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Where is Diana Duve?

2023-05-07

When a woman disappears with her boyfriend, investigators learn he was entrusted with millions at his bank job, but he also told outlandish lies about who he was. "48 Hours" contributor Michelle Miller reports.

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jason everything I need her back. Her name is Diana. Do that this is a photo of twenty six year old diana dovey of vero beach below the wishes police describe her as five three one hundred and twenty pounds, brown hair and then looking for her. But adult long. She was last seen leaving the water tavern restaurant around one am friday morning with a man. They say is her boyfriend. Thirty two year old, Michael David Jones, neither has been heard from since the contact, lieutenant Harrelson say I'm going to need help with his case, because there's much more of this than just a missing persons case. We're in a million different trying to find her in him. His phone
been turned off. Her phone is now turned off Diana his out with some friends. They scribe, harassed enjoying yourself, but she was texting along. They just go. Gives the lie to the ordinary she left her friends. and went and met up with my jones at another establishments got what a tavern they appear to be a good time as in having quite a few drinks at one point it appeared ass though she was crying and visibly upset but then not and when they were leaving the bar staff said you're, you guys, ok to get home might say: I mean a driver home, don't worry about it! What time was that it was a one. Thirty, a m. I didn't way for her that night.
I got up in the morning. There is text message there, mom, I'm not coming home tonight I testa Diana. I saw you at call me. I went to work around eleven thirty. It just kind of shock went through me that way. The second she didn't call me. She was twenty six years old and she would call me every day it set me off immediately. I was I have to tell everybody who would listen if she's not calling me. It's because she can't the and then we begin to learn about Michael Jones. What we learned was he told many of his workmates, I'm not feeling that. Well, I'm going to be gone for a couple of days. I've got some things I gotta take care of. I thought that they were the town for a wedding night. First
at my jones at a networking luncheon. He was a charming guy mike, and I dated I want to say like two to four months he seemed pretty put together. He was smart. He was really funny MIKE told me that he was a trust. turning for pansy wealth management. We a lot of multi million dollar accounts. People trust him with a lot of money. Mike was very elaborate His stories were big celebrities involved, always knowing people everywhere. We went MIKE told me that his sister was dating jason aldean and that he was adopted by on a reagan's son? I think that he probably had stories about He was depending on who he was talking to whom he really is to this day. I'm not sure we now
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We ve interviewed all of these people. We ve run down all the leads that we had we're in a million different directions. Answer. as a june, twenty first, two thousand and fourteen lieutenant matt, harrelson and sergeant bread met with the vero beach police department. We're not having much luck trying to find out what could have happened to Diana dovey and MIKE jones investigators when two joneses apartment, but no one was answering the door. We did get a search warrant that day to get into michael his apartment. Try to collect physical evidence or find diana, and hopefully be you know next to nothing. When the investigators return with a warrant. They were surprised to discover. and bill. Andrews, Dianas, mother and step father sitting outside in there. Are is an unusual. Oh, my gosh, that's crazy, Lena is sitting at the house. Hope
for assigning of her daughter, she's just beside herself, you know she's, crying she's upset. She wants to go physically, kick the door it Four investigators went inside. They interviewed Lena. She told them that the last communication she had from her daughter was that tax diana sent in the early hours, the previous day, contacts have at one forty five- I am, I won't be home. It was in russian the law language they spoke with each other, so Lena believed it had to be from her daughter as the hours passed on friday, with no sign of Diana. She grew increasingly desperate. You call my culture,
I did call Michael Jones. Yes, he was like. Oh don't worry, she is with me everything's, okay, oh, he said that. Yes, I was like. Oh my god, MIKE you guys killing me. I'm worried sick. I need to talk to her. I want to hear her voice. I told him give her All of a sudden all she s sleeping well wake up, because I have to talk to her. all of a sudden. Another excuse she's at my place, bad, not there. Right now I told them you go home, you wake her up, call me back and thirty minutes, but Jones never hardly know back and she never heard from him
