Deborah Jones, Missing [FOUND DECEASED] Since 4/16/08, Salt Lake City, Utah

[Faith]

Endangered Person Advisory Sent Across The State

Last Update: 7:49 pm

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Deborah Jones was reported missing on Sunday, April 20, 2008. Family members suspect that she is being held against her will. (Four Points Media )

A Sugarhouse woman was reported missing on Sunday. The woman recently broke up with her boyfriend whom she was living with. Family members fear she is being held against her will.

Deborah Jones was last seen on Wednesday. Her two adult sons reported her as missing to the Salt Lake City Police Department and now an endangered person advisory has been sent out across the state.

“Her cell phone is off and there is just no way to get a hold of her,” said Brian Jones, son of Deborah Jones.

Deborah’s two sons say that having her phone turned off and not notifying people of her whereabouts, is very out of character for Deborah.

“She is very detailed oriented. She worries about things like us feeding her cats if she’s gone for more than a day,” said Brian.

That’s why family members are worried about Deborah’s Safety. For the past several months, Deborah has been dating, and living with, 47-year-old, Michael Doyle. The two broke up two weeks ago and Deborah asked Michael to move out.

Now, family members have discovered that Doyle has a criminal record. However police have not yet confirmed if Doyle has a criminal record.

Brian thinks that Doyle has taken his mother against her will.

“He went by the alias of Mick Haralson,” said Brain “He has a past, he’s been making threats at her, and then she just disappeared.”

Police have not said that Michael Doyle is suspected of abducting Deborah Jones. Both people are reported missing.

Deborah Jones drives a Grey Volkswagen, Passat with a Utah license plate number of 817-MKL.


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Michael Doyle, ex-boyfriend to Deborah Jones was reported missing on Sunday, April 20, 2008. He had been living with Deborah jones but the couple broke up two weeks before both people were reported as missing. (Four Points Media )

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[Faith]

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[KittyMom]

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Article Last Updated: 04/21/2008 06:46:40 AM MDT


Posted: 6:47 AM- A statewide endangered person alert has been issued for a Sugarhouse woman reported missing since last Wednesday -- and police also are looking for her ex-boyfriend in connection with the disappearance.

2News reports that the family of Deborah Jones fear she is being held against her will.

"Her cell phone is off and there is just no way to get a hold of her," Jones' son, Brian Jones, told 2News.

Jones' family says the woman is very detail oriented, and it is highly unlike her to turn the phone off -- or not tell anyone her whereabouts.

Jones' ex-boyfriend, Michael Doyle, was reported missing on Sunday, April 20, 2008.

Jones drives a Grey Volkswagen, Passat with a Utah license plate number of 817-MKL.

[Faith]

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SLC police looking for missing woman

Salt Lake City police are looking for a missing woman and they need your help to find her. 51-year-old Deborah Jones hasn't been seen since last Thursday.

Jones' son Bryan said disappearing like this is out of character for his mother. He said, "She's very detail oriented. she's worried about things like us feeding her cats is she's gone for more than one day"

Bryan Jones says his mom may be in the company of Michael Doyle. She apparently broke up with him a few weeks ago and he hasn't been seen recently either.

Deborah's car is also missing. It's a 2003 gray or silver Volkswagen Passat with a Utah license plate number 817 MKL.

If you have any information on this case, please give Salt Lake City police a call.

http://www.abc4.com (http://www.abc4.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=f39e1ec5-ec8e-4f2a-984b-013cabf6de4d)

[Tracian]

Nancy Grace is covering right now

[packy]

Thank you, Tracian. I just caught the tail end of it. Her son has a website. WWW.finddebbie.com if I remembered it right.

[Tracian]

Nancy will have the transcripts up either later tonight or tomorrow, I will post this part of the show when they are available, if someone does not beat me to it.

[Faith]

Police search for missing woman and ex-boyfriend

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SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - There is new information in the disappearance of a Salt Lake woman and her ex-boyfriend.

Police now say they are worried now about her safety.

Now police say her ex-boyfriend Michael Doyle is missing too, and people close to Jones worry that he may have taken her against her will. After Jones' family discovered Doyle's criminal history, they became even more concerned.

Police are reluctant to name Doyle as a suspect, but say he is part of their investigation.

