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Nov. 21, 2024

Cold Blooded Killer: Felix Vail

Cold Blooded Killer: Felix Vail
Cold Blooded Killer: Felix Vail
Bloody Angola: The Complete Story of America's Bloodiest Prison
Cold Blooded Killer: Felix Vail

In this episode of Bloody Angola, Jim explores the life of Serial Killer Felix Vail, a figure linked to the oldest cold case in history where the killer was sentenced to prison Jim delves into Vail's tumultuous upbringing and unpack details...

In this episode of Bloody Angola, Jim explores the life of Serial Killer Felix Vail, a figure linked to the oldest cold case in history where the killer was sentenced to prison Jim delves into Vail's tumultuous upbringing and unpack details surrounding his wife Mary’s tragic demise, as well as the mysterious disappearances of (2) subsequent partners.

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Timestamps
02:46 Early Life and Marriage
07:52 The Mysterious Disappearance of Mary
12:32 Investigation and Arrest 13:56 Life in California
15:59 New Relationships and Confessions
18:15 The Impact of Bill's Revelation
27:18 Marriages and Escalating Violence
31:17 Annette Craver: A New Victim
39:50 Patterns of Disappearance
45:47 Arrest and New Developments

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0:05 M a wall street line, shackle change, Oh someome girdie, it's calling my name. There is nu mercy and it's been a tentery juice as the huge stream game Rango three. Come in by me or die inside these walls, inside the wild and went no girls.

0:59 I Hey, everyone, Welcome back to Bloody Angola, a podcast one and forty two years in the making, the complete story of America's Bloody is President. I'm your host, Jim Chapman, and today I am bringing you the story of a man incarcerated in Louisiana State Penitentiary to this day that was convicted in the oldest cold case in history in which someone was convicted in this currently time, and that is serial killer Felix Veil. So in order to tell you this one, we're gonna have to go through this guy's entire life, which is absolute insanity from the beginning.

2:18 So I'm going to take you way back to August nineteenth of nineteen thirty nine, and Felix Vale was born in the town of Montpelier, Mississippi. Now his young life, not a ton is known about it. He grew up on a farm, hardworking people, and he appeared to be hardworking, although his high school classmates and things like that say he was pretty wild. Now, in nineteen fifty seven, Felix moves to Sulfur, Louisiana, where he goes to work at a chemical plan. Now he's only eighteen years old at this point, but it's a different in history. Right by the time you're eighteen, most people are married, but everybody works, and he was doing just that, working at a chemical plant.

3:10 And it's also at this point that he receives his high school diploma in Sulfur. So four years later, he marries Mary Horton in Eunice, Louisiana. This is on July first of nineteen sixty one. Now, let me tell you a little bit about Mary. She was a native of Unice, Louisiana. She was the middle child in her family. She had both an older and a younger brother. They were very protective of her. And Mary was beautiful, absolutely gorgeous, young lady, very popular. She was the homecoming queen in her high school, and she even won what was known as the tri Parish Beauty Pet, which was a big deal in that time.

4:04 Mary graduates high school and she goes on to college following in her mother's footsteps, and that was McNee State University, and she wanted to be a teacher. Her mother was a teacher, and she joins ki Omega Sorority and her sorority sisters they described her as someone that could get pretty much any guy she wanted. She had the pick of the letter. Every guy was in love with her. I'm telling you, this lady was just a beautiful young lady. But it was Felix Veil who really won her over. And many people who knew Felix Veil during this time they described him as a lady's man, and he was a handsome man, very handsome man, hard working, seemed to have his life together, etc. At least that was the front that he put on. She's smitten, right. Mary is totally head over heels in love with Felix Veil, and within a year of meeting him, they were already engaged.

