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I'm Chris Hansen right now on crime watch Daily from here in New York where is Nancy Moyer her front door left open a half sipped glass of wine on the table there's no sign of the single mother of two it was just like she just vanished cops put her ex-husband to a line detector test and did they tell you early on they've eliminated you and uncover a colleague with in Obsession he was just absolutely infatuated with her but then the missing mom investigation takes a tottery turn I hear you telling me you did have sex with her Jason Mata with a case of bedroom Secrets this new lifestyle of ny's could have let her demise prct yes in the creepy clue in nany's freeer then a woman caught between her estranged husband and her grade school sweetheart when she meets a tragic end he told you he put the body in a trash can and dusted in green Creek a secret pregnancy and shocking surveillance video he did it he killed her of her last moments alive I could see it and she was scared you saw the fear I saw the fear right now Andrea iser with crime watch Daily Jason mat with crime watch Daily this I'm Elizabeth I'm here with crime watch I'm Michelle from crime watch Daily Anna Garcia from crime watch is crime watch Daily stay off my property we'll find you again we always do welcome to crime watch Daily everyone I'm Chris Hansen first up today a mother of two windes down after a long day pours herself a glass of wine turns on the TV however what happened in the next few hours is still a mystery our Jason Mata is in Washington state with the details Chris how does a mother of two simply vanish from her home this one right behind me and no one sees a thing no child should have to wonder if their mother left them her sister Nancy vanished Without a Trace leaving two young girls without a mother it's like she disappeared from the face of the earth now does a confessed killer know more than he's telling he just absolutely refused to cooperate in any way is a coworker not telling the truth hear you telling me you did have sex with her did The Single mother's surprising sex life lead to her demise I had to step back and blink twice there were sex toys in there all kinds of her family had no idea that was going on in her life on a freezing cold Friday night in T Washington an exhausted n n Moyer kicked off The Weekend by pouring herself a glass of wine the single mother of two worked full-time for Washington State's Department of ecology as an accountant and her young girls were her everything when they were real little she she would call and she they had to send her home from work CU she was crying because she didn't want to be separated since leaving her husband 2 years earlier her daughter's well-being was nany's top priority she wanted the kids to have a mother and a father both and so she was trying real hard and co-parenting seemed to be working well Nancy had the girls during the week Bill had them on weekends their main concern was taking care of the kids keeping the kids' lives as normal and as happy as can be given the circumstances with two young kids and a full-time job nany's weeks were busy but on weekends she was free to live the same single life she had a few dates here and there that I was aware of but one Friday evening there was no date planned tired Nancy planned to just chill out and after work she first dropped off a coworker then stopped by the grocery store it was around 6:00 p.m. on that Friday there was a Teno police officer that I interviewed that was running radar right there at the corner where her house was and he saw her pull up and she was alone and he saw her get the bags out and take him into the house but mysteriously it was the last time anyone has reported seeing Nancy Moyer though a neighbor believes he heard her later that night he heard a car he heard a car door and just before the car door closing she said hurry up let's get going nany's neighbor assumed she was talking to her kids and didn't think much about it until 2 days later when she was reported missing so it was a normal Sunday night Bill Moyer was dropping the kids off at his estrange wife's house but when he gets to the house he notices something off I never missed a drop off or a pickup and neither did she and so this was a 100% out of character for her to be missing and it just it it felt wrong instantly despite the cold outside nany's front door had been left open it wasn't unusual she would walk in the neighborhood sometimes so I took the kids in and we waited for a few minutes thinking oh she'd come back from a walk but she didn't when Nancy didn't show up Bill took the girls back to his house and returned a little later so we came back again but um you know I realized that she she hadn't taken her purse or her keys or herself cell phone all the normal things you would expect to take with you were they're still sitting in the house I remember a glass of wine was half drank on the table and um you know just things were kind of in their usual places and it was just it was just like she just vanished right away ny's sister Sharon knew something was wrong after being away from them for the weekend she would never miss meeting them that night to hug them and say hello to them late Sunday night Bill filed a missing person's Report with the police and the next day the case was turned over to the thirston county sheriff's department to now retired detective David howler where does this case rank on the