1 00:00:11,102 --> 00:00:17,068 >> IT'S NEVER DULL IN PALM BEACH COUNTY. 2 00:00:17,103 --> 00:00:21,068 WE HAVE SOME OF THE MOST FAMOUS PEOPLE IN THE COUNTRY OR 3 00:00:21,103 --> 00:00:26,896 THE WORLD LIVING HERE IN OUR BACKYARD. 4 00:00:26,931 --> 00:00:28,033 >> THIS IS MY COUNTY. 5 00:00:28,068 --> 00:00:29,033 THIS IS MY TOWN. 6 00:00:29,068 --> 00:00:37,033 AND CATCHING CRIMINALS, I ENJOY IT. 7 00:00:37,067 --> 00:00:41,033 >> THIS CASE BEGAN BACK IN MARCH OF 2020. 8 00:00:41,067 --> 00:00:45,033 >> THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC SHUTS DOWN SCHOOLS, SPORTING 9 00:00:45,067 --> 00:00:48,344 EVENTS AND BUSINESSES. 10 00:00:48,378 --> 00:00:51,206 >> AT THE TIME, EVERYONE WAS PREOCCUPIED WITH THE 11 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:51,758 CORONAVIRUS. 12 00:00:51,792 --> 00:00:56,826 LOCKDOWNS HAD STARTED. 13 00:00:56,862 --> 00:01:01,103 GRETCHEN ANTHONY WAS A RESIDENT OF A WELL-TO-DO COMMUNITY IN 14 00:01:01,137 --> 00:01:06,965 JUPITER, FLORIDA, RIGHT HERE IN PALM BEACH COUNTY. 15 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:09,310 >> I MET DAVID AND GRETCHEN ANTHONY SEVERAL YEARS AGO AT A 16 00:01:09,343 --> 00:01:13,171 LOCAL GYM HERE. 17 00:01:13,206 --> 00:01:16,103 THE FIRST THING THAT YOU NOTICED ABOUT HER, JUST BIG, BLUE EYES, 18 00:01:16,137 --> 00:01:25,000 AND A GIANT SMILE, BLONDE HAIR, TANNED, ATHLETIC. 19 00:01:25,033 --> 00:01:28,103 >> DAVID'S A VERY ATTRACTIVE MAN, VERY CHARMING. 20 00:01:28,137 --> 00:01:32,000 HE HAD A BIG SMILE, AS WELL. 21 00:01:32,033 --> 00:01:39,516 THERE WAS MAGIC THERE, AND THE ENERGY BETWEEN THEM WAS AMAZING. 22 00:01:39,551 --> 00:01:45,103 >> LOCAL OFFICIALS ISSUED AN ORDER NOT TO LEAVE YOUR HOME 23 00:01:45,137 --> 00:01:50,655 UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY. 24 00:01:50,688 --> 00:01:53,171 >> GRETCHEN ANTHONY STARTS TO SEND TEXT MESSAGES TO FRIENDS 25 00:01:53,206 --> 00:01:57,343 AND FAMILY MEMBERS STATING THAT SHE HAS BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH THE 26 00:01:57,378 --> 00:02:01,206 CORONAVIRUS. 27 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:04,171 AND SHE DESCRIBES IT AS BEING AN ACUTE CASE. 28 00:02:04,206 --> 00:02:05,206 >> Reporter: A SERIOUS CASE? 29 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:10,171 >> YES. 30 00:02:10,205 --> 00:02:11,171 THEY'RE VERY CONCERNED. 31 00:02:11,205 --> 00:02:15,310 THEY'VE ONLY TALKED TO HER VIA TEXT. 32 00:02:15,343 --> 00:02:18,240 NO ONE EVER SPOKE WITH GRETCHEN ON THE PHONE, AND SHE NEVER 33 00:02:18,275 --> 00:02:19,103 ANSWERED HER PHONE. 34 00:02:19,137 --> 00:02:20,343 >> Reporter: IT WOULD GO TO VOICEMAIL? 35 00:02:20,378 --> 00:02:24,343 >> YES. 36 00:02:24,378 --> 00:02:27,310 SO EFFORTS WERE MADE TO SPEAK WITH HER SPOUSE. 37 00:02:27,343 --> 00:02:31,310 >> Reporter: SO, THERE'S A DUAL TRACK HERE-- WHERE IS 38 00:02:31,343 --> 00:02:35,033 GRETCHEN ANTHONY, AND WHERE IS HER HUSBAND, DAVID ANTHONY? 39 00:02:35,067 --> 00:02:36,378 >> YES. 40 00:02:36,413 --> 00:02:38,965 NEITHER ONE CAN BE FOUND. 41 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:40,343 >> POLICE DID A WELFARE CHECK OF GRETCHEN ANTHONY. 42 00:02:40,378 --> 00:02:44,343 [ KNOCKING] AND WHAT THEY LEARNED WAS 43 00:02:44,378 --> 00:02:48,033 DISTURBING. 44 00:02:48,067 --> 00:02:51,378 >> SO, THIS IS WHERE THE INVESTIGATION BEGAN. 45 00:02:51,413 --> 00:02:53,826 INVESTIGATORS WERE APPROACHED BY A NEIGHBOR. 46 00:02:53,861 --> 00:02:57,378 SHE HEARD A BLOOD-CURDLING SCREAM. 47 00:02:57,413 --> 00:03:03,378 >> SOMETHING HORRIBLY NEFARIOUS HAD HAPPENED. 48 00:03:03,413 --> 00:03:07,205 >> THIS CASE REALLY HIT DIFFERENTLY. 49 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:11,240 I MEAN, WE ARE TALKING ABOUT SOMEONE WHO IS A MOTHER, A 50 00:03:11,275 --> 00:03:14,171 DAUGHTER, A SISTER, A FRIEND. 51 00:03:14,205 --> 00:03:20,240 ALL I WANTED TO DO WAS TO BE ABLE TO FIND HER, AND I WANTED 52 00:03:20,275 --> 00:03:20,896 TO FIND HER ALIVE. 53 00:03:20,931 --> 00:03:24,413 >> AND SO, THE CHASE WAS ON. 54 00:03:27,413 --> 00:03:32,206 Captioning sponsored by CBS 55 00:04:14,310 --> 00:04:17,723 >> Reporter: BACK IN MARCH 2020, FRIENDS AND FAMILY OF GRETCHEN 56 00:04:17,757 --> 00:04:22,310 ANTHONY WERE ALARMED WHEN THEY BEGAN RECEIVING TEXTS FROM HER, 57 00:04:22,343 --> 00:04:25,067 SAYING SHE HAD TESTED POSITIVE FOR CORONAVIRUS. 58 00:04:25,103 --> 00:04:27,516 >> YOU KNOW, THE NEWS IS SAYING IT'S SERIOUS. 59 00:04:27,550 --> 00:04:30,896 >> THE TOWN OF PALM BEACH ANNOUNCED A STATE OF EMERGENCY. 60 00:04:30,930 --> 00:04:33,930 >> AND THEN, ALL OF A SUDDEN, NUMBERS ARE BEING REPORTED AND 61 00:04:33,965 --> 00:04:35,103 PEOPLE ARE DYING. 62 00:04:35,137 --> 00:04:37,274 >> THE NUMBER OF CONFIRMED CASES CONTINUES TO GROW... 63 00:04:37,310 --> 00:04:40,274 >> Reporter: IT WAS HARD FOR GRETCHEN ANTHONY'S FRIENDS, LIKE 64 00:04:40,310 --> 00:04:44,274 KELLY HANNA, TO PICTURE HER DYING OF ANYTHING,MUCH LESS 65 00:04:44,310 --> 00:04:47,896 THIS FRIGHTENING VIRUS. 66 00:04:47,930 --> 00:04:50,896 AT 51 YEARS OLD, GRETCHEN WAS A PICTURE OF FITNESS. 67 00:04:50,930 --> 00:04:52,379 >> SHE WORKED OUT AT THE GYM VERY HARD. 68 00:04:52,413 --> 00:04:55,274 SHE TOOK HER HEALTH VERY SERIOUSLY. 69 00:04:55,310 --> 00:05:00,067 GRETCHEN IS SOMEONE WHO IS TREMENDOUSLY HEART-CENTERED. 70 00:05:00,103 --> 00:05:06,033 SHE'S JUST RADIANT AND JUST A VERY CARING, BEAUTIFUL SPIRIT. 71 00:05:06,067 --> 00:05:08,274 >> Reporter: BUT ABOVE ALL ELSE, SHE WAS A DEVOTED MOTHER TO HER 72 00:05:08,310 --> 00:05:11,067 12-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER. 73 00:05:11,103 --> 00:05:13,274 GRETCHEN WAS RAISING HER CHILD IN THIS HOUSE IN JUPITER, 74 00:05:13,310 --> 00:05:18,654 FLORIDA, WHILE SHARING CUSTODY WITH AN EX-HUSBAND. 75 00:05:18,689 --> 00:05:22,343 >> GRETCHEN'S DAUGHTER WAS HER WORLD. 76 00:05:22,379 --> 00:05:23,620 SHE WAS EVERYTHING TO HER. 77 00:05:23,654 --> 00:05:27,274 >> Reporter: CHRICHET MIXON, AN ASSISTANT STATE'S ATTORNEY FOR 78 00:05:27,310 --> 00:05:31,343 PALM BEACH COUNTY, GOT INVOLVED IN GRETCHEN'S CASE EARLY ON. 79 00:05:31,379 --> 00:05:33,896 >> THERE WAS NOTHING THAT GRETCHEN WOULDN'T DO FOR HER 80 00:05:33,930 --> 00:05:35,343 DAUGHTER. 81 00:05:35,379 --> 00:05:39,137 SHE HATED BEING AWAY FROM HER. 82 00:05:39,172 --> 00:05:42,310 >> Reporter: AFTER HER DIVORCE, FRIENDS SAY GRETCHEN FELL IN 83 00:05:42,343 --> 00:05:43,379 LOVE WITH DAVID ANTHONY. 84 00:05:43,413 --> 00:05:47,310 THE TWO MET AT A LOCAL GYM WHERE HE WAS A TRAINER. 85 00:05:47,343 --> 00:05:49,206 >> THIS IS DAVID ANTHONY HERE. 86 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:51,413 DON'T FORGET THE 90-MINUTE WORKOUT COMING THIS SUNDAY. 87 00:05:51,447 --> 00:05:54,274 ♪ ♪ >> Reporter: WAS HE KIND OF A 88 00:05:54,310 --> 00:05:55,310 ROCK STAR AT THE GYM? 89 00:05:55,343 --> 00:05:59,310 >> OH, HE WAS THE YOUNG, HOT TRAINER, FOR SURE. 90 00:05:59,343 --> 00:06:00,516 >> HE HAS A HUGE PRESENCE. 91 00:06:00,550 --> 00:06:03,343 >> Reporter: DAVID WAS A POPULAR TRAINER AT A GYM OWNED BY 92 00:06:03,379 --> 00:06:05,310 TABITHA HOPKINS. 93 00:06:05,343 --> 00:06:06,310 >> NICE JOB, GUYS. 94 00:06:06,343 --> 00:06:07,482 LOVING YOUR HUSTLE. 95 00:06:07,516 --> 00:06:11,343 >> Reporter: SHE SAYS HE BROUGHT IN LOTS OF NEW MEMBERS. 96 00:06:11,379 --> 00:06:15,033 >> HE WAS INTELLIGENT, WELL-SPOKEN. 97 00:06:15,067 --> 00:06:17,413 HE WAS CHARMING. 98 00:06:17,447 --> 00:06:19,826 >> SHE DIDN'T HAVE TO TELL ANYBODY THAT THERE WAS AN 99 00:06:19,862 --> 00:06:20,447 ATTRACTION THERE. 100 00:06:20,481 --> 00:06:21,413 THERE WAS ABSOLUTE SPARKS. 101 00:06:21,447 --> 00:06:25,310 THERE WAS MAGIC THERE, NO QUESTION ABOUT IT. 102 00:06:25,343 --> 00:06:28,343 >> Reporter: THAT ATTRACTION SOON LED TO THE COUPLE GETTING 103 00:06:28,379 --> 00:06:34,033 MARRIED AT AN ELVIS CHAPEL IN LAS VEGAS IN 2015. 