Bodies in the Water S01E01 An Ocean of Secrets
Haunting real-life mysteries that dive deep into the secrets of murder victims submerged in a watery grave.
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00:00It was a beautiful day on the water, but things went from good to just totally life-changing.
00:14When the ocean is our crime scene, we have to look in 360-degree direction because it
00:22changes every second.
00:25She was basically dumped in the Atlantic Ocean like a piece of trash.
00:30She had chains wrapped around her ankles.
00:33It was almost from a horror movie.
00:35This was probably one of the most bizarre cases that I've ever worked on.
00:39This was the work of a monster.
01:04I've been fishing these waters off of Cape May for over 35 years.
01:08The environment's great, the people in town are great.
01:12Cape May is a tourist town.
01:14It's always been known as a getaway here.
01:17Great food, great fishing.
01:20The beaches in Cape May are pristine and known for great weather.
01:27I have lived in Cape May all my life.
01:29On a typical summer day, Cape May is very busy, but it's always quiet, safe, easy to
01:37walk around.
01:38You can walk anywhere you want to go, ride a bicycle.
01:41The beaches are huge, and it's very relaxing.
01:46So even on our days off, we say, where are you going to go?
01:50It's Cape May.
01:58We call September and October local summer here in Cape May.
02:02It's kind of just a great time for us locals to have a little bit of that piece of paradise
02:08because in the summertime, we're working hard for the tourists around here.
02:12But just outside those breakers, it could be unsafe.
02:22It was a beautiful day on the water, and this Cape May fisherman is out fishing on
02:43his boat, trying to catch a few flounder.
02:53But it's like violence floated to our doorstep.
03:02Right there, he sees a body in the water.
03:13In New Jersey, we're surrounded by water, so any body that floats into the water basically
03:17becomes a state police issue.
03:20I got called for a body that was about two to three miles out in the ocean.
03:26At the time of this investigation, I was a detective assigned to the New Jersey State
03:30Police Major Crime Unit.
03:35First thing that struck me was that the body had been partially consumed by marine life.
03:44The piece that was just remarkable with this case was the manner in which this victim had
03:49been bound.
03:52She had chains wrapped around her ankles, as well as a blanket around the body.
04:01We were able very quickly to make some general determinations, such as an approximate age.
04:05We knew it was female.
04:07The frontal portion of her face was skeletal, so there was no facial features for us to
04:13evaluate.
04:14So that just creates a significant challenge for us.
04:22The gossip goes very fast, and everybody knows what's going on.
04:25I mean, it was horrible for everybody.
04:27And I'm sure that fisherman will never, never forget it.
04:30It'll be with him the rest of his life.
04:39When the ocean is our crime scene, we have to look in 360-degree direction.
04:44And the ocean is the perfect example of a compromised crime scene, because it changes
04:48every second.
04:51To me, that just means we have to work harder to try to figure out what happened, because
04:55we've already lost key potential forensic evidence.
04:59We were at the autopsy for this for, I believe, close to eight hours.
05:06Drowning was ruled out because she had no water in her lungs.
05:08So that means when she was submerged in water, she was not breathing at the time.
05:14The hyoid bone had been fractured, which is in the neck, and that is very common with
05:19strangulation deaths.
05:20So now we know that she was actually a murder victim, and that she had been placed in the
05:26Atlantic Ocean at the hands of somebody.
05:29This was the work of a monster.
05:35We were certainly in a position where we felt this was going to be a daunting exercise to
05:39not only figure out who she was, where she came from, but then to try to piece together
05:43how she got here.
05:46During the autopsy, we received information back from the fingerprint that we had recovered
05:51that had been submitted into the Nationwide database.
05:55We learned that our victim was 16 years old and was named Kimberly Holton.
06:05And she was from Dover, Delaware.
06:09She was in the database because in the past she had been a runaway, which thankfully for
06:14us when there's a runaway case, they are allowed to put juvenile fingerprints into the system
06:20just for this type of reason.
06:25We had learned that Kimberly lived in a mobile home park in Dover.
06:29The question is, how did Kimberly Holton go from her neighborhood in Dover and end up
06:35off the coast of Cape May?
06:52I was at my cousin's house.
06:53My cousin wanted me to babysit for her.
