Unsolved Murder-Missing Persons Case #4

Date:  May 1, 2009

Location: Pineville Missouri

Investigators on Scene:

Misty, Brenda, Mark (guest: Linda)

Attendees on Scene:

Case detective and another employee of the McDonald County Sheriff’s department.

Newspaper Articles:

The McDonald County News Gazette, December 5, 1990, Volume 119, Number 4

Body found in weeds; homicide suspected

            A routine walk for health reasons turned into a nightmare about noon Sunday for a McDonald County man and his wife.

                According to the man, who has asked to remain anonymous, he and his wife had taken one leg of their walk and were returning home when he glanced into the weeds in front of an old abandoned building and saw a skull lying there.

                Curious, he ventured on toward the building and discovered more body portions. He said that he knew he had to call the sheriff.

                The badly decomposed body was apparently bound hand-to-foot by heavy twine and was dressed in a denim jacket; a pair of white tennis shoes lay nearby.

                “It appears to me the hands were tied to the feet,” said McDonald County Sheriff Lou Keeling. “There’s no way to tell for sure; they seemed to be tied behind the back to the feet.”

                Keeling said it was determined Monday that the body was a woman between the ages of 20 and 30. He said that determination was made by a University of Arkansas anthropologists brought to the scene by Benton County Sheriff Andy Lee.

                The anthropologist, Keeling said, also took soil samples that will be analyzed for parasites and insects to determine the exact position the body was lying in when discovered.  

Animals Involved

            Parts of the body had apparently been strewn over a 25-foot area by dogs and wild animals, Keeling said.

                The skull was discovered in front of the building, about 10 feet off the road and close to where it was determined the victim had been left.

                “However, animals have disturbed the body from where it was left,” Keeling noted. The backbone was later found about a quarter-mile away in the back yard of the man who had chanced upon the body.

                The torso and legs had apparently been drug by animals to a location just under an overhang of the old building. Portions of the rib cage also turned up there.

                McDonald County Coroner Gale Duncan was on the scene, guiding officers in the search for evidence, which was eventually gathered along the remains of the victim and placed in zippered bags.

Identification Sought

                Homicide is strongly suspected, but the sheriff said identity of the victim is of prime concern at this point.

                “Our first objective will be to get the person identified,” Keeling said. “Then, we’ll start the investigation.”

                “We have sent teletypes throughout Missouri and to adjacent counties in other states.”

                Those teletypes, Keeling said, describe the victim as a white female, ranging from 20-30 years of age, dressed in blue jeans, white tennis shoes and a denim jacket.

                Keeling said the forensic anthropologist in Columbia will be able to determine numerous other things. “Possibly the color of the hair; possibly the physical weight, height and so on.”

                A trip to Columbia with the remains was being scheduled Monday. “They’ll give us a date,” Keeling said, “and we’ll take it up there.”

                Keeling told the press Tuesday afternoon that a 10 year old McDonald County youth had told his parents that he had seen the body with the head wrapped on Nov. 3, but the parents didn’t take the youth seriously.

The McDonald County News Gazette, December 12, 1990, Volume 119, Number 5  

Investigation a first here…Sheriff gets more than 220 queries on unidentified body

            Law enforcement agencies from all over the United States have responded to a teletype report sent out last week by McDonald County Sheriff Lou Keeling in connection with a body discovered by a couple out for a Sunday stroll.

                The partially decomposed, unidentified body, determined recently to be that of a woman in her late 20’s or early 30’s, was found off in the weeds, about 10 feet off a roadway a mile off Highway 71 and 3 miles north of Pineville.

                “We had a total of 222 inquiries, 25 in southern Missouri,” Keeling said. “And we had officers going through these and eliminating them and picking out the ones most positive.”

                Of those gone through, the sheriff said two have been chosen and information sent to Jefferson City.

                Queries came in from all over the United States, Keeling said; the furthest ones from California and New York state. Not all the requests concerned people known to be deceased he noted; a lot were about people only listed as missing.

                “They have an additional computer system that takes all the information on these missing people.” Keeling said. “if we find some that may be in a category of this particular person, we try to make comparisons.”

                “Information in this type case always comes slow”, the sheriff said. So far, the only thing positive returned from the forensic anthropologist at the University of Missouri at Columbia is the age identification.

