Gloria Aiken

Summary

Snapped: Women Who Murder – Episode Summary: Gloria Aiken

Introduction

In this gripping episode of Snapped: Women Who Murder, Oxygen delves into the chilling case of Gloria Aiken, a seemingly devoted partner whose life unraveled into mystery and murder. This long-form summary captures the intricate details, key discussions, and pivotal moments that define this true crime story.

Background: Gloria Aiken and George Frazier

Gloria Aiken, a single mother of two, met George Frazier, a charismatic man from Brooklyn, New York. Their relationship blossomed over seven years, during which George embraced Gloria’s daughters as his own. The couple relocated from the tumultuous streets of Brooklyn to the quiet town of Ennis, Texas, seeking a fresh start.

The Disappearance of George Frazier

On February 17, 2008, Gloria reported George missing after she failed to see him return home from watching their teenage daughter. Her immediate concern was evident as she stated, “He would never leave his daughters because he was the role of taking care of the kids” (04:15). Despite initial investigations, George seemed to vanish without a trace, leaving family and friends puzzled.

Investigation Initiates

Detective Dorinda Clark led the investigation, interviewing Gloria and searching their home for clues. Early skepticism arose when Gloria mentioned George owed money to individuals possibly linked to the Mexican mafia (15:25). However, evidence was sparse, and initial leads, including a suspect named Daniel Hinojosa, failed to connect directly to the case.

The First Clues: Discovery of George’s Leg

On March 1, 2008, a human leg was discovered near Bardwell Lake, later confirmed to belong to George Frazier through dental records and DNA matching (34:44). Forensic experts noted the leg had been cleanly severed, indicating possible foul play. This grisly find intensified the investigation, shifting focus back to Gloria.

Gloria as a Suspect

Gloria’s cooperation waned as inconsistencies emerged. During a polygraph test on March 3, 2008, she failed questions related to her involvement in George’s disappearance (26:35). Her demeanor and reluctance raised suspicions, especially when her behavior during the investigation suggested possible concealment of facts.

The Role of Gloria’s Boyfriend

Further investigations revealed Gloria’s affair with Olatunbosen Oditala, who became a person of interest. Despite initial denials, taped conversations hinted at Gloria’s possible motives, including financial gains from a $250,000 life insurance policy on George (37:32). However, concrete evidence linking Oditala to the crime remained elusive.

Final Evidence and Arrest

By 2014, lead detective Dorinda Clark, battling leukemia, reenergized the case. Prosecutors presented a circumstantial yet compelling case to a grand jury, leading to Gloria’s indictment for murder. In 2016, faced with dwindling evidence and the death of Detective Clark, Gloria accepted a plea deal, reducing her charge to manslaughter and receiving a 12-year sentence (45:51).

Trial and Sentencing

Gloria’s plea deal sparked outrage among those who felt justice was insufficient. Family members and witnesses decried the leniency, arguing that the brutal nature of George’s murder warranted harsher punishment. Gloria remains incarcerated, with her projected release set for 2026.

Conclusion

The case of Gloria Aiken exemplifies the complexities of true crime investigations, where personal relationships, hidden motives, and circumstantial evidence intertwine. Despite years of diligent investigation, the tragic loss of Detective Dorinda Clark and the passage of time left many questions unanswered, turning the case into a haunting cold case.

Notable Quotes

• Narrator: “He wouldn't have just ran off too honorable for something like that. He wouldn't have made a choice like just to run, left family.” (11:05)

• Detective Dorinda Clark: “He had been shot twice in the head. It was a .22 caliber pistol.” (35:09)

• Family Member: “We want to look at everything and we start looking at potential people that could have had something to do with him being missing.” (04:44)

• Forensic Expert: “This was a straight, clean cut all the way through.” (02:19)

• Detective: “We asked him, you gonna be a witness or suspect.” (32:21)

• Family Member 2: “She took his life and all the people he's going to touch and all the people he has touched. And she got 12 years. That's not justice. That's a crime in itself.” (46:04)

Current Status

Gloria Aiken is serving her sentence at the Dr. Lane Murray Unit in Gatesville, Texas, with a release date anticipated in 2026. Olatunbosen Oditala, her boyfriend, was never charged in connection to George’s death, leaving lingering doubts and unresolved questions surrounding the case.

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Transcript

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[Witness 1]

He wouldn't have just ran off too honorable for something like that. He wouldn't have made a choice like just around.

[Advertiser]

But when a horrific discovery washes ashore on a nearby lake, the peace of this tight knit community is shaken to its core.

[Detective]

He finds a hidden torso in the bag.

[Forensic Expert]

It wasn't a rough cut like you would see with an animal attack or an accidental dismemberment. This was a straight, clean cut all the way through.

