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Forensic Files | Haunting Vision | FULL EPISODE | HD | True Crime Procedure Investigation Drama

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "Forensic Files | Haunting Vision | FULL EPISODE | HD | True Crime Procedure Investigation Drama", an episode of FilmRise True Crime published October 16, 2025 (22 min, about 2,846 words). It mentions 11 people, works and ideas, including Jean Kaidell, Diane Kaidell, Bob Maron, Greg Kaidell, Susie Kaidell.

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 5:00: Jean Kaidell, Bob Maron, Diane Kaidell
  2. – 10:00: Diane Kaidell, Jean Kaidell
  3. – 15:00: Diane Kaidell, Dr. Laura Fuljenetti, Dr. Thomas Harland, Ed Reynolds
  4. – 20:00: Jean Kaidell, Diane Kaidell

Notable quotes from "Forensic Files | Haunting Vision | FULL EPISODE | HD | True Crime Procedure Investigation Drama"

  • On September 17th, 1966 Diane Kaidell met a boyfriend for a drink at a local night spot.
    about Diane Kaidell · at
  • Her 2-year-old daughter, Susie. And it was in that store one day where she met a bachelor from town, Jean Kaidell.
    about Jean Kaidell · at
  • Afterwards, Diane dropped Gene off at his apartment. From there, Diane drove to the Amber Inn, where she met Bob Maron, a man she had been casually dating since her separation.…
    about Bob Maron · at
  • Detective Ed Reynolds at first wasn't sure what to think.
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  • Without damaging it. The search took almost a year and led to a nonprofit agency in Colorado called Necro Search which brings applied sciences to law enforcement.
    about Necro Search · at
  • Lorie Ramck was not at all surprised.
    about Lorie Ramck · at
  • Forensic anthropologist Dr. Laura Fuljenetti analyzed the skeletal remains and determined it was a Caucasian woman between 5'4 and 5'5 in height. The pelvic bones indicated that the woman.
    about Dr. Laura Fuljenetti · at

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On September 17th, 1966 Diane Kaidell met a boyfriend for a drink at a local night spot. After leaving the bar, she disappeared. Officials weren't sure whether she ran away from the responsibilities facing a single mother with four young children or perhaps had been the victim of foul play. That question was answered 27 years later when her daughter came forward with a fantastic tale of something she saw when she was 5 years old.

In 1956 21-year-old Diane KD went to work in her father's grocery store in Peoria Illinois. She needed the money since she was recently divorced and was raising her 2-year-old daughter, Susie. And it was in that store one day where she met a bachelor from town, Jean Kaidell.

Jean, wasn't, the, best, looking, guy, in, the world, but he is a good talker. He's a very good talker, and he was able to woo her.

The, couple, dated, for, a, year,, fell, in love, and eventually married. They moved to Phoenix, Arizona, where Jean found work in the growing construction industry. Together, Jean and Diane had three more children, Greg, Kelly, and Lorie.

My, siblings, and, I, were, really, close. Yeah, it was a lot of great childhood memories.

Over, time,, Diane, and, Jean, decided, that it was best for all concerned if they divorced. On September 17th, the couple met for dinner at a nearby restaurant to discuss the final details of the property settlement and visitation. By all accounts, the meeting went well. Afterwards, Diane dropped Gene off at his apartment. From there, Diane drove to the Amber Inn, where she met Bob Maron, a man she had been casually dating since her separation. I

finally, got, him, out, of, the, house., A, few hours later, Jean Kaidell called Diane at the house. And when the children said she still wasn't home, he went over to babysit and fell asleep on the sofa. The next morning, Jean said he found his wife's car in the driveway, but there was no sign of her. Jean called the police department and reported her missing. I know she arrived home. Her car was there. Her purse was in the house. Her keys were in the house on the table in the kitchen. Diane did not take any clothes with her that we learned of.

And there was no reason for her to run away. There was no no motive there. Missing, persons, investigators, couldn't understand why Diane would have left town without her children. Her neighbors, her mother, and her brother all indicated that Mrs. Kaidell would never leave her children for any length of time. They described her as an excellent mother, very concerned about her children.

