287. The Fatal Fantasy - The Murder of Jennifer Ramsaran

Summary

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Murder With My Husband: Episode 287 – The Fatal Fantasy - The Murder of Jennifer Ramsaran

Podcast Date: September 22, 2025
Hosts: Peyton Moreland & Garrett Moreland

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Main Theme & Purpose

This episode delves into the baffling and tragic murder of Jennifer Ramsaran, a devoted mother and community member in small-town New York, whose life was upended by digital escapism, marital secrets, and an ultimately fatal betrayal. Peyton expertly walks listeners through the complex web of relationships, infidelities, and digital footprints that both complicated and illuminated the investigation—while Garrett, true to form, intersperses skeptical asides and grounded reactions. The episode grapples with how life changes, the fragility of relationships, and the dark consequences when those changes are handled with cowardice or malice.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Setting the Scene: Small-Town Life & Family Dynamics

• Jennifer ("Jen") Ramsaran: Stay-at-home mom, “Martha Stewart” type, highly active with her three kids, community volunteer, and described as “the kind of person who was always there for you” (07:10).
• Remy (Ganesh Ramsaran): Jen’s husband, IBM project manager, charismatic, marathon runner (06:58). The couple, seen as opposites, "looked like the perfect, loving, supportive couple," until December 2012.

The Disappearance

• December 11, 2012: Jen tells Remy she's going Christmas shopping an hour away at the Syracuse mall (08:24). After dropping the kids at school, Remy claims Jen leaves the house at about 10:30 am—but that’s later contested by evidence.
• Remy grows worried by her lack of response to texts. Jen's friend Eileen Sells is also contacted. Both are clueless to Jen’s whereabouts (09:59).
• Remy calls 911:

  "My wife left this morning between 10 and 11 and she hasn't been back and I'm really freaked out. This is totally unlike her." (10:54)

Early Investigation & Growing Suspicions

• The next day, Remy uses Find My iPhone to locate Jen’s phone in a rural area 20 miles away. He personally finds it in overgrowth by a bridge (13:20), a detail considered suspicious by police.
• Police note the phone is "undamaged," raising suspicion over whether it was placed or thrown there (16:16).

Digging Deeper: Secrets Come to Light

Jen’s Secret Online Life

• Jen had become heavily involved in the game "Kingdoms of Camelot", sometimes spending 8+ hours a day online (17:40).
• She formed a flirtatious online relationship with “Rob” in England, even sending him lingerie. The relationship’s seriousness added a possible motive for voluntary disappearance or an alternate suspect (18:29–21:12).

Remy’s Double Life

• Police discover Remy was having an affair with Jen's best friend, Eileen Sells—her key confidant from the Girl Scouts circle (24:14).
• The affair had gone on for about a year and had recently been rekindled the night before Jen vanished. Eileen’s guilt led her to temporarily end it, but she and Remy could not stay apart.

Shifts in the Investigation: From Missing to Murder

• Five days after Jen’s disappearance, her father finds her minivan abandoned. There are blood stains in the vehicle, shifting the case to homicide (22:13).
• In February 2013, Jen’s naked, decomposed body is discovered in an embankment 20 miles from home. Likely cause: strangulation or suffocation (23:01).

The Mounting Evidence Against Remy

• Alibi Issues: Video footage does not support his stated running route or timeline; Jen’s phone activity contradicts his version of events (25:44).
• Forensics: Blood from both Jen and Remy found on Remy's sweatshirt and on the couple’s mattress (27:46).
• Circumstantial Motive: Desire to be with Eileen and avoid divorce, coupled with suspicious behavior on the day Jen disappeared.

The Trial(s) and Its Aftermath

• 2014: Remy is convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 25 years (37:50).
• Eileen switches sides and testifies for the prosecution, pointing out Remy’s odd behavior the day Jen vanished—such as refusing to invite her inside when Jen was supposedly shopping (32:34).
• The prosecution lays out a timeline:

  “He killed her in their bedroom after catching her online, then spent the morning disposing of the body and evidence.” (31:53–33:25)

Defense Strategies & Weaknesses

• Defense attempts to cast doubt with alternate witness statements and unexplained male DNA under Jen’s fingernails, but lacks strong evidence or credible expert witnesses (35:57–36:37).
• Remy’s time on the stand is self-destructive:

  “He said he had the perfect life, there was no reason for him to kill his wife … He didn’t really care what anyone else thought of him.” (36:37)

