1 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:15,400 Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. I want you to just 2 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:21,200 Speaker 1: let this thing in. Let's say it's a Google search, Okay, 3 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:25,880 Speaker 1: and here we go. Quote what to do if husband 4 00:00:26,079 --> 00:00:33,879 Speaker 1: is upset You're pregnant. Repeat what to do if husband 5 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:43,280 Speaker 1: is upset you're pregnant. That was the final Internet search 6 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:52,320 Speaker 1: of Jennifer Rothwell before she was bludgeoned dead. I Nancy Grace, 7 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:55,160 Speaker 1: this is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us 8 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 1: here at Fox Nation and Series XM. What to do 9 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:03,120 Speaker 1: if your husband's upset you're pregnant. Well, for one thing, 10 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:05,440 Speaker 1: get any husband, or just get rid of that one. 11 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:09,959 Speaker 1: You don't necessarily need any one. I'm just thinking about 12 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:14,080 Speaker 1: this woman, Jennifer Rothwell. She's just twenty eight years old. 13 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:20,760 Speaker 1: Oh gosh, her naked body was dumped in the woods 14 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:26,840 Speaker 1: off Highway sixty one in Missouri. Then hubby, I don't 15 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:28,440 Speaker 1: even want to say his name, but I will for you. 16 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:34,080 Speaker 1: Bo Rothwell reports her missing, sends concern text to her 17 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:38,040 Speaker 1: cell phone, and then has the utter gall to go 18 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:45,440 Speaker 1: out and pretend he's searching for her. Oh well. The 19 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:50,320 Speaker 1: jury has handed down a verdict in the case against 20 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:55,600 Speaker 1: Bou Rothwell, age thirty one, being tried for the murder 21 00:01:55,600 --> 00:02:01,240 Speaker 1: of his pregnant wife, Jennifer. How did the whole thing start? 22 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:04,640 Speaker 1: Bo and Jennifer's romance begins while they are both studying 23 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:09,080 Speaker 1: engineering at the University of Lussouri, Columbia. In twenty fifteen, 24 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:11,960 Speaker 1: they say I do and move to Saint Louis for work. 25 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:15,959 Speaker 1: Jennifer Rothwell is a chemical engineer at m Ecs Inc. 26 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:20,119 Speaker 1: In Chesterfield. Bo Rothwell works at and Bateech now called 27 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:23,320 Speaker 1: Zachary Engineering in the Saint Louis area. Soon the couple 28 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:26,440 Speaker 1: turns their eyes on becoming parents, and just one year later, 29 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:29,000 Speaker 1: they get the good news a baby is on the way. 30 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:32,680 Speaker 1: It sounds like a dream come true, and it is. 31 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:36,840 Speaker 1: It's what everyone wants, the American dream. A beautiful hall, 32 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:41,640 Speaker 1: a lovely family, a baby finally on the way, awesome 33 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 1: careers in front of them. And then somehow, in the 34 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 1: midst of all this happiness, she disappears, her family, her parents, 35 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 1: her husband devastated. Take a listen to Robert Townsend ks DK. 36 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:00,360 Speaker 1: I talked to Jennifer Rothwell's parents on the phone. Now 37 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:03,079 Speaker 1: they didn't want to go on camera. They're big concerned. 38 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:05,160 Speaker 1: Is just hearing from their daughter. I'm gonna step back 39 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 1: and you can see right now. Saint Louis County Police 40 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:11,560 Speaker 1: they are here sitting in two vehicles on Rothwell Street. 41 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:14,120 Speaker 1: They've blocked off this street. Officers are going in and 42 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:17,360 Speaker 1: outside this house. We believe that they are searching in 43 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:19,639 Speaker 1: and out of this house again. The family's house here 44 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:22,880 Speaker 1: off North Winds Drive in West Saint Louis County, searching 45 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:27,280 Speaker 1: for possible evidence. I believe in connection with this woman's disappearance. Again, 46 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:30,600 Speaker 1: this is what I know. Jennifer Rothwell as twenty eight 47 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:34,760 Speaker 1: years old and married. She's five foot six inches tall. 48 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:38,720 Speaker 1: She has long, light brown hair, curly hair. She weighs 49 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 1: about one hundred and fifty pounds now. She was last 50 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:45,040 Speaker 1: seen leaving her West Saint Louis County house yesterday morning 51 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 1: and six weeks pregnant with me an all Star panel. 52 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:51,840 Speaker 1: But let me first go to Christie Missouri joining us 53 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:55,040 Speaker 1: any award winning investigative reporter. Christie, thank you for being 54 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 1: with us. Now. This took place in Crere, Missouri. Tell 55 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:04,080 Speaker 1: me about that. It's a lovely, family oriented community. Neighbors 56 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:09,839 Speaker 1: know everybody else. So for this woman to just vanish 57 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:16,000 Speaker 1: in thin air without a trace was very unnerving to 58 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:21,880 Speaker 1: her neighbors. So is it apartments their homes? This is 59 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:26,839 Speaker 1: a it's a lovely little, lovely little suburbia. It's utopia. 60 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:29,840 Speaker 1: What were their jobs, Christie, Missouri? Where did they work? 61 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:35,440 Speaker 1: They were engineers, So these are learned people making very 62 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:42,240 Speaker 1: good salaries, upper level income. So these are meticulous people. 63 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:46,760 Speaker 1: That's why when she went missing it was so out 64 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:50,919 Speaker 1: of the ordinary because both of these people, separately and 65 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:56,160 Speaker 1: as a couple, had every moment of their day documented 66 00:04:56,680 --> 00:04:59,960 Speaker 1: with a calendar. Oh my goodness to Dr Bethany Mark 67 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:04,040 Speaker 1: joining me High PROFILESLACHO analysts find her at doctor Bethany 68 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:08,000 Speaker 1: Marshall dot com Doctor Bethany. The reason I'm asking about 69 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:09,800 Speaker 1: the area is the first thing you want to do 70 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:13,640 Speaker 1: is look at the area if it has a high 71 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:16,880 Speaker 1: crime rate. To have there been a string of break ins? Um, 72 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:19,800 Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember, Jackie, look this up 73 00:05:19,839 --> 00:05:28,080 Speaker 1: for me. I recently covered a pastor's wife who was pregnant, 74 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:33,240 Speaker 1: who was the victim of a home invasion and her 75 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:37,080 Speaker 1: other baby was home at the time. I think it 76 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:39,760 Speaker 1: was like a two year old son was home, and 77 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:44,359 Speaker 1: of course all the suspicion went on the pastor the 78 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:48,279 