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Money, power, privilege.

One Texas couple had it all.

She was the type of woman that she walked in the door every minute, and the lawyer was going to look at her.

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.

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

It had all the characteristics of a sexual crime.

She's new, she's tied to a bed, she's strangled, and she's shot.

We could possibly be looking at a love triangle.

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

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

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.

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

They risked everything,

and some of them went back for more.

October 4th, 1983.

It's a little past 6 p.m.

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.

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.

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

He just looks distraught.

He's four and a half years old.

He's confused.

He's scared.

The boy motions towards his mother's bedroom.

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

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

Roseanne has a pulse.

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

Roseanne Galunis 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.

Roseanne grew up in Framingham, just a nice old Nguyen Glenn town.

She was very studious.

She became a nurse and was a really good nurse.

Peter was a physician

in the ICU.

He was very charismatic and I think she just fell for him.

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

UT Southwestern Medical School was expanding.

and I think he saw it as a huge opportunity for himself.

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

Little Peter was born in 1979,

which was a big surprise to Dr.

Galunis because he had been told he was sterile.

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

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.

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

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

She hardly sees him.

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.

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

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

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

Their business was called Larry Ehler Home Construction.

Larry was the one running it, and Joy, his wife, worked with him though, and

she she did the interiors.

The Ahlers and the Galunises were two couples enjoying the peak of success, and naturally they hit it off.

Dr.

Galoonis and Larry had become friends in this process.

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

Her marriage sort of went downhill.

Peter was working a lot.

It was almost like they had two separate lives.

In June, Roseanne moved into a rental home on Logan Wood Avenue.

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

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.

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

I was advised that we had a possible shooting and I needed to respond.

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

She had been shot twice in the head with a 25-automatic file.

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

First thing we think of is, is this a robbery?

Is this a burglary gone bad?

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.

No, that house was basically secured.

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

He had four strands of rope.

He had a robe thrown over the end of the bed.

There were two pillows there.

One of them clearly had blood on it, and you could see where somebody had fired rounds through the pillow.

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

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.

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.

Dr.

Galinis was there, and little Peter was there with him.

He tells us, you know, that's Roseanne, that's my my wife, we're separated.

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

I asked Dr.

Colinis 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.

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

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

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

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

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

Coming up, a twisted love triangle is exposed.

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.

He still has his anger.

He is giving me more red flags than he's removing every time I talk to him.

And detectives find themselves at odds.

I was 100% convinced that Larry was the suspect.

Detective Corley was 100% convinced that Dr.

Blunis was the suspect.

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

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.

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

The victim's boyfriend had just shown up.

So now I was aware there was a husband and a boyfriend.

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

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.

Detectives set up simultaneous interviews with Larry and Peter.

Now my job is to interview Dr.

Glunis, see what his involvement is, if any, in this case.

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

Dr.

Galunas was expecting Peter to be brought over by Roseanne.

He had tried to call Roseanne and had not been successful.

Peter says it was around 6 p.m.

when he finally received a call.

He got a phone call from Roseanne's number.

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

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 Roseanne's house.

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

His behavior is concerning me.

He still has not asked about Roseanne.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Was Peter really taking a nap as he claimed?

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

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.

But I just had a bad feeling about Dr.

Glen.

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

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.

But, you know, Dr.

Galunis, just, something's bugging him about the way she's behaving.

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

you know,

your wife is having an affair with Larry Ehler.

And of course, Dr.

Galunis is furious.

He confronts Larry, who denies it.

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?

He did not like Larry one bit.

And he made that very clear to me.

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

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

Larry and Joy were building $400,000 to $500,000 custom homes in North Dallas.

These are very high-end homes.

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

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

Joy was attractive.

I mean, she was the type of woman that if she walked in the door, every man in the log was going to look at her.

In high school, Joy had her pick when it came to men.

But it was Larry Ehler who won her heart.

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

Following high school, Joy and Larry married.

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

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

In 1970, the couple welcomed a son, Chris.

They began to make money and to have success.

They were happy.

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

They just started having a friendship.

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

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

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.

She called and she said, I'm not going to believe it, but I've met someone.

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

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.

Larry goes into detail about his relationship with Roseanne.

and how they were getting serious and even had plans to get married.

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

He tells detectives that he hoped to see Roseanne that afternoon.

But when his calls to her went unanswered, he made other plans.

Larry decided to go bike riding instead, by himself.

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

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

He said he finally did.

And when I asked him who he was, Dr.

Glunis finally did it.

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

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

Detective Corley was 100% convinced that Dr.

Glunis was the suspect.

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

We did believe we could possibly be looking at a love triangle.

We wanted to look at the wife also.

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

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

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

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.

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

She passed away.

I was devastated.

I mean, it's

that doesn't happen to someone you know.

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

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

They asked them to take lie detector tests, and both Dr.

Galunis and Larry Ehler passed lie detector tests.

Joy also passed

and soon after Roseanne's funeral Larry and Joy got back together.

He moved back in with her.

They were never able

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

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

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.

Months turn into years with no new developments.

Those close to Roseanne stay in contact with police, especially Larry Ehler.

He stayed on top of wanting to know

how the case was progressing.

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.

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

Coming up, a strange series of events puzzles detectives.

Chris Ailer told his dad, Larry, that, you know what, Dad?

We've got a fish head in our mailbox.

And this long, cold case begins to heat up.

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

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

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

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

And this is when Larry was shot at.

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

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

Larry said, there's really strange stuff happening at Joy's house.

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.

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

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

It's a person saying that

she knows who was responsible for Roseanne's death.

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

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

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

She says, well, just call me Mrs.

Mudd.

I said, okay.

What the woman says next comes as a surprise.

