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talk some true crime [Music] you go you [Music] go the karna river is a wild and Scenic
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River in the great state State of California that spans approximately 165 mi it drains an area of the Southern
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Siera Nevada mountains Northeast of Bakersfield fed by snow melt near Mount Whitney the river passes through Scenic
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canyons in the mountains and is a popular destination for whitewater rafting and
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kaying it is a 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
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in the karna river near Hart Park were met with a rather unpleasant surprise they found a duffel bag in the
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river 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 able inside possibly
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even money the teens eagerly opened the bag to investigate its contents to their disappointment the
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first item they found in the bag was a sweatshirt well that makes sense a sweatshirt inside a duffel bag thoughts
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of possibly recovering jewelry or someone's lost stash of cash were fading as now it's beginning to look like they
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simply found some 's lost gym bag but further investigation yielded a rather strange
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find looking into the bag they could see what appeared to be raw meat not a dead
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animal but it looked almost like something one might buy from the butcher shop perhaps a raw
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chicken but wrong again nope boys that's not a chicken and of course here is the unpleasant surp surprise
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reveal that you have been waiting for the strange item in the duffel bag was actually a human
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limb it was a badly decomposed severed arm it was not possible to determine whether the arm was cut off pre or
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postmortem the arm had a black zip tie still on the wrist and marks indicating that the arm was removed with the use of
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a saw this horrific Discovery will not be the start of our story but rather one confirmation of earlier
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suspicions three adults who traveled in similar circles in the same town in the span of just one month were murdered or
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vanished in feared dead those three were dubbed The Bakers field 3 from a Reddit Comet by Amador 9 a
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seemingly local individual summs up Bakersfield and parts of kar County California as they see it and the
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comment reads Bakersfield is the antithesis of everybody's popular image of California unlike the coastal regions
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Bakersfield is flat Dusty and a long way from the ocean it is conservative poor and not the least bit
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fashionable Bakersfield was once a country music hotspot but not anymore and drugs criminal activity and
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murder are nothing new to the region exactly who was responsible for the murdered vanished and feared
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dead what exactly happened to them this is true crime garage and this is the case of the Bakersfield
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[Music] 3 [Music] at 34 years of age Micah holsen bake had lived a fairly normal and stable life he
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was raised in rosale 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 financial adviser
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and was successful able to provide for his family a wife and a son Micah was outgoing a bit of a jokester and
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generally happy but a rocky marriage and a subsequent divorce contributed to a downhill spiral Micah had several throat
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surgeries and each time after was prescribed pain pills after several Cycles through this surgery equals pain
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pills routine he became addicted and in 2016 his life really started started to change Micah's family noted a shift in
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his demeanor and attitude he lost not only custody of his son but visitation rights as well which reporting
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devastated him he started to get into bar fights acting belligerent and unstable he took a leave from his job
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citing a struggle with depression that was debilitating but eventually his employer became fed up with his absence
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and fired him through all of this it didn't really seem seemed to be depression that Micah may have been
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suffering from Micah told his mom Cheryl that he was afraid he was in danger he said his mom wasn't sure of the exact
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cause and he seemed to be suffering from paranoia but she was getting the sense that her son had been threatened by
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someone he started to behave erratically and became unreliable and unpredictable
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and then one day he was gone he was reported missing in March of 2018 yes on the 15th of that month
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Captain Cheryl his mother dropped Micah and another unnamed person off in Bakersfield in a neighborhood that was
