07x23 - Cold Storage

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she was a mail-order bride Lord to the

United States with the promise of a

better life just a few years after she

was married she disappeared the clue to

this mystery came from an unlikely

source a second forensic look at the

suspicious death of another woman 16

years earlier

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Emilie des rêves was 26 years old her

husband Jack was a 52 year old former

Army sergeant now working as a painter

together the couple had a three-year-old

son whom we'll call Theo

emilita had an interesting past when

emelita was 18 she had been her family's

passport out of poverty 11 of her family

members lived in a two-room hut in Cebu

City in the Philippines she was a beauty

queen in her community and she was a

lovely girl she wanted to go to school

but her family had convinced her that

that's how they could have a better life

if she married a rich American at her

family's request emelita put her picture

in cherry blossoms a subscription

service for mail-order brides in 1987

Jack Reeves flew to the Philippines to

meet her there were two other American

men that were there to meet her and he

pretty well bulldozed his way into the

house offered her father more money than

the other men had offered and her father

chose Jack to be Emily's husband

once emilita arrived in Texas Jack

Reeves kept his promise and started

sending em Aleta's family $250 a month a

small fortune compared to the three

dollars a month and milita's father was

earning on October 11 1994 emelita

Reeves went to lunch with some friends

at the Lotus restaurant in Arlington

Texas during lunch

emilita confided to her friends that she

was no longer in love with her husband

instead she was in love with someone

else another woman and was anxious to

start a new life after lunch emelita

went shopping but never returned home

later when her friends couldn't get in

touch with her either on her cell phone

or her pager they called police when

questioned Jack Reeves told police he

wasn't particularly concerned about his

wife's disappearance he said his wife

may have run off with her female lover

Jack was into all this pornography and

he was into watching videos of women

together men and women in the act sexual

acts but he drew the line at emelita

going out with any other men and if he

ever found out that she had close male

friends that she went out with that he

became very angry and Reeves was

convinced his wife would return matter

of fact it was very nonchalant telling

the officers that she would return as

she always does police located emily

t'as lover Mona Lisa pate Mona Lisa paid

admitted to us

she and emelita were in fact engaged in

a relationship she also admitted she was

with emilita until 8:00 p.m. on the

night of her disappearance but she

didn't know where emilita went

afterwards

two days later Emily does abandoned car

was found in a supermarket parking lot

just a few miles from her home police

interviewed her husband once again

initially he said she had just run off

but then he decided he was going to

start helping so he brings in two Tomlin

ors office something that he believes

will help track emelita even with Emily

dissent search dogs were unsuccessful in

another attempt to help the

investigation Jack Reeves offered a

$25,000 reward for information leading

to his wife's safe return

but police got their first break in the

case when a detailed search of a

milita's abandoned vehicle gave

investigators some important insight

into her last ride

police in Texas were starting to believe

that there was foul play involved in

emelita Reeves disappearance when police

inspected EMA leaders abandoned car they

noticed something suspicious when the

vehicle was found the seat was

consistent with someone much taller than

EMA leader who is a very short person

the steering wheel was not locked

is it Malita always locked it and the

alarm was not set on the vehicle which

emelita always did and suspicions

mounted when police learned that none of

em Aleta's clothing was missing from her

home they also learned that emelita was

not in love with her husband emelita

also told friends jack once asked her to

have sex with one of his sons from an

earlier marriage emelita refused police

asked Jack Reeves to come to police

headquarters to retrieve a milita's car

Jack had apparently left town he had

taken his young son and left for nearby

Lake Whitney where he frequently camped

and police also learned the Jack Reeves

had recently offered emelita

a substantial sum of money thirty

thousand dollars if she agreed not to

leave him and speaking with him elitist

friends they reflected several

conversations that emelita had had with

them where she expressed a tremendous

fear that Jack would in fact k*ll her in

her words as he had k*lled his other

wives Jack Reeves had been married three

other times and his second and third

wives both died under mysterious

circumstances

Jack married his first wife amaryllis

when she was only 15 years old her

mother later had the marriage annulled

in 1961 Jack married his second wife

Sharon together the couple had two sons

while Jack was in South Korea with the

US Army Sharon filed for divorce Greaves

immediately flew home to try to save the

