Ep 93: The Unsolved Murder of Missy Bevers

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Come one, come all to thefinal full regular episode of All Crime,
No Cattle in twenty twenty one.We're really excited about this episode, but
we also have another small thing we'regoing to try and put out. It's
the anniversary episode with some high jinksand fun audio and the blooper reel,
of course, and we're going totry and get that out by the end

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of the year if we can.But thank you so much everyone who's stuck
with us through twenty twenty one andlistened to the show and supported us.
We really appreciate y'all, and hopefullynext year will be even better. You
didn't interest introduce us or the show, Well, it's poignant that I did
that on the last episode of theyear. I am Shay and who are

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you? I'm Aaron? All right, well, now we're all introduced and
we're prepared, and what have youprepared for us? Aaron? The case
we're going to be talking about todayis the twenty sixteen murder of Missy Beavers,
a forty five year old fitness instructorwho lived in Red Oak, Texas.
This is an unsolved case and Missy'skiller is still at large. We've

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been asked to cover her story forquite some time, and we've always hesitated
at the idea because speculation is wildabout Missy's murder. It's one of those
cases where it's hard to sum upand it's hard to parse rumor from fact.
This is a case where speculation andconjecture about the killer spilled out into
the real world and has hurt theinvestigation and the lives of Missy's family and

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friends. And we're seeing this sortof thing happen more and more often as
true crime sort of meets the digitalage. So our goal today is to
strip away some of the confusion andpresent the facts of the case, what
we know versus what we don't know. Missy's murder is solvable, and so
it's important for her story to remainin the public eye. I also think

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it's crucial, especially for us inthe true crime sphere, to talk about
the impact the public can have oncriminal investigations. Yeah, I'm ready to
dig into this one because all Iknow is basically what the general public was
shown at the beginning, and likeyou know, some of the videos that
have been posted about what happened fromthe camera footage, and that's really it.

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So I want to find out allthe details you were able to dig
up, Yeah, and you canfind all of those sources in the notes
of this episode. A lot ofwhat we're going to be relying on today
is reporting from local news stations andthe information that's been released by the Midlothian
Police Department. But we do haveall of those links to our sources down
below in our show notes. TerryLeanne Strickland, who went by her nickname

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Missy, was born on August ninth, nineteen seventy, in Graham, Texas.
She grew up in Jacksboro in northcentral Texas, about sixty miles northwest
of Fort Worth. Miss graduated fromJacksborough High School in nineteen eighty eight and
a few years later attended Tarleton StateUniversity, where she graduated with her Bachelors
of Science in nineteen ninety five.Soon after, she met Brandon Beavers and

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the two married in June of nineteenninety eight. Missy worked in retail for
a few years after graduating, butshe eventually decided to go back to school
for her teaching certificate in special education. Missy went on to teach special education
for several years until two thousand andone. When she became pregnant with her
and Brandon's first daughter, Missy decidedto become a stay at home mom,

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a role in which she flourished.Missy and Brandon eventually had three daughters,
and Missy's life was completely devoted tothem. She was a really involved mom
and extremely close with all three ofher daughters. The family settled in the
town of Red Oak, about twentymiles south of Dallas. Missy's involvement in
the world of physical fitness began asher own personal journey to get healthy,

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but eventually snowballed into a new career. When the kids started getting a little
older, Missy had more free timeto start investing in herself again, and
in twenty thirteen, she became interestedin exercise and health. She joined gyms
in her area and started weightlifting,kickboxing, running, and she discovered that
she absolutely loved working out, learningabout nutrition, and pushing her body to

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achieve her goals. I need toget on that same track. Yeah,
I'm Auntie and Weather. But Missyfound camaraderie in fitness as well, first
at the gym and then in grouptraining classes, then in participating in races
and marathons and other events, andin training for those events as well.
So there's a huge social element tojoining a community like the fitness community,

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and Missy was a very bubbly,outgoing person, so she loved it.
Soon, Missy was in the bestshape of her life, and she discovered
a newfound confidence in herself, andshe decided that she wanted to share that
with others. So in twenty fourteen, Missy came a certified personal trainer.
Missy's family and friends said that shewas the type of person who really enjoyed

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helping and serving others, and wecan see this throughout her life as a
special education teacher, as a motherraising three children, and as a personal
trainer. Yeah, that makes alot of sense, especially since she has
that background of doing special education,and she probably has a passion for helping
people on their journeys and improving theirlives. So that's cool. Yeah,

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absolutely, this is something that shedid her whole life. She really enjoyed
helping and inspiring people. She wasjust a really kind person like that.
In early twenty fifteen, Missy joinedthe ranks of trainers at a fitness program
called Camp Gladiator. Camp Gladiator offersboot camp style group fitness training classes.
The camps are held in public areassuch as parks, churches, schools,

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or convention centers. Sessions are usuallyheld outside, often in the parking lots
of these public buildings. If theweather is bad, then the workout has
moved indoors at the facility or tosome covered area nearby. I think I've
seen some of these groups when I'mout playing this golf. Oh yeah,
absolutely so. Yeah. Any publicarea, if you see a big group
of people working out, it mightbe Camp Gladiator or another similar fitness program

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like this. Each session for CampGladiator runs two to three times a week
for four weeks, so a trainerwill usually get returning students from past sessions,
but there are always new faces ateach training session as well. Camp
Gladiator trainers were expected to advertise andpromote their classes themselves, and so a
large fraction of Missy's time became sellingherself as a trainer, either in person

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or online. So she developed thisever widening social circle through her work.
Missy also attended conferences and fitness eventsacross Texas as a representative of Camp Gladiator.
She posted a lot on social media, mostly Facebook, but also on
Instagram and linked in. Like alot of people, she used her Facebook

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to post about both her personal lifeand her professional life, so she didn't
have a professional Facebook, and thenalso a private one that was just for
a friends and family. They werekind of mingled together, yes, yeah,
pretty much, and so she wouldpost about the girls, she would
post about Brandon, a lot ofpictures of her family, but she also

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used it to connect to other trainersand her clients, and to post information
about her classes. Often she wouldinclude the dates, times, and locations
of sessions. Now on Facebook,Alan for example, she had about eighteen
hundred friends, a lot of whomwere camp Gladiator campers, or people she
knew through the fitness industry. Butshe posted publicly so anyone could view her

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posts. Because remember she's basically advertisingherself. But I can see how that
can get tricky. Yes, well, Missy had a new session beginning on
the morning of Monday, April eighteenth, twenty sixteen. However, it had
been storm all weekend and by Sundaynight it was clear that the rain wasn't
going to let up. So atabout nine pm, Missy took to her

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Facebook page and posted a graphic thatread if it's raining, We're still training.
Missy wrote no excuses, you aregladiators and specified that the first day
of training would begin the next morningat five am at Creekside Church of Christ
in the town of Midlothian. Shesaid that because it was raining, they
would have cover under the quote frontawning. In the comments of the post,

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Missy stated she needed to be upat three thirty am to get ready
and drive to the church from herhome in Red Oak. It was only
about a twenty minute drive or so, but Missy often came extra early to
sessions because she had early bird campers. So these were campers who liked to
arrive about half an hour early orso before class so they could leave early.