Speaker 1: young pastor at first because he had been at the gym, 79 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:52,400 Speaker 1: So it led to suspicion on the pastor and the 80 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:55,360 Speaker 1: next thing you know, it came out that there had 81 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:59,039 Speaker 1: been several burglaries in the neighborhood. Did you find it, Jack, 82 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:03,159 Speaker 1: Amenda black got sitting That's right, Amanda Blackburn. Now I 83 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:08,520 Speaker 1: remember exactly, Amanda Blackburn, just beautiful, like a seer face 84 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:12,120 Speaker 1: right in front of me, and everyone was questioning the 85 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:15,880 Speaker 1: pastor because of his early morning gym trip. It turned 86 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:19,640 Speaker 1: out to be this group of burglars and they wouldn't 87 00:06:19,640 --> 00:06:21,800 Speaker 1: even get very much to get, like a TV or 88 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:26,919 Speaker 1: a DVD player. They broke into her home and I 89 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:30,520 Speaker 1: think the door was unlocked Bethany as I recall, and 90 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:35,000 Speaker 1: murdered her so she wouldn't be a witness. Awful. So 91 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:38,359 Speaker 1: that's why I'm saying, what kind of an area is 92 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:41,320 Speaker 1: at high crime low crime? But I also find it 93 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:45,520 Speaker 1: interesting what Christy Missouri said that these two I'm talking 94 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:49,240 Speaker 1: about Jennifer and husband Bow, They're about to have their 95 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:54,320 Speaker 1: baby young and love the whole thing. They're so meticulous. 96 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:58,120 Speaker 1: It's very rare that you see in a low crime 97 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:02,359 Speaker 1: area someone just go missing. Now, if she left the 98 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:05,680 Speaker 1: area on her way to work or on her way 99 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:09,720 Speaker 1: to the grocery store, that changes the whole scenario. But 100 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:13,200 Speaker 1: you don't see a lot of people just vanish when 101 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:15,840 Speaker 1: they're the kind of person that has day and date, 102 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:19,840 Speaker 1: you know, every hour accounted four. Nancy, this is a 103 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:24,600 Speaker 1: beautiful young woman, a high level professional. She's an engineer. 104 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:27,600 Speaker 1: She works in a business or in a company with 105 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:30,120 Speaker 1: many other people. And one of the first things I 106 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:33,480 Speaker 1: would wonder is has somebody fallen in love with her? 107 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:36,320 Speaker 1: With somebody obsessed with her? Did she have a stalker, 108 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:40,800 Speaker 1: somebody who is making advances to her or wanting to 109 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:43,360 Speaker 1: spend time with her. I think that's the first thing 110 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:45,720 Speaker 1: I would look at. Who are her friendships, what's going 111 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:48,560 Speaker 1: on in her computer? Who did she spend time with? 112 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 1: The second thing is this nant? What do you think 113 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:55,800 Speaker 1: she's going out to bars at nis six weeks? That's 114 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:59,080 Speaker 1: still pregnant. She's not shown you do know I threw 115 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:02,840 Speaker 1: up every single old day of my pregnancy starting some 116 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:07,000 Speaker 1: guy every day. I have news for you, Nancy, some book, 117 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:09,560 Speaker 1: some guy who's stalking her, who has a crush on her, 118 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:11,760 Speaker 1: is not going to care that she's throwing up every 119 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:14,680 Speaker 1: day and thank you for that. But you know what 120 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:16,840 Speaker 1: you said, you said something really interesting. Let me throw 121 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:20,280 Speaker 1: this to Matthew Mangino joining US, high profile criminal defense 122 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:24,480 Speaker 1: attorney out of Newcastle, Pennsylvania, former district attorney and Lawrence County. 123 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:26,880 Speaker 1: And the reason I emphasize that is you cannot be 124 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:30,880 Speaker 1: the district attorney or an assisted district attorney without trying 125 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:33,960 Speaker 1: a lot of cases. He knows his way around the courtroom. 126 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:37,000 Speaker 1: Author of the Executioner's Toll. You can find me at 127 00:08:37,040 --> 00:08:41,000 Speaker 1: matt Mangino dot com. Matthew when she said, when doctor 128 00:08:41,040 --> 00:08:47,200 Speaker 1: Bethany said they're highly trained, highly learned engineers, that is 129 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:51,080 Speaker 1: a very exact science. And Bethany also said she works 130 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:54,040 Speaker 1: with a lot of people, which is true for engineers. 131 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:57,200 Speaker 1: In my mind, I thought she works with a lot 132 00:08:57,360 --> 00:09:01,520 Speaker 1: of men. That's true. That's a male dominant ned occupation. 133 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:03,960 Speaker 1: And when you work with a lot of man, that 134 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:06,959 Speaker 1: heightens the likelihood that one of them is going to 135 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:10,559 Speaker 1: get a crush on you. Well, yeah, that's certainly a possibility, 136 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:15,640 Speaker 1: and that's something that I'm sure the police would consider 137 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:22,360 Speaker 1: immediately upon learning of her disappearance. Obviously, we know from 138 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:26,760 Speaker 1: news accounts that they're searching the home, which is the 139 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:29,240 Speaker 1: first place that they're going to look when someone comes 140 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:33,560 Speaker 1: up missing, as you mentioned earlier, the preacher. You know, unfortunately, 141 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:36,839 Speaker 1: they're going to look to people who have close contact 142 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:39,359 Speaker 1: with her. They're going to look to the husband immediately, 143 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:45,640 Speaker 1: just to make sure that that that there's some basis 144 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:49,760 Speaker 1: for not looking further at him. They want to eliminate 145 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:53,920 Speaker 1: the husband first of all, you know, but they're but 146 00:09:53,960 --> 00:09:56,600 Speaker 1: they're looking in the home, so we know that there 147 00:09:56,679 --> 00:10:02,199 Speaker 1: might be some information there that they're interesting, and that's 148 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:05,000 Speaker 1: where they're going to find out her every move. These 149 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:08,199 Speaker 1: two have been married for four years, and she's last 150 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:12,040 Speaker 1: seen alive that morning, leaving for her job as a 151 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:16,720 Speaker 1: chemical engineer, straight out to John Guard, joining us chief 152 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:21,000 Speaker 1: deputy with Pitt County Sheriff's Office in Greenville, who specializes 153 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:25,880 Speaker 1: in cases just like this one. You know, Jennifer Rothwell, 154 00:10:26,679 --> 00:10:30,679 Speaker 1: it strikes me how organized she was, so it should 155 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:34,200 Speaker 1: have been easy for police to