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Speaker 3: 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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: 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
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.
Speaker 4: 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.
Speaker 3: 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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 3: 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.
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.
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
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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