Alexis Gabe | Mysterious Figure Seen Driving Car of Missing Woman

[00:00:00] This is True Crime Psychology and Personality, where we discuss the pathology behind some of

[00:00:12] the most horrific crimes and those who committed them from a scientifically informed perspective.

[00:00:19] I'm Dr. Todd Grande.

[00:00:21] I have a Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision and I'm a licensed professional

[00:00:26] counselor of mental health.

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[00:00:31] Today's question is, can I analyze the case of Alexis Gabe?

[00:00:35] First, I'll look at the background of this case, move to the timeline of the crime, then

[00:00:39] offer my analysis.

[00:00:41] Alexis Perry Gabe was born on March 17, 1998 and lived in Oakley, California.

[00:00:48] This town is about 51 miles east of San Francisco.

[00:00:52] She lived with her parents in an apartment on Carol Lane.

[00:00:56] Alexis graduated from college and worked part-time at a Rite Aid pharmacy.

[00:01:01] In 2018, she became romantically involved with a hospital security guard named Marshall Curtis

[00:01:07] Jones.

[00:01:08] He lived in a house on Ben Tree Lane in Antioch, which is about six miles west of

[00:01:14] Oakley.

[00:01:15] The couple broke up in November 2021 but still stayed in contact.

[00:01:20] Alexis found a new lover in December 2021.

[00:01:24] She was a tow truck driver.

[00:01:26] It would appear as though Marshall was not too happy about this development.

[00:01:29] Now moving to the timeline of the crime.

[00:01:32] On January 26, 2022, Alexis Gabe had a FaceTime call with a friend at 6pm while sitting

[00:01:39] in her blue Infinity G37 in the parking lot of her family's apartment.

[00:01:45] Not long after this, Alexis drove away.

[00:01:47] Her parents did not hear from her that night, which was unusual.

[00:01:51] The next day, January 27, Alexis had still not returned home and nobody could get in

[00:01:57] touch with her.

[00:01:58] Her family reported her missing to the police who started investigating just after 1pm.

[00:02:05] At 4.15pm, family members found the Infinity G37 abandoned on Trenton Lane, not far

[00:02:12] from the apartment where Alexis lived.

[00:02:15] The vehicle was unlocked and the key was inside.

[00:02:19] Marshall was the obvious suspect from the very beginning.

[00:02:22] The police located a surveillance camera on the house right across from Marshall's house

[00:02:27] and asked the occupant to see the video.

[00:02:30] There was no video for the night of January 26 because nothing triggered the motion sensor

[00:02:35] on the camera, but the police did learn something useful.

[00:02:39] The occupant informed them that Marshall had been asking questions about the camera.

[00:02:44] For example, he wanted to know if it was motion activated, what type of view it had, and how

[00:02:50] good the quality was.

[00:02:52] The police paid a visit to Marshall at his house.

[00:02:55] He told them that Alexis showed up there on the evening of January 26.

[00:02:59] She left at about 9pm and he never heard from her again.

[00:03:04] Marshall said he didn't leave his home that entire night.

[00:03:07] He granted the police permission to search this house except for two bedrooms.

[00:03:13] The opening of significance was found at that time.

[00:03:16] Officers noticed that Marshall had a black Ford Explorer SUV in his driveway, which was borrowed

[00:03:21] from his stepfather.

[00:03:23] Looking through the windows they could see several blankets and several large black

[00:03:28] garbage bags.

[00:03:29] The officers asked Marshall to come down to the police station.

[00:03:33] When he was there, he reluctantly let them search his vehicle.

[00:03:36] As an officer was looking through the blankets in the back, Marshall said, quote, I don't

[00:03:41] want you to think I have a dead body.

[00:03:43] Unquote.

[00:03:44] It is safe to assume Marshall had not mastered the art of subtlety.

[00:03:49] The police examined Marshall's cell phone and found two curious internet searches, what

[00:03:53] is conspiracy to commit murder, and how long would it take for a fish to eat a body?

[00:03:59] On January 31, a broken cell phone screen was found near where the Blue Infinity had

[00:04:04] been located.

[00:04:06] It appeared to be from Alexis Gabe's phone.

[00:04:09] On February 1, the police executed a search warrant for Marshall's house and noticed a

[00:04:14] few interesting items.

[00:04:16] For example, the house smelled like bleach, there was a bucket and a mop in the kitchen,

[00:04:22] and the shower curtain was missing.

[00:04:24] Blood was also recovered, which was later identified as belonging to Alexis.

