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talk some true [Music] crime [Music] when we left off yesterday Captain we asked the simple question where's Jimmy
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and we were leading up to a possible break in the case hinting that there would be a break in this case now the
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break would come nearly 3 months after his disappearance and it would come at the suspicions of one woman Suzanne
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shinh housee but she was not suspicious in regards to Jimmy Rice's case no she was suspicious for other reasons and in
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fact her involvement in this case actually started before Jimmy Rice even went missing and this was in August and
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September member of 1995 when Susan Shin housee reported to the local police several times that
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items from her home including a handgun and some jewelry were missing from her residence per court records the trailer
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is housed on a property that's owned by a one David Santana so no relation to Susan Shin house but what we have here
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Captain is there's a situation where Susan shine house she owns she's pretty well to do and owns a horse ranch and a
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large amount of property so she has people working for her on her properties and some of the other people in this
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general area are sharing some of those workers working at their properties as well she has this situation where some
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of her items are missing from her home again these are items of value a handgun and some jewelry after filing multiple
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police reports and passing long suspicions to the authorities they're kind of their hands are tied they cannot
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pursue any of the people that she's suspicious of so she tells one of her friends about what's going on hey
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there's some items missing from my home this is what I think's happening but I don't really have any proof I can't get
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the police to act on it because again there's no evidence I have no proof here in any of my suspicions her friend tells
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her why don't you go talk to this psychic Maybe she can direct you to your items maybe they're misplaced maybe
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somebody did take them who knows so she decides to go to the psychic and the psychic kind of confirms some of
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Suzanne's suspicions saying you will find the items that you're looking for on a trailer located in this specific
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area now the trailer that you're referring to Captain would later be referred to as either the avocado Grove
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trailer or the horse farm trailer what she does here is the man that lives in this trailer Matt Foley and works as a
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handyman and a farmand on her property his name is Juan Carlos Chavez she sends him out to do some
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errands keep him busy for the day and this is on December 5th 1995 she takes her son with her his
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name's Edward shin houseee and a locksmith and they open up the trailer to go inside to see if they can find the
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items that are missing from Susan's home they're inside the trailer in plain sight they find the missing handgun now
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this was a handgun that she had purchased in April of 1989 again she finds it in plain view on
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the counter in the kitchen opposite the trailer door after finding the gun her and her son continued to look inside the
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trailer looking for the missing jewelry when they discovered inside of a closet area a book bag which was partially open
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looking inside the bag Suzanne saw papers and books the work appeared to be in a child's handwriting and she noticed
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the name Jimmy Rice on some of the papers she observed this name on one of the books as well now this is going to
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send off major red flags for the shine houses yeah because in the local community everybody's asking where is
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Jimmy where's Jimmy that's the common phrase going around town and has been for almost 3 months now so everybody
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knew the name Jimmy Rice in fact it was later said that that on that day September 11 1995 he went from being not
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just Dawn and claudine's Son but the son of the whole Community looking for this
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child Jimmy Rice so immediately Mrs Shin housee notifies the FBI saying hey this is some stuff some weird stuff
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that I just found in this dude's trailer who's working for me this Juan Carlos Chavez but also this book bag in in
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general has been talked about like you were saying his mother was saying well look he would throw down his his book
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bag and run so you got this whole Community going where is Jimmy and you find this book bag with all his
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belongings yeah I mean just strange stuff not what she was anticipating right even though she is suspicious of
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this man she was looking to find other items in his trailer and did so in the course but finding this item as well she
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contacts the FBI and so the FBI and the Metro Dade Police show up on scene they view the items they take a look around
