A Vow Of Silence

Forensic Files

HLN

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Emelita Villa came to Arlington, Texas from the Philippines as a shy, impoverished, 18-year-old mail order bride for Jack Reeves, a man almost 30 years her senior. Six and a half years later, Emelita disappeared.

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0:00.0	She was a male-order bride,
0:04.0	lured to the United States
0:05.0	with the promise of a better life.
0:08.0	Just a few years after she was married,
0:10.0	she disappeared.
0:12.0	The clue to this mystery came from an unlikely source.
0:17.0	A second forensic look
0:19.0	at the suspicious death of another woman 16 years earlier.
0:31.0	Emily DeReeves was 26 years old.
0:36.0	Her husband, Jack, was a 52-year-old former Army sergeant,
0:40.0	now working as a painter.
0:42.0	Together, the couple had a three-year-old son,
0:45.0	whom we'll call Theo.
0:47.0	Emily DeReeves had an interesting past.
0:51.0	When Emily DeReeves was 18,
0:53.0	she had been her family's passport out of poverty.
0:58.0	Eleven of her family members lived in a two-room hut
1:01.0	in Seaboo City in the Philippines.
1:04.0	She was a beauty queen in her community,
1:07.0	and she was a lovely girl.
1:09.0	She wanted to go to school,
1:10.0	but her family had convinced her
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