WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:02.279 Hey, it's Wes. I want to tell you about a 2 00:00:02.319 --> 00:00:05.160 new season of my other true crime show, The Unforgotten. 3 00:00:05.599 --> 00:00:08.439 This season is called kill Site, and it's about a 4 00:00:08.480 --> 00:00:11.599 really perplexing case that's haunted me for the last five years. 5 00:00:12.439 --> 00:00:14.720 I'm sharing the first episode of kill Site here, but 6 00:00:15.119 --> 00:00:18.320 you can listen to future episodes over at The Unforgotten. 7 00:00:18.879 --> 00:00:19.800 Thank you for listening. 8 00:00:21.239 --> 00:00:24.280 I've always heard that when somebody dies of horrible death, 9 00:00:24.320 --> 00:00:26.719 the body is stuck there where they're at. 10 00:00:28.239 --> 00:00:28.920 Do you believe that? 11 00:00:30.280 --> 00:00:33.119 Uh No, I'd never heard that before. 12 00:00:33.840 --> 00:00:34.520 You've never heard that. 13 00:00:36.119 --> 00:00:38.039 Not long ago, I got a call from a woman 14 00:00:38.159 --> 00:00:39.359 named Kimberly Sproul. 15 00:00:39.920 --> 00:00:40.560 Can you hear me? 16 00:00:41.039 --> 00:00:41.280 Yeah? 17 00:00:41.359 --> 00:00:42.479 Can you hear me now? 18 00:00:42.479 --> 00:00:43.960 I had bad phones on the sooty. 19 00:00:44.200 --> 00:00:46.840 Oh that's okay, I hear you fine. I'd never met 20 00:00:46.880 --> 00:00:49.840 Kimberly before, and I was surprised she even had my 21 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:52.320 phone number. It turns out she got it from the 22 00:00:52.359 --> 00:00:55.679 sheriff's office in Hood County, Texas. They told her I 23 00:00:55.759 --> 00:00:59.759 was asking questions about her son, Christopher Whiteley. I'd always 24 00:00:59.759 --> 00:01:02.880 want to know what happened to Christopher. I mean, what 25 00:01:03.200 --> 00:01:06.560 really happened, because the official story never made any sense. 26 00:01:06.599 --> 00:01:09.599 To me now to a death investigation in Texas, whorred 27 00:01:09.640 --> 00:01:12.280 authorities are at odds over whether a twenty eight year 28 00:01:12.280 --> 00:01:14.879 old man died in an attack. Local sheriffs have to 29 00:01:14.920 --> 00:01:17.439 say they found Christopher Whiteley's body in a wooded area 30 00:01:17.480 --> 00:01:20.879 of Hood County, about fifty miles southwest of Fort Worth. 31 00:01:21.159 --> 00:01:24.680 A highly unusual death has a lot of people understandably worried. 32 00:01:25.120 --> 00:01:28.719 Christopher's killing just five years ago made news around the world. 33 00:01:29.040 --> 00:01:33.200 It exposed all these conflicts, triggered wild conspiracy theories, and 34 00:01:33.319 --> 00:01:36.480 made people afraid to let their kids play outside. For 35 00:01:36.519 --> 00:01:39.439 a while, it was the biggest true crime mystery in Texas. 36 00:01:40.079 --> 00:01:43.400 But then all the controversy and hysteria just kind of stopped. 37 00:01:44.239 --> 00:01:44.920 That's very quick. 38 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:45.879 They just died. 39 00:01:46.159 --> 00:01:49.719 Yeah, I mean there was no more said, no more call, 40 00:01:50.239 --> 00:01:51.120 and they just dropped it. 41 00:01:51.200 --> 00:01:52.519 I just thought everybody didn't care. 42 00:01:53.079 --> 00:01:57.959 It was just so unresolved, and it's not solved. 43 00:01:58.239 --> 00:02:00.000 I don't know that we can find out what true, 44 00:02:01.120 --> 00:02:02.719 but it would be nice. 45 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:03.439 To know what happened. 46 00:02:04.560 --> 00:02:06.239 I would not with somebody coming justice. 47 00:02:06.959 --> 00:02:10.840 It's not gonna bring him back, but uh, they might 48 00:02:10.840 --> 00:02:11.479 heal the moon. 49 00:02:12.719 --> 00:02:16.360 Who or what killed Christopher Allen Whitey. Why was the 50 00:02:16.400 --> 00:02:21.199 case closed and his killer never found? From Free Range 51 00:02:21.240 --> 00:02:24.479 Productions with the Dallas Morning News. This is season four 52 00:02:24.560 --> 00:02:29.319 of the Unforgotten Kill site. I'm your host Wes Ferguson, 53 00:02:29.439 --> 00:02:37.280 and this is episode one, Just do It. Back in 54 00:02:37.360 --> 00:02:40.919 twenty twenty, on the day after Thanksgiving, Kimberly Sprool got 55 00:02:40.919 --> 00:02:43.159 a horrible feeling about her son, Christopher. 