Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Missy Bevers Murder: What do you see in the 'Vehicle of Interest"?
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- 0:09Speaker 1: In the early morning hours of April eighteenth, Fevers, a
- 0:12Speaker 1: fitness instructor, a mom and wife, showed up at this
- 0:15Speaker 1: church to teach a class. Police says she was killed
- 0:18Speaker 1: by puncture wounds to the head and chest. This is
- 0:22Speaker 1: crimed stories with Nancy Grace. This person intended to do
- 0:27Speaker 1: exactly what they did, when they did it, and whom
- 0:31Speaker 1: they did it too. The former Murphy police chief says
- 0:34Speaker 1: the circle of people who may know what happened is
- 0:36Speaker 1: likely very small. They're asked to be some line between
- 0:40Speaker 1: her death and people in her past. Investigators have poured
- 0:44Speaker 1: over Beaver's Internet history and executed multiple wars. Let's say
- 0:48Speaker 1: today the I D on this suspect will come from
- 0:51Speaker 1: a tip they still haven't received. How did a Texas
- 0:59Speaker 1: super um get blood and dead in a mid Lothian church.
- 1:06Speaker 1: I mean the psychological implications of that alone, Well, it's
- 1:10Speaker 1: more than I'm just a trial lawyer can take in.
- 1:14Speaker 1: Hello everybody, Nancy Grace with crime stories here, and we
- 1:17Speaker 1: are on Missy Beavers today. I don't understand how the
- 1:22Speaker 1: perpetrator can be caught on video and still not apprehended.
- 1:27Speaker 1: I don't get it, but let's go with what we
- 1:30Speaker 1: do know right now focus on a potential person of
- 1:35Speaker 1: interest that is former law enforcement, and we have now
- 1:39Speaker 1: triple confirmed that. We have also reconfirmed that there are
- 1:44Speaker 1: not only relatives of misses that are afraid as well
- 1:49Speaker 1: as certain law enforcement members that the killer is walking free.
- 1:53Speaker 1: I can't change that, but what I can change is
- 1:57Speaker 1: an analysis of the via called the vehicle of interest
- 2:02Speaker 1: and the route that we believe the killer may have
- 2:05Speaker 1: taken that night. Joining you right now, investigative reporter Alan Duke, Alan,
- 2:10Speaker 1: I want to talk to you some more about this
- 2:12Speaker 1: two thousand twelve Nisan Ultima two thousand ten to two
- 2:16Speaker 1: thousand twelve. Again, it's hard for me to understand why
- 2:20Speaker 1: this vehicle cannot be narrowed down because it happens every
- 2:25Speaker 1: day in every major city in this country. I mean,
- 2:28Speaker 1: just go to the A p D or the n
- 2:30Speaker 1: Y p D theft unit, car theft unit. It's a science.
- 2:34Speaker 1: I mean, they can tell by looking at a tail
- 2:36Speaker 1: light a tail light, what year a car is. I
- 2:41Speaker 1: can only believe that law enforcement has information they're not
- 2:45Speaker 1: telling us. You know, we've reported previously that they have
- 2:50Speaker 1: been very silent for the last several months. They've decided
- 2:53Speaker 1: not to talk to the media and make any releases.
- 2:56Speaker 1: I have to believe that there's something that they know
- 2:58Speaker 1: about that car, because how many of these cars could
- 3:02Speaker 1: there be in that community and they've narrowed down some
- 3:06Speaker 1: persons of interest. What do they know about that car?
- 3:10Speaker 1: Why can't they look in zooming in? Let's let's look
- 3:14Speaker 1: at the video ourselves and see what we can see. Now.
- 3:18Speaker 1: I believe that you're looking at it right now. Let's
- 3:21Speaker 1: tell our listeners what exactly are you What website are
- 3:26Speaker 1: you using to see the actual video? It's on YouTube
- 3:30Speaker 1: and we haven't embedded in crime online dot com and
- 3:33Speaker 1: will re embed it along with this podcast. It's it
- 3:36Speaker 1: was posted just a few weeks ago by the owners
- 3:40Speaker 1: of that gun store that's just catty cornered across the
- 3:44Speaker 1: street from the church in Middle Lothian where the killing
- 3:46Speaker 1: took place. It's on YouTube, originally posted. It's remarkable. You've
- 3:51Speaker 1: got all of these cameras that have captured the car
- 3:56Speaker 1: a couple of hours before the murder pulling into If
- 3:59Speaker 1: you look at it, you see it pulling off the
- 4:02Speaker 1: divided highway I think it's Highway to seven and it
- 4:06Speaker 1: pulls in and it turns the lights, it blinks the lights.
