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[Music] [Music] oh it's a scene straight out of a horor flick some guy is using his telescope to
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spy on an attractive young woman from afar this of course unbeknownst to her as she sunbathes topless on a deserted
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stretch of beach then he observes the unthinkable a terrifying looking man man storms Out of the Woods the man is
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carrying a revolver and might be wearing some kind of Disguise like some kind of strange Beast
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he charges at the woman yet she is unaware of his presence the man reaches down and grabs
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a fist full of the young woman's hair yanking her up to her feet she begins to panic and he drags
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her into the woods and just like that they are gone what should the onlooker do he is having a very difficult time
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trying to comprehend what he just so very quickly witnessed who was the young woman and who was the man that grabbed
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her did they know each other was this some kind of prank or possibly a domestic dispute or was this a very real and
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horrific abduction what happened to the woman on the beach this is true crime garage and this
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is the case of Heather [Music] [Music] T Heather Danielle Teague was born on April 25th
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1972 she is the oldest of four children her mother is Sarah teue we don't know anything about Heather's father
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according to her mom Heather was an honors student a cheerleader and a multiport athlete she was the homecoming
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queen at Webster County high school after graduating high school in 1990 living in spotsville Kentucky it's not
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really clear what Heather did there's some indication from Heather's mom Sarah that in
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1995 Heather was struggling a little bit of late and that drugs may have been involved Sarah told The Courier press
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that Heather was dating a guy who was almost 20 years older than she she had gotten into drugs some things she didn't
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know how to get out of according to Sarah in the summer of 1995 Heather was trying to pull things together she
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started taking classes at Western Kentucky University but in the week leading up to
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her disappearance Heather was fired from her job and ended up on her mother's couch she seemed angry and unhappy and
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during this period she spent a good deal of time writing long angst filled poems
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and journaling Heather was beautiful she had long dark curly hair ha green eyes and a
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wide smile during her teenage years she won a few beauty pageants she was also tiny at only 5'2 in tall and under 100
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lb Heather suffered from scoliosis of the spine meaning that her spine was curved now where our story gets
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incredibly and dangerously bizarre is on a Saturday in the late summer this is on
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August 26th 19 1995 Heather decided to take advantage of some warm weather she drove her
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little red car to the Newberg Beach which is along the old Mighty Ohio River in spotsville but more importantly in
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Henderson County Kentucky Heather parked on private property this is a farm that was often
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used by locals for parking to go hiking or down to the beach area even though they were not supposed to park there
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yeah most of the Ohio river will connect right to woods but there'll be like these little tiny beaches so it's not
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like a a beach that you would see in Florida that runs for miles and miles they're just sometimes the size of uh
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like a a normal backyard mhm or where a turn in the river occurs right so Heather after parking her car she makes
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her way through this wooded area and then down a steep embankment and on to the beach near the water she brought
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with her a beach chair and her bag she set up her chair near the river and took off her red plaid shirt and her shorts
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so now she's in her bikini all set up she decided to untie her bikini top and lie on her stomach and Sun her back
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Heather lay there just enjoying the Beauty and the the quiet of the natural surroundings her Solitude was
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interrupted by the sound of ATVs roaring nearby from the way it looks Captain Heather was alone in her spot but there
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were a decent amount of other people there near the water but they were further down the beach so she is kind of
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off in her own little world if you will but as we heard in the trailer it seems like Heather was being watched and of
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course she was unaware Ware of this and we will have a lot to tear through later
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but if she is in fact being watched well then she is being watched by is she being watched by more than one person
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that's what I ask myself as we continue on meanwhile across the Ohio river in Evansville Indiana a man named Tim