Again she was my world diana was born in moldova, a small country in eastern europe, Diana emigrated to america when she was thirteen to join her mother Lena, who would marry bill an american, a girl that speak english at all. Two months she was an irregular school class. In a few years you couldn't even gas that she's, not american, in two thousand and eleven Diana received her nursing degree. At the time she disappeared. Diana work with cancer patients at the sebastian river medical center surely really cared about had passed,
about patients, families highly intelligent, always motivated chelsea de maya was Diana's best friend and former roommate She is very easy going. to be around in the summer of two thousand thirteen chelsea says diana met jones at a bar in vero beach. Does she seem smitten from the start? No, no! No! She never had an initial, oh wow, my jones, the same more like they definitely had his say sat on her and she kind of event. So he came around Lena and bill say they didn't know much about jones, except that he worked for pnc bank and wealth management and had gone to law school. He was similar. Polite nice dressed well spoken seemed like the ideal boyfriend and, after just a couple of months,
the dating diana moved into jones is apartment to seemed so we were ok, Chelsea, says diet. and Jones quickly became inseparable ever see her with out him and she had never done that and relationships before overtime. Chelsea says she became concerned. And there was a time where we were getting lunch. I remain She wanted to go somewhere were mike, wasn't going to see her run into her or see her car. Was ass if she would have been in trouble getting lunch with me, Chelsea says before she could sit down and have a serious talk with her friend Diana and Jones had a domestic dispute that would officially and the relationship it was April. Thirty of the two thousand fourteen just two months before Diana would disappear,
image police domestic for you next door. answer. My johansen included my job His name made this nine one. One call about an hour had just been yelling and gaming earth sound work. You trying to tell you the groundwater, chieftain global burma, like hearing here, are the slabs or anything, but a pump tell you that it's not good officers responded knocked on the door made contact with with both Diana and mike, according to the police incident report jones told but the noise was from rough sex diana. Police everything was fine, but she asked them to wait for her ass. She grabbed her things and left. She called me and tears leaving his apartment. I tolerance
come strict where I was and she dead and she was still in her pajamas hysterical. We're seeing her like that before that upset. Never never. She was explaining that he was screaming at her that it had been going on for what felt like ours annie. Wasn't letting up and finally got to the point where you had put and the round her neck and started strangling, or I can clearly see that there were marks on her neck, so shall cease as she took these photos, which show what appears to be hand marks on dianas neck than a document as aid to protect her. But despite shells, these efforts to get hurt, make a formal report. Diana chose not to press charges. She just to love her things out and remove herself from the situation and that's what we did. Diana move back in with her parents and did not tell them the job. Sounds had tried to strangle her. I think she was just trying to protect. Me
I wouldn't worry, and she thought that thank you handled it. In her mind, it was over but Lena says jones. Continue to pursue diana show. Tell me your text me. It looks like it doesn't understand that I broke up with him, with a search warrant. Almost forty eight hours after diana was last seen with my jones investigators entered his apartment, You can see the sheer fair and and panic and leaned his eyes. I celine. I promise you I get your daughter back forty one way or another either we remember that I was walking back and forth in front of this apartment neighbour people that I don't know all coming out. This girl produced came and hug me and said
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mother begging, you please, find my daughter forming. They knew that in order to find diana, they needed to find my jones investigators group sir, when they learned at about twelve hours after jones was last seen with diana at the weather, tavern bar, he was captured on surveillance, footage visiting a pansy bank in bureau beach. When you went to the pansy bag, he withdrew two thousand five dollars in cash, They told many of his workmates. He said I'm not feeling that well gonna be gone for a couple of days ago. Some things I gotta take care of investing to grow even more alarmed when they learn the jones had a criminal record prior to moving to zero beach. He had been charged with aggravated stocking for, threatening to kill an ex girlfriend near fort lauderdale and when he twelve nine one one. What is your emergency?
