Criminology - The Church Murders of Rev. Carol Daniels and Terri "Missy" Bevers

Episode Date: January 19, 2019

In this episode, we're discussing the murders of Reverend Carol Daniels and Terri "Missy" Bevers. Daniels was brutally murdered inside the church where she preached each Sunday. Terri "Missy" Bevers, a fitness instructor, was murdered inside a church where she gave early morning fitness lessons. Both murderers were likely caught on tape. In the Bevers murder, the video surveillance shows someone dressed in black, in police SWAT-type clothing. These are two senseless murders that have yet to be solved. You can help support the show at patreon.com/criminology An Emash Digital production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Okay. In this week's episode, we're discussing two separate cases involving two different women who were murdered in. churches under different circumstances. So we have two different victims. One victim was African American, the other Caucasian. One was a reverend. One was a fitness trainer. One victim was 61 years old. The other was 45. But the common thread between these two women was that they both died under shocking and bizarre circumstances. And their senseless and brutal murders made Heather. lines, they struck fear in the hearts of their communities. I mean, people were stunned by these two cases, and they were left wondering, if you're not safe in church, are you really safe anywhere?

Today we're talking about the murders of Reverend Carol Daniels and Terry Missy Beavers. Our first case today takes us to a small town in Oklahoma, where the grisly murder of a beloved Reverend shocked even the most seasoned detectives there. The town had never seen a crime like this brutal murder before or after. Reverend Daniel's murder took place in the small community of Anadarko, Oklahoma, which lies on the western plains of the sooner state. It's about 60 miles southwest of Oklahoma City. The city of Anadarka, Oklahoma calls itself the Indian capital of the nation, where 44% of its residents are Native Americans. This community of roughly 6,600 residents, is home to one of the most horrific crimes in Oklahoma history.

In 2009, the mutilated body of 61-year-old Reverend Carol Daniels was found inside a small Pentecostal church in Anadarka. She was found positioned as if she was on a crucifix. Now, initially, police released few details of the homicide because of the horrific way that Daniels was killed. But this crime struck fear in local residents, particularly. other ministers who wondered if the killer had something against people of the cloth, or was this some disturbed person going around killing anyone he or she came into contact with?

When the grizzly details were finally released, people in this small Oklahoma community were left terrified and cautious. They wondered who would be next. There were so many questions. Was this the work of a serial killer? Was this a satanic? cult? Did the killer act alone, or did they have a partner? Who would kill a minister in such a horrific way and why? The district attorney later called it a foiled robbery at the hands of violent

drug abusers, but no arrests have ever been made. Carol Faye Daniels was born on October 26th, 1947 to Theopolis and Charles Edda Dunlap. She was the second of four children born to them. Carol graduated from Central State University in Edmund, Oklahoma, in 1971, with a degree in chemistry and biology. That same year on June 25, 1971, she married Alvin Daniels, and the couple raised five children, Alvin III, Galen, Quentin, Viola, and Raina. In 1990, Carol Daniels was ordained in ministry by Christ Holy Sanctified Churches, and was a member of the Holy Temple Church in Oklahoma City. In 2001, she was appointed pastor of Worthy Temple and Anadarko. Over the years, Carol held many offices with Christ Holy Sanctified churches and was both secretary

and treasurer for the state of Oklahoma at the time of her death. Carol was known to her friends and family as sweet and loving. She was the type of person who would do anything for anyone. She loved her children, and she was always there for them. Carol's mother, Charles Etta, said her daughter spent most of her time helping others and went to Anadarko on a regular basis with the expectation of someone wanting to see the Lord. She very much wanted to prove to people that Jesus was real. The worthy temple Christ Holy Sanctified Church, originally located at 305 North First Street, was a small Pentecostal church in a weather-beaten building in a rundown area of Anadarko. It no longer had a congregation, but Reverend Carol Daniels drove 60 miles from her home in Oklahoma City every Sunday to minister to lost souls. She was very eager to serve and to save anybody she could.