Late Monday, ABC 4 Learned that Jones went to Salt Lake Police and asked for a protective against Doyle, but when she could not answer all their questions with surety, she agreed to return the following day and provide accurate information. Jones never showed.

After Jones' family members learned of Doyle's real name, they also discovered his criminal history, which consists of a felony for being a fugitive from Cedar Rapids, Iowa where he failed to appear on some kind of theft charge. He also has misdemeanors for assaulting a police officer, interfering with arrest, and criminal mischief.

Police say Jones drives a grey 2003 Volkswagon Passat... with Utah plates 817-MKL.

The family has also set up a web site, www.finddebbie.com.

http://www.abc4.com (http://www.abc4.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=b515f163-c359-45d0-8006-cbb3d0ee6a00)

[Grande]

Missing woman had met with Salt Lake detectives
By Pat Reavy
Deseret News
Published: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 1:19 a.m. MDT

Deborah Jones met with domestic violence detectives a day before she went missing, police said Monday, as the search for Jones continued. Jones, 50, met with Salt Lake domestic violence detectives Wednesday, concerned about threats made by her ex-boyfriend, said Salt Lake police detective Robert Eldard. Jones agreed to another meeting the next day, but never returned to the station, police said.

Jeff Jones, Deborah's son, believes his mother may have been taken against her will by her former live-in boyfriend, Michael Jerome Doyel. Jeff Jones said after his mother and Doyel broke up about two weeks ago, Doyel made several threatening phone calls. Some of the threats were violent in nature.

Police issued an endangered person alert Sunday for Jones. She was last seen Wednesday and was last heard from on Friday, when she phoned "a friend," Eldard said.

Monday, however, police said they weren't ready to jump to the conclusion a crime had been committed. Eldard declined to call 47-year-old Doyel a "person of interest" in the case. There was no evidence to suggest Jones didn't just leave on her own, he said.

Still, the detective said police were interested in talking to him.

Jones' family, however, believes Doyel is the main person of interest. They have created a Web site, www.finddebbie.com, to help locate their missing loved one. On the site, they said Doyel should be considered a "dangerous person" and made a plea to the public to "help bring Michael Doyel to justice."
While Eldard told a group of reporters gathered in front of Jones' house, near 2800 S. Glenmare (1575 East), Monday that investigators were unsure if a crime had taken place, several of the department's main detectives were inside. A Deseret News reporter was invited by Jeff Jones to speak to him in the back yard, but a short time later he was told by a sergeant to leave. The sergeant called the area a "crime scene."

By Monday afternoon, yellow crime tape was surrounding the Jones house. Eldard said that was because Doyel had lived with Jones for six months before moving out and detectives wanted to take precautions and get a search warrant before continuing the investigation in the house. Police executed that search warrant Monday evening, but did not find anything to further the investigation, Eldard said.

He cited the Jeremy Hauck case in Bountiful. Hauck is accused of killing his mother and stuffing her body in a freezer. The defense, however, argued in court that police conducted the search of Hauck's home illegally.

Although he wasn't ready to say there was criminal activity, Eldard said Jones' disappearance was considered suspicious because it was not like her to take off without telling anyone.

Jones, a nurse, grandmother and mother of two adult sons, has not shown up for work since Thursday.

The last time family members heard from Deborah Jones was April 17 when she called them. Eldard said he did not know where the call was placed. Jones left that morning in her Volkswagen Passat with Utah license plate 817 MKL. Since then, he said he was not aware of Jones' using her cell phone or credit card. Jones' family said they have tried calling her phone but it's turned off. Her car had not been found as of Monday.

The family received a bogus call Monday saying her car was found in Las Vegas, Jeff Jones said. A sign was placed on the Jones' door Monday warning others to be guarded and not be scammed by anyone calling and claiming to be Deborah.

The day before she disappeared, Jones met with a Salt Lake detective about an issue regarding Doyel, Eldard said. He did not know what the issue was. She did not seem to be worried at that time that she was in danger, he said.

The Jones family said on the Web site that Doyel has "an extensive criminal record." A check of state court records in Utah by the Deseret News showed Doyel was arrested in 1999 in Salt Lake City for being a fugitive from justice from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Doyel was also charged in 1999 in 3rd District Court and later convicted of assault on a police officer and interfering with an arrest, both misdemeanors.

