Welcome to Postmortem. I'm your host, Anne-Marie Green, and today we're discussing Sacramento Fire Captain Joe Hunter, who you might know from the CBS TV show, Survivor.

He competed in season 48, and he's going to be back again for next year's season, season 50.

If you watch the show, you know that Joe talked about the profound impact of losing his sister, Joanna.

Back in 2011, 36-year-old Joanna was found dead in her Vacaville, California home,

hanging inside a bedroom closet by a bathrobe sash.

Her death was ruled a suicide, but her family believes that her husband and church pastor,

Mark Lewis, killed her after her history of

domestic violence. Now, to this day, Mark Lewis has not been charged with any crime relating to the

death of Joanna. Joining me now to discuss this case is 48 hours correspondent Natalie Morales,

who was the one who reported on this. Natalie, there's so many elements to this case, so much to talk about.

You know, I've done true crime stories now for more than a decade.

And I got to say for me, and I also know for my crew, the team that worked on this,

this is definitely one that stands out.

It had such an impact on all of us, probably the most meaningful

and heartfelt, I think, in my career. And I've never really felt more purpose in telling a story

than I have with this one. I am not surprised. As you know, after I watched it, I immediately emailed

you. My mind was blown. And I found myself, you know, speaking to the screen over and over again. I want to remind everyone, if you haven't listened to this episode of 48 hours, head on over to your podcast feed. You're going to find the full audio of this episode right below this podcast. Go listen. Come on back. We're going to have a conversation. So a bit of a recap for

everyone. Since Joanna's death in October of 2011, her brother Joe and Mother Patricia have never

wavered in their belief that Joanna's husband, Mark, killed her and staged the crime scene

to look like a suicide.

Joe was especially close to his big sister, Joanna, and they often talked about competing

together one day on the long-running CBS series Survivor.

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