When, police, went, to, interview, Bob, Maron, the man Diane was with at the bar, they were told an incredible piece of news.

It, was, tough. Bob, Marlin, suffered, a, heart, attack, and died the day after his date with Diane. much better.

Whatever, Marlin, might, have, known, about Diane's disappearance went with him to his grave. 2 days after Diane Kaidell's mysterious disappearance, Jean Kaidell moved back into the family home to look after the four children. my father's explanation to not only his children but to neighbors and anybody that that would inquire about my mother's um sudden disappearance was that my mother had run off with with a boyfriend.

Jean, provided, police, with, a, list, of, men he said Diane had been dating since the separation, but they all were dead ends. Over time, the Kyell children adjusted to life without their mother. Although they all hoped that someday she would return. But four months later, tragedy struck once again. Around 9:00 at night, while Gene was at a nearby laundromat a fire broke out in the Kaidell's home. The blaze quickly engulfed the entire house and the four children were trapped in their bedrooms.

Lori,, Lori,, come, on., Come, on., Wake, up. Wake up, Lori. Come on. Susie, the oldest, led the others around the flames.

I'm, coming, home. But, Lorie, ran, back, into, her, bedroom, for her Winnie the Pooh stuffed animal.

I, fell, on, the, floor., I, was, burnt., I, was crying. I wanted my mother. And my older sister Susie came in. The house was ablaze around us. And so she laid on top of me. She said, "They're they're coming for us now, Lord. They'll help us." Uh, she said, "I love you." And she said "I'll never ever leave you.

I, love, you., I'll, never, ever, let, you, go. I promise." And, at, that, point,, we, died., And, she, held me.

Susie, gave, her, life,, protecting, Lori from the flames. Although Lorie suffered thirdderee burns over 50% of her body. I was continually loved by my sister as she held me and died protecting me. The trauma, the nightmares, the horror of it, that doesn't go away. I just try to overcome that with knowing that I was loved, that I was valuable enough to die for.

What, can, you, say?, Hey,, I, mean,, when, you see that, it takes your breath away. I mean, you you you realize that that person made the ultimate sacrifice.

8-year-old, Kelly, also, died, in, the, fire. 9-year-old Greg survived. Jean Kaidell arrived at the scene just as firemen were pulling the children from the blaze. Investigators found a melted pot on the stove top burner. The knob was in the on position. As a result, the fire was ruled accidental. After spending 4 months in a hospital burn unit, Lorie went back to live in the family home her father had rebuilt after the fire. But one year later there was an incident that helped Lorie realize the terrible truth of what happened to her mother.

It happened when Lori and her father went to a friend's funeral. His name was Michael, a boy from the neighborhood who was killed in the Vietnam War.

Daddy,, when, is, he, going, to, wake, up? He's, not., He's, dead., They're, going, to bury him today.

Wake, him, up., Wake, him, up. And, I, began, to, cry., And, I, threw, a, very large distraction, a very large fit trying to make people understand that we needed to wake Michael up, that I wasn't going to permit them to bury Michael in the ground. I was the only living person that now knew the secret of my mother. But it took another 27 years for Lori to reveal the deep, dark family secret she had been harboring. In 1993, after Diane Kaidell had been missing for 27 years, her only surviving daughter, Lorie, walked into the Phoenix Police Department with a written statement. It described a terrible secret she had been too afraid to reveal.

To, whom, it, may, concern,, I, need, to, convey to authorities what I witnessed as a child. First, I must greatly impress the fear I have of my father's violent retaliation. I was often told when I was a child by my father, I brought you into this world. I can take you out. The letter went on to say that as a 5-year-old child, Lori saw her father beat her mother to death and then bury her in the backyard. At first, Lorie thought her mother was sleeping as hibernating animals do. Quiet.

She, said, she, once, asked, her, father, if she could dig a hole in the backyard to feed her mother.