Jones is 5 feet 6 inches, weighs 230 pounds with hazel eyes and shoulder-length brunette hair. Doyel is 5 feet 11 inches, 195 pounds with brown eyes and wavy brown hair. He wears wire-rim glasses. He has a tattoo "Jan Dolley" on his chest.

Fliers can be printed from the finddebbie.com Web site. Anyone with information on either Jones or Doyel can call police at 799-INFO.

http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695272778,00.html

[Faith]

I pray Deborah is found safe.

[Faith]

Missing SLC woman had complained ex-boyfriend was harassing her
By Jason Bergreen
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 04/22/2008 07:28:18 AM MDT

Police are trying to find a Salt Lake City woman who disappeared Thursday after recently complaining to authorities about ongoing problems with an ex-boyfriend.
An endangered person advisory has been issued for 50-year-old Deborah Marie Jones. She was last heard from Friday when she contacted an acquaintance by cell phone, police said.
She recently had complained that a former live-in boyfriend, Michael J. Doyel, 47, was harassing her, and she spoke to police the day before she disappeared about several "other cases" involving Doyel.
Investigators say Doyel is not a suspect in Jones' disappearance, but they do want to talk to him.

"We're not even sure a crime has been committed yet," said Salt Lake City police Detective Robert Eldard.
Police went to Doyel's home but were unable to find him, he said.
Police late Monday said a West Valley City woman may be with Doyel. Neighbors of Patricia Murray said they saw her leave her home in recent days with Doyel, whom neighbors characterized as Murray's boyfriend, said West Valley City police Capt. Tom McLachlan. Murray, 20, is mentally disabled, McLachlan said. Neighbors said she left with Doyel willingly, McLachlan said.
Meanwhile, Jones' sons told police it is out of character for their mother not to contact them, and they are concerned.

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Jones had changed her locks and cell phone after the couple broke up about two weeks ago, said Janet Tennison, who described Jones as a close friend. However, Jones said Doyel still was trying to reach her at home and at work, Tennison said.
"I just know something bad has happened to her," said Tennison, who last spoke with Jones on Wednesday and made unfulfilled plans for lunch Thursday.
Officers searched Jones' home Monday evening and found no clues pointing to her whereabouts, Eldard said.
Jones is 5 feet, 5 inches tall, 175 pounds, with hazel eyes and brown hair. She drives a gray 2003 Volkswagen Passat, license plate number 817MKL, which is also missing.
Reports that the car was found in Las Vegas on Monday morning were unfounded, Eldard said.
Police also want to speak with Doyel. He is 5 feet, 11 inches tall, 209 pounds, with green eyes and brown hair. He wears wire rim glasses.
http://www.sltrib.com/News/ci_9010974

[KittyMom]

Hmmm...she met with detectives and was told to return the next day? Somebody screwed up.

[Grande]

Missing woman found dead in Missouri
By Pat Reavy
Deseret News
Published: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 9:40 a.m. MDT

Salt Lake police confirmed this morning that missing woman Deborah Jones, who had complained about threats made by her ex-boyfriend and had been missing since last Thursday, has been found dead.

In connection with the case, police took into custody both Jones' former live-in boyfriend, Michael Jerome Doyel, and a second woman, 20-year-old Patricia Murray of West Valley City, who also has been missing for a couple of days.

Sources tell the Deseret News that the three were found in Missouri.

Salt Lake police plan to issue a press release later this morning giving more details of the case.

As the search for Jones continued Monday, police said she met with domestic violence detectives a day before she went missing.

Jones, 50, met with Salt Lake domestic violence detectives Wednesday, concerned about threats made by Doyel, said Salt Lake police detective Robert Eldard. Jones agreed to another meeting the next day, but never returned to the station, police said.

Jeff Jones, Deborah's son, said that after his mother and Doyel broke up about two weeks ago, Doyel made several threatening phone calls. Some of the threats were violent in nature.

Police issued an endangered person alert Sunday for Jones. She had been last seen Wednesday and was last heard from on Friday, when she phoned "a friend," Eldard said.

