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go out to Wesha County, Wisconsin. This is a story that just broke here recently, about two months ago. The
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story starts on the morning of Friday, February 28th, 2025, when Wesha County deputies arrived
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at a lovely home on Cinder Hills Drive. The house is large with a threecar attached garage positioned to the left
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side of the house at the top of the driveway. The yard is large as well and backs up to a wooded area. The lawn is
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well manicured. There's a basketball hoop at the back of the driveway. The house has P green siding and a stone
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facade. As you make your way from the driveway, there's an extended walkway leading to the front door of the home.
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Shrubs line the left side of the walkway. The officers approach the front door doing their usual police protocol
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of casually looking in the windows of the home as they walk by them. The house looks dark inside and from their vantage
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point. There isn't much to see. It's a quarter to 10 a.m. that morning. The officers are knocking on the door. The
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purpose for their visit, a welfare check at the residence. The officers were dispatched to the home after receiving a
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call from a Mrs. Judith Mayor. Mrs. Mayor told dispatch that her son Donald Mayor and his wife Tatiana Cassap and
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Tatiana's son Nikita Cassap had not been heard from or seen for some time. And there was growing concern for the family
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of Thre's general welfare. This concern by Donald's mother was compounded by Nikita's absence from school. Nikita was
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a student at Wesha West High School where their mission, as they say on this school's website, is to challenge minds,
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foster compassion, and pursue excellence. there. A member of law enforcement, this is officer Edwards,
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working in the capacity as the school's resource officer, is making some routine
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school related phone calls that morning. One call was concerning Wesho West High
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School student, 17-year-old Nikita Cassap. Cassap was a good student, very smart, and very focused. The concern
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with the youngster wasn't grades or his behavior. It was simply his absence. Nikita previously had a perfect
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attendance up until about two weeks prior to this date. Since then, the boy had not been at school at all. These are
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all unexcused absences as no excused absences had been provided to the school by either Nikita's mother or stepfather
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with whom the boy lived with. Neither parent had called Nikita in as absent. However, the school did receive a single
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email that the school was not able to confirm that it had actually come from the family or actually anyone with the
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authority to give notice of the boy's absence. Yeah. Sometimes when your child is sick, you'll call it in or if they
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have a doctor's appointment, you call it in or maybe even send a note with them when they come back to school. But like
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you said, Nikita has not been back in school and he's just 17 years old, but his his mother is only 35. His dad's
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only 51. So then you think, well, did they go on vacation and just not tell us about it? And if you if an email could
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get you out of school, my friend, I would have sent many a forged email back in the day to go on and have some fun.
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would say the the official email of the colonel's parents atgmail.com. So what we have here,
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Captain, are essentially two welfare checks, right? Requested both for the same home. One for the husband and
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stepfather, Donald Mayor and family. That one coming from his mother and we also have one coming from the school
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regarding the student and son Nikita Cassap. And at the scene of this welfare check,
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officers were not able to make contact with anyone at the residence. So, no one answers the door. They could see no sign
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of activity at the home. A deputy checked with neighbors and was able to make contact with with one neighbor who
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stated that they had not seen the family or any activity at all at the family's property for several days. I mean, it's
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a big house, too. Yes, it's a big looking house. Uh, nice looking home in a really cool neighborhood. Yeah, it's
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one of those neighborhoods where everybody probably has one to two acres and then you got a threecar garage. You
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have this giant driveway for a basketball hoop. It's fenced in next to a pond. I mean,
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you just go, man, this this is a family that has made it. Mhm. Lots of people cutting lots of grass. Yeah. So,
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deputies reached out to Donald's mother back to the high school resource officer
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to collect some more information since they weren't able to make contact with anybody at the home. What they find is
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really like some odd and weird suspicious text messages. Okay. So, Donald's mother tells police she
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received suspicious or weird text messages on February 23rd, purportedly from her son. So, this
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is 5 days prior to the welfare check. Mhm. But she says she has not heard from any member of the family of three
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since. Further, she stated that Donald's sister had last talked to Donald on February 18th. So this is 10 days prior
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to the welfare check. But this communication was simply via text as well and equally suspicious to the one
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that Donald's mother received. This text to Donald's sister was from Donald's phone and saying that he was pretty sick
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and was going to take some time off of social media. The school resource officer at Wesha West High School,
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Officer Edwards, the one who also requested a welfare check, told police that the son, Nikita, had previously had
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a perfect school attendance, but had not been present at the school for 2 weeks.
