January 20, 2017 • 20 mins
The public release of video showing a “vehicle of interest” hovering in a parking lot near the church where Missy Bevers was murdered has spurred new speculation about the killer’s identity. But when you zoom in on the car, can you really see the killer? Nancy Grace and Alan Duke discuss the theories and what they've confirmed from a third source close to the unsolved case.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
In the early morning hours of April eighteenth, Fevers, a
fitness instructor, a mom and wife, showed up at this
church to teach a class. Police says she was killed
by puncture wounds to the head and chest. This is
crimed stories with Nancy Grace. This person intended to do
exactly what they did, when they did it, and whom
(00:31):
they did it too. The former Murphy police chief says
the circle of people who may know what happened is
likely very small. They're asked to be some line between
her death and people in her past. Investigators have poured
over Beaver's Internet history and executed multiple wars. Let's say
today the I D on this suspect will come from
(00:51):
a tip they still haven't received. How did a Texas
super um get blood and dead in a mid Lothian church.
I mean the psychological implications of that alone, Well, it's
more than I'm just a trial lawyer can take in.
(01:14):
Hello everybody, Nancy Grace with crime stories here, and we
are on Missy Beavers today. I don't understand how the
perpetrator can be caught on video and still not apprehended.
I don't get it, but let's go with what we
do know right now focus on a potential person of
(01:35):
interest that is former law enforcement, and we have now
triple confirmed that. We have also reconfirmed that there are
not only relatives of misses that are afraid as well
as certain law enforcement members that the killer is walking free.
I can't change that, but what I can change is
(01:57):
an analysis of the via called the vehicle of interest
and the route that we believe the killer may have
taken that night. Joining you right now, investigative reporter Alan Duke, Alan,
I want to talk to you some more about this
two thousand twelve Nisan Ultima two thousand ten to two
thousand twelve. Again, it's hard for me to understand why
(02:20):
this vehicle cannot be narrowed down because it happens every
day in every major city in this country. I mean,
just go to the A p D or the n
Y p D theft unit, car theft unit. It's a science.
I mean, they can tell by looking at a tail
light a tail light, what year a car is. I
(02:41):
can only believe that law enforcement has information they're not
telling us. You know, we've reported previously that they have
been very silent for the last several months. They've decided
not to talk to the media and make any releases.
I have to believe that there's something that they know
about that car, because how many of these cars could
(03:02):
there be in that community and they've narrowed down some
persons of interest. What do they know about that car?
Why can't they look in zooming in? Let's let's look
at the video ourselves and see what we can see. Now.
I believe that you're looking at it right now. Let's
tell our listeners what exactly are you What website are
(03:26):
you using to see the actual video? It's on YouTube
and we haven't embedded in crime online dot com and
will re embed it along with this podcast. It's it
was posted just a few weeks ago by the owners
of that gun store that's just catty cornered across the
street from the church in Middle Lothian where the killing
(03:46):
took place. It's on YouTube, originally posted. It's remarkable. You've
got all of these cameras that have captured the car
a couple of hours before the murder pulling into If
you look at it, you see it pulling off the
divided highway I think it's Highway to seven and it
pulls in and it turns the lights, it blinks the lights.
(04:10):
Then it goes around to the back of the gun
store s w F A, which is a large gun store.
You see it going back behind the loading docks, and
then it pulls around back to the front and it
pulls into a parking space in the front and it
sits there with lights off for three minutes. I'm looking
(04:31):
at the same thing you're looking at. What I don't
understand is how I can see dust on the moon.
I can see individual rocks and particles on the moon,
but I can't get the tag plate for this car.
And like you say, can you when you zoom in?
Do you think you can see one person, two people,
(04:53):
a face? What do you think you can see me? Personally?
I don't know what that is. But enforcement they've got
to be able to analyze this, you know. I've I've
watched discussions online that started after our podcast last week.