As, a, 5-year-old,, I, thought, my, mother, was sleeping. I thought that my father made my mother go to sleep and I thought he buried my sleeping mother in the hole in the backyard. I wasn't confused on where she was. I wasn't confused on who did it. I was confused between sleeping and death.

Sleeping. Only, after, she, went, to, her, friend's funeral did she realize that her mother would never wake up. Detective Ed Reynolds at first wasn't sure what to think.

I've, been, lied, to, by, some, pretty, good liars and have been fooled by a lot of people. And when that happens, you tell yourself, I'm not going to let that happen again. I'm not going to fall hook, line, and sinker for every story that comes down the pike. And in this case though, she did seem very believable, very truthful, very sincere in what she said. But I still I wanted more than just a story. I I wanted proof. Lorie said that her father poured a concrete patio over her mother's grave the day after he buried her. The home had long since been sold by her father who was now remarried and living across town. Reynolds was hesitant to ask the new owners for permission to dig up their concrete patio without more evidence than a 27-year recollection.

I, became, very, frustrated. I became angry. I thought that possibly the officials didn't believe me. I was terrified that my father would find out that I had confessed. Reynolds looked all over the country for the technology that could look underneath the concrete patio without damaging it. The search took almost a year and led to a nonprofit agency in Colorado called Necro Search which brings applied sciences to law enforcement. In this case, NecroArch recommended a ground penetrating radar system to take a look within the ground and to see if it's disturbed. That's what we do in geophysics. Just because we find a disturbance could be could be caused by many things. the the proof and the substantiation is going to have to be a careful excavation.

When, the, radar, was, pulled, across, the cement decking, it revealed a ground disturbance 6 ft long by 2 ft wide in the corner of the patio. the very spot on the concrete where Lorie Roman had taken me to earlier when we had walked through the backyard where she suspected the body of her mother was buried.

When, police, removed, the, concrete,, they had to dig only 10 in before making a grizzly discovery, a piece of human skull. Within hours, they uncovered the rest of the remains in the shallow twoft grave. They also discovered a bra and a girdle. Around the skeleton's neck were women's stockings. Lorie Ramck was not at all surprised.

No,, I, I, don't, need, any, medical detectives to prove to me that that's my mother. There was no identification on the remains and bacteria in the shallow grave eliminated the possibility of DNA testing. Even the teeth were too badly damaged by bacteria to analyze the tooth pulp, usually a rich protected source of DNA. So, detectives had to use other means to identify the skeleton. The first clue was a tree root from a neighbor's malberry tree that had grown through the skull. The root was sent to Dr. Thomas Harland, a dendrochronologist at the University of Arizona. By studying the age of the tree root and the manner in which it penetrated the skull, Harland was convinced that the body was placed in the ground before the tree root. Since the root was 15 years old, the body was placed in the grave before 1978.

This, will, tell, us, the, age, of, the, tree root growing over the body means that the body had to be there before the tree root was there. Otherwise, it would have been cut, disturbed, would not have gone across. Um, this gives a minimum age for the body to be in that position. Forensic anthropologist Dr. Laura Fuljenetti analyzed the skeletal remains and determined it was a Caucasian woman between 5'4 and 5'5 in in height. The pelvic bones indicated that the woman had, given, birth, to, at least, two, children and was between 20 and 40 years of age.

All were consistent with Diane Kaidell. Dental X-rays are commonly used for identification. Unfortunately, Diane Kaidell's dentist was no longer in practice and her dental X-rays had been destroyed. As a lastditch effort to identify the remains, Dr. Full Jenetti decided to try a technique called skull photograph superimposition.

What, you, basically, are, doing, is, taking, a picture of the person in life and superimposing it onto the skull of the person that you think it might have been.

Dr., Full, Genetic, photographed, the, skull in the same position and size as the photograph of Diane Kaidell taken shortly before she disappeared.