06:56Later, I get a call saying that they found...
07:03They found my best friend.
07:07I screamed.
07:09I felt like I lost everything.
07:15It is something you learn how to cope with every day.
07:20Kim was in 10th grade and I was in 9th grade.
07:24I remember first day of school, you know, freshman year, going to the bus stop.
07:30I was really nervous and we're getting on the bus and I'm like, oh, shoot, I don't know
07:33where to sit.
07:34And Kim got in there and she's like looking at me.
07:36She's like, come on.
07:37I'm like, OK.
07:38That's where it started right there.
07:39That was our friendship.
07:40Like from there, she was such a sweetheart.
07:45She'd do anything to make you smile.
07:46Even if she was down, she would still try to make you happy.
07:57The first day that Kim came in, she marched right by me, didn't make eye contact.
08:01She had these glasses on.
08:03She found the seat that was the furthest to my left, as far away from me as she possibly
08:06could and put her head straight down and had nothing to say to me.
08:12So when she came in every day, I would do my best to help her separate herself from
08:17whatever emotional turmoil she was feeling.
08:20And it was quite a bit, as we found out later.
08:24We learned that Lorraine Michette, her foster mother, had reported Kimberly Holton missing
08:29on September 30th.
08:33That was critical piece for us because now it gave us a range.
08:37We knew when she was last reported to be seen by her foster family.
08:40And of course, we had found the body on October 8th, 2003.
08:45We knew we had a very serious job to do and we knew that time was of the essence.
08:50And most importantly, we knew that there was a killer out there.
08:53And that killer, if that killer is dangerous enough to do what he or she did to Kimberly
08:59Holton, then that killer is dangerous enough to kill again.
09:19When there's a murder on the news, it can stir a lot of panic.
09:24That's something that we just don't think about.
09:27Usually somebody fell off a boat or it's an accident, not a murder.
09:32Hello, Shima.
09:35How are you?
09:39I'm good.
09:41Can I get a cup of coffee with creamer, please?
09:45Sure.
09:46Thank you.
09:48The team concept, we've done it for years.
09:51It was more cohesive to have a Delaware trooper and a New Jersey trooper together.
09:57We sat down and the Jersey detectives basically told us what they had found.
10:03How she was found, where she was found, how they identified her through fingerprints.
10:09Our prevailing theory was that she had been dumped off a boat.
10:12So we wanted to know who has means to the water.
10:16Was someone in that area that had a boat, had access to a boat?
10:19Was someone a boat captain?
10:20Did someone work on a boat?
10:21Did someone work on the Cape May-Lewis Ferry?
10:24What is it that we can connect this trailer park area where she lived to three miles off
10:31the coast of Cape May?
10:37Kim explained to me about her childhood.
10:39Her dad was locked up like off and on.
10:43Her mom, I don't know.
10:44I just know she was an addict and I guess didn't have the time that she needed to give
10:48to her.
10:50Even though Kim was born and raised in New Jersey, she ended up down here in Delaware
10:55at the Dover Air Park to live with her grandfather.
10:59Kim's grandfather had a hard time controlling her because of her rebellious attitude and
11:04his age.
11:06So Kim actually ended up moving pretty much across the street, living with Lorraine Machette
11:12and moved in with her for several years.
11:17We conducted multiple interviews.
11:19We learned that there was a lot of emotions going through that house.
11:23Lorraine, if something happened between you and Kim, did you ever told us?
11:28Nothing happened between me and Kim, we argued.
11:30That was it.
11:31In the middle of the street, she said, you don't love me anymore, you don't care about
11:35me, you don't want me anymore.
11:37That's what she said.
11:38And I said, think whatever you want.
11:41Kim at the house was also a biological daughter, I would describe as maybe a foster sister
11:46to Kimberly.
11:47And her name was Heather Nasekitis.
11:48But a 16-year-old girl that is going through teenage stuff, that had a bad life, does not
11:55deserve to die.
11:56She deserves somebody to help her get through it.
12:05Heather certainly seemed to appear saddened and certainly emotional about the loss of
12:11Kimberly.
12:12But we learned that Heather and Kim also had a lot of not-so-nice moments.
12:18They had a very tumultuous relationship.
