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Exclusive: Husband is 'done talking' about Missy Bevers' murder · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: on Sirius x M Triumph Channel one thirty two. This
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Speaker 1: is a murder mystery that has attracted national attention. She
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Speaker 1: was beaten to death with the church as she got
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Speaker 1: ready to teach your workout class. Inside. He suffered puncture
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Speaker 1: wounds to the head and chest. Surveillance video shows the
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Speaker 1: suspect dress and police swap gear, carrying a hammer. The
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Speaker 1: killer recorded on surveillance video roaming the halls of the
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Speaker 1: church with a distinctive gait. The family of murder victim
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Speaker 1: Missy Beavers speaking out Missy's husband, Brandon Beavers, of pretty
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Speaker 1: much exhausted every scenario and every avenue that I can
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Speaker 1: think of of who could have done that? Police The
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Speaker 1: couple's marriage was in trouble reports of infidelity. Brandon Beaver's
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Speaker 1: is cooperating and has not been named a suspect. A
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Speaker 1: beautiful young mom, totally dedicated to her little girls and
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Speaker 1: her family, decides to start an exercise class, so gladiator
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Speaker 1: class that's for hardcore exercising, and she wanted to make
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Speaker 1: it for other moms and have to get their children
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Speaker 1: to school early in the morning like I do. So
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Speaker 1: in order to do that, I mean, I have to
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Speaker 1: get up at five o'clock every morning to get everything done.
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Speaker 1: She did too, except by five o'clock in the morning,
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Speaker 1: she was already at her exercise class, setting up for
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Speaker 1: an early early morning workout for all those busy moms.
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Speaker 1: I'm talking about Missy Beavers, who was found bludgeon and
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Speaker 1: stabbed dead inside amid Lothian church as she was setting
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Speaker 1: up for her gladiator style aerobics class early one morning.
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Speaker 1: As where I grew up, as people say, in the
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Speaker 1: middle of nowhere. Who would commit a murder in this
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Speaker 1: very extremely rural part of Texas? The case unsolved, I
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Speaker 1: Nancy Grace, this is crime Stories. Thank you for being
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Speaker 1: with us. To top it all off, so much of
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Speaker 1: it was caught on tape. Cheryl McCollum, there's a new
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Speaker 1: bombshell right now. But first, tell me about these video
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Speaker 1: surveillance that we have seen so many times of the
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Speaker 1: killer strolling around the church just before Missy was bludgeon
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Speaker 1: and stabbed dead. Nancy. This killer is walking around the church,
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Speaker 1: taking his time, opening doors, going in and out of
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Speaker 1: Sunday school rooms, other places. Literally just taking a tour
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Speaker 1: of the church, I think a better way to put it.
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Speaker 1: Cheryl was killing time, killing time. He's not taking anything.
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Speaker 1: He just sauntering around waiting for Missy Beavers to show up.
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Speaker 1: This was no robbery gone bad. This was a calculated,
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Speaker 1: premeditated murder. Cheryl. Nothing was taken, Nancy, nothing at all.
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Speaker 1: He doesn't have a backpack with him, he doesn't have
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Speaker 1: any kinde of statuel to put belongings in. He's not
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Speaker 1: there to burglarize that church. He is laying in wait
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Speaker 1: for that victim to show up. And now a brand
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Speaker 1: new revelation out to Alan Duke joining me from l A.
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Speaker 1: What's the latest, Alan, I've been corresponding with Brandon Beaver's
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Speaker 1: the husband for some time now. We've shared that before,
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Speaker 1: but I've just got a new email from him. He
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Speaker 1: won't go on audio on tape, but he set this
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Speaker 1: message and it has some really interesting things in it,
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Speaker 1: and our experts have been looking at. Would you like
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Speaker 1: for me to read the first few sentences tell me
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Speaker 1: the interesting points. He says that his quoting now that
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Speaker 1: children are not terribly fond of apprehending this person. They
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Speaker 1: don't want to revisit those emotions. They've told me this.
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Speaker 1: They see here the daily anxiety I have in finding
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Speaker 1: this person, and I think they're tired of the mentality
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Speaker 1: this puts on our day to day life. They want
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Speaker 1: normalcy and happiness. And at the end of that, he
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Speaker 1: says he's going to stop thinking about his wife's murder
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Speaker 1: or who killed her. Only he's going to think about
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Speaker 1: how she lived her life. And what she gave, you know,
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Speaker 1: Cheryl McCollum, I hear what he's saying. But in my case,
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Speaker 1: you know, I tried so hard to put Keith Smarter,
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Speaker 1: my fiancee's murder shortly before our wedding, out of my
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Speaker 1: mind because it was destroying me. Every day. I lost
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Speaker 1: down to eighty nine pounds, I dropped out of school.
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't do anything, and I really it must have
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Speaker 1: been the grace of God that brought me back. And
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Speaker 1: it kills you from the inside, and so I understand
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Speaker 1: what this must be doing to those children. But I
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Speaker 1: was lucky enough that the prosecutor found the killer and
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Speaker 1: brought him to justice. I don't know that I could
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Speaker 1: let it go if it was unsolved, Cheryl Michael. And
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Speaker 1: as a parent, it's harder for you to go to trial,
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Speaker 1: or it's harder for you to know there's a killer
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Speaker 1: walking around that could be at your child ball field
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Speaker 1: or church or restaurant. Are you kidding me? There's no
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Speaker 1: way it would be debilitating for me to think that
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Speaker 1: a murderer is out there among my children more than
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Speaker 1: going to court. Alan, what else have you learned? He says,
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Speaker 1: and I'm quoting this email. I want justice, but I
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Speaker 1: too fear the reality of bringing this case person to
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Speaker 1: trial and the emotional uncertainty that may go with it.
