Crime Junkie - MURDERED: Missy Bevers

Episode Date: March 9, 2020

When Texas fitness instructor Missy Bevers was murdered in 2016, police and the public seized on an unusual clue that could lead them to her killer.  For current Fan Club membership options and policies, please visit https://crimejunkieapp.com/library/. Sources for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://crimejunkiepodcast.com/murdered-missy-bevers/ 

Hi crime Jenkees, I'm your host Ashley Flowers, and I'm Britt, and the story I want to tell you today is another one that was picked by our fan club members and truly it is one of the most Unusual cases I've ever seen and one that I've actually been following since it unfolded a few years ago This was one of the cases that was just so brutal so in your face that when it happened Everyone was sure that this was gonna just be resolved quickly like it had to be But instead of being solved this mystery has only gotten deeper and a killer is still on the loose This is the story of Missy Beavers In the early morning hours of April 18th 2016 a group of adults in their workout clothes

Gathered at the Creekside Church of Christ in Midlothian, Texas for their regular fitness bootcamp class Now the Sun isn't even up at this point But they're already and looking forward to the workout because their teacher Terry Beavers who's most people just call Missy is one of the Warmest most passionate and most driven instructors around Missy teaches the program called camp gladiator And she's even posted the night before on her Facebook page that even if they're normal outdoor workout gets rained out They're still gonna be training inside now It takes a lot of energy for Missy to get up that early because in order to be at class on time She has to leave her home in nearby Red Oak where she lives with her husband Brandon and their three daughters at like

3 30 3 45 in the morning, and she comes straight to the church to lead this high-intensity Workout before most people are even like awake. I mean long before I'm even awake for sure So ready to get started the students head inside the church around 4 35 a.m They make their way toward the classroom that they're always in expecting to find Missy like finishing up her preparations Maybe testing out her mic getting some equipment ready, but instead they find something they never could have imagined Missy's broken and battered body is lying on the floor Surrounded by blood and broken glass now She doesn't look like she's breathing and although no one wants to think about it

It's impossible not to jump to the most horrific conclusions So the students hurry to call 911 and according to the Midlothian police department's official timeline Officers from both the police and the fire department get to the Creekside Church of Christ within 10 minutes Paramedics are some of the first on the scene and they confirm the worst Missy is dead and there is literally nothing they can do to try and save her So amidst the grief and whore Missy's students are just totally Stunned and none of them can wrap their heads around it because who would possibly want to hurt Missy She was the type of person

Everybody loved and made friends everywhere she went plus there hasn't been a murder in Midlothian in literally seven years Homicides are for Dallas and Fort Worth like all of the big cities a few miles to the north murder just doesn't happen here Except it does because right away police can tell this was no accident and the students darkest thoughts are true Missy has been murdered and although they won't know for sure until the autopsy It looks like she died from puncture wounds to her head and her chest Instantly police get to work searching the building for any trace of the perpetrator Broken glass from vandalized interior doors Basically trails like breadcrumbs leading investigators on a course of damage through the church

Now it's weird because in my research it said that there was broken glass around Missy's body too But I couldn't find any details on this and it actually like drove me crazy Okay, so like was there like a window nearby or was there like a huge like sign of struggle or anything? That's the thing, you know, obviously, I'm not familiar with the church I couldn't find anything in the police's documentation or news reports after that indicated was there a big struggle What was the glass from around her was it from the room that she was in was it carried from a different area? Like literally nothing and this might not be a big deal, but for some reason I just like stuck on it so hard Yeah, that's that's super confusing that glass is like around her and trailing away or around her

But like you can't confirm anywhere that there's even any glass nearby Right, and so again, this might be something that I'm getting stuck on and police are like yeah We didn't mention it because it's not a big deal like there's just a broken glass in the room But it sticks out right and it's something worth noting so along with the broken glass all over police also found Forced entry marks on the church's back door from a pry bar So police wonder if maybe this was a robbery gone wrong like that's where their minds go to first Maybe this person wasn't expecting anyone to be there so early in the morning And they got startled when missy showed up and kind of like panicked in the worst possible way

