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Bread Crumbs - EPISODE 12 (The Bakersfield Three)

May 20, 2024 / 37:39

This episode of Bakersfield 3 discusses the complex case of Bailey and Micah, focusing on the implications of Bailey being charged with murder. Key discussions include the perspectives of Bailey's friends and family, the public's reaction to her charges, and the investigation into Micah's murder.

Bailey's friend Maddie expresses frustration over the public's quick judgment of Bailey as a murderer, emphasizing that Bailey has not been able to defend herself for years. Caitlyn, Bailey's sister, shares that many still believe in Bailey's innocence, while others have turned against her.

The episode also highlights the confusion surrounding the timeline of events, particularly regarding Bailey's relationship with Micah and Matthew Queen. Witnesses, including Jeremy Bell and Jessica, provide insights into Bailey's character and her potential involvement in the crime.

Investigators reveal evidence linking Bailey and Queen to Micah's murder, including testimonies about a night in a garage where Micah was allegedly tortured. The discovery of Micah's remains adds another layer to the investigation, raising questions about Bailey's role.

Cheryl, Micah's mother, reflects on the emotional toll of the case and her desire for justice, while also contemplating the impact of the trial on all involved.

TLDR

Bailey faces murder charges in Micah's case, sparking public debate and emotional turmoil among friends and family.