It got a lot of discussions going on various forums
about this, and people started themselves on their own computer
(05:14):
zooming in and looking and sharing and discussing. Some people
claim to see a nose. Some people claim to see
a box in the back seat. Some people claim to
see that there's the drivers wearing a helmet. You have
these different theories, but I look at it and I
personally cannot tell much from it. But there are people
who just swear that they can tell a lot of
(05:36):
things by looking at a zoomed in screenshot from a
frame grab of that video. What do you make Well,
the people that believe they can see a face is
a white person? Do they believe they can see a
white male or a white female? Well, depending on who
they is. Uh. Some people say it's a person with
(05:58):
a ponytail because the away their hairs behind their ears.
Hey where were you that night? Exactly? I've got to
go and check my alibi. But you know, you get different.
It's it's what what is it? The Rorschach test? You
you see what you want to see or what's in
your mind. It's almost to that point. But again, I've
got to believe, as you said, that there is technology
(06:20):
and that the technology has been is being used to
really peer inside the frames of that video because it's
pretty clear video as security camera video goes. Let's talk
about what we've learned by recombing over the search warrant affidavits.
They tell you a lot. Alan Now, remember, when you
(06:42):
are asking a judge to give you a search warrant,
you throw in everything you believe you might be able
to find as a result of that search. Why because
if not, you will say you, Okay, what if I
go into your place, just pretend thing and I say,
I'm looking for an A K forty seven that killed
(07:04):
so and so gang member July nineteen, July two thousand fifteen. Okay,
if that's all you put in there, and you don't
put in a catch all phrase. If I come in
your place and then I see a hundred rounds of ammunition,
and I see cocaine and heroin and stolen gold, I
(07:24):
that's outside the scope of my search. Want. My point
is a lot of times police will put in any
other indition of criminal enterprise, which is obviously a catch
all phrase. But my point is if you don't delineate
it in your search warrant, you'll have a constitutional challenge
at trial if you see something else that's not listed
in the warrant and you seize it. So a lot
(07:47):
of the stuff in the Missy Beaver's warrants, as I
call them, it's what they think they might find as
a result of the search not what they know to
be there. So with that in mind as a cost
scenery instruction, what do we learn from the search warrants? Alan, Well,
the affidavits there are two really interesting ones. There's the
(08:08):
one for social media for Facebook wanting the Facebook post,
and the most spectacular thing in the affidavit, which I'm
going to pull up on my screen right now and
look at. It talks about information that investigators have gotten
by way of their interviews, specifically including an interview with
(08:29):
Brandon Beaver's the husband. And this is this is what
is shocking. The spouse of the decedent, that's Brandon Beavers
tells law enforcement that it is his knowledge that his
wife was involved in affairs relationships and it names one
(08:49):
particular person. I'll read this. Additionally, we have received information
from the spouse of the decedent that the decedent was
having love affairs with at least one person identified by
the spouse as I'm going to leave the name out.
And our investigators have uncovered communications between deceited and other
persons through Facebook private chat service, specifically including the name
(09:11):
of that person making arrangements to meet the deceit. It
now in each of these affidavits. It has an s
on affairs, not love affair, not relationship, but relationships, and
it names this one particular person. Is there a paran?
Is there a paran like a fair peran? S affairs?
(09:32):
Love affairs? Wait? Wait wait wait wait wait, Okay, I'm
gonna ask the empty room. Is there anybody in here
that has never done anything they don't regret? Okay, nobody's
raising their hand. We all regret doing something, Okay. So
I don't want to turn this into attack Missy Beavers
because she may have had an affair. Now, an affair
(09:56):
can be a fleeing. An affair can be a man
keeping up a second family in another state for two
or fifteen years. I mean, it can be anything. So
I'm not in the business of judging morally because I
do not want anybody judging me. If it's got to
do with a felony, it's fair game. Okay. So that's
why this is even part of the conversation here. We
(10:22):
all know, Alan, I believe you'll agree with me on
this at least anyway that when you're looking at a
homicide or an unknown perpetrator attack, you start with small
circles first. They're gonna look at Brandon Beaver's He's the husband.
