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Killers Caught On Camera S02E02
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00:00this time on killers caught on camera in Atlanta Georgia a man is discovered in a pool of blood
00:16in his own bedroom what happened is a mystery the bedroom was in disarray it was covered in
00:25blood all over the walls and in the UK a woman is ambushed and killed in her own home this
00:35behavior is very suspicious I think most of us would look at this behavior and think this is
00:40really odd a brutal end to a brief relationship
00:45in the United States Marietta Georgia 20 miles northeast of the state
01:15capital Atlanta in Cobb County a 911 dispatcher received a disturbing call
01:24okay tell me exactly what happened sir tell me the address sir I need to know where you are
01:35okay you said someone was still there are they still there yes can you tell me if anybody has
01:43a weapon yes
01:44detective Sarah Penny really was one of the officers called to the scene I got the phone
01:57call and my supervisor at the time said hey we have a person who may have been shot or stabbed and gave me
02:04the location when the police arrived the front door was wide open
02:10we don't know if the person's still there we don't know if they're holding hostages
02:26they needed to locate the caller inside the property
02:33the man was locked inside a room officers resorted to brute force
02:57and were met with a shocking scene inside the bedroom
03:02victim's advisor he's been shot we got a lot of blood
03:05he was kind of in a corner bleeding out and just saying help me help me
03:12he shot me he was unable to identify his attacker
03:25the medics arrived on scene and tried to keep him alive
03:36as the medical team tried to stabilize him the police started to try and work out what happened
03:53seeing the blood all over the wall and glass being cut they knew some kind of struggle have happened
04:00so they were trying to absorb all that in
04:03the bedroom was in disarray it was covered in blood all over the walls bottles had been broken
04:19on the ground everything had kind of been moved around in the room
04:23badly injured the man was bleeding heavily
04:29the neighbors had come outside to see what was going on
04:34is it Mitchell?
04:35oh god
04:36do you know him more at all?
04:40I know him very well
04:41what's his name?
04:43Mitchell
04:43Mitchell?
04:44yes
04:4431 year old Mitchell Jones Jr. had moved from Erie, Pennsylvania to Atlanta, Georgia
04:56in search of a better life
05:01he worked at a local restaurant that was nearby his house he was the life of the party everybody
05:07loved being around him he was sweet he liked to hang out with dogs and adopt them and he
05:13was in the process of wanting to make it to the big screen and work for Hollywood he had
05:20been an extra in several movies where he really took pride in that so his big dream was to make it to Hollywood
05:27but Mitchell's dreams were shattered as he succumbed to his multiple injuries
05:39this was now a murder case the police needed to catch Mitchell's killer
05:54detective Carrie Grimstead was the lead investigator
05:58any investigation but particularly homicide the longer it goes the colder the evidence gets
06:05the hell is that
06:09one thing leads to another you need to follow that up follow that up follow that up
06:13follow that up
06:15the faster we can act on the evidence the fresher it is the better the evidence is gonna be
06:21Jesse Evans was leading the major crimes unit at the district attorney's office
06:28we knew who the victim was we knew that his cell phone had been taken from him
06:35we knew that this was a particularly violent assault
06:38but we didn't have a whole lot of details that we could glean from him before his passing
06:42about who might have caused these injuries to him or how this may have occurred
06:49the only things he did say was my neighbor knows
06:57she could tell us that Mitchell called her that night told her that he had to come home
07:03and she has seen couple people come in and out of the house and only knew one person really that kind of stood out to her
07:10you saw him with another man at
07:15and she said that if anybody could have hurt Mitchell it would have been that boy
07:19that's what everybody described him and called him that boy
07:23young females over she's saying another guy was with this guy and that's gay
07:28what she's saying and that this car has been here a lot
07:31police started to look for the suspect
07:35crime scene investigators worked their way through the property
07:39I am a certified blood stain pattern analyst
07:45so I was analyzing what types of blood smears there were or stains there were
07:50there was passive blood spatter there was pooling spatter
07:54most of what was on the walls were what we call contact transfer
07:58where a bloody object makes contact with a non-bloody surface
08:02so that being said I didn't see any impact spatter or anything like that that would come from a possible firearm
08:12one of the critical pieces of evidence that police identified very early on which is very significant to us was a 90 degree blood drop
