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Speaker 3 Money, power, privilege. One Texas couple had it all.

Speaker 8 She was the type of woman that she walked in the door, every man in the lobby was going to look at her.

Speaker 9 Their marriage was very important, family was very important. They worked together, building $400,000 to $500,000 custom homes.
Their business just took off.

Speaker 3 But when one of their clients falls victim to a horrific crime, the details that emerge will stun Dallas high society.

Speaker 10 It had all the characteristics of a sexual crime. She's nude, she's tied to a bed, she's strangled, and she's shot.

Speaker 6 We could possibly be looking at a love triangle.

Speaker 3 The ensuing investigation will span over 10 years, four countries and two continents.

Speaker 6 Canada to Mexico and then to Europe and ends up in France.

Speaker 3 As the pieces fall into place, they will reveal a plot so twisted, it may prove that lust is the deadliest of the seven sins.

Speaker 6 She was very sexual, and I believe she used her wiles to capture these guys' hearts.

Speaker 7 They pressed everything,

Speaker 7 and some of them went back for more.

Speaker 3 October 4th, 1983. It's a little past 6 p.m.

Speaker 3 in the affluent North Dallas suburb of Richardson, Texas, when police and paramedics receive a call about a possible emergency at the home of 33-year-old Roseanne Galunis.

Speaker 8 When the police officers first got there, the door was actually a little bit ajar, and so it was easy for them to enter the house.

Speaker 3 As officers enter the home, they find Roseanne's young son frightened but unharmed.

Speaker 8 He just looks distraught. He's four and a half years old.
He's confused. He's scared.

Speaker 3 The boy motions towards his mother's bedroom.

Speaker 9 She was found nude face down on her bed, her arms and legs tied to the different posts of the bed. She had been strangled with a thigh-high panty hose

Speaker 9 and a belt and shot in the back of her head through the pillow.

Speaker 3 When paramedics arrive at the scene, they find a small glimmer of hope.

Speaker 3 Roseanne has a pulse.

Speaker 8 For her to recover that would be something short of a miracle, maybe, but we had hope.

Speaker 3 Roseanne Galounis was 28 years old when she and her husband, Dr. Peter Galounis Jr., decided to move to Texas after a lifetime of living on the East Coast.

Speaker 12 Roseanne grew up in Framingham, just a nice old Ngong

Speaker 12 town.

Speaker 12 She was very studious. She became a nurse and was a really good nurse.
Peter was a physician

Speaker 12 in the ICU. He was very charismatic, and I think she just fell for him.

Speaker 3 For Peter, the move to Dallas in 1978 was the opportunity of a lifetime.

Speaker 9 UT Southwestern Medical School was expanding, and I think he saw it as a huge opportunity for himself.

Speaker 3 The couple settled in the upscale North Dallas neighborhood of Richardson, Richardson, where a year later they welcomed a new addition to their family.

Speaker 9 Little Peter was born in 1979,

Speaker 9 which was a big surprise to Dr. Colunis because he had been told he was sterile.

Speaker 3 Following the birth of their son, Roseanne quit working to be a stay-at-home mom.

Speaker 12 She loved being a mother, but I think that she felt alone. She wasn't happy about being away from all of us, her family, all the rest of her friends.

Speaker 3 On top of missing her family, Roseanne also missed Peter.

Speaker 6 He's working all the time, so he loses himself in his job.

Speaker 13 She hardly sees him.

Speaker 12 I think the more money he made, the more involved he was, the more involved he was, the more time he was away from home. She was just lonely.

Speaker 3 Hoping to lift Roseanne's spirits, Peter decided the couple should build their dream home.

Speaker 12 I think he thought maybe it would make her happy and it would give her something to do besides being a mom.

Speaker 3 To make their dreams a reality, Peter hired Larry and Joy Ehler to design their home.

Speaker 9 Their business was called Larry Ehler Home Construction. Larry was the one running it, and Joy, his wife, worked with him though, and

Speaker 9 she did the interiors.

Speaker 3 The Ahlers and the Galoonises were two couples enjoying the peak of success. And naturally, they hit it off.

