Going West: True Crime - Cheyann Klus // 368

Starting point is 00:00:00 What is going on to crime fans? I'm your host Teez. And I'm your host, Daphne. And you're listening to Going West. Hello everybody. Today's case was recommended by both Kayla and someone who wishes to remain anonymous. So thank you both so much because this case is truly just bizarre and suspicious and bone-chilling. And I know you guys are going to feel the same. And by the way, since this

Starting point is 00:00:37 is our after the holiday episode, if you're listening to this when it comes out, we hope you had a wonderful holiday. Yes, hope you guys had a wonderful holiday with friends and family. Actually, the next episode that we're gonna come out with, we long we check my calendar really quick. Okay, the next episode we're gonna come out with is technically gonna be our anniversary episode. We are almost five years into going west.

Starting point is 00:00:59 We released our first episode on New Year's Eve of 2018. I can't even believe that we are this far with this many episodes. I know, it's unreal. So thank you guys so much for listening all this time, which we'll kind of harp on more next time. But let's get into today's story. All right, guys, this is episode 368 of Going West.

Starting point is 00:01:24 So let's get into it. A November of 2017, a 22-year-old woman went missing in Chicago, after sending a string of urgent text messages to a friend. Nearly two weeks later, a 911 call was made from her cell phone, but the call ended almost as soon as it was made. When this final call was pained, police discover that it originated from a nature preserve 45 minutes away from where she went missing. Shayan Cluse was born on March 2, 1995 to Lydia and Robert Cluse and grew up alongside two sisters, Karen and Mariah. Shayan was raised in Downers Grove, Illinois, which is just about 30 minutes west of downtown Chicago.

Starting point is 00:03:09 Her family has understandably maintained their privacy since her disappearance, as you guys will see, so very little is known about her early life or her family life, but her online persona portrayed a warm, fun-loving young woman. She frequently posted pictures of animals, especially dogs, quotes about treating others with kindness, pictures with her friends, and stills from her favorite show Shameless, because as many of us know Shameless takes place in Chicago, including one photo of the cast around a table with the caption that read, just my family and I having Christmas dinner early.

Starting point is 00:03:45 One friend wrote about her after her death quote, Shayan had an adventurous soul and one of the biggest hearts I've ever known. In 2016, her mom Lydia sadly passed away after a quick descent into liver failure. As Lydia battled her disease, Shayan wrote on Facebook quote, I would do anything to hear your voice, Mom. I love you so much. Your daughter's husband, sister's brother's grandchildren. You are so loved by everyone, Mom. You're my best friend.

Starting point is 00:04:17 Always have been and always will be. I don't pray much until lately, I was told the most beautiful soul is leaving us soon, but was told too soon. I'm asking for all the help possible. And to the dismay of her family in January of 2016, Lydia lost her battle with her disease. According to friends and family, Cheyenne understandably suffered the loss deeply and fell into a depression after her mom passed because, as you just heard from her post, she considered her mom one

Starting point is 00:04:49 of her best friends, so this was a particularly devastating loss for her. She tragically also lost her beloved dog around this time, so overall, Cheyenne and her family were really suffering emotionally. And then again, just under two years later, with what would happen to Cheyenne. So after Cheyenne's mom passed, Cheyenne tried to surround herself with fun times with her friends going out frequently.

Starting point is 00:05:16 When they did, friends remember that Cheyenne was routinely pursued by the men that she came in contact with, whether the attraction was reciprocated or not. Chad Chanapai, who identified Cheyenne as his best friend, claimed that he believed that these men often had ill intentions. He said he felt obligated to protect her, and even recalled the time when he sustained eight stitches while defending Cheyenne from a man that he'd perceived as a threat. Cheyenne herself had a few minor run-ins with the law, including a charge back in 2015 when she was just 20 years old, for underage drinking.

