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Down here is where the uh hunters had discovered the torso of a female in [music] the ditch.
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Jack, had you ever run into anything like this? No, ma'am. What day were you out here, and what do
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you remember from it? This was December the 2nd of 2022, I believe. We was hunting that block of
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woods that particular day. We all kind of thought it was a mannequin to start with. It didn't look real.
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And this area right here and all around this is where all the trash, the bags of clothes, the tote,
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the knife, that's where all that was found right here. And your [music] big priority was to
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find the rest of this woman and find out who she is. That's correct. It was getting about dusk. I started
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walking and got to a point where I'm looking up and the sun's going down. It's shining in my eyes, and there's an
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oak tree, and I kind of look behind it, and I see a little disturbed area, the mound.
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All the remains were found fairly close to the edge of the road. And at that point, as far as what we
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knew, there was the female had dark brown hair. You put out a sketch? GBI had had a forensic artist put out a
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sketch. According to detectives, hunters found the body in the area of Barrington Ferry
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Road. This sketch from the GBI, serving as one of the only glimpses of who the woman could be.
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>> like, "Whoa, wait a minute." Like, that looks like Mindy. That looks like Mindy.
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And I just froze. I said, "I have reason to believe that this person [music] is Mindy Cassodus, looks very like much
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like her. I was like, I want to be wrong. I have never wanted to be wrong like this in my whole entire life.
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A drive-thru the area shows how dense the wooded area where the woman was found can be. That was on the local
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news, but I had zero reason to connect it to Mindy. So, you get this call from the Georgia
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Bureau of Investigation agent [music] and he says, "You're not going to believe what I'm about to tell you."
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>> Yeah, he absolutely said that. I think the first thing through my mind was disbelief.
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I had been told back in December that she had died in the hospital. That's what all of the immediate friends
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and family of Mindy's had been told. Nobody was looking for a murder victim. They thought she had died of natural
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causes. >> What did they think had happened to her? She died at the hospital on December
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1st. She's not in the woods. She was cremated. What do you do? What do you do when
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you're in a situation and you feel like something is wrong, but also the entire story is so crazy, who's
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going to believe you?