[Advertiser]

As the investigation begins, the victim's past suggests a sinister motive.

[Detective]

There was some guys that he owed money to that were possibly involved in a Mexican mafia.

[Advertiser]

When the pieces fall into place, a grisly crime will take shape.

[Investigator]

He had been shot in the head twice with a.22 caliber weapon.

[Detective]

To dismember a person would require some anger.

[Narrator]

This is some serious.

[Advertiser]

Investigators are left fighting for justice until the very end.

[Detective]

There was a lot of evidence, but it was all circumstantial.

[Investigator]

So much of the case has loose ends, and juries don't like loose ends.

[Advertiser]

The charming town of Ennis, Texas, is the picture of southern hospitality.

[Investigator]

Ennis is one of those towns where the kid winning the 4H contest can make the front page of the paper. I used to drive with one hand on the wheel because I would always be waving to people.

[Advertiser]

But on February 18th, 2008, a dark cloud hovers over peaceful Ennis when 41 year old Gloria Aiken calls 911 to report the disappearance of her partner of 10 years, George Frazier.

[Family Member]

Gloria reported him missing. The last time she had seen him was the night before, which was February 17th of 2008. And then she just didn't see him again and had a bad feeling.

[Investigator]

She called the hospitals, checked everywhere, and he was nowhere to be found.

[Advertiser]

Dispatch quickly sends an officer to George and Gloria's home to file an official report.

[Detective]

She said he left to go see a friend and never came back.

[Advertiser]

According to Gloria, George has never not returned home, especially on a day he's supposed to watch the couple's teenage daughter.

[Family Member 2]

Gloria called me and she asked me if I had heard from him. And I had said, no, I haven't heard from him. And then she said he didn't come home. And then she was like, she's starting to worry. He would never leave his daughters because he was the role of taking care of the kids.

[Family Member]

We want to look at everything and we start looking at potential people that could have had something to do with him being missing.

[Advertiser]

George Frazier was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1965. Joyous and charismatic, George quickly grew into the family comedian.

[Family Member]

He was the big guy, but he was more like a humble type person. Like, hello, how you doing? Never seen him mad, never seen him angry.

[Advertiser]

George was just like a basic everyday guy. Despite George's sunny outlook, Brooklyn in the 1960s wasn't an easy place to grow up.

[Family Member 2]

This is just an awful, crazy time in Brooklyn. The crack just hit the streets. Everybody was getting strung out on this crack.

[Investigator]

George learned some street hustle. He knew how to navigate the back alleys of Brooklyn in order to survive.

[Witness 1]

I did get that impression. He didn't have to work. I think he might have some criminal activity that gained him his money and he liked his money. He just didn't like spending it.

[Advertiser]

George's life was forever changed when he laid eyes on single mother of two, 31 year old Gloria Aiken.

[Investigator]

She's a single mom, similar upbringing, probably a challenging childhood much like George's.

[Family Member 2]

She did grow up poor, sharing clothes with her family. She has three brothers and two sisters. They were not close.

[Advertiser]

At the age of 18, Gloria had her first child, a little girl named Erica. But being a teen parent wasn't easy for Gloria or Erica's father.

[Family Member 2]

My uncle's a little bit older than her. They had the baby and they got an apartment and they were staying with each other and started to fight and she got rid of him.

[Advertiser]

Seven years later, in 1992, Gloria gave birth to a second daughter and worked around the clock to provide a stable life for her children.

[Family Member 2]

She did hair on the side, she always had a job and always had a hustle going on. And she was quite inspirational to me as a kid, the fact that she was able to create opportunities for herself.

[Advertiser]

Though her daughters always came first, Gloria still found ways to treat herself.

[Family Member 2]

She was glamorous to me and she was about her money. So her clothes were very, very nice, fur coats and big jewelry.

[Advertiser]

Gloria's style garnered the attention of many young men, including 32 year old George Frazier.

[Family Member 2]

Gloria and George, I'm not sure how they met, but they met after my uncle and Gloria separated. They're both passionate people and they both very opinionated and they don't back down. They both had the same drive to get money. They were good together. They complimented each other to me.

[Advertiser]

In 1998 the couple started dating and George took on Gloria's daughters as his own.

[Family Member]

They called him dad and they seemed to have a pretty good relationship.

[Family Member 2]

I really love George. He accepted to me like a niece right off the bat. Gloria worked at the post office while the girls were growing up and George kind of stayed with the girls while she worked.

[Advertiser]

After seven years of dating, Gloria and George decided to leave crime ridden Brooklyn.

[Family Member]

He and Gloria moved from New York down to Texas and they just wanted to get away and come to a completely new place and start over.