Starting point is 00:05:52 And on September 22, 2017, shortly before her disappearance, she was charged with both illegal transportation of alcohol and obstructing identification, and her male companion, 31-year-old Gabriel Settikeis, was charged with possession of a controlled substance. Shortly before her disappearance, Cheyenne started hanging out with a man 16 years her senior, 38-year-old Brian Biddle. Now Brian absolutely loved to party and was known to dabble in drugs as well, yet the exact nature of Cheyenne and Brian's connection is still unknown. Though it does seem as if they had been testing the waters of a somewhat romantic relationship

Starting point is 00:06:33 that was still new and casual at the time. So after spending thanks giving in the suburbs with her family, Cheyenne wanted to head into the city for a few days to see Brian. So on Monday, November 27th, Shayan packed a small bag including her laptop and a few items of clothing and headed into Chicago to party and have fun for a few days. That same morning, Brian posted pictures of the two of them together on Shayan's Facebook page. Because Shayan didn't have a car, Brian ordered her an Uber, headed for his house on North Killborne Avenue in the her most-in-nabourhood of North Chicago.

Starting point is 00:07:13 Then on Wednesday, November 29, so two days after she left her family's home, a strange interaction with her best friend Chad prompted concern from her family and friends and set into motion a tragic series of events that have yet to be explained. On the morning of November 29th around sunrise, Chad missed a few calls from Cheyenne, followed by texts that sounded frantic. At 7.08am Cheyenne texted him, quote, babe, can you please answer? When he didn't, she texted him again about 30 minutes later at 7.41am saying, Chad! Then another 30 minutes later at 8.10am, she said, are you okay? 14 minutes after this at 8.24am, Chad responded with, quote,

Starting point is 00:08:07 sorry babe, I just woke up. He called her back, but she didn't answer. He then texted her again saying, quote, hey babe, please call me back. Yes, I'm okay, it was just a sleep. But Cheyenne never responded to him. And I know I just threw a ton of times at you guys, but basically she is texting Chad over the course

Starting point is 00:08:30 of around an hour and 15 minutes, looking to get his attention. He's not answering his phone or his text because he's sleeping, and she is for whatever reason, trying to get in contact with him over an hour and 15 minutes. Yeah, and this is kind of strange

Starting point is 00:08:45 because clearly she needs something from Chad, whether it's help or his attention, but she's not telling Chad exactly what's going on. And we actually talked about this a few weeks ago in the Kyle Fleischman episode where we were saying how he was also frantically trying to get attention from his friends and family, calling them over

Starting point is 00:09:05 and over but not leaving a voicemail because it's almost like he needed their attention now. So he didn't have time to leave a voicemail, just wanted to move on to try to contact the next person. Yeah. So kind of similar how it seems like she's just trying to get him to answer her, but not explaining what's going on, which obviously leaves us with many, many questions. So, Cheyenne's Facebook has since been disabled, but if you account to the timeline of events claim that, although that was the last time that Chad heard from Cheyenne, she continued to share posts online.

Starting point is 00:09:39 About an hour after her final text to Chad, Cheyenne allegedly shared a post on Facebook at about 9.30 a.m. and then tagged Brian in another post on Facebook at about 9.35 a.m. Though her timeline and movements during this period are largely unknown, investigators announced, quote, authorities learn Cheyenne clues traveled to Chicago and was seen the night of December 1st in the 2100 block of North Kilbourne in the city's Hermosa neighborhood. No, like we just said, this is where Brian lives. So this would mean that she had likely been staying with Brian that whole time over those few days, making him one of the last people to see Cheyenne alive. After the early morning hours of Saturday, December 2, no one heard from or saw Cheyenne,

Starting point is 00:10:34 including Brian. Her family admitted that she would often take off for a few days or a week at a time, but that it was usually to go into the city to stay with friends and go out. Like any typical 22 year old, Cheyenne was usually not far out of reach. She was active across multiple social media platforms, and would call and text her family and friends frequently. But after those final texts and calls to Chad, there was complete radio silence. Now it was rare for her to be out of contact with everyone that she knew and loved, and

Starting point is 00:11:09 even more rare for her to be inactive on social media, so in the early days of December growing concerned, Cheyenne's dad reported her missing. Then on December 11, 2017, another eerie development came about. Cheyenne's phone dialed 911, but the call ended before the caller said anything. The strange thing here was that at the time of this call, it had been nine days since anyone had seen or heard from Cheyenne. The call was placed in the vicinity of the Mallard Lake Forest Preserve, which is a 948 acre preserve in Hanover Park, Illinois, boasting an 85 acre lake along with boating, fishing,

Starting point is 00:11:57 and hiking trails. So obviously this does not look good, because 9-1-1 is getting a call from this nature preserve and Cheyenne has been nowhere for 9 days. This is such an eerie part of the story because it was over a week later, so much time has passed, and the fact that 9-1-1 couldn't even pick up the call because it ended so fast, like what does that mean? Yeah, so, so eerie.

