Gloria Aiken

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Speaker 2 A disappearance in a small Texas town leaves investigators puzzled.

Speaker 11 He wouldn't have just ran off. Too honorable for something like that.

Speaker 5 He wouldn't have made a choice like that just to run.

Speaker 2 But when a horrific discovery washes ashore on a nearby lake, the peace of this tight-knit community is shaken to its core.

Speaker 12 He finds a hidden torso in the bag.

Speaker 13 It wasn't a rough cut like you would see with an animal attack or an accidental dismemberment. This was a straight, clean cut all the way through.

Speaker 2 As the investigation begins, the victim's past suggests a sinister motive.

Speaker 12 There were some guys that he owed money to that were possibly involved in a Mexican mafia.

Speaker 2 When the pieces fall into place, a grisly crime will take shape.

Speaker 9 He had been shot in the head twice with a.22-caliber weapon.

Speaker 15 To dismember an arson would require some anger.

Speaker 2 Investigators are left fighting for justice until the very end.

Speaker 14 There was a lot of evidence, but it's all circumstantial.

Speaker 9 So much of the case has loose ends, and juries don't like loose ends.

Speaker 2 The charming town of Ennis, Texas is the picture of southern hospitality.

Speaker 9 Ennis is one of those towns where the kid winning the 4-H contest can make the front page of the paper. I used to drive with one hand on the wheel because I would always be waving to people.

Speaker 2 But on February 18th, 2008, a dark cloud hovers over peaceful Ennis when 41-year-old Gloria Aiken calls 911 to report the disappearance of her partner of 10 years, George Frazier.

Speaker 18 Gloria reported him missing. The last time she had seen him was the night before, which was February 17th of 2008.
And then she just didn't see him again and had a bad feeling.

Speaker 9 She called the hospitals, checked everywhere, and he was nowhere to be found.

Speaker 2 Dispatch quickly sends an officer to George and Gloria's home to file an official report.

Speaker 12 She said he left to go see a friend and and never came back.

Speaker 2 According to Gloria, George has never not returned home, especially on a day he's supposed to watch the couple's teenage daughter.

Speaker 20 Gloria called me and she asked me if I had heard from him and I had said no I haven't heard from him.

Speaker 20 And then she said he didn't come home and then she was like she's starting to worry. He would never leave his daughters because he was the role of taking care of the kids.

Speaker 18 We want to look at everything and we start looking at potential people that could have had something to do with him being missing.

Speaker 2 George Frazier was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1965. Joyous and charismatic, George quickly grew into the family comedian.

Speaker 18 He was the big guy, but he was more like a humble type person, like, hello, how you doing? Never seen him mad, never seen him angry.

Speaker 2 George was just like a basic everyday guy.

Speaker 2 Despite George's sunny outlook, Brooklyn in the 1960s wasn't an easy place to grow up.

Speaker 20 This is just an awful crazy time in Brooklyn. The crack just hit the streets.
Everybody was getting strung out on this crack.

Speaker 9 George learned some street hustle. He knew how to navigate the back alleys of Brooklyn in order to survive.

Speaker 11 I did get that impression. He didn't have to work.
I think he might have some criminal activity that gained him his money. And he liked his money.
He just didn't like spending it.

Speaker 2 George's life was forever changed when he laid eyes on single mother of two, 31-year-old Gloria Aiken.

Speaker 9 She's a single mom, similar upbringing, probably a challenging childhood, much like George's.

Speaker 20 She did grow up poor, sharing clothes with her family. She has three brothers and two sisters.
They were not close.

Speaker 2 At the age of 18, Gloria had her first child, a little girl named Erica.

Speaker 2 But being a teen parent wasn't easy for Gloria or Erica's father.

Speaker 20 My uncle's a little bit older than her. They had the baby and they got an apartment and they were staying with each other and started to fight and she got rid of him.

Speaker 2 Seven years later, in 1992, Gloria gave birth to a second daughter and worked around the clock to provide a stable life for her children. She did hair on the side.

Speaker 20 She always had a job and always had a hustle going on. And she was quite inspirational to me as a kid.
The fact that she was able to create opportunities for herself.

Speaker 2 Though her daughters always came first, Gloria still found ways to treat herself.

Speaker 20 She was glamorous to me and she was about her money, so to speak. Her clothes were very, very nice.
Fur coats and big jewelry.

Speaker 2 Gloria's style garnered the attention of many young men, including 32-year-old George Frazier.