[Advertiser]

While the family headed south, Gloria's oldest daughter took a different route and joined the military.

[Forensic Expert]

George was proud of her being in the military. He would always say that he was proud of her.

[Advertiser]

In 2005, the couple moved with their 12 year old daughter to the small town of Ennis.

[Forensic Expert]

George had family around, you know, he.

[Detective]

Was closer to his family and that's the reason they moved here.

[Witness 1]

This little old town, Ennis, there's not a whole lot of entertainment. It's a lot more slow down here than versus in New York.

[Advertiser]

George immediately embraced the slowed down southern lifestyle of his new hometown.

[Witness 1]

I met George on the job, Ennis regional medical center. He was a temporary. We enjoy what we do. We hang pictures and we fix things that are broke for people. He said he liked Innis because it was quiet. He really enjoyed the piece.

[Family Member]

He said he was just working temporary jobs here and there. So she seemed to be more of the breadwinner in the family, and he was more responsible for taking care of the daily duties. She had the more stable job, the more long term job working at the prison.

[Advertiser]

Off duty from her job at Hutchins state jail. Gloria wanted even more for herself and continued her New York hustle mentality.

[Family Member 2]

She was working two jobs, if I'm not mistaken, and then she was also going to school.

[Family Member]

She was enrolled in school in a community college around here, trying to better herself and move up the ladder. She was studying like anatomy, physiology, you know, things leading either to a healthcare or medical background.

[Advertiser]

By 2008, their youngest daughter, now 15 years old, was enrolled in high school and the family was thriving in Texas.

[Family Member 2]

George wanted to be happy somewhere with Gloria, and that was it.

[Advertiser]

But when George is reported missing on February 18, 2008, Gloria tells police she is alarmed that her always reliable partner has vanished without a trace.

[Family Member]

I don't think he took off For George, like not to come home or not to be there was not like George.

[Witness 1]

He wouldn't have just ran off too honorable for something like that. He wouldn't have made a choice like that just to run, left family.

[Family Member]

So now him being gone became a bigger issue, and so more suspicion about where he was and why he left became more important.

[Advertiser]

After responding officers take Gloria's statement, a missing persons investigation is opened with detective Dorinda Clark at the helm.

[Detective]

Detective Clark started call area jails, hospitals, places like that to, you know, make sure the person's not injured, unable to communicate or whatever. That's just normal procedure.

[Advertiser]

When her calls come up empty, Detective Clark heads to the home of George's partner, Gloria for more information.

[Forensic Expert]

Normally, your closest family member or the last person to see someone else is usually your first point of the investigation as your starting point.

[Advertiser]

Sitting across from Gloria, it's clear she is deeply concerned.

[Family Member]

His wallet was still left there at the house. If you're gonna go missing on purpose, you know you're gonna take your wallet and things that you need, whether it's credit cards, your id, things that you need to live.

[Detective]

We asked her for the phone information, the provider information and numbers. We were gonna probably use the phone to track him, basically is what we're gonna try to do.

[Family Member]

They were just trying to gather some evidence or information that could lead them as to where he could have gone.

[Advertiser]

But Gloria says the phone is also a dead end.

[Detective]

Gloria said that his phone wasn't working.

[Investigator]

George's phone had been turned off shortly after his disappearance. Well, if you want to find somebody, you gotta have their phone on.

[Detective]

He didn't take a vehicle with him, so we didn't have a vehicle to look for. We couldn't track a phone. There's all sorts of things going on that we would normally do that we weren't able to do.

[Advertiser]

A week passes with few leads for the missing persons case.

[Investigator]

Even after seven days of just hitting it hard, they have nothing. This was a frustrating investigation for the Ennis Police Department. They need to find George.

[Advertiser]

Coming up, a darker picture of George's past comes into focus.

[Witness 1]

I think George had bad dealings in the past.

[Family Member 2]

It would seem that it came back to haunt him.

[Investigator]

He owed somebody some money, and he was going to meet this person and take care of that.

[Advertiser]

February 19, 2008. It's been 24 hours since George Frazier was reported missing, and there is no sign of the beloved father.

[Family Member]

Ennis is a rural community. Was he somebody who had gone missing, who wandered into the woods or went out by the lake for some reason, fell in, drowned? Maybe animals had gotten to him? There was always that possibility of that happening.

[Advertiser]

After days of searching, on February 25th, detectives circle back to his partner of 10 years, Gloria Aiken.

[Investigator]

She says that there's been no activity on his credit cards.

[Advertiser]

When detectives ask if Gloria has any theories as to where George might be, she says she and her family are beginning to fear George's past may have caught up with him.

[Family Member 2]

He was a force in the areas we grew up in, so he was a respected man on the streets. Based off of the lifestyle that George led in the past, it would seem that it would have been something from his past that came back to haunt him.