Starting point is 00:12:22 And this development brought forth a slew of new questions and theories, because the preserve is situated 20 miles or 32 kilometers from where Cheyenne is last believed to have been seen, which again is at Brian's house in Chicago. Yeah, so how did she get all the way out there or how did her phone get all the way out there? Right. And it's also about 18 miles or 28 kilometers from her home and downers grove. But yeah, again, with no car and none of her friends

Starting point is 00:12:50 or family having any knowledge of Cheyenne having been picked up or having ordered a car, how in the hell did she get out there? And was it even Cheyenne who made that call? If it wasn't, it may have been someone who took her phone there in an attempt to throw investigators off the trail. Or perhaps her phone had been stolen or discarded there, and maybe the call was an accident. If the person using the phone was not shy in,

Starting point is 00:13:18 the phone was likely locked on her home screen, and calling 911 would have been one of the only available functions that it served. The phone had also sustained at least 9 days without losing battery, which obviously means that someone either turned it off and back on again, or it had been charged. Yeah, it's kind of hard for me to believe that someone would have stolen her phone, and then didn't attempt to make a call for over a week and a half and then did so in the middle of a nature preserve in winter. Like why would somebody be out there with her phone anyway and call 911 just to hang up and then make no other calls from her phone? Like it's just, it's too weird for me to feel like that's a separate thing.

Starting point is 00:13:59 Yeah, absolutely. In my opinion, it feels, it really does feel like this was an attempt to discard of her phone, and then maybe it just accidentally called emergency. Well, my thought is, you know, was Cheyenne being held captive somehow, and then maybe she was able to place this desperate call to 911 only for her captor to find out and hang up before she could speak to the dispatcher. Right. And I totally get that.

Starting point is 00:14:27 But if they had pinged the call to that nature preserve, like was the person holding her captive in that nature preserve or what, like what was exactly that's what I'm thinking. I don't know how or why. Yeah. But it's just weird that her phone called 911 and ended up in this nature preserve that is about an hour away by car from where she was last seen. Like, how did that happen? That's why it's hard for me to believe that it's not related to her disappearance, especially

Starting point is 00:14:54 because she did disappear. A 911 call was made. It's just really eerie. I guess if this was a captive situation, it's possible that she was being held somewhere else. I guess if this was a captive situation, it's possible that she was being held somewhere else and then Maybe she was being you know walked into this nature preserve Which could have been the last place that you know she ended up and then Somehow was able to like get her phone and and make an emergency call or

Starting point is 00:15:19 Maybe they're trying to get rid of evidence in the forest and like you had said that's where an accidental phone call They're trying to get rid of evidence in the forest. And like you had said, that's where an accidental phone call is happening while they're trying to dispose of her phone in the middle of a thousand acre preserve, you know? Yeah, yeah, definitely. So a lot of disturbing thoughts. Too many questions. The mind. I think I'm just running in a circle with my brain here trying to think about the scenarios.

Starting point is 00:15:41 But it's hard not to because it's such a suspicious detail of the story that just makes you need to know what that was about. So obviously this felt like a big lead. So the Dupaj County Sheriff's Office dispatched detectives to this area to perform an extensive search, but weirdly nothing was found. Like no trace evidence that Cheyenne had ever been there, and no sign of her or her phone. But again, it's not like they were able to search all 1,000 acres of this preserve,

Starting point is 00:16:14 so it's possible that there was something there that they were not able to find. Sure, this is a massive area. It's freaking huge. So as we said, Cheyenne didn't have a car, but she also didn't have very much money with her, nor many of her belongings. Brian, the guy that she was staying with before she disappeared, the one who's 16 years older than her, confirmed that she did leave personal items behind at his house. But hasn't said exactly which item she took and which she left behind, so it's unclear if

Starting point is 00:16:45 it seemed that Cheyenne partially packed up her things before she left or if she fled without them. Or if she was taken without them. In a conversation with a friend on Facebook, Brian claimed that police searched his residence and took a phone, a pair of shoes, and a makeup bag that were believed to belong to Cheyenne. But he added, quote, it was someone else's phone, yeah, and her makeup bag and pair of boots been here, but I didn't know they were hers. They were just with all the other female stuff they be leaving behind everywhere.

