May 10, 2026 · 42 min · 16 segments
A Florida woman’s desperate search for her missing husband takes a dark turn when his mutilated body is found in a landfill. As detectives dig into his home life, the victim’s family becomes a crucial…
[Instrumental music plays] The small town of Stuart, Florida, isn't known as a dangerous place to live, but just after 8:00 PM on April 21st, 2008, police receive an emergency call from 47-year-old Kristen Jensen, who's concerned something has happened to her husband, Gerald.
We learn from Kristen that she was in the VA hospital to detox off of substances.
She made arrangements for her husband, Gerry, to pick her up.
Sunday the 20th was the last time she spoke to him, and she was due to be discharged the next day, the 21st.
However, when she was discharged, she kept calling his cellphone, and it kept going to voicemail.
Kristen was initially alarmed, because Gerry was very reliable.
He was never even late.
So the fact that he wasn't answering his phone, Kristen knew something was very wrong.
She was able to make arrangements with the VA to actually have a shuttle transfer her back to her residence.
Kristen tells police when she got home around 5:30 PM, Gerry was still nowhere to be found.
But she does find her daughter, Nicole, with her boyfriend, Chris, and their newborn baby, who have been living with them.
Kristen had been told by both Nicole and Chris Tomlinson that Gerry had gotten into a fight with somebody on the phone, like, around 10:30 at night, and it was on his cellphone, and they were afraid he was gonna wake the baby.
They went to the library so that they could log into the Wi-Fi, and when they came back home with the baby, Gerry was gone.
Kristen says it seemed possible Gerry had simply forgotten to pick her up, until she noticed something concerning.
Anything that he would've taken with him was still there, and especially with his car being there, his keys being there, his clothes being there, his phone was there.
She didn't feel it was normal for him just to walk away.
Kristen said she noticed a really strong smell of bleach in the apartment, which she thought was unusual.
Also, the bedroom no longer had a door, but the bathroom did.
And so she called the police and, um, reported him missing, and said that, you know, "He wouldn't do this.
He wouldn't go away," and, you know, "Where is he?"
At this point, she is more convinced than ever that something bad has happened to Gerry.
[Instrumental music plays] The small town of Stuart, Florida, isn't known as a dangerous place to live, but just after 8:00 PM on April 21st, 2008, police receive an emergency call from 47-year-old Kristen Jensen, who's concerned something has happened to her husband, Gerald.
We learn from Kristen that she was in the VA hospital to detox off of substances.
She made arrangements for her husband, Gerry, to pick her up.
Sunday the 20th was the last time she spoke to him, and she was due to be discharged the next day, the 21st.
However, when she was discharged, she kept calling his cellphone, and it kept going to voicemail.
Kristen was initially alarmed, because Gerry was very reliable.
He was never even late.
So the fact that he wasn't answering his phone, Kristen knew something was very wrong.
She was able to make arrangements with the VA to actually have a shuttle transfer her back to her residence.
Kristen tells police when she got home around 5:30 PM, Gerry was still nowhere to be found.
But she does find her daughter, Nicole, with her boyfriend, Chris, and their newborn baby, who have been living with them.
Kristen had been told by both Nicole and Chris Tomlinson that Gerry had gotten into a fight with somebody on the phone, like, around 10:30 at night, and it was on his cellphone, and they were afraid he was gonna wake the baby.
They went to the library so that they could log into the Wi-Fi, and when they came back home with the baby, Gerry was gone.
Kristen says it seemed possible Gerry had simply forgotten to pick her up, until she noticed something concerning.
Anything that he would've taken with him was still there, and especially with his car being there, his keys being there, his clothes being there, his phone was there.
She didn't feel it was normal for him just to walk away.
Kristen said she noticed a really strong smell of bleach in the apartment, which she thought was unusual.
Also, the bedroom no longer had a door, but the bathroom did.
And so she called the police and, um, reported him missing, and said that, you know, "He wouldn't do this.
He wouldn't go away," and, you know, "Where is he?"
At this point, she is more convinced than ever that something bad has happened to Gerry.
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