[Witness 1]

George was very private. I think George had bad dealings in the past. He just seemed like he come from a really fast background, maybe something to do with drugs. He knew quite a bit about them. Sales amounts, types, kind.

[Advertiser]

Although the family had seemingly made a fresh start in Texas, Gloria says there's one bit of information she had been afraid to tell police.

[Investigator]

She tells detectives that he took off that night because he owed somebody some money and he was going to meet this person and take care of that.

[Family Member]

Gloria told the investigators that possibly he had owed some people money, specifically a Hispanic man who might have been in the Mexican mafia. And so that's why she believed something bad might have happened to him. The Mexican mafia and various gangs are all over Texas. It's very rare to have that in our county, you know, but we've had a few cases where gang related activity ends up coming into our county.

[Advertiser]

The potential lead sparks investigators interest. But during the interview, they notice an unsettling detail in the language Gloria is using around George's disappearance.

[Family Member]

She kept saying he was this, he did that, he had been, you know, doing this. It wasn't anything in the present tense.

[Forensic Expert]

That'S definitely would cause for concern and kind of throw up a red flag in your investigation when you've got your reporting party already referring to your victim in the past tense.

[Advertiser]

Still, Gloria remains entirely cooperative and even consents to a search of her home.

[Investigator]

They look through the couple's cars. They look through the couple's home. There is no obvious sign of foul play.

[Advertiser]

But as investigators make their way to the couple's bedroom, they notice something odd.

[Detective]

The house was clean. It was very organized. It was just a nice place. Go upstairs and there's this big walk in closet full of trash bags. What's in there? All those are all Georgie's clothes. She said she couldn't stand to look at them is what she told us.

[Investigator]

I can imagine where somebody would be so upset seeing this reminder that they would put the clothes in trash bags. So it wasn't a automatic red flag. It just seemed odd.

[Advertiser]

Investigators decide to dig deeper into Gloria and George's home life by going to Ennis High School and sitting down with the couple's 15 year old daughter.

[Detective]

I wanted to talk with you. Trying to find out what happened with your dad.

[Family Member]

Her response to them was, I'm a kid. Why are you asking me these things? She never was real emotional about him being missing. Didn't seem to be super upset. She figured he's probably just going to come home later. She said the last time she had seen George was at their home upstairs. She heard him get a phone call.

[Family Member 2]

Okay.

[Detective]

But she heard him talk on the phone to somebody.

[Family Member]

He said, hello.

[Advertiser]

All I heard was hello.

[Detective]

Okay, I was on my way.

[Witness 1]

Go to sleep.

[Investigator]

She remembers him leaving because the house has an alarm system that would let her know when somebody was leaving. And that's about it.

[Family Member]

She never saw him after that.

[Advertiser]

Next, detectives ask if her parents ever had Any problems in their relationship.

[Family Member]

She described her parents relationship as being pretty happy. She said they didn't really fight all that much.

[Advertiser]

The teen's description of a peaceful home draws the spotlight off Gloria.

[Investigator]

It was by all appearances a happy home. That's all she could give the police about George disappearing.

[Advertiser]

Desperate for answers. On February 26, over a week since George's disappearance, investigators begin questioning his friends, hoping for a leave.

[Investigator]

They're talking to a friend of George who says that he hasn't talked to George since Christmas. But he does remember George talking about a guy named Daniel.

[Detective]

Daniel had a reputation at one time of being kind of a crook.

[Advertiser]

Detectives must determine if this is the man Gloria believes George owes money to.

[Detective]

Any lead's worth checking out. I'm not going to discount any lead until we follow up on it. And it just. It just seemed like a good place to go.

[Advertiser]

On February 29, 2008, 12 days since George's disappearance, detectives sit down with Daniel Hinojosa.

[Detective]

Daniel and George used to work at the hospital together. Daniel and George were friends.

[Investigator]

Daniel says that he had no information about George, hadn't talked to him in a long time.

[Detective]

Daniel had no knowledge of what happened to George. He was concerned about George.

[Advertiser]

Also, Daniel provides an alibi which quickly checks out. And when detectives dig into Daniel's past, they find no ties to the Mexican mafia.

[Detective]

He did not appear to be involved in any kind of offense at all.

[Advertiser]

With their best lead dried up, investigators find themselves at a stalemate.

[Investigator]

Yet again, investigators are considering all possibilities. They want to put different storylines to rest. Was this a missing person? They had to find answers.

[Advertiser]

March 1, 2008. As the investigation into the disappearance of George Frazier grinds to a halt, a new mystery unravels. Three miles away in nearby Bardwell Lake.

