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Friday May 4th 2007 we have 17-year-old Cara kety had the entire weekend ahead of her and it seems maybe she could not
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wait to get this Friday over with and move on to better things and while she arrived at school Safe and Sound on that
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Friday she decided to cut out for a while car is a student at Belton High School appropriately located in Belton
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Missouri friends would later say that car cut out early on that day not just before the
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day was over but early as in 9:00 a.m. is later that day at 5:17 p.m. car's friend Amy Clark went to the belon
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police department she was worried about her friend she wanted to file a missing person's report she felt that something
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bad had happened to Cara because she and none of her other friends could reach her so the police contacted Car's mom
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and stepfather this is Ronda and Jim Beckford Ronda said she had seen her daughter that morning but not since and
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they too could not get a hold of Cara via Cara's cell phone and so an official missing person's report was filed that
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night on May 4th around that same time police contacted car's boyfriend he said he too was concerned and he had last
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seen her the day before on May 3rd car didn't turn up the next day or the next let's take a quick look at the spring of
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2007 and see what is going on in car capet's World leading up to this mysterious
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disappearance at this point she's been going out with the same guy for about 9 to 10 months this is 18-year-old Kyler
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yust car's mother and stepdad were not too excited about Kyler but it also sounds like Cara was
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not too excited about her mom and stepdad she was at an age where for Cara she felt she was old enough to do as she
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pleased and she exercised those feelings whenever she felt like it hence the cutting out of school on May 4th that
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normally backfires when the parents come forward and say hey we know you're dating this Kyler guy but we don't like
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him that normally draws the girl more into wanting to date the boyfriend on April 24th 2007 we have something of
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potential interest here this is a post from Cara on her Myspace that says quote so life hasn't been the greatest for me
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lately over the last nine months of my life I've dedicated my life to Kyler I made no other time for any of my friends
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nor my family over those nine months I forgot the person that I was I'm trying to find that person again end quote then
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just 4 days later after that post this is on April 28th 2007 car went to the belon police department and reported
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that her ex-boyfriend whom she had just broken up with had kidnapped her she's referring to Kyler she told them she was
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leaving popey's Fried Chicken where she worked this after finishing her shift when her ex Kyler yust appeared and
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demanded that she go with him when she refused he grabbed her and forced her into his vehicle and then drove around
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for several hours Kyler finally letting her out of his truck in Grand View Missouri what a douche I don't know if
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this is one of those situations Captain where they're breaking up and Kyler convinced himself if I could just get
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some time with her maybe I could talk some sense into her gets her into his vehicle
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forcefully and then drives her around pretty much against her will for hours I'm guessing we don't know what the
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conversation was but I'm guessing it was him trying to convince her to not break
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up with him some of these controlling boyfriends will they they do the I'm sorry game and when that doesn't work
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they get angry when that doesn't work then they act like they're depressed and if that doesn't work it's almost like
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they'll keep trying every angle just to get just to win the person back well this bizarre act scared Cara enough to
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go to the police and she wanted a restraining order against him her report alleged that Kyler kidnapped and
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restrained her and that he choked her and threatened to cut her throat while holding a knife her petition alleged
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that Kyler was stalking her and subjecting her to emotional and physical abuse the protection order was granted
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on April 30th and served to Kyler by the pass County authorities on May 1st a hearing on the matter was scheduled for
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May 10th Cara's mother Ronda later said that Cara and Kyler's relationship was quote volatile and that he was
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manipulative and abusive on the 4th of May May the 4th be with you this is the day in question car walked to school
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that morning and she called her mom nearly as soon as she got there telling her that she forgot a textbook at home