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less than desirable in fact it was crime and Drug ridden she says that she never
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saw him again after that now on the 17th Micah called his mom and asked or demanded for some money to help pay for
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a motel room for him and a friend Cheryl says that she refused that they argued over the phone and eventually she just
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hung up on him hotel motel Micah was seen on the 23rd by an extended family member AC crossing the street at Mount
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Vernon Avenue and Flower Street this is near karna Medical Center but then after
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that we don't have any more sightings of Micah he seemed to have vanished from that point on
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friends started calling looking for him and Cheryl and Lance's mother and father
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could not reach him at any attempt they went to his apartment and got the landlord to let them in they say that
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everything was in order when they went to his apartment now after about two weeks of not being able to reach him and
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finding that he had not been in contact with anyone his parents filed a missing person's report and then unfortunately
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just kind of had to wait and find out if the police could determine anything and
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they said quote we didn't hear back from anybody at the police department uh this
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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 on April 13th 2018 so we
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already see a bit of a delay there as well the family was obviously frustrated with the whole situation that they could
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not find their loved one and the lack of action by the media by law enforcement but really this frustration Captain is
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just going to be the beginning of the situation for Micah's family well it seems when we have somebody with some
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kind of mental illness or drug addiction that the the media and the public they don't seem as concerned with these
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individuals as as maybe uh just a normal person that went missing well or even let's take that a step further you say
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normal person being missing I think we have to factor in here too this man is in his
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mid-30s right and that probably has a lot to do with law enforcement they're thinking look if he did skip town he
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skipped town and there's probably a good reason for it so that's always a possibility here they may not have known
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the full extent of the situation either sometimes when people are reported missing the people that report them
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missing and I'm not I don't know the situation here Captain so I don't want to put any blame on the family but if
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you are expecting action make sure that you are very clear about what you believe is going on with that individual
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at the time of their disappearance and here in this situation we have the mother who's later telling us the public
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that look while he took a leave of absence from work citing depression maybe he was depressed maybe
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he wasn't but he loses his job and Mom is saying I actually think that what is going on at this point is that he is
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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 or a combination of both yeah or combination of mental illness with drug use now we need to
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introduce another individual this is 38-year-old James colad James was a successful entrepreneur he opened up his
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own skate shop and got a patent for his torch trucks now for those of you that don't know a whole lot about skateboards
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I know very little bit but I know that the trucks are on the bottom portion of the skateboard and from what I
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understand here Captain this is pretty cool stuff torch trucks this patent that he he got was a skateboard parts
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basically that enhance sparking when they're used on Rails so very cool kind of stuff there kind of video game type
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stuff if you ask me makes me think of Tony Hawk also he was a Bakersfield native James really only worked his day
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job in order to afford his favorite hobby which was surfing now he also loved to gamble in fact he was known to
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his friends as Joe Vegas yeah this year at crime conon they're going to call me Captain Vegas in the inflatable dates
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there you go Captain Vegas James has two young daughters one of them Cameron was
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raised by her grandparents after her mom's death and a car crash when she was just 16 months old but she and James
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were close and had sleepovers they watched movies and made cookies together they drove around blasting music so even
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though she's being raised by grandparents it seems like the two were close and very good friends but James
