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crime wyville Missouri population 51 people wyville is an unincorporated community
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in Dallas County and is located about an hour or so Drive Northeast of Springfield Missouri
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the community was so named for the frequently windy conditions but many people of Missouri refer to this town as
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spookyville because windyville is said to be haunted there are many rundown businesses and multiple cemeteries that
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all have creepy things said about them in the 1800s there were multiple child deaths if you go to the peppers Cemetery
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located just less than a mile Northeast of the Town conveniently off of Pepper's
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Road not only will you find the burial plot for the road in cemetery's namesake Civil War surgeon James pepper but also
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listen closely while you're there as it has been reported that children's laughter can be heard coming from the
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cemetery in wyville at the Lone Rock Cemetery there is a Fantom horseback rider guarding and watching over the
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hollowed ground on the mm Highway there's an old bridge that crosses a creek if you stop your vehicle here it
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has been told that you just might encounter a woman who walks this bridge at night seemingly looking for her
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child visitors say that wyville Missouri is a creepy little town that seems to have been lost in time ghost and Hans in
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Missouri a St Louis organization relates that wyville is said to have some sort of Haunting in
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every deserted building including the windyville store visitors have reported hearing terrifying screams coming from
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the old caner building from something called from the Shadows true tales of the Paranormal wyville is home to a woman
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with the head of a goat a spectral hitchhiker and beond the lookout for red eyes that stare at people passing by the
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dead black windows of abandoned buildings many say that there are Eerie things that go on in windyville and you
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might want to think twice about making a visit there it's also home to spiritual
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Cults so watch out proclaimed an October 2005 article in the USA Today newspaper these are some of the legends
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of wyville Missouri population 51 but here in the garage we have much more to talk about than just some
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stories coming out of an old ghost town because there are new Legends coming out
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of this tiny Town stories that are less traditional popularly regarded as true but
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unauthenticated and these stories are far more terrifying than the ones told around campfires at night this is true
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crime garage and welcome to spookyville this week we take the flying garage ship to the small town of
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windyville Missouri and as you just heard you may want to think twice before going to wyville or if you are traveling
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through the great state of Missouri plan your route carefully but if windyville is a scary and dangerous place well
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Captain I have reason to believe that windyville just got very recently well it got a little less dangerous and maybe
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a little less scary as well and that would be due to the arrest of two men that being 58-year-old James David
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Phelps a longtime resident of Southwest Missouri and more recently wyville Missouri and his friend and likely
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accomplice if you will and that is 56-year-old Timothy Leroy Norton a long haul trucker who seems to hold no known
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permanent address before we get too far along in this bizarre mystery coming out
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of spookyville I want to give a shout out to KY 3.com for doing gangbusters work and great reporting on this case in
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particular and this story is really making its way across our greatest of Nations the good old us and a because of
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a missing young woman and this is 33 yearold Cassy rainwater investigators say 33-year-old Cassy rainwater has ties
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to Dallas Green and lock lead counties all three are counties in Missouri these are neighboring counties with lock lead
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located just east of Dallas County wyville as said in today's trailer is located in Dallas County and some of the
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stories we're going to be talking about are coming out of Lebanon Missouri which
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is the county seat for lch lead County now this is all very new very new stuff here it's a missing person story that
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has rightfully got so many people really on edge wondering what else may stem from this missing person's case
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and what other crimes and possibly even other victims could be involved here from KY3 News the case has led to
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multiple arrests Court proceedings and new developments in recent weeks two suspects James Phelps and Timothy Norton
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have been arrested in charge for the kidnapping of Cassidy rainwater both appeared in Dallas County court on
