Girl Discovers Her Grandpa Is A Wanted Killer | Forensic Files

Ivan, step out here. Got a warrant for arrest. Yeah. Uh, so it's uh for murder charges.
This is 60-year-old Gowen. She is briefly seen here leaving this apartment complex with a briefcase.
This is the last time she would ever be seen alive. 911 emergency. So, we're driving down the road to go
shooting and there is a dead body on the side of the road. Elen's body would be found 13 days after
the last time she was seen on CCTV. Police believe she was entangled in a deadly love triangle prior to her
murder. But over the course of the next several months, this cold case would turn out to be far more complicated
[music] and even more disturbing than they could have ever imagined. Me and her broke up. She moved in with a
guy and he tried to mess with her. And all I know was his first name was Sam. They said we told her it was a bad
deal with him cuz he's telling me if the cops get behind him, he's going to run into
166 advice. It's their grandfather in the car and he called him saying that he's possibly going to try to crash the
car. On February 13th, 2023, Elene Gowen was seen leaving her longtime job at Sugar's
Diner. She had just told her daughter over a text message that she was on her way to pick up some things from her
friend Mike, who she had recently moved in with after breaking up with her ex-boyfriend Sam Bremer only a week
earlier. Strangely, she would specify that her coworker at Sugar's Diner would be the one to drive her there. However,
as Elen left her workplace, no coworker would show up. instead. Strangely, her ex-boyfriend Sam would be the one to
pick her up. Hours would go by, but Elene would never show back up to Sugars. The owner of the restaurant,
Megan, would begin worrying as to where Elene could have gone and started frantically sending her messages asking
for her whereabouts. But oddly, she would receive a single message back saying, "Leave me alone. I'm done.
This was very strange coming from Elene as she almost never texted, usually resorting to phone calls and was often
extremely responsible. Something strange was going on. The day would go by and Elene would
never be seen. The following day, Elen's daughter would file a missing person's report for Elene to the Council of
Bluffs Police Department and an investigation began. Detectives would begin collecting CCTV footage from
everywhere in the town to try and fully document where Elene went the day of her
disappearance. But this would be quite the lengthy process. So without anything to go by, police would start asking her
family and friends. Apparently, after leaving her ex-boyfriend Sam Bremer a week earlier,
she had stayed with her new friend Mike Brockman, a man her family claimed had likely assaulted her the night before
she disappeared. This shined a suspicious light on both of the men she was involved with. So, police would
bring in both Sam and Mike for interrogation and see if they could find any leads. Mike was a friend of Alen's
who met her at Sugars and became very close over time. It was still unclear to officers what happened to Alene. At this
point, for all they know, she could have just gone MIA and taken a break from her
stressful life. However, if anyone would have the clues as to where she went, it
would be Mike. So basically um I mean as you know I talked to you on Monday or Wednesday I guess was the first day I
talked to you. I'd received information from some of the family that you and Eileen were possibly in a relationship
or kind of sorish. She may have lived with you for a few days or a week or so. But if you could just kind of go before
Monday, just kind of tell us how you guys know each other, how she ended up out there in your place, that kind of
thing, and then we'll kind of move from there. She was a wafers at Sugars and I knew
her from in there and I talked to her before and stuff like that. Mhm. And then she told me, [snorts]
I don't know, it was like on a Tuesday or Wednesday [music] night that she got kicked out and she needed a place to
stay. That's the way you would stay at my place for a couple days. I think it was Friday.
She called me and she said, "I won't be coming back." She says, "We're getting back together." Her and her boyfriend.
Mhm. And all I know is his first name, Sam. I don't know anything else about him.
Okay. And so I didn't see her. And then she called me crying on that Saturday night.