This is the name one one call from that incident. Boyfriend just call me only that his active try. I got it it's outside going to through o'clock and they had manhattan. My boyfriend threatened to kill himself tonight and then, when I told him that we were not getting back together, Lee told me he would kill me for the encrypted form. He pleaded no contest, and, as part of a plea deal. Jones was given five years probation in lieu of jail time. He was required to stay in the euro beach area and could be arrested if he left, without getting permission from probation officer, I spoke to the probe. author, who told us if we come in contact with him, that's probable com, We can't arrest him for probation violation at at minimum. At that point, all of a sudden they found out that he's convicted fallen there
he's on probation, linas she and bill warbled line cited by the news, is something that was extremely annex nobody knew about it. Investigators continued to work the case, but we're running out of leads, so they turn their. It mention two analyzing cell phone tower pings from Diane An jones is phones, we the kind of like overlay, two separate maps, to build a seat where she may have been in where he was prior. I was getting pretty tired someone told me just give it Couple more minutes This is why I would say that divine and intervention was definitely at play here, with
A few minutes? I found something that was really odd. Sergeant, Metz notice, there was only one paying from jones is phone office cell tower located in the fort peer syria, approximately twenty five minutes from vero beach, so met, had dispatch alert local authorities there to be on the lookout for jones. Is gold, honda and dianas black nissan I'm on my way home. Yet and then my phone rings fort pierce pity had located might jones car jones is gold. Hans was located in the parking lot of hampton in hotels, surveillance, footed showed the jones edge, act into the hotel. Almost twenty four hours after Diana went missing. He appeared to be alone according to the front desk staff jones paid in cash for two nights and instructed them not to tell anyone. He was there
and not to transfer any calls to his room What you're gonna find when you get in that room. You know your hearts raising going for to day street and now you're you're disclosed from getting who you believe as a possible suspect it also, hopefully finding Diana. Around eleven thirty p m using a key car given to them by the front desk, met and harrelson enter It owns hotel room, surprised? He was rise to see us absolutely sitting on one of the double beds, with like a veto. Tee shirt on and some shorts and smoking a cigarette, and he was talking on a phone on a cell phone. It was a burner phone, a phone that is difficult for police to trace, I like your arm. He had a pretty good reason. Why we're here? I'm sure this the body of sergeant man speaking to Jones, in his hotel room. The idea of illiteracy thought have
Why won't? He just give me the information and looking for your girlfriend's missing. as somebody you profess that you loved and professor cared about you should be helping law enforcement to try to find her If you're not willing to give us any information, I you're going to jail right now for the violation of probation, metson Harrelson were relieved to place jones behind bars, but they still had no, I the word diana was or her car. You go very high because, You found him in your person in the room to like here. We, back again. Investigators decided to trace the purchase of that burner. Phone jones had been using and learned that he bought it at a walmart low. Hated about an hour nor when the hampton in when they pulled their surveillance. but it's from the walmart make they made a startling discovery review at a little grainy, but it appeared to be dying
court in this surveillance footage from the morning after Diana went missing. Her nissan entered the walmart parking lot part. Then you see what appeared to be my jones wearing a red baseball, hap, walk into the store by the burner phone and then walk out. There was no sign of diana, but despite buying the burner, phone jones occasionally still turned on his primary phone when he would turn it on and in use it for something turn it back off. We go through these pings one. Last time I said. Maybe I'm missing something here found one I mean. Maybe we can lightning in a bottle? Twice diplomats inherent, then analyze? My jones is primary cell phone pigs, one we're time looking for any pings in and around the area of the walmart united we're looking at together, I'm like well this one's strange. He goes well. What do you mean? What what's he doing up in melbourne? It appeared that jones picked. The
a call in melbourne area or one hour north of bureau beach, the local police were alerted and asked to search that area for dianas car and just thirty in its labour detectives, received a call. They had been desperately waiting for work found her vehicle three days after Diana had gone missing. Her car was located in a public sparking in melbourne florida we jump in the car moroccan enrolled in this. She was crazy crazy, we're on the ragged edge in a week we slept. You know, cause you're, just you're moving. It was
for thirty, a m when investigators arrived at the public's parking lot. We're Diana do these black nissan had been discovered, lieutenant Harrelson fear they would find her body here and I tore bread. I said she's in the trunk, as how now she's so cliche is something like a movie. It didn t make much sense to me, but when they open the trunk Lieutenant harrelsteins premonition turned out to be true. There are certain things in this job. Did you can't on see you can't on live, will never forget I remember put my hands on my knees in college But my head down air was not the way I wanted to find her and I opened the door and his chief police incomplete.
