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hmm [Music] wendyville missouri population 51 people wendyville is an unincorporated
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community in dallas county and is located about an hour so drive northeast of springfield missouri
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the community was so named for the frequently windy conditions but many people of missouri refer to
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this town as spookyville because windyville is said to be haunted there are many rundown businesses in
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multiple cemeteries that all have creepy things said about them in the 1800s there were multiple child
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deaths if you go to the peppers cemetery located just less than a mile northeast
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of the town conveniently off of pepper's road not only will you find the burial plot
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for the road and cemetery's namesake civil war surgeon james pepper but also listen closely while you're
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there as it has been reported that children's laughter can be heard coming from the
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cemetery in wendyville at the lone rock cemetery there is a phantom horseback rider
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guarding and watching over the hollowed ground on the mm highway there's an old bridge
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the cross is a creek if you stop your vehicle here it has been told that you just might encounter a woman who walks
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this bridge at night seemingly looking for her child visitors say that windyville missouri is
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a creepy little town that seems to have been lost in time ghost in haunts in missouri a st louis
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organization relates that windyville is said to have some sort of haunting in every deserted
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building including the windyville store visitors have reported hearing terrifying screams coming from the old
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cannery building from something called from the shadows true tales of the paranormal
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wendyville is home to a woman with the head of a goat a spectral hitchhiker and be on the lookout for red eyes that
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stare at people passing by the dead black windows of abandoned buildings many say that there are eerie things
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that go on in wendyville and you might want to think twice about making a visit there
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it's also home to spiritual cults so watch out proclaimed an october 2005 article in the usa today newspaper
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these are some of the legends of windyville missouri population 51. but here in the garage we have much more
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to talk about than just some stories coming out of an old ghost town because there are new legends coming out
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of this tiny town stories that are less traditional popularly regarded as true but
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unauthenticated and these stories are far more terrifying than the ones told around campfires at night
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this is true crime garage and welcome to spookyville [Music] this week we take the flying garage ship
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to the small town of windyville missouri and as you just heard you may want to think twice before going to windyville
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or if you are traveling through the great state of missouri plan your route carefully but if windyville is a scary
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and dangerous place well captain i have reason to believe that windyville just got very recently well it got a little
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less dangerous and maybe a little less scary as well and that would be due to the arrest of two men that being 58 year
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old james david phelps a long time resident of southwest missouri and more recently wendyville missouri
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and his friend and likely accomplice if you will and that is 56 year old timothy
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leroy norton a long-haul trucker who seems to hold no known permanent address before we get too far along in this
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bizarre mystery coming out of spookyville i want to give a shout out to ky3.com for doing gangbusters work and
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great reporting on this case in particular and this story is really making its way across our greatest of
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nations the good old us and a because of a missing young woman and this is 33 year old
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cassidy rainwater investigators say 33 year old cassidy rainwater has ties to dallas
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green and lock lead counties all three are counties in missouri these are neighboring counties with lock lead
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located just east of dallas county wendyville as said in today's trailer is located in dallas county and some of the
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stories we're going to be talking about are coming out of lebanon missouri which is
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the county seat for lock lead county now this is all very new very new stuff here
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it's a missing person story that has rightfully got so many people really on edge
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wondering what else may stem from this missing person's case and what other crimes and possibly even
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other victims could be involved here from ky3 news the case has led to multiple arrests court proceedings and
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new developments in recent weeks two suspects james phelps and timothy norton have been arrested and charged for the