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walthal was at his Riverfront rental house while his wife was making lunch for the two of them Tim engaged in a
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hobby that he often did this is gazing through his binoculars at the popular Beach area across the river now we don't
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know if Tim was checking out Heather or just people watching in general was it binoculars or was it a telescope he
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starts with binoculars and it will end with a telescope so he acknowledged later that he watched as what happened
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to Heather unfolded but whatever the case whyever he would be watching we can't say for certain so through his
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binoculars movement attracted Tim's eyes first we have the four ATVs that were climbing the sand dunes near where the
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young woman lay on the beach but Tim noticed something else that was far more interesting and rather
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concerning in the very tall dense trees surrounding the beach he could see a person moving and this person was
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advancing slowly toward the beach Beach hunched down and sneaking through the underbrush occasionally popping up every
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five or six steps to peer over the weeds in the growth as the person got closer he could tell that the person who
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appeared to be sneaking through the woods was a man this man paused to allow the ATVs to drive off and by this point
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he was about 15 ft away from the oblivious young woman Tim said that his first thought was that his that this man
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was a friend or a boyfriend who was just sneaking up on her to scare her he grabbed his high powered telescope that
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sat nearby and trained it in on the scene across the river he could see that the man approaching the girl was tall
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with shaggy hair and what looked to be a dark beard Tim called to his wife Karen that
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that someone was stalking a young woman on the beach the man being watched by Tim suddenly bolted from the edge of the
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weeds into the chair of the sunbathing woman he crouched down and he threw his arm over her back the girl on the chair
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jerked she was startled but then she went still the man grabbed her long hair Twisted it and yanked her up now Tim
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could see why the girl had had suddenly become passive for the sunlight hit something that caused a shine and then
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Tim focused in on the item that was in the man's hand and it was a silver revolver the girl was dragged off of the
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chair she was no match for the strong man grasping her by the hair and she was taken away off into the woods dropping
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her towel at the edge of the tree line well plus he had a gun right Tim could not hear obviously could not hear
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anything from his vantage point across the river but he could see the gun in the man's hand and he watched in horror
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as this man grabbed Heather and marched her off into the woods even if he had yelled like a warning to the struggling
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girl or had screamed at the man brutalizing her they very likely would not have heard him at all well the Ohio
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river is pretty wide well at this point Captain the Shore across the river was at least a half mile away so a good
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distance there Tim could do nothing but watch helplessly as this young woman was
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abducted so he calls the police now this sounds like a pretty straightforward statement right right but there is
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nothing straightforward about this call as we will see as we get into it for now
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staying on Pace with the information that is coming out as it was coming out so we will say that Tim waited about 20
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or 25 minutes to phone the police he said that he stood there and watched to see if the young woman would come back
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to retrieve her things and that she would be okay but she never reemerged from the woods and eventually he decided
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to call it in one article in a local paper that we found reported that this woman was abducted at approximately 1210
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p.m. another reported that it was around 1:00 Heather's mother Sarah is on the record stating she has reason to believe
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the abduction took place at 12:30 the call from Tim came in at 1:15 p.m. so according to the akan Beacon
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Journal a trooper arrived at the Newberg Beach 26 minutes after Tim's call to the
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Kentucky State Police depending on which article is right or who is right we have
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anywhere from 41 minutes at the very least all the way up to 91 minutes had elapsed since the scary event and the
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sunbathing woman was long gone so you think that there was a hesitation to call police well he did say he's been up
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front and forward about that saying you know I didn't call immediately because he was pretty convinced that what he was
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seeing was just some kind of playful prank that these young adults or or teenagers
