Snapped: Women Who Murder - Dayna Jennings

Episode Date: April 25, 2021

When a beloved grandfather in Federal Heights, Colorado vanishes without a trace, the ensuing investigation exposes disturbing secrets that were lurking behind closed doors as police body cam footage reveals the deadly truth.Season 27, Episode 18Original air date: July 5, 2020Watch full episodes of Snapped for FREE on the Oxygen app: https://oxygentv.app.link/WsLCJWqmIebSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hi, I'm Lindsay Graham, the host of One Piece Podcast American Scandal. Our newest series looks at the story of OxyContin, a popular painkiller that helps spur an epidemic of addiction and drug abuse, in which prompted a broad campaign to hold the pharmaceutical industry accountable. Listen to American Scandal on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. A gentle and beloved grandfather vanishes without a trace. I want a file of missing person's report. This was not like him to go missing and just to leave his family behind.

He was just very sweet and humble and down to earth. He would always go away out of his way to help my sister. She was always a daddy's girl. Investigators must determine if the family is simply overreacting. Does he have to be found if he was on him? It's not illegal for you just to pack your stuff, get on a gray house and go somewhere. But is there more to this missing person's case

than meets the eye? A woman had come in with somebody betting just from the noise she acted. I knew there was something wrong. It started looking more and more like there was some kind of foul play. The message that I got was that she was being me. The right police department searched warrant. We think we found a human body.

Who could do that? What monster could do that? Oh, I could think of what's how disgusted I was. December 28, 2017. After the bustling Christmas holiday, all is calm in Federal Heights, Colorado, when a call comes in to the emergency dispatch center at 7.19 p.m. Center, I'd like to please the fire.

I'd like to either get a wellness check or check out on a missing person. The caller is 72-year-old Robert Musok. What's going on? Well, it's my brother. I've been trying to call him for over two weeks, and he's never returning my call. OK.

And this has never happened before? No, not that I know of. He was very worried and was just adamant that it's unusual for his brother to disappear and not contact family members. OK, what's your brother's name? William? And who's watching? No sock.

Born on June 9, 1948, Bill Musok was the youngest of four children. He was just like the guy next door. He was just very sweet and humble and down to earth. In 1968, Bill married his high school sweetheart, Terry Sellers, and the couple settled down in Los Angeles, California. My mom, she always had a good sense of humor and was pretty outgoing and my dad, you know, he was just generally a good guy, he could joke and laugh at himself. They just enjoyed each other's company.

Soon after their wedding, Bill took a job as a machinist, manufacturing aircraft parts at an aerospace and defense company called Northrop. My parents' marriage was in a good place, and you know, they intended to have kids and build a home together. Their first child, Dana, was born in 1973, and their son Brian followed four years later. He was a good dad. When he had free time, he would spend free time with us. We would go up to dinner, sometimes we'd, you know,

go to Disneyland. Bill was especially close to his daughter, Dana, who shared her father's outgoing personality and sense of humor. She made her presence be known to you in the room. She was probably the first person that you would hear. My dad just loved her. She was always a daddy's girl.

He always spoke highly of her. She got her first job when she was like 14 years old and she, you know, always was like very ambitious in that weight. And when she wanted to get something done, she would go and do it. For more than two decades, all was well for the Musak family, until 1995, when Bill came home from work with unfortunate news. It was over 25 years that he worked for Northrop and in the mid-90s, they were just laying

off thousands of people, and the department that he worked in was one of those departments. Bill and Terry's marriage couldn't survive the blow. That was kind of like the breaking point and so they just decided to get divorced. My dad, I think he was just kind of going through a really deep depression at that point and just he was just having a tough time with it. Shortly after his divorce, Bill decided it was time for a change. He told my sister Dana and I that he was moving to Colorado he was going to go stay with

his brother and just I guess try to get back on his feet. After moving to Colorado in 1996, Bill took a job as a hospital security guard and bought a home in federal heights. In his spare time, Bill wasn't one to have idle hands. His hobby was to work on projects. You know, at somebody's house, the family members, or friends, you know, that maybe needed some type of home improvement project. When I bought my house, he started coming over and helping me make it accessible and built my patio.