Sunday, August 23rd, 2009 was like every other Sunday before it. Carol woke up, got dressed, and drove to Anna Darko. It was a warm summer morning, and she arrived at the church around 10 a.m. to prepare for the day. At 11.40 a.m., retired Bishop Silky Wilson Jr. and his wife, Julia, of Spencer, Oklahoma, were the first to arrive at the church. When they tried opening the front door, it was locked. So they knocked on the door. They knocked on the window panes, but Reverend Daniels never answered. They saw her car parked in front of the church, so they knew something wasn't right. At 11.51 a.m., Julia went down the block to the Anadarko police department. to ask police to check on the Reverend. Julia told police, Carol's car was at the church, but she wasn't answering.

A few minutes later, Officer Ashley Burris arrived at the church and briefly spoke with the Wilson's before entering the building through a side door. This was at 12.04 p.m. Once inside, he saw the lifeless body of Reverend Carol Daniels lying naked on the floor. There was blood everywhere. Clearly, this was a murder. Burris was shaken by the discovery, and he immediately called for backup and made it clear that the killer was not in custody. Detective James Howard took the call from Burris.

He could tell by Burris' voice that he needed another officer down there right away. An ambulance, Detective Howard, and Cato County Sheriff's Deputy, Doug Butler, arrived at the church. Burris, Howard, and Butler checked the building and secured the crime scene. Another officer went outside and told the Wilson's that the scene did not look good. He did not allow the couple into the church, so they sat in their car and waited. Inside, the church was a gruesome scene. Carol was lying flat on her back behind the altar. Her arms were outstretched, almost as if on a crucifix.

Her hair had been set on fire, and she had been stabbed multiple times. The killer stripped the body and doused it with a cleaning agent, most likely to destroy any evidence. The killer also kept Carol's clothing, either to hide more evidence or as a grizzly trophy. The murder weapon was never found. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation or OSBI were notified of the homicide shortly after Carol's body was discovered. Around 2.21 p.m., police dispatchers took the first media call asking for confirmation of a homicide. 40 minutes later, two women informed Charles Eda Dunlap of her daughter's death. It was Bishop Wilson that called the ladies and asked them to contact Charles Eta.

About an hour later, Carol's son, Galen Daniels of Oklahoma City, called police asking for information about his mother. But he was told very little over the phone. So Galen picked up Charles Eta and the two headed to Anadarko. On their way there, a state trooper pulled Galen over for speeding. The two people in the car were extremely distraught and told the trooper about Carol's death. The state trooper let them continue to Anadarko without giving them a ticket. Around the same time of the traffic stop, Carol's other son, Alvin Daniels III, called Anadarko police also trying to get information about his mother.

Around 7 p.m., a woman who lived in the 300 block of West Broadway called police to tell them she heard, quote, The preacher lady got killed and was put on the altar with no clothes on. The woman asked police for extra patrols in her neighborhood for a couple of weeks. She was frightened because the murder was too close to home. Later that night at around 11.30 p.m., she called police again trying to get more information and claimed that what she heard made her sick and that she had trouble sleeping that night. The woman later claimed she called police a few nights after the murder when she heard a knock on her door at 4.15 a.m. It's not known who the caller was because local newspapers did not release her name to protect her identity.

The first few days after the murder, police released very few details of the homicide to the public. But Cato District Attorney at that time, Brett Burns, told local reporters the crime scene was the worst he had ever seen. and he had prosecuted over 50 murders up to that point in his career. A homeless man named Robert Richardson told the media that he saw a man running from the worthy temple around the time of the murder. This guy was coming out. He was covered in blood and he had a ski mask on. He had a knife in his hand and he was dripping blood.

This is what Richardson told the Oklahoma paper. He went on to say that he was. was at a car wash that Sunday morning when he saw the man emerge from the Christ Holy Sanctified Church. It wasn't until a few hours later after he saw this man that Richardson found out what happened inside the church. Richardson didn't make his statements to the paper until days later. He had been drinking, which is why he did not immediately report the sighting. But there were a few contradictions in his story. In a published report, he said that the blood-soaked suspect was black and baldheaded. But he told the Channel 9 news that the man was wearing a ski mask.

