455: She Beheaded Her Ex…And Married His Son | The Johnathan Willette Case

On August 7th of 2023, a woman called police to say she found her son, Jonathan Willett, dead. "Shit, that's terrible. Get out of here! Kill us now, bitch!" "I did it, you dog!" When police responded, they found Jonathan's body in his bed, but his head was missing. "Till we get hit things this wrong, you should not be able to do it!" Nick Cleaver was missing from her kitchen. "This is amazing that you're here. You sit here and say that." Hey true crime besties, welcome back to an all new episode of "Serialist's Weave." Hello, hello, hello, and welcome back to an all new episode of "Serialist's Weave." With me, your host, and your true crime bestie, Annie Elise. Now, I hope you are ready. I know you just came off of a long weekend, or on me, not a long weekend, but a weekend nonetheless. It's Monday. If you're listening to this on Monday, man, I'm just like, crush it myself left and right here. 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She was living with her son, 46-year-old Jonathan and his family in Henderson, Nevada, which is not too far outside of Vegas. And nothing about the day stood out. She had just been home, showered, and settled in for the night. But then, at around 1 a.m., Yoko woke up and she quietly headed downstairs to grab a glass of water. However, when she got to the kitchen, she realized she wasn't the only one awake. Jonathan's ex-girlfriend Devon Michaels was also downstairs. She was just there washing dishes in the middle of the night at 1 a.m. She and Jonathan shared two daughters together, and even though they had split up, they still co-parented very closely with one another. So Devon had mentioned that the next morning, she and Jonathan were supposed to register the girls for school. So it was this completely normal interaction, normal conversation, nothing felt off the sides, the fact that she was washing dishes at 1 a.m. But even that could have been explained away, like along that year, right? So Yoko drank some water, she headed back upstairs, and she went to bed. But she had absolutely no idea that when she was going to wake up just a few hours later, she was going to walk into something absolutely horrific. And around 8 a.m., Yoko woke up once again, and it seemed like she was the first person awake in the house. This time, nobody was downstairs, nobody sounded like they were shuffling around in the hallways. But almost immediately, she noticed that a few things did feel strange. The dogs were outside in the backyard. However, the door was locked, and nobody else was downstairs, which was odd. The doggy door also that the family normally kept open had been shut. So it seemed as though these dogs were left outside. The door locked them out, and then also the doggy door shut down so they couldn't get back in. And it didn't look like they had just been let out to quickly use the bathroom and come back in. They were, again, locked out. Still, Yoko didn't think too much of it at first. That is until she looked out the front window and noticed that Jonathan's truck was still sitting in the driveway. And Yoko remembered that conversation from the night before, or the middle of the night, I should say, when Devon was doing the dishes. She mentioned that Jonathan and her were going to be taking the girls to register for school that morning. She also had mentioned that Jonathan had been drinking that night. So Yoko figured, okay, maybe he was hungover, maybe he overslept, maybe Devon took the girls who really knows, which, okay, he's an adult. That's on him. But even though Jonathan was pushing what 50 years old at that point, the truth was Yoko was still his mother. She still looked out for him and she didn't want him missing the school registration for his daughters. So she headed back upstairs toward Jonathan's bedroom. But before she even could open the bedroom door, she noticed a smell and not necessarily a strange smell, but a very strong smell. And that split second that it took to open Jonathan's bedroom door, it was the last moment of peace that Yoko would ever know. Because once she stepped inside, the room was completely still quiet. Now the smell was growing even stronger. She could also tell that somebody was lying on the bed, but as she got closer, she realized something was horribly wrong. Jonathan was lying there, or at least his body was, but Yoko immediately knew that he was dead. And the reason that she knew he was dead and that he wasn't just asleep or in a deep drunken trance where she couldn't, you know, jolt him awake is because his head was missing. He had been decapitated right in front of her now was her son's lifeless body beheaded and sitting nearby. There were two bottles of cleaning solution, a bottle of ammonia and a bottle of bleach. So Yoko panics, right? And immediately called the police. And even the first responders who arrived on the scene reportedly were like sick to their stomachs when they got inside that bedroom. Jonathan's death obviously was immediately treated as a homicide. And investigators quickly realized that this wasn't some random sloppy murder or, you know, quick spur of the moment type violence. Whoever did this had put a lot of thought into it. So let's go through some of the things that the investigators noticed right away about this crime scene and also about Jonathan's body. There weren't any obvious signs of forced entry. No shattered windows, no kicked in doors, nothing like that at all. But Yoko did point out a few things that the investigators found interesting. The door leading from the house into the garage was wide open, which she said that was very unusual. Even if the main garage door itself was shut, the family normally kept the interior garage door closed, you know, to keep bugs out, keep the dogs contained inside the home, things like that. Yoko also pointed out that the garage door itself was cracked slightly open, which you can actually see that in the body cam footage. There was obviously a lot of blood at the scene as well, but I have to say too. Honestly, not nearly as much as you would expect in a case that involves a decapitation. There was blood on the bed where Jonathan's body was found, but first responders specifically noted that there was no blood spatter throughout the room. Investigators also noticed what appeared to be ammonia and bleach poured around Jonathan's neck area. The area where his head should have been. And by the time that first responders arrived, there was already a chemical reaction happening to Jonathan's body, all the way to the point where it looked like smoke was visibly coming from his neck area. Now this may already be common knowledge, but, you know, roll with me on this. I'm still gonna say it because it's important. You should never mix ammonia with bleach because together they do create a toxic gas that can absolutely make somebody lose consciousness if not kill them outright directly. And in this case, investigators believed that these chemicals likely had been poured onto Jonathan and onto his neck area after he had already been killed and beheaded. So I really don't know the intended purpose there, what that was. Maybe it was to get rid of any evidence or whatever tool was used to perform the decapitation so that it couldn't be traced back to clean it up. I don't really know. But the biggest issue that the investigators were dealing with now was the fact that Jonathan's head was nowhere inside the home. It was completely missing. Now, all of the people inside the house that night can get a little bit confusing. So I want to break it down clearly for you. Jonathan had three children. His oldest son, Deviere, was 27 years old and was from a previous relationship years earlier. He was grown. He was living on his own. He also shared twin daughters with Devon, who were preteens at the time, although their exact ages have not been really made public. And like I mentioned earlier, Jonathan and Devon were no longer together. romantically, but because of the twin girls, they still communicated. They saw each other often, and they co-parented together. However, Devon didn't live in that house with Jonathan, and while Jonathan had full custody of the girls, the twins happened to be with Devon that night after she left Jonathan's house, which I know that's really complicated because we know that Devon was washing dishes at 1 