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like Micah had a problem he had broken his wrist in an accident and since 2016 was addicted to prescription
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opioids he was given after surgery on his arm like many he quickly found that he could not live without the drugs and
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his need for them escalated he turned to Fentanyl patches and then to heroin his
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daughter Cameron recognized her dad's struggle with illicit substances after she saw crushed up pills next to a
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rolled up dollar bill he started to disappear for days at a time finally James did go to rehab but it didn't
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fully take and he continued to struggle and this has been such a common sad reality for so many people and how
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quickly pain pill addiction can turn into heroin addiction or meth addiction and this really to me is at kind of the
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height of all of that where you have these these pain pills and many different forms and unfortunately all of
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them are highly addictive it's very easy and very quick to get addicted to these
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types of drugs and then they become expensive or they're no longer available to you so you start seeking out other
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ways to get that same feeling or to manage your addiction right and today thankfully I'm of the belief that we're
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much more aware of this situation maybe the medical professionals should have been aware of it before you think but at
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least today I feel like pain management is structured differently than it would have been 10 years ago 15 years ago or
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as we're seeing here even just five or six years ago now in james' situation one night that we need to talk
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about here Captain is the night of April 7th this is when James left his mother's
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house his mother's Diane Burns he leaves her house around 10:30 later that same night we're now talking 1:30 a.m. he was
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in a car pulling out a driveway of a residence in South Bakersfield when James crashed into to a
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parked trailer on Cobble Mountain Road near Sandstone Lane after the crash James somehow managed to stagger out of
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the wrecked car now this is not going to be easy because he's in bad shape the car is in bad shape this is one of those
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little Fiat cars and it's pretty smashed up too James is 6'5 in tall so big boy yeah so getting a large man getting out
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of a small SM mashed up car is quite difficult from my understanding Captain I believe he had to crawl or kind of
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squirm his way out of the passenger side door to make this all the more difficult
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and all the more tragic the reason why he crashed his car is because he was shot well that's a
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reasonable reason James eventually collapsed after getting out of the vehicle he collapsed to the ground and
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his brother Ryan who was at the same house at the same location that James was at earlier that
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he had left from he's leaving the area too same route discovers his brother's car and
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his brother lying on the ground right and he finds his brother James basically at the scene of this crash am I crazy to
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assume that he was shot while he was driving well there's a couple different stories of this and it's been reported a
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little bit differently now it sounds to me I'm of that mindset that you are that
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that he was shot while driving there are some versions of the same story that he
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may have been parked temporarily now parked temporarily does that mean that he was parked on the side of the road or
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at a stop sign or a stop light and somebody opens fire on him but this is very much like the way that I kind of
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Envision Biggie Smalls or Tupac right where the the the car pulls up alongside of the other car and bullets are fired
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into the vehicle right unfortunately James wouldn't make it he's not going to survive the situation in fact he bled
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out sadly with his brother Ryan at his side who held him as he died this uh one bullet hole or multiple bullet holes I'm
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assuming he was shot multiple times police later would call the incident a drive by shooting now whatever
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vehicle that it was that fired the shots that vehicle was gone so who would want
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to kill this mild-mannered easygoing Surfer guy Well normally the the vehicle that shoots the other person they don't
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stick around to talk to police true that uh police did not know who'd want to kill him and unfortunately no one was
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really talking but police did catch on to something early in their investigation and what they found only
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raised more questions the driveby shooting victim James colad knew the missing man Micah
