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In the early morning hours of April eighteen, Fevers,

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a fitness instructor, a mom and wife,

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showed up at this church to teach a class.

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Police says she was killed by puncture wounds

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to the head and chest. This

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is crime stories with Nancy Grace. This

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person intended to do exactly what they

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did, when they did it, and whom

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they did it too. The

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former Murphy police chief says the circle

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of people who may know what happened is

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likely very small. There

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has to be sum between

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her death and people in her past.

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Investigators have poured over Fevers internet

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history and executed multiple larrance.

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Let's say today the I D on this suspect

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will come from a tip they still haven't received.

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April eighteen, two

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thousand sixteen. Missy

1:01

Beaver's a beautiful young wife

1:04

and mother of three little girls.

1:06

Up bright and early, even earlier

1:09

than me. You know, I think I'm all that because

1:11

I get up at five. She's

1:14

up at three o'clock in the morning. Why

1:18

Because she goes and teaches

1:20

a gladiator type exercise

1:23

class at a Midlothian church early

1:26

early in the morning for moms

1:28

that need to then go to work,

1:31

get their children to school, long time, you

1:34

name it. All the things that moms

1:36

do in the morning. No offense, dads,

1:39

But it's a lot. It is

1:41

a lot. She goes

1:43

into the Midlothian church like she always

1:45

does, and she's never seen

1:48

alive again. She

1:51

is brutally murdered inside

1:54

that Midlothian church April

1:57

eighteen, two thousand six

2:00

stein And today I wonder

2:02

are we any closer to

2:05

catching her killer then

2:07

we were on that day. I'm

2:09

Nancy Grace. This is crime

2:11

stories and we want

2:15

justice, don't you. This

2:17

is not a statistic, This is not entertainment.

2:20

This is not just a story we read

2:22

about and then forget. These

2:25

are three little girls that no

2:27

longer have their mother. Why

2:30

with me? Is Alan Duke? Alan?

2:33

I gonna tell you it pains me to even think about

2:35

it because on

2:38

so many levels, but especially

2:40

for those children. I mean,

2:42

yes, they've gone on, Yes they're going

2:44

to go on, They're gonna grow up,

2:46

they're gonna have a life, but it's

2:49

not the same. And

2:52

I know a lot of children grow up without a mom,

2:55

but it's not the same. It's

2:57

just not tell me anything.

3:00

What do we know? Well, first of all,

3:02

the children, three young daughters. She

3:04

was forty five years old, Terry,

3:06

Missy Beavers, and I think it's appropriate

3:09

that we're recording this pretty much

3:11

at the one year mark. I mean, we both got up

3:13

early this morning to do this. And

3:15

when you say that, it sent chills down my down

3:18

my arms, because yes, she got up

3:20

early to go and teach

3:23

this class, this gladiator's workout

3:26

class, which I should be at one this

3:28

morning, but I'm not. You know, I got a hand it to

3:30

this woman because she looked awesome,

3:33

and that takes so

3:35

much discipline and so much

3:37

work on top of everything else

3:40

she was doing. But go ahead. She goes

3:42

to the Smith Glothian, Texas

3:44

Creekside Church of Christ. It's

3:47

raining and she's going to do the class inside

3:50

instead of outside in the parking

3:52

plot as normally, which she posts

3:55

on Facebook the night before and not

3:57

before. So whoever did this? If

4:00

we're targeting Missy, which obviously they

4:02

were, this was not a theft. This

4:04

was not a typical burglary.

4:07

She was targeted by her killer. The

4:09

killer came in to kill her, not still

4:11

anything. The killer knew

4:13

it had been moved inside, that

4:16

there would not be an outdoors and easy

4:18

visible easily visible murder.