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kidnapping of cassidy rainwater both appeared in dallas county court on tuesday october 5th
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now one night earlier the dallas county sheriff's office says a home near lebanon missouri connected to james
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phelps was burned to the ground the missouri state fire marshal's office is investigating after the fire caused a
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total loss to the home while the springfield fire department bomb squad responded after the discovery of a trip
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wire okay so here we have two individuals suspected and being investigated in regards to this cassidy
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rainwater missing persons case we have a brief timeline that i want to go through that will help to flesh out
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this story a little better for those not familiar with the case but real quick before we get to that timeline i want to
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underline something before we move on from those last two paragraphs the dallas county sheriff's office is
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investigating this guy james david phelps age 58 and his weird friend timothy leroy norton age 56
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and during the course of their investigation searching for clues and physical forensics evidence for their
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cassidy rainwater investigation and arson fire caused a total loss to a home so the home is burned to the ground
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certainly hindering hopefully not completely destroying their investigation and evidence that they
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were hoping to find or collect now these two yahoos are locked up but from my understanding captain the fire
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that burned the house to the ground was just one of james phelps properties which could be of importance but we will
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circle back to that once we get through this brief timeline but i think ky3 summed up this story the best in the
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following excerpt the dallas county sheriff's office is leading a months-long investigation into
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the disappearance of cassidy rainwater an investigation that has taken multiple turns since september so let's go
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through what we know about cassidy's disappearance and law enforcement's investigation now supposedly cassidy
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rainwater disappeared or was last seen i think is the words we should probably use because that's what we're being told
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was last seen on july 25th she wasn't reported missing two authorities until nearly a month later
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and this is how this all went down according to officials on saturday july 25th 2021
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james phelps told the police that this was the last date that he saw cassidy this is july 25th
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he said that cassidy left his residence in the middle of the night and never came back
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some reports say this was the last day anyone family members or otherwise reported seeing cassidy rainwater right
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but it sounds to me captain that this is the last day that james phelps says that he saw cassidy because per
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court records james phelps told police the last time he saw cassidy was on that date he told authorities that she left
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in the middle of the night and never came back according to detectives cassidy rainwater was staying with james
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phelps while she was going to get back on her feet again james phelps told authorities on july
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25th or late july cassidy went outside in the middle of the night she walked to the end of his driveway
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where he says that he saw her meet a vehicle at the street she gets inside and leaves and has not been seen nor
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heard from since then according to james phelps when she moved in with him or came to
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stay with him for a short period of time she was talking about moving to colorado
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or to denver colorado and this is a somewhat believable story because cassidy seems to have some ties to the
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state of colorado and possibly even the city of denver as well it appears that she lived there for some period of time
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i don't know how long it looks like it was brief maybe a year or two and this would have been a few years ago now this
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last july 25th date is important because according to additional court documents
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ky3 learned that timothy norton the accomplice as i'm calling him was called to go to james phelps home by phelps
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just one day earlier now james phelps is so ugly that his hair is running away from his face but all the pictures that
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are relating to this case will be on our instagram at true crime garage or on our
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facebook at true crime garage according to the information timothy norton was called over to help james phelps in
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restraining cassidy rainwater and the documents go on to state that he was forcibly holding her
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while a felony was being committed and now they don't necessarily state what that felony was um and we can speculate
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if you like i think it would be a bit of spinning our tires to speculate what that felony was according to these same
