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So on a typical day, when I'm mowing roadsides, we'd come in, we'd have a morning meeting, have some coffee, get the tractor ready, checked over the mower, checked the blades, make sure everything is in good working order, and hit the road. Mowing the road sides, we mow basically back to the right of way. We do that to keep the weeds from spreading. So I was mowing along, and I noticed something. There was some brush in the way that I had cut out of the way.
I went down and it turned out to be a suitcase. So I grabbed it. It was pretty heavy. I just assumed it was some wet clothes, and I drug it up to the edge of the road, put it right on the road to start with. And then I saw a second one behind that.
So I went back and grabbed that one. Same thing. I drug it up to the road, set it right on the road. Because it was so close to the end of the day, I didn't call anybody, finished mowing. And then when I got in, I said, hey, we had a couple suitcases out there, we should go pick up.
My name is Eric Anderson. We're going to be pulling up to the area where the suitcases were on North Colmall Road. I was a second shift patrol officer for the town of Geneva Police Department. On June 5, 2014, I was contacted for someone that called in regarding suitcases on the side of the road. When I approached the suitcases, I saw a lot of flies. I took the black suitcase,
so I ended up taking it by the handle, laid it down, and unzipped it from the top. And opened it up, and I saw the remains of a decomposing human body, which appeared to be a female. Nothing could prepare you by really seeing what I'm seeing right now. It's not normal. Opening a suitcase and seeing body inside.
Then I went to the second suitcase, the purple one grabbed the handle, lifted it up, and felt the weight inside of that. So we proceeded to lay down the suitcase and opened that one. And where we found another peer to the human body inside, who could possibly do this to another human being. I determined that I needed to take that back, close this office, a crime scene, and I needed to call my dispatch and let them know what was happening. We had to figure out, first off, who the victims were, then to try to figure out how they had lost their lives, and then to try to figure out who was the person responsible for that.
Geneva's just a small community. A lot of Chicago land individuals come here to relax, to real quiet town. High relations around 5,400 people. But during the summer times, it doubles even triple, so with the vacationers, they come here for a place to relax. Suitcases found the side of the road, two young ladies deceased in there, just flipped this town upside down. Okay, national news for the wrong reasons.
Law enforcement was out on Como Road for about five hours yesterday evening when those two boys were discovered. Nothing can prepare you for what you can see upon opening a suitcase and finding a corpse inside of it. Does it affect you? Of course, because police are not robots. I had to let other people know to get down there so I had to get ahold of the law with county sheriff's department to send detectives down to help me out with the scene.
Jeff Ragnugle was one of the first responding detectives from all with county sheriff's department. When I pulled up, Eric Anderson came up to me and you could tell there was something really important that happened because he had that certain stare in his eyes. And he said that he had opened one of the suitcases and it contained a dead human being. So one of the suitcases that was on the side of the road. This is terrible stuff and when we open this up and you smell what you smell, I mean it takes me back in time to the same day when we discovered these things on the side of the road.
And from the suitcase, what could you gather? There was no name identification on either of the suitcases, so it was pretty tough at first to try to figure out who they were. Both of the victims' bodies were severely decomposed. Yes, they were so decomposed that we were never able to get any DNA from their bodies. And the bodies were not dismembered? No, they were still all intact. Both of the women were about
five-foot tall, weighed right around 100 pounds. We're trying to figure out cause of death, the man ripped out. We noticed that both of the victims had tattoos, so we were trying to figure out from their tattoos who the people were. We had anthropologists come in, take a look at one of our victims, and so what she did was she tried to do a drawing of her composite drawing. What did you gather from this?
Not a whole lot. The big thing obviously is that the victim had larger size teeth, but not much luck really came from that composite drawing. Pops made a couple more observations. One is that one of the bodies, the one in the purple suitcase, seemed far more preserved, almost in a state of mummification. They also noted that both bodies were bound with rope. This is not a piece of rope that was
around one of our victims' wrists. What kind of person would do this? That's what I asked myself when I first arrived at the scene. The town of Geneva Police Chief providing few details, he is calling this a death investigation that they are treating as criminal. There really is not much more I can tell you at this time, but this quiet town is now buzzing with questions about safety. Everybody's just shacked and scared.
I can't even imagine what the people were thinking in this community. It hit like a Midwestern tornado, and probably brought back some memories of Jeffrey Dahmer, that human predator, who murdered 17 men, 16 of them in nearby Milwaukee. Definitely came to my mind thinking, is there other bodies somewhere else that some of this might be a serial killer, and what did I just get myself into? How many more people could there be, or could there still be going on? We were unaware of these two people missing from our immediate area, and we needed to go statewide, because I thought that this was something not from our immediate area. After casting a wider net, investigators are alerted
about another case in neighboring Minnesota. It involves a woman who disappeared several months earlier, under extremely suspicious circumstances. Whenever you see the call, that two bodies were two suitcases down in Geneva, Wisconsin. I was wondering, is this connecting with Laura? Along this rural-wallworth highway near the town of Geneva, a one-cutting crew found abandoned suitcases containing the bodies of two women. It's a horrible, horrible crime that we're
going to work real hard, and I have a lot of confidence in the investigators that they're going to be able to put some of these pieces together. I felt like we needed to have a bigger net to talk to people from a bigger area from the whole Midwest to try to find out who these victims were. By widening that target area of investigation, cops learned that state authorities in Wisconsin are teaming up with nearby Minnesota police to investigate the disappearance of a woman several months earlier. Hey, just to let you know, one of our agents was helping out a detective from Minnesota in trying to find a missing woman. Maybe you should communicate with that detective.
They then connected with Detective Lee Hollitz from Farmington, Minnesota. So tell me about Farmington, Minnesota. What kind of people live here? Totally a bedroom community. So it's kind of the last ring of the Minneapolis-St. Paul suburbs.
