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[Music] [Music] thank you foreign [Music] [Music] it's a scene straight out of a horror
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flick some guy is using his telescope to spy on an attractive young woman from afar
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this of course unbeknownst to her as she sunbathes topless on a deserted stretch of Beach
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then he observes the unthinkable a terrifying looking man storms Out of the Woods
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the man is carrying a revolver and might be wearing some kind of Disguise like some kind of strange Beast he
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charges at the woman yet she is unaware of his presence the man reaches down and grabs A Fistful
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of the young woman's hair yanking her up to her feet she begins to panic and he drags her
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into the woods just like that they're 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
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man that grabbed her did they know each other was this some kind of prank or possibly
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a domestic dispute or was this a very real and horrific abduction what happened to the woman on the beach
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this is true crime garage and this is the case of Heather T [Music] thank you [Music]
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Heather Danielle Teague was born on April 25th 1972. she is the oldest of four children
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her mother is Sarah Teague we don't know anything about Heather's father according to her mom Heather was an
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honors student a cheerleader and a multi-sport athlete she was the homecoming queen at Webster County high
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school after graduating high school in 1990 living in spotsville Kentucky it's not really clear what Heather did
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there's some indication from Heather's mom Sarah that in 1995 Heather was struggling a little bit of late and that
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drugs may have been involved Sarah told The Courier press that Heather was dating a guy who was almost
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20 years older than she she had gotten into drugs some things she didn't know how to get out of
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according to Sarah in the summer of 1995 Heather was trying to pull things together she started taking classes at
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Western Kentucky University but in the week leading up to her disappearance Heather was fired from her
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job and ended up on her mother's couch she seemed angry and unhappy and during this period she spent a good deal of
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time writing long angst-filled poems and journaling Heather was beautiful she had long dark curly hair green eyes
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and a wide smile during her teenage years she won a few beauty pageants she was also tiny at only five foot two
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inches tall and under 100 pounds Heather suffered from scoliosis of the spine meaning that her spine was curved
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now where our story gets incredibly and dangerously bizarre is on a Saturday in the late summer this is on August 26
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1995. Heather decided to take advantage of some warm weather she drove her little
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red car to the Newburgh 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 used by locals
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for parking to go hiking or down to the beach area even though they were not supposed to park there yeah most of the
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Ohio river will connect right to woods but there'll be like these little tiny beaches so it's not like a a beach that
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you would see in Florida that runs for miles and miles they're just sometimes the size of uh like a a normal backyard
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or wear a turn in the river occurs right so Heather after parking her car she makes her way through this wooded area
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and then down a steep embankment and onto the beach near the water she brought with her a beach chair and
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her bag she set up her chair near the river and took off her red plaid shirt and her
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shorts 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
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back Heather lay there just enjoying the Beauty and the the quiet of the natural
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surroundings her Solitude was interrupted by the sound of ATVs roaring nearby from the way it looks Captain Heather
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was alone in her spot but there were a decent amount of other people there near the water but they were further down the
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beach so she is kind of off in her own little world if you will but as we heard in the trailer
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it seems like Heather was being watched and of course she was unaware of this and we will have a lot to tear through
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later but if she is in fact being watched well then she is being watched by is she being watched by more than one
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person that's what I ask myself as we continue on meanwhile across the Ohio river and
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Evansville Indiana a man named Tim Walthall was at his Riverfront rental house while his wife was making lunch
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for the two of them Tim engaged in a hobby that he often did this is gazing through his binoculars at the popular