a.m., so, you know, leaving after that with the girls, it's complicated, which you shouldn't be keeping preteens up that late, whatever, not going to go into it. So my point is that when Yoko discovered Jonathan's body the next morning, the only other two people physically inside the house were Yoko herself and her boyfriend Yoshida. Her boyfriend also lived there at the time, and they are both seen on the body cam footage from first responders, but nobody else is. And I'm going to play this body cam footage for you intermittently throughout this episode, so if you're watching this episode, you'll see that. If you're listening, feel free to hop over to YouTube after if you want to get the visuals. So investigators cleared Yoko and Yoshida fairly quickly. They were both a lot older, although their exact ages haven't publicly been specified. That obviously also doesn't automatically mean that they couldn't have committed a crime, but according to investigators, there wasn't anything suspicious about either one of them. Not anything about their behavior or their backgrounds. Nothing. Still though, because they had been inside the home and so close to Jonathan's body, detectives needed a very clear timeline of what they had done over the previous 24 hours. And this is what Yoko told them. The last time that Yoko saw Jonathan was at around 10 p.m. the night before. Jonathan and Devon had both been at the house together, and then Yoko went upstairs to bed. We know that at around 1 a.m., Devon was downstairs washing dishes, but Jonathan wasn't with her. Then, sometime around 3 a.m., Yoko said that she woke up because she heard the dogs barking, which she thought was unusual, but not alarming enough to get out of bed and go investigate. So then the next thing we know is it's around 8 a.m., and Yoko was waking up and finding Jonathan's body upstairs. But there were also some additional follow-up questions that the investigators wanted to ask Yoko. However, there was a bit of a language barrier because Japanese was her first language, and they knew that they needed to get this right. So they wanted to like get the answers, but they wanted to be clear. They wanted to dot all of their eyes and cross all of their tease. Investigators also started speaking with neighbors, especially neighbors who had security cameras outside of their homes. So one neighbor went back through her footage, but she said that she didn't notice anything that happened that was suspicious overnight. However, she did mention something else that caught the investigators' attention. She claimed that a day or two before Jonathan was killed, she noticed a work truck that was slowly driving through the neighborhood with two or three men inside. According to her, they seemed to be driving very slowly past houses, possibly looking at house numbers or security cameras. The men were reportedly wearing bright colored work vests as well. Now, whether that was a disguise or whether they were actually workers, who's to say at this point. The neighbor couldn't provide a detailed description of either the truck or the men themselves. So the detectives documented the information, but the truth was at that point. They weren't really even sure if they had anything to do with Jonathan's murder or not. So at that stage of the investigation, the detectives believed that the last confirmed time that Jonathan was alive was around 10 p.m. And because Devon had still been at the house after that, the investigators knew they obviously needed to speak with her next, even if she hadn't personally seen or heard anything suspicious. She still was in the house. They needed to build the timeline. Now, when Devon was notified and learned that Jonathan was dead, she was shocked and distraught. Just like Yoko, she described the day before as feeling completely normal. According to Devon, she and Jonathan had spent August 6th back to school shopping for their daughters. And she described that day as pleasant or, in her direct quote, "pleasant for the most part." She also explained that they had driven Jonathan's truck around that day because it had branding for his business on the back. So he liked driving it around whenever he could as a, you know, source of free marketing. But as the night went on, she said that things started getting a little more complicated. Like I mentioned earlier, Jonathan and Devon had separated after being together pretty long term, though they had never officially married. Jonathan lived in Henderson, at the same house, from the incident and that you saw on the body cam footage, while Devon lived about 15 or 20 minutes away in Las Vegas. According to Devon, the night before Jonathan's death, they had been moving some of their daughters belongings over to her place, including things like a dresser, a bunk bed, and clothing. Because even though Jonathan did have full custody of the girls, he still wanted the girls to be spending time with Devon, their mother, spending the night over at her place as well. So moving some of their things into her house, it made sense. They would feel comfortable that way. They'd have some of their own stuff, their own environment, right? And it would make that transition back and forth between the homes a little bit easier. However, according to Devon, it also seemed like Jonathan was slowly moving some of his own things into her place. And once they'd go back up for it, they hadn't actually moved any things. I didn't put any stock into it. So we're going to do some of his things over. That's when I realized he was actually moving his things. Yes, I remember talking to Jonathan about it. Yes, I remember talking to other people about it, but until that moment, it really wasn't something that was going to take place. Because at one point, a few times he said he wasn't going to move. And it happened one and one time, so I just took it as a place. So this is where things start to get complicated. Devon said she did not want to get back together with Jonathan. She was just fine co-parenting and even being friends, but that was it. From her perspective, though, things between them were still working pretty well. They tried to continue doing things together as a family because they didn't want their daughters struggling with the separation. And so in her mind, really, the only real difference now was that they lived in two separate homes, but they still acted kind of like a family unit of sorts. I didn't want to be in a physical section relationship with Jon. Me hanging out with Jon was fine. We got along well enough for that. Like we went on picnics together, we get all the shopping together, we watch movies together, we got along just fine for that. So the original plan was really just about helping the girls settle into Devon's place. But apparently underneath all of that was this growing issue of Jonathan seemingly wanting to move in as well. And the problem was, Devon had already moved on. Not only was she in another relationship, but she had actually gotten married, which makes this situation incredibly messy. Now what's strange is that during the interview, Devon initially acted like she had no idea that Jonathan was planning to move in with her. But then later in that same conversation, she admitted that she had already worked things out with her husband so that Jonathan could move in. And according to Devon, her husband was not happy about it at first. But eventually, she said that he accepted it because it supposedly was what was best for the girls, which I'm not going to lie when I first read that detail in my research. I kind of had to stop and reread it a couple of times because most people are probably not going to willingly move out so that their spouses X can move in, especially when the X is also the father of the children. It's like reunification. It's reuniting the family together. One that feel, I don't know, threatening, but there was one more detail in all of this that Devon included, and it made everything even more complicated in all of this. Because Devon's new husband, her new husband was devier. Jonathan's oldest son. Now I feel like we probably all collectively need a second to process that because it's a lot. Jonathan and Devon had been long-term partners for years and years and years, and they shared twin girls together. Then, after their breakup, Devon married Jonathan's oldest son from a previous relationship. So Devon's