That's just the deal that statistically is the perpetrator is
the husband, be at current or x then you go
(10:42):
to boyfriend, then you go to x is, then you
go to Fleeings, and you keep going out further and further,
casting your net further and further. For all I know,
this of air could have happened ten years ago. So
let's just put this in per perspective before we start
trashing Missy Beavers. Okay, because I do not want that
when I go to him, and I don't want to
(11:04):
throwing that up in my face. Okay, I got plenty
I've done wrong without that being on top of it.
This was more recent and there's another sentence here. In
the course of our investigations, we have had multiple references
to the decedent's Facebook account, which listed the decedent's plans
and activities for assinations with people alleged to be her
lovers again s lovers. So that complicates this whole thing. Well,
(11:28):
to me, it doesn't complicated. It gives me more leads
to go on. Well, and I don't know any of
these people, they'd be maybe mild mannered librarians for all
I know. I don't think they are, but they could be. So,
you know, an affair, it is not a killer make
So we've got those irons in the fire. We've got
the possibility that cops have been able to enhance that
(11:50):
ultima and have ruled in or out the driver. I'm
just telling you, I always say, Alan, there's no coincidence
in criminal law. I find it to be no coincidence
that someone was acting suspiciously parking in the front at
two am of a closed gun store, then driving around
back for a period of time, then coming around to
the other side before I get back on alleged affairs.
(12:13):
Tell me, so our listeners can know where you're seeing
the aerial view of the gun shot parking lot versus
mid Lothian church. Well, you can simply anyone can go
on their phone or their laptop or whatever and see
Google just Google maps the church and you will see
s w f A. We'll hold on. I'm a trial lawyer,
(12:38):
not an I T specialist for peze SA, So let's
just try. I'm going to go to Google, go to
Google and just search s wf A Google Earth and
then or Google Maps, Map dot Google. You know you
need to make up your mind. Do you want me
put Google Earth, Google Map, or map dot map, dot
Google dot com. I'm talking about dot Google dot com.
(13:02):
Let's just um do this s wf A. That's the
name of this this gun shop, And immediately the auto
fill in mind comes up us to seven, mid Lothian, Texas.
Immediately I opened it up, and I have a map
of it of where that is. And then if you look,
(13:23):
you will see almost directly across the street. It says
Creekside Church. You mean the outdoor sports storre s w
f A outdoors You see that now? Just zoom out,
maybe one click, and it will give you a broader picture.
And on mine it's showing the Creekside Church directly across
the street, almost just to the northwest, across the street
(13:45):
and to the northwest maybe a few hundred yards. How
do you make it do an aerial view? Just click
that little box if you're using the same kind of
browser I am. It says it says Earth and it'll
show you the satellite view. Click that Earth. Somehow I've
gotten an find down roadway. Okay, wait, wait, wait, okay,
I think I've got it. Look at this, it is
no more than what would you say, a quarter mile
(14:08):
as the crow flies between where that car was hiding
in the back, turning its lights on and off behind
the gun store two am the night that Missy Beaver
shows up. About an hour and a half later, it's
at half a mile walk between a stand of trees
from that guns gun shop to mid Lothian Church. That's
(14:30):
at best a five minute walk through that stand of trees.
Any local would know that. Now, anybody now the thought
of at three o'clock in the morning or whenever, walking
across the four lane road. It wasn't an extremely busy road,
but we know from the surveillance tape we do see
about every thirty seconds a car or a truck goes by.