The Twist: Appeal and Plea Deal

• 2022: Conviction tossed out due to incompetent legal counsel; Remy's original lawyer had zero murder trial experience and “googled basic forensic issues” (39:28).
• Facing a new trial, Remy pleads guilty to manslaughter for a 22-year sentence (with time served), maintaining his innocence but admitting the plea was “the smartest thing to do legally” (40:11).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On how fast life can change:

  "Sometimes life does not go in the direction that we hoped it would... There are moments where our inner strength is put to the test... But some people cannot handle the pressures of life. And as we'll see in today's case, while their decisions maybe didn't kill them, a coward's decision could lead to the death of someone else." (04:35)

• Garrett’s reality check:

  "You never know someone's relationship. You never know who someone is. Everyone's just kind of living their own lives, and you never know." (17:21)

• On finding Jen’s phone:

  "There's something odd about the cell phone... It looks pretty undamaged for being tossed into some brush like this." (16:16)

• On Remy’s attitude towards prison (post-conviction):

  "Prison is a joke. You get cell phones. You kind of get anything you want in prison if you are looking for it." (40:13)

• Garrett’s blunt conclusion:

  "He kind of got away with murder... They don't really know. I mean, they know what happened to her, but, like, there's not a ton of evidence." (42:00)

• Peyton’s final reflection:

  "Innocent people like Jen can become victims of a senseless crime and really have a murky justice." (42:17)

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Important Timestamps

• 04:35 – Peyton’s introduction; setting the theme around life changes and the consequences of resisting them.
• 08:24 – Details of Jen’s last morning, her plans to shop, and the early timeline.
• 13:20 – Remy finds Jen’s phone; suspicious circumstances.
• 17:40 – Jen’s Kingdoms of Camelot addiction and developing online relationship.
• 22:13 – Discovery of Jen’s abandoned van and bloodstains—shift to murder investigation.
• 23:01 – Jen’s body is found; autopsy results.
• 24:14 – Remy and Eileen’s secret affair comes to light.
• 25:44 – Problems with Remy’s alibi and forensic evidence.
• 31:53 – Prosecution's theory; detail on timeline and Eileen’s role as a witness.
• 32:34 – Eileen testifies to her suspicions about Remy after Jen’s disappearance.
• 39:28 – Ineffective counsel revelation; Remy's original conviction overturned.
• 40:11 – Remy pleads guilty to manslaughter, maintains innocence.
• 42:00 – Hosts reflect on the case’s unsatisfying resolution and the concept of “getting away with murder.”

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Summary & Listener Takeaways

The episode skillfully unpacks a real-life whodunit where the lines of guilt, evidence, and justice blur. With a focus on the human dynamics—addiction, infidelity, and the fallout of concealed feelings—listeners are asked to consider not just the cold facts of Jen Ramsaran’s murder, but the devastating effects unchecked secrets and cowardly decisions can have on families and communities. In a case where the perpetrator’s guilt is both obvious and elusive, Peyton and Garrett highlight the frustratingly murky nature of true crime justice.

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Tone & Style

The hosts mix empathy for the victim, Jennifer, with a skeptical, sometimes irreverent tone—Garrett’s grounded commentary balancing Peyton’s narrative empathy. The show’s hallmark is to make true crime accessible, engaging, and honest about both procedural details and emotional impact.

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Transcript

[Peyton Moreland]

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[Garrett Moreland]

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[Peyton Moreland]

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[Garrett Moreland]

Thank you for supporting us. And if you don't want some, that's okay too.

[Peyton Moreland]

Hey everyone. Welcome back to the podcast. This is Murder with my husband. I'm Peyton Moreland.

[Garrett Moreland]

And I'm Garrett Moreland.

[Peyton Moreland]

And he's the husband.

[Garrett Moreland]

I'm the husband.

[Peyton Moreland]

You're watching on YouTube and Garrett and I look like we got run over by a train.

[Garrett Moreland]

We did. We actually did. I got ran over by a train. But I'm okay. Yeah, there's nothing more to it.

[Peyton Moreland]

No, we didn't. We've both just been, you know, we just been.

[Garrett Moreland]

Peyton. Peyton can't move. She's got back issues. And I'm doing pretty good actually. I got some eye issues, but other than that I'm doing okay. But I always have eye issues. But not that we're gonna sit here and complain about our problems, but we might because we can. And this is our podcast and we can basically say whatever we want. So my eye is really dry and it really hurts. Peyton can't move because her back hurts. But together we're just not doing anything today. But we are recording and that's what we got going. Thank you for supporting us. If you've been on Apple, Spotify or Patreon recently, we've been releasing, we have been releasing a lot of bonus episodes because we are catching up from some bonus episodes we didn't do last month. But yeah, we released a bunch. Hope everyone likes them. Thank you for subscribing to those. Thank you for listening in general. Thank you for being here. That's all I have.

