I Have Killed For You
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What happened to Bonnie Woodward?
Hey, I'm Brad Milkey. I'm the host of the Crime Scene Weekly, a new show from ABC Audio about the latest headlines in true crime. This week, we're talking about the massive prison break that shocked Louisiana in recent weeks. How did these inmates escape, and was it an inside job? Listen now on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Family secrets are spilling out. I need my daddy. A teenager with a strange demeanor. She's clutching a teddy bear.
How can she be actually 18 years of age? And an even stranger story about her missing mother.
I didn't know Bonnie was going to go missing.
Something happened to her. She didn't just disappear on her own free will. So you knew something was really wrong? Pretty much.
Has she ever disappeared before?
No. Whoever has my sister, please let her go.
Maybe somebody saw her somewhere at a bus station, at a train station, in a cab, at the mall.
Nathan, you can agree to walk us through a few areas. We're running out of time.
He said, at times, I feel like I have the devil living inside me. Turns out Bonnie wasn't the only missing person in that household.
Police in Alton need the public's help finding a missing woman. Bonnie Woodward was last seen Friday afternoon.
Why was Heather Woodward missing?
It's a missing persons case that will confound an Illinois community. Flooding seasoned investigators with no shortage of witnesses. These interviews happening in this room right here, focusing on one person, one mother of four, whose sudden and perplexing disappearance sets off alarm bells. It all started at the end of a day shift one afternoon in June.
Bonnie Woodward got off around 3 PM that day. She was working at what was called Eunice Smith Nursing Home here in Dalton. It was a normal day of work for her.
47 years old, worked at the nursing home for over 25 years, I believe, and just a woman who was reliable.
Being a nurse's aide, that's a lot of caregiving. She had it forever.
She loved what she did. She went to work, she worked her shift, and then would come home to her children every night, as well as Gary Wilmorth, who she was dating at the time. Gary knew that she had some sort of staff meeting after work from 2 to 3, so he really wasn't expecting her home until, you know, 3.34.
That boyfriend, Gary Wilmorth, says he tries getting a hold of Bonnie around 4 o'clock, but his call goes straight to voicemail. Your call has been forwarded to an automatic voice message system. Everybody was like, she would call if she was five minutes away.
Oh, no, she was, everything she did was on a schedule.
Nobody had seen her. This was very abnormal for Bonnie. She was always in communication with her family.
After she didn't return home, her family members, they reached out, they tried to call her, they tried to text her, and no response.
And by the next morning, when Bonnie doesn't show up for work, her co-workers are alarmed by something they see in the parking lot.
Her red Chevy Avalanche was still parked at the nursing home, had not moved from the previous date. Windows had been down even during the overnight hours. She loved that truck.
She worked really hard to get that truck. She absolutely loved it. So she wouldn't have just left it.
At that point, it was clear that there was something wrong. and Gary reported her disappearance to our department the morning of the 26th. When we work on the missing person and we're dealing with an adult, you have to keep in mind the possibility if they just want to take a break. They want to get away from family and friends, and that's natural. Also, I have to look into what's usual and what's their history.
Detectives assigned to the case soon learn that 47-year-old Bonnie Woodward is a force of nature.
Bonnie survived breast cancer. She was a fierce mother to four children.
Bonnie has two grown children from her first marriage, Joseph, who's 28, and Jennifer, 26. Bonnie is also mom to two stepkids, Heather and Aaron. She adopted them after their father, Bonnie's third husband, passed away.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What happened to Bonnie Woodward?
0:01–1:35
2
Why was Heather Woodward missing?
1:35–4:56
3
What was Bonnie's relationship with her family like?
4:56–9:18
4
What were the circumstances of Bonnie's disappearance?
9:18–22:55
5
Who was the mystery man seen with Bonnie?
22:55–26:58
6
How did Heather's disappearance complicate the investigation?
26:58–32:10
7
What did Heather reveal about her time away?
32:10–40:50
8
What are the latest developments in Bonnie's case?
40:50–1:23:58