                “Within the next week or two, we’ll have information on the height and weight,” he said. “The next thing we hope to find out, because there was some tissue in the clothing. The lab up there may come up with a blood type. The more information we can get through the process of elimination, the better.”

                “This is not something that will be resolved real fast,” Keeling said. “There’s nothing we can do at this point, unless we can get some leads, to get the body identified.”

                One of the inquiries received concerned a person who had not been reported missing. “It’s very possible this person has not been reported missing,” Keeling said.  

First Time Case

                This kind of case is new for law enforcement in McDonald County,” Keeling said. “We’ve never had one exactly like this,” he said. “We had a body that had been missing three years a while back. It wasn’t a homicide; just a missing person.” The current case is being investigated as a homicide.

                The body was taken to Columbia last Tuesday, two days after its discovery. The initial investigation at the scene turned up some small bones in a shack to the rear of the home where it was discovered. Keeling said it has been determined those bones were from a chicken.

                “Immediately, at the forensic examination, we were almost sure they were not human bones, but since they were found in the vicinity, we sent them up there to be sure.”

                Assistance in the search for clues in the case has come recently from Sgt. Mike Parks, a criminal investigator with the Missouri State Police, stationed at Carthage.

                “He has been assisting us with the computer work on a national basis,” Keeling said. “He also came down and with (Deputy) Tom Yeargain and used a metal detector at the scene.”

                Nothing significant, however, turned up in that search. “Assuming the person was shot at the scene, there would be a projectile; we wanted to make sure there was no projectile.”

                Meanwhile, the intense investigation goes one, with Yeargain as the main deputy assigned to the case, “However McDonald County still have deputies who will have an assignment to follow up on. All of them will be working on certain portions of it.”

                Clues have been few at this point. One of the newest, reported last week, was a revelation from the parents of a 10-year-old boy who said he had viewed the body, lying off the road with its face wrapped on Nov. 3.

The McDonald County News Gazette (date unknown, partial article)

Body I.D. lengthy, difficult (continued from page 1)  

Body Categorized

                Dental records of five likely prospects are now being sought, Parks said. “Our body has had a lot of quality dental work. So this indicates to me this is not a street person.”

                Meanwhile, as Parks and Deputy Tom Yeargain continue the search for the dental records, other aspects of the investigation also continue.

                A forensic anthropologist from the University of Arkansas came to the site, about a mile off Highway 71, three miles south of Pineville, and took soil samples.

                Sheriff Lou Keeling said she is searching for various types of parasites that will help with a determination of where the body lay before.

                But the answer is about as slow coming as Parks search is time consuming.

                “It will take some time for that,” Keeling noted. “They may not find anything, but I think they will.”

                Parks said if he could spend full-time on just this case, which is unlikely, he could finish his part in about two days.”

                He and other officers, at this point in the investigation, still have no idea of who the young woman was, or who killed and tied her up by heavy twine and coaxial cable.

                Parks said it is a mystery to him why no one has called in answer to the queries; someone who has a loved one missing that’s about that age.

                Meanwhile the search will continue.

                The body was originally taken to the crime lab rectory at the University of Missouri in Columbia.

                The twine and cable itself, along with the clothing from the body is being held at the McDonald County (illegible……..)

The McDonald County News Gazette (date unknown, partial article)  

No new clues in year-old case

Skeletal remains of woman found in weeds.

                There has been no new clues in a the year-old discovery of the body of a woman off in the woods near an old shack by a man and his wife out for a Sunday stroll.

                The body appeared to be bound, according to Sheriff Lou Keeling, who said at the time the hands seemed to be tied to the feet. A coaxial cable was believed used.

                Numerous local law enforcement personnel, along with McDonald County Coroner Gale Duncan, were at the scene that Dec. 2, a Sunday. What they discovered was a gruesome sight. The remains had been dragged back off into an overhang by one of the rooms of the shack, apparently by local or wild animals. The backbone was later discovered in the back yard of a residence about a quarter-mile away. The skull was found about 10 feet from where the rest of the body was found.

                It was determined a day after discovery the woman was between the ages of 20-30, that determination made by an Arkansas pathologist who came to the scene for an investigation.

                Hundreds of calls nationwide eventually went out over the wires; calls seeking the possible identification of the woman and why she was dumped into the woods in McDonald County. Homicide was suspected immediately.