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Beach area across the river now we don't know if Tim was checking out Heather or
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just people watching in general was it binoculars or was it a telescope he starts with binoculars and it will end
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with a telescope so he acknowledged later that he watched as what happened to Heather unfolded but
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whatever the case whatever he would be watching we can't say for certain so through his binoculars movement
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attracted Tim's eyes first we have the four ATVs that were climbing the sand dunes near where the young woman lay on
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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
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and this person was advancing slowly toward the beach hunched down and sneaking through the underbrush
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occasionally popping up every five or six steps to peer over the weeds and the growth
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as the person got closer he could tell that the person who appeared to be sneaking through the woods was a man
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this man paused to allow the ATVs to drive off and by this point he was about 15 feet away from the oblivious young
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woman Tim said that his first thought was that his that this man was a friend or a
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boyfriend who was just sneaking up on her to scare her he grabbed his high-powered telescope
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that sat nearby and trained it in on the scene across the river he could see that the man approaching
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the girl was tall with shaggy hair and what looked to be a dark beard Tim called to his wife Karen that
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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
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and yanked her up now Tim could see why the girl had suddenly become a passive for the sunlight hit something that
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caused a shine and then Tim focused in on the item that was in the man's hand and it was a silver revolver
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the girl was dragged off of the chair she was no match for the strong man grasping her by the hair and she was
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taken away off into the woods dropping her towel at the edge of the tree line one plus he had a gun right Tim could
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not hear obviously could not hear anything from his vantage point across the river
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but he could see the gun in the man's hand and he watched in [ __ ] as this man grabbed Heather and marched her off into
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the woods even if he had yelled like a warning to the struggling girl or had screamed at
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the man brutalizing her they very likely would not have heard him at all well the
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Ohio river is pretty wide well at this point Captain the shore across the river was at least a half mile away
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so a good distance there Tim could do nothing but watch helplessly as this young woman was abducted so he calls the
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police now this sounds like a pretty straightforward statement right right but there is nothing straightforward
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about this call as we will see as we get into it for now staying on Pace with the
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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 re-emerged from the woods
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and eventually he decided to call it in one article in a local paper that we found reported that this woman was
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abducted and approximately 12 10 p.m another reported that it was around one o'clock
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Heather's mother Sarah is on the record stating she has reason to believe the abduction took place at 12 30.
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the call from Tim came in at 1 15 pm so according to the Akron Beacon Journal a trooper arrived at the Newburgh Beach 26
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minutes after Tim's call to the Kentucky State Police depending on which article is right or
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who is right we have anywhere from 41 minutes at the very least all the way up to 91 minutes had elapsed since this
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scary event and the sunbathing woman was long gone so you think that there was a
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hesitation to call police well he did say he's been up front and forward about that saying you know I didn't call
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immediately because he was pretty convinced that what he was seeing was just some kind of playful
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prank that these young adults or or teenagers were playing on one another that maybe the two were some kinds of
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friends when you're watching from that distance I mean I've never witnessed anything
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like this up close or even or even from that distance but I I don't know there's got to be a bit of a shock
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Factor right where you're not you're not really sure what you're seeing I guess when you live by The Credo of see
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something say something maybe you don't hesitate but I think he was standing there watching thinking that at some
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point he would see both of them come back to the beach area and he'd go oh they're just fooling around right it's
