True Crime: What Happened to Patrice Endres?

Patrice Endres was a friendly local hairdresser and Georgia native. Everyone loved her and said she had a warm and vibrant personality. Patrice had a good life, a young son, Pistol whom she adored, and friends and family that thought the world of her. She worked hard to get her cosmetology license and started renting a booth in a local salon. While working in the salon, Patrice met her new husband, Rob Endres. According to friends of Patrice, Rob was possessive and always had to know what Patrice was doing. Around 1996 Patrice had finally saved up and had gotten enough clients that she was able to open her salon that she called Tamber’s Trim ‘N Tan in Forsythe county. 

On April 15th, 2004, Patrice went missing leaving behind her son and her new husband. In the Netflix documentary show Unsolved Mysteries, Thirteen Minutes goes on to detail the events leading up to and after Patrice’s disappearance. Little was known about what could have possibly happened to Patrice, aside from strange information that was reported. Some who passed by the salon saw that Patrice’s car was parked at an odd angle from her usual parking spot at the side of her salon. When someone arrived at the salon, it was empty. 

When authorities were called, they were of the understanding that between the times of 11:37 and 11:50, something had happened. At 11:37, that was the last time that anyone had heard from Patrice, by 11:50, she had disappeared without a trace. Authorities got to work searching the salon and discovered that there was money missing from the safe, and Patrice’s lunch sat out uneaten. There was no visible sign of any break-in or struggle. 

Patrice was missing for 600 days. The remains of a body found in the woods would later be identified to be Patrice. When officials were investigating, they realized that Patrice’s body was left without her wedding ring. The ring was never recovered. 

Recently Netflix released unaired clips and interviews from the documentary series detailing how authorities were able to make out the thirteen-minute timeline for Patrice’s disappearance. According to the officers, the events occurred as follows:

• At 8:50 am Patrice’s first client of the day, Pam Sheppard, arrives at the salon for her appointment at 9 am. Pam told the authorities that Patrice had seemed distracted and not like her usual attentive self. 

• 11:05 Pam leaves after her appointment 

• 11:10 Client Paul Cantor arrives at the salon for his hair cut

• 11:27 Paul finishes, pays, and leaves. When investigated, it was found that Paul received a phone call after leaving. Police were able to verify these details with cell phone records. 

• 11:35 Another customer calls to reschedule their appointment with Patrice. This customer tells authorities that Patrice is agitated on the phone, which was quite uncommon for her. The phone call lasted a short two minutes. 

• 11:50 Mitchel, one of the officers, states that based on phone records, Patrice received another phone call at this time, but there was no answer. This was when officials concluded that something had gone wrong. 

It is still unknown as to who murdered Patrice. Many suspects that it could have been her husband. There have also been a few false confessions made, such as serial killer Jermy Brian Jones and Gary Michael Hilton being suspected and even confessing to said murder. Jones claimed that he had kidnapped Patrice, then assaulted and killed her, dumping her body in the nearby creek. When investigators dredged the creek, no evidence was found that supported the claim. It was later determined that neither of these men could have killed Patrice. 

This still leaves some room for the suspected killer to be Rob Endres as shocking statements from the documentary potentially were made. Rob admits to sleeping with Patrice’s ashes and carrying around her skull after her death. Rob had an obsession with Patrice. Could a fit of jealousy be the potential cause of murder for poor Patrice? Rob was 20 years older than his new wife. Those close to Patrice said that she was unhappy in the marriage and wanted to leave. It was also noted that Rob had a volatile relationship with Patrice’s son Pistol, throwing him out of their house shortly after his mother disappeared. Pistol remains hopeful that someday he will have answers to his mother’s disappearance. 

True Crime: Ted Bundy and The Movie That Got Us All Talking Again

It hasn’t been a year since the release of the Sundance Film Festival movie Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, the movie that depicted the cruel ways of serial killer Ted Bundy. But what did the movie get right about the terrible crimes of Bundy? What was left out? 

The movie aside from a few likenesses of the characters could have almost mirrored the events of what took place during the trial and Bundy’s prison stay. The film stars Zac Efron as Ted Bundy and follows Bundy through the events that took place where he would murder 30 women who spanned across the US. 

Where did he meet Elizabeth? 

In the movie and real-life Bundy met Elizabeth Kloepfer in a bar. The film was closely based around the book called The Phantom Prince: My Life With Ted Bundy, which was written by Kloepfer. Kloepher had it published under her pseudo name Kendall. As depicted, the couple met each other in a bar in 1969 and hit it off almost instantly. Her friend Mary Lynn Shilha described Bundy from when he and Liz met, stating that he didn’t look evil, but while sitting at the bar, he continued to stare at her and Liz while he nursed a beer. 

The Dependency

Liz was very much dependent on Ted as depicted in both the film and the true-life events. Liz was both divorced and was a single mother to her daughter from her previous marriage. She often described Ted as hitting the jackpot. In the movie, it depicts the platonic night that they spent together where Bundy becomes closer to Liz and also her daughter. In her book, she talks about how this led her to imagine starting a family with Ted and what the names of their future children would be. 

A detail that was not mentioned in the movie was that during this time, Ted and Liz both dated other people for quite some time. They omitted this fact to help in portraying the “love story” aspect between Ted and Liz. Liz and Ted were both in a serious relationship for quite a few years, and the two were said to have almost gotten married. Liz gave Ted her life and wanted nothing more than for him to take care of her. 

The Co-Worker 

In the movie, Liz’s co-worker Jerry helps her to get over the events that happened with Ted. This is after Ted has been arrested in the film. This was a falsehood as the character was fictionalized and never existed. It was stated by Joe Berlinger, the director, that Jerry’s style was a compilation of several people that were in Liz’s life at the time that tried to help pull her out of the depression she fell into after Ted. He stated that it was easier to compile them into one character rather than have several characters for the storyline. The character of Joanna, Liz’s friend, was also a compilation of a few real-life people from Liz’s life. 

The Refusal to Plead Guilty 

This fact was done remarkably well. As both the director and actor Efron studied the televised tapings of these events and portrayed them back so accurately that it was almost eerie how similar the two were side by side.