And she says, "Oh, we got into can I come out for a date?" I said, "You can come back out, but I want you got to be
gone Monday because I can't have this. I'm single. I don't want anything like this going on." Two initial thoughts can
be made upon hearing Mike's story. On one hand, it seems like Sam was back together with Elen, so Sam would be a
much stronger person of interest, as he'd likely been the last person to see her. On the other hand, Mike may have
had a deep connection with Elene, meaning if he learned she got back with her ex-boyfriend just days after moving
in with him, he could have played a sinister role in her disappearance. But detectives plan to let Mike tell his
side of the story before confronting him about the suspicious relationship. So, I took her to work Monday morning,
then a week ago, yesterday. dropped her off at 5:00 a.m. and she was supposed to get off at I
don't know, she said 7 or 8. Her daughter was going to pick her up. She's going to go to her mom's and get her
safe and take to her daughters and then she was supposed to come back to work at
2:00 in the afternoon. Well, then I get a phone call from the bar saying, "Hey, have you seen
her?" And I said, "I haven't seen her. I haven't talked to her. Nothing." Well, she didn't show up for work. She didn't
show up. I said, "I haven't heard anything." And I tried to contact her and couldn't get a hold of her. So, I
sent her a text message and I says, "All your stuff that's bagged up is going to
be second behind the bar. You got to get it. I want it out of here. I don't want
to mess with any more of this." And I never since 5:00 that Monday morning, I'd never had any contact with
her phone, text, or anything. And then I didn't know anything till right before you called me that she'd come up
missing. Okay. Mike would go on to claim that he never had any sexual relationship with Helen
and that she stayed in a completely different room to him while living in his house. However, detectives know more
about Mike than he thinks, and with some information Elen's close friends shared
with them, they don't believe he and Alene were just friends. Did you Has anybody said anything to you
that uh Eileene was saying anything about you? Did have you heard anything about her making any statements about
you and your uh behavior while she lived or was staying with you out there? No. So, did you you haven't heard that she
may have made a statement that you possibly assaulted her while she was up there?
No. Okay. Um, that statement was made to a couple people that um you uh supposedly laid
down in on her bed with her um and spooned her from behind. Is that No. Can you tell me is that any of that
accurate? Any of those statements? I would not do that because like I said, she was a loose cannon and she's scared.
I mean, I guess here here's the deal. You're a grown man. She's a grown woman. You know, if there was any type of
whatever contact between you that was consensual, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.
I mean, she was crying that first night, she'd come out and hide up here. Okay. But
there was no relationship, no asking for it or anything. This information is well concerning
considering it would be unlike Elaine to make up blatant lies of this magnitude.
However, with little to no evidence other than a few rumors coming from her friends, police can't harp over these
allegations and decide to wrap Mike's questioning up. At this point, Mike is still considered to have potential
involvement in Elen's disappearance. But with a lack of leads, they direct their
attention to the only other potential suspect, Elen's ex-boyfriend, Sam Bremer. You already met Detective Dyer.
You get first names, but yeah, this is Detective Dyer. I'm the sergeant you talked to on the phone. My
name's Ted Roberts. I'm a sergeant. You know, you got on the phone with you. I was the last person I've seen her
alive. Well, I didn't say that. Yeah, I didn't say that. I I sure did. Yes, you sure did.
I said you were the last person that saw her before she went missing. Sam wasted no time adding more suspicion
onto his name. The phone recording shows that the detective never mentioned Sam being the last to see Elen alive. Elen
has been missing for less than 48 hours at this point, so the fact that he's already alluding to the idea that she's
dead is awfully disturbing. But this would only mark the beginning of Sam's unsettling choice of words during the
interview. I was going to arrest you so I can have a lawyer. [laughter] No. Yeah, that's a I think you misheard
me there. I got it recorded. I'll have to go back and listen to it. But uh but yeah, I'm pretty sure that's not what I
said. But uh I mean basically we got a you know a crazy deal here where you know Eileen is evidently her family and
everything else she's never done this kind of thing before. She's never just you know took off and gone. They all
know she what she does is she comes to me and she moves him she's moved him with me four
or five times. But usually when she moves him with me she stays away from home. Yeah. Cuz they said they talk every day.
the daughter and her talking. If they need something, they need a phone or whatever. She's Yeah. If they need
something, then they'll get hold of her. Okay. Just like when she got arrested for a
DWI, she went to jail. They finally d her off. What did they do? They took her and dropped her off at the bar.
Okay. And she was homeless. Okay. Let's If you could, I just need to know what went on Monday morning. What
happened Monday morning with you? She texted me. Okay. and wanted to know if I would come
and get her because one of her friends supposedly was supposed to come and get her and supposedly ran out of gas. So,
did she tell you the friend's name or Mhm. Okay. So, I got there and I said, "I'll be
there in a minute." She goes, "Don't come inside. I don't want Megan to know that we're back or you're with me." I
said, "Okay." And uh I pulled up. She gets in the truck. [snorts] We take off, run up to this supposedly
the one that tried to do [snorts] something with her and uh dropped her off there.