bizarre nature of it top five top five between LA and here top five that unique very much so first up detective Hower needed to determine exactly when Nancy disappeared from what I was able to find in my investigation it appeared to me that somewhere around 11:30 or 12:00 why do you think that it was a really cold time of year the front door of the house was found open by Bill I decided to check the utility bill cuz she had gas heat in the house and I could see where it spiked detectives didn't find anything missing in the house there was no sign of forced entry and no evidence that anyone else had even been inside we fingerprinted two glasses and her fingerprints were on both those glasses The Hope was you know if somebody was in there and having a drink with her or something that we'd pick up some fingerprints that weren't hers we didn't find any with so few clues in the case detectives immediately turned their attention to nany's estranged husband how did you feel when the investigators started to turn their attention to you as a possible Person of Interest I kind of know how it works I mean it's statistically the husband's always a suspect number one but also I I I saw it as an opportunity to clear my name very quickly Bill agreed to a polygraph test right away and passed with flying colors and did they tell you early on they've eliminated you yeah they even went on TV and said the husband is not a suspect yes cops then turn their Gaze on a coworker the weekend that she disappeared he had called and left a message on her phone so he was you know of high interest the co-worker claims he and Nancy had a date set for that Saturday night he was just absolutely infatuated with her from what he told us he says when he arrived her front door was open but Nancy was nowhere to be found he hollered for her then left at the time detective Hower says the co-workers Alibi for Friday night checked out and the kid said yeah no dad was home all that night he didn't go anywhere but when a new detective reined that same coworker about his relationship with Nancy he heard a much different story when when he was interview interview by Detective Howard he said that he he tried to have sex with her but he couldn't he couldn't perform and that she stayed the night got up had breakfast with him when I interviewed him he had sex she went home that night just totally the opposite and that's not the only thing detective Ben Elkins found suspicious I asked this person if you knew where Nancy Moyer's body was would you tell me and this person said quote no I look at him I'm like wait a minute here no seriously would you tell me where Nancy boer's body was and he Chuckles no and then there is this this when first questioned the coworker submitted to a polygraph test but the results were inconclusive so is he willing to take one now we basically said I don't know the coworker has never been named as a suspect or charged in nany's disappearance but detective Elkins plans to question him again and he's not the only person cops have in their sights up next could a meat salesman charged in a maob murder be involved we found a package of that meat in the freezer or did the missing mom's secret sex life lead to her disappearance so basically this new lifestyle of ny's could have led to her demise correct yes one minute it appears Nancy Moyer was enjoying a glass of wine and watching her favorite TV show the next minute she was gone Jason Mata is back with more on the mystery in the Pacific Northwest Chris as investigators try to solve The Disappearance of Nancy Moyer they make a disturbing Discovery inside the truck of a man who lived less than a mile away from her 8 years after Nancy Moyer disappeared there's still no trace of the mother of two we call it a no body homicide because we don't have a body no body but plenty of sex toys have led to new theories so basically this new lifestyle of ny's could have led to her demise correct yes and unbelievably frozen meat in her freezer there's a darn good possibility he met Nancy and sold her this meat leads to a person of [Music] interest when Nancy Moyer vanished from her Tano Washington Home detectives were left with very few Clues to work with it's like she disappeared from the face of the Earth police were never able to find evidence for a murder or develop a suspect in the case but a gruesome murder in her hometown led to a person of interest so this is one I mean deranged individual oh absolutely the Tiny Town of Tano was stunned when a local man selling meat was caught riding around with the dead woman in the passenger seat of his delivery truck her body still warm this guy came up behind her hid her in the back of the head with a hammer dragged her down into the ditch took a knife to her tried cutting her head off when she was still alive killed her wrapped her up in a sleeping bag put her in his pickup truck and started driving down the road at first Bernard Keith how denied killing 60-year-old Vonda Boon he claimed he found her dead on a popular hiking trail and was going to dispose of her body to save her family from the burial costs I read too that he had I don't know how I say this basically had sex with the corpse yeah I think it was more of he used something to have sex with her Hal eventually confessed to killing the massage therapist and was sentenced to nearly 30 years in prison he says he was high on meth at the time cops wondered if he could be tied to nany's mysterious disappearance I did interview