Uniform set of saying in my life was seen in the dark and he told me they find they found her those who, like this, it's an indescribable as painful as it was, This was no longer a missing persons case, but a homicide. An autopsy would later reveal Diana had suffered blood force trauma to the head had been strangled to death investigated believed they had a strong case connecting jones to the parking lot were Diana was found, but something was gnawing at them I did my jones leave the area without a car, so we just started cold. Calling some of these taxi agencies- and I said hey- do you get a fair bit of euro in the last couple of days and then we hit one, and I was like wow
that's just like that. Doesn't happen every day, so we got lucky on that. One around eight, a m after jones dropped off Diana car. A man called for a taxi down the street shut up, and there was a guy outside with a red hoodie on. and he got in the passenger side of the vehicle. During the hour long ride. They briefly chatted some questions like what you down here and these are all well, I I came up with a friend of mine. You know and so then I asked myself down alchemy and get a ride back with her friend the world, each along the gun into an argument and she's very christopher. The former cabdriver who asked is not Uses name says that he dropped the man off across the street from this apartment. Enviro beach, it was my joneses apartment there.
nor was he was able to pick em out of a line up to it, which really how our case engine, two days after they found dianas body. They had enough evidence, to officially charge my gems with her murder. He would plead not guilty He didn't show any emotion. He didn't ask any more questions. He just sat there. Either mine or requests were ready to calculate the right to remain silent, Ok, insomnia, no more, nothing of any assistance attorney Brian workmen was assigned to prosecute the case along with eight attorney thomas back adopt is they started digging they soon learn that might Jones was no ordinary setbacks, he doesn't fit. The mold of your your average violent murderer jones was well educated.
with the masters an law, the greek, and he was a risk active member of the bureau. Beach community was shocking that mike would would have done this. I think it blew everybody's mind. Stuart Pearce was friends with jones. Mike Jones was a guy that you want to be friends with. He was clean, cut real nice guy. He first met him and networking luncheon shortly after jones and move to bureau beach in this or of twenty thirteen. We saw him everywhere, but there was to be busy cuff links in a well start shirt. Owns was often seen at local charity events here a guy who is able to his way into the community. Here I mean he was doing charitable activities. actually showed up and walk for the very same d. Violence organization that I'm a board member for
was also active in the bar scene, and it made many friends in a short period of time, investigators interview some of them on audio Take let's say that he was ambitious. I trust him with things, just like my michael, was a genius the smartest people. I never have nowhere. when it came to work jones, thrived at his job and wealth management at and c bank and he brought people and who had a lot of money, and he had performance reviews, emails that went back and forth between pfc personnel raving about his job performance and how great he was doing there in his last performance review from four months before I Anna was murdered. His boss, wrote Michael, has shown that he has strong ethics and leadership qualities. He is a big ass. It four p and see this guy's a master, manipulate
this. Guy was run and multi million dollar counts for a bank as a convicted felt, so he was able to contraband. We reached out to pay and see to ask if they knew Jones had a record and was probation, restocking that woman, therefore lauderdale and twenty twelve. They declined to comment here, friends, however, had no idea, but what they did know about jones is past. Is there were a lot of stories, and I remember the story is like every time there was a singer ellie sexton, dated june shortly before he started dating die
Anna MIKE told me that his sister was dating jason all dean and he told me that he was adopted by ronald reagan, son my drove a gold honda cord that was probably ten years old, but he told me that he had a penthouse and for lauderdale that he had a porch that he just didn't want to damage. Well, my Joseph me that he was adopted and that he played some minor league baseball, but point I'm hanging out on the beach and seeing him through a football made me think that he'd probably never played minor league baseball. Nothing in his life was ruth who he really is to this day. I'm not sure we'd out process uterus where certain of one thing they might Jones was murderer and now, as they prepared to go to trial, they learn The diana was one of my jones is many victims. The only France is the others, got away