Speaker 9 Dr. Galunis and Larry had become friends in this process.

Speaker 3 By early 1983, construction on the Galunises' new home was underway. But their marriage continued to struggle.

Speaker 12 Her marriage sort of went downhill. Peter was working a lot.
It was almost like they had two separate lives.

Speaker 3 In June, Roseanne moved into a rental home on Loganwood Avenue.

Speaker 3 That summer, she and Peter filed for divorce, vowing to keep their son's best interests their top priority.

Speaker 10 They were going to work it out and settle it among the lawyers and come up with a parenting plan that they could both have.

Speaker 3 Then, just five months later came the tragic events of October 4th, 1983.

Speaker 6 I was advised that we had a possible shooting and I needed response.

Speaker 3 When detectives arrive at the scene, they find Roseanne Galunis being rushed from the front door by paramedics.

Speaker 10 She had been shot twice in the head with a 25-automatic bomb.

Speaker 3 While paramedics work to save Roseanne's life, life, detectives begin processing the scene.

Speaker 8 First thing we think of is, is this a robbery? Is this a burglary gone bad?

Speaker 8 Usually, if it's going to be something like that, we're going to find a window that's opened or broken or a Jimmy's lock or a door. None of that.
The house was basically secured.

Speaker 3 While the rest of the home is largely in order, the scene inside Roseanne's bedroom leaves no doubt that something terrible had taken place there.

Speaker 10 You had strands of rope.

Speaker 10 He had a robe thrown over the end of the bed. There was two pillows there.
One of them clearly had blood on it, and you could see where somebody had fired rounds through the pillow.

Speaker 3 With nothing apparently missing from the home, detectives consider a more sinister motive than robbery.

Speaker 10 It had all the characteristics of a sexual crime. She's nude, she's tied to a bed, she's strangled, and she's shot, and then she's muffled for sound.

Speaker 3 Outside Roseanne's home, a crowd begins to gather. Among them is her estranged husband, Peter, who now has the couple's four-year-old son in his care.

Speaker 8 Dr. Galinis was there, and little Peter was there with him.
He tells us, you know, that's Roseanne, that's my wife, we're separated.

Speaker 3 Investigators are eager eager to interview Peter, but not at the chaotic crime scene.

Speaker 8 I asked Dr. Galinis to come to the station for the interview.
He said, Well, I want my attorney present. There's a red flag going on right there.

Speaker 3 Detectives agree to meet Peter and his attorney at the police station.

Speaker 3 Before they leave, they get word that someone else is requesting to speak with them.

Speaker 6 I was advised that the victim's boyfriend had just showed up.

Speaker 3 The officer says the boyfriend identified himself as 35-year-old Dallas home builder Larry Ahler.

Speaker 9 Here we've got the husband and we've got the boyfriend. And either one of them could be involved.

Speaker 3 Coming up, a twisted love triangle is exposed.

Speaker 9 They're in the middle of this project and all of a sudden they're madly in love. And they both decide to file for divorce.

Speaker 8 He still has his anger. He is giving me more red flags and he's removing every time I talk to him.

Speaker 3 And detectives find themselves at odds.

Speaker 6 I was 100% convinced that Larry was the suspect. Detective Corley was 100% convinced that Dr.
Glunis was the suspect.

Speaker 3 On October 4th, 1983, 33-year-old Roseanne Galunis is barely clinging to life after being shot twice in the head.

Speaker 8 By the way, Roseanne's going to the hospital, but we want a police officer right there with her in case she does regain consciousness.

Speaker 3 Outside Roseanne's home, detectives have found themselves between two potential suspects, Roseanne's estranged husband, Peter Galunis, and her alleged boyfriend, Larry Ehler.

Speaker 6 The victim's boyfriend had just shown up, so now I was aware there was a husband and a boyfriend.

Speaker 6 We went from no suspects in the first few minutes of the investigation to all of a sudden having two suspects.

Speaker 10 You don't know anything, so that's why you want to take the boyfriend and the husband, separate them, and get separate statements from them.

