A man vanishes in Fort Meyers, Florida, and investigators must determine if he is a victim or a killer.Season 31, Episode 21Originally aired: Dec 4, 2022 Watch full episodes of Snapped for FREE on the Oxygen app: https://oxygentv.app.link/WatchSnappedPodSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Chapter 1: What is the premise of the Aria Armstead episode?
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A troubled teen who worked hard to rebuild his life.
He was a good person. Maybe, you know, he had his own issues going on and just got involved with the wrong people.
Vanishes without a word.
Hi, how many hours do I have before I can fill out a missing person? Who? That's my boyfriend. I haven't heard from him in 24 hours.
If she tried calling, it would ring a couple and then it would go straight to voicemail.
When authorities discover an abandoned car in a beachside community, everything changes.
What happened in the car, it's a mystery.
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Chapter 2: Who is Matthew Collins and what happened to him?
Matt was known for committing home invasions. He would commonly brag about the amount of money he would get from these home invasions. It would kind of sustain his lifestyle.
He had his own issues going on and just got involved with the wrong people.
After spending a year and a half in prison, Matt was released in 2016.
When he got out of prison, he really tried to turn his life around and live a clean lifestyle. Being in prison, it's a good wake-up call.
After he was in prison, he was a really, really hard worker. His family and even his friends said he was trying to do the right thing.
A few months later, in early summer of 2017, he met 32-year-old Francesca Sakulich through an online dating site.
He was with Francesca. They were good together. Matthew wanted to do better, and he was in a relationship that seemed to be good for him.
Francesca herself is a very successful person. She works in the medical profession.
After four weeks of dating, Matt and Francesca moved in together.
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Chapter 3: What led to Matthew Collins' disappearance?
It was time to go and look a little deeper at this and the aspect of it possibly being a homicide. This vehicle, it was immediately towed to our forensics facility where everything was kind of done in a controlled environment.
So at this point, they're doing fingerprints, photographing all over the vehicle, inside and outside of it. We noticed blood on the back bumper of the vehicle and drag marks on the back bumper. I'm like, okay, somebody's in there.
Coming up, detectives uncover more troubling evidence.
We find out that he was involved in narcotics use and narcotics abuse.
And Matthew's love life raises suspicions.
Do you have the text messages still?
No, I deleted the text messages because of my sanity.
October 19th, 2017. While processing the vehicle, 31-year-old Matthew Collins was reportedly driving on the night he went missing. Detectives make several disturbing discoveries.
There's blood in the front seat. There's a bullet hole in the windshield. So it was definitely concerning.
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Chapter 4: What evidence was found in the abandoned car?
His family was reporting that in the days leading up, he was not feeling well. They were worried that it may have been drug withdrawals.
When investigators ask Matt's father about his son's relationship with Francesca, he voices some concern.
Francesca's the one that's been telling me, they call me, tell me things. And every time, it's something different. Ever since the second day he's been gone, she's made remarks like, Oh, he's probably being held against his will somewhere, or he's dead. You know, just little stuff like that.
Personally, I don't trust this girl. Francesca, she had kind of made her mind up that something bad happened, and she did talk about it in the past tense a couple of times. That was a red flag.
On October 19th, investigators conduct a formal interview with Francesca.
All right. How do you know Matt?
I met him off POF in the beginning of July. It's a dating website, Plenty of Fish. Okay. And we met in person July 18th, and we were inseparable ever since. So it was almost three months, you know, We kept saying, we can't believe you can meet someone offline, and it would work out, but it really did.
Francesca again shares details about the night Matt went missing.
So the last time Francesca saw Matt was at her house, and he had made the comment that he was going to go get his hair cut at a local barbershop.
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