Two detectives come to an Army recruiting office to tell a staff sergeant his wife is dead. Before anyone accuses him of anything, he asks: "Am I being charged?"

On October 24, 2016, Catherine "Cati" Blauvelt, 22, disappeared after her shift at a PetSmart near Simpsonville, South Carolina. Her body was found two days later in the basement of an abandoned farmhouse. Her estranged husband, Army recruiter Staff Sgt. John Blauvelt, was questioned by Simpsonville police on November 2, 2016 — then fled the state with his 17-year-old girlfriend, Hannah Thompson. He was charged with murder while already gone and spent almost six years on the run, until U.S. Marshals arrested him in Medford, Oregon, on July 20, 2022, living under another name. Thompson, later charged with obstruction of justice and accessory after the fact, testified against him. On September 20, 2024, a Greenville County jury found John Blauvelt guilty of murder, and he was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

This video uses the death notification at the recruiting office, John Blauvelt's police interview, Hannah Thompson's police interviews from 2016 and 2022, and courtroom footage from the trial and sentencing.

This video is presented for news, commentary and educational purposes, using official public records. Narration, script, research and editing are original. All individuals are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law.

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