Okay, but like this is a church and not like a huge like mega church that may be having like Millions of dollars in the basement or whatever like yeah, this is like a small town like what is there to steal? There's no like artifacts. There's no no you're like your money being stored there No, you're totally right Creekside Church of Christ is definitely not like the mega church you're talking about with overflowing collection plates or something Plus as investigators reach out to church officials and keep searching the building like they're unable to confirm anything is missing So even the very few things they might have had there are still there So right like the only things that I could think about would be like maybe like sound equipment or stuff like that

and if that's all there like What's the point right and like on top of this like nothing's missing? But because this is like a pretty tight-knit congregation in a small town The church didn't have any kind of alarm system and the cameras outside weren't working that night But luckily for police the church does have a video security system inside the hallways and it was recording all night long Right away investigators hurry to the tapes hoping for some insight into what could have happened to missy and so they go back to the beginning of the day's recordings and While missy isn't seen on any of the footage which again, this is one of those things that I spiraled on

I don't it just says everywhere. I think that she's not seen on the footage I don't know if she took a path to her class that just wasn't captured by video I don't know if something wasn't being recorded earlier in the day I don't know if maybe she's on video, but it just hasn't been released All I could find is that she's not seen on the footage again. No idea what that means But even though she's not seen on the footage There is someone else seen on the footage walking through the halls right there on the tapes is Some bone-chilling surveillance footage of someone in the church starting at 350 that morning

But I'm gonna send this to you so you can check it out right now one second okay, so I'm watching the video and Around the seven-second mark like a person kind of just appears out of a doorway and They look like they're in SWAT gear or something. Yeah, they're definitely in like I mean it looks like very tactical It looks official and like official police gear of some kind, right? Yeah for sure and then they Kind of walk through the hallway. There's another shot from probably another camera. It looks like a different hall and They're kind of opening doors around like the 21

second mark but like so this person goes like even they'll open the door when the doors open They'll even go inside, but they don't like bring anything out with them So it feels like they're looking for something. Yeah, like obviously I've never been in like a situation where I've had to search a building for anything but it looks like they're a cop or Military like clearing a building like they're going in Through a door. They're kind of looking in the room and then coming back out into the hallway And then going into the next door clearing the room and coming back into a hallway and it's very like systematic and slow

It's it means bizarre like there's no rush. It's no rush There's nothing like even drawn like you kind of expect like a gun and the flashlight cross kind of position and there's kind of like Meandering to be honest meandering is the perfect work because even the way like I'm looking I'm at like the 121 mark and even the way they kind of like tilt their head It's just like a very curious like wonder what's in here wonder what's in here and this person will like open the door look in Leave the door open and then just yeah, and I mean I'm around the 140 mark right now And there's like a split door which means that's in like a It's like a nursery setting like that's what my kids nursery at church looks like like there's a there's a half door

So that like parents can look in but kids can't get out and like I'm going Everywhere, I just caught a glimpse of something around the 146 mark. There's like something in this person's hand, right? But like it almost looks like a hammer. That's exactly what I was gonna say. It looks like it looks like a hammer But like I can't get a good glimpse of it But even on the back so well at the two oh four mark ish You can see the back of their jacket actually says police and it looks like they were Hammering at an actual like door or wall or maybe a window that could have been where our broken glass came from but still with like no sense of urgency like if the police were like coming into a situation where

They thought that someone was in trouble or they needed to save someone like you would expect some sense of urgency and he's just kind of laxidasically like pounding the glass like You would to get you know a framing done on a house or to break down a wall in your house during a remodel like it's It's very casual like there's I don't know There's just nothing that says that he's urgently trying to help or find anything so the other thing that comes up in this video all the time is again this person is walking very slowly very Methodically, but a lot of people see a limp in their walk as well and you know I again because they're walking so slow

It's a little hard for me to see it I can kind of pick up on it and it is something that that again I think police picked up on that the public has picked up on over and over Well, it kind of reminds me of the video of the suspect or potential suspect in the Delphi case like you see his gate But it doesn't really give you much more than like is that how he usually walks or is that intentional, right? So the Midlothian police department has this footage from day one and they actually start releasing the footage right away to the press And they even get it posted on YouTube so that people can watch it They can share it and they reveal some key details that they have been able to pick up on