(14:51):
We saw the car pull out and using a blinker
by the way, showing that they're apparently trying to obey
the law of the traffic laws taking a right out. Now,
it's just there's a turnaround where they can do a
U turn just right out of there and then they
can turn into it. There's a little dirt road that
is directly across the street from this gun store that
(15:12):
if you follow and you go down. You can park
right there near that tree stand that you're referring to,
and you can have a very hidden walk to the
back of the church. And remember there were some surveillance
cameras working, not directly outside the church, but somewhere in
that vicinity. None of them picked up a vehicle around
the church. That's why I'm saying this was no snatch
(15:34):
and grab. This was not a burglary. Someone parked a
distance away and walked to the church and got in,
and they would have had to thought about this and
planned it. Yeah, they had to think about it. I'm
just saying it's no coincidence about that ultima. It's not
nobody is driving around. It was just pretend. Let's just
pretend that it was someone driving around and they got
(15:57):
lost and they had to check their map. Why did
they have to go behind the gun shop and get
in the back parking lot. It would be a call
day in h E double l that at two thirty
in the morning, I would go behind a gun shop
alone in my car to check a map. That's not
going to happen. Not say so, what were they doing
back there? Were they deciding whether they were going to
part their car there and walk to the stand of trees,
(16:19):
maybe the spot of the surveillance camera. Oh, and high
tailed bata there. But I'm guaranteeing you that that stand
of trees has something to do with where the prope
head to get into that church. That gun store is like, yes,
the gun store is like a fortress, and there are
seventeen exterior cameras on it and it's hard to miss those.
(16:41):
So I think what you just said makes a lot
of sense. Well, another thing, if you look at this
aerial view, there are also it looks like five separate
buildings in that cluster of structures. They could have hidden
behind any of those or used any of those as cover.
I think, well, I'm zooming in and looking. How can
it be a coincidence? And I feel like I'm with
(17:03):
my investigator when I was a district attorney. How can
it be a coincidence that this happens around two to
three in the morning and she shows up over at
the church, what at three or three thirds? She walks
in at about four. Okay, so I'm off, But but
the killer was seen there at three. The killer was
seen there at at least the video that has been
(17:25):
released inside the church. And keep in mind law enforcement
has not released all the video, so how can that
span not be connected. So the killer was already in
there at five till for sure, and they had to
break in. They broke in to get in through one
of the I think through a kitchen door. There's a
kitchen door that they entered through. And by the way,
(17:47):
I'm looking zoomed in on my satellite view, you can
seek tire tracks to where you can drive a vehicle
to the rear of that tree stand, just to the
rear of the church. You can get there's that creek.
The tree stand actually is following North Prong Creek. All
you have to do is part because there there are
(18:09):
obviously trucks and other vehicles that have driven there. I'm
looking on the satellite view of Google, and you see
tire tracks that go just behind on the opposite side
of the creek from the church. Well, you know, and
now it used to be breaking technology, but now it's
kind of old hat to take a plaster cast of
(18:29):
tire tracks to show tread and then match it up
to somebody's car. It's like a footprint. But did they
do that? Doubtful highly doubtful, highly doubtful. Wasn't it raining?
I don't know what would really have been left for
them to plaster cast really well, you could have seen
fresh tracks easily if if this car pulled in. My
question is now there had not been a murder in
(18:51):
this small town, which we'll get to in a second,
how small it was in years? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
we got the population wrong. That that burns me out
when some money does it to my hometown of Macon. Well,
making is a big city, it certainly is, And don't
forget it now. Just remember, didn't you come from Carrollton,
So don't start with me about making Carrollton, Georgia. Population.
(19:14):
When I was a kid, it was population about fourteen
or fifteen thousand, which, by the way, is now the
current population of Midlothian, Texas. That's the current population. Okay,
I want to get that straight, which we sound like
we're kidding about that, but actually it bears on this case.
The bigger a city or area is, the more likely
it could be stranger on stranger. But I still consider
(19:36):
this to be a small enough town to think that
this was someone that knew her. I'm not stranger on stranger.
And keep in mind that the church and the gun
store itself are located on two seven, about halfway between
Midlothian and the other booming city of Waxahatchie, So it's
mid the church itself is in a rural area. I
(19:57):
wonder how long you've practiced that before you could actually
say it on this podcast. I give you total credit.