4:20

She pulls up to the church parks in the parking

4:23

lot, and it's kind of in a

4:25

it is a sort of a rural area. It's just outside

4:27

of this town of about what fourteen

4:30

fifteen thousand people. I'll never

4:32

forget when I said, what did I say? Three thousand

4:34

and some people and metlow thing got so mad

4:36

at me. Right well, actually

4:39

Missy's husband got upset. He said, your saying

4:41

is so small. Anyway, God

4:43

bless him. I came from I claim it

4:46

was Making, but it really wasn't

4:48

Alan, as you well know. It was

4:50

outside of Making, in a little area

4:53

called Rutland Community. I mean,

4:55

I've told you this, but I

4:57

lived on a red dirt road with a tree growing up

4:59

in the middle of it in front of our house. My

5:02

grandfather, dug our will Our water

5:04

was often red as well.

5:06

So the point of that

5:09

is not to belittle it, but

5:11

to say that the number of suspects

5:13

should be narrowed down. Here

5:16

we are, early in the morning, rainy

5:18

day in Texas. There's

5:21

the surveillance video of

5:23

a car pulling into a gun

5:26

store parking lot across

5:28

the street and down this divided highway

5:30

just a little bit. Isn't it a Nissan Ultima?

5:33

Yes it was, Yes,

5:37

Yes, There are seventeen

5:39

security cameras at this the

5:42

shop that captured the car pulling

5:44

in and driving around

5:46

the parking lot and parking for several minutes

5:49

and then pulling away. Now I've made

5:51

a lot of that. I've made a lot of that because

5:55

it's very difficult for me to believe alan

5:58

that the two are not acted.

6:00

But they could be not

6:03

connected. It's just hard for me

6:05

to believe. That's small of a population.

6:08

You've got a car. That's what

6:10

did we figure out? X

6:13

hundred feet yards from

6:15

the church as the crow flies very

6:17

close if you go the back.

6:20

I've studied that aerial view so many times.

6:22

If you go to the back of the gun

6:24

shop and you walk from there

6:27

through these trees, is densely wooded

6:30

area, you're in Midlothian

6:33

church parking lot in

6:35

less than five minutes, right, So,

6:38

about an hour and a half after we

6:40

see this car, that's when we see

6:43

some other surveillance video. This is

6:45

from inside the church. How long

6:47

after we see how long after we see

6:49

the car About an hour and a half. It's

6:51

really not that long, but it was approximately

6:54

four twenty in the morning when Missy

6:57

goes into the church to set

6:59

up her count gladiator fitness class

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and he's

7:04

or she, we don't even know what the sex

7:06

is. Appears in the

7:09

video inside the church, caught

7:11

by several cameras, wearing the swat

7:13

Light police uniform sort

7:16

of a configuration of different pieces,

7:19

and a helmet. You can't see the person's

7:21

face. You can't even tell if it's a male

7:23

or a female, but you see a distinctive walk.

7:26

But nuts I would wear a helmet.

7:28

It's um like a motorcycle

7:30

helmet, as Alan is saying, covered

7:33

in tactical gear, all black.

7:36

It looks like to me black tennis

7:38

shoes, solid black tennis shoes,

7:41

and carrying a hammer, and carrying a hammer

7:43

which they could have found within

7:46

the church. There's controversy over

7:48

whether that hammer came from inside the church

7:50

or not. Yeah, the several

7:52

minutes of video that the police have released

7:54

from inside the church, it's

7:57

very chilling video that

7:59

shows this person wandering around

8:01

the hallways of the church, checking appearing

8:04

to check doors and that kind of thing. When I say

8:06

appearing, I'm wondering if this person

8:08

is kind of putting on an act and pretending like

8:10

opious. Allen stopped wondering. I

8:12

can tell you that I can't tell you a

8:14

lot, but I can tell you that I've watched it over and over.

8:17

I mean, it's like the person is wandering up

8:19

and down the halls and they get to a door and they go rattle,

8:22

rattle, and keep walking and they never

8:24

take anything. I mean, for Pete's sake,

8:26

if you want money, go into

8:28

the sanctuary. I hate to even say

8:30

this, but I was gonna say, steal this crucifix,

8:33

I mean, still something made of gold, try

8:35

to find the electronic equipment. They

8:38

didn't do any of that nothing.