On Monday, police still declined to call 47-year-old Doyel a "person of interest" in the case, although Eldard said police were interested in talking to him.

Jones, a nurse, grandmother and mother of two adult sons, had not shown up for work since Thursday.

http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695272796,00.html

[Faith]

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My prayers are with her family.

[KittyMom]

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[Grande]

RIP Deborah :1222423:

Let justice flow...

[packy]

RIP Deborah :1222423:

[KittyMom]

What a creep...his other gf is a 20 yr old mentally disabled woman. :(

[Tracian]

Prayers and Blessings to the surviving victims; Rest in Peace, Deborah, justice will be served.


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[Grande]

Branson police find body of woman in car
News-Leader staff • April 22, 2008

Branson police officers who were alerted by Salt Lake City police that a woman who was reported missing and possibly endangered might be in the Branson area found a woman’s body in a car and took a man and another woman into custody Monday.

Officers using a search warrant found the woman’s body in the vehicle, according to the Branson Police Department.

A 47-year-old man and a 60-year-old woman who also were in the car were taken into custody.

The people who were not identified by the department are being held on the authority of Salt Lake police, with charges pending in Utah.

Officers who had a missing person report and a description of the car found it at a Branson motel about 9 p.m. Monday.

http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080422/BREAKING01/80422027/-1/newsfront2

[Claudia]

Branson police find body of woman in car
News-Leader staff • April 22, 2008

Branson police officers who were alerted by Salt Lake City police that a woman who was reported missing and possibly endangered might be in the Branson area found a woman’s body in a car and took a man and another woman into custody Monday.

Officers using a search warrant found the woman’s body in the vehicle, according to the Branson Police Department.

A 47-year-old man and a 60-year-old woman who also were in the car were taken into custody.

The people who were not identified by the department are being held on the authority of Salt Lake police, with charges pending in Utah.

Officers who had a missing person report and a description of the car found it at a Branson motel about 9 p.m. Monday.

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This article says the woman arrested with Doyel was 60 yrs old, not 20. Big difference. I wonder which is correct?

[Nut44x4]

This sucks....I hope they string this freak up by his gonads.

[Faith]

Salt Lake woman found dead in Missouri; ex-boyfriend detained
By Pat Reavy and Arthur Raymond
Deseret News
Published: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 12:37 a.m. MDT

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Family and friends mourn Deborah Jones during a family press conference on Tuesday in Salt Lake City. Jones was 50 years old.

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The Branson motel where Deborah Jones, 50, was found dead inside her car. (Branson Daily News)

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Bryan Jones speaks to the media in Salt Lake City on Tuesday about the death of Deborah Jones, his mother. (Scott G. Winterton, Deseret News)

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Michael Doyel, the former live-in boyfriend of Deborah Jones, was found inside the motel in Branson.

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Patricia Murray of West Valley City has been questioned in the disappearance of Deborah Jones.


A missing Salt Lake City woman was found dead Monday night in Branson, Mo.

The body of Deborah Jones, 50, was found in a plastic storage container in the backseat of her gray Volkswagen Passat outside a motel late Monday night, according to Branson police.

Inside the motel, police found Jones' former live-in boyfriend, Michael Jerome Doyel, 47, and a second woman, Patricia Murray, 59, of West Valley City, who also had been missing for a couple of days.

Salt Lake Police Chief Chris Burbank said Tuesday there were numerous unanswered questions about the case. He released limited details about the investigation, saying he wanted to wait until detectives had the chance to interview the parties involved before more information was revealed.

Burbank wasn't prepared to classify Jones' death as a homicide Tuesday morning but said it was definitely suspicious.

Doyel was charged in Utah's 3rd District Court Tuesday with one count of second-degree felony kidnapping. The charges stem from Doyel leaving the state with Murray.

Murray's sister and legal guardian, Darby Barstow, said Murray had previously been ruled incompetent to care for herself by the state of California, according to a probable cause statement. Neighbors and workers at the care center where Murray lives saw her leaving her home last Friday with Doyel.

Barstow did not given permission for Doyel, or any other person, to remove Murray from the state, the documents state.

Branson Police Chief Carrol McCullough said Jones' body was taken to Springfield for an autopsy. Based on a preliminary investigation, McCullough said Jones may have been dead before the Volkswagen ever arrived in Missouri.