12:19There was arguments over boys' clothing, there was arguments over the role that Kimberly
12:25played in the house.
12:26What I'd heard was that Heather spun stories about anybody that she felt as though was
12:31a challenge.
12:33The rumor was that she was a mean kid, and she was a manipulator and even a bully to
12:38some degree.
12:39That day, we had that fight.
12:40I told her I wanted my clothes back.
12:41She said, they're not mine.
12:42And I went in there and I searched.
12:43I said, f*** that bitch.
12:44She took my clothes.
12:45Kim never got disciplined.
12:46If I would have done half the stuff she would have done, I would have been grounded for
12:47life.
12:48How did that make you feel?
12:49I was mad.
12:50It was ridiculous.
12:51And no matter how much I screamed and hollered at my parents that this is not right, they
12:52wouldn't listen.
12:53Part of her false family was Lorraine's husband, Rudolf.
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13:26Rudy Machette, at his home, he had some unusual mannerisms, particularly his, I think, desire
13:32to resemble law enforcement, to be in the security business.
13:37He had access to certain equipment that law enforcement officers generally have, things
13:42like flashlights, handcuffs, gloves, protective gear.
13:46He was unusual.
13:52Rudy thought her foster family was suspicious.
13:59Rudy lived a few doors down from us, and honestly, he creeped me out.
14:03I'm not going to lie.
14:04He gave me the creeps.
14:05He was quiet but creepy.
14:10He almost reminded me of, like, a pervert.
14:13I worked at the convenience store right around the corner, and everybody that lives in this
14:18area used to go to that store.
14:21Every day, every day, he would come in and stare.
14:25I remember him clearly.
14:35The most vivid memory that I have of the Machettes and Kim together is a parent-teacher conference
14:40that I had with the family.
14:46And Rudy steps in.
14:48He came into the room all bright and smiley, and Kim would have none of it.
14:55Why is he here?
14:56Why are you here?
14:59The meeting was cold from Kim, but from Rudy, it was, I'm going to prove to the school that
15:06I am not the family abuser.
15:09I'm not sure what you know, but I'm here to show you that I'm a normal guy.
15:16I should have done more.
15:25The day later, we learned that an unlawful sexual contact report had been filed two weeks
15:32before she went missing.
15:35Kim had originally reported to Child Protective Services and also to Lorraine.
15:41Lorraine is actually the one that called the Delaware State Police to report this incident.
15:46The person was actually arrested for that crime, and it's Rudy Machette.
15:52And I said, you're sh**ting me.
15:55What was most interesting with that piece of information for us was the timing.
16:01Rudy Machette was scheduled to appear in court right around the time Kimberly went missing.
16:06And we asked, wow, could he have access to a boat, and could Rudy Machette be the link
16:11that we were looking for, which linked Kimberly and Dover, Delaware, to the Jersey coast,
16:16the middle of the Atlantic Ocean?
16:36Kimberly Hulton, she did not have a father figure.
16:44She didn't have a mother figure.
16:46Her mother wasn't even seeing her.
16:48When you're in a home that's not stable, lots of things can happen.
16:55Living in a mobile home park, you hear everything.
16:59What I think happened to Kim, she was being sexually assaulted, and maybe she was going
17:04to come forward, and they killed her.
17:14When we interviewed Lorraine, the foster mother, she told us that Rudy no longer lived with
17:19her.
17:20He had moved out several weeks earlier.
17:21We were speaking to Lorraine multiple times during this investigation, trying to understand
17:38what's going on in the house.
17:40Lorraine and Rudy, at the time, they were not on good terms for a host of reasons.
17:45Not just because he had been recently accused of a sexual assault on Kimberly, but there
17:51had been issues preceding that as well.
17:54And also, we had learned that, in speaking with Lorraine, that Lorraine was actively
17:58trying to relocate Kimberly.
17:59In fact, she had actually packed up her belongings and put them aside so she could be moved out.
18:06She did provide a lot of information about the difficulties that she had been having
18:10with Kimberly, and the challenges that she and her family had to face with Kimberly,
18:16and the behavioral issues that she was trying to deal with.
18:19When she was told that she was going back to New Jersey, she was very angry.