5:15 Now her family, let's just say that they were less than excited about this. They didn't really know Felix from Adam. He was a guy that she was dating. He rarely came around them, so they weren't exactly pumped when she came up to them. Hey, we're getting engaged. As a matter of fact, her mother asked Mary's older brother, whose name was Alan, to write Mary a letter asking her to wait a little longer and get to know Felix a little better before she actually committed to be married to him. Mary looked up to her older brother Alan, so her mom thought that may have some effect. But this girl, she was in love with Felix and that's all there was to it. So despite those concerns, in July of nineteen sixty one, she would marry Felix, and within a year of getting married, they welcomed their first child, Bill, into the world. And Mary, as you may expect, she was an amazing mother by all accounts. She just loved Bill with her entire heart and soul. Everybody described her as the prototypical mother. But also around this time, her marriage to Felix was not so good. She loved being

6:48 a mother and she wanted another child, and Felix was totally against this. He did not want her having another child, and they thought about it constantly. So Mary goes to her mother and she says, hey, look, I'm divorcing Felix. But this is a different time. It's the early sixties and in those days, you didn't just divorce like they do today. Divorce back then during that time had a major stigmatism tied to it, and when children were involved. When you had kids, that made it ten times worse.

7:31 You were almost looked at as the scarlet letter if you had kids and you divorced your husband, even if it was a horrible marriage. So, although they couldn't stand Felix, her family and especially her mother, encouraged her to stick it out with Felix. They felt like it would be better for the child. So she had that conversation with her mom in just a couple of months after her mother spoke to her about that Mary would be dead. So let me tell you what happened. On October twenty eighth of nineteen sixty two, Felix he calls the police and he tells them a fishing story of swords. Now on his account, he says that he and Mary they go triteline fishing in the Calkashu River. It was a night and according to Felix, while they were going down the river, he heard her say, watch out, there's a stump, and he jerked the boat wheel to avoid that stump and she fell overboard. Now, he implied that she may have hit her head on that stump, but for whatever reason, she never surfaced. Now, his whole story would change years later, but for now, this is what he was saying. Now.

9:03 Right away, her family knew something didn't smell right, something was wrong with that story. First of all, Mary was afraid of the water. They said it would be near impossible to even get her to agree to go on a boat, and even if she agreed to do that, there was no way she would agree to go on a boat at night, and definitely no way she wouldn't have been wearing a life vest had she done all of the things I just told you. And they gave the reason for this as an incident she had in high school where she was on a boat pier and the wood on the boat pier was written in a spot and she actually fell through the boat pier and almost drowned in the water and was just totally afraid of the water ever since. So on October twenty eighth, when Mary is reported as having fell in the river, the police they do what you would think they would do.

10:08 They gather search teams, and especially with her popularity, even the general public gets involved, and two days later they find Mary's body in the Calcashu River. So next an autopsy is performed and some strange things are discovered. First, she had no water in her lungs. Now, when you drown, as you can imagine, you take that last breath, right, you're underwater, you're drowning and you and all you suck up is water, so you swallow that water and then you die. And if she did not have water in her lungs, that would be a pretty heavy indication that she died somewhere else and was done in the river.

11:03 And second, the autopsy report also noted a very large bruise on the back of her head and extended all the way down to her neck. And it noted she also had a very large scarf and it was shoved four inches down in her mouth and that's a lot. That's like halfway down your throat. Right. She also had scratches on her body which appeared as if she had been dragged and it formed those scratches. Now that's a ton of evidence, right. Well, the police they felt like it was evidence, but didn't feel like it was enough, but they did go ahead and arrest Felix veil. So he goes down to the station and they asked him, hey, you want to take a polygraph, and surprisingly he agrees, and while they were in the process of kind of getting all that set up calling a polygrapher to come in and perform the polygraph, he just walks out of the police station. Now, technically they didn't have enough to hold him, so there wasn't really a way to now arrest him. He was free to leave whenever he wanted. They really took him down there

12:34 for questioning, so when he left, they couldn't like go arrest him again. They just didn't have enough to hold him. But they did track him down and they said, hey, you forgot to take your polygraph, and he said, eh, I changed my mind, I'm not going to take it. And there wasn't a whole lot they could do about that except for continue to investigate the case. So shortly after all this occurs, Felix he becomes almost shunned in the town that he was living in. Everybody knew about this, it was high profile.