08:19that was at the threshold of this crime scene at the door clearly out of place detectives had the foresight to say that's out of place we need to swab that
08:28we knew for one that wasn't Mitchell Jones because he didn't leave the room until he was transported by medical personnel
08:38so we knew that had to be our suspects blood
08:42the variety of blood stains provided vital information about the relationship between Mitchell and the person who killed him
08:49didn't rifle through a bunch of drawers or anything like it was a robbery
08:55we know that the the killer was covered with blood because especially right here you'll see the blood transfer on the sofa
09:05and that's a pattern transfer from the clothing and you can tell it looks like somebody sat down that was covered with blood
09:12they sat on the sofa to rest for a minute that indicates that he's not in fear of anybody coming right to the house
09:21indicates a level of comfort inside of the residence
09:28the suspect also seemed to have been welcomed into the property
09:33there's no forced entry to the residence
09:36there's no damage to the door frame indicating the door was opened most likely by Mitchell Jones
09:43but the murder weapon remained a mystery
09:48when Mitchell called 9-1-1 and said that he was shot it had kind of confused us because he had so many multiple stab wounds
09:56and we could never find a gun or shell casing
10:00perpetrators of homicide are much more likely to use a handgun than they are a knife
10:06in fact knives are only used in about 10% of cases according to the FBI
10:11in his 9-1-1 call Mitchell actually says that he's been shot rather than that he's been stabbed
10:18when the autopsy was completed there was no bullet wounds
10:21all the medical examiner can tell us is that there were multiple stab wounds
10:26I talked to the medical examiner who performed the autopsy
10:31and instead of being able to indicate the exact number
10:35he identified them as clusters
10:38couldn't actually count how many
10:41his aorta was punctured
10:43one of his lungs was punctured
10:45numerous other near fatal injuries occurred
10:51the scene upstairs provided more insight into Mitchell's relationship with his killer
10:55when I initially went into the master bedroom
10:59there were candles that had been lit
11:01which indicates there was possible romantic involvement
11:06the crime scene tells you that this had to have been somebody that was close to Mitchell
11:11some kind of passion involved for someone to kill Mitchell like that
11:16we also learned that he happened to be single and was dating other men
11:21these things had to be looked at when we didn't have any actionable leads at the beginning of the investigation
11:28the police needed to investigate Mitchell's lovers
11:32but they were still missing a critical piece of evidence
11:36we learned on that first day that the suspect had taken Mitchell's cell phone
11:43your entire life is on the phone so we didn't have a whole lot of who he was with last
11:49who did he call who did he contact
11:51police tracked down one of Mitchell's close friends Jasmine
11:55in a text message to her Mitchell said he was in an abusive relationship
12:01I think when people think about domestic violence they assume that the victims are always women
12:08and the perpetrators are always men and while that's usually the case
12:11so in the US it's estimated that one in four women will be the victims of domestic violence
12:16at some point in their lives one in nine men in the United States
12:19are also the victims of domestic violence
12:22and if you're a gay man your ratio goes way back up to the same rate as women
12:27because Mitchell's messages didn't name who was abusive detectives needed to check his relationships
12:35and start ruling people out
12:39one of the pictures Mitchell had sent of that boy to Jasmine was a FaceTime photo of the male and he was shirtless
12:48in that photo I noticed that there were praying hands on tattoos and the tattoo was of a praying hand on his chest
12:56with a rest in peace and the date of when that person was deceased
13:01so I did a hashtag search and I found a post made by a person named Eric
13:07when I clicked on the profile I saw that that tattoo matched the same tattoo that I was looking at from that boy
13:15and that's how I was able to identify him
13:17the police tracked down a friend named Eric and brought him in for an interview
13:23the faster we get to the jail the faster you'll be able to get out
13:28Eric told the police that he'd been hanging out with another male at the time of the murder
13:33detective racey and I went to the apartment complex of this smell that he was hanging out with
13:39and as we were getting off the elevator detective racey noticed a dog poop on the side of the elevator
13:49this bizarre observation actually became very important after they checked Eric's cell phone
13:55there was a picture that he had taken of the same dog poop that we saw
14:00and he had sent it to a close friends of his which at the time of him taking that photo and sending it
