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Nancy Grace Mysteries, Murder in the Church. Aired 8-9p ET
Aired October 10, 2016 - 20:00 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
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[20:00:02] UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We really do believe that somebody still knows that this person is out there. Somebody knows who this person is and
they haven`t yet come forward.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Terri Missy Bevers -- she showed up at the church to lead the 5:00 AM Camp Gladiator session. Surveillance video shows someone
dressed in tactical gear with a jacket marked "Police."
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Police say he broke into the church before Bevers arrived, then assaulted her had left her unresponsive.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: A helmet and gloves helped hide the intruder`s identity.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I can assure you, if I knew who the killer was, I`d arrest him myself.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is an extremely unusual situation for the city of Midlothian. We have a very -- very safe community.
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NANCY GRACE, HLN HOST: Midlothian is about 26 miles away from Dallas. It`s a very small community, and it`s shocking that in a sheltered
community of about 30,000 people, there may very well be a killer walking amongst them.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She was inside the church, not realizing the intruder was already inside. And shortly thereafter, she was murdered inside of the
church.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She was a very loving mother of three, loved her husband very much. They were a great family. We`re very sad to lose her.
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GRACE: Why is so much attention focused on this case? Of course, Missy is young and beautiful. She`s the mother of some beautiful little girls.
Your heart breaks to think of them being raised without their mother, of all people.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The two oldest children -- they`re completely aware of what has happened. My youngest one is not completely aware.
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GRACE: But she seemed to be, in the words of her husband...
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A godly woman. She was very passionate about changing people`s lives with fitness.
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GRACE: But what is really riveting about this to so many people is that if you look at the Bevers family, they had it all. They`re young. They`re
attractive. They`ve got a beautiful family. They have jobs. They seem happy in their community. They`re staunch members of the cowboy (ph)
church down the street. They`re everything so many people want to be.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don`t think she was at the wrong place at the wrong time. I feel like someone was after her, and why -- I don`t know why.
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GRACE: So often, when women are murdered or assaulted, the first question is, Well, why was she there? Well, actually, that is irrelevant as to why
Missy Bevers was at the Midlothian church at 4:00 o`clock in the morning. But I`ll tell you why. Missy was at the church that morning because she
regularly teaches a 5:00 AM Gladiator boot camp-style aerobics class.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Being here on the ground in front of this very quiet church in this extremely rural community, it feels almost eerie thinking
about 45-year-old Missy Bevers, who came to this church early in the morning to conduct her exercise class that she`d been doing many times
before, thinking that she was safe inside this church.
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GRACE: Missy gets there around 4:16 AM. Imagine the picture. It`s still dark outside. You can`t see. It`s been intermittently raining. The sky
is dark. The wind is blowing outside the church. Typically, her class was held outdoors. But on this day, because of the weather, it was moved
inside the church, 4:16 AM, and the killer was waiting.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: There`s a door with a window broken out, and also, the door latch has been broken, windows broken out here on the side of the
church, and then also on the back of the church. The police are saying that the suspect was likely inside the church wrecking the place,
vandalizing everything a full 30 minutes before Missy ever showed up.
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GRACE: The perp gets into the church after 3:00 AM and is spotted on surveillance video -- sauntering is really only the accurate way I can
describe it.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We were hoping that somebody who, you know, may see that gait and it may trigger something in mind. You know, of course, we`ve
got the police attire, the police garb that`s been described in various ways. If they can couple that information with other knowledge they have
of specific people.
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[20:05:07]GRACE: Looking in cabinets, closing cabinets, not pilfering through to find to try to find something to steal, but just wandering up
and down the halls.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It kind of changed my opinion. When I initially saw it the other day, I felt like it was -- it had a more feminine gait, women
(ph) walk (ph). However, when I saw it this afternoon, just it was a more lengthy video, so you`re able to get more of the person`s gait and their
mannerisms.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Look at the video. The person has a very distinct walk. There`s just a very distinct mannerism about this person that should
be very apparent to somebody.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And it appeared -- they appear a little bit more masculine in these scenes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I can`t tell if the person is a man or a woman.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This person appears somewhat tipsy, like they`re under the influence possibly of something. You`ll see them touch the wall,
just kind of just walking through the hallway, and it`s not a very normal- minded person.