[Peyton Moreland]

All right, I think that takes us into your 10 seconds for today.

[Garrett Moreland]

Real quick for my 10 seconds to those that do come up and say hi to us in public. We love it. Thank you for coming and saying hi. I think what I'm going to start doing is every week the people that come up to us and say hi, maybe I'll say your names on the podcast, you know, because honestly, the main reason is I'm trying to be better at when someone tells me their name, I remember it because I kid you not, I will meet someone, I'll shake their hand, they'll tell me their name. It goes in one ear and out the other. So I was going to start with two people that came and said hi to us at Cheesecake Factory, but I swear I knew their names. And then now I can't remember. But I know their faces. And I think they probably know I'm talking about them. So if I. And they honestly live close to where we live, too. But if I saw their faces, I would recognize them. I just can't remember their names. And I'm really sorry, but that's my new goal. So if you see us, come say hi to us and you will get a shout out on the podcast. If you're the two people that we just forgot the names of, this is your shout out and you're nameless. Let's hop into today's podcast.

[Peyton Moreland]

Our sources for this episode are oxygen.com nbcnews.com NBC.com syracuse.com yahoo.com cnycentral.com wnbf.com pressconnex.com and dateline. You know, sometimes life does not go in the direction that we hoped it would. Maybe we form new hobbies or interests that have led us down a new path. Maybe our priorities change once we have kids. Maybe the person we married is no longer the person we're in love with. And you know what? Life changes and it happens. There is no way for us to know what the future holds or how we will feel about it when the time comes. What is important though, is how we handle it. Making a huge life change can be hard. It sometimes feels impossible to move to a new city or change a career, get a divorce. Those things are never easy or but they are part of life. They're part of adulthood. There are moments where our inner strength is put to the test and what doesn't kill us makes us stronger, right? But some people cannot handle the pressures of life. And as we'll see in today's case, while their decisions maybe didn't kill them, a coward's decision could lead to the death of someone else. So the year is 2012. We are in New Berlin, New York. It's a small little town with around a thousand people about a four hour drive northwest of New York City. And there 36 year old Jen Remsuran is living with her three young kids and her husband of 13 years, 37 year old Ganesh, who went by Remy. Now Jen is a stay at home mom while her husband Remy works at IBM as a project manager. Jen is really active in their kids lives, always trying to make new memories for them on top of always cooking for them and being a Martha Stewart. Those words exactly around the home as some people described her. She was also a Sunday school teacher, a knitting instructor, and she was very involved in her daughter's Girl Scout troop. She was, she made friends with some of the moms through that women who said that Jen was always incredibly friendly, someone you could feel instantly connected and comfortable with.

[Garrett Moreland]

Side note, if anyone wants to sell me Girl Scout cookies, I don't know when. I always forget when they come out. I hope I didn't miss it. Send me DM. I'll buy like 50 boxes of thin Mints.

[Peyton Moreland]