56 00:02:43.759 --> 00:02:46.960 So this is gonna sound crazy to you, but I 57 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:49.800 can predict when things are gonna happen. It's like a 58 00:02:49.800 --> 00:02:50.560 week before Christmas. 59 00:02:50.599 --> 00:02:51.560 Not I predicted it. 60 00:02:52.080 --> 00:02:53.560 Okay, I'll number been twenty seven. 61 00:02:53.879 --> 00:02:56.439 My chest doesn't really bad. I got anxiety, really bad. 62 00:02:57.199 --> 00:02:59.039 Kimberly was with her boyfriend Patrick. 63 00:03:00.039 --> 00:03:03.039 Sometimes I say christ for six and a dog. He's like, what, 64 00:03:03.680 --> 00:03:05.599 I was not gonna go marsh room. Seat of six happened? 65 00:03:05.680 --> 00:03:09.879 Christopher by Christopher was twenty eight years old, five foot 66 00:03:09.879 --> 00:03:13.080 eight and slender, with thick glasses and dark brown hair. 67 00:03:14.080 --> 00:03:16.560 He grew up in Dublin, Texas, a small town about 68 00:03:16.560 --> 00:03:18.280 an hour and a half southwest. 69 00:03:17.800 --> 00:03:18.400 Of Fort Worth. 70 00:03:19.039 --> 00:03:21.919 Christopher's loved ones say he had a lot of problems. 71 00:03:22.520 --> 00:03:23.960 He also had a goofy side. 72 00:03:24.639 --> 00:03:29.080 You know, I remember kimberly talking about his sense of 73 00:03:29.159 --> 00:03:31.960 humor and how funny he was. 74 00:03:32.479 --> 00:03:34.479 This is my friend, Charlie Scudder. 75 00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:38.520 And she used some examples that wasn't my kind of 76 00:03:38.560 --> 00:03:43.280 humor necessarily, but you know, they brought her so much joy. 77 00:03:43.520 --> 00:03:47.319 And these kinds of family and jokes and teasing each 78 00:03:47.319 --> 00:03:50.960 other and making inappropriate comments to each other and that 79 00:03:51.039 --> 00:03:54.479 kind of thing. I could see that being a really 80 00:03:54.599 --> 00:03:55.400 joyful person. 81 00:03:56.759 --> 00:03:59.120 Charlie was a reporter for the Dallas Morning News when 82 00:03:59.199 --> 00:04:02.960 Christopher was killed. He spent weeks, if not months, digging 83 00:04:02.960 --> 00:04:06.400 into the case. To this day, Charlie knows almost too 84 00:04:06.479 --> 00:04:07.879 much about Christopher Whiteley. 85 00:04:08.599 --> 00:04:11.280 He did have a few tattoos, one kind of vulgar 86 00:04:11.319 --> 00:04:13.039 one near his crotch. 87 00:04:13.879 --> 00:04:14.240 What was that? 88 00:04:15.560 --> 00:04:18.680 It was a Nike swish that said just do it? 89 00:04:20.600 --> 00:04:24.439 I think let me double chat. Ok I think that's 90 00:04:24.480 --> 00:04:25.040 what it was. 91 00:04:25.399 --> 00:04:25.959 Yeah, here we go. 92 00:04:26.079 --> 00:04:31.040 Okay, yes, yep. Just above the pubic area is a 93 00:04:31.120 --> 00:04:32.959 Nike symbol in the words just do it. 94 00:04:34.439 --> 00:04:38.720 I mean, that's just funny. I know. It's like, come on, man, 95 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:45.240 did you come across his YouTube page? I did not know, so, yeah, 96 00:04:45.319 --> 00:04:49.680 it's from a long time. It's from twenty eleven or so. Ok, 97 00:04:50.399 --> 00:04:52.800 so this would have been probably like what late teens, 98 00:04:53.199 --> 00:04:56.199 I think, maybe before he became a dad. Yeah, there's 99 00:04:56.240 --> 00:04:58.759 just a few, but they're really funny. There's one called 100 00:04:58.839 --> 00:04:59.920 Ghetto Jackass. 101 00:05:00.480 --> 00:05:04.560 Following video feature stunts performed either by dumbasses or on 102 00:05:04.600 --> 00:05:06.680 the supervision of dumbasses. 103 00:05:06.560 --> 00:05:08.920 And it's it's like him. You could tell which one 104 00:05:09.000 --> 00:05:10.560 is him. It's really obvious because he's kind of small. 