                There were numerous replies to these wires. But, as of last Friday, there had been no positive information gained that might lead law enforcement officials to a positive identification.

                Sgt. Mark Parks, an investigator with the Missouri Highway Patrol office in Carthage, has been involved with computer searches sine the case began, Keeling said.

                There have been sporadic inquiries, the sheriff noted, the last one only about a month ago. Queries on other missing people not listed on the national computer network have also come in, he said.

                “We’ve just about exhausted everything we’ve done,” Keeling noted, “and the unique thing is, it should be easy to identify. She had an extensive amount of expensive dental work done.”

                There were reports in a Springfield newspaper shortly after the local case was begun that indicated it and other killings, similar in design of operation and searching from Springfield on into Arkansas, may have been done by the same person or persons. But the theory was never proved to be an accurate one.

                Officials at the time guessed the body had been laid in the weeds for the last month or two. Tall weeds prevalent in October and November around the area prevented sighting of the body before, although there was one report that a 10-year-old boy telling his parents about seeing the body with its face wrapped up on about Nov. 3, according to Keeling.

Misty’s Reading:

(Misty is given the box that contains the remaining evidence from the scene of the crime.)  

The box of what remains of the victim

Misty goes through the evidence in the box

Misty: Are you also wanting to know something about the male?

Detective: Just whatever, whatever you got to offer, we’ll take.

Misty: The male that did this is still a truck driver. I’m picking up the name of Jeff. Last initial?? He is from down south, further. They came right up the highway. Did you look up that one name that I gave you, McAfee…?

Detective: The only thing we could find with that is that there was a McAfee Foods which picked up eggs. They were a company that picked up eggs for chicken houses. The other thing was a McKee Food which was a Little Debbie plant down south.

Misty: She’s from down south, further. He’s a trucker and his name is Jeff. Or was a trucker. I don’t even think he’s driving now because he would be about 67, bald, glasses, brown eyes. This is not his first one. There were 3 others. Did they find any blood on this anywhere because he stabbed her a few times but also she was choked, suffocated.

Detective: There was no blood at the scene.

Misty: Yes, I know but I mean on the clothes. There was blood because he stabbed her but he also suffocated her. It was if he put something over her that he pushed on. She was with him for awhile. She stayed with him for quite some time. She wasn’t a very big person. Fairly thin. Give me a name…..It’s not a great big truck, not like a semi or anything but he drives a big truck….he had a tattoo on his left arm because I can see that. Tattoo of a woman’s head. It’s not like the whole body, just the head. There is also a star and some writing around it. I can’t quite make that out. When I’m touching this rope, I’m pulling on him for some reason. Jeff, Jeff, I see the letter C, more hearing it than seeing it, I don’t know if it’s the last initial or middle initial. How far down south is the egg place and the other business?

Detective: Little Debbie is about 5 miles south and the other one is about 13 miles to the north.

Misty: I’m feeling something here that keeps trying to pull me to her but I’m not sure which item it is. When did you guys get these items?  

Misty with the shoes and rope that were found at the scene

Misty holding the shoes found at the scene

Detective: The items in bags we got about 2 weeks ago, the other items we’ve always had. The bindings we’ve always had.

Misty: Did these come back from the FBI?

Detective: Those were stored at the Ozark Funeral Home here in town.

Misty: They’ve been at the funeral home all this time? Did they have a Cassandra or Cassie that worked over there, because I’m picking up that someone touched something named Sandra, Cassandra, Cassie, something like that. I’m getting that name because somebody by that name touched something here and I need to get that name out of my mind so I can move on beyond that feeling. I need to be able to rule out that name if someone from the funeral home touched the clothing and stuff. I keep being drawn more to this stuff here (bindings, shoes, hair sample, towel) more so than the clothes. Other energies are on that (clothes) more than anything.

Detective: (Checking names of people who had handled the evidence.) Chrisha was the medical examiner.

Misty: Okay, maybe that’s who I’m picking up because it started with a C and I could feel it. I’ve got to get her energies and stuff off. Is this the only lock of hair? Has anyone touched it?

Detective: No one else has touched that. We just found that off of her jacket. She had hair all over her jacket, it was never taken off.

Misty: Can I open this and touch it?