8:40

If they wanted money, then use that hammer

8:43

and bash open the door,

8:45

knob to the office and look for

8:48

money. For Pete's sake. Well, it was very

8:50

obvious these people weren't there to rob,

8:52

But you just said you didn't know if they

8:54

were really not, I can tell you

8:56

they're not there. To my point was, we

8:58

don't know. It appears to me that they're

9:00

acting as if they weren't familiar with the area

9:03

as soon as she walks into the door. From

9:05

what we're told by investigators, and they're

9:07

not telling us a lot Off camera or

9:09

at least a camera. They're not releasing. This

9:11

killer used that hammer

9:14

to beat Missy Beavers

9:16

to death, puncturing her chest

9:19

and just brutally killing

9:21

her right there in the hallway. The

9:23

crazy thing is, we've got all this video,

9:26

and my guess is there's a

9:28

lot of video that you and I are not seeing

9:30

because the police have not released it. And

9:33

there's been tons of search warrants. There

9:35

was a search warrant for the dry cleaner

9:37

when the father turned picking

9:41

a bloody shirt and he was very

9:43

open at the time. He went at this is

9:45

from my dog's got into a

9:48

dog fight in the kitchen, and

9:50

there was linked in. There were

9:52

cell phone tower searches, a T and

9:55

T facebooks. I'm

9:57

just still wondering about back to that car.

10:00

I mean, NASA can pick up a

10:02

picture of a rock on the moon,

10:05

a rock you hold in your hand. Why

10:07

can't they get the tag

10:10

number of that or have they? That

10:13

is another baffling thing. And let me tell you what's

10:15

been going on. There's someone I've been in communication

10:17

with. They've asked me not to name them.

10:20

But this is just a civilian. This is just a citizen

10:23

who is really getting into this and this

10:25

person has blown up every single

10:27

frame of that parking

10:29

lot video, and about

10:32

every day I can get another one sent

10:34

to me. What do you think of this? They're

10:36

trying to see what's in the INTERNI no tell

10:39

me, Sorry, I'm losing my voice. First

10:42

John David got it for about a minute.

10:44

Then Lucy got it and

10:47

somehow managed to wheedle her way into

10:49

a day out of school and

10:52

where I got to stay with her for hours

10:54

on end and work on her poetry project. Now

10:56

I've got it. So that's my

10:58

my sack of rocks. Now I

11:01

want to know what they're sending you. I don't want to

11:03

see it. One of the more interesting

11:05

things, and you and I have talked about this before, is the

11:07

license plate. You just mentioned the license plate on

11:09

this car, this ultimate if you blow

11:12

it up and look frame by frame on the video.

11:14

The full video has been posted

11:16

online by the owner manager

11:19

of the gun shop, not by police, but and

11:21

only in December. And of course we

11:23

we sort of broke that back in January

11:26

and we looked at it closely. But if you blow it

11:28

up, the suspicion here is

11:31

that that video has been

11:33

altered to blur out the license

11:36

plate. I mean, I look at these frames

11:38

and everything is clearer except you

11:40

look and as you follow the car, it

11:43

does look like maybe somebody

11:45

has digitally blurred the license plate. So

11:47

why did they do that? Well, that means to

11:49

me that they must have found

11:52

out who it was and totally rolled them out,

11:55

or they thought it was from

11:57

the license plate and didn't

11:59

want us and everybody else

12:02

all over them. We stirred

12:04

up a hornet's nest. Back in January

12:07

when we started talking about this

12:09

and there was huge interest in it, you

12:12

and I both got phone calls and emails

12:14

and text messages from people in mid

12:16

Lothian asking us not to talk about this

12:19

case. I don't understand that. Well,

12:21

like some people don't want the case to go away,

12:25

or they they think that somehow

12:27

discussing it or

12:29

us independently investigating it

12:31

as we have been doing in many

12:33

different ways, is somehow

12:36

going to hurt the investigation. Well,

12:38

it looks like nothing's happening on the investigation.