105 00:05:10.639 --> 00:05:13.360 He's got this like thin mustache and thick glasses and 106 00:05:14.399 --> 00:05:17.240 they're in a junk yard or something, and his buddy 107 00:05:17.279 --> 00:05:20.519 crawls up on top of this shed and gets inside 108 00:05:20.560 --> 00:05:21.120 a barrel. 109 00:05:21.560 --> 00:05:23.120 This is ghetto jackets. 110 00:05:34.600 --> 00:05:37.800 And then no, Chris is like holding up the barrel 111 00:05:37.839 --> 00:05:41.639 with some boards and then he pulls the boards away. 112 00:05:42.079 --> 00:05:42.279 Huh. 113 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:46.839 Barrel rolls down the shed and like the smacks on 114 00:05:46.879 --> 00:05:54.720 the ground. Dude lands like head first. It comes just 115 00:05:54.879 --> 00:06:00.519 like spilling out of this barrel like shit head, all 116 00:06:00.600 --> 00:06:02.600 jacked up, and it's one of those don't do this 117 00:06:02.680 --> 00:06:05.160 at home, but they're just cracking up like a couple 118 00:06:05.240 --> 00:06:07.120 of dumb kids having the time of their life. 119 00:06:07.160 --> 00:06:10.240 So yeah, ghetto jackass. 120 00:06:10.360 --> 00:06:13.040 Yeah that sounds that sounds like someone who gets a 121 00:06:13.360 --> 00:06:18.399 just do it tattoo above the crush. Yeah, I mean that, 122 00:06:18.639 --> 00:06:19.000 I mean. 123 00:06:18.879 --> 00:06:19.639 That would love right? 124 00:06:19.680 --> 00:06:23.079 Oh sure, I mean I think we all had friends 125 00:06:23.079 --> 00:06:26.120 that would you know, you're eighteen and you gotta. 126 00:06:26.839 --> 00:06:27.720 Just do it tattoos? 127 00:06:28.639 --> 00:06:29.160 Hey, you know. 128 00:06:30.360 --> 00:06:32.199 But you know he had stuff about his like how 129 00:06:32.240 --> 00:06:35.360 to feed his baby iguana. But then he also has 130 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:39.920 It's called My Life and it's a video montage set 131 00:06:39.959 --> 00:06:41.560 to the Titanic theme. 132 00:06:41.879 --> 00:06:43.079 Like my heart will go on? 133 00:06:43.360 --> 00:06:46.120 Yeah, Selene Dion, Oh my gosh. 134 00:06:46.279 --> 00:06:50.959 He had a couple of videos of Tyler. Tyler is 135 00:06:50.959 --> 00:06:53.800 a name you'll want to remember. Her full name is 136 00:06:53.879 --> 00:06:59.199 Samantha Tyler Arlene Messina. She was Christopher's teenage sweetheart, his 137 00:06:59.439 --> 00:07:02.199 on and off girlfriend, and the mother of his two children. 138 00:07:03.319 --> 00:07:06.720 In Christopher's videos, Tyler has big blue eyes and long 139 00:07:06.759 --> 00:07:09.160 wet hair, all wrapped up in a towel fresh from 140 00:07:09.199 --> 00:07:12.360 the shower. He's like just kind of teasing her, and 141 00:07:12.399 --> 00:07:14.199 she flips off the camera and it's like, what do 142 00:07:14.319 --> 00:07:15.120 you do it? 143 00:07:15.360 --> 00:07:19.680 This is my girln Part two. Being a weirdo, A weirdo, 144 00:07:20.240 --> 00:07:22.759 a weirdo. She's probably looking at new guys right now, 145 00:07:23.319 --> 00:07:24.759 right maybe all. 146 00:07:26.399 --> 00:07:29.480 You mesh staggy nuts. 147 00:07:29.600 --> 00:07:33.560 They look like an old man when we called him. 148 00:07:34.160 --> 00:07:36.240 Oh, she's telling them, we. 149 00:07:37.759 --> 00:07:41.079 Just kind of usual young couple kind of stuff. 150 00:07:41.680 --> 00:07:44.240 Yeah, I hadn't seen those. That makes me smile. 151 00:07:44.680 --> 00:07:47.639 Yeah, but it also shows his creativity and it shows why, 152 00:07:48.040 --> 00:07:50.720 you know, the people who loved him would have loved him. 153 00:07:50.920 --> 00:07:53.319 Yeah. And that's the thing that. 154 00:07:54.839 --> 00:08:01.160 Is so frustrating, because it's like, that's a person, right, 155 00:08:01.240 --> 00:08:05.360 that is a fully formed person. Again, warts and all. 156 00:08:05.519 --> 00:08:07.920 There's a little dirt, it's reality, but. 157 00:08:08.759 --> 00:08:15.720 That is not somebody who should just be ignored right 158 00:08:15.839 --> 00:08:16.439 after death. 