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in the trailer and now they're waiting for Juan Carlos Chavez to return to this property and he does so a little after
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700 p.m. on the evening of December 6th where he is quickly surrounded and arrested without incident he's patted
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down they read him as Miranda writes and now it's time to take this man in for interrogation I wonder if he had at some
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point realized that he's been duped and they were going through his belongings so who is this man well 28-year-old
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Chavez first arrived in the United States in 1991 this after a raft ride from Cuba to
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South Florida with two other individuals he had previously served time in Cuba after attempting to steal a boat from a
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military base in 1986 this during a previous attempt to flee the country for which he was caught
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and sentenced to 4 years in prison but only served one year and 11 months Chavez had served in the Cuban military
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after he was drafted he was granted permanent residency in 1993 under the Cuban adjustment act
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which gave automatic residency to most Cubans after a year in the United States while a criminal history could prevent
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residency from being granted we have a situation where the United States and Cuba had no diplomatic
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relations so a criminal check was nearly impossible according to an Immigration and Naturalization official quote I
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guess they felt like this was a military related case so he got his green card end quote it is worth noting that once
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Chavez was identified the rice family I have such respect for Don and Claudine rice and all of the the rice family and
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it breaks my heart to see what they were forced to go through but these are smart
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and understanding people and I think this just kind of shows who they really are the rice family very quickly
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denounced what they called stupid Prejudice requesting that the community ignore Chavez's Cuban Roots as Don rice
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said quote some people have come to the family to say that they are ashamed of being Cuban and Hispanic I just want to
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make clear that evil comes in many ways there is nothing to apologize for our fight is with Predators yeah and now
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that they have Chavez and custody they're going to be able to interrogate him which I believe the interrogation
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went for roughly 55 hours it took place over the course of two days yeah and this was some pretty intense stuff it
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was so lengthy due in part to the different stories that Chavez is going to provide law enforcement to try to
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explain way why he is in possession of the book bag of a missing 9-year-old child right so his first story is that
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he simply found the book bag and he found it in a field and he brought it back to his trailer and he's had it ever
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since I don't know what date he claims to have found it or why he decided to bring a child's book bag back to his
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trailer that's not important because as quickly as police explain to him look we're not buying that story uh could you
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try to prove to us that that is in fact how you came to be in possession of this
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book bag he quickly moves on to another story all right so now we're interrogating and I don't know how many
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hours have gone by yet Captain but now we have a different story and we see this time and time again he may have
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provided detectives with 10 stories a dozen stories maybe dozens of stories but but we see this time and time again
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with certain types of offenders where it starts off as oh you got me in cuffs and
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you're asking me the hard questions starts off as I had nothing to do with this to then a completely different
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story hours later of yeah I'm involved but I'm still kind of innocent and let me tell you why so one of the stories he
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comes up with is that when he was out working and driving for work on September 11 after 300 p.m. he's
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returning back to his place of work when he accidentally struck and hit a boy with his vehicle crushing the boy
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between the vehicle he's driving and a guard rail and he didn't think that anybody
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would believe him about what had happened that this was simply an accident so he decided to conceal the
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body of this boy that he hit on the the side of the road well there's some problems with that story Mr Chavez first
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of all there's no damage to the vehicle that you driving and there is no damage to any guard rail or fence that we can
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find even though we have him take us to the scene of this quote unquote accident
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we can't find any evidence of there being any kind of vehicle accident at all that's my favorite in the cases is
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where they know the person's lying and they still have to do their due diligence and go out like here Chavez oh