- 4:10Speaker 1: Then it goes around to the back of the gun
- 4:13Speaker 1: store s w F A, which is a large gun store.
- 4:18Speaker 1: You see it going back behind the loading docks, and
- 4:21Speaker 1: then it pulls around back to the front and it
- 4:24Speaker 1: pulls into a parking space in the front and it
- 4:27Speaker 1: sits there with lights off for three minutes. I'm looking
- 4:31Speaker 1: at the same thing you're looking at. What I don't
- 4:33Speaker 1: understand is how I can see dust on the moon.
- 4:38Speaker 1: I can see individual rocks and particles on the moon,
- 4:43Speaker 1: but I can't get the tag plate for this car.
- 4:46Speaker 1: And like you say, can you when you zoom in?
- 4:49Speaker 1: Do you think you can see one person, two people,
- 4:53Speaker 1: a face? What do you think you can see me? Personally?
- 4:57Speaker 1: I don't know what that is. But enforcement they've got
- 5:01Speaker 1: to be able to analyze this, you know. I've I've
- 5:04Speaker 1: watched discussions online that started after our podcast last week.
- 5:09Speaker 1: It got a lot of discussions going on various forums
- 5:11Speaker 1: about this, and people started themselves on their own computer
- 5:14Speaker 1: zooming in and looking and sharing and discussing. Some people
- 5:18Speaker 1: claim to see a nose. Some people claim to see
- 5:21Speaker 1: a box in the back seat. Some people claim to
- 5:23Speaker 1: see that there's the drivers wearing a helmet. You have
- 5:26Speaker 1: these different theories, but I look at it and I
- 5:30Speaker 1: personally cannot tell much from it. But there are people
- 5:34Speaker 1: who just swear that they can tell a lot of
- 5:36Speaker 1: things by looking at a zoomed in screenshot from a
- 5:41Speaker 1: frame grab of that video. What do you make Well,
- 5:44Speaker 1: the people that believe they can see a face is
- 5:47Speaker 1: a white person? Do they believe they can see a
- 5:51Speaker 1: white male or a white female? Well, depending on who
- 5:55Speaker 1: they is. Uh. Some people say it's a person with
- 5:58Speaker 1: a ponytail because the away their hairs behind their ears.
- 6:01Speaker 1: Hey where were you that night? Exactly? I've got to
- 6:05Speaker 1: go and check my alibi. But you know, you get different.
- 6:08Speaker 1: It's it's what what is it? The Rorschach test? You
- 6:10Speaker 1: you see what you want to see or what's in
- 6:13Speaker 1: your mind. It's almost to that point. But again, I've
- 6:16Speaker 1: got to believe, as you said, that there is technology
- 6:20Speaker 1: and that the technology has been is being used to
- 6:23Speaker 1: really peer inside the frames of that video because it's
- 6:27Speaker 1: pretty clear video as security camera video goes. Let's talk
- 6:31Speaker 1: about what we've learned by recombing over the search warrant affidavits.