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Oh okay, they're trying to gettheir work in out so they can
do whatever else they have on theirschedule, but still make it there.
Yes, exactly. So this wasaway Missy was able to provide flexible scheduling
for her clients, essentially now afew campers procession usually took Missy up on
this. Soon after posting on Facebook, Missy received a phone call from her
husband Brandon. He left earlier thatday to go to the airport for a

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fishing trip in Buloxi, Mississippi.This was an annual trip that he took
every year. However, Brandon's flighthad been delayed several hours, so he
made it there much later than anticipated. He called Missy at about nine thirty
pm to tell her that he wasfinally in Buloxe. He said that she
was already in bed and half asleep. So they told each other they loved

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each other and said goodnight. CreeksideChurch of Christ is located on Highway two
eighty seven and the stretch between thecities of Midlothian and Waxahatchie. If you've
ever driven down two eighty seven inthis area, you know that this area
is fairly quiet and very rural.Yea, it is. Yeah, So
this is a two lane highway ineither direction, and it's the type of

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rural highway where there are turning laneson the highway instead of formal exits with
exit ramps. Right. Yeah.I went to Evermond High School and we
actually competed in sports against Middlelothian andWaxahachee quite a bit. So yeah,
like Aaron saying, it's just thatthere's a lot of trees, rural land,
farmland, small communities, and theseare definitely the type of highways out

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there. Not a lot of streetlamps either. Yeah. The church sits
right off the highway, so whenyou exit from two eighty seven, you're
immediately in the church parking lot.There are no other businesses or buildings in
the immediate area. The church issitting by itself and surrounded by open fields,
just like its name would suggest.There's a little creek that runs just

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to the east of the church calledNorth Prong Creek. Today there is a
wedding venue located across the highway fromCreekside Church, but back in twenty sixteen
there wasn't anything there but some oldbuildings. The nearest establishment is a gun
store called SWFA Outdoors that is locatedabout half a mile down to eighty seven

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on the other side of the highway. The church itself is a fairly large,
good looking building with a front entranceon the west side that faces the
highway. It's home to about twohundred and fifty to three hundred congregates,
so it's not a massive megachurch withstadium seating or anything, but it's bigger
than average. On the southwest cornerof the building is a side entrance with

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a set of double class doors.Extending from the entrance is a port cocher,
which is the fancy name for acovered porch that extends out from a
building with a space where vehicles candrive through. This is the awning that
Missy was referring to in her Facebookpost. Yeah, coming from the root
word port from French port. Yes, it is a French term. Very

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oh, very classy. So thiswas the meeting space for the Camp Gladiator
session. The first student to arriveat the church on April eighteenth was one
of the early bird campers who washoping to start working out before the session
officially began at five am. Theseare dedicated individuals. Oh, I can

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imagine if you're into something like camGladiator, it sounds serious. Yeah.
Well, this person arrived at CreeksideChurch at four thirty five am. It
was clear that Missy had already arrivedand had started preparing for the morning workout.
Missy's truck, a gray Ford Fone fifty, was parked underneath the
port cochair right in front of thedoors. The front passenger side door of

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her truck was wide open, thetailgate was down, and the bed cover
had been pulled back. Workout equipmentcould be seen in the bed of the
truck, and some equipment had beenalready pulled out and set next to the
doors of the church. So she'sactively in the middle of getting everything prepped
and like moving some stuffed out andputting it inside and everything. Yeah,
that's what it looks like, youknow. Also, the keys to the

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truck were just sitting right there onthe tailgate. Her iPhone, iPad,
purse, and a few other thingswere inside the cab of the truck.
But Missy herself wasn't there, sothe camper just decided to wait outside.
After all, it appeared as ifMissy had just walked away and expected to
return quickly. Eventually, a secondcamper arrived at the church. Now,

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the details of exactly what happened nextare very murky, but from what has
been released, it seems as ifthese two campers entered the church building just
before five am, perhaps looking frommissing Exactly how they got into the building
is unknown, and where they enteredis unknown. We don't know if any
of the doors were unlocked, andif they were able to just walk in,

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or if there was some kind ofkey or pass code needed to unlock
one of the doors to actually enterthe building. From what police have said,
it seems as if the first camperwas new and was probably unfamiliar with
the church, but the second personmight have been a returning camper who either
felt more comfortable just walking into thechurch or knew how to access the building,

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i e. They knew about thebutton or the pass code, or
had a key or something and theyknew how to get inside. But what
we do know is that the campersentered the church and came upon a brutal
scene. Missy had been attacked inside. She was found lying on the ground
face up, and around her bodywere pools of blood and broken glass.

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Two phone calls were made to nineone one at five am to report the
discovery of an unresponsive woman at CreeksideChurch of Christ. Firefighters arrived to provide
assistance seven minutes later, and thefirst patrol officers arrived three minutes after that.
First responders tended to Missy, butshe was declared dead at the scene

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and her body was transported to theDallas County Medical Examiner's Office for autopsy.
Neither the autopsy results nor the officialcause of death have ever been made public.
However, investigators have released that Missyhad multiple puncture wounds to her head
and chest. So initially, whatit appears like is that someone got there

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while Missy was loading all of herequipment inside and did this to her,
and then the campers showed up,and then they discovered it. But it
had happened sometime earlier. Yes,that's exactly right. Now. As law
enforcement arrived, they first began tocomb through the church to search for the
assailant, other victims, or anyfurther evidence. Let's describe the inside layout

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of Creekside Church. The worship areais a large rectangular space in the center
of the building. Hallways encircled aworship area on all sides, so there's
a north, south, east,and west hallway, and around the perimeter
of the building are various rooms,including offices, storage areas, bathrooms,

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etc. Many of the doors tothese rooms had small windows set into them.
Police discovered several of these windows hadbeen broken in seemingly so a person
could reach in and unlock the doorto get into the rooms. On the
north side of the building was thechurch's kitchen, which had an exterior door
that led outside. Law enforcement discoveredthat the window on this door had been

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broken and the door jam and handlehad been entirely pried off. Wow,
so they identify signs of either burglaryor vandalism throughout the building and then forced
entry into the church on the northside of the building. That's what I
was about to say. This almostsounds like a robbery gone wrong, or
they weren't expecting Missy to show up, And you're absolutely right because you have

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stumbled upon one of the biggest questionsof this case is is that what happened?
Was this a burglary gone wrong?Well, they don't call me a
detective shade better for nothing. Thenext step for law enforcement was to check
the church's security footage, as therewere cameras set up both inside and outside
the building. This is where weget the infamous footage. Yes, well,

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regrettably the camera's outside of the church. We're not functioning on that day,
which is super devastating in this case. Yeah, they just weren't keeping
up with it and they weren't wellmaintained or we don't have any any explanations
as to why but that's probably yeah. Yeah, they probably just didn't maintain

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the cameras outside. You know,I don't know, stopped. It's one
of those things where you don't checkit all the time when you probably should
check it often to make sure it'sfunctioning, and then the one time you
need it, you discover, crap, it's not working. Yeah, absolutely,
and that's probably what it was.Yeah, But thankfully the cameras inside
of the building were working. Thesecameras were motion activated, so they only

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record while motion is being intected infront of them and they are off otherwise.
Investigators were astonished at what the surveillancefootage showed a person dressed up head
to toe and what appears to bepolice tactical gear, wandering around the church
and the moments leading up to Missy'sdeath. The suspect was wearing a black

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motorcycle helmet, a black balaclava,dark pants, a dark long sleeved T
shirt, black gloves, black boots, and a black vest with police lettering
in white on the front and theback. The gear has been variously described
as swat tactical or ballistic gear,similar to bdu or battle dress uniforms worn

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by military and law enforcement. Yeah. I think that's one of the most
shocking things on the video is seeingthis character who you know is about to
carry out this deed fully armored andyou can't see their face or any real
discerning or diagnostic details about who theywere. Yes, exactly. According to
the Midlothian Police Department, the authenticityof the gear is not known, but

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the outfit doesn't seem to fit aspecific branch of law enforcement. So in
other words, specific pieces might looklike something similar to what a specific agency
wears, but the outfit entirely isn'tobviously from a swap police uniform or a
branch of the military or something likethat. So it could be something that
was cobbled together from things that werepurchased online at Army Navy stores or in

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catalogs. Yeah, and a lotof people do that, and that stuff
is readily available if you know whereto look for it and how to get
it. Yeah. And as faras the police lettering on the vest,
again, that's something that the personcould have added themselves. They could have
modified a regular tactical vest that theybought online or from a catalog and just

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added those police letters to it andthen big bang boom. You have an
entire costume that looks like a official, tactical police costume even though it's not.
The balaclava and helmet hide the face, and the heavy clothing obscures the
shape and size of their body,making it very difficult to ascertain a proper
description of the suspect. Forensic analystsreviewed the video and using known heights of

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door frames and other objects at thechurch, we're able to estimate that the
person stood about five foot eight inchestall plus or minus one point five inches,
so we've got a maximum there offive foot nine and a half and
a minimum of five foot six anda half. However, that's the suspect's

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height while wearing a helmet and boots, neither of which can be seen clearly
enough in the footage to determine theirexact models. Taking in estimations of the
range of height added by the helmetand boots, analysts estimate that the suspect's
true height is between five foot twoand five foot seven So was any of

