August 7, 2023 • 47 mins
Cory Schroeder, also affectionately known as Stretch was a Bauxite, Arkansas man who vanished on Friday May 21st 2019, just a day short of his 45th birthday. Cory was born on May 22, 1974 in Mauston, Wisconsin. He has a younger sister named Charish Schroeder. Although Cory had a great home life, he would begin hanging out with a bad crowd. Cory then engaged in criminal behavior which led him to a prison sentence from 1995 to 2003. His sister said while in prison, Cory stayed out of trouble and never lost any privileges.
He received his commissary and was able to visit with his family without any disruptions. After leaving prison, Cory struggled with finding work since it can be difficult to find a job with a felony. But he remained positive and didn’t want to return to prison. He focused on working and spending time with his handicapped daughter. Charish said he loved his daughter and committed his life to being a supportive father.
According to Charish, Cory had asked a friend to take him to the store on May 21st, 2019. The friend said he wore a sweatshirt with a hood and a black and red backpack. This was the last time Cory was officially last seen. After Cory didn’t show up to celebrate his birthday with his family, they became concerned. They knew he would have shown up to celebrate his birthday. Charish began reaching out to Cory’s acquaintances looking for him. His disappearance was also reported to law enforcement.
Today, Charish has spent time speaking to people who knew her brother and taken to social media to try to locate her brother’s body. She is convinced he’s been murdered because she knows he would never walk away from his daughter or family members. For now, she just wants to recover his body so he can receive a proper burial and the family can grieve over the loss.
If you have any information about Cory’s whereabouts, please contact the Saline Sheriff’s Department at 501-303-5647 or 501-303-5648. And if you would like to make an anonymous call, please call 501-303-5744. And if you would like additional information about this case, please visit the Cory Schroeder.....Have you seen me? FB page.
Please also visit my website for more information about my true crime and paranormal newspaper columns at www.themarcabe.com. You can also help support my podcast by purchasing a cup of $5 coffee every month. To help support the podcast, please visit https://www.buymeacoffee.com/catchmykiller. If you would like to contact me about this podcast, please visit my websites www.catchmykiller.com or www.themarcabe.com where you can submit a case.
He received his commissary and was able to visit with his family without any disruptions. After leaving prison, Cory struggled with finding work since it can be difficult to find a job with a felony. But he remained positive and didn’t want to return to prison. He focused on working and spending time with his handicapped daughter. Charish said he loved his daughter and committed his life to being a supportive father.
According to Charish, Cory had asked a friend to take him to the store on May 21st, 2019. The friend said he wore a sweatshirt with a hood and a black and red backpack. This was the last time Cory was officially last seen. After Cory didn’t show up to celebrate his birthday with his family, they became concerned. They knew he would have shown up to celebrate his birthday. Charish began reaching out to Cory’s acquaintances looking for him. His disappearance was also reported to law enforcement.
Today, Charish has spent time speaking to people who knew her brother and taken to social media to try to locate her brother’s body. She is convinced he’s been murdered because she knows he would never walk away from his daughter or family members. For now, she just wants to recover his body so he can receive a proper burial and the family can grieve over the loss.
If you have any information about Cory’s whereabouts, please contact the Saline Sheriff’s Department at 501-303-5647 or 501-303-5648. And if you would like to make an anonymous call, please call 501-303-5744. And if you would like additional information about this case, please visit the Cory Schroeder.....Have you seen me? FB page.
Please also visit my website for more information about my true crime and paranormal newspaper columns at www.themarcabe.com. You can also help support my podcast by purchasing a cup of $5 coffee every month. To help support the podcast, please visit https://www.buymeacoffee.com/catchmykiller. If you would like to contact me about this podcast, please visit my websites www.catchmykiller.com or www.themarcabe.com where you can submit a case.
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Hello, and welcome to the CatchMy Killer Podcast. Thank you for listening.
My name is Mark. For nearlyeight years, I've written a weekly
newspaper column about true crimes and missingpeople for the Claremont Sun newspaper in Ohio.
With the column and podcast, ithas always been my objective to bring
attention to cases that have not receivedmuch media attention, if any. This
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week's story involves a box sighted,Arkansas man named Corey Schrader, also known
as Stretch, who vanished on Friday, May twenty first, twenty nineteen.
He was last seen by a friendwho dropped Corey off at a store after
Corey had called him and asked fora ride. The friends said that after
he dropped Corey off, he neversaw him again, and neither has anyone
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else. Corey has been missing forover four years and his family in the
Saline Sheriff's apartment need the public's assistanceand finding him. Cory Schrader, also
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affectionately known as Stretch, was abox side, Arkansas man who vanished on
Friday May twenty first, twenty nineteen, just a day short of his forty
fifth birthday. Corey Schrader was bornon May twenty second, nineteen seventy four
and Mosston, Wisconsin. He hasa younger sister named Cherish Schrader. After
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their mother became vice president of atechnical college, that job would take the
Schraders to Arkansas, where they wouldeventually settle. Corey and his sister grew
up in the eighties and were bestfriends as children. They played games,
enjoyed throwing the football to each other, and rode their bicycles into the late
hours of the night. They wouldstay out until the street lights came on,
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which was common for children growing upin the eighties. As children,
Corey was always taller than everyone else. He was six foot eight and weighed
over two hundred pounds. He hada high IQ and did well in school.
However, his sister said that Coreywas bored of school. He would
drop out of school, complete hisged and then attend a technical school to
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learn computer skills. Cherish had saidthat although Corey had a great childhood,
in home life, he began hangingout with a bad crowd. Corey then
engaged in criminal behavior, which ledhim to a prison sentence. His sister
said that while in prison, Coreydid stay out of trouble and never lost
any of his privileges. He receivedhis commissary was able to visit with his
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family without any disruptions. After leavingprison, Corey struggled with finding work since
it can be difficult to find ajob when you have a felony, but
he remained positive and did not wantto return to prison. He focused on
working and spending time with his handicappeddaughter. Cherish said that he loved his
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daughter and committed his life to beinga supportive father. According to media sources,
Corey was last seeing wearing a sweatshirtwith a hood and carrying a black
and red backpack. This was thelast time that Corey was officially seen by
anyone. After Corey failed to showup to celebrate his birthday with his family,
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they all became concerned because they knewthat he would have never missed his
birthday. Cherrish began reaching out toCorey's acquaintances looking for him. His disappearance
was also reported to law enforcement.While looking for her brother, Cherrish met
with someone who claimed to have informationabout her brother. The person who spoke
to Cherish said that her brother hadbeen shot in the back of the head
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and his body was then dumped somewhere, but she didn't know where. Although
Cherish was able to convince the youngwoman to speak to law enforcement, she
was too terrified to write down heraccount of what happened to Corey. Today,
Cherish spends time speaking to people whoknew her brother had taken to social
media to try and locate her brother'sbody. She is convinced that someone has
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murdered him because she knows that hewould never walk away from his daughter or
his family. For now, shejust wants to recover his body so that
he can receive a proper burial andthe family can grieve over the loss.
And now on with Corey Schrader's story, as told by his younger sister,
Cherish Schrader. We're in Arkansas now, but we are actually from Wisconsin.
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My brother and I and my parentson both sides were originally from Wisconsin.
We were both born in Moston,was on a little bitty town southeast of
Madison, which is the capital ofWisconsin. So we lived there until I
guess I was about four and wouldhave made my brothers six, And then
we moved to Kansas. My parentsjust wanting to expand, you know,
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small town Wisconsin. You're not goingto do much with yourself unless you leave
this small town. So then,wanting a better life pressed kids and for
themselves, they were like, we'vegot to get out of small town Wisconsin.
We were in Kansas for about tenyears and then my mom's job transferred
her to Little Rock, Arkansas,and that's how we ended up in Arkansas.
But my brothers a little over twoyears older than I am, so
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you know, siblings that are thatclose together like cats and dogs, but
you're also each other's protectors and thingslike that. You know, yes,
absolutely best friends. We went kitchingall the time and play games together,
played football and the yard. Alot of our best friends were each other's
best friends too, you know,playing and growing up riding bicycles together all
the time, and we were thoselatch key kids. So as soon as
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we got to school, hopped onour bicycles and wrote bicycles and stuff and
played with neighborhood kids together until thestreet light came on and typical eighties growing
up. Yep, Absolutely, meand my brothers same thing. We throwed
our bikes around everywhere, and thiswas probably back in say nineteen eighty one
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to nineteen eighty three during the summerswhen we were out of school. Good
times. Yeah, yeah, Iremember back then the rule was come home
when the street lights come on.I think that was pretty typical back in
those days. Yeah, yep,and when the street guys came on yet,
as long as the house was cleaningroom and dad got home. So
we ended up in Arkansas, andI guess it was December of eighty nine
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January of ninety. My mom wasvice president of a technical college and they
transferred her down here to Arkansas.And then Arkansas. I really wasn't we
were Yankees. I guess you couldsay that's how everybody thought we were.
Anyway, we came from up northand we'd come down here to the South,
and everybody thought we were different.So it was quite the adjustment moving
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down here. My brother, he'ssix foot eight, so he's always a
lot taller than everybody else, andhe was different. He was very intelligent.