ex-boyfriend and father of her children was now technically what? Her father-in-law? I mean, that's wild, right? And once you hear that, it suddenly makes more sense why Devier would agree to move out for the girl's sake. Like, he wants the younger girls to have a good life, not be overly complicated or be traumatized by what she's seeing. I mean, those were his younger half-sister, so of course he wanted what was best for them. So upon hearing this, obviously, the investigators' heads were about to explode. They were spinning, but they tried to stay as professional and unbiased as possible about the relationship dynamic that was going on here. Although, I think it's fair to say, it definitely did raise some eyebrows. So Devon was 45 years old. Devier was 27 years old, which means that he was only around 25 years old. When the two of them got married in 2021. And beyond this age gap, remember, I mean, he was Jonathan's son. This is bizarre. This is weird. A lot of the details about this whole love triangle are a little unclear, but by all accounts, Jonathan was very uncomfortable with it. And hello, obviously. I get it. It caused a lot of tension and a major strain within the family. And it also sounds like the relationship between Jonathan and Devon was already pretty messy even before all of this. And then there was another detail that started showing up in headlines that were surrounding this case. Apparently, Devon had previously worked in adult films. Now, to be clear, most reports never really went into depth about that part of her past. A lot of outlets just referred to her as an ex porn star, you know, adult film worker, which honestly might be even overstating things a little bit, I don't know. But either way, it became another layer in an already very complicated situation. Now, before Devon could continue walking the investigators through the night that Jonathan died, she said that she needed to clarify something else. Devon acknowledged that her relationship with Devon looked really bad from the outside. But according to her, there wasn't actually a romantic relationship between them anymore. She claimed that the marriage was primarily for medical reasons. She never fully explained what those medical reasons were, but according to Devon, being legally married would make things easier because Devon could then help her and access information as her spouse. She also claimed that because of these medical issues, she was unable to have sex. According to Devon, she and Jonathan hadn't been intimate since 2018. And while she admitted that she and Devon had been sexually involved before, she said that they hadn't had sex in quite a while. So honestly, I mean, instead of clearing things up, this now new revelation and explanation, it just raised even more questions, at least for me, I don't know for you, but certainly for me. Because if you're watching this on YouTube and you're seeing the photos and the videos, the photo I showed earlier, of Devon in a tux and Devon dressed in white, apparently that was from their wedding day. So even though the marriage was supposedly only for medical reasons, they still seem to fully commit to the wedding itself. Now, look, to be fair, it could be to fraudulently obtain health insurance to sell the lie to do whatever. I mean, we've seen that happen a million times, right? You and Devon were married, but you guys been married for two years, you've said almost two years, but your focus is not on that. But are you guys talking to Devon here? It's kind of like, it sounds like you guys got married, but not because you guys like love with each other. You know, it's just convenience. Like, I have a lot of medical issues and he's been taking care of me, and I'll cross. So I guess, so what was your reason for getting married to Devon here? Because legally, as my spouse, he has more rights and access to things than someone just as a grandmother. So like pick up prescription and other things? He can do anything as my spouse, like he can, he actually, I had to go into the hospital and the ambulance and use the one that took care of all of that. Okay. So are you guys like intimate together? No. Does he? Does he sleep in the air room? Sometimes, like he'll fall asleep when we watch TV, but he usually sleeps on the couch. And right there, in there. So you guys aren't really, when you say married, you're not like, you're not dating and you're not doing stuff together, it's been together and things like that. No, and that's why John was okay, because John knew and that's why he was kind of okay with everything and being able to move in. Gotcha. But it was a lot for these investigators to take in. But eventually, even as their heads are spinning, trying to make sense of it, they knew they had to get back to the actual timeline from the night that Jonathan was killed. So Devon said that after dropping off the last load of belongings at Devon's house in Las Vegas, she and Jonathan returned to his place in Henderson for the night. Devon said that they ate together and that she saw Jonathan drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana. According to her, Jonathan had planned to drive back to her place afterward, but she said she didn't want him driving under the influence. So instead, she said, you know, just stay at your own house for the night, we will meet up the following morning and we will register the girls for school. Now, if you remember, his mom, Yoko, told the investigators that the last time that she saw Jonathan was around 10 p.m. But according to Devon, she actually saw him later than that. She explained that when Yoko came downstairs at around 1 a.m. and saw her washing the dishes, Jonathan was awake as well and was outside in the garage smoking. And after she finished the dishes, Devon said that she went into the garage. She told Jonathan that she was leaving and she said that she would see him the next morning. And according to her, that was the last time that she ever saw him alive. Which honestly, it could explain why both the garage door and the interior garage door had been left open. Maybe Jonathan cracked the garage door for airflow while he was smoking. Then maybe he forgot to shut the door into the house because he was drunk and intoxicated. Who knows. That still leaves the biggest question unanswered in all of this. Who killed him? And how did somebody get into that house without anybody hearing or seeing anything? And how is somebody so quiet during a decapitation? I mean, how is there not more evidence or clues here? I mean sure, someone could have come through the partially opened garage door. But if that's the case, how would they have known that Jonathan was going to leave it open that night? So detectives started asking the obvious next question. Did Jonathan have any enemies? Was there anybody who might have wanted to hurt him? And at first, Devon's answers were pretty vague. But eventually, she started bringing up parts of Jonathan's past. According to Devon, years before they even got together, Jonathan apparently had been involved in selling drugs. She said she didn't know exactly what kind, whether it was just marijuana or if it was possibly something more serious. And as far as she knew, that lifestyle was a long, far behind him. I just don't know anybody about nature, I know names. Anybody that comes to my or he was talking about, I owe this person some money or, hey, just be on the lookout because this guy's looking for me to have a thing. No sir, people owed him money. Like he said, this guy, this one right here owed him money. So, do you know, you say he used to do drugs because he'd do anything like, is he ever sold marijuana or sold? Long time ago. That's what most of his charges were for like years ago. And like what kind of stuff was he doing back then? I do not know the specifics. I know he did time for them years ago, but from what I understand, he's not doing anything. But what was he doing? He just like sell, I guess. That was before I knew him about. What did he sell? I don't know sir. I know he served time for them, but I really do not know. Like all of that took place before we had. So now investigators obviously had to consider whether or not Jonathan's past could somehow be connected to what happened to him. That lifestyle, I mean, it is scary in and of itself, but especially if you owe somebody money or you make enemies along the way. But before detectives