12:41

I think we need to start talking about this case more

12:44

because it has been one year, because

12:47

it hasn't been solved, The police

12:49

have not been giving any interviews, have

12:51

not been returning calls and they don't have

12:53

to Alan, I know that. Did

12:56

you get to quote journalism school?

12:58

I did not. I was a political science pator. I was going to go

13:00

to law school. What happened to that

13:03

I actually worked in a law office, when into

13:05

jailhouse, interviews, all of that kind of thing. Well,

13:07

that's enough to turn you off from the law right there. Well

13:10

I enjoyed that, you know, did title search

13:12

all the I didn't even know that I

13:14

worked for a judge. But then what happened

13:16

was I got a job at a radio station in Carrolton,

13:19

Georgia, and you know, playing

13:21

Conway Twitty and laure hot Stacks

13:23

wax yes, yes, and

13:26

place me. You didn't really say that hot Stacks

13:28

away. I never did that. And

13:31

then I started doing news there and

13:34

you know, riding around with the cops and doing

13:36

all that in a small town of Carrolton, Georgia.

13:38

And I just fell in love with that. And somehow

13:41

you landed in the lap of luxury in l

13:43

A with all your Hollywood friends. That was many years

13:45

later, many years later, still where you

13:47

landed. I'm just saying, okay, you

13:49

know what enough of why you didn't go

13:52

to law school. Let's get back to Missy Babers,

13:54

I don't blame you. If I had interviewed a lot of

13:57

criminals behind bars, that would have totally turned

13:59

me off. I would have for out in the whole thing and run

14:01

for the hills, as if I had seen a monster. Okay,

14:04

now back to Missy. That we were

14:06

talking about why everybody's clamming up, Well,

14:09

they are one of the reasons. Actually,

14:11

we got some communication from Brandon Beavers

14:14

who said that he didn't like us talking

14:16

about it because he was afraid we would anger

14:19

the killer who's still out there, which is a

14:21

really good point because there's a small town.

14:24

He's got three young daughters. He's worried about their

14:26

safety, but he's worried that the

14:28

more publicity this thing gets could

14:31

anger the killer who is still out there. No

14:34

one has released a statement, no

14:36

words. It's made two thousand sixteen, that

14:38

was a month after Missy was murdered. They

14:40

released the image of the Ultima that was

14:42

driving around the s w F, a gun

14:44

store which is very close

14:47

to the church, at two am. The

14:49

perp is in the church about an

14:51

hour later. I say, that's just no coincidence.

14:55

Two hours after the ultimas driving

14:57

around in the gun store parking lot.

15:00

Missy's murdered. Now, we

15:02

were all told this was not

15:04

a suspect vehicle, but

15:06

it was possibly one. Well, I

15:09

recalled the police saying it was not a suspect

15:11

vehicle, but that police were interested

15:13

in speaking to the owner, that maybe they saw

15:16

something. That morning. Brandon

15:18

Beaver spoke out. Then he

15:20

was caught in his driveway. He spoke

15:23

again, He spoke with his

15:25

dad. There was a press conference, there

15:27

was a release, an image of

15:29

the Ultima was released. See

15:31

to me if they had ruled the car out while released

15:33

the image. Long story short, we

15:35

still don't know a darned thing. There was

15:37

all the speculation the killer

15:40

was a woman. But I still

15:42

say if they had done

15:44

the sting ray data

15:47

dump and figured out what cell

15:49

phones were in the area and active

15:52

between one and four o'clock in the morning,

15:55

we would have learned a lot. Of course, the killer

15:57

may have known to cut the cell phone off. Remember,

16:00

yeah, cut the phone off, take the battery

16:02

out, do all of those things, or not even

16:04

bring a cell phone with you. You know, you don't

16:06

have to post on Facebook necessarily as you're

16:08

killing somebody. Now. Also, it was

16:11

reported to the police. Digital

16:14

evidence seen in

16:17

the ultima linked the

16:19

car to the church.