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Speaker 1: So you have to ask yourself, do you bang your
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Speaker 1: head on the wall every day with this? Do you
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Speaker 1: allow the unsolved aspect of this to infiltrate your thoughts
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Speaker 1: put yourself in a foul state of mind every day
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Speaker 1: when you have three kids to focus on starting I'm
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Speaker 1: done allowing this uncertainty to control me. This way, I
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Speaker 1: will leave the headbanging and brain rot to investigators. To
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Speaker 1: Dr Bryant Russell joining me, lawyer and psychologist, host of
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Speaker 1: investigation Discoveries Fatal Vows series, Dr Brian explained to me
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Speaker 1: what's going through the mind of Missy Beaver's husband when
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Speaker 1: he says he's just not going to care about this anymore.
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Speaker 1: It's going to force himself not to try to figure
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Speaker 1: it out. Well, I think some people will listen to
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Speaker 1: this and say, oh, you know, this must be a
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Speaker 1: fatal Vows case, because you know, he seems like he's
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Speaker 1: not that interested in pursuing the killer. That's an O. J.
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Speaker 1: Simpson kind of a thing. But you know, it calls
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Speaker 1: to mind something else. About the O. J. Simpson case,
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Speaker 1: which is that the children of somebody who is a
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Speaker 1: surviving parent in this case, do uh, you know, as
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Speaker 1: we saw with OJ's kids, they have an affinity for
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Speaker 1: their parent, and in O J's case, I believe the
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Speaker 1: parent was guilty, but this guy made be totally innocent,
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Speaker 1: and the kids are seeing that he is being absolutely
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Speaker 1: pilloried by many people on social media. And from what
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Speaker 1: I can tell, it's just strictly because they've heard, probably
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Speaker 1: from watching shows like mine and listening to shows like this,
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Speaker 1: that statistically, when these things happen, the spouses is the
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Speaker 1: most likely person to be the perpetrator, and so that
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Speaker 1: and of course they want justice for their mother. I
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Speaker 1: would think these children do, But they also probably have
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Speaker 1: some fatigue from seeing their father, who they want desperately
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Speaker 1: to believe is innocent and may very well be innocent,
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Speaker 1: be beaten up day after day after day on social media.
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Speaker 1: And so it doesn't really surprise me that much. In
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Speaker 1: other words, I think what he's saying maybe true that
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Speaker 1: the kids are at a point where, you know, if
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Speaker 1: this is going to drag on and on and on,
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Speaker 1: and law enforcement is going to go on indefinitely without
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Speaker 1: a firm suspect, you know, getting it past them and
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Speaker 1: moving on with their dad as a family may have
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Speaker 1: taken priority over getting the things solved and tried and
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Speaker 1: somebody convicted. Right now, we are learning that, just in
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Speaker 1: the last week's the husband, Brandon Beavers, is stating that
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Speaker 1: he is convinced the killer that murdered his wife one
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Speaker 1: early morning at a Midlothian church does not no, did
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Speaker 1: not know his wife. Now, Sheryl McCollum, cold case investigator,
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Speaker 1: you're the expert. You're the director of the Cold Case Institute.
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Speaker 1: I feel for Brandon Beaver's children so much, but I
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Speaker 1: just do not believe the killer did not know Missy Beavers.
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Speaker 1: The killer is waiting and this church out in the
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Speaker 1: middle of a rural air you at what three thirty
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Speaker 1: in the morning. No, doesn't steal anything. Manages to approach
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Speaker 1: and leave the Middle Lothian church without a vehicle being
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Speaker 1: spotted by any surveillance video, clearly having to park some
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Speaker 1: distance away and walk sneak up to the church. No bag,
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Speaker 1: no suitcase, nothing to steal anything. She was targeted And
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Speaker 1: I don't understand why Brandon is saying she was not targeted.
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Speaker 1: Maybe that's what he wants to believe, that no friend
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Speaker 1: or relative would have done this thing to her. I'm
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Speaker 1: not saying it was a friend of relative, but it
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Speaker 1: was somebody that knew Missy Beavers. I can tell you
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Speaker 1: that much, CHERRYL. McCollum. A lot of planning went into
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Speaker 1: this Nancy, from the outfit, traveling to and from wherever
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Speaker 1: he lives, to the church, staying in the church thirty
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Speaker 1: minutes before she arrived. Absolutely, there's there's no evidence of burglary.
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Speaker 1: There's no evidence of sexual assault that leads us with revenge.
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Speaker 1: She was targeted, that person was laying in wait for her.