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her mother then dro arrives and drops off the textbook to the school office and Cara retrieves it there but then she
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abruptly leaves the school at 9:119 a.m. and we have that exact time because surveillance footage from inside the
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school shows car walking down the hallway at the school and then heard leaving the building right her house is
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just a few blocks away but she does not walk home her family reported her missing that evening after she never
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came home and like you said she has a restraining order against her ex-boyfriend but what law enforcement
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come to find out is that she's been texting with her ex-boyfriend all day yeah and I think the first major red
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flag for the family was when she failed to show up to her evening shift she was scheduled to work at 400 p.m. at popey's
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that day and from my understanding car didn't always come home when she was told to but but it was not like her at
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all to miss work and shortly after leaving school that day no one heard from her again so she also failed to
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pick up her paycheck at popey's on May 9th so this is just a really weird situation where I don't think that her
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walking out of the school at 9:19 a.m. that morning was something that was a major red flag I think as you're
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pointing out here Captain it's all of those things afterward that are the Red Flags here well as a high school student
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I mean we both were high school students I'd say a large percentage of high school students skip at some point
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whether it's a couple classes I mean look she went into class she did a couple things and then said hey today's
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day I'm not going I'm not going to be in class the whole day car's family was concerned and this is what's interesting
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to me they're not just concerned about the whereabouts of their daughter their step daughter their concern is extremely
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specific they say we were concerned immediately that Kyler had done something to her well yeah because just
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a few days ago he basically held her against her will and they had to press charges
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against him so that's where they say their suspicions were from the very beginning but police thought that since
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she you know she's 17 years old and there was previous occasions when she chose not to come home and stayed away
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briefly that this likely was a similar situation and that she would turn up when she was
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ready to the other thing here too Captain that's a little bit weird about this story you know we said they're all
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unique and they are but it's all these happen stance things that are odd in a lot of these cases this same day that we
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have in question about her whereabouts law enforcement was stretched very thin because later that
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day a devastating tornado hit nearby Greensburg that same night in fact the US tornado. comom has a fantastic piece
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about these terrifying tornadoes that hit and the title best describes the devastation the online article is titled
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May 4th 2007 the night that made maps of Greensburg Kansas have to be redrawn so
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there was a lot of Devastation as far as this t goes it was not in the immediate
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area but it was close enough that we have First Responders really helping and trying to
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sort things out due to the tornado but car's parents emphasized that their daughter was not the kind to run away so
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on the 6th Belton PD detectives sat down to talk to Kyler the family's actively telling belon PD this you have to talk
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to her boyfriend this is a guy that we don't like and we suspect all these different things about
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this man so they sit down and they speak with him he said he knew about the restraining order that car obtained
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against him Kyler said that he had last seen car on the third but he did say he got a call from her phone on the fourth
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now he tells investigators that car called him around 11:00 a.m. that he missed the call and tried to call her
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back but she didn't answer that he said was the last contact he would have had with car but that was not
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exactly true police got a warrant for car's phone and text records and they were examined by the FBI the records
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showed that car was trying to skip school on the morning of May 4th and was texting some friends for a ride car
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called Kyler at 9:14 a.m. from school she's still in school at this time the call lasted 61 seconds
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she left the building the school building at 9:119 that morning and her phone received a call back from Kyler's
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phone at 9:20 a.m. this call lasted a minute her phone sent a text at 9:46 a.m. and she made a call at 10:25 a.m.
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but after that there was no record of the phone and no social media post from car detectives noted that car and Kyler