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court documents timothy norton admitted to going over to phelps place and admitted to helping
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restrain the young woman now timothy norton looks like he smells timothy you stink the the odd
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thing to me captain is they almost look like they could be related maybe cousins
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or something i they for for some odd reason i feel like there's some resemblance between the two there
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yeah scum and scummer then we are going to fast forward exactly one month see this story has these points
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of interest along the way on this timeline here but also has these gaps of really no information at all these eerie
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gaps in which we have nothing okay so exactly one month later puts us at wednesday august 25th
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2021 on this day a family member of cassidy's contacted the dallas county sheriff's office this
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person is reporting her missing saying we her family we have not heard or seen cassidy in quite some time
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so this is when officially the investigation started into looking for cassidy rainwater now we go
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to september 16th 2021 on our timeline when further developments unfold following this
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active missing persons investigation this is when someone at the fbi contacted dallas county sheriff's
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department the fbi is calling saying they have received an anonymous tip that cassidy rainwater was caged up on
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james phelps property sick so for my understanding captain this is investigators with the federal bureau
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of investigation contacting detectives at dallas county sheriff's office saying that somehow they have received
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photos from an anonymous person showing cassidy rainwater locked up in a cage i'm wondering are they contacting
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the fbi and saying here's a picture or pictures of cassie rainwater and she looks to be in trouble or or there's
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this picture or multiple pictures of a woman in distress unnamed in some type of cage in these pictures
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and what is going on in these pictures does not appear to be staged in any kind of way
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so this person contacts the fbi we we don't know that the tip information is a bit
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vague and what we do know is it sounds that the tip came by way of fbi and it was a person that wanted to
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remain anonymous yeah not that i wanted to see the pictures but i looked for them
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on google and couldn't find them but just imagine to be in law enforcement shoes and to receive pictures of a woman
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in the nude in a cage the reports generally state that she was could be seen in a state of partially
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nude inside of a cage the tricky thing here is there must have been something to elevate this
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immediately into their investigation right somehow they connect these pictures to
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cassidy rainwater or her being the likely person seen in the photos it could just be by them knowing who she is
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and being able to identify her themselves or looking at those pictures and then looking at pictures that
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they've maybe have received or maybe some social media accounts and they were able to
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compare and contrast the pictures with those maybe some kind of facial recognition
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software used to determine that it might be her i'm just questioning this not because i i questioned that it happened
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i questioned how did the fbi so quickly get this to dallas county sheriff's department right the fbi is a federal
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organization who's actively working the entire country of the united states cassidy
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rainwater is missing in dallas county missouri a very specific location so i don't know i'm trying to connect some
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dots here and again we just don't have enough information to really connect them well what i assume is that here's a
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person that if you believe that this situation is not staged she's in immediate danger she's an immediate
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threat for her life that's why i think law enforcement would be able to get all hands on deck to try to figure out where
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she's located at and we've seen this before captain and talked about this on our show before where we've reviewed
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some photos ourselves that are in some cases and even high profile cases really us the public we
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look at them and wonder is this real or not is this something that's staged we talked about the strange photo that was
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found down in florida in the parking lot where showed some kids that looked to be
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tied up right still we sit here decades later and no one's identified or said that hey
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we know who those kids are and they are this person or that person well it seems
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like we've covered a lot of cases in the last five years where there's pictures of individuals that
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nobody comes forward and and claims to be a family member or a friend the wording
