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a beer let's talk some true crime [Music] you go foreign [Music] River is a wild and Scenic River in the great
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state of California that spans approximately 165 miles it drains an area of the Southern Sierra
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Nevada mountains Northeast of Bakersfield fed by snowmelt near Mount Whitney the
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river passes through Scenic canyons in the mountains and is a popular destination for white water rafting and
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kayaking it is the southernmost major river system in the Sierra Nevada despite its remote source
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nearly all of the river is publicly accessible in the summer of 2018 some recreational teenage swimmers in
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the Kern River near Hart Park were met with a rather unpleasant surprise they found a duffel bag in the river
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the bag was zipped shut and had some heft to it the weight of the bag had some of the
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teenagers thinking that it could contain something valuable inside possibly even money
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the teens eagerly opened the bag to investigate its contents to their disappointment the first item
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they found in the bag was a sweatshirt well that makes sense a sweatshirt inside a duffel bag
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s of possibly recovering jewelry or someone's lost stash of cash were fading as now it's beginning to
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look like they simply found someone's lost gym bag but further investigation yielded a
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rather strange find looking into the bag they could see what appeared to be raw meat
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not a dead animal but it looked almost like something one might buy from the butcher shop
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perhaps a raw chicken but wrong again nope boys that's not a chicken and of course here is the unpleasant
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surprise reveal that you have been waiting for the strange item in the duffel bag was
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actually a human limb it was a badly decomposed severed arm it was not possible to determine whether
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the arm was cut off pre or post-mortem the arm had a black zip tie still on the wrist
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and Marx indicating that the arm was removed with the use of a saw this horrific Discovery will not be the
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start of our story but rather one confirmation of earlier suspicions three adults who traveled in similar
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circles in the same town in the span of just one month were murdered or vanished
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and feared dead those three were dubbed the Bakersfield three from a Reddit comment by Amador 9
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a seemingly local individual sums up Baker's field and parts of Kern County California as they see it
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and the comment reads Bakersfield is the antithesis of everybody's popular image
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of California unlike the coastal regions Bakersfield is flat Dusty and a long way from the
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ocean it is conservative poor and not the least bit fashionable Bakersfield was once a country music hot
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spot but not anymore and drugs criminal activity and murder are nothing new to the region
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exactly who was responsible for the murdered vanished and feared dead what exactly happened to them
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this this true crime garage and this is the case of the Bakersfield three [Music]
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at 34 years of age Micah holsen bake had lived a fairly normal and stable life he
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was raised in Rosedale an upper middle class neighborhood of Northwest Bakersfield by parents Lance and Cheryl
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with whom he was very close he was a normal even smarter than average kid spouting football stats and arguing on
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the debate team a good student he graduated from high school and attended college for a year before deciding it
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was not for him he joined the Navy but was discharged after he continued to suffer from growths in the back of his
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throat which required surgeries he took a job as a bank teller and obtained his license to become a
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financial advisor and was successful able to provide for his family a wife and a son
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Micah was outgoing a bit of a jokester and generally happy but a rocky marriage and a subsequent
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divorce contributed to a downhill spiral Micah had several throat surgeries and each time after was prescribed pain
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pills after several Cycles through this surgery equals pain pills routine he became addicted
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and in 2016 his life really started to change Micah's family noted a shift in his demeanor and attitude he lost not
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only custody of his son but visitation rights as well which reportingly devastated him
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he started to get into bar fights acting belligerent and unstable he took a leave from his job citing a
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struggle with depression that was debilitating but eventually his employer became fed up with his absence and fired
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him through all of this it didn't really seem to be depression that Micah may have been suffering from
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Micah told his mom Cheryl that he was afraid he was in danger he said his mom wasn't sure of the exact cause
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and he seemed to be suffering from paranoia but she was getting the sense that her
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son had been threatened by someone he started to behave erratically and became unreliable and unpredictable and then
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one day he was gone he was reported missing in March of 2018. yes on the 15th of that month Captain Cheryl his