I know how to do all that stuff, but being in the wheelchair, I couldn't do most of it, and he would never take money. He just said, you know, keep bearing the fridge and buy pizza, and I'm happy about that. He loved doing that stuff. While Bill was enjoying his new life in Colorado, his daughter, Dana, was struggling back in California. By the age of 26, Dana had cycled through a series of clerical jobs

and had two marriages end in divorce. There was a big shift in her personality. She just, after that seemed to be more of a bitter personality and just more negative, more pessimistic about things. Just like her father, Dana was ready for a change. Dana was just working in offices. It wasn't something she wanted to do forever. And so she had a friend that was a massage therapist

and kind of knew all the things you needed to do to do that. Dana completed a massage therapy program and started her own practice. She liked to work with essential oils and she concocted her own little mixtures for, you know, sore muscles and achy joints, and I know she was really into that. But by her late 20s, Dana wanted more than a career change. She wanted a new start. She decided to go move out there, to to Colorado and be closer to my dad.

He was probably very happy about it, you know, because I know they were always really close. Just two years after the move, Dana built up a thriving business. Then, in 2002, she met a new man, Joel Jennings, who quickly got Bill's seal of approval. My dad was always very impressed with him. He's a pretty great guy. He's got a really good sense of humor. He's very mellow. The couple married in 2006, and Dana moved in with Joel.

Five years later, they welcomed a little girl. I thought, like, wow, Dana's come back around and things have kind of changed where she's not. So angry and bitter, I was happy about it. But after eight years of marriage, in June 2014, the happy facade crumbled. Dana said that it was just impossible to live with him anymore.

So that got our attention. My dad and I, her first three husbands, they all seemed like good guys. And it was pretty surprising to everybody each time she would come up with a story about them and wanting to all of a sudden get divorced from them. In their divorce, Dana and Joel split custody of their daughter. Before Joel and Dana even got married,

Joel was already buying a home. And by the time they were divorcing, somehow Jol was the one that had to move out. And Dana was the one still living in the house. Ultimately, I believe Jol got a lawyer. And so Dana moved out. She got the house and her massage business went under. A year after the couple split,

Dana found herself in a fourth marriage, this time to a man named Chris Newton. They just went to City Hall and got married and they weren't doing very well financially. And so my dad, you know, he had a two bedroom house and I had a finished basement and he was just living alone. So they asked my dad, you know, in 2015, if they could move in with him, and he agreed to it.

Bill moved into his basement, while Dana, her daughter, and Chris moved into the upper level. My dad thought it would be beneficial for him too, because at times when he would leave for a week or two to go visit, you know, somebody out of state or something, he could have them there at the house. And then Plus he's helping his daughter and his granddaughter, so he felt good about that. Although Dana, her daughter and Bill seemed to be enjoying the new arrangement, Chris was not.

So a couple months later, around November of 2017, I talked to Dana on the phone a little bit, and she started telling me that her and Chris were having problems, and their marriage was falling apart. Devastated that after just three years, her fourth marriage was heading for divorce, Dana once again leaned on her father for support. Everybody in this world has one person in their life

that is the person that they go to whenever they're in trouble. Bill was Dana's person, Bill Lutter. But in December of 2017, Dana's support system seemingly disappears. Bill's brother, Bob Musak, has alerted the federal heights police department after not hearing from Bill for weeks. Missing first cases are not that unusual

and we have them all the time. So this guy's probably on vacation somewhere and just didn't tell his family. It's not illegal for you just to pack your stuff, get on a gray house and go somewhere. But Bob insists his brother's lack of contact warrants action. This was not Bill Musak to go missing and just to leave his family behind. It was so out of character, it didn't mesh, it wasn't right.

That was the red flag. Coming up, police are dispatched to Bill's house. This was adding up the more than just you're right in the middle missing person case. Will a surprise witness send the search in a dark direction? The amount of blood it would have been something getting dismembered. After a concerned phone call from Bob Musa, patrol officers in federal heights, Colorado, are dispatched to check by his daughter, 44-year-old Dana Jennings.

Hi, how are you? Hi, yeah, we're trying to reach William Moosek. He's my dad, he doesn't really love Harry, he just has some stuff here and comes by every now and then. She said that it was normal for him to be gone and that there was really nothing suspicious going on. I guess your uncle was calling about him? He lost his phone. I know that, and I found it and put it by some mail that I have for him here, but he hasn't come by for probably been about 10 days.