could really process everything that Devon had told them, she contacted them again, this time with another detail. According to Devon, one of the twins had just mentioned that the day before Jonathan disappeared, a strange man had approached her and Jonathan while they were at a store. But apparently this man told Jonathan he was, quote, "coming for him," which is obviously an incredibly alarming thing to hear after somebody turns up murdered, right? So that detectives immediately went over to Devon's house so that they could interview her daughter directly. Because if this story was true, I mean, it could be huge. It could be a huge break in the case. So while detectives were walking up to the house, they noticed something that was sitting near the driveway, a black cell phone. Now at the time, they just kind of mentally clocked it, noted it, continued going inside, and they didn't immediately stop or ask whose phone it was. But then, before the detectives could even start the interview, the two twins came running inside, holding the exact same black phone, except they weren't treating it like it belonged to them. It wasn't a toy, it wasn't something like that. They handed it directly to the investigators. And they said that it was Jonathan's phone, which once again, this immediately raised more questions. And why would Jonathan's phone be outside of Devon's house, especially when his body had been found back at his house and he didn't go back to Devon's house that night? Investigators also noticed that the phone was cracked. And even more, that there appeared to be a dark-colored stain near one corner of the phone. A stain that looked like it possibly was consistent with blood. So detectives asked Devon whether Jonathan normally left things lying around like that. And according to her, yeah, he did. So she didn't seem shocked or surprised that his phone had apparently just been sitting outside of her house. Yet still, leaving your phone behind is one thing, leaving it cracked on the ground, possibly with blood? Oh, that's a whole nother thing. So the detectives collected the phone as evidence and they moved forward with what they had originally come there to do. Interviewing one of these twin girls. However, that interview itself was never really detailed. court documents, so we don't fully know what was said. What I do know, though, is that while the investigators were there, they decided to interview one more person. Jonathan's son, Deviere, who, remember, is also now Devin's husband. Deviere was cooperative and confirmed that, yes, he and Devin were legally married, but just like Devin had claimed, he said that the marriage was mainly to help her with medical issues. Now, from everything that I read, nobody ever really explained exactly what that meant. Devin had mentioned that by being married to him, it allowed him to help access medical information and assist her more easily. But honestly, that also feels like a pretty extreme step. So, I know I alluded to this earlier, but I really do wonder whether it maybe had something to do with health insurance or medical coverage through Deviere's job or something along those lines, just like cheating and working the system. And I don't know if any of that is for sure, so I don't want to speculate too much, but it would at least make a little bit more sense in all of this, right? So when Detectives then asked about his relationship with his dad, Jonathan, he admitted it was not good. Which honestly, probably isn't really surprising, given the circumstances, right? According to him, the issues between them went back way before he even married Devin. He claimed that Jonathan hadn't really been present during his childhood and that he wasn't a good father to him. The two of them apparently weren't close at all. In fact, he told the detectives that the last time he and Jonathan had even spoken was a couple of months earlier. And out of everyone that the investigators had interviewed so far, his son definitely had the most negative things to say about Jonathan. Not to mention, if detectives were looking at potential motive, I mean, there were a lot of different directions that they could go. Maybe there was resentment over his childhood. Maybe possible financial motivations. If Jonathan died, maybe tension over having to move out of the home that he was sharing with Devin his now wife. Maybe even jealousy and possessiveness, considering he had married his father's ex-girlfriend. Even though, again, both he and Devin insisted that their relationship was mostly platonic. And then there was the issue of Deviere's alibi. According to him, on August 6th, he had mostly been home alone packing up his belongings so that Jonathan could move in. Which, look, that could absolutely have been true. But the investigators also couldn't really verify it. Aside from the times when Jonathan and Devin and the twins had stopped by with belongings, Deviere claimed he had been there just completely alone by himself. He did have a more solid alibi for the morning of the 7th, though by then, Jonathan may have already been dead, so who's to say, right? He claimed that he was at work when he got the call that Jonathan was found. And according to him, he went home afterward and he started drinking, because he was just consumed and overwhelmed with emotions. At that point, though, everyone that investigators had interviewed had technically been cooperative. They weren't hiding anything. They were forthcoming. They were answering questions. But when nobody inside the house realized was that once the detectives confirmed that that black phone belonged to Jonathan, they immediately started working on a search warrant for Devin and Deviere's home. Because that detail, that phone, it was way too strange to ignore. And meanwhile, as all of this is unfolding and going on, the investigators were still missing one major, major piece of this case. Jonathan's head still had not been found. Now the search warrant ended up leading investigators to a few pretty interesting discoveries. And look, finding Jonathan's DNA inside the house, that obviously would not have been shocking. Neither would finding some of his belongings there. Detectives said also already recovered his phone outside the home before the search warrant was even executed. So like, that wouldn't have really been a like hallelujah moment finding his DNA or his belongings. Like, they already found his belongings. They also knew his belongings would be inside. We know he was in the house. Like, fine. But what the investigators apparently did not expect to find was a plastic bag hidden inside Devin's room. And inside that plastic bag was Jonathan's wallet, his ID, his cards, his social security card, and the keys to his truck. So while the detectives continued searching the house, they also asked Devin if she would be willing to do another interview. This time though, they spoke with her inside one of their patrol cars. And because of the topics that they were about to get into, the detectives read Devin her Miranda rights. Although they also made it clear that she was not under arrest at that point in time. So Devin said that she understood her rights, and she still would agree to speak with them. The interview itself was actually pretty short, but detectives mainly wanted answers to two things. First, why was Jonathan's phone outside the house in the driveway, which Devin didn't really seem offended by the question. According to her, Jonathan often smoked cigarettes in that area. So maybe he had been there outside the night before while they were dropping things off, dropped his phone, and simply didn't realize it. And out for what looked like it could be blood on the phone, Devin claimed that Jonathan had cut his hand earlier in the day while they were moving things around. So a pretty simple explanation and a plausible explanation. And the truth was, investigators actually had found cigarette butts in that same area where the phone was recovered. So I mean, part of that explanation, it certainly lined up. The second thing though that the detectives asked her about was that plastic bag that contained Jonathan's belongings. But again, Devin's answer, it sounded fairly straightforward. She claimed that Jonathan had asked her to hold onto those items for him. Though she also said she didn't realize that the keys inside were actually for his truck. She thought