- 6:37Speaker 1: They tell you a lot. Alan Now, remember, when you
- 6:42Speaker 1: are asking a judge to give you a search warrant,
- 6:45Speaker 1: you throw in everything you believe you might be able
- 6:50Speaker 1: to find as a result of that search. Why because
- 6:54Speaker 1: if not, you will say you, Okay, what if I
- 6:57Speaker 1: go into your place, just pretend thing and I say,
- 7:01Speaker 1: I'm looking for an A K forty seven that killed
- 7:04Speaker 1: so and so gang member July nineteen, July two thousand fifteen. Okay,
- 7:10Speaker 1: if that's all you put in there, and you don't
- 7:12Speaker 1: put in a catch all phrase. If I come in
- 7:15Speaker 1: your place and then I see a hundred rounds of ammunition,
- 7:19Speaker 1: and I see cocaine and heroin and stolen gold, I
- 7:24Speaker 1: that's outside the scope of my search. Want. My point
- 7:27Speaker 1: is a lot of times police will put in any
- 7:31Speaker 1: other indition of criminal enterprise, which is obviously a catch
- 7:34Speaker 1: all phrase. But my point is if you don't delineate
- 7:37Speaker 1: it in your search warrant, you'll have a constitutional challenge
- 7:41Speaker 1: at trial if you see something else that's not listed
- 7:44Speaker 1: in the warrant and you seize it. So a lot
- 7:47Speaker 1: of the stuff in the Missy Beaver's warrants, as I
- 7:49Speaker 1: call them, it's what they think they might find as
- 7:52Speaker 1: a result of the search not what they know to
- 7:56Speaker 1: be there. So with that in mind as a cost
- 8:00Speaker 1: scenery instruction, what do we learn from the search warrants? Alan, Well,
- 8:04Speaker 1: the affidavits there are two really interesting ones. There's the
- 8:08Speaker 1: one for social media for Facebook wanting the Facebook post,
- 8:12Speaker 1: and the most spectacular thing in the affidavit, which I'm
- 8:16Speaker 1: going to pull up on my screen right now and
- 8:18Speaker 1: look at. It talks about information that investigators have gotten
- 8:24Speaker 1: by way of their interviews, specifically including an interview with
- 8:29Speaker 1: Brandon Beaver's the husband. And this is this is what
- 8:35Speaker 1: is shocking. The spouse of the decedent, that's Brandon Beavers
- 8:39Speaker 1: tells law enforcement that it is his knowledge that his
- 8:43Speaker 1: wife was involved in affairs relationships and it names one
- 8:49Speaker 1: particular person. I'll read this. Additionally, we have received information
- 8:53Speaker 1: from the spouse of the decedent that the decedent was
- 8:57Speaker 1: having love affairs with at least one person identified by
- 9:00Speaker 1: the spouse as I'm going to leave the name out.
- 9:03Speaker 1: And our investigators have uncovered communications between deceited and other
- 9:07Speaker 1: persons through Facebook private chat service, specifically including the name
- 9:11Speaker 1: of that person making arrangements to meet the deceit. It
- 9:15Speaker 1: now in each of these affidavits. It has an s
- 9:18Speaker 1: on affairs, not love affair, not relationship, but relationships, and
- 9:24Speaker 1: it names this one particular person. Is there a paran?
- 9:28Speaker 1: Is there a paran like a fair peran? S affairs?
- 9:32Speaker 1: Love affairs? Wait? Wait wait wait wait wait, Okay, I'm
- 9:37Speaker 1: gonna ask the empty room. Is there anybody in here
- 9:40Speaker 1: that has never done anything they don't regret? Okay, nobody's
- 9:45Speaker 1: raising their hand. We all regret doing something, Okay. So
- 9:49Speaker 1: I don't want to turn this into attack Missy Beavers
- 9:51Speaker 1: because she may have had an affair. Now, an affair
- 9:56Speaker 1: can be a fleeing. An affair can be a man
- 10:00Speaker 1: keeping up a second family in another state for two
- 10:02Speaker 1: or fifteen years. I mean, it can be anything. So
- 10:05Speaker 1: I'm not in the business of judging morally because I
- 10:09Speaker 1: do not want anybody judging me. If it's got to
- 10:12Speaker 1: do with a felony, it's fair game. Okay. So that's
- 10:16Speaker 1: why this is even part of the conversation here. We
- 10:22Speaker 1: all know, Alan, I believe you'll agree with me on
- 10:24Speaker 1: this at least anyway that when you're looking at a
- 10:27Speaker 1: homicide or an unknown perpetrator attack, you start with small
- 10:32Speaker 1: circles first. They're gonna look at Brandon Beaver's He's the husband.
- 10:36Speaker 1: That's just the deal that statistically is the perpetrator is
- 10:40Speaker 1: the husband, be at current or x then you go
- 10:42Speaker 1: to boyfriend, then you go to x is, then you
- 10:46Speaker 1: go to Fleeings, and you keep going out further and further,
- 10:50Speaker 1: casting your net further and further. For all I know,
- 10:53Speaker 1: this of air could have happened ten years ago. So
- 10:55Speaker 1: let's just put this in per perspective before we start
- 10:57Speaker 1: trashing Missy Beavers. Okay, because I do not want that
- 11:02Speaker 1: when I go to him, and I don't want to
- 11:04Speaker 1: throwing that up in my face. Okay, I got plenty
- 11:06Speaker 1: I've done wrong without that being on top of it.