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holsen bake they ran around in the same Social Circles and James even helped Micah move residences just a few weeks
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before one disappeared and then the other was gun down so could The Disappearance of one young father and
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the murder of another be connected or is it just some kind of tragic coincidence
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well our listeners know that there are very few tragic coincidence inces in these true crime stories Michael went
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missing and was last seen March 23rd 2018 James is murdered April 7th 2018 and now there's still another piece
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of 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 to 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 that these two are running around in the same circles and
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these are not the the best of circles to be in these are the are bad circles to be in my friend so yeah these kids have
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bad jibs a lot of the people that know these two individuals and again they're adults they're in their 30s so they're
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out living their own lives they're not under underfoot of their parents and their other loved ones and they're both
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kind of removed from their their families you know their their children or their um in one case an wife so we
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don't have a lot of people to fill in those blanks other than possibly people that run in these two circles now what
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we do figure out what investigators do figure out is the two know each other and that is of importance because you
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have two situations missing murdered no one's really talking but aha at least we
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know 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 Des spot at just the age of 20 she's got her whole life ahead of her now Bailey grew up in the middle
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class neighborhood of rosale we've heard that name before here's another connection her family says Bailey could
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have done anything with her life she was beautiful smart and kind she was ambitious but also a free spirit when
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she was young she was a member of the Future Farmers of America someone who loved animals in 2016
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now this is just a year after high school she ran away to Vegas and married her boyfriend even though the
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relationship was volatile and according to some reports abusive yeah so was a relation shits her parents obviously
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were not pleased about this marriage which predictably ended quickly in 2017 Bailey however was
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devastated by this and things didn't seem to get better for her she total her car and then was let go from her job and
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it's believed that Bailey thought that she could find comfort in the arms of men and possibly drugs in early 2018 she
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moved in with a man that she was having a relationship with a man more than twice her age he was 43 years old this
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man's name is Matthew Queen Bailey's Mom Jane says she last saw her daughter when
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she stopped at the house she shared with Matthew Queen to drop off some groceries this was on April
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23rd but by Just 2 Days Later Bailey had dropped off of the face of the Earth no
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calls no text nothing Jane filed a missing person's Report with the karn's county sheriff's
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office but then she got a phone call it was Cheryl hsen bake Micah's mom and she
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told her that her 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
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Bailey well what we're going to see is as we are able to find more information and continue with all three of their
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stories it's much like a Quinton Tarantino picture man they all start to intertwine a little more as we go along
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well then I'll take a royal with cheese in July of 2017 we have Bailey who was actually
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arrested outside of Micah's house so I mean just those documents that information alone proves that she knew
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Micah Micah knew her she was charged with disorderly conduct in that situation apparently those misdemeanor
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charges were dismissed and Micah helped Bailey file for a restraining order against an abusive new boyfriend this
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was in August of 2017 which the restraining order was granted but these incidents were just
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the beginning of a precipitous decline for Bailey a decline into drugs and unsavory company 3 weeks after getting
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that restraining order 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 she would
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call at all hours of the night pleading for help and asking to be picked up but sometimes she's calling asking to be
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picked up and she doesn't know where she is sometimes she had no shoes or possessions when her family got to her