Doyel and Murray were being questioned by officers Tuesday. Burbank said a Salt Lake detective was also sent to Missouri to interview the two.

The Salt Lake Police Department was working closely with police in Branson, the Salt Lake County District Attorney's Office and the Utah Attorney General's Office, he said.

Burbank did not release or have information Tuesday about how Jones died or how either Doyel or Murray might be involved.

Murray, who has diminished mental capacity, disappeared about the same time as Doyel and Jones. The care center where she lives, near 3100 South and 3500 West, is designed for retired people and people who have special needs.

The discovery of Jones' body marked the end of a two-day police search and brought the worst fears of Jones' family to reality. Bryan Jones, one of Deborah's two sons, made a statement to the media in front of her house Tuesday.

"We're deeply saddened by the recent developments. Deborah had nothing but love and compassion for others. As a nurse she took care of patients and really cared about her job. Although we're not sure it's a homicide, we're pretty sure what happened," he said.

Bryan Jones added, "The person responsible is a despicable piece of human flesh. He's a monster, and we all hope he is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. ... He took something precious from us — someone who can never be replaced."

Deborah Jones and Doyel lived together for six months until she broke up with him and told him to move out of her Highland Park home east of Sugar House about two weeks ago.

On April 16, Deborah Jones went to Salt Lake police to report a possible fraud involving Doyel, Burbank said. She believed Doyel was using some of her credit cards. At that time, she mentioned he had been making harassing phone calls but was not worried that her life was in danger, he said.

Jeff Jones, Deborah's son, said that after his mother and Doyel broke up, Doyel made several threatening phone calls, some violent in nature.

Police arranged for her to come back the next day to talk to them and to go to court to get a civil stalking injunction against Doyel, Burbank said. That was the last time, however, that police saw her.

On Friday, a friend received a call from Jones, Burbank said. He did not know from where she was calling, but it was the last time anyone heard from her.

After her family reported Jones missing Saturday night, police searched the immediate area and then put a description of her and her vehicle on NCIC, a national information database for police, so officers in any state could look for her. An endangered person advisory was issued Sunday for Jones.

Branson police received a call from Salt Lake investigators Monday night, telling them they had developed information that Doyel might be headed to that area. Burbank declined Tuesday to say how that information was developed.

By 9 p.m. CST, Jones' car was found at a motel on west highway 76, according to Branson police.

Burbank said he did not know what happened in Salt Lake City that brought Doyel and Jones together.

A neighbor of Patricia Murray told the Deseret News that Michael Doyel first appeared in their gated development two months ago as a guest of another resident, his ex-wife Joann Doyel.

Mary Ann Griess said she saw Michael Doyel frequently.

"He was constantly in the clubhouse," Griess said. "He talked to me quite a bit. ... He wanted to go out with me; I never went out with him."

She said Michael Doyel "seemed very aggressive and obnoxious and he wanted to win me over," Griess said. "He wanted to impress me with his computer skills ... told me he had a very impressive business background, bought a new car and told me he was from Iowa."

The next time Griess heard Doyel's name was "a couple of weeks ago." Griess said Doyel reappeared at the complex and told other residents that he'd bought a house in Sugar House.

"Then we found out that he stayed with Patricia Murray for a few days," Griess said, "before she took off on that trip with him."

Griess said Murray had told residents that she "had this new boyfriend and (he) had invited her to take a trip with him."

Murray was being held for questioning Tuesday, along with Doyel.

Prior to the announcement of the discovery of Jones' body, the Deseret News spoke with Michael Doyel's 75-year-old mother in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She expressed grave concern for Jones due to her son's behavior in the past.

"My last words to him were, 'Go away. Leave her alone and be good. Be good,'" Pauline Doyel said. "Leave people alone."

Pauline Doyel said her son is a "habitual liar" and suffers from what she called paranoid schizophrenia.

"We had him institutionalized. He's been in jail, he's been in prison. We've done everything in our power to get help for him," she said.

Pauline Doyel said her son was on medication for a while and then stopped taking it, believing he no longer needed it. She said Deborah Jones had tried to get him to start taking it again.