- 11:08Speaker 1: This was more recent and there's another sentence here. In
- 11:11Speaker 1: the course of our investigations, we have had multiple references
- 11:14Speaker 1: to the decedent's Facebook account, which listed the decedent's plans
- 11:18Speaker 1: and activities for assinations with people alleged to be her
- 11:23Speaker 1: lovers again s lovers. So that complicates this whole thing. Well,
- 11:28Speaker 1: to me, it doesn't complicated. It gives me more leads
- 11:30Speaker 1: to go on. Well, and I don't know any of
- 11:33Speaker 1: these people, they'd be maybe mild mannered librarians for all
- 11:36Speaker 1: I know. I don't think they are, but they could be. So,
- 11:40Speaker 1: you know, an affair, it is not a killer make
- 11:43Speaker 1: So we've got those irons in the fire. We've got
- 11:46Speaker 1: the possibility that cops have been able to enhance that
- 11:50Speaker 1: ultima and have ruled in or out the driver. I'm
- 11:54Speaker 1: just telling you, I always say, Alan, there's no coincidence
- 11:57Speaker 1: in criminal law. I find it to be no coincidence
- 12:01Speaker 1: that someone was acting suspiciously parking in the front at
- 12:04Speaker 1: two am of a closed gun store, then driving around
- 12:07Speaker 1: back for a period of time, then coming around to
- 12:10Speaker 1: the other side before I get back on alleged affairs.
- 12:13Speaker 1: Tell me, so our listeners can know where you're seeing
- 12:18Speaker 1: the aerial view of the gun shot parking lot versus
- 12:22Speaker 1: mid Lothian church. Well, you can simply anyone can go
- 12:26Speaker 1: on their phone or their laptop or whatever and see
- 12:29Speaker 1: Google just Google maps the church and you will see
- 12:33Speaker 1: s w f A. We'll hold on. I'm a trial lawyer,
- 12:38Speaker 1: not an I T specialist for peze SA, So let's
- 12:42Speaker 1: just try. I'm going to go to Google, go to
- 12:44Speaker 1: Google and just search s wf A Google Earth and
- 12:49Speaker 1: then or Google Maps, Map dot Google. You know you
- 12:52Speaker 1: need to make up your mind. Do you want me
- 12:54Speaker 1: put Google Earth, Google Map, or map dot map, dot
- 12:57Speaker 1: Google dot com. I'm talking about dot Google dot com.
- 13:02Speaker 1: Let's just um do this s wf A. That's the
- 13:08Speaker 1: name of this this gun shop, And immediately the auto
- 13:11Speaker 1: fill in mind comes up us to seven, mid Lothian, Texas.
- 13:16Speaker 1: Immediately I opened it up, and I have a map
- 13:19Speaker 1: of it of where that is. And then if you look,
- 13:23Speaker 1: you will see almost directly across the street. It says
- 13:26Speaker 1: Creekside Church. You mean the outdoor sports storre s w
- 13:30Speaker 1: f A outdoors You see that now? Just zoom out,
- 13:33Speaker 1: maybe one click, and it will give you a broader picture.
- 13:36Speaker 1: And on mine it's showing the Creekside Church directly across
- 13:41Speaker 1: the street, almost just to the northwest, across the street
- 13:45Speaker 1: and to the northwest maybe a few hundred yards. How
- 13:48Speaker 1: do you make it do an aerial view? Just click
- 13:51Speaker 1: that little box if you're using the same kind of
- 13:52Speaker 1: browser I am. It says it says Earth and it'll
- 13:55Speaker 1: show you the satellite view. Click that Earth. Somehow I've
- 13:59Speaker 1: gotten an find down roadway. Okay, wait, wait, wait, okay,
- 14:02Speaker 1: I think I've got it. Look at this, it is
- 14:04Speaker 1: no more than what would you say, a quarter mile
- 14:08Speaker 1: as the crow flies between where that car was hiding
- 14:12Speaker 1: in the back, turning its lights on and off behind
- 14:15Speaker 1: the gun store two am the night that Missy Beaver
- 14:18Speaker 1: shows up. About an hour and a half later, it's
- 14:21Speaker 1: at half a mile walk between a stand of trees
- 14:26Speaker 1: from that guns gun shop to mid Lothian Church. That's
- 14:30Speaker 1: at best a five minute walk through that stand of trees.