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Speaker 1: And you know, again, a lot of what Alan was
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Speaker 1: saying earlier concerns me. The way he phrases things is
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Speaker 1: a little unusual to me, Like when he says, starting
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Speaker 1: two thousand eighteen, I'm not going to allow the uncertainty
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Speaker 1: to control me. I believe the head banging and brain
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Speaker 1: rot to the investigators. Well, we're not at two thousand
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Speaker 1: and eighteen yet, so I don't know what he's doing
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Speaker 1: between now and then. And the other thing that worries
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Speaker 1: me is when he says trust me, when I say
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Speaker 1: they are qualified me and the police. They're qualified what
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Speaker 1: to bang their head and rock their brains. I feel
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Speaker 1: very much from Mrs Family, very much. I'm crying vick
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Speaker 1: to myself. However, I don't consider finding the killer to
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Speaker 1: be brain rock or he and banging. However, to his defense, Cheryl,
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Speaker 1: to allow it to totally consume you like I did
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Speaker 1: after Keith's murder, I mean to do You can't do
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Speaker 1: that with when you have children, because they deserve a
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Speaker 1: happy mom. They deserve an upbeat, energetic mom. They don't
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Speaker 1: deserve a depressed mom spiraling downward because of evil in
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Speaker 1: in this world or cruelty or heinous crime. Um that
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Speaker 1: that's not what I want for them. And when I
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Speaker 1: find myself getting into that place, Cheryl, I mean, you
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Speaker 1: know you met me when I was a brandy prosecutor,
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Speaker 1: and that's I lived, breathed a drink, putting one guy
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Speaker 1: after the next guy, for the next guy, for the
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Speaker 1: next guy behind bars because trying to fix what happened
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Speaker 1: to Keith, I think, absolutely no question. But listen to me.
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Speaker 1: He says things like I wish the whack jobs social
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Speaker 1: media stuff would go to hell. He doesn't say he
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Speaker 1: wishes the killer would go to hell. He says, I
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Speaker 1: forgive the killer, and I wanted to know that what
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Speaker 1: his anger things played. You're piste off at Facebook. You
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Speaker 1: want Facebook to go to hell because they're calling you
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Speaker 1: out that maybe one day your kids may you know,
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Speaker 1: peer into this window that somebody thought you had something
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Speaker 1: to do with it. He should be the first one
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Speaker 1: seeking revenge on this person, the first one that every
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Speaker 1: day is demanding justice, real justice, which means you go
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Speaker 1: to prison. You don't have the right to walk the Thames.
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Speaker 1: Wait a minute, this is Texas and it's laying in Wait,
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Speaker 1: that's the death penalty case. Dr Brian Russell. I'm a
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Speaker 1: trial lawyer, I'm a crime victim. Sheryl mccollins that direct
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Speaker 1: from the Cold Case Institute, you're the shrink and host
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Speaker 1: of investigation discover these fatal vows plays analyze for us.
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Speaker 1: I'd say I don't ever judge at margat victim which
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Speaker 1: would be her fant Mimsy's family and what they're saying
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Speaker 1: because they're out of their minds with grief. But I
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Speaker 1: hear what Cheryl McCollum is pointing out way in Dr
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Speaker 1: Brian Russell, I think we may be connecting some dots
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Speaker 1: here that don't necessarily connect. I can understand what Cheryl
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Speaker 1: is saying, but but I can also see explanations for
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Speaker 1: these words that we're hearing from the husband that that
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Speaker 1: would be benign. And so I personally don't jump to
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Speaker 1: any conclusion based on the words that we're discussing here
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Speaker 1: this morning. And I look at the manner of death.
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Speaker 1: You look at how Missy died. That was a bludgeoning,
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Speaker 1: and you know that is usually indicative of one of
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Speaker 1: two things. Somebody who wanted to have up close and
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Speaker 1: personal contact with the victim during the crime, or somebody
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Speaker 1: who was surprised by the victim and grabbed whatever was
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Speaker 1: handy to uh to kill the victim. And so, you know,
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Speaker 1: I think that you're probably right. It's it's more probable
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Speaker 1: that it was somebody who had it in for this
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Speaker 1: woman and wanted to be up close and personal. But
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Speaker 1: I also think there's some percentage, maybe single digits, maybe
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Speaker 1: a little bit higher percent chance that it was somebody
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Speaker 1: who maybe wasn't that church with something else or someone
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Speaker 1: else in mind, and she came in there to teach
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Speaker 1: that class, and the person grabbed what was handy killed her,
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Speaker 1: and and took off without having accomplished whatever else it
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Speaker 1: was they were in the church to do well. Could
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Speaker 1: it be that all the loving memories he had and
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Speaker 1: I know they had marital discord. I know in the
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Speaker 1: search warrant police said that one of them or somebody
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Speaker 1: in the marriage was having an affair. Um. I know
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Speaker 1: there were issues. There are issues in every marriage, but
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Speaker 1: they're also loving memories. There's love at some point, and
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Speaker 1: there are children in his mind. I wonder if in
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Speaker 1: Brandon's mind that all the love is being drowned out
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Speaker 1: by all the vitriol on social media. You know, Cheryl McCollum,
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Speaker 1: I never would, as you know, talk about case murder.
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Speaker 1: I kept it a secret the whole time I prosecuted.
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Speaker 1: Hardly anybody knew because I did not want defense attorneys
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Speaker 1: trying to use it against me in any way at
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Speaker 1: a trial. Okay, so I had to keep it a
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Speaker 1: very closely guarded secret. Very few people knew that I
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Speaker 1: was a tangential victim of murder when I was a prosecutor.
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Speaker 1: I remember the first time I ever spoke about it publicly.
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Speaker 1: It was on Larry King and I, as you know
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Speaker 1: from us being friends, way way way back when in court.
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Speaker 1: There are chunks of time before and after keith murder
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Speaker 1: that I just cannot remember much less uh much of
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Speaker 1: the funeral and the trial. I remember very little of it.