[Investigator]

A couple that was on the lake just enjoying themselves, come around a curve and see a human leg.

[Family Member]

They had been walking along the way, found this leg partially wrapped up in a plastic bag and then called the authorities right away when they found it.

[Forensic Expert]

Normally when you get a call that someone thinks they found human remains, more often than not it turns out to be an animal bone. So I was a little shocked to find out when we got there that it was an actual a human leg.

[Investigator]

There's no distinguishing marks, but it's a leg of an African American.

[Forensic Expert]

The wound itself appeared to have been cut with some sort of saw or a bladed instrument. It wasn't a rough cut like you would see with an animal attack or an accidental dismemberment, something like that this was a straight, clean cut all the way through.

[Advertiser]

Coming up, a possible crime scene is.

[Family Member]

Uncovered in most of the places. There were very small like droplets of blood.

[Advertiser]

And as investigators dig more into George and Gloria's relationship, a stunning secret comes to light.

[Detective]

He admitted they had an affair.

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[Advertiser]

On March 1, 2008, investigators with the Ellis County Sheriff's Office are processing the scene where a human lay has just been recovered on the edge of Lake Bardwell.

[Forensic Expert]

We felt we needed to search the area looking for the rest of the victim's body or more parts. We didn't find any blood at the scene. We didn't find any other physical evidence. Everything appeared to be that the location at the lake was strictly a dump site.

[Advertiser]

With a likely homicide on their hands. Detectives immediately send the severed limb to the coroner for analysis and search the missing person's database.

[Investigator]

As they're looking through all of these missing persons cases, they land on George Frazier, missing since February 18th.

[Forensic Expert]

We learned that the Ennis Police Department, which was near our location, actually did have an open missing person case for a George Frazier. Since both of the cases were in this close proximity, the description matched. We had a pretty good suspicion that this leg was probably that of Mr. Frazier.

[Family Member]

We were able to get from his sister in some DNA items. Additionally from Gloria, they got a toothbrush, and so they were able to compare the DNA, and it was George's leg.

[Advertiser]

Detectives head to the home George shared with his partner Gloria to deliver the tragic news.

[Family Member]

When the investigators went to tell Gloria that George was deceased, she was not overly emotional in terms of crying and things like that. So that caught the investigators off guard when that happened. So now we're going to hit Gloria Akin much harder than before.

[Advertiser]

On March 3, Gloria agrees to sit down with investigators for a polygraph examination.

[Detective]

I believe the question of polygraph were, did you have any knowledge of George's disappearance? Were you involved in any way in George's disappearance? There weren't but two or three questions.

[Investigator]

She continues to maintain her innocence. She continues to maintain she knows nothing about George's display.

[Advertiser]

Though Gloria is adamant of her innocence, the test suggests otherwise.

[Detective]

She failed. I mean, she was lying.

[Family Member]

The part that Gloria failed was the question asking about whether she participated in George's being missing or in his dismemberment. So that was very important to investigators at the time.

[Investigator]

The detectives informed Gloria that she's failed, and at this point, she clams up.

[Advertiser]

Detectives press Gloria by showing her a photo of the leg found on the shore of Lake Bardwell.

[Detective]

That's when she started tearing up. She knew whose leg it was. She knew exactly whose leg it was. She stood up, said, I gotta go. And I said, this is your last chance. Talk to us. And she said, I gotta go, and left. The next day, we got a call from an attorney that that was representing her and said that he did not want us talking to his client.

[Investigator]

Since Gloria's no longer talking, since she's lawyered up, they're gonna have to play tough.

[Family Member]

We had the polygraph examinations, but those aren't admissible in Texas. They thought there would have been more evidence found at the home.

[Investigator]

So they get a search warrant to search this house and the cars again.

[Advertiser]

On March 11, 2008, detectives arrive at Gloria's home for a more comprehensive search.

[Family Member]

This time, they also went in with crime scene technicians from the DPS crime lab.

[Detective]

We took a computer. There was a nine millimeter pistol we seized. They found blood in a jeep. They found blood in a bathroom. Dorinda Clark found a large amount of blood on a chair, in an ottoman in the wall in the living room. And it appeared somebody had tried to clean it up at some point, and they didn't. A very good job.

[Investigator]

They find a baseball bat that has bloodstains and pieces of hair on it.

[Detective]

That kind of made us think that this is our primary crime scene.

[Advertiser]

Despite the evidence, some details of the crime aren't adding up with the supposed crime scene.

[Family Member]

In most of the places, there were very small, like, droplets of blood. I think the theory was he was killed in the home, taken to some other location for dismemberment, and then his body parts, you know, thrown out in different locations.

[Advertiser]

Convinced that George was killed in his home, detectives do a neighborhood canvas.