104 00:06:34,067 --> 00:06:36,274 >> THEY SEEMED LIKE THE HAPPIEST COUPLE EVER. 105 00:06:36,310 --> 00:06:37,447 >> Reporter: DID YOU FEEL LIKE SHE'D FOUND THE MAN OF HER 106 00:06:37,481 --> 00:06:40,067 DREAMS? 107 00:06:40,103 --> 00:06:41,240 >> ABSOLUTELY. 108 00:06:41,274 --> 00:06:47,033 DAVID, BY ALL APPEARANCES, WAS A PHENOMENAL STEP-PARENT. 109 00:06:47,067 --> 00:06:48,413 SHE CALLED HIM "BONUS DAD."” >> Reporter: BUT FRIENDS SAY 110 00:06:48,447 --> 00:06:52,723 THE COUPLE'S DREAM LIFE CAME APART IN LATE 2019 WHEN 111 00:06:52,757 --> 00:06:56,343 THEY SEPARATED AND DAVID MOVED OUT OF THEIR HOME. 112 00:06:56,379 --> 00:07:00,343 >> AND IT KIND OF SOUNDED LIKE THEY BOTH LOST THEMSELVES A 113 00:07:00,379 --> 00:07:04,067 LITTLE BIT, AND THEY WERE SEARCHING MORE FOR THEIR OWN 114 00:07:04,103 --> 00:07:05,310 SELF-IDENTITY. 115 00:07:05,343 --> 00:07:07,689 >> Reporter: NOW, GRETCHEN'S INNER CIRCLE WAS DEALING WITH A 116 00:07:07,723 --> 00:07:11,793 POTENTIAL LIFE OR DEATH SITUATION. 117 00:07:11,826 --> 00:07:13,343 >> AND THEN, ALL OF A SUDDEN, THERE'S BIZARRE CELL PHONE 118 00:07:13,379 --> 00:07:19,000 MESSAGES. 119 00:07:19,033 --> 00:07:23,033 >> Reporter: OVER SEVERAL DAYS, STARTING ON MARCH 23, FRIENDS 120 00:07:23,067 --> 00:07:25,413 AND FAMILY RECEIVED A SERIES OF TEXTS FROM GRETCHEN, WHO SAID 121 00:07:25,447 --> 00:07:28,413 SHE WAS AT HOME IN QUARANTINE. 122 00:07:28,447 --> 00:07:31,413 SHE SENT THIS ONE TO HER DAUGHTER, WHO WAS STAYING WITH 123 00:07:31,447 --> 00:07:35,862 HER EX-HUSBAND."“ GOOD MORNING. 124 00:07:35,896 --> 00:07:39,793 TESTED POSITIVE FOR CORONAVIRUS EARLY THIS MORNING. 125 00:07:39,826 --> 00:07:43,379 THAT MEANS I HAVE TO STAY HERE FOR AT LEAST TWO WEEKS."” 126 00:07:43,413 --> 00:07:44,654 HER DAUGHTER REPLIED, "“OKAY. 127 00:07:44,689 --> 00:07:49,413 I REALLY HOPE YOU GET BETTER."” CHRICHET MIXON SAYS THERE WERE 128 00:07:49,447 --> 00:07:55,310 MULTIPLE TEXTS FROM GRETCHEN'S PHONE OVER THE NEXT THREE DAYS, 129 00:07:55,343 --> 00:07:58,067 DESCRIBING HER DETERIORATING CONDITION. 130 00:07:58,103 --> 00:08:00,447 >> "“I CONSULTED WITH THE VIRUS SCREENING HOTLINE AND ADMITTED 131 00:08:00,482 --> 00:08:03,689 MYSELF INTO THE JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER'S EMERGENCY ROOM." 132 00:08:03,723 --> 00:08:05,274 >> Reporter: SO, THIS IS SERIOUS STUFF. 133 00:08:05,310 --> 00:08:07,516 WHAT DOES THE FAMILY DO WITH THESE TEXTS? 134 00:08:07,550 --> 00:08:10,516 >> THE FAMILY FINDS THE TEXT MESSAGES THAT THEY'RE GETTING 135 00:08:10,550 --> 00:08:14,516 FROM GRETCHEN TO BE WORRISOME, ALARMING. 136 00:08:14,550 --> 00:08:19,550 >> Reporter: WHAT DISTURBED EVERYONE RECEIVING THESE TEXTS 137 00:08:19,586 --> 00:08:23,550 IS THAT NO ONE, NOT EVEN GRETCHEN'S DAUGHTER, HAD 138 00:08:23,586 --> 00:08:24,723 RECEIVED A PHONE CALL FROM HER. 139 00:08:24,757 --> 00:08:29,620 >> THAT JUST-- THERE'S SO MANY THINGS THAT ARE SO WRONG. 140 00:08:29,654 --> 00:08:33,551 >> Reporter: INCLUDING THESE TEXTS, CLAIMING THAT SHE'D BEEN 141 00:08:33,586 --> 00:08:37,517 TRANSFERRED TO AN "“OFF-SITE MEDICAL FACILITY BEING RUN 142 00:08:37,551 --> 00:08:42,551 DIRECTLY BY THE C.D.C."” IN BELLE GLADE, MORE THAN HOUR AWAY 143 00:08:42,586 --> 00:08:43,447 IN CENTRAL FLORIDA. 144 00:08:43,481 --> 00:08:44,586 BUT THERE'S A PROBLEM. 145 00:08:44,620 --> 00:08:48,413 >> THERE IS NO C.D.C. FACILITY IN BELLE GLADE, FLORIDA. 146 00:08:48,447 --> 00:08:52,447 >> Reporter: SO, THIS TEXT MESSAGE ALLEGEDLY FROM 147 00:08:52,481 --> 00:08:56,447 GRETCHEN'S OWN PHONE APPARENTLY WAS NOT SENT BY GRETCHEN. 148 00:08:56,481 --> 00:09:00,447 >> IT DEFINITELY WAS NOT SENT BY GRETCHEN. 149 00:09:00,481 --> 00:09:04,033 >> Reporter: DAVE ARONBERG, THE STATE ATTORNEY FOR PALM BEACH 150 00:09:04,067 --> 00:09:05,274 COUNTY, AGREES. 151 00:09:05,309 --> 00:09:07,620 >> CLEARLY, WHOEVER HAD SENT THOSE TEXT MESSAGES WERE TRYING 152 00:09:07,654 --> 00:09:12,413 TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS PANDEMIC, OF THE FEAR OUT THERE, 153 00:09:12,447 --> 00:09:13,654 TRYING TO EXPLOIT THE SITUATION. 154 00:09:13,688 --> 00:09:16,413 >> SO, THINGS WERE NOT ADDING UP, AND THINGS WERE NOT ADDING 155 00:09:16,447 --> 00:09:19,033 UP VERY QUICKLY. 156 00:09:19,067 --> 00:09:23,793 >> THE FAMILY, ALONG WITH FRIENDS, MADE THE DECISION TO 157 00:09:23,826 --> 00:09:27,895 REACH OUT TO LAW ENFORCEMENT TO DO A WELFARE CHECK ON GRETCHEN 158 00:09:27,931 --> 00:09:28,965 ANTHONY. 159 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:32,517 >> I NEED TO GET HELP FOR MY FRIEND THAT'S MISSING. 160 00:09:32,551 --> 00:09:36,481 I DON'T KNOW HOW TO PUT INTO WORDS, BUT I KNOW SHE'S IN VERY 161 00:09:36,517 --> 00:09:37,724 GRAVE DANGER RIGHT NOW. 162 00:09:37,758 --> 00:09:43,309 >> Reporter: JUPITER POLICE DETECTIVE JARED KENERSON CAUGHT 163 00:09:43,344 --> 00:09:44,447 THE CASE ON THE NIGHT SHIFT. 164 00:09:44,481 --> 00:09:47,724 >> WE REACH OUT TO THE JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER, AND THEY 165 00:09:47,758 --> 00:09:49,517 DID NOT HAVE A RECORD OF GRETCHEN ANTHONY BEING A 166 00:09:49,551 --> 00:09:53,724 PATIENT AT THEIR FACILITY DURING THAT TIME PERIOD. 167 00:09:53,758 --> 00:09:56,033 >> Reporter: SO, ALL OF A SUDDEN, THIS IS GETTING SERIOUS? 168 00:09:56,067 --> 00:09:59,826 >> YEAH, THAT'S A HUGE CONCERN OF MINE. 169 00:09:59,861 --> 00:10:02,895 >> Reporter: DESPERATE FOR CLUES, POLICE CHECKED OUT THE 170 00:10:02,931 --> 00:10:04,551 JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER'S PARKING LOT. 171 00:10:04,586 --> 00:10:07,172 THEY HIT PAY DIRT. 172 00:10:07,206 --> 00:10:10,586 >> GRETCHEN ANTHONY'S MINI COOPER WAS RECOVERED 173 00:10:10,620 --> 00:10:13,517 IN THE PARKING LOT OF JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER. 174 00:10:13,551 --> 00:10:16,895 >> Reporter: DETECTIVE KENERSON SAYS WHAT THEY FOUND INSIDE 175 00:10:16,931 --> 00:10:23,240 GRETCHEN'S CAR WAS WORRISOME; HER PURSE, SITTING IN PLAIN 176 00:10:23,274 --> 00:10:24,481 SIGHT. 177 00:10:24,517 --> 00:10:28,551 >> I THINK A WOMAN NORMALLY CARRIES THEIR PURSE WITH THEM. 178 00:10:28,586 --> 00:10:31,551 >> Reporter: IF GRETCHEN ANTHONY IS NOT IN A FACILITY, IN A 179 00:10:31,586 --> 00:10:36,551 HOSPITAL ANYWHERE, BEING TREATED FOR COVID, IF SHE DOESN'T HAVE 180 00:10:36,586 --> 00:10:37,586 COVID, THEN WHERE IS GRETCHEN? 181 00:10:37,620 --> 00:10:40,586 >> THAT WAS THE MILLION-DOLLAR QUESTION. 182 00:10:40,620 --> 00:10:42,033 NO ONE KNEW WHERE GRETCHEN WAS. 183 00:11:03,724 --> 00:11:04,688 [ BIRDS CHIRPING] >> Reporter: FIVE DAYS HAD 184 00:11:04,724 --> 00:11:07,793 PASSED SINCE ANYONE HAD SEEN GRETCHEN ANTHONY. 185 00:11:07,826 --> 00:11:11,517 JUPITER POLICE INVESTIGATORS WERE DETERMINED TO FIND HER, 186 00:11:11,551 --> 00:11:13,758 SO THEY CANVASSED HER NEIGHBORHOOD WEARING BODY 187 00:11:13,793 --> 00:11:16,206 CAMERAS, LOOKING FOR CLUES. 188 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:19,758 [ RADIO CHATTER] [ KNOCKING] 189 00:11:19,793 --> 00:11:23,379 THEY WERE STUNNED WHEN A RESIDENT APPROACHED THEM, TO 190 00:11:23,413 --> 00:11:28,274 SAY THAT EARLY ON THE MORNING OF SATURDAY, MARCH 21, SHE HEARD 191 00:11:28,309 --> 00:11:29,413 SOMETHING TERRIFYING. 192 00:11:29,447 --> 00:11:34,620 >> I HEARD A REALLY SERIOUS WOMAN'S SCREAM, LIKE, JUST 193 00:11:34,654 --> 00:11:36,240 SCREAMING LIKE SHE WAS BEING ATTACKED. 194 00:11:36,274 --> 00:11:37,861 AND THEN, I HEARD HER SCREAM "NO." 195 00:11:37,895 --> 00:11:40,758 AND THEN, I HEARD SOMETHING ABOUT "IT HURTS, STOP IT." 196 00:11:40,793 --> 00:11:43,136 THE SCREAM WAS REALLY SERIOUS. 197 00:11:43,172 --> 00:11:44,758 >> Reporter: DID THIS WOMAN CALL 911? 198 00:11:44,793 --> 00:11:47,033 >> SHE DID NOT. 199 00:11:47,067 --> 00:11:48,965 SOME PEOPLE ARE APPREHENSIVE ABOUT CALLING THE POLICE. 200 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:51,517 >> Reporter: WHEN YOU HEARD THAT STORY, WHAT ARE YOU THINKING? 201 00:11:51,551 --> 00:11:55,379 >> I'M THINKING THAT SOMETHING DEFINITELY HAPPENED AT GRETCHEN 202 00:11:55,413 --> 00:11:56,620 ANTHONY'S HOME SATURDAY MORNING. 