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Speaker 1: When Larry asked me when it happened, I actually I
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Speaker 1: had the day right, August six, and got the year
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Speaker 1: wrong because I totally could not remember at that moment. Then,
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Speaker 1: of course online went wild, claiming all sorts of wild,
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Speaker 1: crazy stories that Keith wasn't murdered, that Keith didn't exist,
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Speaker 1: that this and that, and I it really, it hurt
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Speaker 1: me so badly I quit reading it. I hardly ever
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Speaker 1: to this day read comments. I want to hear healthy criticism.
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Speaker 1: Maybe I can do better. I'm sure I can't, but
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Speaker 1: I get what he's saying. Sheryl mccollumn. If you but
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Speaker 1: if you don't like it, don't read it. Sure, and Nancy, listen,
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Speaker 1: I don't want anybody to misunderstand where I'm coming from
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Speaker 1: as a crime's investigator, as somebody who's gonna analyze statements.
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Speaker 1: When you send a statement that says, quote, there is
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Speaker 1: no value in discussing events that led up to her murder,
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Speaker 1: or to speculate if she was targeted in Why I
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Speaker 1: gotta raise the flag on that, Nancy, Because well, I
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Speaker 1: agree with you, and the police need to be doing that.
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Speaker 1: If it's destroying him and his family, he needs to
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Speaker 1: just bow out of it and leave the police to
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Speaker 1: do their work. But to say I'm done with this,
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Speaker 1: I'm washing my hands, may not be the best way,
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Speaker 1: crime scene itself another thing Cheryl McCollum. In addition to
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Speaker 1: the person being there god knows what time and had
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Speaker 1: to be three o'clock in the morning to get her,
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Speaker 1: because I think she got there at like four and
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Speaker 1: this person had been there for a while. Not only
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Speaker 1: did they approach the structure or the Midlothian Church completely,
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Speaker 1: I detected on surveillance video. No car was seen, no
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Speaker 1: cell phone to my knowledge was alerted or paying at
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Speaker 1: that area at that time. But they were decked out.
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Speaker 1: They were dressed up in gray and costume to disguise
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Speaker 1: their identity. And when you go to that level, that
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Speaker 1: is premeditated. Somebody didn't put on this fake police swat
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Speaker 1: gear with the black motorcycle helmet that covered their face
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Speaker 1: and stormtrooper shoes. This is not a real swat outfit,
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Speaker 1: but as somebody dressed up in a swat outfit that
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Speaker 1: says police on the back, specifically to go into this
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Speaker 1: church at three a m. On the day she was
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Speaker 1: teaching there. Okay, that's a lot of prep work to
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Speaker 1: get to get decked out in this get up, Cheryl McCollum,
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Speaker 1: No question, Nancy, and I think it was part of
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Speaker 1: how they were going to get over on her. This
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Speaker 1: woman was in shape, this woman was strong. They couldn't
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Speaker 1: approach her distressed as a police officer because it would
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Speaker 1: show their identity. But swat obviously they were shielded somewhat,
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Speaker 1: but they still looked like an authority figure, so that
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Speaker 1: might give them just second they would need to strike
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Speaker 1: her the first time to desabilitate her. So I think
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Speaker 1: it was again part of their overall playing, part of
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Speaker 1: their overall crime. All investigators continue to receive tips about
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Speaker 1: missys murder. They still have not established a motive. They said,
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Speaker 1: say that they still don't know whether the killer was
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Speaker 1: a male or female. Now they are basing the female
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Speaker 1: possibility on the the the way the person walks, and
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Speaker 1: the probable height of the killer. What about it, Cheryl McCullum,
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Speaker 1: Male or female? You know, it is a little difficult,
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Speaker 1: but I would have to go with males. Um. I
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Speaker 1: think the type of crime. I think the way that
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Speaker 1: they opened the barn door, you know, the way they're
22:53
Speaker 1: going after those handles, the way they're breaking the glass,
22:57
Speaker 1: it just looks like a male to me. I mean,
23:00
Speaker 1: it's so typically male a male crime. Um. If it
23:06
Speaker 1: were a female, I would have I would think that
23:10
Speaker 1: a gun would have been used. But it clearly is
23:13
Speaker 1: someone that knew she was going to be there at
23:16
Speaker 1: that time and laid in wait. So way in Sheryl McCollum,
23:22
Speaker 1: targeted or no no question, targeted, revengeful, planned, organized. This
23:33
Speaker 1: killer not only knew her nancy, but remember it was
23:35
Speaker 1: raining that day. Normally she had her exercise clash outside,
23:40
Speaker 1: so she posted the night before that hey y'all it's
23:43
Speaker 1: gonna be raining. We're still training, it'll be inside. So
23:47
Speaker 1: this was planned but organized very quickly. But they moved.
23:52
Speaker 1: They were waiting older, no question about it, you know.
23:57
Speaker 1: Dr Brian Russell, Lawyer, Psychologists of Investigation Discoveries Fatal Vows Series.