The first is that they tell the public that they estimate this suspect's height to be Around or between five foot two and five foot eight though with a couple of inches for the helmet to like either like give or take away Either way, right? They also ask the public to be on the lookout for what they're calling that strange walk because Whoever the person on the tape is They have got what Dallas news calls a quote distinctive gate That was maybe caused by a possible foot or leg injury So they think this is something that people should be on the lookout for About the same time that they released this video, they also tell the public what Missy's official cause of death was

They say it was a head wound with multiple punctures to her chest Which according to the police records are consistent with the tools that the person in the video was carrying Again, they don't say what those tools are. I see a hammer I think other people have seen different things though. So we know none of that for sure Within just a few days the department gets flooded with tips But even with the help from various federal agencies like the FBI the US Marshals and even bomb sniffing dogs from the ATF police are still missing something critical They still don't have a motive

Robbery is looking less and less likely after the church officials confirmed nothing was taken And missy still had all of her jewelry when she was found and nothing else seemed to be taken from her at all So without anything obvious or definitive there's seemingly no motive for why someone would have wanted to kill missy And so investigators have to turn to her personal life to learn more about her And they start by talking to her friends and family to see if anything sticks out Now one of her regular workout buddies a guy named mark tells CBS news that missy had seemed off Lately and she was distracted and just like a little bit more reserved just like not her usual perky self So does the police think that maybe she knew or thought someone was after her?

So, I mean, that's what they're trying to figure out right because really this early on It's the only thing that would make sense of a crime like this So they subpoena missy's phone records and take her electronics into evidence so they can start sorting through Everything her her emails her text messages her phone calls her social networks like LinkedIn and it turns out missy's been using LinkedIn specifically to do more than just advertise her camp gladiator classes She's also been receiving some private messages that may hold the critical information police are looking for Missy had been using LinkedIn to chat with a couple of different people before she died and the tones between They're like two distinct sets of messages and the tones between those couldn't be more different

One was friendly and a little flirty, but the other was like strange and kind of creepy Now I couldn't dig up the exact contents of these messages But Tom Steel reported for the Dallas Morning News that the Midlothian police sent LinkedIn a search warrant to access missy's account And they actually made that warrant public So what we could gather from that is that the flirty one started out just as like this polite conversation But the warrant describes the messages turning what police call quote intimate which Instantly makes me like perk up a little bit like just kind of like a huh moment because I mean we know we know missy's married This isn't like any kind of smoking gun

But I mean I automatically want to know like who is this person and what are these like? What are the contents of this intimate message? But what's even more worrying than that though is the other set of LinkedIn messages The warrant goes into detail about how missy showed what we're calling these creepy messages to one of her friends who Who basically said yeah, this like isn't okay I kind of wonder if these messages have anything to do with like how her student mark like notice that she was acting differently Like yeah, maybe she felt endangered somehow or something Yeah, unfortunately that friend couldn't remember the name of the person who sent the messages like they remember this interaction of missy

Showing them and them being like at us is off, but like no specific details and police never again They never released the details of the messages They never released the person's contact information or name But the warrant does say that the sender was male and that missy didn't actually know him which to me was really surprising and just so strange like For a stranger to reach out to you and be sending you creepy messages LinkedIn is such a weird platform to do that. Right like this isn't like Twitter or snapchat or Instagram Like this is a professional networking site. Yeah, and I you know again, I don't know how frequently missy used this to

Like promote her services So maybe this is the one that she was just the most active on But it seems super strange that she was getting contacted by this stranger How would the stranger find her through LinkedIn and why are they targeting her now in addition to her LinkedIn account police noticed That missy used a lot of social media to advertise her camp gladiator classes Like I did a little bit of research on the program while I was preparing for this episode and it turns out that Camp gladiator they don't have like specific locations like a dedicated camp or gym or anything like all of the courses are held in places Like parks or event spaces or churches basically in spaces that can accommodate them

So the trainers like missy aren't employed full-time by the company the camp gladiator website calls them independent contractors And they're the ones in charge of arranging everything for the classes like getting the times getting the places sorted everything like that And so regardless of like any industry that you're in like missy's is obviously this is camp gladiator There are two huge parts of successful freelancing of successful independent contracting, which is what she's doing and that's marketing and accessibility Oh, right So like advertising yourself your product and like getting out into the public like that has to be your thing exactly like putting yourself out there I mean she'd have to answer questions. She'd have to be a friendly approachable like the whole nine yards I mean basically she's in some type of customer service