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yeah you say there was a wreck let's go out to the scene nope there's no evidence of the wreck or probably my
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favorite one that we've ever covered is when Casey Anthony took detectives to her work and uh they go all the way
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there and all go down a couple hallways and do a couple things and then she turns around and goes I don't work here
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right that's right turns around and says I don't work here I lied yeah and that's
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where you know sometimes we have situations I don't want to I'm not going to sit here and pretend that CSI is real
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and these TV shows are real and that's the way that things work we know better than that they're not real we know
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better than that here in the garage and the people that tune in know better than
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that as well but this is where I have to believe that entertainment is mirroring
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reality when you see the annoyed detective that just looks at the guy after they prove to him that okay your
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first story didn't work your fifth Story didn't work this last one that we had to
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come out here to location to make sure that you didn't get in a vehicle accident didn't work you know where you
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see the annoyed detective who goes all right care to try this again Mr Chavez yeah but here's where I think Chavez
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brain was right I I found the book bag then when he says I found the book bag I think he started figuring out well
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they probably know my route that I take for work and so once he started assuming
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that law enforcement went uh they they probably know certain things about my schedule
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already based on possibly they talked to my employers and I think that's why he ended up changing his story initially to
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go oh well yeah I was I happened to be on my my route for work and I came across this kid and that is partial
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truth over the course of this interrogation and after having been repeatedly advised of his Miranda rights
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and then waving them this is when Chavez finally provided well the real version after providing several versions of his
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involvement in Jimmy's disappearance we only get to the truth after the physical evidence resulting
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from their investigation that they've had so far and anything that they've discussed with Chavez totally
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discredited each version of events that Juan Carlos gave to the investigators to
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which he finally agreed to tell the truth however Chavez explained that before he would disclose the location of
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Jimmy's remains he wanted the officers to guarantee that he would in fact receive the death penalty for his
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involvement in this case now the detectives told this man look we can't guarantee you that's not the kind of
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thing we can make happen uh from our position but given the nature of the crime and what they suspected he was
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about to tell them they didn't think that it was going to be difficult for this man to receive the death penalty
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yeah hold on a second so normally what happens and I'm going to I'm guessing it's normally because that's normally
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when we cover a case that's what happens is you have a situation where somebody wants to confess but what they want to
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take off the table is the death penalty yes this uh rectum socket he's like hey I will tell you what
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happened but you got to keep the death penalty on the table he wants to guarantee that the death penalty will be
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imposed in his case exactly right yeah so he's like okay well I'm going to tell you what happened but now you need to
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charge me and you need to go after the death penalty he also very interesting he also wanted to make it clear to
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detectives that the events that took place would not have happened had he not been sexually battered by a relative in
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Cuba so he goes on to tell these detectives after a quick break he walks into the room after using
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the restroom and says what do you want to know I'll tell you what happened to Jimmy Rice and he proceeded to admit
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that he abducted Jim Jimmy at gunpoint traveled back to the horse ranch with him where he sexually assaulted Jimmy
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before finally shooting him now this is when detectives say okay you know great thank you for telling us the truth but
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we're going to need the details mhm we're going to need the details and we need to find the boys remains they
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probably said look we need the Deets well Chavez said that when he was out working driving around that he observed
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some young children playing in water this on his way home from Home Depot at approximately 300 p.m. on September 11
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he said some of the boys were wearing just their underwear and as he saw the young boys wearing just the underwear