18:25And from what Crisis told me, she threatened to kill herself.
18:33Kim's foster parent, Mr. Rudy Michette, was a very evil man.
18:43Lorraine did bring up the fact that she was abused, but she didn't talk about it too much.
18:56We went and talked to Rudy, and it was an intense interrogation.
19:02We brought up the sexual contact, and he admitted to that, but he was adamant that he would
19:08never do anything to hurt her, certainly of this magnitude.
19:14We tried to find everything that would tie him in to him going to New Jersey, either
19:19via a vehicle or maybe he had some kind of boat, but neither one of those panned out.
19:27Even though we didn't have any physical evidence, we still believed Rudy Michette was a suspect.
19:39My sense of getting to know Kimberly through the people that we spoke to, she was someone
19:44that was yearning for interaction, yearning to have friends, family, yearning to be loved, perhaps.
19:52Kimberly was very socially active.
19:54She was dating, at that time, multiple individuals.
19:57And of course, when you open that door in any relationship, there's folks that could
20:02be jealous, there's folks that could be exes.
20:04So, there seemed to be this never-ending web of other people that we should talk to.
20:10We learned that Kim, by her own admission, and also even by some medical records that
20:17we obtained, she was very sexually active.
20:20She would sit there and she would tell him that she loved him, but she didn't really mean it.
20:23I think she just didn't need the affection of another guy.
20:27Kim did search in men for some type of, I guess, love, but I can't necessarily always
20:36say it was the right type of love either, you know, because she wasn't really taught that.
20:41So, we have to figure out who were her partners, and most importantly, who in her circle would
20:47have a motive to hurt her.
20:51Me and Kim, we would write back and forth to each other in school.
20:55In a composition book, okay?
20:58The first time I got a book from her, I can still remember what it was she was writing
21:03about.
21:04It was about Jordan.
21:06She liked Jordan.
21:08The one thing that I didn't like was the way that Jordan spoke to her at some times.
21:12The demandingness of it.
21:14I didn't like that part.
21:16I worried with the guys that she just chose in general.
21:19She liked the red flags.
21:21Like, I know her and Jordan got into a couple arguments.
21:24Jordan got upset because there was another man involved.
21:30Corey.
21:32Corey Smith was an athlete.
21:35Very outgoing.
21:37Charismatic, well-intentioned, but did have some of that pack mentality that the athletes
21:44still have to this day.
21:46He was always in the middle of what the baseball, football team was doing, which wasn't always
21:52the greatest stuff in the world, you know?
21:54There were 14, 15, 16, 17-year-old kids.
21:59Around the time of her death, she was seeing specifically two boys, Jordan Scott and Corey
22:04Smith.
22:10The team interviewed both of these individuals.
22:12We learned that the night she disappeared, she had this phone call with these two individuals.
22:17There was a breakup.
22:18She had essentially broken off the relationship with Jordan Scott.
22:24Normally, as a detective, when you hear there's a breakup, and after the breakup, that person
22:29is never heard from again, we would call that a significant event, something that we need
22:33to investigate fully.
22:36We check every record that we can possibly check.
22:38At this point in the investigation, we don't have much factual evidence.
22:43However, as far as we're concerned, Jordan Scott is still a suspect.
22:49During this time frame, back in New Jersey, a team of detectives and crime scene investigators
22:55were working hard on the forensic evidence.
22:59A review and analysis of the chain that was recovered, wrapped around Kimberly's legs,
23:05on each link of the chain, there was a stamp.
23:11New Jersey State Police, they were able to find out who manufactured the chain.
23:15Then they were able to find out who sold it in the Dover area.
23:19And it was a hardware store right down the street from where Kimberly lived.
23:26When I got the call from the New Jersey State Police, they asked me to research the sale
23:30of a chain.
23:32This chain had a serial number.
23:34I was able to look that up in our computer system.
23:36So I took the detectives back to meet the store associate that was working that evening.
23:40So I took the detectives back to meet the store associate that was working that evening.
23:45And she said that she remembered that sale of that chain and cutting that chain for the individuals.
23:50That it was very suspicious.
23:52And she asked, chain, quick links, center blocks, where are you going to hide the body?