Although she never met Jones in person, Pauline Doyel said she had talked to her on the phone. She wasn't completely sure how she and Michael met, but believed they had met in South Carolina. He then followed her back to Utah, Pauline Doyel said.

Her son had been in trouble with the law in Iowa for several crimes, including shoplifting, theft and forgery, she said. Court records in Utah show Michael Doyel had run-ins with the law here for assault on a police officer and was arrested for being a fugitive from justice from Iowa.

Michael Doyel called his mother every week, until recently, she said. He admitted to her that he and Jones were having problems and there had been some "pushing and shoving and slapping," Pauline Doyel said.

Michael Doyel had been married and divorced twice before, his mother said. Both were "terrible relationships," Pauline Doyel said. She spoke to his first wife Monday night, and she said the woman talked about physical violence during their marriage.

Michael Doyel also has a sister, but Pauline said she has no ties with him.

"She wants no part of him for what he put his father and me through," she said.

Even before Jones' body was discovered, Pauline Doyel said she was "deeply sorry" for the actions of her son, who she believed was responsible for Jones' disappearance. "I hope he's caught."
http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695273053,00.html

[Faith]

Senior community residents concerned following woman's connection to Jones death

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WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (ABC 4 News) - People at a senior living center in West Valley are concerned after one of their neighbors ended up in Branson, Missouri and her connection to the death of Debbie Jones.

Patricia Murray left her apartment with the man she considered her boyfriend.

Now, the woman police say is mentally challenged is in custody in Branson, Missouri.

She told her friends she was leaving with her boyfriend to go on a trip.

She packed a bag and on Friday she was gone.

She left a note on the door to meals on wheels. It said, ”I will be leaving today.” The note was dated, 4-19, Saturday. The date had been changed a couple of times. It was signed, “Patricia Murray.”

On Tuesday, Patricia’s neighbors worry she was also a victim in this sad story.

Neighbor Carol Wood says, “I feel sorry for her. I hope she gets to come back here.”

Another resident of the senior living apartments says she saw him many times working on the computer in the clubhouse and talking on the cell phone. In fact, she claims he even came onto her before asking about her personal finances.

Mary Anne Griess says "He told me that he would like to go out with me and get to know me better and he asked me what kind of guys I liked to date and be with.

It was a phone call from a suspicious neighbor that tipped police off to the fact Patricia was missing and may be with Michael Doyel.

In fact, police were in the parking lot of Patricia’s apartment complex Monday night when Patricia’s best friend got a phone call.

Patricia was on a cell phone in Branson, Missouri. She said she was sitting on the bed in a motel room and that she was okay.

Her friend could hear the voice of a man in the background prompting her what to say.

And she could hear Patricia’s reluctance to answer some questions.

That call was placed right around 9:00 p.m. Just minutes later, police in Branson found her along with Doyel and the body of Deborah Jones.

Patricia Murray is being held in Branson while she is questioned by police.

http://www.abc4.com (http://www.abc4.com/mostpopular/story.aspx?content_id=d544f1c1-4f04-48f6-8a1e-44b31195e90d)

[Faith]

That guy is a monster!!!!!! :mad:

[Claudia]

Monster is just the start of what I would call him. I am so glad they found her so quickly and she didn't become another woman lost for years, if not forever. What a sick man. Couldn't stand the rejection, I guess. I will be interested to see what becomes of the poor woman that was with him (who is obviously not 20, as was reported earlier).

[Roamer]

Whatever part this other woman took, it's pretty easy to figure out that he used her for his own nefarious purposes, and that she is a victim, too. Just luckier than the other lady.

[packy]

I think so too, Roamer.

[KittyMom]

This guy should rot in prison for the rest of his natural life.

[Faith]

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Kidnapping Suspect Connected With Prior Missing Woman
By Kurt Sempf

Story Created: Apr 23, 2008

Story Updated: Apr 23, 2008

CEDAR RAPIDS - Cedar Rapids native Mike Doyel is in jail while police try to determine what happened in the disappearance of a Utah woman, Deborah Jones. Police arrested Doyel and another person in Branson after they were found driving Jones' missing car. Jones was found dead in the trunk. Now investigators are trying to piece together what happened.