[Investigator]

What emerges from this is that George was really well thought of by the neighbors. But Gloria, not so much.

[Forensic Expert]

We were all pretty good friends.

[Detective]

She would get on to him all the time, just anything, anything he did.

[Witness 1]

It seemed like every time I went to the house to pick him up, there was something fighting about something. We would leave, and then he wouldn't make the comment. She's all about money.

[Advertiser]

Neighbors say that money wasn't the couple's only problem.

[Witness 1]

George thought she was having an affair.

[Advertiser]

With this new information, investigators must consider if Gloria's alleged lover had anything to do with the crime.

[Detective]

I don't know if he's got any knowledge about any potential homicide or he was involved in the discipline or the dismemberment of George Frazier.

[Family Member]

If he does know something and didn't give information, he could potentially be charged with some criminal activity himself. Or if he participated in some way in helping Gloria.

[Advertiser]

On March 12, 2008, detectives subpoena Gloria's phone records, hoping to uncover the name of her alleged lover.

[Family Member]

When they got her phone records, they could tell who was calling and what time they were calling. They saw that there was one particular number that she called very often. That person ended up being Mr. Odetola, a person who also worked with her at the prison.

[Detective]

Phone records pointed to him as being the most called person.

[Advertiser]

On March 21, investigators head to Hutchins State Jail to interview the man on the call log, Olatunbosen Odetala.

[Detective]

He admitted he'd been dating her since, like, August of 07. She had told him that she wasn't married, that she was living with two old aunts that were rich and would cut her off if they knew that she was seeing anybody.

[Investigator]

They saw each other regularly. He would rent a hotel room in Corsicana, which is about 30 minutes down the road.

[Advertiser]

When detectives break the news that Gloria did in fact have A partner of 10 years, Ola Tombosin appears genuinely shocked.

[Investigator]

He says that he had no idea who George was, didn't even know that Gloria was in a relationship with anyone. He confesses that he had been in the home, but had no idea that George even existed.

[Advertiser]

Olachun Bosen says that within the past three weeks, Gloria had asked him to move in with her.

[Detective]

If she's gonna invite another guy to move in with her. After George had been reported missing, she was fairly confident George wasn't coming back.

[Advertiser]

Coming up, more gruesome evidence is recovered from the depths of another Texas lake.

[Detective]

Arms had been removed, and the body had been cut just below the chest.

[Advertiser]

And detectives set a trap for their prime suspect.

[Detective]

We asked him, you gonna be a witness or suspect.

[Family Member]

Committing the murder?

[Family Member 2]

We need to listen to Children's House.

[Advertiser]

April 2008. Six weeks after the disappearance of George Frazier Ennis police are speaking with Olatunbosen Oditala, the lover of George's partner, Gloria Aiken.

[Family Member]

They were looking at Gloria, so now they're also trying to figure out what is the motive. Right. Can we prove that Gloria had a motive to kill George? Why would she want him dead? Once this evidence of an affair was discovered, he then became a person of interest in that. Did he help her do this?

[Advertiser]

With nothing to hold Olatun Bosen on, investigators let him go for now and begin digging deeper for Gloria's potential motive, starting with the couple's finances.

[Detective]

She was trying to pay all the bills, and he wasn't really contributing a Whole lot at that point.

[Advertiser]

But detectives soon uncover one way Gloria could get money from George.

[Detective]

There's that $250,000 life insurance policy on George.

[Family Member]

This $250,000 life insurance policy became a real legitimate motive for why she would want him, you know, dead. She could gain a hefty life insurance policy to live the life that she wanted to lead.

[Advertiser]

While investigators continue looking into a possible financial motive, another clue washes ashore on a Nearby Lake. On April 5, 2008, five weeks after the discovery of George's leg, there was.

[Family Member]

A person around Ritzland Chambers Lake that was doing some sort of landscaping or yard work.

[Detective]

They thought it was, you know, somebody cleaned some fish and threw the. The guts in the bag, dumped it. You know, it flies stuff around it. He goes in to look at it and finds a head and torso in the bag.

[Advertiser]

The Freestone County Sheriff's Department quickly responds to the scene.

[Detective]

There was quite a bit of decomposition. The arms had been removed, and the body had been cut just below the chest.

[Investigator]

It happens to be an African American male, they believe, between 25 and 50.

[Family Member]

Everybody's just kind of assuming the torso and the head probably belongs to George.

[Advertiser]

The body parts are immediately sent to the crime lab for analysis.

[Detective]

We looked at the photos, and it was pretty obvious in the crime scene photo that's who it was. But just to confirm, we went ahead and did the dental record, and it was George Frazier.

[Advertiser]

On April 6, the autopsy report lands on the desk of Ennis police detective Dorinda Clark.