He had like a one sixty fourIQ, so school board him to
tears and he challenged his teachers aswell. He ended up dropping out in
like the tenth grade, got hisGD got a scholarship from his GD because
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he scored so high on the test, and then from that scholarship that he
got from his gud, he wentto technical school for some kind of computer
technology something that was beyond my stuff. I'm a CPA. I just do
numbers. I'm a new chowner,so I don't get all that technical computer
stuff. So he went to somekind of technical school thing or something like
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that. But his passing was feahing. He loved to fish and he was
good at it too. But yeah, his passion was fishing. But he
did get into a little bit oftrouble. I guess it was ninety five.
He got in with their own crowd, got into a little bit of
trouble. I think his charges werestealing or deft by receiving or something.
So he did go to prison forI think seven years, from ninety five
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till I think, oh three,he got out. Now it was two
thousand and two because my first sonhad got to and he got after my
first was born. Okay, letme ask you real quick, when was
Corey mourn When was his birthday?Twenty two of seventy four? And was
Corey your only brother? Yes?So it was just you and Corey.
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Yep, just the two of us. Okay, I just wanted to clarify
that, and now tell me aboutwhat was it like for him getting back
to having a regular life after hewas released from prison. Was he able
to stay out of trouble after hegot out. He stayed out of trouble
for the most part. Then,of course, you getting a when you
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have a record of hard society brownsupon people that have records and stuff like
that. But my dad has hisown sad like the business. So he
went to work for my dad alittle bit here and there, found a
girlfriend and ended up getting married.I don't know what year it was that
he got married, though, andhe finally had his first biological daughter,
you know. Six. He hasa step daughter as well, who's from
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his wife, but he has afirst biological daughter. And when she was
about eight months old, she gotto bork your meningitis. Come to find
out, he was the one thathad tuberculosis. They said that they could
have got it off of a shoppingcart or in an elevator or whatever.
So she got really sick in ohsix or seven, So she's severely handicapped.
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The tuberculosis or the meningitis eight likeseventy three percent of her brain.
She still at the today. Shedidn't die or anything like that, but
he took that really hard. Hefelt like it was his fault that she
got sick. So he spiraled alittle bit after that because she was severely
disabled, and I guess he couldsay mental and emotional health kind of spiral.
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He was diagnosed with some mild schizophrenia, which does run on my dad's
side of the family. His motherwas in and out of mental institutions for
a while, So he did strugglea little bit here and there because of
that, but other than that,he did the best he could within in
the parts that he was guilt,but he held a lot of guilt,
and I think he tried to selfmedicate to numb himself from those kinds of
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things. Now, you just saidthat his mother had mental issues. Do
both of you have the same motheror you have someones? Now it was
my dad's mother, so our grandmother, I'm sorry, our grandmother. All
my dad by was in and outof mental institutions her entire life, which
schizophrenia and I don't even know.The list was so long. So we
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believed that he got a touch ofit ritarially or something like that they say
schizophrenia, camera and families and stufflike that, and it wasn't like he
heard voices, but he would alwaystell us that in his head it sounded
like he was in a loud roomall the time. And of course Soccer's
always wanted to put him on medicationand stuff like that, and he said
the medication made him feel numb orlike a zombie, you know, like
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he couldn't enjoy the highs of lifeyou're supposed to have or the rows you're
supposed to have. So he didn'tlike taking the medication. So I could
understand that. And then with theissue with his daughter, and I think
he tried to self medicate sometimes andhe got into a little bit of drugs
and things like that and got hangingaround with the bad crowd again, which
brings up I think how he disappeared. He was at the wrong place in
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the wrong term, didn't realize whowas there. Now take me up until
when Corey disappeared. So I wantto ask you some questions about what I've
seen in the media, and Iwant you to tell me if their account
is correct or not. So whatI saw was that a friend claimed to
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have taken Corey to a store anddropped him off on May twenty first,
twenty nineteen, and then once hegot to the store, that was the
last time anyone has officially seen Corey. Is that a correct assessment of what
happened to him? Or did themedia get it wrong anywhere? Yeah?
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Right, he was at our house. Okay, So he and I were
both divorced. Coincidentally enough, heand I both ended up getting a divorced
in two thousand and eleven, sowe ended up back at my mom and
dads temporarily trying to get back establishedand back on our feet in our own
right. So we were both livingwith our mom and dad at that time.
And so he came in my roomand he was like, oh,
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Sis, this, that and theother. I said, Bobba, you
just need to go live down.We're picking nap to set the other.
He was seven, a hard time. I had just taken my kids to
school and stuff in so I guesshe messaged one of his friends and said,
hey, come pick me up.I just needed to numb the pain.
And so his friend came and pickedhim up from the house. And
this was on May twentieth of twentynineteen and I took a nap. I
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was off work that day. Ihad taken a nap, and he had
previously been working for the ministry.That's just a sidebar, but anyway,
So the friend came and picked himup, and when I woke up,
he was gone, and I waslike, Okay, well where's he at?
And well he wasn't answering the phoneor anything like that. How that's
weird, weird, but not weird. He's been known to not answer to
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the phone for a few hours,but not beas on end. He would
always eventually text me back, Sis, I'm fine. So I wake up
the next day and he's not home. Mary. He's not answering any texts.
So I start reaching out to peoplesaying, as anybodying my brother or
anything like that. While I gotahold of the friend that picked him up,
I was like, Hey, where'smy brother. He's like, I
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picked him up at your house atthis time, and I dropped him off
at the store. So that's wherethat leave becomes from. He's like,
I dropped him off at Huckabee's.Huckabee's is a little grossery store gas station,
said, I dropped him off here. And I was like, that's
odd, but okay, And soI continued hunting for him, and that
was on the twenty first. Hedropped him off was on the twenty first
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for his birthday on the twenty seconds. So when he didn't show up or
hadn't been returning bone calls or textssaying sis, I'm fine, and didn't
show up for his cake and icecream and his birthday, I knew red
flag because he never misses his birthday. So I said, something's going on.
So then I started digging into allthe dark corners of the world that
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I, as a single female,had no business going. But I was
going to find my brother. Iknew something was wrong, whether it was
he was doing things he shouldn't havebeen doing, I eat drugs, or
he just needed to be found.So I started calling people I had no
business calling in, driving around placesI had no business driving around, but
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I knew I need to find mybrother. Something wasn't right. He missed
his birthday, something was wrong,and I couldn't find him anywhere. I
couldn't get straight answers from anybody.So I finally filed a missing person's report,
and that was on Wednesday. Hisbirthday was on a Wednesday that year,
and so by Friday. I don'tknow if you're a spiritual person or
not, but I am. AndGod had told me that Friday that week,
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I have your brother. He toldme. He said, your brothers
with me. And then I justknew, because God had already told me
I got your brother. And ofcourse I wasn't going to tell mom,
bet or anything like that, butI just woke up that Friday morning with
just this gut renting treeling because Godhad told me. So. Your instincts,
as Corey's sister, have told youthat your brother is no longer alive.
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That's how you feel right now.Yes, yes, And that was
four days that or I had lastseen him. After sheriff told me that
she was convinced that her brother wasno longer alive, she became focused on
recovering his body. Cherish has receiveda tip from a woman with knowledge about
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her brother's fate. The woman toldCherish that Corey was deceased and that his
killer had shot him in the backof the head. We will take a
short break and return with the disturbingdetails of the tip that Cherish received from
an informant about Corey's final moments alive. Now, what about today, do
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you still believe that your brother isdeceased or is there still a small glimmer
of hope that he's still alive.No, I still believe today that he
is in Heaven with Jesus. Yep, yep. And I had to put
this out there in the public.I don't want to say any speculative information,
but there's a lot of things thathave come out, but through my
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own investigation and some people that havecome talk to me saying that they've talked
The street talks. You know whatI'm saying. You know this, but
the street does not talk to thecops, but they'll talk to other people
on the street. And the peoplethat were there when it happened, or
people that have talked to the peoplethat were there when it happened, have
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said that he showed up, delivereda message something about somebody's girlfriend. He
made a comment about some girls bottomfor backside looking good. The boyfriend didn't
take kindly to it. So theboyfriend shot my brother in the back of
the head, and then he enlistedhis friends to help cover it up.
And the guy that did the murderis of Ariyan brotherhood, and so that's
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why no one is willing to talkis because they're scared to death of all
these gang members and what will happento them if they put their name on
paper and testify against this guy.So, now that you've heard rumors about
your brother being shot to death,what do you think about these rumors?
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Are they just rumors or do youthink that this is factual information that you
have received? What's your opinion.I believe it to be legit. I've
heard it from people on that sideof the street, you know what I'm
saying, from those dark corners ofthe world, from people that were there
when it happened. There was oneindividual that actually put my brother's body in
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the back of his car and hassaid his blood is still in the back
of my care And the person thathe was telling this two came straight to
my house after and was like,charrish, I've been sitting on this for
two weeks and it's eaten me upand blah blah blah blah blah, but
sell. And so two weeks agoI was riding around with him and for
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some reason, out of just youknow, for whatever reason, he needed
to get off his chest. Hetold me this, this, and this,
But the only thing he didn't tellme is where they put your brother.
He told me, this is howit happened. This is what happened.
This is why it happened. Andthen they put your brother in the
back of this car, and sheherself saw the blood in the back of
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the car. And then I said, you have to tell the detectives.
Where she went and told the detectives, and then when the detectives said put
it on paper, she balked andshe said, nope, I'm not going
to do it. She verbally reportedit to the detectives, but when they
said write the statement, she saidnope. So the girl that you're telling
me about, was she an actualwitness. She's a witness to a confession.