So this is where we're at now. We are reviewing
the ultimate video just like you are, and actually have
been on the ground checking out that route between the
gun store and the mid Lothian church where Missy lost
(20:20):
her life. You know what I don't I don't want
to talk about her allegend affairs except to the extent that,
if they existed, those people are being investigated. I wonder
if it's willingly or unwillingly. This is Nancy Grace signing
off of Crime Stories. Goodbye friend,
In the early morning hours of April eighteenth, Fevers, a
fitness instructor, a mom and wife, showed up at this
church to teach a class. Police says she was killed
by puncture wounds to the head and chest. This is
crimed stories with Nancy Grace. This person intended to do
exactly what they did, when they did it, and whom
(00:31):
they did it too. The former Murphy police chief says
the circle of people who may know what happened is
likely very small. They're asked to be some line between
her death and people in her past. Investigators have poured
over Beaver's Internet history and executed multiple wars. Let's say
today the I D on this suspect will come from
(00:51):
a tip they still haven't received. How did a Texas
super um get blood and dead in a mid Lothian church.
I mean the psychological implications of that alone, Well, it's
more than I'm just a trial lawyer can take in.
(01:14):
Hello everybody, Nancy Grace with crime stories here, and we
are on Missy Beavers today. I don't understand how the
perpetrator can be caught on video and still not apprehended.
I don't get it, but let's go with what we
do know right now focus on a potential person of
(01:35):
interest that is former law enforcement, and we have now
triple confirmed that. We have also reconfirmed that there are
not only relatives of misses that are afraid as well
as certain law enforcement members that the killer is walking free.
I can't change that, but what I can change is
(01:57):
an analysis of the via called the vehicle of interest
and the route that we believe the killer may have
taken that night. Joining you right now, investigative reporter Alan Duke, Alan,
I want to talk to you some more about this
two thousand twelve Nisan Ultima two thousand ten to two
thousand twelve. Again, it's hard for me to understand why
(02:20):
this vehicle cannot be narrowed down because it happens every
day in every major city in this country. I mean,
just go to the A p D or the n
Y p D theft unit, car theft unit. It's a science.
I mean, they can tell by looking at a tail
light a tail light, what year a car is. I
(02:41):
can only believe that law enforcement has information they're not
telling us. You know, we've reported previously that they have
been very silent for the last several months. They've decided
not to talk to the media and make any releases.
I have to believe that there's something that they know
about that car, because how many of these cars could
(03:02):
there be in that community and they've narrowed down some
persons of interest. What do they know about that car?
Why can't they look in zooming in? Let's let's look
at the video ourselves and see what we can see. Now.
I believe that you're looking at it right now. Let's
tell our listeners what exactly are you What website are
(03:26):
you using to see the actual video? It's on YouTube
and we haven't embedded in crime online dot com and
will re embed it along with this podcast. It's it
was posted just a few weeks ago by the owners
of that gun store that's just catty cornered across the
street from the church in Middle Lothian where the killing
(03:46):
took place. It's on YouTube, originally posted. It's remarkable. You've
got all of these cameras that have captured the car
a couple of hours before the murder pulling into If
you look at it, you see it pulling off the
divided highway I think it's Highway to seven and it
pulls in and it turns the lights, it blinks the lights.
(04:10):
Then it goes around to the back of the gun
store s w F A, which is a large gun store.
You see it going back behind the loading docks, and
then it pulls around back to the front and it
pulls into a parking space in the front and it
sits there with lights off for three minutes. I'm looking
(04:31):
at the same thing you're looking at. What I don't
understand is how I can see dust on the moon.
I can see individual rocks and particles on the moon,
but I can't get the tag plate for this car.
And like you say, can you when you zoom in?
Do you think you can see one person, two people,
(04:53):
a face? What do you think you can see me? Personally?
I don't know what that is. But enforcement they've got
to be able to analyze this, you know. I've I've
watched discussions online that started after our podcast last week.
