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In October of twenty seventeen, the quiet church going suburb
of Allen, Texas was decorated for Halloween. Pumpkins lined porches,
pickup trucks flew Texas Tech and Cowboys flags. Life in
the Dallas Fort Worth area seemed calm, but beneath the
surface of this family focused community, something dark was brewing,
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something that would only be exposed after the sudden disappearance
of a well loved grandfather. What started as a missing
person's case soon unraveled into something bigger, an international human
trafficking ring targeting the elderly Robert Lloyd Hensley, who everyone
in the neighborhood called. Lloyd, was seventy eight years old
when he disappeared in October twenty seventeen. He lived in
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a quiet brick home on Cedar Ridge Drive in Allen, Texas,
a small Dallas Fort Worth suburb was known for its
good schools, clean streets, and family friendly parks. Lloyd had
lived there for over twenty years. He was a retired
Vietnam War veteran and had once been a respected high
school principal. Many former students still remain remembered him as
strict but fair. His lawn was always freshly mowed, and
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his American flag flew proudly outside his front porch, even
during the rainy days of early October. Lloyd had been
married to his wife, Judy for nearly forty years before
she passed away from cancer in two thousand and six.
Since her death, he lived alone, but never stopped honoring
her memory. He wore her gold wedding ring on a
silver chain around his neck every day. He had one daughter,
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Danielle Hensley, but their relationship had grown distant in recent years.
Danielle struggled with addiction and had lost custody of her children.
Lloyd still loved her, but he rarely saw her. Lloyd
spent most of his time doing quiet things. He volunteered
twice a week at the Allen Public Library, where he
shelved books and helped children find easy readers. He also
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walked his Yorkshire terrier named Button every morning at seven
a m. And again before sunset. Button wore a little
blue vest, and neighbors often waved to the pair as
they passed by. Lloyd liked to wear khaki pants, a windbreaker,
and a Dallas cowboy's cap, especially during football season. In
October twenty seventeen, with football in full swing and hallowing
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decorations going up, Lloyd was seen decorating his porch with
a light up ghost and pumpkin lights from home depot.
He loved crossword puzzles and worked on them daily at
Widerberger while sipping hot coffee. He carried a pencil tuck
behind his ear and sometimes shared trivia with the staff.
His favorite show was Giuparty, and he never missed it.
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He also liked feeding squirrels in his yard with peanuts
he kept in his shirt pocket. Kids in the neighborhood
thought it was funny how the squirrels would climb right
up to him. In the days before he went missing,
Lloyd was preparing to help with a Veteran's Day event
at the local American Legion post. He had offered to
set up chairs and make sure the sound system worked.
Friends say he seemed excited and full of energy. Nothing
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seemed wrong. No one knew he was being targeted. On
the morning of October eighteenth, Lloyd left his home to
take Button on his usual walk. He never came back.
On the morning of November eighth, twenty seventeen, a man
named Enreek Morales was sent to check on the old
Sunrise Buw Senior Living Center, located just a few miles
outside of Allen, Texas. The building had been closed for
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over a year and was scheduled for possible demolition. Enreek,
a forty three year old contractor from nearby McKinney, had
been hired to assess the property for safety hazards before
the new owners decided whether to renovate or tear it down.
It was a cold, gray morning, The sky was cloudy
and the wind was strong. The leaves had already turned
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brown and were blowing across the cracked parking lot. As
Enreek walked around the back of the building near a
large rusted dumpster, he noticed something odd. The ground looked uneven,
as if someone had dub a hole and covered it
back up quickly. The soil was soft and darker than
the dirt around it. There was also a faint, unpleasant
smell in the air. Curious in Rieke used a long
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metal rod from his truck to poke the ground. After
just a few pushes, the rod struck something that didn't
feel like dirt or rock. It gave way like soft plastic.
As he dub it a little more, He pulled back a
piece of black plastic and saw what looked like a
human foot. Scared and confused and wreeks stumbled backward. His
hands were shaking as he called nine to one one
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from his cell phone. Police and emergency crews arrived within
twenty minutes. They roped off the area with yellow caution
tape and began carefully removing the dirt. Underneath about a
foot of soil, they found the body of Robert Lloyd Hensley.