my family has all said. You know you skipped death, hm hm the say a woman's name, with whom he had a relationship, and there is abuse as secures continued to unearth more details about my jones see there was a clear pattern and how we treated his ex girlfriend he's prince Charles in the door light, but then slowly who begin telling them to wear, Friends to hang out with his calling incessantly showing up restaurants he's reading your phone a couple of the women that we talk to, he would hold them in place for long periods of time he was very controlling ellie sexting,
David, my jones for a few months with says she will tis. Violent temper might never got physical, but there were a few times that he just had some jealousy of yours. I do remember him screaming in my, face, one time in getting really close to me and feeling fear and investigators also learned that might joneses stories about his past were flat out. Lies pathological liar in a personal essay. He wrote. College admission jones claim that he was born into poverty to uneducated and abusive parents. He wrote that he was placed with several foster families and eventually was adopted, whereas the truth about his upbringing. What do you think he was for
rotten, his his parents bought him motorcycles, they put him in private school and it wasn't until his parents pulled him that they weren't gonna pay more education, meaning law school. That was the point where he broke off with them. manipulating trying to get what he wanted. We, shouted jones is family, but we never heard back from them. The manipulation continued. While jones attended a graduate law programme at the university of miami according to an email. to his fellow students in two thousand ten jones claim that was battling prostate pancreas and stomach cancer and other a lead, medical conditions that prohibited him from often intending classes We have no record of any type of cancer. I notice in his background or anything like that, but despite my jones is dark, past of lies and abusing other women
incubators could only tell the jury about his abuse of diana and her murder. You should be convicting somebody for the crime that they committed not based upon what they've done in the past and when it was time to go to trial, they had to make an important decision whether to go for the death penalty. That was a tough one and we sat down with land we said: listen when we take this step, it's a whole different process. He explained that the proceedings could drag on for years and if one sure did not believe jones, deserve the death penalty. He would be given a life sentence. Instead, I wanted that battle to absolutely. He lost his right to live when he killed her when he killed them.
Brian and I agreed with them and thought that this is the right we need to take. In october, two thousand nineteen. My jones is trial. Finally began enviro beach during opening remarks. Prosecutors, told the jury They might jones abuse Diana mentally and equally during their short six month on and off again relationship. She would talk about her feelings and things it he had done and how you would be demeaning and, and he would slip it he would flip the scripts start. Blaming harness accusing her and suggesting that it's her fault
what he was doing was gaslight her to back up their claims of physical abuse prosecutors called Diana friend, Chelsea de and show the jury the photos she took after that domestic incident. When Jones allegedly strangled Diana agriculture we see that there were marks on her neck as disturbing is that was back all explained that, after that domestic incident, Diana had secretly started seeing jones on and off again. This is what happens in invested by people want to know. Why would she go back and it's because of the control? and he had total control over prosecutors- said no one knows what they talked about in the early hours of friday june twentieth, two thousand and fourteen when they left the bar together and went to Jones's,
heart meant now they had been drinking that evening and of course that has an impact on your judgment. The backdoor things diana was trying to end the relationship for good. She was telling him that night it's over. I have no doubt in my mind that this was the end of this relationship. In fact- turning to Lena Diana had upcoming plans to go out west to visit a friend, and when he got window that that was a prosecutor said they I believe jones lost his temper and that's when he beat and strangled her. He had beaten her so badly that he knew at that point in time. He could not let her go. He knew that if she were to leave the house, that night and been covered in bruises. Jig was up for this guy and he couldn't allow that to happen, and so are you lord. It ultimately to monitor this