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GRACE: So the killer arrives well before Missy, then goes to the area that she will go to, as well, almost as if waiting in ambush in that particular
area where the perpetrator knows she`s going to set up her audio equipment.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The investigators are trying to put together a puzzle.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We haven`t established definitively the gender of the suspect. You know, they went to a lot of -- you know, to great effort to
conceal their identity. And so far, without definitive information on the gender (INAUDIBLE)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What about race?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, you know, it appears -- just like you`ve seen in the video, it appears that they`re lighter-skinned. Again, we can`t
definitively say what race they are. We don`t believe them to be a dark- skinned person.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Charleston (ph) State University criminology professor G.M. Konks (ph) says over two dozen investigators are working the
case. And the FBI has joined in, too.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think it`s a very interesting case. I looked at the video. There`s clearly planning. This is not a haphazard crime.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: (INAUDIBLE)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No. Again, at this point, without a strong suspect to focus, anything is on the table.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: 3:58 AM, the mystery person is seen in the hallways of the local church. About 4:00 AM, Missy arrives with her gear to set up
for her class. Then the video mysteriously goes to black. Around 5:00 AM, Missy`s students arrive to find a horrifying scene. She`s been murdered.
Cops find broken glass on the floor. Nothing is missing. Missy`s husband, Brandon, is baffled.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It was a shoddy (ph) amount of clothing to look like some type of an enforcement officer. It wasn`t tactical -- real tactical
clothing.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And Jeremy (ph) says not just anyone can buy a cop uniform.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: First thing we`re going to do is ask you for credentials, then after you present your credentials of the police,
security, constable, sheriff, that gives you whatever authority to buy what you need.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The real cops aren`t revealing a motive for murder. They originally thought Missy surprised a burglar, but are no longer
convinced that`s what happened.
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GRACE: That is from "Crime Watch Daily."
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It certainly looks like the individual took time to learn the territory, got dressed into a uniform.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Brandon Bevers`s mother says her son has paid frequent trips to the police department since his wife`s death, which
according to the search warrant, was caused by a head wound inflicted by an unknown instrument.
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GRACE: Based on what this video surveillance shows, you can take the perpetrator and compare, for instance, their height to, say, a doorframe
that the perp is standing beside and you can calculate within an inch how tall the perpetrator is.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Forensic video reconstruction is complete. It`s given us a height range for the suspect from approximately 5-foot-2 to 5-foot-7.
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GRACE: You can figure out their weight. You can even figure out their shoe size. That`s a very detailed description of the killer.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Evil. You know, they`re evil. Right now, I`m just in the anger phase. I want to find that person. I want to look at them in
the face. I want them to die.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It`s been very frustrating, to be quite honest with you. It`s (INAUDIBLE) you know, we want an arrest as bad as anybody in
this case. We want to bring that sense, you know, of safety back to the community and resolve this for the family, as well our community and the
public in general. So you know, we`ll continue to work until that`s done.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: A lot of us, including myself, really feel that she was targeted. When I think and think about this, the only thing I can
think of is, you know, I could see where a woman may be jealous of Missy.
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[20:10:10]GRACE: That was from NBC 5 Dallas.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She was a companion. We enjoyed fishing. We definitely -- we enjoyed going to the beach. We spent a lot of time at the
ocean. We`ve been together for 20 years, and we`ve managed to keep it, you know, held together all this time.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It was well known that Bevers taught an early morning fitness camp at Creekside Church of Christ.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The suspect broke into the church before Bevers arrived, roamed the church`s hallways, then assaulted her.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Who is this cloaked killer, and why Missy?