Episode

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a cop once told me today's suspect can be tomorrow's victim in the gang unit it's not that uncommon for a detective
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to show up to a crime scene and recognize the murder victim as the prime suspect in one of their other murder
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cases the cop said it's just how it goes I know a detective who was once investigating a man she thought might be
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a serial killer potentially responsible for the murders of numerous women at the
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same time she was invest tigating the murder of that man's brother when she talked to the family she had to balance
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them as family of her suspect and of one of her victims cops will say you've got
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to be mentally prepared to navigate these scenarios not every victim is going to be an angel not every suspect
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is going to be a straightforward bad guy but that's the cops mentality not the general Public's especially in this case
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for years people in Bakersfield were captivating and devastated by a glossy photo of Bailey in a flowing white dress
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leaning up against a tree smiling big at the camera that photo with the word missing was everywhere when they saw her
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face and heard her name they thought this poor victim when she was charged with murder
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some people who'd been following the case from the start seemed to take it almost as a betrayal it felt somewhat
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similar to when a public figure has a fall from grace and people have deep disappointment and anger like they were
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let down by this person who they didn't actually know but they felt like they did people had become invested in Bailey
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and what had happened to her and some of those people quickly had very strong feelings about the news here's Bailey's
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friend Maddie people immediately go in about how she's a murderer and she's this and that and I'm over here like
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this woman has not got to speak for herself in 3 years like how dare you say these things about her Bailey's sister
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Caitlyn I mean there's a lot if not 90% of people who still stand by her being innocent and then there's that 10%
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that's switched from oh this is so sad she's a missing person she's a victim too oh she's this horrible person she
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deserves to be missing because of what she did and if she is dead hopefully she went through the same
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type of torture and murder that she helped [Music] with I'm Olivia Lavo and this is the
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Bakersfield 3 [Music] after the announcement that Bailey was charged with Mike's murder a lot of
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people were frankly confused there were lots of comments like I thought the girl
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in the Bakersfield 3 was murdered by her boyfriend now you're saying she and the
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boyfriend just killed another one of the Bakersfield 3 so did the boyfriend still
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kill her or did she run away and then there were the comments about how strange and terrible it was
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that Bailey's sister Caitlyn had given her baby girl The Hyphen middle name Micah Bailey people speculated how much
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her sister likely regretted that decision now how she should change the baby's name
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immediately so much of the focus was on Bailey being charged it seemed like some
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people forgot about Matthew Queen and that he was the one who would actually be standing trial and would have the
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chance to defend himself Caitlyn and Maddie say that was probably the most painful thing of
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all they shouldn't be allowed to legally charge somebody with murder that has been missing for 3 and 1/2 years that's
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it's ridiculous in my opinion I would understand if there had been sightings you know that she was just a runaway but
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no she is legitimately missing like gone off the face of this Earth I just don't
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understand how how somebody who's been missing for going on four years can be charged with first-degree murder when
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they're not here to defend themselves Not only was this the first and only time I've had a story where I
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have a likely victim publicly accused of being a killer it was also a first to have an accused murderer in my story
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that I couldn't at least try to speak with instead I could only talk to people who knew Bailey and get their opinion
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and I tried to get a variety here's a self-proclaimed drug dealer who said in his interactions with Bailey I thought
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she was batshit crazy beautiful but crazy what did you think when you heard that she was actually being charged for
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Micah's murder I don't think she had it in her here's her friend Maddie again I knew
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that girl through and through head to toe I could tell tell you the next sentence that would come out of her
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mouth before she could say it and that is not in her to do something like that especially with the amount of
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gruesomeness that they say took place there and the chopping up and all that I never in a million years do I think she
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is capable of that I also asked Jeremy Bell who knew Bailey Micah and James and knew them when they weren't exactly on
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this straight and narrow himself included we're not on the right side of the law by any means
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Jeremy also admittedly wasn't a fan of Bailey's trouble she had a loud mouth very obnoxious she was a wreck waiting
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to happen when I asked if he thinks she's capable of murder I do and I don't it's kind of
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hard seeing her I now her talk about it her telling Matt McQueen oh yeah let's yeah you know
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I'm down I'm down let's kill I could see her doing that because like I said she came off like she was some badass but
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when it came down to it I would guarantee that she would fold Under Pressure she wouldn't she's all
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talk I also wanted to hear from Bailey's friend Jessica who lived next door to her in Matthew Queen I figured she'd
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have an important perspective having spent a lot of time around the two of them when we would hear about M on the
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news or anything they would you know act just as like I wonder where he is like that's crazy we just hung out with
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like to where I did not even think twice about them being involved that was the last thought in my mind cuz they were
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just so good at like acting like they wanted to know what happened too in terms of bayley's actual