16:22

Digital evidence can

16:24

be seen in the ultima

16:27

linking it to the

16:29

church. I do know if you blow

16:31

up the images and we can share some

16:33

of these blown up images that have been shared

16:36

with me, you will see the

16:38

form of different things inside

16:40

the car that could be you

16:43

could be interpreted,

16:45

well, like a fireman's tool. That's

16:48

one theory that if you look in the back seat you

16:50

see a fireman's tool. Well, does that

16:52

mean it's linked to the church in that

16:54

it looks like the same weapon. I think

16:56

so, Yes, you can see different boxes,

16:58

but I really don't know that you can

17:00

craw conclusion. I have squinted and looked

17:02

at these images. I think somebody

17:05

with better eyes will have to figure that out than

17:07

me. I don't see it as conclusive. Well,

17:09

I believe what it was a specific frame

17:12

that shows the police swap tactical

17:14

vest in the back seat and

17:16

the mallet that you're describing that

17:19

they believe police believe was a murder weapon

17:22

and another tool seen on the back dashboard

17:24

the police. Midlothian

17:26

Police state they were not

17:29

aware these items existed in the vehicle

17:31

and reinforce. The surveillance video

17:34

was completed back in May. Well,

17:36

you know they're climbing.

17:39

They don't have the ability to enhance it any

17:41

further. Well can the Feds?

17:44

I mean, for Pete's sake, if you

17:46

can get better video than that enhancement

17:49

at Walmart. There is again,

17:52

this person I was telling a private citizen has

17:54

been really pushing the police to do just that.

17:56

This person has spent a lot of time in

17:58

doing that. There's an organization that does

18:01

this, that has offered to help Midlothian

18:03

police do this, and from what I understand, they've

18:05

not taken them. Are you talking about

18:07

the Center for Media Forensics That yes,

18:10

yes, man, they should give it a crack Repete's

18:13

sake, and they have a grant from the FEDS,

18:15

the d o J. Maybe this is happening

18:18

all behind the scenes and we just don't know

18:20

about it. I mean, they helped with the boss

18:22

to marathon bombings, didn't they? Yes,

18:24

yes, I I think so. What's baffling

18:27

to me on this first anniversary of Missy's

18:29

murder is that we've not heard

18:31

from Midlothian Police in more than six months.

18:34

They've declined our requests for interviews. Now,

18:37

I did get a response just yesterday

18:39

from the husband, Brandon Beavers,

18:41

to my invitation to him to speak to us,

18:44

and here's what he wrote me in an email.

18:46

The family has unilaterally decided

18:49

not to do any interviews. We've elected

18:51

not to memorialize the date of the event,

18:54

but to celebrate her life in private

18:56

instead. Okay, let's move on from

18:58

the car. Let's talk about what else

19:00

we do know. We know that

19:03

either Missy and or

19:06

Brandon were romantically

19:08

linked to other people. The

19:11

police were not clear. They made it

19:13

fairly obvious that it was Missy.

19:16

We also know, and you know

19:18

what, I'm not judging her. I'm not proud

19:20

of everything I've ever done in my life either. All

19:23

I care about is a felony. Everything

19:25

else is a lifestyle choice, and I

19:27

don't care. But I know that

19:29

she was away the wee can before in

19:31

Austin, and she was

19:34

not with her husband and children. Did she

19:36

meet somebody? There is there an angry

19:39

lover or an angry

19:41

spouse that has it out for Missy?

19:43

I mean, you've got to look at the behavioral

19:45

evidence as well when you run dry

19:47

on scientific So what do we know

19:50

other than its lead she had

19:52

affairs. They searched her iPhone

19:54

six, they searched her Facebook

19:57

page, they searched text messages and

19:59

that sort of thing, and they found, as

20:01

you said, evidence of relationships. This

20:03

is all in the search warrants. So this

20:05

this part is out in the open.