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their skin exposed to where you couldsee what color it was at all?
There are a few shots from thefootage where the helmet is turned towards the
camera and you can see a glimpseof part of the face. It's not
enough to make anything out, butit is enough to say that the person
appears to be light skinned, solight skinned five foot two to five foot

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seven. That's not a lot ofinformation to go on, but there is
one thing about the suspect that seemsunique and identifiable. The way the person
walks. The suspect is seen walkingwith a distinctive gait with the feet turned
out and away from the body.This is commonly called out towing or being

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duck footed. It's the opposite ofbeing pigeontoed. Both of this person's feet
turned out like this, but itwas especially pronounced in the right foot.
On top of that, there aresome very sort of unique mannerisms that this
person displays in the video footage.We'll get into the specifics in a second,
but there are just little strange mannerismsand stuff about this person that really

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grab people's attention. Throughout the footage. The person is seen carrying two tools
such as a hammer and either apride bar or some other breaching tool,
and they are carrying them in theirhands or on their person. Investigators have
stated that the tools seen in thefootage were consistent with Missy's injuries. Therefore,

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from the information we have, itappears as if the murder weapon might
have been the hammer. Okay,so when you said puncture wounds earlier,
that might be like the backside ofthe hammer, the claw the claw side,
Yeah, or or even if youwere to hit somebody with the front
part of the hammer, you wouldalso get puncture marks in for example,

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a skull or something like that.So but again, you know, we
don't have official cause of death,official murder weapon, official injury report,
any of that information. This isjust us sort of putting the pieces together
from what investigators have told the public. Gotcha. Now, let's break down
the security footage and describe what we'reseeing. If you haven't actually seen the

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footage, I highly recommend you gowatch it. We have it listed as
the first link in the show notes, so it's really easy to find.
And Shay, I have you rightnow looking at the security footage up right
now, refreshing your memory, sowe can all look at this together and
kind of talk about what it iswe're seeing. Now. Remember, it
appears as if this person forced entryinto the church through the door located in

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the kitchen at the north of thebuilding. The cafeteria is connected to the
kitchen, and neither one of theseareas had cameras, so we don't know
when the suspect first broke into thechurch or how long they spent in the
kitchen or cafeteria before first appearing oncamera. All we know is that this
person was first spotted at three fiftyam, over an hour before Missy's class

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was supposed to begin. As theyexited the cafeteria and entered the north hallway.
In the footage, the person stepsout of the cafeteria, turns and
start it's walking down the hall awayfrom the camera. As they walk,
the person places or rest their handsalong the wall as if they're steadying themselves

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or it kind of reminds people.I've heard a lot of people say this,
and it reminds me of the samething of little kids at school sort
of placing or running their hands alongthe wall. Yeah, it seems kind
of playful, Yeah, as likea weird little game. As they're walking
down, you can also notice theirright foot, like you were mentioning,
is duck footed heavily, like theright foot is sticking out to the side

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much more than the left. Yes, and we're going to see a better
example of sort of how that gateis in one of these later clips as
well, So we see them walksort of pressing their hand against the wall
until they walk out of frame.And the next clip, the suspect appears
in the west hallway of the building. They try a door and find it

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unlocked and enter the room. Theyexit and then move to the next door,
which they discover is locked. Theystop and look down, and they
seem to fumble with pulling tools fromtheir pockets in their vest. Then they
take a hammer in their left handand a priyebar or similar type of breaching
tool in their right hand. Theyappear to try to pry the door open

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by wedging the priyebar in the doorframeor doorjam and by tapping it with the
hammer. This might be similar tohow they pride the doorjam open on the
exterior door to get access into thebuilding. Sure However, it doesn't appear
that the person is giving it mucheffort. They give up after about twenty

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seconds or so of messing with thedoor. The person then continues walking down
the west hall and turns the cornerto the south hall, still carrying the
hammer in their left hand. Thethird clip overlaps the second one a little
because there are two cameras in thisarea. The suspect continued use around the
corner, passing a set of doubleglass exterior doors at the southwest corner of

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the building. That is the entrancewhere missing would later enter the church.
The suspect walks towards the next setof rooms and comes to a Dutch door.
That's a door that is divided inhalf horizontally so that the top and
bottom portions can be shut or openedindependently. This room was the nursery,
so you could have the bottom portionof the door shut to keep the kids

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contained, but have the top partopen so parents could pop their heads in
and check in on their kids.Yeah. When the suspect turns the knob
to try to open the door tothis room, only the bottom portion swings
open, and for just a secondthe person pauses before they reach up and
open the top part of the door. Yeah, he seems unfamiliar with it

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with the door. That's exactly whatI think too, And this is probably
the only part where I'm going toget into any sort of speculation, but
to me, it strikes me asbeing fused by the door. It threw
them off for a second, whichmight, of course suggest that the person
wasn't familiar with the church. It'snever been there before. Yeah, he
sort of opens the knob, thebottom swings open. He pauses and kind

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of hesitates for a second, looksup at why is this door or half
yeah? Yeah, and then fiddleswith the top part and opens that too.
M Yeah, I agree, Andonce again we see the person just
glancing inside the room before moving ondown the hallway and away from the camera
and eventually out of the camera's lineof sight. So the camera stops recording

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at some point, though they musthave turned around, because the next shot
is the suspect returning from that direction. But now the headlight on their helmet
is switched on. We are stillseeing them swing the hammer in their right
hand. Yeah, I'm glad youmentioned the headlamp because there's a little bit
of glare. But then you seethe headlamp come in and I saw something

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on the helmet and it almost lookedlike a visor, but no, it's
a headlamp, yeah, which isattached to it Yeah, that's right.
So now this person walks to thesouth entrance of the worship hall and they
disappear and the camera stops recording.It seems like they walked actually into the
worship hall at that point. Theentrance itself is obscured from the view of
the camera because it's in this littleenclave, as you can see if you're

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looking at the footage. So itappears the suspect entered the worship hall from
that south entrance, walked through thehall to the north side, and entered
a room in the northeast corner ofthe worship hall. None of these areas
had cameras, so what they weredoing in there is anyone's guests. The
camera picks the suspect backup exiting thisroom at the northeast corner of the worship

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hall, and now they're at thenortheast side of the building. The suspect
walks to a door that is mostlyoff screen, and you can see they
have a white rectangular box in theirleft hand. Yeah. What this box
is, no one knows. It'snot been identified, and it's not clear
if it was something that they broughtwith them or if it's something that they

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found in the church. Well,if it hasn't been identified, and I'm
sure they've shown all of this footageto the church and the practitioners there,
then if they don't recognize it,I would lean towards its probably something he
brought with him. It's definitely possible. But the thing is, I'm not
sure if we know it hasn't beenidentified from the people at the church and

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that it just hasn't been released.Yeah, exactly, but it is really
strange. It's hard to tell whatthis object is. Again. It's a
long, sort of thin rectangular object. A lot of people, a lot
of people mentioned that it looks likea box of saran wrap and it kind

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of does it, you know orsomething? Yeah, that's but yeah,
what it is, we have noidea. In their right hand, they
still have the hammer, and youcan see that the headlamp is still on.
They begin swinging several times at thewindow set into to the door,
and although you can't really see thedoor itself because it's out of frame,
you can see the glass from thedoor shattering and falling to the ground.