203 00:11:56,654 --> 00:12:00,033 >> Reporter: OFFICERS BECAME EVEN MORE CONCERNED WHEN ANOTHER 204 00:12:00,067 --> 00:12:03,620 NEIGHBOR TOLD THEM HE LATER NOTICED A SOAPY SUBSTANCE 205 00:12:03,654 --> 00:12:07,517 FLOWING FROM UNDERNEATH GRETCHEN'S GARAGE DOOR. 206 00:12:07,551 --> 00:12:08,240 SOMEBODY WAS IN THERE, CLEANING. 207 00:12:08,274 --> 00:12:10,965 >> THAT'S WHAT I TAKE FROM THAT. 208 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:13,206 WE DISCOVERED THAT HER ENTRANCE DOOR, THAT LEADS FROM HER PATIO 209 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:16,758 INTO HER GARAGE, THAT DOOR WAS LOCKED, AND IT HAD THE KEY 210 00:12:16,793 --> 00:12:18,620 BROKEN OFF IN THE DEADBOLT. 211 00:12:18,654 --> 00:12:20,758 >> Reporter: COULD GRETCHEN BE INSIDE? 212 00:12:20,793 --> 00:12:24,793 INVESTIGATORS WASTED NO TIME FINDING OUT. 213 00:12:24,826 --> 00:12:28,861 >> THEY FORCE ENTRY INTO THE GARAGE, AND THERE WAS NO 214 00:12:28,895 --> 00:12:31,895 GRETCHEN INSIDE. 215 00:12:31,931 --> 00:12:37,102 HOWEVER, THEY NOTICED THAT THERE WAS A STRONG, PUNGENT SMELL OF A 216 00:12:37,136 --> 00:12:39,758 CLEANING AGENT IN THE GARAGE. 217 00:12:39,793 --> 00:12:43,895 >> Reporter: WITH BODY CAMERAS ROLLING, INVESTIGATORS SEARCHED 218 00:12:43,931 --> 00:12:47,413 THE HOME SEVERAL TIMES. 219 00:12:47,447 --> 00:12:52,931 THEY FOUND EVIDENCE SUGGESTING A VIOLENT STRUGGLE-- 220 00:12:52,965 --> 00:12:56,274 A BROKEN PICTURE FRAME, SHARDS OF GLASS ON GRETCHEN'S BED, AND 221 00:12:56,309 --> 00:13:00,861 A STAINED TOWEL. 222 00:13:00,895 --> 00:13:03,758 >> THERE WAS A PIECE OF CLOTH THAT HAD WHAT IS REFERRED TO AS 223 00:13:03,793 --> 00:13:04,931 B.L.S., A BLOOD-LIKE SUBSTANCE, ON IT. 224 00:13:04,965 --> 00:13:07,931 >> Reporter: THEY GOT A HUGE BREAK WHEN THEY DISCOVERED 225 00:13:07,965 --> 00:13:12,861 NEIGHBORS HAD TAKEN PHOTOS OF A BLACK NISSAN PICKUP TRUCK PARKED 226 00:13:12,895 --> 00:13:16,861 NEAR GRETCHEN'S HOME AFTER THE TERRIFYING SCREAMS. 227 00:13:16,895 --> 00:13:20,861 AND WHO OWNS A BLACK NISSAN PICKUP TRUCK? 228 00:13:20,895 --> 00:13:24,033 >> DAVID ANTHONY. 229 00:13:24,067 --> 00:13:27,793 >> Reporter: DAVID ANTHONY, GRETCHEN'S ESTRANGED HUSBAND. 230 00:13:27,826 --> 00:13:31,344 >> HIS VEHICLE WAS THERE THAT MORNING. 231 00:13:31,379 --> 00:13:34,379 >> Reporter: INVESTIGATORS LEARNED FROM FRIENDS AND FAMILY 232 00:13:34,413 --> 00:13:38,000 THAT GRETCHEN HAD FILED FOR DIVORCE IN FEBRUARY OF 2020, AND 233 00:13:38,033 --> 00:13:43,758 DAVID HAD MOVED IN WITH HIS MOTHER. 234 00:13:43,793 --> 00:13:48,861 THAT'S WHEN DAVID'S FORMER BOSS, TABITHA HOPKINS, SAYS HE BECAME 235 00:13:48,895 --> 00:13:50,067 INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE. 236 00:13:50,102 --> 00:13:55,000 >> HE REGRESSED, BEHAVIOR-WISE, SLOWLY BECAME MORE HARD TO 237 00:13:55,033 --> 00:13:56,240 MANAGE. 238 00:13:56,274 --> 00:13:59,586 >> Reporter: GRETCHEN'S FAMILY TOLD INVESTIGATORS SHE WORRIED 239 00:13:59,620 --> 00:14:01,965 ABOUT HER SAFETY AFTER THE SEPARATION, AND HAD SECURITY 240 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:07,931 CAMERAS INSTALLED THROUGHOUT HER HOME AND GARAGE. 241 00:14:07,965 --> 00:14:09,102 WHO WAS SHE AFRAID OF? 242 00:14:09,136 --> 00:14:12,172 >> I WAS TOLD THAT SHE HAD THE CAMERAS INSTALLED BECAUSE 243 00:14:12,206 --> 00:14:13,931 DAVID HAD RETURNED TO HER HOME AFTER HE LEFT. 244 00:14:13,965 --> 00:14:16,931 >> Reporter: AFTER THEY HAD SEPARATED? 245 00:14:16,965 --> 00:14:18,172 >> THAT'S CORRECT. 246 00:14:18,206 --> 00:14:20,931 >> Reporter: KENERSON DISCOVERED THOSE CAMERAS HAD BEEN REMOVED 247 00:14:20,965 --> 00:14:25,481 FROM THE WALLS, POSSIBLY TO DESTROY INCRIMINATING EVIDENCE. 248 00:14:25,517 --> 00:14:28,965 BUT, HE LEARNED THAT WHILE THE CAMERAS WERE GONE, THE IMAGES 249 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:35,240 THEY RECORDED COULD BE RECOVERED FROM THE CLOUD. 250 00:14:35,274 --> 00:14:38,033 >> WE SEND A SEARCH WARRANT TO HER CAMERA PROVIDER. 251 00:14:38,067 --> 00:14:41,517 >> IT IS BELIEVED THAT THIS COULD POTENTIALLY BE THE BEST 252 00:14:41,551 --> 00:14:45,000 PIECE OF EVIDENCE AT THIS POINT THAT COULD GIVE US SOME 253 00:14:45,033 --> 00:14:49,931 DIRECTION AS TO WHERE IS GRETCHEN ANTHONY? 254 00:14:49,965 --> 00:14:53,033 >> Reporter: WHILE THEY WAITED FOR THAT CRUCIAL EVIDENCE, 255 00:14:53,067 --> 00:14:56,274 INVESTIGATORS SCRAMBLED TO FIND OUT JUST WHAT DAVID ANTHONY KNEW 256 00:14:56,309 --> 00:14:59,481 ABOUT GRETCHEN'S DISAPPEARANCE. 257 00:14:59,517 --> 00:15:04,965 THEY WENT TO LOOK FOR HIM AT HIS MOTHER'S HOME, AGAIN WITH BODY 258 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:06,102 CAMERAS ROLLING. 259 00:15:06,136 --> 00:15:06,931 >> WHO IS IT? 260 00:15:06,965 --> 00:15:07,309 >> JUPITER POLICE. 261 00:15:07,344 --> 00:15:07,965 HELLO. 262 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:09,067 >> HI. 263 00:15:09,102 --> 00:15:10,172 >> HI, JUPITER POLICE. 264 00:15:10,206 --> 00:15:11,309 SORRY TO BOTHER YOU. 265 00:15:11,344 --> 00:15:15,965 >> Reporter: DAVID'S MOM SAID SHE TOO HAD RECEIVED A 266 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:17,172 CONCERNING TEXT FROM GRETCHEN. 267 00:15:17,206 --> 00:15:20,000 >> GRETCHEN'S BEEN IN TOUCH WITH ME BECAUSE SHE'S IN THE 268 00:15:20,033 --> 00:15:22,102 C.D.C. CENTER. 269 00:15:22,136 --> 00:15:23,172 SHE HAS THE VIRUS. 270 00:15:23,206 --> 00:15:24,000 >> OKAY. 271 00:15:24,033 --> 00:15:25,033 WHAT C.D.C. CENTER IS SHE AT? 272 00:15:25,067 --> 00:15:27,172 >> I DON'T KNOW. 273 00:15:27,206 --> 00:15:29,274 SHE TEXTED ME THIS MORNING AND SAID SHE WAS IN THERE. 274 00:15:29,309 --> 00:15:30,033 I HAVE THE TEXT. 275 00:15:30,067 --> 00:15:30,654 WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE IT? 276 00:15:30,688 --> 00:15:31,033 >> I'D LOVE TO. 277 00:15:31,067 --> 00:15:32,000 THANK YOU. 278 00:15:32,033 --> 00:15:35,965 -ALL RIGHT, NO PROBLEM. 279 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:37,206 OKAY. 280 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:40,309 >> Reporter: WHEN OFFICERS ASKED HER WHERE HER SON WAS, THEY 281 00:15:40,344 --> 00:15:42,758 BECOME ALARMED. 282 00:15:42,793 --> 00:15:50,102 >> HE HAD SAID HE WAS GOING TO COSTA RICA. 283 00:15:50,136 --> 00:15:52,172 >> Reporter: DAVID'S MOTHER TOLD THEM THAT HE PACKED UP HIS 284 00:15:52,206 --> 00:15:58,206 TRUCK, AND, ON TUESDAY, MARCH 24, THREE DAYS AFTER GRETCHEN 285 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:03,965 DISAPPEARED, HE GRABBED HIS DOG, KOBE, AND HIT THE ROAD. 286 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:07,965 >> ONCE THEY KNOW THAT HE IS ATTEMPTING TO FLEE THE COUNTRY, 287 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:11,965 HE DEFINITELY BECOMES A SUSPECT. 288 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:15,102 THEY ARE VERY SUSPICIOUS OF HIM. 289 00:16:15,136 --> 00:16:18,447 >> Reporter: ADDING TO THEIR SUSPICION: WHAT THEY DISCOVERED 290 00:16:18,481 --> 00:16:22,136 ON THE VIDEO RETRIEVED FROM THE JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER PARKING 291 00:16:22,172 --> 00:16:28,033 LOT, WHERE GRETCHEN'S CAR WAS FOUND. 292 00:16:28,067 --> 00:16:31,067 >> THERE WAS SECURITY FOOTAGE THAT SHOWED GRETCHEN ANTHONY'S 293 00:16:31,102 --> 00:16:36,033 MINI COOPER PULLING INTO A PARKING SPACE, AND THERE IS A 294 00:16:36,067 --> 00:16:40,033 TALL FIGURE WALKING AWAY FROM HER VEHICLE. 295 00:16:40,067 --> 00:16:44,000 DAVID ANTHONY IS ABOUT 6'7", 6'8"”. 296 00:16:44,033 --> 00:16:46,447 >> Reporter: AND DOES THAT LOOK LIKE SOMEBODY WHO COULD BE 297 00:16:46,481 --> 00:16:48,033 6'7", 6'8"? 298 00:16:48,067 --> 00:16:49,274 >> ABSOLUTELY. 299 00:16:49,309 --> 00:16:52,067 >> Reporter: INVESTIGATORS WERE CONVINCED DAVID ANTHONY WAS 300 00:16:52,102 --> 00:16:55,136 SOMEHOW INVOLVED IN GRETCHEN'S DISAPPEARANCE. 