Data admitted they didn't know exactly what time the murder took place but said blood evident, show the jones place diana s body in the trunk of her car, while it was part in his garage, next, the threshold where the garage door comes down where the concrete meet it. We found like too very small droplets blood whose worthy dianas. When it was that offences turn to lay out their case. They told the jurors that in fact, no one really knew exactly what happened. after Jones Diana, let the bar on june twenty it they raise the possibility the diana death could have been an accident. Joneses defence teens declined our request for an interview,
they try to act like that. You know he was a upstanding citizen in our community. You know he had a solid job. Why would he do this to her? It was almost insulting, sometimes too, for them to even try to act like he wasn't the monster that we knew him to be. After seven days of testimony. The case went to the jury. The prosecutors felt confident. I expected a guilty verdict, thought I didn't expect to happen as quickly as it is how quickly didn't come back like forty five minutes, that's somethin says a lot that says it. Somebody finally saw through Michael Joe, but they knew there were many challenges ahead. Now then We would have to decide whether my Jones would live or die what did you tell Lena right after the trial, I remember hugging her eyes specifically never telling her now the heavy lifting com
be ready What do you think is the most outlandish lie that might Jones told go inside the investigation, forty eight hours dot com. The She had so much good in her heart, and she knew that nearly a month after the verdict. This same jury that convicted my jones of first degree murder would now decide whether he would live or die. penalty phase is everything about the defendant prosecutor back adult warned lena that this sentencing hearing would be difficult to sit through the port,
and all of the issues faced by the defendant throughout his life to the absolute and utter exclusion of of her daughter. Did events called medical experts who testified jones received multiple blows to his ed, possibly from doing motor cross as a team, and he suffered brain damage. One expert testify the joneses, frontal lobe regulates decision, making an impulse control have been damaged and causes significant cognitive, deeper. They wanted the jury to believe that he had this now your or minor cognitive deficit. The problem, is in order to have that particular deficit. You can't do things like balance a cheque book, a rare. And here's a guy who went to law school in manners. Multi million dollar accounts when it was time for her victim impact statement, Lena surprise. Everyone and confronted jones face
to face. How can you do that? Where's your bare hands to the person that Do you suppose little of how can anybody do that? How She brought down and its alike in that form, if we were going to get the death penalty was going to be on the back of their testimony. There was just mothers love for her child his pig. Throughout the entire trial jones. Showed no emotion I have sold had zero remorse absolutely zero. Even as his sentence was about to be read attorneys they had their their face. in their hands were leaning on the tables, and he just sat there. Alec statue mike
Jones received a life sentence, much to the prosecutor's disappointment. Me was devastated because we didn't finish the job that we had promised Lena and the family. I realise at that moment. If I can't get death in this, case. What case? Do you remember how many for how many against remember I'll, never forget It was eleven one. The defense was playing, one hold out the entire time It's all they need. We needed to be perfect, She saw them dying, jail, one way or another and he's not. Then I heard another girl again.
The end of the day, my daughter, dinah she's not coming home she's not and he's still alive, graduation name. She was happy all her adult life started. It was a good day Lena once people to remember and learn from her daughter store
if this has happened to Diana it's gonna happen to anybody? If you feel something is not right, listen to yourself, because something is not the right today. After all these years, Diana's bedroom looks exactly the way she left it. It's one of the older pictures done to ensure the baby in moldova. She really didn't want to take this picture. She was a little bit grumpy here. I'm thinking about Diana minute. I wake up she's last thing, I'm thinking about where they fall asleep every single day, and this is forever that's how it's going to be
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