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were in constant communication and until the morning of May 4th but after that they never spoke again or at least never
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used her phone to speak again and then her phone is never used again after that call that she made at 10:25 a.m. yeah to
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me it makes somebody look so guilty if you're in constant contact with this individual they go missing and you don't
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even reach out to him to see if they're okay seems like she took the threats and
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him kidnapping her basically serious but I hate the fact that she is having any contact with this dirt bag yeah I I
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don't I want to make sure we're painting the right picture here and we're not sating that it doesn't look to me like
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she's going out of her way to communicate with Kyler it looks more like he's trying to get in touch with
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her and speak with her now Kyler's story didn't change no matter how many times the police spoke with him but he did
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offer up some new information he said said car was running around with a bunch of different guys on the 7th Belton
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Detective Mike Clark sat down with Kyler for an informal interview where Kyler told him that he and car had dated for 9
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months recently broke up and he was very upset about this Kyler admitted to the kidnapping episode saying that on April
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28th he and car were arguing because she was dating other guys so he thought he'd
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drive her around and talk some sense into her but that was it in the next police interview Kyler admitted that he
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and car argued on May 3rd he said that they had argued on the phone because car had a male friend coming into town for
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the weekend and was planning on hanging out with this guy and of course Kyler did not want her to spend the weekend
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partying with this other guy well too bad all right Captain so now we take the questioning on to the next guy this is
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Joel Harmon so Kyler's able to tell police who car was planning on hanging out with by name right so they take this
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information and now we're going to speak with this Joel Harmon person see if he knows where she could be or when he last
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saw or spoke with her so Joel confirmed to police that indeed he was supposed to
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visit with Cara that weekend but he repeatedly called her on May 6th and was not able to get her on the phone he
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found out that she was missing when he called her home phone on May 7th and spoke with one of her family members and
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police searched some more they noted that car's bank account had not been touched since the last time she was seen
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right so we have no activity on her bank account and we have her not picking up her check at work right these are items
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that you're going to look at from a police standpoint and say you know what okay if there were some problems at home
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and again I want to be clear here it doesn't seem to me like there were really any problems at home it's typical
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teenager stuff she's not getting along with Mom and stepdad and it seems to me a lot of it stemming from her
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relationship with this guy they're convinced is not good for her douche and I think the episode of him forcefully
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grabbing her and pulling her into his vehicle and driving her around for a few hours right well that seems to seems to
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back up their suspicions about this guy well they're not getting along because the parent parents are actually giving a
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[ __ ] and they're actually trying to be involved in her life and they're actually trying to be parents and say
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look you you're still a minor you're still under our roof you're dating this guy he's no good for you you know he's
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no good for you like I said they're arguing because the parents actually give a [ __ ] and so from a police
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standpoint you're going to look at a couple of these things and say all right well even if there was some stuff that
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we may not be fully aware of inside the home or between mom and daughter or stepdad and
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daughter her not going to work okay well she already skipped out on school but not picking up a paycheck and no
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activity on her phone or bank account does not really point you in the direction of well she took off and she's
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not coming home right this tells us something else may be going on here if I'm law enforcement I want to know
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why she left school in the first place yeah that's that's a good question here now police did go and search Kyler's
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apartment relatively early in this investigation but they came up empty-handed in finding any evidence of
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any type of Foul Play there was really nothing there that they gained from that search and as Belton PD Lieutenant Brad