14:09there was no way he would have had enough time to send that photo at that time
14:12then drive to Mitchell's house to commit the homicide
14:15that picture gave Eric an alibi he wasn't there
14:19with Eric completely cleared of all charges the police were back to square one
14:28they searched the area looking for cameras
14:31a lot of people have ring door cameras or ADT security or any number of cameras around their house
14:40and if we see any of those we try to make contact
14:43and we did locate one camera that was in the vicinity of the scene
14:50the video shows a vehicle pulling into the residence
14:55it left maybe a minute or two after the 911 call
15:04you can't see a tag number on the vehicle but you can see the brake lights pretty clearly
15:12and two weeks prior we see another vehicle that has the same brake lights
15:18and this is daytime and you can actually see it's a black vehicle or dark colored vehicle
15:24numerous people in the office helped us look for vehicles that had similar taillights
15:30and then we finally identified the vehicle it was
15:33it was a Buick Lucerne
15:39we searched around to see if you know in the locally have we stopped anything similar to it
15:45and we just couldn't find anything
15:50at this point the case stalled because we didn't have anything to go by
15:54the longer the time goes on the less evidence you're going to have
15:58because phone data only lasts a certain amount of time
16:02video only lasts a certain amount of time
16:05and unfortunately some of the dating sites he was on would not honor a subpoena from us for records
16:13it was very disheartening
16:17it was so frustrating at this point
16:19Mitchell's mom at the time was very upset she was calling for answers
16:23and wanting us to do everything and at one point she was very upset with me
16:29because she didn't think I was doing a good job
16:31with no more leads the case went cold for four months before a digital forensic breakthrough
16:42one of the detectives in the office just come back from some training with the FBI
16:51he had heard about a geofence technology
16:54which is where you put a virtual fence around the location
16:58and any phone that crosses that that number would show up
17:03analysts at Google were asked to identify the phones that were active close to the crime scene
17:09we saw essentially that there were four users that were within the geofence that we submitted to them
17:16three of those were quickly eliminated as potential suspects because they were neighbors
17:22and then there was one user that was unknown to us
17:25had not been a name even on the radar in terms of the investigation
17:29we asked Google to unmask the number and to give us the information associated
17:33the email came back to Dante Holmes
17:40we have a person now let's start digging on this person let's start working let's start going
17:48he was actually on probation for a violent crime he lived in the Atlanta area
17:53we obtained a search warrant for that iCloud and received what was uploaded
17:59well that night of the homicide there was a picture that was uploaded on the iCloud for Dante
18:06with an ankle wrapped up in bandage around it so it looked like the person had been cut
18:14there was one other key piece of evidence that linked Dante Holmes to the scene of the crime
18:20we noticed that Dante Holmes' mother had a Buick Lucerne
18:27we also learned that Dante Holmes was the primary operator of that vehicle
18:33we all agreed that the next step would be to try to obtain an arrest warrant from a judge
18:38to execute that on Dante Holmes in the hopes that we would be able to get some additional information
18:42either forensically or through an interview
18:49Dante Holmes was arrested and brought into custody
18:57he was transported back to Cobb County where we interviewed him
19:02we also collected his DNA to compare to the suspect DNA of the scene
19:07it was a very emotional rollercoaster even going into the interview
19:13because knowing all the work that we had put in all the man hours we had put in
19:18this is the climax
19:22how are you doing? I'll take the groom set
19:26during the interview we're looking for several things
19:28we're looking at how they move, how they look
19:32before we get to the meat and potatoes
19:35let me ask you a couple basic questions here
19:39when they're answering questions, how's their tone?
19:42you know, we'll ask several questions which they're going to give positive answers to
19:47last name is Holmes, H-O-L-M-E-S
19:50yes sir
19:51Dante, D-U-N-T-E
19:53yes sir
19:54how's that compared to an answer when we ask him was he at the murder scene?
20:00what I want to talk to you about is Mitchell Jones
20:06do you know Mitchell Jones?
20:08no sir
20:10that's going to be slightly different
20:12we're looking for little hints that they'll drop
20:14there'll be no reason for your phone to be at Mitchell Jones' housing
20:20no reason?
20:21no reason?
20:22no reason whatsoever
20:24at the start of the interview he was very
20:27sure of himself, very standoffish
20:31if I told you that was not the correct answer what would you say to that?
20:36that it was wrong?