23:59I remember thinking, I can't wait to see who's on this video, because I'm going to recognize
24:03whoever it is, and I'm going to say, aha, we finally got you.
24:11I couldn't believe it.
24:12I see the persons, and my reaction is, who the heck is that?
24:17I don't know who these people are.
24:29I was just as shocked as anybody else when we saw that video.
24:33It was two individuals that I, at this point, had no idea who they were.
24:36So we did everything possible to try to identify these individuals, but unfortunately, we came up short.
24:41And we made a decision that we were going to release certain images from the video surveillance
24:47to the public and ask the public's help in identifying these two people.
25:00Me working at the store, they dropped the newspapers every day, and I seen that.
25:04And I seen that.
25:05It was like front page news.
25:09So I definitely looked at the customers different.
25:11Everybody was a suspect, you know.
25:13It was kind of like, did you do it?
25:15Could it have been you, you know?
25:18It's a shame nobody paid closer attention to the little girl.
25:22She didn't have anybody who really cared about her in her life.
25:26I think I went to school my senior year for like a month.
25:30And just every day I walked in there, everybody, eyes on me.
25:34And I'm just, you know, hoodie up, kind of head down in the sand.
25:37And I obviously knew why everybody was staring at me.
25:41I had gotten questioned twice by the police.
25:46So when the picture of them came out, it was vindicating because it was like,
25:50I loved her.
25:51So I think that's why it, you know, kind of crushed me when they questioned me.
25:56But at that point, when the picture came out, it was bittersweet.
25:59Like, okay, I can breathe a little bit because they know I didn't have anything to do with it.
26:05But who the hell are these two guys?
26:09And it was like, I don't know.
26:12I don't know.
26:13I don't know.
26:14I don't know.
26:15I don't know.
26:16I don't know.
26:17I don't know.
26:19And how the hell do they know Kim?
26:28Once we start showing the picture to the public, we know what's going to happen.
26:32We're now alerting the suspects that we're coming.
26:35And once you do that, a lot of things can happen.
26:39You can't make this stuff up.
26:41I mean, you really, you can't.
26:43One of the people in the video saw himself, came to the police, and said,
26:49why am I in the paper?
26:56Myself and other detectives responded to Troop 3 to interview Robert Shumbrothers.
27:02He's a delivery guy at the deli.
27:14And the class you guys bought.
27:16So as far as I'm concerned, that's pretty deeply involved for yourself.
27:20I'm trying to tell you everything that I can, according to what happened.
27:26We asked Sean what he was buying the chain for,
27:30and he comes up with the story that he's buying the chain so that he can work out.
27:36He's going to wrap the chain in cinder blocks around a bar,
27:39and this is going to be part of their getting back into shape again.
27:43So I sort of looked at the other detective like, is this guy for real?
27:48You're involved, whether you like it or not.
27:50And if you want to try and tell the judge and the jury that you just went there
27:53and it wasn't weird to you that you saw a guy buying chain, cinder blocks,
27:58and this whole big story.
28:01When Kim Holton was found, she was weighted down with chains.
28:05However, we had no idea what happened to the cinder blocks.
28:14Do you really think 12 logical people,
28:17and I'm not talking about 12 lawyers or 12 doctors,
28:20I'm talking about 12 normal people off the street,
28:23are going to believe that story?
28:25I can guarantee you they're not.
28:27You can hire Johnny Cochran and Ashley Bailey,
28:30and they're not going to get you out of that.
28:32Because the things you're saying do not make sense.
28:36We started asking him, who were you with?
28:39And that's when he told us the name Jacob Jones.
28:45At that point, everybody was thinking, you're ****ing me, right?
28:49That's Kim's foster sister's boyfriend, Heather's boyfriend.
28:55What was the correlation between Kim Holton,
28:58Heather, the chain, and Cape May, New Jersey, in the Atlantic Ocean?
29:09I tried to get her out of the environment of her foster family
29:13because it was so toxic, but I pretty much made sure
29:17I steered clear of them as well as I could.
29:22Heather would talk to Jacob about her and Kim's relationship
29:26not being the greatest, and there were family issues
29:29ever since Kim kind of came into the picture and lived with them.
29:32Heather was very jealous of Kim when it came to her boyfriends.