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mother dropped Micah in another unnamed person off in Bakersfield in a neighborhood
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that was less than desirable in fact it was crime and Drug ridden she says that she never saw him again after that now
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on the 17th Micah called his mom and asked or demanded for some money to help pay for a motel room for him and a
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friend Cheryl says that she refused that they argued over the phone and eventually she
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just hung up on him hotel motel Micah was seen on the 23rd by an extended family member crossing the street at
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Mount Vernon Avenue and Flower Street this is near Kern Medical Center but then after that we don't have any more
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sightings of Micah he seemed to have vanished from that point on friends started calling looking for him
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and Cheryl and Lance's mother and father could not reach him at any attempt they
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went to his apartment and got the landlord to let them in they say that everything was in order
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when they went to his apartment now after about two weeks of not being able to reach him and finding that he had not
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been in contact with anyone his parents filed a missing persons report and then unfortunately just kind of had to wait
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and find out if the police could determine anything and they said quote we didn't hear back from anybody at the
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police department this is what Micah's mom told bakersfield.com it seems police wrote Micah's disappearance off to him
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skipping town to either avoid legal hot water or some other situation and after coming up with that hypothesis didn't
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really investigate his disappearance the First Media report came out about Micah missing
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on April 13 2018 so we already see a bit of a delay there as well the family was
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obviously frustrated with the whole situation that they could not find their loved one and the lack of action by the
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media by law enforcement but really this frustration Captain is just going to be
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the beginning of the situation for Micah's family well it seems when we have somebody with some kind of mental
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illness or drug addiction that the the media and the public they don't seem as concerned with these individuals
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as as maybe uh just a normal person that went missing well or even let's take that a step further you say normal
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person being missing I think we have to factor in here too this man is in his mid-30s and that probably has a lot to
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do with law enforcement they're thinking look if he did skip town he skipped town
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and there's probably a good reason for it so that's always a possibility here they may not have known the full extent
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of the situation either sometimes when people were reported missing the people that report they're missing and I'm not
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I don't know the situation here Captain so I don't want to put any blame on the family but if you are expecting action
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make sure that you are very clear about what you believe is going on with that individual at the time of their
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disappearance and here in this situation we have the mother who's later telling us the public that look
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while he took a leave of absence from work citing depression maybe he was depressed maybe he wasn't
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but he loses his job and Mom is saying I actually think that what is going on at this point is that
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he is paranoid and we don't know if the paranoia is coming from the drugs or from him being threatened as she was
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suspecting yeah or a combination of both yeah or a combination of mental illness
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with drug use now we need to introduce another individual this is 38 year old James carlstad James was a successful
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entrepreneur he opened up his own skate shop and got a patent for his torch trucks now for those of you that don't
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know a whole lot about skateboards I know very little bit but I know that the trucks are on the bottom portion of the
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skateboard and from what I understand here Captain this is pretty cool stuff torch trucks this patent that he he got
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was a skateboard parts basically that enhance sparking when they're used on Rails so very cool kind of stuff there
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kind of video game type stuff if you ask me it makes me think of Tony Hawk also he was a Bakersfield native James really
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only worked his day job in order to afford his favorite hobby which was surfing now he also loved to gamble in
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fact he was known to his friends as Joe Vegas yeah this year at crime con they're going to call me Captain Vegas
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in the inflatable dates there you go Captain Vegas James has two young daughters one of them Cameron was raised
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by her grandparents after her mom's death in a car crash when she was just 16 months old
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but she and James were close and had sleepovers they watched movies and made cookies together they drove around
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blasting music so even though she's being raised by grandparents it seems like the two were close and very good
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friends but James like Micah had a problem he had broken his wrist in an accident and since 2016 was addicted to
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prescription opioids he was given after surgery on his arm like many he quickly found that he could
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not live without the drugs and his need for them escalated he turned to Fentanyl