Speaker 3 Detectives set up simultaneous interviews with Larry and Peter.

Speaker 8 Now my job is to interview Dr. Glunas, see what his involvement is, if any, in this case.

Speaker 3 Accompanied by his attorney, Peter tells detectives he'd been waiting to hear from Roseanne all afternoon.

Speaker 10 Dr. Glunas was expecting Peter to be brought over by by Roseanne.
He had tried to call Roseanne. It had not been successful.

Speaker 3 Peter says it was around 6 p.m. when he finally received a call.

Speaker 10 He got a phone call from Roseanne's number.

Speaker 10 He picked it up and it was Peter, the boy.

Speaker 8 He's upset and he says mommy's sick and she can't wake up. So Dr.
Galunas tells his mother, call 911, send an ambulance and police to to Roseanne's house.

Speaker 3 Peter says he then rushed to Roseanne's house, but by the time he arrived, police were already on the scene.

Speaker 8 His behavior is concerning me. He still has not asked about Roseanne.

Speaker 8 I know we all handle trauma and grief in different ways,

Speaker 8 but he is, his lack of concern. for Roseanne, it disturbs me quite a bit.

Speaker 3 Next, investigators ask Peter to walk them through his day.

Speaker 8 Basically, what his statement was that he had been at work all day, got off at five o'clock, and went home, and at six o'clock, he was waiting for little Peter.

Speaker 3 There is one gap, however, in Peter's alibi.

Speaker 8 From four, about four o'clock to 4:45, he took a nap sitting at his desk, at his office. So, a red flag goes off in my head about that.

Speaker 3 Was Peter really taking a nap as he claimed?

Speaker 3 Or did he leave his office to pay a visit to Roseanne?

Speaker 8 He does cooperate, but it's just one of those things as a detective. A lot of it is red flag, some of it is gut.

Speaker 8 But I just had a bad thing about Dr.

Speaker 4 Galunas.

Speaker 3 Suspicions continue to rise when Peter tells detectives how he had tried to confide in his friend Larry Ehler about his wife's affair.

Speaker 9 Dr. Galunis is puzzled.
He's worried about his wife. And he says, you know, do you think that she might be having an affair? And Larry says, no way.
She's not that kind of a person.

Speaker 9 But, you know, Dr. Galunis, just, something's bugging him about the way she's behaving.

Speaker 9 He had hired a private investigator, and the investigator comes back and says

Speaker 9 you know

Speaker 9 your wife is having an affair with Larry Ehler

Speaker 9 and of course Dr. Galunis is furious he confronts Larry who denies it

Speaker 8 all the time that I'm talking to him he still has his anger he is giving me more red flags than he's removing Did Roseanne's affair with Larry spark a violent rage?

Speaker 8 He did not like Larry one bit And he made that very clear to me.

Speaker 3 In a neighboring room, Detective McKenzie is learning more about Roseanne's new lover, Larry Ehler.

Speaker 3 In the early 80s, Larry and his wife, Joy Ehler, were well known for catering to Dallas's flashy upper society.

Speaker 9 Larry and Joy were building

Speaker 9 $400,000 to $500,000 custom homes in North Dallas. These are very high-end homes.

Speaker 3 And if anyone appreciated the finer things in life, it was Joy Ehler.

Speaker 9 Joy was the middle child of Francis and Henry Davis, who had made quite a considerable fortune in real estate development.

Speaker 8 Joy was attractive. I mean, she was the type of woman that if she walked in the door, every man in the lobby was going to look at her.

Speaker 3 In high school, Joy had her pick when it came to men. But it was Larry Ehler who won her heart.

Speaker 9 They fell in love at Hillcrew at a football game when she was 17 and he was 18.

Speaker 3 Following high school, Joy and Larry married.

Speaker 3 And with a little money from Joy's father, started their custom homebuilding company.

Speaker 9 Larry took care of the construction, the outside, you know, the construction of the house, and Joy was the one who focused on the interiors.

Speaker 3 In 1970, the couple welcomed a son, Chris.