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not clear to us or I think anybody because it's not like we're sitting um from his vantage point or his
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Viewpoint and knowing what kind of detail he he was able to see uh with his telescope well and I don't want to get
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too far into this because it gets very convoluted very quickly but there's also some
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there's some belief that there there were different phone calls that were made and what I mean by that is we have
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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
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to who is to be called and who is to respond to such a call right so the that is part of the reason for this delay
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however you want to swing this Hammer man it's either 41 minutes from the time that it's believed she was abducted all
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the way up to 91 minutes before anyone responds to this spot on the beach now found on that lonely stretch of the
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beach was Heather teague's chair her purse shoes shirt shorts and bikini top and as
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said her towel that she dropped right at the edge of the Woods Heather Teague has never been seen again that we are
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aware of there's never been any credible sighting of her to this very day well I
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think the simple thing would be if you saw something like this you don't have to look up what department to call you
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could just call 9-1-1 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
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I don't 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
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I don't think it's fair to call him a Peeping Tom it's very odd that we're covering this case now because I just
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played on the Ohio River different part uh where Ohio is connected to Kentucky but
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I could see somebody living in a cabin or or something around there that that would just be something you would do
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because you see boats go by by you see people set up um fire sites on the beach it might not be as
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creepy as him well I was uh looking for girls in bikinis it could just be oh there's a
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bunch of people at the beach I wonder what they're doing right well and you know what some people are gonna going to
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call me a creep or whatever I don't I actually don't even think that that's that big of a deal even if he was like
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Hey I purposely have these binoculars and this telescope here too check out some women on the beach I I don't see
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that big of a deal with it it's a public area if you're not doing if you're doing
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something you don't want somebody to see you doing maybe you should do that in private so but you're also doing this
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with your wife home right I mean I have a set of binoculars at my house and I I use them to check out things no I mean I
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do there's been times where I'm like hey oh what kind of car is that boom pick up
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the binoculars if I were on the river I would definitely have the binocs ready to rock
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um well that's what I'm saying but when you see like a we saw these really cool boats or we saw what almost looked like
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a a mini yacht or something and it's like from where I was at like you couldn't make out any details but it would have
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been cool to to check it out from afar so I worked in that high-rise building downtown for years where many wealthy
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people lived yeah and almost every one of them had a telescope either you know near the door that led to their balcony
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nosy neighbors and I was joking you know I'd have these conversations with with the residents there and some of them
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were very upfront about they're like yeah I love to go out on the balcony have a little cocktail and I just kind
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of look around through the telescope see what's going on in the park or see what's going on down at the river or at
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these businesses at the at the skyscrapers and then there were other other residents that said I just leave
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it set up I've never actually used it just for the funny conversations that it invokes when I have guests over I
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believe Fraser crane had one of these as well that's right and I think uh on the
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friends set they had a telescope as well that's right and that that's the thing a
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lot of people call this Tim guy a creep I I don't I don't see it uh but we we march on so he says this is what he says
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that he witnessed this terrifying event go down as well as he described for the police
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the man he saw on the beach as a larger man he says approximately six feet tall and about 220 to 230 pounds the abductor
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had Shaggy brown hair and a bushy dark beard he was wearing cut off jeans but no shirt