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Swanson said we don't have anyone to say they saw them meaning Kyler and Cara together on or after the day that she
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was last seen so nobody that tells them hey I saw the two of them together later
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that day after she left school or anytime after that day and Kyler says that he had an alibi for the day in
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question saying that he went to visit a relative at a nursing home with his grandfather we need to point out here
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though captain that that was not until about 1 p.m. that afternoon so he may say he has an alibi for that time but we
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know Cara left school at 9:119 a.m. his Alibi does not start until 100 p.m. that
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afternoon his morning is largely unaccounted for and when's the last time that he talks to car on the phone well
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remember his words were that he called her back that he missed a call from her called her back never spoke with her
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right but what we have is the the search warrant on her phone records tell us differently that his phone called her
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phone at 9:20 a.m. and this call lasted for 1 minute for 60 seconds so we don't even know if she's technically like
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skipping class right at that moment or if she's leaving the school to maybe make this phone call to talk to her
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ex-boyfriend and maybe he says something that lures her out uh to to at least talk to him you know it could be
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something as I I miss you I'm going crazy if you don't talk with me if you don't visit me uh I'm going to commit
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suicide or something like that possibly I actually don't think that her leaving school had anything to do with him
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because we have friends who stated later that she was trying to get a ride from us yeah yeah and she was texting other
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people about and after it's after this that she doesn't get a ride that she leaves now now again she lives very
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close to the school so she could have just intended on walking home after leaving the school but if this douche
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bger was aware that she was trying to leave school he could go and drive up and again he could kidnap her like he
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did the other day yeah and we have her statement that she gives when she requests the restraining order that he
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is stalking her so this could be a situation Captain where she he's actively following her around those were
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were her words we don't know if it's true or not but he could have actively been following her around and seen her
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leave that day or caught wind somehow that she was attempting to leave that day we know that he has actively told
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police look she was going to go hang out with this other dude this weekend and I
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wasn't happy about that so we got kind of a lot going on leading up to this point of her walking out of school at
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919 on that Friday now several weeks after car disappeared Kyler did an interview with the Kansas City Star so
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he's spoke with police multiple times they've interviewed him by this point they've interviewed him multiple times
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they've searched his apartment by this point but this is also several weeks after she disappeared so things are
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starting to get cold at this point leads are starting to dry up this is when he talks to the Kansas City Star he said
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that car was a fun girl who wanted to live life to the fullest according to Kyler car
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had talked about running away to Mexico saying quote lately I've been kind of depressed about the whole thing
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I have no idea where she is end quote per kshb.com belon police said that Kyler passed a lie detector test and had
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an alibi for the time of car's disappearance but the community was not happy with letting Kyler Go free in late
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June 20 7 some citizens of belon circulated a petition demanding that the state step in and take the case away
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from belon police department in general it was felt that they had treated her case dismissively assuming that she was
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a runaway and had not investigated as thoroughly as the family wanted the family aided by volunteers and even
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former law enforcement took it upon themselves to search for Cara in one crazy circumstance a secret team
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comprising of private investigators criminal psychologists and others conducted secret investigations tracking
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down rumors and even conducting a search of a private home with a civilian cadaver dog this was a house that had
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been rumored in online chat rooms to be quote the murder house where Cara was killed sure enough in the
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home the dog hit on something in the basement and kudos to kshb.com for doing gangbusters work on
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the story including an entire podcast on the case one portion spoke about their search of the quote murder house that