Speaker 9 They began to make money and to have success. They were happy.

Speaker 3 When Peter and Roseanne Galunis walked into the Ehlers' office in 1983, the couples instantly bonded.

Speaker 9 They just started having a friendship.

Speaker 3 But Larry admits to detectives detectives he and Roseanne had a different connection.

Speaker 9 At some point, he and Roseanne are having lunch together to talk about the house project.

Speaker 9 And she tells him, you know, I'm really unhappy. And Larry begins to say, well, you know, I'm really unhappy in my marriage too.

Speaker 3 She called and she said, you're not going to believe it, but I've met someone.

Speaker 12 Now she's telling me about Larry, who she seemed crazy about.

Speaker 9 They're in the middle of this project, and all of a sudden, they're madly in love.

Speaker 9 And they both decide to file for divorce.

Speaker 6 Larry goes into detail about his relationship with Roseanne and how they were getting serious and even had plans to get married.

Speaker 3 But when it comes to an alibi, Larry starts throwing out red flags of his own.

Speaker 3 He tells detectives that he hoped to see Roseanne that afternoon. But when his calls to her went unanswered, he made other plans.

Speaker 6 Larry decided to go bike riding instead, by himself.

Speaker 6 So suddenly I have somebody basically tell me he doesn't have an alibi because now he's bike riding by himself.

Speaker 3 Also concerning to detectives is how determined Larry seems to pin the attack on someone else.

Speaker 6 He said he finally did. And when I asked him who he was, Dr.
Glunis finally did it.

Speaker 3 Following the interviews, detectives convene in the hall where they find they have an unusual problem.

Speaker 6 I was 100% convinced that Larry was the man, the suspect.

Speaker 6 Detective Corley was 100% convinced that Dr. Glunis was the suspect.

Speaker 3 With both men seemingly heavy on motives and light on alibis, detectives must dig deeper.

Speaker 6 We did believe we could possibly be looking at a love triangle. We wanted to look at the wife also.

Speaker 3 On October 5th, 1983, one day after Roseanne was brutally attacked inside her home, Joy meets with detectives at her attorney's office.

Speaker 10 She, you know, would freely say that Larry had told her about Roseanne,

Speaker 10 but she didn't say what she thought or who could have done it or anything.

Speaker 10 She was very collected, didn't hesitate at all to answer anything I asked her. Very polite, almost professional in her answers.
I had a pretty favorable impression of her when I left that office.

Speaker 3 The next day, investigators received tragic news about Roseanne Galunis.

Speaker 12 She passed away. I was devastated.
I mean it's

Speaker 12 that doesn't happen to someone you know

Speaker 12 and I'm sure plenty of people who have lost people this way will say the same thing.

Speaker 3 Roseanne's death leaves detectives with a homicide on their hands and they're more determined than ever to catch her killer.

Speaker 9 They asked them to take lie detector tests and both Dr. Galunis and Larry Ehler passed lie detector tests.
Joy also passed.

Speaker 9 And soon after Roseanne's funeral, Larry and Joy got back together. He moved back in with her.

Speaker 11 They were never able

Speaker 4 to develop any direct leads or evidence to connect any of the three to the incident.

Speaker 10 There was a $25,000 reward for the indictment in Roseanne's case.

Speaker 6 After several months of following leads, basically leads became cold and they had nothing else to do but to pin the case until new evidence was established.

Speaker 3 Months turn into years with no new developments. Those close to Roseanne stay in contact with police, especially Larry Ehler.

Speaker 10 He stayed on top of wanting to know

Speaker 10 how the the case was progressing.

Speaker 3 Then, in June of 1986, two and a half years since Roseanne's murder, detectives get a call from Larry once again. But this time, he seems scared.

Speaker 10 I received a call from Larry saying that somebody had just shot at him.

Speaker 3 Coming up, a strange series of events puzzles detectives.

Speaker 8 Chris Ailer told his dad Larry that, you know what, Dad? We've got a fish head in our mailbox.

Speaker 3 And this long, cold case begins to heat up.

Speaker 8 This lady calls me because she knows who was responsible for Roseanne's death.