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and black sneakers Tim sat down with a police sketch artist I do want to clarify something real quick
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here I said black sneakers I have in my notes too that black sneakers or black boots so I don't know what is more
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accurate but I just wanted to make sure that I brought that up Tim sat down with a police sketch artist
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and they were able to generate a drawing of the man Tim saw the the quick description Captain is our perp is a
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Punchy white guy with shaggy hair and a scraggly beard now one very weird thing here to me is
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the exact time of when this sketch was made is very unclear and should be called into question and will be once we
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have some more of the of the details here it looks like the police did not doubt
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Tim's story the witness's story as we know they responded to the call they did search the area Heather's red car was
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found parked near the spot on the beach her spot on the beach through that wooded area
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they did their thing you know they ran the plate and figured out that the vehicle belonged to and they they
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figured out that it belonged to Heather Teague and I'm guessing here Captain but based
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off of Tim's description of our abducted victim and the description of the vehicle's owner the responding officers
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are probably making a connection here so our missing person is very likely this Heather Teague and somehow they managed
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to track down her mother Sarah now Sarah said that she and another daughter were
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out that day until about 3 P.M and then they got a phone call from the Henderson
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County Sheriff's Office asking if they knew where Heather was they told her that they found her car at
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the beach Sarah and her second daughter Holly went to the scene where they met with the
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Kentucky State Police and identified the things found as belonging to Heather he was horrified to see Heather's blue
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Chase lounge chair sitting empty on the beach as we said police took Tim Walthall at his word about what he had
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witnessed on the beach Kentucky State Police Trooper Larry Abel was quoted in the Billings Gazette as saying quote
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this guy rents this place and looks across and sees this it's very shocking he's really helped us in this case if we
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did not have him would have a missing person's case instead of what we have now the trooper very simply stating that we
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know that this is not just a missing person's case because we have a witness we know that we're dealing with an
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free and help us help the Cold Case Foundation our witness Captain this Mr Tim seems to
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have been very involved in the case it didn't just stop with him giving a statement and helping to create the
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composite sketch now he met with the family and participated in searches for the missing young woman these searches
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for Heather that took place over the coming days and weeks were organized by Heather's mom Sarah and multiple
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volunteers as well as law enforcement the beach and the surrounding areas were combed by professionals looking for any
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clues to Aid them in the solving the mystery of Heather's abduction well but they also had to talk to him anybody
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else that was on the beach that day right that's right the other thing we did is we had divers check the river
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itself a helicopter using infrared sensors scanned the area from overhead horseback
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Riders crisscrossed the surrounding land looking for really any signs of Heather
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at all well when they searched 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 Mississippi now dogs were brought in as expected they tracked Heather's scent this into
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the woods and then to the parking area where they lost the trail okay but let's stop there because we have eyewitness
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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
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because of all of these efforts the investigators based off of the evidence that they are working on they're working
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with a theory now that Heather either got into or based off of our witness his statement was most likely forced into a
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vehicle and then moved away from that area of note a dark pickup truck was seen parked at the beach that day but of
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course so were a lot of other vehicles meanwhile police were canvassing 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 Newburgh Beach was described in articles
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as usually very busy with several hundred people Gathering there on weekend days
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most of the stories described it as a rough and tumble spot where locals partied sometimes we have drugs and