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Tuesday October 5th now one night earlier the Dallas County Sheriff's Office says a home near Lebanon Missouri
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connected to James Phelps was burned to the ground the Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office is investigating after
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the fire caused a total loss to the home while the Springfield Fire Department bomb squad responded after the discovery
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of a trip wire okay so here we have two individuals suspected and being investigated in regards to this Cassidy
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rainwater missing person's case we have a brief timeline that I want to go through that will help to flesh out this
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story a little better for those not familiar with the case but real quick before we get to that timeline I want to
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underline something before we move on from those last two paragraphs the Dallas County Sheriff's Office is
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investigating this guy James David Phelps age 58 and his weird friend Timothy Leroy Norton age 56 and during
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the course of their investigation searching for Clues and physical forensics evidence for their Cassidy
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rainwater investigation an arson fire caused a total loss to a home so the home is burned to the ground certainly
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hindering hopefully not completely destroying their investigation and evidence that they were hoping to find
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or collect now these two yahoos are locked up but from my understanding Captain the
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the fire that burnt the house to the ground was just one of James Phelps properties which could be of importance
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but we will Circle back to that once we get through this brief timeline but I think KY3 summed up this story the best
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in the following excerpt the Dallas County Sheriff's Office is leading a monthlong investigation Into The
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Disappearance of Cassidy rainwater an investigation that has taken multiple turns since September so let's go
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through what we know about Cassidy disappearance and law enforcement's investigation now supposedly Cassidy
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rainwater disappeared or was last seen I think is the words we should probably use because that's what we're being told
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was last seen on July 25th she wasn't reported missing to authorities until nearly a month later and this is how
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this all went down according to officials on Saturday July 25th 2021 James Phelps told the police police
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that this was the last date that he saw Cassidy this is July 25th he said that Cassidy left his residence in the middle
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of the night and never came back some Reports say this was the last day anyone family members or otherwise reported
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seeing Cassidy rainwater right but it sounds to me Captain that this is the last day that James Phelps says that he
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saw Cassidy because per court records James Phelps told police the last time he saw Cassy was on that date he told
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authorities that she left in the middle of the night and never came back according to detectives Cassie rainwater
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was staying with James Phelps while she was going to get back on her feet again James Phelps told authorities on July
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25th or Late July Cassidy went outside in the middle of the night she walked to the end of his driveway where he says
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that he saw her meet a vehicle at the street she gets inside and leaves and has not been seen nor heard from since
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then according to James Phelps when she moved in with him or came to stay with him for a short period of time she was
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talking about moving to Colorado or to Denver Colorado and this is a somewhat believable story because Cassidy seems
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to have some ties to the state of Colorado and possibly even the city of Denver as well well it appears that she
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lived there for some period of time I don't know how long it looks like it was brief maybe a year or two and this would
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have been a few years ago now this last July 25th date is important because according to additional court documents
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KY3 learned that Timothy Norton the accomplice as I'm calling him was called to go to James Phelps home by Phelps
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just one day earlier now James Phelps is so ugly that his hair hair is running away from his face but all the pictures
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that are relating to this case will be on our Instagram at True Crime garage or on our Facebook at True Crime garage
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according to the information Timothy Norton was called over to help James Phelps in restraining Cassidy
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rainwater and the documents go on to state that he was forcibly holding her while a felony was being committed and
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now they don't necessarily State what that felony was um and we can speculate if you like I think it would be a bit of
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spinning our tires to speculate what that felony was according to these same court documents Timothy Norton admitted