figure out where she 156 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:37,600 Speaker 1: would have been at the time she went missing, John Guard, 157 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:41,160 Speaker 1: because isn't all of that saved in the cloud? Absolutely, Nancy, 158 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:43,320 Speaker 1: And that's one of the first things, you know, we're 159 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:46,000 Speaker 1: going to do in any case that begins maybe as 160 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:49,880 Speaker 1: a missing person, She're gonna examine that digital footprint, and 161 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:52,000 Speaker 1: then you know, there's a lot of legs that go 162 00:10:52,120 --> 00:10:56,679 Speaker 1: off that footprint, connect to other people and other information, 163 00:10:56,800 --> 00:10:59,480 Speaker 1: and you're just going to run that information down and 164 00:10:59,559 --> 00:11:02,760 Speaker 1: see where it takes. It sounds like the police did 165 00:11:03,280 --> 00:11:06,880 Speaker 1: what we normally do in cases like that and did 166 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:11,080 Speaker 1: a really really good job, learning a lot in hindsight, 167 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:15,920 Speaker 1: as I'm sure the investigators worked in the case. I 168 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:18,680 Speaker 1: saw you know firsthand, but there was a lot of planning, 169 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:22,880 Speaker 1: not only you know in her daily life and what 170 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:39,640 Speaker 1: Jennifer did. She certainly lived by a calendar Crime Stories 171 00:11:39,640 --> 00:11:45,280 Speaker 1: with Nancy grace Well. The jury got it right. Bo Rothwell, 172 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:50,720 Speaker 1: thirty one, convicted in the murder of his gorgeous young wife, 173 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:56,559 Speaker 1: pregnant twenty eight year old Jennifer Rothwell. Now he says 174 00:11:56,640 --> 00:12:00,440 Speaker 1: he was in a quote red haze of her. What 175 00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:02,960 Speaker 1: is that supposed to make me think it's less than 176 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:06,400 Speaker 1: a murder because you claimed you were quote angry. Oh, 177 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:09,160 Speaker 1: I get angry every day, but I don't want to 178 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:13,199 Speaker 1: murder my husband. I love him and he absolutely puts 179 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:17,000 Speaker 1: up with me. The last thing that happens to me 180 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:19,120 Speaker 1: when I met at David it is for me to 181 00:12:19,160 --> 00:12:25,080 Speaker 1: go into a quote red haze of anger. No, I'm 182 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:28,600 Speaker 1: looking at Jennifer Rothwell's picture right now and I'm just 183 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:33,520 Speaker 1: imagining her and what she lived through when she was 184 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:39,600 Speaker 1: bludgeoned dead with a mallet. This was not a person 185 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:42,840 Speaker 1: that is prone to high risk behavior. She's not out 186 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:45,840 Speaker 1: on the corner hooking. She's not going into bad areas 187 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:50,080 Speaker 1: trying to score a rock a crack. She's not into 188 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:53,680 Speaker 1: any in the Fairy's activity. She has a very regular schedule, 189 00:12:53,720 --> 00:12:58,079 Speaker 1: and she's six weeks pregnant. Long story short. The fact 190 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:01,880 Speaker 1: that this woman just drops off the app, it's very 191 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:06,680 Speaker 1: very uncommon. Take a listen to our friends at crime 192 00:13:06,760 --> 00:13:10,120 Speaker 1: online dot Com. Jennifer Rothwell was last seen leaving her 193 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:13,800 Speaker 1: West Saint Louis County home. Bo Rothwell says Jennifer left 194 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:17,160 Speaker 1: for work at six twenty that warning. As Bo Rothwell 195 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:20,200 Speaker 1: begins getting ready for his own day, Jennifer Rothwell calls 196 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:24,320 Speaker 1: four times, but Bow misses the calls. Rothwell texts his 197 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:27,880 Speaker 1: wife during the day, but there's no replies. Rothwell reports 198 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:31,319 Speaker 1: Jennifer as missing. I mean the car as I recall, 199 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:35,640 Speaker 1: was a Hundai Sonata, right, Christy, Missourich correct in a 200 00:13:35,679 --> 00:13:40,120 Speaker 1: pretty common car. So I'm just wondering if they had 201 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:47,880 Speaker 1: NAV in that car, navigational tracking, which I love, John Guard, 202 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:51,880 Speaker 1: Chief Deputy Pitt County Sheriff's Office nav systems and cars, 203 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:55,200 Speaker 1: they're a huge benefit to police. But well, you guess 204 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:57,320 Speaker 1: somebody that may have a used car or an older 205 00:13:57,360 --> 00:14:00,119 Speaker 1: car no good. And this one is a twenty eleven 206 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:04,080 Speaker 1: Hundai Sonata. Yeah, I'm thinking that's a little older than 207 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:10,600 Speaker 1: would not come with the GPS and may have. So 208 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:12,400 Speaker 1: the only thing I can think of right now if 209 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:15,120 Speaker 1: they're really trying to piece together where her car went, 210 00:14:15,920 --> 00:14:20,720 Speaker 1: is the case missing Connecticut Mamma fied Jennifer Dulos her husband. 211 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:23,760 Speaker 1: No doubt in my mind Fotus Dulos was having an 212 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:27,200 Speaker 1: affair with the girlfriend with Shelta Cronis, and I have 213 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:29,760 Speaker 1: no doubt in my mind that he murdered her. She's 214 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:33,400 Speaker 1: not missing, she's dead. But what police did in an 215 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:37,560 Speaker 1: effort to find her. They got every ring, doorbell, every business, 216 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:45,360 Speaker 1: every resident, surveillance video, red light cam, stop cam, bridge cam, 217 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:48,760 Speaker 1: told him everything. They even got a camera. This is amazing. 218 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:54,120 Speaker 1: When a public bus opened its doors, the camera caught 219 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:58,640 Speaker 1: the husband going by in the vehicle. Then hip, of 220 00:14:58,640 --> 00:15:03,200 Speaker 1: course take the murder car to the car wash to 221 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:05,920 Speaker 1: have the car detailed. Even changing out the back seats 222 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:09,920 Speaker 1: didn't really help because his wife's blood and hair was 223 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:14,040 Speaker 1: found on the seats. Long story short, We can work 224 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:19,440 Speaker 1: wonders with surveillance video, but not with the nav system 225 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:25,560 Speaker 1: in this car. But speaking of the car, suddenly we 226 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:27,760 Speaker 1: get a break in the case and the search for 227 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:31,360 Speaker 1: Jennifer Rothwell. Take a listen to our France at crime alone. 