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alcohol involved and often there were fights Kentucky State Police Trooper Abel voiced
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what do you mean there was fights what do you mean fights at the beach yeah people fight at the beach oh it's
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like Karate Kid remember this is not like a this is not like Fight Club where they're scheduling
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the fights it's just a lot of people in an area together their drugs and alcohol
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involved and sometimes people fight one another well just to be clear the UFC now has fight Island right no so this is
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like Karate Kid like where they go down to the beach we're having a little fire and then uh Daniel's son is gonna take
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on Lawrence so the Associated Press on August 30th stated that there were about five to six
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hundred people there that afternoon wow and what we have is basically nobody saw anything in regards
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to the Abduction of Heather other than this Tim guy on the other side of the river or if they did see something for
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whatever reason possible I couldn't imagine what that would be they didn't come forward to say anything
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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
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person was joking around and and that's why nobody paid attention to it yeah I they may not have paid attention
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may not have seen her as said it sounds like she's off in this little area almost by herself right and people are
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busy doing their own thing right they're not they're not all strapped with binocs
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and and telescopes and checkers saying if somebody was 10 feet away and somebody grabbed their hair as violent
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as he's claiming that I think I would have heard a girl scream you know or say help me or something
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and the this article will say that Heather was lying in an area about 500 feet away from the part of the beach
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that was the most popular she was in an isolated spot near the end of the beach close to the woods and that is how she
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was taken without anyone on the beach noticing it's still pretty mind-boggling that
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this could all occur right under the noses of others on that same beach in broad daylight and the only witness is
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half a mile away across the water finally investigators found that there was someone who had been there that day
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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 letters captain that would be people without a future
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that's going to say real pieces of [ __ ] so these Farmers they hired an insurance
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adjuster a local guy to videotape the area so they could try to pin down the source of this destructive Behavior
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this man fixed his camera on 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 something else of interest
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on the video which was disclosed later this was not the abduction itself but it was a possible clue driving by Heather's
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car was a red and white Ford Bronco police released a description of the vehicle and the composite drawing made
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by Tim released this to the public and asked for help identifying the man and the vehicle
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and they got a phone call from a man who reported that his neighbor drove a red and white Bronco and that neighbor also
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resembled the composite sketch of the suspect the Bronco driver named by the tipster
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was 30 year old ex-con Marvin Ray Dill AKA Marty who lived in nearby pool his name was on a list obtained by
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police of local drivers who had Broncos registered in their names police publicly released Marty Dill's
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driver's license photo in which he had Shaggy unkempt hair and a scraggly beard and Tim Walthall believed that the man
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he saw on the beach that day looked like the photo of Marty Dill that he was shown by police
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this is where we must mention captain that the driver's license photo shown to Tim
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are eyewitness and release to the public well it was nine years old it was a nine-year-old photo which makes
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sense right because you only renew your life your driver's license every 10 or 15 years right yeah or every 20 years
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right no of course not so this makes zero sense actually but it's the information that we have so we roll on
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regardless now our suspect has a name and a face and it's time to go looking for a one Marty Dill
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lived in a mobile home on his family's 28-acre property in pool Kentucky his red and white Bronco was found parked
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nearby hidden in some brush hey Dill hey come come out with your hands up hey dillweed hey Dill according to reports
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the Bronco had been cleaned recently I don't know what that means we you know we're always suspicious of that people
