November 21, 2024 • 30 mins
April 18, 2016, a cold rainy morning turned into a tragic discovery for fitness students when they find the body of instructor Terri Leann "Missy" Bevers at Creekside Church of Christ in Midlothian, Texas. Join us this episode as we tell you about the tragic case of Missy Bevers.
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Welcome back to Stone Cold Murder, everybody.
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Thank you for tuning in again for season three, episode four.
Was it episode four?
Yeah, episode four.
I don't know my episodes, but that's okay.
How are you today?
I'm doing good. How are you?
I'm good.
Are you guys good?
Are you going to show her again?
Yeah, why?
I don't know, you just looked...
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upset.
You said, are you good?
Are you good?
Yeah, I'm good.
I am upset now.
You like your corn shoes?
Yeah, I'm wearing them.
How are you wearing them today?
Hold on, take them off.
I'm counting.
I won't show my tootsies on the camera, but...
Chewie.
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Count.
It's count and it says...
established in 1994.
Damn, girl, look at you.
I know.
Stylin'.
Official.
Now I can't put this on right now, but...
I'm just gonna slide my shoe over there.
So you're just one-footing it in your shoe?
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Yeah.
Yeah, is that weird?
Why don't you just take both off?
Okay.
They're my gallant feet, if you want to wear those instead.
No.
Actually, it feels good.
My feet are free out of the prison.
That my shoes have shackled them in.
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You don't like shoes.
I hate shoes.
I like these because they're corn.
But other than that, I don't like shoes.
I just remember always getting yelled at from Mom,
crying out because you and I would never wear shoes.
And if we did, they were flip-flops.
Yeah.
Even in the snow.
And she's like, what are you doing?
I just hate them.
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Me too.
My toes need to be free.
Free fallin'.
No, that wasn't when I was going to sing, but...
You know, always have to have a song handy.
Yeah, I can't wait for Matt's compilation of us singing.
Just songs.
Compilations.
Compil-ma-clation.
Anyways.
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I've already taken a dab.
Hopefully, y'all have too.
And if not, I can wait about two seconds for you guys to catch up.
Do you need a dab?
I'm good.
I'm chilling.
Okay.
I'm ready.
Cool.
Yeah.
So grab your snacks.
Grab your drinks.
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Now let's get it.
All right.
So our story starts out on April 18, 2016 in Middle Oathian, Texas.
Students would arrive at Creekside Church in Middle Oathian around 5 a.m.
for a fitness class that morning.
As the students entered the church,
they would find the lifeless body of a woman who was supposed to be actually teaching the class that morning.
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Police immediately were contacted and found that the woman that had been killed was 45-year-old Missy Beavers.
Missy was teaching the Gladiator Boot Camp Fitness class at Creekside Church of Christ, Middle Oathian, which is a mouthful.
Creekside.
Creekside.
Class at Creekside Church of Christ in Middle Oathian.
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Yeah.
Wow.
Imagine saying that every church service.
So no, don't want to.
I would mess it up.
Well, she was supposed to be teaching a class there and had arrived at the church around 430 a.m.
that morning.
Geez.
So it was only 30 minutes before that class found Missy's brutalized body that morning.
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So obviously not a lot of time in between her arriving, the class getting there, and whatever happened in between.
Terry Missy Beavers was born on August 9th, 1970 in Graham, Texas.
Missy and her husband Brandon had been married for 20 years and had three daughters at the time of her murder.
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Aw.
Aw.
Missy previously was a dedicated teacher who worked with special needs children,
but Missy had recently started a new career path working as a fitness instructor.
That's what had her there that day.
So Missy was teaching the Gladiator Boot Camp at the Creekside Church of Christ and only was 20 minutes away from her home in Red Oak, Texas.
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She enjoyed fitness and this seemed kind of like a good choice after transitioning from her teaching job just because she wanted something different.
That was more low key, something she was more passionate about.
Not that she wasn't passionate about teaching, but it could lost her spark with it.
Yeah, just a little change of scenery.
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Yeah, which is always nice for people, I think, especially when you're getting into something that you enjoy.
So there was a thunderstorm in Metalothean the night before the murder took place,
and Missy had informed her students that the fitness class would be held inside the church that morning due to the unfavorable weather
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instead of the normal spot, which was usually in the church's parking lot.
But since it was soggy and gross and wet, they decided to do it inside that day.
Missy Beavers was last seen on surveillance footage entering the church at 4 a.m.
to prepare for her fitness class that was set to start at 5 a.m. that morning.
So early.
Yeah, and I think I meant to say 430 a.m. because I said that earlier.
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And of course, the big question is like, why was Missy murdered and like, who did it?
Yeah.
So police immediately got to work investigating and trying to retrace the events that went down leading up to her murder.
Missy Beavers was found dead with several puncture wounds from an unknown object to her head and chest.
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Oof, that sounds awful.
Yeah. And like I've said before, I think stabbing is one of the like.
Worst imaginable feelings like I I've never been stabbed, but I couldn't imagine multiple times.
Yeah, like I think I would rather be shot.
Yeah. Either way sounds awful, but like being stabbed with a blunt for object is.
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Yeah, that doesn't sound fun.
I assume we're going to get to this, but you said there was surveillance cameras.