Jen is described as the kind of person who was always there for you if you needed something. And this is where she became particularly close with one mom named Eileen Sells, who actually got to know Jen and her family pretty well. Jen and her husband Remy had met and fallen in love back in college and everyone who knew them, including eileen, her current 2012 friend, said they were kind of an interesting match. Remy was loud, he was kind of a showman and Jen was exactly the opposite. She was quiet and reserved. Remy said that there were times where People would walk up to Jen and jokingly apologize for having to put up with Remy and his quirky behavior. But as most couples do, Remy had his own hobbies and interests. That didn't exactly appeal to Jen. Like running marathons, Remy had been doing them since he was 11 years old and it was always a way for him to blow off steam after a long week. In just one year alone, he had run 26 marathons. A 5k on a Saturday followed by a 10k on a Sunday. Running was just as much a part of Remy's life as his own family was. And oftentimes Jen and his kids actually came out to support and cheer him on as he crossed the finish line. To anyone who watched Jen and Remy as a couple, they looked like the perfect, loving, supportive couple. Like nothing could break them, nothing could tear this world they had built apart. That is, until December of 2012. Tuesday, December 11th started out like any other day for the family. Jen's 10 year old son Glenn said good morning to his mom and he went to make his breakfast and lunch for the day. Jen got the other two kids ready, then they all hopped into Remy's car and he drove the kids to school. Now, at around 8am that morning, Remy said he got back to the house and he saw his wife Jen having cereal and yogurt in the kitchen. She told Remy that her plan for the day was to drive to the Destiny USA Mall in Syracuse. This is about 60 miles away from their home. It honestly was a bit of a drive with a lot of winding back roads that could be icy and rough in December, but she told him they had nicer stores than their local mall. She wanted to pick out a Christmas dress for their young daughter, Remy said. He went on to answer a few calls for work that morning at the house and then Jen said goodbye around 10:30am and hopped into her Red Cross Chrysler minivan to go Christmas shopping. Okay, now throughout the afternoon though, Remy claims he sends Jen a few texts that she doesn't respond to. Not thinking much of it at first. He says he works on a project for work and then goes for a run down to the local YMCA. Before you know it, it is 5pm the kids are home from school, but Jen is still not home from shopping. It's starting to get dark and Remy thinks his wife should have been home by now to have dinner with the family. Only she's still not answering his texts. So this is when he begins to panic. He calls the only other person she might have reached out to that day. The one person Jen talks to as much about, she speaks to her own husband, her best friend, Eileen Sells, the mother who she met through her daughter's grand Girl Scout troop. Now, Eileen tells Remy she hasn't spoken to Jen all day either. She has no idea where Jen could be. Now, Remy is beginning to wonder, could Jen have gotten into a bad car accident along the way? What if something is wrong? So he dials 911 at this point and he tells them, quote, my wife left this morning between 10 and 11 and she hasn't been back and I'm really freaked out. This is totally unlike her. And none of our friends have heard from her. So that evening, officers actually tell him to hang tight while they start looking into accident reports and checking hospitals en route to the mall. Now, meanwhile, Remy says he can hardly sleep that night. He goes to sleep without figuring out where his wife is. He doesn't know what he's going to tell the kids when they wake up the next morning and their mom still isn't home.

[Garrett Moreland]

The line that's this strange.

[Peyton Moreland]

The line Remy eventually goes with the next morning is, oh, mom just went out shopping. She isn't back yet. She will be home by the time you guys get back from school today. Now, when Remy checks back in with the police that morning, they actually don't have any updates for him. There was no sign of Jen in any local hospitals. So Remy starts calling around to his friends to try and get their help and support.

[Garrett Moreland]

And.

[Peyton Moreland]

And he says one of his work colleagues asks, hey, well, have you checked for her on the Find my iPhone app? Now, remember, this is 2012, so, gosh.

[Garrett Moreland]

I'm trying to even remember what.

[Peyton Moreland]

Most people didn't even know the phone had this.

[Garrett Moreland]

I'm trying to remember what the Find my iPhone app or Find My Friends even looked like. Well, actually, it was just Find my iPhone. It wasn't even Find my friends yet. Right.

[Peyton Moreland]

And sharing that location of your iPhone wasn't exactly commonplace yet because I think at this point it was more like, oh my gosh, privacy, turn this off. And not like, oh my gosh. You can share with your friends. And this is very common. And kids share with their parents.

[Garrett Moreland]

Well, what you could do for Find my iPhone is you could log into another phone with your credentials to find your phone if you lost it. Do you remember that? I just remember because I used it one time because I lost my phone at the beach. So I think it was more for like finding your own phone, but someone was missing. You could log in if you had the information and it was turned on on their phone. You could see where they're at. Yeah.

[Peyton Moreland]

So after dropping the kids off at school, Remy goes down to the police station and with the police chief there, he gets on to find my iPhone app and kind of messes around. And sure enough, it shows the location of Jen's phone. It says that her device is about 20 miles away along some stretch of roadway in a town called South Plymouth. So they send some of their officers out to that area to look around, only the police come back. They can't find anything. They come back empty handed. Now when Remy hears this, he's completely dissatisfied. Her phone says it's out there, so it has to be out there. So he actually goes there himself that day to check the area and he says he finds his wife's phone pretty quick. He discovers it lying in some overgrowth near an embankment by a bridge. Only there's no sign of Jen anywhere nearby near the phone. But as soon as he discovers her phone, he calls the police back to let them know. And then he goes back down to the police station and gives them Jen's phone for evidence. Except there's something odd about the cell phone.

[Garrett Moreland]

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[Peyton Moreland]

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[Garrett Moreland]

You know, it's kind of sad because it happens a lot. Not where, like, people kill people, but, like, you just never know someone. You never know someone's relationship. You never know who someone is. You never know what's going on. Everyone's just kind of living their own lives, and you never know.