that maybe they were for something else or maybe even a spare who knows. Now obviously, investigators couldn't verify whether that conversation had really happened because Jonathan was dead and he couldn't confirm. But it also wasn't impossible. Jonathan was supposedly preparing to move in and he had planned to meet Devin again the next morning. So maybe he did say like, hey, hold on to all this. I'm going to see you in the morning anyway. I'll just get it from you then. Although honestly, the truck keys do stand out a little bit because you would of course think that he would need those if he planned to drive himself to the school the next day or over there to Devin's house the next day. But again, Jonathan had reportedly been drinking that night. So maybe Devin kept the keys intentionally to stop him from driving intoxicated. Where are you guys at when he hand you like that stack of stuff? In his room area and he had me the little square thing. He says, hold on to this and he hand me the other thing. He goes, this is my social. He says, just keep it safe. And that's all I was going to do. So I wrapped it up and I was going to put the social in the security box and he just didn't have a chance to do it. What else did he give you anything else? He gave me his guns. Anything else? Like there's a set of keys in that bag too. The keys are from Andreas stuff. The set of keys are in that bag. Like the bag that. No, the keys are my keys. What are those going to? My car. So you have a bag that you put. The plastic bag that you wrapped his ID in that he gave you? Uh-huh. Had a set of your keys in there? I'm so lost. I'm just wondering like when he handed you a bunch of stuff he only gave you the wallet. What the ID in it? Did he hand you anything else? The social security card. Okay, because in that bag that you wrapped in that you said you wrapped it in, there was also a set of vehicle keys in there. I don't remember I'm giving any keys. Because I guess that's my question. Like why would he give you. Why would he give you his wallets social security card? What's she? The detective skiner's asking also and then also a set of keys. I don't remember the keys. I just know the wallet and the social security card. That same day that the investigators were searching Devin's house, they also received another phone call from Jonathan's mom Yoko. And what she told them was incredibly important. At this point, it had been about two days since Jonathan's body was discovered. And it's not totally clear when investigators officially released the crime scene, but based on the documents, it seems like Yoko and Yoshita had been allowed back inside the home. So Yoko was explaining that she and her boyfriend were getting ready to make lunch together when they reached for the knife block in the kitchen and realized that one of the knives was missing, specifically a meat cleaver. So we're not talking about a small kitchen knife here or a paring knife or anything like this. This was a large, large, heavy blade. And according to Yoko, the night before Jonathan was found dead, Yoshita had actually used the meat cleaver while making dinner. Afterward, it had been left sitting in the sink before they went upstairs to bed. So this knife couldn't have been lost. It couldn't have been borrowed. It couldn't nothing like that. They used it. It was in the sink just the night before. But now the cleaver was gone. It wasn't in the sink. It wasn't misplaced in a drawer somewhere. And according to them, it had completely disappeared. So as soon as the detectives heard that, they immediately had to wonder whether this missing meat cleaver could have been part of Jonathan's murder and also used as the weapon to decapitate him. Which also kind of shocks me a little bit, because if you find a decapitated body, wouldn't one of your first thoughts be to go look and see if any tools are missing from the garage or any knives are missing from the knife block? I don't know. So eventually, Jonathan's autopsy results came back, and the investigators learned several more important details. The medical examiner determined that Jonathan's head had been removed post-mortem. His official cause of death was listed as homicidal violence, with no anatomic or toxicological cause determined, which basically means that the medical examiner could confirm that Jonathan had been murdered, but could not identify the exact injury or substance that killed him. So unlike cases where they can point to a gunshot wound, or strangulation, or an overdose, the investigators here could only definitively conclude that Jonathan's death was a homicide. The autopsy also determined that Jonathan's body had not been moved after death, meaning he was killed right there on the bed where he had been discovered and decapitated. And lastly, investigators believed that both a hand-powered knife and a mechanically-powered saw had likely been used in this decapitation. Which if that's the case, how did nobody hear this saw? I mean, I get even small saws sometimes are quiet, but like, how do you not hear that, right? And again, how was there no blood splatter in all of that? So during Devon's third interview with Detectives, they asked whether or not she would be willing to take a polygraph exam. And she agreed. So on August 15th, Devon came into the station and she went through with the test. And according to the reports, she seemed very calm, very ready to get it over with. However, the results that came back, they raised some concerns. At one point during the polygraph, Devon was asked point blank whether or not she had participated in Jonathan's death in any way. And investigators noted that she had a significant reaction to that specific question. Which this obviously became a major red flag. And Devon also knew that it looked really bad too. Because the very next day, she reached back out to the detectives herself and asked to speak with them again. And she said that she wanted to better explain why she hadn't passed the polygraph test cleanly. And I have to say, honestly, investigators were probably pretty curious at that point. In most cases, detectives are like chasing people down, trying to get answers. So here Devon was and she just kept voluntarily coming back to them with more information. So during this next conversation, she started opening up more about her relationship with Jonathan. And this version, it sounded a little bit different from what she had originally described. According to Devon, yes, there were times when she and Jonathan got along. But there were also periods where things were not good between the two of them at all. I mentioned earlier that Jonathan had full custody of the twins while still allowing Devon to spend time with them. And from the way that Devon described things, she felt that Jonathan used that custody arrangement to maintain control. According to her, if something wasn't going his way, he would threaten to take the girls away from her. But then whenever it benefited his own schedule or made his life easier, he would allow her to come and be with the girls. He wasn't keeping them from me, but he always kept trying to threaten that. So that was always an option he had. He would threaten it, yeah. But it seemed like he wanted me to keep the girls because it made it easier for him to work, because I had them so he could work. Devon also claimed that for months, Jonathan had repeatedly asked her for sexual favors. And according to her, she turned him down every single time. She reiterated that she was no longer interested in a sexual relationship, and again, had claimed that they had not been intimate in years. So then Devon described what she said happened the night that Jonathan died. According to her, after Jonathan had been drinking and smoking a little bit of weed that night, he started coming on to her again. She said that she still didn't want to do anything sexual with him. She was over him. It wasn't like that. They were just co-parenting. But she did agree to give him a back massage and like crack his back as well. So Jonathan laid down on his stomach while Devon leaned over him and started massaging his back. So he's asking for sex, you say no as usual, okay, and then from there, what happens? I gave him a back massage off his back. Obviously, you're quite a smaller than he is. How did he pop his back? He was like another ground and pushed him, pushed him, pushed him on the