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It's very strange. Even though this is more of the same, they are dispatched to this area, to this residence to knock on
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the doors, maybe look into the windows, see if there's any activity. And when they don't see that, they are doing
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their due diligence to go back to check with dispatch. Where did these welfare check calls come from? Who was
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requesting them? Can we speak with those individuals directly to figure out if there's any more information that could
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help us locate one or all three of the family members? Now, am I correct in the in the
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sense that if you're law enforcement, you're going to do this welfare check that you're also looking for probable
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cause to enter the property? Yeah. you're going to look for suspicious activity because right now these people
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are by persons that know them, right? They're unaccounted for. And by by both reports, they're getting two independent
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reports that are telling you these people have been unaccounted for for days by this point. And and the truency
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officer, the resource officer is saying this boy with perfect attendance has not
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been at the school now for two weeks. and and we've not heard anything from anybody except for this email that we
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don't we we the public don't have any details about that email other than the schools simply saying we weren't able to
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verify that this email was legit. Well, I think that's an important thing that you just said about the the text message
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that would have came from um his step Yeah. from his stepdad's phone is we can't just assume that
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because it comes from somebody's phone or it's comes from somebody's email that that's coming from that individual.
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Shortly after 10:00 a.m. deputies asked dispatch to check with local hospitals. So could you call the local
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hospitals, ask them if all three or any of these three are had been admitted to a hospital or
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are receiving any kind of medical attention at any hospital and they complied. The dispatch complied,
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contacted all local hospitals and none of the three residents in question were located using those calls to the
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hospital. Okay. So now we have a full throttle investigation that is going to be ramping up rather quickly. So we have
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Wesha County Deputy Sponder, last name Sponder, spoke with Donald's boss, called Donald's boss at his place of
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employment. So the boss explained to officer Sponder that they had been in somewhat regular contact with Donald,
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but only via text message. telling the officer that Donald sent text message contact with him between
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February 13th and February 25th with Donald telling him that he was too sick and couldn't talk on the phone. Further,
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deputies discovered that the postman indicated that there was a vacation hold on the mail at the residence.
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So here, to put it plain and simple, shit's just not adding up, right? Either these three are skipping out on work and
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school for two weeks or something is very, very wrong. So law enforcement then checked flock cameras
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in the area of the residence. I love Batman utility belt type technology. This is that they are looking for
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movement of two vehicles. one, Donald Mayor's 2018 Volkswagen Atlas. This is a one of those crossover vehicles and or
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the vehicle that was registered to Tatiana Cassap. So, you are hoping with this check of these flock cameras to get
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a hit on one or both of these vehicles. Of course, this is going to be your breadcrumb trail. So, we follow a quick
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aside here. Flock cameras are automatic license plate reader cameras. They are somewhat common, especially in more
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populated areas. Big brother is watching. Data, data, however you want to say it, Captain, it is how we catch
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criminals. The eye in the sky equals physical evidence. And much more importantly, as in this case, what
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detectives crave, leads. Yeah. You say data, I say potato. So, these flock cameras or
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ALPRs cameras capture images of vehicle license plates and other details such as
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make, model, and color. And in some of the more advanced types, they can also detect gunshot sounds. These images and
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data are stored and can be accessed by law enforcement to help investigate crimes, locate stolen vehicles or wanted
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individuals. Flock Safety provides this technology to various entities including
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but not limited to police departments and law enforcement agencies. So remember, at this time they are only
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checking this in the area, right? The the immediate area where these folks live. They do get a couple of hits.