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involvement Jessica saw firsthand how biley wanted to come off tough she even supposedly liked that Queen had guns
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because Jessica says they made her feel safe made her feel like people wouldn't try to hurt her but she also saw a girl
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girl who nursed sickly animals back to health kept baby ducks in her bathtub who would refuse to kill a spider and
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insist on gently picking it up and putting it outside the tough exterior she felt was a defense mechanism she'
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developed as a response to trauma I know in my heart that she she didn't have it
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in her she was all bark no bite when it came to that kind of stuff she just really was a scared puppy in my
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eyes of everyone I spoke with about this the person I thought would probably have
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the most accurate Sense on the matter was her sister Caitlyn Caitlyn obviously knows Bailey extremely well but just as
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importantly Caitlyn sugarcoats nothing and of everyone I've spoken with she's often the harshest when it comes to
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Bailey I get it a lot that as her sister that I shouldn't be so brutal with the decisions and the choices that she made
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that I should be more sympathetic for it but I'm not and I get hell for it all the time well that's your sister you
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should you should have nicer things to say about her well if I sit here and say oh she was an angel she was a saint she
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was a perfect girl she was the nicest girl you'd ever meet I'd be lying Caitlyn thinks her sister made a
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lot of bad decisions but in terms of murdering Micah I fully 100% believe that if she
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did play a part or she did have anything to do with it it was by force but I don't think mentally she
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would have it in her to murder somebody no you might remember in episode one Cheryl said Mah's dad Lance had a theory
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when he realized Bailey went missing shortly after Micah Lance knew immediately I mean he just cut straight
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through it and he said Mike is dead and she knew too much I said something similar when the
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moms and I appeared on Dr Phil in 2018 about 8 months after their disappearances something that uh myself
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and the mothers we have strongly considered is the possibility that Bailey Bailey knew what happened to
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Micah and that made her a liability of sorts that she had that information but being a Target because
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she knew too much and being a killer were two very different scenarios the moms and I had even thought that maybe
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Bailey unbeknownst to her was used to lure Micah somewhere you may recall Matt Vanda Castile and Matt Queen tried to
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attack a guy we calling Sam the two mats got Sam's address after Sam sent it to Bailey
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and Bailey snapchatted me uh saying let's meet up and I was all sure you know that I'd love to meet
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up when they finally showed when she finally showed up it wasn't her Matt Vander Castile later told
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Sergeant Garrett it wasn't actually Bailey who was messaging Sam that day no Matt had her phone oh okay I was
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wondering because Bailey's legally was contacting but not her vand Castile said Bailey was at home and it isn't clear if
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she knew what was going on or if she gave anyone permission to take her phone she would be pissed that somebody took
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her phone and she didn't have it so did Matt Queen do that often take her phone and pretend to be bait that was Jane
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going off of what she said the moms and I considered maybe something similar to this incident with Sam happened with
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Micah and Bailey found out she was unknowingly used to lure her friend to his death and that didn't sit well with
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her but somewhat recently I found out that prior to the charges being filed against Bailey Cheryl and Lance had
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privately contemplated the possibility that Bailey could have played a more willing role in what happened to Micah
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than the rest of us had considered Lance and I already had an inkling that she if she wasn't involved
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she probably lured him to where he was kidnapped from because it had happened before Cheryl says those thoughts began
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after the moms came across a disturbing photo with a bizarre and twisted story that went along with it a photograph had
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been sent to Micah and this other person indicating that Bailey had been hurt and
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it had been sit by Matt Queen and that he was implying well what are you going to do about it kind of a conversation
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and Micah went the other person didn't said he was frightened he didn't go and Micah went
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and it turned out that she was fine this had happened maybe in the previous year
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and she was fine and it was kind of a joke on Micah or whatever the photo sent to Micah and
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another guy showed Bailey slouched over a bathtub with what looked like a gunshot wound to her head it's graphic
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and pretty unsettling by his own account Matthew Queen said it was a joke that he
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and Bailey played on Micah whatever the motive was Cheryl says the takeaway is clear Queen and Bailey knew that if
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Bailey seemed to be in some kind of distress Micah would show up to try to help her kind of this big brother thing
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I really do feel like it was that type of a relationship I can't prove that but everything kind of points to that I
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think the stage photo was just a piece in what we'd find to be a series of strange events involving the circle of
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friends including Bailey Micah and Matthew Queen and it would ultimately become part of Sergeant Garrett's
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investigation leading him to consider the possibility that Bailey and Matthew Queen were in on the murder together but
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the basis of the case was the story Matt vand Castile told Sergeant Garrett and Lieutenant Bagby about a strange night
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when Queen and Bailey asked to use his garage they were doing something out in the garage
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I thought making guns until later on in the night Bailey came in all shaking up pale as pale as
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[ __ ] went in changed their clothes they left the next day Matt show up wanted me
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to go drive out somewhere with them to go [ __ ] dump something go get rid of something and I didn't go he got all
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pissed off initially Vanda Castile was adamant that on that night Queen only asked him can I use your garage never