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The clip ends when the person eitherenters the room that they were breaking into
or continues walking southward again. Now, that is the extent of the security
footage inside of the church that hasbeen released to the public. So,
Shay, what are your first instinctswhen you look at this sort of footage.
My first instinct that like we kindof talked a little bit about,

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is he's not familiar with the layoutof this place. It seems like he's
confused about how some of the doorswork. He's kind of exploring around,
opening doors, walking in, walkingback out. It looks kind of like
a slow robbery of this church.But I don't know, it's unclear their

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true intentions at this point. Yeah, very much so. And what is
bothersome about it is how casual theyappear to be. They don't really see
to be there for a reason.They're just kind of wandering around. They're
not really even looking into the roomsthat they're breaking into. They don't really
appear to be looking very hard foranything or bringing much of anything out with

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them after they break in. Yeah, or even trying real really hard to
get into some of these rooms.We saw that one room where they tried
to get in for about twenty secondsand then gave up and moved along.
So it's it's just so strange whatthis person was doing. Yeah, very
slow, lethargic meandering. Yes,now we know that this wasn't all of
the footage from that morning. However, Midlothian Police Department has stated that Missy

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herself was also recorded on camera.In the timeline that law enforcement released,
Missy's truck was recorded pulling in atfour sixteen am, twenty six minutes after
the suspect first appeared on camera.If you look at the footage of the
suspect messing with the dutch door,you can see that the camera is placed

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in such a way where it's kindof looking down that hallway, but you
can also see through those entrance doorsoutside. That's probably how they knew exactly
when Missy got to the church Atfour sixteen. We know that Missy spent
a few minutes unloading some of theequipment from her truck, and then at
four twenty the camera captured Missy walkingthrough the entrance into the church. This

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clip has never been released, soit's possible that there are additional segments of
video that haven't been released to thepublic, either out of respect to Missy
or to keep the investigation intact.Yeah, because also there might be details
on that footage that only the killerwould know, absolutely, and that's always

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something that we have to keep inmind when it comes to an investigation like
this. Yeah, they want toknow, but they don't want us to
know because that will destroy the intrinsicnature of the investigation, especially when you
start questioning people and they start givinganswers, but then all of a sudden
they know something that only the killercould know. Yes. Yeah, Now,
with all that being said, policehave stated that the murder itself did

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not take place on camera. Theyhave also stated that there is no additional
footage of the suspect after the attack, So we know that there might be
footage that the public hasn't seen,but it doesn't seem to be anything related
to the actual murder being caught oncamera. M It's interesting, now,

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why Missy went into the church whenit seems as though the class was going
to be held outside under the portecochere is something of a mystery. We
don't know if Missy ultimately decided thatmorning to move the class inside of the
church, or if she entered fora different reason. For example, maybe
she needed to use the restroom,or she needed to go inside to turn

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lights on for the workout. Wedon't know exactly why she went inside.
That's another one of the sort ofmysteries of this case. Another detail that
the public doesn't have is where inthe church her body was found. The
only information that has been released isthat she was found somewhere in the north
part of the building, so inthe opposite part of the building from where

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she entered. But that doesn't meanthat she wasn't chased to that area,
or tried to flee, or wascornered in that part of the building at
some point. It's possible. Yeah, we don't know for we don't We
don't have any of those answers.Police have said though that they believed she
was killed very shortly after entering,so within a minute or two. Otherwise,

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it's also unknown how the suspect arrivedat and left the church with the
gear that they had on, it'sprobably safe to assume they weren't roaming around
Midlothian on foot. Yeah, itdoesn't make sense. Yeah, so they
probably had access to a vehicle,which is again the annoying part, because
if we had those outside cameras working, we might we might be able to

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have more information on that, butwe don't have any tire marks or anything.
No, nothing at all. Wehave some vehicle descriptions that we're going
to be talking about later, butnothing solid at all. Wow. With
no other suspects caught on camera andnothing to suggest otherwise, it is assumed
that the person seen on the surveillancefootage is the same person to have killed

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Missy Now. The day of hermurder, segments of the surveillance footage were
released to the public, and moreclips were released about a month later.
At a press conference, Assistant ChiefKevin Johnson said, quote, the department's
desire is for the public to analyzethe video to see if the walk and
stature of the suspect is recognizable.Investigators also pointed out that the way this

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person walked could have been caused byan illness or an injury. So it's
possible that this person only exhibited thisparticular walking style around the time of the
murder, which was April of twentysixteen. Yeah, right foot is definitely
splayed out, So yeah, youcould have had an injury or something.
Yeah. Their surveillance footage immediately wentviral, racking up thousands of views within

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a few hours of its release.A woman murdered in a house of God
by someone dressed like a cop,complete with a very creepy surveillance footage of
the suspect. That's a recipe fora sensational case that gets a lot of
attention. Missy's story immediately became nationalnews and international news, and all of

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this focus was on the little Texascity of Midlothian, which, by the
way, had not had a murderfor nine years before Missy's death. Wow.
Yeah, that's pretty hard to believe. Tips began to flood in from
around the world. Before long,multiple Facebook groups and Reddit subreddits and other

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online groups were created dedicated to discussingMissy Beaver's case, and memberships in these
groups swelled. The thousands. Armchairsleuths and amateur detectives jumped at this case,
creating frame by frame analyzes at thefootage, looking through a Missy's social
media accounts and online presence, andsharing information with each other online in their

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quest to find Missy's killer. Oneof the biggest topics of speculation about Missy
Beaver's murder by the public became whetherthe killer was male or female. At
first, when speaking to the media, law enforcement referred to the suspect as
a he, but at a pressconference the day after Missy's death, they
made it clear that there's actually noway to tell if the person is a

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man or a woman. Yeah,especially since they're so well covered. Yes,
Menlothian Assistant police Chief Kevin Johnson's statedquote, we are backing off our
statement that the suspect on video wasa man. There's a lot of speculation
based on the gate and appearance thatthis person may be a woman. It's
a legitimate question. Right now,we will no longer say the suspect is

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a man. That does not meanI'm saying the suspect is a woman.
It's just that at this point wecan't rule it out. We don't know
yet. So you can see alreadythem trying to like tap down the speculation
that was already going on this earlythat oh, well it's definitely a woman.
Then no, we just don't knowand we can't tell from the footage.
Well, that's the right thing toclarify and state. But they also

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have a true crime wildfire on theirhands. Yeah, exactly. But of
course people can draw some pretty wildconclusions from the surveillance video, insisting that
somehow you can tell from the waythe person walks or swings the hammer or
whatever, that this is for surea woman. A later search warrant released
by the Midlothian Police even described theperson's walk as having a quote feminine sway,

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and Brandon himself has stated that hebelieves the killer is a woman.
Now, personally, I don't seehow you can tell that either way.
You can't really tell anything about aperson's movements that it doesn't line up with
their gender. I mean, it'sa little silly. What others point to,
though, is the suspect's estimated rangeof height five foot two to five

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foot seven. The average height ofthe American female is five foot four,
right in the middle of that range. The height of the average American male
is five foot nine, well outsideof that estimated height range. But again,
while that's interesting, it still doesn'tmean anything. Humans are incredibly variable,

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and tall women and short men exist, and we cannot sex a person
based on their height alone. Butthat means even though we have this person
on camera, the net of suspicionin this case is still huge, because
it could be anyone male or female. Really. Yeah, Well, there
are two possible explanations for Missy's death. Is either Missy interrupted a burglary and

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this was a completely random attack bya stranger, or she was the target
of an elaborate murder plot. Solet's break these down one by one.
First, let's talk about the ideathat this was a random murder by a
burglar caught by surprise. Churches aren'tcommon locations to be burglarized, but church
robberies can and do happen, especiallywith bigger churches that often have lots of

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equipment set up for services. Televisions, sound systems, projectors, and other
av equipment can be lucrative items thatthieves target. Churches often also have computers,
laptops, and other electronics. Finally, thieves could also target a church
looking for cash donations. And rememberthe break in happened early Monday morning,

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so the day after Sunday when collectionswould be taking place during a normal service.
Yeah, and maybe they hadn't hadtime to put those donations in the
bank yet because it was a Sunday, Yes, so that would be the
hope from a burglar. The churchwas also in a rural area that was
easily spotted right off the highway,so it could have been seen as an

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easy mark by a burglar. However, church officials couldn't find anything missing.
In addition, Missy was found stillwearing her jewelry, including her wedding ring,
So as far as we know,nothing was actually taken from the building,
and we know that the suspect hadat least half an hour of complete

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freedom before Missy arrived to take whateverthey wanted. We don't see the person
in the video taking anything, andthey don't appear to have any bags with
them to hold any items that theywere planning to steal. But again,
if Missy interrupted a burglary, maybethat's why nothing is missing. She interrupted
the burglary, they weren't done yet, and then maybe they didn't find the

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office where all the money was thatthey were looking for, or whatever it
could be. Yes, maybe theywere taking their sweet time, expecting them
to have just hours a freedom alonein this church to do whatever they were
planning on doing. Missy surprised them, They took her down, and they
ran off before they were able tograb what they were there for. That
seems to make a lot of sense. Yes, I mean it does it