228 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:34,440 Speaker 1: Jennifer Rothwell's car is found the same day she has 229 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:37,520 Speaker 1: reported missing, a little over a mile from her home. 230 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:41,680 Speaker 1: Around nine thirty the twenty eleven Honday, Sonata is found 231 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:44,040 Speaker 1: on the side of the busy intersection. It did not 232 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:47,320 Speaker 1: appear to have been in a crash and was otherwise drivable, 233 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:50,800 Speaker 1: so the police tagged the vehicle as abandoned. After the 234 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:54,840 Speaker 1: owner was identified. Jennifer's phone was found inside. Okay, she 235 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:59,040 Speaker 1: didn't make it very far, did she? Just About a 236 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:04,520 Speaker 1: mile from her home about nine thirty am, personatas found 237 00:16:04,520 --> 00:16:08,040 Speaker 1: on the side of a busy intersection. It had not 238 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:12,040 Speaker 1: been in a crash. It was not on empty, it 239 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:15,200 Speaker 1: did not have a flat tire. What does that mean? 240 00:16:16,040 --> 00:16:19,560 Speaker 1: Let me go out to you, Matthew Mangino. Was she 241 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:22,760 Speaker 1: forced off the road? There's not a mark on her car. 242 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:26,080 Speaker 1: Why did she pull over? Did she suddenly get sick? 243 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:29,600 Speaker 1: Was she nauseus from being pregnant? I mean, what is 244 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:33,280 Speaker 1: that telling you? The car has found about a mile away? Well, 245 00:16:33,520 --> 00:16:37,480 Speaker 1: that's really a concern. I think that it changes the 246 00:16:37,520 --> 00:16:42,480 Speaker 1: focus of the investigation. At first, you're thinking about a 247 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:45,560 Speaker 1: person who is missing, maybe maybe there's some reason she 248 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:48,360 Speaker 1: went someplace, and you're trying to figure that out as 249 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:50,920 Speaker 1: quickly as you can. But now you find your car 250 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:55,480 Speaker 1: alongside the road. That changes the dynamics of this investigation. 251 00:16:56,760 --> 00:17:00,160 Speaker 1: Now it appears that something sinister may have happened here. 252 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:02,840 Speaker 1: And again this is where I think you begin to 253 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:08,000 Speaker 1: grab videotape that you can from from neighboring businesses. You 254 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:10,399 Speaker 1: said it was a busy intersection. You start looking at 255 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:15,240 Speaker 1: all those possibilities of gaining additional information. But I think 256 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:18,640 Speaker 1: that finding this car a mile away without any damage 257 00:17:18,760 --> 00:17:24,720 Speaker 1: or it's not incapacitated in some way, but it does 258 00:17:24,920 --> 00:17:30,679 Speaker 1: point to something nefarious. Nancy Nancy, do you remember that 259 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:33,639 Speaker 1: can go to you? Go ahead, doctor Bethany. Remember the 260 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:36,040 Speaker 1: case we covered years ago where there was a college 261 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:39,280 Speaker 1: student coming home late at night from a party at 262 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:42,240 Speaker 1: her college and the car was found on the side 263 00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:46,760 Speaker 1: of the road and they found for valance, yes, that 264 00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:49,240 Speaker 1: a group of boys had forced her off the road 265 00:17:49,359 --> 00:17:53,080 Speaker 1: just before she was going over a bridge, and that 266 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:55,240 Speaker 1: was the only clue they had. I mean, I'm not 267 00:17:55,280 --> 00:17:58,120 Speaker 1: saying that's the same in this case, but when a 268 00:17:58,119 --> 00:18:01,480 Speaker 1: single woman's car is found on the side of the road, 269 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:04,560 Speaker 1: I sometimes wonder. I mean, have you ever had somebody 270 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:07,320 Speaker 1: scary follow you in your car? I have a number 271 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:09,600 Speaker 1: of times in mind, and it's very frightening. You try 272 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:13,040 Speaker 1: to find the nearest police station, you try to stumble 273 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:15,840 Speaker 1: for your cell phone. But I would wonder, you know, 274 00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:19,440 Speaker 1: if there's any surveillance, any footage that shows that there 275 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:21,760 Speaker 1: was somebody who tried to force her off the road. Well, 276 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:24,640 Speaker 1: this is also another interesting fact about her car being 277 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:28,320 Speaker 1: found not flat, not empty, not banged up, no crash. 278 00:18:28,560 --> 00:18:32,600 Speaker 1: It was also at a busy intersection, so you would 279 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:36,679 Speaker 1: think if someone was going to kidnap her, steal her away, 280 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:39,199 Speaker 1: or force her in or out of the car. It 281 00:18:39,240 --> 00:18:42,359 Speaker 1: would have been spotted, but we have no witness. I 282 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:44,760 Speaker 1: know it was early in the morning, but people are 283 00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:48,000 Speaker 1: up and about on the interstate heading to airports, heading 284 00:18:48,040 --> 00:18:50,520 Speaker 1: to work like she was at six o'clock in the morning. 285 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:53,560 Speaker 1: What can we learn from this car? Take a listen 286 00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:58,200 Speaker 1: to Robert Townsend ks DK cream Corps. Police located a 287 00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:01,800 Speaker 1: car not far from this house the same day, near 288 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:04,800 Speaker 1: the intersection of Olive and Fife Road. Liars of the 289 00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:09,160 Speaker 1: missing woman are posted right now inside several businesses in 290 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:13,080 Speaker 1: this very neighborhood. Police also tell us Rothwell's family and 291 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:15,960 Speaker 1: friends usually talk to her every day, but again, they 292 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:19,440 Speaker 1: have not heard from this woman since Jennifer left home 293 00:19:19,520 --> 00:19:22,359 Speaker 1: early yesterday morning, and that's why they filed a missing 294 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:26,760 Speaker 1: person's report. Police say Rothwell's husband, all of her relatives 295 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:28,960 Speaker 1: and family members they spent that they talk to them. 296 00:19:29,119 --> 00:19:31,399 Speaker 1: They just want to know where this woman is. Again, 297 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:34,720 Speaker 1: police tell us this young lady has never disappeared before. 298 00:19:35,119 --> 00:19:37,280 Speaker 1: Back they're live again. You see a very active scene 299 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:40,720 Speaker 1: in this neighborhood. Saintlis County police right here sitting into vehicles. 300 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:44,919 Speaker 1: They are also asking anyone who sees Jennifer Rothwell to 301 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:50,760 Speaker 1: call Saintlais County Police immediately. As the search intensifies, of 302 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:56,840 Speaker 1: course focus turns to the husband. But he bo Rothwell 303 00:19:57,440 --> 00:20:00,680 Speaker 1: is the one that call nine one one. And so 304 00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:04,359 Speaker 1: often when husbands are suspected in a wife's disappearance or 305 00:20:04,359 --> 00:20:08,440 Speaker 1: even murder, they're not the ones that call nine one one. 306 00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:11,400 Speaker 1: I mean, look at barrymore Few. He didn't call nine 307 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:15,600 Speaker 1: one one. He called his daughters to call a neighbor, 308 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:19,040 Speaker 1: and I think the neighbor is the one they call 309 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:21,960 Speaker 1: nine one one. He goes on and on as I 310 00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:26,600 Speaker 1: would call in Scott Peterson, her parents called nine one one, 311 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:30,760 Speaker 1: not him. Let me understand, that's Christy, Missouri joining us. 312 00:20:31,359 --> 00:20:34,679 Speaker 1: She's last seen it at six thirty a m. And he, 313 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:37,679 Speaker 1: the husband, does call nine one one. But isn't it 314 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:41,160 Speaker 1: at nearly ten o'clock at night when he calls nine 315 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:44,440 Speaker 1: one one? Correct, when she doesn't return from work. Now, 316 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:47,119 Speaker 1: mind you flashback to what he said earlier in the 317 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:50,439 Speaker 1: day she leaves for work, he misses a few phone 318 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:54,960 Speaker 1: calls from her, and she never responds to his phone call. 319 00:20:55,119 --> 00:20:58,840 Speaker 1: So that huge gap of time, all of these missed 320 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:02,000 Speaker 1: phone calls in the morning, he waits until ten pm 321 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:04,919 Speaker 1: to finally say something's wrong here. I haven't heard from 322 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:07,560 Speaker 1: my wife in over twelve hours. Well, another thing, I 323 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:09,560 Speaker 1: don't think that she normally gets home at ten o'clock 324 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:12,159 Speaker 1: at night. From where sure, because if she's going in 325 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:14,919 Speaker 1: at six thirty, especially a lot of her being pregnant. 