20:38you're not being honest with me
20:41this puts you at Mitchell's house
20:47the officers started to put more information to Dante
20:48and that's what we need to find out
20:50that is a specific technique in interrogations where you let the suspect start talking and then you start coming with information that you already have evidence for saying actually we know this
21:05rather than putting all your cards on the table at once you are selectively releasing that information to see how the suspect changes their story or whether they change their story and then to try and trip them up in a lie and hopefully to end up in a disclosure
21:18as we confronted him with the evidence with the evidence that refuted what he was saying
21:35we have all these answers already but we need to know what happened in the house that's our question
21:46he began the only thing I can think of looking defeated
21:51did he become aggressive towards you?
21:54did something go wrong?
21:56we just don't understand
21:58it's not like television where you know you've got good cop bad cop
22:04detective stoddard and I both took the you know the grandfatherly approach
22:11did you get scared?
22:13we know sometimes things are unintentional
22:17research very much finds that being nice and treating people as human beings and asking them about what they know rather than trying to force it out of them is a much more useful strategy
22:26the idea is that if they trust you they're more likely to disclose the truth to you and they're more likely to give you information that you need
22:33sometimes things happen that we don't intend to happen
22:37we know what happened we know you need to get it off your chest
22:41we know you've got a lot on your mind
22:46with Dante uncooperative the officers sat and waited in silence
22:50having this really long silence feels really intimidating
23:01I think if you're in a room with two police officers and you know what they think happened and you know what happened it must be terrifying
23:09it's almost a game of well obviously we're not going to end this you're not going to leave until you start talking
23:16for the following four minutes no words were exchanged
23:27and then Dante Holmes finally broke down
23:33I'm going to be 100% honest with the child
23:47I come in the house and talk to you like
23:51I don't want to do this
23:53like
23:54he had the back turn
23:57and he turned around
23:59and he tried to stab me
24:01and we started fighting
24:04I hit him over the head with a piece of glass and he dropped the knife
24:10and I grabbed the knife
24:13and he was on top of me
24:15so I stabbed him in the back
24:17more than 25 individual wounds that Dante claimed were in self-defense
24:28I had to stab him
24:30because if I wound him
24:32I would have been there
24:34we did not believe in self-defense
24:37the scene indicated it's the opposite
24:41Mitchell had broken it off with him
24:43didn't want to be involved because Mitchell liked to date people
24:48he didn't want to be tied down to one person
24:51Mitchell had broken off with Dante
24:53Dante had convinced him
24:55hey let me come over one last time
24:57I had gone up in the bedroom and that's when Mitchell Jones was assaulted
25:06preceding intimate partner murder you often find what are just generally referred to as strong emotions
25:11and that can be anger that can be things caused by someone saying I want to break up
25:16something
25:18that ignites the first move towards violence
25:21and it makes sense to me that they were talking about breaking up and then this started
25:26not to say that that excuses it by any means
25:29but that is exactly the kind of thing that is often the precipitating factor for intimate partner murder
25:37Once he admitted that he did it
25:39he did it
25:40it was just such an elation and at the same time a relief
25:46put your hands together
25:48Dante's DNA also matched the swab taken from the scene of the crime
25:53the case never went to trial
25:58on January 6th, 2020, Dante Holmes pleaded guilty to aggravated assault, aggravated battery and malice murder
26:06he was sentenced to life in prison
26:12Mitchell Jones's family was grateful for the fact that there would be some finality
26:17and that they knew that Dante Holmes would serve life in prison based on this brutal crime that he had committed against their loved one Mitchell
26:23With this case technology played a huge role
26:30having the video surveillance, having the iCloud photo that was uploaded, having geofence being there
26:36all of those things collected together, put everything together as a big puzzle led us to Dante Holmes and the conviction of the murder
26:45Being a homicide detective, it's like you're speaking for people who cannot speak
26:51victims can't tell you what happened
26:54is satisfying knowing that it will help bring closure to the family, to the victim's family
27:00in the US it's estimated that 30% of the population have done online dating
27:15almost a hundred million people
27:19but online interaction lacks the nonverbal cues that we rely on to assess honesty
27:24You can never truly know somebody that you've met online if you've only interacted with them online
27:31and that honesty in the relationship develops over continual face-to-face meetings
27:37which is all important for human beings in us trying to understand what it is we're seeing in front of us