301 00:16:55,172 --> 00:17:00,033 NOW, TRACKING GRETCHEN'S CELL PHONE COULD BE KEY TO FINDING 302 00:17:00,067 --> 00:17:01,274 DAVID. 303 00:17:01,309 --> 00:17:04,309 >> THEY FIND THAT GRETCHEN'S PHONE IS PINGING OFF A TOWER IN 304 00:17:04,344 --> 00:17:06,172 THE AREA OF PENSACOLA, FLORIDA. 305 00:17:06,205 --> 00:17:08,034 >> Reporter: THAT'S, LIKE, 600 MILES AWAY. 306 00:17:08,067 --> 00:17:10,034 >> YES. 307 00:17:10,067 --> 00:17:11,000 HER PHONE IS ON THE MOVE. 308 00:17:11,034 --> 00:17:14,172 >> THERE'S A LOT OF MOVING PARTS HERE, RIGHT? 309 00:17:14,205 --> 00:17:19,034 SO, WE'RE TRYING TO STILL ANSWER THE QUESTION, WHERE'S GRETCHEN 310 00:17:19,067 --> 00:17:20,034 ANTHONY? 311 00:17:20,067 --> 00:17:22,413 WHERE IS DAVID ANTHONY? 312 00:17:22,448 --> 00:17:28,103 AND SO, THESE CELL PHONE RECORDS BECOME A VERY CRITICAL PART IN-- 313 00:17:28,136 --> 00:17:29,481 IN LOCATING DAVID ANTHONY. 314 00:17:29,517 --> 00:17:32,103 >> Reporter: INVESTIGATORS SAY PHONE RECORDS HELPED TRACK DAVID 315 00:17:32,136 --> 00:17:37,172 ACROSS FLORIDA AS HE LEFT A PAPER AND VIDEO TRAIL. 316 00:17:37,205 --> 00:17:40,136 CAMERAS RECORDED HIM STOPPING AT JEWELRY STORES TO SELL 317 00:17:40,172 --> 00:17:42,931 GRETCHEN'S JEWELRY. 318 00:17:42,964 --> 00:17:48,103 ONE STORE OWNER SHARED A MEMORABLE CONVERSATION. 319 00:17:48,136 --> 00:17:52,205 >> THAT HE CAME IN WANTING TO SELL SOME JEWELRY THAT HAD BEEN 320 00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:57,344 LEFT TO HIM BY A FAMILY MEMBER THAT HAD DIED FROM COVID-19. 321 00:17:57,378 --> 00:17:58,309 >> Reporter: COVID? 322 00:17:58,344 --> 00:17:59,309 >> YES. 323 00:17:59,344 --> 00:18:00,136 >> Reporter: COVID STRIKES AGAIN IN THIS CASE. 324 00:18:00,172 --> 00:18:03,413 >> COVID STRIKES AGAIN. 325 00:18:03,448 --> 00:18:06,344 >> AND IN ALL THESE VIDEOS THAT WE WERE ABLE TO OBTAIN FROM 326 00:18:06,378 --> 00:18:10,034 THESE DIFFERENT BUSINESSES, NOWHERE WAS GRETCHEN SEEN. 327 00:18:10,067 --> 00:18:13,172 >> Reporter: WHILE DAVID ANTHONY WAS LEAVING A TANTALIZING TRAIL 328 00:18:13,205 --> 00:18:19,172 OF ELECTRONIC BREADCRUMBS, HE HAD ONE HUGE ADVANTAGE. 329 00:18:19,205 --> 00:18:24,103 REMEMBER, THEY HAD LEARNED FROM HIS MOTHER THAT HE WAS ON HIS 330 00:18:24,136 --> 00:18:28,103 WAY TO COSTA RICA AND COULD BE LONG GONE. 331 00:18:28,136 --> 00:18:31,240 >> WE ARE NOW OPERATING DAYS BEHIND DAVID ANTHONY, 332 00:18:31,275 --> 00:18:35,931 UNDERSTANDING THAT HIS INTENTIONS AT THIS POINT ARE TO 333 00:18:35,964 --> 00:18:37,136 LEAVE THE COUNTRY. 334 00:18:37,172 --> 00:18:38,792 >> Reporter: SO, IT'S NOW, FROM HIS PERSPECTIVE, "CATCH ME 335 00:18:38,826 --> 00:18:40,172 IF YOU CAN." 336 00:18:40,205 --> 00:18:42,895 >> YES. 337 00:18:42,931 --> 00:18:43,931 NOW, WE'RE ON THE HUNT FOR DAVID ANTHONY. 338 00:19:03,172 --> 00:19:05,136 [ BIRDS CHIRPING] >> Reporter: TO HER FRIEND, 339 00:19:05,172 --> 00:19:08,136 KELLY HANNA, GRETCHEN ANTHONY WAS SOMEONE WHO CONNECTED 340 00:19:08,172 --> 00:19:09,344 INSTANTLY WITH EVERYONE SHE MET. 341 00:19:09,378 --> 00:19:13,136 >> SHE WAS SO RADIANT AND JUST HAD THIS GENTLE GRACEFULNESS 342 00:19:13,172 --> 00:19:17,205 ABOUT HER, HAD THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LAUGH. 343 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:23,689 >> Reporter: SOMEONE WHO SHOULD SOMEHOW BE PROTECTED FROM HARM. 344 00:19:23,723 --> 00:19:25,758 >> IN A PERFECT WORLD, YOU WOULD HOPE AND PRAY THOSE PEOPLE 345 00:19:25,792 --> 00:19:29,034 HAVE ANGELS AROUND THEM TO KEEP THEM SAFE. 346 00:19:29,067 --> 00:19:35,172 >> Reporter: BUT NOW, GRETCHEN HAD BEEN MISSING FOR SIX DAYS. 347 00:19:35,205 --> 00:19:37,000 >> WHAT IS GOING ON? 348 00:19:37,034 --> 00:19:39,895 AND WHY IS MY BEAUTIFUL FRIEND MISSING? 349 00:19:39,931 --> 00:19:43,862 >> Reporter: ASSISTANT PROSECUTOR CHRICHET MIXON KNEW 350 00:19:43,895 --> 00:19:47,448 THE KEY TO FINDING GRETCHEN WAS FINDING HER ESTRANGED HUSBAND, 351 00:19:47,481 --> 00:19:49,103 DAVID ANTHONY. 352 00:19:49,136 --> 00:19:53,205 SHE HAD BEEN TOLD DAVID WAS ON THE RUN TO COSTA RICA, AND HAD A 353 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:54,758 HEAD START. 354 00:19:54,792 --> 00:19:56,309 >> WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE UP TIME. 355 00:19:56,344 --> 00:19:59,309 WE'RE TRYING TO MOVE QUICKLY AND PLAY CATCH-UP. 356 00:19:59,344 --> 00:20:02,309 >> Reporter: INVESTIGATORS TRACKED GRETCHEN'S AND DAVID'S 357 00:20:02,344 --> 00:20:05,550 CELL PHONE SIGNALS, WHICH APPEARED TO PLACE BOTH PHONES 358 00:20:05,586 --> 00:20:10,758 TRAVELLING TOGETHER, HEADING WESTWARD ACROSS TEXAS. 359 00:20:10,792 --> 00:20:14,309 NOW, DOES THAT SUGGEST THE TWO OF THEM MAY BE ON A TRIP 360 00:20:14,344 --> 00:20:17,172 TOGETHER, THAT SHE COULD POSSIBLY STILL BE ALIVE? 361 00:20:17,205 --> 00:20:21,172 >> IT SUGGESTS THAT THEIR PHONES ARE PINGING TOGETHER, TO ME. 362 00:20:21,205 --> 00:20:24,240 >> Reporter: DETECTIVE JARED KENERSON DIDN'T KNOW WHAT 363 00:20:24,275 --> 00:20:28,586 HAPPENED TO GRETCHEN, BUT FEARED THE WORST. 364 00:20:28,619 --> 00:20:32,309 AS HE WAITED FOR EVIDENCE TAKEN FROM GRETCHEN'S HOME TO COME 365 00:20:32,344 --> 00:20:36,895 BACK FROM THE LAB, HE ISSUED A "BOLO," AN ALERT TO BE ON THE 366 00:20:36,931 --> 00:20:39,240 LOOKOUT FOR DAVID'S BLACK NISSAN TRUCK. 367 00:20:39,275 --> 00:20:42,826 >> HIS VEHICLE WAS LISTED AS A FELONY VEHICLE. 368 00:20:42,862 --> 00:20:45,205 >> Reporter: INVESTIGATORS DUG INTO DAVID'S PAST, AND WHAT THEY 369 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:49,205 LEARNED WAS STUNNING. 370 00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:52,758 >> SO, DAVID ANTHONY ORIGINALLY WAS KNOWN AS DAVID ANTHONY 371 00:20:52,792 --> 00:20:56,034 DEUTSCH AND THEN LATER CHANGED HIS NAME TO DAVID ANTHONY. 372 00:20:56,067 --> 00:20:56,826 >> NOBODY KNEW THAT. 373 00:20:56,862 --> 00:20:59,378 HE'S LOCAL TO THE PALM BEACH AREA. 374 00:20:59,413 --> 00:21:01,205 HE WENT TO THE SAME HIGH SCHOOL MY CHILDREN WENT TO. 375 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:09,205 IT WAS WEIRD THAT NOBODY REALIZED THERE WAS A DIFFERENCE. 376 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:13,205 >> Reporter: NOBODY REALIZED, FOR INSTANCE, THAT, AS DAVID 377 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:17,275 ANTHONY DEUTSCH, A STAR COLLEGE BASKETBALL PLAYER, HE HELD UP A 378 00:21:17,309 --> 00:21:20,931 BLOCKBUSTER VIDEO STORE ARMED WITH A SQUIRT-GUN, AND ASSAULTED 379 00:21:20,964 --> 00:21:23,413 A POLICE OFFICER. 380 00:21:23,448 --> 00:21:28,275 HE REACHED A PLEA DEAL IN EACH CASE AND SPENT A SHORT STINT IN 381 00:21:28,309 --> 00:21:30,275 JAIL. 382 00:21:30,309 --> 00:21:34,275 >> DAVID ANTHONY HAS HAD A HISTORY OF CRIMINAL CONDUCT. 383 00:21:34,309 --> 00:21:38,275 IT'S NOT THAT UNCOMMON FOR SOMEONE WITH A CRIMINAL PAST TO 384 00:21:38,309 --> 00:21:39,517 TRY TO ESCAPE THAT PAST. 385 00:21:39,550 --> 00:21:42,309 >> Reporter: TABITHA HOPKINS, DAVID'S FORMER BOSS AT THE GYM 386 00:21:42,344 --> 00:21:46,275 IN JUPITER, HAD NOTICED SOMETHING ODD ABOUT DAVID. 387 00:21:46,309 --> 00:21:50,275 >> HE'S VERY TALENTED AND HIS SKILL LEVEL WAS AMAZING, BUT HIS 388 00:21:50,309 --> 00:21:51,517 MOODS COULD BE HIGH OR LOW. 389 00:21:51,550 --> 00:21:54,723 >> Reporter: DO YOU FEEL AS THOUGH HE DOES HAVE THIS JEKYLL 390 00:21:54,758 --> 00:21:57,378 AND HYDE PERSONALITY? 391 00:21:57,413 --> 00:21:59,586 >> 100%. 392 00:21:59,619 --> 00:22:03,344 >> Reporter: TABITHA SAYS HE BECAME SO DIFFICULT TO MANAGE, 393 00:22:03,378 --> 00:22:07,826 SHE WAS FORCED TO FIRE HIM IN 2017. 394 00:22:07,862 --> 00:22:13,034 SHE GAVE HIM A SECOND CHANCE A FEW YEARS LATER, BUT, BY 395 00:22:13,067 --> 00:22:15,448 EARLY 2020, HE WAS INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE. 396 00:22:15,481 --> 00:22:17,240 >> I BASICALLY SAID, "WHAT'S GOING ON? 397 00:22:17,275 --> 00:22:18,136 WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU? 398 00:22:18,172 --> 00:22:20,205 YOU ARE NOT THE SAME PERSON THAT I KNEW." 399 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:24,205 >> Reporter: TABITHA SAYS SHE WAS FORCED TO FIRE HIM AGAIN, 400 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:26,344 AND, THIS TIME, SHE CAUGHT A GLIMPSE OF DAVID'S FRIGHTENING 401 00:22:26,378 --> 00:22:27,448 RAGE. 402 00:22:27,481 --> 00:22:30,344 >> THAT LOOK I'D NEVER SEEN BEFORE. 