13:14 This shit just didn't happen in those days, and he wanted to get out of there, so he moves back to Mottpeelier, Mississippi with his young son Bill. Not much of note really occurs over the next couple of years. The case remains unsolved, right, and in nineteen sixty five, Felix moves again, this time to San Diego, California. He actually had a younger brother who was stationed at Navy boot camp there, but he didn't take Bill with him. He left Bill with his parents to kind of raise him when he went to San Diego. And it's at this point that Felix starts working for a doctor conducting cardiovascular research, and he starts taking college courses at night.

14:07 He's trying to get his life together, right. So in nineteen sixty six, he goes back to Mississippi and retrieves Bill, and he actually said the reason for him doing that was that Bill was getting spoiled by his parents and he felt like he wanted to save Bill from getting spoiled. He felt like he wasn't going to be a man and be able to survive in life. They were just babying him too much. So he goes gets Bill and goes back to San Diego and they move into an apartment together. Then in nineteen sixty seven, he meets Robin Sinclair at a bus stop. Now, she was seventeen years old at the time and a typical flower child of the late sixties early seventies, right, the whole piece in love era and hitch hiking and smoking dope and you know, just life is gummy bears at that point, I guess you could say. And they start dating over that summer.

15:14 But once that summer ended, Robin she goes back to San Francisco where she lived. She goes back home, and that summer romance was pretty much over, but not for long. In nineteen sixty eight, they actually reunite after they run into each other to concert, and they fall in love and they spend twenty four to seven together, and Robin described that as it was pretty much twenty four to seven smoking weed and just living off the land and you know, hippie type stuff. But she ends up pregnant during this time, and she tells Vail about her pregnancy.

16:01 The very next day, Veil and his son disappear out of her life, which would probably be the best thing for her. As we go along, Then in nineteen sixty nine, Veil meets an absolutely beautiful woman by the name of Sharon Hensley in San Francisco, and she's twenty one years old. They start dating and Bill, who is eight years old at this time, Felix Veil's son. One night, he overhears his dad Felix tell Sharon Hensley that he killed Mary.

16:45 So this is where it gets really crazy. Eight year old Bill he sneaks out and he walks several miles to a police station and he tells the police about the confession and that his dad does drugs. He tacked that onto the story as well. So imagine if you're the police, this eight year old kid comes in. He says, Hey, my dad killed my mom. By the way, I'm eight years old and I walked here miles. But my dad killed my mom. I heard him say it, and he does drugs twenty four to seven. So the police probably bought the second thing more than the first thing, if you will. But they do go to where Felix was due to the amount of drugs that they found in that apartment, they arrest him. So they got a trial on that drug case and they'll receives a six month jail sentence, plus he gets three years probation. After pleading guilty to a lesser charge of LSD possession. LSD during that time everywhere totally prevalent. Everybody was doing it, and likely that's why LSD was a lesser charge. As far as the murder confession, I mean, this was the word of an eight year old. It wasn't enough to arrest

18:19 Veil for murder. They did ask him about it and he said, I mean, come on, my son's eight years old. That's not what I said. But Bill's time of hanging out with his dad had ended by this point, obviously, as things would go down, and he returns to Mississippi to live with his grandparents while Veil was in jail, and during that time, his grandparents actually gained full custody. So eventually he gets out of jail and Sharon Hensley gets out of jail, and they're still dating. They're still in love, right, and he decided he wants to go see Bill now that he's out of jail. And on January twenty third of nineteen seventy one, Felix Veil and Sharon Hensley show up in the driveway of Felix Vale's parents' house to go see Bill, and he said he stood there frozen wondering where he could run. He said, he really thought my dad was going to kill me.