Seven months before those suitcases are found in Wisconsin, Detective Lee Hollitz is investigating the disappearance of 37-year-old Laura Symonson. Her abandoned van was found at her mother's home. And her van was parked right here on the right hand side of the garage, and myself and Detective Sungrid went searching it. We found her cellphone, we found her purse, and medication. So I thought that was very odd when we found that in the van.
You get an indication that Laura's in trouble? You know, just reading through what Laura was and what she had all gone through, especially in the past year. Ooh, a lot of red flags here. Laura was raised in this general area. She was raised in Northfield, which is about, you know, roughly 20 miles south here of Farmington, and she was well-known in school and popular in school.
Is it Taby? What do you think of that, Laura? Taby Maya. Yes it is! I met Laura in elementary school. Everybody loved Laura. She just with the light up the
room when she walked in, just the smile on her face always would brighten your day. This is the Northfield Middle School. This is where Laura and I first met. Laura had blonde hair, and she was bubbly. She was fun to hang around with, she was a funny girl.
Oh, here's a nice one when we were younger. Look at those pigtails, but we had to have her hair down the same way in the same outfit. She looked up to you though, huh? Yeah, she did. Yep, that's my welsister. She was my little sister who was annoying at some times, but then,
you know, at the same time I was her protector. When we got older, we really connected when we started having kids, when we started getting our own family. Laura out of high school eventually got married and ended up having, you know, my family actually had quite a large family with seven children. Their marriage was really ups and downs. It was like either it was really good and they got along really great, or it was the other side to where there were fights and it was hard to watch.
Well, ultimately this marriage hits a dead end and the couple divorces and the darkness isn't over, because after that, Laura's daughter, Alyssa, has a terrible accident in a pool and she is rendered disabled. Laura lived this, you know, for 13 years with Alyssa and took care of her every day, day in and day out and Laura shut down. She didn't want to talk to anybody. Having to deal with the whole situation of the kids, that all just finally came to a head. And that was part of the downward spiral. Yes, it was. Laura, I think at that time, had admitted
that she needed help because she had started using drugs. The state, we took the kids, separated the kids, put them in foster care. I feel like Laura lost her way and she didn't want to recover from that. June of 2013, the same daughter that had all the medical conditions ended up passing away. And I know that was devastating blow to Laura. And she got an infection in her heart and
nobody knew about and just passed away in her sleep. And what impact did this have on Laura? It crushed her. And her mental well-being in general. You were worried about that? Yes. I'm very
worried about her. There were periods where we weren't sure where she was staying. We didn't know where she was. On November 1st, 2013, Laura's mother received a text message from Laura and it's quite alarming. Saying, you know, hey, I'm sorry I'm this way. It's not you, it's me. I'm no good for the kids
either. And you know what? Best thing I can do is stay away. Love you all always. How concerning was this text to her family? It was very concerning. But they did not, you know,
right when they got that message, they didn't act on it as it was quite, let's say it's quite common that Laura would go missing at times. But the very next day, there's that unsettling discovery of Laura's van in her mother's driveway. And inside, another note, I'm so sorry to leave the van here. Colin Habitold, she mentions her food card, take my food card and all that, which to me was kind of a red flag. So we're trying to find out where might she have gone, right? Correct. Correct. And then I started calling, you know, like local homeless shelters,
churches and things like that. And I called, you know, her ex-husband called boyfriends, contacts that she had with, but coming up with nothing. Another note. And this one is found at the door of Laura's mother's house. It comes from some mystery man, a guy the family never heard of.
And then the case takes a sinister turn. Hey, I haven't seen Laura since November 1st. And she's without her meds. I'm very concerned, honor, whereabouts she has never disappeared like that. We're like, all right. You know, who's who's this guy? What's this all about? Hey, now I'm getting more
scared. When Laura disappeared, it was a shocker. What do you mean Laura's missing? Laura would have never ditched her kids. That wasn't Laura. Her kids work her life.
We already know about the note that Laura left for her mother, instructing her what to do with all her belongings. Well, two weeks later, another note appears at Laura's mother's door. And this one is from a man named Jeff Madison. So Jeff leaves a note and saying, Hey, I haven't seen Laura since November 1st. And she's without her meds. I'm very concerned,
honor, whereabouts she has never disappeared like that. None of us know where she's at and I'm very concerned. I had never heard of him. And you know, we're like, who's this guy? Now I'm getting more scared because she's missing her van's here. And now a friend of hers is reaching out and say,
Hey, I haven't seen her. You know, what's going on? Tell me more about this man, Jeff Madison, who left that note. Jeff Madison was a friend of hers that lived up in Saint Paul, which is about 20 miles from here. And they were close friends. Then something that comes as a big surprise.
Jeff Madison sends an email to Detective Sergeant Hollis. In it, he says that Laura had been on an online dating community called Caller Me. And it caters to people involved in something called BDSM. BDSM stands for bondage and discipline, as well as domination and submission, as well as sadism and masochism. And so it's really a lifestyle that is largely consensual and related to the dimensions of power and control. I was floored. I was very surprised. I think she was doing it because
she wanted. I honestly think she wanted someone to take care of her. And you know, in a submissive role, that's what that other person does is they take care of everything. Not only does Jeff Madison know all about Laura's participation in this online community, but he actually knows her username and password. Jeff made the hair on the back of my neck stand up the way he would communicate in emails, but also him having her usernames, her passwords. He knew too much. Exactly. Yeah, it was a little bit
on the creepy side. You must have asked yourself, who is this guy? I very much did. When I'm looking at his emails, I'm like going, is there a possibility there is some jealousy here? Is he hiding her out? Does he know something else? I didn't know, but it was still kind of it was just odd. But he
was just that individual that actually cared a lot and knew his way around computers and all that. Detective Hollitt says he decides not to bring Jeff Madison in for questioning at this time, because there are still no signs of foul play. But Hollitt says Madison maintains constant email contact with him. And that's good news because he keeps delivering information that's helpful to the police, such as the actual profile name of the main person Laura has been communicating with on that call or me site. Mr. Handcuffs. Yeah, Mr. Handcuffs himself.