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to going over to Phelps place and admitted to helping restrain the young woman now Timothy Norton looks like he
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smells Timothy you stink the the odd thing to me Captain is they almost look like they could be related maybe cousins
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or something I they for for some odd reason I feel like there's some resemblance between the two there yeah
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scum and scummer then we are going to fast forward exactly one month see this story has these points of interest along
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the way on this timeline here but also has these gaps of really no information at all these Eerie gaps in which we have
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nothing okay so exactly one month later puts us at Wednesday August 25th 20 21 on this day a family member of Cassidy
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contacted the Dallas County Sheriff's Office this person is reporting her missing saying we her family we have not
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heard or seen Cassidy in quite some time so this is when officially the investigation started into looking for
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Cassidy rainwater now we go to September 16th 2021 on our timeline when further developments unfold following this act
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missing person's investigation this is when someone at the FBI contacted Dallas County Sheriff's Department the FBI is
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calling saying they have received an anonymous tip that Cassidy rainwater was caged up on James Phelps property sick
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so for my understanding Captain this is investigators with the Federal Bureau of
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Investigation contacting detectives at Dallas County Sheriff's Office saying that somehow they have
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received photos from an anonymous person showing Cassidy rainwater locked up in a
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cage I'm wondering are they contacting the FBI and saying here's a picture or pictures of Cassie rainwater and she
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looks to be in trouble or or there's this picture or multiple pictures of a woman in distress
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unnamed in some type of cage and these pictures and what is going on in these pictures does not appear to be staged in
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any kind of way so this person contacts the FBI we we don't know the the tip information is a bit vague and what we
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do know is it sounds that the tip came by way of FBI and it was a person that wanted to remain anonymous yeah not that
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I wanted to see the pictures but I looked for them on Google and couldn't find them but just imagine to be in law
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enforcement shoes and to receed pictures of a woman in the nude in a cage the reports General state that she was could
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be seen in a state of partially nude inside of a cage the tricky thing here is there must have been something to
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elevate this immediately into their investigation right somehow they connect these pictures to Cassidy rainwater or
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her being the likely person seen in the photos it could just be by them knowing who she is and being able to identify
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her themselves or looking at those pictures and then looking at pictures that they've re maybe have received or
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maybe some social media accounts and they were able to compare and contrast the pictures with those maybe some kind
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of facial recognition software used to determine that it might be her I'm just questioning this not because I I
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question that it happened I question how did the FBI so quickly get this to Dallas County Sheriff's Department right
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the FBI is a federal organization who's actively working the entire country of the United States Cassie rainwater is
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missing in Dallas County Missouri a very specific location so I don't know I'm trying to connect some Dots here and
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again we just don't have enough information to really connect them well what I assume is that here's a person
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that if you believe that this situation is not stage she's in immediate danger she's an immediate threat for her life
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that's why I think law enforcement would be able to get all hands on deck to try to figure out where she's located
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at and we've seen this before captain and talked about this on our show before where we've reviewed some photos
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ourselves that are in some cases and even high-profile cases really us the public we look at them and wonder is
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this real or not is this something that's staged we talked about the strange photo that was found down in
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Florida in the parking lot where showed some kids that look to be tied up right still we sit here decades later and no
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one's identified or said that hey we know who those kids are and they are this person or that person well it seems
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like we've covered a lot of cases in The Last 5 Years where there's pictures of individuals that nobody comes forward
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and and claims to be a family member or a friend the wording on this next part is interesting to me this is from one of
