In 1995, when divorced mother-of-two Joann Albanese started dating a man named John Edwards, things seemed to be getting better. In the months that followed, however, things quickly went bad, and Joann disappeared without a trace in August 1995.
The show “American Monster: When’s Mom Coming Home?” on Investigation Discovery is about what happened to Joann and how the man known as John Edwards came to be. So, let’s try to figure out what happened, shall we?
How Did Joann Albanese Die?
Because of her father’s job, Joann and her family moved around Europe when she was a child. She met Tom Albanese when she was still in high school. They ended up getting married and having two girls. Joann was said to be a beautiful woman with a smile that made people happy. But as time went on, they had problems, and in December 1991, they got a divorce. After that, Joann moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, where she got a job at the MGM Grand Hotel.
On August 20, 1995, after having the kids for the weekend, Joann’s ex-husband drove them back to her house. But the girls couldn’t find their mother anywhere. According to the show, the bedroom was a mess, and her purse was still there. After three days, Joann’s car was found in Prescott, Arizona. Then, in October 1998, Joann’s bones were found by a hunter about a mile from where the car was found. But because the remains were in such bad shape, it was impossible to figure out what killed the person.
Who put Joann Albanese to death?
In March 1995, Joann met John Edwards, a fitness trainer, at a gym near her. At first, they got along well, and according to the show, John liked her daughters. But in the months that followed, John became possessive and controlling, which made Joann think twice about the relationship. She told her mother on August 19, 1995, that she was going to break up with John over dinner.
But the next day, when the kids came home, Joann was nowhere to be found. Also, John seemed to have vanished into thin air, which made things even worse. On the show, it was said that when the police searched his house, they found out that John Edward’s real name was John Patrick Addis. He was pretending to be someone else. The investigation showed that John was an Alaskan trooper who knew how to look into crimes. But he had been in trouble with the law before.
John’s first wife left him because he was mean to her. In the late 1980s, he took his four kids and went to Michigan. Before he was caught, John lived there with the kids for about a year. After a short time in prison, John skipped his parole in Alaska in 1989 and went around the country under different names. He met Joann in Las Vegas, where he was staying under a different name.
According to the show, Joann’s car was found a few miles from the border with Mexico. The police think that John killed Joann and then ran away to Mexico. The case went cold until March 1997, when a tip said that a man who looked like John worked under a different name at a gym in Guadalajara, Mexico. But he found out and left soon after, leaving the police again one step behind.
How Did John Patrick Addis Die?
On October 18, 2006, police went to the home of Laura Liliana Padilla in Chiapas, Mexico, after neighbors said they hadn’t seen her family for a few days. Inside, Laura and her two kids were all dead from carbon monoxide poisoning, which is why the police were called. At the time, the police found out that she had married John, but he went by a different name. He had two children. Then, a few weeks later, John’s dead body was found in a Guatemala City, Guatemala, hotel room. Officially, the 56-year-old man died of a heart attack, but the police thought he may have killed himself.
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