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state that like yeah he cleaned his car recently and I get it I get why we're suspicious because he's become under the
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uh microscope there but but he could have just took it through a car wash or something and it doesn't mean he cleaned
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the inside maybe some of the good people just clean their cars once in a while I
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mean I clean my car every week so you'd think like I'm not you know committing a crime
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every week I think what is more interesting is the statement of the Bronco was found parked hidden behind
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some brush like it doesn't appear to be parked where one would normally park their vehicle he's gone out of his way
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to kind of conceal it according to the reports uh we have police and FBI that surrounded the
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mobile home armed with a search warrant and Dill's Uncle who just so happened to
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be a Henderson cop his name is Ernie green he went inside to you know kind of calm things down seemingly defuse the
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situation and talk with Marty after he was inside for a while with Marty a single shot rang out Marty Dill
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lay dead on the floor having shot himself Dill was dead of suicide before anyone
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could question him about Heather Teague and his possible involvement in her abduction
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of course Dill's abrupt suicide made him appear to have a rather guilty conscious
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and investigators were confident that he was their man for one thing he had a record in fact when Heather Teague was
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taken Dill was out on probation after a drug conviction well see if you get caught doing
00:36:16
anything else you're going to go back to jail and that's probably a place that Dill doesn't want to be he was arrested
00:36:23
in February of 1995 in Evansville after police received reports from residents that he was cruising in his Bronco and
00:36:31
soliciting young girls for sex when he was arrested in his truck this is this is some scary business
00:36:40
they found marijuana that's not scary but they found two loaded handguns rubber gloves duct tape and rope that's
00:36:48
when he was trying to pick women up he's and the the okay you want to give me some sex I'll pay you for some sex well
00:36:57
the notes I have Captain is is young girls that he's approaching young girls in in his vehicle and he's got loaded
00:37:06
handguns rubber gloves duct tape and rope but he's offering money for sex I don't know that I don't know that that
00:37:12
is in fact okay so he's just cruising up sees these girls so we're guessing under 18.
00:37:20
and he has gloves rubber gloves duct tape as a murder kit right that's what I would classify this as we do have Dill
00:37:31
who is a carpenter by trade so maybe one could explain on some of these items you should lead with that that
00:37:39
he's a carpenter he's a carpenter by trade so they found these items in his vehicle right but that doesn't explain
00:37:47
away two loaded handguns or the marijuana it covers you probably on duct tape and rope and rubber gloves
00:37:55
but then then my question goes okay if these items were used for your trade where are the other items for your trade
00:38:03
where's the where's the hammer that you're swinging man where's the power tools where's the other things no we
00:38:09
just have located handguns yeah but In fairness he was too high to do any carpentry work you know well he gets
00:38:16
convicted on on a couple of different charges here he's sentenced to five years after pleading guilty
00:38:23
but then the judge let him out on something called shock probation this is after serving 40 days so he did
00:38:32
serve some actual time but the shock probation basically is when it's when you have an offender sit in
00:38:39
jail for some amount of time and then suspend the rest of the sentence in favor of probation it's really designed
00:38:46
to deter the person from wanting to reoffend and go back to jail you will see this sometimes with with people that
00:38:53
are first-time offenders brain the other thing though too it was later revealed that Dill had another
00:39:00
conviction from 1993 for harassing a woman this stems from some events back in 92 this is when Dill repeatedly
00:39:09
called a woman and asked to speak to her boyfriend that doesn't sound like there's that's
00:39:16
not a big deal right he's calling to speak with her boyfriend and asking to speak with her boyfriend where the
00:39:22
harassment gets ramped up a couple of notches is the boyfriend is deceased that's very strange yeah of course so
00:39:32
Dill Dill head right dill weed still weed is calling a girl and he's saying hey let me talk to your boyfriend
00:39:44
and she's saying hey my boyfriend's dead and he's like hey let me talk to your boyfriend
00:39:51
something like that yeah according to strange this woman that wasn't the uh that wasn't the all of it
00:39:59
she said that that Dill would follow her sometimes on dates and then later would call her and tell her where
00:40:06
she was and what she had been wearing you know letting her know hey I was out there
00:40:13
watching you and I can prove it because I saw you here and I saw you wearing this
00:40:18
and he would say things to her according to her that you know if I wanted to I could hurt you and he also made some
00:40:26
references to sexually sadistic acts if you want to really scare somebody you don't say you know what I could I can
00:40:35
hurt you you say stuff like you know what on Sundays I could do your laundry well the
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Louisville Courier Journal reported that friends and relatives of Dills suspected
00:40:49
that he had in fact kidnapped Heather Teague but apparently was too frightened to come forward so we know there's
00:40:58
eyewitnesses that saw Dills Bronco at the beach that day or in that area that day and we know that he has priors and
00:41:08