fourth line. And pretty slow. It was supposed to pop. Okay. Now, according to Devon, something changed during that massage. She claimed that while she was rubbing Jonathan's back, he started touching her as well and not in a casual way. According to Devon, he started grabbing her in a sexual way, a way that made her feel incredibly uncomfortable. So furious and uncomfortable. She said that that's when she got up from the bed, walked over to the fireplace in the room, grabbed what she described as almost like a candle holder or a candlestick and hit Jonathan over the head with it, yeah, he's going to get on my dress because he kept grabbing on my arm, right? I already said no, stop touching me. Okay. Then what happens? I get him. He's stopped touching me. Would you hit him? Some staff think that was on the fireplace. Okay. So the fireplace in the bedroom? Yes. So he's laying on the bed. You get off the bed? Walk over to the fireplace? What do you grab? The staff. The what? I don't know what his call is, I don't know what his call is. It looks like a candle holder, I can't. A candle holder? I don't know. The square. I can't make that shape, I don't know how to describe it. Okay. So, I was always at, how long is it? Are we talking short? Short. Short enough. A little bit. A little bit. Oh, this. Why? The inside of this. The living room chair. Okay. How's it? Okay. Something. Something. Something. Something. Something. Something. Something. And the same thickness throughout the length of it. Okay. So, is it a candle holder or something they can put on the ground with a candle sits on? Is that? Something. That's what it look like. Okay. And what color was it? Wooden. Wooden color. Like a black or was it a dark brown or a black, they have like a black coating on it? I'm the same with a black color. Okay. Now, one of the strangest parts of this entire confession is just how casual Devon sounds while describing it. The way she answered some of the detectives questions, it almost came across like, "Well, yeah, obviously, obviously that's what I did." Like, just very cavalier. She also minimized the entire thing. She framed it more as like this simple act of self-defense, not as an attempt to kill Jonathan, but rather just enough force to stop him from touching her. So, you get him somewhere around the ear or something like that. You believe, correct? Is that safe to say? Yeah. How many times did you hit him? One. Okay. How hard did you hit him? Okay. So, it's hard as you could. Like, did you use all of their pairs? Oh, good. One hand, two hands, right hand, left hand. You're right hand. You're right hand. Okay. Did you say anything before you hit him? Stop. Stop. Why did you say stop? Does he keep touching me? According to Devon, she didn't even hit Jonathan that hard. But at the same time, she admitted that she did hit him hard enough to knock him unconscious. And she kept emphasizing one very specific detail over and over again, that he was still breathing afterward. So Devon insisted that after hitting him, she immediately left the house. According to her, she knew that Jonathan wasn't dead, but she also didn't want to stick around waiting for him to wake up and be super pissed off and possibly even attack her. However, investigators already knew that there was a major problem with this timeline. Based on surveillance footage from the neighborhood and GPS data, detectives determined that there was roughly an hour unaccounted for between when Devon claimed she hit Jonathan and when she actually left the house. And when the investigators confronted her about this missing hour, she just continued sticking to the same story. Although, by that point, I mean the detectives clearly were not buying it. Not to mention, they were already multiple inconsistencies throughout her version of events. So at this stage, investigators were pretty pissed, and they stopped handling her with kid gloves. The timid, soft-spoken demeanor that Devon had initially presented during her interviews, it didn't really seem to be working anymore. And you could tell that the detectives were getting frustrated with her answers, too. Okay, so what did you do with it? It was a better one before. I don't know, I got it out of that. Okay, you did it. I know you got it out of there, so let's try again. Okay, this shit's about to get real. Okay? I'm going to explain something to you. There's about 40 years of law enforcement experience in this room right now. And that doesn't include you. Does that make sense? Okay, don't play the -- what's going on? I don't want to say that. Okay, well, I'm just being direct with you. All right? We're talking about your father's kid or the father to your children is no longer here. And you were the last person that was with him. You were the last person to use force on him. So the shit's getting real. I'm not trying to be disrespectful to you, but the games are over. And you should look at that picture, because that's the last position you saw him in. And that's the position we saw him in, and we went to that house. So cut the shit, and let's get down to the nitty-gritty, and start answering some questions for us. Tell us the same bullshit that you tell Detective Ozawa. You have your rest of your life ahead of you right now. You have a big decision to make right now. A huge decision that could ultimately affect your two little girls. The whole time that we've been sitting here and having this conversation with you, you've had this a feted look. This can go one or two ways. When we write this report, we're going to say, "Devin was non-remorseful, not even emotional." You don't have to call me, sir. All right? We're beyond that. All right? Okay. It's Rick Ristper. Okay? My apologies, because I assume that he introduced myself, even though I wasn't in the room. All right? So as we move forward, my question to you, before we even get into details, is if there's no light in that room, you describe something to me that you picked up. So there's only, that means one thing, when you left, you took it with you, or you hit it, you saw it in light. So somehow there came white, and you saw the object, because we know it was not on the bed, and we know it was not on the floor. So that's the stuff that I'm talking about. The main thing that Devin kept insisting on was that she was not a murderer. According to her, she did not kill Jonathan. Although the detectives obviously had a very hard time reconciling that claim with everything else that she had already admitted to. Because according to Devin herself, she was the last person who was known to see Jonathan alive. She also admitted to striking him in the head, striking him hard enough that it knocked him unconscious. She also admitted to just leaving him, lying there in the exact same position that the investigators later found him in. So what? The boogeyman came in and decapitated him? Like, what do you mean? So detective is basically pushed back with the hobbyist question. If she didn't kill Jonathan, if she didn't decapitate him, if she didn't pour chemicals onto his body. And who the hell did? So you're there for an hour and four minutes, you need to just get out of there. They talked about the cleaning supplies, the ammonia and stuff like that, that you said that you saw and you're like, "Oh, yeah, I just saw it." And I put in the cleaning supplies and Jonathan. Okay. Who did that? I didn't know anything about cleaning supplies and Jonathan. She didn't ask me, "I don't really look about that," and I just said that before. Okay. Okay. So you saw the cleaning supplies? Yes, they were some floor by the bathroom in the laundry room area. Yes. Okay. So Jonathan's right here. You him. He lays there. You go out. Now we have an hour where you don't remember what would happen. What did you go back in that room and do? That was just cleaning up the dishes and things. Cleaning up the dishes in his room? That's what I was doing when I gave her a cleaning request. No. After yoga. No, I was just cleaning. What were you cleaning? The dishes and your cleaning. Stop. What's that again? Just cleaning. I was literally just cleaning off the area. When I left, and I hit him, he was breathing. I didn't. How do you know he was breathing? You could tell when a person was breathing. Okay. The chest goes up and down. Okay. You said it was dark though. You could still know if someone was breathing in the dark. It's not pitch