I wrote a synopsis on this one segment of UM- and I have it at home. However, at this moment the names and locations escape me.

Did any of you people ever see that episode about that lady who started behaving strangely at work and ended up missing?

She was leaving her office for lunch I think- but she left her pocketbook at the office, and left the building in a trance like state.

For reasons obscure to me, the police went to her home because someone had called them. A young officer found her, and it looked as though she had bruises on her face. The officer asked her "Maam, is everything alright"? And she said that she was ok, and dismissed the officer.


Later on, this lady ended up missing. Strange things started to happen.

A few weeks after she vanished, a mysterious anonymous voice called the sherrif's department (if I am correct, it was located in the State of Texas). The voice told the detective that the husband of the victim had killed her, and place her cadaver in the back yard of the house.


The police were taking the call seriously, at all events. They went to the home and started looking around in the back yard. Apparently, they did find nonhuman bones in the back of the house....but that was all they initally found.


Again, the voice called the Sherriff's office, and stated that the Husband killed his wife and put her body in the back area of the house. The voice said "Look near the tires".


The police ventured to the house again, and this time, they found weird things. They found human bones, which were later determined to NOT belong to the missing wife. They also found human flesh in a garbage bag.


It may have been on this occasion or the next- but in any event, the police found bone fragments all around the back yard- they even found human bone fragments in the backyard barbecue!


These fragments were cut in a specific way, which led the police to speculate that they must have been put into a wood chipper in order for them to have such cut patterns.


They, to my uncertain knowledge, found bones from 3 or four human victims...none of which turned out to be the missing woman!


Who were the dead people? Where is the wife?

It remains to be seen.

I remember that case very well. The woman who disappeared was Monika Rizzo. She lived in Texas.

The segment aired on CBS in November of 1997. At the end of the segment, it was mentioned that some of the human remains were positively identified as Monika Rizzo. But so far, the remains of the other victims are unidentified. And no one has been charged in the case. :(

when you mentioned the back yard barbecue part, i remebered it

This episode was on tonight. One of the freakiest I've ever seen. How this guy hasn't been arrested yet I don't know. There's still no update.

They did say that three weeks after the story originally aired, some of the bones were identified as that of his wife's.

BTW, here's a link to a story on the case. It's an old story thought, dated September 9th, 1997.

http://www.mysa.com/mysanantonio/extras/rizzo/rizzo19.shtml

Originally posted by DP
This episode was on tonight. One of the freakiest I've ever seen. How this guy hasn't been arrested yet I don't know. There's still no update.

They did say that three weeks after the story originally aired, some of the bones were identified as that of his wife's.

BTW, here's a link to a story on the case. It's an old story thought, dated September 9th, 1997.

http://www.mysa.com/mysanantonio/extras/rizzo/rizzo19.shtml

Thanks for the link. I just a repeat of that segment tonight and I hoped there would be an update. Unfortunately, there isn't one yet. :(

-Makoto_4

This episode was on tonight. One of the freakiest I've ever seen. How this guy hasn't been arrested yet I don't know.
Good question. I've never been able to figure that one out either.

techniqally, i dont think they have any proof he killed her

but he would obviously be the #1 suspect (and im sure he did it too)

Rizzo shot during standoff with cops

By Adolfo Pesquera
Express-News Staff Writer



A violent Friday night brawl between Leonard Rizzo and his girlfriend resumed Saturday morning, ending in an armed confrontation with police that left Rizzo critically wounded.

According to police and witnesses, Rizzo , 47, husband of Monika Rizzo , now missing for two years, taunted police for four hours while he held a small caliber handgun to his head, loudly threatening suicide as he sipped a diet RC Cola on the porch of a trailer home in the 5400 block of Copperhead Trail on the Southeast Side.

At 11:05 a.m. Saturday, a Special Weapons and Tactics officer fired a single shot when Rizzo pointed his gun at the officer.

Rizzo was in critical condition Saturday at Brooke Army Medical Center with a bullet injury to the lower abdomen. He was to be charged by proxy for aggravated assault on a public servant.

Looking scraggly and, according to one neighbor, as if he hadn't slept in three days, Rizzo was arrested at 6:23 p.m.

Friday after police responded to a domestic disturbance call at the trailer. He was freed about six hours later and returned to the trailer after a friend posted his $3,500 bond for a charge of assault with bodily injury.