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Somebody that took part in the coverup confessed to her. Okay,
got it, and that was therewhen it happened, had confessed to her,
and she saw the blood and backof the vehicle. Had confessed to
her, and she told me,and I convinced her to tell one of
the detectives that she trust because shehas a storied past two but she's always
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been credible, but when it cametime to make a written statement, she
wouldn't do it. There's been ahandful of people that they've questioned, Like
I think the detective told me atone time, they've questioned over seventy people
in this case, and they've gottenbits and pieces, and he's told me,
he said, Cherish, this isgoing to be a marathon, not
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a sprint. And I think thatthere's more they could do. I've asked
them to bring the FBI in,but they won't do it. Why is
that, Well, I don't knowif you know much about Seling County,
Arkansas, not much. I don'tthink I've really heard that much about that
county specifically. You should do someresearch on Sling County, Arkansas. And
the Boys on the Tracks. Ohright, right, the Boys on the
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Track. I'm familiar with that story. That was a long time ago,
but I do remember it. TheBoys on the Tracks. Back in nineteen
eighty seven, there is these twoboys from Bryant, Arkansas, which is
just blocks away from where I met. As the story goes, they were
just in the wrong place at thewrong time yet again, but they accidentally
seen a pretty heavy drug deal goingdown. But they saw some things that
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shouldn't have seen and so they weremurdered. And if I recall, their
deaths were rules and accident, butthe locals don't believe that. The locals
believe that the boys were actually killedby someone. Their deaths were ruled well
an accident or suicide that they basicallygot so high on marijuana that they lay
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down on the railroad tracks and fellasleep. Yeah, and that's definitely not
believable. I've been on many manyrailroad tracks. I grew up near railroad
tracks that used to walk them allthe time. There's no way that you're
falling asleep on them and not hearinga train coming. Those trains are very
loud. Yeah, how do youfollows sleep on a railroad track and not
hear a train coming? And youdon't get that high on weet that you
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don't hear a train coming. So, yeah, there's some corruption in Saline
County. I don't think it's asbad now is what it used to be
back and say the late eighties,early nineties. And the gentleman that they
say is a person of interest orthe gentleman that committed this murder, like
I say, he's airing Brotherhood,and they have used him before for federal
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trafficking to try to get some ofthese higher ups, some bigger fish,
I guess. So you think thisguy may have worked as an informant.
I think so. But they keepshoving him back to prison. Every time
he gets a gun charge or somethinglike that. They're seving back to prison
for six or eight months. Maybegets back out and he screws up again,
and they sending back to federal prison. But they keep letting him out
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again, but he keeps getting awaywith everything. But they can't prosecute a
murder case without a body, andthey can't find my brother's body because nobody
will say where they buried him,or what they did with his remains or
anything like that. And there's somepretty gory details on what supposedly they did
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to him afterwards, their stories abouta wood kipper, and I don't even
want to entertain that one, butit's possible when you start talking about Arie
and Brotherhood and what they're willing todo to cover up their crimes. It's
just a matter of my brother beingat the wrong place at the wrong time,
and he said the wrong thing tothe wrong person. He had no
idea who he was talking to orwho was dealing with. He was just
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hanging out. So let me askyou where was Corey when he was supposedly
killed? I mean, was heat a party? Was he out in
the woods? Where exactly was heat? Allegedly now at he was at
this guy's house. But yeah,they call him ugly Mike or something like
that. Bingley. He was ata guy's house and there was probably a
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good twelve or sixteen twenty people there, and they were all party in and
in doing the various things, anda couple of people, you know,
there's a guy that dropped him off, and dropped a couple of people off,
I guess, and they were hangingout doing their thing. And somebody
else has since come forward and said, hey, Cheris, I didn't know
that this was going to cause this. But when your brother left my house,
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I told him, I said,hey, if you see so and
So, tell her the only person'sbooty that looks better than hers is dada,
dadada. So when my brother deliveredthat message, it was supposed to
be funny, but apparently the boyfrienddidn't take it too kindly and it caused
my brother to get to you,so, where did this guy allegedly kill
your brother. Was it in frontof witnesses or was it done out in
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the field. It sounds like hejust shot him right there and didn't worry
about if there were any witnesses.Based on what you just said, yes,
apparently it was probably like thirty minuteslater. I'm guessing here, I'm
just activating, guessing that he'd probablysit there and feeled about it. This
guy has a history of being veryjealous, extremely jealous, And from what
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I was told is he told somebody, go next door and get your mom's
gun, and so he sent theguy next door, or I think two
houses down, and one gentleman wenttwo houses down, got his mom's gun,
came back with it, handed itto the guy. And I think
when my brother got up to gosmoke a cigarette or something like that is
when he sought him in the backof the head. Brother's a very big
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man, but he's not violent atall. Everybody called him the gentle giant.
Children loves my brother. My brotherloves children. I mean, kids
just flock to him. If anybodyneeded a babysitter, they called my brothers.
He was not a violent man atall, but because of his stature.
I mean, he was six footeight and two thirty five and the
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guy that killed him is not Theguy that killed him is only like five
six and maybe one forty five.That's probably why you're there. Was shot
in the back of the head becausehe wasn't looking exactly exactly it was it
was, you know, And likeI said, he's a very jealous person
from everybody telling about him, andhe's very jealous, has extreme anger issues.
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He joined a gang in prison isbecause he needed the protection. I
think that's pretty standard for people whenthey go to prison. Yeah. Yeah,
Well, from what I understand,for people that are going to prison
for any length of time, possiblyfor life, or if they have some
other type of long sentence, it'sprobably safest for them to join a gang,
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whether it be the Aryan Brotherhood orI guess whatever gang based on your
ethnicity, joining the appropriate gang isprobably done for safety reasons. And believe
it or not, yes, mybrother did end a few years in prison,
but he was always in the nonviolent unit and he was always on
a committee of some sort because hestayed out of trouble when he was in
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prison. He stayed out of trouble. He always had all his commissary,
he had all his free time.We were always able to visit him every
weekend. It was because he stayedout of trouble and he kept his nose
clean. He didn't want to bethere, he wanted to come home.
So he had no game affiliation whatsoeverwhen he was in there. And that's
one thing that the detectives kept askingme to add. They're like, he
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doesn't have any affiliation. I waslike, no, sir, none whatsoever.
No, he has no game tattoosor anything else. No, sir,
no whatsoever. So, based onwhat you're telling me about your brother,
it sounds like he probably was killedin the spur of the moment.
It doesn't sound like something that wasplanned, right. It sounds like someone
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just got angry at your brother andjust killed him allegedly yep, yep.
And then you have witnesses who sawwhat happened, dear brother, or people
that know about it, but noneof them will see anything to enforcement.
And you know what that's common becauseI've spoken to other people who are in
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the same situation as you're in,and they've also told me about witnesses or
people that have information, but theywill never speak to the police about it.
Therefore, the police can't arrest anyoneif they don't have any witnesses that
will come forward. But then Iunderstand because they may be fearful. I
mean, if this person's going tokill someone, then if I talk,
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what's the stop them from doing thesame thing? To me, that's the
mentality, So they're in survival mode. Unfortunately, that is detrimental to the
family because the family wants to seejustice. In some situations, even the
family can't get anyone to say anything, much less the police. You know,
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we'll settle for just finding my brotheror so we can bring him home
and give him proper peace resting placeso we can mourn him, and then
we'll get the justice after that.But yeah, so we can have a
place to go and mourn him,rather it be on his birthday or the
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anniversary of which sat at the anniversarythat he went missing or was murdered,
just very close to his birthday,but you know, things like that,
so we can properly mourn and puthim to risk. But meeting as spiritually
connected as I am, I knowGod's going to have his justice and it
is eternal and it is far worsethan anything that this earthly law can give
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us. But yeah, during myresearch about Corey's case, I looked at
his Facebook page and found a disturbingmessage. There's a post on his page
from May twentieth, twenty nineteen,the day before he disappeared, stating going
to be leaving Facebook in a fewdays going on new adventure. I asked
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Cherish what she thought of the post. We'll take a final and listened to
her discuss the strange post in hermission to find out what happened to her
beloved brother. So, I waslooking at Corey's Facebook page and I noticed
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a really strange post. It wasthe last one on his page. It
said, I'm going to be goingon an adventure, so I'm going to
be gone for a while. Canyou tell me about that post? Do
you even think it was him?I'm not even sure if that was him.
I think that was his girlfriend atthe time. Yeah, they were
fighting and stuff like that, andshe had all his passwords. So I
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had to get the passwords from herto find out, you know, Like
I said, I had to startlooking for him that next day, and
that's how I found out I waslike, give me his password so I
can look at his messages and seewho picked him up or where he went.
And I logged in. I gotsorts from her to start finding him,
and she was somewhat helpful at first, Like I said, she gave
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me his passwords. That after aboutthe first month or so, she just
moved on. So then you thinkthat a former girlfriend may have put that
on there maybe, and I'm speculating. Yeah, I find it kind of
odd that it was posted on Maytwentieth, the day before he disappeared.
Yeah, they were fighting and hecalled mom and said, my truck's breaking
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down, and can you and Dadcome up here and get me. He
was with her in Tabot, whichis like probably an hour away from where
we are, maybe forty five minutesan hour. He said, the truck's
acting funny. Can you and Dadpicked me up and tow the truck home?
