on March 27th 1994 two canoas paddling
in the okone river spotted something
half submerged in the
water it was just before 400 p.m. near
the forest height subdivision and heavy
rainfall that spring had caused much of
the river to flood dredging up objects
from the depths the canoe was paddled
closer to get a better look and realized
that what they saw Tangled between
floating tree limbs were human limbs it
was a body so badly decomposed that they
couldn't make out any identifi features
except for two weights that appear to
have been tied to the body in order to
weigh it down under the water maretta
police were able to identify from the
clothing and a high school ring that
this was a young woman who had been
reported missing 6 weeks earlier
19-year-old college student claudet
fysic claudet was an environmental
development major at Southern Tech and
she had been reported missing by her
parents after she promised to make a
5-hour drive to visit them in South
Carolina but never showed up less than
three 3 weeks before claudette's body
was found another body had also surfaced
in the okone river and two other female
college students had recently
disappeared from the area as well
everyone wondered if they were all
connected and if Georgia had a serial
killer on the loose in this video we'll
talk about the clawdette physic case a
murder investigation with multiple
suspects failed polygraphs and the
shocking Revelation that the real killer
was the one who actually passed the
polygraph when we go behind the
headlines
on June 16th 1974 claudet Jennifer fisic
was born in middlex County New Jersey to
parents Mary and Craig fisic growing up
with Brothers Chad and Craig Jr claudet
who was nickname baby cakes was known
for being independent kind-hearted and
an avid animal lover she loved competing
in majorettes and was sociable and
popular in high school claudet had a
serious boyfriend named Michael who was
very close to her family the physics
were close to Michael and were known not
only for being a close-knit family thems
but also for welcoming others and
treating them like family as well
claudette's family moved from New Jersey
to Georgia when she was a teenager and
during the summer of 1992 after
Claudette graduated from seoa high
school in Canton her parents decided to
move to South Carolina claudet stayed
behind in Georgia to attend Southern
Tech in Cobb County and before long the
beautiful brunette with a thick Jersey
accent was turning heads around campus
while studying toward her career goal of
becoming an architect claudet worked
part-time as head cashier at PetSmart
which she chose because of her Love of
Animals claudet owned a white Persian
cat named Sam which she doted on and
would even take for walks on a leash
shortly after she started working at the
pet store one of claud's co-workers
Chris asked her out on a date since
claudet had amicably broken up with her
High School boyfriend Michael she
accepted Chris took claudet to dinner at
a chain restaurant which she would later
joke was the reason she decided not to
pursue a romantic relationship with
Chris and why he was ultimately
friend-zoned instead another cooworker
at the pet store Mike an ex-military man
also tried to pursue claudet and when he
asked her out on date she accepted they
went to the county fair but it wasn't a
match because the feeling wasn't Mutual
claudet got a bad feeling about Mike and
told people she found him creepy so she
didn't pursue it further the person who
really caught claudette's eye was her
manager at the pet store Jason Raglin
although Jason had a long-distance
girlfriend named Anne PetSmart employees
noticed that he still flirted with
claudet during working hours eventually
claudet and Jason started having an on
again off again Affair which his
long-distance girlfriend soon became
suspicious of when she'd called Jason
and claudet would answer the phone
before handing it over when Anne
inquired about the mysterious woman
Jason didn't tell her about claudet and
how they had met at the pet store
instead he would shrug it off and tell
her that claudet was just a friend from
work while claudet was caught in a loved
triangle with Jason and his
long-distance girlfriend one of her
Southern Tech classmates JN had gotten
to known claudet and had secretly been
pining for her Jon was socially awkward
and not too shy to make his feelings
known at the beginning of the semester
but the day before Valentine's Day 1994
JN decided he had had enough of sitting
on the fence about his feelings for
claudet and after taking her to TGI
Fridays and the mall he presented her
with a valentine card and arose claudet
was flattered and although she valued
her friendship with Jon she wasn't
interested in pursuing a relationship
with him things had become serious
between claudet and her manager Jason
and despite the fact that they were
keeping it a secret from his girlfriend
an claudet had plans to bring Jason to
South Carolina in just a few days to
meet her parents claudet had told her
parents Mary and Craig to expect her on
February 16th 1994 but she never made
the 5-Hour drive from Georgia the next
day on February 17th claudette's parents
filed a missing person's report claudet
was close to her parents growing up and
as the only girl in the family was
always a daddy's girl and even though
she was living in a different state from
her parents now they still talk to her
every day so they knew immediately
something was wrong when she just went
off the grid police searched claudette's
apartment and found no sign of struggle
and no sign of her gray Chevy pickup
truck marota police decided to pay a
visit to the pet store and question
Jason her manager and Main love interest
Jason told police that he and claudet
had planned for him to go with her on
the 16th to meet her parents in South
Carolina but he said he had gotten SI
sick so claudet decided to leave without
him he said she was angry with him for
not going and when she stormed out of
his apartment it was the last time he