Yes, there was.
OK, yeah, I won't say anymore.
OK, cool.
I'll let you finish, but.
Perfect. Thank you.
Do you have any theory so far?
Yes, but I'm going to just hold my emotional support pillow and listen.
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All right. Before you happen before you happen it out.
All right. Police initially considered burglary burglary burglary in my pocket.
I have a couple of them big in my pocket.
A couple of adverts in that movie.
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Pink Panther. Yeah, I don't know his name.
Steve Steve Martin. Yeah.
Sir, what do you have in your pocket?
In my pocket, I have a couple of them big.
OK, sorry. So sorry.
Excuse me, sir. What's in your pocket?
In my pocket.
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I got a couple of them big.
What? Excuse me.
OK. Yeah.
So burglary was a possible motive for the break in.
Of course, I feel like that's a normal thing that you consider with any type of break in.
Yeah. However, they were unable to find anything missing inside the church,
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which kind of eliminates that theory right off the bat.
And it's kind of like.
Unless it's just a coincidence of them being there at the same time, it almost feels targeted.
Right. Just because like same time, that's when they get there.
Yeah. You know, it was supposed to be outside, but this particular moment or day
it was inside. Yeah. And he was inside with you.
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Just seems targeted. It is interesting, isn't it?
Missy's killer left behind several high ticket items.
Among them was Missy's actual purse and an iPad.
So you would think both of those things would be immediately targeted for
something you'd want to take.
Police believe Missy Beavers might have been targeted, like you said,
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and that the suspect planned to make the crime appear as if it was a burglary gone wrong.
Which makes sense. Yeah.
Luckily, police were able to check the church's surveillance camera systems early on during that investigation.
The investigators say that the suspect used a pry bar to smash open the glass
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and open the door at the church.
The building did not have an alarm, so nobody was notified about the break in.
And unfortunately, the outdoor camera, the outdoor cameras were not functioning on the day of the murder.
So nothing was seen from outside the church.
Of course it wasn't.
Yeah. The cameras inside the church were working perfectly functional or were perfectly functional
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and allowed police a little bit of insight as to what took place, at least inside the church that morning.
What a coincidence, right?
It's always that way.
And I wonder if it's just like maybe the surveillance equipment that people invest in are just shit.
When they just like don't give a fuck because like, oh, nothing's going to happen here.
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And it's like, you just never really know.
Yeah. You know, surveillance footage was taken at around 4 a.m.
and it appears to show the suspect of an unknown identity walking into the church's hallway.
Did they have like or they did they have a mask on or something?
Yes.
So the suspect would occasionally smash glass, like as they were walking down the hallway
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and attempt to open different doors that were lining the church's hallway.
After he?
After they got in. Yep.
But before he found her.
Yeah.
Did she not hear that? I wonder.
I don't think she the suspect was shown to break in at around four and she arrived like 430 ish.
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So like in between four and four.
Oh, so he probably like broke stuff before.
Oh, OK. Yeah.
I was going to say, how did she not if he was breaking glass and stuff, how did she not hear that?
Yeah. And it seems and I'll get into this later, but it seems like they broke into the front where she came in from the back.
So didn't really necessarily see any of that stuff either.
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Gotcha. Yeah.
Adding to the weirdness of this case, the suspect wore what appeared to be a SWAT police uniform
and tactical gear from head to toe, including a police marked vest, a black helmet and a black pair of gloves.
Oh, yeah. Which is super weird.
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During this, Missy was taking her equipment for her class from her truck into the church
when she encountered the suspect inside the church.
Surveillance footage reportedly shows Missy walking down the church hallway before her murder.
And the Middle Middle Oathian police have not revealed where Missy and the suspect cross paths inside the church.
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But it is believed that the suspect murdered her inside the church.
So they haven't really given that information, but people put two and two together because that's where the crime scene was.
Investigators first believed that the suspect may be male,
but later changed their position stating that the suspect's movements may be pointing to them being female, but they couldn't say for sure.
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Yeah. Which. Interesting.
Yeah, I don't know what about the suspect's walk made them think that because it doesn't really specify.
Fucking fat ass.
Just a fat old ass.
Maybe a sway in the hips or something.
I wish like those are the kind of details I want to know.
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Like what made you like come to that conclusion?
What evidence is there?
Because it says from head to toe they were covered, so you can't see anything.
But it must have been.
I don't know.
I don't know. I've known plenty of straight guys that could pass off as a girl in certain clothing.
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You know what I mean? And vice versa. Girls who could pass as guys.
Yeah, I don't I think it's a like a handwriting thing where.
Can't really. Yeah, I just wonder what made them think that.
I don't know. I keep trying not to look over so I don't read the story, but I keep like looking over to read with you.
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Don't look over there.
You know, like blinders like no, like a little horse blinders.
You got right. You know, those that little fruit show that they put on for babies that like the fruit just bounces on the screen.
Yeah, oh, Cocoa Melon.
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You just put that on the screen. Then I don't know.
And I want to listen to the story or just zone out watching fruit bounce.
I don't know. I think it would help me focus.
Anyways, we can't be for sure why they thought it was a female, but they made that assumption for some reason.
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Investigate investigation investigators also made the note of the suspects distinct walking pattern.