Then I left and then wasn't too long after that is when she called me. I think she was at
my house knocking. See, you can't get in my apartment building unless you have a
key to get in. But I think she was knocking on my window. I didn't look. I didn't care. I
just wanted to lay down, take a nap. That's when she texted me wanting to know if I could talk to Emmy about
letting her move back in because this guy uh Okay. Now, if that's true when that night,
the night before Monday. The night before Monday. Yeah. Okay. And I don't know if that was true or
not. I don't know if she was just saying that to get me to take her back or what.
I don't know. Okay. This statement adds more weight to Alen's allegations towards Mike. If Mike
did do these things to Alene, then moving out and staying with Sam would be completely logical. On top of his
statement, what Sam is about to reveal to detectives will make the allegations much harder to dismiss and place all the
suspicion back on Mike. And she says, "Uh, please talk to Emmy. See if I can come back home. He me last
night. Sam, I love you. I promise I'll quit drinking. Please give me another chance." And she
says, "I'm hanging out with her." And then this was it. at 122. What does it say?
And it says, "Here, I'm hanging out with a friend. I will get a hold of you later. I'm not going to work. Uh, I'm
not back at back at 2, right? I think 2 or 3." Yeah. Okay. I can't remember. Okay.
And then, uh, you go to work, go back there, they treat me like [ __ ] and then she
says, "You've seen it." They have. I mean, but I can't say nothing. Mhm. And then uh I said, "Why are you telling
me why didn't you tell me this earlier when I was talking to you? You're drunk. You're drunk. Ain't be honest. That's
why I can't do this no more. Please do not call me no more. Text me no more. All of your friends with you at work."
And that's where she got pissed off. [snorts] Mhm. Said you. Based on these texts, it
really seems like Alen's disappearance was just a way for her to take a break from her traumatic life. If this
allegations are true, and her ex-boyfriend refused to give her a place to stay, well, then running away for the
time being is completely reasonable. Sam's story seems solid so far, but there's one tiny detail that just
doesn't quite add up, and this detective has just picked up on it. But you said you dropped her off in front of Mike's
house. Yeah. And you watched her walk into the All she did is she got out and she
walked in front of the truck and she walked in front of the truck. I wouldn't have turned around and that's when I
left. Okay. So you didn't see her get into the house, anything like that? Mhm. So if she had walked away from there,
I mean that's quite a ways away from your apartment complex. I wonder how she would have gotten to you.
I told you it's her friend was supposed to come and pick her up. Sam claims the day of Elen's
disappearance, he drove her from her workplace at Sugar's Diner over to Mike's house to get her belongings.
After that, he drove off, assuming she was to be picked up by one of her friends. Fortunately, police can easily
cross reference these claims using surveillance footage. At [music] this point, the majority of the CCTV camera
footage has been obtained from the day of Alen's disappearance, so detectives quickly wrapped up Sam's interview so
that they could further investigate his claims. Additionally, the detective would apologize for assuming Sam's
earlier word choice was suspicious. After nearly 48 hours of compiling the surveillance footage from around the
town, officers managed to put together a complete timeline of Sam and Alen's car
ride. At 8:30 a.m. on February 13th, Elene would patiently wait at her work, Sugars, for Sam to pick her up. Elaine
needed a ride to go and purchase a new apartment since Mike had kicked her out. She would tell her boss and daughter
that a friend was picking her up because she didn't want anyone to know her and Sam were back together. Elen and Sam
would first drive to her mother's apartment, Dudley Courts. She would be seen carrying a suitcase-like object out
from her mother's apartment, then leaving with it. This would turn out to be a safe containing $1,200,
which she had planned to use as a down payment for an apartment. At 9:30 a.m., they would drive directly to the
Sherwood apartment complex to purchase the apartment. However, the complex happened to be closed, so they were
unable to purchase anything. This is where the timeline starts to deter from Sam's claims in the interrogation room.