19:28 Then he said, my grandmother came back out and reassured me that he wasn't going to kill me. So Veil's family they question Felix and Sharon as to how they could even legally be in Mississippi. You know, they're thinking, y'all are on parole. You're not supposed to leave California while you're serving your probation time. And he says, well, we're not. I used to legally be here. We just left California. So comes to the house they stay the night.

20:09 The next day the sheriff arrives because California, the parole officer there realizes that Vale is gone. He calls Mississippi and says, go check his parents' house, and sure enough, Vail's parents say, well, he ain't here. We ain't seen him. You know, they're not going to turn him in, but he was there, and four days later, Felix, Veil, and Sharon they duck down in the floorboard of a vehicle and his family actually drives him to a bus station in Granada, Mississippi, him and Charon, and they give him you know, one hundred bucks and basically say go back to California. So that's just what they did. And in the summer of nineteen seventy two, Sharon appeared unannounced with Veil at her home in Bismarck, North Dakota, and they basically hitchhiked there. They were living the hippie life right, just smacking weed and playing in fields, whatever they did back then when they were hippies. And the more the family witnessed when they got to North Dakota, the more kind of horrified they became. Sharon was not the same Sharon that they knew prior to Felix Veil. She was

21:40 very conservative before she met Felix Vale, but now she wears many skirts with no panties. Her brother said she had armpit hair and leg hair like a man, and he said, I thought she was freaking way out. She had also lost a lot of weight and with it some of her curves. She just looked very skinny, like drug skinny, like you're doing heroin all the time skinny. And he even said she was losing clumps of her hair.

22:21 He went on to say she seemed brainwashed. You could just tell she was not the same person that this guy was controlling everything she was saying. If someone asked her a question, Felix would answer the question for her, or she would look at Felix while she was giving the answer. And the brother even recalled going one day with Vail to the Elks Club, which was a big club back in those days all over the United States. Sharon's father he was a member of that local Elks Club and they had a workout room in there, and he said, Felix just out of the blue, gets totally naked and starts exercising, but ass naked. Then he walks in the steam room naked, and these older gentlemen they freak out because here he was this hippie looking guy and he's walking around the Oaks club balls swinging right.

23:20 So they basically say, you can't hang out here anymore like this, and the couple they leave and they go back to Mississippi, and they go back to Montpelier and they stay with VAL's family on their dairy form. But even there they were very kind of promiscuous. They always sunbathed completely nude, and neighbors would see this and they would be like, what is the deal with your son and his girlfriend, so it was embarrassing to his parents. Now back at Sharon's home in Bismarck, North Dakota, her parents hadn't heard from Sharon since they left. But in nineteen seventy two, Sharon calls her mother and she says that her and Veil they're going to head to New Orleans.

24:14 They're gonna hang out there for a while, and then they're gonna go to Florida and they're gonna make pornographic films. That's something you want to hear from your daughter, right, Just different time, y'all. But and she was out of control obviously, and she is hanging with the wrong cat. As we will get into later, Vail and Sharon they do just that. They go to New Orleans and Sharon Hensley she works as a table dancer at a strip club, something Val said later on that she had done before. This wasn't her first time being an exotic dancer. She worked in sam Bernardino, California, and Albuquerque, New Mexico as an exotic dancer, according to him, and Val even said guys would give her one hundred dollars to dance on the table, a lot of money back then, rather than go to the next table, they would give her another one hundred dollars, and he said that she would make sometimes one thousand dollars a night, big time money back in the early seventies for sure. So in February of nineteen seventy three, Sharon calls her family again and she says that her and Vale have travel plans. They're going to travel to South America. And that was the last phone conversation any family or friends ever had with her. Again, they did receive a letter from Sharon, and the letter

25:45 contained a picture, and the picture showed her holding a pen and she was sitting at a table at the home of Vale's parents, and it was polaroid pictures. Back then, y'all, they didn't have cell phones. It was enstematic polaroid pictures. And she had wrote on that polaroid making travel notes. I actually have that picture and I'll post that on the Patreon for the Patreon members. Sadly, that was the last time Sharon's family ever heard from Sharon period Now, in nineteen seventy four, Sharon's family received a letter from Vail, and in that letter, he told their family that Sharon had met a couple from Australia and she was traveling around the world on a sailboat with him, and he basically says, they invited me along, but hey, I got too much shit going on here, so I told them, y'all and Sharon can just go traveling around the world on your sailboat. I got too much to take care of.

