Katharina Buczek
In September of 2009, Rachael and a man named Charles Capone got married. Rachael’s daughter knew their relationship to be abusive and, in December of 2009, Charles was even charged with second-degree assault after allegedly choking Rachael.
Rachael finally filed for divorce after three short months of marriage, and after the separation, she began receiving the threatening phone calls.
Charles had owned a car repair shop in Moscow, Idaho, called Palouse Multiple Services. Charles alleged that he was working on Rachael’s car on April 16, 2010, before she went missing.
After her disappearance, the police interviewed Charles, and he admitted to being behind the eery phone calls. Still, this was not enough to tie him to her disappearance.
That was until May 6, 2010, when Charles was arrested for a federal firearm violation. While the charge was not related to Rachael’s case, Charles revealed his involvement in her disappearance to inmates Brent Glass and Joshua Voss while incarcerated for thirty-three months.
The police investigated for another three years before May 1, 2013, when Charles and David Stone were finally charged with first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, and failure to notify a coroner or law enforcement officer about a death.
At trial, Stone testified against Charles and recalled what occurred at Charles’s repair shop. Charles went outside to speak with Rachael and David later heard a loud noise. He went outside and saw Charles strangling Rachael.
Facebook; pictured above is another photo of Rachael
According to the Supreme Court of the state of Idaho records, “Anderson was still moving and Stone asked Capone what he was doing. Capone instructed Stone to get a tarp. Stone went inside and searched for the tarp. When he came back out, Anderson was dead. Stone testified that he and Capone wrapped Anderson’s body in the tarp and a chain and drove to Lewiston, where they threw her body into the river from a bridge.”
On September 17, 2014, the jury found Charles Capone guilty on all charges, and he was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