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on this next part is interesting to me this is from one of the better news reports out there that says quote
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investigators say a detective a detective recognized rainwater in a partially nude state from a photo and
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officials later discovered seven photos of cassidy rainwater after searching james phelps's phone
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so dallas county sheriff's office they go out to follow up on this tip and that is when they find seven photos
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on james phelps phone that will eventually lead to his arrest in this case i mean what an animal
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though for him to put this woman into a cage and then take pictures of her and she's obviously it
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seems like she's aware that the pictures are being taken over after his arrest captain he was taken to the dallas
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county jail where he still remains to this day now of course this is important but we
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what we have here is a missing person a tip sends police to speak with this james phelps he says yep i know her she
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was staying with me and left in the middle of the night about three weeks ago so he's not denying that he knows
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her he's not even denying that she was at his residence the detectives search his phone i don't
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know if he agreed to let them view his phone or if they had a search warrant for it
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i would think with how hot this case is or at least was for a few weeks in the news that often the warrants are easily
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found by reporters and the wording in those reports is always of interest because most of the time the detectives
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have to be fairly specific about what they are searching for why they are searching for it and why
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they have reason to believe that they will find these items in this person's possession
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and the significance of these items in relationship to the crimes committed or the crimes that they are investigating
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seems to me the way it's reported is we have this picture and then once we they get a search warrant to
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search his phone then we find another seven pictures on the phone so it seems like those pictures are
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separate from the initial photo that they found possibly and we could dive into that and
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i'd like to i just want to make sure i'm understanding your question before we move on too far
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my suspicion is that it's not like a physical picture that they were handed right somebody contacted the fbi and
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said hey i've seen this photo or these photos online and here are my concerns yeah that makes more sense to me than
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one of them being printed out and the other seven not being printed out one thing that i found interesting was i
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couldn't find really any exact quote or any definitive statement saying that they obtained these photos from his
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phone or were viewing his phone because they had a warrant to do so they may have they may just been able to
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keep it under wraps but i couldn't find anything definitively saying that they had applied for
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or asked for certain warrants in this case and i'm guessing that they have here captain but what i'm really
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questioning is what came first you know the chicken or the egg here was it the warrants and
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then we have the arrest of these two individuals or did we have the arrest which then led to warrants for us to
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search properties and phones and computers and things of that nature yeah that's a good question but i think like
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you said it'd be a lot easier to attain if they're able to show a judge here as an individual that is missing james
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phelps is the last person known to see her she was at his residency these pictures we believe are of his residency
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a judge is going to sign off to search all his properties and his person and his phone and whatever you want
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once you have that evidence agreed especially if you go out there and talk to him the first time and let's say you
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see or witness nothing incriminating at this first encounter the first time you talk with him
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but just him saying yes she was here and admitting that he knows her might be enough to get you certain
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warrants like you pointed out and i'm just kind of circling around all of that like a vulture because i'm scratching my
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head a bit with this we found similar pictures of cassidy on this man's phone rather than scratching
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your balls if i'm one you know if one of my sick twisted hobbies is caging women
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i'm not going to just offer up my phone for old johnny law to review right so if there was a warrant for the phone
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or computer or the property when the detectives came a knocking on september 16th that fascinates me what led to the
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warrant was there something in one of those online pictures that might indicate like you were pointing out that
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she's being held on this man's property right something specific or some way of identifying whose