In 1999, Doyel was also involved in a case involving a missing woman here in Iowa. Juanita Plowman disappeared after beginning a relationship with Mike Doyel. Her son filed a missing persons report. The pair were later found at the Country Inn in West Valley, Utah. Juanita Plowman was safe, but not before losing a lot of money and losing time from her family for more than a month.

Click on the links below to watch our coverage of events during the Spring of 1999.

Click on the links below to watch our coverage of events during the Spring of 1999.

Marengo Missing Mom
http://depository.shadowtv.net (http://depository.shadowtv.net/media/188/2008/114/15/14503_188_20080423_153619_104.wmv)
Another Woman Who Knew Doyel
http://depository.shadowtv.net (http://depository.shadowtv.net/media/188/2008/114/15/14503_188_20080423_153813_127.wmv)

Juanita Returns Home Safe
http://depository.shadowtv.net (http://depository.shadowtv.net/media/188/2008/114/15/14503_188_20080423_154024_86.wmv)


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[Nut44x4]

Suspect in murder case charged with kidnapping other woman
April 23rd, 2008 @ 10:00pm
Gene Kennedy and Andrew Adams reporting

A Utah woman probably was dead for three or more days when police discovered her body in a storage container in her car in Missouri, a coroner said.

Deborah Jones of Salt Lake City, who disappeared last week after complaining to police about her ex-boyfriend, died of asphyxiation, Taney County Coroner Kevin Tweedy said.

Her body was found Monday night in her car at a motel in Branson, Mo. Her ex-boyfriend, Michael Doyel, and another woman were taken into custody.

Jones, 50, likely was dead for three or four days, said Tweedy, who could not provide any other details. He said it was consistent with a homicide.

Michael Doyel has not been charged in connection with Deborah Jones' death, but he is charged with kidnapping the other woman, Patricia Murray. Court documents say he took her from a senior complex where she lived. The documents filed in 3rd District Court in Salt Lake City say Murray cannot care for herself and has been living in assisted adult housing.

Murray is still in Missouri. She'll be heading home by the end of the week, while Doyel will be headed to another courtroom. At a court appearance in Forsyth, MO, Michael Doyel waived extradition. West Valley City police will bring him back to Utah Friday.

While on his way to a holding cell, he waved to the TV camera and professed his love for the woman found dead in the car he was driving there. "I love you Deborah Marie Jones," he said.

Meanwhile, more than 1,000 miles away, where Patricia Murray lives, her friends are grateful she's OK. They say Michael Doyel manipulated her. The two met at her clubhouse, according to Murray's best friend, who did not want to be identified.

That friend said, "He was an ex-husband to one of the residents here. She wanted to learn how to use the computer, he was always on it, so he offered to help her with that, and that's how they met."

Kathy says a platonic friendship grew out of that but next-door neighbor Merle Meadows says there was more to it. "She said 'He's my boyfriend and if he has to go, I'm going with him.' She went on her own will. She said, ‘I am going with him.'"

Still, technically, it's kidnapping because only Murray's legal guardian can give her permission to leave the state. Nonetheless, she went off to Missouri with Doyel. Murray's friends say she had no idea Deborah Jones' body was inside the car.

Her friend said, "When I told her the body was in that container, I thought she was gonna pass out from the sound of her voice. She was very, very upset about it."

Neighbor Tom Mitchell said, "Pat certainly, if she would have known, she would have had no complicity in this and wouldn't have been involved at all."

It's unclear if Patricia Murray will face charges.

Murray's friends say Michael Doyel would ask about their incomes and they never felt safe around him.

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Another charge in case of body found in Missouri

By MIKE STARK – 16 hours ago

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — With the body of his ex-girlfriend stashed in a perfumed storage container, a man drove 1,800 miles from Utah to Las Vegas to Missouri, federal authorities said Friday as they announced a kidnapping charge.

Michael Doyel admitted to the bizarre odyssey after he and the body of Deborah Jones were discovered Monday night at a Branson, Mo., motel, FBI agent Eric Lerohl said in a court affidavit.

U.S. Attorney Brett Tolman called it a "gruesome, horrible crime" that involved intent and planning at the end of a "romantic relationship that went bad."