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[20:15:00]GRACE: Wisely, Midlothian PD have called in a team of crack digital analysts, and they will take every footstep, every movement. We
see that the perp is right-handed. We will determine even about their hands, the size clothing they`re wearing maybe, to figure out who is the
killer.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We`ve also learned some additional information regarding the physical description of the suspect. Forensic video
reconstruction is complete, and it`s given us a height range for the suspect from approximately 5-foot-2 to 5-foot-7. We hope this information
will help us to sift through leads and eliminate, you know, suspects and information that comes in that`s well outside of that range.
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GRACE: In fact, they even go back to the scene of the crime late at night and retrace the killer`s footsteps to create a comprehensive and very
detailed description of Missy Bevers`s murderer.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The last remaining lead involves a car that pulls into the SWFA sporting goods parking lot at approximately 2:00 AM. They`re seen
pulling into the parking lot and leaving just a few minutes later. We believe that car is a 2010 to 2012 Nissan Altima. It`s light in color,
possibly silver. It`s hard to tell, as you remember it was raining that morning. Let me emphasize, though, we don`t have any reason whatsoever to
believe that this car, its driver are in any way involved in the murder of Missy Bevers.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: One month after the murder of Missy Bevers, Midlothian police say they still have no suspect. The search for a light-
colored Nissan caught on camera near the scene that morning they think is simply an effort to check every clue.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is the last lead that hasn`t been exhausted from that video canvassing.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The majority of tips from the public have focused on the killer`s distinct gait seen in the church surveillance video. Police
tell us new analysis shows the killer is between 5-2 and 5-7, but even advanced software couldn`t determine the person`s weight or their gender.
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GRACE: At first, we were told the church did not have video surveillance outside. But we have now learned, based on our own investigation, that the
church does have video surveillance outside, but intermittent, working sometimes, not working other times. It was dark that night. It was rainy,
stormy, picked up very little outside.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: At this point, without a strong suspect focus, anything is on the table.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: While police haven`t ruled out any suspects, they say they have confirmed husband Brandon Bevers`s alibi. Attorney and former
police officer Pete Schulte (ph) says anyone close to the victim has likely been checked out.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They`re going to make sure they can eliminate those particular people as suspects, and they start to broaden their search. And
that just takes time.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Investigators` strategy, he says, will likely shift to make sure every possibility is examined.
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GRACE: Unlike many homicides, Missy`s body was found fairly quickly after her murder. How do we know that? Because her Gladiator boot camp aerobics
students showed up for their 5:00 AM workout class. So she`s murdered a little after 4:00 AM. They get there a little before 5:00 AM. So her body
has only been lying there, say, 45 minutes max before it`s discovered.
That`s important. Why is that important? Because the sooner you reach a body, the more likely it is you`re going to get forensic clues from that
body.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Just because it`s been a month doesn`t necessarily mean that they`re not close to getting a suspect in this case. It just means
that they`re going to have to keep digging, keep going on longer until they make an arrest.
GRACE: Marcia Tucker (ph), Missy`s mother-in-law -- I cannot even imagine having to tell Missy`s girls that their mom is gone, one child as young as
8 years old. Our prayers have been with you and your whole family. Please know that. I`d like to find out what kind of a person Missy was.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Well, Missy was -- she was very goal-driven. I mean, for her to get up at that time of morning, and she did that throughout the
week, to, you know, go teach people -- and she just loved it. She was always on the go with her girls, you know. They`re in sports, and you
know, going here and there...
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GRACE: Well, Ms. Tucker, was her husband worried about going to teach aerobics so early in the morning?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Well, of course. I mean, you know, anybody would be, I mean, go to work and that early in the morning. I mean, you just -- you
can`t help, you know, but having some concern, but she was trustworthy, you know, and thinking that everybody else was.
[20:20:08]GRACE: Everyone, take a listen to the sister`s theory.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: A lot of us, including myself, really feel that she was targeted. When I think and think about this, the only thing I can
think of is, you know, I could see where a woman may be jealous of Missy. They stole. They put fear in our hearts. They changed these girls` lives,
my nieces` lives. They will never have a mother, you know, help them with their wedding day, help them with their prom, boyfriends. They will never
have that. That person took this from them, from us.