24:04
Speaker 1: What do you make of this person decked out in
24:08
Speaker 1: fake police swat gear? What does that mean as it
24:12
Speaker 1: relates to the murder? Well, the fact that the person
24:16
Speaker 1: went to such great lengths to make themselves very difficult
24:20
Speaker 1: to identify suggest to me that they may have been
24:24
Speaker 1: familiar with this setting, and they may have known that
24:27
Speaker 1: there were surveillance cameras around and that they would have
24:30
Speaker 1: to be very well covered to avoid being identified on
24:33
Speaker 1: those cameras. One of the things that, as you know,
24:37
Speaker 1: I like to do in these kinds of cases is
24:39
Speaker 1: to see if there's any way that we can extract
24:42
Speaker 1: lessons for the living to help them to reduce the
24:47
Speaker 1: likelihood of their own becoming victims. And it's it's not ever,
24:53
Speaker 1: at least in my view, it's never a matter of
24:57
Speaker 1: victim blaming. It's just a matter of pointing certain things
25:00
Speaker 1: out that may actually extract some good from a tragedy.
25:04
Speaker 1: And one of the things I can tell you take
25:06
Speaker 1: it from me as a co host of Fatal Vows,
25:09
Speaker 1: which is about you know, spouses who have ended up
25:13
Speaker 1: being murdered for various reasons when somebody is involved in
25:20
Speaker 1: an extramarital activity. And I don't know for sure that
25:25
Speaker 1: this woman was, but there's that suggestion you actually create
25:31
Speaker 1: multiple risks to yourselves. I mean, this is reason number
25:35
Speaker 1: five hundred to not ever get involved in anything like that,
25:38
Speaker 1: because if you think about it, You've got your spouse
25:42
Speaker 1: now who is potentially upset enough with you to do
25:47
Speaker 1: something to you. You've got the fair partner if and
25:50
Speaker 1: when you decide to break it off, who may be
25:53
Speaker 1: upset with you. You've got the fair partners spouse or
25:57
Speaker 1: other significant other who may be upset with you for
26:00
Speaker 1: being a wrecker of that marriage or home relationship. And
26:05
Speaker 1: so you know, it is a very dangerous thing in
26:09
Speaker 1: many ways, uh financially, emotionally, and physically to get involved
26:14
Speaker 1: in anything extramarital. And again I'm not saying this woman was.
26:18
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to extract a lesson for our listeners,
26:21
Speaker 1: Ellen d joining me from l A. There's a lot
26:24
Speaker 1: to analyze regarding a little strip mall very near the
26:28
Speaker 1: mid Lothian Church. Here we are, early in the morning,
26:32
Speaker 1: rainy day in Texas. There's the surveillance video of a
26:38
Speaker 1: car pulling into a gun store parking lot across the
26:42
Speaker 1: street and down this divided highway just a little bit.
26:45
Speaker 1: Isn't a Nissan Ultima? Yes it was, Yes, Yes, there
26:53
Speaker 1: are seventeen security cameras at this the shop that captured
26:58
Speaker 1: the car pulling in and driving around the parking lot
27:02
Speaker 1: and parking for several minutes and then pulling away. Now,
27:05
Speaker 1: I've made a lot of that. I've made a lot
27:07
Speaker 1: of that because it's very difficult for me to believe
27:11
Speaker 1: Alan that the two are not connected. But they could
27:16
Speaker 1: be not connected. It's just hard for me to believe.
27:21
Speaker 1: That's small of a population. You've got a car. That's
27:25
Speaker 1: what did we figure out? X hundred feet yards from
27:29
Speaker 1: the church as the crow flies very close if you
27:33
Speaker 1: go the back. I've studied that aerial view so many times.
27:37
Speaker 1: If you go to the back of the gun shop
27:40
Speaker 1: and you walk from there through these trees, is densely
27:44
Speaker 1: wooded area. You're in Middle Lothian church parking lot in
27:49
Speaker 1: less than five minutes, right, So about an hour and
27:53
Speaker 1: a half after we see this car. That's when we
27:56
Speaker 1: see some other surveillance video. This is from an inside
28:00
Speaker 1: the church. How long after we see the car about
28:03
Speaker 1: an hour and a half, it's really not that long,
28:05
Speaker 1: but it was approximately four twenty in the morning when
28:09
Speaker 1: miss he goes into the church to set up her
28:12
Speaker 1: camp gladiator fitness class and her he's or she, we
28:17
Speaker 1: don't even know what the sex is appears in the
28:21
Speaker 1: video inside the church, caught by several cameras wearing the
28:26
Speaker 1: swat Light police uniform sort of a configuration of different pieces,
28:31
Speaker 1: and a helmet. You can't see the person's face. You
28:34
Speaker 1: can't even tell if it's a male or a female,
28:37
Speaker 1: but you see a distinctive walk. But nuts I would
28:40
Speaker 1: wear a helmet. It's um like a motorcycle helmet. As
28:44
Speaker 1: Alan is saying, covered in tactical gear, all black. It
28:49
Speaker 1: looks like to me black tennis shoes, solid black tennis shoes,
28:54
Speaker 1: and carrying a hammer, and carrying a hammer which they
28:57
Speaker 1: could have found within the church. There's controversy over whether
29:01
Speaker 1: that hammer came from inside the church or not. Yeah,
29:04
Speaker 1: the several minutes of video that the police have released
29:07
Speaker 1: from inside the church, it's very chilling video that shows
29:12
Speaker 1: this person wandering around the hallways of the church, checking,
29:16
Speaker 1: appearing to check doors and that kind of thing. When
29:18
Speaker 1: I say appearing, I'm wondering if this person is kind
29:21
Speaker 1: of putting on an act and pretending likes Alan stopped wondering.