From 9:45 to 10:30 a.m., Sam's car can be seen driving all across town. He went in multiple circles and even made a
quick stop to Burger King at 10:30. However, he never drove Elene to Mike's house like he had claimed. In fact,
Sam's car can be seen driving in the opposite direction to Mike's house the entire morning. This is concerning, but
it would only get worse. For the next 2 hours, Sam's truck goes off the grid. It's completely unknown
where he went, and no CCTV [clears throat] cameras had managed to capture his location. Luckily, [music]
at 1:00 p.m., his truck would appear back on the same streets he circled on for hours that morning, and eventually
he would make his way back to his own home at the Cottonwood apartment complex. But things were different in
all the recordings past 100 p.m. Elaine was no longer with Sam. [music] Cameras had clearly captured that Sam
was nowhere near Mike's house the entire day, so why would he feel the need to lie about where he dropped Alen off?
This footage paints Sam out to look awfully suspicious. And while both Sam and Mike have some
strong dirt to their name, Sam's clear lies convince officers to bring him back to the station the very next day. This
time to confront him on his false alibis. Unbeknownst to detectives, this very interview would spark a month's
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back to Sam Bremer, who had just been brought back to the interrogation room to explain the inconsistencies in his
alibi. the other day when we were in here, you told me that you got a phone call from her and you went to pick her
up from her. So, if you can do me a favor and just kind of go through that timeline again.
We know uh that it was somewhere right around 8:30. So, if you can just kind of go through that timeline again as far as
I'm not too sure on the time. Okay. But anyway, she text me that [music] morning
and I didn't text her back. I called her and she wouldn't know if I would come and get her because some girl was
supposed to pick her up and she ran out of gas. So I went and picked her up and she got in a truck. I left and
she wanted to talk to me about helping her get in the apartment because she lived in the same apartment
building and I did but she didn't pay her rent so she got kicked out. Mhm. So but she didn't want to go home right
away. So me and her just went right down Broadway and then she wanted to stop at
her mom's house. I stopped at her mom's house and she was in there for I don't know five or 10 minutes. She come out
there, got back in and then was going back down Broadway just talking some more and she promised me she wanted me
to drop her her back off at his house but she made me made a promise I wouldn't do nothing to him when I told
her I promise. Uh, as a matter of fact, when I get there and you just get out, you walk in front of truck, I'll go turn
around and I'll leave. And she says, "Okay." Okay. So, you went up there, you dropped
her off. Then what'd you do? As soon as I I pulled up and she didn't want to go in the driveway in case he
was there. Okay. And uh she got out of the truck. When she got out of the truck, she walked in
front of her truck. And that's when I went straight, turned around, and came back.
Okay. And I straight home. So, you went back down to the highway, went back down to Kville.
You left her there, huh? You left her her there or you No, she got a truck. She didn't want to
come in. She a second ago. You said she went in, grabbed clothes, came back out to your
truck, and you guys left again. [snorts] No, no, no, no, no. That was it. Uh her
mom her mom's house. Clearly Sam is lying about where he was the day of Alen's disappearance. The
detectives know it, and it seems like Sam is starting to realize he won't be able to keep up his fake story for much
longer. Even after being told that cameras show him nowhere near Mike's house the entire
day, Sam insists on his story that he did in fact drop Elene off at Mike's house. With this, the detectives would
take a brief break from the room to watch the footage over again, just to triple check that Sam is 100% lying. And
to nobody's surprise, the footage showed Sam on the opposite side of town during
the time he claims to have been at Mike's. So, when the detectives return to the interview room, they'll use this
information to try and get Sam to own up to his lies. We got a small little snap here. I need
we need to talk to you about Okay. So, you said after you dropped her off out there off of Highway 191 at that
[snorts] residence, you headed back to your apartment. We checked some of our cameras. Okay. And
we have a camera at 36th and Broadway. And we have your truck going westbound at 9:28 a.m. going to Omaha. Okay. You
passed 36 and Broadway heading west. Uh, so you didn't go home. You went over to
Omaha, it looks like. Do you remember what you did or you I don't remember going home.
Where'd [snorts] you go? I told you I went straight home. I don't remember going home.