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specifying what for and that vand Castel himself came to the conclusion once he heard Micah was missing that they must
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have killed him that night it was a story investigators weren't buying that's not what you know that's not all
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of what you know that's for [ __ ] sure right I see nothing nothing at all there's no body there's nothing in there
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no blood no body no evidence of a murder nothing that's a lie be careful how much you
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choose to lie if you want the da to come in here and believe that you are worth saving I'm telling you the [ __ ] truth
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there there was a there was a a grease spot what was a grease spot there was a there was a grease spot that wasn't
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there the day before and there shouldn't have been axle grease smeared all over where it
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was then Vanda Castile seemed to budge a little further and brought up in incident involving one of Queen's guns
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going missing a gun that apparently had sentimental value Vanda Castile said Queen suspected Micah stole it so that
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was a possible motive Vanda Castile said but that was it he said that was really
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all he knew but as you've already figured out Lieutenant Bagby wasn't going to just accept that that
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easily so like you can keep beating around these bushes all you want to I've told you what the cat mouth game will
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get you what you're going to land in is a heap of [ __ ] that's what you're going to land in
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you keep playing these games trying to protect your people trying to protect yourself whatever the [ __ ] you're trying
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to protect he told me he was going to get Micah to admit to taking his gun when that night I didn't think he was
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killing anyone I mean I didn't think it was going that far so he took I thought he was just going to scare him and
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question them right get him to admit it and that was it what investigators needed witness testimony that in fact
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there was an alleged plan to get Micah to talk that night but Vanda Castile never wavered in his claim that he never
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actually saw Micah at his house that night and didn't hear a sound coming from the garage but he admitted he knew
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something was off based on Bailey's Behavior he said it started while him and Sarah were minding their own
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business hanging out inside his house and Bailey walked in from the G and asked him for
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something she came in once asked for scissors left came back in pale flustered shaken and walked straight into the back
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with s to change her clothes it freaked her out whatever happened in the garage freaked her out
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Vandy Castile said he knew better than to ask Queen many questions but he said he couldn't help bringing up Bailey's
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demeanor I just asked I said what's wrong with her oh she's just shaking up shaking up over what she didn't like
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what she seen what did she see I don't you mean nothing don't worry about it I mean it's better that you just don't
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know everything Vanda Castile said he never flat out asked Queen what happened but he said the writing was on the wall
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what do you think happened I think they tortured him and killed him they tortured him with the intent to kill him
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you think Bailey had the intent of killing him I can't say about Matt after Micah
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was reported missing Vanda Castle says Queen played it off like nothing ever happened I he never talked about that
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night he would always talk about how he thinks that Micah split town with some chick you're telling us just make sure
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I'm 100% that Bailey participated in torturing Michael holen be yes right and what was her demeanor after all this was
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she still around she didn't go Miss until you were in jail I didn't she never came around that much afterwards I
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would always show up by himself on his street bike I mean but you didn't see her a
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lot but you did see her she still existed yes we went antiquing antique here who went
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antiquing he Matt and B you just like went driving around looking antique stores yeah strange you ever go antique
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antique stores got some crazy [ __ ] it's quite the image the two couples making an afternoon of antiquing after
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that strange night as according to Vanda Castile Queen and Bailey seemingly shared a dark secret while Vanda Castile
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and Sarah shared dark suspicions but aside from that outing Vanda Castile told investigators their
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forsome wasn't the same after Micah was reported missing he says suddenly Bailey
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seemed to never want to leave the house house but Queen on the other hand apparently still wanted to hang out with
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Vanda Castile every day after interviewing Vanda Castile Sergeant Garrett had forensics test that grease
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stain in the garage underneath they found Micah's blood Garrett also used Queen and Bailey's phone records to
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corroborate Vanda castile's Story the prosecutions theory laid out in charging documents is that at some
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point on March 22nd 2018 Bailey and kidnapped Micah and as the night crept into the 23rd they
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brought him to Vanda castile's garage where they tortured him killed him and ultimately dismembered his body here's a
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bizarre detail Vanda Castile told Sergeant Garrett I know he bought a camera and he took pictures of whatever
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the [ __ ] they were doing that's what I thought they would did I didn't think someone would take
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pictures or [ __ ] like that what do you mean a camera what kind of camera your little Polaroid
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camera me and Sarah were playing with it in the house hearing that I thought back to a
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recorded phone call between Vanda Castile and Sarah back when they were still dating part of the call was played
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in the last episode Sarah tells Vanda Castile she had a dream about Bailey who at this point had been missing for about
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a month I was just really [ __ ] up by that dream it felt so real it felt like she actually came back and I haven't
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been able to like you know I've always kind I ignored this whole situation for like since I've been getting over and
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like you need to not be anywhere around it okay I just talk to don't want to [ __ ] you don't want to push try or