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Speaker 3 Two years have passed since the murder of Roseanne Galunis, but after an attempted shooting, her lover, Larry Ehler, is back on detectives' radar.

Speaker 10 Larry told me all the circumstances. Joey had wanted to go down and ride some horses.
He and his friend, Don, had gone down and saddled them up and were waiting on Joey to come, and

Speaker 10 she didn't come, so he decided to leave.

Speaker 10 And this is when Larry was shot at.

Speaker 3 Detectives agree that the incident is strange, strange, but when they look into it, they find no connection to Roseanne's murder.

Speaker 3 Two more years pass, and in April of 1988, detectives hear from Larry again.

Speaker 10 Larry says there's really strange stuff happening at Joy's house.

Speaker 8 At the time that this is all going on, Larry is not living with Joy. They have gone through a divorce.
Chris Ailer told his dad, Larry, that, you know what, Dad, we've got a fish head in our mailbox.

Speaker 8 Initially, you can go, that was kind of strange.

Speaker 3 Then that same month, Detective McGowan gets a mysterious phone call.

Speaker 8 It's a person saying that

Speaker 8 she knows who was responsible for Roseanne's death.

Speaker 3 Amidst all the strange occurrences surrounding this case, detectives have to wonder if this phone call is another blip on the radar.

Speaker 10 I convince her to meet me that night, like at midnight, at a restaurant in Dallas.

Speaker 10 I sit in the booth and a fairly attractive woman comes in and walks right over and sits down across from me.

Speaker 10 She says, well, just call me Mrs. Mudd.

Speaker 5 I said, okay.

Speaker 3 What the woman says next comes as a surprise.

Speaker 10 Do you know who else I am?

Speaker 10 I said, no. And she said, well, I'm Joy Ailer's sister, Carol.

Speaker 3 Carol reveals that two years prior, her sister Joy made a shocking confession.

Speaker 9 Joy tells Carol, I think Larry killed Roseanne Galoonis.

Speaker 9 And I'm in danger, too.

Speaker 9 I need your help to hire somebody to kill Larry.

Speaker 3 Concerned for Joy's life, Carol says she agreed to help.

Speaker 8 Carol meets this man that she knows that Joy has hired. Someone called Bill Garland, and she pays, I think it was $3,000.

Speaker 3 But something unexpected happened when Carol laid eyes on Bill.

Speaker 9 She met Bill Garland. She gave him money, and she becomes infatuated with him.

Speaker 13 They ended up, you know, having almost an immediate romantic attraction and got married shortly thereafter.

Speaker 3 Carol says in the summer of 1986, Bill hired two men to assassinate her brother-in-law. Though the attempt failed, Her husband later confessed to participating in another crime.

Speaker 9 He says, well, Larry didn't kill Roseanne Galunis. Your sister Joy is the one who wanted to kill Roseanne Galunis.

Speaker 8 Bill Garland was the man that Joy Ehler hired to kill Roseanne Galunis.

Speaker 3 Carol's allegations are shocking, but the more she talks, the more Detective McGowan wonders if she's telling the truth or if she's just after a payday.

Speaker 10 It became obvious she's very interested in a $25,000 reward.

Speaker 8 We can't put any stock in what this woman's saying.

Speaker 8 She's a nut job.

Speaker 10 And then she stands up to leave and, you know, we'll say we'll be in touch. And she says, oh, one other thing.

Speaker 7 At one point, you know, we put a fish head in her mailbox.

Speaker 8 But when she said that, you know, light flashes go off. Nobody knew about the fish head except McGallen and myself and a few detectives.

Speaker 8 The only way that she could know about the fish head is that she did it and that it was true.

Speaker 10 I mean, I have on the back of my neck right now the hair standing up just the way it was at night. When I heard it, it was stunning revelation.

Speaker 3 To find out if Carol's wild tale is true, detectives turn to Carol's husband and alleged hitman, Bill Garland.

Speaker 13 Morris got Garland to talk, and that was kind of the first domino domino to fall.