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they're getting wet he took an interest in them after observing the children he said that he drove off and a short while
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later he was still picturing the children and he decided that at some point point he wanted to abduct a child
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so while this is occurring he's driving and he says that he sees another young boy he sees a Boy by himself this later
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turns out to be Jimmy Rice right at this point he's feeling something sexual and
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he wants to that he wants to take this young boy that he sees and he says that he used the gun the stolen gun that he
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has this is a 38 caliber gun and he pulls up and he blocks Jimmy Rice's path with the vehicle steps
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out and points the gun at the boy and says do you want to die he grabs the kid by the shirt pulls him into the vehicle
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tells him to get down on like the um the floorboard area of the the vehicle so that he wouldn't be seen by other
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passengers and he drives him back to his trailer or the trailer that he's staying
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in at the time and this this is where the rape takes place now this is horrific I don't know and don't care to
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go into the details of what happens at the trailer at this point but one thing that I
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strongly question is how much he was willing to admit to because approximately 4 hours takes place
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between him getting to the trailer and the time that he decides to leave the trailer now I want everybody out there
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to I want to be very clear about this the the following story is Juan Carlos Chavez's story as he claims it to be and
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we will go through this a little more here in a minute but I'm going to start tell it from start to
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finish but I want to be clear I don't believe 100% this is exactly what took place and what happened he says that
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about 4 hours after bringing the boy to the trailer that he decided to let Jimmy
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Go go he was going to return him to either near his home or the location where he abducted the boy well initially
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he also does say you know that his objective initially was to just abduct and to molest a child he says that as he
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approached the area that he was going to drop the boy off there was a strong police presence there and this caused
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him to panic it spooked him and he didn't know what to do so he decided to return with the boy to the trailer once
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back at the trailer they're there for I don't know how long I mean we're getting
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into the nighttime hours now there's a lot of police out looking for Jimmy at this time and there are helicopters um
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that they are using and I don't know if it was a helicopter specific to the search for Jimmy rice or if it just
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happened to be a helicopter that flew over the area flew over top of the trailer where Jimmy and this man are but
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he gets up again he's kind of Paranoid by this point according to his own words he's looking out the window to see
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what's going on and he says that's when Jimmy made a run for the door and so Chavez reacts he's got a gun
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he shoots the boy shooting him in the back yeah claiming that he held on to the boy to I guess comfort him as he lie
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there dying you see this a lot of times with criminals where right when they commit the crime they become hyper
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paranoid yeah we saw that and we actually had the words of Dennis Raider and several other killers that we've
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talked about here in the garage where you know Dennis Raiders said that as soon as he committed the murders he
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fully expected police to arrive at his doorstep within minutes or hours of committing that crime and I believe we
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had the same thing happen with with Ed keer when he killed his grandparents and when when nobody showed
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up Ed keer just called it in yeah but yeah you're right there's that immedia paranoia that sets in according to these
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types that hey everybody knows what I just did all of a sudden they magically know yeah and not all killers but just
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it seems to be and a percentage of them where crime happens and then hyper par paranoid some of them don't get scared
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at all which is completely bizarre but then he goes on to say that he needed a place to hide the body so he's out
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driving around looking for either a location or something to help him conceal the body of this boy and which
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he found a barrel one of those large metal drums he loaded it into the vehicle I believe this was a van or a
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truck I'm sorry a van returns to the trailer places the boy's body in that barrel for the meantime and he decides
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later that he's going to need to bury the remains to which he ends up using attempting to use a back ho on one of