It got a lot of discussions going on various forums
about this, and people started themselves on their own computer
(05:14):
zooming in and looking and sharing and discussing. Some people
claim to see a nose. Some people claim to see
a box in the back seat. Some people claim to
see that there's the drivers wearing a helmet. You have
these different theories, but I look at it and I
personally cannot tell much from it. But there are people
who just swear that they can tell a lot of
(05:36):
things by looking at a zoomed in screenshot from a
frame grab of that video. What do you make Well,
the people that believe they can see a face is
a white person? Do they believe they can see a
white male or a white female? Well, depending on who
they is. Uh. Some people say it's a person with
(05:58):
a ponytail because the away their hairs behind their ears.
Hey where were you that night? Exactly? I've got to
go and check my alibi. But you know, you get different.
It's it's what what is it? The Rorschach test? You
you see what you want to see or what's in
your mind. It's almost to that point. But again, I've
got to believe, as you said, that there is technology
(06:20):
and that the technology has been is being used to
really peer inside the frames of that video because it's
pretty clear video as security camera video goes. Let's talk
about what we've learned by recombing over the search warrant affidavits.
They tell you a lot. Alan Now, remember, when you
(06:42):
are asking a judge to give you a search warrant,
you throw in everything you believe you might be able
to find as a result of that search. Why because
if not, you will say you, Okay, what if I
go into your place, just pretend thing and I say,
I'm looking for an A K forty seven that killed
(07:04):
so and so gang member July nineteen, July two thousand fifteen. Okay,
if that's all you put in there, and you don't
put in a catch all phrase. If I come in
your place and then I see a hundred rounds of ammunition,
and I see cocaine and heroin and stolen gold, I
(07:24):
that's outside the scope of my search. Want. My point
is a lot of times police will put in any
other indition of criminal enterprise, which is obviously a catch
all phrase. But my point is if you don't delineate
it in your search warrant, you'll have a constitutional challenge
at trial if you see something else that's not listed
in the warrant and you seize it. So a lot
(07:47):
of the stuff in the Missy Beaver's warrants, as I
call them, it's what they think they might find as
a result of the search not what they know to
be there. So with that in mind as a cost
scenery instruction, what do we learn from the search warrants? Alan, Well,
the affidavits there are two really interesting ones. There's the
(08:08):
one for social media for Facebook wanting the Facebook post,
and the most spectacular thing in the affidavit, which I'm
going to pull up on my screen right now and
look at. It talks about information that investigators have gotten
by way of their interviews, specifically including an interview with
(08:29):
Brandon Beaver's the husband. And this is this is what
is shocking. The spouse of the decedent, that's Brandon Beavers
tells law enforcement that it is his knowledge that his
wife was involved in affairs relationships and it names one
(08:49):
particular person. I'll read this. Additionally, we have received information
from the spouse of the decedent that the decedent was
having love affairs with at least one person identified by
the spouse as I'm going to leave the name out.
And our investigators have uncovered communications between deceited and other
persons through Facebook private chat service, specifically including the name
(09:11):
of that person making arrangements to meet the deceit. It
now in each of these affidavits. It has an s
on affairs, not love affair, not relationship, but relationships, and
it names this one particular person. Is there a paran?
Is there a paran like a fair peran? S affairs?
(09:32):
Love affairs? Wait? Wait wait wait wait wait, Okay, I'm
gonna ask the empty room. Is there anybody in here
that has never done anything they don't regret? Okay, nobody's
raising their hand. We all regret doing something, Okay. So
I don't want to turn this into attack Missy Beavers
because she may have had an affair. Now, an affair
(09:56):
can be a fleeing. An affair can be a man
keeping up a second family in another state for two
or fifteen years. I mean, it can be anything. So
I'm not in the business of judging morally because I
do not want anybody judging me. If it's got to
do with a felony, it's fair game. Okay. So that's
why this is even part of the conversation here. We
(10:22):
all know, Alan, I believe you'll agree with me on
this at least anyway that when you're looking at a
homicide or an unknown perpetrator attack, you start with small
circles first. They're gonna look at Brandon Beaver's He's the husband.