[00:04:30] On February 2, Marshall flew to Seattle, Washington and moved into his father's apartment.

[00:04:35] On February 25, a cell phone case was found on Vista Grande Way in Antioch, not far from

[00:04:43] Marshall's house.

[00:04:44] It contained a distinctive drawing from Alexis, so the police knew it was hers.

[00:04:50] At this point, using a number of sources of information including cell phone data,

[00:04:55] video surveillance, and the computer in the Infinity, the police were able to piece

[00:04:59] together the movements of Alexis and Marshall around the time of the disappearance.

[00:05:04] Here is what they determined.

[00:05:06] On January 26, 2022, the day of the disappearance, Alexis Gabe was captured on video at a gas station

[00:05:13] on Lone Tree Way.

[00:05:15] This was at 6.22 pm.

[00:05:17] She departed seven minutes later.

[00:05:19] At 6.37 pm, she arrived at Marshall's house on Bend Tree Way.

[00:05:25] At 9.10 pm, Marshall's phone was used to call his father.

[00:05:29] The call remained active for one minute shy of two hours.

[00:05:34] The police believed that Alexis was already dead by this point.

[00:05:38] At 9.23 pm, Alexis Gabe's Infinity started.

[00:05:42] The vehicle left Marshall's house in Antioch and drove in a circuitous fashion to where

[00:05:48] the vehicle was abandoned in Oakley.

[00:05:50] It was turned off at 9.35 pm.

[00:05:53] The route taken was one that Alexis had never used before and involved a U-turn.

[00:05:59] This was puzzling because Alexis was familiar with the area.

[00:06:03] The surveillance captured a mysterious figure exit the Infinity G-37.

[00:06:08] The figure appeared to be a man.

[00:06:10] He was wearing a medical face mask and a black hooded sweatshirt.

[00:06:14] Man was captured on various surveillance cameras walking about an hour to the street where

[00:06:18] Marshall's house was located.

[00:06:21] Alexis Gabe's phone moved with the mysterious figure before shutting off at 9.43 pm.

[00:06:27] At 11.16 pm, a text message was sent from Marshall to Alexis which read,

[00:06:33] Did you make it home?

[00:06:35] He called her 20 minutes later but of course there was no answer.

[00:06:39] Marshall's mother Alicia Coleman Clark lived in Antioch as well.

[00:06:43] The police seized surveillance video captured from a ring camera at her home.

[00:06:49] In the video Marshall could be seen pulling up in the Ford Explorer on January 28th

[00:06:54] at 1.21 pm.

[00:06:56] He unloaded heavy and bulky garbage bags from his vehicle into the garage or backyard of his mother's home.

[00:07:04] As he was doing this, Marshall muttered to himself,

[00:07:08] I didn't want to do it but I did it.

[00:07:11] Not long after this his mother came home.

[00:07:14] She could be heard telling Marshall,

[00:07:16] They're ice cold like they just came out of the refrigerator.

[00:07:21] It appears as though she was referring to the bags but there's no way to know for certain.

[00:07:25] Later that same day January 28th Marshall came back and retrieved the garbage bags.

[00:07:31] He went to his sister's house in Vacaville arriving at 6.41 pm.

[00:07:35] He left there at 7.11 pm.

[00:07:38] At this point he drove east.

[00:07:40] He briefly activated his phone at 8.52 pm as if he became lost and needed directions.

[00:07:46] The police believed that he disposed of Alexis Gabe's body somewhere near Pioneer, California

[00:07:52] about two hours east of Vacaville.

[00:07:56] Marshall had left a handwritten note with directions to this area at his sister's residence.

[00:08:02] On May 19, Marshall's mother Alicia Coleman-Clark was briefly detained on suspicion of aiding and

[00:08:08] abetting but prosecutors declined to file charges.

[00:08:13] They said there was insufficient evidence.

[00:08:15] The police continued to build their case against Marshall Curtis Jones.

[00:08:19] DNA test results came back for the broken screen which had been found on January 31.

[00:08:24] The screen contained Marshall's DNA.

[00:08:28] On June 1, 2022 a warrant was issued for Marshall's arrest.

[00:08:32] He was wanted for first-degree murder.

[00:08:35] By this time he was staying in a friend's apartment in Kent, Washington, 20 miles south of Seattle.

[00:08:41] At 5.45 pm as the police were trying to arrest him,

[00:08:44] he charged officers with a knife and was shot to death.

[00:08:49] Due to Marshall's change in status, namely alive to dead, he was unable to reveal the location

[00:08:55] of his victim's body.