Speaker 20 Gloria and George. I'm not sure how they met, but they met after my uncle and Gloria separated.
They're both passionate people and they both very opinionated and they don't back down.

Speaker 20 They both had the same drive to get money.

Speaker 20 They were good together. They complimented each other to me.

Speaker 2 In 1998, the couple started dating and George took on Gloria's daughters as his own.

Speaker 18 They called him dad. And they seemed to have a pretty good relationship.

Speaker 20 I really loved George. He accepted accepted me like a niece right off the bat.

Speaker 20 Gloria worked at the post office while the girls were growing up, and George kind of stayed with the girls while she worked.

Speaker 2 After seven years of dating, Gloria and George decided to leave crime-ridden Brooklyn.

Speaker 18 He and Gloria moved from New York down to Texas, and they just wanted to get away and come to a completely new place and start over.

Speaker 2 While the family headed south, Gloria's oldest daughter took took a different route and joined the military.

Speaker 22 George was proud of her being in the military. He would always say that he was proud of her.

Speaker 2 In 2005, the couple moved with their 12-year-old daughter to the small town of Ennis.

Speaker 9 George had family around.

Speaker 23 You know, he was closer to his family, and that's the reason they moved here.

Speaker 11 This little old town of Ennis, there's not a whole lot of entertainment. It's a lot more slowed down here than versus in New York.

Speaker 2 George immediately embraced the slowed-down southern lifestyle of his new hometown.

Speaker 11 I met George on the job in this regional medical center. He was a temporary and we enjoy what we do.
We hang pictures and we fix things that are broke for people.

Speaker 15 He said he liked Ennis because it was quiet.

Speaker 11 He really enjoyed the peace, he said.

Speaker 18 He was just working temporary jobs here and there, so she seemed to be more of the breadwinner in the family, and he was more responsible for taking care of the daily duties.

Speaker 18 She had the more stable job, the more long-term job working at the prison.

Speaker 2 Off duty from her job at Hutchins State Jail, Gloria wanted even more for herself and continued her New York hustle mentality.

Speaker 20 She was working two jobs, if I'm not mistaken, and then she was also going to school.

Speaker 18 She was enrolled in school in a community college around here, trying to better herself and move up the ladder.

Speaker 18 She was studying like anatomy, physiology, you know, things leading either to a healthcare or medical background.

Speaker 2 By 2008, their youngest daughter, now 15 years old, was enrolled in high school and the family was thriving in Texas.

Speaker 20 George wanted to be happy somewhere with Gloria and that was it.

Speaker 2 But when George is reported missing on February 18th, 2008, Gloria tells police she is alarmed that her always reliable partner has vanished without a trace.

Speaker 18 I don't think he took off. For George, like not to come home or not to be there, was not like George.

Speaker 11 He wouldn't have just ran off. Too honorable for something like that.
He wouldn't have made a choice like that just to run without family.

Speaker 18 So now him being gone became a bigger issue and so more suspicion about where he was and why he left became more important.

Speaker 2 After responding officers take Gloria's statement, a missing persons investigation is opened with Detective Dorinda Clark at the helm.

Speaker 15 Detective Clark started to call area jails, hospitals, places like that to make sure the person's not injured, unable to communicate or whatever.

Speaker 25 That's just normal procedure.

Speaker 2 When her calls come up empty, Detective Clark heads to the home of George's partner Gloria for more information.

Speaker 13 Normally your closest family member or the last person to see someone alive is usually your first point of the investigation as your starting point.

Speaker 2 Sitting across from Gloria, it's clear she is deeply concerned.

Speaker 18 His wallet was still left there at the house. If you're going to go missing on purpose, you know, you're going to take your wallet and things that you need, whether it's credit cards, your ID,

Speaker 2 things that you need to live.

Speaker 23 We asked her for the phone information, provider information and numbers.

Speaker 12 We were going to try to use the phone to track him basically is what we're going to try to do.

Speaker 18 They were just trying to gather some evidence or information that could lead them as to where he could have gone.

Speaker 2 But Gloria says the phone is also a dead end.

Speaker 12 Gloria said that his phone wasn't working.

Speaker 9 George's phone had been turned off shortly after his disappearance. Well, if you want to find somebody, you got to have their phone on.