I would think so, and I would probably come by soon to pick up his mail and stuff like that. That happens all the time. You show up at someone's house and say, hey, you know, we need to talk to someone. So they're like, oh, they're on vacation. We'll have them call. I mean, I think your uncle is probably out of the loop. So, I know I have my uncle's number somewhere.

So the officers left and never re-contact him for other after he made the initial report. Use of that would end it right there. Despite Dana's seemingly logical explanation, almost immediately, police hear from another member of Bill's family, his son, Brian. I would talk to him probably five or six days out of the week. You know, sometimes there'd be a day here or there that would go by it, but we pretty much always

kept contact with each other. There's just no reason why he would just disappear like that. It was very upsetting because we didn't know what the heck was going on. We were over here in California a thousand miles away. We didn't want to tell too many people about what's going on because we didn't know what was going on. MUSIC

Minutes after police talk to Brian, Bill's brother Bob calls again. They actually got an officer complaint from the brother who had called my office to say that the officer should never got back in touch with him. I want to file a missing person's report. I don't know what the deal is, but I'm

working suspecting and talking from. That's all I know. When you start getting those multiple calls like that, this was adding up the more than just your run of the mill missing person case. On December 29th, officers returned to Bill and Dana's house. The night shift officers obviously weren't there anymore. So Officer Burant went out

and made another contact with Dana. I go straight to the house and knock on the door. And wait a little while, and she answered to me through the door. Please, Department. Hi. Where's your data?

I'm not sure he only comes by every couple of weeks and picks up mail and stuff. He's been spending a lot of time up in the mountains with a girlfriend or a friend like that. She said that he had left a couple weeks prior, that he had actually left his phone at the house and told her that he was going to the mountains to go camp me with his girlfriend.

You don't have an address? I don't. I don't even know the girl's last name. I know her name's Martha. That's all he's ever texted me about or talked to me about. Something inside me said that I needed to not only talk to Dana, but get into that house. Maybe just at my own minorities, as well as the families. You might have come in and check and make sure he's not here.

He's, yeah, it's a mess. I don't care. That's fine. As soon as you walked right in the door, you could smell something. It's stuck. I haven't heard anything in any hot air. I have it over the toilet in the basement. Oh.

Dana Jennings told him that the toilet had flooded and backed up, and that was the smell of sewage. The house was incredibly cluttered. You couldn't even walk through without stepping on things, clothes, other items. Dana says her father left behind his white pickup truck. and even walk through without stepping on things, close other items. Dana says her father left behind his white pickup truck. I noticed that all his cars were there,

or there was three cars at the house at the time. The truck was there. How does it usually get to where he's going? He's in the old cars, but he asked me to take half my fence and my can I come by and pick up two of them to work on. So, um, sometimes the girl he's saying always comes and picks him up. She said he disappeared with his girlfriend and I don't know her and I don't know where he went. Where's his room?

Is there any other room here? Not really. No. No. OK. He'll sleep on my massage table when he's here. The massage table was covered in clothes, and they were piled probably about 2 to 3 feet high. It's his house.

For him to sleep in the lazy boy or on the massage table in the middle of a living room is kind of odd. of living room is kind of odd. MUSIC Officer Berant searches for any sign of bills whereabouts. Williams' personal items didn't appear to be in the home anymore. He didn't see any evidence that Bill was still living there and really didn't see any signs that Bill had been there recently. All right, well, I guess if he shows up,

have him call. Did he have a, should I call somebody specific, or just call a police officer? Have him call his brother. OK. And call the police department. Officer Berant leaves the residence with an ominous feeling.

It was starting to just know-all from me where I was starting to get a little bit different feeling. When he got back to the PD, he wrote a Pizz report and then we talked about it and he's like, I just didn't feel comfortable or something going on. I tried to assume that okay, what's the worst case scenario we're dealing with here? We ran bills through our computer system, DCCIC and NCIC. The CFE had been stopped or arrested anywhere.

We started checking hospitals. We weren't able to find anything. As days pass with no sign of bill, the likelihood of finding him unharmed dwindles. I truly felt that today he had met some foul play. We put out all those looking for this individual. Then on January 3, the Bolo pays off with a tip from a nearby police force.