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her sister recalled one night when two cars drove up and picked Bailey up her sister Caitlyn said that Bailey clearly
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did not want to go with whoever was waiting for her in the driveway as soon after that this is when she ended up
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with that Matthew Queen in December of 200 17 while out one night Matthew Queen and Bailey were pulled over by
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police now cops found four loaded guns including an AR-15 in the car Matthew Queen was charged with six counts of
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possession of a firearm by a felon possession of ammo by a felon and possession of an assault rifle Bailey
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pled no contest to misdemeanor weapons charges of carrying a loaded gun and carrying concealed weapons
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she received three years probation and then moved in with Matthew Queen and get this Captain this is where it gets I
00:29:06
mean it's weird story already but gets a little more bizarre she moves in with Matthew Queen and Matthew Queen's
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estranged wife and Matthew's mother they're all in one house right not not weird at all e a new form of The Brady
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Bunch Matthew Queen had quite a police record yeah you think including a stint in the early 2000s in federal prison on
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gun charges now this is from an appeals court ruling quote between late December
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2000 and July 2001 Queen purchased 39 firearms from federally licensed dealers in the state of Indiana the guns cost
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more than $11,000 and at least 11 of them later were recovered at crime scenes in the
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Detroit and Chicago area is gun sale records link the purchases back to Queen end quote so he's buying up guns in
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different states and then he's selling them to terrible horrible people and these guns are finding their way to
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crime scenes and then police are able later to track these guns back to him yeah follow the [ __ ] Crown so Bailey's
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living with this guy who could not stay away from guns big illegal ones at that and after April 25th 2018 no one could
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get a hold of Bailey and she was reportedly pregnant at the time oh man Bailey was last seen by her mom on the
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25th at a house she and Matthew Queen shared this again when Jane dropped off those groceries that we already
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mentioned right at that time she said Bailey opened the door and thanked her mother but then said that she had to go
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Jane never talked to her again after a few days she went to the house and was told by a teenage boy who lived
00:31:03
there that he hadn't seen Bailey so she reported Bailey missing to the [Music] authorities
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your bravery and your resolve may God be with you all please now back to our story here captain
00:34:27
the first story the first news story that came out about Bailey appeared on June 8th now this is after bayy was
00:34:36
missing for nearly 6 weeks we have kg which did Gang Busters reporting on this case in fact such Gang Busters
00:34:47
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 Bailey at a neighborhood
00:34:59
near Palm Avenue in Renfro Road and he says she was in the company of a Hispanic male he also made multiple
00:35:08
Facebook posts saying that Bailey ran away and accusing her mom of trying to pin it on him when Bailey just skipped
00:35:17
town he insinuated that perhaps she had harmed herself saying that Bailey was off her meds that she was depressed and
00:35:25
she wanted to die in one of his posts He also mentioned that he knew Micah with that Sherl holon
00:35:35
bake said it was very obvious this is Micah's mother it was very obvious that it was not a coincidence and people out
00:35:44
there know something definitely not a coincidence and again you run in circles with people abusing drugs and you're
00:35:52
running in circles with criminals it's it's a recipe for disaster yeah the the situation is exactly as you said very
00:36:01
Bleak two missing one dead and now of course with the three being kind of linked together you have the fear by
00:36:10
loved ones and and Friends searching for these other two that Unfortunately they
00:36:16
may have already succumbed to the same conclusion the same fate that we had in the driveby shooting case so one month
00:36:27
after Micah goes missing his mother Cheryl her phone rings it was Dianne Burns James's mom
00:36:38
she told Cheryl her own son had been killed in April and he seemed to know many of the same people as Micah who was
00:36:46
missing the two moms realized that their kids their grown children both ran in the same circles the moms formed a
00:36:55
united front and forc law enforcement to listen to their detailed connections between the children the adult children
00:37:04
Diane and Cheryl told law enforcement quote something's not right our sons knew the same people then when Bailey's
00:37:13
missing posters start going up they pulled Jane into their little ring after Lance recognized Bailey's name as rumors
00:37:23
connected to his son's disappearance well like you said I mean this is all happening within 30 days of each other
00:37:30
yes about 33 days to be exact when we from start starting point to the final person of the three being reported
00:37:39
missing so we have the family that's coming forward and they're saying look person a
00:37:47
knows person B person B knows person C that these three are all somewhat connected and somehow they're connected
00:37:54
we don't know how yet but they ran in the same same circles and they're now proving to police that person a does in