27:44so understanding doesn't depend on what I say
27:48it also depends on how I behave and the interaction of those two things
27:52As the quest for romance moves increasingly online, new ways to lie are quickly evolving
27:59research has found that more than half of US online daters admit to lying in their profiles
28:05In order to detect when someone's deceptive, you need to speak to them
28:09face-to-face
28:11And in our next case
28:14In the UK, in the County of Nottinghamshire, the transition from screen time to time in real life was problematic
28:25With messages misread, red flags never spotted
28:30Colston Bassett, a small village south-east of the city of Nottingham
28:40Home to Clare Abelwhite
28:43Clare Abelwhite was 47 years old
28:45She was a mum of three
28:47She'd previously been married and had always been working on a farm
28:50working on a farm
28:52When her marriage ended, Clare left the farm and went to live in the close-knit village of Colston Bassett
28:59She was living a very rural life there, working in the stables, looking after horses
29:04Clare loved animals and she was also running a really successful business, walking dogs at the time
29:09And people who knew her would always talk of her as this really popular, well-liked, sociable woman
29:16But on February 26th, 2022
29:20Clare failed to turn up at the stable where she worked
29:25A friend of hers turned up on the morning and Clare wasn't there like normal, tending to the horses
29:32So something started to seem a little bit odd to her
29:36Clare's father decided to pop over to the house to check on her
29:42He called up, there was no answer
29:46He walked up the stairs, that was when he found Clare laying in a pool of blood
29:56Clare's father called an ambulance
29:59He says she looks dead, she's white and she's cold
30:01But they asked him to start doing CPR and mouth-to-mouth on her
30:06Which must have been incredibly dramatic
30:11When the ambulance arrived, Clare had already succumbed to horrific injuries
30:16And was pronounced dead
30:20When the police arrived at the crime scene, they found a number of details around in the room
30:24There was blood splattered everywhere, she had blunt force trauma to the head, she'd been heavily assaulted to the face
30:32There were slash wounds on her neck, they actually discovered stab wounds in her chest as well
30:37Clare had been left so long that rigor mortis had started to set in on her body
30:44The police now had a murder investigation on their hands
30:47The house was made a crime scene
30:50The police naturally will look for details of forensic evidence
30:55Unfortunately, Clare's phone had also been removed from the scene
30:59There was no evidence that they could check on her mobile phone
31:02And crucially, no murder weapon found at the scene
31:06Nor was there any other DNA evidence
31:09Police are up against it here, they have a killer on the loose at this point
31:13And it's really difficult if the police don't have some of these solid bits of evidence to work off
31:22Professor Coral Dando is a forensic psychologist
31:26Whenever we go into any situation, we leave some sort of trace of having been there
31:33But when people go prepared to leave as little trace evidence as possible
31:37It makes the police's job and the forensic scientist's job, well, almost impossible
31:44The police decided to use ultraviolet powder dusted over the crime scene to try and find more evidence
31:53They'll powder around the whole scene, turn the lights out, and this will then show up evidence that the naked eye can't see
32:00The police make a significant discovery
32:03They find shoe prints, which they discover could only have been caused by the killer
32:11These prints were made whilst Clare's blood was still fresh
32:15The shoe prints were a useful lead, but the police had very little else to go on
32:21The crime was committed in a remote location, where there weren't many cameras
32:30The police appealed to the public for information
32:36They got a really significant breakthrough
32:40One of Clare's neighbours were away on holiday
32:42They believe that they might have caught Clare's murder on one of their CCTV cameras
32:51They call the police, fly back from holiday and rush home to give them the evidence
32:57The camera captured crucial footage
33:01A figure loitering nearby
33:04Clare's house is behind the fence
33:06This behaviour is very suspicious
33:09I think most of us would look at this behaviour and think this is really odd
33:13To be walking part way across a neighbour's drive next door to someone that we now know had been murdered
33:21The video gave the police vital clues
33:24Professor Vasilios Karajianopoulos is a specialist in cybercrime
33:31He's wearing a jacket, he has a rucksack
33:35And he's wearing Adidas sneakers with a distinctive three stripes
33:41That match the footprint that was found in Clare's home
33:44But even more shocking, the video was recording sound
33:49The audio was graphic and never released
33:54We can hear Clare, she's having a conversation with a neighbour
33:59And we see this male sort of hanging around, waiting for a little while
34:03He then goes and knocks on Clare's door, the dogs are barking
34:07She lets him in
34:10Once he then enters the house, what we can then hear
34:15Which is really just unbelievable and harrowing
34:20Is Clare's screams as she is being murdered