Detective: Absolutely.

Misty: I know some of this stuff can and can’t be touched, I just don’t know which. I don’t want to mess anything up.

Detective: I’ve packaged everything that I need to send off to the lab.  

All that remains of the victim

Misty goes through the bag containing the victim's hair

Misty: Okay, that’s good then. (Misty takes hair out of bag and begins to gag as if she is going to throw up.) I don’t have to feel this….she was with this guy for awhile, she dated him…they fought quite often. He drank pretty heavy and did drugs. She did too. She was into drugs. (Misty continues to gag as she holds the lock of hair.) Marge…Marjory….Mary Jean…she was almost what…40….did they give you an estimated age? 35 to 40 maybe?

Detective: They said 20 to 30.

Misty: No…I’m looking a little older than that. She may have looked old for her age and maybe the drugs caused that but she’s over 30. She is over 30. I’m still picking up 35 to 42. At least 35, I’m not feeling her to be any younger than that. He punched her around quite a bit. He’s done this before. He wanted to make sure that whatever he had was going to hold her. But…she wasn’t a big person…it’s almost as if he thought he didn’t kill her for some reason…it had to do with control…he just wanted to bind her up really good so she would have to stay and not be able to move. He just didn’t want her to move. It had to do with control.

Detective: Do you know if these are her clothes?

Misty: That could be where a name is coming from. There is something here that doesn’t belong. Is there something that you found that you don’t think belongs because there is one thing that doesn’t fit?

Detective: The jeans were rolled up several times. Her shirt was a size large, made in Indonesia.

Misty: She didn’t wear a large.

Detective: She had a jean jacket on that wasn’t a feminine jean jacket but rather a male type jacket. It just seemed to me that all this clothing with the exception of the socks was a males clothing and was oversized. She had no underwear and no bra however she had socks and shoes, a jacket, shirt, jean jacket and that towel was wrapped around her head and then the cord was wrapped around the towel. They tell me at one point when she was younger that she was very well cared for. She had thousands of dollars of dental work done to her teeth. Her bite was exceptional, her inclusion was exceptional and according to the orthodontists they said it was remarkable how much care she had when she was younger. Maybe it was done in her teens because she still had all her fillings intact. They said somebody did a lot of work on her.

Misty: She’s from down south. And it’s like further, further…..not just from this area but further on down.

Detective: Like Alabama?

Misty: Within two states of here. Sometimes after I do this, I’ll get more stuff later on. I’ll see her face or she’ll come, I’ll hear her voice or visions will come afterwards, once I’ve gotten it all absorbed in me. She wasn’t a big girl. I’m feeling 120 pounds. She was very tiny.

Detective: I’m a little confused. To me it looks like her hair was light brown and there is gobs of her hair. In the report they say it’s a dark brown.

Misty: No, she could have colored her hair. I’m feeling her to be even lighter haired than this. More like a brownish blonde is what she was at one time. I don’t know if she’s colored her hair but when I’m seeing her she was a little lighter haired. She’s white.

Detective: Is there any significance to where she was buried? She was buried at an old abandoned farmhouse. Any significance with to that road? It was a road that would have come off of 71 highway.

Misty: Yes. He liked the highway. He traveled the highway.

Detective: What bothers me about this place is that is seems like an unusual place for somebody to dump a body.

Misty: Well not if you’re from around here. He’s not far from here but he’s still alive. He’s in his 60’s now. When did this happen?

Detective: 1990. The body was found December 2, 1990.

Misty: He would have been about 40 then. He’s from around this area, not exactly in this town but from around this area. I don’t feel him as living too far away. I can tell you that his first victim was about 17 years old. He picked her up. I’m picking up like a Marjory Jean, Mary Jean…the only things I’m really attracted to are these things right here. (The towel, shoes and bindings.)

Detective: We think she died in October. She was found Dec 2 which was on a Sunday. The reason they theorize that she died in October was because there were Halloween parties going on. Along about that time frame we had a person that thought she heard a truck go up the hill the night before Halloween, which was on a Saturday. A loud truck, like a truck without a muffler. A usual loud sound.

Misty: It was a bigger truck like a delivery truck. Those are loud.

Detective: I don’t know if she was dead when he dumped her.

Misty: No…No.