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the properties that he's working he can't get the back ho to work properly it's malfunctioning for whatever reason
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so he decides that he's going to have to dismember the boy and he buries I'm use
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air quotes there buries the remains in cement in several large Planters he was hoping that the cement and the Planters
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of course would make it so that the remains were never to be detected you fast forward to early December where the
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shin houses make their way into his trailer and find these things this damning evidence that is going to lead
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police directly to the killer of Jimmy Rice and that's one of those weird things you know there's a lot of weird
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things in any of these cases and in this case there are those weird things but here's a case Captain where nearly 3
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months later this guy this monster for whatever reason decided made a conscious decision to hold on to this book
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bag yeah had this book bag never been found he was working on Long Division I wonder if we would have ever known what
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really happened here to Jimmy Rice probably not because there was nothing connecting Juan Carlos Chavez to him
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other than that book bag this was in every sense of the phrase a stranger abduction according to Juan Carlos
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Chavez now I want to point out some things that I call into question in regards to Mr Chavez's
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story I like how he is constantly minimizing his culpability in this case right he
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presents his story and he presents himself as an impulsive human being who made a mistake versus a monster a child
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predator and that's really what he is at the end of the day and a piece of [ __ ]
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the statement of he was going to return Jimmy but oh I panicked I I I I got scared I didn't know what to do when I
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saw the police in that area he claimed that he only had to kill him because the boy tried to escape he
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said that he had to dismember the boy because the backhoe wouldn't work and he was unable to bury the boy you ever
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heard of a shovel the other thing too he says he only was going to molest the boy or had or he was
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molested and that's why he wanted to abduct and rape a boy again taking minimizing his own culpability in any of
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this sit situations there's there's always a reason that led him to do the next despicable disgusting act that he
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that he decided to do himself and the other thing too that we have to keep in mind according to law enforcement and
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the courts these items were reported stolen many times several times in August in September what was
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the purpose for him stealing that gun in the first place why did he happened to have that gun with him in the vehicle on
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the day that he's working when he just so happened to stumble across a Jimmy Rice walking alone by himself after he
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just happened to see some boys playing in the water together barely wearing any clothing right I start to see a
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situation where this man decided he needed a gun for some reason at some point and he decided to steal one mhm I
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see a situation where I think this guy could could have been driving around looking for a boy and he could have been
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looking for a boy for weeks or months and it wasn't until he got that gun that he thought that he was going to get what
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cheers to you captain now sadly the Jimmy Rice story did not end the way that anybody wanted it to end the I mean
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just to add to the sadness and add to add to the devastation here the trailer and the property where the remains were
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recovered of this boy right were less than 2 miles away from his home and all this time those answers
00:33:21
were much closer than they thought all those search efforts never LED them to Jimmy
00:33:29
Rice yeah but sometimes I think the world the universe the powers that being try to make things right boy goes
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missing we don't know what happens these items went missing before the boy went missing but once she then seeks
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out some confirmation about her beliefs a psychic tells her hey I have this energy saying that there's items and
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you'll find them in this trailer and like you said she finds this gun she finds the book bag I think one
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it wasn't a mistake that he just left the book bag in there that was kind of some
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souvenir but also like you said I would lean to the idea that he might have been
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tracking these individuals and tracking these kids because they get dropped off on a
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main route that that's the main route you would drive you wouldn't be driving through these
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neighborhoods to and from Home Depot you take main streets but if you're on the prow looking for children well follow a
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couple buses see who they drop off right so I'm with you where I think this was something that he thought about maybe