And so they towed the truck backto what was our house at the
time and brought him home and parkedthe truck and things like that. He
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was going through some stuff at thetime that he disappeared, which leads to
him calling his buddy saying I justneeded to mum, the pain, and
so he was just he was goingthrough some stuff. I think it led
him to a where he didn't haveany business being in the first place,
and being around people that were unsavoryfor lack of a better term. So
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yeah, it's a bad deal allthe way around. But we just want
to bring him home in a properresting base and bring my family some kind
of closure, whatever that closure maybe, and then justice. Yeah.
So tell me about what the mediahas stated about your brother based on everything
that you've seen out there, asthe media gotten anything wrong about your brother.
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Well, originally the ACIC, whichI'm sure you're familiar with, had
his height and weight wrong. Theyhad his height at six foot two and
his weight at one hundred and fortyfive pounds. I said, you've got
to be kidding me, and theyhad it. We're at in the first
sixth month. But one of hisflyers I'm looking at now says the friend
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dropped him off at the store.Well, no, he made it out
to Cottonwood and well it's not it'sjust it's a little bit misconstrued. Where
the circumstances our Corey was last singwhen a friend dropped him off at a
store, and then where it saysit was learned by a family that he
was around the Cottonwood area, sothat could be a little confusing or could
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be misconstrued. And where it saysthough that he had his red and black
backpack. That needs to be updatedabout. Okay, he disappeared in May.
On January first of twenty twenty,another friend or former classmate of hours
showed up at my house with thatred and black backpack fresh and it had
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just been clean fresh, looked brandnew almost And he showed up. He's
like, hey, Corey gave thisto me the month before he disappeared.
And I'm like, oh, you'relying. I know you're lying, because
he walked out the door with it. He left with it. I know
he did because it was sitting onthe fourier table that morning. The morning
before he left, it was sittingon the fourier table and was not here
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whenever he after he disappeared. Sohe did not give it to you a
month before he disappeared, So Idon't know where you got it from.
But so I don't know. Idon't know where that gentleman got it from.
But he returned it to us,you know, fresh clean, like
it had just been to the drycleaners or something. Was it actually his
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backpack? Yes, yes, itwas his backpack because it had the same
carrors and the same little freight endsand things like that. So it absolutely
was my brother's backpack. And Icalled the detectives. I told him,
I said, I told him thesame thing, and they were like,
because they wanted to test it forDNA and different things like that. I
said, it's not going to doyou any good. It's been cleaned,
I said, but I'll bring itdown there to you if you want it.
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But it's been cleaned. I said. It looks almost brand new.
So I don't know how he gotit, but yeah, there's probably a
reason why someone cleaned it. Yeah. Absolutely, he took his laptop with
him and it's disappeared. I don'tknow where it disappeared too, in the
scheme of all things, I'm sureit's destroyed or at the bottom of some
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dumpster somewhere or something at this point. But yeah, it's a mess.
It's just a mess. It's sadthat there's so many people involved and that
know what happened. There's not asingle one that's willing to say or do
something that's not tormented by it.Unfortunately, I think in a lot of
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cases there's witnesses out there who knowsomething, but they just refuse to say
anything. Just imagine if half ofevery witness to a crime spoke up,
Imagine how many cases could get solved. Yeah, yeah, I mean,
I do understand a lot of peopleeither don't want to get involved, or
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they may fear for their own life. But at the same time, if
you have information that can put thisguy away for life, there's wit pro
there's always witness protection. So Idon't know, right, But then you
go back to people not wanting toget involved. I mean, who wants
to go on a witness protection Whowants to get moved around to different states
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and not be allowed to contact theirfamilies anymore. There's actually a lot to
that, but I think that alot of people they just don't want to
get involved. And I hate tosay that, but it's true, right
right when some of these people aredoing time. Right now, there's one
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individual that's serving a twenty year sentencefor drug charges in dely recharges and stuff
like that, and they're hoping thateventually they'll get sick and tired or serving
time and decide to say something.At some point, there's another guy that
actually he's terminally you, and they'rehoping that he'll decide to make a deathbed
confession of some sort, because what'syou got to lose at that point,
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you know. So Yeah, now, have you personally spoken to either of
these guys that you just mentioned.No, I've been advised to stay away,
and it's probably safer. I havetwo sons myself. They're adults now,
but still, you know, so, at the same time, I
do think logically, and if somebodydecides that I'm getting too close, they
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may decide to come after me aswell. That's definitely a real concern.
Yeah. I have been advised tolet the law do what they're going to
do or what have you. SoI've got a few friends in low places
too, and I've decided to letthem risk their skinning back. If that's
what they choose to do, it'sprobably best that you stay out of it.
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Yeah. Yeah, they're like no, yeah, they're like cherished.
No. Well, I think you'redoing your part by just keeping the story
out there, talking to people andmaking sure that nobody forgets about your brother.
Yeah, I'm working with the MorganNick Foundation and law enforcement to the
best of my abilities, and justkeeping his name base after to the best
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of my abilities, and working withpeople like you to keep his name and
face out there. You never knowhim. Maybe when this gets out there,
maybe some of these people will hearit, and these super sleuths on
the internet may get a phone callor an email or something, and maybe
it'll lead to something. That's reallyall you can hope for. Yeah.
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Have you spoken to law enforcement latelyabout the case? Oh? No,
And that's another pain in my croft. Now. I will say that the
first detective I thought he was justgood and great, and come to find
out he was a dirty cut Ishouldn't know. He was too good to
be true. But yeah, sohe's off the force now. Actually,
I don't think he was doing anythingnefarious with my brother's case. I don't
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think. But yeah, the firstdetective I had, I thought he was
I thought it was golden, butI didn't even know that he wasn't with
the force anymore. And I keptleaving the messages and leading messages, leading
the messages, and then I gottalking to the reception them at the Sheriff's
department, and she was like,he's no longer with us. I was
like, how long has he begoing and she was like two months.
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I said, that explains why he'snot returning my calls. Whoever they handed
the case off to should have atleast called me and said, hey,
here's what's happening. Somebody should bekeeping me abreast of what's going on down
there instead of me leaving this.You know, somebody's saying his voice mails.
So yeah, I've got a newdetective now, and he's been much
better about just saying, hey,there's nothing going on, or there is
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something going on, or here's whatwe've done so far. So once he
took over the case, he hasbeen doing some searches and things like that,
some different places that he's taking thedogs out and search. Rumor has
it was that he was buried outbehind a cemetery in the area that nobody
has named the actual cemetery. Soit's like when somebody pops in and says,
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I heard it was this cemetery.He's taking the dogs out and search
that cemetery. But it's hit ormiss. I get phone calls and messages
all the time. Like, heychairs, I heard this, Hey chairs,
da da da da in Every timeI do, I report it and
he sometimes is just like, areyou sure he didn't just take off?
And I'm like telling you that mybrother would not do that. He has
a daughter that's disabled. He wouldnot leave her. No matter what you
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thought he was doing, he wouldnot leave his daughter. He was her
caregiver. He just wouldn't do that, no matter what was going through his
head. He always cleaned himself upwhen it was his time to take care
of her. He never let hisdaughter down. That's the one thing that
was golden about my brothers. Nomatter what was going on in his head,
when it was time for him tostep up for her, he was
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there for her. So he wasreally devoted to his daughter. Then,
absolutely absolutely. And what's the nameof the local police department that's handling your
brother's case. So if anybody outthere listening wants to contact law enforcement,
who would they need to contact theSeline County Sheriff's Department. Okay, and
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let me ask you about social media. Are you using Facebook? TikTok?
Yes, I'm not a TikTok orI'm not an Instagram or I'm not a
Twitter user or anything like that,so Facebook is all I have been using.
And then every once in a while, our local news stations will do
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a blurt I guess as you wouldcall it or whatever they would, you
know, be like hey, Andthen actually, the Morgan Nick Foundation is
a local foundation here and they putstuff out. Now, they may be
using those other avenues as far aslike Instagram and things like that, and
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then of course he's on like CharlieProject and Gina for one one name us
and yeah, they may be usingthose other outlets, but I only use
Facebook. And what's the name ofthe Facebook page dedicated to Corey's case?
It's Corey Schrader. Have you seenme? Corey Schrader dot dot dot?
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Have you seen me? With threequestion marks? And let's see, your
brother's been gone for four years.Tell me what is it that you missed
the most about him? His senseof humor, It didn't matter what you
were depressed, that if you werecrying your eyes out, he could lift
you out of that. His senseof humor, and the bump he had
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with my boys. I can actuallyhear it in your voice how much you
miss him? Yeah, I misshim? So much. I will share
this story with you. One ofmy oldest son was about thirteen months old.
He had to have tubes in hisears, and it was his first
surgery or first major anything for meas a mom, you know, and
for of course my child and mybrother was there for that. And whenever
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my son woke up from that surgery, of course, as a mom,
I wanted to go straight to myson. One of my son to want
his mommy. No, he wantedhis own stretch, Yes, uncle stretch.
My son did not want his mommy. He wanted his uncle stretch.
And of course he stepped right upand grabbed my son and held him,
and everything was right the world asfar as my son was concerned, because
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he had his own stretch. Andthat made my brother's day and that would
everything. And that's how tight theywere. And my son cries every day
because his uncle's not here. Weall do because he's not here. Or
he sounds like a pretty good guyand a great uncle. Yeah yeah.