Well, camera doesn't lie. It's your truck and it's your license plate number. Right. Okay. [clears throat] at at 36
the Broadway at 9:28 a.m. uh going west toward 480 and then 1 hour later you're coming back
from Omaha and you're going eastbound back coming back into Council Plaz 1 hour later
where you go home. Sam is stuck at this point. No matter what information detectives reveal, he
will not admit to anything. At this point in the interview, all Sam has left to simply reject everything the
detectives tell him. They know Sam isn't telling the truth. But why he's not telling the truth is what remains to be
seen. However, with Sam seemingly uncooperative, all detectives can do is end the interview and let Sam back onto
the streets until more concrete evidence can prove he had more to do with Alen's
disappearance than he claims. But fortunately, letting Sam back onto the streets would lead them to the exact
evidence that they were looking for. While law enforcement was working away at this case, another investigative
group would be working in the dark. Elen's family. Everyone held hope that Alene was still alive. But with time
passing, her family was demanding answers. Sam and Alen had a long history of arguments, physical assault, and much
more that the family was well aware of. They knew Sam had more information about
Elen's whereabouts than he had told them. So, to figure this out for themselves,
Elen's son, Jack, would show up to Sam's door that same night, and he would pound
on the door, and upon opening, Jack would ask the simple question, "What the hell did you do to my mom?" In Jack's
words, Sam stared at him as if he had seen a ghost and then shut the door in his face. Sam panicked. Whatever he did
to Alen, people were starting to catch on. Later that night, Sam would talk to his
granddaughter, Emily, and would claim that he was going to harm himself so that he could go visit her deceased
grandmother. This shocked Emily as in her eyes, Elene was still alive. Quickly, she would call 911 to report
everything Sam had just told her. And shortly thereafter, police would locate a drunken Sam at his local bar.
Hi, sir. How are you? Pretty good. Is this your vehicle? Yes. Hey, can I talk to you real quick?
Yeah. Do you have any weapons or anything on here? No. Okay. Hey, um, we were called to check your
welfare. Okay. I think you talked to your granddaughter earlier and she was concerned about you. Some of the
statements that you made to her. I'm here for you, man. Tell me what's going on. Why? Why? Why you Why are you
feeling the way you're feeling? My [clears throat] girlfriend, it was like a week ago.
Me and her broke up and she moved in with a guy and apparently he supposedly he raped
her. What's his name? Uh, only thing I know, he goes by Mike. Me and her broke up. She didn't have a
place to go. She moved in with him. She told me Friday he tried to mess with her.
So I called my son and see if she can move back in because he kicked us out. So I called my son and see if she can
move back in with her. Are you clear? And then uh I went to his house, got her stuff, took
her to my son's and then the next morning we went to work and then she went right back to him. So I don't know.
So what comments did you make to your granddaughter that would would be concerning this evening? I just told her
I'm going to go out and have a couple drinks and that I love her. That's it. Okay. Did you mention something about
seeing grandma tonight? What's that? Did you mention something about seeing grandma tonight?
No. Huh? I would like for you to talk to somebody tonight. I would like for you to talk to
a medical professional. Okay. I don't want to have to drag you up to the hospital, but I most certainly will. I
think based off of what the granddaughter has told us tonight and kind of the or she call you.
Yeah. Oh [ __ ] No. Yeah. So, she was she was crying when we went and talked to her. I mean, that's she's
Yes. She was very emotional. Her best friend and aunt are currently at the apartment because of what you
said. Wow. Based off of what they have told me tonight, I'm going to give you one of
two options. You can go up willingly and talk to a medical professional tonight.
Okay. Or I can take you up there and you'll stay there for 72 hours. Okay. I can't have my granddaughter come get
me. No. based off of what you've told us and what's going on in your life right now.
Yeah. You need to talk to somebody. I don't think that we will be doing our due diligence to do our job to make sure
that you're not going to hurt yourself based off of what's going on in with you and your girlfriend,
right? Okay. I you you need to talk to somebody tonight. Okay. And so the best course of
action is to go up to the hospital, your choice, to go to talk to somebody about
it tonight. Sam's mental state was clearly deteriorating. Whatever happened to Alen, regardless of his involvement, was
really getting to him. Following this, Sam would be placed in a psychiatric facility for the next 2 days where he
would undergo therapy and psychiatric care. During these two days, detectives would
aim to gather more intel on the case. This time by interviewing the family of Elen and Sam. They'd bring in both
Justin Brammer, Sam's son, and Nicole Shipper, Elen's daughter, and both of them would reveal significant details
crucial to solving the case. This is Detective Zack Milner. I just want to get as much history as
you can tell me or talk to me about when it comes to your mom. What was their relationship like over there?
