Payton Moreland
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3,581 appearances
30 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Jun 2025
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Und so viel sie ihren Eltern bringen wollen, sieht es nicht gut aus, jetzt dass sie die Wahrheit über Mikes Hintergrund wissen. So the pressure is on. They need to find Mike Jones. It has now been three days since Diana was last seen and they know they need to step it up.
So on the afternoon of June 22nd, they begin analyzing Mike and Diana's cell phone data to see what towers her phone last pinged. And they find that Mike made one of his most recent calls near Fort Pierce, Florida. This is about 25 minutes from Vero Beach. So, Vero Beach Police contact the officers there and tell them to be on the lookout for either Diana's black Nissan or Mike's gold Honda.
And just a few hours later, they get a call back. Mike's car has been spotted in the parking lot of a Hampton Inn Hotel. So officers rush over there to speak with the front desk. They find Mike Jones had checked in about 24 hours after Diana disappeared. They also learned he had paid in cash for a two-night stay.
And he told the front desk not to tell anyone he was there and not to transfer any calls to his room.
So police are like, let's see your cameras. They look at the surveillance footage and see that Mike checked in alone. Diana is not with him, which is not a good sign. So the front desk gives the police a key card, offer up his room number and basically are like, yeah, go do whatever you need to do. I don't know.
So, police go up, they go up to his floor, they get up to his door of his hotel room, and they just use the keycard and let themselves in. And there he is. He's sitting on the bed, talking on his burner phone that he was seen on surveillance buying to someone. Which by the way, he has this burner phone, but he's also still using his regular phone too, because that's how they found him there.
Which means Mike's really not the smartest criminal. But when they berate him with questions about Diana, Mike refuses to offer up any information. Here's the thing though, they have Mike backed into a corner. They say to him, look, you can answer our questions or we can place you under arrest, since you violated your parole.
But Mike still doesn't budge, which means he's placed in handcuffs and taken down to the station for booking. However, the question remains, where is Diana?
With Mike unwilling to talk, officers have to sort of retrace his steps on their own. They figure tracking his cell phone worked once, let's do it again. And what they find is, the morning after he was last seen with Diana, remember how he went to Walmart to buy that burner phone and then he was seen in the parking lot getting into Diana's car and driving away?
Well, apparently after that little trip, his phone pinged another tower around Melbourne, almost an hour north of Vero Beach. So again, police call the officers at that precinct and tell them we're searching for a black Nissan. This is Diana's car. And again, it works. Around 4.30 a.m.
that night, after arresting Mike Jones, they find Diana's car sitting in a Publix grocery store parking lot abandoned. But when they open the vehicle, they're searching it, they pop the trunk, see what they can find.
Okay. Okay. Which means that Diana's missing person case is now officially a homicide. And the autopsy indicated that whatever happened to Diana was not an accident. She had multiple defensive wounds, as well as red marks around her knees and ankles that told detectives she had likely been tied up. She'd suffered blunt force trauma to the head and her cause of death was strangulation.
So dangerous.
Ich denke nur, dass... Ich meine, ich kenne die Statistiken darüber, aber ich kenne es nicht.
Eigentlich ist es einer der stärksten Trigger für einen Tod, weil sie dich nicht verlassen wollen.
So they're like, okay, we need to prove that if he drove her here with her body in the trunk and left it here, we need to prove that he then somehow got home. Because how did he get home from here? So they begin calling taxi companies around the area, seeing if anyone picked up a guy fitting Mike's description from that Publix parking lot. And they get lucky again.
They find one taxi driver who says he picked up a guy in the exact same clothes Mike was seen wearing in surveillance footage that day. During that nearly hour ride back to Vero Beach, the cab driver said he was trying to chat with Mike, asking him what brought him there. Mike told him he and his friend had gotten into a fight and she had left him.
But the real kicker was, when they presented the cab driver with a lineup of suspects, they were like, can you try to identify him? He picks Mike out right away. So now they have a witness, a strong witness, who's going to say, I drove Mike from that Publix place Back to Vero Beach. And he told me in the car that he'd gotten in a fight with a friend and she had left him.
But nothing beats physical DNA evidence in court. And when police do a search of Mike's home and garage, they find a few small drops of blood. When they test it, they prove it's Diana's DNA. So on June 25th, 2014, Mike Jones is charged with first degree murder for killing Diana. And his plan is to maintain his innocence through and through.
But as we know, the trial will bring forth a bunch of other surprises. As the prosecution begins digging into Mike's background to build out a case against him for trial, they learn this guy wasn't just abusive to the people in his life, he also made up many elaborate lies to rope people in and keep them close.
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