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And then of course there's that famoussaying about only the good die young.
Yep, yep, and I reallybelieve that to be true. Yea.
And the last question that I wouldhave for you is for anyone out there
that's listening to this podcast and theycan hear the sound of your voice if
they know anything about what happened toCorey. What would you like to say
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to that person or persons if youknow anything about what happened to Corey Strader
Stretch of Saline County, Arkansas.I beg you to dig down deep in
your heart and your soul. Justdig deep, do the right thing.
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Know that you're doing something courageous,brave, and God will keep you safe.
You will bring my family so muchpeace. You'll bring my brother peace.
Just know it's the right thing todo. It will cleanse your soul.
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It's the right thing to do.And just because it's the right thing
to do and you're cleansing your soul, God will keep you. And that
concludes Corey Schrader's story. What happenedto Corey four years ago? Did he
just walk away from his life?According to his sister, he loved his
family way too much to walk awayfrom them. Are the rumors about his
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death true? His family seems tothink so. Corey's described as being six
foot six and weighing over two hundredpounds. He was last seen wearing a
gray hooded sweatshirt and carrying a backpack. The backpack has since been returned to
the family. Corey's official missing dateis May twenty first, twenty nineteen,
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after he was dropped off at alocal store. If you have any information
about Corey's whereabouts, please contact theSaline Sheriff's apartment at five zero one three
zero three, five six four sevenor five zero one three zero three five
six four eight. And if youwould like to make an anonymous call,
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please call five zero one three zerothree five seven four four. And if
you would like additional information about Corey'scase, please visit the Corey Schrader Have
You Seen Me? Facebook page.I will also provide all of this information
in the case story notes. Andif you are a parent, law enforcement
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official, friend, or relative seekinjustice for an unsolved homicide case, please
visit my website and complete the contactform. You can also contact with your
Facebook. Thank you for listening.
Hello, and welcome to the CatchMy Killer Podcast. Thank you for listening.
My name is Mark. For nearlyeight years, I've written a weekly
newspaper column about true crimes and missingpeople for the Claremont Sun newspaper in Ohio.
With the column and podcast, ithas always been my objective to bring
attention to cases that have not receivedmuch media attention, if any. This
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week's story involves a box sighted,Arkansas man named Corey Schrader, also known
as Stretch, who vanished on Friday, May twenty first, twenty nineteen.
He was last seen by a friendwho dropped Corey off at a store after
Corey had called him and asked fora ride. The friends said that after
he dropped Corey off, he neversaw him again, and neither has anyone
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else. Corey has been missing forover four years and his family in the
Saline Sheriff's apartment need the public's assistanceand finding him. Cory Schrader, also
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affectionately known as Stretch, was abox side, Arkansas man who vanished on
Friday May twenty first, twenty nineteen, just a day short of his forty
fifth birthday. Corey Schrader was bornon May twenty second, nineteen seventy four
and Mosston, Wisconsin. He hasa younger sister named Cherish Schrader. After
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their mother became vice president of atechnical college, that job would take the
Schraders to Arkansas, where they wouldeventually settle. Corey and his sister grew
up in the eighties and were bestfriends as children. They played games,
enjoyed throwing the football to each other, and rode their bicycles into the late
hours of the night. They wouldstay out until the street lights came on,
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which was common for children growing upin the eighties. As children,
Corey was always taller than everyone else. He was six foot eight and weighed
over two hundred pounds. He hada high IQ and did well in school.
However, his sister said that Coreywas bored of school. He would
drop out of school, complete hisged and then attend a technical school to
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learn computer skills. Cherish had saidthat although Corey had a great childhood,
in home life, he began hangingout with a bad crowd. Corey then
engaged in criminal behavior, which ledhim to a prison sentence. His sister
said that while in prison, Coreydid stay out of trouble and never lost
any of his privileges. He receivedhis commissary was able to visit with his
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family without any disruptions. After leavingprison, Corey struggled with finding work since
it can be difficult to find ajob when you have a felony, but
he remained positive and did not wantto return to prison. He focused on
working and spending time with his handicappeddaughter. Cherish said that he loved his
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daughter and committed his life to beinga supportive father. According to media sources,
Corey was last seeing wearing a sweatshirtwith a hood and carrying a black
and red backpack. This was thelast time that Corey was officially seen by
anyone. After Corey failed to showup to celebrate his birthday with his family,
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they all became concerned because they knewthat he would have never missed his
birthday. Cherrish began reaching out toCorey's acquaintances looking for him. His disappearance
was also reported to law enforcement.While looking for her brother, Cherrish met
with someone who claimed to have informationabout her brother. The person who spoke
to Cherish said that her brother hadbeen shot in the back of the head
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and his body was then dumped somewhere, but she didn't know where. Although
Cherish was able to convince the youngwoman to speak to law enforcement, she
was too terrified to write down heraccount of what happened to Corey. Today,
Cherish spends time speaking to people whoknew her brother had taken to social
media to try and locate her brother'sbody. She is convinced that someone has
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murdered him because she knows that hewould never walk away from his daughter or
his family. For now, shejust wants to recover his body so that
he can receive a proper burial andthe family can grieve over the loss.
And now on with Corey Schrader's story, as told by his younger sister,
Cherish Schrader. We're in Arkansas now, but we are actually from Wisconsin.
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My brother and I and my parentson both sides were originally from Wisconsin.
We were both born in Moston,was on a little bitty town southeast of
Madison, which is the capital ofWisconsin. So we lived there until I
guess I was about four and wouldhave made my brothers six, And then
we moved to Kansas. My parentsjust wanting to expand, you know,
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small town Wisconsin. You're not goingto do much with yourself unless you leave
this small town. So then,wanting a better life pressed kids and for
themselves, they were like, we'vegot to get out of small town Wisconsin.
We were in Kansas for about tenyears and then my mom's job transferred
her to Little Rock, Arkansas,and that's how we ended up in Arkansas.
But my brothers a little over twoyears older than I am, so
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you know, siblings that are thatclose together like cats and dogs, but
you're also each other's protectors and thingslike that. You know, yes,
absolutely best friends. We went kitchingall the time and play games together,
played football and the yard. Alot of our best friends were each other's
best friends too, you know,playing and growing up riding bicycles together all
the time, and we were thoselatch key kids. So as soon as
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we got to school, hopped onour bicycles and wrote bicycles and stuff and
played with neighborhood kids together until thestreet light came on and typical eighties growing
up. Yep, Absolutely, meand my brothers same thing. We throwed
our bikes around everywhere, and thiswas probably back in say nineteen eighty one
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to nineteen eighty three during the summerswhen we were out of school. Good
times. Yeah, yeah, Iremember back then the rule was come home
when the street lights come on.I think that was pretty typical back in
those days. Yeah, yep,and when the street guys came on yet,
as long as the house was cleaningroom and dad got home. So
we ended up in Arkansas, andI guess it was December of eighty nine
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January of ninety. My mom wasvice president of a technical college and they
transferred her down here to Arkansas.And then Arkansas. I really wasn't we
were Yankees. I guess you couldsay that's how everybody thought we were.
Anyway, we came from up northand we'd come down here to the South,
and everybody thought we were different.So it was quite the adjustment moving
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down here. My brother, he'ssix foot eight, so he's always a
lot taller than everybody else, andhe was different. He was very intelligent.
He had like a one sixty fourIQ, so school board him to
tears and he challenged his teachers aswell. He ended up dropping out in
like the tenth grade, got hisGD got a scholarship from his GD because
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he scored so high on the test, and then from that scholarship that he
got from his gud, he wentto technical school for some kind of computer
technology something that was beyond my stuff. I'm a CPA. I just do
numbers. I'm a new chowner,so I don't get all that technical computer
stuff. So he went to somekind of technical school thing or something like
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that. But his passing was feahing. He loved to fish and he was
good at it too. But yeah, his passion was fishing. But he
did get into a little bit oftrouble. I guess it was ninety five.
He got in with their own crowd, got into a little bit of
trouble. I think his charges werestealing or deft by receiving or something.
So he did go to prison forI think seven years, from ninety five
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till I think, oh three,he got out. Now it was two
thousand and two because my first sonhad got to and he got after my
first was born. Okay, letme ask you real quick, when was
Corey mourn When was his birthday?Twenty two of seventy four? And was
Corey your only brother? Yes?So it was just you and Corey.
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Yep, just the two of us. Okay, I just wanted to clarify
that, and now tell me aboutwhat was it like for him getting back
to having a regular life after hewas released from prison. Was he able
to stay out of trouble after hegot out. He stayed out of trouble
for the most part. Then,of course, you getting a when you
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have a record of hard society brownsupon people that have records and stuff like
that. But my dad has hisown sad like the business. So he
went to work for my dad alittle bit here and there, found a
girlfriend and ended up getting married.I don't know what year it was that
he got married, though, andhe finally had his first biological daughter,
you know. Six. He hasa step daughter as well, who's from
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his wife, but he has afirst biological daughter. And when she was
about eight months old, she gotto bork your meningitis. Come to find
out, he was the one thathad tuberculosis. They said that they could
have got it off of a shoppingcart or in an elevator or whatever.
So she got really sick in ohsix or seven, So she's severely handicapped.
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The tuberculosis or the meningitis eight likeseventy three percent of her brain.
She still at the today. Shedidn't die or anything like that, but
he took that really hard. Hefelt like it was his fault that she
got sick. So he spiraled alittle bit after that because she was severely
disabled, and I guess he couldsay mental and emotional health kind of spiral.