According to Richardson, police questioned him in the murder, which made Richardson nervous, but he denied killing the pastor. An OSBI spokesperson refused to confirm or deny Richardson's story or whether or not police questioned him at all. A preliminary autopsy was conducted the Monday after the murder. But OSBI spokesperson, Jessica Brown, would not say any about the cause or time of the Reverend's death. She wouldn't discuss a possible motive or what evidence crime scene technicians collected at the scene. All she said was there was trauma to the body, the indicated foul play, and that the position of the body was staged. The Oklahomaan interviewed Brent Turvey, a criminal profiler and private forensic scientist. He was quoted as saying that the

evidence didn't appear to indicate a cold-blooded serial killer. He said, quote, this is someone who felt they had been pushed way too far or wronged by something she had done. They felt like they had to do these things. But this person was in a complete rage, a blind rage. Tervey argued that a serial killer would have taken one piece of clothing as a trophy, but not all of the clothing. Turvay said, quote,

the taking of the clothes was not done for a trophy, but was rather a practical act. The use of a dissolving spray was also a practical act. Tervey went on to say that the position of the body might have been a coincidence. Quote, it's either one of two things. It could have been deliberate. They're in a church. They put her in this position. Perhaps a defiant way of saying,

Screw you and your God. Look how your God didn't help you. Or it was not at all deliberate. and her body just fell that way. It's highly common to find a nude body lying on the ground with their arms outstretched like a cross. In fact, it happens all the time, Tervais said. On average, two or three murders take place each year in Anadarko. But this murder case had investigators stumped.

They had no idea who would want to murder Carol Daniels. They offered a $10,000 reward for any information leading to an arrest and conduct. conviction. Another $5,000 was added to the reward by crime stoppers. When the official autopsy report was released, it showed that the killer inflicted deep gaping wounds to the victim's throat that nearly decapitated her head. Severe lacerations were found on her left breast, back, stomach, and hands. Gashes to her hands showed that Carol Daniels fought against her attacker. And then she had wounds to her chest, stomach, and back that were listed as most likely being inflicted post-mortem. As the investigation continued, police looked for anything that could lead them to the Reverend's killer.

OSBI tried to pull fingerprints and uncover any DNA, but they had no luck. Video surveillance retrieved from the step-and-fetch convenience store to the north of the church showed Carol driving up in front of the church on Broadway Street at about 10 a.m. It also captured a blurry white figure running from the vicinity of the church and crossing the street around the time of the murder. Police sent the videos in for enhancement, but they were never able to identify the person. There were a lot of people out and about at that time, so police knew somebody saw something, but people were too afraid to come forward at the time.

Over the years since the murder of Reverend Daniels, there have been many theories and possible motives. The new Cato County District Attorney Jason Hicks eventually called it a foiled robbery where the suspects were probably looking for drug money. Investigators started hearing rumors involving two particular individuals who were violent drug dealers. One of them was a woman named Denise Cooper who was previously imprisoned for methamphetamine. and cocaine and had a history of assault. In 2015, a neighbor of Denise Cooper came forward. The woman told police that she witnessed Cooper entering a shed,

wearing a black blouse, and holding a knife that had blood on it. The witness claims that Cooper was burning something. Although the woman came forward in 2015, she told police that this incident happened around the time of Reverend Daniels' murder. The witness led police to the shed, and they searched it but came up empty. A few days after this, the witness passed away. OSBI polygraphed other potential witnesses and even Cooper herself, but no one confessed.

In March 2017, a multi-county grand jury took up the case at the request of the district attorney. Grand jurors specifically wanted to look at whether Cooper was involved in the murder of Carol Daniels and whether she had any accomplices. District Attorney Hicks had another setback when Denise Cooper, who was also known as Darnell Cooper, died of cancer on February 21st, 2017. This was before the grand jurors could hear her testimony. She was on probation at the time of her death. Jimmy Cooper, her son, testified briefly before the grand jury. He told the media as he left that the grand jury wanted to know about his mother. Other possible witnesses were called to testify.