had seen her now claudette's friends had
informed police that Jason had a pattern
of promising to go see claudette's
parents and meet them in South Carolina
but that he would back out at the last
minute at least four or five times in
the past using the excuse that he had
work Georgia cops questioned claudet
Southern Tech campus classmates
professors and canvased her apartment
building for any information on her
whereabouts meanwhile Jason Jon and
other PetSmart employees were handing
out missing Flyers all over the state
within a few days of her parents
reporting Claudette missing her pickup
truck was located in the parking lot of
a lowincome housing complex in downtown
Atlanta with the keys still in the
ignition investigators had received a
tip that claudet was spotted in this
same area after she was reported missing
and allegedly prostituting but that tip
turned out to be a case of mistaken
identity the driver's seat of claud's
truck was usually adjusted all the way
forward to to accommodate her tiny 5'2
90 lb frame but this time it was pushed
all the way back as far as it could go
and one clue that really caught the eye
of cops among claudette's belongings was
the Valentine from her art class friend
and rejected Suitor John cops questioned
the southern Tech student who told him
that he had taken claudet to TGI Fridays
and the mall on the day before
Valentine's Day and that the last time
he had seen her was on the 16th the day
she went missing JN told police that he
walked Claudette to the parking lot
after class shortly afternoon and when
he waved goodbye and walked her to her
car that was the last time that he had
seen her Jon informed police that she
was wearing blue jeans at the time as
well as rebok tenis shoes and then he
recalled a random detail that her ear
had been infected when Jon was asked to
take a polygraph he agreed but when the
polygraph administrator asked him did
you do anything to harm claudet physic
his answer no was flagged for indicating
deception Jon had failed the polygraph
unlike Jason Raglin who was questioned
again in early March and passed the lie
detector test with flying colors now it
was March 27th and everyone's worst fear
had been confirmed claudet was dead and
had somehow ended up in the okone river
when the autopsy results came back they
indicated that the cause of death had
been strangulation but there was an even
bigger bombshell revealed from the
autopsy that claudet had been 4 months
pregnant at the time of her murder while
this was news to investigators and
family claudette's best friend later
told police that they were aware claudet
had been pregnant with Jason's child but
they hadn't disclosed this information
when questioned by police because they
were trying to honor claudette's wishes
to keep it a secret claudet had found
out about her pregnancy just before
Christmas and friends said she was
initially unsure about what she was
going to do eventually claudet and Jason
had decided they would get married and
raise the baby together the lease on
claudette's apartment was up soon so the
couple planned to move into Jason's
apartment and raise the baby while
claudet would attend school parttime
close friends admitted to police that
even though they weren't a fan of Jason
they didn't have any particular reason
to believe that he could have been
claudette's killer they told police that
claudet thought Jason was cute and sweet
but they thought it was odd that Jason
was never seen out and about with
claudet Jason seemed to be keeping her a
secret rather than going public and
making their relationship official other
groups of students from Southern Tech
would often go out on weekends to mid
90s Hangouts like crispy K cream or Zoo
Atlanta but claudet was always solo on
group dates with her friends and since
claudet had learned she was pregnant
with Jason's baby she had been taking
her upcoming move with Jason very
seriously and planning out all the
logistics she was even concerned that
her white Persian cat Sam wouldn't get
along with Jason's cat in addition to
Jason her manager and John her classmate
police also questioned claudette's one
time date with cooworker Chris who had
taken her out to a chain restaurant and
was promptly friendzoned police probed
for any signs that Chris might have been
jealous of claudet choosing Jason over
him but they found no indication that
Chris and claudet wanted to be anything
more than just good friends police even
learned that Chris had previously met
claudette's parents on a trip to South
Carolina although he had been introduced
to them as just a friend back at the pet
store police also questioned Military
Mike the cooworker who had taken claudet
to the county fair but ultimately gave
her a bad feeling during the pet store
interviews police got additional Intel
on Military Mike from another employee
who had also gone out on a date with him
and the information was filled with red
flags the young woman confided in cops
that Mike seemed suspicious on their
date because he casually mentioned that
a certain remote area would be a great
place to dump a body and that he also
talked about guns on the date while
investigators connected the dots out in
the field forensics were back in the lab
hard at work analyzing the evidence that
had been used to weigh down Kit's body
in the okone river the weights included
a mushroom-shaped boat anchor attached
to the body with a bike lock an angle
iron and a nylon rope investigators were
able to identify angled iron as the same
type used on a construction site beside
the pet store and although they weren't
making their findings public papers had
reported that they were also able to
connect the bike lock and anchor back to
Jason Raglin even though he had passed
the polygraph with flying colors
investigators decided to Circle back to
Jason and find out more about his
background investigators decided to talk
to Anne Jason's long-distance girlfriend
to find out what had been going on
behind the scenes of their love triangle
with claudet an told them she had first