Speaker 12 He didn't take a vehicle with him, so we didn't have a vehicle to look for we couldn't track a phone just there's all sorts of things going on that that we would normally do that we weren't able to do

Speaker 9 a week passes with few leads for the missing persons case even after seven days of just hitting it hard they have nothing This was a frustrating investigation for the Ennis Police Department.

Speaker 9 They need to find George.

Speaker 2 Coming up, a darker picture of George's past comes into focus.

Speaker 11 I think George had bad dealings in the past.

Speaker 20 It would seem that it came back to haunt him.

Speaker 9 He owed somebody some money, and he was going to meet this person and take care of that.

Speaker 2 February 19th, 2008. It's been 24 hours since George Frazier was reported missing, and there is no sign of the beloved father.

Speaker 18 And this is a rural community. Was he somebody who had gone missing, who wandered into the woods or went out by the lake for some reason, fell in, drowned, maybe animals had gotten to him?

Speaker 18 There was always that possibility of that happening.

Speaker 2 After days of searching, On February 25th, detectives circle back to his partner of 10 years, Gloria Aiken.

Speaker 9 She says that there's been no activity on his credit cards.

Speaker 2 When detectives ask if Gloria has any theories as to where George might be, she says she and her family are beginning to fear George's past may have caught up with him.

Speaker 20 He was a force in the areas we grew up in, so

Speaker 20 he was a respected man on the streets. Based off of the lifestyle that George led and the past, it would seem that it would have been something from his past that came back to haunt him.

Speaker 9 George was very private.

Speaker 11 I mean, George had bad dealings in the past. He just seemed like he came from a really fast background.

Speaker 11 Maybe something to do with drugs. He knew quite a bit about sales, amounts, types, kind.

Speaker 2 Although the family had seemingly made a fresh start in Texas, Gloria says there's one bit of information she had been afraid to tell police.

Speaker 9 She tells detectives that he took off that night because he owed somebody some money and he was going to meet this person and take care of that.

Speaker 18 Gloria told the investigators that possibly he had owed some people money, specifically a Hispanic man who might have been in the Mexican mafia.

Speaker 18 And so that's why she believes something bad might have happened to him.

Speaker 18 The Mexican mafia and various gangs are all over Texas. It's very rare to have that in our county, you know, but we've had a few cases where gang-related activity ends up coming into our county.

Speaker 2 The potential lead sparks investigators' interest. But during the interview, they notice an unsettling detail in the language Gloria is using around George's disappearance.

Speaker 18 She kept saying he was this, he did that, he had been, you know, doing this. It wasn't anything in the present tense.

Speaker 13 That's definitely would cause for concern and kind of throw up a red flag in your investigation when you've got your reporting party already referring to your victim in the past tense.

Speaker 2 Still, Gloria remains entirely cooperative and even consents to a search of her home.

Speaker 9 They look through the couple's cars. They look through the couple's home.
There is no obvious sign of foul play.

Speaker 2 But as investigators make their way to the couple's bedroom, they notice something odd.

Speaker 8 The house was clean. It was very organized.

Speaker 12 It was just a nice place.

Speaker 15 We go upstairs and there's this big walk-in closet full of trash bags. What's in there?

Speaker 26 Oh, those are all Georgie's clothes.

Speaker 8 She said she couldn't stand to look at them.

Speaker 19 It's what she told us.

Speaker 9 I can imagine where somebody would be so upset seeing this reminder that they would put the clothes in trash bags. So it wasn't an automatic red flag.
It just seemed odd.

Speaker 2 Investigators decide to dig deeper into Gloria and George's home life by going to Ennis High School and sitting down with the couple's 15-year-old daughter.

Speaker 27 I wanted to talk with you.

Speaker 21 I'm trying to find out what happened with your dad.

Speaker 18 Her response to them was, I'm a kid. Why are you asking me these things? She never was real emotional about him being missing, didn't seem to be super upset.

Speaker 18 She figured he's probably just going to come home later. She said the last time she had seen George was at their home upstairs.
She heard him get a phone call.

Speaker 27 Okay. But she heard him talk on the phone with somebody.
He said alone, oh, I remember it's alone.

Speaker 21 Okay.

Speaker 27 She said, my room's alone when he was asleep.

Speaker 9 She remembers him leaving because the house has an alarm system that would let her know when somebody was leaving. And that's about it.

Speaker 18 She never saw him after that.

Speaker 2 Next, detectives ask if her parents ever had any problems in their relationship.

Speaker 18 She described her parents' relationship as being pretty happy. She said they didn't really fight all that much.