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says our cameras followed group members inside an abandoned building that looked
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like the set of a horror film The walls are sprayed with satanic messages and references to
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Cara quote this here says Cara is gone said a group member who like all members says they fear reprisal from police or
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suspects in the case and do not want to be identified it says I did it one hallway
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has murder makes me happy spray painted sideways next to references of death and
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2023 all right well the search for Cara capet kety has been excruciating for her
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family friends and for law enforcement and especially difficult because there seems to be so few credible
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Clues K kety was last seen the morning of May 4th 2007 by the security camera at Belton High School her mom says she
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was excited about getting her senior picture taken and was looking forward to her final year of school but something
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mysterious happened to Cara that may morning she left school either on foot or in a car with someone else her last
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cell phone call was made at 10:30 a.m. when she didn't show up for her after school job her parents became worried
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and reported her missing on May 17th Carl was reportedly seen with a young man at a gas station in Lewisburg but
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that has never been confirmed despite many searches a reward fund and even National publicity Cara has never been
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found well tomorrow is Cara ketk's 21st birthday the reward for information on where she is now stands at
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$80,000 please call the tips hotline at 816 474 tips if you have any information
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all right we are back cheers everybody cheers to UK everybody have a great week so a couple red flags one
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controlling boyfriend don't like that that's douchy we have this situation again it could have just been a heated
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situation got out of control maybe it's just a onetime thing but she took it serious enough where she says hey I need
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to get a restraining order against this guy he's stalking me but the big red flags for me when this uh [ __ ] princess
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Dingle donkey is pointing Every Which Way oh well she was supposed to go hang out with this other guy oh she was
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seeing a bunch of other guys so go look at him go look at this other guy oh and by the way she also talked about running
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away so go check that out over there always constantly pointing the finger in other directions so you don't look at
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him as a suspect it's like a suspicion that you find in the John Benet Ramsey case where you have some of the police
00:33:08
department looking at the family as being responsible and the family is handing them a list of 70 to 80 suspects
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that they think right could have kidnapped or killed their daughter and so you're right it's like are they
00:33:22
giving us a Fool's errand here to to run around then and and kind of a weird bit
00:33:29
of this story and you don't see this in most cases is there's like public backlash where the community saying we
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don't think that our police department has done enough and the police department in return is saying
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look we questioned the boyfriend he admitted to Breaking the Law right I mean he essentially admits
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that yes every that she complained about when she got that restraining order I did
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that then according to the police he passes a lie detector test they search his apartment they don't find any
00:34:08
evidence of Foul Play there so I I feel like the police department's kind of saying in return here I know that you've
00:34:16
heard all these rumors Community I know the public has seen all these rumors in online chat
00:34:22
rooms we are conducting an investigation here just our major lead which would be
00:34:28
the boyfriend or ex-boyfriend whatever title you want to give Kyler at that point our major lead seems to be going
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nowhere we have concerns that he has an alibi for a large portion of that day we
00:34:40
have concerns that he's passed a lie detector test and so on and so on so he's he's kind of checking off boxes
00:34:48
that say that he should not be a suspect well look this is a suburb of Kansas City right mhm 25,00 th people roughly
00:34:58
but this is a very tight community so when you grow up in an area like this you're normally pretty good at one
00:35:09
talking to Authority and also talking to parents and one of the things about Kyler a lot of people say that he was a
00:35:19
Charming kid a believable kid so I think that played against law enforcement but
00:35:26
I think the community started speaking up when they got win that this Alibi wasn't 100% checked
00:35:34
out properly what do you mean checked out properly well there was people at the nursing home that that law
00:35:41
enforcement never ended up interviewing and they couldn't find yeah I mean I mean that might be
00:35:48
hearsay but that that's that's what one it says in the documentary but that's what some of the rumors around town were
00:35:55
no I I know that I'm not disagreeing with that I'm saying that I don't think to me it doesn't matter about The Alibi
00:36:02
and I think and that's why I went out of my way to point out earlier that hey police are saying we have concerns that
00:36:09