One was Kevin Mayhan, who was imprisoned at the time, but he had nothing of value to offer the grand jury. District Attorney Hicks was asked in 2018 whether he thought this case would ever be solved. And he was quoted as saying, I look at it this way. It is solved. My question is, will we ever be able to bring it to justice? And I'm not going to stop trying. And Mor, if I think you have to try to break that down and interpret what he's saying, because he doesn't come out and say it.

But just the mere fact that he's saying it is solved, I think you can make the inference that he believes Denise Cooper was involved in this murder. Maybe not on her own, maybe not by herself, but in some way involved. I think you're right, Mike. I think the district attorney feels that she was. involved and although he can't prove it, he thinks the case is closed. Four years after the murder, Charles Etta was interviewed by a local newspaper. She mentioned that Carol's purse and briefcase disappeared from the church the day of the murder. Yet police never mentioned these two items.

Two men often visited the church when Carol was there. One would play the piano and the other guy would sit in the back of the church. Carol told the men that they would have to be saved or they couldn't come to the church anymore. Charles Edda wondered if those two men were somehow connected to the murder. Authorities never commented on this information. In January 2012, Charles Zeta once again spoke with the media and said that she was questioned by investigators about a person in Chicago, but no name was ever mentioned. OSBI did confirm in March 2012 that they were investigating leads out of state. Reverend Carol Fay Daniels was laid to rest on Monday, October 31st, 2009. The funeral service took place at Greater New Zion Baptist Church and burial was in Arlington

Memorial Gardens in Oklahoma City. Over a thousand people paid their final respects to the beloved pastor. At the funeral, friends and relatives were greeted by Southern gospel music coming from speakers and a projection screen that read celebrating the homegoing of Pastor Carol Daniels. After Carol Daniels, brutal murder, the worthy temple Christ's holy sanctified church closed its doors. In July 2010, the building was torn down and replaced with a memorial in Carol's honor. There is no church here anymore, but what could have been a place forever haunted by the memory of a cold-blooded murder is now a place where one woman's faith and spirit lives on. What it means to me is that people still care. More than two years,

after his mother's death, Carol Daniel's son Galen says it's appropriate this memorial is in a place where people came to see his mother preach and get closer to God. There are two stone benches. Here, a marker with Pastor Daniel's photo and across from it, another marker with a Bible verse. The cross bears the inscription IHS. It stands for in his service. That was her whole purpose. She was saved since she was eight years old. And she loved telling people. So she loved Christ all her life.

This memorial, I think, just gives people a different feel about it all. It is very, very tragic, very, very sad. But this is just a bit of the sweet. We can honor her memory. The children of Carol Daniels still seek justice for their mother. and Carol's mother, Charles Etta, she's now 90 years old, still resides in Oklahoma City. In 2012, the first officer who arrived at the scene of Carol's murder, Ashley Burris, took his own life inside the Anadarko Police Department. On April 18th, Officer Burris walked into the station, sat down on a lobby chair, and shot himself in the chest.

Paramedics arrived and he was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators learned that he was trying to work through domestic issues. He was only 34 years old and left behind two children. Currently, there have been no further updates on Carol Daniels' murder. Anyone with information on the murder of Reverend Carol Daniels is encouraged to call the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation at 1-800-522-8017. In the suburbs of D.C., a woman fails to show up for work and is found brutally murdered. I wonder what's emergency. We just walked in the door and there's blood in the foyer.

For the next two decades, the case remained unsolved until new technology allowed investigators to do what had once been impossible. A new series from ABC Audio in 2020, blood and water. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts. The next church case we're talking about takes us south of Oklahoma to Midlothian, Texas. a community of about 25,000 residents, 25 minutes southwest of Dallas. The victim in this case, Terry Beavers, was different in many ways from Reverend Carol Daniels, but her death was every bit as unusual. Midlothian, Texas has an average of only 22 violent crimes a year, and it's rated 39 on the

crime index, which means it's safer than 39% of U.S. cities. The last unsolved murder in Midlothian prior to 2016 was from the early 1980s, when the body of an Arlington man was found in a field near Padera Lake. But in April 2016, a murder took place in one of the safest areas of the city, and it is still unsolved to this day. Terry Missy Beavers was born in Graham, Texas on August 9, 1970 to James and Norma Strickland. She graduated from Jacksboro High School in 1988 and Tarleton State University in 1995 with a Bachelor of Science degree. After college, she spent several years working in the retail industry. On June 20, 1998, she married Brandon Beavers. After Missy and Brandon Mary, she received her teaching certificate in special education and taught school for about three years.