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fantasized about maybe even try to look I'll try to give him the benefit of the doubt maybe he even try to suppress
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these fantasies but then like like you were saying I think this is was premeditated maybe he
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even pulled up in front of a kid once or twice before and chickened out at the last minute yeah you see that all the
00:35:10
time so I think really what we see here is what we've seen so many times before where he's just trying to minimize his
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yes I did this but I I did I did a because of this happening I did B because that happened and so on and so
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forth and it just Contin on and on and on well yeah I think that's maybe where we disagree because he wants the death
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penalty to be on the table he wants to be sentenced to death so that's kind of odd motiv that's a
00:35:43
kind of a odd motive to um to change your story to minimize your story you think if anything you
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want to appear more of a monster so you can guarantee that you get that death penalty he could have waved his appeals
00:36:01
he didn't bother to do that though he appealed this thing like crazy and that's the thing look I when
00:36:09
you have somebody when you're talking about a a child predator and a child killer I mean the worst of of the worst
00:36:16
and you and I we we just will not have the ability to crawl inside the minds of these people and we I mean I've seen
00:36:27
Honey I Shrunk the Kids but what's that I said I've seen Honey I Shrunk the Kids but I don't know if they
00:36:34
can make me small enough to to get inside there but when we look at these things it's it's very fair for us to
00:36:42
look at his words his statements and his actions and question every single one of
00:36:47
them did he say something dumb like hey I want to make sure that you put me to death did he want to throw that out
00:36:54
there just so hey when we get to court I'm going to I want everybody to know that only only a person outside of his
00:37:01
mind would be saying Hey I want you to put me to death that there's something wrong with me clearly so you know we
00:37:07
should question everything that this type of person would do because he shown us what He is capable of now the
00:37:15
aftermath of this thing Captain as we said Jimmy really became the child of a community and there were 600 people
00:37:23
nearly 600 people that gathered to honor this boy who died too soon at his funeral Reverend Leonard brusso who led
00:37:33
the service at St Andrews Episcopal Church said during the course of his sermon because Jimmy Rice was with us
00:37:41
his contemporaries his classmates and teammates and children he never knew all are becoming safer from predators and
00:37:48
pedophiles who would pray on them because Jimmy Rice was with us awareness of the perils that stalk our streets and
00:37:57
playgrounds and schools and sanctuaries places we had hoped were safe is being raised up to a new and higher level well
00:38:07
and it's really good one this community but also his family his mom and dad to say hey look there's this tragedy this
00:38:16
tragic thing that happened to our family but we're going to make sure that Jimmy
00:38:21
Rice's name it is uh synonymous with good and this world yeah and when people have a free moment I would encourage
00:38:30
everyone to go to Jimmy r.org and rice is rc.org and you can see the Jimmy Rice Center that was set up by his parents
00:38:44
and the community and this they really do so many things there that it's difficult for us in our limited time to
00:38:52
explain everything that they do but even after after their son's body was discovered after the funeral his parents
00:39:00
Claudine and Don rice worked to improve the national system of tracking missing children by using both the internet and
00:39:08
greater cooperation among law enforcement agencies cine rice said quote publicity caught the man so she
00:39:16
dedicated herself to generating more publicity and public cooperation in missing child cases by the time of
00:39:24
Jimmy's funeral a petition that would make it easier for law enforcement agencies across the country to
00:39:29
coordinate search efforts had already amassed over 300,000 signatures Florida's us delegation filed the Jimmy
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Rice ASAP child assistance act to make it easier to post photos of missing children in federal and state buildings
00:39:49
this brings us Captain to 2014 at 8:02 p.m. on Wednesday February 12 2014 Juan Carlos Chavez lie on a
00:40:00
gurnie in a brightly lit room with leather straps around his wrist and ankles and IVs for the lethal injection
00:40:08
inserted into his arms he did not give us a last statement so to speak it actually came in the form of a Chavez's
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last statement came in the form of a rambling handwritten note composed hours before his execution in the know he
00:40:26
didn't apologize to the Rises nor did he claim he was innocent of the crime for which he would be executed instead he
00:40:36
wrote of his faith and his wish that Christ's love reach those who in their pain desire my death no word or man will
00:40:46
rob me of my peace today he was executed on that day his last meal consisted of a ribey state
00:40:56
french fries a fruit cup strawberry ice cream and mango juice it just always drives me nuts when they when they eat
00:41:04
something or some something strange like mango juice I like mango juice right when I hear that this son of a [ __ ]
00:41:11
drinks a mango juice I I never want to drink mango juice again I don't want to be anywhere close to the to an animal
00:41:20
like this at 8:17 p.m. Chavez was declared dead around two dozen reporters gathered in front of the Florida State
00:41:28
Prison in preparation for the execution sadly Jimmy's mother Claudine and his half-sister had already passed
00:41:37
away by this point but Jimmy's father and half brother were both in attendance none of the 19 Witnesses showed any
00:41:45
emotion during the execution though pain was apparent on Don though pain was apparent in Don
00:41:53
Rice's eyes immediately after this execution Captain Don rice gives a statement that's videotaped recorded and
00:42:02
it's you can find it still to this day and I believe you can find it at Jimmy r.org as well it's also on YouTube Don
00:42:10