So, yeah, and they thought that the suspects, the suspect in the surveillance footage appeared to walk slowly.
Okay, sometimes setting themselves with the wall while having trouble moving their right foot.
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Or, you know, this has not to do with the woman thing, but it seems like that.
So, I would think the opposite.
You've got a big slung.
You can't walk normally.
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They thought it was maybe an injury or some kind of disability.
How does that come out?
No, they just said it was like on top of the walking pattern that looked possibly female.
There was also a distinct way they want slowly.
Yeah, a slow walk, steadying themselves on the wall, have trouble moving their right foot.
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So did they look into like, does it talk about them looking into that at all?
Like with people in community?
I don't know.
You have to find out because that's where we take our smoke break.
This smoke break is brought to you by tugboat.
When every time.
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All right.
So one of the warrants that was initially filed by police claimed that the suspect may have possessed a smartphone,
which he has he had stopped Missy's schedule and recorded her murder with.
Hmm.
Video tape.
Yeah, I'm assuming that was on the video tape and they were able to see him like recording recording.
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I don't like that.
No, that's an you.
Yeah.
So additional police search warrants alleged that Missy received creepy and strange messages from an unknown male on LinkedIn of all fucking places.
Like what kind of messages did it say?
It didn't say what, but it said creepy and strange.
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So do they look into that of like who sent these to her?
Yeah, it's just with this kind of case, especially with it not being solved or not like telling you exactly what it is because they don't want.
It to like sway people's opinions and stuff.
Yeah.
Or if they do find a suspect and say the suspect knows exactly what's in this message, they know that they know something more than just the average person.
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Gotcha.
So that's a way of kind of tricking your suspect into catching themselves, you know, which I guess I get.
But also, I feel like if they put like more information into this, like in the public and like the general, then maybe people would come forward with like more information about some of these cases.
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Yes, there's like a lot of detail that they don't put in these cases that it's like, well, it's kind of hard to go off of like theories or like starting to like put puzzle pieces together when you don't have that information.
Totally.
Yeah.
And some of it may be that they just don't know also.
I mean, obviously not here.
Yeah.
They do know they're just not telling.
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Yeah.
I assume they did their due diligence and like investigated it.
Yeah.
Turned out to be nothing.
But I would love to know like what it was.
The creepy messages.
I know.
What about it?
Anyways.
Okay.
So we were talking about how.
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Yeah, they had a smartphone, right?
Recording.
He was recording.
The actual.
Yeah, whoever.
She.
Person.
Person of interest.
Apparently.
Yeah, I already said this, but additional search warrants alleged that Missy received creepy and strange messages on LinkedIn from an unknown male.
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And it is believed that Missy may have talked with the murderer via these messages before the crime took place.
So I don't know if she knew them going into it or if it was just some rando on LinkedIn.
Yeah.
Either way, it's not cool.
Yeah.
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Can't read.
Yeah.
Stop looking over there.
Law enforcement were able to put some validity to some of the theories and they were able to track down a person who actually spoke to Missy over LinkedIn during her last few months.
But the person stated that the conversation was ultimately flirtatious and innocent.
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But creepy at the same time.
I don't see how you could really have a conversation on LinkedIn and be flirtatious.
Yeah, it's like a job.
Say it's really old.
It's a bold move.
In my opinion.
Yeah, I would never think to like that's what you're trying, but I would never think to go to Lincoln and just like message people.
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There are girls that do that.
No, I will tell you there are some girls that will go look for like CEOs and shit like that, which is a move.
Now they're going back on their creepy.
Yeah.
Words, right?
Which I don't believe Missy's relatives were questioned during the investigation including including Brandon, who's Missy's husband and Randy, who is Missy's father-in-law.
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Both had alibis who were confirmed clearing both of them of suspicion.
I don't know why the father-in-law was automatically.
Yeah, that's interesting.
I thought so too.
But it's also so weird because they said it seems like they keep going back on like their words and stuff right now because they said originally it's a guy and now they're saying it's a girl.
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Yeah, but then now they're talking to male suspects.
Yeah, I think they just don't know.
And then it seems like in a couple of the reports are like things that were mentioned earlier.
They kept saying he after they said it was a female.
Yeah, you're just stabbing in the dark at this point.
Interesting.
I think so.
Brandon was in Mississippi fishing while Randy was in California traveling.
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They were both far from Texas basically.
So they were both traveling.
But four days after the murder, Randy was seen at the dry cleaner and he had brought a bloody shirt to be cleaned to the drag.
Why Randy?
Yeah, why?
But he was at a fishing trip.
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He was in California and Brandon was in Mississippi fishing.
Okay.
Yeah.
So this is something that obviously alerted police right away and when they confronted Randy about it, Randy later explained that the blood was blood from two dogs that had been fighting.
So the Middle Oathian police performed a forensic analysis on the shirt confirming that there was no human blood and that it was indeed dog blood.
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So which makes him looks like suspicious.
But if he wasn't even in town, yeah, it's just one of those that you're like.
Wait a darn minute.
Why do you have a bloody shirt?
You know, but all is good there.
So Randy was again cleared as a suspect.
Good job, Randy.
Yeah.
But this led police to yet another dead end, unfortunately.