The North Gun Police Department had contacted me and said that North Gun Police got contacted by a laundromat owner that said that woman had come in with some bloody bedding. According to the North Glenn detective, the suspicious event happened on December 8th, right around the time Bill was last heard from. We contacted the manager of the laundromat. We identified who we were and that we

wanted to know what their employee had seen and what was said. They actually called the employee and we talked to the employee. Someone had washed a bunch of blankets that possibly had blood on them. And shoes that had blood on them because of the amount of blood on the closing and their shoes. They would have been something getting dismembered. This much blood, a lot of mad. It was very suspicious. Coming up, did Bill fall victim to something sinister?

It just really hit me that he was probably dead somewhere. Or has he been in hiding all along? According to her, Bill is returned. It just would be unbelievable. Whatever your plans this summer, podcasts will make them better. Long road trip? Lose yourself in the season of morbid. But laxing at the beach?

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as discounts in the Wondery Shop. Don't let the Summer of Podcasts pass you by. Right now, new subscribers can enjoy two months free of Wondery Plus. Visit Wondery.com or download the Wondery app to get started. Detectives in Federal Heights, Colorado have just received a potentially crucial tip, six days into the missing persons investigation of 69-year-old Bill Musak. The tipster claims to have seen blood-soaked linens at a local laundromat around the time of Bill's disappearance. We were able to obtain a video from the security camera in a laundromat of the individual symbol of the net. The video wasn't really great, you couldn't tell, but it didn't match anybody that we'd interviewed.

We weren't able to identify any of them. Once we started looking at it, we could link nothing back to our case whatsoever. I didn't want to leave those stones unturned, but this is just one of those random occurrences that happened to happen in the middle of our investigation. So we turned it back over to North Carolina with them running with it.

Investigators circle back to a potential lead that Dana brought up in an early conversation. Perhaps Bill's rumored girlfriend, Martha, had something to do with his disappearance. She said that he had gone to the mountains with his girlfriend. Who knows? Bill could have been that Martha's house with her. And just, you know, for whatever reason, I don't want to have contact with people right now. We were able to get Martha's phone number from Bill's niece. When investigators track Martha down later that day, she says she hasn't seen Bill

and sets the record straight on the nature of their relationship. Dana had believed that William was actually with Martha. Martha kind of confirmed that no, they weren't together. They were just really good friends. They weren't actually dating. They were just, they worked together, and they would go do stuff together. She owned a property in the mountains of five-acre property that was like a campground.

You know, they could go up there and go camping at any time. But Martha says they hadn't been camping in weeks. In fact, Martha hasn't heard from Bill since early December. Martha had reached out to William about joining her for a Christmas party. December nights was the day of the Christmas party. And Bill's a punctual, reliable guy. He didn't show up.

And he didn't call Martha. She indicated he was non in regular communication with her anymore and that it was out of character for him. After sitting down and talking to Martha, we were able to say, no, he's not there. He's not in the mountains with Martha. Officers decide to return to Bill's house and make contact with Dana again.

I did go back a second time. And I asked her, do you mind filling out some written statements so that we can maybe figure out where Bill has gone? And she said, she'd fill him out and call me back on a later date. And we asked, you know, how do you talk to Bill at all? And she said she lost her rent money on the counter,

and it was missing. So he must have come back to the house during that time, according to her, Bill picked up his phone. Detectives find Dana's statement hard to believe. If you go pick up your phone that you haven't had in two weeks, what's the first thing you're going to do? Turn it on.

See who's been trying to contact you, put out whatever fire you can, and then go about your life. Well, it hadn't happened that way. put out whatever fires you can and go about your life. Well, it hadn't happened that way. Suddenly, Dana tells police she can't provide any further information and that she's tired of fielding questions. Miss Jennings was very abrupt with Officer Bram,

you know, kind of perturbed that he was there in the first place. She said, I don't know where Dad is. The type of thing I'm tired of waking up to the cops knocking at my door. So I left it at that and we left. With Dana refusing to help, police reach out to Bill's other family and friends. On January 6, 2018, they meet in a conference room at City Hall. You had people sitting all around the table, and it kind of just went round table about what they thought was going on.