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were playing on one another that maybe the two were some kinds of friends when you're watching from that
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distance I mean I've never witnessed anything like this up close or even or even from that distance but I I don't
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know there there's got to be a bit of a shock Factor right where you're not you're not really sure what you're
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seeing I guess when you live by The Credo of see something say something maybe you don't hesit itate but I think
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he was standing there watching thinking that at some point he would see both of them come back to the beach area and
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he'd go oh they're just fooling around right it's it's not clear to us or I think anybody because it's not like
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we're sitting um from his vantage point or his Viewpoint and knowing what kind of detail he he was able to see uh with
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his telescope well and I don't want to get too far into this because it gets very evoluted very quickly but there's
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also some there's some belief that there there were different phone calls that were made and what I mean by that is we
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have a unique situation right where we have something going on in Kentucky on one side of the river and somebody
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witnessing it on the other side of the river and therefore it's a little confusing as to who is to be called and
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who is to respond to such a call right so that is part of the reason for this delay however you want to swing this
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Hammer man it's either 41 minutes from the time that it's believe she was abducted all the way up to 91 minutes
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before anyone responds to this spot on the beach now found on that lonely stretch of the beach was Heather
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teague's chair her purse shoes shirt shorts and bikini top and as said her towel that she dropped right at the edge
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of the Woods Heather Teague has never been seen again that we are aware of there's never been any credible sighting
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of her to this very day well I think the simple thing would be if you saw something like this you don't have to
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look up what department to call you could just call 911 that seems like it would make the most sense to me yeah and
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I think there's that's where people call into question the actions of the of our
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Witness and who and who he called and why would he call whomever and and you know that's
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a that's a as said that's a very long convoluted story okay so what do you think about this uh peeping Tom I don't
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know that I would I I don't know what he was doing that day I can't I I don't think it's I don't think it's fair to
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call him a Peeping Tom it's very odd that we're covering this case now because I just played on the Ohio River
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different part where Ohio is connected to Kentucky but I could see somebody living
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in a cabin or or something around there that that would just be something you would do uh because you see boats go by
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by you see people set up um fire sights on the beach it might not be as creepy as him well I was uh looking
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for girls in bikinis M it could just be oh there's a bunch of people at the beach I wonder what they're doing right
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well and you know what some people are going to going to call me a creep or whatever I don't I actually don't even
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think that that's that big of a deal even if he was like Hey I I purposely have these binoculars and this telescope
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here to check out some women on the beach I I don't see that big of a deal with it it's a public area if you're not
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doing if you're doing something you don't want somebody to see you doing maybe you should do that in private so
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but you're also doing this with your wife home right I mean I have a set of binoculars at my house and I I use them
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to check out things no I I mean I do there there's been times where I'm like hey oh what kind of car is that boom
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pick up the binoculars if I were on the river I would definitely have the bxs ready to rock um well that's what I'm
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saying but when you see like a we saw these really cool boats or we saw what almost look like a a mini yacht or
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something it's like from where I was at like you could couldn't make out any details but it would have been cool to
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to check it out from afar so I worked in that high-rise building downtown for years where many wealthy people lived
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yeah and almost every one of them had a telescope either you know near the door that led to their balcony nosy neighbors
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and I would joking you know I'd have these conversations with with the residents there and some of them were
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very upfront about it they're like yeah I love to go out on the balcony have a little cocktail and I just kind of look