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So in May of 2016, Middle Oathian police released a still image of what is believed to be a 2010 or a 2012 Nissan Altima or a 2010 2012 Infinity G37.
So this car was driving around the early morning in the parking lot of a SWFA outdoors, which is kind of like a sporting goods store.
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And this is located really close to that Creekside Church.
It was around the same time that they were driving around.
Yeah, a little bit earlier than the break in happened.
Gotcha.
So this car, which the police believe to be an oval bumper sticker, pulled into the SWFA outdoors parking lot at around 2 a.m., leaving just a few minutes later.
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Middle Oathian police were interested in speaking to the unknown yet to the unknown owner of this vehicle.
And according to the assistant chief, Kevin Johnson, the owner of the vehicle is not necessarily a suspect.
But he does want the person to identify themselves in case they could help with the investigation.
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But obviously nobody has come forward to identify themselves as the driver leading police to search for other leads, basically.
Interesting. Yeah.
They couldn't get a license plate number off of the surveillance cameras.
So actually, in December of 2016, the footage was released in full from that parking lot and the video shows the vehicle entering the parking lot the same early morning as the murder with the driver behaving kind of like bizarre.
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So this is kind of what.
Like threw them off and the license plate himself was kind of blurry on the camera footage, so they couldn't pick up what it said nor what the make was of the vehicle or what the bumper sticker said on the vehicle.
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So that's why they couldn't track it down.
The driver ended up circling the stores parking lot, flashes the vehicles headlights just randomly and then parks in a secluded area for just a few minutes before exiting.
The parking lot onto Route 287.
But unfortunately, even with this like newly released footage, no one came forward and the different leads police were getting were leading absolutely nowhere.
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So none of this was actually helping the case.
Unfortunately, in 2021, the FBI asked for the help from Dr.
Michael Neenberg, Niren Berg, Niren Berg, Niren Berg, Michael, Dr.
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Michael. He is a forensic podiatrist and asked him to study the way the suspect walked and see if there was anything that they may have missed in the initial investigation.
And the doctor stated that the person's walking is affected by the weight of the gear and the weapons that they were actually carrying and not really.
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It didn't really have a relationship between the way they were walking and the gender of the person.
So he was like, you can't really say one way or the other.
You can't really determine the gender of the suspect solely from their walking pattern, which is kind of what we were.
Yeah. Saying like.
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I feel like that's a stab in the dark, so to speak, a goose chase when you're trying to do that.
Yeah. Interesting. Yeah.
So maybe that's why they were kind of going back and forth initially of like saying she and then switching back to he.
Yeah, because we just didn't know. Yeah.
As of June, twenty, twenty three, police still have not identified the driver and have also not definitive definitively concluded whether or not this vehicle is related to Missy Beaver's killing.
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Initially, a reward was set at ten thousand dollars before doubling to twenty thousand and again rising to fifty thousand dollars for any information.
And as of twenty, twenty one, there was a reward of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for any information potentially helping in the capture of the suspect.
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So the police have gotten a lot of information regarding Missy's case with information significantly picking up after the release of the footage.
And unfortunately, nothing has come up of use for police in this case.
And this case remains completely unsolved to this day with no additional information, unfortunately.
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Hence why we're here. Hence why we're here.
So what are your thoughts?
I think it was a targeted attack just based off of the fact that nothing was missing.
Nothing was taken and they so happened to be there the same time that she came in to get ready for.
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The workout stuff, you know, which is like, I don't know, could be a coincidence, but it almost doesn't seem like a coincidence.
Just, I mean, based off the fact they didn't take anything.
Yeah, I mean, I would agree.
What about you? What do you think?
I really don't know.
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This one is a head scratcher for me.
I feel like the target, like a targeted attack seems pretty plausible.
Or just someone just being kind of crazy, even, you know.
Yeah. Or maybe someone who doesn't like church or something, you know, just like a mental health thing.
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Maybe, I don't know.
Seems very strange, you know, the SWAT gear is what throws me off more than anything.
Yeah, that's what they had the police jacket or vest on and everything.
The helmet. It just seems extra odd.
That is weird.
Yeah, I, this one is interesting to me.
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Maybe it's a target attack.
Maybe it's someone. Maybe it's maybe.
Anyways, I have no idea.
All that to say, who knows?
I really don't.
I think if I would be guessing it would just be a shot in the dark at this point, you know what I mean?
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Because I don't think there's enough information for me to safely make an assumption.
Yeah, that I feel good with, you know, makes sense.
Yeah, unfortunately, but there is anybody out there that does have any information or theories or anything like that.
You can contact Crimestoppers in your area or if you have any theories that aren't actually related to the case,
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but you just thought of them, you can leave them down in our comments.
Yeah. Once you said you can contact your local police or whatever you said, I said,
oh, don't go with them to your with your theories.
Don't do the theory part.
It can go in our comments, but if you have tips, call Crimestoppers.
You know. Yeah, they got it.
I know they got it.
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They're smart.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But yes, nonetheless, so say all of that.
If you do have theories, leave them in the comments.
Yeah, we'd like to hear from you until next time.
Stay high. Stay safe.
Thank you for watching.
Peace.
Hey guys, let us know what you think down below in the comments.