His hands were tied behind his back with plastic ziptaise,
and his body had been wrapped in what looked like
a dry cleaning bag in black garbage bags. There was
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still duct tape residue on his face. His clothes were
dirty but mostly intact. He was wearing the same windbreaker
and cahack as he had on the day he disappeared.
Near the same dumpster. Officers found a hard shell suitcase.
When they opened it, they were shocked to find Button,
Lloyd's little Yorkshire Terrier still alive. The dog was thin,
dirty and very weak, but still breathing. Animal control rush
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Button to an emergency VEC clinic and Plano, where he
was treated for dehydration. And starvation. The discovery of Lloyd's
body shocked the community. What had started as a missing
person case had suddenly turned into something much darker. Detectives
Jill Tran and Marcus Templeton from the Allen Police Department
arrived at the scene less than fifteen minutes after Inrik
Morales called nine to one one. Tran, a former Miss
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Junior Collin County, was known in the department for her
attention to detail and calm under pressure. Templeton, a twelve
year veteran and father of three, had worked dozens of
violent crimes, but nothing quite like this. The old Sunrise
View Senior Living Center had been closed since the summer
of twenty sixteen and was now overgrown with weeds, cracked pavement,
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and broken windows. Its parking lot was scattered with trash
and forgotten furniture. What they found behind the rusted dumpsters
stunned them. Lloyd's body had been buried in a shallow
grave less than a foot deep. His hands were zip
tied tightly behind his back, and his legs were loosely
bound with more plastic ties. There were signs that he
had been restrained for a long time. Arcs around his
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ankles and wrists suggested he had been tied to something solid,
likely a chair. The duck tape residue on his mouth
showed he had been guided at some point, and pieces
of the tape were still stuck to his neck and collar.
The body had been wrapped in several black garbage bags
and one large plastic dry cleaning bag, the kind you'd
find hanging over suits at a local cleaner. The medical
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examiner later confirmed that Lloyd had died from slow suffocation
caused by the plastic bag. There were no signs of
stab wounds or gunshots. He hadn't been beaten, but he
had bruises along his arms and ribs, likely from struggling
while restrained. The timeline showed he had been alive for
several days after he disappeared at meaning he had suffered
before he died. Near the grave, officers found the small
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hard shell suitcase. Inside was Button, Lloyd's Yorkshire terrier, Early
alive after nearly three weeks without food or water. The
dog was rushed to an emergency animal hospital in Plano,
where veterinarians treated him for dehydration, extreme weight loss, and infections.
It was a miracle he had survived. The crime scene
was secured, and detectives brought in special equipment, including ground
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penetrating radar and forensic drones to search the area from above.
They also used luminal, a chemical that lights up when
it touches traces of blood, to check for signs the
body may have been moved. There was no blood, but
they found faint tire tracks near the rear of the
building and several cigarette butts that were later sent for
DNA testing. Detectives collected soil samples and took photographs of everything,
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including fibers found on Lloyd's clothes and small red paint
flakes on a nearby brick wall. The entire crime scene
looked planned, not rushed. The way the body had been
wrapped and buried pointed to someone who had done this before,
or had at least thought it through very carefully. The
first person police looked at was Robert Lloyd Hensley's only child,
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thirty eight year old Danielle Hensley. She was Lloyd's strange
daughter and lived just a few miles away in a
small rental house on the east side of Allen near
the Sam Rayburn Tollway. Once a certified nail technician. Danielle
had fallen into a serious addiction to opioids after a
car accident in twenty thirteen. She had lost her job,
her home, and eventually custody of her two children, who
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were now living with her ex husband's parents In Garland.
Danielle's home was known around the neighborhood not for anything good.
She was often seen yelling on her front lawn at
random hours of the day, and neighbors had called animal
control on her more than once. One neighbor told officers
that Danielle kept several dogs in filthy cages in her
garage and had been reported for letting rats and roaches
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take over her backyard. The property was filled with piles
of garbage, broken furniture, old toys, and moldy mattresses. Some
people in the area believed she had serious mental health issues,
while others simply tried to avoid her. She also had
a criminal record. Police reports showed past charges for petty theft, vandalism,
and public intoxication. There was even one case from twenty
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sixteen where she was accused of trying to break into
a neighbor's shed because she believed her ex boyfriend had
hidden a message from the super Mario Brothers inside. That
case was dismissed, but it added to her strange reputation.
What caught detective's attention was something more serious. Just two
days after Lloyd had gone missing, daniel was caught on
a security camera at Gold and Silver Pond, a small
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pawn shop near Central Expressway, Implano. She was trying to
sell a gold pocket watch that had once belonged to
Lloyd's grandfather. It was a family hairbm one Bloyd kept
in a glass box on his living room shelf. The
pawnshop owner took her id, copied the transaction, and later
gave the footage to police. When detectives Tran and Templeton
brought Danielle in for questioning, she acted angry and annoyed.
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She rolled her eyes, talked over the officers and seemed
more upset about being interrupted during a cigarette break than
about her father's death. Her clothes were dirty and her
hands were shaking, likely from withdrawal. When asked about the watch,
she admitted to pawning it, saying it belonged to her anyway.
She claimed she had nothing to do with her father's
disappearance and didn't even know he was missing until days later.
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Danielle's behavior was suspicious. The fact that she sold the
watch so quickly in her history of drug use made
her an obvious suspect, but the murder of Lloyd Hensley
involved careful planning and knowledge of how to hide a body,
something the detectives weren't sure Danielle was capable of doing
on her own. Still, they ordered a search of her home,
collected her phone records, and kept her under close surveillance
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while they followed other leads. The second person detectives looked
into was Levon Calderan, better known as Evie. She was
twenty nine years old and had been in an on
and off relationship with the Lloyd Hensley for nearly four years.
But two had met at a local senior singles dance
event in twenty thirteen, where Evie had been hired as
a dance hostess, Somyon paid to keep older guests company
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on the dance floor. Over time, what's started as a
casual friendship turned into something more. Although neighbors and Lloyd's
few close friends were always suspicious of her motives. Ivey
had a colorful past before moving to the Allen area.
She worked as an exotic dancer in Fort Worth and
briefly in Las Vegas. By twenty seventeen, she was trying
to change her image. She started calling herself a business woman,
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although there were no business licenses in her name. She
lived in a small apartment off Greenville Avenue and drove
a white Dodge Charger with tinted windows and flashy rims.
On social media, she posted selfie's with designer purses, nail
salon visits, and photos tagged at restaurants like p F
Chang's and Tocwolf. Evie claimed to love Lloyd and said
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their connection was deep and spiritual, but detectives soon discovered
text messages from Evie's phone but told a different story.
She had been dating at least three other men at
the same time, all closer to her age. One of
them had a history of violence and arrests for domestic abuse.
Another appeared in photos with stacks of cash and guns.
The third was an old friend from her club days
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in Vegas. Lloyd, who still used a flip phone, had
no idea about her double life. What raised even more
red flags was a ten thousand dollars check Lloyd had
written to Eve in late September twenty seventeen. She told
him it was to help start a new business selling
boutique soaps online, but detectives found no website, no products,
and no business filings. Lloyd's bank records showed the money
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had been withdrawn in cash. Within days after that, Evie
stopped responding to his texts and calls. Neighbors said Lloyd
had mentioned feeling heartbroken and confused by her silence. Detectives
Tran and Templeton brought Evie in for questioning on November tenth.
She arrived wearing high heels, oversized sunglasses, and a designer handbag.
During the interview, she staked calm, but gave very few
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real answers. She talked around questions, gave vague timelines, and
insisted she had nothing to do with Lloyd's disappearance. She
said they had broken up weeks earlier and hadn't spoken since.
While nothing linked her directly to the murder, detectives believed
Evie knew more than she was saying. Her lies about
the money and her multiple relationships made her suspicious. Still,
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without any physical evidence or proof she was involved in
the crime, police had no choice but to let her go,
but they made sure to keep her on their radar.