he does have an alibi for a large portion of that day but I'm pointing out that let's say that The Alibi is true
00:36:17
even if it is true which it does seem to to carry some weight right but even if it is true it it's right like if if
00:36:26
there's a a bank that's robbed at 10:00 this morning it doesn't matter if I can tell you where I was at 300 p.m. today
00:36:33
right his his Alibi starts at 1 p.m. that afternoon she the last time we have any evidence that she's alive and
00:36:42
well and is not abducted or anything like that has happened to her is 9:119 that morning so we have hours that have
00:36:50
passed before his Alibi even starts yeah basically a 3 and 1 half hour window right right so police of course they are
00:36:59
aware that the Public's not super happy with their investigation here as you pointed out Captain Titan it Community
00:37:05
they're probably I don't think that that their suspicion so much is coming from this Alibi portion I feel like a lot of
00:37:12
it's coming from hey it's 25,000 people we know her family her family's quite loud about her being missing and I think
00:37:20
it's really just people kind of pulling together here and questioning the authority on on who's supposed to be
00:37:26
leading this investigation yeah but good for them I mean I'm not saying that you're talking bad but just the way it
00:37:32
came off was like the family being loud you need to be loud if the family doesn't show that they care the
00:37:39
community is not going to care exactly in in fact we covered a case last week where I'm convinced that the reason why
00:37:46
the body is still unidentified is because nobody bothered to report the individual missing to begin with so if
00:37:52
if the family's not going to speak up for the victim yeah then then likely nobody is going to now in response the
00:38:01
Belton Police this is in response to the house being searched and spray paint on
00:38:06
the walls and whatnot in response to this the belon police did search that same house where the caver dog hit on
00:38:13
something their official report is that they found nothing at this house meanwhile the police threatened to
00:38:20
arrest members of this secret team when news of its activities came out the police chief uh his last name is person
00:38:30
police chief person said in a written statement I can say that the belon police department and FBI have searched
00:38:37
many locations and properties some with the assistance of dogs some sites have required the use of specialized
00:38:45
personnel and Equipment including excavation divers canine equestrian and information Technologies either way
00:38:54
police and civilian groups were having simply no luck locating car no matter what side of the fence you were on
00:39:01
they're not finding her they're not even finding additional leads to lead them further along the trail and so her
00:39:08
family was left to wait wonder and work to keep her case alive they lovingly remember and describe Cara as someone
00:39:17
who loved animals and butterflies loved to shop and was loyal to friends she got
00:39:23
in over her head with a boy named Kyler and feared she couldn't get out now while the Greensburg EF5 tornado that
00:39:32
destroyed 95% of the Greensburg City and it killed over 10 people This Tornado this this thing we we should kind of
00:39:42
break this situation down a little more as distracting as it likely was in the moment because the reports I've seen
00:39:50
Captain was this was a series of tornadoes that hit over the course of 56 hours and so this was a lot of
00:39:58
Devastation yeah um hitting the state of Missouri hard in just about 12 hours after car was last scene at school this
00:40:06
certainly did not help to Kickstart the missing person's investigation there were other factors that stalled the
00:40:13
investigation along the way as well for one while Kyler was their best suspect he was not law enforcement's only
00:40:20
suspect in that case and cap that off with one month later and just about 20 M away another girl just out of high
00:40:30
school and only 18 years old vanished from a Target store parking lot well like you always say when a we have a
00:40:38
teen girl going missing from school you kind of have have to do the old scumbag pervert Roundup and so not much time
00:40:48
passes and we have a very similar situation and if I'm a law enforcement maybe I'm jumping to some conclusions
00:40:54
because car didn't have any there's no sign of her after that day right so I'm kind of expecting the worst and so
00:41:04
there's a possibility that there's a serial killer out there yeah there were some other things that that we don't
00:41:10
need to get into because there's a lot of information in this story here that I want to make sure that we cover all of
00:41:17
our bases but there was a weird bit in Cara's disappearance where she had a a lookalike somebody that looked a lot
00:41:27
like her about the same age that lived in another town nearby so those sightings of this other person which
00:41:34
they were all later confirmed to be of this other person really kind of distracted some of the investigation as
00:41:41
well the incident that you're talking about where we have a situation where we have a similar we have a similar
00:41:51
victimology really is a big distraction to this case as well so this takes us to June 2nd
00:41:59
2007 this is less than one month after Cara kety went missing this is a Saturday night
00:42:06
remember car went missing on a Friday morning here we have Kelsey Smith she's 18 years old and a recent graduate of
00:42:13
Shaunie Mission West High School just before 7 p.m. she arrives alone at her local Target store she is going with the
00:42:23
intention of purchasing a gift for a close friend so she Parks her car walks to the store's entrance and goes inside
00:42:33
unfortunately she is unaware that there is a monster on the prow in the area that night and this subhuman likely
00:42:42
chose this area because it's a Saturday evening and this target is right next to
00:42:48
a mall so this will be a busy area with lots of potential prey so Kelsey enters the target she does her shopping
00:42:58
purchases her selected items and then security cameras show Kelsey leaving the Target store at 7:07 p.m. now Kelsey
00:43:07
makes a call while still inside the store sadly she does not come home that night and based off of everything her
00:43:15
family her movements her lifestyle and personality there is zero zero concern that she took off somewhere this is a
00:43:23
situation where as soon as the minutes start to turn into hours and she is not back that night her parents are very