34:26The person in the footage was now the prime suspect for Clare's murder
34:31Now they needed to work out exactly who the killer was
34:35And try to trace their journey to and from Clare's house
34:40Scrolling back through the footage on Clare's neighbour's CCTV
34:44The police hit upon a clue which was captured purely by chance
34:49This is a really rural area of the country, it's dark, it doesn't look as if there are any street lights
35:02So this would be really really difficult to see
35:04But it's the fact that if we watch carefully, a car drives past
35:11This enables the CCTV camera to pick up this person on a bike
35:17Riding in the direction of Clare's house
35:21This short glimpse gave the police vital information about the route he took to her house
35:30But they still had no idea who her killer was
35:33The investigators scanned the cameras along a cycleway to Causton-Busset where Clare was staying
35:43And they can see someone cycling on the night of the murder
35:48We can see the light-coloured backpack on this piece of footage
35:53And the previous footage had an individual with a light-coloured backpack
35:58This crime happening in such a remote place means that no one else would have been around at the time
36:04And the image of this guy matched the CCTV from the neighbour's camera too
36:10So the police were really on to something
36:15Police tracked down CCTV cameras close to Clare's home
36:19And after an extensive search, they found multiple clips showing a cyclist with similar identifying features
36:26It gives more evidence, more clues to the police in terms of what the person might look like
36:37What they might have been wearing
36:39And then that makes it easier to spot them in other footage
36:43And create a map of their movements
36:46The police thought they had caught the killer on camera
36:50But they still couldn't identify the suspect
36:52Pressure was mounting to find Clare's murderer
36:5710 days into the investigation, the police have another huge breakthrough
37:04Someone from the team manages to locate Clare's phone at the bottom of a local river
37:09And they somehow managed to get it working again
37:12The police accessed messages
37:15Which revealed that Clare had been having a relationship with a younger man
37:18Clare had been using a dating website messaging this younger guy
37:24He was 26 years old
37:26They hadn't really known each other that long
37:29They'd gone on a few coffee dates, stuff like that
37:32He was identified as John Jessup
37:36He was a local guy, local to Nottinghamshire
37:41On the surface, quite a normal guy, to be honest
37:44He was quite a keen tennis player
37:46Someone who hadn't been on the police's radar
37:50He had no history of violence, no DNA in the police's system at any point
37:56There was a 21-year age gap between John and Clare
37:59As the police are sort of delving into the message chain between these two
38:05They kind of work out that most of this was John instigating stuff with Clare
38:10They'd met each other a few times, they'd only been intimate once
38:13And then it's at this point, Clare decides to call the relationship off
38:18We can see in the messages that she was kind of having some doubts because of the age difference
38:24It's at this point where we see a real switch in John's behaviour
38:32He absolutely feels rejected, he starts bombarding Clare with messages
38:40There's one really, really long message where he says he starts to feel really used
38:45And wants answers from Clare about why she's decided to end the relationship and leave him
38:50John Jessup appeared to have a motive for killing Clare
38:55Clare says she feels conflicted about the age difference, she sort of wants to call the relationship off
39:01And I just wonder if this was some kind of trigger point for John Jessup
39:07There was something else that raised suspicions
39:11John is someone who had never come forward at any point to help the police's investigation
39:17Despite being in Clare's life in the build-up to this crime
39:21The police also made another important discovery about John
39:26He doesn't have a driver's licence
39:29So the only way he could have come in was with a bike
39:36John Jessup was now suspect number one
39:39But the police still needed evidence to link him to Clare's murder
39:43The police start their digging and what they find is some CCTV from around 18 miles away from where Clare was killed
39:54The footage was recorded while Johan Mathur was working in the store
40:00He took a pastry and he came and paid for it and he was just a normal person, he was polite
40:11Bought the stuff and then left the shop
40:13He was just like an exhausted person
40:16A major breakthrough, the camera captured John Jessup close to Clare's home just a few hours before her murder
40:22This footage is really important for the police because it's giving them the person how he looks, what he's wearing, the details of the rucksack
40:33And in particular we can see the distinctive three-stripe sneakers that he's wearing that we know this person outside Clare's home was wearing
40:43There isn't any such thing as a series of coincidences
40:48John doesn't have a driving licence and he doesn't have a car
40:52It's more likely that he would have had to ride his bike to Clare's house
40:56This was now enough evidence for the police to go and arrest him
41:0311 days after Clare's death, the police moved in
41:10John!