Speaker 2 The teen's description of a peaceful home draws the spotlight off Gloria.

Speaker 9 It was, by all appearances, a happy home. That's all she could give the police about George disappearing.

Speaker 2 Desperate for answers, on February 26th, over a week since George's disappearance, investigators begin questioning his friends, hoping for a lead.

Speaker 9 They're talking to a friend of George who says that he hasn't talked to George since Christmas, but he does remember George talking about a guy named Daniel.

Speaker 12 Daniel had a reputation at one time of being kind of a

Speaker 10 crook.

Speaker 2 Detectives must determine if this is the man Gloria believes George owes money to.

Speaker 12 Any leads worth checking out. I'm not going to discount any lead till we follow up on it.

Speaker 12 And it just seemed like a good place to go.

Speaker 2 On February 29th, 2008, 12 days since George's disappearance, detectives sit down with Daniel Inohosa.

Speaker 14 Daniel and George used to work at the hospital together.

Speaker 12 Daniel and George were friends.

Speaker 9 Daniel says that he had no information about George, hadn't talked to him in a long time.

Speaker 12 Daniel had no knowledge of what happened to George.

Speaker 14 He was concerned about George also.

Speaker 2 Daniel provides an alibi, which quickly checks out. And when detectives dig into Daniel's past, they find no ties to the Mexican mafia.

Speaker 12 He did not appear to be involved in any kind of offense offense at all.

Speaker 2 With their best lead dried up, investigators find themselves at a stalemate yet again.

Speaker 9 Investigators are considering all possibilities. They want to put different storylines to rest.
Was this a missing person? They had to find answers.

Speaker 2 March 1st, 2008. As the investigation into the disappearance of George Frazier grinds to a halt, a new mystery unravels three miles away in nearby Bardwell Lake.

Speaker 9 A couple that was on the lake just enjoying themselves come around a curve and see a human leg.

Speaker 18 They had been walking along the way, found this leg partially wrapped up in a plastic bag, and then called the authorities right away when they found it.

Speaker 13 Normally, when you get a call that someone thinks they found human remains, more often than not, it turns out to be an animal bone.

Speaker 13 So I was a little shocked to find out when we got there that it was an actual human leg.

Speaker 9 There's no distinguishing marks, but it's a leg of an African-American.

Speaker 13 The wound itself appeared to have been cut with some sort of saw or a bladed instrument.

Speaker 13 It wasn't a rough cut like you would see with an animal attack or or an accidental dismemberment, something like that. This was a straight, clean cut all the way through.

Speaker 2 Coming up, a possible crime scene is uncovered.

Speaker 18 In most of the places, there were very small,

Speaker 18 like droplets of blood.

Speaker 2 And as investigators dig more into George and Gloria's relationship, a stunning secret comes to light.

Speaker 12 He admitted they had an affair.

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Speaker 2 On March 1st, 2008, investigators with the Ellis County Sheriff's Office are processing the scene where a human leg has just been recovered on the edge of Lake Bardwell.

Speaker 13 We felt we needed to search the area looking for

Speaker 13 the rest of the victim's body or

Speaker 30 more parts.

Speaker 13 We didn't find any blood at the scene. We didn't find any other physical evidence.
Everything appeared to be that the location at the lake was strictly a dump site.

Speaker 2 With a likely homicide on their hands, detectives immediately send the severed limb to the coroner for analysis and search the missing person's database.

Speaker 9 As they're looking through all of these missing persons cases, they land on George Frazier, missing since February 18th.

Speaker 13 We learned that the Ennis Police Department, which was near our location, actually did have an open open missing person case for George Frazier.

Speaker 13 Since both of the cases were in this close proximity, the description matched, we had a pretty good suspicion that

Speaker 13 this leg was probably that of Mr. Frazier.

Speaker 18 We were able to get from his sister and some DNA items. Additionally, from Gloria, they got a toothbrush.
And so they were able to compare the DNA and it was George's leg.

Speaker 2 Detectives head to the home George shared with his partner, Gloria, to deliver the tragic news.

Speaker 18 When the investigators went to tell Gloria that George was deceased, she was not overly emotional in terms of crying and things like that.

Speaker 18 So that caught the investigators off guard when that happened. So now we're going to hit Gloria Aiken much harder than before.

Speaker 2 On March 3rd, Gloria agrees to sit down with investigators for a polygraph examination.