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patches and then to heroin his daughter Cameron recognized her dad's struggle with illicit substances after she saw
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crushed up pills next to a rolled up dollar bill he started to disappear for days at a
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time finally James did go to rehab but it didn't fully take and he continued to struggle and this has been such a
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common sad reality for so many people and how quickly pain pill addiction can turn into heroin addiction or meth
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addiction and this really to me is at kind of the height of all of that where you have these these pain pills in many
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different forms and unfortunately all of them are highly addictive it's very easy
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and very quick to get addicted to these types of drugs and then they become expensive or they're no longer available
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to you so you start seeking out other ways to get that same feeling or to manage your addiction right and today
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thankfully I'm of the belief that we're much more aware of this situation maybe the medical professionals should have
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been aware of it before you think but at least today I feel like pain management
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is structured differently than it would have been 10 years ago 15 years ago or as we're
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seeing here even just five or six years ago now in James's situation one night that we need to talk about
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here Captain is the night of April 7th this is when James left his mother's house his mother's Diane Burns he leaves
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her house around 10 30. later that same night we're now talking 1 30 a.m he was in a car pulling out a driveway of a
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residence in South Bakersfield when James crashed into a parked trailer on Cobble Mountain Road near Sandstone
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Lane after the crash James somehow managed to stagger out of the wrecked car now this
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is not going to be easy because he's in bad shape the car's in bad shape this is
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one of those little Fiat cars and it's pretty smashed up too James is six foot five inches tall
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so big boy yeah so getting a large man getting out of a small smashed up car is quite difficult from my understanding
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Captain I believe he had to crawl or kind of squirm his way out of the passenger side door
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to make this all the more difficult and all the more tragic the reason why he crashed his car is
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because he was shot well that's a reasonable reason James eventually collapsed after
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getting out of the vehicle he collapsed to the ground and his brother Ryan who was at the same house at the same
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location that James was at earlier that he had left from he's leaving the area too same route
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discovers his brother's car and his brother lying on the ground right and he finds his brother James basically at the
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scene of this crash am I crazy to assume that he was shot while he was driving well there's a couple different stories
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of this and it's been reported a little bit differently now it sounds to me I'm of that mindset that you are that he was
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shot while driving there are some versions of the same story that he may have been parked temporarily now parked
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temporarily does that mean that he was parked on the side of the road or at a stop sign or a stop light and somebody
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opens fire on him but this is very much like the way that I kind of envision Biggie Smalls or Tupac right where the
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the the car pulls up alongside of the other car and bullets are fired into the vehicle right unfortunately James
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wouldn't make it he's not going to survive the situation in fact he bled out sadly with his brother Ryan at his side
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who held him as he died this uh one bullet hole or multiple bullet holes I'm assuming he was shot multiple times
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police later would call the incident a drive-by shooting now whatever vehicle that it was that fired the shots that
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vehicle was gone so who would want to kill this mild-mannered easy-going Surfer guy Well
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normally the the vehicle that shoots the other person they don't stick around to
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talk to police true that uh police did not know who'd want to kill him and unfortunately no one was really talking
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but police did catch on to something early in their investigation and what they found only raised more questions
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the drive-by shooting victim James colstad knew the missing man Micah holsenbake
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they ran around in the same Social Circles and James even helped Micah move residences just a few weeks before one
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disappeared and then the other was gunned down so could The Disappearance of one young
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father and the murder of another be connected or is it just some kind of tragic coincidence well our listeners
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know that there are very few tragic coincidences in these true crime stories Michael went missing and was last seen
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March 23 2018 James is murdered April 7th 2018. and now there's still another piece of
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the puzzle that we have to introduce yeah that's correct and when we say you know there was no car the car that that
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shot at James didn't stick around I think it's less that the car wasn't there when police showed up and more so
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that when his brother arrives on the crash scene who's there within minutes of the