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He was diagnosed with some mild schizophrenia, which does run on my dad's
side of the family. His motherwas in and out of mental institutions for
a while, So he did strugglea little bit here and there because of
that, but other than that,he did the best he could within in
the parts that he was guilt,but he held a lot of guilt,
and I think he tried to selfmedicate to numb himself from those kinds of
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things. Now, you just saidthat his mother had mental issues. Do
both of you have the same motheror you have someones? Now it was
my dad's mother, so our grandmother, I'm sorry, our grandmother. All
my dad by was in and outof mental institutions her entire life, which
schizophrenia and I don't even know.The list was so long. So we
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believed that he got a touch ofit ritarially or something like that they say
schizophrenia, camera and families and stufflike that, and it wasn't like he
heard voices, but he would alwaystell us that in his head it sounded
like he was in a loud roomall the time. And of course Soccer's
always wanted to put him on medicationand stuff like that, and he said
the medication made him feel numb orlike a zombie, you know, like
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he couldn't enjoy the highs of lifeyou're supposed to have or the rows you're
supposed to have. So he didn'tlike taking the medication. So I could
understand that. And then with theissue with his daughter, and I think
he tried to self medicate sometimes andhe got into a little bit of drugs
and things like that and got hangingaround with the bad crowd again, which
brings up I think how he disappeared. He was at the wrong place in
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the wrong term, didn't realize whowas there. Now take me up until
when Corey disappeared. So I wantto ask you some questions about what I've
seen in the media, and Iwant you to tell me if their account
is correct or not. So whatI saw was that a friend claimed to
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have taken Corey to a store anddropped him off on May twenty first,
twenty nineteen, and then once hegot to the store, that was the
last time anyone has officially seen Corey. Is that a correct assessment of what
happened to him? Or did themedia get it wrong anywhere? Yeah?
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Right, he was at our house. Okay, So he and I were
both divorced. Coincidentally enough, heand I both ended up getting a divorced
in two thousand and eleven, sowe ended up back at my mom and
dads temporarily trying to get back establishedand back on our feet in our own
right. So we were both livingwith our mom and dad at that time.
And so he came in my roomand he was like, oh,
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Sis, this, that and theother. I said, Bobba, you
just need to go live down.We're picking nap to set the other.
He was seven, a hard time. I had just taken my kids to
school and stuff in so I guesshe messaged one of his friends and said,
hey, come pick me up.I just needed to numb the pain.
And so his friend came and pickedhim up from the house. And
this was on May twentieth of twentynineteen and I took a nap. I
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was off work that day. Ihad taken a nap, and he had
previously been working for the ministry.That's just a sidebar, but anyway,
So the friend came and picked himup, and when I woke up,
he was gone, and I waslike, Okay, well where's he at?
And well he wasn't answering the phoneor anything like that. How that's
weird, weird, but not weird. He's been known to not answer to
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the phone for a few hours,but not beas on end. He would
always eventually text me back, Sis, I'm fine. So I wake up
the next day and he's not home. Mary. He's not answering any texts.
So I start reaching out to peoplesaying, as anybodying my brother or
anything like that. While I gotahold of the friend that picked him up,
I was like, Hey, where'smy brother. He's like, I
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picked him up at your house atthis time, and I dropped him off
at the store. So that's wherethat leave becomes from. He's like,
I dropped him off at Huckabee's.Huckabee's is a little grossery store gas station,
said, I dropped him off here. And I was like, that's
odd, but okay, And soI continued hunting for him, and that
was on the twenty first. Hedropped him off was on the twenty first
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for his birthday on the twenty seconds. So when he didn't show up or
hadn't been returning bone calls or textssaying sis, I'm fine, and didn't
show up for his cake and icecream and his birthday, I knew red
flag because he never misses his birthday. So I said, something's going on.
So then I started digging into allthe dark corners of the world that
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I, as a single female,had no business going. But I was
going to find my brother. Iknew something was wrong, whether it was
he was doing things he shouldn't havebeen doing, I eat drugs, or
he just needed to be found.So I started calling people I had no
business calling in, driving around placesI had no business driving around, but
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I knew I need to find mybrother. Something wasn't right. He missed
his birthday, something was wrong,and I couldn't find him anywhere. I
couldn't get straight answers from anybody.So I finally filed a missing person's report,
and that was on Wednesday. Hisbirthday was on a Wednesday that year,
and so by Friday. I don'tknow if you're a spiritual person or
not, but I am. AndGod had told me that Friday that week,
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I have your brother. He toldme. He said, your brothers
with me. And then I justknew, because God had already told me
I got your brother. And ofcourse I wasn't going to tell mom,
bet or anything like that, butI just woke up that Friday morning with
just this gut renting treeling because Godhad told me. So. Your instincts,
as Corey's sister, have told youthat your brother is no longer alive.
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That's how you feel right now.Yes, yes, And that was
four days that or I had lastseen him. After sheriff told me that
she was convinced that her brother wasno longer alive, she became focused on
recovering his body. Cherish has receiveda tip from a woman with knowledge about
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her brother's fate. The woman toldCherish that Corey was deceased and that his
killer had shot him in the backof the head. We will take a
short break and return with the disturbingdetails of the tip that Cherish received from
an informant about Corey's final moments alive. Now, what about today, do
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you still believe that your brother isdeceased or is there still a small glimmer
of hope that he's still alive.No, I still believe today that he
is in Heaven with Jesus. Yep, yep. And I had to put
this out there in the public.I don't want to say any speculative information,
but there's a lot of things thathave come out, but through my
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own investigation and some people that havecome talk to me saying that they've talked
The street talks. You know whatI'm saying. You know this, but
the street does not talk to thecops, but they'll talk to other people
on the street. And the peoplethat were there when it happened, or
people that have talked to the peoplethat were there when it happened, have
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said that he showed up, delivereda message something about somebody's girlfriend. He
made a comment about some girls bottomfor backside looking good. The boyfriend didn't
take kindly to it. So theboyfriend shot my brother in the back of
the head, and then he enlistedhis friends to help cover it up.
And the guy that did the murderis of Ariyan brotherhood, and so that's
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why no one is willing to talkis because they're scared to death of all
these gang members and what will happento them if they put their name on
paper and testify against this guy.So, now that you've heard rumors about
your brother being shot to death,what do you think about these rumors?
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Are they just rumors or do youthink that this is factual information that you
have received? What's your opinion.I believe it to be legit. I've
heard it from people on that sideof the street, you know what I'm
saying, from those dark corners ofthe world, from people that were there
when it happened. There was oneindividual that actually put my brother's body in
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the back of his car and hassaid his blood is still in the back
of my care And the person thathe was telling this two came straight to
my house after and was like,charrish, I've been sitting on this for
two weeks and it's eaten me upand blah blah blah blah blah, but
sell. And so two weeks agoI was riding around with him and for
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some reason, out of just youknow, for whatever reason, he needed
to get off his chest. Hetold me this, this, and this,
But the only thing he didn't tellme is where they put your brother.
He told me, this is howit happened. This is what happened.
This is why it happened. Andthen they put your brother in the
back of this car, and sheherself saw the blood in the back of
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the car. And then I said, you have to tell the detectives.
Where she went and told the detectives, and then when the detectives said put
it on paper, she balked andshe said, nope, I'm not going
to do it. She verbally reportedit to the detectives, but when they
said write the statement, she saidnope. So the girl that you're telling
me about, was she an actualwitness. She's a witness to a confession.
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Somebody that took part in the coverup confessed to her. Okay,
got it, and that was therewhen it happened, had confessed to her,
and she saw the blood and backof the vehicle. Had confessed to
her, and she told me,and I convinced her to tell one of
the detectives that she trust because shehas a storied past two but she's always
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been credible, but when it cametime to make a written statement, she
wouldn't do it. There's been ahandful of people that they've questioned, Like
I think the detective told me atone time, they've questioned over seventy people
in this case, and they've gottenbits and pieces, and he's told me,
he said, Cherish, this isgoing to be a marathon, not
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a sprint. And I think thatthere's more they could do. I've asked
them to bring the FBI in,but they won't do it. Why is
that, Well, I don't knowif you know much about Seling County,
Arkansas, not much. I don'tthink I've really heard that much about that
county specifically. You should do someresearch on Sling County, Arkansas. And
the Boys on the Tracks. Ohright, right, the Boys on the
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Track. I'm familiar with that story. That was a long time ago,
but I do remember it. TheBoys on the Tracks. Back in nineteen
eighty seven, there is these twoboys from Bryant, Arkansas, which is
just blocks away from where I met. As the story goes, they were
just in the wrong place at thewrong time yet again, but they accidentally
seen a pretty heavy drug deal goingdown. But they saw some things that
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shouldn't have seen and so they weremurdered. And if I recall, their
deaths were rules and accident, butthe locals don't believe that. The locals
believe that the boys were actually killedby someone. Their deaths were ruled well
an accident or suicide that they basicallygot so high on marijuana that they lay
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down on the railroad tracks and fellasleep. Yeah, and that's definitely not
believable. I've been on many manyrailroad tracks. I grew up near railroad
tracks that used to walk them allthe time. There's no way that you're
falling asleep on them and not hearinga train coming. Those trains are very
loud. Yeah, how do youfollows sleep on a railroad track and not
hear a train coming? And youdon't get that high on weet that you
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don't hear a train coming. So, yeah, there's some corruption in Saline
County. I don't think it's asbad now is what it used to be
back and say the late eighties,early nineties. And the gentleman that they
say is a person of interest orthe gentleman that committed this murder, like
I say, he's airing Brotherhood,and they have used him before for federal
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trafficking to try to get some ofthese higher ups, some bigger fish,
I guess. So you think thisguy may have worked as an informant.