Speaker 12 I believe the questions in the polygraph were, did you have any knowledge of George's disappearance?

Speaker 22 Were you involved in any way in George's disappearance?

Speaker 23 There weren't but two or three questions.

Speaker 9 She continues to maintain her innocence. She continues to maintain she knows nothing about George's disappearance.

Speaker 2 Though Gloria is adamant of her innocence, the test suggests otherwise.

Speaker 12 She failed. I mean, she is lying.

Speaker 18 The part that Gloria failed was the question asking about whether she participated in George's being missing or in his dismemberment. So that was very important to investigators at the time.

Speaker 9 The detectives inform Gloria that she's failed. And at this point, she clams up.

Speaker 2 Detectives press Gloria by showing her a photo of the leg found on the shore of Lake Bardwell.

Speaker 19 That's when she started tearing up.

Speaker 24 She knew whose leg it was.

Speaker 25 She knew exactly whose leg it was.

Speaker 15 She stood up, said, I got to go.

Speaker 15 And

Speaker 19 I said, this is your last chance. Talk to us.

Speaker 15 And she said, I got to go and left.

Speaker 12 The next day, we got a call from an attorney that was representing her and said that he did not want us talking to his client.

Speaker 9 Since Gloria's no longer talking, since she's lawyered up, they're going to have to play tough.

Speaker 18 We had the polygraph examinations, but those aren't admissible in Texas. They thought thought there would have been more evidence found at the home.

Speaker 9 So they get a search warrant to search this house and the cars again.

Speaker 2 On March 11th, 2008, detectives arrived at Gloria's home for a more comprehensive search.

Speaker 18 This time they also went in with crime scene technicians from the DPS crime lab.

Speaker 29 We took a computer.

Speaker 22 There was a nine millimeter pistol we seized.

Speaker 12 They found blood in a jeep.

Speaker 12 They found blood in a bathroom.

Speaker 23 Dorinda Clark found a large amount of blood on a chair and an ottoman and the wall in the living room.

Speaker 12 And it appeared somebody tried to clean it up at some point and they didn't have.

Speaker 9 They find a baseball bat that has bloodstains and pieces of hair on it.

Speaker 12 That kind of made us think that this is our primary crime scene.

Speaker 2 Despite the evidence, some details of the crime aren't adding up with the supposed crime scene.

Speaker 18 In most of the places, there were very small,

Speaker 18 like droplets of blood.

Speaker 18 I think the theory was he was killed in the home, taken to some other location for dismemberment, and then his body parts, you know, thrown out in different locations.

Speaker 2 Convinced that George was killed in his home, detectives do a neighborhood canvas.

Speaker 9 What emerges from this is that George was really well thought of by the neighbors, but Gloria not so much.

Speaker 12 We were all pretty good friends.

Speaker 22 She would get on to him all the time, just anything, anything he did.

Speaker 11 It seemed like every time I went to the house to pick him up, there was something fighting about something. We would leave.
And then he wouldn't make the comment, she's all about money.

Speaker 2 Neighbors say that money wasn't the couple's only problem.

Speaker 9 George thought she was having an affair.

Speaker 2 With this new information, investigators must consider if Gloria's alleged lover had anything to do with the crime.

Speaker 22 I want to know if he's got any knowledge about any potential homicide or he was involved in the disappearance or the dismemberment of George Fraser.

Speaker 18 If he does know something and didn't give information, he could potentially be charged with some criminal activity himself or if he participated in some way in helping Gloria.

Speaker 2 On March 12th, 2008, detectives subpoenaed Gloria's phone records, hoping to uncover the name of her alleged lover.

Speaker 18 When they got her phone records, they could tell who was calling and what time they were calling. They saw that there was one particular number that she called very often.

Speaker 18 That person ended up being Mr. Oditola, a person who also worked with her at the prison.

Speaker 12 Phone records pointed to him as being the most called person.

Speaker 2 On March 21st, investigators head to Hutchins State Jail to interview the man on the call log,

Speaker 2 Tunbosan Oditala.

Speaker 29 He admitted that he'd been dating her since like August of 2007.

Speaker 15 She had told him that she wasn't married, that she was living with two old aunts that were rich and would cut her off if they knew that she was seeing anybody.

Speaker 9 They saw each other regularly. He would rent a hotel room in Corsicana, which is about 30 minutes down the road.

Speaker 2 When detectives break the news that Gloria did, in fact, have a partner of 10 years, Ola Tunbosan appears genuinely shocked.