Speaker 3 Bill says in 1983, he was contacted by Carl Nosca, a local craftsman who worked with Joy Ehler and harbored a major crush on her.

Speaker 13 He was kind of infatuated whether she was the rich socialite,

Speaker 13 and he was this shutter maker, and he knew Bill Garland.

Speaker 13 Bill's a huge guy, you know, six five, big, burly guy, and big talker, you know. So Carl, that's why he went to Bill, because, you know, he thought Bill might know somebody.

Speaker 10 I was contacted by a

Speaker 10 friend of mine named Carl Naska. He told me that he had a friend who needed some help.

Speaker 10 I said, I won't do the job, but I said, I know somebody who could have a boyfriend father.

Speaker 10 I said, what is it you want done?

Speaker 10 He said, we want somebody eliminated.

Speaker 3 From there, Bill says the chain of accomplices continued to grow.

Speaker 13 Bill hired a guy named Brian Creeffel.

Speaker 13 And Creeffel hired a guy named Andy Hopper.

Speaker 3 Bill says he eventually received payment for his help with planning the hit on Roseanne, of which he took a cut and passed it down the line.

Speaker 6 It was $5,000.

Speaker 4 Bill took the money.

Speaker 6 And he took, I believe it was $2,000. He passed it along to Creefel, who took $1,500 out

Speaker 6 because when the money got to the third supposed middleman, George Anderson Hopper, it was only $1,500.

Speaker 3 Bill tells detectives that he doesn't know if Andy Hopper killed Roseanne or if he continued to pass the buck.

Speaker 10 We don't know who's on the end. We have no idea because The people that passed the money only knew who was on either side of them.
That's all they knew.

Speaker 3 Bill is also candid about his involvement in the attempted shooting of Larry Ehler in 1986.

Speaker 4 George said they had a job. The name on the little piece of white paper, the name was Larry Ehler.

Speaker 3 After hearing Bill's account, detectives place him under arrest, but their work is far from over.

Speaker 10 We got to get to everybody in those chains of the money movement, and we've got to get either confessions or evidence.

Speaker 10 So it's going to be a long, tough road.

Speaker 3 Coming up, detectives learn the power of lust.

Speaker 10 She has a way, I think, of drawing these men in.

Speaker 11 You had a very strong attraction to her sexually. You said that she was insatiable.

Speaker 7 She had this ability to make good men do bad things.

Speaker 3 Detectives in Dallas, Texas have just arrested 45-year-old Bill Garland for his role in the murder of Roseanne Galunis.

Speaker 13 Ultimately, Morris went to Sulphur Springs. And basically through a very good interrogation, Richardson police got Garland to talk.

Speaker 3 According to Bill, there's a laundry list of other players in this twisted murder plot. But for now, detectives have their eye on the woman at the top, Joy Ehler.
They arrested her.

Speaker 13 And she was at the Richardson Police Department all day long.

Speaker 13 And she wouldn't ever really say anything. She said, I don't want to be here in jail.
I want to go home.

Speaker 3 Within hours, Joy gets her wish and is released on a $150,000 bond.

Speaker 3 With Joy refusing to talk, detectives set their sights on tracking down the last man known to have taken money for Roseanne's murder, Andy Hopper.

Speaker 6 We went looking for Andy and couldn't find him. Our investigation revealed

Speaker 6 that

Speaker 6 actually his wife didn't even know where he was.

Speaker 3 After five months of tracing calls and tracking down leads, detectives finally find Andy at his cousin's house in Dallas.

Speaker 13 One of the challenges with Andy was the confession. Andy worked very hard never to tell the truth.

Speaker 6 We had to work to get the truth.

Speaker 3 After multiple grueling interrogations, Andy finally cracks.

Speaker 3 He tells detectives that on the afternoon of October 4th, 1983, he knocked on Roseanne's door ready to carry out the hit on her.

Speaker 9 Andy Hopper bought flowers and presented himself, knocked on the door as a delivery, flower delivery man. He had a gun.

Speaker 10 He said he pushed her back into her bedroom

Speaker 10 and put her on the bed,

Speaker 7 took her robe off.