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around through the telescope see what's going on in the park or see what's going
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on down at the river or at these businesses at the at the skyscrapers and then there were other other residents
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that said I just leave it set up I've never actually used it just for the funny conversations that it invokes when
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I have guest over I believe Frasier Crane had one of these as well that's right and I think uh on the friend set
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they had a telescope as well that's right and that that's the thing a lot of people call this Tim guy a creep I I
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don't I don't see it uh but we we march on so he says this is what he says that he witnessed this terrifying event go
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down as well as he described for the police the man he saw on the beach as a larger man he says approximately 6 feet
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tall and about 220 to 230 lbs the abductor had Shaggy brown hair and a bushy dark beard he he was wearing cut
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off jeans but no shirt and black sneakers Tim sat down with a police sketch artist I do want to clarify
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something real quick here I said black sneakers I have in my notes too that black sneakers or black boots so I don't
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know what is more accurate but I just wanted to make sure that I brought that up Tim sat down with a police sketch
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artist and they were able to generate a drawing of the man Tim saw the the quick
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description Captain is our per is a ponchy white guy with shaggy hair and a scraggly
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beard now one very weird thing here to me is the exact time of when this sketch was made is very unclear and should be
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called into question and will be once we have some more of the of the details here it looks like the police did not
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out Tim's story the witness's story as we know they responded to the call they did search the area Heather's red car
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was found parked near the spot on the beach her spot on the beach through that wooded area MH they did their thing you
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know they ran the plate and figured out that the vehicle belonged to and they they figured out that it belonged to
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Heather teag and I'm guessing here Captain but but based off of Tim's description of our abducted victim and
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the description of the vehicle's owner the responding officers are probably making a connection here so our missing
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person is very likely this Heather Teague and somehow they managed to track down her mother Sarah now Sarah said
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that she and another daughter were out that day until about 300 p.m. and then they got a phone call from the Henderson
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County Sheriff's Office office asking if they knew where Heather was they told her that they found her car at the beach
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Sarah and her second daughter Holly went to the scene where they met with the Kentucky State Police and identified the
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things found as belonging to Heather Sarah said she was horrified to see Heather's blue Chase lounge chair
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sitting empty on the beach as we said police took Tim wal at his word about what he had witnessed on the beach
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Kentucky State Police Trooper Larry Abel was quoted in the Billings Gazette as saying quote this guy rents this place
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and looks across and sees this it's very shocking he's really helped us in this case if we did not have him would have a
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and help us help the cold Foundation our witness Captain this Mr Tim seems to have been very involved in
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the case it didn't just stop with him giving a statement and helping to create the composite sketch no he met with the
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family and participated in searches for the missing young woman these searches for Heather that took place over the
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coming days and weeks were organized by Heather's mom Sarah and multiple volunteers as well as law enforcement
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ment the beach and the surrounding areas were comb by professionals looking for any clues to Aid them in the solving the
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mystery of Heather's abduction well but they also had to talk to anybody else that was on the beach that day right
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that's right the other thing we did is we had divers check the ri River itself a helicopter using infrared sensors
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scanned the area from overhead horseback Riders crisscross the surrounding land looking for really any signs of Heather
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at all well when they search the river though they're only searching uh probably right in front of the beach I
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mean this this is a big river this would be a lot to search yeah it's it's the Ohio it spans many states and then goes
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into the uh Mississippi now dogs were brought in as expected they tracked Heather's scent this into the woods and
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then to the parking area where they lost the trail okay but let's stop there because we have a eye would
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saying that he saw a man take her into the woods and we have some proof of that because of the dogs mhm because of all