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property or whose home it may be well it could be as simple as they are able to match something
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with inside the first picture to something of his residency or you go to his residency and there's a freaking
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cage you're there to ask james phelps some pretty standard and friendly questions and then
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you as the detective can see something in plain sight a cage as you said or something from one of the photos that
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tells them hey this is the location where these photos were taken and or maybe they were able to pull some
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they could have been able to pull some kind of data from these online photos as well that's
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right uh some metadata could tell them what the location possibly was at the time the pictures were taken but
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however it goes down james phelps is arrested [Music] [Music] all right we're back cheers everybody
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thanks for joining us here in the garage cheers to you colonel cheers to you captain he's back i'm back
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we're all back [Music] all right continuing along our little timeline here captain we're going to go
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out just a couple of days later this will put us at september 19 2021 this is when police interviewed the
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accomplice the uh what were you calling them scumbag scum and scummer oh scum and
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scummer dumb and dumber so i don't know who's scummier the one or the other but this is a scum
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member number two timothy norton the accomplice as i'm calling him norton said he lived
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in his vehicle because he was an over-the-road trucker i don't know what else they would be
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over um under the road yeah over the water trucker the address listed for him in online
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court systems and court documents show the same address as james phelps on moon valley road police say they
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found some inaccuracies in his story in timothy norton's story now i have this address in my notes as 386 moon valley
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road windyville missouri many of the articles will say the moon valley road property is near buffalo
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missouri or the moon valley property is between lebanon and buffalo missouri that's simply just
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because this windyville is so small you know what did we say population 51 people in the trailer so
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they're going to reference the next biggest towns or cities but what's interesting
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here is that we have this individual timothy norton who is a drives a truck over the road
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and he's saying that he has no actual address and that he just you know when he's out on the road these
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truckers they sleep in their truck yeah for the most part and he's saying look even when i'm home i either sleep in a
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vehicle or his his truck and keeps it on the property the thing that's a little a little
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convoluted here though is that we know according to timothy norton statements and what the sheriff's department
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believes is that on the 24th there was a call that was made for him to help restrain
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i'm guessing could this be as simple as dude is out sleeping in his truck and something happens inside that cabin
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that james phelps lives in and calls him cell phone to cell phone and says hey i need you to come in here
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and help me restrain this woman sickos on september 20th the police brought back timothy norton to interview him
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again so at least two interviews with this timothy norton character that we are aware of that is when he admitted to
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restraining cassidy rainwater back in july well and we see this happen with so many cases i i just don't understand
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how this works maybe it's because i've never been put into that situation but it's like
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yeah we're joking and calling him a scumbag but you're a scumbag because you helped him
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but again i've never been in that situation if if i saw a partially nude girl and he was trying to restrain her
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to put her back in the cage i'm beating the living [ __ ] out of him and calling the cops
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and and making sure that she is safe but we see time and time again where these people say oh well i didn't kill the
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individual but i helped bury the body because i didn't know what else to do or i helped burn
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the body or you know i mean like there's so much we've seen that we've seen and it's just
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like you know note to self if you if you go along with any of this stuff you are just as guilty you are
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just as much of an animal and a monster as the individual that you are helping well
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and you're right captain we've seen this dozens of times and it to me i always believe or have to believe that it means
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that said person is guilty of something else we're just not aware of it i mean that's the only
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reasonable explanation i can come up with in my mind as to why somebody would admit to helping move a body or help