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Donald's 2018 Volkswagen Atlas was spotted by an ALPR camera on February 23rd, 2025. Again, 5 days prior to the
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welfare check. And Tatiana's vehicle was last seen on flock camera on February 11th, 2025. So considerably earlier here
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in our timeline. So good news, bad news situation, right? You have some more information to work with, but it's also
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been quite some time since the vehicles were seen and active. Well, and they're not confirming who's driving the
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vehicles. Correct. So again, February 28th is the welfare check. So 5 days for Donald's vehicle and 17 days for
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Tatiana's utility belt resource number two. Officer Edwards, the school resource officer, had the Wesha West
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High School ping Nikita's schoolisssued computer. And the last IP address for the computer was in Wesha on February
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23rd, 2025. That's a smart move by law enforcement. Brilliant move. And furthermore, think about what's starting
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to line up here now, too. His his computer last pinged in the Wesha area on the same day that a flock camera
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picks up the Volkswagen Atlas. So, at that same day, we're still on the same day as the welfare check, but now we're
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going to zoom forward a couple of hours, right? We talked about the investigation
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that was going on behind the scenes, but now at 1:52 p.m. the Wesha County Sheriff's Department entered, they
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actually go in and enter the residence and rather quickly they located a deceased female
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on the first floor hallway. Oh [ __ ] The female was wearing a jacket and had towels over her legs and a blanket over
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her body. Her face was blackened from decomposition and they also found quite a bit of dried blood on the floor around
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her. Now, we need to note here, captain, that she could not be identified at the
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scene. this due to the decomp. Deputies observed a possible exit wound in the female's back near her right shoulder
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and further observed a possible bullet hole in a wall in that hallway where she was located. So near the body. I mean in
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layman's terms this means that she's been there for quite a while. She's been there for quite some time. And even
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though she can't be identified at the scene, what the deputies are seeing is you're you're seeing obvious signs of a
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homicide. Yeah. And so now this this case is just completely flipped into a whole different type of investigation.
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So what they're going to do here is they're going to leave. They're going to exit the residence upon finding her
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body. They they're going to secure the residence. And this is something that we talk about
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a lot here in the garage and I think it gets overlooked because people like to pick at nicks with what law enforcement
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does and what they don't do. And where I get frustrated is look, there are plenty
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of times where law enforcement botch it, right? Or where they just they just screw it up or there's somebody lazy or
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stupid on the case and it just doesn't work out. Yeah. Or they're just human and they made a mistake. Yes. A lazy
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stupid human. Now, the what they're doing here, Captain, is very brilliant. We we talk
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about this often. You need to not only be investigating and doing your job and protecting everyone, but at the same
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time, once you all of a sudden realize you got a major case, this is now a homicide situation. You need to make
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sure that all of your actions going forward, from the minute you found out this is a homicide, that all of our
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actions going forward and what we do will hold up in court one day. Because our end goal, our first goal was to find
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these people alive and well and report back to the family in school that, hey, they're fine. It was just a
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misunderstanding. that goal doesn't look like it's going to be able to be achieved because right
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now you're sitting with a situation with we found a dead person. We don't know who she is 100%. Right? And we still
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have two other missing people. We now have a homicide case. So now our goal is to solve this homicide and get justice
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for this victim. So they exit the residence and they secure the home. Now, upon exiting, they do make some
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observations. These observations are twofold. One, deputies did find Tatiana's vehicle at the residence in
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the garage, but what they didn't find in the garage was Donald's vehicle. So, that's
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not located at the residence. Well, and if you're law enforcement and if you have any idea of what's going on behind
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the scenes, because the people doing the welfare check or law enforcement doing the welfare check might not be the same
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individuals that are privy to some of this information that Donald cell phone was at least communicating with his
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work. So you you have a missing mother, you stumble upon a victim that's probably roughly her age. So we can
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assume a little bit that this could be the mother. we can lean towards that idea, but we haven't found the father.