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does? We also don't see theurgency that we would expect to see in
a burglar. You'd expect to seethe person moving quickly, grabbing whatever valuables
they could find, and getting outof there as fast as possible, and
that's not what we see in thisvideo. That's a good point, Yeah,
because what if they tripped an alarm? Most burglars don't know if they've
tripped a silent alarm, so theymove fast. Yes, absolutely, well,

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Plus that you're just worried about gettingout of there in a general sense,
because you don't know what's going on. You don't want to spend too
much time in a place that youcould be arrested for being there, you
know what I mean. So weird. Well, as we know, the
scenario in which Missy's killer was acomplete stranger to her means that it's naturally
going to be a much harder caseto solve because there are no connections or

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associations between the victim and the perpetrator. Let's explore the idea that Missy was
the intended target. That means thatthe killer either had a personal connection to
Missy or was hired by someone whoknew Missy, so this could have been
a hit. For example, let'sexplore the idea that Missy was the intended
target. That means that the killereither had a personal connection to Missy or

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it was hired by someone who knewMissy. In this scenario, the suspect
was walking around breaking windows and bustinginto locked rooms as a way to stage
the scene to look like Missy merelyinterrupted a burglary. Now, as we
know, Missy had a wide socialcircle, a big family, lots of

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friends, lots of contacts in thefitness industry, which makes this case even
more difficult. The date, time, and location of the fitness camp that
morning was easily found online, postedby Missy herself on her Facebook page in
a public post, So someone whowanted to hurt Missy could have seen that
post and broke into the church tolay in wait for her to arrive.

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But there are things about that thatdon't really make sense either. Missy often
took her middle daughter to class withher, and her daughter would help her
get set up and then participate inthe training that day, so Missy being
alone that morning wasn't a sure thing. We also have to remember those early
bird campers that would often get toclass half an hour early or more.

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And in fact, that morning,the first camper arrived at four thirty five,
only fifteen minutes after Missy walked intothe church, So there was a
lot more room for error here thatcould have or should have been anticipated if
this was a premeditated murderer or somekind of hit. In fact, it's
kind of surprising that no one sawthis person because they were probably leaving in

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their vehicle at the same time thatthat first camper was pulling into the church,
and there was only one way inor out of the church's parking lot.
Another thing that I keep going backto is if this person's goal was
to murder Missy, why was thistheir plan? Why break into the church
that has interior cameras and wander aroundwaiting for her. Why not kill her

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in the parking lot before she evenentered the church, Yeah, that would
be a much better plan, oreven in her driveway before she even left
the house. Why would they havechosen this plan in which everything could have
gone wrong. Not to say thatthey didn't have other weapons on their person,
but the only thing we see inthe video is a claw hammer and

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a pridebar. We don't see aknife or a gun or anything like that,
which if you were going intending tomurder someone as opposed to just a
robbery, you think you would havethose out with you. Yes, absolutely,
And let's remember Missy was a verypetite woman. She was about five
foot three and about one hundred andtwenty pounds according to some of the posts

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that she had on her Facebook.But she was wrong. This was a
weightlifter or a trainer. She wasbasically a professional athlete almost. You know,
she was strong and healthy and ingood shape, and she would have
put up a fight. So Imean that all makes sense as well.
Yeah, there's no prepping for apotential murder either. In what we see.
We see a meandering, walking personin full body armor, but we

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don't see anything that looks like they'reprepping to murder someone. Now, of
course, if Missy's killer knew heror was hired to kill her, then
this person had some connection to herthat can be uncovered. As we all
know, the people closest to avictim are the likeliest suspects, and naturally,
investigator's first turned to Missy's husband oftwenty years, Brandon as I mentioned

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Brandon wasn't in Texas when Missy waskilled. He was almost six hundred miles
away in Mississippi, and that wasvery easily confirmed by law enforcement. Brandon
rushed back to Texas when he learnedof his wife death to comfort their daughters
and to try to aid the investigationas much as he could. He spoke
to the media pleading for the publicto watch the surveillance tape and report anything

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that they saw. Even though policehad been able to verify Brandon's whereabouts on
the morning of the murder very quickly, this didn't stop Brandon from becoming vilified
in the court of public opinion.Now, we hear stories all the time
of victims families being really supported bythe public, by their community, and

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those are our favorite stories to tell. Yeah, but sometimes it doesn't happen
that way. Sometimes the public canturn on victims families and start making some
really devastating accusations. Definitely true,and unfortunately that's what happened to Brandon and
by extensions, some other members ofhis family as well. What really triggered

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the blowback against them was a caseof a mysterious bloody shirt you see on
Friday April twenty second, just fourdays after Missy's murder, her father in
law Randy Beavers, brought a bloodyshirt to a dry cleaner in Midlothian.
It was a woman's extra extra large, long sleeved white T shirt. According

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to the clerk, Randy explained thatthe blood came from an animal. While
the clerk, having heard of Missy'smurder along with everyone in Midlothian, naturally
became a little concerned and contacted theMidlothian Police Department, who in turn got
a search warrant and collected the shirtfrom the dry cleaners for testing a few
days later. That same day,Randy and Brandon went to the Midlothian Police

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station to meet with investigators to talkabout the bloody shirt. Randy told them
that he and his wife had dogsand that their English mastiff had gotten in
a fight with their chihuahua. Inbreaking up the fight and in rushing the
chihuahua to the vet, he andhis wife had gotten blood on both of
their shirts, which were both atthe cleaners, so there was some confus

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here. There were actually two shirtsinvolved and brought to the dry cleaners,
even though there was only one listedon the search warns. Reporters from CBS
eleven and other local news stations werethere and filmed the father and son walking
into and out of the police station. After speaking to investigators, Brandon and
Randy paused to answer some of thequestions from the reporters, and they basically

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explained the story or should I saythe lack of a story here, because
of course, investigators were able tocontact the veterinarian who confirmed the story of
the dog attack. Soon testing wouldprove that the blood was indeed non human.
That's what I was just about tosay. This seems easily disproved if

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you can talk to a vet andget documentation to verify the story, which
they did, Yes, they did. It was just a tragic, freak
accident that I'm sure was incredibly upsettinghappening right after Missy's murder. But even
when something's disproven like this, thesure thought and the initial postings that go
around the Internet can live on forever, even if this theory has completely been

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disproven later on. But that stuffdoesn't tend to make those posts on Reddit
as replies, and that it justcontinues. It lives forever for some reason.
Well, You're exactly right, becauseyou think that that would be the
end of it. We found outthat there was this horrible accident with these
dogs, and Brandon and Randy arethe bloody shirt didn't mean anything involving Missy's

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investigation. That's where we end.But of course that's not how things ended,
because people got over excited. Peoplefollowing this case went into a tizzy
when they saw the news footage ofRandy walking into the station. A lot
of people began insisting that Randy notonly appeared physically similar in height and build

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to the suspect on the church surveillancevideo, but that he also shared the
suspect's unique walking style and mannerism,really specifically the towing of the feat.
People started breaking down the footage ofRandy walking and comparing it, framed by
frame, to the person responsible formurdering his daughter in law. But here's
the problem. Like Brandon, Randytwo was out of the state. On

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April eighteenth, he was in California, a fact which was confirmed by police.
On April twenty second. The MidlothianPolice Department, in a press conference,
stated that Missy's family, including Randyand Brandon, had been cleared and
were not considered persons of interest inthis case. However, these rumors that

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Brandon, Randy, or other membersof their family have been involved have persisted
even today. As recently as twentynineteen, Missy's oldest daughter told Inside Edition
that she still receives messages online frompeople accusing her father of murdering her mother.
But Missy's family haven't been the onlyones whose names have been dragged through

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the mud in online forums and discussiongroups. One such person who became targeted
was a woman named April, whohad attended a few of Missy's camps the
year before her murder. April toldher story in detail to the Dallas Observers
Christian McPhate, who wrote a reallygreat article in twenty seventeen that spoke to
a lot of these issues in Missy'scase. Missy and April became Facebook friends,

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which again was very common for Missyto do with her campers. When
Armchair detectives started going through Missy's Facebookfriends, they found April's profile and saw
that she'd posted that she'd recently injuredher foot at work. Foot injury equals
limp equals person on the surveillance camera. Right, Oh my gosh, and