41:12Police go to John's place of work to arrest him
41:17When they go in, he's hiding in the toilet
41:20They go in with tasers because they're not really sure how he's going to react
41:23Remember, this is someone who's just committed a really brutal and frenzied stabbing of someone
41:29Look towards me!
41:31Put your arms above your head!
41:32Should we like to get your hand closed?
41:33You all right?
41:35Right, buddy?
41:37Understand what's happening
41:39This officer here needs to tell you something
41:41So listen very carefully
41:43All right?
41:45Words are carriers of information, carriers of deception
41:48And we know that the more that people say
41:51The more likely it is that we can understand whether what they're saying is being deceptive
41:57The fact that he's immediately said I didn't do anything
42:00I think is unusual to us
42:03But it's not at all odd for those people that work with offenders such as him
42:09Time of arrest was 8.46
42:11I'm not doing anything, sir
42:13Let's go to hook
42:15I think that the way he's behaving there is in line with all of the CCTV footage that we've seen
42:22He's quite a calm, measured individual
42:25Albeit that he had committed a very violent attack on Claire and ultimately murdered her
42:31And he's just very silent, very measured and it doesn't seem to come as any surprise to him
42:39Which suggests that maybe he lacks empathy
42:43But again, you can clearly see from his face, it's the same man in the shop
42:49And the evidence is obviously there to arrest him
42:54John Jessup was taken into custody and questioned
42:58The police interviewed John over the course of three days
43:02Initially, he denies any involvement
43:04But on October the 12th, he confesses to killing Claire
43:08The police were able to piece together exactly what had happened the night of Claire's murder
43:15On the 25th of February, John Jessup cycles 18 miles to get to Claire's house
43:22He leaves his phone at his home
43:25John cycles past Claire's house
43:28He stores the bike away and sort of waits in the shadows for her to get back
43:33He listens to her talking to her neighbour and then waits and goes into her home
43:37The police estimate that he was at her house for around an hour during the murder
43:41After killing Claire, John steals her mobile phone
43:45He goes to a local stream and discards it in there
43:48Then gets back on the bike, puts his hat back on
43:50Starts to cycle back home
43:53But the question remained
43:56Was her murder premeditated?
43:59His version of events is that he went over there
44:02They'd had an argument and in the sort of heat of the moment
44:05He'd grabbed a knife and killed her
44:07The tricky thing about this case was that the police were never able to locate the murder weapon
44:15That then meant the prosecution had this real challenge that they couldn't prove that this was a premeditated murder
44:21John Jessup confessed
44:27There was no trial
44:30John pleaded guilty to murder at Nottingham Crown Court in October 2022
44:37On January 4th, 2023, he was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 17 years
44:47The fact that that murder weapon was never found meant that John got a lesser sentence
44:53I think he thought that he would get away with it, definitely
44:57And in fact, arguably, if Claire's next-door neighbour's CCTV footage wasn't available
45:05Chances are how he would have got away with it
45:07The CCTV and the digital forensics, they were essential to get a conviction within this case
45:13Because there was no DNA evidence that was found in the house
45:17The footage that was caught on Claire's neighbour's camera
45:20And that footage that we see of John in the shop
45:22It was essential
45:24You know, we would not have been able to reach that point
45:27When you think it wasn't really that much of a relationship that they had built
45:31For that then to have escalated into Claire being killed in this way
45:35Just disproportionate is the word that comes to mind
45:39Claire did nothing wrong
45:42And women should be able to say no
45:45This just speaks to an issue that keeps continuing to happen
45:48With a minority of men
45:50Who were not able to accept someone turning them down or rejecting them
45:55It is just so tragic that this loving mother of three
46:00That was starting this new chapter in her life
46:03Has had her life taken away from her so senselessly
46:05So senselessly
46:35That's not true
46:36I think it's life taken away from her
46:38To have a good mind
46:40Who are not able to explain that?
46:42To have a good mind
46:44And so some of the things you can do
46:47You can take care of some of those who have been different
46:49If you know that you have been missing, like this
46:51How can you look for some of these things and by the way?
46:54To have a good mind
46:55That's why you look for a lot of people
46:57To be sure that you will not be able to get any more
46:59To make a perfect life
47:00To get a perfect life
47:02To be sure that there are people