[Detective]

He had been shot twice in the head. It was a.22 caliber pistol.

[Advertiser]

Detective Clark also receives the DNA results from the blood found inside Gloria and George's home.

[Family Member]

DNA confirmed that all of the blood that was found on the ottoman, the couch, the tv, the baseball bats, the wall, and the master bathroom all belong to George.

[Detective]

Dorinda. She wanted to lock Gloria up. She knew Gloria was guilty. We all did.

[Advertiser]

She used to always say, we're going to get her.

[Family Member]

She wasn't going to let it rest. She was determined not to let it rest.

[Advertiser]

But just as the pieces are coming together, Detective Clark gets a devastating setback.

[Family Member]

They were looking for a small caliber gun, like a.22, I believe she had a 9 millimeter in her house. So it did not match.

[Detective]

The weapon we see from the house was not the weapon that shot him. There was a lot of evidence, but it was all circumstantial.

[Advertiser]

Determined to connect Gloria to the crime, Detective Clark turns to the one person who may have been more involved than.

[Forensic Expert]

They'Re Letting on I had a doubt that she was the one that did the cutting. You know, I just. I thought that was a little extreme for a spouse to dismember a human body.

[Investigator]

It would have been really tough for Gloria to do this all on her own. And so now they're wanting to know, did the boyfriend have something to do with this?

[Advertiser]

On April 24, 2008, detectives ask Gloria's boyfriend, Ola Tunbosen Oditala to come in for a polygraph exam.

[Detective]

He passed the part of the polygraph that asked about participation in the offense, in the dismemberment or the homicide. He failed the part about the knowledge of the offense. He just denied that he had any knowledge of it. He just was not really cooperative at first until we asked him, you going to be a witness or a suspect? He chose witness. He would do anything he could do to clear his name at that point.

[Advertiser]

On April 25, Ola Tunbosen agrees to wear a wire during a conversation with Gloria.

[Detective]

Hi Lord.

[Family Member 2]

Do you know that they call?

[Family Member]

I was with them.

[Advertiser]

Any police?

[Detective]

I was with them for like eight hours yesterday.

[Family Member 2]

What, man? Everything. They know everything from ntp.

[Advertiser]

You're what?

[Family Member 2]

Check this out. Lawyer. You told me you don't have any man living with you. But they said you live together.

[Investigator]

The boyfriend's putting a lot of pressure on her. He's accusing her.

[Family Member 2]

They said they're going to arrest me.

[Narrator]

For what?

[Family Member 2]

I don't know. I don't have any money, nothing. So you need to help me. How will I get the lawyer?

[Advertiser]

Wait a minute. How they trying to arrest you?

[Family Member]

Yeah, they said they're going to arrest you.

[Advertiser]

They said I kept you committing the murder.

[Detective]

The conversation with him and Gloria, they got pretty heated.

[Family Member 2]

They said I f'd you don't.

[Family Member]

I didn't do anything.

[Investigator]

Suddenly she becomes very combative. And that's when their voices get raised.

[Narrator]

This is some serious right.

[Family Member 2]

So you need to listen and chill the out, okay?

[Family Member]

Just listen, man.

[Family Member 2]

They know everything. Everything? Everything like what?

[Family Member]

Where do they go?

[Family Member 2]

Everything.

[Detective]

And it gets so heated that the management from Jacking Box called the Hutchins police. Hey, there's a disturbance out here. This menace woman are arguing.

[Family Member]

We okay?

[Family Member 2]

Can we help you Chairman?

[Forensic Expert]

At all, please?

[Detective]

What's going on this morning, man? I don't know. What are you fighting about?

[Family Member 2]

We are not fighting. We are just talking.

[Advertiser]

The officer's presence puts an end to the argument and any chance of Gloria incriminating herself on the wire. Without a confession from Gloria, the case quickly loses momentum.

[Detective]

I would have wanted a confession because it was all circumstantial. We took what we had to the DA's office. The chief felony prosecutor reviewed it. Felt like there was enough to arrest but not enough to prosecute.

[Investigator]

So much of the case has loose ends, and juries don't like loose ends. Everything needs to be tightened up.

[Family Member]

There weren't any posts, polygraph admissions that were made by either Mr. Otatola or Gloria that we could use. I don't think anybody realistically believed that Mr. Otitola did any of this. We still had to prove that she intentionally and knowingly, you know, caused his death.

[Detective]

And so it kind of. Kind of just dropped off at that point. It became a cold case.

[Advertiser]

Though investigators try to build a case, Five years pass with no developments. Then the investigation hits another roadblock when lead detective Dorinda Clark is diagnosed with leukemia in March of 2013.