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just like that, April became amain suspect in Missy's murder, not for
the police, but for a fewvery determined online sleuths. This is ridiculous.
Yeah, they did background checks anddug deep into her personal life.
They found out that she'd been tojail. They found information about why and
when she quit the Army. Theyeven discussed her political leanings based on the

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things that she'd pinned to her Pinterestpage. And all of this personal information
of April's was being posted online aspeople discussed whether or not she could be
the killer. April also said thatpeople followed her and took pictures of her
car. She said that when she'dtried getting help from the Midlothian Police Department,

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they instead asked her to come intothe station for an interview, citing
all of these baseless accusations they'd receivedfrom random people on the internet about her.
So they actually asked her to comein for an interview. She was
questioned and she cooperated fully. Shehas never been considered a person of interest
in this case, and in fact, law enforcement has warned armchair detectives to

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leave her alone you know, thisis a perfect example of the double edged
sword of true crime fandom. Onthe one hand, there's lots of examples
of great things that armchair sluice andamateurs and true crime lovers have done for
active investigations or cold cases, thingsthat need to be brought back into the

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light and have a new focus anda new perspective considered. But then there's
the other side of the story whereit's so problematic, where people take little,
tiny tidbits of information that haven't beenproven to be true or correct,
expound upon them, get in theirchat rooms, and then blame people,
most of the time innocent people,and tear apart their lives on social media

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and really advocate for police to comeafter them when that's not your job.
Yeah, yeah, right, that'snot your job. That's a very good
point. And you're also putting somuch undue stress and torment on so many
innocent people that don't need to gothrough this. Yeah yeah, I mean,
April or Brandon aren't the only exampleswe have of this in Missy's case.

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Other people in Missy's life became targetsas well. One person claimed that
they set their trash out to becollected and someone came up, grabbed their
trash and drove off, apparently anattempt to go through it to try to
tie them to Missy's murder. Somepeople's addresses got posted online, so people
got legitimately doxed. Missy's family membersreported people accosting them on the streets and

(56:24):
asking them personal questions about their livesor the investigation. And remember a lot
of these wild accusations being leveled at. All of these different people in Missy's
life were then being turned into lawenforcement, who then had to sort through
all of this information that they're getting. So it just became this huge mess.

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A lot of people ended up gettinghurt, and at the end of
it, Missy's murder still went unsolved. Yeah, you're basically just slogging down
the operation and the investigation with allof this extra work that you're forcing these
investigators to have to look into becausethere's such a tizzy online about it.
Yeah, you're slowing down the process. Like, let them do their job

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and help as best you can.But goodness gracious, don't docs people.
Yeah exactly, Well, there waslegitimate police work going down in the midst
of all of this, of course, the ATF, the Texas Rangers,
and the FBI have all joined theinvestigation into Messi's death. Early on,

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the focus really became learning more aboutMissy through accessing her social media accounts,
her bank statements, email, aswell as accessing her phone and tablet.
So investigators obtained multiple search warrants toaccess basically all of these accounts, all
of these things that Missy had.They also secured search warrants for some of

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Brandon's social media accounts as well aswell as his phone records and bank statements.
In the search warrants, many ofwhich have been released, Lawn Enforcement
stated that they uncovered evidence of aquote ongoing financial and marital struggle, as
well as intimate slash personal relationship orrelationships outside of the marriage. Additionally,

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it was released that Missy had beenexchanging messages back and forth with a man
on LinkedIn since January of twenty sixteen, so that would be the last four
months previous to her murder. Themessages were described as flirtatious and familiar and
intimate in nature. Oh interesting,Okay, this is a this might be

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a potential real lead. Then thenews that Missy had apparently had an affair
and that there was evidence of somesort of ongoing flirtation or something. Makes
an already difficult case more challenging.It presents motive in a multidirectional way.
The person she had an alleged affairwith could have killed her, or if
that person wasn't a relationship themselves,their jilted lover could want to hurt Missy.

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And by the way, a lotof people who subscribe to the killer
being a woman believed that the killertargeted Missy because she had an affair with
this person's husband or boyfriend or something. The jilted lover angle is a very
popular one online When you talk aboutMissy's case, it just makes everything much
more complicated. It does, andobviously these bits of information that indicate a

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marriage that had been struggling ended upputting more suspicion upon Brandon. To some
people, the news that Missy andBrandon's marriage was strained just confirmed that Brandon
was involved in her death, andit just really kept the rumor mill going.
Brandon sat down with Fox four DFWabout a month after Missy's death,

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and one of the things he talkedabout was how difficult it was for their
personal issues to become fodder for publicdebate. He said, quote, most
people in society don't have their baggagestrewn out in public like this. But
the problems we encountered, I wouldsay eighty percent of society deals with the
same problems. In our particular case, we were dealing with our problems and

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attempting to overcome and that's what keptus together. That's a really good point.
Yeah, And it's tough. Ican't even imagine being in brandon shoes,
having to go through all that whileyou know, someone he really really
cared about had just been brutally murdered. Yes, and I do believe that
some of the information that was uncoveredin the investigation was a surprise to Brandon.

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I think that some of this informationhe did not know about. And
that's that's also really hard. Andyou're you're finding out information in a public
way about your wife, and ofcourse these are things that then some people
say that it makes Missy look bad. I mean, it's just a really
hard situation like this, of course, So of course this is just a

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really hard situation for Missy and theentire family, and it's difficult to put
it into context in terms of doesthis mean that one of these people might
have been involved with Missy's murder?You know, again, we just don't
know. Now, there was oneadditional detail that came up in the search
warrants that I think we need totalk about, and that has to do

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with a message that Missy received onLinkedIn. A friend of Missy's reported that
just three days before her murder,Missy had shown her a message that she'd
received from a stranger with a strangename on LinkedIn. We don't know the
contents of this message, but thefriend described it as creepy and strange.

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We don't know if police recovered thismessage or identified who it came from.
We do know that they did receivethis information and checked into it. And
again, it's in just another verybizarre aspect of this case, because it's
strange to have a woman receive acreepy and bizarre message just a few days

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before her murder. Yeah, thedate is coincidental or possibly you know,
tied into linking it. Yeah,that is weird and it's not good that
it was creepy. I don't likethat, yeah exactly. But again,
one of those mysterious things about hercase, because that's all we can really
say about it. She received acreepy message. Yeah, it's a lot
of people received creepy messages online.Doesn't mean anything, or it could mean

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absolutely everything. We just don't know, right, We received plenty of creepy
messages online. So yeah, Thankfullynone of them have ferreted out into anything
significant so far. Fingers crossed knockerwould However, police did get information that
led them to what appeared to bean excellent suspect in Missy's murder. I'm
going to call this person George.George was a licensed security guard who was

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hired by Creekside Church for Missy's memorialservice. In fact, according to a
leader's search warrant, law enforcement confirmedthat George volunteered to work Missy's memorial.
Really yes, George had a similarbody type and build as the person in
the surveillance video and had a quotedistinct limp walk or gate. Investigators film

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George walking and sent the footage toa clinical and forensic pediatrist named doctor Michael
Nuremberg. They asked doctor Nuremberg tocompare George's locomotion to the way the suspect
moves in the footage. George wasn'tthe only person doctor Nuremberg was asked to
compare to Missy's killer. There werea few other persons of interests who were
filmed walking and whose footage was sentto the doctor as well. Doctor Nuremberg

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was able to exclude all of thepeople whose footage was sent to him except
George. The doctor concluded that Georgecould be the person in the video.
Yeah, and the fact that hevolunteered for her memorial service. That's interesting
because killers sometime come back to thescene of the crime or trying to inject
themselves back into the investigation or theyYeah, but there's even more. George

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had once been an officer with theLancaster Police Department. Oh is this like,
Oh, that's how he got thepolice gear. Maybe he still had
it. Well, we know thatas part of his normal duties as a
law enforcement officer, he'd been issuedhis own tactical gear. Ah. Okay,

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now we're getting somewhere. George hadbeen accused of sexual assault not once,
but twice in his life, andone of those times he was in
his police uniform when the assault tookplace. This has to be the guy,
right, Oh, no, you'resetting us up for failure. Well.
George was interviewed by law enforcement onMay fifth, twenty sixteen, not