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the better news reports out there that says quote investigators say a detective a detective recognized
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rainwater in a partially Ned state from a photo and officials later discovered seven photos of Cassidy rainwater after
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searching James phelps's phone so Dallas County Sheriff's Office they go out to follow up on this tip and that is when
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they find seven photos on James Phelps phone that will eventually lead to his arrest in this case I mean what a animal
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though for him to put this woman into a cage are take pictures of her and she's obviously it
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seems like she's aware that the pictures are being taken of her after his arrest
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Captain he was taken to the Dallas County Jail where he still remains to this day now of course this is important
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but we what we have here is a missing person a tip sends police to speak with this James Phelps he says yep I know her
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she was staying with me and left in the middle of the night about 3 weeks ago so
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he's not denying that he knows her he's not even denying that she was at his residence the detective searches phone I
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don't know if he agreed to let them view his phone or if they had a search warrant for it I would think with how
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hot this case is or at least was for a few weeks in the news that often the warrants are easily found by reporters
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and the wording in those reports is always of interest because most of the time time the detectives have to be
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fairly specific about what they are searching for why they are searching for it and why they have reason to believe
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that they will find these items in this person's possession and the significance
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of these items in relationship to the crimes committed or the crimes that they are investigating seems to me the way
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it's reported is we have this picture and then once we they get a search warrant to search his
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phone then we find another seven pictures on the phone so it seems like those pictures are separate from the
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initial photo that they found possibly and we could dive into that and I'd like to I just want to make sure I'm
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understanding your question before we move on too far my suspicion is that it's not like a physical picture that
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they were handed that somebody contacted the FBI and said hey I've seen this photo or these photos online and here
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are my concerns yeah that makes more sense to me than one of them being printed out and the other seven not
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being printed out one thing that I found interesting was I couldn't find really any exact quote or any definitive
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statement saying that they obtained these photos from his phone or were viewing his phone because they had a
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warrant to do so they may have they've may just been able to keep it under wraps but I couldn't find anything
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definitive ly saying that they had applied for or asked for certain warrants in this case and I'm guessing
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that they have here Captain but what I'm really questioning is what came first you know the chicken or the egg here was
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it the warrants and then we have the arrest of these two individuals or did we have the arrest which then led to
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warrants for us to search properties and phones and computers and things of that
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nature yeah that's a good question but I think like you said it'd be a lot easier
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to attain if they're able to show a judge here is an individual that is missing James Phelps is the last person
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known to see her she was at his residency these pictures we believe are of his residency a judge is going to sign off
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to search all his properties and his person and his phone and whatever you want once you have that evidence agreed
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especially if you go out there and talk to him the first time and let's say you see W or witness nothing
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incriminating at this first encounter the first time you talk with him but just him saying yes she was here
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and admitting that he knows her might be enough to get you certain warrants like
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you pointed out and I'm just kind of circling around all of that like a vulture because I'm scratching my head a
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bit with this we found similar pictures of Cassidy On this man's phone better than scratching her if I'm one you know
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if one of my sick twisted Hobbies is caging women I'm not going to just offer up my phone for old Johnny Law to review
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right so if there was a warrant for the phone or computer or the property when the detectives came an knocking on
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September 16th that fascinates me what led to the warrant was there something in one of those online pictures that
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might indicate like you were pointing out that she's being held on this man's property right something specific
