Linda Zapata

I thought realistically that by pushing him into a lie detector test that I would get some movement.

I got absolutely nothing.

Their only other possible suspect, Jean's boyfriend, Paul Lee, took and passed his lie detector test and was cleared of any suspicion.

But police were learning some things about the Zapata's marriage, interesting things that added to their suspicions about Eugene.

I didn't hear about the pictures until she called me to say, do you know what that son of a bitch did?

Remember, this happened when Jean was still trying to save her marriage.

At one point when Eugene said he just didn't seem to have any lead in his pencil, but it might help if he could take provocative pictures of her, she let him.

never realizing that years later, these pictures would come back to haunt her.

One day, the post office called Jean to complain about X-rated material in a mailbox rented by Eugene.

It was the first she'd heard about the mailbox, so she went to look and was horrified by what she found.

Well he wanted her to go with other men and wear short skirts and go out without underwear and

Jean's divorce attorney, Daphne Webb, learned that the Swingers magazine was only part of the story.

Jean not only wanted a divorce, she wanted a restraining order against Zapata.

I think she'd had enough.

Jean moved out, but he didn't move on.

The divorce was bitter and he seemed obsessed with Jean.

He would come to the house on the pretext of seeing the children and he would go through her underwear drawer and her possessions and she found it very disturbing.

The restraining order limited Eugene's visitation rights with the children to 9 to 11 on Saturday morning.

That's the only time he was permitted to be in this house.

On the Monday morning that she disappeared, Jean Zapata telephoned her attorney from here at about 8.15 and left a message.