Starting point is 00:17:20 He added that police told him that they recovered Cheyenne's phone But whether it was the phone that made the 911 call from Mallard Lake or not is unclear and police have not made that information public So I think that that phone Would say a lot, you know where this phone was found and again This is just Brian telling us that police told him that so this is like a second-hand account So I don't even know if we can believe that they actually have her phone. And if they do have it, we have no idea where they found it. So.

Starting point is 00:17:52 Right. And we also don't know if she has more than one phone. I don't necessarily know why she would, but maybe she did. So again, lots of questions. So when police question Brian about the last time that he interacted with Cheyenne, he claimed to have gone to bed late on December 1st or in the early morning hours of December 2nd,

Starting point is 00:18:13 and that he slept for 18 hours. And when he woke up, Cheyenne was gone. Seems like a very convenient story to be sleeping for 18 hours when you say that. You know, the girl that you were just with is now gone. A completely agree, and so does everybody else. Like this raised so many red flags for people eyeing the case, obviously, including the investigators. But some have pointed out that if they had been using drugs

Starting point is 00:18:40 and partying over the course of those few days, like it seems that they had been. It wouldn't have been too unusual to sleep for that long, like coming off a high, but it was definitely like you said, a convenient backstory since it couldn't be verified by anyone other than the person who was missing. Exactly. And obviously, Brian has remained on the radar of suspicion, certainly from the point of view of spectators who were invested in the case, but police have actually spoken out on his

Starting point is 00:19:09 behalf claiming that he's been very helpful and communicative, and instrumental in pursuing answers for Cheyenne. Police have said that contrary to popular belief, Brian is actually not a suspect in Cheyenne's disappearance, and in fact, he's no longer even a person of interest. According to Detective Jeff Leonard, Bryan Biddle has been talking to them openly and makes for a quote valuable witness. He's been very vulnerable and open about the guilt and responsibility that he feels for

Starting point is 00:19:42 Shayan's disappearance and how badly he hopes for resolution. Apparently he wrote on Facebook quote, sick of me calling them. It's eating at me every minute, man. I swear I ain't done shit for three months but think about it or get high so I don't think about it. I love her, man, and I hope she's okay so I can kick her fucking ass, man. Interesting, interesting thing to say. Interesting wording. So a few months after Cheyenne's disappearance, Brian was arrested on unrelated charges, including possession of a firearm and narcotics. He started his sentence at the Cook County Jail and was eventually transferred to the

Starting point is 00:20:33 Department of Correction in Springfield, Illinois, with a projected release date of April 3, 2026. Still, police don't believe that he was involved in anything related to her case. So if Brian Biddle didn't have anything to do with Cheyenne's disappearance, who did? On December 22, 2017, the Sheriff's Office conducted a massive search of the Mallard Lake Forest Preserve, but did not find Cheyenne. Again, impossible for them to search the whole thing during that time, but what they did search they did not find. However, they noted that the icy weather that Chicago was experiencing that winter was

Starting point is 00:21:50 not conducive to an intensive ground search of, you know, a forested area, and they vowed to wait until spring when the ground was thawed, which unfortunately happens in a lot of cases that experience extreme winters. So, months passed with no movement. Then, in March of 2018, the Sheriff's Office conducted the search again in more favorable weather. The Dupage County Sheriff's Office, along with the Will County Emergency Management Agency

Starting point is 00:22:23 Search and Rescue Team, employed more than 100 team members to help look for Cheyenne. Along with the experts were volunteers from the community, Cheyenne's friends and family, and five cadaver dogs, who also descended upon the park, hoping for any sign of her. While they again had no luck locating Shayan, one detective claimed that they had recovered personal items from the brush, but whether or not those

Starting point is 00:22:51 belong to Shayan is unknown to the public. So that pretty much wrapped up that search, with nothing major being found. Thus, more than five years passed after Shion's disappearance with no information and no answers for her grieving family. Then on January 15, 2023, a chilling revelation came. The Cook County Sheriff's Office announced, quote, the Sheriff's Office worked closely with the DuPage County Sheriff's Office and the FBI to successfully identify the remains of Cheyenne clues through dental records last week. The Sheriff's Office will continue to work with Chicago Police to investigate the circumstances of her death,

Starting point is 00:23:40 but we are grateful to help bring some measure of closure to the Kluse family. Now, crazy enough, Cheyenne's body was recovered in 2020 and was only identified in 2023, so it took years for them to figure out that these remains were hers. And like most of the elements of this case, the particular details of the discovery are murky. One DuPage County local who claimed to have spoken to one of the detectives working Cheyenne's case alleged quote, her body was found in a state of decomposition on the side of an inner state. They had her labeled as a Jane Doe and a morgue that was overflowing and on backlog.