So if missy wanted to earn money and make a sustainable living as a trainer She basically had to give up some of her privacy even if she wasn't thinking of it as like that way She posted about her classes all over the internet with dates times places So basically she is her own brand Yeah And so for whoever this person was who wanted her debt whether they knew her or not It would be pretty easy to figure out where she was and when all they would have to do is check her pages to figure out her Schedule and again missy actually posted on Facebook about her Monday morning class the night before she died

Reiterating we're still gonna have class even if we get like bad weather So if her killer was tracking her movements on social media, there's confirmation of her location right there Aside from releasing the search warrant police keep the LinkedIn lead pretty quiet I think probably to avoid false confessions and having to waste time on like attention seekers And so while they're quietly pursuing this lead through the World Wide Web They also focus closer to home starting with missy's husband. Her husband Brandon is Obviously beyond devastated as you can imagine But he is trying his best to be strong for their three daughters now when police talk to him for the first time after his wife's death

He says listen, I was out of town in Mississippi on this fishing trip when she was killed And when police pressed him and asked him if he knows anyone who would want to do this to missy Again because this seems like such a targeted attack. He says no I can't think of any reason that missy would be targeted by anyone not at least anyone that he would know of But he does say that he'd been worried about missy in general just because of teaching those classes so early in the morning Like he just didn't think it was safe for her to be alone in the dark in a building by herself like that But Brandon knew how much missy loved the camp gladiator program and how dedicated she was to teaching so I mean though he was worried he never tried to stop her and

Missy might have agreed a little bit with him about the safety risk on some level because police did find a gun That was registered in her name in her car, but it's totally possible. I mean it's Texas It also could just been like a very regular part of her life to carry like for me especially in my family Like we grew up in a really rural area. It's not that uncommon for my dad and brother to be carrying like pretty consistently And even my sister sometimes. Yeah, and and I think about that again and especially I mean Texas is kind of known for being a a gun state Definitely and I think a lot of people have have concealed carry permits And even though she might have seemed off to her her student mark and maybe if she didn't even think it was a hundred percent safe

I think it just kind of goes to show you that like I don't think she expected anything to happen that morning because if you were worried About your safety or you thought anyone was coming after you you would have that on you wouldn't leave it in the car exactly So as Brandon continues to paint a picture for police of missy and of their marriage He tells them that his and missy's relationship was solid. They've been married for almost 20 years things were great at home and Listen, like this isn't everyone's like first rodeo police are all too aware that appearances can be deceiving So while they have no reason to doubt what Brandon's telling them They do keep like a close eye on him just in case and then

Someone very close to Brandon someone who also knows missy very well Does something shocking on April 22nd just four days after missy was murdered Her father-in-law Randy beavers shows up at a dry cleaners in town with a woman's White long-sleeve shirt that's covered in blood Now Randy tells the cashier at the dry cleaners that is animal blood from breaking up a dog fight But this employee is no rookie. They've been following the news again. This is a small town They know who missy is they know who Randy is and this does not feel right They're super skeptical about the dog story. So they call police according to the search warrant police get for the dry cleaners

The shirt Randy dropped off looked like someone had already tried to clean up the blood before deciding to leave it to the Professionals what makes this tip more interesting to police is that when they really look critically at Randy They notice something interesting about him he has the same stocky build as the person in the church surveillance video and Even more than his build It's kind of interesting to them that he walks with a very distinctive gate Here let me send you a comparison video So this video is also going to be up on our website

And that is Randy in the pink shirt leaving the Midlothian police station with his son Brandon And it's side-by-side with the video we have from the church I mean, I can definitely see where there are some build similarities and Especially how he walks like you said like his arms kind of swing at the same spaces and There is sort of a lilt to his gate. I wouldn't say it's like a full-on limp, but It is distinctive. It's strange, right? Like what I keep looking at is the way his arms swing Specifically, there's something about the way he kind of holds them out a little bit

And even if you look at the feet position from the person on our church video and Randy walking They both kind of walk with their toes pointed outwards. Yeah, so people get Obsessed by this similarity and speculation starts running wild now right away Randy says listen I was out in California when Missy was murdered But that is not enough to lift public suspicion on Randy or Brandon in a small town like Midlothian gossip spreads like wildfire there Now the police are already under a lot of pressure to solve this case And now it's like whipped into a total frenzy because in the court of public opinion that video of Randy walking is all the proof that some people need and