326 00:21:15,320 --> 00:21:19,960 Speaker 1: He waited until nearly ten o'clock at night. That steel 327 00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:24,760 Speaker 1: is not damning, but it was enough for her family 328 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:28,080 Speaker 1: to be concerned because she spoke to them on a 329 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:31,320 Speaker 1: daily basis. So when dinner time rolled around that day 330 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:34,760 Speaker 1: and they hadn't heard from Jennifer, when they questioned Bo, 331 00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:37,600 Speaker 1: he said, well, I tried calling her this morning. She 332 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:42,600 Speaker 1: hasn't answered her phone. That started putting up some concerns. 333 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:47,520 Speaker 1: When you hit a wall, I always start over again. 334 00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:52,159 Speaker 1: Matthew Mangino, a high profile lawyer out of Newcastle, former 335 00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:55,640 Speaker 1: Distrie attorney. Once you follow all your leads and you're 336 00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:59,720 Speaker 1: going nowhere, you start all over again. With this scenario, 337 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:05,840 Speaker 1: with the witnesses, with the rain caams, with the nav system, 338 00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:09,119 Speaker 1: with the phone calls, with the texts, and of course 339 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:11,600 Speaker 1: you'll look at the husband, but I would look not 340 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:15,200 Speaker 1: only at the morning she was last saying, I would 341 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:17,760 Speaker 1: look at the days leading up to that with you. Well, yeah, 342 00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:22,000 Speaker 1: there's no question about it. I think, Um, you're exactly right. 343 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:25,840 Speaker 1: Once you've you've gone through would appear to be the 344 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:29,720 Speaker 1: obvious options here you go back to the beginning. In 345 00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:33,879 Speaker 1: the beginning in investigations like this is looking at the 346 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:38,200 Speaker 1: husband and you want to now get more information about 347 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:40,720 Speaker 1: the husband. You want to find out what he was 348 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:45,840 Speaker 1: doing in the days leading up to her disappearance exactly, 349 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:48,160 Speaker 1: And you're right, you want you want to you want 350 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:50,320 Speaker 1: to see his phone, you want to you want to 351 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:52,920 Speaker 1: see who he's been in contact with, who he's been 352 00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:56,399 Speaker 1: talking to, who he's been messaging, and uh, you know, 353 00:22:56,440 --> 00:23:00,000 Speaker 1: so this this investigation, in this short period of time, 354 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:03,560 Speaker 1: has gone full circle. Let's go back to the beginning 355 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:09,760 Speaker 1: and let's be more thorough about what transpired prior to 356 00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:14,359 Speaker 1: her disappearance. Then we find out that he is quite 357 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:17,280 Speaker 1: the nate nick. That's always a concern to me when 358 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:21,639 Speaker 1: your wife goes missing and suddenly you're out buying bleach. 359 00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:24,680 Speaker 1: Take a listen to our cut eight our friends at 360 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:28,199 Speaker 1: Fox two. Bo Rothwell told officers he last saw his 361 00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:30,879 Speaker 1: wife at six twenty am at their home when she 362 00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:35,119 Speaker 1: reportedly left for work. Minutes later, he missed four phone 363 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:38,000 Speaker 1: calls from her. Police found the victim's phone in her 364 00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:40,400 Speaker 1: car abandoned on the side of the road near Olive 365 00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:44,160 Speaker 1: and Fife. Meanwhile, investigators noted Bo's pick up at their 366 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:47,080 Speaker 1: home about a mile away had a strong odor of 367 00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:50,480 Speaker 1: bleach that seeked from the truck bed. A small window 368 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:54,080 Speaker 1: to the garage was opened despite the cold temperatures. Doctor 369 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:58,679 Speaker 1: Tim Gallagher, we're now medical examiner for the entire state 370 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:02,080 Speaker 1: of Florida. You can find it at pathcaremed dot com. 371 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:06,919 Speaker 1: Lecturer University Flora School of Medicine and founder host of 372 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:13,119 Speaker 1: the International Forensic Medicine Death Investigation Conference. Doctor Gallagher, why bleach? 373 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:18,439 Speaker 1: I mean it's almost cliche. Where you see the killer 374 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:23,320 Speaker 1: in line at Walmart behind bleach. These cops get six 375 00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:27,679 Speaker 1: feet from the husband's truck and they smell bleach. What 376 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:31,720 Speaker 1: is in bleach that hurts your nose? Both bleach actually 377 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:34,720 Speaker 1: is chlorine bleach and chlorine is a gas. It's a 378 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:38,800 Speaker 1: very reactive gas and that it'll react with proteins, it'll 379 00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:42,000 Speaker 1: react with bodily fluids, and it will react with tissue. 380 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:45,280 Speaker 1: You know that's present in your nose, and when it 381 00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:48,480 Speaker 1: does come in contact, it will ignite the nerve endings 382 00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:52,560 Speaker 1: and it will radiate pain from your nose all up 383 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:55,720 Speaker 1: through your face. So another thing I wanted to point 384 00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:58,719 Speaker 1: out now that I got a chance again is to 385 00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:04,679 Speaker 1: say places Walmart, Target, you know their surveillance system. You know, 386 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:08,280 Speaker 1: we kind of frowned upon these large, big box stores, 387 00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:12,120 Speaker 1: but we've called a lot of criminals using the surveillance 388 00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:16,560 Speaker 1: and photography system present. You know after registers at Walmart, 389 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:19,679 Speaker 1: end places like Target. Who frowns on big box stores 390 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:24,200 Speaker 1: little box stores? Ah, you're right, because I know I'm 391 00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:27,560 