- 14:35Speaker 1: Any local would know that. Now, anybody now the thought
- 14:39Speaker 1: of at three o'clock in the morning or whenever, walking
- 14:42Speaker 1: across the four lane road. It wasn't an extremely busy road,
- 14:45Speaker 1: but we know from the surveillance tape we do see
- 14:48Speaker 1: about every thirty seconds a car or a truck goes by.
- 14:51Speaker 1: We saw the car pull out and using a blinker
- 14:54Speaker 1: by the way, showing that they're apparently trying to obey
- 14:57Speaker 1: the law of the traffic laws taking a right out. Now,
- 15:00Speaker 1: it's just there's a turnaround where they can do a
- 15:02Speaker 1: U turn just right out of there and then they
- 15:05Speaker 1: can turn into it. There's a little dirt road that
- 15:09Speaker 1: is directly across the street from this gun store that
- 15:12Speaker 1: if you follow and you go down. You can park
- 15:14Speaker 1: right there near that tree stand that you're referring to,
- 15:17Speaker 1: and you can have a very hidden walk to the
- 15:20Speaker 1: back of the church. And remember there were some surveillance
- 15:24Speaker 1: cameras working, not directly outside the church, but somewhere in
- 15:28Speaker 1: that vicinity. None of them picked up a vehicle around
- 15:31Speaker 1: the church. That's why I'm saying this was no snatch
- 15:34Speaker 1: and grab. This was not a burglary. Someone parked a
- 15:37Speaker 1: distance away and walked to the church and got in,
- 15:41Speaker 1: and they would have had to thought about this and
- 15:43Speaker 1: planned it. Yeah, they had to think about it. I'm
- 15:46Speaker 1: just saying it's no coincidence about that ultima. It's not
- 15:50Speaker 1: nobody is driving around. It was just pretend. Let's just
- 15:54Speaker 1: pretend that it was someone driving around and they got
- 15:57Speaker 1: lost and they had to check their map. Why did
- 15:59Speaker 1: they have to go behind the gun shop and get
- 16:01Speaker 1: in the back parking lot. It would be a call
- 16:03Speaker 1: day in h E double l that at two thirty
- 16:05Speaker 1: in the morning, I would go behind a gun shop
- 16:08Speaker 1: alone in my car to check a map. That's not
- 16:10Speaker 1: going to happen. Not say so, what were they doing
- 16:14Speaker 1: back there? Were they deciding whether they were going to
- 16:16Speaker 1: part their car there and walk to the stand of trees,
- 16:19Speaker 1: maybe the spot of the surveillance camera. Oh, and high
- 16:22Speaker 1: tailed bata there. But I'm guaranteeing you that that stand
- 16:26Speaker 1: of trees has something to do with where the prope
- 16:29Speaker 1: head to get into that church. That gun store is like, yes,
- 16:33Speaker 1: the gun store is like a fortress, and there are
- 16:36Speaker 1: seventeen exterior cameras on it and it's hard to miss those.
- 16:41Speaker 1: So I think what you just said makes a lot
- 16:42Speaker 1: of sense. Well, another thing, if you look at this
- 16:45Speaker 1: aerial view, there are also it looks like five separate
- 16:48Speaker 1: buildings in that cluster of structures. They could have hidden
- 16:52Speaker 1: behind any of those or used any of those as cover.