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of these efforts the investigators based off of the evidence that they are working on they're working with the
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theory now that Heather either got into or based off of our witness's statement was most likely forced into a vehicle
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and then moved away from that area of note a dark pickup truck was seen parked at the beach that day but of course so
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were a lot of other vehicles meanwhile police were canvasing the area to try to find any additional
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witnesses as you stated who could help them pinpoint what happened to Heather Newberg Beach was described in
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articles as usually very busy with several hundred people Gathering there on weekend days most of the stories
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described it as a rough and tumble spot where locals partied sometimes we have drugs and alcohol involved and often
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there were fights Kentucky State Police Trooper AEL voiced what do you mean there was
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fights what do you mean fights at the beach yeah people fight at the beach oh it's like crowdy kid remember this is
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not like a this is not like Fight Club where they're scheduling the fights it's just a lot of people in an area together
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they're drugs and alcohol involved and sometimes people fight one another well just to be clear the UFC now has fight
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Island right no so this is like Catey kid like where they go down to the beach we're having a little fire and then uh
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Daniel son is going to take on Lawrence so the Associated Press on August 30th stated that there were about five
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to 600 people there that afternoon wow and what we have is basically nobody saw anything in
00:32:02
regards to the Abduction of Heather other than this Tim guy on the other side of the river or if they did see
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something for whatever reason possible I couldn't imagine what that would be they
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didn't come forward to say anything but again maybe it's like he was saying he didn't know at first if it was like a
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violent attack or a playful attack so maybe it was a little playful at first or she knew this individual and the
00:32:28
person was joking around and and that's why nobody paid attention to it yeah I they may not have paid
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attention may not have seen her as said it sounds like she's off in in this little area almost by herself right and
00:32:45
people are busy doing their own thing right they're not they're not all strapped with B knocks and and
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telescopes and checking saying somebody was 10 ft away and somebody grabbed grab
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their hair as violent as he's claiming that I think I would have heard a girl scream you know or say help me or
00:33:05
something mhm and the this article will say that Heather was lying in an area about 500
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ft away from the part of the beach that was the most popular she was in an isolated spot near the end of the beach
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close to the woods and that is how she was taken without anyone on the beach noticing it's still pretty mind-boggling
00:33:31
that this could all occur right under the noses of others on that same beach in broad daylight and the only witness
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is half a mile away across the water finally investigators found that there was someone who had been there that day
00:33:49
that might be able to provide helpful information according to the Associated Press local farmers were disgruntled
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because beachgoers and ATV riders were tearing up their land and leaving trash behind namely broken bottles litter
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sometimes drug paraphernalia do you know who litters captain that would be people without a
00:34:14
future I was going to say real pieces of [ __ ] so these Farmers they hired an insurance adjuster a local guy to
00:34:23
videotape the area so they could try to pin down the source of this destructive Behavior this man fixed his camera on
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the entrance to the beach area the video amongst other activities showed Heather
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driving into the lot parking her car and walking down to the beach but there was
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something else of interest on the video which was disclosed later this was not the abduction itself but it was a
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possible clue driving by Heather's car was a red and white Ford Bronco police released a description of
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the vehicle and the composite drawing made by Tim released this to the public and asked for help identifying the man
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and the vehicle and they got a phone call from a man who reported that his neighbor drove a red and white Bronco
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and that neighbor also resembled the composite sketch of the suspect the Bronco driver named by the
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hipster was 30-year-old excon Marvin Ray Dill AKA Marty who lived in nearby pool his name was on a list obtained by
00:35:39
police of local drivers who had Broncos registered in their names police publicly released Marty Dill's driver's
00:35:48
license photo in which he had Shaggy unkempt hair and a scraggly beard and Tim wal believe that the man he saw on
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the beach that day looked like the photo of Marty Dill that he was shown by police MH this is where we must mention
