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John's sister said that the check was made out to self, like a personal check to them that was cashed. So, it had to
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have been one of them who was on the account who cashed that. But the weird thing was is it wasn't cashed at the
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branch that they normally go to, which was only like 3 minutes away from their house. The branch where it gets cashed
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is about 10 minutes away, which isn't far or anything. But when someone goes missing, even the smallest things that
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are out of the norm, yeah. Become like super suspicious. Yes. So, when police go to this branch
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and they talk to the teller who cashed the check, they find that she actually knows John because she works at both
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locations and she tells them that that morning John drove up through the drive-through teller's window in his
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pickup. Shelley was sitting next to him, and she signed the check before handing
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it to John to put in the carrier. And for anyone too young to have used anything other than mobile banking,
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that's like the little thing that you put the check in to like go to the Wait, do we have to explain to people? I think
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we have to explain to people who haven't like used anything other than mobile banking how to use a drive-thru bank. So
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anyways, they send this check and as the teller took it, she looked into John's truck and she saw that Shelley was
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sitting between John, who's in the driver's side, and another person, a man on the passenger side. Now, she couldn't
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see this other guy super well. Just said that he was slim with dark hair. But she
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said, you know, Jon was acting kind of weird. Like when she handed Jon the envelope full of cash, he just looked
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straight ahead as he drove off. And normally he would be super friendly to her. Like they would maybe joke around,
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but he didn't even say goodbye before he drove off, which to her was odd. And this checkbook, like that they wrote
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the check out of was back at the house or was it found in the truck? Neither. Uh, John's sister said the
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checkbook is still missing to this day, as is John's wallet. Wait, I know this is the '90s, but banks are like the one
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place that has had security cameras since the Stone Age, like forever. And they have usually like pretty good
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systems for that. This other dude, he has to be on camera, right? Well, no. So, former Sheriff Alier told
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us there was surveillance footage from the bank, but it wasn't clear enough to identify whoever this mystery man is.
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And so, this this, you know, witness account from the teller is the last time that John and Shelley Markley are ever
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seen alive. And where their truck went after this is unknown. But John's brother told us that he's got
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a theory. [Music]