20:07

But just because you have an affair with somebody doesn't

20:10

mean that they're going to kill you or a spouse is

20:12

going to kill you. It could have been something else. But

20:15

how could this be totally random when this so

20:17

much appeared to

20:22

So we can quit talking about that wasting

20:25

my wasting my breath. What

20:27

about Brandon Weavers, who is not a

20:29

suspect, who is not a p y personal

20:31

interest. Now, he was out

20:33

on a long planned fishing trip.

20:36

I think he tries to take it every year,

20:39

fishing slash gambling. Was it in Mississippi,

20:42

wasn't it? Bloxi? Yes, And

20:44

Christie Stout, his sister, had

20:47

described that trip. But some

20:50

research shows that there was not an

20:52

American Airlines flight out

20:54

of DFW handed to

20:56

that location that day. Well,

20:59

for all I know, it could have been a

21:01

different airline, it could have been Scotch.

21:04

I'm going to assume police have verified

21:08

and they look at yes, of course.

21:10

I mean that's the routine that you that you tell

21:12

us about all the time. The first person you look at

21:14

is the spouse to the boyfriend. Right when

21:17

you look at the charter company

21:19

that was taking them fishing, they

21:21

did They do have one boat trip

21:24

featured on their website. That's the trip

21:26

Beavers was supposed to be on a year

21:28

ago today. The group was

21:30

described on the website as a group of guys

21:32

from Texas. All right, that

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to me checks out to a large

21:37

degree. You gotta stick with a husband

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to a certain extent, because that's

21:42

always the prime person the

21:45

target police look at. But I

21:47

found Brandon Beavers to be pretty open.

21:49

He would come forward and speak. Have

21:52

you noticed that when husband's

21:54

except for Dreu Peterson, husbands

21:56

that kill usually don't speak.

21:59

They hide out, they don't come forward, remember

22:01

Scott Peterson. I mean, I can

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give you a million off the top of my head,

22:05

but Beavers didn't do that. His out

22:07

front and center from the get go. Brandon

22:10

Beavers was very outspoken

22:12

early. But I can tell you he

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is not talking now. I wonder why

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why he sent me an email

22:19

and we had a phone conversation basically

22:22

the bottom line being he does not want

22:24

this to be publicly discussed.

22:26

He wants this just to be investigated

22:28

by police outside of the public, because

22:31

he thinks the speculation is a danger to his family.

22:34

He thinks that because of the speculation

22:37

that the killer who's still free.

22:39

Obviously, I mean we know that. That's one thing we

22:41

know is the killer is still free.

22:43

Okay, this is what we can do today.

22:46

We can release the

22:48

pictures that you have obtained on

22:50

the crime online dot com website so

22:53

everyone can look at them. We can

22:55

release any other information if

22:57

possible. Some of it we cannot release because

23:00

we promised we wouldn't. Some

23:02

we can. Let's do that Alan.

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Having everybody looking at it

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may help. I don't understand why they've

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clammed up. I don't understand why they're not speaking.

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I find it hard to believe they can't enhance

23:15

the evidence any further. What

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more can we be looking at now? Well,

23:20

we can expect at some point,

23:23

maybe on the anniversary, that at least

23:25

mid Lothian Police will give us an update,

23:28

will make some sort of statement. We

23:31

will continue our investigation

23:34

into the death of Missy Beavers. It's

23:36

getting more and more difficult to

23:38

call information from a

23:40

group that are locked up tight and won't

23:42

speak and I don't really understand that. But

23:45

on this day we're thinking of the family

23:47

and thinking of Brandon Beavers especially.

23:49

I'm thinking of those children, her three

23:52

girls that are left behind Alan. What's

23:54

our tipline called the Middle Lothian

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Police Department at nine seven two seven

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seven five seven six to

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four. If you want to be anonymous,

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you can leave a tip at this number

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nine seven two

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nine three seven p A

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Y s. Pays or seven

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to nine seven. And

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of course you can always go to crime online

24:17

dot com where we have an anonymous

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email drop and phone number

24:23

for you to leave information on

24:25

this and other crimes. Missy

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Beaver's rest in peace because we are not

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giving up here on Earth. Nancy Grace

24:33

Crime Stories, signing off

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goodbye friend,