Looking at Mr. Handcuffs profile, there is a picture of this guy sitting back on the college. Mr. Handcuffs basically look like he probably somebody in there like young 50s like Caucasian man, dark hair, well groom, you know, say in seeking a long term permanent 24 seven slave for absolute ownership and slavery. Jeff Madison continues to deliver the goods. This time he hands over a
series of emails dating back a couple of months of communication between Laura and Mr. Handcuffs. She's constantly, you know, calling him sir and master and he's kind of giving her marching orders. Here's how we're going to do it. Here's how we're going to meet and all that. One of these emails
that was sent to a Mr. Handcuffs was quite haunting. She says in the middle of the message, I have no self esteem, no trust in myself, no judgment, no faith, no hope, no direction, no desire, no confidence, no will basically. The kids gave me the only thing to live for. Reading these emails, it starts putting pieces of the puzzle together.
I think Laura was still grieving and, you know, turned to these online sites, might have been looking for, you know, a relief and to distract it and her from the death of her daughter. I would say that, you know, all those emotions created this, you know, perfect storm that created this person that nobody recognized. Is it possible that Mr. Handcuffs has something to do with the disappearance of Laura, then investigators uncover some startling video that really heats up this investigation. I'm like, holy moly. This show is sponsored by Who Killed Angel Harris, a podcast from ID.
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stress reliever and like meditation. I'd be in the middle of a living just kind of thinking the case, who to contact next, all that. When I received this case, it just happened to be at a time in my personal life that my son was first showing signs of some serious mental health, reading what more lived with and suffered with, what really resonated with me and really kind of hit me that like that, like this person is suffering and going through a lot. And that's why I go in so hard with it. Detective Hollitz relentlessly continues with his investigation. He decides to send out a
statewide bulletin about Laura's disappearance. I sent out what's called a Minnesota prime order. I sent it to shopping malls, homeless shelters, hotels, law enforcement agencies, etc. With Laura's picture on it, saying anybody know anything about Laura Simonson. It's just like, sure, look, some hotel clerk sees this alert come over the fax machine.
This is micro-tell in a suite by Windham. What was your job at the hotel? At that point in time, I was just a front desk agent. You're working there and you receive a fax. What struck you about this particular fax? Well, the picture of her, that caught my attention. And then when I seen the name,
I thought that that's familiar. I knew she had been at her hotel. Christie from the micro-tell hotel in Rochester calls our police department and makes a report. I'm like, holy moly, we got Laura down in Rochester. I talked to the hotel manager and I said, you got anything else that shows that was there? Okay, yeah, we have a registration card. It has a
same sentence as Laura Simonson. This. Correct. You see so many guests. What do you remember about Laura? What struck you about her? I seen her a couple of times at the hotel. My antenna was up
with her. Laura looked sad. Like, um, you guys see, like a beaten horse. The guy she was with was always standing right behind her. Like, she was controlled. That's what I felt. What did he look
like physically? Kind of a pop-marked face. Hail. I'd say medium height. You know, there's certain people you meet where the hairs on the back of your neck stand up? Yeah. He was one of those.
Because Christie was paying attention. We now have Laura at this time in Rochester, Minnesota, one hour away with this unknown male. Whatever this was, the motel then able to give you guys. From there, I asked for the video surveillance of the hotel. Let's work with the manager. He says,
okay, we got it. But he goes, good news and bad news. Good news is I got a Sunday when they checked out the Saturday when they checked in. They lost because of the like a 30-day time frame. Just by the day you missed it. Correct. I never got to see Laura on the hotel video. Never saw her
checking in. There's this bombshell of surveillance. The checkout video. Correct. Let's play it. What do
you see here? You'll see this unknown white male pushing a luggage rack full of suitcases. Okay. And he goes out the door. Then he comes on back. Goes up here. He checks out. We know that
Laura checked in. Do we ever see her checking out? We did not see her check out. She's nowhere on the video. Any idea who he is this man? I have no clue. Your mind must have been racing when you see this
video. You got to find this guy. Correct. Because he has information on my missing person. He was with Laura. Everything's pointing that he was with Laura. At that time I send out another
Minnesota crime alert with a still photo of him and asking again police departments. I'm hitting the Rochester area hard. Who knows it guy? Somebody must know him, right? For you it's a race against time.
It is because every day that she is missing she doesn't have any money. She's vulnerable. She could be in danger. Correct. Once that man is spotted in that hotel video, Laura's friend, Jeff Madison, is cleared as a person of interest in this case. In the meantime there's one person
that she had been interacting with online. Correct. Mr. handcuffs. Is Mr. handcuffs the man in the video? What do you see? And when his identity is revealed,
it has law enforcement stunned. Whoa. Now what do I got? I ran into my detective. I go, you will not alleviate this. By the time that I got the video back, so I have this unknown middle-aged white
male. So I'm like, okay? Who is this guy that is involved before a simon set? Okay, I don't know. Jeff Madison has become quite the citizen sleuth. Two months later he sends this email to
Detective Hollis, and he says he has new and very important information. This is huge news. He says he's identified Mr. handcuffs. Jeff Madison digging into all the Laura's profiles and her emails and all that, he somehow figures out that this Steve is Steven Zellich. Mr. handcuffs. Yeah, Mr. handcuffs himself. So the next thing I did is I put it into a
database that we have access to. And eventually it comes back to Steven Zellich from West Alice, Wisconsin. West Alice is basically going to be like a suburb of Milwaukee. So I contact West Alice police department and I said, hey, I'm looking for the Steven Zellich that lives at this apartment in your town. And then he calls me that Selich used to be a police officer.
A police officer with that department. No, you're not just dealing with any suspect. This is a trained law enforcement officer. Correct. So that changes your approach. Oh, it absolutely does.