Our goal was to get as many names and as many other places the bill could be at. We were trying to build that web of who Bill might know. And to set that timeline and figure out who had talked to him last, who had actually physically seen him last. Brian Bill's son shared the text messages that him and his dad had had in the days previous to him going missing. Brian says when his dad last spoke with him on December 7, he talked about falling into a deep sleep

during one of Dana's massages. It was just really odd because he knocked out and like he fell asleep. And he said that he woke up a few hours later, and he was, I guess, on the massage table still, and then he got up. To go sit in his chair and he felt really groggy. According to Brian, Bill said he had asked Dana to pick up some food.

Dana brought him a burger and a shake. I remember him saying in the text message. And he said, all I remember is taking a bite of the burger and then he just fell asleep. And he said the next thing he knew, he woke up the next day, 15 hours later. And he said, I don't know if Dana drugged me or what. I thought that was really weird.

It's really weird. Anytime you have the older individual talking about being drugged by his daughter, yeah, that's a huge red flag for us. Brian also shares that there have been problems between Dana and her father in recent months. My dad, I could tell, wanted to help Dana, but I could tell that he was not happy.

Dana had taken over the house. Dana really could never make the rent. I got the feeling that he kind of regretted it, having them living there. Brian says Dana was also unhappy with the living arrangement. She was saying that he was emotionally abusive and that I would say, well, how is he emotionally abusive? And she'd say, well, we get to an argument over something,

and then he would just walk away from me and stop talking to me. And then he wouldn't talk to me all day. And I'm like, OK, that's not emotional abusive. That's him not wanting to escalate the argument. Bill's sister says she hasn't spoken with Bill since before Thanksgiving, but on December 29th, she received a picture of the mountains from his phone. It was just a random picture without any context or any other statements.

Bill's friend, John, says that Dana is convinced her father is in Arizona. She said, oh, he stopped by a few days ago and picked up the rent check. I think it's a good idea to have a good time Bill's friend John says that Dana is convinced her father is in Arizona. She said, oh, he stopped by a few days ago and picked up the rent check. And now he's in Arizona at a French property and joined the sunshine. We talk to family, hey, does he know anybody in Arizona? Does he, you know, does he have any friends in Arizona?

And we were totally didn't. to see have any friends in Arizona. And we were totally didn't. Still, detectives refused to leave any stone unturned. We contacted his phone subscriber and asked them to do an emergency paying on his phone. They were able to tell us that the last time that his phone was used was on December 29. It didn't ping in Arizona.

It pinged near his house. The discovery is a grim indication of Bill's fate. It just really hit me that he was probably dead somewhere. There's something horrible that happened to him. From that day forward, federal heights started suspecting that there had been a crime committed. They then started looking at Mr. Musick's bank records. We found that there was hyperactivity on his bank accounts.

That there were cash withdrawals from his account. The bank even noted that the signatures on the checks were not matching the victim's signature. Errol filled out by Dana in the daughter. the victim's signature error fill out by Dana and the daughter. The discovery, combined with her behavior during the investigation, lands Bill's daughter at the top of the suspect list. It was a red flag. Okay, his bank has been used.

Miss Jennings over here didn't seem really concerned about what had happened to her dad. Any other son or daughter is going to be at least trying to help in some ways. But Dana had given a bunch of different stories, and things weren't had enough. Somebody said, do you think she did something to him? And I was like, I don't think she would do something like that. It just would be unbelievable. Coming up, series begin to bubble up in federal heights. What do you think happened, though?

I think Bill's dead. And a search warrant leads to a gruesome discovery. You cannot stay in a house without some type of a face mask or something. After uncovering incriminating evidence, federal heights investigators believe Dana Jennings knows more about her father Bill's disappearance than she's letting on. Bill's family couldn't agree more. We're starting to get very heavily suspicious of her. We all can't trust Dana because she's telling us

all different stories. Every time we would kind of get her corner with her excuses, she'd come up with some other excuse and kind of wheeze a lot of it. For more insight into Dana and Bill's relationship, detectives interview a fresh face. Dana's third ex-husband, Joel Jennings. What do you think happened, Bill?

I think Bill's dead. We were kind of shocked by that. I was like, whoa, you know, okay, this is interesting, you know. I think there was some sort of an impropriety. I can't tell you if it was murdered in court, Bill died and was disposed of for financial gain. And you're saying that Dana, disappeared the traitor to that?