That's just the deal that statistically is the perpetrator is
the husband, be at current or x then you go
(10:42):
to boyfriend, then you go to x is, then you
go to Fleeings, and you keep going out further and further,
casting your net further and further. For all I know,
this of air could have happened ten years ago. So
let's just put this in per perspective before we start
trashing Missy Beavers. Okay, because I do not want that
when I go to him, and I don't want to
(11:04):
throwing that up in my face. Okay, I got plenty
I've done wrong without that being on top of it.
This was more recent and there's another sentence here. In
the course of our investigations, we have had multiple references
to the decedent's Facebook account, which listed the decedent's plans
and activities for assinations with people alleged to be her
lovers again s lovers. So that complicates this whole thing. Well,
(11:28):
to me, it doesn't complicated. It gives me more leads
to go on. Well, and I don't know any of
these people, they'd be maybe mild mannered librarians for all
I know. I don't think they are, but they could be. So,
you know, an affair, it is not a killer make
So we've got those irons in the fire. We've got
the possibility that cops have been able to enhance that
(11:50):
ultima and have ruled in or out the driver. I'm
just telling you, I always say, Alan, there's no coincidence
in criminal law. I find it to be no coincidence
that someone was acting suspiciously parking in the front at
two am of a closed gun store, then driving around
back for a period of time, then coming around to
the other side before I get back on alleged affairs.
(12:13):
Tell me, so our listeners can know where you're seeing
the aerial view of the gun shot parking lot versus
mid Lothian church. Well, you can simply anyone can go
on their phone or their laptop or whatever and see
Google just Google maps the church and you will see
s w f A. We'll hold on. I'm a trial lawyer,
(12:38):
not an I T specialist for peze SA, So let's
just try. I'm going to go to Google, go to
Google and just search s wf A Google Earth and
then or Google Maps, Map dot Google. You know you
need to make up your mind. Do you want me
put Google Earth, Google Map, or map dot map, dot
Google dot com. I'm talking about dot Google dot com.
(13:02):
Let's just um do this s wf A. That's the
name of this this gun shop, And immediately the auto
fill in mind comes up us to seven, mid Lothian, Texas.
Immediately I opened it up, and I have a map
of it of where that is. And then if you look,
(13:23):
you will see almost directly across the street. It says
Creekside Church. You mean the outdoor sports storre s w
f A outdoors You see that now? Just zoom out,
maybe one click, and it will give you a broader picture.
And on mine it's showing the Creekside Church directly across
the street, almost just to the northwest, across the street
(13:45):
and to the northwest maybe a few hundred yards. How
do you make it do an aerial view? Just click
that little box if you're using the same kind of
browser I am. It says it says Earth and it'll
show you the satellite view. Click that Earth. Somehow I've
gotten an find down roadway. Okay, wait, wait, wait, okay,
I think I've got it. Look at this, it is
no more than what would you say, a quarter mile
(14:08):
as the crow flies between where that car was hiding
in the back, turning its lights on and off behind
the gun store two am the night that Missy Beaver
shows up. About an hour and a half later, it's
at half a mile walk between a stand of trees
from that guns gun shop to mid Lothian Church. That's
(14:30):
at best a five minute walk through that stand of trees.
Any local would know that. Now, anybody now the thought
of at three o'clock in the morning or whenever, walking
across the four lane road. It wasn't an extremely busy road,
but we know from the surveillance tape we do see
about every thirty seconds a car or a truck goes by.