Steven Zellich was from this area, went to high school at St. Thomas Moore, which is a Catholic school. His dad was a Milwaukee police sergeant. So I suppose that was always something he thought about doing and started as a police officer in Mackawan, which is a suburb northwest of Milwaukee. Zellich resigned from that department after five years and applied for a new post at the West Alice PD. Now, of course, they're going to do a background check. Here's what came back. Not any negative
information. And Zellich was a very good officer. He was an outstanding guy. Everybody liked him, very popular. This woman who asked us not to reveal her face or name dated Zellich while he was at the West Alice police department. He was like the perfect boyfriend. I was a police officer for a
different jurisdiction. And he was also a police officer. So we all hung out in the same crowd. But it is apartment look like his apartment was meticulously clean. Very much a clean freak.
But she says that after several years together, something changed with this seemingly buttoned down cop and a darker side emerged. We had gotten home from a night of drinking and he was pretty intoxicated. And he starts coming at me and he had handcuffs in his hands. What did he do? He basically overpowered me, handcuffed me. She says the incident left her deeply shaken but says she
did report at the time because of Zellich's position in the police department. And you wind up breaking up. After what he had done to me, I couldn't trust him anymore. In the years that I knew him and years later something changed. So I get a call from Barry Wott, a captain of the West Alice police department. He says, why are you asking about Steven Zellich? And so I kind of start
telling him what I have. And you know my case and he pauses and he goes, let me tell you about Steven Zellich. He would get constantly, women calling the apartment saying he's harassing me. He had a habit of visiting people during his shift, stopping in at strip clubs, talking to the dancers, intimidating them in a way that trying to get them to go out on dates and not taking no for an answer. The West Alice police chief decided it is time to confront Zellich about these allegations.
He was you asking too many pressuring women to go out with you? How long have you been going on? I have not. When any of those things keep it off, I have a lately asked. Well, I've got a single woman. I don't know what my feelings mean. But I want to share it. There's no harassment, pressure.
In addition to hanging out at strip clubs while on duty, Zellich was accused of harassing a woman who worked at this local hair salon. He was showing up here in the parking lot and waiting for her to leave work. He certainly wouldn't. So this is the fire escape. She would park right there where that white car is and Steven Zellich was parked over there and pulled his car around and he had parked behind her. She was trapped. It was very dangerous and she was very scared.
It would block her with a squat that she could not leave. No, I can not in any way blocking her in or intentionally blocking her in. Do you like it properly for an officer on duty in uniform to be approaching? A woman continually cast me on her for lunch. My behavior was never badgering.
Never would I. I wish she was lying. I'm always professional and gentlemanly. Even though you're in uniform, I'm duty carrying a gun. I don't know if the uniform or the profession is set.
He runs to pressure but it was a casual, very low key contact with her. Perhaps the most serious accusation against Zellich occurred one night when he was off duty and he took a woman home to his apartment. Was she alleged he attacked her? She said she was scared and was in some state of undress at that point and still ran out of the apartment to try to get help. When confronted by his chief about the incident, Zellich maintained that he was just trying to stop the woman from stealing money from him. She immediately goes right to my wall or play grab her neck in the hand area.
I just simply don't want to hurt her. And so I stopped and she then immediately goes up the door. I think I acted very appropriately. You know what? We're very strained. You don't need any of
them. No, absolutely not. I did nothing wrong. We seem a parent of the last few months. All of these women have been intimidated by you. I don't know. I'm going to be drafting up charges
with the police and the bar commission. After findings of multiple contact violations, he's placed on administrative lead and eventually gets a 20-day suspension. So rather than face being fired, he resigned and they did not pursue any criminal charges that was the end of his law enforcement career. Now the question, did this former police officer have anything to do with the disappearance of Laura Simonson? And then I told Captain Waddle, I go, hey, I have a still picture from the video surveillance from a hotel in Rochester Minnesota. He gets it, he calls me right back. He goes,
that's Zellich. So now I know that we have somebody that was with Laura when Laura went missing. Now it's time for cops to pay a visit to Zellich. They only have one thing on their mind. Is Laura being held captive in his apartment? So the reason why we're here, we're regarding the law,
he's missing. What we're here for is to ask you who the last saw her. After Stephen Zellich resigned from the West Alice Police Department, he became a security guard working for some corporations as a contractor in the Greater Milwaukee area. He has, I'm digging around on this case more and more and more. I'm kind of getting frustrated because everything is pointing to Zellich. So the captain of the West Alice Police Department asked him to go talk to Zellich.
Remember, I'm working on a missing persons case and I'm hoping that they knock on the door and Laura's there. The officers are allowed in to look around and all that. They don't see Laura, they don't see any, you know, female clothes, nothing. Unfortunately, Detective Hollitz has reached a dead end. Two months have now gone by since Laura disappeared. There are really no other investigative avenues
for him to pursue. And then a phone call, help, is on the way. I get a call from FBI agent right at the end of February. Can you tell me about this case? That's sure. I'll take anybody that has a
big badge that, you know, cares about this case. My name is Kerry Gibson. In 2014, I was a special agent for the FBI assigned to the FBI, field office in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A missing person, cases would have come in to our unit specifically. Detective Hollitz had shared that he hadn't interviewed Stevens-Ellich yet and we needed to know what was he saying about his relationship with Laura.
Well, when Agent Gibson heard that, she goes, can I send one of my male walkie agents, you know, with the Wisconsin State Police? And I said, yeah, do big badges better than one? So I said, let's do it. Steve, hi. How are you? Good. I'm two working at the Department of Justice. How are you doing?
Good. He says, do you want to come in, happy to have a conversation, come into my residence? When they're speaking with him, they notice that he is like very nervous and sweating profusely. Did you ever want to meet? And she said, no, why did there was something in the situation of me even? I had no intention to actually meet him. Do you have no attention to me?