him because of the close proximity to ny's place not only did the door-to-door meat salesman live less than a mile from her house there was another possible connection well in the inventory of uh nany's refrigerator we found a package of that meat in the freezer and it was the same company everything so detectives showed photos of the confessed killer to Nancy's two daughters and one of the daughters the older one said she yeah she recognized him Detective Howard was eager to question Keith about the missing mother he just absolutely refused to cooperate in any way no polygraph wasn't going to give any statements denied ever selling her meat denied ever knowing her just and all of that just kind of R run the red flag up even more because I know he was there ny's family still suspects how could be involved I certainly haven't ruled him out myself based on the evidence unfortunately a frustrated detective Elkins has not been able to bring charges or even requestion the admitted killer who sits in prison I would like to at least talk to him and see if he'll talk to me and if he does obviously I want to interview him but frozen meat possibly purchased from a confessed killer wasn't the only thing in Nancy Moyer's home that peaked investigators curiosity about what happened to her I opened that up and I had to step back and blink twice detective howler was stunned by what he found inside of bag in the closet of the mild mannered mother of two there were sex toys in there all kinds of gels was Nancy living a wild life now that she was on her own that was the information that was shared with me by her sister detectives learned that sex was in fact a big reason why Nancy left her husband she got married to William younger they had kids so the way Sharon her her sister had explained it was that Nancy expressed how she wanted to go out and do things that she hadn't done she was out playing the field she was out bar hopping she was out drinking with friends co-workers from work when someone's doing that and they're not sharing that with a best friend or a sister the victimology when it comes to that is very difficult to retrace those steps of who she was associating with where she was going and there is more adding to the mystery cops discovered things that indicate Nancy Moyer may have been living in a secret world of sexual fantasy I found some other stuff in there that that it kind of makes me think that she could have decided to take off and live a life that she's been fantasizing about as much as ny's family wants to believe she's still alive it's not something that seems possible to them she would never leave her daughters her daughters were her world one thing everyone agrees on someone out there knows what happened to Nancy Moyer and her sister Sharon has this message for that person I would just ask them to remember that she was a mother and a daughter and a granddaughter and a sister and a friend and she doesn't deserve to be forgotten she deserves to be put to rest and for her kids to be able to mourn her properly detectives are hoping the person responsible for ny's disappearance has bragged to someone about what they've done and now that person is ready to come forward and help solve this case if you know anything you can submit a tip anonymously at crimewatchdaily.com coming up a mother of four vanishes new developments in the headline making case out of Houston was it a love triangle turned deadly the clues leading up to a chilling call he told you he put the body in a trash can and dust it in Spring Creek that's next it was the case that captivated the city of Houston a mother of four vanishes the day after spending Christmas with the new love of her life our Nissa Knight is in Texas now with the mystery of Melissa soders he was looking into her eyes and she was looking into his before she died an alleged love triangle why are you going to make love to me and then go home with him a Labyrinth of Lies he did it he killed her leading investigators to a horrific discovery that will expose pure evil he absolutely truly believed that there there's no way that he would be caught Texas Justice yes yeah it's the holidays in Houston Texas festive lights illuminate the city While others flash ominously on a 911 switchboard he told you he put the body in a trash can and dusted in Spring Creek two days before this shocking 911 call it's Christmas morning for 26y olds Jason Sanford and Melissa soders you know we were happy everything everything was going right the Texas sweethearts are spending their first holiday together as a couple she told me that she didn't usually get to spend Christmas or anything with her parents so that was one thing she wanted to do and so we went and we saw her parents for Christmas Jason and Melissa met in grade school and only recently reconnected there was like nothing else mattered it was like it was just her and I except it wasn't Melissa is in the middle of a messy divorce with her soon Tobe ex-husband 28-year-old Matthew soders and they have four young daughters together ranging from 18 months to 8 years old Matthew and Melissa married at a young age they were basically teenagers they grew up together over a 9-year period um they were together as seen during happier times in this cell phone video all right now we're watching Melissa crack open her crab say hi to the camera honey but as most people do they drift apart as they get older heartbroken Matthew files for divorce Melissa the manager of a