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So, you start then thinking, well, was there some kind of dispute and then then the father kills the mother and and now
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where is um the stepson? Right? Unfortunately, there's no shortage of domestic disputes, violence or homicides
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in this country, right? And so now what what's going to be taking place at the scene at the residence is after it's
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secured, you're really just waiting on paperwork at this point. You're you're presenting everything that you now know
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to a judge, getting them to sign off on a proper search warrant, right? Because before you entered the home under
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probable cause. Now, you want to enter the home armed with paperwork saying that we can legally do what we are going
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to do and we can collect evidence because now we've identified that there's been a homicide that took place
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in this residence. So, at this time, while they're waiting on the paperwork to come through, which which will be
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expedited and come through rather quickly, deputies were able to locate a neighbor and speak with him. His name is
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Paul France. Paul France tells deputies that on February 23rd at approximately 1211 p.m. So shortly after noon that
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day, he says he was pulling into his residence and he passed Donald's Volkswagen Atlas and he observed that it
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was being operated by Nikita, the son, the 17-year-old son, right? Which he might have a license. Well, he tells the
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deputies that this Nikita kid appeared to be alone and a different neighbor told
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investigators that the family had a small black dog and that the dog had not been been seen outside in quite some
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time. And one thing that the deputies didn't see when they were inside the residence was a small black dog. They
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didn't see a dog at all. The officers ran Nikita's driving record and quickly found out that he has never been issued
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hope to see all of you, as many of you as possible out there in Denver in September. All right. So, this what you
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were hoping, you're an officer. You're arriving at this residence and you're hoping that this would be a pretty
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routine welfare check. Officers make more of these welfare checks than I think most citizens are aware of. And
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most of the time, somebody answers the door. It's a misunderstanding just like a lot of missing teenager cases or
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missing person's cases where the person will be located within the first 24 hours. But now we have a whole different
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set of circumstances. Things went from questionable to horrible upon entering the residence and
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finding the body of a female. Yeah. With gunshot blast. And you have to be working under the assumption that
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because she lived there that the deceased female is in fact one of the three people who you were looking for.
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That that it's likely Tatiana. You're either going to find two more bodies or you're going to have to start looking
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for individuals that might be responsible for the deaths. Yeah. If that proves true, well then you are
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still missing two other people that lived at that house. So utility belt resource number three, an exigent ping
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was placed for Donald's and Nikita's cell phones. And it was learned that both cell phones pinged in Cheyenne,
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Wyoming. So this is approximately 980 miles away. So roughly a 13 12 to 14hour drive
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west of the residence in Wesha, Wisconsin. Right. So we have a murder victim and it looks like we have
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somebody on the run. Now we do have another report and I do want to state that both are from very reputable
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sources. This report is stating that the phones pinged in Laram. Wyoming, which is a considerable distance from
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Cheyenne. And kudos to the folks at AT&T who complied and acted so quickly to help with those emergency pings. Now,
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both reports, I believe, Captain, are likely accurate because to me, these phones appear to be on the move. You
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said somebody might be on the run. These phones appear to be on the move. And if
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they are, you're going to be requesting updated GPS information regularly. And so both reports could be
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very true if these phones are in fact on the move. Later that day, we're still on
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February 28th. This is at approximately 5:00 p.m. The Wesha County Sheriff's Office, they now have search warrant in
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hand. So they execute that search warrant at the residence. Upon entering the home once again and
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now that they are armed with this judge signed paperwork permitting the full search of the residence, a second
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deceased subject was located in what is best described as an office room again on the first floor of the