rice is addressing pedophiles who might abduct children yeah and he says do not kill the child do not kill the child
00:42:22
because if you kill the child people will not forget people will not forgive we will hunt you down and we will put
00:42:30
you to death that being a warning to anybody that would abduct the child letting them know you still have a
00:42:38
chance to return this kid to drop them off somewhere to to get them out of your possession you always have that
00:42:47
opportunity until you don't don't kill the child this is what happens and he goes on to say that if there was ever a
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person ever a man that deserved to be put to death it was Chavez who killed his son now Don rice passed away last
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year and he did so much great work before his passing his wife did so much great work before hers and their
00:43:15
son Jimmy's half brother continues to do that great work today again we have the
00:43:21
Jimmy Rice Center who does they do so many different things plus there was the 1998 Jimmy Rice act this was something
00:43:30
that was put into our system to create and change the system so that sexually violent Predators can remain in state
00:43:39
custody long after finishing their prison sentences so that they would be evaluated and they it would be
00:43:46
determined if they were ready for release or not it's a way to keep them housed in a facility that might not be
00:43:54
an actual State Prison or be monitored once they are out I want to bring up here Captain a quote from Colleen Nick
00:44:02
Colleen Nick is the mother of Morgan Nick a girl who disappeared and has never been found or located since her
00:44:09
disappearance a case that we have covered here in the garage and the quote is I remember standing in the middle of
00:44:15
the chaos thinking I wish I had a book to tell me what to do child abductions are rare stranger child abductions are
00:44:23
even more rare very few people very few law enforcement agencies actually know what to do in the proper order to do
00:44:32
them when this does occur because they are rare Don rice said that unfortunately when they started their
00:44:40
investigation he wanted to see them start their investigation but they appeared to be starting from scratch
00:44:46
because they had never investigated a child stranger abduction law enforcement the Department of Justice with the help
00:44:54
of several family members and parents of missing and abducted children got together and they created a book called
00:45:04
when your child is missing a family survival guide and this is a pretty substantial book with a lot of great
00:45:10
information in it and a lot of great resources there's even a to-do list for you for the first 24 hours The First 48
00:45:17
Hours things that you should be doing to help find and locate your child now God
00:45:24
forbid that any of us ever need it I'm just simply pointing out that it is there it is available for free for
00:45:30
anybody that wants it you can find it by simply Googling that title when your child is missing a family survival guide
00:45:39
and again if anybody wants to find out more about the Jimmy Rice Center the website is Jimmy r.org
00:45:47
obviously one of many things that they want to do is increase public awareness of sexual predators they want to help
00:45:55
bring kids home like so many other organizations do there's a bevy of resources there available on their
00:46:04
website there's also ways for you to get involved and ways that you can help others now one thing that the Jimmy Rice
00:46:11
Center does is that they provide AKC blood hounds free to law enforcement to help find abducted and lost persons and
00:46:21
children and according to their website they say a blood hound has 60 times the scent power of a German shepherd and is
00:46:29
the only dog that can follow a human Trail more than a few hours old a blood hound is your single best bet for
00:46:36
bringing a child abducted by a predator home alive at the Jimmy Rice Center we believe that Jimmy would be alive today
00:46:45
if a blood hound had immediately been brought into the search for our son I am happy to announce and say here and
00:46:55
thankful to everybody who have donated this week and in previous weeks to our beer fund and we've said in the past
00:47:03
that we have what we call spillover Money the captain and I call it spillover money and we've used some of
00:47:09
that spillover money to go to a lot of great different that help law enforcement and help victims of crimes
00:47:17
and one thing we were able to do this week in honor of Jimmy Rice and the Jimmy Rice Center was to make a donation
00:47:24
to the Jimmy Rice Center they say that it takes about $11,000 for the center to provide these
00:47:31
AKC blood hounds to a law enforcement agency and because of all of you out there we were able to make a donation of
00:47:40
$11,000 to the Jimmy Rice Center and before we wrap up today we'd like to leave you with the words of Don rice a
00:47:48
short clip from his statement given to the media after his son's killer was put to
00:47:54
death don't kill the child don't kill the child because if you do people will not
00:48:11
forget they will not forgive we will hunt you down and we will put you to death [Music]
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want to thank everybody so much for joining us here in the garage we'd be nothing without you we are nothing we're
00:48:49
we are nothing with you so without you would be extra nothing less than nothing Colonel do we have any a recommended
00:48:56
reading for this week uh yes we do Captain this week we are recommending the cases that haunt us by the great
00:49:02
John Douglas and Mark olshaker look call them what you want but don't call them open and shut cases did Lizzy bour
00:49:10
murder her own father and stepmother was Jack the Ripper actually the Duke of Clarence who killed John B Ramsay and so
00:49:18
on and so on it goes on and on and on check out this book because it's by the great John and Mark Al Shaker who
00:49:27
explore those great cases as well as several others and you can find that recommendation along with several others
00:49:34
at True Crime garage.com on our recommended page and if you're looking for more True Crime garage check us out
00:49:41
on the Stitcher app we have a premium show called off the record it comes out every other week if you don't know you
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need to know until next week be good be kind and don't litter [Music] [Applause]
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