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long after Missy's death. He admittedto owning a helmet similar to the one
in the video, but he saidthat his tactical vest didn't fit him anymore.
He said that during the night beforeand the morning of Missy's murderer,
he was at home with his wifean infant child, so that was his
alibi. In December of twenty sixteen, the Midlothian Police Department executed a search

(01:05:10):
warrant on George's home. The warrantsspecified that they were searching for tools and
gear consistent with what the suspect iswearing in the footage associated with Missy's death,
as well as cell phones and electronics. This search warrant was later released,
which is why we know all ofthis. By the way, now,
as far as I know, thesearch warrant is the first time law

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enforcement makes mention of another vehicle possiblytied to Missy's murder quote. Investigators also
received information from a passerby on themorning of the murder at approximately four thirty
am that a vehicle was observed leavingCreekside Church parking lot, which was described
as a dark in color small sportsutility wagon. Did Georgio on one of

(01:05:59):
the small sports utility wagons? Well, George owned a dark brown twenty fourteen
Honda CRV, which is very similarto this description. You don't say all
right. After the search of hisresidence, George was arrested and he was
held for over seventy days. Butit didn't have anything to do with Missy's
murder. What you see, Policedidn't find any evidence of George's involvement in

(01:06:25):
Missy's murder when they executed that searchwarrant. In fact, George passed a
polygraph. An investigator stated that hisalibi for the time of the murder was
solid and he has been ruled outas a suspect in the investigation. George
was actually arrested for child pornography discoveredas a result of the search of his

(01:06:45):
electronic devices. Oh yeah, okay, Well, at least we got him
out of there, and if he'snot the suspect, then at least we
caught someone who is doing that.Well. He later gave an interview from
jail with w FAA. He basicallysaid he never knew Missy, he wasn't
involved in her death. Blah blahblah. George wasn't ever formally charged with

(01:07:10):
anything, however, and eventually hewas released. What so, it's great
to know that he's back on thestreets. Why. I don't know.
We don't know, He don't know. Maybe the charges wouldn't stick, not
sure, but he's This is upsetting. I know. I'm really sorry about
that information. Please have cleared himwhen it comes to Missy's case. Okay,

(01:07:33):
Well that's something. I guess who'snext on the list? Anybody else?
Well, there is one more pieceto this story, and I saved
it for last because we don't reallyknow how this fits into Missy's story.
After Missy's death, Midlothian Police requestedthat anyone in the area check their security

(01:07:53):
footage from the morning of Missy's deathand report any suspicious activity. Not long
after, they got a hit fromSWFA Outdoors, that gun store located about
a half a mile away from CreeksideChurch. At one fifty eight am on
the morning of Missy's death, avehicle pulled into the stores parking lot and

(01:08:15):
immediately turned its headlights off. Thecar then slowly starts driving around the building
and every few seconds stopping and thenstarting again, as well as switching the
headlights on and off. The vehiclemakes one full revolution around the building in
this manner before parking in a parkingspot and turning the headlights off again.

(01:08:39):
The car sits there for three anda half minutes. Then the headlights come
back on and the car drives away, leaving the parking lot at two oh
four am. In total, thecar spent about six minutes inside the SWFA
Outdoors parking lot. Interesting. Idon't know why you would pull into a

(01:09:00):
parking lot and immediately turn your headlightsoff. No IDEA, very strange.
It's suspicious for sure. And again, as you see them circling the building,
you can see them click their headlightson and off, on and off,
their start and stop, start andstop as they make that full revolution
around the building, and they justsit in the parking spot for three minutes.

(01:09:21):
If we're just having car problems,well, this is the question that
we have. It's hard to figureout what it is this person is doing.
Are they having car trouble? Arethey checking their GPS? It's completely
possible that whatever this person was doingwas innocent. It's just hard to figure
out what it is that they're doingand why. And obviously this happening about

(01:09:47):
an hour or two before Missy's murderhalf a mile away. It's a very
strange scenario. Yeah, it's aweird behavior, for sure. The footage
is little grainy, and it's darkout, and it's also raining in the
video, and all these things obscurethis vehicle enough that no identifying features can

(01:10:08):
really be seen, not even thelicense plate, even though there are seventeen
different camera angles in this surveillance video. Yeah, I'm going through all the
different angles and watching it as you'retalking about it. There are a lot
of angles you can't see much.Yes, Now, the vehicle appears to
be a twenty ten to twenty twelveNissan Altima or Nissan Infinity G thirty seven

(01:10:30):
that was light colored, possibly silver. Now, at first, the police
only released still videos of this vehiclealong with that description, but later in
December of twenty sixteen, the fullvideo was posted online. We have it
listed as the second link in theshow notes, so if you would like
to check it out, please do. Investigators ask that the public help identify

(01:10:54):
the driver of the vehicle. Theysaid that. They said that this person
isn't necessary fairly a suspect, butthey would like to speak to them to
see if they saw anything while theywere in this area that could help with
the investigation into Missy's death. Imean, there weren't a lot of people
around. Yeah, this person was, so did they say anything weird?

(01:11:14):
It makes a lot of sense.There's a lot of footage of this car.
Oh and there's one other car thatpasses down the highway in the surveillance
video, but that's it. Imean it's a pretty quiet, slow area
with not a lot of vehicles goingby, so they might have seen something.
Yeah. Absolutely. However, accordingto one of the search warrants that
was later released, investigators have consideredthat this vehicle was related to Missy's murder.

(01:11:40):
The suspect may have done a littleexperiment to check to see if the
church had an alarm by breaking awindow or breaching a door. They could
have then left the property and drivento the gun store to sit and wait
for any response from law enforcement.Now I have been to this location.
I was just there last week checkingthis out for myself. The church is

(01:12:01):
within I shot of the gun storeand police cars arriving at the church,
especially people coming in with their lightson and it was really dark out.
You would have absolutely have been ableto see a response to an alarm from
that SWFA parking lot. That makesa lot of sense because where they ended
up parking is kind of close tothe entrance of the parking lot where they

(01:12:24):
just sit and wait and you cansee the like every now and then,
like one loan vehicle will go downthe highway. So that would that's a
very interesting hypothesis to see if anypolice are going to show up. Yeah,
so they drove around the building.They sat there for a few minutes,
they realized that the church didn't havean alarm and there wasn't going to

(01:12:45):
be a police response, and thenthey turned around and drove back to the
church. Or at least that's possiblyan idea here. Yeah, it could
be one scenario. Of course,there's other possibilities here. This person could
have been canvassing the gun shop andperhaps wanted to break into the gun shop.
Maybe it was completely unrelated to Missy'smurder. I saw a fancy hot
rod that was parked next to thestore in one of the security videos.

(01:13:10):
So like maybe they were thinking aboutstealing the hot rod at some point.
Yeah, I mean who knows,that's all of any of that is definitely
possible. And we know that thepolice have been looking for the driver of
this vehicle since this happened, andthey still have not located this person,
so we still don't know why thisperson was there. Obviously, if they
worked the canvassing the gun store torob it, they probably wouldn't turn themselves

(01:13:31):
into police to be like, oh, I'm the person in Missy beavers security
footage at the gun store. Thatwas me. I didn't do anything wrong.
Yeah, but if anyone knows someonewho had that type of vehicle in
the area during those months, yeah, that might be in a person of
interest for sure. I mean absolutely, it's definitely somebody they want to talk
to. Well, it's now beenover five years since Missy Beavers died,

(01:13:57):
and tragically, her case remains unsolved, but investigators have made it clear that
this is not a cold case andthey are still dedicated to solving it.
It is still an active and ongoingcase, which is part of the reason
why there is so much that thepublic doesn't know. A lot is still
under wraps as law enforcement continue theirinvestigation. Altogether, the Melothian Police Department

(01:14:21):
reports that they've received over three thousandtips in Missy's case and that they continue
to receive tips almost daily. Andwhile certain members of the public have been
problematic when it comes to this case, others have really made a difference in
getting Missy's story to the world.Renee Rawdon, a woman he used to

(01:14:41):
work with Missy, met Cristel Lawsonin a Facebook group dedicated to Missy's case,
and together they started the podcast TheTrue Crime Broads at the beginning of
twenty twenty. The podcast is focusedon Missy's case, but they also cover
other true crime stories as well.They partnered with Ellis County Crime Stoppers to
raise money to erect a billboard onHighway two eighty seven near the church.