[00:08:57] The police searched the area around Pioneer, California for Alexis Gabe's remains without

[00:09:03] success.

[00:09:04] Several months later in November 2022, a person operating a metal detector stumbled upon the

[00:09:10] remains of Alexis Gabe.

[00:09:12] This location was about a half hour short of Marshall's destination.

[00:09:17] About 10 miles away, more remains were located.

[00:09:21] Marshall had dismembered Alexis Gabe's body.

[00:09:25] Now moving to my analysis.

[00:09:27] Here are my thoughts on a few areas that stood out to me in this case.

[00:09:31] Item number one.

[00:09:32] Based on Marshall's haphazard efforts to escape responsibility, it would initially

[00:09:37] appear as though the murder was committed in the heat of the moment, like he became angry

[00:09:42] and killed Alexis without planning this whole episode in advance.

[00:09:48] However, one of Marshall's friends indicated that two weeks before the murder,

[00:09:52] Marshall made incriminating statements.

[00:09:54] He said he was thinking of killing Alexis and wanted to know where he could dispose of her

[00:09:59] body.

[00:10:00] Eventually Marshall decided that a septic tank or a forest would be best.

[00:10:05] The friend thought that Marshall was joking around.

[00:10:07] It sounds like this witness had set the bar for humor as low as he had set the bar for friends.

[00:10:14] Not only did Marshall plan the murder, he had a plan for what he would do if the police

[00:10:18] caught up with him.

[00:10:19] He told friends he would charge at the police forcing them to shoot.

[00:10:24] Item number two.

[00:10:25] Some people think that Marshall's mother could have provided him some type of assistance

[00:10:30] after the murder.

[00:10:31] As I mentioned, she was briefly detained but no charges were ever filed against her.

[00:10:36] I would be surprised if Marshall's mother helped him in any way.

[00:10:40] When Alicia said they're ice cold, she may have been referring to the garbage bags that

[00:10:46] Marshall had brought into her home.

[00:10:48] Those garbage bags likely contained the remains of Alexis' game.

[00:10:53] If Marshall's mother knew what was in the bags, she probably would not have touched

[00:10:56] them and she would not have been surprised by the temperature if she did touch them.

[00:11:01] I don't think Marshall involved anyone else in his plan.

[00:11:04] He was simply nervous about having the bags in the Ford Explorer.

[00:11:08] This is why he left the bags at his mother's home for a few hours.

[00:11:13] Item number three.

[00:11:14] What do I think happened in this case?

[00:11:16] This is just a theory, my opinion.

[00:11:19] Marshall Curtis Jones was immature, self-centered, remorseless, cold,

[00:11:23] callous, vindictive, sadistic, impulsive, irresponsible, jealous, insecure,

[00:11:28] and had extremely low frustration tolerance.

[00:11:31] When Alexis broke up with him, Marshall found that to be unacceptable.

[00:11:36] He was angry and wanted revenge.

[00:11:39] When she visited his house on the evening of January 26, 2022,

[00:11:43] Marshall killed her by stabbing, strangulation, or beating.

[00:11:47] Whatever method he selected, it required some level of cleanup.

[00:11:51] In order to make it seem as though he was busy the entire time,

[00:11:54] he called his father and left the line open.

[00:11:57] They were not actually talking on the phone.

[00:11:59] He then drove the infinity to Trenton Lane,

[00:12:02] which was near where a friend of Alexis lived.

[00:12:05] He wanted people to believe that she was visiting the friend when she disappeared.

[00:12:09] Marshall did not realize that the friend was out of town.

[00:12:13] Without his phone to navigate, he became lost looking for Trenton Lane.

[00:12:17] Later, when he was trying to dispose of the body,

[00:12:20] he became lost again in a rural area near Pioneer.

[00:12:24] Marshall did not know how to navigate without a phone.

[00:12:28] Despite his efforts to escape responsibility,

[00:12:30] it was painfully obvious that Marshall was guilty.

[00:12:33] He had almost no chance of getting away with the murder,

[00:12:36] especially considering he was the last known person to see the victim alive.

[00:12:41] In a sense, Marshall had probably accepted the worst possible outcome for himself

[00:12:46] right from the beginning.

[00:12:48] He was not going to prison one way or the other.

[00:12:51] Either he would live free or he would die at the hands of the police.

[00:12:56] Marshall was satisfied with his decision to kill.

[00:13:00] He was willing to make the ultimate sacrifice to get his revenge.

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