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bury a body i think that a lot of times that means that they had prior knowledge of what
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was happening what was going on and at some point they were in so deep that they decided to help physically
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and later admitted to it but don't ever really want to admit that hey i kind of knew this was all going on all along
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well and again now circumstances change if you tell me that james had a a pistol on him
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and said hey come in i need your help and you come in and there's this bad situation and he's holding a gun or
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something he's like you need to help me that's different because now you're in threat
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for danger of your life but even once you help restrain that person it is your human duty
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to go get law enforcement get help make sure that this girl gets to safety but you see what i'm
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saying like if if if somebody came to me in the middle of the night one of my best friends came to me and said hey
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look man i got an issue come down to this park with me and i got down to the park and there's a dead body and they
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said hey help me bury the body and i know there's all these jokes out there a true best friend will help you bury the
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body no no no no you're not the true best friend your scumbag yeah my best friend says hey help me bury this body
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not going along with it now if that individual has a gun and he's holding that gun and he's going hey
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you're going to help me bury this body different circumstance well and if these reports are
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completely factual that we've been able to review that are coming out in regards
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to the story it states that norton says to authorities that he is aware or knows
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that cassidy is being held at that property and the wording on that makes it sound
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to me like he is aware or knows that she's being kept in a cage at phelps's property so kind of circling
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around this before we move on again that is the phone call from july 24th the you know not calling asking to help
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bury a body but the phone call that says phelps is requesting norton to help him
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restrain cassidy and i just hope you know i don't know whether this was an actual phone call or an actual text or
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what have you but i just hope and pray that restrain is not code for something much worse
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now the next day on september 21st timothy norton was arrested he is being held at the dallas county
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jail with no bond on september 23rd police depart from a scene on moon valley drive
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it says moon valley drive in this report i'm i'm guessing they mean moon valley road the dallas county sheriff's office
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continues to investigate the case by this point in our timeline more than two months have passed since the
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disappearance of cassidy rainwater and the community members around the ozarks are searching for answers on her
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condition and what just may have happened to her on september 21st one of the news outlets
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spoke with a woman who said that she knows cassie rainwater and knows of the suspects
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she spoke with ky3 on the condition of anonymity she said she can't wrap her head around all of this quote i've been
00:33:38
incredibly unsettled since the whole menagerie started she said i'm continuing to pray for her family i
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can't fathom what her family is experiencing and i'm heartedly sorry that that happened so close to my home
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the woman recalls cassie rainwater as being friendly saying she would stop by and she would talk to us when we were
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outside working saying i don't think cassidy would have ever run off without keeping contact with her family she said
00:34:10
unfortunately captain i don't think that any people think that cassie ran off in this case
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you know with the photos and with the arrests that followed and it saddens me to say this but
00:34:25
first guest to me says authorities are probably searching for remains at this point i agree with you and like i said
00:34:33
think about placing yourself in law enforcement i i know a lot of true crime enthusiasts are like man being a law
00:34:40
enforcement officer at times would be some enjoyable aspects to it or trying to solve a crime but to see photographs
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like this and then have to go to the family and say look we we believe this is cassidy can you identify her in these
00:34:55
pictures and there's no way of sugarcoating what you're going to show them that's correct on september 23rd
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2021 deputies returned once again to search around some properties in rural dallas county
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including the home on moon valley for evidence in the investigation after several hours deputies departed
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from the scene now on friday october 1st 2021 investigators confirmed they were waiting for dna evidence to return in
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the disappearance of cassidy rainwater dallas county sheriff scott rice says it could be at least 30 days before