dark, but yeah, it's not. So you can't see in the area on his head because it's so dark, but you can see his chest running. You can't see what you grab off the shelf because it's so dark, and then you walk over, but now you can see him breathing. Yeah. You can see this person breathing and your eyes can not just. There are definitely parts of Devon's story that don't really add up. Like the detectives pointed out, according to Devon, she stayed long enough to do the dishes and even clean up parts of the area afterward, yet somehow didn't notice or participate in any of the other horrifying things that happened to Jonathan. She also claimed that the room was so dark that she couldn't really see the object that she used to hit him, yet at the same time, she said that it was bright enough that she could clearly tell that he was still breathing afterward. So which is it? And then there's the position of his body itself. According to Devon, after she hit Jonathan, he collapsed unconscious onto his stomach, which investigators later found him in that exact same position the following morning. Except now, he had also been decapitated, which is obviously just a very difficult detail to ignore. I remember being in the town and him as talking and everything like that, but the actual it does not feel real. I don't feel I was there that long. I remember being there, yoga, pharmacy, home. I thought I was home and like to something, because they're saying it was 242. As the interrogation continued, Devon started giving investigators even more information. At one point, she began talking about the medical issues that she had supposedly been dealing with. According to Devon, she was taking so many medications that her perception of time, sometimes felt distorted. So this is where investigators now finally started getting closer to what they believed was the truth behind everything. Although honestly, I'm not even sure that you know, truth is the right word here, because what Devon said next, it became heavily debated. According to Devon, one of the twins had confided in her about disturbing behavior involving Jonathan. Now I want to be very crystal clear here, this entire allegation came from Devon, whether it was true or not, has been heavily disputed, and there is no actual evidence proving that it happened. But according to Devon, one of the girls told her that Jonathan had repeatedly made her uncomfortable while she was in his care. Devon claimed that her daughter told her that Jonathan had forced her to shower in front of him. And according to Devon, this allegedly was not an isolated incident. She claimed that it happened multiple times. Devon said that she was so incredibly disturbed by this because the girls were older by that point, and they no longer needed help bathing. So why would this have been happening? And according to her, she felt like she needed to step in and she needed to protect them somehow. Even with that explanation though, Devon still maintained that when she hit Jonathan in the head, she only intended to injure him. She claimed she wanted to hurt him badly enough that he might end up with a concussion or maybe require a short hospital stay, but not dead. But I also just want to pause here really quick because if you're saying, first you say it because he got grabby during a massage, now you're saying it was done to protect your daughters. If you're trying to protect your daughters, and that's where this is stunning from, don't you think that you're talking out of both sides of your mouth because you're also allowing him to move in with you and your daughters? And maybe I mean, I guess the argument could be so that you could have a more watchful eye on things and things like that, but why would you, like, and you would be involved more since he had full custody? But like, it still doesn't really make a whole lot of sense on the surface. According to Devon, the goal was simply to get him out of the picture temporarily so that she could then figure out what to do. throughout what to do next and keep the girls safe. So now this new explanation, it was changing the supposed motive for why she hit Jonathan. But even still, she wasn't admitting to murdering him or decapitating him. At the same time though, detectives now had what they believed could be a very strong motive. It's also important to note that Devon herself was already dealing with accusations involving abuse. Devon had full custody of the twins for a reason and shortly before Jonathan's murder, Devon had actually been in court on a separate child abuse case after one of the twins reportedly told a teacher that Devon had given her, quote, "a whooping." Which this obviously complicates things even more. Because now you have someone who was herself accused of abusing one of the children, also accusing Jonathan of abusive behavior. So on August 15th, 2023, Devon was officially arrested and charged in connection with Jonathan's murder. And from the moment that she was arrested, Devon maintained that she was innocent. So it really wasn't all that surprising when she pleaded not guilty and pushed for a trial. But despite continuing to publicly insist that she was innocent and despite claiming that the only thing that she was guilty of was hitting Jonathan over the head and then leaving him there, Devon did eventually accept a plea deal in 2024. She pleaded guilty to second degree murder and under the terms of the deal, she would become eligible for parole after 15 years in prison. Which honestly, for a murder involving decapitation, parole eligibility after 15 years is pretty shocking. I mean, obviously, sentencing involves a lot of different legal factors, but the idea that she could potentially have been released in under two decades, it definitely stood out to a lot of people. And apparently, it stood out to Devon, too, because instead of accepting the plea agreement and serving her sentence, she decided she wanted to withdraw her guilty plea altogether. And the timing of all of this was wild because it happened right as she was about to be sentenced. But I can actually prove my innocence. I actually can and I'm not going to stop fighting to prove my innocence. I have more than enough and Jonathan deserves to have the actual person who's guilty behind bars. I was helping Jonathan. I have -- I can show that I was trying to help him and this I know is hurting the family and I can see it in your faces and I know your hearts are angry and they should be. And I am angry for you and this is not fair to you. This has been driving out for almost two years, it's not fair to you and it's not fair to your children in your home and it's not right, it really isn't. It's not -- I've seen so much that it's just terrible, the way that they manipulated and altered and tears read it, things is wrong, they should not be able to do it and they have. And for you to be able to let me and I know that the things are altered and -- You put a guilty down. Michael, you are not going to address the state, you are going to address me. You are not going to address me. What do you want me to say to me? My apologies, I wasn't trying to address the state directly. I was told -- I just told one thing after another and I truly believed that we were going to do the right thing and it just didn't happen. I am so sorry for all of this but I am so sorry but I didn't do this and I didn't know this but end up like this, I really didn't. So once that happened, everything reset and now Devon was heading to trial trying to prove her innocence. Her trial finally began in November of 2025, more than two years after Jonathan's death and this trial was messy. The prosecution argued that Devon murdered and decapitated Jonathan because she wanted full custody of the twins and also because she wanted freedom to pursue a real romantic relationship with his son, Devir. Prosecutors also argued that after killing Jonathan, Devon transported his head back to Las Vegas and disposed of it in a dumpster where it was then likely taken away during trash collection. And even now, Jonathan's head has never been recovered. The defense, however, argued something completely different. According to them, Jonathan's son was actually the person responsible for murdering him and decapitating him. Maybe it was the door closing. We don't know. That's her testimony. Jeff devalued her testimony. But again, this is really kind of giving a