26:56 This is his story. But again, Sharon had not been seen or heard from by anyone since nineteen seventy three to this day. So let's get into nineteen seventy five in Felix falls in love again. This time he marries a teenager by the name of Sharon Campbell. But that marriage only lasted a couple of days. So what happened in this one? The teacher one night she gets into Felix's car, and she stated that she saw three surgical saws in the back seat. You know, the surgical saws that you used to cut bone. She sees those in the back seat of that car, and as it would freak out likely anyone, it freaked her out so bad in fact, that the next day she left the marriage and never saw Felix veil again. She did note that the marriage was never consummated, so fast forward to nineteen seventy seven and yet another marriage for Felix, this time to a lady named Carolyn. So they get married in sam Bernardino, California, and just a few months later, while Veila is still married, he meets another woman and her name is Alexandria Christiansen, and she said, this is her quote,

28:30 the man had the most gorgeous blue eyes I had ever seen in my life, and he seduced me without much trouble. Now, according to her, the two of them they fall in love over one night. Basically, they traveled to Mexico, he gets a quickie divorce, as she described it, and the two get married the same day. It's the seventies, so after a night at a San Diego hotel, they spend the next day at the San Diego Zoo and the marriage it continues, but throughout a short period of time, she starts to hear that Veil is cheating on her, so she kicks him out of the house and they're gonna get a divorce, right But during that time of separation, Veil he wrecks his motorcycle and he calls her and he's got a sob story that he needs her to help him recuperate, right, So she says, okay, you can come to my condo and Costa Messa and you can recuperate here. At some point, she confronts him again about all this cheating, you know, and this is why we're separated, right, And he gets agitated and he starts talking about his first wife. And during this argument, he says, you know my first wife died, right, and she tells him, yeah, she died in a bating accident. Told me about that.

30:01 You told me she drowned, and she said. He replied, I could have saved her, but I chose not to. So yet another half assed confession from Vel. Well, that statement, it kind of freaks her out, as you would imagine, so she tells, well, look, you gotta go now. You're telling me you killed you ex wife. And in an effort to kind of calm herself down, she says, I started running the shower and I was going to take a shower, just a long, hot shower, to calm down. But while in the shower, Vell throws open the shower door and she said, the next thing I know, his hands are around my neck and I was screaming, and my kid brother, who was living with us. He came in running. He grabs Felix and knocks him to the ground.

30:58 That kind of freaked Felix Vail out and he leaves Christiansen. She later discovers she was pregnant, but she did say that the baby arrived still born. So throughout the next few years life it's pretty uneventful for Veil, that is until August of nineteen eighty one, when he met a fifteen year old at a yard sail in Houston, Texas by the name of a net craver. So to tell you a little bit about a net craver, when he meets her at this yard sale, she's just fifteen years old, and also around the age of fifteen, her father is killed in a car crash and that leaves her mother, Mary Rose, and herself alone, and it took a big toll on her. Now. Prior to her father's passing in that car accident, they were a well to do family, kind of upper middle class, and her dad had a great job and he had a lot of life insurance which was left to a net craver. But she loved her daddy and she was very depressed over this. She began to withdraw from friends, and it was really apparent to anyone who knew her that she was very, very depressed.

32:26 So the yard cell happens, and at that yard cell, Felix Veil shows up, who at this time is forty, which incidentally was close in age as her newly deceased father. So they start talking. Now, around this time, her mother gets a job, a really good job in Oklahoma offer she can't turn down right, but a neck craver. She's very smart, so smart in fact, that she skipped a couple of grades in high school. So even though she was fifteen, she was about to graduate, she just had a year left, and her mother did not want to uproot her, considering all the changes she had already had in her life with her dad passing and everything else.