But as always, be respectful and kind as these are serious cases that have yet to be solved.
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Welcome back to Stone Cold Murder, everybody.
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Thank you for tuning in again for season three, episode four.
Was it episode four?
Yeah, episode four.
I don't know my episodes, but that's okay.
How are you today?
I'm doing good. How are you?
I'm good.
Are you guys good?
Are you going to show her again?
Yeah, why?
I don't know, you just looked...
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upset.
You said, are you good?
Are you good?
Yeah, I'm good.
I am upset now.
You like your corn shoes?
Yeah, I'm wearing them.
How are you wearing them today?
Hold on, take them off.
I'm counting.
I won't show my tootsies on the camera, but...
Chewie.
(01:12):
Count.
It's count and it says...
established in 1994.
Damn, girl, look at you.
I know.
Stylin'.
Official.
Now I can't put this on right now, but...
I'm just gonna slide my shoe over there.
So you're just one-footing it in your shoe?
(01:33):
Yeah.
Yeah, is that weird?
Why don't you just take both off?
Okay.
They're my gallant feet, if you want to wear those instead.
No.
Actually, it feels good.
My feet are free out of the prison.
That my shoes have shackled them in.
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You don't like shoes.
I hate shoes.
I like these because they're corn.
But other than that, I don't like shoes.
I just remember always getting yelled at from Mom,
crying out because you and I would never wear shoes.
And if we did, they were flip-flops.
Yeah.
Even in the snow.
And she's like, what are you doing?
I just hate them.
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Me too.
My toes need to be free.
Free fallin'.
No, that wasn't when I was going to sing, but...
You know, always have to have a song handy.
Yeah, I can't wait for Matt's compilation of us singing.
Just songs.
Compilations.
Compil-ma-clation.
Anyways.
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I've already taken a dab.
Hopefully, y'all have too.
And if not, I can wait about two seconds for you guys to catch up.
Do you need a dab?
I'm good.
I'm chilling.
Okay.
I'm ready.
Cool.
Yeah.
So grab your snacks.
Grab your drinks.
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Now let's get it.
All right.
So our story starts out on April 18, 2016 in Middle Oathian, Texas.
Students would arrive at Creekside Church in Middle Oathian around 5 a.m.
for a fitness class that morning.
As the students entered the church,
they would find the lifeless body of a woman who was supposed to be actually teaching the class that morning.
(03:28):
Police immediately were contacted and found that the woman that had been killed was 45-year-old Missy Beavers.
Missy was teaching the Gladiator Boot Camp Fitness class at Creekside Church of Christ, Middle Oathian, which is a mouthful.
Creekside.
Creekside.
Class at Creekside Church of Christ in Middle Oathian.
(03:51):
Yeah.
Wow.
Imagine saying that every church service.
So no, don't want to.
I would mess it up.
Well, she was supposed to be teaching a class there and had arrived at the church around 430 a.m.
that morning.
Geez.
So it was only 30 minutes before that class found Missy's brutalized body that morning.
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So obviously not a lot of time in between her arriving, the class getting there, and whatever happened in between.
Terry Missy Beavers was born on August 9th, 1970 in Graham, Texas.
Missy and her husband Brandon had been married for 20 years and had three daughters at the time of her murder.
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Aw.
Aw.
Missy previously was a dedicated teacher who worked with special needs children,
but Missy had recently started a new career path working as a fitness instructor.
That's what had her there that day.
So Missy was teaching the Gladiator Boot Camp at the Creekside Church of Christ and only was 20 minutes away from her home in Red Oak, Texas.
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She enjoyed fitness and this seemed kind of like a good choice after transitioning from her teaching job just because she wanted something different.
That was more low key, something she was more passionate about.
Not that she wasn't passionate about teaching, but it could lost her spark with it.
Yeah, just a little change of scenery.
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Yeah, which is always nice for people, I think, especially when you're getting into something that you enjoy.
So there was a thunderstorm in Metalothean the night before the murder took place,
and Missy had informed her students that the fitness class would be held inside the church that morning due to the unfavorable weather
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instead of the normal spot, which was usually in the church's parking lot.
But since it was soggy and gross and wet, they decided to do it inside that day.
Missy Beavers was last seen on surveillance footage entering the church at 4 a.m.
to prepare for her fitness class that was set to start at 5 a.m. that morning.
So early.
Yeah, and I think I meant to say 430 a.m. because I said that earlier.
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And of course, the big question is like, why was Missy murdered and like, who did it?
Yeah.
So police immediately got to work investigating and trying to retrace the events that went down leading up to her murder.
Missy Beavers was found dead with several puncture wounds from an unknown object to her head and chest.
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Oof, that sounds awful.
Yeah. And like I've said before, I think stabbing is one of the like.
Worst imaginable feelings like I I've never been stabbed, but I couldn't imagine multiple times.
Yeah, like I think I would rather be shot.
Yeah. Either way sounds awful, but like being stabbed with a blunt for object is.
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Yeah, that doesn't sound fun.
I assume we're going to get to this, but you said there was surveillance cameras.
Yes, there was.
OK, yeah, I won't say anymore.
OK, cool.
I'll let you finish, but.
Perfect. Thank you.
Do you have any theory so far?
Yes, but I'm going to just hold my emotional support pillow and listen.