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or some way of identifying whose property or whose home it may be well it could be as simple as they are able to
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match something with inside the first picture to something of his residency or you go to his residency and there's a
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freaking cage you're there to ask James Phelps some pretty standard and friendly
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questions and then you as the detective can see something in plain sight a cage as you said or something from one of the
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photos that tells them hey this is the location where these photos were taken and or maybe they were able
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to pull some they could have been able to pull some kind of data from these online photos as well that's right uh
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some metadata could tell them what the location possibly was at the time the pictures were taken but however it goes
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garage all right we're back cheers everybody thanks for joining us here in the garage cheers to you Colonel cheers
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to you Captain he's back I'm back we're all back all right continuing along our little timeline here captain we're going
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to go out just a couple of days later this will put us at September 19th 2021 this is when police interviewed the
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accomplice the uh what were you calling them scumbag scum and scummer oh scum and scummer dum and Dumber so I don't
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know who's scummier the one or the other but this is a scum member number two Timothy Norton the accomplice as I'm
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calling him Norton said he lived in his vehicle because he was an over the road trucker I don't know what else they
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would be over um in these truck under the road yeah over the water trucker the address listed for him in online court
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systems and court documents show the same address as James Phelps on Moon Valley Road police say they found some
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inaccuracies in his story in Timothy Norton sto now I have this address in my notes is 386 Moon Valley Road Wy
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Missouri many of the Articles will say the Moon Valley Road property is near Buffalo Missouri or the Moon Valley
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property is between Lebanon and Buffalo Missouri that's simply just because this
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wyville is so small you know what did we say population 51 people in the trailer
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so they're going to reference the next biggest towns or cities but what's interesting here is that we have have
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this individual Timothy Norton who is a drives a truck over the road and he's saying that he has no actual address and
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that he just you know when he's out on the road these truckers they sleep in their truck yeah for the most part and
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he's saying look even when I'm home I either sleep in a vehicle or his his truck and keeps it on the property the
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thing that's a little little convoluted here though is that we know according to
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Timothy Norton's statements and what the sheriff's department believes is that on
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the 24th there was a call that was made for him to help restrain it I'm guessing
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could this be as simple as dude is out sleeping in his truck and something happens inside that cabin that James
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Phelps lives in and calls him cell phone to cell phone and says hey I need you to
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come in here and help me restrain this woman sick hos on September 20th the police brought back Timothy Norton to
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interview him again so at least two interviews with this Timothy Norton character that we are aware of that is
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when he admitted to restraining Cassy rainwater back in July well and we see this happen with so many cases I I just
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don't understand how this works and maybe it's cuz I've never been put into that situation but it's like yeah we're
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joking and calling him a scumbag but you're a scumbag cuz you helped him but again I've never been in that situ a if
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if I saw a partially nude girl and he was trying to restrain her to put her back in the cage I'm beating the living
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[ __ ] out of him and calling the cops and and making sure that she is safe but we
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see time and time again where these people say oh well I didn't kill the individual but I helped bury the body
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because I didn't know what else to do or I helped burn the body or you know what
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I mean like there's so we've seen and it's just like you know note to self if you if you go along with
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any of this stuff you are just as guilty you are just as much of an animal and a
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monster as the individual that you were helping well and you're right Captain we've seen this dozens of times and it
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to me I always believe or have to believe that it means that said person is guilty of something else we're just
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not aware of it I I mean that's the only reasonable explanation I can come up with in my mind as to why somebody would