fast food restaurant Grants him full custody of their children while she gets her finances in order she didn't have a job where she could support her four daughters so she left him with Matt knowing that his parents would help him until she got more stable on her feet with Jason Matthew's Father David soders is a well-respected journal he works as a copy editor at the area's largest newspaper the Houston Chronicle Matthew came from a good family in that he was adopted by very good family along with his twin sister from an orphanage in Nicaragua and while Melissa knows her kids are in good hands with Matthew's parents she misses them desperately she's never spent a Christmas without her babies and she wanted to see them so the day after Christmas she does just that the plan is to meet her estranged husband and her youngest daughter at a local fast food restaurant we spoke on the phone until he showed up and as soon as she he showed up she told me and she hung up Jason is expecting a phone call from Melissa following her family visit I've been trying to call her text her he waits all day to hear from her and no response it's now after 7 p.m. and nearly 8 hours since he's last talked to Melissa Jason heads to the Harris County Sheriff's Office office and files a missing person's report it was very overwhelming everything that was going through my head Melissa's family is notified that she is missing her aunt Belinda traveling back to Nevada from Texas touches down just in time to catch the Frantic phone call I just got home from Christmas and um my oldest sister told me that she was missing and I'm like what are you talking about we just seen her what do you mean she's missing it doesn't take long for the media to get wind of the story and the missing Houston woman becomes headline news it got a lot of attention because it's Christmas time a mother of four is missing but for one journalist the story is painfully personal remember Matthew's father works for the Houston Chronicle placing him smack dab in the middle of the news coverage of his own daughter-in-law's disappearance as tragic as it can get then a huge break in the case it's less than 24 hours from the time Melissa is reported missing the Harris County Sheriff Department receives a bizarre 911 call Harris County 911 you need police fire ambulance police it's a woman on the line requesting to remain anonymous claiming to be Matthew soder's Neighbor andart Next order me the caller tells dispatch she made an unexpected visit to Matthew's apartment and when she looked inside I saw someone's feet on the ground so you went to the apartment and saw someone's feet mhm okay all right I'll get that video out to you okay okay right in a matter of minutes a deputy arrives on scene and questions the caller in person the investigator records the conversation I went to the door and started knocking and you know he was there with his daughter was like you know why is she crying she's like oh no she just upset and door was open and all I saw were two feet yeah and they wasn't moving yeah and there was human feet mhm I can tell they were female the neighbor thought and said whose feet are those behind the couch and he said none of your business and slam the door in the face fearing someone's life could be in danger deputies raced to Matthew's apartment they have no idea what they're about to walk into the deputy show up Matthew is already gone at this point and when cops barge through the apartment door there's no body or evidence of a crime we didn't have anything linking Matthew still trying to piece together the caller's disturbing eyewitness account detectives call Matthew down to the station for questioning God please be okay anxious detectives start questioning Matthew immediately anything crazy happen inside the apartment no then Matthew offers up details cops never saw coming but I did ask her does Jason know that we're still intimate with each other no I haven't told him that why are you going to make love to me and then go home with him that's right Matthew claims he and his ex are in the middle of a love triangle and Melissa is the sexual aggressor we sit on the couch watch a movie with The Walking Dead and then she kind of inch over close I'm like please don't kiss me she's like I can't help it then detectives ask Matthew how the visit ended she turns around looks at me and goes I'm a a horrible mother no you're not Matt I'm a horrible wife I don't understand how you love me so much I've hurt you so bad Matthew tells cops their conversation lasted 30 minutes and then Melissa left and when she left the apartment over on bar he said she just left on foot yes took off walking any idea where she was going to no I was like we can take you back to McDonald she goes leave me alone that's when detectives holding their cards close to their vest reveal the ace up their sleeve they asked Matthew about the alleged visit from his neighbor did she come by the apartment no sure she didn't come to the apartment knock on the door come by the apartment no not at all any reason why she' say that she saw you and Melissa at the apartment no she wasn't there at the apartment detectives ask Matthew if he will take a polygraph test I'll be clear soon enough we don't need a poly to do do anything Matthew is defiant he denies any involvement in his estrange wife's disappearance is there anything else you can tell us right now that would help us find Melissa looking to that guy Jason coming up cops turn up