OAKLEY — Amid a somber gathering Monday at Metropolis Corridor meant to sign the tip to the thriller of Alexis Gabe’s disappearance, the daddy of the 24-year-old Oakley lady — as soon as lacking, now confirmed to have died after her stays have been discovered final week — insisted his household’s seek for justice is just not over, and that their quest for peace might by no means be.
“There are such a lot of questions unanswered,” Gwyn Gabe stated Monday, after police detailed how Gabe’s stays have been present in Amador County. “I’m unsure if there could be closure for our household by way of the lack of Alexis. The heartless and cold-blooded homicide. The heartless method Alexis’ physique was desecrated … .”
Final week, an individual within the metropolis of Plymouth discovered a human cranium in a distant space that authorities stated they'd not beforehand searched. An odontologist summoned from the Contra Costa County Coroner’s Workplace confirmed Friday by way of dental data that the stays have been Gabe’s.
“It was hell,” Gwyn Gabe stated of the information, which got here as his spouse, Rowena Gabe, is within the Philippines coping with the loss of life of her personal father. “We have been already anticipating it. However to actually know that she actually is gone, it was heartbreaking.”
Oakley Police Chief Paul Beard stated on the information convention Monday that he hoped to “present some particulars” concerning the discovery of Alexis Gabe’s physique and to “hopefully attempt to present some measure of closure” to the Gabe household.
Gwyn Gabe stated, although, that his household is just not close to closure. He stated they and the 16,100 members of the “Assist Convey Alexis Gabe Dwelling” Fb web page have been dedicated to discovering the remainder of her stays.
Alexis Gabe went lacking Jan. 29 from Antioch. Her silver sedan was discovered the following day in Oakley on Trenton Road and Oakley Street.
“We don't imagine she left (the town) alive,” Antioch police Det. John Cox stated.
After months of looking for her, authorities in Washington state moved in June to arrest her ex-boyfriend, Marshall Curtis Jones, because the prime suspect in her disappearance. Jones, nonetheless, engaged in a gunbattle with members of the Pacific Northwest Violent Offenders Job Drive as they closed in on him in Kent, Wash., and police shot and killed him.
“I wish to make it clear that Marshall Jones is the only perpetrator of this homicide,” Cox stated Monday, including that the Contra Costa County District Lawyer’s Workplace “completely examined all of the proof gathered. It has been decided there may be not sufficient proof to find out past an affordable doubt that a crime was dedicated by some other individual however Marshall Jones.”
He added that “I can actually say that we left no stone unturned” within the seek for her and people accountable.
Gwyn Gabe, who thanked police in each Oakley and Antioch for his or her efforts, stated his household continues to imagine Jones had assist from a member of the family. Prosecutors stated in August that they didn't have adequate proof to cost that relative — Jones’ mom — with a criminal offense.
“We now have tons of proof,” Gwyn Gabe stated. “We simply can’t discuss it now. Speaking to the (DA’s Workplace), one of many issues that might in all probability assist is that if we discover her stays. We’ll nonetheless be capable of bodily inform the style in how she was killed. We are able to discover out if a weapon was used. So that is what we have been ready for really. That’s what they advised us. (We wanted to) go discover Alexis’ stays and go from there.”
Beard stated that an individual visiting from Alaska who was utilizing a steel detector discovered Gabe’s stays off Freeway 16 in Amador County, a stretch of freeway often known as Jackson Street. Beard referred to as it a “lengthy rural street with a many facet roads coming off it.”
The invention occurred close to a type of roads, Watt Avenue, simply off the freeway, authorities stated.
Beard stated investigators had searched areas of Jackson Street beforehand however not the world the place the cranium was discovered. A hand-written observe that authorities stated Jones wrote so as to hold his cellphone off was a key piece of proof as they beforehand searched the world, Beard stated.
“We dug a number of areas, and we additionally drained a big pond,” he stated.
Investigators turned up the observe whereas executing considered one of 60 search warrants they used within the case, Oakley police Det. Tyler Horen stated. Investigators additionally discovered a few of Gabe’s earrings, remnants of a black rubbish bag and duct tape, Horen stated.
The seek for Gabe has remained within the public eye since she went lacking. A reward provided by the town grew to $100,000.
Police declared her case a murder investigation on June 2, the day after authorities fatally shot Jones.
“Regardless of all of the ache, anger, frustration and grief, we're in some way relieved that she’s been discovered and we are able to lastly convey her dwelling,” Gwyn Gabe stated. “We pray that our daughter could be at peace figuring out her household and group gave their all to search out her and can proceed to take action.”
A celebration of life occasion in Oakley will happen January of subsequent yr, roughly a yr after Gabe’s disappearance. There may also be a candlelight vigil on Dec. 9.
Gwyn Gabe additionally stated he hopes his household and the Fb group will assist convey different lacking individuals dwelling and work to stem home violence, so different households gained’t undergo his household’s expertise.
“I don’t know if we'd be capable of have peace and even transfer ahead,” Gwyn Gabe stated. “Most likely not. However sometime. Hopefully.”