No. Why? Just because it was really just interesting fun, recreation, conversation online. That's really what it is. Did you even know what state you was in?
Or else I don't call. He said that they had met online that he had never seen Laura, his all fantasy-based conversations that he had had and really tried to distance himself from her. He lied. We already knew that he had had a lot of contact with her, so we knew we were in the right direction with him. Thank God. Agent Hernandez and the FBI agent asked, Zellich, we give us a sample of
your DNA. If I ask you for a sample of your DNA, would you be willing to offer it to me? Yes. Just because I want to, as you know, be in law enforcement, eliminate anybody. Because I'm very worried about her. Yes. But keep in mind that this is still a missing persons case and with no evidence of a crime
being committed, investigators say there's not enough to move against Zellich. But from there, we have no other information. But that is basically when the case went really cold. No more leads. We don't know where Laura is. We have no contact. We have nothing. I know the family was getting
frustrated. What was it like waiting for answers? A horrible, but I wondered where she was. Why was she here? Why was it she had Thanksgiving? She never would have missed a holiday. It didn't make
sense. The one thing that always ran through my mind is that she's going to be home. Today, we're going to hear from her. It was, I think a few months after I was told that she was missing that, you know, I started to think, is she okay? Is she going to be back? It's now April,
five months is Laura Vanish. And Detective Holland says his supervisor tells them to move on. There was no really no more leads in all that. And the supervisor came in and he says, you need to close that case out. You have other things to do. At that time, you walked into his office
and I went, no way am I dropping this case. You just couldn't put this case aside. I wasn't going to put this case aside. Then a couple months go by and I remember receiving a phone call. I didn't get to the phone at the time, so it's on a voice message. And it's from Agent Gibson. Two bodies, two suitcases.
Correct. I brushed it into work and I'm like, okay, let's see what's going on here. I've lived in Walworth County for 25 years. Where's your mark? Right there. I'm going to watch. Watch.
It's kind of a quiet rural area. It's a very hometown tight-knit community. The dogs are always happy to see us. So what's nice about that is you have such a stressful environment at work. And then when you come home, now you have a friend who's happy to see you every day when you come home. To me,
that's a great stress relief. In June of 2014, I was a detective with Walworth County Sheriff's Office. This was a very big investigation for our entire agency. I worked for a number of years at the Sheriff's Department and during my time here, I mean, we did have homicides, but nothing to the severity of this kind of a homicide. On June 5th, when I first got to the scene, I walked over to the Black suitcase with Officer Anderson unzipped it. And we saw an adult woman that was inside the
suitcase that was deceased. I could see that there was a tattoo on her ankle and it had words and numbers. Then I walked over to the purple suitcase, opened it and saw that it also contained a deceased adult woman. The next day we started to do the autopsies right away so we could try to figure out who the victims were. But we decided that we wanted to communicate with all the local police agencies and several states in our area. We shared information about the height of the people, how much they weighed,
their hair color, hoping that someone had reported these people missing. The next morning I brushed into work and I'm like, okay, let's see what's going on here. I speak with the local authorities down in Southern Wisconsin. They asked me what tattoos did she have and I knew she had tattoos. I contacted Laura's sister, Nicky. Nicky tells me that she has like a outline of a heart on her ankle
with her daughter, Alyssa, and that's the one who passed away earlier in the year. Now you're convinced it's Laura. It's Laura. We knew it was Laura. Attached to you, had her daughter's name.
With, Dine, Alyssa. That was the been devastating for you. Yeah, I didn't want to believe it. And I remember thinking, I can't tell my parents. You tell your parents whether their daughter's gone.
It's not supposed to be that way. Could you ever imagine the sister that you grew up with could have met her end in this manner? No. Not at all. She didn't deserve it.
When I found out that they had found Laura, it was on the news. That's how we, I found out she was following this suitcase. It's gut wrenching. I mean, your worst nightmare comes true. You know, that's what that is. So the victim inside of this also had a rope that was wrapped around part of
our body. So we removed the rope from the body and then we had that rope analyzed. So in thinking about how someone might handle a rope and particularly tying a knot, the parts that you're going to come in contact with your hands are going to be the portions of the rope going into the knot. So I swapped the inside of the knots and sent those for DNA processing. On June 13th, we developed DNA profiles from the rope. By now, Stephen Sellich is the prime suspect
in the disappearance of Laura Simonson. Remember, he willingly gave up some DNA a while back. Well, now cops are eager to try to match that to the DNA found on the ropes. The DNA sample that the agents got from Sellich was a perfect match. Right there is a slam dunk. We had Sellich involved with Laura Simonson's step.