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All right. Before you happen before you happen it out.
All right. Police initially considered burglary burglary burglary in my pocket.
I have a couple of them big in my pocket.
A couple of adverts in that movie.
(07:41):
Pink Panther. Yeah, I don't know his name.
Steve Steve Martin. Yeah.
Sir, what do you have in your pocket?
In my pocket, I have a couple of them big.
OK, sorry. So sorry.
Excuse me, sir. What's in your pocket?
In my pocket.
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I got a couple of them big.
What? Excuse me.
OK. Yeah.
So burglary was a possible motive for the break in.
Of course, I feel like that's a normal thing that you consider with any type of break in.
Yeah. However, they were unable to find anything missing inside the church,
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which kind of eliminates that theory right off the bat.
And it's kind of like.
Unless it's just a coincidence of them being there at the same time, it almost feels targeted.
Right. Just because like same time, that's when they get there.
Yeah. You know, it was supposed to be outside, but this particular moment or day
it was inside. Yeah. And he was inside with you.
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Just seems targeted. It is interesting, isn't it?
Missy's killer left behind several high ticket items.
Among them was Missy's actual purse and an iPad.
So you would think both of those things would be immediately targeted for
something you'd want to take.
Police believe Missy Beavers might have been targeted, like you said,
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and that the suspect planned to make the crime appear as if it was a burglary gone wrong.
Which makes sense. Yeah.
Luckily, police were able to check the church's surveillance camera systems early on during that investigation.
The investigators say that the suspect used a pry bar to smash open the glass
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and open the door at the church.
The building did not have an alarm, so nobody was notified about the break in.
And unfortunately, the outdoor camera, the outdoor cameras were not functioning on the day of the murder.
So nothing was seen from outside the church.
Of course it wasn't.
Yeah. The cameras inside the church were working perfectly functional or were perfectly functional
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and allowed police a little bit of insight as to what took place, at least inside the church that morning.
What a coincidence, right?
It's always that way.
And I wonder if it's just like maybe the surveillance equipment that people invest in are just shit.
When they just like don't give a fuck because like, oh, nothing's going to happen here.
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And it's like, you just never really know.
Yeah. You know, surveillance footage was taken at around 4 a.m.
and it appears to show the suspect of an unknown identity walking into the church's hallway.
Did they have like or they did they have a mask on or something?
Yes.
So the suspect would occasionally smash glass, like as they were walking down the hallway
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and attempt to open different doors that were lining the church's hallway.
After he?
After they got in. Yep.
But before he found her.
Yeah.
Did she not hear that? I wonder.
I don't think she the suspect was shown to break in at around four and she arrived like 430 ish.
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So like in between four and four.
Oh, so he probably like broke stuff before.
Oh, OK. Yeah.
I was going to say, how did she not if he was breaking glass and stuff, how did she not hear that?
Yeah. And it seems and I'll get into this later, but it seems like they broke into the front where she came in from the back.
So didn't really necessarily see any of that stuff either.
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Gotcha. Yeah.
Adding to the weirdness of this case, the suspect wore what appeared to be a SWAT police uniform
and tactical gear from head to toe, including a police marked vest, a black helmet and a black pair of gloves.
Oh, yeah. Which is super weird.
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During this, Missy was taking her equipment for her class from her truck into the church
when she encountered the suspect inside the church.
Surveillance footage reportedly shows Missy walking down the church hallway before her murder.
And the Middle Middle Oathian police have not revealed where Missy and the suspect cross paths inside the church.
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But it is believed that the suspect murdered her inside the church.
So they haven't really given that information, but people put two and two together because that's where the crime scene was.
Investigators first believed that the suspect may be male,
but later changed their position stating that the suspect's movements may be pointing to them being female, but they couldn't say for sure.
(12:37):
Yeah. Which. Interesting.
Yeah, I don't know what about the suspect's walk made them think that because it doesn't really specify.
Fucking fat ass.
Just a fat old ass.
Maybe a sway in the hips or something.
I wish like those are the kind of details I want to know.
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Like what made you like come to that conclusion?
What evidence is there?
Because it says from head to toe they were covered, so you can't see anything.
But it must have been.
I don't know.
I don't know. I've known plenty of straight guys that could pass off as a girl in certain clothing.
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You know what I mean? And vice versa. Girls who could pass as guys.
Yeah, I don't I think it's a like a handwriting thing where.
Can't really. Yeah, I just wonder what made them think that.
I don't know. I keep trying not to look over so I don't read the story, but I keep like looking over to read with you.
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Don't look over there.
You know, like blinders like no, like a little horse blinders.
You got right. You know, those that little fruit show that they put on for babies that like the fruit just bounces on the screen.
Yeah, oh, Cocoa Melon.
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You just put that on the screen. Then I don't know.
And I want to listen to the story or just zone out watching fruit bounce.
I don't know. I think it would help me focus.
Anyways, we can't be for sure why they thought it was a female, but they made that assumption for some reason.
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Investigate investigation investigators also made the note of the suspects distinct walking pattern.
So, yeah, and they thought that the suspects, the suspect in the surveillance footage appeared to walk slowly.
Okay, sometimes setting themselves with the wall while having trouble moving their right foot.