the heat and we had two main suspects Jason and Matthew correct and explosive new evidence surfaces a surveillance video could these be her last moments alive Melissa soders dropped off her boyfriend at work and then she planned on heading to a fast food restaurant to pick up one of her daughters however somewhere along that path soders would disappear our narissa Knight is back in Texas with more it's been a full day since anyone has seen or heard from the 26-year-old Texas mother of four Melissa soders then breaking news a surveillance video surfaces it came out of over the DV news her and Jason were on camera the video is from Christmas Day at a local business run by Jason Sanford's godparents as seen here Melissa and Jason enter the business there's plenty of smiles and even gifts exchanged but in less than 24 hours from the time this video is recorded there was no sign of her no phone call no nothing then deputies get a tip a white 1995 Honda Accord matching the description of Melissa's car is spotted in the parking lot of a truck stop off Interstate 45 they found her car it's located roughly 8 miles from Matthew's apartment the last known place she visited before Vanishing what are you thinking what are you feeling what's going on inside well I told my family Matthew has something to do with it she told me as soon I wasn't I was here when that happened and the the first thing out of her mouth was Matthew had something to do with this I'm scared the car was a recent purchased by Melissa and her boyfriend Jason Sanford a man cops know very little about but that's about to change when cops pull his police records Jason's rap sheet reveals a violent past that's not so in the past just 3 months before his girlfriend went missing the 26-year-old was arrested and charged with assault now cops wonder if Melissa's estranged husband was right when he told them Jason's a bad guy Jason might have done this Jason's the one you need to be looking at so they do and ask Jason to come down to the Sheriff's Office the conversation is recorded and detectives discover more than an assault record there's a marriage license too you're still currently married is that correct yes but Jason claims he is going through a divorce and what about that recent assault charge it was my best friend for 14 years found out that you know he was sleeping with my wife and I mad and we got into a little touch on the street so far Jason seems to have an explanation for everything then the million dooll question let me just go ahead and get this out of the way I'll go ahead and ask you right now did you have anything to do with Melissa's disappearance not at all not did you do anything to harm Melissa never never that was my angel I loved her I would give everything for her and one final question would he take a polygraph test you have any problem doing that not at all not at all anything you need what was your impression of Jason after interviewing him did you think he had something to do with Melissa's disappearance initially we weren't really sure but this case has more twists and turns than a Texas twostep when Melissa's best friend speaks with detectives she paints a frightening picture of Melissa and Matthew's marriage a relationship she says is filled with obsession she would like basically almost call me in tears like saying he won't leave me alone he wants me back constantly Terror did she ever say anything to you about you know being scared about something happening was she afraid of she was afraid to go over there and then something nightmares are made of she told me one time that he tried kidnapping her from work one night at this point despite all the information coming in detectives can't be sure who who is responsible for Melissa's disappearance and we had two main suspects that we were looking at almost immediately both Jason and Matthew correct as detectives try to figure out who is telling the truth another 911 call lights up the switchboard at the Harris County dispatch Harris County 911 do need police fire I need to K somebody in you want to turn somebody in coming up they couldn't stop Badness it's a killer confession said had something really really bad I and a gruesome Discovery he's a monster for seven excruciatingly long days Lissa soder's family has been wondering what happened to the mother of four they were finally about to get that answer and police were about to slap the cuffs on a truly callous suspect once again here's Nissa Knight where is Houston mother of four Melissa soders detectives narrow their suspects down to two Melissa's estranged husband Matthew soders and her current boyfriend Jason Sanford but that's about to change count 911 police I need to K somebody in this 911 caller is scared and wants to remain anonymous I don't want my name to come out but she has no problem blurting out one name Matthew what is Matthew's last name do you know sers I know him he was a really good friend of mine friend it's way more than that the woman on the other end of the line claims to be Matthew soder's lover she tells dispatch that after Melissa went missing Matthew stopped by her place he come over last night Sook him away from head to toe truck was all muddy and then she drops this he said he blacked out and snapped and choked her and her body in Spring Creek in a trash can he told you he put the body in a trash can and DED it in Spring Creek police contact Texas equa search a volunteer search and Recovery team team with access to boats