The third suspect in Lloyd's case was fifty one year
old Clarence Dougal, his next door neighbor in the quiet
suburb of Carrollton, Texas. Clarence introduced himself as a financial consultant,
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but investigators could not find any professional records or business
licenses to back that up. On the outside, Clarence seemed
like a kind, quiet man. Neighbors remembered him mowing Lloyd's
lawn or helping him take out the trash. Clarence often
waved politely and kept to himself. He lived alone and
rarely had visitors, which some found odd, but no one
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thought he was dangerous. Clarence had slowly built trust with
Lloyd over the past year. He brought him meals from
time to time and helped with errands when Lloyd's niece
started giving him trouble. At first glance, he seemed like
a helpful neighbor, but police quickly discovered that Clarence had
a much darker side, one that shocked the whole community.
Detectives started digging into Clarence's online activity on an old
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del desk stop in his study, they found encrypted messages
and flag websites. Hidden behind layers of code was evidence
tying Clarence to an international group involved in human trafficking.
This group focused on elderly white American men, targeting them
for illegal sale to South Korea, especially in wealthy cities
like Busen, where they were very popular and shared for
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sex by entire families. In some parts of the Korean Internet,
like Namuwiki, these men were referred to as moose, a
disturbing term used to describe aging white men prized by
Korean as sex slaves and pets. Clarence's browsing history showed
disturbing searches, including shipping methods, restraint techniques, and even forums
that discussed grooming and isolating elderly targets. Police also found
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a second phone, one not registered in his name, filled
with text conversations discussing potent shipments and payments in cryptocurrency
like bitcoin. One message mentioned a clean Texas catch age
seventy four compliant and single no STDs. Once police brought
Clarence in for questioning, he appeared calm at first. He
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told detectives that Lloyd was like a father to him
and denied knowing anything about the disappearance, but when they
showed him screenshots from his secret phone and photos of
the online chats, his attitude changed. Clarence went silent and
immediately asked for a lawyer. Detectives now believe Clarence have
been slowly manipulating Loy for months, pretending to care for
him while secretly preparing to sell him. They theorized that
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Clarence may have zip tide Lloyd and planned to smuggle
him out of the country before something went wrong, possibly
forcing him to kill a Lloyd when things got too risky.
It wasn't the first case involving elderly trafficking in the US,
but it was one of the most bizarre and disturbing.
The case against Clarence was still being built, but police
now saw him as the prime suspect, one who used patience,
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trust and manipulation to commit an unthinkable crime right in
plain sight. On the cold and rainy morning of November
twenty one, twenty seventeen, things took a dark turn in
the investigation. Detective Tran of the Dallas Police Department was
reviewing Lloyd Hensley's bank records when something strange caught his eye.
Over the past two weeks, a total of four thousand,
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five hundred dollars have been transferred out of Lloyd's checking account.
The money didn't go to a family member or a
non business It went to a PayPal account link to
his neighbor, Clarence Dougal. Clarence was a quiet, fifty one
year old man who lived next door to Lloyd. He
claimed to be a financial adviser, but there was no
record that he had any official license or credentials. He
was friendly, helped Lloyd with yard work, and often stopped
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by with coffee from seven leven, but these payments made
police look at him more closely. What investigators found next
shocked even seasoned detectives. Federal agents from the Department of
Homeland Security were already looking into a possible elder trafficking
ring operating out of North Texas. The ring involved people
pretending to run legal senior care facilities. Instead, they were
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targeting elderly patients, especially those who had no family, then
faking deaths or arranging quiet discharges. These elderly people were
sent overseas, mostly to South Korea, where there was an
enormous demand for elderly white American men for sexual and
romantic companionship, often shared between family members. In Korean slang,
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these men were called moose, a nickname that reflected how
they were treated like exotic rare pets. Even more disturbing,
some of the people tied to this trafficking operation were
respected members of the community. One was the former mayor
of a small North Texas town. Another was a wealthy
church elder from Plano. A few were owners or directors
of licensed senior living owns. Some of the facilities had
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glowing YELP reviews and even received local awards. Detectives also
discovered that Danielle Hensley, Lloyd's strange daughter, had a deeper
link to the case. Years earlier, when she briefed worked
at a now shut down group home in Assquich. She
had been paid in cash and sometimes in pills by
Clarence dugall. In return, she referred to elderly men who
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had no family and seemed confused or weak. At the time,
she didn't ask many questions. She thought Clarence was riuting
some sort of assisted living placement service. She never saw
them in again. All of this gave police a new theory.