What do you think? Uh, yeah, they think. Dana, does the perpetrator of that? What do you think? Uh... Yeah, they think. Dana is a very passionate person. It is not out of the realm of how I know her to do something and to bridge your passion. Joel says that 2017 had been a particularly difficult year for Dana. We'd learned that Dana's business had recently gone out of business.

She had worked since the beginning of summer. I'm pretty sure. We'd learned that Chris Newton, her current husband, had left at the end of November right around Thanksgiving. Message that I got from Dana was that she was being me. She seemed to have that mentality kind of just bitter and just everybody's against her. Help is a hell of a relationship with Bill.

The time that I knew her, dating Mary, and afterwards, I always felt it was pretty good, like she really adored her father. I felt like she helped to believe that he was the only person that would love her forever and conditionally. However, Joel says that with Dana, things could change in an instant. I guess that she was impulsive and unpredictable. The way he explained Dana was, she either loved you or hated you. You were either the best one day or you were scum of the earth next. And there was no in between.

Once you do something to cross the line of, you know, like not showing unconditional love, or that pissed me off, then I hate you going, you're the worst person ever. Had a fallout between father and daughter ended in deadly consequences. We decided we need to get into the house and take a look, because obviously the daughter is not being cooperative. Investigators take their suspicions to a judge and secure a search warrant for Bill's house. We suspected that something bad had happened to Bill, but we had no idea.

That search warrant of the house was the only step black, you know, other than just putting it into a cold case. On January 10th, 2018, police execute the search warrant. We explained that we are executing a search warrant that she can't be in a house. We played the very cordial, hey, you know, we're just here, we're looking for your dad, you know,

which, your mind coming down to the police department help us out. She was very jovial. She joked. She laughed with us. She didn't seem concerned. Just before escorting Dana to the station, Detective Payne instructs his team to keep him updated. I said, if you find something, text me.

Send me a text message. Because I'm going to be in this interview, and I'm not going to be able to answer my phone. Send me a text message because I'm going to be in this interview and I'm not going to be able to answer my phone. At 11 a.m. Police and CSI's entered the residence. The right police department search warrant. We have a horrendous smell in the house. This is a slug. I'm Burwell. You cannot stay in a house without some type of face mask.

Some of the more seasoned detectives were like, oh yeah, that's decom. Police traced the source of the stench to an isolated area in the basement. It was actually behind a board that had been placed across the entrance to the crawl space. We get in there, sort of looking around and find a slab of concrete that, obviously, a very

amateur job. We had the fire department come in and they brought in their hammers and saws and so on, start breaking a part of that concrete. While police get to work at Bill's house, Detective Burke Payne and DA investigator Patrick Ness sit down with Dana at the police department. We explained the day and she wasn't under arrest. Door was unlocked, she was free to leave. It was definitely our thought process

to keep her talking as long as we can. I tried to learn about it, so maybe I can figure out where it's at, you know. I'm 17. Have to be found if you did a lot of these. Or am I going to continue to be talking to my police until he died there. Well, we need to resolve this.

Investigators cut straight to the point. I want to ask you, is Bill dead in that house? And you covered it all. Well, you need to be not that you're aware of it. He'd be crawling or any house. I have no knowledge of him dying in that house. She was very jovial through the entire site. There wasn't a point in the interview where she, like,

okay, I'm in trouble now. Back at Bill's house, firefighters finally cut through the concrete slab in the crawl space. When the fire department broke concrete off the smell was so horrendous. You can see in this concrete this curl of hands to get out of this concrete is obviously a human hand. At that point, I contacted Detective A. Antone. We have found a body. I know we're in there a little over an hour, but my phone starts ringing, and I look and it's my evidence text.

We think we found a human body in the car space. So, investigator Ness was also getting the same, we were on the same text message strain. With that point Ness brought up, what kind of home improvements have you been doing? Why'd you put C. Meta-Colors? My dad's been putting C. Meta down there, and I- It has not here.

No, before. And I've been adding to it, it's trying to get it out of the car. So you've got the broken foot. That's the time that you want a car conqueror. See how the cement is just here. Just got in the car, right? And...

We're going to dig that to conqueror. That is where Investigator Ness really starts pushing more. Did you kill your father? No. OK. But you did hide his body because he is deceased, isn't it? No. Then, investigators show their full hand.