00:38:02
fact know person B and something terrible happened to both of them and person B knows person C and something
00:38:08
terrible has happened to both of them and so you can see how this is kind of filling in some of the blanks for law
00:38:15
enforcement also now we have people that are are going to be come into to more question here Captain right when you
00:38:25
start to see the same names in these victims lives over and over again well those people were moving up your
00:38:32
priority list of people to interview and possible suspects well and also they're
00:38:37
drug users so they're going to be coming in contact with more people so they're a
00:38:43
little more unpredictable as far as their routines go and they're going to probably come in contact with more
00:38:50
random people than the than the average citizen would right so we have a situ situation where Micah knows James Micah
00:38:59
knows Bailey and now we have the family saying that look all three of these people all three of these individuals
00:39:06
knew each other it was all one big interconnected circle of people yeah the mothers the three mothers named their
00:39:15
kids Collective case the Bakersfield 3 that's where that name comes from and the moniker took off in the media
00:39:24
normally once there's any reporting of the victims using drugs it it seems like the
00:39:30
public and the media kind of disappear from looking into those cases harder but but the three mothers in this case
00:39:40
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
00:39:47
and their families made it their quest to find their children or their children's killers they did not believe
00:39:55
that their cases all following within one month and with all three knowing each other that they could be anything
00:40:03
other than connected Bailey's Family offered a $6,000 reward in Bailey's case and posters plastered all over the
00:40:14
neighborhood with photos of all three victims the Bakersfield 3 Seeking information and the moms started to
00:40:24
compare notes my M's mom said that before his disappearance her son had become paranoid well that's definitely a red
00:40:31
flag he said someone had threatened him and he feared for his safety now his mother did too this after she learned
00:40:39
that he was selling drugs she told bakersfield.com quote my mom instinct is that he found
00:40:48
himself in over his head she said she dropped Micah off in a sketchy part of town and he vanished Cheryl started to
00:40:56
believe he had been killed James's mom felt the same way Diane told kg that a lot of the people that were
00:41:07
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
00:41:17
believe my son was set up to be murdered end quote well they're using dangerous drugs but they're also surrounding
00:41:25
themselves with dangerous people yeah Bailey's living with somebody that's has has all kinds of weapons charges against
00:41:32
him now I hope nobody in the Bakers field area needs a botomy because we're about to talk about one bad
00:41:41
chiropractor by September 2018 there was some news in the case the house in front of which James had been
00:41:50
shot belonged to a chiropractor his name is Dr sui bajwa and this guy wasn't exactly the
00:41:59
model of professionalism documents filed with the Chiropractic board reflected that the
00:42:06
doctor was in some legal trouble in fact he had to surrender his license to practice because on October 7th
00:42:15
2016 Bakersfield PD responded to a call about a vehicle smashing into some parked cars they saw Baja and a woman
00:42:25
walking quickly from the scene walking away from the scene in an alley when they stopped him
00:42:32
bajal denied being the driver or the owner of the car that was smashing into the park cars he said he was just a
00:42:38
passenger but the car was registered in his name and seat belt burns on his body
00:42:45
showed that he had in fact been in the driver's seat and cops noted that he exhibited signs of being under the
00:42:52
influence of a controlled substance this this included slurred speech bloodshot eyes droopy eyelids nodding and the
00:43:01
inability to stay alert the female passenger the unnamed female passenger did in fact tell police that bajua was
00:43:10
driving the vehicle and that he had even asked her to lie for him well Baja your
00:43:16
pants are on fire we're not just talking about a DUI here Captain because when cops searched the car they recovered two
00:43:25
firearms a Smith and Wesson M andp AR-15 and a Heckler and cotch MP 522 long range rifle with a faux
00:43:36
suppressor both rifles had high capacity magazines that contained live ammunition
00:43:43
right a records check revealed the Firearms were not registered and Dr Baja was arrested and then convicted of three
00:43:52
misdemeanor in connection with the DUI crash and guns Baja was sentenced to well 10 days in jail that's what you get
00:44:01
when you're real bad but he did get three years probation and he had over $2,000 in
00:44:07
fines then in May of 2017 Baja was arrested again this time police officers were dispatched to a suspicious activity
00:44:17
incident bajua was the front passenger in a vehicle and stated that he had a loaded capped syringe in the interior of
00:44:27
his left jacket pocket police recovered a syringe filled with a dark brown liquid substance believed to be liquid
00:44:35
heroin officers also found a bottle containing several Xanax pills in addition officers located two additional
00:44:43
yellow oval-shaped pills which later were identified as Hydrocodone after this arrest bajal pled
00:44:52
guilty to both selling drugs and carrying a loaded gun again another slap on the wrist 180 days in jail 3 years
00:45:02
probation and another F yeah it's a pretty pathetic sentencing so it was at this Shady guy's house the
00:45:10
chiropractor's house that James was cited at on the night that he was killed this was the home that he was in the
00:45:18
process of leaving when he's gunned down we know that because again remember his brother Ryan was at the same
00:45:25
location he's the one that tells that to the public and he told that to Dr Phil when
00:45:30
he was on his show now here's what he tells Dr Phil he says Ryan says that I was at Dr Baja's house that night
00:45:39
supposedly they were eating pizza and watching some movies with a group of people and Ryan said that bajwa owed