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GRACE: That was from NBC 5 Dallas. That`s Missy`s sister-in-law with the theory that this could -- the killer could be a jealous wife.
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[20:25:04]UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It`s not a very normal-minded person.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Got dressed into a uniform.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She was inside the church not realizing the intruder was already inside.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She was murdered inside of the church.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If I knew who the killer was...
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Person has a very distinct walk.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: ... I`d arrest them myself.
GRACE: Many legal eagles believe that Missy was murdered with a hammer, a hammer sometimes described as a pry bar or a crowbar initially, that you
see the perpetrator swinging casually as they`re wandering up and down the halls of the church.
And another reason people believe that that is the murder weapon is because Missy died of multiple puncture wounds, puncture wounds to the head and the
chest. Now, if it had been a knife, we would have expected to hear them described as stab wounds, but instead they are described by authorities as
puncture wounds. That is consistent with the hammer or a pry bar or crowbar being the murder weapon.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The last remaining lead involves a car that pulls into the SWFA sporting goods parking lot at approximately 2:00 AM. They`re seen
pulling into the parking lot and leaving just a few minutes later. We believe that car`s a 2010 to 2012 Nissan Altima. It`s light in color,
possibly silver. It`s hard to tell. If you remember, it was raining that morning.
Let me emphasize, though, we don`t have any reason whatsoever to believe that this car, its driver are in any way involved in the murder of Missy
Bevers. In the interests of following up on every possible lead, this is the last lead that hasn`t been exhausted from that video canvassing.
GRACE: This is actually a major breakthrough in this case. I want to see the car again as Steven Becker (ph) with Robson (ph) Forensics is telling
us his analysis. Whose car is this? And why are they less than a mile away from Missy`s murder scene? Go ahead, Steven.
STEVEN BECKER, ROBSON FORENSICS: Unfortunately, you can`t make out the license plate in this video. That would give us a positive identification
as to whose vehicle that would have been.
GRACE: Why? Why can`t this be enhanced? I mean, can`t NASA help us? Is there no way to enhance this to get even one character, one letter, one
number off the tag?
BECKER: That`s a great point, Nancy. A lot of people in a lot of movies, you`ll see they enhance the video, and suddenly, you can miraculously see
objects that were previously obscured in the video.
What you have here is you have a highly reflective license plate. Specialized cameras called license plate recognition camera systems can
identify license plates both in the dark and in high-light conditions because what they do is they focus in on the area of the license plate, and
they use lighting with the camera.
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GRACE: Many people believe, based on the gait or the saunter of the perpetrator, that it is a woman. However, if it is a woman, it defies
every rule of homicide methods and assessment. It`s very rare that a woman will kill another woman by bludgeoning.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: First communicating prior to her camps (INAUDIBLE) she got there pretty early and...
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You hadn`t heard from her that morning?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Did you guys speak (INAUDIBLE)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And did you (INAUDIBLE)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. Every day for the last -- every day for the last 10 months, she`s made it a point to text me at work that she loves me and,
Have a good day, honey.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Police say this person in black tactical gear killed Bevers, first breaking into the Creekside Church of Christ where she showed
up to teach an early morning fitness class.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I was thinking someone was stalking her. Now maybe it was just a -- it`s just a crazy person. You can`t make sense out of crazy.
BRANDON BEVERS, VICTIM`S HUSBAND: I don`t know if it`s business-related or some kind of jealousy. I`ve pretty much exhausted every scenario and every
avenue that I can think of, of who could have done this. I`m discouraged to the point where I truly want to just reach out to this individual myself.
As odd as it may sound, I can -- I can truly forgive you for what you`ve done, but only if you come forward, turn yourself in. Do what`s right.
You know, don`t live the rest of your life with this on your heart because it will eat you like cancer. The same applies with my family. We need
closure. This is going to eat us -- eat us alive for many years to come.