403 00:22:30,378 --> 00:22:32,344 HE WAS ANGRY. 404 00:22:32,378 --> 00:22:36,172 >> Reporter: SHAKEN, TABITHA TEXTED GRETCHEN-- AT THE TIME, 405 00:22:36,205 --> 00:22:39,413 SEPARATED FROM DAVID-- WITH A WARNING: "“STAY AWAY FROM HIM." 406 00:22:39,448 --> 00:22:42,931 >> SHE HAD SAID THAT HE IS CRAZY. 407 00:22:42,964 --> 00:22:45,448 THAT'S THE LAST TIME I TALKED TO GRETCHEN. 408 00:22:45,481 --> 00:22:50,344 >> Reporter: THAT WAS FEBRUARY OF 2020. 409 00:22:50,378 --> 00:22:54,344 [ RADIO CHATTER] THEN, A FEW WEEKS LATER, JUST 410 00:22:54,378 --> 00:22:57,586 SEVEN DAYS BEFORE GRETCHEN DISAPPEARED, THIS HAPPENED. 411 00:22:57,619 --> 00:22:58,034 >> CAN I GET UP? 412 00:22:58,067 --> 00:22:58,378 >> NO! 413 00:22:58,413 --> 00:22:59,586 GET DOWN! 414 00:22:59,619 --> 00:23:01,826 >> I'M STANDING UP! 415 00:23:01,862 --> 00:23:03,103 >> GET DOWN! 416 00:23:03,136 --> 00:23:06,344 >> Reporter: POLICE RECEIVED A REPORT THAT DAVID WAS ALLEGEDLY 417 00:23:06,378 --> 00:23:09,413 FOLLOWING TEENAGED GIRLS AT A NEARBY SHOPPING CENTER. 418 00:23:09,448 --> 00:23:13,931 ONCE AGAIN, POLICE BODY CAMERAS WERE ROLLING WHEN THEY 419 00:23:13,964 --> 00:23:14,862 APPROACHED HIM. 420 00:23:14,895 --> 00:23:16,654 >> [ STAMMERS] >> GET DOWN, NOW! 421 00:23:16,689 --> 00:23:17,895 >> ALL RIGHT... 422 00:23:17,931 --> 00:23:19,034 >> GET OUT! 423 00:23:19,067 --> 00:23:21,517 >> Reporter: WITH KOBE SITTING QUIETLY IN THE TRUCK... 424 00:23:21,550 --> 00:23:24,378 >> HE'S GOT A DOG IN THE CAR. 425 00:23:24,413 --> 00:23:26,413 [ CLICKING TONGUE] [ RADIO CHATTER] 426 00:23:26,448 --> 00:23:28,895 >> Reporter: DAVID LASHED OUT, AND WAS CHARGED WITH RESISTING 427 00:23:28,931 --> 00:23:30,413 ARREST. 428 00:23:30,448 --> 00:23:31,723 >> STOP RESISTING ME! 429 00:23:31,758 --> 00:23:32,723 >> SIR! 430 00:23:32,758 --> 00:23:35,586 FLAT ON YOUR FACE, HANDS OUT LIKE AN AIRPLANE! 431 00:23:35,619 --> 00:23:38,136 >> Reporter: DAVID SPENT JUST A FEW DAYS IN JAIL. 432 00:23:38,172 --> 00:23:39,481 >> YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT. 433 00:23:39,517 --> 00:23:42,136 ANYTHING YOU SAY CAN AND WILL BE USED AGAINST YOU 434 00:23:42,172 --> 00:23:43,309 IN A COURT OF LAW. 435 00:23:43,344 --> 00:23:45,619 >> Reporter: INVESTIGATORS LEARNED HE POSTED BAIL AND WAS 436 00:23:45,654 --> 00:23:50,275 RELEASED, JUST THREE DAYS BEFORE GRETCHEN DISAPPEARED. 437 00:23:50,309 --> 00:23:53,000 >> WE'RE GOING TO STAND UP, ALL RIGHT? 438 00:23:53,034 --> 00:23:54,689 [ RADIO CHATTER] >> Reporter: NOW, AS THEY 439 00:23:54,723 --> 00:23:57,654 TRACKED HIM CROSS COUNTRY, THEY KNEW THEY HAD A VOLATILE 440 00:23:57,689 --> 00:24:02,413 MAN ON THE LOOSE, AND HE WAS BEING CAGEY. 441 00:24:02,448 --> 00:24:06,413 >> HE WOULD TURN ON CELL PHONES, AND WE WOULD BE ABLE TO GET A 442 00:24:06,448 --> 00:24:12,103 LOCATION, AND THEN HE WOULD TURN CELL PHONES OFF. 443 00:24:12,136 --> 00:24:15,550 >> Reporter: DAVID'S PHONE PINGED HERE IN PECOS, TEXAS, 444 00:24:15,586 --> 00:24:18,448 MORE THAN 1,600 MILES AWAY FROM JUPITER. 445 00:24:18,481 --> 00:24:21,931 THE NEXT DAY, DAVID'S PHONE PINGED HERE IN LAS CRUCES, 446 00:24:21,964 --> 00:24:25,240 NEW MEXICO. 447 00:24:25,275 --> 00:24:30,481 KENERSON IMMEDIATELY REACHED OUT TO LAS CRUCES POLICE FOR HELP. 448 00:24:30,517 --> 00:24:33,586 [ SIREN WAILING] STILL TRACKING HIS PHONE AND 449 00:24:33,619 --> 00:24:38,481 ARMED WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THE TRUCK, LAS CRUCES POLICE LOCATED 450 00:24:38,517 --> 00:24:39,586 DAVID AND PULLED HIM OVER. 451 00:24:39,619 --> 00:24:41,000 >> PUT YOUR HANDS UP! 452 00:24:41,034 --> 00:24:42,275 >> HANDS UP! 453 00:24:42,309 --> 00:24:45,550 >> Reporter: WHEN OFFICERS ASKED DAVID ABOUT GRETCHEN, HE TOLD 454 00:24:45,586 --> 00:24:48,067 THEM SHE HAD COVID. 455 00:24:48,103 --> 00:24:50,862 >> LAST I HEARD, SHE WAS IN A C.D.C. FACILITY GETTING 456 00:24:50,895 --> 00:24:54,413 TREATMENT FOR CORONAVIRUS. 457 00:24:54,448 --> 00:24:57,550 >> Reporter: LAS CRUCES POLICE SEIZED DAVID'S TRUCK AND HIS 458 00:24:57,586 --> 00:25:02,481 POSSESSIONS, INCLUDING HIS PHONE AND GRETCHEN'S PHONE. 459 00:25:02,517 --> 00:25:05,826 BUT THEY DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO BRING DAVID IN FOR 460 00:25:05,862 --> 00:25:06,964 QUESTIONING. 461 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:10,481 SO, ALONG WITH KOBE, HE WAS ALLOWED TO JUST WALK AWAY. 462 00:25:10,517 --> 00:25:12,136 WHERE DOES HE GO? 463 00:25:12,172 --> 00:25:14,481 >> I DON'T KNOW WHERE HE WENT, BUT I KNEW THAT HE WAS IN LAS 464 00:25:14,517 --> 00:25:15,654 CRUCES ON FOOT. 465 00:25:15,689 --> 00:25:18,344 >> Reporter: AND YOU'RE HERE IN FLORIDA. 466 00:25:18,378 --> 00:25:19,550 WHAT DO YOU DO? 467 00:25:19,586 --> 00:25:22,517 >> WE ARE AWAITING THE RESULTS OF GRETCHEN ANTHONY'S VIDEO 468 00:25:22,550 --> 00:25:27,619 CAMERAS. 469 00:25:27,654 --> 00:25:30,517 >> Reporter: JUPITER POLICE FINALLY RECEIVED THE ELECTRONIC 470 00:25:30,550 --> 00:25:33,413 RECORDINGS FROM GRETCHEN'S HOME. 471 00:25:33,448 --> 00:25:37,758 THEY RELEASED PORTIONS OF THAT EVIDENCE, LIKE THIS VIDEO FROM 472 00:25:37,792 --> 00:25:39,654 SECURITY CAMERAS, REVEALING A TALL FIGURE HIDDEN IN THE 473 00:25:39,689 --> 00:25:44,792 SHADOWS ON THE PATIO, WAITING TO AMBUSH HER. 474 00:25:44,826 --> 00:25:47,758 >> THE FIGURE MOVES THROUGHOUT THE PATIO AREA. 475 00:25:47,792 --> 00:25:50,550 >> Reporter: OTHER FOOTAGE WAS TOO DISTURBING TO RELEASE TO 476 00:25:50,586 --> 00:25:54,550 "48 HOURS," INCLUDING THE MOMENT GRETCHEN APPEARS ON THE PATIO 477 00:25:54,586 --> 00:25:57,619 AND THE FIGURE FORCES HER INTO THE GARAGE. 478 00:25:57,654 --> 00:26:02,517 INVESTIGATORS ALSO RETRIEVED RECORDINGS FROM GRETCHEN'S ALEXA 479 00:26:02,550 --> 00:26:06,517 DEVICE, WHERE SHE CAN BE HEARD CALLING OUT FOR HELP. 480 00:26:06,550 --> 00:26:09,309 >> SHE WAS SCREAMING FOR ALEXA TO CALL 911. 481 00:26:09,344 --> 00:26:10,550 >> Reporter: SHE'S CALLING OUT TO THAT ELECTRONIC BOX, "CALL 482 00:26:10,586 --> 00:26:11,619 911." 483 00:26:11,654 --> 00:26:14,517 IN OTHER WORDS, "CALL THE POLICE." 484 00:26:14,550 --> 00:26:18,619 GRETCHEN DIDN'T KNOW IT, BUT, UNLESS YOU SPECIFICALLY PROGRAM 485 00:26:18,654 --> 00:26:21,723 YOUR ALEXA DEVICE TO DO SO, IT DOES NOT CALL THE POLICE IN AN 486 00:26:21,758 --> 00:26:23,000 EMERGENCY. 487 00:26:23,034 --> 00:26:27,689 DO YOU THINK IF THE ALEXA UNIT HAD CALLED 911, GRETCHEN ANTHONY 488 00:26:27,723 --> 00:26:30,586 MIGHT BE ALIVE TODAY? 489 00:26:30,619 --> 00:26:33,205 >> IT'S POSSIBLE. 490 00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:36,895 >> Reporter: VIDEO RETRIEVED FROM CAMERAS IN THE GARAGE SHOW 491 00:26:36,931 --> 00:26:39,689 THE LAST IMAGES OF GRETCHEN ALIVE. 492 00:26:39,723 --> 00:26:45,550 >> THERE COMES A POINT WHERE THIS PERSON THAT WE SEE GRAB 493 00:26:45,586 --> 00:26:49,309 GRETCHEN, MUFFLE HER SCREAMS AND TAKE HER INTO THE GARAGE. 494 00:26:49,344 --> 00:26:51,723 THIS PERSON LOOKS UP AT THE CAMERA, REALIZES THAT IT'S A 495 00:26:51,758 --> 00:26:56,826 CAMERA, AND PROCEEDS TO TAKE THAT CAMERA AND SNATCH IT DOWN 496 00:26:56,862 --> 00:26:58,000 OFF THE WALL AND THROWS IT ON THE FLOOR. 497 00:26:58,034 --> 00:27:02,619 >> Reporter: AND WHAT DO YOU SEE? 498 00:27:02,654 --> 00:27:09,517 >> WE SEE DAVID ANTHONY LOOKING UP INTO THE CAMERA. 499 00:27:09,550 --> 00:27:14,586 WE KNEW THAT DAVID ANTHONY KILLED GRETCHEN ANTHONY. 500 00:27:14,619 --> 00:27:17,481 HE WAS THE KILLER. 501 00:27:17,517 --> 00:27:21,172 >> Reporter: INVESTIGATORS FINALLY HAD THE PROOF THEY 502 00:27:21,205 --> 00:27:22,344 NEEDED TO MAKE AN ARREST. 