Speaker 9 He says that he had no idea who George was, didn't even know that Gloria was in a relationship with anyone.

Speaker 9 He confesses that he had been in the home, but had no idea that George even existed.

Speaker 2 Ola Chunbosen says that within the past three weeks, Gloria had asked him to move in with her.

Speaker 12 She's going to invite another guy to move in with her. After George had been reported missing, she was fairly confident George wasn't coming back.

Speaker 2 Coming up, more gruesome evidence is recovered from the depths of another Texas lake.

Speaker 12 Arms have been removed, and the body had been cut just below the chest.

Speaker 2 And detectives set a trap for their prime suspect.

Speaker 19 We asked him, You're gonna be a witness or a suspect.

Speaker 28 We need to listen to

Speaker 28 out.

Speaker 2 April 2008, six weeks after the disappearance of George Frazier, Ennis police are speaking with Olatunbosen Oditala, the lover of George's partner, Gloria Aiken.

Speaker 18 They were looking at Gloria, so now they're also trying to figure out what is the motive, right? Can we prove that Gloria had a motive to kill George? Why would she want him dead?

Speaker 18 Once this evidence of an affair was discovered, he then became a person of interest in that, did he help her do this?

Speaker 2 With nothing to hold Olatun Boson on, investigators let him go for now and begin digging deeper for Gloria's potential motive, starting with the couple's finances.

Speaker 15 She was trying to pay all the bills. He wasn't really contributing a whole lot at that point.

Speaker 2 But detectives soon uncover one way Gloria could get money from George.

Speaker 14 There's that $250,000 life insurance policy from George.

Speaker 18 This $250,000 life insurance policy became a real legitimate motive for why she would want him, you know, dead. She could gain a hefty life insurance policy to live the life that she wanted to lead.

Speaker 2 While investigators continue looking into a possible financial motive, Another clue washes ashore on a nearby lake on April 5th, 2008, five weeks after the discovery of George's leg.

Speaker 18 There was a person around Ritzling Chambers leg that was doing some sort of landscaping or yard work.

Speaker 12 He thought it was, you know, somebody cleaned some fish and threw the guts in the bag, stuffed that, you know, it flies stuff around it.

Speaker 12 He goes in to look at it and it finds a hidden torso in the bag.

Speaker 2 The Freestone County Sheriff's Department quickly responds to the scene.

Speaker 12 There was quite a bit of decomposition. The arms had been removed and the body had been cut just below the chest.

Speaker 9 It happens to be an African-American male, they believe between 25 and 50.

Speaker 18 Everybody's just kind of assuming the torso and the head probably belongs to George.

Speaker 2 The body parts are immediately sent to the crime lab for analysis.

Speaker 15 We looked at the photos, and it was pretty obvious in the crime scene photo that's who it was.

Speaker 12 Just to confirm, we went ahead and did the dental records, and it was George Frazier.

Speaker 2 On April 6th, the autopsy report lands on the desk of Ennis Police Detective Dorinda Clark.

Speaker 19 He had been shot twice in the head.

Speaker 6 It was a.22-caliber pistol.

Speaker 2 Detective Clark also receives the DNA results from the blood found inside Gloria and George's home.

Speaker 18 DNA confirmed that all of the blood that was found on the ottoman, the couch, the TV, the baseball bat, the wall, and the master bathroom all belonged to George.

Speaker 14 Lorenda, she wanted to lock Gloria up.

Speaker 12 She knew Gloria was guilty.

Speaker 9 We all did.

Speaker 2 She used to always say, we're going to get her.

Speaker 18 She wasn't going to let it rest.

Speaker 18 She was determined not to let it rest.

Speaker 2 But just as the pieces are coming together, Detective Clark gets a devastating setback.

Speaker 18 They were looking for a small caliber gun like a.22. I believe she had a 9mm

Speaker 18 in her house, so it did not match.

Speaker 23 The weapon we seized from the house was not the weapon that shot him.

Speaker 14 There was a lot of evidence, but it was all circumstantial.

Speaker 2 Determined to connect Gloria to the crime, Detective Clark turns to the one person who may have been more involved than they're letting on.

Speaker 13 I had a doubt that she was the one that did the cutting, you know. I just...

Speaker 13 I thought that was a little extreme for a spouse to dismember a human body.