29:36And I remember one time I heard Heather yelling at Kim,
29:40I hate you, you're not going to live to see your next birthday.
29:48Jacob?
29:50How you doing? Can you sit over here for me, please?
29:53I'm sorry. Stay, please. Hang on.
29:56You all right?
29:58He was given Miranda.
30:00He just had a defeated attitude, a defeated posture.
30:04His head was down, he spoke very low.
30:07How old are you, Jacob?
30:10I'm 20.
30:12He wasn't able to answer our very most basic questions.
30:17I'm going to show you this picture, and it was one that was released, OK?
30:21Can you lean up, take a look at it for me?
30:23Is that you and Sean?
30:26It appears so, but I can't say for sure.
30:30He did not want to open up to us.
30:33We only knew one thing,
30:35that he was the responsible party that bought those chains.
30:38So we needed Jacob to fill in that blank for us
30:40and describe to us where those chains were from the time he had them
30:44and help us find out how those chains ended up wrapped around Kimberly's ankles.
30:48Do you know where the center blocks are now?
30:52Yes, sir.
30:57When did you last see the chain?
31:00It was one time after I purchased it.
31:03Mm-hmm.
31:05And I don't recall after that.
31:08OK.
31:10He admitted that he and Heather had been dating for about 2 1⁄2 years,
31:15and he did mention that Kim was a, I think he said problem child,
31:20and was causing problems with Heather and at home,
31:24but he would never hurt her.
31:26I thought she was a troubled youth.
31:29OK.
31:31Rudy and Lori ended up splitting up.
31:38I think because of fighting with Kim.
31:41I asked him about his background.
31:44He was a straight-A student.
31:46He went up here to Delaware State University.
31:48What's your major?
31:51Professional aviation.
31:53So we can tell you're either a pilot or an instructor.
31:56We're trying to be one.
31:58I am an instructor.
32:00OK.
32:04That is the whole n**** moment.
32:07Up until that moment, we were looking for a boat.
32:10We hadn't found anybody yet in this investigation
32:13that had the capacity to move that body out in the ocean until Jacob.
32:31Once we found out that Jacob Jones was an accomplished pilot,
32:35we found out he has access to Dover Air Force Base.
32:40We contacted Dover Air Force Security Police.
32:43They were able to locate his vehicle on the base near the airplanes
32:48on the night Kim Holton went missing.
32:51This is why you can never assume anything.
32:54We thought it was a boat.
32:56She was thrown out of a plane.
32:58The impact of hitting the ocean disintegrated the center block.
33:04So she just had the chain to hold her, and that wasn't enough weight.
33:08And she eventually floated to the surface.
33:13In all my years of police work,
33:15this was probably one of the most bizarre things that I've ever worked on.
33:21I handled thousands of death investigations,
33:25but there are certain cases that do stay with you.
33:27This one, 21 years later, that haunts me.
33:33It is possible that he did it by himself,
33:36but when we first talked to Jacob, you know, we asked him,
33:39did you ever take Heather flying?
33:41Yes, I let her fly.
33:43So Heather was absolutely a suspect in helping get rid of Kim's body.
33:54We wanted to make it more personal with Jacob Jones,
33:57so me and Pete Fraley go to his house to talk to him.
34:02We said, look, this is serious.
34:04We're knocking on your door. You're involved in a murder here.
34:10We spoke to him briefly and kind of went back and forth
34:14whether he wanted to talk to us or not.
34:16He's evasive. He's not forthcoming about anything.
34:20As we're leaving, I tell Jacob Jones,
34:23look, we're going to be back, and when we come back,
34:26we're going to have a arrest warrant for you.
34:29And ironically, that night, there was a news release put out
34:33that an arrest was imminent.
34:39We were days, maybe even hours away from charging him,
34:42but unfortunately, I received a phone call
34:45from my colleagues in Delaware State Police,
34:48and they had informed me that they had just responded
34:51to a report of a gunshot at Jacob Jones' residence.
34:56Jacob Jones had taken his own life.
35:04Initially, I felt a bit of despair and disappointment
35:07because I think with Jacob's death,
35:09along went some of the answers that we may never get.
35:18There are kids talking about Heather and Jacob,
35:23and really it all came together for everyone
35:26when, you know, Jacob killed himself,
35:28and there was all kinds of speculation
35:30about what Heather's next move was going to be.