503 00:27:22,378 --> 00:27:26,448 DETECTIVE KENERSON RACED TO LAS CRUCES TO LOOK FOR DAVID 504 00:27:26,481 --> 00:27:27,136 ANTHONY. 505 00:27:27,172 --> 00:27:30,689 >> WE SEARCHED HOMELESS AREAS. 506 00:27:30,723 --> 00:27:32,448 WE SEARCHED HOTELS. 507 00:27:32,481 --> 00:27:34,654 >> Reporter: WERE YOU NERVOUS HE WAS GOING TO GET AWAY? 508 00:27:34,689 --> 00:27:36,136 >> I WAS VERY NERVOUS. 509 00:27:36,172 --> 00:27:42,758 I DIDN'T KNOW WHERE HE COULD HAVE GONE. 510 00:27:42,792 --> 00:27:45,758 >> Reporter: THAT EVENING, OFFICERS GOT A LUCKY BREAK, 511 00:27:45,792 --> 00:27:50,586 WHEN THEY SPOTTED DAVID WALKING HIS DOG, KOBE. 512 00:27:50,619 --> 00:27:54,689 DAVID WAS DETAINED, AND KOBE WAS TAKEN TO A SHELTER. 513 00:27:54,723 --> 00:27:56,481 >> HEY, DAVID. 514 00:27:56,517 --> 00:27:57,654 >> WHO ARE YOU? 515 00:27:57,689 --> 00:27:58,723 >> MY NAME IS JARED KENERSON. 516 00:27:58,758 --> 00:28:01,826 I'M A DETECTIVE WITH THE JUPITER POLICE DEPARTMENT. 517 00:28:01,862 --> 00:28:06,413 >> Reporter: WITH ALL 6'7" OF DAVID ANTHONY CRAMMED INTO THE 518 00:28:06,448 --> 00:28:09,758 BACK SEAT OF A SMALL POLICE CAR, DETECTIVE KENERSON KNELT DOWN TO 519 00:28:09,792 --> 00:28:14,654 LOOK DIRECTLY IN THE EYES OF THE MAN HE WAS CERTAIN HAD KILLED 520 00:28:14,689 --> 00:28:15,826 GRETCHEN. 521 00:28:15,862 --> 00:28:17,689 >> THERE'S A WARRANT FOR YOUR ARREST. 522 00:28:17,723 --> 00:28:18,826 I'M GOING TO EXPLAIN THAT WHEN... 523 00:28:18,862 --> 00:28:20,103 >> FOR-- FOR WHAT? 524 00:28:20,136 --> 00:28:20,723 >> EXCUSE ME? 525 00:28:20,758 --> 00:28:21,826 >> FOR WHAT? 526 00:28:21,862 --> 00:28:26,723 >> HOMICIDE. 527 00:28:26,758 --> 00:28:32,723 >> FOR WHO? 528 00:28:32,758 --> 00:28:33,550 >> WHO DO YOU THINK? 529 00:28:33,586 --> 00:28:36,550 >> THAT'S WHY I ASKED THE QUESTION. 530 00:28:36,586 --> 00:28:38,689 >> WE'LL TALK ABOUT IT AT THE HEADQUARTERS, OKAY? 531 00:28:38,723 --> 00:28:40,758 >> OKAY. 532 00:28:40,792 --> 00:28:42,000 >> ALL RIGHT. 533 00:28:42,034 --> 00:28:44,689 >> Reporter: KENERSON HAD HIS MAN, BUT STILL HAD ONE LOOMING 534 00:28:44,723 --> 00:28:48,172 QUESTION. 535 00:28:48,205 --> 00:28:49,586 >> WE STILL DON'T HAVE A BODY. 536 00:28:49,619 --> 00:28:51,619 WHERE IS GRETCHEN ANTHONY? 537 00:29:19,792 --> 00:29:24,689 >> Reporter: AFTER A MANHUNT CROSSING SIX STATES, SPANNING 538 00:29:24,723 --> 00:29:28,275 NEARLY 2,000 MILES, DAVID ANTHONY WAS FINALLY IN CUSTODY 539 00:29:28,309 --> 00:29:30,723 FOR THE MURDER OF HIS ESTRANGED WIFE, GRETCHEN. 540 00:29:30,758 --> 00:29:32,034 >> HI, DAVID. 541 00:29:32,067 --> 00:29:33,205 MY NAME'S KELLY. 542 00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:36,550 >> Reporter: JUPITER DETECTIVES KELLY SAUNDERS AND JARED 543 00:29:36,586 --> 00:29:40,240 KENERSON WOULD INTERROGATE HIM HERE AT THE STATE POLICE 544 00:29:40,275 --> 00:29:45,619 HEADQUARTERS IN LAS CRUCIS, NEW MEXICO. 545 00:29:45,654 --> 00:29:48,758 THEY HAD ONE GOAL: GET DAVID TO REVEAL THE LOCATION OF 546 00:29:48,792 --> 00:29:49,619 GRETCHEN'S BODY. 547 00:29:49,654 --> 00:29:52,413 >> WE WERE IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH. 548 00:29:52,448 --> 00:29:54,723 WE'RE IN SEARCH OF, WHERE IS GRETCHEN ANTHONY? 549 00:29:54,758 --> 00:29:58,136 I WANTED TO BE ABLE TO TELL HER FAMILY, TELL HER DAUGHTER, "I 550 00:29:58,172 --> 00:29:59,619 KNOW WHERE SHE IS." 551 00:29:59,654 --> 00:30:01,619 AND THAT WAS VERY IMPORTANT TO US. 552 00:30:01,654 --> 00:30:05,034 >> Reporter: RIGHT AWAY, DAVID MADE IT CLEAR IT WOULDN'T 553 00:30:05,067 --> 00:30:06,240 BE EASY. 554 00:30:06,275 --> 00:30:12,758 >> WE HAVE OBTAINED A WARRANT FOR YOUR ARREST FOR MURDER. 555 00:30:12,792 --> 00:30:13,619 OKAY? 556 00:30:13,654 --> 00:30:17,172 >> SHE-- SHE'S ALIVE. 557 00:30:17,205 --> 00:30:21,103 >> Reporter: KENERSON WAS STUNNED WHEN DAVID CLAIMED 558 00:30:21,136 --> 00:30:21,619 GRETCHEN WASN'T DEAD. 559 00:30:21,654 --> 00:30:23,586 >> YEAH. 560 00:30:23,619 --> 00:30:24,723 I WAS IN DISBELIEF. 561 00:30:24,758 --> 00:30:26,689 I KNEW THAT SHE WASN'T WITH US ANYMORE. 562 00:30:26,723 --> 00:30:29,448 >> Reporter: BUT HE'S DEFIANT WITH YOU. 563 00:30:29,481 --> 00:30:30,240 >> THAT'S CORRECT. 564 00:30:30,275 --> 00:30:33,689 >> Reporter: DEFIANT AND DISHONEST. 565 00:30:33,723 --> 00:30:36,792 POLICE SAY THE STORY DAVID TOLD WAS PURE FICTION. 566 00:30:36,826 --> 00:30:40,826 >> SO, SHE WAS TRAVELLING WITH ME UP TO EL PASO. 567 00:30:40,862 --> 00:30:44,723 WE WERE DRIVING SEPARATE VEHICLE, SO SHE-- SHE BOLTED. 568 00:30:44,758 --> 00:30:48,378 >> Reporter: HE SAID GRETCHEN WAS ON THE RUN BECAUSE SHE'D 569 00:30:48,413 --> 00:30:52,481 DSCOVERED ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES AT THE COMPANY WHERE SHE WORKED, 570 00:30:52,517 --> 00:30:53,689 AND SOMEONE WAS AFTER HER. 571 00:30:53,723 --> 00:30:54,826 ARE YOU BUYING ANY OF THIS? 572 00:30:54,862 --> 00:30:56,723 >> I'M NOT BUYING IT, NO. 573 00:30:56,758 --> 00:30:59,862 >> Reporter: WHEN ASKED ABOUT THE TEXT MESSAGES SENT FROM 574 00:30:59,895 --> 00:31:05,172 GRETCHEN'S PHONE CLAIMING SHE HAD COVID, DAVID WAS EVASIVE. 575 00:31:05,205 --> 00:31:08,275 >> THERE'S NO RECORD OF HER BEING IN ANY HOSPITAL FOR 576 00:31:08,309 --> 00:31:09,448 COVID-19. 577 00:31:09,481 --> 00:31:09,758 ZERO. 578 00:31:09,792 --> 00:31:11,448 >> OKAY. 579 00:31:11,481 --> 00:31:12,275 >> ZERO RECORD. 580 00:31:12,309 --> 00:31:13,689 >> DOESN'T-- DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING. 581 00:31:13,723 --> 00:31:15,862 >> Reporter: WHEN THE DETECTIVES PUSHED HARDER, INSISTING DAVID 582 00:31:15,895 --> 00:31:17,862 SENT THE MESSAGES, HE PUSHED RIGHT BACK. 583 00:31:17,895 --> 00:31:20,413 >> YOU HAVE HER PHONE. 584 00:31:20,448 --> 00:31:21,550 YOU SENT THE TEXT MESSAGES. 585 00:31:21,586 --> 00:31:23,895 YOU PLANTED HER CAR AT JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER, BECAUSE 586 00:31:23,931 --> 00:31:26,172 YOU'RE ON VIDEODOING IT. 587 00:31:26,205 --> 00:31:26,964 >> WE HAVE ALL THAT INFORMATION. 588 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:28,103 >> SHE HAD ME DO IT. 589 00:31:28,136 --> 00:31:29,275 SHE HAD ME DO IT. 590 00:31:29,309 --> 00:31:32,826 >> Reporter: KENERSON AND SAUNDERS EVEN CONFRONTED DAVID 591 00:31:32,862 --> 00:31:35,931 WITH THE EVIDENCE CAPTURED ON GRETCHEN'S OWN VIDEO SYSTEM. 592 00:31:35,964 --> 00:31:37,826 >> YOU PUT YOUR HAND OVER HER MOUTH AND DRAGGED HER INTO THE 593 00:31:37,862 --> 00:31:39,034 GARAGE. 594 00:31:39,067 --> 00:31:40,034 >> SHE'S STILL ALIVE. 595 00:31:40,067 --> 00:31:40,826 >> IT'S ON VIDEO, DAVID. 596 00:31:40,862 --> 00:31:41,931 >> SHE'S STILL ALIVE. 597 00:31:41,964 --> 00:31:44,826 >> Reporter: DAVID'S STORY NEVER CHANGED. 598 00:31:44,862 --> 00:31:48,826 HE REPEATEDLY TOLD THE DETECTIVES GRETCHEN WAS ALIVE. 599 00:31:48,862 --> 00:31:51,136 >> GRETCHEN'S STILL ALIVE. 600 00:31:51,172 --> 00:31:53,931 >> Reporter: IN FACT, DURING THE COURSE OF THE INTERROGATION, 601 00:31:53,964 --> 00:31:55,654 DAVID ANTHONY MADE THAT CLAIM... 602 00:31:55,689 --> 00:31:56,378 >> SHE'S STILL ALIVE. 603 00:31:56,413 --> 00:31:56,895 GRETCHEN'S ALIVE. 604 00:31:56,931 --> 00:31:58,481 I TOLD YOU THAT. 605 00:31:58,517 --> 00:31:59,826 SHE'S STILL ALIVE. 606 00:31:59,862 --> 00:32:00,448 SHE'S STILL ALIVE. 607 00:32:00,481 --> 00:32:03,413 >> Reporter: ...35 TIMES. 608 00:32:03,448 --> 00:32:05,931 IN FACT, HE SAYS THAT OVER AND OVER AND OVER, THAT SHE'S ALIVE. 609 00:32:05,964 --> 00:32:07,586 WHY IS HE SAYING THAT? 610 00:32:07,619 --> 00:32:08,654 >> HE'S TRYING TO DEFLECT. 611 00:32:08,689 --> 00:32:11,931 DAVID IS TRYING TO DEFLECT AWAY FROM HIMSELF. 612 00:32:11,964 --> 00:32:15,689 >> Reporter: WITH EACH DENIAL, THE DETECTIVE'S ANGER ROSE. 613 00:32:15,723 --> 00:32:17,931 >> IT'S VERY FRUSTRATING, BECAUSE WE KNOW SHE'S NOT ALIVE. 614 00:32:17,964 --> 00:32:20,792 WE HAVE EVIDENCE OF HER NOT BEING ALIVE. 