- 16:57Speaker 1: I think, well, I'm zooming in and looking. How can
- 17:00Speaker 1: it be a coincidence? And I feel like I'm with
- 17:03Speaker 1: my investigator when I was a district attorney. How can
- 17:06Speaker 1: it be a coincidence that this happens around two to
- 17:09Speaker 1: three in the morning and she shows up over at
- 17:12Speaker 1: the church, what at three or three thirds? She walks
- 17:15Speaker 1: in at about four. Okay, so I'm off, But but
- 17:18Speaker 1: the killer was seen there at three. The killer was
- 17:22Speaker 1: seen there at at least the video that has been
- 17:25Speaker 1: released inside the church. And keep in mind law enforcement
- 17:29Speaker 1: has not released all the video, so how can that
- 17:32Speaker 1: span not be connected. So the killer was already in
- 17:36Speaker 1: there at five till for sure, and they had to
- 17:39Speaker 1: break in. They broke in to get in through one
- 17:42Speaker 1: of the I think through a kitchen door. There's a
- 17:44Speaker 1: kitchen door that they entered through. And by the way,
- 17:47Speaker 1: I'm looking zoomed in on my satellite view, you can
- 17:50Speaker 1: seek tire tracks to where you can drive a vehicle
- 17:54Speaker 1: to the rear of that tree stand, just to the
- 17:57Speaker 1: rear of the church. You can get there's that creek.
- 18:01Speaker 1: The tree stand actually is following North Prong Creek. All
- 18:06Speaker 1: you have to do is part because there there are
- 18:09Speaker 1: obviously trucks and other vehicles that have driven there. I'm
- 18:12Speaker 1: looking on the satellite view of Google, and you see
- 18:14Speaker 1: tire tracks that go just behind on the opposite side
- 18:18Speaker 1: of the creek from the church. Well, you know, and
- 18:21Speaker 1: now it used to be breaking technology, but now it's
- 18:26Speaker 1: kind of old hat to take a plaster cast of
- 18:29Speaker 1: tire tracks to show tread and then match it up
- 18:32Speaker 1: to somebody's car. It's like a footprint. But did they
- 18:34Speaker 1: do that? Doubtful highly doubtful, highly doubtful. Wasn't it raining?
- 18:39Speaker 1: I don't know what would really have been left for
- 18:41Speaker 1: them to plaster cast really well, you could have seen
- 18:45Speaker 1: fresh tracks easily if if this car pulled in. My
- 18:48Speaker 1: question is now there had not been a murder in
- 18:51Speaker 1: this small town, which we'll get to in a second,
- 18:53Speaker 1: how small it was in years? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 18:57Speaker 1: we got the population wrong. That that burns me out
- 19:00Speaker 1: when some money does it to my hometown of Macon. Well,
- 19:03Speaker 1: making is a big city, it certainly is, And don't
- 19:05Speaker 1: forget it now. Just remember, didn't you come from Carrollton,
- 19:10Speaker 1: So don't start with me about making Carrollton, Georgia. Population.
- 19:14Speaker 1: When I was a kid, it was population about fourteen
- 19:16Speaker 1: or fifteen thousand, which, by the way, is now the
- 19:19Speaker 1: current population of Midlothian, Texas. That's the current population. Okay,
- 19:23Speaker 1: I want to get that straight, which we sound like
- 19:25Speaker 1: we're kidding about that, but actually it bears on this case.
- 19:29Speaker 1: The bigger a city or area is, the more likely
- 19:33Speaker 1: it could be stranger on stranger. But I still consider
- 19:36Speaker 1: this to be a small enough town to think that
- 19:39Speaker 1: this was someone that knew her. I'm not stranger on stranger.
- 19:43Speaker 1: And keep in mind that the church and the gun
- 19:45Speaker 1: store itself are located on two seven, about halfway between
- 19:50Speaker 1: Midlothian and the other booming city of Waxahatchie, So it's
- 19:54Speaker 1: mid the church itself is in a rural area. I
- 19:57Speaker 1: wonder how long you've practiced that before you could actually
- 20:00Speaker 1: say it on this podcast. I give you total credit.
- 20:04Speaker 1: So this is where we're at now. We are reviewing
- 20:07Speaker 1: the ultimate video just like you are, and actually have
- 20:12Speaker 1: been on the ground checking out that route between the
- 20:16Speaker 1: gun store and the mid Lothian church where Missy lost
- 20:20Speaker 1: her life. You know what I don't I don't want
- 20:21Speaker 1: to talk about her allegend affairs except to the extent that,
- 20:26Speaker 1: if they existed, those people are being investigated. I wonder
- 20:31Speaker 1: if it's willingly or unwillingly. This is Nancy Grace signing
- 20:35Speaker 1: off of Crime Stories. Goodbye friend,