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admit to helping move a body or help bury a body I think that a lot of times that means that they had prior knowledge
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of what was happening what was going on and at some point they were in so deep that they decided to help
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physically and later admitted to it but don't ever really want to admit that hey
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I kind of knew this was all going on all along well and again now circumstances change if you tell me that James had a a
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pistol on him and said hey come in I need your help and you come in and there's this bad situation and he's
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holding a gun or something he's like you need to help me that's different because
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now you're in threat for danger of your life but even once you help restrain that person it is your human duty to go
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get law enforcement get help make sure that this girl gets to safety but but you see what I'm saying like if
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if if somebody came to me in the middle of the night one of my best friends came
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to me and said hey look man I got an issue come down to this park with me and I got down to the park and there's a
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dead body and they said hey help me bury the body and I know there's all these jokes out there a true best friend will
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help you bury the body no no no no you're not the true best friend your scumbag yeah my best friend says Hey
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help me bury this body not going along with it now if that individual has a gun and he's holding that gun and he's going
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hey you're going to help me bury this body different circumstance well and if these reports are completely factual
00:33:08
that we've been able to review that are coming out in regards to the story it states that Norton says to authorities
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that he is aware or knows that Cassidy is being held at that property and the wording on that makes it sound to me
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like he is aware or knows that she's being kept in a cage at phelps's property so kind of circling around this
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before we move on again that is the phone call from July 24th the you know not calling asking to
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help bury a body but the phone call that says Phelps is requesting Norton to help
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him restrain Cassidy and I just hope you know I don't know whether this was an actual phone call or an actual text or
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or what have you but I just hope and pray that restrain is not code for something much
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worse now the next day on September 21st Timothy Norton was arrested he is being
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held at the Dallas County Jail with no bond on September 23rd police depart from a scene on Moon Valley Drive it
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says Moon Valley Drive in this report I I'm guessing they mean Moon Valley Road the Dallas count Sheriff's Office
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continues to investigate the case by this point in our timeline more than two months have passed since The
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Disappearance of Cy rainwater and the community members around the Ozarks are searching for answers on her condition
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and what just may have happened to her on September 21st one of the news outlets spoke with a woman who said that
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she knows Cassie rainwater and knows of the Suspects she spoke with KY3 on the condition of anonymity she said she
00:35:02
can't wrap her head around all of this quote I've been incredibly unsettled since the whole Menagerie started she
00:35:10
said I'm continuing to pray for her family I can't fathom what her family is experiencing and I'm heartedly sorry
00:35:19
that that happened so close to my home the woman recalls Cassie rainwater as being friendly saying she would stop
00:35:26
stop by and she would talk to us when we were outside working saying I don't think Cassidy would have ever run off
00:35:35
without keeping contact with her family she said unfortunately Captain I don't think that
00:35:41
any people think that Cassidy ran off in this case you know with the photos and with the arrests
00:35:49
that followed and it saddens me to say this but first guess to me say authorities are probably searching for
00:35:57
remains at this point I agree with you and like I said think about placing yourself in law enforcement I I know a
00:36:05
lot of True Crime enthusiasts are like man being a law enforcement officer at times would be some enjoyable aspects to
00:36:13
it or trying to solve a crime but to see photographs like this and then have to go to the family and say look we we
00:36:20
believe this is Cassidy can you identify her in these pictures and there's no way
00:36:25
of sugar coating what you're going to show them that's correct on September 23rd 2021 deputies returned once again
00:36:34
to search around some properties in rural Dallas County including the home on Moon Valley for evidence in the
00:36:43
investigation after several hours deputies departed from the scene now on Friday October 1st 2021 investigators
00:36:52
confirmed they were waiting for DNA evidence to return in in The Disappearance of Cassy rainwater Dallas
00:36:59
County Sheriff Scott Rice says it could be at least 30 days before any results are returned okay so around this same
00:37:10
time we have a lot of local rumors that start making their way out of this rural
00:37:16
part of Missouri out to the rest of us in the surrounding Parts Unknown well I'm assuming because like you said
00:37:25
they're probably looking for for her remains but if they found a cage or area that they thought a cage was put that
00:37:33