Not a healthy one. Okay. What do you mean by that? He didn't like her drinking. He thought he
could change her from slow get her to stop drinking. I told him that he can't cuz she won't change for a kid.
She's not going to change for a man. And he seemed that to think that he could change her. So he
kept trying with her. But there was things on his part and her part that were not healthy. They both
had jealousy issues. They both had [snorts] he has a very short temper, very short temper. And littlest things
will set him off and it's just it's like ridiculous. Um, when [snorts] they are good, they were
good. But when it was not, it was I was constantly in the middle of it because she was my mom and that's his my
boyfriend's dad. They were good when they weren't drinking, especially [snorts] when she wasn't
drinking. Um [sighs and gasps] she she'd bick her, she'd argue, they start arguing.
It just escalate. Next day they were fine. It just they go to bed angry. Mhm. Did
you ever see get physical? No, never seen a physical. He told me she grabbed he she grabbed
him by her neck a couple times, but that was about it. Okay. Why would he grab her by the neck?
She grabbed him by the neck. Oh, okay. It seemed like Sam and Alen had a rocky relationship, but it rarely escalated to
the point of violence. And if the fights did turn violent, it was Alen doing the
physical harm to Sam. The week prior to last Monday, what was going on? They were separated.
Um, she called me before she went missing telling me how she don't want to be back
get back with him because she's tired of him throwing her out for little reasons
and she's sick of not being able to be have a stable home because he just gets so mad at the smallest things and just
kicks her out. Did Emily want her to go or was it your dad wanting to go? Was it Sam? My dad.
Okay. He [snorts] take her back. He kick her back out. He bring her back. Kick her bag out. Told
you he need to stop. I mean, you guys need to separate separate ways. [snorts] Sam's family strongly suggests that
Alene was in fact the troubled one in the relationship, and Sam tried over and over to cut her out of his life. This
only perplex detectives and simply doesn't explain why Sam's been acting so strangely following Elen's
disappearance. 2 days after these interviews, Sam would be released from the psychiatric
facility. Fortunately for Sam, no new leads had come out regarding Elen's death, meaning he could finally have
some peace for the first time in the last week. Or so it would seem. Because on February 21st, the same day Sam was
released, he would go to Walmart to restock on alcohol. However, right as Sam was about to get in his truck and
leave, an offduty officer spotted him and decided to ask some questions related to a lean. Hesitantly, Sam asked
to move his truck and then he would talk to the officer. But the moment he got into his car, Sam would slam on the
pedal, nearly hitting the officer and floor his truck down the road, flying past pedestrians. The cop would jump in
his car and begin chasing Sam, who would only pick up speed as he ramped up to over 100 mph down the peaceful roads of
Rexburg, Idaho. Turning westbound on eastbound on a white line up. The chase continued for multiple
minutes, but it became clear to officers that Sam had no plans of slowing down. So, the chief officer radioed in to call
the chase off. Sam had just successfully run from the police. And while he was having the time
of his life, this chase obviously made things much, much worse for Sam. Not only was he now highly suspected of
murder, but is also wanted for evading arrest and reckless driving. A couple hours after his escape, he would simply
return back to his apartment as if nothing had ever happened. Ironically, this would actually postpone Sam's
arrest as more officers assumed he would be hiding in a more clever place and searched around the town instead of
checking the Cottonwood apartments. In fact, the entire day would go by and officers had no trace of where Sam could
have gone. But the fun would only last for a day and the pressure must have gotten to Sam
as the next morning he would turn himself in to police. Sam would be charged with eluding and reckless
driving and would be placed in the Podawati County Jail. However, Sam would only spend one night in the county jail
after being bailed out by Emily. So, by the grace of a miracle, yet again, Sam Bremer was back on the streets.
During this time, Sam would go to the bank and hand them a large stack of cash to deposit into his account. This watt
of cash would come out to be approximately $1,200, the exact amount found in a lean safe
that she had the day of her disappearance. Additionally, Sam would drive his truck over to the scrapyard.
He would ask to fully dispose of it, crushing it to pieces and even shredding it after. To make sure this got done,
Sam would meticulously watch the entire hour-long process, ensuring his car was turned to dust.