On March 11, 2001, Missy gave birth to the couple's first daughter, Hannah, followed by another daughter, Allison, on March 7, 2003, and Sarah on November 6, 2007. Missy was a loving mother who sold to her family's every need. Missy loved God, her family, and friends, and the ocean. Most of her life, she had been a motivator, so it was no surprise to those that knew her when she developed a passion for fitness and wanted to help others get fit. Missy worked extremely hard to get herself into peak physical shape. She eventually became a fitness trainer with Camp Gladiator, fitness company owned by Jeff and

Ali Davidson. Ali Davidson participated on the show American Gladiator in 2007, and then she and Jeff started Camp Gladiator in 2008 with winnings from the show. Trainers with Camp Gladiator teach a four-week outdoor boot camp fitness program for all fitness levels. It was this program that brought Missy Beavers to Creekside Church of Christ in Midlothian a few mornings each week where she taught classes at 5 a.m. On the morning of April 18th, 2016, Missy entered the church around 4.20 a.m. to prepare for class. When her students arrived around five, they found Missy dead on the floor and called 911. Police arrived at Creekside Church

just after 5 a.m. after answering a call about an unresponsive woman. That afternoon, they held a press conference. Good afternoon. My name is Carl Smith. And thanks for coming today. First of all, we want to offer our heartfelt condoluses to the family and the victims. This is a tragic event. We're all involved, including our community. This morning in approximately 5 a.m., Midlothian officers and the MS were dispatched to an unresponsive person to the Creekside Church. in the 5,400 block of East Highway 287. Midlothian officers arrived at the location just after fire, Department of Medics arrived on the scene,

and the medics were attending an unresponsive female as officers entered the church. The officers deserved a lot of glass, broken glass on the floor and the female, as well as the female. They started to search of the building and make sure there were no other individuals in the facility. During the search, the officers found evidence of forced entry into the building indicating a possible burglary. The entire building was searched and nobody was found.

After that, the victim was pronounced, deceased by Ellis County Justice to the Peace, Bill Woody, and officers at the scene located evidence in force entry. The victim was identified as Terry Bieber, 45 years of age from Midlothian, Texas. The victim was transported to Dallas County Medical Examiner's Office. During the course of the investigation, the detectives located and collected a video evidence. The video depicts an unknown male walking inside the church building, dressed in a police type clothing and wearing a helmet and gloves. We are releasing the video.

I believe Commander Spann is going to let you guys know how to get that from our YouTube channel. we are asking soliciting any information regarding this offense or identity of any unknown mail on the video asked to call Midlothian Police Department at 972-775-3333. The investigation is ongoing and further updates will be provided as additional information becomes available. The security cameras in the church were motion-triggered, but they did not record the murderer or all of the moments inside the building. The exterior cameras were not working at the time.

The interior cameras captured Missy's killer wandering around the church. Then the camera shows Missy entering the building at 4.18 a.m. After that, neither Missy or the killer are seen again on camera. Over the course of the investigation, police approached nearby businesses and neighborhoods for anyone who might have seen something

or had security video. But they came up empty-handed. In May 2016, investigators had a forensic video analysis completed of the security video provided by the church. Experts believed the killer stood between 5-2 and 5-7 and walked with a distinctive gate. They couldn't tell if the suspect was male or female, but it did appear he or she had lighter skin color. The wounds Missy received were consistent with the tool the killer. is seen carrying throughout the building.