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shooting right this car is still not there and the brother doesn't seem to know exactly what has happened to his
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his older brother James and now we have the situation too Captain where police don't have any leads on on either
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situation on The Disappearance of Micah or the murder of James but the one thing
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that they can piece together and the problem with this is mainly that these two are running around in the same
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circles and these are not the the best of circles to be in these are they're bad circles to be in my friend so yeah
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these guys have bad jibs a lot of the people that know these two individuals and again they're adults they're in
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their 30s so they're out living their own lives they're not under underfoot of their parents and their other loved ones
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and they're both kind of removed from their their families you know their their children or their um in one case
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an ex-wife so we don't have a lot of people to fill in those blank things other than possibly people that run in
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these two circles now what we do figure out what investigators do figure out is the two know each other and that is of
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importance because you have two situations missing murdered no one's really talking but aha at least we know
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that they know a lot of the same people now in this third case this is going to bring us to our third person of
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importance Bailey despot at just the age of 20 she's got her whole life ahead of her now Bailey grew
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up in the middle class neighborhood of Rosedale we've heard that name before here's another connection her family
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says Bailey could have done anything with her life she was beautiful smart and kind she was ambitious but also a
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free spirit when she was young she was a member of the Future Farmers of America
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someone who loved animals in 2016 now this is just a year after high school she ran away to Vegas and married her
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boyfriend even though the relationship was volatile and according to some reports
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abusive yeah so it was a relationships her parents obviously were not pleased about this marriage which predictably
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ended quickly in 2017. Bailey however was devastated by this and things didn't seem to get
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better for her she totaled her car and then was let go from her job and it's believed that Bailey thought that she
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could find comfort in the arms of men and possibly drugs in early 2018 she moved in with a man that she was having
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a relationship with a man more than twice her age he was 43 years old this man's name is Matthew Queen Bailey's Mom
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Jane says she last saw her daughter when she stopped at the house she shared with
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Matthew Queen to drop off some groceries this was on April 23rd but by just two days later Bailey had
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dropped off of the face of the Earth no calls no text nothing Jane filed a missing person's Report
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with the Kearns County Sheriff's Office but then she got a phone call it was Cheryl halsenbake Micah's mom and she
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told her that her son too was missing Jane knew exactly who Micah was you see Bailey and Micah knew each other
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it's hard to say exactly what their relationship was remember Micah was 14 years older than Bailey but we know that
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Bailey started spending time in the same circles as Micah so we know that Bailey
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knows Micah and Micah knows James correct but do we have any connection from James to Bailey well what we're
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going to see is as we are able to find more information and continue with all three of their stories it's much like a
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Quentin Tarantino picture man they all start to intertwine a little more as we go along well then I'll take a Royale
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with cheese in July of 2017 we have Bailey who was actually arrested outside of Micah's house so
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I mean just those documents that information alone proves that she knew Micah Micah knew her
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she was charged with disorderly conduct in that situation apparently those misdemeanor charges were dismissed
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and Micah helped Bailey file for a restraining order against an abusive new boyfriend this was in August of 2017
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which the restraining order was granted but these incidents were just the beginning of a precipitous decline for
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bayley a decline into drugs and unsavory company three weeks after getting that restraining order
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she told her parents that she was drugged at a party she was drugged with a spiked drink and
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then gang raped she started going off on multi-day Benders and resurfacing with stories of being kidnapped
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she would call in all hours of the night pleading for help and asking to be picked up but sometimes she's calling
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asking to be picked up and she doesn't know where she is sometimes she had no shoes or
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possessions when her family got to her her sister recalled one night when two cars drove up
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and picked Bailey up her sister Caitlyn said that Bailey clearly did not want to
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go with whoever was waiting for her in the driveway as soon after that this is when she
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ended up with that Matthew Queen in December of 2017 while out one night Matthew Queen and Bailey were pulled