[20:35:00] GRACE: This was no burglary gone wrong. Nothing was stolen from the church. In fact, Missy`s iPad, her cell phone, her purse was all
sitting in her car still. The car has been taken, inventoried, and returned to her husband, Brandon Bevers. So clearly it holds no significant clue.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: At this point, none of the family, friends or co-workers of Missy Bevers are considered suspects. Despite various theories
circulating through social media, none of the people named in our affidavits are now suspects. Several family members seem to also be at the
center of the public`s focus.
I just want to be clear that the Bevers family, including Mr. Bevers and his father, have been cooperative, forth forthcoming, and provided detailed
alibis that have all been corroborated through independent sources.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Missy Bevers had some communication with at least nine people leading up to the day she died. Police used a search warrant to
access those nine and the phone calls and text messages they made. Could any of them be tied to the person seen in this video?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Until Missy`s killer is caught, I will stop short of saying that any person is absolutely excluded, but to be clear, none of
Missy`s family are the focus of this investigation.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Late today investigators told CBS 11, none of those nine are defined as suspects now. "We have nothing to substantiate any
connection between them and a murder suspect," Assistant Chief Kevin Johnson said today.
NANCY: We`ve learned a lot about Missy and her husband, Brandon`s relationship. We`ve learned most of this through search warrants, secret
search warrants that we obtained. They reveal that there was a lot of strife in the marriage. That could be argued about every marriage
especially when you have children and both partners are working to support the family.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: A family in grief embrace the community came in support.
BEVERS: You guys embody the spirit of my wife.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Brandon Bevers told the crowd his wife was passionate about fitness and well respected by the students she taught.
BEVERS: I wasn`t terribly good at praising my wife for what she did. That`s one of my regrets.
GRACE: We learn that there was a financial crisis going on in the home. A lot of financial trouble. Not only that, the search warrant reveals that
there were intimate relationships or relationship between one of the married individuals, Missy or her husband, Brandon, and other people.
Clearly indicating that police believe somebody was having an affair. That certainly muddies the water.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Police confirm Bevers` husband, Brandon, knew about her infidelity in the relationship, and he told police about it. Police
extracted information from Missy Bevers` phone, information that confirmed an affair.
BEVERS: Most people in society, they don`t have their baggage strewn out in public like this, but the problems that we`ve encountered, I would have to
say 80 percent of society deals with the same problem. In our particular case, we were dealing with our problems and we were, you know, attempting
to overcome. And that`s what kept us together.
GRACE: That`s from Fox 4 KDFW. We know that Missy was a devoted mother to her little girls. We know that her life was her family.
BEVERS: She decided to become physically fit and for a 40-some-odd-year-old mother of three, she was very fit and transformed on an unimaginable level.
Her body pretty well sold her abilities in transforming and helping other people.
GRACE: And these boot camp workouts, she was devoted to helping other people improve their lives through re-sculpting their bodies and their
self-esteem. Completely devoted from about 10:30 to 1:00 every day in the gym religiously. Never missed her classes. And spent most of her days
either working out, doing boot camp or driving her girls to this practice and that practice and this appointment and that appointment.
[20:40:00] BEVERS: When I finally arrived in Biloxi around 7:30, which was later than I was supposed to be there, you know, I spoke to her. And she
said good night, and it was still about 8:00. And I called her anyway probably around 9:00 or 9:30 to tell her I love her. She was already half
asleep, and that`s the last time I spoke to her.
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GRACE: Rainy video of a 2:00 a.m. mystery car emerging, a bizarre twist in the Missy Bevers murder investigation. Multiple friends of Missy saying
Missy reaching out to them from beyond the grave? And tonight, is Missy`s killer playing a cruel game taunting friends, family, police? This as
Missy`s husband breaks his silence on their marital woes after cops allege intimate relationship outside their marriage.
[20:45:00] UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Leading investigators tell NBC News someone created another Facebook page in Missy Bevers` name. A fake. And then
systematically started making friend requests targeting Missy`s students from the Camp Gladiator workout classes she led.