we know that he has the ability to have guns do we have any evidence that he still had guns
00:41:19
well what we do have is the statements of his friends and family who believe that he might have been involved in some
00:41:25
manner we do have Dill's wife who hired a lawyer before Dill this is even before the police were
00:41:33
on to Dill in regards to Heather's abduction at some point Dill's wife was questioned by police and immediately
00:41:39
afterward Dill was kind enough to kick her out of their home real gentleman after Heather went missing Dill
00:41:47
conveniently started parking his Bronco in the woods behind his mobile home this
00:41:53
is according to again neighbors friends family so now we have a working theory that Marty Dill abducted Heather Teague
00:42:01
killed and disposed of her and managed to clean up most of the evidence before police
00:42:07
tracked him down and then kill himself in a crisis of conscience well if that were just that simple then
00:42:16
Captain I would be off for tacos on a patio somewhere right now but we start to learn that maybe the case against
00:42:25
Dill is not so cut and dried Dill's relatives told investigators that his suicide could have been motivated by
00:42:32
factors other than guilt Dill didn't want to go back to jail as you pointed out since he was still on probation and
00:42:40
he was still operating his pot growing business he had a little pot growing business going on right and plus he's
00:42:47
having obviously relationship problems with his wife when police arrived he took himself out instead and police
00:42:56
processed Dill's Bronco and found two drops of blood inside the vehicle there are different reports out there about
00:43:05
where in the vehicle these were located but most Reports say on the inside of the tailgate hey what's the deal with
00:43:13
Broncos and drops of blood inside them yeah I don't I don't know hey what's the deal don't don't this is not another
00:43:21
opportunity for a shirt yeah I've been down this road a few times and the Ford Bronco one spot was ruled one of these
00:43:29
spots of blood was ruled out as belonging to Heather Teague the other was inconclusive
00:43:36
police also connected numerous fibers and according to Sarah her mother a hair uh to Heather Teague but the Kentucky
00:43:46
State Police said that since they had no victim they could not compare the hair to Heathers and
00:43:53
I'm sorry that just does not seem kosher does it we know in a lot of cases somebody goes missing they go to the
00:44:01
home of the missing person and collect items of that person there at the home and then they can use it to compare well
00:44:09
look if if people aren't updating their driver's license for every 10 years maybe people are not combing their hair
00:44:17
for for five years well and what we have here Captain is we have her mother who questions why the Kentucky State
00:44:26
Police never asked her for a sample of Heather's hair which again surely could have been found or retrievable from a
00:44:33
hairbrush in the home right let's pause for a second right so we we know that his vehicle was there or we assumed he
00:44:42
was with that vehicle so he's in the area he is a creep he has some priors he has
00:44:51
the capability of having guns so this is something that he could have done if you find a
00:45:04
drop of blood in his Bronco or some hair which you think you would find at something
00:45:10
because if the eyewitness is correct and this individual grabbed her hair as hard
00:45:16
as they said they did you would think that you'd find at least a couple strands of
00:45:21
hair in the vehicle and if that matched then it's not too hard to go one plus one equals two well and the other thing
00:45:30
too for all these people for anybody that would have access to that arrest report of him carrying those guns in his
00:45:39
in his vehicle yeah I'd be interested to know it do either of those guns match the description given by our witness of
00:45:48
the gun that was used in the abduction yeah so really what we have here Captain is somebody that looks very interesting
00:45:56
on the surface but we technically have no conclusive forensic evidence linking Dill to
00:46:06
Heather Teague is it more likely that he did a horrible crime like abducting a woman and killing her and then that's
00:46:16
what he would commit suicide over but they're trying to make it seem like oh well the he knew the police were on
00:46:24
to him about marijuana you see what I mean I know what you're getting at which makes the
00:46:30
more sense but then I you also have to factor in do we have a situation where where
00:46:36
somebody is struggling with a lot of other things that we are we don't know about we we are unaware of we don't
00:46:43
understand and this is a high stretch stress situation that pushed him over the edge right
00:46:50
the other problematic fact in this case is that Marty Dill did not have shaggy hair
00:46:58
as described by our eyewitness well we saw the the ID well you're right we did the nine-year-old driver's license right
00:47:06
so what happened to his shag hair from my understanding Dill was nearly bald at the time of the abduction
00:47:14
and did not have a beard when Heather was abducted so this is according to his family
00:47:21
investigators surmised that maybe he cut his hair and shaved his face after the abduction after the emerge after the
00:47:29
murder to alter his appearance but his family members told police that in fact Dill was bald and clean shaven for
00:47:37
months leading up to the abduction again what does every press conference tell us
00:47:43
when we have a missing person or we have to be on the lookout for a suspect they always say
00:47:52
the change of behavior in the last couple months and the change of hairstyle or beard style
00:48:00
so maybe his family is correct but it also makes it sound like oh well for the last few months he he was
00:48:08
clean-shaven head and and face so at some point he was still holding on to the locks upstairs even if he was
00:48:18
going bald when's the last time he had a beard was it normally like that well again and
00:48:24
maybe they're just wrong and it was just for the last few weeks and not the last
00:48:28
few months yeah but you know who's going to agree with them that's going to make it very
00:48:34
difficult for a case against Dill the people that are going to agree with him will be the county because Dills
00:48:43
jail admission report from April of 1995 four months before Heather was taken list him as bald
