Man Murdered Teen Girlfriend to Keep His Horrifying Secret

A seventeen-year-old girl vanishes after leaving work. Her older boyfriend reports her missing, comforts her parents, and helps search the woods. He knows exactly where her body is. He put it there. The secret he was hiding was worse than murder.In Columbus, Ohio, 38-year-old Johnathan M. was dating a teenage girl he met at his apartment complex. When she discovered evidence of his past crimes, he strangled her in his living room. He drove her body to a remote area and left her in a drainage ditch. He then returned home, called her parents to ask if she had arrived safely, and filed a missing person report. The case cracked when a neighbor's security camera captured him carrying a large trash bag to his truck at 2 AM. Police searched his apartment and found her blood in the carpet fibers. A hidden storage unit contained photographs of his previous victims. He had been hiding his true identity for years. The teen girlfriend was not his first victim. She was just the one who got too close to the truth.Turn down the lights, put on your headphones, and press play because the man who held her hand at the candlelight vigil was the man who ended her life.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/red-tree-crime--6847553/support.