marriage a few days later Sharon died

from a shotgun wound to her chest her

death had been ruled a su1c1de after

Sharon's death Jack returned to Korea

where he met wife number three young ho

Chung

six years later while vacationing at

Lake Whitney Young was on a raft in the

lake while Jack was away gathering fish

bait

and when he came back he claimed that

that's what he found beyond had fallen

off of the raft and had drowned her

sister attended the funeral and found

bruises on her arms and scrapes she

contended from the very beginning when

she learned of me on staff that jacket

k*lled her I talked to the sister and I

said what is this about me on you know

we're all kind of wondering about it and

she said well I wondered not only

because of the nails but because of the

scratches on Jack's hands and I thought

well like he was scratched up by brush

when he pulled her out of the water she

said no not a long parallel scratches on

his hands and it made me think you know

were those from her fingernails after

the funeral Jack had Young's body

cremated despite her family's concerns

there was no investigation

after learning of Jack's past detective

lenoir was convinced emelita Reeves had

been the victim of foul play and set a

trap to test his hypothesis he spoke

once again to Jack Reeves and this time

bragged about the latest advances in DNA

testing I went into this dissertation

which was completely fictitious and made

up on the spot about when an individual

dies

cells on the body immediately die DNA

falls from the body and in fact would

fall and embed itself into his carpet to

where you can shampoo it vacuum it do

whatever you want you're not gonna get

rid of it the only thing is get rid of

the carpet

the next day as undercover police

watched from across the street Jack

Reeves did just that he replaced the

carpet in his home he had taken the bait

there was absolutely no reason for him

to take that particular activity at that

particular time but police still had no

forensic evidence against Jack Reeves

and they still could not find Emily dead

Arlington police detective Tom Leonor

believed his best chance of solving the

disappearance of emilita Reeves was to

investigate the sudden and unusual

circumstances surrounding the deaths of

jacks otherwise Jack's third wife young

Reeves had drowned in ten feet of water

and Lake Whitney after falling off a

raft at the time of the accident the

local game warden reported that Young's

raft was undamaged and had a full air

supply he thought it was unlikely that

an adult could fall off and not be able

to retrieve it and the drowning occurred

in ten feet of water

if myung indeed slipped off a raft

investigators couldn't understand why

she was unable to swim just a short

distance to where she could have stood

in the lake

unfortunately there had been no criminal

investigation and no autopsy was

performed young Reeves had been cremated

Jack's second wife Sharon Reeves

was found dead in her bedroom from what

was believed to be a self-inflicted

g*nsh*t wound to her chest since it was

presumed to be su1c1de there had been no

autopsy performed

and only one photograph of the accident

scene remained Arlington Police sent the

photograph to the internationally known

blood spatter expert Tom bevel at the

time of the accident jack told police

that he believed sharon was sitting on

the bed and pushed the trigger with her

toe

but an analysis of the blood spatter

evidence revealed that Sharon had been

standing at the time the g*n went off

blood on Sharon's thigh was in an L

shaped pattern indicating that Sharon

was standing when blood first dripped

down her thigh from the wound then after

she fell backwards the blood changed

direction head to shin Reeves been

sitting the blood spatter as well as the

blood flows would have looked entirely

different in fact it would been a

reverse and with Sharon in a standing

position she would have been physically

unable to discharge the g*n I would say

that is not absolutely impossible but

highly improbable that that would be the

case detective lenoir now had probable

cause to exhume the body of Sharon

Reeves sixteen years after her death

the autopsy was conducted by Dallas

County Medical Examiner dr. Jeffery

Barnard she had a shotgun wound of the

chest and the entrance wound was in the

front of the chest and had a very sharp

right-to-left trajectory so that the

shotgun entrance was really in the front

but very sharply went to the left

lateral chest and the angle of the shot

was slightly downward with that very

acute projectory

with her being in an upright position

how she would have to hold the w*apon

would prevent her from the ability to

reach the trigger and to discharge it

herself which makes it not possible for

her to have done with a trajectory that

was a very sharp trajectory ending up

with her shot dead on the bed and then

the shotgun standing perfectly vertical

between her legs just made that a very

unlikely scenario I had no doubt

whatsoever that this was not the case of

a self-inflicted g*nsh*t wound Sharon

Reeves death was officially ruled

undetermined suggestive of a homicide

Jack Reeves was in the house when the

sh**ting occurred there was nobody else

in the house at the time so that made it

by process of elimination if Sharon

