She said Michael Doyel "seemed very aggressive and obnoxious and he wanted to win me over," Griess said. "He wanted to impress me with his computer skills ... told me he had a very impressive business background, bought a new car and told me he was from Iowa."

The next time Griess heard Doyel's name was "a couple of weeks ago." Griess said Doyel reappeared at the complex and told other residents that he'd bought a house in Sugar House.

"Then we found out that he stayed with Patricia Murray for a few days," Griess said, "before she took off on that trip with him."

Griess said Murray had told residents that she "had this new boyfriend and (he) had invited her to take a trip with him."

Murray was being held for questioning Tuesday, along with Doyel.

Prior to the announcement of the discovery of Jones' body, the Deseret News spoke with Michael Doyel's 75-year-old mother in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She expressed grave concern for Jones due to her son's behavior in the past.

"My last words to him were, 'Go away. Leave her alone and be good. Be good,'" Pauline Doyel said. "Leave people alone."

Pauline Doyel said her son is a "habitual liar" and suffers from what she called paranoid schizophrenia.

"We had him institutionalized. He's been in jail, he's been in prison. We've done everything in our power to get help for him," she said.

Pauline Doyel said her son was on medication for a while and then stopped taking it, believing he no longer needed it. She said Deborah Jones had tried to get him to start taking it again.

Although she never met Jones in person, Pauline Doyel said she had talked to her on the phone. She wasn't completely sure how she and Michael met, but believed they had met in South Carolina. He then followed her back to Utah, Pauline Doyel said.

Her son had been in trouble with the law in Iowa for several crimes, including shoplifting, theft and forgery, she said. Court records in Utah show Michael Doyel had run-ins with the law here for assault on a police officer and was arrested for being a fugitive from justice from Iowa.

Michael Doyel called his mother every week, until recently, she said. He admitted to her that he and Jones were having problems and there had been some "pushing and shoving and slapping," Pauline Doyel said.

Michael Doyel had been married and divorced twice before, his mother said. Both were "terrible relationships," Pauline Doyel said. She spoke to his first wife Monday night, and she said the woman talked about physical violence during their marriage.

Michael Doyel also has a sister, but Pauline said she has no ties with him.

"She wants no part of him for what he put his father and me through," she said.

Even before Jones' body was discovered, Pauline Doyel said she was "deeply sorry" for the actions of her son, who she believed was responsible for Jones' disappearance. "I hope he's caught."

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Contributing: Dave Abner, Branson Daily News

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