Many people are totally convinced that Randy's the killer just because of this video even though He's adamant that the blood on the shirt really is from his dog and Brandon sister Christie even backs her dad up She's like listen the dog bite happened at my house. It's a totally legit story So as soon as this comes out Brandon Randy and the rest of the Beavers family get right back in front of the media as soon as the Warrant from the dry cleaners is released to the public on April 27th Because in Brandon's own words at a press conference the warrant is quote a non-issue And they basically want to go in front of the public to clear the air before speculation gets too out of control Which I mean unfortunately with just the way the internet works like it's too late. It only takes two seconds

Yeah, it's too late at this point, but they are so convinced. They're just like listen. We want to get ahead of this Yes, this video is out there But I was gone the dry cleaners thing is legit and they actually thank the dry cleaners for being vigilant enough to call the police They're saying like listen eventually you're gonna see this is gonna go nowhere We actually thank the public so anyone who wants to come forward, please do even though we believe that this one is wrong Okay, but going back to the shirt like I assume they tested it right they do and the results come back just like Randy said the blood is in fact canine and Eventually police are able to verify that Randy made an emergency vet visit with his wounded dog

Who actually I mean horribly ended up later passing away But even after police announced this that yes, it really was dog blood on his shirt They still keep their focus on Missy's in-laws because just a few days later both Missy and Brandon's cell phone records start coming back and The results shed a totally new light on their relationship So remember how Brandon previously told police that their marriage was in good shape at the time of Missy's death Yeah, well despite Brandon's assurances police are able to sit down Unlock the phone unlock Missy's iPad see all of her texts

They get all the results back both like the ones in her inbox the ones that she had deleted like that's what they're getting from the records and This is when they learn the real truth about the marriage because right there Immortalized on the screen are texts that show Missy and Brandon's relationship was strained by both money problems and In fidelity and that to me sounds like a critical final ingredient police could have been missing a possible Motive so now that they have this according to the search warrant for Missy's cell carrier Police now want all of the information they can get about the digital interactions between Missy Brandon and there are nine specific persons of interest who own quote-unquote target numbers and Apparently these like nine numbers communicated regularly with both Brandon and Missy now some of those numbers belong to some family friends

One is a male camp gladiator instructor and his wife and one of them one of these target numbers also belongs to Randy Beavers and this is where kind of the speculation Still continues and takes a little bit of a turn because the public is wondering what if Randy got upset that his son was unhappy in a bad marriage like we know there were financial troubles There's this possible alleged infidelity. I don't know whose side it was on But people are thinking maybe Randy saw a way to free Brandon without risking him losing anything in a divorce Okay, as a parent like wanting to help your child out if you see there in a difficult situation But this seems a little bit extreme like not only is his adult son fully capable of handling his own problems

But like going rogue like this means taking away your grandchildren's mother like I guess I don't see it Well, one of the popular theories among people in online forums like web sleuth and stuff like that and again the people who are like kind of going rogue online is that possibly Randy and Brandon might have conspired together on this and Obviously police had to have had this thought as well, which is why police keep looking at him for a bit But ultimately they're able to corroborate Randy's alibi He wasn't even in Melothean when Missy was murdered neither was Brandon because I think that's what everyone thought at first like oh

We know Brandon was gone But then his dad did it and I remember like again reading on these crazy forums like back when this happened Everyone being like well, maybe they both booked trips and then they came back But no police verified both of their alibis Randy was out in California And so as much as he might have walked like the person in the video as much as people online Spiraled and had him convicted in their own minds He eventually is formally ruled out as a person of interest by a police along with the rest of the beavers family at a press conference on May 20th now

This is just a little over a month after Missy was murdered and they're able to officially say her family had nothing to do with it While the beavers family looks to be a dead end Police aren't totally giving up hope because at the same press conference where they announced that they're not looking at the family anymore Police also announced that they are looking for a new vehicle of interest a silver Nissan Altima built between 2010 and 2012 with an oval shaped bumper sticker Well, wait, I thought you said that the cameras outside the church weren't working the morning that Missy was killed Yeah, they were broken and I mean and according to Bethany Kurtz is reporting in the wax a hatchy daily light the church like again