[Peyton Moreland]

So police learn that Jen had been playing an online game, one called Kingdoms of Camelot, where people all over the world play these medieval characters. They team up, they chat with each other. Remy and the kids had noticed that Jen had actually been spending a little too much time on her laptop playing the game recently, honestly spending less time with the family in the evenings or after school. Even her best friend Eileen noticed that Jen was retreating from her real life to live in that virtual world more and more to the point where it almost kind of started to become an addiction for Jen. She was spending close to eight hours a day, sometimes more, playing this game.

[Garrett Moreland]

Okay?

[Peyton Moreland]

She had stopped cooking. She had stopped doing laundry. And Eileen said the game was all Jen could talk about. In fact, during a recent shopping trip together, Jen had told Eileen about someone in particular that she had met through playing this game, a guy from England named Rob. Jen had even told Eileen that the online relationship was kind of evolving. They had begun flirting. Rob had even told her what kind of cologne he wore.

[Garrett Moreland]

Whoa.

[Peyton Moreland]

So during that shopping trip, Jen told Eileen that she wanted to run into a store and find the cologne for herself so she could smell his scent and what he smelled like. So she would, like, have this picture in her head when they talked, you know, not.

[Garrett Moreland]

Honestly, not the weirdest thing.

[Peyton Moreland]

Well, from there, Jen began getting dolled up. She would take pictures of herself, send them to Rob, and at one point, she even told Eileen that Rob was actually thinking about moving to the US just so him and Jen could be a little closer.

[Garrett Moreland]

And me, that's a bigger of a deal.

[Peyton Moreland]

So, from what I can tell, though, the two of them had never met up in person before Jen disappeared. But this information is actually worrisome enough that Eileen, when she finds out Jen is missing, knows that she has to share it with police immediately. She believed if Jen hadn't run off to be with Rob somewhere, it was possible that he had come to the States after all, and she didn't know what kind of person he was, and maybe Rob had met up with her and had hurt her. Everything is unknown at this point. So almost immediately, the police try and track this Rob from England guy down, and they find he's actually still in the uk so they arrange a meeting with him through Interpol, and they speak to this guy about Jen. And Rob tells investigators he's actually married, but he did have an intimate relationship with Jen online. He had even sent her money recently to buy herself a Christmas gift. And in return, Jen had mailed him some of her lingerie. Now, Rob also admits he and Jen were talking about meeting up in person soon in New York, but he hadn't booked anything yet. He also said he had been a bit worried, too, because he had noticed that Jen hadn't been online in the last few days. Now, when police break the news about Rob to Remy, Jen's husband, he is furious, especially hearing about the details of this relationship. But he didn't exactly treat it like he was like.

[Garrett Moreland]

Like shocked, almost like he knew already.

[Peyton Moreland]

Yeah, he had been telling the police that he believed Jen might have run off with someone else. He just didn't, like, specify that it was Rob from England.

[Garrett Moreland]

Okay.

[Peyton Moreland]

He said the two of them had been growing apart and that this game she was playing had been eating up a lot of their time. But on December 16, five days after Jen was last seen, there is a new discovery in the case that indicates maybe Jen didn't run away at all. Ever since Jen disappeared, her father, Tom, had just been driving around town every single day looking for any sign of his daughter. And on the 16th, he finally discovers something. Jen's red Chrysler minivan. It was abandoned in an apartment complex parking lot only eight miles away from the family's home. So Jen's dad calls the police immediately to report this. And when they come to investigate, they find the car is empty, aside from some spots of blood in her vehicle, which is not a good thing to find when the owner of this vehicle is missing. So this is no longer a missing person's case to police.

[Garrett Moreland]

They homicide.

[Peyton Moreland]

They decide they might be looking at a homicide investigation. So it's after this that Remy goes on the local news to make an emotional plea. He says that despite the blood evidence, he believes that his wife is alive. And he asks that anyone with information come forward. And he says, quote, in like speaking to Jen through the tv, I don't think you ever, ever knew how much we care for you and how much you're loved. Meanwhile, he keeps posting on Facebook, trying to aid in the investigation until two months later, on February 26, 2013, when everyone's hopes are dashed. So at 11pm that night, Remy gets a knock on the front door, and there's some police officers standing there who say, hey, we found Jen's naked body in an embankment about 20 miles from their house, about three miles away from where her cell phone was found. When her autopsy is performed later, the medical examiners have a hard time determining the cause of death because of the level of decomposition. They rule out any natural cause of death, though, and it didn't appear to be an accident of any kind, which left them with homicide and a theory that she was likely strangled or suffocated. Now, by this point, the police have not ruled out Remy as a possible suspect. After all, he was the one to find her phone after the police went out and didn't find it themselves. And they had also learned in this time that Jen wasn't the only one who was stepping outside of the marriage, because apparently Remy had been having his own affair with Jen's best friend.