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captain that the driver's license photo shown to Tim are I witness and release to the
00:36:14
public well it was 9 years old it was a 9-year-old photo which makes sense right
00:36:21
because you only renew your life your driver's license every 10 or 15 years right yeah or every years right so no of
00:36:28
course not so this makes zero sense actually but it's the information that we have so we roll on regardless now our
00:36:37
suspect has a name and a face and it's time to go looking for a one Marty Dill Dill lived in a mobile home on his
00:36:48
family's 28 acre property in pool Kentucky his red and white Bronco was found parked nearby hidden in some brush
00:36:58
hey Dill hey come come out with your hands up hey dill weed hey Dill according to reports the Bronco had been
00:37:06
cleaned recently I I don't know what that means we you know we're always suspicious of that people state that
00:37:14
like yeah he cleaned his car recently and I get it I get why we're suspicious because he's become under the uh
00:37:21
microscope there but but he could have just took it through a car wash or something it doesn't mean he cleaned the
00:37:26
inside maybe some of the good people just clean their cars once in a while I mean I clean my car every week so you'd
00:37:34
think like I'm not you know committing a crime every week I think what is more interesting is the statement of the
00:37:42
Bronco was found parked hidden behind some brush like it doesn't appear to be parked where one would normally park
00:37:50
their vehicle he's gone out of his way to kind of conceal it according to the reports uh we have police and FBI that
00:37:59
surrounded the mobile home armed with a search warrant and Dill's Uncle who just
00:38:05
so happened to be a Henderson cop his name is Ernie green he went inside to you know kind of calm things down
00:38:13
seemingly diffuse the situation and talk with Marty after he was inside for a while with Marty a single shot rang out
00:38:23
Marty Dill lay dead on the floor having shot himself Dill was dead of suicide before anyone could question him about
00:38:34
Heather Teague and his possible involvement in her Abduction of course Dill's abrupt suicide made him appear to
00:38:42
have a rather guilty conscience and investigators were confident that he was their man for one thing he had a record
00:38:50
in fact when Heather Teague was taken Dill was out on probation after a drug con conviction well see if you get
00:38:58
caught doing anything else you're going to go back to jail and that's probably a
00:39:02
place that Dill doesn't want to be he was arrested in February of 1995 in Evansville after police received reports
00:39:10
from residents that he was cruising in his Bronco and soliciting young girls for sex when he was arrested in his
00:39:19
truck this is this is some scary business they found marijuana that's not scary but they found two loaded handguns
00:39:27
rubber gloves duct tape and rope that's when he was trying to pick women up he and the the not hey you want to give me
00:39:37
some sex I'll pay you for some sex well the notes I have Captain is is young girls that he's approaching young girls
00:39:46
in in his vehicle and he's got loaded handguns rubber gloves duct tape and rope but he's offering money for sex I
00:39:54
don't know that I don't know that that is in fact okay so he's just cruising up sees these girls so we're guessing under
00:40:02
18 and he has gloves rubber gloves duct tape has a murder kit right that's what I would classify this as we do have Dill
00:40:13
who is a carpenter by trade so maybe one could explain away some of these items you should lead with that that he's a
00:40:23
carpenter he's a carpenter by trade so they found these items in his vehicle right but that doesn't explain way two
00:40:30
loaded handguns it might or or the marijuana it covers you probably on duct tape and
00:40:36
rope and rubber gloves but then then my question goes okay if these items were used for your trade where are the other
00:40:45
items for your trade where's the where's the hammer that you're swinging man where's the uh Power Tools where's the
00:40:50
other things no we just have loaded handguns yeah but In fairness he was too high to do any carpentry work you know
00:40:58
well he gets convicted on on a couple different charges here he's sentenced to 5 years after pleading
00:41:05
guilty but then the judge let him out on something called shock probation this is after serving 40 days
00:41:14
so he did serve some actual time but the shock probation basically is when it's when you have an offender sit
00:41:22
in jail for some amount of time and then suspend the rest of the sentence in favor of probation it's really designed
00:41:29
to deter the person from wanting to reoffend and go back to jail you will see this sometimes with with people that
00:41:36
are firsttime offenders right the other thing though too it was later revealed that Dill had
00:41:43
another conviction from 1993 for harassing a woman this stems from some events back in '92 this is when Dill
00:41:51
repeatedly called a woman and asked to speak to her boyfriend that doesn't sound like there's that's
00:41:59
not a big deal right he's calling to speak with her boyfriend and asking to speak with her boyfriend where the
00:42:05
harassment gets ramped up a couple of notches is the boyfriend is deceased it's very strange yeah
00:42:14
according so Dill Dill head right dill weed dillweed is calling a girl and he's saying hey let me talk to your boy
00:42:27
and she's saying hey my boyfriend's dead and he's like hey let me talk to your boyfriend something like that yeah
00:42:36
according to strange this woman that wasn't the U that wasn't the all of it she said that that Dill would follow her
00:42:44
sometimes on dates and then later would call her and tell her where she was and what she had been wearing you know
00:42:54
letting her know hey I was out there there watching you and I can prove it because I saw you here and I saw you
00:42:59
wearing this and he would say things to her according to her that you know if I wanted to I could hurt you and he also
00:43:09
made some references to sexually sadistic acts if you want to really scare somebody you you don't say you
00:43:16
know what I can I can hurt you you say stuff like you know what on Sundays I could do your laundry well the
00:43:26
Louisville Courier Journal reported that friends and relatives of Dills suspected
00:43:32