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over by police now cops found four loaded guns including an AR-15 in the car Matthew Queen was charged with six
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counts of possession of a firearm by a felon possession of ammo by a felon and possession of an assault rifle
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Bailey pled no contest to misdemeanor weapons charges of carrying a loaded gun and carrying
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concealed weapons she received three years probation and then moved in with Matthew Queen and get
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this Captain this is where it gets I mean it's a weird story already but gets a little more bizarre she moves in with
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Matthew Queen and Matthew Queen's estranged wife and Matthew's mother they're all in one
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house right not not weird at all ooh a new form of The Brady Bunch Matthew Queen had quite a police record
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yeah you think including a stint in the early 2000s in federal prison on gun charges now this is from an appeals
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court ruling quote between late December 2000 and July 2001 Queen purchased 39 firearms from federally licensed dealers
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in the state of Indiana the guns cost more than eleven thousand dollars and at least 11 of them later were recovered at
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crime scenes in the Detroit and Chicago areas gun sale records linked the purchases back to Queen end quote so
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he's buying up guns in different states and then he's selling them to terrible horrible people and these guns are
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finding their way to crime scenes and then police are able later to track these guns back to him yeah follow the
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[ __ ] Chrome so Bailey's living with this guy who could not stay away from guns big
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illegal ones at that and after April 25th 2018 no one could get a hold of Bailey and she was
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reportedly pregnant at the time oh man Bailey was last seen by her mom on the 25th at a house she and Matthew Queen
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shared this again when Jane dropped off those groceries that we already mentioned right at that time she said
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Bailey opened the door and thanked her mother but then said that she had to go Jane never talked to her again
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after a few days she went to the house and was told by a teenage boy who lived there that he hadn't seen Bailey so she
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reported Bailey missing to the authorities [Music] [Music] all right we're back to the windows to
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the walls cheers everybody cheers and if you're looking for something to do come
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hang out with me and Barbara from truth and Justice we're going to be doing a live event and meet and greet up in
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Grand Rapids Michigan April 16th you can find out more information on my website
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captainfighthands.com there you go and I want to give a cheers and a my thoughts
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and hopes and heart and prayers are going out to the people in and around Ukraine I admire your courage your
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bravery and your resolve may God be with you all please now back to our story here Captain the first story the first
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news story that came out about Bailey appeared on June 8th now this is after Bailey was missing for nearly six weeks
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we have KGET which did gangbusters reporting on this case in fact such gangbusters
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reporting that a reporter went on the Dr Phil show to talk about the Bakersfield
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3. Now reports that Matthew Queen told police he last saw bayley at a neighborhood near Palm Avenue and Renfro
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Road and he says she was in the company of a Hispanic male he also made multiple Facebook posts
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saying that Bailey ran away and accusing her mom of trying to pin it on him when
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bayley just skipped town he insinuated that perhaps she had harmed herself saying that Bailey was
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off her meds that she was depressed and she wanted to die in one of his posts He also mentioned
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that he knew Micah with that Cheryl holsenbake said it was very obvious this is Micah's mother it was
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very obvious that it was not a coincidence and people out there know something definitely not a coincidence
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and again you run in circles with people abusing drugs and you're running in circles with criminals it's a recipe for
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disaster yeah the the situation is exactly as you said very Bleak two missing one dead and now of course with
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the three being kind of linked together you have the fear by loved ones and and Friends searching for these other two
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that Unfortunately they may have already succumb to the same conclusion the same
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fate that we had in the drive-by shooting case so one month after Micah goes missing his mother Cheryl her phone
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rings it was Diane Burns James's mom she told Cheryl her own son had been killed in April and he seemed to know
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many of the same people as Micah who was missing the two moms realized that their
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kids their grown children both ran in the same circles the moms formed a united front and
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forced law enforcement to listen to their detailed connections between the children the adult children
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Diane and Cheryl told law enforcement quote something's not right our sons knew the same people then when Bailey's
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missing posters start going up they pulled Jane into their little ring after Lance recognized Bailey's name as
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rumors connected to his son's disappearance well like you said I mean this is all happening within 30 days of