Lloyd wasn't killed for revenge or money. He may have
been targeted, groomed, and sold. It explained the missing body,
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the quiet behavior of the suspects, and the strange bank transfers.
This twist turned the case from a missing persons story
into a major federal crime investigation involving human trafficking, medical fraud,
and elder abuse. On December two, twenty seventeen, at exactly
two thirty five pm, police arrested Clarence Duball, age fifty one,
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at a public storage facility just off US Highway seventy
five in Plano, Texas. Clarence was caught in the act
of clearing out a rented unit filled with suspicious items
including ropes, zip ties, prescription drugs, whigs, fake passports, and
several forged Texas driver's licenses. Detectives had been tailing him
for nearly a week, worry he might try to escape
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the country inside his black two thousand and nine Chevy
im pill apart. Nearby officers also found a duffel bag
packed with clothing, burner phones, crew paid visa cards, and
bus tickets heading south to McAllen, a known border crossing point.
Investigators say Clarence had groomed seventy six year old Lloyd,
his neighbor in Frisco for almost a year. Lloyd had
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grown to trust Clarence, often letting in help with yard
work and driving him to his medical appointments. Clarence appeared
friendly and harmless, but behind that quiet image, police say
Clarence was deeply involved in a hidden black market network
that trafficked elderly American men to wealthy clients in South Korea.
Detectives believe Clarence had been paid in advance to deliver
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Lloyd to a client in the coastal city of Buzen.
Were certain underground communities fetishized elderly white men, known in
secret forums as moose. Lloyd was to be delivered as
a kind of status symbol, like a pet or servant.
On the day of the crime, Clarence invited Lloyd into
his garage under the pretense of helping repair a broken longoer.
Once inside, he served Lloyd a drink laced with sedatives,
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but Lloyd didn't go down quietly. He fought back, biting
Clarence on the arm and yelling for help. In a panic,
and afraid the deal would fall apart, Clarence grabbed a
dry cleaning bag and suffocated Lloyd. The body was later
found buried near an abandoned senior care facility just outside
Farmer's Branch, a location police say had previously been used
by members of the trafficking ring to host secret gatherings.
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The arrest came just eleven days after new evidence linked
Clarence to both Lloyd's disappearance and a broader pattern of
missing seniors in North Texas. Surveillance footage from a nearby
Walgreens and traffic cameras along Eldorado Parkway showed Clarence's vehicle
making suspicious trips in the days before and after Lloyd
went missing. Forensic teams matched fibers from Lloyd's clothing to
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carpet found inside Clarence's garage. When arrested, Clarence initially refused
to talk, but quickly asked for a lawyer once confronted
with photos from the storage unit and testimony from an
undercover informant. The arrest not only brought justice for Lloyd,
but also marked the beginning of a broader federal probe
into the underground trafficking network that stretched far beyond Texas,
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possibly into multiple states and at least two foreign countries.
The trial of Clarence Dougal began in May of twenty
nineteen at the Collin County Courthouse in McKinney, Texas. It
had been nearly two years since the murder of seventy
six year old Lloyd, and the courtroom was packed with
local reporters, police officers, and family members. The case had
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drawn national attention, especially after details of the senior trafficking
ring were revealed in a Dateline NBC special and later
covered on an episode of twenty twentieth. Many residents in
the Plano and Richardson areas were shocked to learn that
such a horrifying crime could happen in their quiet, suburban neighbors.
The prosecution was led by Angela Morrow, a forty three
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year old district attorney with a reputation for aggressive courtroom tactics.
