Effie Alexander
Appearances
Dateline NBC
The Premonition
Coincidentally, John's son went to the same school as the judge's children. So every excuse that Michelle threw at the court as to why he shouldn't go, the judge literally picked up the phone and called the principal during the hearing. And it wasn't true that he can't miss school, that they have a policy that he'll get behind in homework. He was six years old. He was in first grade.
Dateline NBC
The Premonition
He wanted to send me $10,000 to investigate his murder because he was convinced that he was going to be killed.
Dateline NBC
The Premonition
The video showed that JJ loved this day with his dad. He smiled and was so happy. And at the end, he turned around and said, I don't want to go home, Daddy. I love you. I had so much fun. And he looked right into the camera and said it.
Dateline NBC
The Premonition
No, John's son didn't say it didn't happen. So he kept saying that it happened. He repeated what was alleged repeatedly. And she just wasn't buying it? She wasn't buying it. And no judge that has experience with those types of allegations would have bought it. It just sounded too rehearsed and too coached.
Dateline NBC
The Premonition
John was so happy, but he was also leery that, you know, I won the battle, but I'll never win the war because I know Michelle. It's not over. It's not over.
Dateline NBC
The Premonition
It was a relief only because I felt we had been very generous towards Michelle. I felt that the deal was fair.
Dateline NBC
The Premonition
She had her attorney call me. That didn't work. She had other people talk to John. That didn't work. But she knew what had been fail-proof in the past. When she called John and asked for money, he always gave it to her. So she resorted to that. She resorted to it. But this time, it didn't work. Well, he held his ground at my advice.
Dateline NBC
The Premonition
John called me one day shortly after his car had been vandalized, and he just really blew me away. told me that he wanted to send me $10,000 to hold to investigate his murder because he was convinced that he was going to be killed and that his murder would be covered up and that the evidence would be buried along with him and that it would go unsolved.
Dateline NBC
The Premonition
It's almost like he was writing a story about his life, yes. It was so chilling.
Dateline NBC
The Premonition
They were blood splattered. They were sitting on his table. I mean, that's such a, just an eerie visual.
Dateline NBC
The Premonition
Literally. Like, the blood was on the papers that he was to sign to finalize his divorce.
Dateline NBC
The Premonition
We were giving them all the information we had. I gave them the memo that I had put in the file after John had offered to pay $10,000 to investigate his murder because that was the best I could do.
Dateline NBC
The Premonition
He told me that he wanted to send me $10,000 to hold to investigate his murder because he was convinced that he was going to be killed and that his murder would be covered up and that the evidence would be buried along with him and that it would go unsolved. That's one of the craziest things I've heard in this job. It's almost like he was writing a story about his life, yes.