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home. That subject was a male with a gray beard and was covered by a pile of clothing. The deceased male at that time
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was believed to be Donald Mayor. Officers observed an obvious wound to the back of the victim's head. Now,
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through records, this is advanced location records that were obtained, police learned that Nikita's phone
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appeared to leave the Wesha area on February 24th at approximately 10:00 a.m. The device took
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a very general route through multiple states, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Colorado. These records
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indicating that the device belonging to Nikita appeared to stop at Iowa 80, the world's largest truck stop located in
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Walcott, Iowa on February 24th between the approximate times of 2:25 p.m. and 2:50 p.m. So, Detective
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Jensen, you can see this captain is a all hands on deck situation. We got Well, that's a great name for a
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detective if you're the chief. Jensen, it it's great for the chief and it's Jensen in in my office now. Jensen, it's
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also great if you are a uh character on an HBO crime thriller. Yeah, Jensen, what do we have here? So,
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Detective Jensen contacted the Walcott, Iowa Police Department, and he's requesting that
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they check the video at the world's largest truck stop for the date of the 24th. Yeah. And provided them with the
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window of time that was in question. They needed to determine if they could observe Donald's Volkswagen
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Atlas there because we know that Nikita's phone was there. And they also want if if they can spot that vehicle or
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or maybe not by plate, just a vehicle matching that description. You want to see is there any cameras that might tell
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you whom may be driving the vehicle. The police department there sent officer sent officer Tim Hahan who responded and
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went out to the scene, reviewed the security video and bingo. Officer Han observed a
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vehicle matching Donald's Volkswagen Atlas on camera during the time frame of interest. The sheriff's office provided
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the Iowa Police Department with a photo of Nikita. And based on that school photo,
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Officer Han believed the lone occupant that he could see in surveillance footage of that vehicle was in fact
00:35:14
Nikita. And in fact, the footage was so detailed here, Captain, that the the officer said that he could see a small
00:35:24
black dog was with the lone occupant of that vehicle. So, this of course consistent with the dog that was missing
00:35:31
from the residence. Yeah. Like you said, we have this welfare check law enforcement. I mean, you don't know. So,
00:35:38
you're hoping for the best, but there's also situations you, you know, where something goes wrong and there's a um a
00:35:46
poisoning, right? Uh carbon monoxide poisoning, but you show up now. You have this victim by gunshot. Mhm. You find
00:35:57
another victim by gunshot. Appears to be a gunshot. you and appears to a gunshot
00:36:04
hole in the hallway wall of the residence as well. And it's a large property like we said. So then you're
00:36:11
looking for the sun and then you don't find the sun. Then you have other options. Okay. Now, now is the son
00:36:18
responsible for this or was this uh did somebody break into the house? Is is this
00:36:26
kidnapped by somebody? You have multiple possibilities. So now we're tracking this car. And once you see that it's
00:36:36
just the son by himself, he has made no contact with the school or authorities, family members or friends that we know
00:36:45
of, right? And he's all by himself with the dog driving his stepdad's car. It doesn't look good. No, it looks like a
00:36:53
situation where the 17-year-old murdered his mother and stepfather and appears to
00:37:00
have moved the phones of the murdered victims. The stepson doesn't have a driver's license. And look, you it
00:37:09
wouldn't be crazy to think of any other scenario because we've reviewed here in the garage, I think it was seven or
00:37:16
eight years ago, the middle of the night, some maniac shows up and guns down two parents and kidnaps the the
00:37:22
teenage daughter, right? Holds her captive for an extended period of time. and detectives and and they probably had
00:37:31
a better idea of what was going on, but us, the public, the general public, we were left clueless. We were like, "What
00:37:38
was was the kid involved? Is the kid dead somewhere?" You know, we were left with no answers. Is the kid a murderer
00:37:45
or a victim? And are they dead or alive? And so, at least we're getting some answers
00:37:52
here. We two dead parents, the child's alive. Now you have to start going. You're narrowing down the possibilities,
00:38:00
especially when you see the son by himself identified by a photograph and in the company of the missing dog from
00:38:09
the residence in a vehicle that matches the stepdad's vehicle description. Now, you had said they don't find the son at
00:38:18
the home. What they do find during this continued search of the re residence, they find paperwork. This paperwork is
00:38:26
telling them that Donald Mayor at some point purchased a Smith and Wesson 357 Magnum firearm and that a search of the
00:38:35
home. They could not find that gun. They could not find that firearm. It's not discovered within the residence during
00:38:42
that search. So, here we go, Captain. We are going to a tiny little town called Wini, Kansas. Yeah, that's what I wear
00:38:52
to the to the beach. A waini. That's right. It's a three-piece. It's a 17piece. This is
00:39:01
approximately so it's over 800 miles from the welfare check residence. This is in Tgo County, Kansas.
00:39:11
Wa. Other than being located right in tornado alley, this place looks very cool to me. Population less than 2,000.