And now they're in the process of digging that scene and up from what they just told me. I'm guessing this is where I need to ask for an interview. OK. And it was at that point the interview ended. We arrested her that night for improper disposal of a human body. Then we found the body in your house.

At this time, we were under arrest for continuing a dead body. You need to stand up. You need to stand up. You need to stand up. You're going to need both this officer. She was very nonsulant about it. It was not a big, really a big deal to her. Coming up, an autopsy reveals a man's final moments.

His heart slowed down, he stopped breathing, and eventually he goes combatose. It was unimaginable. Cold, blooded, and heart, of course, leaning to him. The Detectives in federal heights, Colorado, suspect that a concrete encased corpse found in a basement crawl space is missing man Bill Musak. With Bill's daughter Dana in custody for abuse of a corpse, the county medical examiner performs an autopsy to confirm the identity of the body.

He had had a knee replacement surgery. The pathologist opened up the knee and exposed the knee replacement. We're able to post a bit of identify bill at that point. knee replacement. We're able to post a by Dan if I'm built at that point. The pathologist didn't notice any blunt force injuries or stag wounds, gunshot wounds or anything apparent.

When standard toxicology tests come up negative, detective sapena, Dana's phone and laptop for answers. We did find some suspicious Google searches on December 9th. She was looking up how long it takes bodies to decompose. Detectives also find a Google search for Asapromazine. I get back on my computer and pops up. It's a horse tranquilizer. She had done some research online and ultimately ordered

the Asapromazine from eBay in late November. I called up the Harners office and I said, we need to test for Asapromazine. Ultimately, they found Asapromazine in his system. Ultimately, they found Ace of Promising in his system. It was a dose that would have been an inappropriate dose to tranquilize several horses. His respiratory system slows down. His heart slowed down.

He stopped breathing and eventually he goes combitosis and then dies. With the murder weapon identified, the charges against Dana are upgraded. Dana Jennings was charged with two counts. One was first-sirbury murder, and the second count was tampering with a deceased human body. I do not see a lot of remorse from Dana Jennings. The charges bring the magnitude of the situation into focus for Bill's friends and family. All I could think of was how dispusted I was with her.

She's cold, blooded, and heartless, plain and simple. It was horrible. Who could do that? What monster could do that? And what alone his daughter? It was unimaginable. On July 8, 2019, Dana arrives in court to face the possibility of life without parole. In opening statements, prosecutors claim that Dana had seen her father as an easy way

to get herself back on her feet. She somewhere along the line convinced herself that she could make my dad disappear and just kind of step into his life. If she could have his home, have access to his money, and have him out of there, things, I think, in her mind would have been better. Prosecutors claim Dana bought Asa Promazine

over the internet and laced her father's food and massage oil with a fatal dose of the drug. I haven't come across a case in my career that had this much evidence of deliberation. What we had here was weeks, if not, longer of planning. Though the defense doesn't deny that Dana gave her father the drug, they claim Bill's death was just a tragic accident. The defense's theory was that she had purchased this drug not to kill him in any way, but to provide him some assistance with sleeping issues and other things to help him try to relax.

This was an accident overdose. She just simply overdid it. Then afterwards, she didn't know what to do. And admittedly, I think they argue that, yeah, she made a bad choice and put the body in the basement. On July 15, 2019, the jury returns with a verdict. Dana Jennings was convicted of murder in the first degree, as well as tampering with a deceased human body. Only sentence that it can impose is a life sentence

without possibility of parole. It was a relief to know that she was not gonna be able to be on the outside in her anyone. With Dana behind bars, Bill's family and friends are finally able to grieve the loss of a cherished loved one. It did so many great things and made things so beautiful when he did die.

That was his legacy. As far as, like, truly forgiving Dana for what she did, she's not, you know, truly forgiving Dana for what she did. She's not, you know, she hasn't reached out to us in any way, you know, to just even say like, hey, I'm sorry. What I did was was wrong. You know, there's been nothing of that sort. And I think if that happened,

that would help significantly in forgiving her. I know from my relationship with my dad that he was a good person. And I know that everyone that knew my dad knew that he was a good person. I rest my head easy at night knowing that he's remembered that way. Everyone that cared about him. Dana Jennings is currently serving her sentence at Denver Women's Correctional Facility. After Dana's conviction, Joel Jennings was given full custody of the couple's daughter. For more information on SNAPT, go to oxygen.com.

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