Speaker 1: telling you. So did you say chlorine? It's what's in 392 00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:30,879 Speaker 1: bleach that that hurts your nose? Right? Chlorine is a 393 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:34,520 Speaker 1: guess that its dissolved in a fluid which has been 394 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:37,919 Speaker 1: called bleach. But it evaporates very quickly out of the 395 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:40,320 Speaker 1: fluid and it goes into your nose, reacts with a 396 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:43,159 Speaker 1: tissue and ignites the nerve endings, and that's what causes 397 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:45,880 Speaker 1: the pain. You know, a lot of people think that 398 00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:50,040 Speaker 1: bleach alone can get rid of DNA. That's absolutely not true. 399 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:53,800 Speaker 1: You need something like myriadic acid like black swan if 400 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:56,879 Speaker 1: you really want to do the job right. But I 401 00:25:56,920 --> 00:26:00,960 Speaker 1: mean you can smell bleach all the way. Hey, that 402 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:04,360 Speaker 1: just made me think of something, Doctor Tim Gallagher. Remember 403 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:06,600 Speaker 1: in the more Few case where everybody went into his 404 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:10,399 Speaker 1: hotel room and said it smelled like chlorine? Would that 405 00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:14,359 Speaker 1: have been possibly bleach and not chlorine from a swimming pool? 406 00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:17,680 Speaker 1: Most likely if you just smell it in one room 407 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:20,480 Speaker 1: and not all of the rooms, most likely it is bleach. 408 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:23,240 Speaker 1: You know that is centralized in that one location. You 409 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:25,200 Speaker 1: do know. I could listen to talk all day long. 410 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:28,440 Speaker 1: But getting back on track, So we've got the husband 411 00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:33,440 Speaker 1: cleaning out his truck bed with bleach and he's even 412 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:38,440 Speaker 1: opened the garage window, left it cracked open. What to 413 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:43,280 Speaker 1: dissipate the odor? Odor of what? But then we find 414 00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:48,359 Speaker 1: out about a list, You know, doctor Bethany Marshall, there's 415 00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:52,440 Speaker 1: such thing as being too organized. Take a listen to 416 00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:56,560 Speaker 1: our cut nine our friends at Fox too. Bo Rothwell's 417 00:26:56,600 --> 00:27:00,200 Speaker 1: list of pros and cons about his mistress. Roth Well 418 00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:03,679 Speaker 1: wrote it on a work notebook dated five months before 419 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:07,720 Speaker 1: the murder. Plus is indicating the pros like better sex, life, 420 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:12,240 Speaker 1: more respect, fresh start than he wrote is the cost 421 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:16,600 Speaker 1: too high? Under cons indicated by a minor sign half 422 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:21,840 Speaker 1: my assets, money, trust is shaken, tainted, my family, disappointment, 423 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:25,520 Speaker 1: and take on her kid with his probs. The list 424 00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:30,960 Speaker 1: did not mention killing anyone. Wow, Chrissy Missourich. A list 425 00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:34,440 Speaker 1: made out of pros and cons whether he should keep 426 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:37,679 Speaker 1: the wife or get rid of her. Do you remember 427 00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:40,640 Speaker 1: those old Gerito commercials that would run during lawrence Well 428 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:43,480 Speaker 1: where the husband at the end would say, I think 429 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:46,199 Speaker 1: I'll keep her even as a little girl. That just 430 00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:48,520 Speaker 1: rubbed me the wrong way. But I didn't know why 431 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:52,600 Speaker 1: he made a list of pros and cons about keeping 432 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:55,840 Speaker 1: his wife or what trade to get marriage, marriage or 433 00:27:55,920 --> 00:28:02,240 Speaker 1: mistress that we talked about mistress? What did you just say, 434 00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:07,320 Speaker 1: go ahead, I'm listening marriage or mistress? Because that list 435 00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:13,919 Speaker 1: really puts investigators on the trajectory looking further into his phone, 436 00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:17,840 Speaker 1: who he was talking to, how long he was talking 437 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:21,480 Speaker 1: to them, and what exactly he was saying, and then 438 00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:25,800 Speaker 1: they uncover this whole sordid affair he was having with 439 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:30,359 Speaker 1: another woman and some very eye opening text messages to 440 00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:34,600 Speaker 1: this woman just before Jennifer goes missing. Okay, wait, tell 441 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:37,359 Speaker 1: me about the text messages. Well, as we was saying, 442 00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:41,200 Speaker 1: he was debating marriage or mistress. He claims he was 443 00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:45,760 Speaker 1: feeling guilty about having this affair and wanted to come 444 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:48,760 Speaker 1: clean to his wife. So he and his mistress start 445 00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:51,080 Speaker 1: texting back and forth, and he said, well, we have 446 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:54,800 Speaker 1: three options. Option one is to end things all together 447 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:59,120 Speaker 1: and stop chatting. Option two, I'll admit the affair to 448 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:04,000 Speaker 1: Jennifer and get a divorce. Option three because now Jennifer 449 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:07,280 Speaker 1: is pregnant and he knows this. See have a miscarriage 450 00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:12,680 Speaker 1: or quote something happens in which case Bo would leave 451 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:17,920 Speaker 1: Jennifer for her, And it's that comment or something happens 452 00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:22,560 Speaker 1: that police focus on. So now we learn not only 453 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:26,320 Speaker 1: did he make a pro and con list to dotor 454 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:30,040 Speaker 1: Bethany Marshall very quickly. I would hate to think that 455 00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:33,440 Speaker 1: you could reduce a marriage and a pregnancy down to 456 00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:36,440 Speaker 1: a pros and cons list marriage or mistress. You know 457 00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:40,280 Speaker 1: what's missing out of this list is his emotions towards 458 00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:43,200 Speaker 1: either one of these true two women. There's nothing about 459 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:46,120 Speaker 1: his wife being beautiful, what about the unborn child? The 460 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:51,120 Speaker 1: unborn child is not really mentioned, his family, anything emotional 461 00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:54,520 Speaker 1: about the people in his life. He does mention loss 462 00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:59,320 Speaker 1: of respect, but that's very self referential and it just 463 00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:02,320 Speaker 1: has to do with him. There's nothing about loving or 464 00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:18,080 Speaker 1: being attached to anybody else but himself. Crime stories with 465 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:23,560 Speaker 1: Nancy Grace. What the jury has handed down a verdict 466 00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:29,680 Speaker 1: in the case against bou Rothwell, aged thirty one, being 467 00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:34,200 Speaker 1: tried for the murder of his pregnant wife, Jennifer. What 468 00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:37,320 Speaker 1: do we know about the night Jennifer Rothwell was murdered? 