[Garrett Moreland]

Oh, the one like the one that came forward?

[Peyton Moreland]

Yes.

[Garrett Moreland]

Well, you know, the one that came.

[Peyton Moreland]

Forward about Jen's pair.

[Garrett Moreland]

That's usually how it is. It's usually like a best friend or something.

[Peyton Moreland]

Turns out Eileen and Remy had been seeing each other for about a year before Jen disappeared.

[Garrett Moreland]

Wow.

[Peyton Moreland]

Well, Remy had actually gotten Eileen into his running club, and they had been spending a lot of time training together. Thing led to another. Remy said by this point, he and Jen had already grown apart, had even spoken about divorce. But it wasn't that easy. Eileen had a husband and kids of her own. So they kept their relationship under wraps. They began sneaking around, meeting up whenever they had a moment. Remy started buying her things and telling her he was in love with her. And then Eileen actually separated from her husband and even moved out for a bit, thinking, inevitably, that she and Remy would end up together. But a few weeks before Jen disappeared, Eileen's guilt consumed her, and she decided to break things off with Remy and then move back in with her husband and reconcile. And then the day before Jen disappeared, Remy and Eileen, unable to stay away, met up again. So they once again rekindled their relationship. And then the following day, Jen goes missing.

[Garrett Moreland]

Oh, gosh.

[Peyton Moreland]

Okay, so in this situation, it is not enough to just look at Remy. Police also now have to look at Eileen.

[Garrett Moreland]

That would suck. This all being public and on blast.

[Peyton Moreland]

Yeah. So they ask Eileen to come in and take a polygraph, which she does, but the results come back inconclusive. However, it's Eileen's alibi that actually ultimately ends up clearing her from the suspect list. She says she was at work the morning Jen vanished, and her employers confirm it, which means detectives really only have one more name left on the list. Her husband, Remy. And that means looking deeper into Remy's alibi, because, remember, he said that after Jen left for the mall that day, he worked on some projects for work and then went for a run. He even tells detectives what path he took for his run that day, which ended at the local ymca. But when they check the surveillance cameras along that running route at the time he said he would be there. Any convenience stores, banks, different businesses, There is no sign of Remy running. There is some footage, though, of him showing up outside the YMCA around 12:42pm that afternoon and stretching, but it doesn't look like he ran there along the route that he claimed. And there's another red flag. Besides that, though. Remy told police that Jen left the house by 10:30am that morning for the mall. However, when they look at Jen's cell phone data from that day, they find that her cell phone was still at the house at 10:57. Okay, again, that just doesn't line up with Remy's version of events. And then, as all of this is unraveling around Remy, some DNA results come back. They're from a blood stain that was found on both the sweatshirt Remy was wearing the day Jen disappeared and a blood stain that was found on the couple's mattress when they searched their house. And both of these are a partial match for both Jen and Remy.

[Garrett Moreland]

Yeah, it's hard because you can explain like hair, fingernails and all that, but.

[Peyton Moreland]

Maybe even a little blood on the mat mattress.

[Garrett Moreland]

Yeah, this is hard explaining blood on like a sweatshirt.

[Peyton Moreland]

Yes. The day that your wife disappears.

[Garrett Moreland]

Oh yeah, my wife got a bloody nose that day. Like you know, that's eh.

[Peyton Moreland]

Police decide this is enough to get an arrest Warrant. And on May 17, 2013, about three months after Jen's body was found, Remy is taken into custody and charged with second degree murder. Now, Remy denies it all, says he was the one who initially helped police with the investigation. He points to the fact that they don't have a murder weapon and says, hey, people cheat all the time. It doesn't mean that they kill their spouse. In his mind, the case against him is weak. And Eileen actually comes out and says that she believes he's innocent too. From jail, Remy calls Eileen often to say, hey, I still love you, I still want to be with you. And she assumes that this entire thing with Jen going missing and ending up dead is a big misunderstanding.

[Garrett Moreland]

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[Peyton Moreland]

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[Garrett Moreland]

This is interesting because they don't. I feel like they don't have much. I mean, they have the body, but.

[Peyton Moreland]

Like, yeah, they don't.

[Garrett Moreland]

They really don't have much. A lot of this is going to be convincing the jury, which is part of the justice system. I mean. Yeah. Did he probably do it? Yeah, he probably did it.

[Peyton Moreland]

But is there concrete evidence?

[Garrett Moreland]

But is there concrete evidence?

