Spouse and children of missing lady phone calls for volunteers to be a part of in Saturday search

The household of a lacking Oakley female, Alexis Gabe, is arranging a lookup this weekend for proof after law enforcement identified an Iphone 11 Pro Max screensaver with confirmed DNA prints.

Gwyn Gabe, Alexis’ father, said on Thursday that police discovered very last thirty day period right after examining a screensaver located in Oakley in February that it contained the DNA of Marshall Curtis Jones, the ex-boyfriend and alleged killer of the missing 24-year-previous. The shattered screensaver was identified in the bushes off Reside Oak Avenue around wherever Jones was noticed on surveillance video abandoning Alexis’ motor vehicle and going for walks away on Jan. 26, the night she disappeared.

Alexis’ father claimed they plan to look for on Saturday for the other 50 percent – the overall body – of the Apple iphone, which was very last pinged at Jones’ residence on Jan. 26.

“He wrecked it,” Gwyn Gabe claimed. “We can get a ton of information and facts if we discover it.”

Alexis’ father said the pair experienced broken up in November immediately after a 3-year romantic relationship. He later on discovered that his daughter told other people Jones had slashed her tires 2 times following the separation.

In February, a lookup workforce found Alexis’ cellphone circumstance on Vista Grande Way in Antioch around Jones’ home. Law enforcement say they feel he discarded her cellphone situation following returning from Oakley the night time of Jan. 26.

The family also discovered in a current Fb article the motive law enforcement and look for teams experienced combed the hills, ponds and forests of Pioneer – some 73 miles northeast of Antioch – in the previous months. All through a February look for of Jones’ sister’s dwelling, police say the woman handed them a chilling crumpled-up be aware she experienced uncovered with handwritten directions to Pioneer, which they later confirmed Jones wrote.

Jones, a indigenous of Washington, was killed previous month when law enforcement tried to arrest him and he lunged at them with a knife in a Seattle suburb. He experienced returned to Washington next Alexis’ disappearance.

But just before likely to Washington, Jones frequented his sister in Vacaville on Jan. 28 and then headed up to Pioneer. Antioch law enforcement feel Jones made use of the handwritten directions to dispose of Alexis, throwing the crumpled paper away on the return to Vacaville, according to a letter they sent the Gabe family members final 7 days.

“Marshall turned off his mobile phone for a number of hrs in the period of time he drove to Pioneer,” Sgt. James Stenger wrote in a notice to the Gabes on July 7. “We believe he drove this route since halfway there, he got dropped and had to flip his cellular phone on to get to the ideal route. We were capable to pinpoint his site when the telephone turned on.”

Gabe explained police have observed both equally of Jones’ phones, including a new a person his mom gave him after Alexis’ disappearance.

“They downloaded all the data files,” he claimed. “They claimed it is pretty massive. So it is taking them a although to critique all the information which is there.”

Sgt. Stenger also stated in the letter that another person came forward following Jones was killed and pointed out he talked with him two weeks prior to Alexis’ disappearance. Jones told the good friend he was considering of killing her and needed to know exactly where to dispose of a system. They decided a septic tank or forest would be greatest, though the friend assumed Jones was just joking and experienced by no means achieved Alexis, he claimed.

Previously this thirty day period, the Gabe loved ones experienced anticipated to established up queries in Pioneer. Lookup-and-rescue groups from Contra Costa, Amador, El Dorado and Placer counties have already carried out many searches of about 200 acres of land more than the previous four months – and two ponds ended up even drained – but practically nothing was discovered, Gabe stated.

Some of the remaining terrain, however, is rough and best suited for professional searchers, Gabe recommended.

Now far more than six months since Alexis’ disappearance, Gabe, who frequented Pioneer with his family members past 7 days, mentioned he did not know what to imagine about where by his daughter may possibly be or no matter whether Jones was hoping to throw them off keep track of. His wife, Rowena, explained she did not come to feel Alexis was there.

As time passes, it is receiving even tougher to cope, especially for Rowena, Gabe reported.

“It’s getting even worse,” he claimed. “I imply, in advance of she made use of to be part of me with the interviews. Now she doesn’t experience like it any more. She receives way too emotional.”

The couple hopes queries will deliver much more answers and they maintain out hope that perhaps even a psychic might direct them in the suitable route to uncover their daughter. They are on a waitlist to see celeb medium Tyler Henry and have tickets to see Theresa Caputo in Cache Creek in August.

“We’re not offering up,” Gabe claimed.

In the meantime, the household has set a three-hour research for 9 a.m. Saturday around exactly where the screensaver was uncovered, with volunteers meeting at the Blessed in the Oakley City Center Purchasing Middle on Most important Street. Volunteers are questioned to confirm at the Assistance Deliver Alexis Gabe House Fb event site at

Research organizers propose volunteers download Google Earth on their telephones beforehand to assist in the lookup.

Gabe also shared a reminder from Oakley police: “In situation you do come across something … remember to do not contact it. Enable us know suitable absent so we can simply call OPD to retrieve it.”

Police say they have acquired hundreds of tips, with several coming after a reward for information grew to $100,000, which includes $50,000 from an nameless donor.

Any one with information and facts about Alexis is questioned to call the Oakley Law enforcement Division at 925-625-7009 or email alexistips@ci.oakley.ca.us.