And police believe that this tool was a hammer. They later released another security video taken from SWFA Outdoor Store. This was a business down the street from the church. In this video, a light colored sedan pulls into the outdoor store parking lot, circles around the building in the early morning hours before the murder. Police believe that it's possible, this is Missy's killer. Police searched through the Beaver's text and emails. According to one of the warrants, messages recovered from Brandon's and Missy's phones indicate and confirm statements and tips provided to officers at the time of an ongoing financial and marital struggle.

These phone records also revealed possible infidelity within the Beaver's marriage. These warrants targeted 11 different phone numbers for nine different people. The assistant police chief of Midlothian said, we don't have information that indicates the killer talk to any target numbers, nor do we have specific information to believe the killer video recorded the murder. And more, if I had a real problem understanding this quote, you know, the assistant police chief says, we don't have any information that indicates the killer talk to any of these numbers.

that were targeted in the warrant, but how could they possibly have any information unless they knew or thought they knew who the killer was? I found it very strange, hard for me to reconcile. Yeah, the wording in his quote made it a little bit confusing. But I think the key thing to take away from this is that they investigated nine individuals resulting from the phone warrant. and they don't believe that any of these nine people were the killer. Three days before her murder, Missy showed one of her friends a message she received from a man on LinkedIn. She didn't know this man, but both agreed that it was a creepy and strange message. During an interview with police, the friend could not remember the name of the person who sent the message.

Police did find messages between Missy and another LinkedIn user that were sent in January of 2016, and these were messages that were intimate, somewhat flirtatious. But whatever this was, it wasn't an ongoing thing. The messages had been deleted and the conversation stopped. As with any investigation where a suspect is not immediately identified, friends and family become the focus of the investigation. Police need to be able to rule them out as suspects, if possible. Investigators questioned Missy's husband Branden He told police that he was in Biloxi, Mississippi on a fishing trip when he got a call from a friend in Missy's class saying that there had been an accident. Brandon told police that the caller said, she's no longer with us.

They also said that there had been a robbery. Brandon then made the eight-hour drive home and went to the police station. After talking to Brandon, police accepted and verified his alibi. The day after his wife's death, Brandon spoke to the media for the first time. The main purpose here today is solely to communicate to the people in the community and to everybody watching and listening. My wife was a, she was a godly woman, and she was a very, she was very passionate about changing people's lives with fitness. and changing their mental attitude towards their body and themselves and their abilities in life. And, you know, personally, I haven't involved myself in a lot of what she does,

but now that I'm seeing some of her campers, I've noticed a substantial impact that she's had on so many people's lives. And I'm very proud of her. And I just want it to be poised. publicly known that we are very proud of all the passion and effort that she's put in to so many people's lives. As far as the perpetrator, we don't, I don't know, we still don't know who he is, but I ask everybody out there to review the video. I think you can get the video on the Midlothian Police Department's Facebook website. Look at the video. The person has a very distinct walk.

There's just a very distinct mannerism about this person that should be very apparent to somebody. Okay. I don't believe there was a vehicle there. This perpetrator, I don't know if he walked into the facility or. if he got, I don't know, we don't know how he arrived at the facility, but I'm just hoping that somebody either saw something or somebody can recognize the mannerisms of this person on the video. It's very important to us to get some closure with that. And, but at the same time, you know, I want to, uh, definitely publicize. that my wife was a she was a great woman a great wife a great mother a great friend and she will be missed by many people but please please be diligent as you can and

and report anything to the Midlothian police department. And I appreciate your time. A few days after the murder, Missy's father-in-law, Randy Beavers, brought in two bloody shirts to the Midlothian dry-clean Supercenter. Beavers told the clerk that the blood was from an animal. Later that afternoon, the clerk called police to report the shirts.