[Forensic Expert]

That does have an effect on a case, because as a lead investigator, you've got a lot of things in your head that may not necessarily be written down somewhere.

[Investigator]

Ennis is a small police department. She had institutional knowledge in her brain.

[Advertiser]

As Dorinda endures grueling rounds of chemotherapy, Gloria moves on with her life.

[Investigator]

Gloria cashed in that $250,000 life insurance policy. Another setback for the cops is Gloria decides to remake her life in South Carolina. So now she's a thousand miles away.

[Advertiser]

Coming up, will Gloria get away with murder?

[Investigator]

There's a lot of witnesses and testimony that was lost forever.

[Family Member]

It's not required for us to prove motive in Texas, but everybody always wants to know.

[Advertiser]

By 2013, the murder case against Gloria Aiken has been on hold for five years after facing several hurdles.

[Investigator]

Unfortunately, time is not a friend of this investigation, because during those years when the case was dormant, several key family members die. There's a lot of witnesses and testimony that was lost forever.

[Advertiser]

While the investigation has setbacks, lead detective Dorinda Clark receives promising news. Following her leukemia diagnosis, she went into.

[Detective]

Remission and came back to work.

[Investigator]

She is doggedly determined. She needs answers. She wants to get Gloria.

[Detective]

Dorinda came back to work, and, man, she got fired up. We had a new prosecutor at the time, Duke chief felony prosecutor. We put a PowerPoint program together and sat down with her, showed her the PowerPoint. It was like, say, mostly circumstantial case. The new prosecutor, he said, hey, let's indict her.

[Advertiser]

In April 2014, the Ellis County District Attorney's office presents the evidence to a grand jury. Prosecutors argue that Gloria was Tired of.

[Witness 1]

Supporting George, I think Gloria got a little greedy, wanted money, and she found another way to get her hands on money. Life insurance.

[Detective]

She had, like, a $250,000 insurance policy on him. The insurance policy would be a big motivator.

[Advertiser]

Prosecutors argue that on February 17, 2008, George had settled into his favorite chair for the evening.

[Investigator]

All signs point to George is either asleep or watching tv, that Gloria takes a baseball bat, hits him over the head. Just based on what they found. I mean, a baseball bat with bloodstains and pieces of hair. He clearly was beat up.

[Detective]

I think to disable him, to knock him out and then finish him off with the pistol. I think she hauled him in that jeep. Now, that blood got in there, fed him up with a better operator, saw some type, put him in bags, and took him to the lake.

[Forensic Expert]

I always thought that there might have been another party involved that might have been an accomplice, but we just didn't have the evidence.

[Family Member]

All of the facts and circumstances were brought out to the grand jury, and they ultimately decided to indict her for a murder. After the arrest warrant comes out, she's found in South Carolina. She was ultimately arrested and then waived extradition back to Texas to stand charges here.

[Detective]

We had her transported back to Ellis County. We tried to interview at the Ellis county jail. She didn't want to talk to us, and she started crying.

[Advertiser]

In 2016, while Gloria awaits trial, the case is dealt a final blow when Dorinda's cancer returns.

[Family Member]

She had ups and down. We thought she was going to make it. She was doing great, and then she crashed.

[Advertiser]

On July 8, 2016, after decades in law enforcement, Dorinda dies at the age of 54.

[Detective]

Dorinda got sick again. And when she got sick again and died, you know, you lost your lead investigator at that point.

[Family Member]

Essentially, what we had was a crime scene. Being in this house. That's where Gloria lived. It's not required for us to prove motive. In Texas. We, you know, really realized that we were not going to be able to do this trial because of Dorinda Clark not being available. We decided we needed to plea this out and get the best option we could. In the end.

[Advertiser]

On May 19, 2017, prosecutors offer Gloria a plea deal, reducing her murder charge to manslaughter.

[Detective]

She plead guilty. It took 12 years. I was pretty upset about it. 12 years wasn't enough. You shoot a guy and cut him up and put him in two different lakes. I believe it's worth more than 12 years.

[Witness 1]

She took his lie and all the people he's going to touch and all the people he has touched. And she got 12 years. That's not justice. That's a crime in itself.

[Family Member 2]

Lauria isn't a bad person, not even at all. She's not to me. And I just can't imagine how she could do these things that she's accused of and that she pled guilty to that.

[Witness 1]

It was just a waste to take a man's life like that in such a manner. That's just horrible. Just horrible. And the world's not a better place. It's a lesser place without Georgia.

[Narrator]

Gloria is currently serving her sentence at the Dr. Lane Murray Unit in Gatesville, Texas. She is projected to be released in 2026 at the age of 59. Ola Tuttenbosen Oditala was never charged in connection to George's death.

[Advertiser]

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