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each other yes about 33 days to be exact when we from start starting point to the
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final person of the three being reported missing so we have the family that's coming forward
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and they're saying look person a knows person B person B knows person C that these three are all somewhat connected
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and somehow they're connected we don't know how yet but they ran in the same circles and they're now proving to
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police that person a does in fact know person B and something terrible happened to both of them and person B knows
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person C and something terrible has happened to both of them and so you can see how this is kind of filling in some
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of the blanks for law enforcement also now we have people that are are going to be come
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into to more question here Captain right when you start to see the same names in
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these victims lives over and over again well those people are moving up your priority list of people to interview and
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possible suspects one also there are drug users and so they're going to be coming in contact with more people so
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they're a little more unpredictable as far as their routines go and they're going to probably come in contact with
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more random people than the than the average citizen would right so we have a situation where Micah knows James Micah
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knows Bailey and now we have the family saying that look all three of these people all three of these individuals
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knew each other it was all one big interconnected circle of people yeah the mothers the three mothers named their
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kids Collective case the Bakersfield three that's where that name comes from and the moniker took off in the media
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normally once there's any reporting of the victims using drugs it seems like the public and
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the media kind of disappear from looking into those cases harder but but the three mothers in this case were
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they're not going to let this go They're not going to just let this die out of the Public's eyes no the the three moms
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and their families made it their quest to find their children or their children's killers they did not believe
00:36:54
that their case is all falling within one month and with all three knowing each other
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that they could be anything other than connected Bailey's Family offered a six thousand dollar reward in Bailey's case
00:37:09
and posters plastered all over the neighborhood with photos of all three victims the Bakersfield three seeking
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information and the moms started to compare notes Micah's mom said that before his
00:37:26
disappearance her son had become paranoid well that's definitely a red flag he said someone had threatened him
00:37:32
and he feared for his safety now his mother did too this after she learned that he was selling drugs
00:37:39
she told bakersfield.com quote my mom instinct is that he found himself in over his head she said she dropped
00:37:50
Micah off in a sketchy part of town and he vanished Cheryl started to believe he
00:37:56
had been killed James's mom felt the same way Diane told KGET that a lot of the people that were
00:38:06
hanging out with him were doing drugs and that he hung out in the same circles as Micah now she tells Dr Phil quote I
00:38:16
believe my son was set up to be murdered end quote well they're using dangerous drugs but they're also surrounding
00:38:24
themselves with dangerous people yeah Bailey's living with somebody that has has all kinds of weapons charges against
00:38:31
him now I hope nobody in the Bakersfield area needs a backiotomy because we're about to talk about one bad chiropractor
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by September 2018 there was some news in the case the house in front of which James had been shot
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belonged to a chiropractor his name is Dr Suki bajwa and this guy wasn't exactly the model of
00:38:59
professionalism documents filed with the Chiropractic board reflected that the doctor was in some legal trouble in fact
00:39:07
he had to surrender his license to practice because on October 7 2016 Bakersfield PD responded to a call about
00:39:18
a vehicle smashing into some parked cars they saw bajwa and a woman walking quickly from the scene walking away from
00:39:27
the scene in an alley when they stopped him Boswell denied being the driver or the owner of the car
00:39:33
that was smashing into the park cars he said he was just a passenger but the car
00:39:39
was registered in his name and seat belt burns on his body showed that he had in
00:39:44
fact been in the driver's seat and cops noted that he exhibited signs of being under the influence of a
00:39:52
controlled substance this included slurred speech bloodshot eyes droopy eyelids nodding and the
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inability to stay alert the female passenger the unnamed female passenger did in fact tell police that bajwa was
00:40:08
driving the vehicle and that he had even asked her to lie for him well bajwa your
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pants are on fire we're not just talking about a DUI here Captain because when cops searched the car they recovered two
00:40:23
Firearms a Smith and Wesson M and P AR-15 and a Heckler and Koch mp522 long range rifle with a faux
00:40:34
suppressor both rifles had high capacity magazines that contained live ammunition right a
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records check revealed the Firearms were not registered and Dr bajwa was arrested
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and then convicted of three misdemeanors in connection with the DUI crash and guns bajwa was sentenced to well 10 days
00:40:58
in jail that's what you get when you're real bad but he did get three years probation and
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he had over two thousand dollars in fines then in May of 2017 bajwa was arrested
00:41:10
again this time police officers were dispatched to a suspicious activity incident
00:41:16
bajwa was the front passenger in a vehicle and stated that he had a loaded capped syringe in the interior of his
00:41:26
left jacket pocket police recovered a syringe filled with a dark brown liquid substance believed to
00:41:33
be liquid heroin officers also found a bottle containing several Xanax pills in addition officers located two additional
00:41:41
