John Patrick Addis

In late 1996, a man labeling himself as John Stone (his real name: John Addis) walked into the Gold's Gym in Guadalajara in southwest Mexico. He met Laura Liliana Casillas Padilla (1971–October 18, 2006).

On October 18, 2006, nine years after he and wife Laura Liliana left from Guadalajara, their neighbors in Chiapas (the Mexican state) began realizing they hadn't seen Addis, his wife or his children within several days; when the neighbors inspected the Addis apartment, they then noticed a powerful and pungent smell. Police entered the home and found Laura Liliana dead, along with her two children atop their beds; over twenty syringes were found near Laura's body.

In mid-October 1998, just over three years after Albanese disappeared from her residence, a hunter discovered the remains of Joann Albanese in Little Hell Canyon; several weeks following the discovery, Addis was classified under the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives and listed under America's Most Wanted beginning in November 1998 and extending until May 2005.

On August 18, 1995, Albanese telephoned Rivera and informed the latter she (Albanese) couldn't take any more of Addis' controlling behavior and violence toward her; Albanese decided ending the relation with Addis and planned taking him to a nice dinner, then informing him the relationship would be over between them. Alas, Rivera never heard anything from her best confidant Albanese again.

The 1993 Honda Accord that belonged to Joann Albanese was discovered by somebody hiking three days after she vanished from her home; the vehicle was discovered in Little Hell's Canyon, right around Prescott, Arizona.

Within several minutes, the authorities located the kids locked in a cabin right outside Kalispell; the children were in good health and unharmed. John Addis was sentenced to four years in an Alaska state prison; he only did eighteen months. But from then on, Addis was still a convicted felon. He was released from prison in 1988.

In August 1986, Addis demanded visitations to his children in Alaska; Jodi, however, sent the matter into court and demanded the visitation happen in Alaska. But a judge gave her orders to put the children onto the airplane to visit their father. When it was time for the children to return to Fairbanks, though, they weren't even on the airplane; making matters worse, Jodi and the authorities were unable to find any signs of John or their children.

Several months following Sarah's divorcing John, he became involved with yet another woman, Toni; she was a pharmacist in the Sarasota area. They fell in love and got married almost immediately; in September 1985, they had a daughter.

During later years, however, Addis' fellow officers started seeing changes in his behavior; he insisted straight-faced towards his colleagues he saw little humans as "the thems". His violent controlling behavior became more obvious to his fellow co-workers. In either December 1982 or January 1983, John Addis resigned from the force.

Right after their fourth child was born in 1982, Jodi made a decision to distance herself from John, and filed for divorce. Jodi won custody of the Addis children in the end; John, however, was allowed "liberal" visitations by the court during the school year and custody up to six weeks each summer.

John Addis started another relationship with a different woman named Sarah, who was also a Fairbanks resident; in December 1982, the couple married. They relocated to Florida. Within five months of getting married, however, Sarah divorced Addis; she later returned herself back to Fairbanks. Sarah later confessed that during their five-month marriage, John was constantly disappearing for several weeks at one time; she also mentioned that Addis was planning on kidnapping his children. But Sarah warned him against committing a serious crime.

Addis started his career with law enforcement by working for Sitka city dog catcher. He was first assigned into Fort Yukon, Alaska, then transferred to Fairbanks during the mid-1970s. He began working alongside Alaska State Troopers in 1974; he became friends with Jim McCain along with other fellow troopers.

Beginning in late 1994 into 1995, Addis, by then operating under the assumed identity John Edwards, was living in Las Vegas; in mid-to-late spring 1995, Addis (as John Edwards), while working at the World's Gym, met then-39-year-old Joann Albanese (January 20, 1956 – August 1995) through a gym client, Tara Rivera. Albanese and Addis were in a relationship for several months; Rivera, however, started having regrets about having introduced Albanese to Addis.

John Patrick Addis (May 1950 – October 2006) was an American law enforcement officer, parental child kidnapper, suspected domestic abuser, prime suspect in the murders of two women and fugitive from justice.