I met with all the detectives. I explained that she found Stephen Sellich's DNA inside the rope and you could have heard a pin drop. I was elated. Everybody was elated. Now Wisconsin investigators reach out to Detective Travis Riggett of the Rochester, Minnesota PD. Remember, the micro tell is the place in Rochester, where Laura is believed to have had
that encounter with Stephen Sellich. Stephen Sellich was seen on camera checking out of the micro tell where him and Laura had checked into the day before. We did believe that Laura was probably in one of them suitcases that were pushed out of that lobby. That led to doing a search warrant there. Knowing that the whole of the crime scene was when we arrived here and the information we had coming into this investigation, we were just hoping to find some sort of forensic evidence that may have been left behind. Forensics teams come through there and just swap their own looking for
DNA samples. At some point we did get a return that the yes there was DNA evidence there from Laura. I told everyone that we were now going to move forward the next step in the investigation of actually confronting Stephen. You got to strategize because this isn't just any suspect. This is a former law enforcement officer. Absolutely. You know what we're going to ask him? Investigators want to
question Sellich about what happened to Laura but then out of the blue he says something that takes them by surprise. She was like 16 or 16 and a half years old. As he was going on I didn't know who he was talking about. We had no idea who our second victim was. Square note that in hospitality efficiency is everything. That's why the system lets you take payments, track sales, handle inventory,
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seen carrying large paper bags back and forth between the apartment complex and this Walworth County crime scene unit. Zellich's apartment was three steps short of squalor. A far cry from that meticulous clean freak described by his ex girlfriend. I mean looking at the police video, the toilet and the bathtub alone look like they hadn't been cleaned in maybe years. We took out two large suitcases that were full of BDSM equipment, collars and handcuffs and rope. Things that we took as evidence. When they were searching
as apartment kicking the door and Zellich just left for work like an hour earlier. DCI agent Gil Hernandez and I went to Johnson Controls to meet with Stephen Zellich. Steve agreed to talk with us. We get into the back seat of the squad car and he said that although he wasn't a police officer anymore he held his right hand up in a fist and bumped his chest. He said in my heart I feel like I'm still one of you. We drove from Johnson Controls down to DCI's office on
Wisconsin Street in Milwaukee. He was wearing this security guard uniform that looked very similar to a law enforcement officer's uniform. Essentially he had everything except for a firearm. I decided not to remove anything from his belt because I didn't want him to feel like he wasn't one of us anymore. We talked to him for several hours. At first it was kind of nerve-wracking because you don't know
how it's going to go. Carrie Gibson was really good with psychology. She has that in her background so she was very helpful in trying to how do you talk to a person like this. The hope is to get a full confession from him right. He sits back in his chair and he looks at his nails and he cleans his nails like this and listens to what the detectives have to say. I don't think it's
going to be as interesting as a paper. And I was just taken back by just how incredibly calm he was and that he was not at all intimidated by that setting. So what was your ridiculous name or call name on Call me? Mr. handcuffs. Now was a play. I mean he was a play often probably the old police profession.
So of course you're asking about the bodies in the suitcases. Correct. Did he deny responsibility No, not at all. When we interviewed Zellich we had no idea who our second victim was. We only knew the identity over a Simonson. But then without any prompting at all Zellich starts talking about
that unknown victim. Oh, that was huge. Again, we didn't know who she was. And so we just let him continue to talk and talk and you don't want to interrupt him. She contacted me and you know, you know, coming out here she was from West Coast.
Let me think the moment. He doesn't give you many more details. So how do you figure out exactly what Jenny was? So in the other room we had FBI agents. Kerry Gibson was there and then she started networking with her computer system. Do you have any passwords or anything yourself? It should be.
Ultimately he agreed to show us his phone where he had her screenshot from her Call me profile that said that she was from Cottage Grove, Oregon. So then we call Cottage Grove, Oregon police and we ask if they can run Jenny Gammes in their system. I called the police department in Oregon and I had asked can you please send me a copy of her driver's license picture. I showed that picture to Steven and he said that that was Jenny. What was it like to finally have the identity of both of these victims?
It was relieving. Very relieving. Are we arrested for hiding the corpses on the side of the road? For investigators that's one huge mystery solved. But now the question is who exactly is Jenny Gammes?
And how did she become entangled with Mr. Handguffs? I think maybe she thought that Steven Zowich actually cared about her and loved her. Oak Ridge, Oregon is a small town. Everybody knows everybody.
People don't walk their houses here. There's one stoplight. There's not much to do at one high school and one elementary school. Jenny Gammes is my sister. Yes, she was my foster sister but I mean we were like siblings. Jenny had a very difficult childhood and a very rough home life which eventually
put her in the foster care system. My relationship to Jenny is I'm her sister. We were in the same foster home together but we never said foster sister. The three of us were in Sepulchol. The three of us were the three of me goes. Jenny was very funny. She was very kind.
She had it in the biggest heart. She cared about everybody. Jenny was a very genuine soul. She was very giving, very trusting. Almost too trusting. But underneath Jenny's bright and cheerful exterior
was someone struggling to cope with past trauma. Growing up she had some minor brushes with a law and had given birth at a young age. Jenny had been exposed to trauma, had lost custody of her child and found herself in the BDSM community as probably a way to cope with some of that and define again a place for her identity. So I think it was very shocking when we eventually discovered that she had a very you know big secret life. Stephen Zellich first interacted with Jenny when she was 16 years old and he interacted with her on the BDSM webpage at Callermi.com. They ceased contact for several
years. She reaches back out to him when she turns 18. I think maybe she thought that Stephen Zellich actually cared about her and loved her. He had asked Jenny to get rid of all of her belongings to play this what I would call a disappear game where it's her purposely getting rid of different belongings and changing her life. Zellich told her that he would take care of her for the rest of her life. So he made arrangements to fly her from Oregon to Milwaukee. If Jenny would have told
one of us I'm gonna go meet some guy in another state that I've never liked that would we never happen. We would have never happened. We would have both of us would have found a way to shut that down. When police officers searched Stephen Zellich's home one of the pieces of luggage had an identification tag on it and the phone number led them to Bradley Tenner. He'd been friends with Jenny Ganes. He was present when she was packing for her trip. And we were speaking with Mr Bradley Tenner.
When was a last time you saw her? Probably that August when she flew out that morning I drove her to the airport. You're also pointing to a suitcase on a photograph on your personal computer you're showing me that is a female with this same suitcase. Who do you know that female in the picture you're showing me to be? Jenny did that point. It seemed like she was trying to cut everything away. You
know she's gonna laugh and she suddenly seemed a little bit different. She traveled from College of Oregon to Kenosha, Wisconsin August 26th of 2012 but he doesn't take her to his apartment. He takes her to a motel that is in Kenosha after picking her up from the airport. Zellich knew in the back of his mind he was not bringing her home. Now how is he gonna deal with that problem? So Stephen
Zellich is describing a pretty horrific scene inside that motel room and he's talking about this B.D.S.M. encounter he's having with Jenny when he starts to strangle her with a rope. Basically I had to rope her on her neck and pull the hard nut a lot enough without releasing it. Okay and resulting in her back. He says it was an accident. You know this is an accident I got caught
up in the moment. It was you know it was so enjoyable to me. But Zellich is deadly narrative. He isn't over. In his flat emotionless voice he goes on to reveal something even the seasoned detectives cannot begin to imagine. Oh that's the moment I have to decide.