Detective: They say they heard her scream. We have people that say they heard a scream. The reason it was not significant on that old county dirt road was because it was the night before Halloween and there were parties going on. They claim they heard two doors slam.

Misty: He already had her tied up when they got there but not with all the ropes at that time. Did she have a hit to the back of the head? Did they find anything like that?

Detective: They didn’t find any blunt force trauma to the skull. The teeth were completely intact. However, it’s unknown how she died.

Misty: She was suffocated and stabbed. She was stabbed first but then it was like he put something over her face and suffocated.

Detective: She had a towel over her face.

Misty: No, there was something else before the towel. There was something else. As far as the underwear, I don’t see her wearing them. She wasn’t a big busted girl so I don’t see her really wearing any.

Detective: Here is the towel she had over her face. You can touch the items here because we’ve already sent off what we need. The amount of bindings used is unusual in this case. Most people don’t have access to that many different bindings.

Misty: The bindings were convenient for him. I don’t feel like he was a very experienced person with tying bindings. She was tied before he took her out of the truck with what he had in the truck and then he added more to it. He didn’t have a lot of time.

Detective: He actually tied her over her jean jacket as opposed to tying her from wrist to wrist like most people would. One cord went through the laces of her tennis shoe even though she was also tied around the feet. She was again tied not around her shins but around the pants where it would seemingly be assumed that she could wiggle out of the cords because of the material bulk.

Misty: She was already dead when he tied those bindings. She was tied before he put her out but the main tying occurred after she was already gone.

Detective: The towel was at one time a real expensive towel which seems out of place because her tennis shoes were of a Wal-Mart type brand. The clothing is not brand name.

Misty: The towel is out of a hotel. I can tell you that….kind of like a Holiday Inn or a better grade hotel. Not one she would have brought from home or anything like that.

Detective: Her shirt appeared that it might be a military type shirt, kind of out of the brown colors, the ones they used before they went to the sand color. They claim it was yellow but I think it was more of an army issue.

Misty: Was it a tee-shirt.

Detective: It was a regular tee-shirt. It looked oversized to me. It was a large. It was made in Indonesia. It was a better quality shirt and to me it looks like a military shirt.

Misty: Well she was definitely stabbed. She was stabbed first. No holes in the shirt?

Detective: There was a rip up by the sleeve by the shoulder.

Misty: What is this hard piece of cloth?

Detective: I don’t know. It’s not her sock. It doesn’t show up anywhere at all.

Misty: It’s not written down at all?

Detective: It doesn’t show up in any of the reports at all.

Misty: It’s not been documented?

Detective: It’s not been documented. That was stuck in the bottom of that white trash bag and nobody ever took it out and looked at it. It’s never been touched that I’m aware of. We have guesses because it has a grain to it that it’s a shop towel. There was only one person who saw this girl before she was decomposed and the animals got to her. It happened to be a 10 year old little boy that lived right close to the road. In the early part of November he told his parents, “There’s a girl up there.” They didn’t believe him. He’d go back and say “There’s a girl up there.” They never did believe him. It wasn’t until she was found December 2 that they ever believed him. The only person who ever saw this girl was this little boy. We have his last name. We’re trying to find him. We’re trying to get a woman to reconstruct the face from the pictures who is renowned for her work in reconstruction, but we don’t know where the skull is so all we have is the photos. We’re hoping she’ll at least look at the photos.

 Misty: I can almost describe her to her. If I could give her a description of what I’m seeing on her face features and her color of eyes and that kind of stuff I can do, but I can’t draw it. I can see what she looks like; I can see a face, kind of narrow through the face. She’s got pretty prominent cheek bones, the bottom lip was a little thicker than the top….I’m seeing blue eyes, kind of hazel blue. This piece of cloth is a napkin like you get at a fairly nice restaurant. Like the ones you get that are kind of tweed like. It’s a napkin. It was hers. It was in her pocket. She kept it. I can’t tell you where it’s from yet. It was in her pocket. These clothes just don’t fit to me. I’m more attracted to this because this was hers. I get bits and pieces, I see things and I feel things. I can’t tell you everything at once, it’ll start coming together later. Her eyes set further back, her nose is a little longer and a little slender…I wish I could draw it. I see blue eyes.