divers and sonar equipment we got a lot of challenges out there with all that debris that's in the water then investigators ask Matthew's girlfriend if she'd be willing to wear wire and get him to confess once again she agrees and sets up a meeting with her lover 3 Days Later a digital voice recorder given to her by detectives records their conversation what a good case told him all that would happen Matthew goes on to tell her he's confident he'll get away with murdering Melissa since cops haven't found a body cuz right now they hav't found I don't think they're going to find Matthew's lover pushes him to turn himself in a deal then the woman makes an appeal for human decency I just think should the proper barrial tip it in suon all this stuff I think about the cops are listening to every sorted detail he really didn't believe that there's any way that we could figure this out if there was any way that we could pin this on him then there's another big break in the case detectives receive information about an area of the creek where Matthew could have dumped Melissa's body it's a familiar space he goes fishing there that's his favorite spot I just had the gut feeling Searchers Focus their sonar detectors in that area of the creek there was something very interesting I was looking and I really studied it hard last night New Year's Eve and New Year's Day come and go it's now January 2nd and day seven in the search for Melissa soders we believe that Matthew is the one that's killed Melissa but we haven't found her body yet then just Downstream search team spot something below the water we ended up finding Melissa's body in a creek and Melissa had been weighted down and was you know pretty deep in the water and how do they know it's Melissa the Corner's office will make the official identification but there's one thing the cops zero in on it's a tattoo near her hipbone four letters one word Matt it wasn't until they they called me asking me for information about identifying marks on her body tattoos stuff like that that it hit me oh my God she she is dead Melissa's family is devastated they tore my heart out I just couldn't imagine it was a shock it was a shock the corner officially identifies the body as Melissa soders but due to the cold wintertime water and the body being submerged for 7 days fortunately the medical examiner's office could not tell us an exact cause of death but they ended up ruling the case what they call homicidal violence in other words you know someone did something to her they just can't say exactly what still cops are ready to get their man as soon as we found Melissa's body we're able to get the warrant for Matthew's arrest so we knew that Matthew had an idea that this was coming undercover special ops teams are watching the house ready to strike if Matthew tries to make a break for it then there's movement and we saw Matthew attempting to leave the house with his dad Matthew is arrested and charged with his wife's murder obviously you're in custody you're under arrest you you've been charged of murder you know we now have Melissa's body I know Melissa's been found unlike their last interview Matthew doesn't want to talk to anyone except his lawyer news cameras are there as Matthew soders appears in court Matthew solders you're here on a charge of capital murder and I'm led to believe it involves the murder of two people including a a unborn child that's right Matthew's estranged wife was two months pregnant at the time of her murder According to some of Melissa's friends she had pictures on her phone of the positive pregnancy test the baby wasn't Matthews Jason was the father of her baby sadly a baby he will never meet I mean it was it was heartbreaking I didn't want to believe it we think that maybe Matthew uh saw some of the stuff on her phone related to the pregnancy maybe that's what caused him uh to snap after Gathering all the evidence prosecutors believe Matthew knew his wife was pregnant when he killed her but they aren't sure they can prove it Beyond A Reasonable Doubt they are forced to vacate the capital murder charge we ended up ping him to the crime of murder where we don't have to prove that she knew is pregnant but just that he wanted to kill her facing a mountain of incriminating evidence Matthew pleads guilty to murder his father and copy editor at the Houston Chronicle releases a statement to his own newspaper he says quote I'm proud of him for taking responsibility and sparing everybody at trial and no trial means we will never hear Matthew's side of the story so we reached out to him since Matthew soders was put behind bars he hasn't talked to anyone however today he was scheduled for an exclusive crime watch Daily interview with me from behind bars however when we arrived he wouldn't even come out of his cell but whatever Matthew's story it doesn't change the fact Melissa is gone why leave the kids without a mother and a father he was adopted himself he was at an orphanage when his parents adopted him and his twin sister he would know what it's like you know to not have parents Melissa's children remain with Matthew's parents while their father serves out a 60-year sentence with the possibility of parole after 30 years but Melissa's family claims they got a word sentence life without Melissa what would you say to Melissa I miss you and I love you I wish you were here and I will never forget her [Music] ever

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Published: Sun Feb 25 2024