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put your nose in any of that I know I know I know I need to keep my nose out of it just baby TR stay out of
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it okay I know it's probably best cuz considering two people have gone missing over this this [ __ ] you
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know yeah hey you remember that night we were at the house and we're taking pictures with
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the polaro camera yeah out those pictures I have one of them the one I wrote on or the one you wrote on I wrote
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on all of them but I only have the one of me flipping off the camera that you took yeah I can't find the other one
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oh that was a weird night it was a weird night I love you I love you too keep your nose
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out of everything I will it seems undeniable the weird night vanic castel's referring to is the night
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that Micah was killed in the context of what vand Castile told Sergeant Garrett it made sense why he abruptly asked
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Sarah if she remembered the night with the Polaroids in the middle of their conversation about Micah and Bailey
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disappearing maybe it was his way of reminding her why she really did need to stop poking around and of course I
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thought of the other time Polaroids were mentioned in the case in summer 2018 there was a Polaroid picture on my
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windshield of Bailey and Matt Queen and it said love you Mom Jane couldn't prove
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it but she had her strong suspicions about who put the Polaroid on her car that morning well there's that Polaroid
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that Queen allegedly que put on James windshield correct do you think it was taken that night I mean it did be a fair
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assumption that it was taken in close proximity to that cuz they recently acquired that
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camera if the Polaroid was taken that night and put on Jane's windshield by Matthew Queen is there a deeper meaning
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to it was it Queen sending a message he thought he would only ever know the meaning of I thought back to the strange
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message Queen had sent Jane on the afternoon of March 23rd 2018 a date that now carried tremendous
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significance Queen first texted Jane that day a long nasty message about how she was too protective of Bailey and how
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dare she tell Bailey to murder their baby and he demanded an apology Jane responded seemingly shocked and Confused
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saying she never told Bailey to get an abortion and that she had nothing to apologize for Queen then replied quote
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seems you've made your bed you'll have to sleep in it now Jane I know you're in special ed so I'll explain that see it's
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a metaphor about life the bed is yours you have made a decision about how you want to live your life with or without
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me in it and Bailey has made her decision also now we must accept the consequences that go with that decision
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we must sleep in our beds goodbye Jane I always thought the wording was strange given they were talking about
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biley having a baby something Queen said he wanted in the context it seemed Queen
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was saying Bailey made her decision to keep the baby so I never understood why he said we must accept the consequences
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that go with that decision it had a negative connotation to it which didn't seem to fit based on Queen saying they
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were excited about the pregnancy I realize now Queen sent that text shortly after investigators believe
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Micah was murdered and around the time they believe his body was being disposed of was Queen dropping little breadcrumbs
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tying Bailey to the crime even then creating a trail he thought no one would ever be able to follow or is it all just
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a coincidence you might remember I first started looking into the case about a month after Bailey disappeared when I
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found a search warrant that described Queen dropping off her belongings on the front steps of a home where Bailey 's
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friend lived Bailey's friend's dad was startled to find her things that day I see bags in my front door and I I looked
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down and there was a note and it said um tell Bailey that I love her but I cannot
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be with her and just something in between like that like like saying that he didn't want her
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back within Bailey's bag was one of her purses tied on the purse was a piece of orange and black rope it didn't mean
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anything then but 7 months later after the arm in the duffel bag in the river matched to Micah it was decided Sergeant
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Garrett should be the lead investigator on each of the Bakersfield three cases and so the sheriff's department sent
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over evidence they'd collected when they were assigned Bailey's case including her belongings Queen dropped off at her
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friend's house upon opening up that bag I immediately saw that rope I said I've seen that I know where that came from
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Sergeant Garrett saw the rope tied onto the bag that held Micah's arm was the same rope tied to Bailey's purse later
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on investigators would also find that same rope tied to Queen's bed post I asked Sergeant Garrett what he makes of
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the Rope being tied to Bailey's purse I think it was just an accidental oversight it was on the purse when it
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was dropped off it seemed odd to me that any girl would put a piece of thick Orange and
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black rope on their handbag certainly wasn't very stylish I mean you'd have to ask him why that's on there I've tried
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multiple times and couldn't really get that out of him cuz he didn't really want to talk to me over the years I mean
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there's OB obviously theories that you could propose yourself you know maybe he intentionally put that on there to link
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her to things I I don't know after the charges against Queen and Bailey were announced I thought back to
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the posters that he had taped up over B missing Flyers that Jane had hung up they had a cryptic message about a
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villain pretending to be a victim at the time I thought he was referring to Jane
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now I wondered if it was actually about Bailey and then there was a message that
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Queen put out that was blatant spelling it out clearly but at the time no one really thought anything of it here's D
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to explain it was written on our Facebook page by Matt Queen how would you feel if one of the
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other Bakersfield 3 I don't remember the exact words was involved in the other one's murder it seems Queen actually