that he had in fact kidnapped Heather teag but apparently was too frightened to come forward so we know there's
00:43:41
eyewitnesses that saw Dill's Bronco at the beach that day or in that area that day and we know that he has priors and
00:43:51
we know that he has uh the ability to have guns do we have any evidence that he still
00:44:00
had guns well what we do have is the statements of his friends and family who believe that he might have been involved
00:44:07
in some manner we do have Dill's wife who hired a lawyer before Dill this is even before the police were on to Dill
00:44:16
in regards to Heather's abduction at some point Dill's wife was questioned by police and immediately afterward Dill
00:44:23
was kind enough to kick her out of their home real gentlemen after Heather went missing Dill conveniently started
00:44:31
parking his Bronco in the woods behind his mobile home this is according to again neighbors friends family so now we
00:44:40
have a working theory that Marty Dill abducted Heather Teague killed and disposed of her and managed to clean up
00:44:48
most of the evidence before police tracked him down and then kill himself in a crisis of conscience well if if
00:44:56
that were just that simple then Captain I would be off for tacos on a patio somewhere right now but we start to
00:45:06
learn that maybe the case against Dill is not so cut and dried Dill's relatives told investigators that his suicide
00:45:14
could have been motivated by factors other than guilt Dill didn't want to go back to jail as you pointed out since he
00:45:21
was still on probation and he was still operating his pot growing business he had a little pot growing business going
00:45:28
on right and plus he's having obviously relationship problems with his wife when
00:45:33
police arrived he took himself out instead and police processed Dill's Bronco and found
00:45:42
two drops of blood inside the vehicle there are different reports out there about where in the vehicle these were
00:45:50
located but most Reports say on the inside of the tailgate hey what's the deal with with Broncos and drops of
00:45:57
blood inside them yeah I don't I don't know hey what's the deal don't don't this is not another opportunity for a
00:46:05
shirt yeah I've been down this road a few times the Ford Bronco one spot was ruled one of these
00:46:12
spots of blood was ruled out as belonging to Heather teik the other was inconclusive police also connected
00:46:20
numerous fibers and according to Sarah her mother a hair uh to Heather teag but the Kentucky
00:46:29
State Police said that since they had no victim they could not compare the hair to Heathers and I'm sorry that just does
00:46:38
not seem kosher does it we know in a lot of cases somebody goes missing they go to the home of the missing person and
00:46:45
collect items of that person there at the home and then they can use it to compare well look if if people aren't
00:46:53
updating their driver's license for every 10 years maybe people are not combing their hair for for 5 years well
00:47:02
and what we have here Captain is we have her mother who questions why the Kentucky State Police never asked her
00:47:09
for a sample of Heather's hair which again surely could have been found or retrievable from a hairbrush in the home
00:47:18
right let's pause for a second right so we we know that his vehicle was there or
00:47:24
we assume he was with that vehicle so he's in the area he is a a creep he has some priors he
00:47:34
has the capability of having guns so this is something that he could have done if you find a drop of blood in his
00:47:48
Bronco or some hair which you think you would find at something because if the eyewitnesses is correct and this
00:47:56
individual grabbed her hair as hard as they said they did you would think that you'd find at least a couple strands of
00:48:04
hair in the vehicle and if that matched then it's not too hard to go 1 + 1 equals 2 well and the other thing too
00:48:13
for all these people for anybody that would have access to that arrest report of him carrying those guns in his in his
00:48:22
vehicle yeah I'd be interested to know do either of those guns match the description given by our witness of the
00:48:31
gun that was used in the abduction yeah so really what we have here Captain is somebody that looks very interesting on
00:48:40
the surface but we technically have no conclusive forensic evidence linking Dill to Heather teue is it more likely
00:48:52
that he did a horrible crime like abduct ing a woman and killing her and then that's what he would commit suicide over
00:49:03
but they're trying to make it seem like oh well the he knew the police were on to him about marijuana you see what I
00:49:10
mean I know what you're getting at which makes the more sense but then I you also
00:49:15
have to factor in do we have a situation where where somebody is struggling with
00:49:20
a lot of other things that we are we don't know about we we we are unaware of we don't understand and this is a high
00:49:29
stretch stress situation that pushed him over the edge right the other problematic fact in this case is that
00:49:37
Marty Dill did not have shaggy hair as described by our eyewitness but we saw the the ID well you're right we
00:49:47
did the nine-year-old driver's license right so what happened to his shag hair from my understanding Dill was nearly
00:49:55
bald at the time of the abduction and did not have a beard when Heather was abducted so this is according to his
00:50:03
family investigators surmised that maybe he cut his hair and shaved his face after the abduction after the Amur after
00:50:12
the murder to alter his appearance but his family members told police that in fact Dill was bald and clean shaven for
00:50:19
months leading up to the abduction again what does every press conference tell when we have a missing person or we have
00:50:30
to be on the lookout for a suspect they always say the change of behavior in the last couple months and
00:50:38
the change of hairstyle or beard style so maybe his family is correct but it also makes it sound like oh well for the
00:50:49
last few months he he was clean shaven head and and face so at some point he was still holding on to the locks
00:50:59
upstairs even if he was going bald when's the last time he had a beard was it normally like that well and maybe
00:51:07
they're just wrong and it was just for the last few weeks and not the last few months yeah but you know who's going to
00:51:14
agree with them that's going to make it very difficult for a case against Dill the people that are going to agree
00:51:23