(14:51):
We saw the car pull out and using a blinker
by the way, showing that they're apparently trying to obey
the law of the traffic laws taking a right out. Now,
it's just there's a turnaround where they can do a
U turn just right out of there and then they
can turn into it. There's a little dirt road that
is directly across the street from this gun store that
(15:12):
if you follow and you go down. You can park
right there near that tree stand that you're referring to,
and you can have a very hidden walk to the
back of the church. And remember there were some surveillance
cameras working, not directly outside the church, but somewhere in
that vicinity. None of them picked up a vehicle around
the church. That's why I'm saying this was no snatch
(15:34):
and grab. This was not a burglary. Someone parked a
distance away and walked to the church and got in,
and they would have had to thought about this and
planned it. Yeah, they had to think about it. I'm
just saying it's no coincidence about that ultima. It's not
nobody is driving around. It was just pretend. Let's just
pretend that it was someone driving around and they got
(15:57):
lost and they had to check their map. Why did
they have to go behind the gun shop and get
in the back parking lot. It would be a call
day in h E double l that at two thirty
in the morning, I would go behind a gun shop
alone in my car to check a map. That's not
going to happen. Not say so, what were they doing
back there? Were they deciding whether they were going to
part their car there and walk to the stand of trees,
(16:19):
maybe the spot of the surveillance camera. Oh, and high
tailed bata there. But I'm guaranteeing you that that stand
of trees has something to do with where the prope
head to get into that church. That gun store is like, yes,
the gun store is like a fortress, and there are
seventeen exterior cameras on it and it's hard to miss those.
(16:41):
So I think what you just said makes a lot
of sense. Well, another thing, if you look at this
aerial view, there are also it looks like five separate
buildings in that cluster of structures. They could have hidden
behind any of those or used any of those as cover.
I think, well, I'm zooming in and looking. How can
it be a coincidence? And I feel like I'm with
(17:03):
my investigator when I was a district attorney. How can
it be a coincidence that this happens around two to
three in the morning and she shows up over at
the church, what at three or three thirds? She walks
in at about four. Okay, so I'm off, But but
the killer was seen there at three. The killer was
seen there at at least the video that has been
(17:25):
released inside the church. And keep in mind law enforcement
has not released all the video, so how can that
span not be connected. So the killer was already in
there at five till for sure, and they had to
break in. They broke in to get in through one
of the I think through a kitchen door. There's a
kitchen door that they entered through. And by the way,
(17:47):
I'm looking zoomed in on my satellite view, you can
seek tire tracks to where you can drive a vehicle
to the rear of that tree stand, just to the
rear of the church. You can get there's that creek.
The tree stand actually is following North Prong Creek. All
you have to do is part because there there are
(18:09):
obviously trucks and other vehicles that have driven there. I'm
looking on the satellite view of Google, and you see
tire tracks that go just behind on the opposite side
of the creek from the church. Well, you know, and
now it used to be breaking technology, but now it's
kind of old hat to take a plaster cast of
(18:29):
tire tracks to show tread and then match it up
to somebody's car. It's like a footprint. But did they
do that? Doubtful highly doubtful, highly doubtful. Wasn't it raining?
I don't know what would really have been left for
them to plaster cast really well, you could have seen
fresh tracks easily if if this car pulled in. My
question is now there had not been a murder in
(18:51):
this small town, which we'll get to in a second,
how small it was in years? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
we got the population wrong. That that burns me out
when some money does it to my hometown of Macon. Well,
making is a big city, it certainly is, And don't
forget it now. Just remember, didn't you come from Carrollton,
So don't start with me about making Carrollton, Georgia. Population.
(19:14):
When I was a kid, it was population about fourteen
or fifteen thousand, which, by the way, is now the
current population of Midlothian, Texas. That's the current population. Okay,
I want to get that straight, which we sound like
we're kidding about that, but actually it bears on this case.
The bigger a city or area is, the more likely
it could be stranger on stranger. But I still consider
(19:36):
this to be a small enough town to think that
this was someone that knew her. I'm not stranger on stranger.
And keep in mind that the church and the gun
store itself are located on two seven, about halfway between
Midlothian and the other booming city of Waxahatchie, So it's
mid the church itself is in a rural area. I
(19:57):
wonder how long you've practiced that before you could actually
say it on this podcast. I give you total credit.
So this is where we're at now. We are reviewing
the ultimate video just like you are, and actually have
been on the ground checking out that route between the
gun store and the mid Lothian church where Missy lost
(20:20):
her life. You know what I don't I don't want
to talk about her allegend affairs except to the extent that,
if they existed, those people are being investigated. I wonder
if it's willingly or unwillingly. This is Nancy Grace signing
off of Crime Stories. Goodbye friend,
Host
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