shedding light on his timeline. She previously testified that she heard dogs at 3 a.m., she brought it up three times during her police interview, apparently she felt it was noteworthy and she testified to that September 14th before the grand jury, yeah, the dogs are barking, it's 3 a.m., someone's put the dogs outside, the facts, taken as a whole, and not this little piece here and this little piece there, show that this murder, and you know, it's silly to say a murder didn't occur, obviously it did, it happened after Devon left. The defense also argued that investigators failed to properly examine evidence that could have potentially helped prove Devon's innocence. For example, they pointed to a fresh boot print that was found in the backyard of Jonathan's house that was apparently never even tested. When you look at the photo, you can see that they're fresh, they wanted to argue that are male, or female, they didn't do any follow-up, there was no footprint comparisons to anybody's shoes in this case, much less deviers. You recall the Yoko's testimony, there were four dogs in the backyard, if that footprint had been there for very long, common sense would dictate that the dogs would have walked through it, they would have been sullied, they weren't, they were fresh. Again, they were not analyzed or tested, and there it is. In the tech of Ozawa, just kind of discounted that and said, "Well, we don't know how long they were there, but we know and really looked at Yoko's testimony and Yoko's statements, four dogs were out there for most of the night." Then there's also the missing meat cleaver, the one that Jonathan's mother had reported. That knife was never recovered either, in fact, no confirmed murder weapon was ever found. Now, one of the biggest witnesses during the trial ended up being Jonathan's son, Devier himself. And during cross-examination, the defense pushed really hard on the fact that he had not been truthful with the investigators about the nature of his relationship with Devon, or truthful about the feelings that he had toward her. They also highlighted the major tension between Jonathan, Devon, and him. And it is clear Yoko didn't know, correct? Page seven, detective asks, again, trying to clarify this relationship and what's really going on. So he asks you, so I didn't know, but you're saying that you guys are married more, more out of convenience, not like you guys actually love each other, and you respond, "Yeah, we don't. It's not like that. It's out of convenience." Correct? That was a lie, wasn't it? So you're telling us that you were telling this detective the truth? Then the detective asks you, "But you guys, do you guys sleep in the same room?" Then you say no, correct? You guys actually didn't sleep in the same room, you slept in the same bed, didn't you? Yes, sir. But when he asked if you two slept in the same room, you said no, correct? Then he asks you, "Are you guys intimate at all?" Then you say no, correct? Wasn't true, was it? say that you were doing it. You're downplaying your feelings for your wife when this detective came to ask you about the murder of your father. Yes sir, because I didn't know that actually happened in my father. Please say it again. Yes sir, because I didn't know that all happened in my father. Okay. But you're lying to the police officer about your relationship with your wife, correct? There was clearly a lot happening behind the scenes in this family dynamic. During the trial, it came out that Devon and Devier absolutely did have a sexual relationship and that relationship reportedly began even before the two of them were married, back when he was only 19 years old. The defense also brought up that Devier worked at a company called Home Tronics, where employees installed home entertainment systems. According to the defense, that meant that he potentially had access to cutting tools. Tools similar to the ones that the investigators believed may have been used during the decapitation. The defense also repeatedly focused on the lack of noise and blood evidence because if a mechanically powered saw really had been used, how did nobody hear it? And why wasn't there more blood splatter throughout the room? You have the lead detective on the stand yesterday saying, there's no blood sp- I mean, you could imagine what you would think a crime scene would look like after someone's head was dismembered. That's not what it looks like. Does that create inherent and reasonable doubt of, wait a minute, they don't know how this happened or where it happened? Good morning, Ted. Good morning, John. I love the segue. Listen, I don't think that matters, Ted. Where it happened, the bottom line is, it's about who did it and we have a dead person and that's really what the ultimate issue is. And I know there's a lot of questions about how the actual death happened because it appears to be after the death, the individual was beheaded. But again, that's insignificant. I think they have a very strong case. But even with all of those arguments, there were still a lot of suspicious circumstances surrounding Devon herself. And at the end of the day, she also had admitted to striking Jonathan in the head and then leaving him there unconscious. So her trial finally wrapped up on November 14th, 2025. And this was the final verdict. District Court Clark County Nevada, state-in-the-data plaintiff versus Devon Jade Michaels, aka Devon Wolette, aka Nikki Fairchild, aka Tracy Baker, aka Tracy Nicole Tabaraz, defendant, case number C-23-377-239-1 to partly 10, verdict. We have a jury in the above and title case, find the defendant, Devon Jade Michaels as follows. Count one, murder with use of a deadly weapon, guilty of first degree murder with use of a deadly weapon. They did this 14th day of November, 2025, signed Aaron Gilded. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury are the, is this your verdict as right? So say you won, so say you all. Even after trying to distance herself from everything and shift blame on to the son, it wasn't enough. Which I bet, Devon regretted withdrawing that earlier plea deal because now instead of parole eligibility after 15 years, she ended up receiving a much harsher sentence, 28 years to life in prison. After sentencing, Devon was given the opportunity to address the court, and her statement was very short and pretty underwhelming, in my opinion. Take a listen. Is my, what if anything would you like to say before I put out sentence against you? I just put it back and you think I say, Devon, Devon, the family is looking for certain things and they're here and they're just wanting them to get their, at least part of their anger out. I don't know no matter what I say, they're so good for this anyway, so just let them have it. I think that one of the strangest parts of this entire case is just how many major pieces are still missing. I mean, like I said, Jonathan's head was never found. The murder weapon was never found. The exact tools that were used in the decapitation never found. Now that doesn't mean that I personally think that Devon is innocent, not by any stretch. There is still a lot of evidence pointing to her involvement, but I do also understand why it leaves a lot of people with questions and with possible doubt. So I guess my question for you is, do you think that Devon acted alone? Do you think that his son was more involved than the investigators believed? Or do you think that there is some sort of other explanation entirely that never fully was introduced during the trial? Because even now, this case, it just still feels incredibly unresolved in a lot of different ways. So I'm curious to know what you guys think. Let me know in the comment section, the Apple review section, or the Spotify Q&A section. Alright, now really quickly before you go, just a reminder, all of our fall merch is officially on sale, but it will not last and the merch shop will be closing soon. AnnieElise.com, get all of your merch while you can, the Make It Makes Sense, I hope you're having a good day. I'm about to ruin it. Stay spooky. It's true crime documentaries or Christmas movies. There is no one between so many different pieces of merch. So go grab it. AnnieElise.com, but warning, some of it is already starting to sell out, so grab it quickly. Alright guys, thank you again for listening to an all new episode with me today. 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