I think so. But they keepshoving him back to prison. Every time
he gets a gun charge or somethinglike that. They're seving back to prison
for six or eight months. Maybegets back out and he screws up again,
and they sending back to federal prison. But they keep letting him out
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again, but he keeps getting awaywith everything. But they can't prosecute a
murder case without a body, andthey can't find my brother's body because nobody
will say where they buried him,or what they did with his remains or
anything like that. And there's somepretty gory details on what supposedly they did
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to him afterwards, their stories abouta wood kipper, and I don't even
want to entertain that one, butit's possible when you start talking about Arie
and Brotherhood and what they're willing todo to cover up their crimes. It's
just a matter of my brother beingat the wrong place at the wrong time,
and he said the wrong thing tothe wrong person. He had no
idea who he was talking to orwho was dealing with. He was just
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hanging out. So let me askyou where was Corey when he was supposedly
killed? I mean, was heat a party? Was he out in
the woods? Where exactly was heat? Allegedly now at he was at
this guy's house. But yeah,they call him ugly Mike or something like
that. Bingley. He was ata guy's house and there was probably a
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good twelve or sixteen twenty people there, and they were all party in and
in doing the various things, anda couple of people, you know,
there's a guy that dropped him off, and dropped a couple of people off,
I guess, and they were hangingout doing their thing. And somebody
else has since come forward and said, hey, Cheris, I didn't know
that this was going to cause this. But when your brother left my house,
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I told him, I said,hey, if you see so and
So, tell her the only person'sbooty that looks better than hers is dada,
dadada. So when my brother deliveredthat message, it was supposed to
be funny, but apparently the boyfrienddidn't take it too kindly and it caused
my brother to get to you,so, where did this guy allegedly kill
your brother. Was it in frontof witnesses or was it done out in
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the field. It sounds like hejust shot him right there and didn't worry
about if there were any witnesses.Based on what you just said, yes,
apparently it was probably like thirty minuteslater. I'm guessing here, I'm
just activating, guessing that he'd probablysit there and feeled about it. This
guy has a history of being veryjealous, extremely jealous, And from what
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I was told is he told somebody, go next door and get your mom's
gun, and so he sent theguy next door, or I think two
houses down, and one gentleman wenttwo houses down, got his mom's gun,
came back with it, handed itto the guy. And I think
when my brother got up to gosmoke a cigarette or something like that is
when he sought him in the backof the head. Brother's a very big
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man, but he's not violent atall. Everybody called him the gentle giant.
Children loves my brother. My brotherloves children. I mean, kids
just flock to him. If anybodyneeded a babysitter, they called my brothers.
He was not a violent man atall, but because of his stature.
I mean, he was six footeight and two thirty five and the
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guy that killed him is not Theguy that killed him is only like five
six and maybe one forty five.That's probably why you're there. Was shot
in the back of the head becausehe wasn't looking exactly exactly it was it
was, you know, And likeI said, he's a very jealous person
from everybody telling about him, andhe's very jealous, has extreme anger issues.
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He joined a gang in prison isbecause he needed the protection. I
think that's pretty standard for people whenthey go to prison. Yeah. Yeah,
Well, from what I understand,for people that are going to prison
for any length of time, possiblyfor life, or if they have some
other type of long sentence, it'sprobably safest for them to join a gang,
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whether it be the Aryan Brotherhood orI guess whatever gang based on your
ethnicity, joining the appropriate gang isprobably done for safety reasons. And believe
it or not, yes, mybrother did end a few years in prison,
but he was always in the nonviolent unit and he was always on
a committee of some sort because hestayed out of trouble when he was in
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prison. He stayed out of trouble. He always had all his commissary,
he had all his free time.We were always able to visit him every
weekend. It was because he stayedout of trouble and he kept his nose
clean. He didn't want to bethere, he wanted to come home.
So he had no game affiliation whatsoeverwhen he was in there. And that's
one thing that the detectives kept askingme to add. They're like, he
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doesn't have any affiliation. I waslike, no, sir, none whatsoever.
No, he has no game tattoosor anything else. No, sir,
no whatsoever. So, based onwhat you're telling me about your brother,
it sounds like he probably was killedin the spur of the moment.
It doesn't sound like something that wasplanned, right. It sounds like someone
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just got angry at your brother andjust killed him allegedly yep, yep.
And then you have witnesses who sawwhat happened, dear brother, or people
that know about it, but noneof them will see anything to enforcement.
And you know what that's common becauseI've spoken to other people who are in
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the same situation as you're in,and they've also told me about witnesses or
people that have information, but theywill never speak to the police about it.
Therefore, the police can't arrest anyoneif they don't have any witnesses that
will come forward. But then Iunderstand because they may be fearful. I
mean, if this person's going tokill someone, then if I talk,
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what's the stop them from doing thesame thing? To me, that's the
mentality, So they're in survival mode. Unfortunately, that is detrimental to the
family because the family wants to seejustice. In some situations, even the
family can't get anyone to say anything, much less the police. You know,
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we'll settle for just finding my brotheror so we can bring him home
and give him proper peace resting placeso we can mourn him, and then
we'll get the justice after that.But yeah, so we can have a
place to go and mourn him,rather it be on his birthday or the
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anniversary of which sat at the anniversarythat he went missing or was murdered,
just very close to his birthday,but you know, things like that,
so we can properly mourn and puthim to risk. But meeting as spiritually
connected as I am, I knowGod's going to have his justice and it
is eternal and it is far worsethan anything that this earthly law can give
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us. But yeah, during myresearch about Corey's case, I looked at
his Facebook page and found a disturbingmessage. There's a post on his page
from May twentieth, twenty nineteen,the day before he disappeared, stating going
to be leaving Facebook in a fewdays going on new adventure. I asked
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Cherish what she thought of the post. We'll take a final and listened to
her discuss the strange post in hermission to find out what happened to her
beloved brother. So, I waslooking at Corey's Facebook page and I noticed
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a really strange post. It wasthe last one on his page. It
said, I'm going to be goingon an adventure, so I'm going to
be gone for a while. Canyou tell me about that post? Do
you even think it was him?I'm not even sure if that was him.
I think that was his girlfriend atthe time. Yeah, they were
fighting and stuff like that, andshe had all his passwords. So I
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had to get the passwords from herto find out, you know, Like
I said, I had to startlooking for him that next day, and
that's how I found out I waslike, give me his password so I
can look at his messages and seewho picked him up or where he went.
And I logged in. I gotsorts from her to start finding him,
and she was somewhat helpful at first, Like I said, she gave
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me his passwords. That after aboutthe first month or so, she just
moved on. So then you thinkthat a former girlfriend may have put that
on there maybe, and I'm speculating. Yeah, I find it kind of
odd that it was posted on Maytwentieth, the day before he disappeared.
Yeah, they were fighting and hecalled mom and said, my truck's breaking
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down, and can you and Dadcome up here and get me. He
was with her in Tabot, whichis like probably an hour away from where
we are, maybe forty five minutesan hour. He said, the truck's
acting funny. Can you and Dadpicked me up and tow the truck home?
And so they towed the truck backto what was our house at the
time and brought him home and parkedthe truck and things like that. He
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was going through some stuff at thetime that he disappeared, which leads to
him calling his buddy saying I justneeded to mum, the pain, and
so he was just he was goingthrough some stuff. I think it led
him to a where he didn't haveany business being in the first place,
and being around people that were unsavoryfor lack of a better term. So
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yeah, it's a bad deal allthe way around. But we just want
to bring him home in a properresting base and bring my family some kind
of closure, whatever that closure maybe, and then justice. Yeah.
So tell me about what the mediahas stated about your brother based on everything
that you've seen out there, asthe media gotten anything wrong about your brother.
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Well, originally the ACIC, whichI'm sure you're familiar with, had
his height and weight wrong. Theyhad his height at six foot two and
his weight at one hundred and fortyfive pounds. I said, you've got
to be kidding me, and theyhad it. We're at in the first
sixth month. But one of hisflyers I'm looking at now says the friend
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dropped him off at the store.Well, no, he made it out
to Cottonwood and well it's not it'sjust it's a little bit misconstrued. Where
the circumstances our Corey was last singwhen a friend dropped him off at a
store, and then where it saysit was learned by a family that he
was around the Cottonwood area, sothat could be a little confusing or could
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be misconstrued. And where it saysthough that he had his red and black
backpack. That needs to be updatedabout. Okay, he disappeared in May.
On January first of twenty twenty,another friend or former classmate of hours
showed up at my house with thatred and black backpack fresh and it had
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just been clean fresh, looked brandnew almost And he showed up. He's
like, hey, Corey gave thisto me the month before he disappeared.
And I'm like, oh, you'relying. I know you're lying, because
he walked out the door with it. He left with it. I know
he did because it was sitting onthe fourier table that morning. The morning
before he left, it was sittingon the fourier table and was not here
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whenever he after he disappeared. Sohe did not give it to you a
month before he disappeared, So Idon't know where you got it from.