cont test the carpet or the floor or the cage itself for touch DNA plus multiple
00:37:39
items probably on the property yeah touch DNA here's my guess here Captain because this is where I
00:37:47
think if the rumor mill hadn't already been started up and firing on all cylinders I think this statement from
00:37:56
the sherff sh saying hey we're waiting on the return of some DNA evidence and it could take 30 days or so before we
00:38:03
get any results back that's going to get the rumor mill fired up and rocking and
00:38:09
rolling right so because there's a lot of speculation as to what that could mean does that mean that they found
00:38:16
remains that they think could be Cassie rainwaters they're not saying that they're not saying that they found any
00:38:22
remains at all they're not saying that they have reason to believe that Cassy rainwater is deceased you know here we
00:38:30
sit months later and it's really just kind of left out in the open it's left open-ended where we know it's a missing
00:38:38
person's investigation they were investigating The Disappearance of Cassidy rainwater at one point and then
00:38:45
at some point that investigation shifts to the angle of we're investigating these photos that the FBI became aware
00:38:52
of these scary photos and it's really just left here all this time later as well it's still a missing person's case
00:39:01
we've arrested these people we've searched this property over and over and over again and it's still as it was in
00:39:10
the very beginning a missing person's case and we don't know where Cassidy rainwater is well and sadly at this
00:39:16
point we don't have an announcement that they found Cassidy right and that's where I think that you're probably on to
00:39:21
something here Captain with your thoughts of well they're probably waiting on results from something they
00:39:28
found at the crime scene that necessarily doesn't have to be actual remains right it could be as you said
00:39:33
touch DNA maybe they found some hair that they believe could be hers what you're going to do here as a detective
00:39:41
your number one objective obviously is let's find Cassidy rainwater and hope and pray that she's okay and she's alive
00:39:48
and well and this is somehow some kind of misunderstanding but there were crimes committed and we have some
00:39:57
factual things that we do know and that detectives would know at this point in their investigation and that is one they
00:40:04
have reason to believe that this woman was being held against her will that being the photos and two now we have
00:40:11
this dork who says yeah I know who she is and she was staying with me now we have dork friend who says yeah I helped
00:40:19
I knew she was being held on the property and I helped restrain her on one occasion and now you're going okay
00:40:25
well that is almost an admission of guilt as far as the kidnapping charges go but you want to do your due diligence
00:40:35
and put in the extra effort so now before you go before the court you want to say not only do we have all this that
00:40:42
proves that this man or these men were responsible for kidnapping this young woman because technically the definition
00:40:50
of kidnapping is holding you even it doesn't mean throwing somebody in a vehicle and driving off with them if you
00:40:56
put a PL a person in a place that they do not want to be if you force them into a place or hold them somewhere that they
00:41:06
do not want to be you've kidnapped that person and kidnapping news flash is a pretty big crime it's a pretty big deal
00:41:16
so what you're going to want to do is you're going to want to show the courts not only do we have these photos but
00:41:21
when we searched this man's property we found hair in the uh you know the bathroom sink or on this brush or we
00:41:28
found items of her clothing items that we know belong to her you want to prove 100% Beyond just their words that she
00:41:37
was actually physically there at some point but he's not denying that right so he I mean at first he's saying oh yeah
00:41:45
well she stayed with me she was getting back on her feet I think the pictures of
00:41:51
her being in a cage is what is your slam dunk as far as was getting a guilty verdict on kidnapping correct again as a
00:42:00
defense attorney I could I could go look she was trying to get back on her feet and I have some weird fetishes and I
00:42:07
paid her a little bit of money to get into the cage but I think the slam dunk is when you have the other individual
00:42:15
scummer scum one and scummer say that he helped restrain her therefore it being a
00:42:23
kidnapping correct but that's why they call it building a case against someone you're not going to just stop there and
00:42:28
go well this is looks good enough to me no you have access to what you believe is a crime scene you're going to collect
00:42:35
physical evidence and again you want physical evidence that Pro that proves scientifically throw their words out
00:42:42
throw the pictures out that proves scientifically that there is reason to believe Beyond a reasonable doubt that
00:42:50
this woman physically was at this cabin at some point and you're going to to build this case against these
00:42:57
individuals again kidnapping is a big deal if you cannot find or locate her remains right you're hoping to turn the
00:43:06
screws on these guys at some point and get them to tell you information that you want that they may not be willing
00:43:12
to to give up at this point but also think about it from law enforcement's perspective James phelps's 58 Timothy
00:43:21
Norton is 56 if they're restraining and kidnapping somebody and putting a 33-year-old female into a cage nude
00:43:33
partially nude nude whatever this is probably not their first rodeo they're probably responsible for other heinous
00:43:40
crimes I absolutely agree with you here Captain I would think that if this stuff
00:43:45
is going on and one you're doing this type of nastiness to begin with but two you've managed to get an accomplice to
00:43:55
help you it seems like they're kind of proficient I guess would be my thought in these types of Acts
00:44:03
or I mean something has led to this now what's interesting though was I was really curious and I was expecting to
00:44:10
find maybe some red flags in either of these individuals backgrounds but there wasn't really anything major so what
00:44:20
little I was able to find about each one of them is we have some very minor misdemeanor
00:44:29
charges against both of them throughout their history some of them dating back as early
00:44:37