00:43:32
aware that something terrible has happened to their daughter so now we have a situation and her family goes out
00:43:38
looking for her about four or so hours later Kelsey's vehicle is located by her family they find the car abandoned but
00:43:47
it's not at the Target parking lot where they know her to have been earlier that
00:43:52
night no they find her car in a parking lot Loc located just outside of the mall
00:43:58
across the street from the Target now even more troubling all of her belongings are found inside of the
00:44:05
vehicle the family notifies the police and the police determine that Kelsey was most likely abducted so local PD starts
00:44:13
their investigation immediately they take a look at the surveillance footage from both inside the Target store and
00:44:21
the Target parking lot and they can see her being forced into her car at approximately 710 p.m. they go to the
00:44:30
mall and see on the mall camera footage someone pulls up Parks Kelsey's vehicle leaving it
00:44:39
abandoned in the parking lot at 9:17 p.m. in a very smart move they decide to see if they can figure out Kelsey's
00:44:50
movements by checking cell tower records as per the report Kelsey's cell phone last pinged in Grand View
00:44:59
Missouri this is the night that she went missing very sadly Just 4 days after Kelsey went out alone to purchase the
00:45:08
gift for a friend local law enforcement along with Agents from the FBI they were
00:45:14
able to locate her remains in the afternoon of June 6th 2007 her body was found near Long View Lake in the woods
00:45:23
about 20 mi away from the Target store where she was last seen alive Kelsey after being abducted and her abductor
00:45:32
and killer using Kelsey's car in the commission of committing several felonies was strangled with a belt and
00:45:38
left in the woods now we in a very short order go from looking for this young woman to now looking for her attacker
00:45:49
and detectives are armed with some very good lead information here because God bless it captain
00:45:56
this is a story where the security cameras were rolling they were actually working and the people in charge had the
00:46:02
cameras recording well that's a shock so from the surveillance footage investigators identified an older model
00:46:10
Chevy pickup truck pulling into the Target parking lot right after Kelsey and Smith pulled in then they see the
00:46:19
perpetrator get out of his truck and walk into the target just behind Kelsey this man is described as a white male
00:46:28
mid 20s wearing a white T-shirt and dark possibly black shorts the man at no time
00:46:34
speaks to Kelsey but he seems to have been following her into the store and then kind of following her around the
00:46:41
store yeah stalking her and she's probably not even taking notice he does not purchase anything instead while
00:46:47
Kelsey is making her purchase he goes out to the parking lot where he seemingly is preparing a blitz style
00:46:55
attack because the closed circuit TV cameras got video of this same man now with a
00:47:03
gun in hand rushing Kelsey and then forcing her into her car we were just talking last week Captain about the
00:47:11
power of crowd sourcing as we are still hoping that someone can identify the man
00:47:15
with no hands the Kentucky Cold Case covered right here in the garage last week so detectives again making all of
00:47:22
the Right Moves they release Stills and clips shown this man and give a description of him to the public they
00:47:29
give a description of his apparel and the truck that he was driving well it doesn't take long because the same day
00:47:37
that they locate the victim's body we have people phoning in hey we know this guy he's our neighbor it's the putting
00:47:46
two and two together that made the tipsters so convinced that the perpetrator Seen On TV was their
00:47:54
neighbor well it's one thing to have video footage or a clip of a person or even just a photo like we do in the deli
00:48:03
murders but if we could take the deli if we could take Bridge guys photo and connect that guy to a vehicle then we'd
00:48:12
have more people coming out of the works going I know a guy that looks like that
00:48:16
and has that vehicle exactly and that's what they were able to do here very interesting though because when he
00:48:24
abducts her he uses her vehicle leaving his vehicle behind to have more and more
00:48:30
customers see that vehicle in that parking lot that night so in this case right here we have a guy that looks like
00:48:37
our neighbor this from the tipster and the vehicle is the same and by the ways the great thing about information in
00:48:46
this case it's not that common of a vehicle right I believe it was a Chevy truck manufactured sometime in the' 70s
00:48:55
and this this was 2007 on the old True Crime garage timeline right so it sticks out like a sore thumb that's right this
00:49:03
mystery subhuman turned out to be 25-year-old Edwin Roy Hall he was taken into custody and no surprise charged
00:49:11
with premeditated first-degree murder and aggravated kidnapping of course he denied it but police had him on camera
00:49:20
they found his fingerprints inside Kelsey's vehicle and so on and so on eventually this douche canoe caves in
00:49:27
and cuts a deal to spare his ass spicy and he volunteers for life in prison and I don't think this guy is ever getting
00:49:34
out and certainly hope not because he wasn't terribly old when he went in and if this dude gets out and he's still
00:49:42
physically able this monster will do something like this again now what was difficult for Cara's
00:49:50
case in relationship to this case again it's just one month later about 20 miles away victimology very
00:49:59
similar it was quickly determined that in Kelsey's case the Target store case that this was a totally random
00:50:09
attack Edwin simply drove around looking for a young woman to abduct so of course everyone now has to
00:50:17
Wonder Could Edwin be responsible for car's disappearance right could he have just been driving around on it on an
00:50:24
earlier day look look for another victim and yeah and where would you go if you're driving around looking for a
00:50:30
victim right outside the school of course he says no but we will just have to wait and see if detectives can find
00:50:36
any connection between these two cases and like we said this is a very small suburb of Kansas City we have car going
00:50:47
missing in 2007 and another town not so far away we have Kelsey Smith going missing and her
00:50:56