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any results are returned okay so around this same time we have a lot of local rumors that start
00:35:46
making their way out of this rural part of missouri out to the rest of us in the surrounding parts unknown well i'm
00:35:54
assuming because like you said they're probably looking for her remains but if they found
00:36:01
a cage or area that they thought a cage was put they can test the carpet or the floor or the cage itself for touch dna
00:36:10
plus multiple items probably on the property yeah touch dna here's my guess here captain because this is where i
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think if the rumor mill hadn't already been started up and firing on all cylinders
00:36:25
i think this statement from the sheriff saying hey we're waiting on the return of some dna evidence and it
00:36:31
could take 30 days or so before we get any results back that's going to get the rumor mill fired
00:36:39
up and rocking and rolling right so because there's a lot of speculation as to what that could mean
00:36:46
does that mean that they found remains that they think could be cassie rain waters
00:36:52
they're not saying that they're not saying that they've found any remains at all they're not saying that they have
00:36:57
reason to believe that cassidy rainwater is deceased you know here we sit months later and it's really just kind
00:37:05
of left out in the open it's left open-ended where we know it's a missing person's investigation they were
00:37:12
investigating the disappearance of cassidy rainwater at one point and then at some point that
00:37:18
investigation shifts to the angle of we're investigating these photos that the fbi became aware of these scary
00:37:25
photos and it's really just left here all this time later as well it's still a missing person's case we've arrested
00:37:34
these people we've searched this property over and over and over again and it's still
00:37:40
as it was in the very beginning a missing person's case and we don't know where cassie rainwater is well and sadly
00:37:47
at this point we don't have an announcement that they found cassidy right and that's where i think that
00:37:52
you're probably on to something here captain with your thoughts of well they're probably waiting on results from
00:37:59
something they found at the crime scene that necessarily doesn't have to be actual remains right it could be as you
00:38:04
said touch dna maybe they found some hair that they believe could be hers what you're going to do here as a
00:38:11
detective your number one objective obviously is let's find cassidy rainwater and hope
00:38:17
and pray that she's okay and she's alive and well and this is somehow some kind of
00:38:23
misunderstanding but there were crimes committed and we have some factual things that we do
00:38:30
know and that detectives would know at this point in their investigation and that is
00:38:35
one they have reason to believe that this woman was being held against her will that being the photos and two
00:38:43
now we have this dork who says yeah i know who she is and she was staying with me now we have dork's friend who says
00:38:49
yeah i helped i knew she was being held on the property and i helped restrain her on one occasion and now you're going
00:38:57
okay well that is almost an admission of guilt as far as the kidnapping charges go but you want
00:39:05
to do your due diligence and put in the extra effort so now before you go before
00:39:10
the court you want to say not only do we have all this that proves that this man or these
00:39:16
men were responsible for kidnapping this young woman because technically the definition of kidnapping is holding you
00:39:24
even it doesn't mean throwing somebody in a vehicle and driving off with them if you put a pla a person in a
00:39:31
place that they do not want to be if you force them into a place or hold them somewhere that they do not want to
00:39:39
be you've kidnapped that person and kidnapping newsflash is a pretty big crime it's a
00:39:45
pretty big deal so what you're going to want to do is you're going to want to show the courts
00:39:51
not only do we have these photos but when we searched this man's property we found
00:39:56
hair in the uh you know the bathroom sink or on this brush where we found items of her clothing items that we know
00:40:03
belonged to her you want to prove 100 beyond just their words that she was actually physically
00:40:11
there at some point but he's not denying that right so he i mean at first he's saying oh yeah well she stayed with me
00:40:19
she was getting back on her feet i think the pictures of her being in a cage is what is your slam dunk as far as
00:40:28
getting a guilty verdict on kidnapping correct again but your defense attorney i could
00:40:34
i could go look she was trying to get back on her feet and i have some weird fetishes and i paid her a little bit of
00:40:39
money to get into the cage but i think the slam dunk is when you have the other individual
00:40:46
scummer scum one and scummer say that he helped restrain her therefore it being a kidnapping correct
00:40:56
but that's why they call it building a case against someone you're not going to just stop there and go well this is go
00:41:01
looks good enough to me no you have access to what you believe is a crime scene you're going to collect physical
00:41:07
evidence and again you want physical evidence that prov that proves scientifically
00:41:13
throw their words out throw the pictures out that proves scientifically that there is
00:41:19
reason to believe beyond a reasonable doubt that this woman physically was at this cabin at
00:41:25
some point and you're going to build this case against these individuals again kidnapping is a big deal if you cannot
00:41:33
find or locate her remains right you're hoping to turn the screws on these guys at some point and get them to tell you
00:41:40
information that you want that they may not be willing to to give up at this point but also think
00:41:47
about it from law enforcement's perspective james phelps is 58 timothy norton is 56.
00:41:55
if they're restraining and kidnapping somebody and putting a 33 year old female into a cage
00:42:04
nude partially nude nude whatever this is probably not their first rodeo they're probably responsible for other
00:42:12
heinous crimes i absolutely agree with you here captain i would think that if this stuff is going on and
00:42:19
one you're doing this type of nastiness to begin with but two you've managed to get an accomplice to help you it seems
00:42:28
like they're kind of proficient i guess would be my thought in these types of acts or
00:42:36
i mean something has led to this now what's interesting though was i was really curious and i was expecting to
00:42:42
find maybe some red flags in either of these individuals backgrounds but there wasn't