29:25
Speaker 1: I can tell you that I can't tell you a lot,
29:27
Speaker 1: but I can tell you that I've watched it over
29:29
Speaker 1: and over. I mean it's like the person is wandering
29:32
Speaker 1: up down the halls and they get to a door
29:33
Speaker 1: and they go rattle, rattle, and keep walking and they
29:36
Speaker 1: never take anything. I mean, for Pete's sake, if you
29:39
Speaker 1: want money, go into the sanctuary. I hate to even
29:43
Speaker 1: say this, but I was gonna say, steal this crucifix,
29:46
Speaker 1: I mean, still something made of gold, try to find
29:48
Speaker 1: the electronic equipment. They didn't do any of that nothing.
29:53
Speaker 1: If they wanted money, then use that hammer and bash
29:57
Speaker 1: open the door, knob to the office US and look
30:00
Speaker 1: for money. For Pete's sake. Well, it was very obvious
30:03
Speaker 1: these people weren't there to rob. But you just said
30:06
Speaker 1: you didn't know if they were really you're not, I
30:08
Speaker 1: can tell you they're not there. To my point was,
30:11
Speaker 1: we don't know. It appears to me that they're acting
30:13
Speaker 1: as if they weren't familiar with the area as soon
30:16
Speaker 1: as she walks into the door, from what we're told
30:19
Speaker 1: by investigators, and they're not telling us a lot off camera,
30:22
Speaker 1: or at least a camera they're not releasing this killer
30:25
Speaker 1: used that hammer to beat Missy Beavers to death, puncturing
30:30
Speaker 1: her chest and just brutally killing her right there in
30:35
Speaker 1: the hallway. The crazy thing is, we've got all this video,
30:39
Speaker 1: and my guess is there's a lot of video that
30:42
Speaker 1: you and I are not seeing because the police have
30:44
Speaker 1: not released it and there's been tons of search warrants.
30:47
Speaker 1: There was a search warrant for the dry cleaner when
30:50
Speaker 1: the father nick taking a bloody shirt, and he was
30:55
Speaker 1: very open at the time. He went at this is
30:58
Speaker 1: from my dog's got into a dog fight in the kitchen,
31:02
Speaker 1: and there was linked in. There were cell phone tower searches,
31:07
Speaker 1: a T and T facebooks. I'm just still wondering about
31:11
Speaker 1: back to that car. I mean, NASA can pick up
31:15
Speaker 1: a picture of a rock on the moon, a rock
31:18
Speaker 1: you hold in your hand. Why can't they get the
31:22
Speaker 1: tag number of that? Or have they? That is another
31:26
Speaker 1: baffling thing. And let me tell you what's been going on.
31:28
Speaker 1: There's someone I've been in communication with. They asked me
31:31
Speaker 1: not to name them. But this is just a civilian.
31:34
Speaker 1: This is just a citizen who is really getting into this.
31:37
Speaker 1: And this person has blown up every single frame of
31:41
Speaker 1: that parking lot video, and about every day I can
31:46
Speaker 1: get another one sent to me. What do you think
31:48
Speaker 1: of this? They're trying to see what's in the INTERNI
31:51
Speaker 1: no tell me. I want to know what they're sending you,
31:54
Speaker 1: but I want to see it. One of the more
31:57
Speaker 1: interesting things, and you and I have talked about this before,
31:59
Speaker 1: is the license plate. You just mentioned the license plate
32:01
Speaker 1: on this car. This ultimate if you blow it up
32:04
Speaker 1: and look frame by frame on the video. The full
32:07
Speaker 1: video has been posted online by the owner manager of
32:11
Speaker 1: the gun shop, not by police, and we looked at
32:13
Speaker 1: it closely. But if you blow it up, the suspicion
32:16
Speaker 1: here is that that video has been altered to blur
32:21
Speaker 1: out the license plate. I mean, I look at these
32:24
Speaker 1: frames and everything is clearer except you look and as
32:28
Speaker 1: you follow the car it does look like maybe somebody
32:32
Speaker 1: has digitally blurred the license plate. Cheryl McCullum, what do
32:36
Speaker 1: you make of the car that was spotted in the
32:39
Speaker 1: parking lot there, very very early in the morning that
32:45
Speaker 1: the morning that Missy was murdered. Well, Nantha, we do
32:49
Speaker 1: want to find the driver of that car. Maybe they
32:51
Speaker 1: saw something, maybe they're aware of something. But regarding the
32:55
Speaker 1: license plate, a lot of times when a car either
32:59
Speaker 1: has reversed light come on the come home, because the
33:04
Speaker 1: license plate is reflective on camera, the plate just goes white,
33:09
Speaker 1: it becomes very bright, so it's almost impossible to read
33:12
Speaker 1: the letters and numbers because of that. So that maybe
33:15
Speaker 1: one reason they can't extract who that license light belonged to.
33:19
Speaker 1: Aland what can you tell me about a group of
33:22
Speaker 1: experts convening in Austin. The Mid Lothian, Texas Police Department
33:27
Speaker 1: doesn't handle a lot of these cases, as you can imagine,
33:29
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33:32
Speaker 1: to the state capital in Austin, and they assembled a
33:35
Speaker 1: panel of experts and Cheryl's probably been involved in these
33:38
Speaker 1: kind of things before, and reviewed for several days all
33:43
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33:45
Speaker 1: to get this thing restarted. But as the police chief
33:48
Speaker 1: tells us, it's still an open, active investigation. They've got
33:51
Speaker 1: a full time detective on this, have persons of interest,
33:54
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33:59
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34:01
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Speaker 1: thank you for being our partner today. It is chilling
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Speaker 1: to realize that Missy Beaver's killer is still on the loose.