GRACE: That`s NBC`s "Today." Friends of Missy suddenly start getting Facebook messages from Missy after her murder. The first thing I want to
do, Chris Spargo is here, what are the messages? What is being sent from Missy`s account to her friends?
CHRIS SPARGO, REPORTER, DAILY MAIL: Well, friends of Missy have been saying they`ve been getting Facebook friend requests from a profile that has been
created under her name obviously well after her own death.
GRACE: Now, wait a minute. How bizarre is that? Your friend is murdered, brutally. And then suddenly you begin getting Facebook friend requests from
her. That must have really upset her friends, and they were also -- who else were they, Chris Spargo with Dailymail.com. Were some of them her
exercise students at the boot camp?
SPARGO: Exactly. It was a whole bunch of people. It`s not just her friends, students and some acquaintances. It was a rather large group of people who
have been receiving these friend requests.
GRACE: So how many do you think there are, Chris, that are getting friend requests from Missy?
SPARGO: We know that at least it`s over 30 and it`s so many that police had to finally make a comment because it had become such a problem.
GRACE: The Creekside church sitting in Midlothian is in a very, very rural area. Why is that significant? It means that fewer people would have seen
either intentionally or inadvertently the killer. There are no big buildings around it. There`s not surveillance across the street from a
restaurant or a pub or a shopping center or a private home.
It causes another problem because the cell phone data -- there`s only one cell phone tower feeding into that area. Will that help or hinder the
investigation?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: CBS 11 sources say detectives will now be getting help from the NYPD and its high-tech tracking devices. It`s unclear specifically
what technology they`ll be using, but the NYPD has been known to operate Stingrays. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, the department
has relied on Stingrays in at least a thousand cases. The device also known as cell site stimulator mimics cell phone towers.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It will automatically connect to the Stingray without any control of me, the user, and what the Stingray then does is it mines
data off the phone very quickly.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Including the serial number as well as other data which can be then used to identify who the phone belongs to. Former police
officer and criminal defense attorney, Pete Schulte, says if investigators do in fact use a Stingray, they focus on the church where the mystery
person in tactical gear attacked Missy and also the Bevers` neighborhood.
PETE SCHULTE, FORMER POLICE OFFICER AND CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY: If someone keeps coming back to the crime scene, which happens a lot in murder
cases, they`re going to be able to identify that person because of the data that is coming from the Stingray.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Texas is one of dozens of states where law enforcement agencies have the technology. Highly controversial because they can gather
not just suspect information, but also data from the phones of people who just happen to be in the area.
SCHULTE: The device in itself was very invasive. And nobody can do anything to stop it. When it`s activated, cell phones will automatically connect.
GRACE: You don`t have anybody driving by the church at that time of the morning, very little traffic going by. So all that combines to make it a
much harder case to crack. You`re not going to get an eyewitness, let`s just say that. How did a local dry cleaner get in the middle of a murder
investigation? Well, I`ll tell you how. About 96 hours after Missy is found dead in the Creekside church in Midlothian, her father-in-law, her
husband`s father, takes bloody clothes to a local dry cleaner.
The father-in-law was pretty forthcoming, though. He spoke to the media. He gave a statement to police saying that their little dog got into an
altercation -- a dogfight with a much bigger dog and actually died. They rushed the dog to the vet and they got dog -- animal blood on their
clothes.
We now know the scope of her friends that are receiving Facebook messages from Missy after her death is expanding. People that she saw or spoke to at
the Austin Fitness Convention the weekend before she`s murdered are getting them. People who go to her boot camp class are getting them. Friends are
getting them. Let me understand something, Chris Spargo, do police think they understand what`s happening?
[20:50:00] SPARGO: They really don`t. It could be something as simple as a glitch maybe in deactivating her original account something went wrong or
it could be someone playing a horrifically or inappropriate joke or something even more sinister.
GRACE: Not only this, we discover that her husband is speaking out. Chris Spargo, he is pretty convinced the killer is a woman.