When questioned by police, Beaver said he broke up a dog fight, and that's where the blood came. from. One shirt was his, and the other belonged to his wife. The vet that treated the dogs verified his story. Investigators also learned that Randy Beavers was in California at the time Missy was killed. Both he and Brandon were ruled out as suspects. Towards the end of April, both Brandon and his father spoke at a press conference outside the Midlothian Police Department. They had everything, they had my flight tickets, the rental car that we rented in Gulfport,

As a matter of fact, when I pulled into my driveway, Monday at 3 p.m., I was in a car with Mississippi plates on it. And, I mean, all of that's, all of that's a non-issue. Randy, minor thing, the dry cleaner had your shirt listed as a woman's double-ex-shirt. Just a mistake. That's her shirt. The dry cleaner listed your shirt with the blood stains on and as a women. Well, my wife's shirt had, my wife's white shirt had blood stains on it too. So both of us had blood stains on her shirt and mine.

So I'm going to cause it, you know. So there are two shirts of blood on it? Yeah. The Warren only listed one. The one. Where's the other shirt? The dry cleaner. So the dry cleaner calls and says there's blood on.

I don't know, I don't know what the, I don't know the conversation between the cleaners and the police station. Okay, I don't know that conversation. You're saying there are, there's blood on two shirts. There's two shirts that's got blood on. Okay. And Randy, even though it's brought you this attention, would you say that you're glad that they're looking so closely? You better believe it. You better believe it. If they weren't, they wouldn't be doing their job. Okay, so by them doing this, it tells me that they're being diligent and doing their job on any, any tiny little whatever comes across has been looked at.

And it should be. So that's great. Do you have a photo of that Chihuahua? I know I keep a lot of photos. No. My wife would have, but I don't have one. but you know but it's just a it's just that that was that dog was her that dog was a very precious animal yeah it was very you know when's his or her name uh kilo kilo kilo kelo can you get can you get your wife to email's a picture of the dog well we'll see not really we've been just sitting there waiting for you guys to show up.

And I know Brandon you've talked with investigators several times you continue to do that clearly. How many times you say you've talked about that? Yeah, I've only had one, I've only had one formal interview that was early in an early stage of the game but and they call me periodically and I call them periodically because I think of I think of certain things that I want to make sure that they're looking into. I even called them today and I say, like, you need to look into this avenue. You need to look at this. And in 90% of the cases, they've already done it.

But it's, you know, I sit and I think about catching this person. And I think I'll just role play in my mind any possible. believes that I can give, but in 90% of the times that I've reached out to them to provide them this information, they've already gone down the avenue. And I know when we talked with you last, she said that you believe she'd walked in on a burglary. I need to clarify that. When I came up here to review, now you've got to remember, was that, that was on Tuesday or

Monday when I gave that statement? I want to say it was Tuesday. Okay. You got to remember, no sleep. I'm in bad health. And no, I do not believe that she was, I believe that she was targeted. Okay, that's my opinion.

That's not, that's not any information that anybody provided me, but I believe she was targeted. For what reason? Yeah, for why, I mean. Evidence, for reasons of evidence, I'm not going to say that. But there's no reason. There's no reason if a person, you have to ask yourself, if a person's going to break into a church, what are they going to take?

What are they there to steal? A.V. equipment? I work in a church. Some of the most expensive equipment in a church is A.V. equipment. or money from tithings from the previous day. Okay, those are the two things. One of the hurdles in the Beaver's investigation came from online amateur sluice who investigated the case on their own

and nearly interfered with the investigation. This came after a $50,000 reward was offered for information leading to an arrest and conviction of Missy's killer. Police thought that these online investigations, investigators wanted to snag the reward money. And there were a lot of them. You had slewes running background checks, trolling Missy's family and friends, social media accounts, using acronyms to discuss the guilt or innocence of people that they thought were suspects. The police came out and said they had to follow up on every lead that they received, but there were so many false

leads that wasted a lot of man hours. And they also reeked. havoc on people's lives. Some of these online slews focused on Randy Beaver's because he walked with a distinct gate and his build was similar to the killers. But then police rolled him out and these online sleuths next focused their attention on a 36-year-old woman. She was a gas station clerk who stood about the same height and billed as the killer. She also walked with a distinctive gate at the time from a work injury.