33:14 So her mother had a good friend and she said, hey, can a Nette stay with you until she graduates and I can get my feet underneath me with this new job and buy a house. The friend agrees, and looking back on this now, of course, her mom knows that was a huge mistake because what her mom did not know that was while she was away in Oklahoma, a Nette had started a full blown relationship with Felix Veil. So over the next year, Annette suddenly disappears with Veil.

33:57 She would write her mom letters, but always from a different place, and it was two years later before her mom gets a phone call from her daughter. At this time, her daughter is seventeen and she is asking for her mom's approval to marry Vale. And the reason is she had to have the approval. She was only seventeen and wherever they were living, you had to be eighteen to get married, and without her mom signing off on that, she couldn't get married. So her mother, you know, first reaction is, fuck, no, I'm not going to sign that.

34:38 But she knew one thing. If I don't, I'm going to lose my daughter forever. And so she reluctantly decides she's going to go ahead and improve it. As you may expect, it's doomed from the start between these two. Felix in a Net. At some point during the marriage, a Net becomes pregnant, but Veil, who you know, doesn't like kids, right, he forces her to have an abortion. He's very controlling, as you would expect, And all of this before this poor girl turns eighteen. So eventually even an eighteen year old could figure it out, and she leaves Felix at one point and goes to live with her mother. Now it's important to note at this point this young lady had a trust account when she turned eighteen years old. She had a lot of money coming to her, and her and her mother they get this house together, and I'm telling you that for a reason that will come up later on. But eventually Felix tracks her down and he starts calling a net over over and over again, and her mother would answer the phone and say, fuck you, you're not seeing her leave us alone, all those sorts of things, but Felix, he wouldn't stop.

36:10 Then one day Felix shows up at their house and he just barges in the door. He wants to see a net. She comes down, I'll talk to him, that kind of thing, and it starts up again with Felix in a net, and he just had this control over her, this mind control, And somehow Felix convinces us our, hey, you need to kick your mom out of the house. She's causing problems with us. He totally manipulates it, and she does a net, kicks her mom out of the house, and you may say, well, how can she do that? The house is half her mother's in half hers. Well, she just puts so much pressure on her and made her feel so uncomfortable that her mom was like, fuck it, I'll leave. She leaves, moves to California, and a Net at this time had just turned eighteen. She inherits her dad's life insurance policies, which totaled one hundred thousand dollars, which in today's money is about a half a million dollars, and she also inherits two homes that he had. And Felix at this point has total control over this eighteen year old girl, and he convinces her to transfer everything, including the house deeds, into his name. And then her

37:40 mother doesn't hear from her for a long time. She tries to call her, she writes her letters, nothing's being responded to. As matter of fact, she figures out she's missing. Nobody's seeing her. So on October twenty second of nineteen eighty, her mother reports her missing and the police. They go pay a visit to Felix Veil, who said that the last time he knew of her whereabouts, she was bored in a bus in Saint Louis and she was going to go to Mexico. He stated this occurred in September of nineteen eighty four. So Felix tells the police that she suffered from mental illness and left on her own accord.

38:29 He didn't tell her to leave, it was her idea to leave. And although the police didn't exactly buy this story, primarily because one of the things is he said he brought it to a bus station that didn't exist. That would be a clue, but they didn't really have anything to go off of, no evidence of foul play whatsoever. So in December of nineteen eighty four, Felix files for divorce and he cites irreconcible differences and marriage desertion. And they asked him about the cash that she had. She apparently had a lot of cash from her dad's trust funds, some fifty thousand dollars in cash, and he said, hey, she took that with her. I don't have any of that cash. Bullshit. I'm calling bullshit on that. They also asked about her belongings and her clothing and he said, hey, I gave all that to the Salvation Army. She left me and said she wasn't coming back and getting it.