"He tried to kill me," cried a distraught woman with short blonde hair, wearing blue jeans, a black T- shirt and identified by a friend as 'Cycle Sue.'

"He stabbed me all over the body. He beat me with a hammer."

She made the statements to reporters and a dozen neighbors at the scene after Rizzo was shot.

Bill McKinney, father of Rizzo 's missing wife, found himself in the odd position of hoping the man he has held responsible for his daughter's disappearance would come through this latest crisis alive.

After receiving a phone call from a neighbor, McKinney put down his coffee and flew out the door as his wife was heading for the shower, he said.

"I don't want anything to happen to Mr. Rizzo this morning. Ending it here does not end our grief. He's the answer man and someday he's going to get our questions answered," McKinney said.

McKinney stood vigil along with residents of Copperhead Trail, who were rousted from their homes by police securing the area around Rizzo .

The standoff began after Rizzo returned to the trailer and a second fight flared up between the couple. The girlfriend walked to a convenience store several blocks away and called police to escort her back into the trailer to retrieve her belongings, said Randy Lee Grissom, an acquaintance of Rizzo .

According to police dispatch records, the woman said her "boyfriend beat her up yesterday, he's back and threatening to kill her."

An officer arrived at the convenience store at 7:15 a.m. and escorted her to the trailer home. Police said Rizzo came to the porch with a gun and the officer retreated with the woman.

Greg Lambert, who lives next door to the trailer Rizzo moved into less than two weeks ago, said he watched the standoff through his window for about 30 minutes before police moved him out.

"He was standing on the front porch, drinking a diet RC Cola, with a derringer pointed to his head. He was yelling at them, saying, 'What do you want?' laughing at the cops," Lambert said.

Police Department spokesman Al Ballew said crisis negotiators had just gotten a phone delivered to Rizzo , "so that they wouldn't have to yell back and forth," when Rizzo ran into the back yard.

"The suspect fired one shot and immediately ran to the back chain link fence and pointed the weapon at a SWAT officer, who, in fear of his life, fired one shot," Ballew said.

Paramedics standing by immediately were brought to the yard to administer aid to Rizzo.

Ballew said Rizzo was to be charged with aggravated assault of a public servant (police officer).

Rizzo moved to Copperhead Trail only after police forcibly evicted him May 19 from his home in the 4400 block of Forest Green Street.

In the summer of 1997, Rizzo 's home was the scene of a sensational search for human bones.

At one point police claimed the bone fragments belonged to as many as four people, but the county's chief medical examiner since has said there's no proof there was material from more than one person.

Police say they believe the remains are from Monika Rizzo ; however, they don't have enough evidence to assert she was murdered or even dead.

Police acknowledge her husband has been a suspect, but Rizzo always has insisted his wife still is alive.

The day he was evicted, Rizzo was arrested for failure to pay a fine on a misdemeanor conviction resulting from a zoning violation; he had let the grass on his lawn grow too high.

Police were set to release Rizzo when two plastic bags fell from his pants leg. Police allege tests determined that one bag was found to contain methamphetamine, and a drug possession charge was tacked on.



Sunday, May 30, 1999

This is a reply I got from a reporter that I had emailed about the case.

Anne:
In searching our archives the last mention of Rizzo's case was in 2000, when the DA dropped four felony charges against him stemming from the standoff and a separate drug case. The 1st Assistant DA did not make himself available for comment regarding the dismissal. Apparently the prosecution ran into problems with inadmissable evidence and witness testimony, especially from the girlfriend he assaulted. But he was sentenced to 14 months in prison for assault.
As for the girlfriend with whom he was fighting, she was assaulted, but not with life-threatening injuries.
According to our story, Rizzo should have been released from prison about one year ago.
Thank you,
Laura Jesse
Reporter
San Antonio Express-News
210.250.3171

With human bones found in his backyard (including those of his 'missing' wife) and that assault on his girlfriend, what have the police been waiting for to charge him?!

As I undertsnd there was a mess up in the original DNA testing of the bones and it has turned out that all the human bones tested are determined to be ONLY of Monika Rizzo, his missing wife. No other people. Just an animal mixed in with Monikas remains.

I guess there doesn't seem to be enough evidence that Rizzo has done anything wrong to his missing wife. I guess many people have human hands in their bar b que grill and their spouses can be found scattered in WOOD CHIPPED BITS all over the backyard. Composting I guess. Sheesh!:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: