> 01:23:23,837 TO FORGIVE HIM, BUT HOW CAN YOU FORGIVE EVIL 1517 01:23:23,837 --> 01:23:28,908 >>> THAT'S ALL FOR THIS EDITION OF "DATELINE." 1518 01:23:28,908 --> 01:23:34,114 WE'LL SEE YOU AGAIN NEXT FRIDAY AT 9:00, 8:00 CENTRAL. 1519 01:23:34,114 --> 01:23:38,918 AND, OF COURSE, I'LL SEE YOU EACH WEEKNIGHT FOR "NBC NIGHTLY 1520 01:23:38,918 --> 01:23:40,553 NEWS." I'M LESTER HOLT.