It couldn't be more obvious that Sam had something to do with Elen's disappearance. the lies to detectives,
the disturbing comments to Emily, running from the cuffs, cashing in and lean safe money, and now shredding the
only potential piece of evidence he had left. On top of all of that, detectives had looked into the claims involving
Mike Brockman, and discovered that Mike was at work all day at Omaha, Nebraska, nowhere near Sugar's Diner, where Elene
was last seen. All of that leaves Ivan Sam Bremer as the final suspect. But with no direct evidence, all law
enforcement could do is wait until new clues came their way. [music] 911. What's the address for your
emergency? Um, I don't really have an address. We're off the exit of Iowa over by a
public shooting area. What's What's going on? So, we're driving down the road to go um
shooting or whatever and there is a dead body on the side of the road. Male or female?
It's female for sure. On February 26th, Eileen's body was found underneath a bridge just miles
away from Sam's apartment. The body was unrecognizable, but the clothes matched the exact outfit Elene was wearing the
day she had disappeared. Someone had killed her. Medics would pronounce Elene dead on the scene, and she would [music]
be taken to the hospital to get an autopsy done to determine her cause of death, but her results would come back
strange. Elen had eight blunt force impacts to her head and a fractured front tooth.
While gruesome, none of these injuries were sufficient to cause her to die, so her cause of death would be ruled as
undetermined. Unfortunately for police, this meant they wouldn't be able to immediately
charge Sam with murder. However, with all the sufficient evidence they'd gathered throughout the course of the
investigation, they had enough to charge him with abuse of a corpse. Quickly, they'd receive an arrest warrant. And
for the fourth time that month, officers would arrive at Sam's apartment. This time, to finally seal his fate. Hello.
Morning. We're looking for your grandfather. Is he here? Okay, just one second. Just
go Sam, right? He goes by Sam. Okay. Is there anybody else in there? No, just him. He's sleeping.
Okay. Is he got any guns or anything like that? Okay. Well, he's got a warrant, so we
need to talk to him. Just let that officer in. I'll be right there. [snorts] Ivan.
Step out here. Show us your hand. No. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Okay. Come here. You got a warrant for arrest.
I'll let you smoke that if you just let me put it there. No. Oh, you can smoke it. All right.
All right. Get my shoes. Yeah, we'll get them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We'll get them.
arrest for. Huh? What do you want to arrest for? I'll explain it here in a minute. All right.
What the [ __ ] Okay. He'll be P County will be able to call you in a little bit. Thank you.
Sam's games had finally come to an end. Sam would eventually go to court for the
murder of Elen Gowen. Forensic pathologists would spend weeks investigating Elen's death, and
eventually they would discover zipper marks on the neck of Elen, signifying that she was strangled [music] to death,
likely by Bremer.

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On February 13th, 2023, Illene Gowan disappeared after leaving her job at Sugar's Diner. Her last text was to her boss: "Leave me alone, I'm done".

Her family was shocked, but would eventually provide police with an interesting insight: Illene had been involved with two men in the past couple of weeks, both of whom had potential motives to do the unthinkable to her.

A few days later, her body was found by the roadside - escalating the case from a missing person to a murder investigation. In the midst of this deadly love triangle, detectives were left to piece together family rumors, eerie CCTV footage, and the interrogation of a cold-blooded killer.

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Brief Summary

Elen Gowen's murder investigation reveals a tangled web of relationships and lies involving her ex-boyfriend and friend.

Key points

The Disappearance of Elene Gowen. Elene Gowen goes missing after a series of troubling events involving her ex-boyfriend and a new friend.
Suspicious Alibis. Sam's conflicting statements raise suspicion as detectives investigate Elene's disappearance.
Cameras Don't Lie. Detectives reveal footage contradicting Sam's alibi, showing he was far from the scene.
Sam's Denial. Despite evidence, Sam insists he went straight home after dropping Elen off.
Jack's Confrontation. Jack demands answers from Sam about his mother's disappearance. "What the hell did you do to my mom?"
Sam's Panic. After Jack's confrontation, Sam's mental state deteriorates as pressure mounts.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

Leave me alone. I'm done.

Elene's strange text to her coworker.

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Tension

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