Starting point is 00:24:22 Her body was there for about two years before they had been able to verify that it was her via her dental records. This account proved to be mostly true when a spokesman for the Cook County Medical Examiner's office announced that Shions' cause and manner of death were undetermined, but that the remains had been identified as hers. She was found on March 16, 2020, but wasn't linked to her own identity until her dental records confirmed that the decomposing body did in fact belong to Cheyenne. Strangely, the only detail that the public does have about the discovery of her remains is that they were not recovered at the Lake Mallard Forest Preserve after all. In the limited amount of information offered by the press release, the public is informed

Starting point is 00:25:10 that the remains were found on the 6800 block of South Doorchester Avenue in Chicago proper, which is over an hour away by car from the preserve where her phone last pinged at in 30 minutes from Bryant's house where she was last seen. So we're going to include some like a street views of this area because it's kind of confusing. Obviously Heath just read us a quote a minute ago that said that her body was found on the side of an interstate.

Starting point is 00:25:41 But the 6800 block of South Dorchester Avenue is not an interstate. It is a street where there are homes and buildings. It looks like a pretty cute street. There's like apartment buildings and homes on this road, but the interstate that's nearby is blocks away. And even thinking of the interstate, it's not like a freeway like I'm picturing in my mind where you get on and off exits. It's like this highway is on a flat road where on either side there is like castations and businesses. And there's just multi, it's like a multi-lane road essentially. Yeah, there's four lanes on each side.

Starting point is 00:26:19 And then there's like a like a median divider between those lanes. But yeah, it's not like a freeway, like what you're thinking, it's just like there are businesses and stuff on each side. Exactly, so I'm kind of confused if she was found on South Dorchester Avenue

Starting point is 00:26:37 or if she was found off the interstate, because again, these are blocks away from each other. So it's confusing where exactly she was found and that doesn't help answer the many questions that we have. But apparently, the area in which she was found, South Dorchester Avenue, is residential, like I said, it's flanked by apartment buildings, and it's across the street from railroad tracks and a park, in the wood-lawn neighborhood of the south side of the city. Cheyenne's body was in yet another jurisdiction,

Starting point is 00:27:07 so the Chicago Police Department joined forces with the other investigating agencies. The DuPage County Sheriff's Office became involved because the Mallard Lake Preserve is located in DuPage County. The Cook County Sheriff's Office joined because she disappeared from Cook County and then the FBI stepped in when the local agencies failed to turn up any sign of her. Now both the Chicago Police Department and the Cook County Medical Examiner were also investigating,

Starting point is 00:27:37 but even with all of this extra manpower, Cheyenne's story remained a mystery. And it's just interesting to know that Cheyenne was able to get out of Brian's house without being spotted because he also lives on a residential street that's lined with houses and I'm also going to post a photo of this on our socials so you guys have a visual but it's just so weird to me that she somehow left his house and no one knows who transported her where because no one saw it happen. So again, what is she transported to the Lake Mallard Forest Preserve? How did she get out of Bryan Street?

Starting point is 00:28:12 Did somebody pick her up? Did she do this on her own? Like, what led her to the spot where her body was found? So some blame the investigators for the lack of answers, calling it a botched and careless pursuit of justice. As we've seen, many times when young women disappear under these circumstances, the public often writes them off as addicts or partiers or sex workers, which, of course, shouldn't have any effect on the investigation, even if those descriptors were true, but it often

Starting point is 00:28:43 does. With both the general public and the investigators, seeming to take less care in the pursuit of justice, if it seems that there is any blame to be placed on the victim for her lifestyle. Now one of Cheyenne's friends alleges that the first three detectives assigned to Cheyenne's case quote gave up. The first detective apparently retired the same week that she was reported missing, so he simply passed it off to his successor. And the next detective allegedly didn't prioritize it because of the circumstances under which she disappeared.

