On The Case With Paula Zahn is investigating the murder of Alexis Gabe, who is believed to have been killed by her boyfriend, Marshall Curtis Jones, at his home in Antioch, California.
Jones was charged with the murder but was never prosecuted as he was killed by police officers attempting to arrest him after he had relocated to Washington.
On January 26, 2022, 24-year-old Alexis failed to come home and was never seen alive again. Her car was later found about a mile from her home in Oakley, CA; the keys were still in the ignition and unlocked, but there were no other clues as to Alexis’s whereabouts.
The last person to see Alexis alive was her boyfriend, Marshall Jones, and he quickly became the focus of the investigation. Jones admitted that Alexis had been at his home until about 9 p.m. on the day she disappeared, but he claimed she had then left in her car.
According to the cops, after an initial interview, Jones became very uncooperative with the police and regularly refused to speak to them. A few months later, he relocated to Kent, Washington.
However, cellphone data combined with the GPS in Alexis’s car revealed that Jones had likely driven the vehicle from his home to the dumping ground. Surveillance footage from a nearby store spotted a man matching Jones’s description walking away from the car.
The cops later found Alexis’s cellphone case discarded near the abandoned car. The distinctive cover had Jones DNA on it.
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By the end of May, the investigators decided they had enough to charge Jones with murder. On June 1, the cops in Kent, WA, moved in on Jones’s apartment.
The suspected killer rushed at officers with a knife and was shot dead.
Alexis’s father, Gwyn Gabe, said of Jones on his death, “He was our daughter’s first love. They were together for three years. He became part of our family. We had no idea he was capable of doing something like this to her. We didn’t want him dead. We wanted him arrested to pay for his sins.”
Alexis Gabe family will keep searching for answers about her murder
Since Alexis’s death, partial remains have been discovered at two separate locations in rural parts of Amador County, to the east of Antioch. Her skull was found by a metal detector scanning an area in November 2022, and her torso was found by volunteers in January 2023. The remains were DNA tested to confirm they belonged to Alexis.
The family has vowed to keep looking for the rest of her remains and belongings and to search for answers as to how she died.
On The Case With Paula Zahn airs Wednesdays at 10/9c on Investigation Discovery.