00:48:52
he is also five foot ten inches tall and 180 pounds not the six foot which I don't put a whole lot of weight into the
00:49:00
six foot thing because the guy is half a mile away yeah looking with the telescope and the Hefty 220 to 220 I'm
00:49:08
sorry 220 to 230 pounds as described by Tim maybe if you get the height wrong you got the weight wrong as well so I
00:49:17
don't factor that in a whole lot but I find it very interesting that the county that released him when they release him
00:49:22
they say this man is bald and then we have the family saying he's been bald and clean shaven for several months
00:49:29
leading up to this abduction these are also the same people that say yeah I understand why he's a suspect
00:49:37
yeah but here's my other issue though is it possible that this guy had a wig and
00:49:42
is it possible that it wasn't actually uh maybe it was a mask right it could be like think about a ski mask let's say he
00:49:52
was wearing his ski mask from a distance it would look like the individual had a
00:49:57
beard and a full set of hair right so that's all I'm saying or was he wearing you know some type of uh toboggan and
00:50:07
then wearing some face mask or something I'm I'm just saying that there's a bunch
00:50:12
of possibilities that we can't just rule him out because oh well he actually had
00:50:17
clean shaven well again maybe he had a baseball hat on with a mask or or maybe he had a toboggan on or a
00:50:24
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 been wearing
00:50:32
some type of Disguise the problem with the witness even though they had a telescope
00:50:38
um they're they're at a really far distance then maybe that witness shouldn't describe
00:50:44
the face to to law enforcement so that they can draw the composite sketch of of the uh the the man that he says abducted
00:50:53
the young one no I'm just saying that we we have to take that into account you know you want to take this this is the
00:51:00
only eyewitness we have we want to take all the information all the detail as we
00:51:05
can but I think some of the information you have to just go well maybe he saw this maybe he did I
00:51:12
mean he the eyewitness is telling you I initially thought this seemed like a a playful Act
00:51:19
so that that's all I'm saying is we we have to keep that in perspective all right Captain bring in the grand jury
00:51:27
because the prosecutors convened a grand jury on November 7th 1995 to try to force reluctant Witnesses like Marty
00:51:36
Dill's son to testify in an attempt to conclusively determine that Dill had killed Heather Teague Tracy Dill Marty's
00:51:47
Widow was among the witnesses subpoenaed Henderson County Commonwealth's Attorney
00:51:52
Bill markwell said quote they have a suspect and it's Marty Dill end quote but something came out in connection
00:52:01
with this grand jury that was new information a read Kentucky resident named Michelle Morgan told police she
00:52:10
saw a woman she believed to be Heather Teague struggling with a man in a car in Reed Kentucky
00:52:17
this was around 2 30 or 3 P.M on the day Heather was taken from the beach which we stated was around 12 30 or 1 o'clock
00:52:28
the car Morgan witnessed was traveling eastbound on Kentucky 811 driving away from Newburgh Beach Morgan's description
00:52:38
of the man seen with the struggling woman matched the composite drawing with longer hair and a Shaggy beard the woman
00:52:47
Morgan said clearly did not want to be in that car which was a silver and red 1979 or 1980 Chevette
00:52:58
an article in the messenger Courier newspaper appearing at the end of October 1995 read another suspect has
00:53:07
surfaced in the August Abduction of a 23 year old woman but County attorney markwell denied that any new suspects
00:53:15
had emerged it's not clear what became of the grand jury but we do know dead Marty Dill's wife Tracy took the fifth
00:53:25
the Kentucky State Police kept the case open but told Sarah Teague that Marty Dill killed her daughter and that was
00:53:33
the end of it yeah but this is far from over yes it is it's one of this is one of
00:53:40
those cases that when you look into it you can often find many very quick short summaries of a young woman alone on a
00:53:48
beach who was abducted and this is reported to police by the witness and a lot of times that's about as far
00:53:55
as it goes right yeah but this story this case is very complicated and it's got a lot of twists and turns along the
00:54:04
way and regardless of what police told the mother back then we know captain that this wasn't the end
00:54:12
when Heather was taken Heather's mom Sarah went into activist mode even though the prime suspect Marty Dill was
00:54:20
dead she was at the time and still is To This Day determined to find her daughter
00:54:27
she started organizing many many searches now anniversaries of Heather's disappearance came and went
00:54:35
for the first year active searches continued with family friends and volunteers scouring hundreds of miles of
00:54:43
River Bottom lands looking in every cistern field and barn they could find they've searched abandoned buildings and
00:54:52
motel rooms one year after the Abduction the Kentucky State Police acknowledged that
00:54:59
they had exhausted all leads and despite the efforts of her family no trace of Heather has ever been found
00:55:07
anyone that knows this case knows that Heather's mom Sarah Teague made it her mission to find her daughter and she
00:55:15
pinpointed Tracy Dill this is Marty Dill's wife in her quest for information for more
00:55:22
information in 1996 Tracy Dill filed a lawsuit against Sarah for harassment saying that
00:55:31
the desperate mother had plied her with eight letters demanding information about what her deceased husband may have
00:55:40
done Sarah said she had no choice but to go directly to Tracy since Tracy would not
00:55:46
testify about what she knew remember she took the fifth with the grand jury right
00:55:52
jurors acquitted Sarah and the trial failed to bring any new information to light Tracy Dill
00:56:00
testified that she had no knowledge in response to the defense attorney's questions which were as follows whether
00:56:08
she knew where Heather Teague is whether she helped clean Marty's truck whether Heather had been raped or trafficked and
00:56:17
whether she knew why neighbors reported hearing a woman screaming near the dill residence on the night Heather vanished
00:56:25
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