Starting point is 00:29:19 According to this source, it wasn't until a Cook County cold case detective took over the investigation that any progress was made in her identification. On the same day that her discovery was announced to the public, January 15, 2023, Cheyenne Sister Mariah wrote on Facebook, quote, family. On behalf of the Clues family, we would like to extend our appreciation to the DuPage and Cook County Sheriff's Departments, as well as the other agencies involved in the search for Cheyenne. We have been looking for Cheyenne and information related to her disappearance since she went missing over five years ago. While it was not the news that we were hoping for, we have received confirmation from law enforcement that Cheyenne's remains were found.

Starting point is 00:30:10 As her immediate family in mourning, we ask for privacy as we grieve the unbearable loss of a daughter, sister, aunt, and a human being. We plan to hold a private memorial service for Cheyenne amongst us, but we hope that everyone can find Solace in knowing that she has been found and respectfully laid to rest. Please be mindful of the sensitive nature of these circumstances and the effects that this can have for our family and other families who are dealing with missing loved ones. The only people who really have any details about the investigation are her family and the police, who have both remained tight-lipped on the details and whether or not foul play is still suspected.

Starting point is 00:30:56 The exact location of her discovery has not yet been revealed, and her cause of death, if it was able to be determined, has not been released. Her family has been understandably private about any relevant details and developments regarding the case, keeping it close to their chest while presumably grieving and awaiting answers. So the public is left to speculate based on the scraps of amateur investigative reporting and second-hand information online. So let's get into this.

Starting point is 00:31:26 One pervasive theory is that she accidentally overdosed after a few drug-fueled days at Brian's and became scared or paranoid and fled. But that still begs the question, how did she wind up so far away? And why had she been there in the first place? And then of course, how was that 911 call made from her phone nine days after her disappearance in a totally different area? Maybe she accepted a ride from someone who took advantage of the opportunity to harm a vulnerable young woman.

Starting point is 00:31:57 Though Brian has apparently been ruled out, the timeline of having been asleep for almost a full day is a pretty convenient story, as we mentioned. But we can only trust the police no more about his innocence than they've let on. And perhaps even have some sort of alibi or proof that he remained at home for the entirety of those 18 hours that he claimed that he was sleeping. Then there was the 9-1-1 call. Was the call an accident or was it truly a cry for help? Was she being pursued or heard at the time and someone had intercepted its delivery before

Starting point is 00:32:30 taking her life and discarding the phone? Or had Shayan not even placed the call? Aside from Bryan, there are a few other men in her life who deserve a second look. There was Gabriel, who as we mentioned, was arrested with Cheyenne about two months before her disappearance. The details of their relationship were unknown, but perhaps, if they had a romantic relationship prior to the one that she was having with Brian, it's possible that either Gabriel, Brian, or both of them were jealous of the attention that the other man was receiving, and acted

Starting point is 00:33:04 out of resentment or spite. And Gabriel resided only 12 miles or 19 kilometers from that forest preserve west of Chicago. Like Brian, Gabriel also served time in prison after Cheyenne's disappearance, but his arrests were made on drug charges. Now, as far as the public is aware, he's never been considered a person of interest in the disappearance of 22-year-old Cheyenne Clues. Brian's house was about 18 miles

Starting point is 00:33:34 or 28 kilometers northwest of where she was found deceased, so she more than likely had assistance in getting there. Another theory that the police latched onto was the possibility of sex trafficking, which is often discussed when cases of young women in vulnerable positions vanish. But this case doesn't seem to have the markings of a typical sex trafficking abduction,

Starting point is 00:33:58 and once she was found deceased, it seemed to put an end to that speculation. Because of the privacy of both her family and the police, as well as the mysterious timeline and circumstances, much of the information gleaned is from secondhand sources and social media. So we may never really know what fate befell Cheyenne and why.

Starting point is 00:34:21 In an interview with True Crime Daily about her case, her family declined to speak on camera, but Cheyenne's friend Chad and her aunt Sylvia spoke out on her behalf, as well as Gia Hoffman, who is the president of the Missing Persons Awareness Network, non-profit organization, which is focused on locating missing people in Illinois. The most recent update from Gia is that no one has been named a suspect in the case of Cheyenne Clues. Chad and Gia continue to speak out about Cheyenne's loss on social media, just trying to get answers in her story.