Speaker 9 It would have been really tough for Gloria to do this all on her own. And so now they're wanting to know, did the boyfriend have something to do with this?

Speaker 2 On April 24th, 2008, detectives asked Gloria's boyfriend, Ola Chunbosen Oditala, to come in for a polygraph exam.

Speaker 14 He passed the part of the polygraph that asked about participation in the offense in the dismemberment or the homicide.

Speaker 15 He failed the part about about the knowledge of the offense.

Speaker 26 He just denied that he had any knowledge of it.

Speaker 24 He just

Speaker 10 was

Speaker 12 not really cooperative at first until we asked him, you're going to be a witness or a suspect.

Speaker 19 He chose witness.

Speaker 8 He would do anything he could do to clear his name at that point.

Speaker 2 On April 25th, Ola Tunbosen agrees to wear a wire during a conversation with Gloria.

Speaker 32 Ah, Lord.

Speaker 21 Do you know that because

Speaker 17 I was with them, any police, I was with them for like eight hours.

Speaker 32 Man,

Speaker 32 everything.

Speaker 28 They know everything on ATP.

Speaker 32 So what?

Speaker 32 Check it out.

Speaker 32 Gloria, you told me you don't have any man living with you, but they said you live together.

Speaker 9 The boyfriend's putting a lot of pressure on her. He's accusing her.

Speaker 12 They said they're going to arrest you.

Speaker 32 For what? I don't know. I don't have any money, nothing.

Speaker 21 So you need to ask me.

Speaker 32 I will get a lawyer.

Speaker 16 I wish I arrested.

Speaker 17 Yeah, they said they're going to arrest you.

Speaker 16 They said I arrested you for committing the murder.

Speaker 29 The conversation with him and Gloria, it got pretty heated.

Speaker 20 They said I asked you.

Speaker 32 What is this mad?

Speaker 2 I didn't do anything.

Speaker 9 Suddenly, she becomes very combative and that's when their voices get raised.

Speaker 2 This is some serious

Speaker 28 out, okay?

Speaker 16 Just listen.

Speaker 25 Advocate.

Speaker 14 And it gets so heated that the management from Jacking Box called the Hutchins Police.

Speaker 19 Hey, there's a disturbance out here.

Speaker 25 This man and this woman are arguing.

Speaker 16 I ain't talking.

Speaker 16 We okay.

Speaker 16 Can we help you?

Speaker 2 The officer's presence puts an end to the argument and any chance of Gloria incriminating herself on the wire.

Speaker 2 Without a confession from Gloria, the case quickly loses momentum.

Speaker 14 I would have warranted a confession because it was all circumstantial.

Speaker 4 We took what we had to the DA's office, the chief filling prosecutor reviewed it, felt like it was enough to arrest, but not enough to prosecute.

Speaker 9 So much of the case has loose ends, and juries don't like loose ends. Everything needs to be tightened up.

Speaker 18 There weren't any post-polygraph admissions that were made by either Mr. Otitola or Gloria that we could use.
I don't think anybody realistically believed that Mr. Oditola did any of this.

Speaker 18 We still had to prove that she intentionally and knowingly, you know, caused his death.

Speaker 24 And so it kind of just dropped off at that point.

Speaker 12 It became a cold case.

Speaker 2 Though investigators try to build a case, five years pass with no developments.

Speaker 2 Then, the investigation hits another roadblock when lead detective Dorinda Dorinda Clark is diagnosed with leukemia in March of 2013.

Speaker 13 That does have an effect on the case because as a lead investigator, you've got a lot of things in your head that may not necessarily be written down somewhere.

Speaker 9 Innes is a small police department. She had institutional knowledge in her brain.

Speaker 2 As Dorinda endures grueling rounds of chemotherapy, Gloria moves on with her life.

Speaker 9 Gloria cashed in that $250,000 life insurance policy. Another setback for the cops is that Gloria decides to remake her life in South Carolina.
So now she's 1,000 miles away.

Speaker 2 Coming up, will Gloria get away with murder?

Speaker 9 There's a lot of witnesses and testimony that was lost forever.

Speaker 18 It's not required for us to prove motive in Texas, but everybody always wants to know.

Speaker 2 By 2013, the murder case against Gloria Aiken has been on hold for five years after facing several hurdles.

Speaker 9 Unfortunately, time is not a friend of this investigation because during those years when the case was dormant, several key family members die.

Speaker 9 There's a lot of witnesses and testimony that was lost forever.