with him will be the county because Dill's jail admission report from April of 1995 4 months before Heather was
00:51:32
taken list him as bald he is also 5' 10 in tall and 180 lb not the 6 foot which I don't put a whole
00:51:42
lot of weight into the six foot thing cuz the guy is half a mile away yeah looking with a telescope and the Hefty
00:51:49
220 to 220 I'm sorry 220 to 230 pounds as described by Tim maybe if you get the height wrong you got the weight wrong as
00:51:58
well so I don't factor that in a whole lot but I find it very interesting that the county that released him when they
00:52:05
release him they say this man is bald and then we have the family saying he's been bald and clean shaven for several
00:52:11
months leading up to this abduction these are also the same people that say yeah I understand why he's a suspect
00:52:20
yeah but here's my other issue though is it possible that this guy had a wig and
00:52:25
is it possible that it wasn't actually uh maybe it was a mask right it it could be like think about a ski mask
00:52:34
let's say he was wearing a ski mask from a distance it would look like the individual had a beard and a full set of
00:52:42
hair right so that's all I'm saying or was he wearing you know some type of a tobog in and then wearing some face mask
00:52:52
or something I'm just saying that there's a bunch of to possibilities that we can't just rule him out because oh
00:52:59
well he actually had clean shaving well again maybe he had a baseball hat on with a mask or or maybe he had a tobogan
00:53:06
on or a ski mask on but we I mean we don't have a witness saying that he was wearing a ski mask but he could have
00:53:14
been wearing some type of Disguise the problem with the witness even though they had a
00:53:20
telescope um they're they're at a really far distance then maybe that witness shouldn't describe the face to to law
00:53:29
enforcement so that they can draw the composite sketch of of the uh the the man that he says abducted the young
00:53:36
woman no I'm just saying that we we have to take that into account you know you want to take this this is the only
00:53:43
eyewitness we have we want to take all the information all the detail as we can but I think some of the information you
00:53:50
have to just go well maybe he saw this maybe he didn't I mean I mean he the eyewitness
00:53:56
is telling you I initially thought this seemed like a playful act so that that's all I'm saying is we
00:54:05
we have to keep that in perspective all right Captain bring in the grand jury because the prosecutors convened a grand
00:54:12
jury on November 7th 1995 to try to force reluctant Witnesses like Marty Dill's son to testify in an attempt to
00:54:22
conclusively determine that Dill had killed Heather Teague Tracy Dill Marty's Widow was among the witnesses subpoena
00:54:33
Henderson County Commonwealth's Attorney Bill markwell said quote they have a suspect and it's Marty Dill end quote
00:54:41
but something came out in connection with this grand jury that was new information a reed Kentucky resident
00:54:49
named Michelle Morgan told police she saw a woman she believed to be Heather fatigue struggling with a man in a car
00:54:58
in Reed Kentucky this was around 2:30 or 3 p.m. on the day Heather was taken from
00:55:05
the beach which we stated was around 12:30 or 1:00 the car Morgan witnessed was traveling eastbound on Kentucky 811
00:55:16
driving away from Newberg Beach Morgan's description of the Man scene with the struggling woman matched the compos
00:55:25
drawing with longer hair and a Shaggy beard the woman Morgan said clearly did not want to be in that car which was a
00:55:34
silver and red 1979 or 1980 chevet an article in the messenger Courier newspaper appearing at the end
00:55:45
of October 1995 read another suspect has surfaced in the August Abduction of a 23-year-old woman but count County
00:55:55
attorney markwell denied that any new suspects had emerged it's not clear what became of the grand jury but we do know
00:56:04
dead Marty Dill's wife Tracy took the fifth the Kentucky State Police kept the case open but told Sarah Teague that
00:56:13
Marty Dill killed her daughter and that was the end of it yeah but this is far from
00:56:19
over yes it is it's one of this is one of those cases that when you look into it you can often find many very quick
00:56:27
short summaries of a young woman alone on a beach who was abducted and this is reported to police by the witness and a
00:56:36
lot of times that's about as far as it goes right yeah but this story this case is very complicated and it's got a lot
00:56:45
of twist and turns along the way and regardless of what police told the mother back then we know captain that
00:56:54
this wasn't the end when Heather was taken Heather's mom Sarah went into activist mode even
00:57:01
though the prime suspect Marty Dill was dead she was at the time and still is To
00:57:07
This Day determined to find her daughter she started organizing many many searches now anniversaries of Heather's
00:57:15
disappearance came and went for the first year active searches continued with family friends and volunteers
00:57:23
scouring hundreds of miles of RI River bottomlands looking in every sistern field and barn they could find they've
00:57:33
searched abandoned buildings and motel rooms one year after the Abduction the Kentucky State Police acknowledged that
00:57:41
they had exhausted all leads and despite the efforts of her family no trace of Heather has ever been found anyone that
00:57:51
knows this case knows that Heather's mom Sarah Teague made it her mission to find
00:57:57
her daughter and she pinpointed Tracy Dill this is Marty Dill's wife in her quest for information for more
00:58:06
information in 1996 Tracy Dill filed a law suit against Sarah for harassment saying that the desperate mother had
00:58:16
plied her with eight letters demanding information about what her deceased husband may have done Sarah said said
00:58:25
she had no choice but to go directly to Tracy since Tracy would not testify about what she knew remember she took
00:58:32
the fifth with the grand jury right jurors acquitted Sarah and the trial failed to bring any new information to
00:58:41
light Tracy Dill testified that she had no knowledge in response to the defense attorney's questions which were as
00:58:49
follows whether she knew where Heather Teague is whether she helped clean Marty's truck whether Heather had been
00:58:58
raped or trafficked and whether she knew why neighbors reported hearing a woman screaming near the dill residence on the
00:59:06
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