But so I don't know. Idon't know where that gentleman got it from.
But he returned it to us,you know, fresh clean, like
it had just been to the drycleaners or something. Was it actually his
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backpack? Yes, yes, itwas his backpack because it had the same
carrors and the same little freight endsand things like that. So it absolutely
was my brother's backpack. And Icalled the detectives. I told him,
I said, I told him thesame thing, and they were like,
because they wanted to test it forDNA and different things like that. I
said, it's not going to doyou any good. It's been cleaned,
I said, but I'll bring itdown there to you if you want it.
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But it's been cleaned. I said. It looks almost brand new.
So I don't know how he gotit, but yeah, there's probably a
reason why someone cleaned it. Yeah. Absolutely, he took his laptop with
him and it's disappeared. I don'tknow where it disappeared too, in the
scheme of all things, I'm sureit's destroyed or at the bottom of some
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dumpster somewhere or something at this point. But yeah, it's a mess.
It's just a mess. It's sadthat there's so many people involved and that
know what happened. There's not asingle one that's willing to say or do
something that's not tormented by it.Unfortunately, I think in a lot of
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cases there's witnesses out there who knowsomething, but they just refuse to say
anything. Just imagine if half ofevery witness to a crime spoke up,
Imagine how many cases could get solved. Yeah, yeah, I mean,
I do understand a lot of peopleeither don't want to get involved, or
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they may fear for their own life. But at the same time, if
you have information that can put thisguy away for life, there's wit pro
there's always witness protection. So Idon't know, right, But then you
go back to people not wanting toget involved. I mean, who wants
to go on a witness protection Whowants to get moved around to different states
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and not be allowed to contact theirfamilies anymore. There's actually a lot to
that, but I think that alot of people they just don't want to
get involved. And I hate tosay that, but it's true, right
right when some of these people aredoing time. Right now, there's one
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individual that's serving a twenty year sentencefor drug charges in dely recharges and stuff
like that, and they're hoping thateventually they'll get sick and tired or serving
time and decide to say something.At some point, there's another guy that
actually he's terminally you, and they'rehoping that he'll decide to make a deathbed
confession of some sort, because what'syou got to lose at that point,
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you know. So Yeah, now, have you personally spoken to either of
these guys that you just mentioned.No, I've been advised to stay away,
and it's probably safer. I havetwo sons myself. They're adults now,
but still, you know, so, at the same time, I
do think logically, and if somebodydecides that I'm getting too close, they
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may decide to come after me aswell. That's definitely a real concern.
Yeah. I have been advised tolet the law do what they're going to
do or what have you. SoI've got a few friends in low places
too, and I've decided to letthem risk their skinning back. If that's
what they choose to do, it'sprobably best that you stay out of it.
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Yeah. Yeah, they're like no, yeah, they're like cherished.
No. Well, I think you'redoing your part by just keeping the story
out there, talking to people andmaking sure that nobody forgets about your brother.
Yeah, I'm working with the MorganNick Foundation and law enforcement to the
best of my abilities, and justkeeping his name base after to the best
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of my abilities, and working withpeople like you to keep his name and
face out there. You never knowhim. Maybe when this gets out there,
maybe some of these people will hearit, and these super sleuths on
the internet may get a phone callor an email or something, and maybe
it'll lead to something. That's reallyall you can hope for. Yeah.
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Have you spoken to law enforcement latelyabout the case? Oh? No,
And that's another pain in my croft. Now. I will say that the
first detective I thought he was justgood and great, and come to find
out he was a dirty cut Ishouldn't know. He was too good to
be true. But yeah, sohe's off the force now. Actually,
I don't think he was doing anythingnefarious with my brother's case. I don't
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think. But yeah, the firstdetective I had, I thought he was
I thought it was golden, butI didn't even know that he wasn't with
the force anymore. And I keptleaving the messages and leading messages, leading
the messages, and then I gottalking to the reception them at the Sheriff's
department, and she was like,he's no longer with us. I was
like, how long has he begoing and she was like two months.
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I said, that explains why he'snot returning my calls. Whoever they handed
the case off to should have atleast called me and said, hey,
here's what's happening. Somebody should bekeeping me abreast of what's going on down
there instead of me leaving this.You know, somebody's saying his voice mails.
So yeah, I've got a newdetective now, and he's been much
better about just saying, hey,there's nothing going on, or there is
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something going on, or here's whatwe've done so far. So once he
took over the case, he hasbeen doing some searches and things like that,
some different places that he's taking thedogs out and search. Rumor has
it was that he was buried outbehind a cemetery in the area that nobody
has named the actual cemetery. Soit's like when somebody pops in and says,
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I heard it was this cemetery.He's taking the dogs out and search
that cemetery. But it's hit ormiss. I get phone calls and messages
all the time. Like, heychairs, I heard this, Hey chairs,
da da da da in Every timeI do, I report it and
he sometimes is just like, areyou sure he didn't just take off?
And I'm like telling you that mybrother would not do that. He has
a daughter that's disabled. He wouldnot leave her. No matter what you
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thought he was doing, he wouldnot leave his daughter. He was her
caregiver. He just wouldn't do that, no matter what was going through his
head. He always cleaned himself upwhen it was his time to take care
of her. He never let hisdaughter down. That's the one thing that
was golden about my brothers. Nomatter what was going on in his head,
when it was time for him tostep up for her, he was
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there for her. So he wasreally devoted to his daughter. Then,
absolutely absolutely. And what's the nameof the local police department that's handling your
brother's case. So if anybody outthere listening wants to contact law enforcement,
who would they need to contact theSeline County Sheriff's Department. Okay, and
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let me ask you about social media. Are you using Facebook? TikTok?
Yes, I'm not a TikTok orI'm not an Instagram or I'm not a
Twitter user or anything like that,so Facebook is all I have been using.
And then every once in a while, our local news stations will do
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a blurt I guess as you wouldcall it or whatever they would, you
know, be like hey, Andthen actually, the Morgan Nick Foundation is
a local foundation here and they putstuff out. Now, they may be
using those other avenues as far aslike Instagram and things like that, and
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then of course he's on like CharlieProject and Gina for one one name us
and yeah, they may be usingthose other outlets, but I only use
Facebook. And what's the name ofthe Facebook page dedicated to Corey's case?
It's Corey Schrader. Have you seenme? Corey Schrader dot dot dot?
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Have you seen me? With threequestion marks? And let's see, your
brother's been gone for four years.Tell me what is it that you missed
the most about him? His senseof humor, It didn't matter what you
were depressed, that if you werecrying your eyes out, he could lift
you out of that. His senseof humor, and the bump he had
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with my boys. I can actuallyhear it in your voice how much you
miss him? Yeah, I misshim? So much. I will share
this story with you. One ofmy oldest son was about thirteen months old.
He had to have tubes in hisears, and it was his first
surgery or first major anything for meas a mom, you know, and
for of course my child and mybrother was there for that. And whenever
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my son woke up from that surgery, of course, as a mom,
I wanted to go straight to myson. One of my son to want
his mommy. No, he wantedhis own stretch, Yes, uncle stretch.
My son did not want his mommy. He wanted his uncle stretch.
And of course he stepped right upand grabbed my son and held him,
and everything was right the world asfar as my son was concerned, because
(43:13):
he had his own stretch. Andthat made my brother's day and that would
everything. And that's how tight theywere. And my son cries every day
because his uncle's not here. Weall do because he's not here. Or
he sounds like a pretty good guyand a great uncle. Yeah yeah.
(43:34):
And then of course there's that famoussaying about only the good die young.
Yep, yep, and I reallybelieve that to be true. Yea.
And the last question that I wouldhave for you is for anyone out there
that's listening to this podcast and theycan hear the sound of your voice if
they know anything about what happened toCorey. What would you like to say
(44:00):
to that person or persons if youknow anything about what happened to Corey Strader
Stretch of Saline County, Arkansas.I beg you to dig down deep in
your heart and your soul. Justdig deep, do the right thing.
(44:22):
Know that you're doing something courageous,brave, and God will keep you safe.
You will bring my family so muchpeace. You'll bring my brother peace.
Just know it's the right thing todo. It will cleanse your soul.
(44:42):
It's the right thing to do.And just because it's the right thing
to do and you're cleansing your soul, God will keep you. And that
concludes Corey Schrader's story. What happenedto Corey four years ago? Did he
just walk away from his life?According to his sister, he loved his
family way too much to walk awayfrom them. Are the rumors about his
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death true? His family seems tothink so. Corey's described as being six
foot six and weighing over two hundredpounds. He was last seen wearing a
gray hooded sweatshirt and carrying a backpack. The backpack has since been returned to
the family. Corey's official missing dateis May twenty first, twenty nineteen,
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after he was dropped off at alocal store. If you have any information
about Corey's whereabouts, please contact theSaline Sheriff's apartment at five zero one three
zero three, five six four sevenor five zero one three zero three five
six four eight. And if youwould like to make an anonymous call,
(45:50):
please call five zero one three zerothree five seven four four. And if
you would like additional information about Corey'scase, please visit the Corey Schrader Have
You Seen Me? Facebook page.I will also provide all of this information
in the case story notes. Andif you are a parent, law enforcement
(46:12):
official, friend, or relative seekinjustice for an unsolved homicide case, please
visit my website and complete the contactform. You can also contact with your
Facebook. Thank you for listening.
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