Detective: If I give you the names of the lead suspects could you tell me if they are the ones or not? This is a guy that had all of these bindings. His wife was Native American and she kept coming forward saying her husband had something to do with this. But basically she ran around in the streets naked so everyone thought she was just crazy. However, they did do a search warrant on his home and found all these types of bindings but they couldn’t match them up at the lab. I have his name.

Misty: Would he be about 60 years old now?

Detective: He would now.

Misty: Does he have a tattoo on his left arm?

Detective: I don’t know. They failed to look into it because he’s one of those they never followed through on.

Misty: Does he live around here fairly close?

Detective: He did at the time and he was also suspected of killing a girl that was found outside a convenience store just across the Arkansas line. She went in to get some medications.

Misty: Was she about 22 or 23 years old?

Detective: She was a young girl, yes. I think they said she was between 18 or 19 at the time.

Misty: Maybe that’s the 17 year old that I saw.

Detective: Her last name was S____. They did find her body and he was the main suspect in that murder which is how he became a suspect in this one.

Misty: Does he drive a truck? Like a truck driver?

Detective: I don’t know, I can find his name, but I don’t know a lot about him, we lost sight…but I think he lives down south now.

(Misty is shown some pictures of some possible suspects)

Misty: No, this guy is shorter and stockier. Is this who you guys think it is?

Detective: That’s who the sheriff thought it was.

Misty: That’s not the name you have now. That’s not who you’re suspecting. That’s not him. No, I ‘m still saying there is a J. Jeff, Jeffery, it has to fit in there somehow.

Detective: How about M---- P-----?

Misty: Is that who you guys are suspecting?

Detective: That’s the one who lived in the old abandoned house and was a truck driver prior to the house.

Misty: Okay, what’s this new guy do? Has he driven a truck at one point?

Detective: He at one point drove a truck, yes. He was married to a Native American gal. They were very into swinging even back in the 90’s. He was married to the Native American gal who ran around in the streets naked.

Misty: He’s not 6 foot. He’s about 5’7”, weighs 220-230 pounds.

Detective 2: It’s the same man they brought in for trying to pick up a girl. He was in a suit and had a real sarcastic attitude. Very arrogant.

Misty: Was he a drinker?

Detective 2: Yes.

Misty: He should have more than one arrest record here. He should have a couple of assault charges against him. There should be a picture of him on record.

Detective: How about W------ C------ or C------ W-------? This is the guy’s name whom they believed had something to do with the P----- death and that’s why they were looking into him. They issued a search warrant and did find a lot of the cords that were used but couldn’t match them up with those at the crime scene.

Misty: What did they do with those cords?

Detective: There is nothing written down, this is all from the memories of the previous sheriff. They couldn’t determine rather the cords they had in his basement, yes they were the right caliber of cords, they couldn’t say for certain that they were the same cords. He had six of those cords, even the one that everyone thought was so significant. We had one other murder case that just happened prior to this one in McDonald County and it was the Noel banker. Two brothers were arrested in that case but it took over 4 years to sentence them, 1989 thru 1994. It is said that 3 murders took place around that time and that one of the brothers had a girlfriend but no one seems to remember her name. These are all just legends at this time.

Misty: No, this has nothing to do with her. In this picture it doesn’t show any tattoos.

Detective: I wouldn’t go by that because back then they didn’t always photograph them.

Misty: This isn’t him but I can tell you one thing about this man right now. He’s molested some children in this area. Does he have a granddaughter, probably about 7 or 8 years old, maybe 9? He’s molested them. I’m feeling that with him but he’s not the one with this case. It’s not him. I wish it was that simple. They guy is still balding, he has the tattoo, he has the scars. He has the writing up here on his arm. It’s not him. He’s a little stockier than this guy. The truck was like a refrigerator truck that he drove. A box truck. Did she have an overbite?

Detective: She did when she was younger because that was what part of the dental work was for.

Misty: I’m seeing an overbite.

Detective: They had to take out two teeth before they put her braces on.

Misty: I was seeing an overbite on her as she was smiling. She’s from Texas. The only thing that is here that was hers is the socks and shoes and the napkin. The napkin was from a restaurant. Were there any restaurants around here at that time that would have had expensive linens?