During an interview with police, Doyel said he had pledged to carve Jones' name in his arm if he "couldn't have her anymore," according to the FBI agent. Indeed, her name was "freshly carved" on his arm when Doyel was discovered in Branson, Lerohl said.

Doyel, 47, of West Valley City, was charged in federal court with kidnapping Jones; prosecutors allege she was taken against her will at some point before she died.

There was no charge filed in Jones' death. Salt Lake County prosecutor Lohra Miller said her office still is investigating.

Jones, 50, disappeared April 16 after telling Salt Lake City police that Doyel was harassing her and misusing a credit card.

Surveillance video showed them at a local Perkins restaurant that same day.

A friend had a brief phone conversation with Jones on April 18. Doyel bought a large plastic container at a Lowe's store later that day and, on April 19, purchased plastic wrap and a tarp at a Wal-Mart, Lerohl said.

An autopsy found Jones died of asphyxiation. Doyel admitted stuffing the body into a storage container and covering it with clothing, towels and the tarp, Lerohl said. Her arms and legs were bound behind her back.

Doyel covered the clothing with a deodorant stick to mask the smell and also used air freshener and perfume on the box, which was secured with bungee cords, the agent wrote.

Doyel, accompanied by another woman, drove Jones' Volkswagen Passat to Las Vegas before heading east to Missouri, Lerohl said.

The other woman, Patricia Murray, told police she didn't know there was a body stored in the rear of the car.

Murray lives in assisted adult housing in a Salt Lake City suburb. She was also discovered in Branson, apparently unharmed. Doyel has been charged with kidnapping her in a separate case filed in Utah's 3rd District Court.

Doyel was flown back to Salt Lake City on Friday and jailed. An attorney had not immediately been assigned to his case.

He's due in federal court Monday or Tuesday to hear the kidnapping charge, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.

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Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Man Who Allegedly Killed His Ex-Girlfriend And Stuffed Her In Plastic Box Found Incompetent To Stand Trial"

A judge in Utah has ruled that a man who allegedly killed his ex-girlfriend, then stuffed her body into a 50 gallon plastic bin and, drove to Branson with her dead body in the woman's stolen car incompetent to stand trial.

Authorities filed first-degree murder charges, theft and obstruction of justice charges against Michael Doyel in the death of Deborah Jones last April.

Jones allegedly told authorities and family members that Doyel had been harassing her in the days leading up to her disappearance.

Cops found Jones' vehicle in the parking lot at the 76 Inn Motel in Branson.

Authorities used triangulation from cell phones that Doyel and Murray had in their position that narrowed their search to Branson

Taney County Coroner Kevin Tweedy says that an autopsy showed that Jones' cause of death was strangulation, or positional asphyxiation; that happens when a person is put in an awkward position and can't get enough air into their lungs.

State and Federal prosecutors are reviewing the case as well because they believe Doyel allegedly kidnapped another woman, Patricia Murray, 59, of West Valley City, Utah, and brought her with him to Branson.

Prosecutors will review the case on May 23, 2009.
http://crimesceneinvestigations.blogspot.com/2009/01/man-who-allegleldy-killed-his-ex.html

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Kidnapping trial postponed because defendant found mentally incompetent

Updated: 10/26/2009 12:52:44 PM MDT

A kidnapping trial set to start Monday in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City has been postponed because defendant Michael J. Doyel has been found mentally incompetent.

Doyel, who is accused of strangling his ex-girlfriend last year and driving her body to Missouri, was charged in both federal court and Utah's 3rd District Court.

The state charges are first-degree felony murder, obstruction of justice and theft in the slaying of 50-year-old Deborah Jones. The sole charge in the federal prosecution is kidnapping.

Third District Judge Judith Atherton ruled in January that Doyel was mentally incompetent to stand trial and sent him to the Utah State Hospital in an effort to restore his competency. At a review hearing in May, the judge ordered Doyel to remain under treatment for another year, ruling that he still was unable to understand the charges against him and assist his lawyer in his defense.

Based on that ruling, U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups approved a motion by Doyel's defense attorney to cancel the kidnapping trial that was to take place this week.

Doyel and Jones were living together before they broke up in April 2008. Family members said they last heard from Jones, a nurse, on April 18. Police discovered her body inside a storage container in her car April 21 in Branson, Mo.

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