In a steady procession investigators appear from an apartment building your 80th and Lincoln in West Alice. I was in West Alice and we were doing the search warrant and I saw helicopter flying over and through his cameras everywhere. At a certain point when I was standing right over there they bring out this bullseye kitchen refrigerator. You figured that was somehow critical to the investigation and what happened here. It was Zellich himself who explains the significance of that refrigerator. Investigators bring him into a more comfortable interview room
to keep him talking. Now remember he's already admitted to strangling Jenny to death. Oh that's the moment of truth. That's the moment I have to decide. That's either I can either call him a one or I need to do what I did. I put her in one of the suitcases. I brought in one of his friend
sex all the luggage including the pink luggage which had her in it now and rolled it off to my car. He proceeds to drive to his residence in West Alice Wisconsin. When he gets there he takes Jenny in all of his suitcases right out of the car and brings him into his apartment. She comes in the pink suitcases comes in the house. I take her out. She was put in there for sure.
Really my thinking I think was to buy time figure out what I'm going to do. So that is where she stayed for quite a while and I can't use the refrigerator or something. A lot of festival mood or eating at work or whatever. It respects this ridiculous but that's exactly what happened. I've already said it was that cold refrigerator that explains why Jenny's body was in a state of mummification. She was almost mummified and had mold on her body. What was very clear to us is
that hands down the only time you ever have mold on a body is if the body is kept in a refrigerator not a freezer. I just tell you how sick he was that he puts her in his refrigerator and he holds it for months. In fact, Zellich kept Jenny's body in his refrigerator from August of 2012 all the way until November of 2013. That's when he had that encounter with Laura Simonson in that hotel in Rochester, Minnesota. And if you can believe it, Zellich says the exact same thing happened again.
That was the first incident after Jenny was at the girl Laura. What does he tell you about Laura's death at that point? Essentially the same thing that he told us about Jenny. He took a rope wrapped around her neck. He again pulled on it too hard too long and then she died. He didn't do anything to
help save her life. Intensity and duration went too long. Okay. And at some point, it passed the point of the person, you know, it cut off breathing too long. Zellich told us that he put her suitcase with her body in the luggage cart and then he pushed it from the hotel room right out to his car.
We were able to see that. Obviously in the video that we recovered from the hotel. Once he kills Laura, now it's colder so he puts her in the trunk. It ever brings her into the apartment and at some point he takes Jenny's body out of the refrigerator and puts her in the trunk of his car along with Laura. He would think that if somebody kills somebody, they're going to dispose of the body right away. Zellich's sick mind. Those are his possessions. He owned them. Can you imagine all the
moments or long? How on the work? A clover? Where the holles... It made his hand was lay out and he was losing it. It was in the trunk through the winter. Do
the spring ultimately was getting warm up and can't keep both because of all the cameras. By June, it's warm. He had those bodies in the trunk of his car and an employees at Johnson Controls, who went up his co-workers, said something about his car's stinking. I'm in the security uniform, so that's why he mentions it to me. What he said to me is that I wonder why they're there.
Well, he'll be here, but he'll be here for me too. He then becomes panicked is what he says, and ultimately leaves work, starts driving around, trying to figure out what he's going to do, didn't know where he was going to put them, what he was going to do, didn't know what to do, drove until it was dark out. You know where you are? No, I have no idea this area whatsoever. I'm just really looking for, you know, a co-op of dark place, something, obviously, freewaying, ultimately where they were left, and it's just dark and quiet, really good idea where I was to both those pieces and put on the side of the roof.
You would think that as a former cop, Stephen Zellitz would be meticulous about covering his tracks, but he wasn't. Yeah, he could have done things better, but I'm glad that he didn't, because eventually all these things, when they add up, helped us greatly with solving who killed these people. Zellitz has been saying all along that these two deaths were accidental. Now, he faces confrontation by a room full of suspicious investigators who want to prove both women were murdered. I don't buy the Vora was killed by accident.
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Steven Zellich has admitted to strangling both Jenny and Laura to death, keeping Jenny in a refrigerator for months, and then putting both bodies in suitcases and abandoning them by the side of a road. But he still insists that both deaths were just accidents. I've got way out of it. And obviously my fault, and I'm going to be a pressure. He says it was an accident.
What did you make of that? Minimization. When people do bad things, a lot of times they don't want to take full responsibility for them, so it's easier for them to say softer words to what they did. Now a team of investigators from Minnesota, Wisconsin and the FBI are going to confront Zellich once again and try to get him to admit this was no accident. These were murders.
My name is Detective Jeff Rocknambel, and I'm meeting with Steve Selok, the soft interviewer, and the sheriff's office. We learned all the details in the prior interview of the day before, and transitioned into more interrogation. I'm trying to get him to admit what he did. He'd say the word death, but he never said that he killed them. During the interview, I was able to talk about you had the ultimate power control over their life and then making that final decision, whether they lived or died.
This is the perfect crime, because from a law enforcement perspective, if I go to do a missing person investigation, first I'm going to check their bank account. He was directing her to close out every aspect of her life and make it look like it was consensual. Close all your bank accounts, get ready your vehicle, donate all your belongings. All of this would look like Laura herself had orchestrated this on her own. That whole work is going to be so me, can't take credit by myself, that's a very common thing in the USM.
The day that Laura disappeared, Zellich had methodically planned everything, telling Laura where and when to meet him in person. Laura parked her van and then left it in her mother's driveway, where she exited her van, walked a couple blocks down the elementary school and was picked up. Looking through these emails between Laura and Mr. Handcuffs, they were all very haunting. One of these emails that was sent to Mr. Handcuffs, she says in the middle of the message,
I'll be dead whether it's with you alive as your slave or dead murdered by you. Do you think she had a premonition? I think she had the idea that it might happen. When you talk about the inherent risk of fear, what does that mean? It's just been a nature of constricting, it's potentially dangerous.