Detective: We had a tip that was never followed up. They received an anonymous letter, postmarked for Fort Smith, Arkansas in November, 1991. The letter indicated that the body discovered in McDonald County was that of Wilma Casey. She is originally from California, however she was working as a waitress at a Quik-Trip Truck Stop combination around Bentonville, Arkansas. She could have been in the process of moving either back to California or to Colorado. They never checked up on this.

Brenda: What were the 2 names that Misty gave you before we came here?

Detective: McKee and McAfee. McKee is the Little Debbie plant and it is still here and they deliver Little Debbie products. The other was from Neosho and it was called McAfee. They picked up eggs from chicken houses.

Misty: I’m leaning towards the McAfee place.

Detective: The only other thing that came to light through all these field notes and it’s just a little blur at the bottom of this sheet, on December 4, there was a tan van, and this was actually two days after they found her, there was a tan van with dark stripes and Kansas tags that said “My Baby’s’” being at the scene. For some reason the van was parked at the scene and was noted by the neighbors. The check came back as J--- L. G---- and B----- S. out of Paolo, Kansas. It was an 86 Chevy Van.

Brenda: What happened to the body?

Detective: They don’t know. They don’t remember burying her, they don’t remember cremating her. Nobody knows where the body is. Everybody had it at one point, now nobody has it. We’ve checked the record.  We’ve checked the cemeteries and burials. I don’t know what happened to her bones. Oddly enough, there is no record of her at any of the cemeteries, no record of a Jane Doe, no record of a cremation. MU in Columbia does not have her. The center that had her skull does not have it. At one point the FBI had all her remains but they farmed out the skull, they farmed out the tissue and nobody seems to know what happened to the rest of her. There’s no record of the county paying the money to bury her.

Misty: I got a vision of her face when I touched this. (The towel that was wrapped around the victims head.) That’s how I know what she looked like. How old would this one woman be that was at the truck stop? Did they have an estimated age or nothing?

Detective: It was an anonymous letter sent from Fort Smith, Arkansas and it was sent nearly a year after the body was found. Her name was Wilma Casey.

Misty: Is she on the missing list?

Detective: I don’t believe she was.

Misty: Texas, out of Texas. Margery Jean, Mary Jean, could even be part of a last name.

Detective 2: Margaret Jane.

Misty: Margaret Jane out of Texas? Towards Abilene? She’s from the outskirts of a small town, close to the border that starts with an A.

Detective 2: Texarkansas.

Misty: How old was this female? How long had she been missing.

Detective 2: 1987.

Misty: Is there a description of her?

Detective 2: Birthdate was 07/02/1963.

Misty: That made her how old then?

Dectective: That would have made her 33 years.

Misty: Is there a description? How tall she is?

Detective 2: 5’6”, 125 pounds, brown eyes, blonde hair.

Misty: The best bet would be the dental records if they have them. I think they’re wrong on her exact height, the weight is right, Texas. What’s it say about her? Does it describe her anymore?

Detective 2: Jewerly: gold earrings, gold watch, gold necklace with two small rings. Last seen wearing a blue and white striped blouse and matching skirt.

Misty: Did it say what kind of job she had?

Detective: No

Misty: (As Misty examines photos of crime scene.) From the side, she would have had a long thin nose. She’s had a lot dental work but she still had a little bit of an overbite. Once she had the braces off, she didn’t wear her retainer and the bite started to become prominent again.

Detective: The animals got to her. She was scattered. Her torso was separate from her legs and her skull was separate from her torso.

Misty: So she did have a thinner face.

Detective: They are estimating that she was there for about 2 months before she was found based upon a statement made by some kids who were at a Halloween party on a Saturday night. They heard a truck go up this hill where she was found. They said it was a really loud truck like it was missing a muffler. They heard a lady scream in the general direction of where the abandoned house was. They didn’t think anything about it because it was Halloween. They remembered it but they didn’t do anything about it. The concrete slab on which she was found, either the dogs drug her there or that’s where the body was left, was still there. They took the house and bulldozed it in not too long after the death of this girl but the slab is still there.

Misty: Her chin was prominent too. Long nose, eyes were set back in a little deeper than normal from the brows.

Detective: This item that you kept pointing to earlier, our best guess is that is her leg tissue.

Misty: It very well could be.

Detective: I believe that it is. I sent off her fingernails and other tissues of her leg.

Misty at the site where body was found

Misty during her reading at the site where body was found