The gas station she worked at was just down the road from the Creekside Church. She had even attended four sessions of Missy's Camp Gladiator class. The sluice found this woman on Missy's Facebook friends list and noticed a picture of her posing with Missy and other camp gladiator students. They also pointed out that she got insurance on Nissan Ultima, similar in make and model to the car in the outdoor stores security video. Police spoke with this woman, but nothing came from it, and she was never charged with Missy's murder. Their investigation continued. you and I have talked a lot about Parabon snapshot DNA analysis. We did a whole series of episodes on cases solved using this new type of forensic science.

And investigators in the Missy Beaver's case tried to use the Parabond service as well. They sent them the little bit of physical evidence they had, but the quality of the sample was not sufficient. what they sent in was a partial and mixed profile. What Parabon needed was a much more robust profile. Even though Brandon Beavers had an alibi and was rolled out as a suspect, he was constantly accused on social media that he was somehow connected to his wife's murder. Brandon had been declining media interviews, which to some made him look guilty. Fed up with all of the accusations against him,

Brandon sent an email to crime stories podcast hosted by Nancy Grace who shared the letter on her show in December of 2017. And I'm not going to read the letter in its entirety, but basically Brandon is saying that, you know, he wants justice, but he also has a fear of what will happen once and if this person is found and brought to trial, you know, the, the emotional aspects of what it would do to him, what it would do to his children. And then he addresses the people that think that maybe he had something to do with Missy's death.

And he says, you know what? I'm done. I'm done commenting, trying to defend myself. What he wants to focus on is Missy's legacy, who Missy was. I think Morif at a certain point, he just got frustrated and he got tired of discussing the events that led up to Missy's murder. or speculating about whether she was targeted, if she was targeted, why she was targeted. And at one point, he asked the question, what if the person that killed Missy enjoys listening

or reading about, you know, all of this rhetoric back and forth? And I think it's a valid question. But at the end of the day, he says the activity surrounding this investigation is best left to the investigators. They're good at what they do. They are the ones that have the most accurate information. In early 2018, a new investigator took over Missy's case after the original investigator, Cody Moon, transferred back to the patrol division. Midlothian police said that they planned to form a group of officers to come in and start the investigation from scratch. In March 2018, Alison Beaver's Missy's middle daughter, she raised thousands of dollars to help find her mother's killer.

She raised a pig that eventually sold for $15,000. And she put all of this money towards solving the murder of her mother. Allison has said that she just wants to be able to support keeping her mother's murder investigation going. She said, you have no idea how much this means to me and my heart. Devastated by the murder of Missy Beaver's inside their church, the congregation of Creekside Church has prayed daily for answers to her vicious murder. The church installed a new security system, cameras, and locks, and fixed all the damage the killer did to the building.

Police still have no idea who walked into Creekside Church that morning and murdered Missy Beaver's. But the investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information on the case is asked to call the tip line at 972-775-7624. And, Morph, as we're wrapping up, you know, I think these are two fascinating unsolved murders. Both are different, but they're both very, very bizarre. And in the case of the Missy Beaver's murder, you know, having that video footage, you would think that would go a long way towards helping to identify her killer, but so far it really hasn't. And what really sticks out to me about that video, and especially the forensic analysis of the video, is the estimated height of the killer. When we talked about it, the estimated height range,

5-2 to 5-7, you know, that makes me think that we're most likely talking about a woman that killed Missy Beavers. There's not that many men, you know, the number, the percentage of men that are between 5-2 and 5-7, it's not very high, especially when you get down into the 5-2-5-3 range. I think what's also frustrating in both of these cases is that, the Beaver's case, they have footage of the killer, but the killer's covered by a mask. And in the Reverend Carol Daniels case, they have video footage of the possible killer, but it's too grainy and you can't see anything on it. So that's probably frustrating for police in both cases.

Yeah, so really, I mean, if you think about it, two cases where they both have video, we talk about so many different unsolved cases where there's no video. There's very little clues. Here we have two cases where they can see the person that they believe is the killer, but they just can't figure out who it is. And I think for me, Morph, that makes it even that much more frustrating that they have that video. But that's it. That's it for the cases of Reverend Carol Daniels and Terry Missy Beavers.

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