Starting point is 00:35:00 Now something that I really wonder about and want to go back to really quick are those frantic texts and phone calls to Chad from about 7am until after 8am. You know, she called him a bunch and was kind of begging him to answer. And when he did just 14 minutes after her final text, she didn't say anything else. So it makes you wonder why she was trying to reach him and then where she went after this and with who. Because it would be harder for me to believe that these texts were, you know, someone posing as Cheyenne since she called Chad. Like what if Chad had answered?

Starting point is 00:35:34 Obviously, if this wasn't Cheyenne, that would have been really risky. So that makes me feel like it had been her on the phone that morning. So how something could have happened so quickly after this without any witnesses seeing her in broad daylight or hearing something nefarious, it just really makes me wonder. Yeah, I mean, the phone call that she made, obviously I get what you're saying

Starting point is 00:35:58 because people can impersonate you through text, but it doesn't really seem like that was the case here. And if that was the case, I'm sure that her family would be able to kind of look at those texts and say, that doesn't sound like Cheyenne texting or like the way that she usually does text. So I don't know, I mean,

Starting point is 00:36:19 my main thing is I just wanna go back to Brian for a second because that whole thing about sleeping for 18 hours, that just really weirds me out. That doesn't give me a good feeling. And obviously most of the time in these investigations, it goes back to the last person to see this missing person. So, and he had said, you know, I gave the police every name of every person that I knew that Cheyenne knew to try to figure out who could have picked her up if Brian is in fact innocent of being involved.

Starting point is 00:36:51 And none of that led anywhere. So again, that brings us back to the question of how did she get out of the house. So it's just weird. And then obviously that very chilling 911 call that was made nine days after she went missing. What is up with that? I want to know about that so bad. Right, and you can imagine if they found her body located miles away from Brian's house, she would have had to have taken an Uber or a taxi or something, and maybe somebody would have a record of that.

Starting point is 00:37:21 But again, if they don't have her phone and they can't see that, then it's like, that's, I think the next part is like, how did she get to where she was finally located? Well, I don't know that Uber was related in this only because I think either way they would be able to see the charge come up on her email or her bank statement, you know what I mean? Right, but that gives us kind of a peek into her leaving the house, right? Right.

Starting point is 00:37:50 Which is why again, Brian thought that somebody picked her up that she knew, but then do the phone records indicate that she reached out to anybody else and that somebody else picked her up. Like, how she would have had to have called someone. So she walks outside, oh, hey, there's my friend. Give me a ride. You know, so. Yeah, you would have to call or text somebody to come pick you up So did they look at that? Right, so what what records? I'm sure police have poured over all of these records But do they indicate anything like they must indicate something and then again also her winding up deceased in a completely different area on the side of her road

Starting point is 00:38:26 two and a half years later, like it's very hard for me to believe looking at this street view. Again, we don't know the exact location, like we don't have the coordinates. We just know the essential block that she was found in, but you saw the block too. There's no way that her body could be laying on the side of that road for two and a half years, let alone two and a half days, and not be seen. Right, right. So where was it the rest of the time? It looks like it's, you know, a fairly, like heavily trafficked area, like people would be walking around or driving around. Yeah. Somebody would have seen something, but, you know. So

Starting point is 00:39:01 where was her body before that? I mean, this reminds me of that case bow man that we talked about How he had gone missing and then he was you know found in this block that it's like how unhelmed Nobody see him for so long But it was because of this tall grass in this abandoned like building Yeah, I think having the exact location of where she would found would help for speculation purposes having the exact location of where she would found would help for speculation purposes. But yeah, we know the lack of answers here is very frustrating as there are some disturbing

Starting point is 00:39:30 and intriguing questions bouncing around all of our heads. And that's why we wanted to cover this case because something strange clearly happened to her and there are a lot of peculiar elements here but no answers. So Cheyenne's story really deserves to be shared and told, hopefully, bringing answers in the future. If you have any information about the mysterious disappearance and death of Cheyenne clues, please at 1-800-222-TIPS, or 1-800-222-8477.

Starting point is 00:40:08 Thank you so much everybody for listening to this episode of Going Last. Yes, thank you guys so much for listening to this episode, and on Friday we'll have an all-new case for you guys to dive into. Yes, and please don't forget to share Shion's story. Again, I hope you guys all had a great holiday, and we'll see you next time. Alright, guys, so for everybody out there in the world... Don't be a stranger. Ranger. Thank you.

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