She laid out a strong case, showing the jury digital records,
bank statements, and surveillance footage. Clarence's PayPal transactions is fake
id's and the disturbing contents of the storage unit all
painted a picture of someone who had spent months planning
to sell elderly victims for profit. Clarence's defense lawyer, sixty
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year old Charles Keene, tried to argue that Clarence had
a long history of mental illness and had been manipulated
by others higher up in the trafficking ring. He claimed
that Clarence was used as upon and didn't fully understand
what he was doing, but the jury wasn't convinced. They
watched videos of Clarence buying plastic restraints at a plan
of Walmer, read messages from burner phones, and listened to
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audio recordings taken from his home security system, one of
which included Lloyd crying for help. Lloyd's surviving relatives, including
his ex wife and brother, cried during parts of the testimony.
His son in law told reporters outside the courtroom that
Lloyd had been a generous, kind man who didn't deserve
such a terrible end. After two weeks of testimony, the
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jury found Clarence Dugal guilty on all accounts, including murder,
human trafficking, and identity fraud. On May seventeenth, twenty nineteen.
He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility
of parole. He was later transferred to the Allan B.
Polunsky Unit, a maximum security prison near Livingston, Texas. Meanwhile,
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Lloyd's daughter, Daniel Hensley, was also found guilty, this time
of obstruction and conspiracy. Even though she didn't know what
Clarence had planned for her father, she had taken money
from him to refer elderly people while working at a
shady group home. Years earlier. She was sentenced to twelve
years in prison. Evie Mayfield, Clarence's ex girlfriend and one
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time business partner, was never arrested. She disappeared the day
after Lloyd's body was found. Authorities believe she fled the
country using one of the fake passport's Clarence had made.
Her last known location was a bus stop in Laredo, Texas.
As of May twenty nineteen, Clarence Dougal was serving his
sentence at the United States Penitentiary Florence High, a federal
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prison in Colorado known for housing some of the most
dangerous inmates in the country. Now thirty nine years old,
Clarence has been kept in solitary confinement due to safety concerns.
After news of his crimes became public. His case has
since been the subject of several utube documentaries and a
Reddit true crime thread that continues to grow with speculation
about Evy Mayfield's whereabouts. Danielle Hensley, Lloyd's daughter, is currently
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serving her fifteen year sentence at the Christina Melton Crane
Unit in Gatesville, Texas. Records show she began drug and
alcohol treatment shortly after arriving. Former classmates from her high
school in Frisco reported seeing her listed on the facility's
Voices of Change newsletter earlier that year. According to the
Texas Department of Criminal Justice, she is not eligible for
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parole until twenty twenty eight. Detective Kim Tran, who led
the original invent destigation now it works full time with
the North Texas Human Trafficking Task Force. She has appeared
on several crime podcasts, including Crime Junkie and The Deck,
to talk about the Lloyd Hensley case. She also works
with high school students in Plano and Alan to raise
awareness about elder abuse and online fraud. In early twenty nineteen,
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she was honored at the Texas Law Enforcement Hero Awards
for her work on the case. Lloyd's dog, a small
white terrier named Button, was taken in by a librarian
from the Allen Public Library named Sarah Cooinig, not to
be confused with the host of the serial podcast Button
is reportedly doing well and is often seen in photos
on the library's Facebook page during their Pause and Pages
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reading program for children. Since twenty twenty, the city of
Allen has held a memorial walk for Lloyd every May.
The walk begins at Celebration Park and ends at the
old site of the assisted living facility where Lloyd was
last sing alive. That building, once called Golden Year Haven,
was demolished in the spring of twenty two. In its
place is now a small community garden run by local volunteers.
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As for Evie Mayfield, also known as Evie Calderan, she
is still missing. U S Marshals say there is no
record of her leaving the country under her real name.
A last known photo of her was taken at a
gas station in Laredo, Texas, in twenty seventeen. Her case
remains open and she is considered a fugitive. Robert Lloyd
Hensley was a kind man with a gentle soul. He
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deserved safety and dignity in his final years, but instead
his death revealed a horrifying underworld hidden in plain sight
in Allen, Texas, behind Halloween decorations and manicured lawns, one
man's disappearance exposed the kind of evil no one thought possible.