didn't pull the trigger jack had to it

according to Patricia Springer's book

mail-order m*rder after a milita's

disappearance Jack Reeves was desperate

for female companionship so desperate he

called em elitist 21 year old sister

asking her to come live with him

when that failed jack renewed his

subscription to cherry blossoms magazine

and through the personal ads found wife

number five and Malia was also in the

Philippines but before the two could

meet Jack Reeves was arrested we picked

him up put him in the car handcuffed and

all Jack looks at Ranger Cummings and

said you know what's the deal what's

going on here and Fred said you're under

arrest for murdering your wife and Jack

said which one and we all just kind of

looked at each other said well that's

probably a fair question

five months after the disappearance of

emelita Reeves her husband Jack was

arrested for m*rder when he was arrested

he repeatedly told me that he had not

k*lled him Aleta and that he should not

be arrested and that's when I explained

to him that he was being arrested for

the m*rder of Sharon Reeves in the look

on his face and the shock and the

complete and total devastation that it

took on him was was very remarkable

Sharon was Jack's second wife who died

of a g*nsh*t wound 16 years earlier just

really common I'm not guilty

police had tried to build a case against

wreaths of the m*rder of his fourth wife

Amelita but they lacked evidence in the

trial of Sharon Reeves death the case

hinged on blood spatter evidence and a

sh**ting reenactment the reconstruction

of the shotgun blast challenged Jack's

story that Sharon was sitting on the bed

and pushed the trigger with her toe the

female police officer assisting in the

recreation could not maneuver her toe

into the trigger-guard of the g*n the

jury was really entranced by that they

were into it and they had to be because

this was a case where first of all we

had to show she couldn't have pulled the

trigger

second of all we had to show that there

was nobody else available to pull the

trigger

except for jack and that by process of

elimination he had to have been the one

that committed the m*rder

Jack Reeves was found guilty of Sharon's

m*rder and was sentenced to 35 years in

prison on October 1st 1995 nearly one

year to the date of her disappearance

deer hunters at Lake Whitney stumbled

upon a shallow grave the remains were

sent to the medical examiner's office in

Fort Worth Texas deputy chief medical

examiner Marc Krauss was able to

identify the remains by comparing and

milita's dental records to the recovered

jaw it was a match

emilita was found without clothing

jewelry or personal items which was not

consistent with someone who ran away dr.

Krauss hoped that the bones would tell

how Emily de was k*lled but there was no

bone trauma no b*llet holes no knife

wounds and unfortunately the hyoid bone

was missing if it's fractured and if

it's fractured in a certain way we can

assume that a strangulation has occurred

that the person has been strangled to

the point that that bone was damaged and

it was likely to be fatal but dr. Krauss

made an important discovery in the soil

around EMA leaders lungs were tiny

single-celled organisms called diatoms

this was an important finding why

diatoms live in water by finding a

relatively high density of these little

microscopic creatures skeletons in the

area where the logs had once resided

when the body was placed in the grave

and by finding very low concentrations

or low numbers in diatoms elsewhere the

inference could be made that she was

drowned that she had inhaled water

containing diatoms and when her body

decomposed this material was deposited

in the grave

I'm more than more certain than not that

she was drowned in a homicidal manner

that she was k*lled by drowning later

police visited Lake Whitney with the

Reeves young son Theo who told police to

watch out for the big hole as he pointed

in the direction of his mother's grave

he also said his mother was hurt in the

bathtub by his father there was a

likelihood my frankly a probability that

Jack actually had his son with him at

the time emilita was buried the child

made a remarkable comment that

Illustrated he was familiar with that

particular geography he was able to

actually pinpoint specific areas where

emelita was buried that supported our

suspicion that he actually watched and

saw his mother get buried Jack Reeves

stood trial again this time for Emily

t'as m*rder he didn't really believe

that law turn on

he was convicted of her m*rder as well

when he heard the D word meaning divorce

from any of his wives he considered it

to be death and he k*lled him

Jack Reeves was sentenced to 99 years in

prison he will not be eligible for

parole until the age of 106 he's a

sociopath he has absolutely no remorse

for what he's done he wants to

manipulate you into trying to believe

that he's innocent and then help him

prove it Jack Reeves probably has

absolutely no redeeming quality about

him Jack Reeves is definitely where he

deserves to be and that's in prison for

the remainder of his life the forensics

made the case without him nothing would

have happened in either case there would

have been no identification there would

have been no means of death there would

have been no conviction

if the