00:39:20
Shout out to the Brazen Bull, which if I'm ever in Waini, I'll be dropping by for a beer and a burger over there. I
00:39:28
looked Wa Police Department up on Facebook and on X just to see what their activity is because nowadays like
00:39:38
there's constant communication from a lot of these law enforcement agencies. And some of it's just kind of happy,
00:39:44
cheerful stuff and others like, "Hey, we're looking for this person, right? or uh stolen vehicle situation. the Wini
00:39:52
Police Department Facebook. It's it consists almost primarily and I when I say primarily Captain I mean it's like
00:40:02
95% missing dog found like this is a very communi communityoriented area small small town. Everybody knows
00:40:12
everybody and the police department's nice enough that you know what, we don't have much crime going on here. So, we go
00:40:18
go around and collect uh stray animals that we find posted on Facebook and we're returning we're returning pets to
00:40:26
their owners. Owners are collecting their pets. That is a lot of what the law enforcement activity is or appears
00:40:33
to be via Facebook anyway, right? Here in this small little town. So, all right, let's focus. I'll focus. It's
00:40:41
11:25 p.m. So late at night. This is still the night of February 28th, the same day as the welfare check. The same
00:40:50
day as two bodies found still unidentified back in Wisconsin. The Wini Police Department
00:40:58
while working traffic stopped a vehicle with outofstate plates. The officer lit him up and pulled him over at 7:45 South
00:41:09
First Street. The traffic stop was initiated due to the vehicle exiting Interstate 70 and then failing to stop
00:41:18
at a stop sign. The officer ran the plate and the vehicle came back as stolen out of Wisconsin. So, the TGO
00:41:27
County Sheriff's Office responded to back up the officer as well as another member of the Walini Police Department.
00:41:34
They arrive on the scene. Information from the Wisconsin Sheriff's Office that was provided to the officers at the
00:41:42
traffic stop scene is telling them that the person driving this vehicle could be
00:41:46
armed with a handgun. Right. The vehicle, of course, was a Volkswagen Atlas. They believe that it was likely
00:41:54
Nikita Cassap that was operating the vehicle. After approach, officers observed in plain view a handgun on the
00:42:03
passenger side floorboard. The driver was quickly identified to be Nikita and the juvenile was taken into
00:42:12
custody at approximately 11:37 p.m. All without incident, thank God. Further inspection of the
00:42:21
vehicle, the officers located Donald and Tatiana's driver's license, unused ammunition, and spent shell casings.
00:42:32
Also recovered was the little black dog. This is not looking good. Not at all, my
00:42:37
friend. Not at all. But we grab two more beers from the fridge and we venture on.
00:42:42
So the the gun that they took from the vehicle, spoiler alert, it's later determined to be a Smith and Wesson 357
00:42:49
Magnum firearm. So yeah, the one owned by his stepfather. Correct. As said, the subject was identified as Nikita, a
00:42:57
juvenile who by this time just about 13 hours after the police had entered the home for the welfare check or first
00:43:06
knocked on the door, I should say, he's wanted by this point. He's wanted out of
00:43:12
Wisconsin, right, as a person of interest in a double homicide that the Wesha Sheriff's Office was still openly
00:43:21
investigating. The vehicle was listed as stolen and that information went out to
00:43:26
the world only 90 minutes prior to him failing to stop at the stop sign. It's almost like destiny, right, that that an
00:43:35
officer happened to see him failing to stop at the stop sign. It's literally minutes after this
00:43:43
thing was first reported stolen. Who Who's to say that that late at night in a small town that the officer approaches
00:43:51
and doesn't see the gun and lets the guy off with a warning, doesn't run the plates? I mean really it's everybody
00:43:58
doing their jobs and it's multiple departments and multiple agencies across state lines in a very quick manner. So,
00:44:07
beyond the gun and the driver's licenses belonging to his parents, the first reports that were
00:44:15
coming out were short, but did say that Nikita did have items in the vehicle with him that were consistent with the
00:44:22
information received from the Wisconsin Sheriff's Office. These items with that short description here,
00:44:30
Captain would later, we get some details on it. And these items turn out to be boxes of 357 Magnum and 38 special
00:44:41
ammunition. They also located Donald Mayor's and Tatiana's wallets and a large amount of US currency and
00:44:51
euros. and two cell phones belonging to Donald Mayor and Tatiana were also found
00:44:57
in the vehicle. I want to touch on the large amount of US currency and euros here uh for a
00:45:06
moment. We know absolutely true because these are legal documents that state that it was US currency and euros. I've