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wrote this comment twice it started out with the question what if one of the bk3
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was responsible for the other bk3 one variation ended with asking would you be mad the second time he
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posted the question he added would the parents still be supportive to one another when he wrote that we talked
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about it but we never dreamed that there was any truth to it looking back one could say queen had meticulously planted
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seeds of Bailey's guilt over the years but if that had been his intention Sergeant Garrett says it did nothing to
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minimize the evidence that linked him to Micah's murder overwhelming circumstantial evidence um then we had
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direct evidence that tied him to things I mean I had everything from cell phone evidence to web searches to direct
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interviews with subjects codefendants testifying I mean I even had ropes sent to the FBI lab back East that link
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things together there's just a multitude of of evidence that just overwhelming and then came one of the
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biggest pieces of evidence after a horrific Discovery in August 2021 a little over a year after Queen
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and Bailey had been charged a 10-year-old girl was playing at the karna river with her family she said was
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under the water skimming the riverbed floor looking for clams when she felt something a heavy bag curious the girl
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picked it up and dragged it to Shore that day all police would say was human remains were inside 2 weeks later Cheryl
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got a call from the Corner's office so I said okay you know what's going on or whatever and she
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said well I'm you may have heard that human remain were found at in the Kern River and I said yes we knew that and
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we'd been waiting patiently to hear if there was you know any further DNA testing that needed to happen and you
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know we're certainly available for that and I start going down my Spiel and she's oh well it's we have determined
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that it's Micah was like okay okay that's good that's good so we have more of him
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okay so I was well well did you use our DNA swabs and she said no we were able to use Dental
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Impressions because it was his skull Mah skull was found inside a bag meant to hold a motorcycle helmet Queen
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was already charged with his murder but the discovery led to even more evidence against him here's Sergeant Garrett I
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found video of him of opening up the uh same helmet bag Christmas of 2017 so 3 months before Micah was killed which was
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a huge Discovery it made the case stronger and it gave Cheryl what she thought she and
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her family wanted more of Micah but getting the news it was his skull took her to a dark
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place in the Minds Eye of a grieving parent I learned at that moment that there was a very distinct difference
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between your child's arm and hand and their face the first call she made that day
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was to Dy Dy was already with Jane and Jane and Dy just so happened to be at the river at the exact spot where the
00:31:43
child found the bag with Micah's skull it felt meant to be but it's not that surprising as Jane had taken to
00:31:51
going to any area where unidentified human remains were found just to scope it out see if she could find any else in
00:31:58
the event that the remains belong to her daughter and D always went with her making such a dreadful task perhaps feel
00:32:05
a little less lonely immediately after getting the news Cheryl met up with Jane and Dy at
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the river they embraced her and vowed to support her in what was just the latest
00:32:17
chapter in her nightmare here we were standing out there just walking along the banks and
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and and thinking about you know that's where son's face and head and hair were it's
00:32:34
really actually amazing that any of us are standing at this point cuz it's just you know you're just driving down the
00:32:42
street one day and someone tells you your son's skull was found in the river nearby Cheryl said after that she
00:32:51
realized the nightmare she was living might never end after she described it to me there was a long pause pause
00:32:58
before she spontaneously said something about Bailey and mic's case rest of our lives we might get
00:33:06
phone calls saying this is K County coroner we think we might have part of Micah can you come give another set of
00:33:12
DNA swops you know or yeah I mean let's face it his other arm and hand are out there somewhere his
00:33:21
legs or somewhere I can't I mean I know that there are young women out there who have done heinous
00:33:30
things but I just don't see I can't Envision Bailey being a part of that but maybe I you know I I don't
00:33:40
have all the evidence because guess what they don't tell the fames anything we only know what we know and what we've
00:33:47
learned and what we've given them so maybe more will be revealed I don't know but in the
00:33:55
meantime we have his his head and one arm and one hand that was a big question we all had
00:34:06
what was all the evidence that Bailey along with Matthew Queen killed Micah how would the moms feel after seeing it
00:34:13
and hearing it during a trial Would It ultimately bring Cheryl any sense of Peace even in the slightest this was a
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question I thought about a lot I knew all Jane wanted was to find Bailey even as she put it if it was just a part of
00:34:30
her and all D wanted was an arrest and charges filed in James's case Cheryl now had both of those things but did it
00:34:38
really make anything any less painful the next thing is a trial and we've been told that that
00:34:46
trial can take months do I want to sit there and and and sit through that for months no but
00:34:56
will I do it yes and then when when that's over and and assuming the best outcome from our
00:35:05
perspective happens and uh we don't have to deal with Matt Queen again in this lifetime you
00:35:18
know will we feel better no will we feel different I hope so Cheryl knew ultimately there'd be parts
00:35:29
during the trial where her pain would be even deeper than it was before where she'd have to sit through testimony and
00:35:36
evidence about her child's horrific murder but in time Cheryl found a way to shift her
00:35:43
Outlook in another life Micah would have been an attorney he was very much uh enjoyed the
00:35:51
law and politics and conversations about those things and he would have been an attorney
00:35:58
and no doubt a prosecutor and going into the trial that's coming I like to think of this as
00:36:07
Micah's this is Micah's day in court this is Micah presenting every piece of evidence he
00:36:15
could leave behind for us including his own blood records on his phone whatever whatever they've got this was
00:36:24
Micah giving us his best shot at catching the person who did this or people and I want to be there for that I
00:36:31
want to be there for Micah getting to prosecute this case along with RDA I just want to see him
00:36:38
win he was a good talker he could probably win I want to sit there and I want to watch that I want to watch him
00:36:46
win so hopefully that [Music] happens next time on the Bakersfield 3 we want you testifying today well I
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think it's about time the truth come out what was it like to hear his testimony highly
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This episode stands out for the following:

  • 90
    Most intense
  • 85
    Most heartbreaking
  • 80
    Most shocking
  • 80
    Most unpredictable

Episode Highlights

  • The Complexity of Victims and Suspects
    Detectives often face the harsh reality that victims and suspects can overlap in tragic ways.
    “Not every victim is going to be an angel.”
    @ 00m 40s
    May 20, 2024
  • Public Betrayal
    When Bailey was charged with murder, many felt betrayed by someone they believed was a victim.
    “It felt somewhat similar to when a public figure has a fall from grace.”
    @ 01m 23s
    May 20, 2024
  • Confusion Surrounding Bailey's Charges
    After Bailey was charged, many were confused about her role in the case.
    “I thought the girl in the Bakersfield 3 was murdered by her boyfriend.”
    @ 03m 14s
    May 20, 2024
  • The Polaroid Message
    A Polaroid left on Jane's windshield raises questions about its meaning.
    “Was it Queen sending a message?”
    @ 23m 17s
    May 20, 2024
  • Discovery of Micah's Remains
    A 10-year-old girl finds human remains in the Kern River, leading to devastating news.
    “Your son's skull was found in the river nearby.”
    @ 32m 43s
    May 20, 2024
  • Micah's Day in Court
    Cheryl prepares for the trial, viewing it as Micah's chance for justice.
    “This is Micah's day in court.”
    @ 36m 07s
    May 20, 2024

Episode Quotes

  • Not every victim is going to be an angel.
    Bread Crumbs - EPISODE 12 (The Bakersfield Three)
  • This woman has not got to speak for herself in 3 years.
    Bread Crumbs - EPISODE 12 (The Bakersfield Three)
  • I fully 100% believe that if she did play a part... it was by force.
    Bread Crumbs - EPISODE 12 (The Bakersfield Three)
  • Seems you've made your bed, you'll have to sleep in it.
    Bread Crumbs - EPISODE 12 (The Bakersfield Three)
  • Your son's skull was found in the river nearby.
    Bread Crumbs - EPISODE 12 (The Bakersfield Three)
  • This is Micah's day in court.
    Bread Crumbs - EPISODE 12 (The Bakersfield Three)

Key Moments

  • Victim or Suspect00:40
  • Public Outcry01:23
  • Confusion and Betrayal03:14
  • Sister's Defense09:01
  • Polaroid Message23:17
  • Micah's Remains Found32:43
  • Trial Preparation36:07

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