Already knew that the cameras weren't working. It's not like they got tampered with or anything like that but Lucky for investigators They actually had some outdoor cameras from a sporting goods store just down the street from the church that were working that night and It's that camera that managed to capture Some interesting footage like again, this got released to it's eight minutes long, but I'm gonna send it to you I want you to watch just the first minute and five seconds of this Okay, so there's this car driving on the road and as they're turning into the parking lot they turn off their headlights

Which is bizarre and you can tell that it's raining which makes sense because you know Missy had said like we're gonna have some poor weather but we're still gonna have our practice or our training whatever and And this is from like a handful of different angles, which is really helpful But what throws me the most is in the description of this video It tells you the timestamps of when this car entered and then exited the parking lot and it entered at a little bit before 2 158 a.m. And Left at 204 a.m. So there's like six minutes. Yeah, we have no idea what's going on Yeah, and skip ahead to the 1 minute 48 second mark. Oh my goodness

They're just like kind of prowling the parking lot. They're just driving around like you can't really see anything super descriptive like a license plate in the video but Like okay, it's raining the quality isn't great But I mean, maybe they're like checking their GPS or something. I guess I don't know like I Guess I don't understand why they would turn their lights off and on while circling this building. No, that's That's exactly the thing. I can't think of a reason Anyone doing anything normal comes into a parking lot at that hour turns off their lights

I mean again, even if you're stopping to like do something if you wanted to turn off your car Turn off your lights, whatever to look at something But you don't turn off your lights and then like drive around Like you're prowling right and like again like even if you're checking your GPS like you kind of want to stay stationary So that yeah, yes can figure out where you are. Yeah, so Everything about this feels wrong and that's why police are so eager to talk to whoever this person was that was driving this car Because while they're very clear that this driver isn't necessarily a suspect their behavior is super unusual And since they were in such close proximity to an unsolved murder, maybe they know something

Maybe they saw something crucial without even knowing what they were looking at but unfortunately It doesn't pan out. No one comes forward with any kind of credible information about the car and despite getting over a Thousand tips just in the first month after Missy's murder case The case starts to cool off and even with the continued assistance from the FBI What looked like an open and shut investigation turns cold Months pass the spring turns into another hot Texas summer that eventually gives way to autumn and it's then Seemingly out of nowhere that word of a new lead hits the public radar numerous tips called into the Midlothian Police Department throughout

2016 all point to one man a man named Bobby who get this is a former Police officer police get a warrant to search Bobby's house in December 2016 and while the warrant was sealed initially a man named Tim Coville filed a FOIA request to actually get it released and since he was kind enough to post online I read it and It's a doozy so according to this warrant not only was Bobby a former cop in nearby Lancaster, Texas But he was also a tactical officer during his time in law enforcement and he's admitted to police that he still owns Some of his old gear just like we saw in the video from the church However, he tells police that that gear doesn't fit him anymore

Now the warrant also says that he's been on police's radar for far longer than anyone even Realized and he even came in to the Midlothian Police Department for an interview all the way back in early May Like when Randy Beavers was still under suspicion for that bloody shirt at the dry cleaners Wait, you said that law enforcement got like a ton of tips on him like what made him suspicious So there was like this whole group of things One of them Bobby attended services actually at Creekside Church of Christ just like Missy and her family So he would have been familiar with the building and the nearby area now it wasn't a secret that he used to be a cop and he had a second career as a licensed security guard who would work local events like

Say a funeral for a certain nationally publicized murder victim No, he did not do security at Missy's funeral. Did he he totally did and And probably the thing that made him stand out the most to those around him is that Bobby walks with a very distinctive Limp similar to the one seen on the surveillance tape so similar in fact that police call in a forensic Podiatrist to compare Bobby's walk to the person on the tape I've never even heard of a forensic podiatrist by the way I didn't know it was a thing

But I also saw in the warrant a little gem of info that police didn't reveal to the public before There's actually a second vehicle of interest a dark SUV that was seen leaving the church parking lot at around 430 a.m. On the morning Missy was murdered now We know that the students got there like 435 so to me This is a really interesting vehicle and wouldn't you know it Bobby drives at least at the time a dark brown 2014 Honda CRV that matches the second vehicles description of course now This also isn't Bobby's first time on police radar according to a 1996 article from the Waxahatchee Daily Light He was suspended from his job in law enforcement after being charged with aggravated sexual assault