615 00:32:20,826 --> 00:32:24,136 >> Reporter: SO, KENERSON SWITCHED TACTICS, AND TRIED TO 616 00:32:24,172 --> 00:32:28,067 APPEAL TO DAVID'S BOND WITH GRETCHEN'S YOUNG DAUGHTER. 617 00:32:28,103 --> 00:32:29,931 >> YOU SEE THAT LITTLE GIRL RIGHT THERE? 618 00:32:29,964 --> 00:32:30,654 I WANT YOU TO LOOK AT HER. 619 00:32:30,689 --> 00:32:31,172 >> YES, I LOVE HER DEARLY. 620 00:32:31,205 --> 00:32:32,481 I LOVE HER DEARLY. 621 00:32:32,517 --> 00:32:32,895 >> LOOK AT HER! 622 00:32:32,931 --> 00:32:34,550 I KNOW YOU DO. 623 00:32:34,586 --> 00:32:35,792 LOOK AT HER REAL GOOD. 624 00:32:35,826 --> 00:32:36,895 >> Reporter: AND FOR A BRIEF MOMENT, IT SEEMED LIKE IT MIGHT 625 00:32:36,931 --> 00:32:38,205 WORK. 626 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:40,619 >> I WAS THE ONE WHO TAUGHT HER HOW TO RIDE A BICYCLE AND SHOOT 627 00:32:40,654 --> 00:32:41,205 A HOOP AND USE HER AWARENESS. 628 00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:42,034 >> AND THAT'S AWESOME. 629 00:32:42,067 --> 00:32:43,826 YEP, AND THAT'S AWESOME. 630 00:32:43,862 --> 00:32:44,895 >> THEN DO WHAT'S RIGHT FOR HER. 631 00:32:44,931 --> 00:32:47,275 >> I WOULD NEVER HURT HER. 632 00:32:47,309 --> 00:32:48,172 >> NOT [ BLEEP]? 633 00:32:48,205 --> 00:32:49,344 >> I WOULD NEVER HURT EITHER ONE OF THEM. 634 00:32:49,378 --> 00:32:52,000 >> WELL, YOU'RE HURTING HER INDIRECTLY BY NOT LETTING US 635 00:32:52,034 --> 00:32:52,862 KNOW WHERE HER MOM IS. 636 00:32:52,895 --> 00:32:54,000 >> YOU'LL HAVE TO ASK HER. 637 00:32:54,034 --> 00:32:54,964 >> WE CAN'T ASK HER. 638 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:56,103 SHE'S DEAD. 639 00:32:56,136 --> 00:32:56,964 >> SHE'S DEAD. 640 00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:57,758 >> HER MOTHER IS STILL ALIVE. 641 00:32:57,792 --> 00:32:58,723 THAT'S WHAT I'M TELLING YOU. 642 00:32:58,758 --> 00:32:59,758 >> SHE IS NOT ALIVE. 643 00:32:59,792 --> 00:33:03,000 >> Reporter: AND THEN, DAVID TRIED A NEW TACTIC. 644 00:33:03,034 --> 00:33:04,895 HE DARED THEM TO PROVE THEIR CASE. 645 00:33:04,931 --> 00:33:06,034 >> WE HAVE IT ON VIDEO, IN BLACK AND WHITE. 646 00:33:06,067 --> 00:33:08,895 >> YOU DON'T HAVE VIDEO OF ME KILLING HER. 647 00:33:08,931 --> 00:33:10,034 >> HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT WE HAVE? 648 00:33:10,067 --> 00:33:10,619 >> SHOW IT TO ME. 649 00:33:10,654 --> 00:33:11,309 >> HER DEAD... 650 00:33:11,344 --> 00:33:12,000 >> SHOW ME THE VIDEO. 651 00:33:12,034 --> 00:33:12,895 >> ...HER DEAD BODY. 652 00:33:12,931 --> 00:33:14,654 >> JUST SHOW ME THE VIDEO. 653 00:33:14,689 --> 00:33:16,000 >> HER DEAD BODY IS RIGHT THERE. 654 00:33:16,034 --> 00:33:16,895 >> SHOW ME THE VIDEO. 655 00:33:16,931 --> 00:33:18,000 >> I KNOW THAT IT EXISTS. 656 00:33:18,034 --> 00:33:19,034 >> OKAY, THEN SHOW IT TO ME. 657 00:33:19,067 --> 00:33:20,723 >> YOU CAN YELL AND SCREAM ALL YOU WANT. 658 00:33:20,758 --> 00:33:21,931 >> JUST SHOW IT TO ME! 659 00:33:21,964 --> 00:33:24,000 >> Reporter: THE DETECTIVES DECIDED IT WAS TIME TO TAKE A 660 00:33:24,034 --> 00:33:27,034 BREAK. 661 00:33:27,067 --> 00:33:30,034 THEY LEFT AND SENT OFFICERS IN TO ADJUST DAVID'S HANDCUFFS. 662 00:33:30,067 --> 00:33:32,034 >> DAVID, YOU WANT A WATER? 663 00:33:32,067 --> 00:33:36,034 >> Reporter: KENERSON CAME BACK ALONE-- THIS TIME, QUIET AND 664 00:33:36,067 --> 00:33:40,067 FRIENDLY. 665 00:33:40,103 --> 00:33:43,586 HE MADE ONE LAST EMOTIONAL PLEA BY PLAYING AN AUDIO RECORDING OF 666 00:33:43,619 --> 00:33:48,034 GRETCHEN'S DAUGHTER BEGGING DAVID TO TELL THEM WHERE THEY 667 00:33:48,067 --> 00:33:48,964 COULD FIND HER MOTHER. 668 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,413 EVEN THAT DIDN'T WORK. 669 00:33:51,448 --> 00:33:52,964 >> I'VE RAISED THE GIRL SINCE SHE WAS TWO YEARS OLD. 670 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:54,034 I KNOW HER VOICE. 671 00:33:54,067 --> 00:33:57,000 >> Reporter: DAVID CLAIMED FALSELY THAT IT WASN'T 672 00:33:57,034 --> 00:34:00,034 GRETCHEN'S DAUGHTER'S VOICE. 673 00:34:00,067 --> 00:34:02,862 INFURIATED, KENERSON DECIDED TO LET HIM HAVE IT. 674 00:34:02,895 --> 00:34:03,586 >> YOU ARE A MONSTER. 675 00:34:03,619 --> 00:34:04,413 >> I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. 676 00:34:04,448 --> 00:34:05,654 >> YOU ARE A MONSTER. 677 00:34:05,689 --> 00:34:07,378 >> YOU DIDN'T EVEN, LIKE-- YOU DIDN'T EVEN-- YOU'RE NOT EVEN 678 00:34:07,413 --> 00:34:08,240 DOING YOUR HOMEWORK, MAN. 679 00:34:08,275 --> 00:34:09,034 >> YOU ARE A MONSTER FOR WHAT YOU DID. 680 00:34:09,068 --> 00:34:10,585 >> DO YOUR HOMEWORK, JARED. 681 00:34:10,619 --> 00:34:11,481 DO YOUR HOMEWORK. 682 00:34:11,516 --> 00:34:12,931 >> YOU ARE A MONSTER FOR WHAT YOU DID-- 683 00:34:12,965 --> 00:34:14,034 >> DO YOUR HOMEWORK. 684 00:34:14,068 --> 00:34:15,619 >> --AND EVERYBODY IS GOING TO LOOK AT YOU LIKE THAT. 685 00:34:15,655 --> 00:34:18,034 >> Reporter: AFTER MORE THAN TWO HOURS, DAVID ABRUPTLY ENDED 686 00:34:18,068 --> 00:34:19,275 THE INTERVIEW. 687 00:34:19,309 --> 00:34:20,206 >> I'LL ASK FOR A LAWYER. 688 00:34:20,240 --> 00:34:21,068 >> NO PROBLEM. 689 00:34:21,103 --> 00:34:23,034 I'M NOT ASKING YOU ANY MORE QUESTIONS. 690 00:34:23,068 --> 00:34:24,965 I'M STILL WONDERING WHERE GRETCHEN IS. 691 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:30,103 I WASN'T ABLE TO LEAVE THAT INTERVIEW KNOWING WHERE SHE WAS, 692 00:34:30,137 --> 00:34:34,827 AND THAT DIDN'T NECESSARILY SIT WELL WITH ME. 693 00:34:34,862 --> 00:34:37,000 >> Reporter: DAVID ANTHONY WAS CHARGED WITH SECOND-DEGREE 694 00:34:37,034 --> 00:34:41,000 MURDER AND EXTRADITED TO FLORIDA. 695 00:34:41,034 --> 00:34:47,896 DAYS LATER, HIS DOG, KOBE, WAS ADOPTED BY NEW OWNERS. 696 00:34:47,931 --> 00:34:50,206 IN JUPITER, DAVID'S ARREST MADE THE NEWS. 697 00:34:50,240 --> 00:34:52,827 >> ACCORDING TO A JUST-RELEASED ARREST REPORT, A NEIGHBOR HEARD 698 00:34:52,862 --> 00:34:54,137 A WOMAN'S BLOOD-CURDLING SCREAM AT ABOUT 6:00 IN THE MORNING, 699 00:34:54,172 --> 00:34:58,240 MARCH 21. 700 00:34:58,275 --> 00:35:01,034 >> Reporter: WHEN KELLY HANNA SAW THE STORY, SHE SAYS IT BROKE 701 00:35:01,068 --> 00:35:02,378 HER HEART. 702 00:35:02,413 --> 00:35:05,000 >> I JUST SAT DOWN ON MY BEDROOM FLOOR AND JUST CRIED MY 703 00:35:05,034 --> 00:35:09,000 EYES OUT, CRIED MY EYES OUT FOR HER DAUGHTER, FOR HER SISTERS, 704 00:35:09,034 --> 00:35:12,103 FOR HER PARENTS, FOR EVERYONE WHO LOVED HER. 705 00:35:12,137 --> 00:35:16,688 >> Reporter: DAVID'S FORMER BOSS, TABITHA HOPKINS, FELT 706 00:35:16,724 --> 00:35:17,275 SHE'D LOST TWO FRIENDS. 707 00:35:17,309 --> 00:35:20,344 >> IT WAS JUST SHOCKING. 708 00:35:20,378 --> 00:35:25,034 I WANTED TO BELIEVE IT WASN'T TRUE, BUT IT WAS, OBVIOUSLY. 709 00:35:25,068 --> 00:35:29,034 >> Reporter: PROSECUTOR DAVID ARONBERG HAD EVIDENCE AND A 710 00:35:29,068 --> 00:35:33,034 SUSPECT IN CUSTODY, BUT HE KNEW GETTING A CONVICTION WOULDN'T BE 711 00:35:33,068 --> 00:35:34,965 EASY. 712 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,034 >> THE MOST TROUBLING THING FOR THE FAMILY, AND FOR ALL OF US, 713 00:35:37,068 --> 00:35:41,000 QUITE FRANKLY, WAS THAT WE DID NOT HAVE GRETCHEN'S BODY. 714 00:35:41,034 --> 00:35:44,724 AND WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE A BODY OR A MANNER OF DEATH, THOSE ARE 715 00:35:44,757 --> 00:35:45,585 CHALLENGING CASES TO PROSECUTE. 716 00:35:45,619 --> 00:35:47,378 >> Reporter: AND DAVID ANTHONY KNEW IT. 717 00:36:00,172 --> 00:36:02,137 >> Reporter: WHILE DAVID ANTHONY WAS HELD IN CUSTODY IN 718 00:36:02,172 --> 00:36:07,000 PALM BEACH COUNTY, FLORIDA, A GRAND JURY INDICTED HIM ON THE 719 00:36:07,034 --> 00:36:10,757 CHARGE OF KIDNAPPING, AND RAISED THE MURDER CHARGE FROM SECOND 720 00:36:10,793 --> 00:36:12,688 DEGREE TO FIRST. 721 00:36:12,724 --> 00:36:14,688 COULD HE HAVE FACED THE DEATH PENALTY WITH THESE CHARGES? 722 00:36:14,724 --> 00:36:18,378 >> POTENTIALLY, YES, FOR FIRST- DEGREE MURDER. 