[Peyton Moreland]

No, he doesn't have a solid alibi. He is having an affair. There was a drop of blood found on his sweatshirt, but other than that.

[Garrett Moreland]

Yeah, this is okay. I'm curious to see how this goes or what the prosecutor says. Prosecution.

[Peyton Moreland]

Finally, In September of 2014, the trial against Remy Remsuran began. Prosecutors alleged that Remy had wanted out of his marriage to be with Eileen while. While also still maintaining full custody of the children. And they said that on the morning of December 11, when Remy caught her playing video games in their bed that morning, he actually snapped and he killed her right there in the bedroom and then spent the morning getting rid of her body. Now, shockingly, Eileen actually ends up being one of the star witnesses for the.

[Garrett Moreland]

Prosecution because she, like, realized, way I think he did this.

[Peyton Moreland]

Well, when she took the stand, she opened up about the affair. She actually spoke about some of the red flags she now noticed in hindsight, like the fact that Remy had asked her to pick him up from the YMCA the afternoon Jen disappeared. But when she dropped him off at home, he didn't invite her inside like he normally would if Jen was out. If Jen was out shopping.

[Garrett Moreland]

Okay.

[Peyton Moreland]

Instead, he's like, no, no, I know you're busy. And she found this very odd, considering the two had just gotten back together the night before. They had been intimate the night before. Like, why wouldn't he invite her in? So the prosecution pointed to this as evidence, saying he only turned down Eileen that day because he was still trying to figure out how to cover up his wife's murder.

[Garrett Moreland]

Which, again, this is all great. These are great arguments, but it's circumstantial. It's just all circumstantial.

[Peyton Moreland]

The prosecution, though, also did call on a forensic expert who debunked the fact that Remy said he was working on his computer all morning the day Jen vanished. He said there was no work done on the computer. In the hours Remy claimed he was working. Instead, during that time, the prosecution suggested that Remy was placing his wife's body in the trunk of her red van, getting rid of her body, and then abandoning her van in the apartment complex parking lot. And then from there, he ran to the YMCA and then called Eileen and said, come pick me up. They also called Jen's online friend, Rob, the one that Eileen said Jen was basically having an emotional affair with. And he takes the stand via Skype, and he tells the jury how that's.

[Garrett Moreland]

Funny, because Skype is mean. Skype's gone. Skype's out of business.

[Peyton Moreland]

Which is crazy, because you think Skype would have been Zoom.

[Garrett Moreland]

Yeah, well, Skype didn't. They didn't pivot. Yeah, and Zoom did.

[Peyton Moreland]

So he tells the jury how he actually became alarmed that day when, during the middle of their game that morning, Jen just disappeared. Like, she had just walked away from her computer and. And he even texted her later and was like, hey, where did you go mid game? And was met with no response, which bolsters the prosecution's theory that Remy had killed Jen when she was laying on their bed playing a game. And as for the defense, their approach was placing blame on the police, saying that they had botched the case, they had arrested the wrong guy. They questioned the prosecution's timeline, saying the amount of time between the supposed attack and Remy showing up at the YMCA just wasn't enough for him to kill, drop the body and the car off somewhere. They also questioned the surveillance videos that didn't show Remy on his jogging route that morning, saying, well, you didn't have time stamps, and most of those videos don't even have a good vantage point. Plus, there were some other interesting details that came to light from. From the defense at trial. For example, they mentioned there was a witness who saw a man driving Jen's van around hours later when Remy was known to be at home with the.

[Garrett Moreland]

Kids at about 5:30pm oh, that one's so dumb because.

[Peyton Moreland]

So an eyewitness comes forward and say, no, I saw a man driving that exact van at 5:30.

[Garrett Moreland]

Okay.

[Peyton Moreland]

This is also the same time he's calling the police. They also hired a DNA expert who found that there was male DNA under Jen's fingernails. Apparently, though, it was not enough to conclusively identify whose it was, but they were able to rule out that it was Remy's DNA. What's weird, though, is they didn't call this DNA expert or that eyewitness to the stand. They kind of just say, well, we Talked to someone.

[Garrett Moreland]

Okay, yeah, whatever.

[Peyton Moreland]

And instead there was only one person that testified for the defense and that was Remy himself. And at times he acted erratic, yelling at the prosecution while trying to make his point. He said that he had the perfect life, there was no reason for him to kill his wife when everything was at that point going great between him and his girlfriend. Then he told the jury he didn't really care what anyone else thought of him. And that was his testimony. And the way he acted on stand was honestly enough to seal Remy's fate.