yellow oval shaped pills which later were identified as hydrocodone after this arrest Boswell pled guilty to
00:41:52
both selling drugs and carrying a loaded gun again another slap on the wrist 180 days in jail three years probation
00:42:01
and another five yeah it's a pretty pathetic sentencing so it was at this Shady guy's house the chiropractor's
00:42:10
house that James was cited at on the night that he was killed this was the home that he was in the process of
00:42:17
leaving when he's gunned down we know that because again remember his brother Ryan was at the same location
00:42:24
he's the one that tells that to the public and he told that to Dr Phil when he was on his show
00:42:30
now here's what he tells Dr Phil he says Ryan says that I was at Dr bajwa's house
00:42:36
that night supposedly they were eating pizza and watching some movies with a group of
00:42:41
people and Ryan said that bajwa owed James money his brother James the doctor owes
00:42:49
him money for what we don't really know but it was not a small amount of money oh probably hand
00:42:56
jobs and Cracker Jacks could be I don't know that bajwa it sounds to me like he wasn't able to practice practice at this
00:43:03
time he's already been arrested twice and again at some point his license was revoked now what we do know though
00:43:11
Captain is that Ryan tells us that his brother James was coming to bajwa's house to collect
00:43:19
that large amount of money and Bourgeois tells Ryan hey tell your brother he better not come here I'm
00:43:28
going to have my boys over and they're going to be strapped Ryan relayed the message to his brother
00:43:35
and the two have an argument Ryan then left to drive someone else home and then returns to Boswell's house
00:43:43
he says maybe approximately 90 minutes later so James was in the driveway at this
00:43:51
time when Ryan returns at this time James then pulled out and did a u-turn and pulled in behind a
00:43:58
parked car Ryan still driving toward the house here's shots here's gunshots he ran to his brother but it was too
00:44:08
late James was lying on the ground after crawling out of the vehicle bleeding Ryan maintains that all he saw was a
00:44:16
silver car he denied to Dr Phil that he knows who shot his brother he did say he
00:44:23
suspected bajwa of engineering the shooting obviously based off of the threats that bajwa told him to relay to
00:44:31
his brother earlier that night yeah a lot of bad people in this case and he can smell it yeah people who carried and
00:44:40
used guns possibly dealt guns manufactured guns and traded in guns and so the connection here is with James and
00:44:49
the story of the doctor owing him a large sum of money yeah one could easily draw a line from one dot to the other
00:44:56
and say well maybe that money was for drugs but I actually think that it was probably for guns and or maybe some
00:45:05
illegally and or maybe for some illegal gambling again we know he's Joe Vegas and then we have Micah's involvement in
00:45:20
guns and we know that they all know each other now Lance Micah's father said his
00:45:26
son had told him something before he vanished something Lance didn't believe at the time he said quote I'm putting
00:45:35
together guns I'm going here and putting together guns for people and quote Lance
00:45:41
thought his son was exaggerating and was just paranoid at that time later he's going to grow to believe that
00:45:49
this means something that this is some indication of the truth and some kind of peek into Micah's personal life Lance
00:45:58
says that when Micah told him this information again he thought he was exaggerating maybe even paranoid but he
00:46:03
also told him hey if if you're doing that kind of stuff it's easy you just stop you you can get
00:46:09
out please stop and get out and he also said if you're afraid of people then you need
00:46:14
to stop and get away from them but Micah said to his father I can't do that I'm afraid for my family
00:46:22
Lance said to KGET news quote Micah was mixed up for the first time in his life and things that were illegal so it's
00:46:31
logical for police to think he got out of town he's hiding out end quote but he wasn't Lance's younger son started
00:46:43
asking around and the name Bailey popped up yeah the holson bakes didn't recognize that name at first but then
00:46:52
within a week or so they started to see missing persons Flyers with Bailey's name and photo
00:46:59
they realize Bailey despot missing person was the same woman who was now somehow linked to Micah
00:47:08
Lance astutely said that he was pretty sure what had happened to Micah the same thing happened to Bailey because she
00:47:18
knew what happened to Micah of the Bakerfield three were put in themselves In Harm's Way by
00:47:26
one using dangerous drugs and then being around a dangerous group of people whether it's within the drug Community
00:47:34
or you know the drug Community is also connected to other criminal communities and whatever happened to these three
00:47:43
we're not saying they deserved any of this at all on any level at all what we're simply saying here is that if you
00:47:50
put yourself in a bad situation enough times it's only logical that something bad may happen to you it's not victim
00:47:57
blaming it's unfortunately the way that the world works and if you have any other beliefs other than that
00:48:04
well you're wrong all right let's Circle back to something that we talked about in the trailer here
00:48:10
Captain remember the teenage swimmers in the Kern River they find that duffel bag floating in
00:48:16
the river or somehow find it in the river thinking that it may have contained money they open it they find the
00:48:22
sweatshirt inside and unfortunately find a badly decomposed severed arm well that
00:48:28
was the summer of 2018 and we need to fast forward to December of 2018. this is when testing
00:48:37
testing revealed that the arm belonged to Mica one of our victims that we're talking about he was officially
00:48:44
classified as deceased and officially classified as the victim of a homicide it was not possible to determine whether
00:48:53
the arm was cut off pre or postmortem said the pathologist but the arm had a black zip tie still on the wrist and
00:49:02
marks that indicated that the arm had been cut off using a saw searches of five miles around the spot where the
00:49:11
arm was found this is near Highway 178 Unfortunately they were fruitless searches but police came out and said
00:49:21
that the case bore marked similarities to Bailey's disappearance definitely which is a little confusing to me but
00:49:29
we're going to continue to dive into this right now per bakersfield.com who we've continually cited here in this
00:49:36
case they State quote those similarities included they State quote those similarities
00:49:42
include Witnesses locations and evidence end quote the Bakersfield PD took over Bailey's case from the Kern County
00:49:52
Sheriff's office after the two agencies compared notes and discovered the commonalities between the two cases
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by mid 2019 police acknowledged that all three cases making up the Bakersfield 3
00:50:08
were in fact connected foreign [Music] we have so much more to get to on episode two and if you haven't left a
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