Speaker 2 While the investigation has setbacks, lead detective Dorinda Clark receives promising news following her leukemia diagnosis.

Speaker 14 She wanted a remission and came back to work.

Speaker 9 She is doggedly determined. She needs answers.
She wants to get Gloria.

Speaker 14 Dorinda came back to work and man, she got fired up.

Speaker 19 We had a new prosecutor at the time, Duke Chief Felony Prosecutor.

Speaker 24 We put a PowerPoint program together and sat down with her, showed her the PowerPoint.

Speaker 12 It was, like I say, it was an all-mostly circumstantial case.

Speaker 19 The new prosecutor, he said, hey, let's end her.

Speaker 2 In April 2014, the Ellis County District Attorney's Office presents the evidence to a grand jury. Prosecutors argue that Gloria was tired of supporting George.

Speaker 11 I think Gloria got a little greedy wanting money and she's found another way to get her hands on money.

Speaker 15 Life insurance.

Speaker 12 She had like a $250,000 insurance policy on it.

Speaker 15 The insurance policy would be a big motivator.

Speaker 2 Prosecutors argue that on February 17th, 2008, George had settled into his favorite chair for the evening.

Speaker 9 All signs point to George is either asleep or watching TV.

Speaker 9 If Gloria takes a baseball bat, hits him over the head. Just based on what they found.
I mean, a baseball bat with bloodstains and pieces of hair,

Speaker 9 he clearly was beat up.

Speaker 12 I think to disable him, to knock him out, and then finish him off with the pistol.

Speaker 12 I think she hauled him in that jeep, so that blood got in there.

Speaker 10 Fed him up with a better operator saw of some type.

Speaker 15 Put him in bags and took him to the lake.

Speaker 13 Yeah, I always thought that there might have been another party involved that might have been an accomplice, but we just didn't have the evidence.

Speaker 18 All of the facts and circumstances were brought out to the grand jury, and they ultimately decided to indict her for a murder.

Speaker 18 After the arrest warrant comes out, she's found in South Carolina. She was ultimately arrested and then waived extradition back to Texas to stand charges here.

Speaker 19 We had her transported back to Ellis County.

Speaker 12 We tried to interview her at the Ellis County Jail. She didn't want to talk to us, and she started crying.

Speaker 2 In 2016, while Gloria awaits trial, the case is dealt a final blow when Dorinda's cancer returns.

Speaker 18 She had ups and down. We thought she was going to make it.
She was doing great. And then she crashed.

Speaker 2 On July 8th, 2016, after decades in law enforcement, Dorinda dies at the age of 54.

Speaker 19 Dorinda got sick again.

Speaker 29 And

Speaker 19 when she got sick,

Speaker 15 again, and died.

Speaker 19 You know, you lost your lead investigator at that point.

Speaker 18 Essentially, what we had was a crime scene being in this house.

Speaker 15 That's where Gloria lived.

Speaker 18 It's not required for us to prove motive in Texas. We, you know, really realized that we were not going to be able to do this trial because of Dorinda Clark not being available.

Speaker 18 We decided we needed to plea this out and get the best option we could in the end.

Speaker 2 On May 19th, 2017, prosecutors offer Gloria a plea deal, reducing her murder charge to manslaughter.

Speaker 8 She plead guilty.

Speaker 19 It took 12 years.

Speaker 24 I was pretty upset about it. 12 years wasn't enough.

Speaker 15 You shoot a guy and cut him up and put him in two different lakes.

Speaker 19 I believe it's worth more than 12 years.

Speaker 11 She took his lie and all the people he's going to touch and all the people he has touched. And she got 12 years.

Speaker 9 That's not justice.

Speaker 11 That's a crime in itself.

Speaker 20 Loria isn't a bad person.

Speaker 20 Not even at all. She's not to me.
And

Speaker 20 I just can't imagine how she could do

Speaker 20 these things that she's accused of and that she pled guilty to.

Speaker 11 Liz, it was just a waste to take a man's life like that in such a manner.

Speaker 25 It's just horrible.

Speaker 18 It is horrible.

Speaker 11 And the world's not a better place.

Speaker 11 It's a lesser place without George in it.

Speaker 33 Gloria is currently serving her sentence at the Dr. Lane Murray Unit unit in Gatesville, Texas.
She is projected to be released in 2026 at the age of 59.

Speaker 33 Ole Tudenbosen, Oditala, was never charged in connection to George's death.

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