00:45:46
James money his brother James the doctor owes him money for what we don't really
00:45:54
know but it was was not a small amount of money oh probably hand jobs and cracker checks could be I don't know
00:46:00
that bajwa it sounds to me like he wasn't able to practice practice at this time he's already been arrested twice
00:46:08
and again at some point his license was revoked now what we do know though Captain is that Ryan tells us that his
00:46:16
brother James was coming to bwa's house to collect that large amount of money and bajwa tells Ryan
00:46:26
hey tell your brother he better not come here I'm going to have my boys over and
00:46:32
they're going to be strapped Ryan relayed the message to his brother and the two have an argument
00:46:39
Ryan then left to drive someone else home and then returns to Baja's house he says maybe approximately 90 minutes
00:46:49
later so James was in the driveway at this time when Ryan returns at this time James then pulled out and did a u-turn
00:46:58
and pulled in behind a parked car Ryan still driving toward the house hears shots hears gunshots he ran to his
00:47:08
brother but it was too late James was lying on the ground after crawling out of the vehicle bleeding Ryan maintains
00:47:16
that all he saw was a silver car he denied to Dr Phil that he knows who shot his brother he did say he suspected baj
00:47:26
of engineering the shooting obviously based off of the threats that bajwa told him to relay to his brother earlier that
00:47:34
night yeah a lot of bad people in this case and you can you can smell it yeah people who carried and used guns
00:47:42
possibly dealt guns manufactured guns and traded in guns and so the connection here is with James and the story of the
00:47:52
doctor owing him a large sum of money yeah one could easily draw a line from one dot to the other and say well maybe
00:47:59
that money was for drugs but I actually think that it was probably for guns and or maybe some
00:48:08
illegally and or maybe for some illegal gambling again we know he's Joe Vegas and then we have Micah's
00:48:21
involvement in guns and we know that they all know each other now Lance Micah's father said his son had told him
00:48:29
something before he vanished something Lance didn't believe at the time he said quote I'm putting together guns I'm
00:48:38
going here and putting together guns for people end quote Lance thought his son was exaggerating and was just paranoid
00:48:47
at that time later he's going to grow to believe that this means something that this is some indication of the truth and
00:48:55
some kind of peak into Micah's personal life Lance says that when Micah told him
00:49:01
this information again he thought he was exaggerating maybe even paranoid but he
00:49:05
also told him hey if if you're doing that kind of stuff it's easy you just stop you you can get out please stop and
00:49:13
get out and he also said if you're afraid of people then you need to stop and get away from them but Micah said to
00:49:20
his father I can't do that I'm afraid for my family Lance said to K G news quote Mah was mixed up for the first
00:49:29
time in his life in things that were illegal so it's logical for police to think he got out of town he's hiding out
00:49:38
end quote but he wasn't Lance's younger son started asking around and the name Bailey popped up yeah the holsen bakes
00:49:51
didn't recognize that name at first but then within a week or or so they started
00:49:56
to see missing person's Flyers with Bailey's name and photo they realized Bailey despot missing person was the
00:50:05
same woman who was now somehow linked to Micah Lance astutely said that he was pretty sure what had happened to Micah
00:50:15
the same thing happened to Bailey because she knew what happened to Micah all of the Bakerfield 3 were putting
00:50:26
themselves in a Harm's Way by one using dangerous drugs and then being around a dangerous group of people whether it's
00:50:34
within the drug Community or you know the drug Community is also connected to other criminal communities
00:50:43
and whatever happened to these three we're not saying they deserved any of this at all on any level at all what
00:50:49
we're simply saying here is that if you put yourself in a bad situation enough times it's it's only logical that
00:50:56
something bad may happen to you it's not victim blaming it's unfortunately the way that the world works and if you have
00:51:04
any other beliefs other than that well you're wrong all right let's Circle back to something that we talked about in the
00:51:10
trailer here Captain remember the teenage swimmers in the kar River they find that duffel bag floating in the
00:51:17
river or somehow find it in the river thinking that it may have contained money they open it they find the
00:51:24
sweatshirt inside and unfortunately find a badly decomposed severed arm well that
00:51:30
was the summer of 2018 and we need to fast forward to December of 2018 this is when testing testing
00:51:40
revealed that the arm belonged to Micah one of our victims that we're talking about he was officially classified as
00:51:47
deceased and officially classified as the victim of a homicide it was not possible to determine whether the arm
00:51:56
was cut off pre or postmortem said the pathologist but the arm had a black zip tie still on the wrist and marks that
00:52:04
indicated that the arm had been cut off using a saw searches of 5 miles around the spot
00:52:12
where the arm was found this is near Highway 178 Unfortunately they were fruitless
00:52:20
searches but police came out and said that the case bore marked similarities to Bailey's disappearance definitely
00:52:29
which is a little confusing to me but we're going to continue to dive into this right now per
00:52:34
bakersfield.com who we've continually cited here in this case they State quote those similarities included they State
00:52:42
quote those similarities include Witnesses locations and evidence end quote the Bakersfield PD took over
00:52:51
Bailey's case from the Kern County Sheriff's Office after the two agencies compared notes and discovered the
00:52:58
commonalities between the two cases by mid 29 police acknowledged that all three
00:53:07
cases making up the Bakersfield 3 were in fact [Music] connected join us back here in the
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