Do we know if Missy was sexually assaulted at all so I can't say for sure I was never able to find any kind of confirmation of that on the flip side though I was also never able to find any statements where they explicitly say she wasn't but in just I mean Comparing the two incidents is like what he was charged with and Missy's case Missy's case was very Brutal and to me seems very targeted and at least from everything out there I mean it it seems like it was really about violence against her Whereas the assault that Bobby was charged with was Kind of planned differently than this it seems like he allegedly had like lingerie this whole twisted setup

So this other thing seems very sexually focused where I don't see any of that in Missy's case though That could be because police haven't released any of that information. I really don't know so we have Bobby's history There's the limp. There's the car. There's the police tactical gear all of which make him look pretty bad There's one big problem though. He's over six feet tall and outside of the suspects estimated height range But police aren't totally ruling him out yet Because there's something in a second search warrant that makes him look even worse According to a second warrant this time for Bobby's arrest the police search his house in December and turn up 12 Suspicious electronic devices that police took into evidence after months of analyzing those devices were found to contain child

pornography and Then when he finally gets arrested in June 2017 on the possession of child porn charges Bobby actually does an interview from prison with WFAA news where by the way like neither he nor the interviewer Like thinks it's relevant to mention why he's actually in jail But in this interview he denies even knowing Missy's name. Okay, so let me get this straight He's a person of interest He's in jail for child porn, but there's nothing about Missy's murder Yeah, he's not in jail for anything related to Missy

But here's the thing like what I can't figure out is what motive Bobby would have for killing Missy as far as I can tell There wasn't any kind of definitive link between the two whatever motive He may or may not have had though Bobby's alibi for the day of Missy's murder ends up checking out He ends up passing a polygraph test and eventually even the forensic podiatrist is Unable to definitively match his walk to that distinctive gate of the person on the surveillance tape So according to the WFAA broadcast, he spent over 70 days in jail before being released. I'm guessing on bail I'm not 100% sure and I really have no idea how the case panned out because he's not on the Texas sex offender registry list which seems like maybe not amazing and

And he's officially ruled out as a person of interest in Missy's murder and once again a promising lead Turns to nothing But just because the leads aren't panning out anywhere that doesn't stop the gossip around town because where the official Investigation leaves off the public jumps right in One of the best and worst parts of the internet is all of the information right there at your fingertips and people in Midlothian and even outside of Texas used this to their advantage. They were looking up names addresses personal information I mean the public latched themselves to this case and they wanted every scrap of information and detail that they could get Their hands on desperate to finally crack this case and bring Missy's killer to justice

Now a little bit of private speculation is harmless But Missy's daughter Hannah told Inside Edition in 2019 that I mean it got taken to a new level She was getting Facebook messages from total strangers saying that her dad killed her mom like Horrible stuff like that and the online craziness ends up getting so bad that the assistant chief of police Himself had to speak to the Dallas Observer about it and he says basically like I need everyone to just be cool Talking about these people like their murderers with literally zero proof and nothing from actual investigators on the case can ruin lives which is absolutely Right, I mean that's what we like we're so adamant about saying on this show like everyone is innocent until proven guilty

You can't go online and be accusing people like that and and you can't go messaging this girl I mean her father's been cleared. She's lost a mother and now she has to be just like bombarded by strangers who are attacking her family But I think though everyone's like passion about this case is a mark of how much Missy's death Unsettled people and how terrifying it is to see someone right there on film and Knowing that they're still walking free unpunished for committing a terrible crime You brought up the Delphi case earlier today. This reminds me so much of that Definitely, how can we have this person on film walking on film? I mean in the Delphi we have him talking and how can we not know who this person is?