Speaker 10 and tied her to the bed.

Speaker 9 He attempts to rape her, is unsuccessful, and he decides

Speaker 9 he's got to end it.

Speaker 6 This is when he uses a pillow and fires two rounds from his pistol into her head.

Speaker 10 He said little Peter never came out of the room, never saw him, and he left.

Speaker 3 Andy tells detectives that he never knew who orchestrated the hit.

Speaker 10 The people that passed the money only knew who was on either side of them. That's all they knew.

Speaker 3 Detectives and prosecutors seek the ultimate punishment for Andy.

Speaker 10 Andy Hopper was charged with capital murder. It was a murder for hire, which made him liable for the death penalty.

Speaker 3 Based on the statements of Bill Garland and Andy Hopper, detectives want the same punishment for the person they believe masterminded the whole plot, Joy Ehler.

Speaker 11 The death penalty was on the table for her in Texas. Murder for hire.
That's a capital offense in Texas.

Speaker 3 For the next year, prosecutors prepare their case against Joy.

Speaker 3 In Joy's corner is a high-profile defense attorney named Mike Wilson.

Speaker 9 Mike Wilson was a very well-known attorney in Dallas. He had been an assistant district attorney in Dallas County.

Speaker 3 Then, in May 1990, just a week before Joy's grand jury is set to begin, authorities learn jaw-dropping news.

Speaker 6 Joy was nowhere to be found.

Speaker 9 She disappeared, and so did Mike Wilson.

Speaker 3 Then, after a month of searching, in June of 1990, detectives get a tip that Joy might be holed up in a Canadian hotel.

Speaker 6 The FBI had a trace on an attorney's home where he had received a call. We were able to trace that call to the Delta Inn in Vancouver.

Speaker 3 When authorities arrive, they find Mike alone. He tells them that Joy ditched him just a few days prior.

Speaker 11 So he goes down to the pharmacy, comes back about 30 minutes later, and

Speaker 11 Joy's gone. They had about $340,000 with them.

Speaker 4 $100 bill on a pillow and not even a note.

Speaker 10 She had hooked it.

Speaker 3 Police want to know why Mike had risked his entire career for Joy.

Speaker 6 He was actually in love with Joy.

Speaker 11 He had a very strong attraction to her sexually.

Speaker 11 He said that Joy was insatiable.

Speaker 3 Mike Wilson is arrested and is flown back to Texas.

Speaker 11 I think Mike was very much in love with her. Yes, I do.
I think he cared for her quite a bit.

Speaker 11 I don't think she cared for him.

Speaker 3 During the past month that Joy and Mike had been on the run, investigators had learned this former interior designer had another man on the hook.

Speaker 6 Jody Packer is a person that we discovered back in the very initial part of the 1988 investigation. he was having a relationship with Joy.

Speaker 6 I always felt like Jodi was always in the picture, and she was using Mike to get out of the country.

Speaker 3 Coming up, an accident brings this tawdry tale full circle.

Speaker 11 They go to the location of the accident, and a person named Liz with Sharp answers the door.

Speaker 9 The woman of many, many talents, but utterly without a conscience.

Speaker 3 By 1990, the hunt for 40-year-old Joy Ehler has crossed international borders.

Speaker 10 Joy left Mike in Vancouver.

Speaker 11 She fled down through to Mexico. From Mexico, she went to Europe and ultimately finds her way into France.

Speaker 3 Detectives now believe her longtime lover, Jodi Packer, is the man helping Joy stay on the run.

Speaker 9 He had been very involved helping her once she escaped, went to Mexico, and he had also disappeared.

Speaker 6 One of the reasons that I believe that Joy gets all these people to do things is she was a very attractive woman. I believe she used her wiles to capture these guys' hearts.

Speaker 6 Even after Jody Packard knew the police were onto him, he still provided credit cards or passport to help her get out of the country.

Speaker 3 Joy's flight from justice continues for several months.

Speaker 3 Then, in March 1991, eight years since the murder of Roseanne Galunis, detectives get an unexpected call from authorities about a car accident in Veins, France.