(01:15:05):
It says help find her killer whomurdered Missy Beavers. It has a picture
of Missy and directs people to callthe Ellis County Crimestoppers tipline. The billboard
has been up now for over ayear, and I have to admit I've
driven by it so often that itprobably served as an incentive to cover this
case. Because I was constantly beingreminded of Missy because of it. Now,

(01:15:29):
they are currently still raising funds tokeep the billboard up for longer,
so we will have some more informationfor you all about that. If you
would like to contribute to this cause, that would be great. If you
have any knowledge pertaining to the investigationof the murder of Missy Beavers, contact
Crime Stoppers of Ellis County or theMidlothian Police Department Criminal Investigation Division. Both

(01:15:50):
phone numbers are in the show notes. You can also send a message to
the Midlothian Police Department's Facebook page.According to Crime Stoppers of Ellis County,
as of April of this year,the award for information leading to an arrest
has been increased to one hundred andfifty thousand dollars. Yeah, any information

(01:16:10):
about anything really in this case wouldreally help. It's a cold case,
so and we don't cover a lotof these on the show, but this
one in particular is not only fascinatingbecause of the details surrounding the mystery,
it's a good point to talk aboutgood examples of the true crime community and
bad examples of them as well.So I think all around, it's a

(01:16:33):
great cold case to cover on thisshow, especially for Texas. Missy Beaver's
killer needs to be brought to justiceand the family needs justice well. And
it's especially good case because, likeI said, we have this surveillance footage
with this very distinct way of walking, and this person is out there probably

(01:16:57):
walking the same way. It doesn'tI'm gonna I'm gonna go ahead, and
in my opinion, it doesn't looklike an injury. It just looks like
this is the way this person walks. It looks a ritual, yes,
And if that's the case, thenthat's that's got to be something, you
know, and that's got to besomething that points investigators to one person over
another. There are distinctive factors aboutthis person that we can tell from this

(01:17:23):
footage. Yeah, and the footageitself. I was thinking about this during
the episode. The way that they'reso slow plotting calm. It reminds me
of like Jason Vorhees or Michael Myers, how they they're never running, They're
just slowly going about their business lazily, and and being in that body armor

(01:17:45):
is so terrifying, Like the wayat the look of it, I can't
even begin to put myself in Missy'sshoes where if she had been in the
building and then just all of asudden, you'd turn around a hallway and
there's this monster in this armor.What are you going to do? It's
just a nightmare. It's something outof a horror movie. And I think
that's something that attracts so many peopleto this case, good or bad.

(01:18:09):
Yeah, definitely. And then youof course have Missy herself and her family.
I think most people obviously feel soempathetic to them because her poor children
have been through so much, andher family has been through so much,
and it would be just so lovelyto give them the closure that they deserve,
especially through having been pulled through allof this and being you know,

(01:18:33):
their family and Missy and their fathereven names being drugged through the mud as
they have been. I mean,it's just incredibly hard for those three little
girls, and I just feel soawful for Missy's daughters. Yeah, there
needs to be a resolution, forsure. Yeah, Well hopefully there will
be. Like I said, thiscase is a case that can be solved,

(01:18:54):
and hopefully we're going to see thatsoon within the next couple of years,
We're going to see this case solvesand now that we have an episode
on it on the show, wewill stay up to date on it.
We will stay apprized to the details. If Aaron hears anything about it,
we'll get the news out and postabout it. Stay tuned, stay apprized.
Let us hear your thoughts on ourdifferent social platforms. We'd like to

(01:19:17):
hear what you think. But untilthen, would you like to hear a
bit of good news? I wouldlove to hear one single tidbit of good
news, Thank you very much,sir. Would you like good news that
involves animals every day? All right? Well, I have that coming up
for you right after this. Alrightyy'all. This good news story comes to

(01:19:53):
us from KSA teen news out ofSan Antonio. The article was written by
Mary Patton. You can find thatarticle at ksatnews dot com. So this
article is really interesting for a fewdifferent reasons. First, if you live
in the city of San Antonio,you might be aware of the Robert LB.
Tobin land Bridge. This bridge connectstwo portions of Philhardburger Park into one

(01:20:18):
complete section, so that both peopleand animals can visit all sections of the
park. That's kind of what aland bridge does. It's one of the
first bridges of this type to beinstalled in the region, specifically for native
wildlife migrations, and so that's that'swhat we're going to focus on. It
was opened around a year ago,and this land bridge was designed for wildlife

(01:20:42):
and people to safely cross this verybusy highway, which is called the Warsbach
Parkway. Before the land bridge,animals would try and cross it and get
hit, and it was getting bad. There was like mountain lions and you
know, different species that were beinginjured and dying and it was not safe.
So to celebrate the land bridge's firstanniversary, officials with the City of

(01:21:04):
San Antonio Parks and Recreation Department andthe Phil Hardburger Park Conservancy are sharing photos
of the animals that have been spottedvia these trail camps that they've set up
in and around the bridge over thispast year, and there have been some
really interesting surprises on what's on thecameras. Park naturalist Joel Lee Cosalt told

(01:21:27):
ksat News quote, we have detectedevery mammal I would expect to see in
Hardburger Park, as well as adomestic cat on the land bridge. The
whole gang's here. They went onto highlight the importance of such bridges,
saying, quote, habitat fragmentation isa growing issue. Connecting habitat islands and
protecting them from crossing major roadways suchas Warrisburg Parkway is a key to conserving

(01:21:51):
wildlife. And also we saw someanimals we didn't expect. The full list
of animals that went across the bridgewere raccoons, cotton tail rabbits, coyotes,
gray foxes, striped skunks, bobcats, mountain lions, and Texas ringtails.
The last one is the most interestingbecause it's a rare species in Texas.

(01:22:13):
Yeah, what is a Texas ringtale? I'm glad you asked.
Texas ringtails. They kind of looklike a cross between a lemur and a
ferret and a raccoon, but they'rethey're like thin grass aisle, but they
have this big, fluffy ringed tail. But the head of them kind of
looks like a mix between a ferretand a lemur. They have big,

(01:22:36):
big pointy ears. They're very adorable. I need to look up the pictures
of this thing immediately. Well,if you follow the links that are provided
in the notes below, you canthat's a little plug there, but they
are not endangered or severely at riskaccording to the ui cen List of Texas
Parks and Wildlife. The reason beingis because there's been a lot of work

(01:23:00):
that's gone on in the past fewyears to protect the Texas ringtails, and
the good news is is it's working. They're no longer endangered, but they
are still a protected species and thework that they've been doing to protect them
shows that they have a resurgence anda proliferation of the species in recent years,
So good news there. So ifyou don't know what a Texas ringtail

(01:23:21):
is, here are a few otherhighlights that I found. The Texas ringtail
is a cat sized carnivore resembling asmall fox with a long raccoon like tail.
They are almost completely nocturnal and spendthe majority of the day sleeping in
their dens during the night. Ringtailseat a wide variety of foods, including
birds, rodents, carrion, reptiles, and amphibians. They also feed a

(01:23:45):
lot on insects. They live indifferent habitats, but they prefer rocky areas
such as rock piles, stone fences, canyon walls, and rocky slopes.
They're expert climbers. They are extremelyintelligent and a few cases evidence has been
shown that they can be easily domesticated. Want Well, Unfortunately, you can't

(01:24:08):
own a at risk animal as apet in Texas, not without a permit.
All. Yeah, but if youwant to go through the permitting process,
we might be able to domesticate someringtails. Oh but again, I
will also be posting the sources tothis story and the article from Texas hill

(01:24:29):
Country dot com that I use forsome of the ringtail facts, and if
you'd like to learn more about Texasringtails and their conservation in the state.
There are places you can donate andalso volunteer places that you can go and
do natural stewardships to help promote ringtailhabitats and all of that is very good
news for an at risk species inTexas. Yeah, that's awesome. Land

(01:24:53):
bridges are really really important. We'veseen what happens when we have breeding populations
of wild animals it's separated from youknow, highways or whatever passing through and
it becomes very problematic. So lanebridge bridges are really incredible things in modern
societies, and I'm really glad thatthis one we're seeing is helping Texas wildlife.

(01:25:15):
Yeah, and it's doing it likeright in the middle of an urban,
metropolitan huge city like San Antonio.That's really cool. Yeah, very
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