SPARGO: Yeah, he`s saying that he`s really convinced it`s a woman and he`s really convinced it`s someone that knew his wife and had something against
her. He points out the fact that when she was found, she was still wearing her wedding ring and it clearly wasn`t a robbery. This person was clearly
after his wife, he believes.
GRACE: So Missy Bevers was wearing her wedding band at the time she`s murdered. If the killer was intent on burglarizing or stealing, why leave
behind the wedding band? Look at that. It looks like diamonds in it to me. Not only that, her iPad, her iPhone, other items were left behind. Clearly
this was no random burglary gone awry. What do we know about the husband finally breaking his silence on their marital woes outlined by police
including intimate relationships outside the marriage?
SPARGO: Yeah, I mean, he`s being very open about the fact that everything is being laid out right now. They`re going through her correspondence,
they`re investigating the fact that there may have been other relationships with other men. He is also saying that he doesn`t want to not be considered
a person of interest in this case. He wants everyone to be treated like a person of interest because he wants to get to the bottom of it and he wants
some answers.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Until Missy`s killer is caught, I will stop short of saying that any person is absolutely excluded.
BEVERS: I believe she was targeted. That was a shoddy amount of clothing to look like some type of an enforcement officer.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Forensic video reconstruction is complete. It has given us a height range of the suspect, approximately 5`2" to 5`7".
GRACE: And now, the police running out of leads in her murder. What`s so odd is that it seems to me -- of course, the friends state that Missy is
speaking from beyond the grave, but it seems to me someone has hacked into her Facebook account and is taunting friends, family, and, in effect,
police.
So how do you track down? I mean who else would do that besides the killer who had clearly been following her on Facebook the whole time. So how do we
track that down? Would police try to go back and look at it? It`s not there anymore. One person, one of these friends got a screen grab of the friend
request from Missy after she`s murdered.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There`s an ongoing investigation, so the first thing the police did was go to Facebook with a preservation warrant and say we want
you to preserve all data related to this account. The police do have everything.
GRACE: It seems to me just logically speaking that this is the killer doing this. Why? What sick thrill would Missy`s killer get out of taunting her
friends and family by sending them messages from her Facebook after she`s been murdered?
CHARLES SOPHY, PSYCHIATRIST: Well, it`s a very, very sick thing to do. It`s based in jealousy. It`s based in a lot of sick meanness. But it doesn`t
necessarily mean it`s the killer. It could be somebody who wants to be her and is pretending to be her and taking over her identity also. But at the
end of the day, it`s someone who`s very, very disturbed.
GRACE: You just said something interesting, Dr. Charles Sophy, about taking over her identity. This was someone obviously that followed her moves, that
knew when she was working out, where she was working out, who her friends were. She had just been away for the weekend in Austin at a fitness
convention. And now you said those words "taking over her life," even taking over her Facebook friends.
SOPHY: Absolutely. And it`s not uncommon where someone will step into someone`s life, they`ve been tracking them for a while and they become
them. And if they`re really disturbed, they really believe they are that person.
GRACE: And then there is Linkedln. Some guy, a married man, had been sending and receiving very flirtatious messages on Linkedln back and forth
between him and Missy Bevers which were immediately deleted. Missy`s family has been speaking out. Interestingly, her own blood family has said very
little.
Her stepmother-in-law, however, has now written two open letters to the killer, and I find them very revealing. For instance, in one of them, she
refers to the killer, in your shoes too big for you, which to me implies that the killer, she believes, is a woman, as police have suggested. She
goes on to say, they`re on to you, wouldn`t you rather turn yourself in as opposed to getting arrested in front of your family.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I still believe that the police are leaning on the husband because he knows the network, the tree of people that his wife was
connected to. And perhaps, he knows who she was having an affair with or she knew who he was having an affair, and maybe it`s the disgruntled
partner or husband or wife or whoever these people were having the affairs with.
GRACE: If you look at the stepmother-in-law`s open letters to the killer, it`s highly suggestive that the Bevers family has a pretty good idea who
the killer is.
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