38:15
Speaker 1: This person is likely watching, reading, and listening to everything
38:19
Speaker 1: said about the investigation. There is real fear that this
38:23
Speaker 1: cold blooded killer could strike again. Because of this, Missy's husband,
38:29
Speaker 1: Brandon Beavers, has chosen not to do media interviews. However,
38:33
Speaker 1: he has been corresponding with us, and you can read
38:37
Speaker 1: his full statement to Crime Stories on Nancy Grace's website
38:42
Speaker 1: Crime online dot Com. Investigators are also keeping quiet about
38:46
Speaker 1: their work. While we know some of what they're doing,
38:49
Speaker 1: we've been asked to keep much of it confidential. Middle
38:53
Speaker 1: Othian Assistant Police Chief Kevin Johnson did agree to talk
38:56
Speaker 1: to us on the record a few months ago on
38:59
Speaker 1: the one year and versary of Missy Beaver's murder. Well,
39:03
Speaker 1: it continues to be an open and active investigation. Obviously
39:07
Speaker 1: the tips have slowed, UM, but we continue to work
39:11
Speaker 1: through every bit of information we have. We have a
39:13
Speaker 1: full time investigators signed to this, as well as continuing
39:17
Speaker 1: our collaboration with our other investigative partners, particularly the FBI.
39:22
Speaker 1: Your department and you have been pretty quiet about this
39:24
Speaker 1: over the last several months. Should we interpret that to
39:27
Speaker 1: mean anything, you know? I think what you have to
39:30
Speaker 1: realize is our you know, our investigative strategy and our
39:33
Speaker 1: our media response or two separate things. Um. We decided
39:38
Speaker 1: early on that that that the investigation would come first, UM,
39:42
Speaker 1: and I think we've stuck to that. When there hasn't
39:45
Speaker 1: been anything to say, we haven't gone out there before
39:48
Speaker 1: the media just just for the sake of doing so.
39:51
Speaker 1: UM that to some people means that, um, you know,
39:56
Speaker 1: nothing is new, or I think some people have mistakenly
39:59
Speaker 1: assumed that that that we're not working on this case,
40:02
Speaker 1: and that's that's far from true. Um. Like I said, obviously,
40:06
Speaker 1: the tips have slowed down since the early months of
40:09
Speaker 1: the investigation. UM. And when we've had the time, we've
40:13
Speaker 1: gone back over information, conducted follow up and repeat interviews.
40:18
Speaker 1: UM got fresh eyes to look at the case. Nobody
40:21
Speaker 1: here has forgotten about the case. That's certainly not the situation.
40:26
Speaker 1: I think it's safe to say that in a small
40:28
Speaker 1: town and what you've got about twenty citizens in Midlothian,
40:31
Speaker 1: it's a lot harder to deal with an investigation and
40:34
Speaker 1: the media as opposed to a big city where not
40:36
Speaker 1: everybody's everybody's neighbor and everybody knows everybody. Is that safe
40:40
Speaker 1: to say? Yeah, that's probably an accurate statement, because when
40:43
Speaker 1: when there's a news report or speculation, let's just say speculation,
40:47
Speaker 1: it it can make things uncomfortable and more difficult for investigators.
40:51
Speaker 1: It can, it can and again, UM, you know, we
40:54
Speaker 1: just didn't want attention for attention sake or media for
40:58
Speaker 1: media's sake. And I know that's been frustrate it into
41:00
Speaker 1: some people. But but we've been very judicious with the
41:04
Speaker 1: information that has been released, and there's there's a lot
41:08
Speaker 1: of information that that hasn't been discussed and that we
41:10
Speaker 1: haven't responded to because we don't want to. We just
41:14
Speaker 1: we want to protect the integrity this investigation. Um. There
41:17
Speaker 1: are some people who think that that makes us less transparent,
41:20
Speaker 1: and then that because it's been a year, we should
41:23
Speaker 1: just open the books for for the whole world to see.
41:25
Speaker 1: And clearly that's not a reasonable approach to any kind
41:28
Speaker 1: of police work. More especially an investigation is important as this.
41:32
Speaker 1: Is there something the public can help with? I know
41:35
Speaker 1: that not long after this murder you put out some
41:39
Speaker 1: video and you put out the image that car of
41:41
Speaker 1: interest for example at the gun shop. Is there anything
41:44
Speaker 1: that people can look for or anything specifically you would
41:48
Speaker 1: like the public to be aware of. No, not that
41:50
Speaker 1: we haven't already said. I do want to encourage people
41:55
Speaker 1: if they have information that for whatever reason they haven't shared,
41:58
Speaker 1: maybe they didn't think it was important enough. Um, you
42:01
Speaker 1: never know what what tip may be helpful in this case? Um,
42:05
Speaker 1: And when we combine that with information we already know,
42:07
Speaker 1: it could it could, it could be productive. So if
42:10
Speaker 1: there's anybody who hasn't come forward that that has something
42:13
Speaker 1: to say, we certainly would encourage them to do that.