39:29 She didn't want it, so I gave it to the Salvation Army. At this point, Felix's first wife dies under very strange circumstances. Then his longtime girlfriend disappears, supposedly going to sail around the world with another couple on a boat and is never heard from again. And then another wife, she leaves him because he tries to choke her to death in the shower. And now his most recent wife disappears without a trace. You see a pattern here, three women, all with only one thing in common, and that was Felix veil So Rose she was actively searching for her daughter a Net still, even though nobody really outside of her was, and she started contacting anyone who knew a Net or Felix and asking if they had information. She hired private detectives, and it was during that process that she finds out about Mary's death and Hensley's disappearance. So Felix he finds out she's kind of digging right, and he writes Rose a letter and accuses her of slandering him.

40:55 And in that letter he said that Annette had emotional problems, I mean from roses bad parenting, so he's going to gaslighter, right, it's all your fault. And he also called a net a zero image whore, whatever that means, and said he wouldn't reveal where she was even if he knew where she was. So in September of nineteen eighty five, almost a year after Annette's disappearance, Felix told her mother that a Net contacted him and said she was traveling with two men among the natives in the jungle and they had a baby. This guy can spend some stories, right, one person takes off and they're going to sail around the world with a couple. Now he's got another one that's living in the jungle with the natives and had a baby. He also made claims later on that in either nineteen eighty six or nineteen eighty seven, he went to Mexico to search for a NET, but his passport never showed any evidence of a trup to Mexico because people would ask him when you ain't went and looked for He also claimed he had repeated contact with a Net since her disappearance, but he was never able to produce any evidence of ever talking to her or having letters of her that she wrote to him. Look, Felix

42:28 Vale also kept a diary throughout the nineteen eighties and police went through that entire diary and there was never any mention of him having heard from a net. So it was a freaking lie, right, So the FBI they start investigating Felix as a possible serial killer in nineteen ninety three, and the way that they arrived at this conclusion was just to look at statistics. It is. Very improbable statistically that he would just at a sheer coincidence, have one wife and one girlfriend who disappeared and another wife who died under suspicious circumstances without him being involved.

43:20 It's almost an impossibility that just don't happen in life one of the three, maybe even two of the three, the three of the three. So they interviewed one of Felix's girlfriends from the nineteen eighties, the FBI as they start investigating this in nineteen ninety three, and she said he was physically violent towards her and eventually she got a restraining order against him. It was that bad. So he has a history of being violent, but the FBI just couldn't find any solid information. In the following year, in nineteen ninety four, they close the investigation. Now Felix and Mary's son Bill, he actually sadly died in two thousand and nine at the age of forty six, but before he died, he made a video statement of everything he claimed he heard his father say about his mother's death.

44:26 And one of Felix's neighbors from the nineteen sixties said he had cursed his first wife and claimed he killed her because she was pregnant again. So in twenty twelve, the police open up Mary's investigation into her death as well as Hensley and Annette's disappearances. They started investigating this again. And what do you think caused them to do that, Well, more than anything else, it was a reporter of for a Mississippi newspaper that ran some articles on these strange cases in their relation to Felix Vale. He was an investigative reporter, and it lit the whole freaking world on fire at this time. Now Felix, at this time he was living in Mississippi, and when this reporter, Jerry Mitchell, tried to interview him about these missing women and Mary, he suddenly leaves the area. He freaking moves and in May of twenty thirteen, Felix gets arrested in Commell County, Texas and he gets charged with the murder of Mary in nineteen sixty two. Now, I want to back up

46:03 for a second, and I just want to say in nineteen ninety seven, and that's mother, she holds a memorial service for her daughter in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the Tulsa, Oklahoma police they're still investigating that case. Right, She's still a missing person even to this day. And of course foul play is expected. But the one good thing to come out of this is now Felix gets arrested for Mary's murder. What do they do after and arrest, Well, they have a trial, and we're going to get into that trial next week. We're going to get into what happened in that second arrest and all the details moving forward with Felix Veil. Thank you so much for listening.

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