murder but then we have another tragedy happening in 2016 yeah as we said earlier in this
00:51:03
case Captain this is a story and a true crime case that spans a great deal of length of time so we have our case
00:51:12
starts in 2007 there's still movement on these cases up to this year so we don't
00:51:19
want to bore anyone with a lot of minutia here so we'll just fast forward to September of
00:51:26
2016 into the city of Raymore this is a suburb of Kansas City and not far from the other two locations that we have
00:51:34
discussed yeah on Friday September 9th 2016 Jamie runions calls the Kansas City Police Department reporting her daughter
00:51:43
Jessica as missing now in the Colonel's recommended fashion that being report your loved one
00:51:54
missing everywhere and as many times as they will allow you to M runions very astutely goes to the Kansas City Police
00:52:02
Department in person the following day September 10th and again reports her 21-year-old daughter Jessica runions as
00:52:12
missing so she reports her the night before and then again the following day but this time in person mother Jamie
00:52:18
says her last contact with Jessica was a brief text conversation on Wednesday the
00:52:23
7th this one Jessica text her sweet dreams and jimie sent back a selfie with Jessica's little sister to which Jessica
00:52:33
responds sending back a picture of her cat so the concern started when Jessica failed to show up for a doctor's
00:52:41
appointment on the 9th this was a critical doctor's appointment after an epcom Jessica needed the doctor's
00:52:48
clearance to go back to work so she would not have missed this appointment her mother jimie
00:52:56
was meeting her there and waited for her but she never showed and Jessica wasn't
00:53:01
answering her phone jimie started calling everyone that she could think of trying to locate her daughter now we
00:53:08
will go through this timeline in chronological order but of course some of this stuff was not figured out until
00:53:14
after Jessica was reported missing and police began looking for her so Jessica was living with her one-time boyfriend
00:53:23
but it sounds like they were on again and off again they shared an apartment but more than one source says that at
00:53:31
the time of Jessica's disappearance they were sleeping in different rooms so we have the text conversation between
00:53:38
mother and daughter on that Wednesday night yeah that night Jessica goes to sleep at her apartment and again she and
00:53:46
her ex-boyfriend Jackson share this apartment then later we learn that Jessica did respond to a post on
00:53:55
Facebook on Thursday around 2:00 p.m. after that her family received no communication from her on the last night
00:54:04
that Jessica was seen Thursday September 8th she told her boyfriend or ex-boyfriend Jackson that she was going
00:54:13
to a friend's house for drinks and to hang out he says that they spoke and agreed to try to work on their
00:54:20
relationship around 10 p.m. though Jessica stopped responding to Jackson's text he says at the time he assumed that
00:54:29
her phone had died then Jackson he says he was very concerned when he woke up the next morning on the 9th and Jessica
00:54:38
was not home yet Captain do you want a little background on Jackson and Jessica's relationship or should we just
00:54:44
keep moving forward yeah definitely I want to know about him I mean he's a possible suspect Jessica met her
00:54:51
boyfriend/ exboyfriend Jackson when they both were working at the Foxwood retirement home Jackson went to Belton
00:55:00
High School and they knew a lot of the same people by September of 2016 when Jessica goes missing Jackson
00:55:08
and Jessica had been together for three years and were living together but as said the relationship was Rocky and they
00:55:16
were sleeping in separate rooms I'm not clear exactly what here Captain but it's
00:55:22
been reported that Jackson had some health issues as well then on Friday Jessica misses that doctor's
00:55:31
appointment that we discussed her mother speaks with Jackson at this time Mom calls and reports
00:55:40
Jessica missing and then the next day Jessica's mother jimie and Jessica's ex-boyfriend Jackson they go together to
00:55:49
the police department and file a missing person's report in person now Jackson is
00:55:55
is going to be a key factor in this case here because he lives with Jessica so he's going to be able to provide police
00:56:01
with some leads right from Jump Street and this is what he tells the police Jessica went to a friend's house for
00:56:09
drinks on that Thursday when she was not home the next morning when Jackson woke
00:56:14
up he called the person who hosted the party this person tells Jackson that Jessica was at the party and she arrived
00:56:22
with Jackson's friend his name Kyler use scumbag Jessica and Kyler knew each other from high school the party host
00:56:31
said the people there were surprised when Jessica and Kyler arrived together several people later told police that
00:56:39
Kyler was visibly heavily intoxicated that night drinking Gray Goose and wine he's double fisted most of the evening
00:56:49
even more importantly they say that he was acting possessive about Jessica and aggressive
00:56:55
toward the other party goers several witnesses told police that Jessica and Kyler were arguing loudly and Jessica
00:57:03
wanted to leave but Kyler didn't want her to go back to Jackson the host asked Kyler to leave red flag Jessica and
00:57:13
Kyler left the party at 11:42 p.m. in Jessica's car we know almost to the minute when the two left and you'll see
00:57:22
why Jessica's car was a black 2012 Chevy Equinox with Missouri plates Kyler remember we have everybody
00:57:34
saying this dude's hammered he insists on driving but when they go to leave he clipped someone's car in the driveway so
00:57:43
Jessica took the wheel and they drove off now the host of the party took a picture of this car incident which they
00:57:51
later showed to police so the photo was timestamped 11:42 p.m. that's how we have almost the exact time of when they
00:57:59
left that so he hit the car they told people at the party obviously they take a picture and then they let them drive
00:58:06
off correct friends at the party told Jessica to text when she got home safely but she never did text shouldn't let
00:58:14
your friend get in a vehicle with somebody that one you is so intoxicated that you ask to leave the party and then
00:58:22
he hits a vehicle and you still let her leave with this intoxicated guy no one saw Jessica after
00:58:30
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