42:16
Speaker 1: Are you still wanting people to keep an eye out
42:18
Speaker 1: and for the potential car of interest that Nissan ultimately
42:21
Speaker 1: that you tweeted about. Is that still a thing that
42:24
Speaker 1: you would like people to be aware of. Absolutely, that's
42:27
Speaker 1: still a component of this investigation. That's an unknown and
42:30
Speaker 1: and certainly we yeah, we would, We would definitely love
42:33
Speaker 1: to locate that car and that driver. I know there
42:35
Speaker 1: are people who look very closely at those images and
42:38
Speaker 1: try to figure out what they can from that. Sure,
42:41
Speaker 1: So it's an active investigation. You have detectives working on
42:45
Speaker 1: it regularly, and Missy has not forgotten. I think that's
42:48
Speaker 1: the message today. Absolutely. Um. Again, you know you have
42:53
Speaker 1: to be careful drawn conclusions from you know, a lack
42:56
Speaker 1: of us, you know, being out on the front steps
43:00
Speaker 1: holding conferences when we don't have information that needs to
43:03
Speaker 1: be shared. And I think the lay person believes, hey,
43:06
Speaker 1: the more information the better, because you just never know
43:08
Speaker 1: what will happen, and that that may sound good until
43:12
Speaker 1: you realize, you know, someday we're gonna be sitting in
43:15
Speaker 1: an interview room as this killer and and anybody with
43:18
Speaker 1: a computer who's going to know every detail about this
43:20
Speaker 1: this crime um, and that's not a good position to
43:23
Speaker 1: be in as a as a police officer um or
43:27
Speaker 1: or the prosecutor of the case later on. So obviously
43:30
Speaker 1: we're going to treat this this investigation very carefully and
43:34
Speaker 1: um and again be be judicious with the release of information.
43:39
Speaker 1: I think it's interesting that you do have to have
43:40
Speaker 1: the perspective that someday this will be in the history
43:42
Speaker 1: books in in a way and people will look back
43:45
Speaker 1: and then they're going to find things to question and criticize.
43:48
Speaker 1: So you have to make sure every step you take
43:50
Speaker 1: is the proper one. Absolutely, And listen, I'll say this.
43:54
Speaker 1: You know, when this investigation does draw to a close,
43:58
Speaker 1: we will open the books and I would just ask
44:00
Speaker 1: people to reserve their their criticism for that day. And
44:04
Speaker 1: if we find then that there were mistakes we made,
44:07
Speaker 1: then then by all means, let's discuss it. Give us
44:09
Speaker 1: an opportunity to explain it, give us you know we'll
44:12
Speaker 1: all learn from it. We have probably made a mistake
44:15
Speaker 1: or mistakes that we don't yet know what those mistakes are.
44:19
Speaker 1: But we certainly we certainly are are we think our
44:24
Speaker 1: investigation is defensible. We we we are, We think our
44:28
Speaker 1: effort is is the best that this case could have.
44:32
Speaker 1: And so again, one day the books will be open
44:35
Speaker 1: and and and everybody can can um you know, make
44:38
Speaker 1: their opinion. Then I don't think it's fair now before
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Speaker 1: all the information is known, to draw conclusions about the
44:44
Speaker 1: investigation or what should or shouldn't have been done. Everybody
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Speaker 1: working on this case is dedicated to findingjustice for Missy
44:51
Speaker 1: and and that's that's our guiding principle when we make
44:55
Speaker 1: a decision about the release of information or an interview
44:58
Speaker 1: or a press conference, again, the investigation and what we
45:01
Speaker 1: do with the media or two different things. I think
45:05
Speaker 1: the public's interest in this case, in particular in our
45:08
Speaker 1: community is obviously just a reflection of of of how
45:13
Speaker 1: concerned they are about this case and how they are
45:16
Speaker 1: how concerned they are about our efforts. And I get that,
45:20
Speaker 1: but you know, the speculation, you know, and it goes
45:25
Speaker 1: with the business for us, the criticism and in the speculation.
45:29
Speaker 1: But goodness, you know, we're talking about human being here
45:33
Speaker 1: with a husband, mother, father, three beautiful girls. Um, you know,
45:39
Speaker 1: it's it's not just the subject of of public interest.
45:44
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's it's a person, it's a member
45:46
Speaker 1: of our community. And in some of the some of
45:49
Speaker 1: the reason why we and others I believe perhaps the
45:53
Speaker 1: family have been pretty calculated is because you know, there's
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Speaker 1: such a critical analysis of word choice and order and state,
46:04
Speaker 1: you know, to the extent that I think some people
46:09
Speaker 1: feel like they can't answer a question correctly because it
46:12
Speaker 1: will be it will be picked apart in social media
46:16
Speaker 1: and it will lead to to more insinuation or speculation
46:19
Speaker 1: or assumptions, you know. And certainly we wouldn't let that
46:24
Speaker 1: prevent us from from putting information out there that needed
46:27
Speaker 1: to put out and be put out there. But it's
46:30
Speaker 1: it's a it's an interesting challenge, it's a it's a
46:33
Speaker 1: frustration I think of as the policing field adapts to you,
46:39
Speaker 1: if you want to call it the social media age,
46:42
Speaker 1: you know, we've we've got to learn how how best
46:44
Speaker 1: to capitalize on that. Missy Beavers murdered in the Middle
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Speaker 1: Lothian church for children, her three girls facing life without mommy.
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Speaker 1: We want justice, Cheryl McCollum, Dr Brian Russell from Investigation Discovery,
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Speaker 1: Alan Deck, thank you Nancy Grace's crime story, signing off
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Speaker 1: goodbye friend, h