Do you know who else I am?

I said, no.

And she said, well, I'm Joy Ehler's sister, Carol.

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

Joy tells Carol, I think Larry killed Roseanne Galunis.

And I'm in danger, too.

I need your help to hire somebody to kill Larry.

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

Carol meets this man that she knows that Joy has hired.

Someone called Bill Garland, and she pays, I think it was $3,000.

But something unexpected happened when Carol laid eyes on Bill.

She met Bill Garland.

She gave him money, and she becomes infatuated with him.

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

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.

He says, well, Larry didn't kill Roseanne Roseanne Galunis.

Your sister Joy is the one who wanted to kill Roseanne Galunis.

Bill Garland was the man that Joy Ahler hired to kill Roseanne Galunis.

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.

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

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

She's a nut job.

And then she stands up to leave and we'll say we'll be in touch.

And she says, oh, one other thing.

At one point, we put a fish head in her mailbox.

But when she said that, you know, light flashes go off.

Nobody knew about the fish head except McGallen, myself, a few detectives.

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

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 a stunning revelation.

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

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

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.

He was kind of infatuated whether she was the rich socialite and he was this shutter maker and he knew Bill Garland.

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

he thought Bill might know somebody.

I was contacted by a

friend of mine named Carl Naska.

He told me that he had a friend who needed some help.

I said, I won't do the job, but I said I know somebody could have forgotten father.

I said, What is it you want done?

He said, We want somebody eliminated.

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

Bill hired a guy named Brian Creeffel,

and Creeffel hired a guy named Andy Hopper.

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.

It was $5,000.

Bill took the money and he took, I believe it was $2,000.

He passed it along to Creefel, who took $1,500 out

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

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

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.

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

George said they had another job.

The name on the whole piece of white paper, the name was Larry Ehler.

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

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

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

Coming up, detectives learn the power of lust.

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

You had a very strong attraction to her sexually.

You said that she was insatiable.

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

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

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

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.

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

And she wouldn't ever really say anything.

She said, I don't want to be here in jail.

I want to go home.

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

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.

We went looking for Andy and couldn't find him.

Our investigation revealed

that

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

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

One of the challenges with Andy was the confession.

Andy worked very hard never to tell the truth.

We had to work to get the truth.

After multiple grueling interrogations, Andy finally cracks.

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.

Andy Hopper bought flowers and presented himself, knocked on the door as a delivery, flower delivery man.

He had a gun.

He said he pushed her back into her bedroom

and put her on the bed,

took her robe off

and tied her to the bed.

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

he's got to end it.

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

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

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

The people that passed the money only only knew who was on either side of them.

That's all they knew.

Detectives and prosecutors seek the ultimate punishment for Andy.

Andy Hopper was charged with capital murder.

It was a murder for hire, which made him liable for the death penalty.

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.

The death penalty was on the table for her in Texas.

Murder for hire.

That's a capital offense in Texas.

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

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

Mike Wilson was a very well-known attorney in Dallas.

He had been an assistant district attorney in Dallas County.

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

Joy was nowhere to be found.

She disappeared, and so did Mike Wilson.

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

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.

When authorities arrive, they find Mike alone.

He tells them that Joy ditched him just a few days prior.

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

Joy's gone.

They had about $340,000 with them.

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

She had hooked it.

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

He was actually in love with Joy.

He had a very strong attraction to her sexually.

He said that Joy was insatiable.

Mike Wilson is arrested and is flown back to Texas.

I think Mike was very much in love with her.

Yes, I do.

I think he cared for her quite a bit.

I don't think she cared for him.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Joy left Mike in Vancouver.

She fled down through to Mexico.

From Mexico, she went to Europe and ultimately finds her way into France.

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

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

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.

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.

Joy's flight from justice continues for several months.

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

France.

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

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

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.

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

France will not extradite back to the United States if the death penalty is

an issue.

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.

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.

She was ultimately extradited.

For five years, as they chased her and tried to find her, you just live in limbo.

And for her to be captured, it looks like very surreal.

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

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

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 Galounis.

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

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.

Prosecutors believe Joy used Karl 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.

I mean, they risked everything for her.

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

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

In the Ehler trial, two of the critical witnesses were Jodi Packer, her lover, longtime friend, Mike Wilson, her lawyer.

Packer was testifying to David Skin.

She admitted to him that she'd killed, or put in motion the chain that resulted in Bluens' death.

And then, of course, he helped her flee a long way.

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

When Larry decided to leave Joy,

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

Her dad had put him in business.

They had a good business, were making good money, and Roseanne was a threat to that.

So she didn't want to lose that.

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

On August 18th, 1994, just short of 11 years after Roseanne Galounis' death, Joy is found guilty of capital murder.

She is sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole.

Joy Davis Ehler should have received the death penalty.

Because of her affluence, she was able to flee authorities to several countries.

I want her to stay there until the day she dies.

The sad part is, I don't think she cares.

I don't think there's any remorse, really.

Joy thought the two things she'd always used to get her way would save her.

Money and sex appeal.

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

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.

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.

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.

She and Bill Garland divorced in 1990.

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On Boxing Day 2018, 20-year-old Joy Morgan was last seen at her church, Israel United in Christ, or IUIC.

I just went on my Snapchat and I just see her face plastered everywhere.

This is The Missing Sister, the true story of a woman betrayed by those she trusted most.

IUIC is my family and like the best family that I've ever had.

But IUIC isn't like most churches.

This is a devilish cult.

You know when you get that feeling where you just, I don't want to be here.

I want to get out.

It's like that feeling of, like, I want to go hang out.

I'm Charlie Brentcoast Cuff and after years of investigating Joy's case, I need to know what really happened to Joy.

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