You seem potentially deathly? Well it certainly can be, yes. You did not buy that. No, I felt that there was more to this in the fact that we have two victims that were killed almost in identical ways. How does it happen twice?
When you put them up to each other, they're just almost identical. I look at the two, obviously, they're very similar. There's a pattern here where you have young women that are traumatized and looking for some type of security through a dominant partner. And then you have a predator that's praying upon that in their mirror. What he does with Jenny, he does with Laura.
Are you trying to recreate that experience, that feeling from the first one to the second one? I can't say consciously that I consciously said to myself, I'm going to recreate. And I'd like this so much that I'm going to recreate it exactly. I was done listening to him. He was one of the guys he had killed this girl.
And I wanted him to admit that. I f***ed up once, she and my auntie. I still have a dead body and I have a refrigerator. I f***ed up again. You have to know that what I'm doing is most likely going to kill her.
It's dangerous and risky. I wouldn't say most likely going to kill her. He makes no attempt to help her in any way. He puts her in a suitcase the same way that she died. And that's where I kind of turned it on him saying, you know what you're doing?
I told by that Laura was killed by accident. You know who came into this? There's no more reason there. That's not my intent. I will not go where Travis is referring.
Travis is referring something different. What am I referring? That is just an intentional, intentional homicide. And that is inaccurate. He kept saying, I don't like Travis is insinuating.
That's what am I insinuating. And he still wouldn't say that I murdered her. It was the callousness of Zellich during his interviews that took zero responsibility for anything. Zellich is ultimately charged with multiple counts of murder and hiding a corpse. He pleads, not guilty to all counts.
And as prosecutors gear up for trial, Zellich delivers an 11th hour twist that takes everyone by surprise. We were convinced that we had what we needed, but then it all changed. Four months, Stephen Zellich was awaiting trial in Kenosha County for the 2012 murder of 19-year-old Jenny Gammes. I did have a concern that is there going to be one jury member or two jury members that would kind of, you know, maybe give them the benefit of the doubt? This case was just about the only thing I was thinking about for weeks.
And we were geared up. The state of Wisconsin had a compelling criminal case against Stephen Zellich for the murder of Jenny Gammes. But then it all changed. The weekend before the trial, Stephen Zellich decided he wasn't interested in a jury trial. He was interested in entering a plea.
He must have thought that was his only shot of everything daylight again. Stephen Zellich was originally charged with first degree intentional homicide, and he led guilty to first degree reckless homicide. Very sorry that this occurred. I'm very sorry Jenny was the victim, and I wasn't able to protect her the way I was supposed to. The judge sentenced Zellich to 35 years in prison and 10 years extended supervision.
In Minnesota, Stephen Zellich pleaded guilty to the second degree murder of Laura Simonson, and he was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Later, he got 10 more years in prison in Walworth County for two counts of hiding a corpse. Now, add it all up. Stephen Zellich will die behind bars. I was relieved. It's a devastating case, devastating thing that happened to Laura and her family, and I saw it as a closure.
At the end of the day, I'm glad that he pled guilty and was held accountable for his actions, so that way the victim's families could start to heal. I think he's pretty lucky to still be alive in prison. I felt relieved that they got another monster off the street. I can't hurt anybody else for the rest of his life. Despite the convictions, investigators say they still have work to do. They say they need to determine if there might be other victims of Stephen Zellich somewhere out there.
Now that we had opened Pandora's box, essentially, how many more victims were we going to find? I know you're saying that there are no more victims, but I'm scared that they might be something out there. There's no future victims. There's no additional victims. Not zero.
In the search warrant of his residence, we located 35 millimeter pictures with different women that were in BDSM sessions. These are our pictures? These are my pictures. These are our photographs I took. How many different people are these pictures? I've got time that we could search for the load.
We started trying to identify who these women were, trying to see if we can develop anything further as far as other women he may have killed. That didn't turn up anything for us at the time. I don't know that he killed anybody previously to these two, but I think if left on Jack T. would have continued to do what he was doing. We had information that he was immediately upon dropping off these two bodies, making plans through email to try and meet another woman, where he starts up with the same pitch.
You're going to come and live with me and be my slave. So I do believe that if Stephen Zellich was not arrested, he was. That there would have been further victims. It's actually hard to fathom the whole thing. All the things lined up. I'm just thankful that that happened. The way it did.
Because it easily could have been a whole other year before we found the suitcases. Anytime you lose somebody, that's so close to your sister. Your life's never going to be the same. It's never going to be the whole. There's always going to be that puzzle where there's always that one missing piece.
So I figured we could go to Greenwater's Park. Just like in remembrance of Jenny. We're at least some flowers in the water. We have so many memories with her having to do with water. In water, the pool always swimming.
It's always swimming somewhere. Jenny was a very genuine soul. I don't think she had a mean bone in her body. She was just a beautiful soul. Laura was a good friend. She was outgoing. She was full of life.
She's a funny person. She's full of humor. And she could make your day a better day if you had had a conversation with her. And her smile is just one that one could never forget. Laura was a loving mother. She was a great aunt, a great sister, a great daughter. And the fact that this happened is just horrible and heartbreaking.
Laura taught me a lot of patience. And a lot of kind of like where I ended up hanging from her. Laura, that a day goes by and I think about her. And I miss her every day. And I know they're all looking down on us.
Trying to make sure we're safe. Well, we know that family was the center of Laura Simon's life. Her legacy lives on in her five children and now four grandchildren. And David, there's an update on Jenny Gammiss' family. Her son recently graduated from high school and now has a thriving career in the military.
That's our program for tonight. Thanks so much for watching. I'm Jeffrey Roberts. And I'm David Newer from all of us here at 2020 and ABC News. Good day.
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