35:36Somebody that was responsible in this world
35:39stepped up and did the right thing
35:41despite the challenges and the obvious,
35:43and that was Jacob's father.
35:45And Jacob's father provided key information
35:47to the Delaware authorities,
35:49essentially stating that Jacob had called him
35:52just prior to his suicide and confessed.
35:55He provided key information
35:57to not only describe what happened,
35:59but he also identified a second suspect, Michael Kaiser.
36:04I know that Michael Kaiser and Jacob Jones
36:06worked together at the mall.
36:08In his job, he was armed and he had a gun,
36:11and he would visibly show that gun
36:14by using it as kind of a plaything,
36:16twirling it about his finger.
36:23You know Jacob Jones?
36:25Yes.
36:26How did you two come to be together that night?
36:43Apparently, it had already been prearranged.
36:46Heather was not calm.
36:49Once Lorraine left, Jacob went inside.
36:53Michael went inside.
36:55Kimberly seemed to be in good spirits.
36:58They got into Michael Kaiser's car.
37:01They went around the corner, picked up Jacob's car.
37:06Jacob went ahead and went up to a local motel,
37:10rented a room.
37:12Mike and Kimberly went to a local convenience store.
37:16He bought some Mountain Dew, some cigarettes.
37:19We know that they went across to a motel.
37:31The sad thing is they both had sex with Kimberly.
37:35According to Michael Kaiser's statement,
37:37the sex was consensual.
37:47He said he was scared of Jacob.
37:50Jacob supposedly threatened him
37:52if he didn't help kill Kimberly.
38:17He started strangling her.
38:19He had to pull her on top of her face.
38:22She was grabbing onto me.
38:23She was grabbing onto my pants.
38:24She was grabbing onto him.
38:26I was trying to pull him off.
38:29Michael Kaiser confessed
38:32that he held Kimberly Holton's legs down
38:35while Jacob Jones basically suffocated Kim Holton.
38:39Were you scared, upset?
38:41What was your emotion?
38:44Michael Kaiser was arrested for murder in the first degree.
38:49Michael was adamant that he had nothing to do
38:52with helping get rid of Kim's body,
38:54and we can't refute that one way or another.
39:00Did Jacob Jones do this by himself?
39:04To me, it's an unanswered question.
39:07I'm going to ask you a very point-blank question.
39:10I'm going to ask you a very point-blank question.
39:13That night, did you go up with Jacob in an airplane?
39:18No.
39:19Heather, she was the suspect at the time,
39:22and I'm telling you, she was interrogated,
39:25and her story never wavered.
39:27I had to take all my stuff to the house
39:29because me and Kim had a fight.
39:30So once I got all my stuff, I went back to Dallas.
39:33I sat down and watched TV with the girls.
39:35I helped them get ready for bed.
39:36Did you see Kim again, or did you talk to Kim?
39:39We didn't think Heather was involved in this at all.
39:43John Brothers, we made a decision
39:46that he just happened to be the person
39:48that Jacob Jones had helping by the chain in the center box.
39:53The motive, as best as we can figure,
39:58Kim was causing a lot of problems at home with Heather.
40:02Heather complained to Jacob.
40:05It was clear that, in many ways, his life would be easier.
40:08If Kimberly Holton was not around,
40:10because she was creating drama and issues
40:13for his girlfriend Heather,
40:14and that was creating issues for Jacob.
40:17Basically, Jacob took it upon himself
40:19to fix this problem, so to speak,
40:22and this is what he came up with.
40:38When I first found out, like,
40:39the whole her being dropped off an airplane,
40:43that just, excuse my language,
40:46that just f***ed me up,
40:47because it's like they just left her there.
40:51Like, that's it?
40:53You just drop her body, and that was that?
40:58And it's heartbreaking to think it's emptiness out there.
41:09Kim was just amazing.
41:11I've never found anyone like her, ever.
41:14Probably never will.
41:16She was too good for this world, I guess.
41:22If Kimberly Holton was standing here
41:24right next to me right now,
41:25I would want her to know that her killers,
41:27they came to justice, one way or the other.
41:29They both came to justice.