[Garrett Moreland]

Which is really interesting because they tell.

[Peyton Moreland]

You not to testify for a reason.

[Garrett Moreland]

It's that. But also like attorneys, lawyers, when you are doing a high profile case like this, they coach you through how to act, how to answer questions, because, I mean, that'll sway the jury 100%. You can't get emotional like that.

[Peyton Moreland]

It's why they tell them not to testify, because the jury.

[Garrett Moreland]

Yeah.

[Peyton Moreland]

Put so much on that.

[Garrett Moreland]

And I mean, it's also like the prosecutor, like they're trying to get them to crack because they know if they can crack them and they can get them and they can get them to be emotional, I mean, the jury's going to. Yeah, they're going to believe it.

[Peyton Moreland]

Yeah. So after three weeks of testimony, the jury returned with a verdict. They found remy guilty of second degree murder and he was sentenced to 25 years behind bars. But this isn't the end of Remy's story. So in October of 2022, now 48 year old Remy was back in court again. And this time to try and overturn his murder conviction due to ineffective counsel. Turns out Remy's lawyer back then, Gilberto Garcia, had never done a murder trial before. In fact, he had no criminal law experience at all. He was recommended by a friend of his dad's. Remy's new team of lawyers pointed out that Garcia never called a single witness to the stand outside of Remy to challenge the prosecution. That he had googled basic forensic issues like DNA before the trial.

[Garrett Moreland]

So they're going to say he basically wasn't represented fairly.

[Peyton Moreland]

Yes. And he never properly prepared Remy to take this stand in his own defense. Which is exactly what Garrett was just saying. The judge overseeing the appeal ultimately said the testimony, quote, revealed his meaning. The Garcias, the old attorneys sheer lack of knowledge regarding any of the technical and scientific issues relevant to the criminal proceeding. This is one of those rare cases where the attorney's conduct constituted egregious and prejudicial error, such that the defendant did not receive a fair trial.

[Garrett Moreland]

All right. Trial number two.

[Peyton Moreland]

So Remy's verdict was tossed out in 2022. He was granted the right to a new trial. And with that, the prosecution began rebuilding their case, including some new evidence. They had discovered messages from Jen to Rob that showed she had no intention of actually going shopping at all. The day that he said she went shopping. Remy wasn't willing to take his chances a second time, though. So rather than go through another trial, he accepted a plea deal of 22 years with time served on okay. And a reduced charge of manslaughter.

[Garrett Moreland]

Okay, so. So, I mean, at that point, you're admitting. I mean, he's admitting that he.

[Peyton Moreland]

I mean, he pled guilty.

[Garrett Moreland]

Yeah, yeah, he's admitting he did it.

[Peyton Moreland]

He could have pled no contest. Yeah, true, Remy could be free again as soon as 2031, but he still is actually maintaining his innocence. He says the only reason he even pled guilty was because it was the smartest thing to do legally. Maybe one of the most frustrating parts about this is how cavalier he was about prison in general. He told one reporter, quote, have you ever been to prison? It's hilarious. You get cell phones. You kind of get anything you want in prison if you are looking for it. It's insane. I'm telling you, prison is a joke. And for Eileen Sales, she says she is haunted by the affair and regrets ever having met Remy. She still blames herself for the role she believed she caused in Jen's death. She said she would never forgive herself. But you have to remember, life doesn't always go the way we imagine it to. People make mistakes, feelings change, loves evolves or disappears. It's all about how we handle that and that we make sure others don't become collateral damage in the fallout.

[Garrett Moreland]

He kind of got away with murder when we don't.

[Peyton Moreland]

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[Garrett Moreland]

No, he honestly kind of got away with murder. Like, he's going to be out in 2031. They don't really know. I mean, they know what happened to her, but, like, there's not a ton of evidence hold, never say anything about it.

[Peyton Moreland]

I mean, most men that murder their wife get life in prison.

[Garrett Moreland]

Yeah. Like he kind of just killed his wife. He's going to be out in a few years and that'll be that. That's wild. That's insane.

[Peyton Moreland]

Kind of a crazy case.

[Garrett Moreland]

Yeah, that's pretty insane because there really.

[Peyton Moreland]

Just wasn't much evidence. And then you add in a mistress who now believes that he did it when originally she didn't, and it's all over the place.

[Garrett Moreland]

Yeah, it's a lot.

[Peyton Moreland]

All right, you guys, that was our episode for this week, and we will see you next time with another one. I love it.

[Garrett Moreland]

I hate it.

[Peyton Moreland]

Goodbye.