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Or, you know, this has not to do with the woman thing, but it seems like that.
So, I would think the opposite.
You've got a big slung.
You can't walk normally.
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They thought it was maybe an injury or some kind of disability.
How does that come out?
No, they just said it was like on top of the walking pattern that looked possibly female.
There was also a distinct way they want slowly.
Yeah, a slow walk, steadying themselves on the wall, have trouble moving their right foot.
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So did they look into like, does it talk about them looking into that at all?
Like with people in community?
I don't know.
You have to find out because that's where we take our smoke break.
This smoke break is brought to you by tugboat.
When every time.
(15:59):
All right.
So one of the warrants that was initially filed by police claimed that the suspect may have possessed a smartphone,
which he has he had stopped Missy's schedule and recorded her murder with.
Hmm.
Video tape.
Yeah, I'm assuming that was on the video tape and they were able to see him like recording recording.
(16:23):
I don't like that.
No, that's an you.
Yeah.
So additional police search warrants alleged that Missy received creepy and strange messages from an unknown male on LinkedIn of all fucking places.
Like what kind of messages did it say?
It didn't say what, but it said creepy and strange.
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So do they look into that of like who sent these to her?
Yeah, it's just with this kind of case, especially with it not being solved or not like telling you exactly what it is because they don't want.
It to like sway people's opinions and stuff.
Yeah.
Or if they do find a suspect and say the suspect knows exactly what's in this message, they know that they know something more than just the average person.
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Gotcha.
So that's a way of kind of tricking your suspect into catching themselves, you know, which I guess I get.
But also, I feel like if they put like more information into this, like in the public and like the general, then maybe people would come forward with like more information about some of these cases.
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Yes, there's like a lot of detail that they don't put in these cases that it's like, well, it's kind of hard to go off of like theories or like starting to like put puzzle pieces together when you don't have that information.
Totally.
Yeah.
And some of it may be that they just don't know also.
I mean, obviously not here.
Yeah.
They do know they're just not telling.
(17:54):
Yeah.
I assume they did their due diligence and like investigated it.
Yeah.
Turned out to be nothing.
But I would love to know like what it was.
The creepy messages.
I know.
What about it?
Anyways.
Okay.
So we were talking about how.
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Yeah, they had a smartphone, right?
Recording.
He was recording.
The actual.
Yeah, whoever.
She.
Person.
Person of interest.
Apparently.
Yeah, I already said this, but additional search warrants alleged that Missy received creepy and strange messages on LinkedIn from an unknown male.
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And it is believed that Missy may have talked with the murderer via these messages before the crime took place.
So I don't know if she knew them going into it or if it was just some rando on LinkedIn.
Yeah.
Either way, it's not cool.
Yeah.
(18:55):
Can't read.
Yeah.
Stop looking over there.
Law enforcement were able to put some validity to some of the theories and they were able to track down a person who actually spoke to Missy over LinkedIn during her last few months.
But the person stated that the conversation was ultimately flirtatious and innocent.
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But creepy at the same time.
I don't see how you could really have a conversation on LinkedIn and be flirtatious.
Yeah, it's like a job.
Say it's really old.
It's a bold move.
In my opinion.
Yeah, I would never think to like that's what you're trying, but I would never think to go to Lincoln and just like message people.
(19:42):
There are girls that do that.
No, I will tell you there are some girls that will go look for like CEOs and shit like that, which is a move.
Now they're going back on their creepy.
Yeah.
Words, right?
Which I don't believe Missy's relatives were questioned during the investigation including including Brandon, who's Missy's husband and Randy, who is Missy's father-in-law.
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Both had alibis who were confirmed clearing both of them of suspicion.
I don't know why the father-in-law was automatically.
Yeah, that's interesting.
I thought so too.
But it's also so weird because they said it seems like they keep going back on like their words and stuff right now because they said originally it's a guy and now they're saying it's a girl.
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Yeah, but then now they're talking to male suspects.
Yeah, I think they just don't know.
And then it seems like in a couple of the reports are like things that were mentioned earlier.
They kept saying he after they said it was a female.
Yeah, you're just stabbing in the dark at this point.
Interesting.
I think so.
Brandon was in Mississippi fishing while Randy was in California traveling.
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They were both far from Texas basically.
So they were both traveling.
But four days after the murder, Randy was seen at the dry cleaner and he had brought a bloody shirt to be cleaned to the drag.
Why Randy?
Yeah, why?
But he was at a fishing trip.
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He was in California and Brandon was in Mississippi fishing.
Okay.
Yeah.
So this is something that obviously alerted police right away and when they confronted Randy about it, Randy later explained that the blood was blood from two dogs that had been fighting.
So the Middle Oathian police performed a forensic analysis on the shirt confirming that there was no human blood and that it was indeed dog blood.
(21:46):
So which makes him looks like suspicious.
But if he wasn't even in town, yeah, it's just one of those that you're like.
Wait a darn minute.
Why do you have a bloody shirt?
You know, but all is good there.
So Randy was again cleared as a suspect.
Good job, Randy.
Yeah.
But this led police to yet another dead end, unfortunately.
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So in May of 2016, Middle Oathian police released a still image of what is believed to be a 2010 or a 2012 Nissan Altima or a 2010 2012 Infinity G37.