00:42:48
really anything major so what little i was able to find about each one of them is
00:42:57
we have some very minor misdemeanor charges against both of them throughout their history some of them
00:43:06
dating back as early as 1992. it looks like right but this is really minor stuff so
00:43:16
with one individual with james david phelps what i could find on him was that he had
00:43:24
charges of passing bad checks at multiple times throughout his life and every time he pled guilty
00:43:31
to the charges and these again are very small charges misdemeanors where you just pay a fine and court cost right he
00:43:38
has traffic violations like most of us do as far as the other guy timothy leroy norton goes
00:43:47
he has again some traffic minor traffic violations one of them and i have this in my notes
00:43:53
but it's unclear to me which individual it is one of them has like game warden type charges right where
00:44:01
you're like hunting illegally or masturbating in the woods or catching fish that you're required to
00:44:10
release but not releasing them well i wish it was a little more clear on james phelps properties
00:44:16
because we can only see pictures of the one where there there was a fi the fire that took place
00:44:22
but it just seems like unkept land it seems at least on this property that there was actual buildings
00:44:30
you know what was he using these properties for well and i'm glad that you referenced that because
00:44:36
i forgot to circle back around to that one thing that i find to be very troubling with both of these individuals
00:44:43
is you know we said that this is james phelps property from my understanding he's actually renting this property the
00:44:50
property where the cabin burnt down and where they believe cassidy rainwater was
00:44:54
being kept i'm a little unclear on how long he's occupied this space it sounds to me like
00:45:00
it's been years and then scummer 2 living in his truck or whatever we're supposed to believe even if it's on the
00:45:09
property or off of the property what we're being told is he's sleeping in his vehicle on this property where
00:45:16
again cassie rainwater is believed to have been held both of them have other addresses you
00:45:22
know even though we said that norton doesn't seem to have any permanent address that's listed he has
00:45:29
other addresses that that can be found relatively easily and same with phelps now their married situation their
00:45:38
married status is a little unclear as well now i do know that i mean are they married to each other
00:45:44
right um because scum scum and scummer now what i mean by that is whether either of them are are currently married
00:45:53
i do know that timothy norton was married twice so far that i could find that's always the case 1988 and then
00:46:02
again in 1994 i couldn't find any as far as uh you know marital status on james david
00:46:10
phelps but i do know he was a class of 1981 at uh crane high school home of the pirates
00:46:17
um so yeah he he actually won an award most likely to be a a douchebag also james
00:46:25
phelps i i don't mean to correct your expertise but you missed something on his criminal charges he was he's been
00:46:32
charged multiple times with having a skull it that's where you have you're bald with the mullet
00:46:38
look if you're bald on top don't have a ponytail but yeah you're right captain something that
00:46:44
you wouldn't expect to find here is that these guys don't have any major red flags on their criminal history that we
00:46:51
could find now one thing that's weird in this case is that reporters were able to dig up that
00:46:59
property okay again the property that phelps was staying at and again we've said that
00:47:06
we've seen reports that say he was renting that property i've seen reports that references a guy
00:47:12
that built the cabin i cannot find who owns this property right and maybe they're doing that to
00:47:20
just protect the individual the use of multiple properties is weird to me only because we know this this guy has
00:47:28
photos we've seen photos on his phone according to police that he's caging women on his property yeah and some
00:47:35
reporters were able to dig up some information at least this is what their reports state
00:47:40
is that two convicted sex offenders are tied to that address are tied to that property somehow the
00:47:47
interesting thing here is as we stated what we could find it looks like phelps is fairly clean and
00:47:56
so is norton neither of these guys are registered sex offenders in the state of missouri yeah but there's a little thing
00:48:03
called human trafficking and maybe these guys got mixed up with some other bad dudes but this whole town seems a mess
00:48:12
it seems like there's all these like you said before rumors that it's haunted remembers of
00:48:19
all these bad things happening in the past seems like this place is almost cursed
00:48:25
and on top of that because of cassidy going missing there's rumors flying all over this
00:48:32
small town well i'm not going to accuse wendyville of being a mess i'm not going
00:48:36
to allow one bad apple to spoil the whole dang bunch i don't know much about two bad apples this town at
00:48:44
all to speak ill of the other 49 occupants of the town the haunting stuff is interesting to me and some of it
00:48:51
sounds quite terrifying but you know every one of these little towns especially when
00:48:57
you get out in the sticks they all have these stories that they've passed down for years and for decades
00:49:03
it's what the older kids use to scare the little kids and then the little kids grow up and then they scare the little
00:49:09
kids at some point with oh don't go into those woods don't go to that graveyard don't go on that bridge at night don't
00:49:16
go masturbating in the woods but like you were saying captain this case has sparked up a lot of rumors and again
00:49:22
some of it may come from the sheriff's own words of hey we're waiting from we're waiting to hear back on these dna
00:49:28
test results and look i do not fault him for stating that he's simply updating you on their case we're waiting on
00:49:35
results now maybe some people's minds ran wild their imaginations ran wild with what could that mean
00:49:42
well some of the rumors include the finding of meat hooks on the property where phelps was staying by law
00:49:51
enforcement officials acts of cannibalism additional victims possibly the remains of up to 12 or 13
00:50:00
people found on the property additional suspects caged victims and transporting kidnapped victims or
00:50:08
remains across state lines and that these two may even be responsible for the missing springfield three
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