Speaker 11 They go to the location of the accident, they knock on some doors around there, and some French citizens said, Yeah, the person who was driving it lives down the lane about a mile.

Speaker 11 So the police go knock on the door, and a person named Elizabeth Sharp answers the door.

Speaker 9 Ultimately, they figured out because her fingerprints were found in the vehicle that the woman who was living as Elizabeth Sharp at this villa was really Joy Ehler.

Speaker 3 Texas police are eager to get Joy back, but the fact that she faces the death penalty complicates her return.

Speaker 11 France will not extradite back to the United States if the death penalty's an issue.

Speaker 3 By 1993, prosecutors in Texas reach a deal with French authorities to take the death penalty off the table in exchange for Joy's extradition.

Speaker 11 She had a very good lawyer. He was a very tenacious fellow and fought furiously to see that Joy was not extradited back to the United States.
And I fought just as furiously to see that she was.

Speaker 11 She was ultimately extradited.

Speaker 12 For five years, as they chased her and tried to find her, you just live in limbo. And for her to be captured, it was like very surreal.

Speaker 9 Jody Packer is finally arrested, re-entering the country in McAllen.

Speaker 9 So he is charged with aiding and abetting a fugitive and a series of other crimes involving passport fraud.

Speaker 3 In August 1994, 45-year-old Joy Ehler, a woman the French press has dubbed the devil woman of Dallas, is led into a Texas courtroom to stand trial for the murder of Roseanne Galunis.

Speaker 13 Normally you have one person kills another, that's all you got to prove.

Speaker 13 Here you had to prove that the words and actions of Joy Ehler resulted in the 25 automatic round that went through Roseanne's head.

Speaker 3 Prosecutors believe Joy used Carl Nosca's attraction to her to set this murder for hire plot into motion. Then she roped in the love of Mike Wilson and Jodi Packer to assist her escape from justice.

Speaker 4 I mean, they risked everything for her.

Speaker 8 And when it got to be joy in desperate times, it was joy above all else, no matter what.

Speaker 3 But now, two men once under Joy Ehler's spell take the stand to testify on behalf of the prosecution.

Speaker 10 In the Ehler trial, two of the critical witnesses were Jodi Packer, her lover, longtime friend, Mike Wilson, her lawyer. Packler was testifying to David Skin.

Speaker 10 She admitted to him that she'd killed or put in motion the chain that resulted in Billins' death. And then, of course, he helped her flee a long way.

Speaker 3 But if lust drove men to do things for Joy, what did Joy have at stake?

Speaker 6 When Larry decided to leave Joy,

Speaker 6 He apparently closed the business account and about $300,000 came out of the account, which basically left Joy with no funds.

Speaker 13 Her dad had put him in business. They had a good business, were making good money, and Roseanne was a threat to that.

Speaker 13 So she didn't want to lose that.

Speaker 9 The prosecutor described her as a woman of many, many talents, but utterly without a conscience.

Speaker 3 On August 18th, 1994, just short of 11 years after Roseanne Galunis' death, Joy is found guilty of capital murder. She is sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole.

Speaker 6 Joy Davis Ehler should have received the death penalty. Because of her affluence, she was able to flee authorities to several countries.

Speaker 12 I want her to stay there until the day she dies. But the sad part is, I don't think she cares.
I don't think there's any remorse, really.

Speaker 3 Joy thought the two things she'd always used to get her way would save her: money and sex appeal.

Speaker 7 She had this ability to make good men do bad things.

Speaker 3 Andy Hopper was found guilty of capital murder in March of 1992. He was executed in 2005.
Jodi Packer was convicted and served time in prison for aiding Joy Ehler.

Speaker 3 During her time as a fugitive, Mike Wilson was sentenced to 15 years in prison. He appealed his conviction and was released in 1993 after serving four years.

Speaker 3 Bill Garland pleaded guilty for his role in arranging Joy's crimes. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Carol Garland never served time for her role in this case.

Speaker 3 She and Bill Garland divorced in 1990.

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