469 00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:42,960 Speaker 1: What medical examiners and crime reconstructionists think happened is that he, 470 00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:45,760 Speaker 1: the husband, bash her in the back of the head 471 00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:51,960 Speaker 1: with a mallet that sent her stumbling down, and he 472 00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:55,160 Speaker 1: then followed her as she tried to get crawl away, 473 00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:58,000 Speaker 1: get away from him, all this pregnant, I might add, 474 00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:04,200 Speaker 1: and continued to beat her. She was unconscious, and he 475 00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:08,320 Speaker 1: continued to beat her. Then he started a haphazard cover 476 00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:12,560 Speaker 1: up of the murder, buying cleaning supplies, tried to bleach 477 00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:16,280 Speaker 1: his dead wife's blood from the house, drove her car 478 00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:19,960 Speaker 1: to an intersection, and abandoned it there, tossed a blood 479 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:24,320 Speaker 1: stained tarp and the cleaning supplies away together in a dumpster. 480 00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:29,120 Speaker 1: He claims he went into quote panic mode, That's what 481 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:33,040 Speaker 1: he said to the jury. Her naked body was dumped 482 00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:36,320 Speaker 1: in the woods off Highway sixty one in Missouri. Take 483 00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:39,360 Speaker 1: a listen to our friends at k s DK. Saint 484 00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:41,840 Speaker 1: Louis County Police tells me that today they went back 485 00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:43,840 Speaker 1: to the area that they were last night, hoping that 486 00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:46,400 Speaker 1: the daylay can help them find any new sort of evidence. 487 00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:49,680 Speaker 1: Saint Louis County Police Chief John Bellmar says the rain 488 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:52,920 Speaker 1: made it even harder to search. This major operation was 489 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:55,680 Speaker 1: off the roadway of US sixty one, just north of 490 00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:58,600 Speaker 1: KK but after six hours of looking, they found the 491 00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:01,400 Speaker 1: body of a white adult female at eleventh fifteen last 492 00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:04,320 Speaker 1: night along US fxty one year Hiver River State part. 493 00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:08,600 Speaker 1: Facebook messages between the husband and his girlfriend show he 494 00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:12,600 Speaker 1: was very upset when he discovered she was pregnant. Take 495 00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:16,480 Speaker 1: a listen to our prince at KMO. The Rothwell said, 496 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:18,520 Speaker 1: I had mixed feelings. I wanted to be a dad 497 00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:20,520 Speaker 1: a long time, but I was having an affair. He 498 00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:22,720 Speaker 1: said he felt guilty about the affair, and I know 499 00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:25,560 Speaker 1: Vermber eleventh, Rothwell said, my plan was to tell her 500 00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:28,120 Speaker 1: about the affair, throw myself on her mercy, and hope 501 00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:30,720 Speaker 1: for the best. Rothwell said he and Jennifer were sitting 502 00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:32,280 Speaker 1: in the kitchen of their home when he confessed his 503 00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:36,080 Speaker 1: affair and gave this account of their exchange. I'm really sorry, 504 00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:39,960 Speaker 1: but I'm having an affair. How dare you expletive? He claims. 505 00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:43,240 Speaker 1: She shoved him and then said, keep your mystery explative. 506 00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:47,200 Speaker 1: I've got someone too. Is this even mine? It doesn't mind. 507 00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:51,040 Speaker 1: The baby's probably not yours. Who is it? It doesn't matter. 508 00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:54,240 Speaker 1: At least he can get me pregnant. Okay, that sounds 509 00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:56,959 Speaker 1: like a lot of BS to me. Well, once this 510 00:32:57,040 --> 00:33:02,320 Speaker 1: guy starts talking here, really, let's take a listen to 511 00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:05,760 Speaker 1: our cut twelve our friends at KMV. Rothwell says he 512 00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:08,080 Speaker 1: was standing behind Jennifer and hit her on the right 513 00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:11,080 Speaker 1: temple with a mallet, then followed her as she stumbled 514 00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:13,280 Speaker 1: toward the garage. In the heat of the moment, I 515 00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:15,720 Speaker 1: hit her again. I think I cracked her skull and 516 00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:18,760 Speaker 1: she fell down the stairs. He said. She was unresponsive. 517 00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:21,520 Speaker 1: I couldn't tell if she was deceased. But instead of 518 00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:23,720 Speaker 1: calling on when won for an ambulance, Rothwell said he 519 00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:27,040 Speaker 1: went into panic mode and started cleaning up every fiber 520 00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:29,600 Speaker 1: in my body was saying, do something, or I'd die. 521 00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:32,320 Speaker 1: After killing Jennifer, I thought I had to clean this 522 00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:34,880 Speaker 1: up and hide what I'd done, he said. After cleaning 523 00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:36,480 Speaker 1: up the blood, he loaded her body in the back 524 00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:39,240 Speaker 1: of his pickup and drove without knowing where he was going. 525 00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:41,760 Speaker 1: Eventually pulled off the side of the road on Highway 526 00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:44,440 Speaker 1: sixty one near Troy and put her body twenty to 527 00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:46,200 Speaker 1: twenty five feet off the road and covered it with 528 00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:49,640 Speaker 1: twigs and leaves. And that's not all. Hey just can't 529 00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:52,960 Speaker 1: stop talking. Take a listen our cut thirteen, he admitted 530 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:55,120 Speaker 1: parking your car along all the boulevardists part of a 531 00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:57,560 Speaker 1: scheme to claim she had gone missing, and said he 532 00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:00,280 Speaker 1: knew it was wrong to deceive her friends, but like 533 00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:03,240 Speaker 1: he had to keep up the facade, so get this. 534 00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:06,320 Speaker 1: On cross examination, bro Rothwell admitted that he was still 535 00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:08,080 Speaker 1: in almost daily contact with the woman who was having 536 00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:10,880 Speaker 1: an affair with. In fact, multiple times a day I 537 00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:13,360 Speaker 1: spoke with an alternate jurb who the judge said was 538 00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:15,640 Speaker 1: no longer needed and allowed to go home. She said 539 00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:17,600 Speaker 1: if she was in the jury room, she would vote 540 00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:20,399 Speaker 1: for guilty on first degree murder. In fact, she said, 541 00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:25,279 Speaker 1: quote he's guilty as hell, and listen to what we 542 00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:30,319 Speaker 1: now learn he did to his pregnant wife's body, then 543 00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:34,680 Speaker 1: making up this lie about the baby belonging to another man. 544 00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:38,520 Speaker 1: Take a listen to our cut fourteen KMV. The Facebook 545 00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:41,680 Speaker 1: messages between bo Rothwell and his girlfriend showed that he 546 00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:43,800 Speaker 1: was very upset when he found out that his wife 547 00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:47,200 Speaker 1: was pregnant. This afternoon, detectives presented evidence that there had 548 00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:50,319 Speaker 1: been a bloody, violent confrontation in the basement of the 549 00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:53,000 Speaker 1: couple's home. Prosecutors have said that twenty eight girl Jennifer 550 00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:56,520 Speaker 1: Rothwell's skull was crushed. Her body found dumped along Highway 551 00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:59,279 Speaker 1: sixty one near Troy. Her clothes had been removed. She 552 00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:01,640 Speaker 1: was bound with duct teeth and had a plastic bag 553 00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:04,640 Speaker 1: over her head. In testimony this afternoon, the lead detective 554 00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:07,040 Speaker 1: testified a by conducting a search at the couple's home. 555 00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:09,799 Speaker 1: He said there was no sign of forced entry into 556 00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:12,960 Speaker 1: the home and that in the basement, detectives found reddish 557 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:16,160 Speaker 1: circle staining in the carpet and intentions in the wall. 558 00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:19,360 Speaker 1: During the search of the home, detectives removed basement carpet 559 00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:22,120 Speaker 1: and carpet padding and showed the stained items to the 560 00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:25,120 Speaker 1: jury today. It just breaks my heart that this woman, 561 00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:29,880 Speaker 1: This poor woman, Jennifer Rothwell, expecting her first child, was 562 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:35,560 Speaker 1: online looking at a website forum called husband doesn't care 563 00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:40,200 Speaker 1: first pregnancy forums. What to expect. It's just she was 564 00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:45,400 Speaker 1: all alone in the world, her husband texting and sleeping 565 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:49,920 Speaker 1: with another woman. Even after she goes missing. In other words, 566 00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:54,280 Speaker 1: he killed her. He's still carrying on the relationship with 567 00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:59,439 Speaker 1: the mistress. And I noticed when he speaks to detectives 568 00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:04,560 Speaker 1: he refers to the body. I mean, doctor Tim Gallagher, 569 00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:09,319 Speaker 1: that was a lot of staging he did post mortem, 570 00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:12,520 Speaker 1: stripping her nude after he beat her dead in the head, 571 00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:18,840 Speaker 1: zip tying her wrists, putting a plastic bag over her head, 572 00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:24,480 Speaker 1: hiding her body. That's a lot of staging, doctor Gallagher. Well, 573 00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:27,200 Speaker 1: it is, and it's kind of easy to see why 574 00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:29,919 Speaker 1: he did wrap the head, as we had in other 575 00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:33,640 Speaker 1: cases before. When there is a head injury, a severe 576 00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:37,239 Speaker 1: open skull fracture, it bleeds very heavily. We know that 577 00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:40,600 Speaker 1: the heart keeps pumping the blood through the wound, and 578 00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:43,759 Speaker 1: it creates a lot of bleeding, more so than you 579 00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:46,880 Speaker 1: would ever expect. Maybe he was trying to hide that 580 00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:49,759 Speaker 1: evidence and prevent her from continue to bleed as he 581 00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:54,279 Speaker 1: transports her well, the alternate jurar was right on. Take 582 00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:57,040 Speaker 1: a listen to our cut sixteen our friends at KMOV. 583 00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:00,920 Speaker 1: The jury took only three hours in twenty minutes to 584 00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:03,960 Speaker 1: reach their verdict tonight, and when they read it out loud, 585 00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:09,120 Speaker 1: the courtroom erupted with emotion. Jennifer Rothwell's friends and families 586 00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:12,279 Speaker 1: say they feel a sense of relief and justice. It's 587 00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:15,640 Speaker 1: a conviction. The state was confident Bo Rothwell would receive. 588 00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:19,680 Speaker 1: One of the things that came out in testimony was 589 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:27,239 Speaker 1: the defendant said with the second hit that he thought 590 00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:30,000 Speaker 1: he was trying to stop her from getting away, and 591 00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:34,600 Speaker 1: right there you have deliberation. During Bo's testimony early Thursday, 592 00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:37,839 Speaker 1: he said it has haunted me every day since Bo 593 00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:41,280 Speaker 1: Rothwell was charged with first degree murder, tampering with evidence 594 00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:43,839 Speaker 1: for trying to clean up the crime scene, and abandoning 595 00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:47,759 Speaker 1: Jennifer's body near Troy, Missouri. That around six thirty Thursday, 596 00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:51,239 Speaker 1: Rothwell was found guilty on all counts, hanging his head 597 00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:54,040 Speaker 1: in dismay, but throughout the rest of the courtroom, a 598 00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:57,760 Speaker 1: sense of relief and justice flooded Jennifer's friends and family. 599 00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:03,360 Speaker 1: They will live forever without her. No prison term will 600 00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:07,160 Speaker 1: be enough of a punishment for this husband, so cold, 601 00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:11,400 Speaker 1: so callous. Take a listen to our friends at Fox too. 602 00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:15,120 Speaker 1: Rothwell showed no emotions as a judge read the sentence, 603 00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:18,680 Speaker 1: life without parole. Besides life in prison for first degree 604 00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:22,040 Speaker 1: murder charge, Rothwell got four years in prison for tampering 605 00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:25,600 Speaker 1: with physical evidence and four years for abandonment of a corpse. 606 00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:29,440 Speaker 1: Before a sentence, Rothwell told the court and Jennifer's family 607 00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:33,200 Speaker 1: and friends, words can't begin to describe how horrible this was, 608 00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:36,880 Speaker 1: and I'm sorry about what happened. At the yearing, Jennifer's 609 00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:39,840 Speaker 1: mother appeared on video saying she will never have a 610 00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:42,720 Speaker 1: chance to hold her child in her arms, and Jennifer 611 00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:44,840 Speaker 1: will never know the joy of taking her daughter to 612 00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:49,080 Speaker 1: trick her treating and matching costumes. Investigators say the victim's 613 00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:53,120 Speaker 1: family finally got the justice they deserved. Well, Bo Rothwell's 614 00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:57,440 Speaker 1: getting life behind bars. Let that be just a short 615 00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:03,799 Speaker 1: pit stop on his way to hell. I'm Nancy Grace 616 00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:06,160 Speaker 1: signing off, goodbye friend.