met Jason in 1988 at the University of
Georgia and that they were friends for
about 3 years before they decided to
become boyfriend and girlfriend in June
of 1991 Jason had graduated with honors
and a finance degree from the University
of Georgia in 1992 and then gone to work
at the pet store an also disclosed that
Jason didn't smoke or do drugs and that
his parents had split up she mentioned
that Jason's father who lived on Lake da
in McDona Georgia owned a pontoon boat
with a broken motor and said that Jason
and his dad had a close relationship and
even biked across Georgia together in
the summer of ' 91 Jason and his father
also fish together at Lake da although
lately an had noticed that they seemed
to be budding heads police learned that
Jason also had a close relationship with
his mom and had traveled with her for 3
weeks to Europe in the summer of 1992
the trip had been a graduation present
to Jason from his mom and also disclosed
to the police that Jason had been at her
apartment recently watching coverage of
claudette's disappearance on the news
and when she' asked what he was watching
he replied oh nothing and told police
that she recognized claudette's name
from the pet store training materials
that Jason had around his apartment and
when she put the pieces together she
realized this was the same girl
discovered in the okone river and said
she confronted Jason about keeping
claudet a secret from her and he told
her he didn't want her to get mad and
also told police that when claudette's
body was found Jason had remarked in a
quiet voice at least they found her body
it makes me sick investigators then
dropped the bombshell on Anne that
claudet had been pregnant with Jason's
child Anne stated that she didn't know
that information but she had sensed
something was wrong police also learned
that Jason and an had spent Valentine's
Day together and Anne hadn't noticed
Jason being sick as he had claimed to
have been an had then moved to the
Atlanta area just 2 days after claudet
went missing another interesting detail
an told police was that in the fall of
1993 she and Jason were in his
stepfather's boat on Lake Hardwick when
they lost the boat's anchor Jason then
bought another anchor with a yellow cord
like the one found tied to claudette's
body police conducted a search of Jason
apartment including a luminal test of
his living room carpet fibers after the
luminal lit up a giant blood stain the
size and shape of claudette's body Jason
was arrested at his father's house for
the murder of claudet fysic on April
12th the day after Jason's arrest he was
questioned Again by investigators this
time they confronted him with a photo of
the 4-month-old fetus claudet had been
carrying to try and provoke a confession
instead Jason blurted out I didn't
strength before pulling back and
rephrasing his claim of Innocence to I
didn't kill her the slip of the tongue
indicated to law enforcement that Jason
was aware that the manner of claudette's
death had been strangulation a detail
from the autopsy that hadn't been
disclosed to the public he had corrected
himself mid sentence in an effort to
obscure the information he possessed
information he could have only known if
he had been present when she was killed
while Jason sat in jail and his attorney
prepared his defense he passed the time
by watching the Braves on TV and helping
other inmates prepare their pre-trial
paperwork in a local newspaper interview
his mother told newspapers Jason would
pick up a spider and put it outside much
less harm a precious person he cared for
Jason is a kind loving and compassionate
person and couldn't hurt a flee Jason's
ex-girlfriend on the other hand
described his nature quite differently
at the bond hearing she testified that
when she was sleeping with Jason he had
started dating an and wanted to keep
that love triangle a secret as well she
testified that threatened her if you
tell an or anyone about what happened
I'll kill you and I'll kill myself and
I'll kill her but I will make sure I
kill you now Jason's polygraph test
results which indicated he was not lying
to investigators when he said he didn't
know where claudet was or if she was
injured were ultimately not admissible
in court nor were the failed polygraph
results from claudette's friend from art
class this was bad for Jason's defense
case and now he faced the real
possibility of death by electric chair
the trial was scheduled to begin on
Monday August 26th 1996 and on August
23rd 1996 23-year-old Jason Raglin made
the decision to plead guilty to the
murder of 19-year-old claudet fisic his
last minute guilty plea in Athens Clark
Superior Court was speculated to be a
move to avoid the death penalty as he
spoke to the court in front of
claudette's parents they bowed their
heads Jason Raglin was sentenced to life
in prison for the murder of claudet
fysic in 2008 he was profiled in a
glowing article in the Atlanta times
about enrichment activities for inmates
and how he was studying Greek the
article described him as college
educated and praised him for sharing his
flare with language to teach Greek to
other inmates Jason Raglin is currently
serving his life sentence at the bur
correctional training center and Monroe
County he's had several parole hearings
over the years most recently in
September of 2024 and you know each time
he is up for Paro claudette's family and
friends are notified by the court and
forced to relive the pain of her murder
all over again claud's brother Craig who
is a scoutmaster and his family recently
paid a visit to special agent Ma at gbi
headquarters special agent Fred Maize
who investigated claudette's case has
remained close with the physic family 30
years after her death claudet is
remembered by those who loved her as
joyful and kind and a scholarship and
her name at Edgefield County School
District helps to keep her memory
alive this has been Joshua John with
behind the headlines and until next time
stay safe
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