723 00:36:18,413 --> 00:36:19,585 >> ONE TRAFFIC ONE. 724 00:36:19,619 --> 00:36:22,688 >> Reporter: BUT THE SEARCH FOR GRETCHEN ANTHONY'S REMAINS 725 00:36:22,724 --> 00:36:24,655 CONTINUED. 726 00:36:24,688 --> 00:36:26,688 >> THAT WAS THE THING HE HAD IN HIS FAVOR, IF THIS EVER WENT 727 00:36:26,724 --> 00:36:29,309 TO TRIAL. 728 00:36:29,344 --> 00:36:32,965 >> IT WAS ALMOST AS THOUGH IT WAS HIS TICKET. 729 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:37,827 IT WAS THE WORST PART OF IT FOR ME, THE FACT THAT HE WAS ABLE TO 730 00:36:37,862 --> 00:36:40,896 USE EVIDENCE OF HIS CRIME AS LEVERAGE. 731 00:36:40,931 --> 00:36:42,896 >> Reporter: THAT FACT ALSO WEIGHED HEAVILY ON GRETCHEN'S 732 00:36:42,931 --> 00:36:45,137 FAMILY. 733 00:36:45,172 --> 00:36:50,757 >> THE THOUGHT OF GRETCHEN BEING OUT THERE ALONE FOREVER 734 00:36:50,793 --> 00:36:54,757 WAS VERY UNSETTLING FOR THEM. 735 00:36:54,793 --> 00:36:58,757 I THINK THE FAMILY WANTED LIFE IN PRISON. 736 00:36:58,793 --> 00:37:01,862 BUT THEY WANTED GRETCHEN. 737 00:37:01,896 --> 00:37:04,240 >> Reporter: DECEMBER, 2020. 738 00:37:04,275 --> 00:37:06,793 WITH THE WINTER HOLIDAYS LOOMING, IT WAS BECOMING 739 00:37:06,827 --> 00:37:10,862 TRAGICALLY APPARENT THAT AUTHORITIES MAY NEVER FIND 740 00:37:10,896 --> 00:37:13,896 GRETCHEN WITHOUT HER ALLEGED KILLER'S HELP. 741 00:37:13,931 --> 00:37:18,793 >> AND SO, WE ENTERED INTO NEGOTIATIONS WITH DAVID 742 00:37:18,827 --> 00:37:21,827 ANTHONY'S DEFENSE LAWYER, AND WE'RE ABLE TO WORK OUT A 743 00:37:21,862 --> 00:37:24,655 SETTLEMENT OF 38 YEARS IN PRISON. 744 00:37:24,688 --> 00:37:26,757 >> Reporter: THAT SETTLEMENT REQUIRED DAVID ANTHONY TO PLEAD 745 00:37:26,793 --> 00:37:31,896 GUILTY TO SECOND-DEGREE MURDER AND REVEAL THE LOCATION OF 746 00:37:31,931 --> 00:37:40,931 GRETCHEN'S REMAINS. 747 00:37:40,965 --> 00:37:43,344 >> DAVID ANTHONY APPEARED IN COURT TODAY, PLEADING GUILTY. 748 00:37:43,378 --> 00:37:46,550 >> DAVID ANTHONY PLEADS GUILTY. 749 00:37:46,585 --> 00:37:50,000 >> Reporter: NINE MONTHS TO THE DAY AFTER GRETCHEN ANTHONY WENT 750 00:37:50,034 --> 00:37:54,827 MISSING, DAVID ANTHONY FINALLY ADMITS WHAT EVERYONE ALREADY 751 00:37:54,862 --> 00:38:00,931 KNEW: HE MURDERED HIS WIFE. 752 00:38:00,965 --> 00:38:06,827 >> WE WERE ABLE TO FIND GRETCHEN THAT DAY. 753 00:38:06,862 --> 00:38:13,000 IT WAS A RELIEF BECAUSE I KNOW THAT IS WHAT HER FAMILY WANTED. 754 00:38:13,034 --> 00:38:18,862 AND TO BE ABLE TO GIVE THAT TO THEM, IT MEANT A LOT. 755 00:38:18,896 --> 00:38:22,862 >> Reporter: DAVID ANTHONY CHOSE THIS NONDESCRIPT PATCH OF GRASS 756 00:38:22,896 --> 00:38:26,862 JUST A FEW MILES FROM HER HOUSE, BEHIND A WALMART AND NEXT TO A 757 00:38:26,896 --> 00:38:30,827 RETIREMENT HOME, TO HIDE HIS WIFE'S REMAINS. 758 00:38:30,862 --> 00:38:34,827 DETECTIVE JARED KENERSON TOOK US THERE. 759 00:38:34,862 --> 00:38:38,275 HOW DOES SOMEONE BURY A BODY HERE AND NOT GET CAUGHT? 760 00:38:38,309 --> 00:38:41,550 >> I-- I DON'T KNOW. 761 00:38:41,585 --> 00:38:42,724 I DON'T KNOW. 762 00:38:42,757 --> 00:38:44,034 >> Reporter: THIS DISCOVERY, THAT MUST HAVE BEEN QUITE A 763 00:38:44,068 --> 00:38:46,896 MOMENT FOR YOU. 764 00:38:46,931 --> 00:38:49,206 >> IT WAS VERY EMOTIONAL FOR ME. 765 00:38:49,240 --> 00:38:53,034 IT WAS VERY EMOTIONAL FOR ALL OF US THAT WERE INVOLVED. 766 00:38:53,068 --> 00:38:56,034 >> Reporter: AFTER MONTHS OF UNCERTAINTY, GRETCHEN'S FAMILY 767 00:38:56,068 --> 00:38:58,931 COULD FINALLY LAY HER TO REST. 768 00:38:58,965 --> 00:39:05,688 >> AND I COULD SEE-- AS HARD OF A TIME AS THIS HAS BEEN OR HAD 769 00:39:05,724 --> 00:39:08,034 BEEN FOR THE FAMILY, I COULD SEE THAT THERE WAS SOME SORT OF 770 00:39:08,068 --> 00:39:10,965 PEACE. 771 00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:14,034 >> Reporter: AN AUTOPSY WAS PERFORMED, WHICH EXPLAINED WHY 772 00:39:14,068 --> 00:39:18,896 THAT NEIGHBOR HEARD SCREAMS THE MORNING GRETCHEN DISAPPEARED. 773 00:39:18,931 --> 00:39:22,344 WHAT WAS THE CAUSE OF DEATH? 774 00:39:22,378 --> 00:39:26,034 >> THE CAUSE OF DEATH WAS STAB WOUNDS TO THE NECK AND TO 775 00:39:26,068 --> 00:39:28,688 THE TORSO. 776 00:39:28,724 --> 00:39:30,896 >> THERE WERE SOME DEFENSIVE WOUNDS. 777 00:39:30,931 --> 00:39:38,034 SHE FOUGHT FOR HER LIFE. 778 00:39:38,068 --> 00:39:40,344 >> BE SEATED. 779 00:39:40,378 --> 00:39:42,619 >> YOU USED WHAT YOU DID TO NEGOTIATE SOMETHING FOR 780 00:39:42,655 --> 00:39:45,344 YOURSELF. 781 00:39:45,378 --> 00:39:47,034 YOU ARE PURE EVIL. 782 00:39:47,068 --> 00:39:51,344 >> Reporter: GRETCHEN'S SISTER, SARAH CAREY, AND THE REST OF 783 00:39:51,378 --> 00:39:55,344 THEIR FAMILY CAME FACE TO FACE WITH DAVID ANTHONY AT HIS 784 00:39:55,378 --> 00:39:57,344 SENTENCING HEARING. 785 00:39:57,378 --> 00:40:01,378 >> YOU STOLE A MOTHER AWAY FROM HER CHILD, A DAUGHTER AWAY 786 00:40:01,413 --> 00:40:04,378 FROM HER MOTHER. 787 00:40:04,413 --> 00:40:06,378 YOU ARE A MONSTER. 788 00:40:06,413 --> 00:40:07,516 YOU ARE A COWARD. 789 00:40:07,550 --> 00:40:10,481 YOU CAN NEVER BE FORGIVEN. 790 00:40:10,516 --> 00:40:14,378 >> Reporter: THEN, IT CAME TIME FOR THE MAN WHO CREATED ALL THIS 791 00:40:14,413 --> 00:40:19,516 PAIN TO SPEAK, AND HE GAVE A BIZARRE EXPLANATION FOR HIS 792 00:40:19,550 --> 00:40:21,619 ACTIONS. 793 00:40:21,655 --> 00:40:25,516 >> MY ILLUSIONS SAW THE COVID PANDEMIC AS AN END-OF-THE-WORLD 794 00:40:25,550 --> 00:40:29,793 PROPHECY, AN ARMAGEDDON, THAT I FELT COMPELLED TO ESCAPE NO 795 00:40:29,827 --> 00:40:30,827 MATTER THE COST. 796 00:40:30,862 --> 00:40:34,413 INSTEAD OF BEING A MAN, I CHOSE TO BE A COWARD. 797 00:40:34,447 --> 00:40:37,550 I TRIED TO STEAL WHAT WASN'T MINE, AND, IN THE PROCESS, I 798 00:40:37,585 --> 00:40:41,172 ENDED A LIFE. 799 00:40:41,206 --> 00:40:46,447 HER LIFE HAD VALUE, HER LIFE HAD MEANING, AND I STOLE THAT LIFE. 800 00:40:46,481 --> 00:40:49,585 >> I'LL CALL B.S. ON THAT, HARD. 801 00:40:49,619 --> 00:40:50,447 HOGWASH. 802 00:40:50,481 --> 00:40:54,447 THAT'S APPALLING. 803 00:40:54,481 --> 00:40:55,585 ABSOLUTELY APPALLING. 804 00:40:55,619 --> 00:41:01,034 >> Reporter: AND HE LEFT SO MANY QUESTIONS UNANSWERED. 805 00:41:01,068 --> 00:41:01,585 >> WE WILL NEVER KNOW. 806 00:41:01,619 --> 00:41:06,447 WE WILL NEVER KNOW. 807 00:41:06,481 --> 00:41:12,137 WE WILL NEVER KNOW WHY HE ENDED GRETCHEN'S LIFE. 808 00:41:12,172 --> 00:41:18,447 >> I THINK THAT'S THE HARDEST QUESTION TO ASK, IS WHY. 809 00:41:18,481 --> 00:41:22,447 AND SOMETIMES YOU JUST NEED TO BELIEVE THAT THERE ARE HIGHER 810 00:41:22,481 --> 00:41:26,447 POWERS IN PLACE THAT HAVE A BIGGER PLAN. 811 00:41:26,481 --> 00:41:30,447 >> Reporter: AND NOW, GRETCHEN'S FRIENDS AND FAMILY ARE LEFT 812 00:41:30,481 --> 00:41:31,585 TRYING TO MAKE SENSE OF IT ALL. 813 00:41:31,619 --> 00:41:35,481 HOW IS GRETCHEN'S DAUGHTER DOING? 814 00:41:35,516 --> 00:41:37,585 >> YOU KNOW, CHILDREN ARE RESILIENT. 815 00:41:37,619 --> 00:41:42,550 SHE IS BLESSED TO HAVE HER FATHER IN HER LIFE, AND SHE 816 00:41:42,585 --> 00:41:46,206 APPEARS TO BE DOING WELL. 817 00:41:46,240 --> 00:41:49,655 >> SO, IF ONE PERSON WAS TOUCHED BY HOW MUCH SHE LOVED PEOPLE, 818 00:41:49,688 --> 00:41:54,516 BY HOW MUCH SHE LOVED HER CHILD, BY HOW MUCH SHE JUST LOVED 819 00:41:54,550 --> 00:42:01,655 LIVING LIFE TO THE FULLEST, THEN HER LIFE MATTERED. 820 00:42:01,688 --> 00:42:02,516 Captioning sponsored by CBS Captioned by 821 00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:13,137 Media Access Group at WGBH access.wgbh.org 822 00:42:13,172 --> 00:42:17,275 >> A SON ACCUSED OF HAVING HIS PARENTS KILLED. 823 00:42:17,309 --> 00:42:18,378 THE MOTIVE? 824 00:42:18,413 --> 00:42:21,068 MONEY FOR A HOUSE, AND COSMETIC SURGERY. 825 00:42:21,103 --> 00:42:23,965 >> I GOT A TEXT, "YOU'RE GETTING A BOOB JOB FOR CHRISTMAS, LOL." 826 00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:25,447 >> SO WHY DOESN'T HIS SISTER BELIEVE IT? 827 00:42:25,481 --> 00:42:27,481 >> I THINK THERE'S A LOT MORE TO THIS STORY.