as 1992 it looks like right but this is really minor stuff so with one individual with James David Phelps what
00:44:49
I could find on him was that he had charges of passing bad checks at multiple times throughout his life and
00:44:57
every time he pled guilty to the charges and these again are very small charges misdemeanor where you just pay a fine in
00:45:05
court cost right he has traffic violations like most of us do as far as the other guy Timothy Leroy Norton goes
00:45:15
he has again some traffic minor traffic violations one of them and I have this in my notes but it's unclear to me which
00:45:23
individual it is one of them has like game warden type charges right where you're like hunting illegally or
00:45:32
masturbating in the woods or catching fish that you're required to release but not releasing them well I wish it was a
00:45:41
little more clear on James Phelps properties because we can only see pictures of the one where there there
00:45:48
was a f the fire that took place but it just seems like unkempt land it seems at
00:45:54
least on this property that there was actual buildings you know what was he using these properties for well and I'm
00:46:02
glad that you referenced that because I forgot to Circle back around to that one
00:46:07
thing that I find to be very troubling with both of these individuals is you know we said that this is James Phelps
00:46:14
property from my understanding he's actually renting this property the property where the cabin burnt down and
00:46:20
where they believe Cassidy rainwater was being kept I'm a little unclear on how long he's occupied this space it sounds
00:46:28
to me like it's been years and then scummer 2 MH living in his truck or whatever we're supposed to believe even
00:46:36
if it's on the property or off of the property what we're being told is he's sleeping in his vehicle on this property
00:46:44
where again Cassie rainwater is believed to have been held both of them have other addresses you know even though we
00:46:51
said that Norton doesn't seem to have any permanent address that listed he has other addresses that that can be found
00:47:01
relatively easily and same with Phelps now their married situation their married status is a little unclear as
00:47:09
well now I do know that you mean are they married to each other right um because scum scum and scummer no what I
00:47:17
mean by that is whether either of them are are currently married I do know that Timothy Norton was married twice so far
00:47:25
that I could find it's always the case 1988 and then again in 1994 I couldn't find any as far as uh
00:47:35
you know marital status on James David Phelps but I do know he was a class of 1981 at uh Crane High School home of the
00:47:45
Pirates um so yeah he he actually won an award most likely to be a a douchebag also James Phelps I I don't mean to
00:47:55
correct your expertise but he missed something on his criminal charges he was he's been charged multiple times with
00:48:02
having a scallet that's where you have you're bald with a mullet look if you're bald on top don't
00:48:09
have a ponytail but yeah you're right Captain something that you wouldn't expect to find here is that these guys
00:48:15
don't have any major red flags on their criminal history that we could find now one thing that's weird in this case is
00:48:24
that reporters were able to dig up that that property okay again the property that Phelps was staying at and again
00:48:32
we've said that we've seen reports that say he was renting that property I've seen reports that references a guy that
00:48:41
built the cabin I cannot find who owns this property right and maybe they're doing
00:48:48
that to just protect the individual the use of multiple properties is weird to me only because we know this this guy
00:48:56
has photos we've seen photos on his phone according to police that he's caging women on his property yeah and
00:49:03
some reporters were able to dig up some information at least this is what their reports state is that two convicted sex
00:49:10
offenders are tied to that address are tied to that property somehow the interesting thing here is as we stated
00:49:20
what we could find it looks like Phelps is fairly clean and so is nor neither of these guys are registered sex
00:49:28
offenders in the state of Missouri yeah but there's a little thing called human trafficking and maybe these guys got
00:49:35
mixed up with some other Bad Dudes but this whole town seems a mess it seems like there's all these like you said
00:49:44
before rumors that it's haunted rumors of all these bad things happening in the past seems like this place is almost
00:49:52
cursed and on top of that because of Cassidy going missing there's rumors flying all over this small town well I'm
00:50:01
not going to accuse wyville of being a mess I'm not going to allow One Bad Apple to spoil the whole dang bunch I
00:50:08
don't know much about we have two bad apples this town at all to speak ill of the other 49 occupants of the Town The
00:50:17
Haunting stuff is interesting to me and some of it sounds quite terrifying but you know every one of these little towns
00:50:25
especially when you get out in the sticks they all have these stories that they've passed down for years and for
00:50:30
decades it's what the older kids use to scare the little kids and then the little kids grow up and then they scare
00:50:37
the little kids at some point with oh don't go into those woods don't go to that graveyard don't go on that bridge
00:50:43
at Night Don't Go masturbating in the woods but like you were saying Captain this case has sparked up a lot of rumors
00:50:49
and again some of it may come from the sheriff's own words of hey we're waiting from We're waiting to hear back on these
00:50:56
DNA test results and look I do not fault him for stating that he's simply updating you on their case we're waiting
00:51:03
on results now maybe some people's minds ran wild their imaginations ran wild with what could that mean well some of
00:51:11
the rumors include the finding of meat hooks on the property where Phelps was staying by law
00:51:19
enforcement officials acts of cannibalism additional victims possibly the remains of up to 12 or 13 people
00:51:29
found on the property additional suspects caged victims and transporting kidnapped victims or remains across
00:51:37
state lines and that these two may even be responsible for the missing Springfield
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3 want to thank everybody so much for joining us here in the garage make sure you join us tomorrow for part two of
00:52:11
spookyville and until then be good be kind and don't litter [Music]