A, canine, tooth, that, was, slightly, a, jar. It's it just stuck out slightly from her mouth and we were able to line that tooth up with the tooth in the photograph. I have no questions. I'm sure that it's her. Police immediately arrested 61-year-old Jean Kaidell and charged him with murder. Lorie Ramen was now ready to tell a judge and jury what really happened on the night her mother disappeared. For years, Jean Kaidell told family and friends that his wife Diane abandoned her children and ran off with a boyfriend. But Lori Ramck told a very different story about what happened to her mother on the night of September 17th 1966.

Oh, Lorie, said, her, mother, was, wearing, her blue double breasted dress when she left to meet her father for dinner at a local restaurant.

After, dinner,, Diane, drove, Jean, home, to his apartment. Later, witnesses saw Diane at the Amber Inn having drinks with a boyfriend.

Around, 11, p.m.,, Jean, called, the, house, to speak with Diane and when he learned that she wasn't there, went over to the house to wait for her.

Where, have, you, been? When, Diane, returned, home, around midnight, the couple fought, waking 5-year-old Lorie and her older sister Susie.

Susie, taking, care, of the, two, girls, went, to, investigate., I will. Stop, it., Go, away., Just, get, out, of, this house right now.

I, own, this, house., I'll, stay, here. When, she, saw, her, children,, she, took, her defense down. And it was at that point that my father delivered her last blow and she whipped back and hit her head and slipped to the floor. Jean saw the girls run from the hallway and they hid in the closet.

When the children eventually came out of hiding, they saw their mother's lifeless body on the pool deck, and they saw their father digging a hole in the backyard. The next day, Jean Kaidell poured a fresh layer of concrete over his wife's grave for what he thought would be an eternity. Lori describes her father as an alcoholic, cruel, and violent.

We're, talking, about, the, fact, that, my father would beat my mother violently. My father would attempt to beat his children, my siblings and I. And when my mother was alive, she would intervene and she would not permit my father to beat his children. She was very strong on that issue.

Lori, also, says, that, her, father threatened to kill her if she ever revealed details of her mother's death. This was something that Lorie says that she never forgot and she had just been terrified for her whole childhood and then adult life of her of her father even after she got married and left the house and they barely had a relationship at some points. It was she remembered the thing the whole way through and somehow I mean I don't think there's anyone that really could exactly describe what was going on in that head of hers all those years.

In 1995 Jean Kaidell was convicted for the murder of his wife Diane and was sentenced to life in prison.

I, think, it, says, that, the, memory, of, a 5-year-old, even though it's some 29 years later, is sufficient to convict. But again, remember the one unanswerable question was if what she saw wasn't what she saw, how could she have led us to the body? And she did. My father single-handedly murdered my mother, murdered my two siblings, and attempted a murder on me, and a murder on my brother. I think that my father will more meet his calling upon his death. I I pray for my father. I think that this judicial system will have nothing in the comparison of the wrath of God and that I'm sorry for. My father will have to answer and be held accountable.

What does a man tell our creator God when God says, "What did you do to that beautiful wife and lovely children I gave you?" And my father will reply, "I beat them. I murdered them. I burned them up in a horrible fire. What will be my father's punishment? I'm sorry. That causes me the grief that I feel today for him.

Good morning.

Questions about this episode

What is discussed in "Forensic Files | Haunting Vision | FULL EPISODE | HD | True Crime Procedure Investigation Drama"?

In order: 0:00 Jean Kaidell, Bob Maron, Diane Kaidell; 5:00 Diane Kaidell, Jean Kaidell; 10:00 Diane Kaidell, Dr. Laura Fuljenetti, Dr. Thomas Harland, Ed Reynolds; 15:00 Jean Kaidell, Diane Kaidell.

What is mentioned in this FilmRise True Crime episode?

11 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Jean Kaidell, Diane Kaidell, Bob Maron, Greg Kaidell, Susie Kaidell, Ed Reynolds. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "Forensic Files | Haunting Vision | FULL EPISODE | HD | True Crime Procedure Investigation Drama"?

The episode runs 22 min; the transcript is about 2,846 words in 49 timestamped sections.

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