So with lead after lead just pushing police to dead ends the first anniversary of Missy's murder passes Then the second with still no suspects no arrests and no step closer to the truth Which to me begs one very important question What if the killer isn't what they seem in? 2018 two years after Missy was murdered the case gets a new detective and police make something clear to the public in the Very early days of the investigation police used male pronouns to talk about this suspect But they backed off of that pretty quickly and clarified that they actually couldn't tell the person's Gender and that it could in fact be a woman and though they try and corrected that early on like this was like a big push

I think later in the investigation has more importance now than ever since no one has been arrested They want everyone out there to make sure they notice that police never determined a gender for the suspect in the church surveillance videos in other words, there's nothing to suggest that Missy's killer couldn't be a woman and Brandon beaver's her husband is actually pretty on board with this theory right from the beginning of the investigation He actually told People magazine way back in 2016 that he thought Missy was murdered by a woman who knew her and he actually pointed to Missy's wedding ring still being on her finger as Proof that she was targeted, but what does that have to do with like gender or motive? I don't know so it doesn't connect for me either, but that was his logic at least from this article

Or at least how the article portrayed it Missy's wedding ring and the rest of her jewelry were there with her body I mean we've already talked about how nothing was missing from the church, which makes robbery seem unlikely to me So I don't know if he was thinking Robbery was more of often committed by men. I mean again, I have no idea what I'm missing I feel like he's piecing something together that I'm not privy to I mean if we go back to whether or not she was sexually assaulted I think if police or family know for sure she wasn't maybe that would lead them to believe that it could be a woman as well I mean, but on that same note like it's not like men can't commit murder without sexual assault like so to me This doesn't mean anything. I really just feel like I'm missing a piece of the puzzle

I mean man or woman though considering how brutally she was murdered I do think Missy's death was a crime of passion If she was in the wrong place at the wrong time and walked in on a burglary or something like that Like why not just hit her once or twice knock her out and then run right and even more than that? Like this wasn't a cold clinical like bullet between the eyes very passionate thing Yeah, I mean we have multiple puncture wounds penetration rage This is an angry crime this whole thing feels personal to me Which takes me back to Missy's text messages and that flirty stuff that we've heard about on LinkedIn now to be very clear

Police never specifically said if the infidelity within the marriage was caused by Missy or Brandon or both But if we speculate for a second that it could have been on Missy's part Say the person she was having an affair with could have been married to maybe their spouse could have been upset about the affair Blamed Missy got mad Maybe mad enough to kill so what you're saying is she could have had maybe an affair with a married man His wife finds out kills Missy like jealousy is like something that we see all the time in these stories Yeah, and so obviously this is another theory that you'll see online all the time And I mean you saw the tape and how I think what I find is interesting and we talked about it earlier

Like the limp was hard for us to pinpoint on I think that's because The limp that everyone made such a huge stink about To me, it's it's not even super consistent Like the more I watch the tape the more the limp looks off and honestly I think it could have been faked and that's why even the forensic podiatrist couldn't trace it because I mean What if this limp didn't ever exist? Okay? Here's my thing about the limp like I grew up on a farm in the middle of northern Indiana and I would wear like coveralls like head to toe in the winter to do chores and

my gate changed wildly when I was wearing those outfits because it was just way bulkier clothing and usually I had like My full outfit on underneath and it was just awkward to walk And so it maybe wasn't super consistent But if you aren't used to wearing that or even if you are sometimes like that can really change how you carry yourself Especially your arms because you have multiple layers That you aren't used to kind of like moving around the world in that actually makes a lot of sense So if this person again if we're gonna operate for the second thinking what if this is a woman? This person's walking down the hallway. I mean you've got all these extra layers

It would push your arms out a little bit more. It pushes the way you're like feet like move a little bit more I mean that actually your legs are literally heavier that actually makes a lot of sense and listen I kind of Wonder if police are looking at a woman too because according to the affidavit for Missy's cell phone records Whoever made that affidavit describes the person as having a quote feminine sway I mean that is police's exact Phrasing and the height range of the suspect is right in line with the average height of an American woman like literally I'm totally just spitballing here But I really think that there's more here than meets the eye and I think that the person on the tape

Planned it to be that way and I think everything that we are saying is super valid but like I guess my thing is I have a really hard time believing that it's as simple as You know an affair that gets found out and a jealous wife explodes like They have so much and it's been years police have phone records names They knew they knew who to look at and the fact that they're still looking Years later. It makes me think that there's something bigger or stranger or darker than we can even imagine And I think you very well could be right It's been almost four years since an unknown person strolled casually down the halls of the Creekside Church of Christ early on that April morning

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