So this car was driving around the early morning in the parking lot of a SWFA outdoors, which is kind of like a sporting goods store.
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And this is located really close to that Creekside Church.
It was around the same time that they were driving around.
Yeah, a little bit earlier than the break in happened.
Gotcha.
So this car, which the police believe to be an oval bumper sticker, pulled into the SWFA outdoors parking lot at around 2 a.m., leaving just a few minutes later.
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Middle Oathian police were interested in speaking to the unknown yet to the unknown owner of this vehicle.
And according to the assistant chief, Kevin Johnson, the owner of the vehicle is not necessarily a suspect.
But he does want the person to identify themselves in case they could help with the investigation.
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But obviously nobody has come forward to identify themselves as the driver leading police to search for other leads, basically.
Interesting. Yeah.
They couldn't get a license plate number off of the surveillance cameras.
So actually, in December of 2016, the footage was released in full from that parking lot and the video shows the vehicle entering the parking lot the same early morning as the murder with the driver behaving kind of like bizarre.
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So this is kind of what.
Like threw them off and the license plate himself was kind of blurry on the camera footage, so they couldn't pick up what it said nor what the make was of the vehicle or what the bumper sticker said on the vehicle.
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So that's why they couldn't track it down.
The driver ended up circling the stores parking lot, flashes the vehicles headlights just randomly and then parks in a secluded area for just a few minutes before exiting.
The parking lot onto Route 287.
But unfortunately, even with this like newly released footage, no one came forward and the different leads police were getting were leading absolutely nowhere.
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So none of this was actually helping the case.
Unfortunately, in 2021, the FBI asked for the help from Dr.
Michael Neenberg, Niren Berg, Niren Berg, Niren Berg, Michael, Dr.
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Michael. He is a forensic podiatrist and asked him to study the way the suspect walked and see if there was anything that they may have missed in the initial investigation.
And the doctor stated that the person's walking is affected by the weight of the gear and the weapons that they were actually carrying and not really.
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It didn't really have a relationship between the way they were walking and the gender of the person.
So he was like, you can't really say one way or the other.
You can't really determine the gender of the suspect solely from their walking pattern, which is kind of what we were.
Yeah. Saying like.
(25:50):
I feel like that's a stab in the dark, so to speak, a goose chase when you're trying to do that.
Yeah. Interesting. Yeah.
So maybe that's why they were kind of going back and forth initially of like saying she and then switching back to he.
Yeah, because we just didn't know. Yeah.
As of June, twenty, twenty three, police still have not identified the driver and have also not definitive definitively concluded whether or not this vehicle is related to Missy Beaver's killing.
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Initially, a reward was set at ten thousand dollars before doubling to twenty thousand and again rising to fifty thousand dollars for any information.
And as of twenty, twenty one, there was a reward of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for any information potentially helping in the capture of the suspect.
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So the police have gotten a lot of information regarding Missy's case with information significantly picking up after the release of the footage.
And unfortunately, nothing has come up of use for police in this case.
And this case remains completely unsolved to this day with no additional information, unfortunately.
(27:02):
Hence why we're here. Hence why we're here.
So what are your thoughts?
I think it was a targeted attack just based off of the fact that nothing was missing.
Nothing was taken and they so happened to be there the same time that she came in to get ready for.
(27:30):
The workout stuff, you know, which is like, I don't know, could be a coincidence, but it almost doesn't seem like a coincidence.
Just, I mean, based off the fact they didn't take anything.
Yeah, I mean, I would agree.
What about you? What do you think?
I really don't know.
(27:51):
This one is a head scratcher for me.
I feel like the target, like a targeted attack seems pretty plausible.
Or just someone just being kind of crazy, even, you know.
Yeah. Or maybe someone who doesn't like church or something, you know, just like a mental health thing.
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Maybe, I don't know.
Seems very strange, you know, the SWAT gear is what throws me off more than anything.
Yeah, that's what they had the police jacket or vest on and everything.
The helmet. It just seems extra odd.
That is weird.
Yeah, I, this one is interesting to me.
(28:36):
Maybe it's a target attack.
Maybe it's someone. Maybe it's maybe.
Anyways, I have no idea.
All that to say, who knows?
I really don't.
I think if I would be guessing it would just be a shot in the dark at this point, you know what I mean?
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Because I don't think there's enough information for me to safely make an assumption.
Yeah, that I feel good with, you know, makes sense.
Yeah, unfortunately, but there is anybody out there that does have any information or theories or anything like that.
You can contact Crimestoppers in your area or if you have any theories that aren't actually related to the case,
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but you just thought of them, you can leave them down in our comments.
Yeah. Once you said you can contact your local police or whatever you said, I said,
oh, don't go with them to your with your theories.
Don't do the theory part.
It can go in our comments, but if you have tips, call Crimestoppers.
You know. Yeah, they got it.
I know they got it.
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They're smart.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But yes, nonetheless, so say all of that.
If you do have theories, leave them in the comments.
Yeah, we'd like to hear from you until next time.
Stay high. Stay safe.
Thank you for watching.
Peace.
Hey guys, let us know what you think down below in the comments.
But as always, be respectful and kind as these are serious cases that have yet to be solved.
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