00:45:14
seen the total sum reported differently in this case. I've I've seen it, I believe, as little
00:45:23
as $14,000 and maybe as high as $18,000. I don't know why the discrepancy the discrepancy may come from that they had
00:45:34
two different kinds of currency that was found in this vehicle. But regardless, this is a considerable amount of money
00:45:42
that's found in the vehicle with this kid who appears to have fled from the home of his murdered parents. You have
00:45:51
the murdered victims, these these parents, two individuals. You're looking for the third. You're hopeful that
00:45:57
they're alive, but then they're alive and then they become a suspect. And with all these items, I
00:46:03
mean, you don't have to be the greatest detective. Jensen. Um, yeah, we didn't need Jensen on this one. We could have
00:46:11
Yeah, you can kind of figure out that uh this kid is probably responsible for murdering his parents, being killed by
00:46:19
your own gun. I mean, it's a sad, sick world. Um, and it just gets stranger every day. It seems like we're going
00:46:28
through a strange dark period. Um, 2025 is setting up real nice, Clark. Real nice. Yeah, Jensen. Um the the thing
00:46:40
here is too think about the even with the vague description provided to us. You can almost see this play out in
00:46:52
your head, right? Allegedly, he killed his parents. He's accused and will be eventually accused of such. Now, as you
00:47:04
said, killed with your own gun. The Donald Mayor is found with a single shot to the back of the head. Yeah. In the
00:47:12
office, a room described as the office on the first floor. And then the wounds to Nikita's mother,
00:47:21
Tatiana. There's multiple wounds. And she is, it appears very different to me, Captain. Right. It almost looks like
00:47:30
Nikita snuck up behind Donald Mayor and was able to get point blank and shoot him right in the back of the head. And
00:47:39
he was not moved much further than where he fell. He may have been playing on the
00:47:46
computer, working in his home office. I don't I don't know if he had a home office, if he We do know that he had to
00:47:51
report to work on on occasion. I don't know if it was every day, but regardless, that's what it looks like to
00:47:57
me. Nikita sneaks up behind Donald and boom, single shot, he's down. He's dead. Now, probably reactionary to that is
00:48:09
Tatiana in a very different manner is gunned down in the hallway of that home. Now, this boy
00:48:18
flees the scene, but he doesn't flee right away. So, we know at for at least a time period if he's responsible for
00:48:26
these murders, he is um living coexisting with these corpses. Well, and you would have to believe that
00:48:36
right out of the gate because of a couple reasons. One, the decomp of the two bodies that were found inside of the
00:48:43
home. And then you have data and information that's telling you that Nikita did not leave the Wesha area
00:48:52
until the 23rd 24th. And so, but keep in mind it's still you're still looking for clues and
00:49:00
searching for information and answers here. Some of it being scientific and some of it being evidentiary
00:49:08
because we've seen accelerated decomposition in some cases. and we're talking about a a difference of four or
00:49:15
five days between the time that he's located and the welfare check takes place to when the information says that
00:49:23
he left the area. So, still a lot left to to sift through here. But the key here is Captain that night he is taken
00:49:34
into custody. Nikita's brought into custody and but he's not charged with murder at this time. he was not been
00:49:43
charged in connection with his parents' death. And in fact, the law enforcement agency goes public, stating, "Look,
00:49:50
here's here's what's going on with this situation. We have located an individual
00:49:54
that we think is responsible. We have located the vehicle. We've located the gun that we believe to be the murder
00:50:00
weapon. However, this is an ongoing and active investigation. And until we have all the information and all of the
00:50:07
evidence, we're not going to charge Nikita with the murder of his mother and stepfather. What we're going to charge
00:50:14
him with is things that are obvious, right? Driving without a license. We know he broke that law. He was pulled
00:50:21
over operating a vehicle. He was also operating a vehicle that was reported stolen by the sheriff's office. So, he's
00:50:28
going to be charged with theft of that vehicle. And it's also based off of Donald Mayor being deceased that they
00:50:36
have to believe all signs point to Donald Mayor didn't allow him to use the vehicle or his handgun. Therefore, we
00:50:44
can charge him with the theft of the handgun as [Music] well. So much more to get to in this
00:50:59
bizarre case. Stick around for part two. Until then, be good. Be kind and don't litter.
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