159 00:08:17.319 --> 00:08:17.600 Right. 160 00:08:17.720 --> 00:08:20.959 That's I'm shaking my head over here. 161 00:08:21.319 --> 00:08:21.959 Yeah, it's sad. 162 00:08:22.959 --> 00:08:24.959 Yeah. 163 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:28.800 The videos show mostly good times, but there were some 164 00:08:28.920 --> 00:08:33.240 awful times too. In twenty sixteen, Christopher admitted to cutting 165 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:36.279 Tyler's wrist with an exact o knife. 166 00:08:36.559 --> 00:08:40.360 Yeah, so he was charged with the aggravated all the 167 00:08:40.360 --> 00:08:43.440 deadly weapon. He pled guilty and was sentenced to five 168 00:08:43.519 --> 00:08:48.080 years in prison. In prison, Christopher's family says he got 169 00:08:48.200 --> 00:08:51.919 clean and he was doing well, and he was looking good. 170 00:08:52.639 --> 00:08:55.039 He looked healthy for the first time in a long time. 171 00:08:55.159 --> 00:08:57.919 You know, I've seen some pictures of him during this time. 172 00:08:58.159 --> 00:08:59.879 He's you know, looks. 173 00:09:00.080 --> 00:09:00.960 Under and fuller. 174 00:09:01.919 --> 00:09:06.440 He gets out in twenty twenty, and then what he 175 00:09:06.879 --> 00:09:10.440 was looking for a job. He was trying to make 176 00:09:10.480 --> 00:09:13.200 an honest living for those first few months. 177 00:09:12.960 --> 00:09:15.279 And was supposedly working in the oil field. 178 00:09:15.559 --> 00:09:18.879 Right yeah, yeah, yeah, and going out to West Texas 179 00:09:19.120 --> 00:09:22.360 to working on oil field where again acquaint to his family. 180 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:23.720 He was staying clean and doing well. 181 00:09:24.200 --> 00:09:28.720 And while he was in prison, Tyler got married to another. 182 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:31.799 Guy, right yes, yeah. 183 00:09:31.279 --> 00:09:36.360 But then not long after Christopher's out of prison, they reunite. 184 00:09:37.159 --> 00:09:40.080 Yes, we don't know the circumstances of how they got 185 00:09:40.120 --> 00:09:43.480 together or when they got together, but we know that 186 00:09:44.320 --> 00:09:49.080 he was seeing her and I think I remember Kimberly 187 00:09:49.679 --> 00:09:53.200 talking about them trying to get the kids back, So 188 00:09:53.320 --> 00:09:55.960 maybe that's how they got back into contact, was to 189 00:09:56.039 --> 00:09:57.840 talk about the custody issues. 190 00:09:57.919 --> 00:09:59.480 Oh yeah, they. 191 00:09:59.480 --> 00:10:01.919 Ended up getting back into contact. 192 00:10:02.159 --> 00:10:06.279 They move into a trailer on Tyler's uncle's property. 193 00:10:06.919 --> 00:10:11.600 Yes, he starts spending more and more time out that trailer. 194 00:10:11.519 --> 00:10:14.919 And that's where they start using drugs again. 195 00:10:15.399 --> 00:10:15.600 Yep. 196 00:10:16.840 --> 00:10:19.240 Christopher had been out of prison for less than six 197 00:10:19.320 --> 00:10:22.799 months when Thanksgiving rolled around in twenty twenty, and Kimberly 198 00:10:22.840 --> 00:10:26.279 got that horrible feeling about her son, that Christopher was 199 00:10:26.320 --> 00:10:30.039 about to die. Kimberly had just spoken to Christopher a 200 00:10:30.120 --> 00:10:32.480 couple of days earlier, and she talked to him about Tyler. 201 00:10:32.919 --> 00:10:35.840 Apparently things were not going well for the couple. 202 00:10:36.480 --> 00:10:38.000 And I went to stay in the car with him 203 00:10:38.279 --> 00:10:40.679 and he said, Mama, I would die for her. 204 00:10:41.120 --> 00:10:42.559 I said, christ do you really mean that? 205 00:10:42.679 --> 00:10:45.159 And he said, yes, Mama, I do, I would. 206 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:45.519 Die for her. 207 00:10:45.960 --> 00:10:47.519 I went and told the dog for I sing, my 208 00:10:47.639 --> 00:10:51.279 son's fixing to die, and he gave me anxiety feels 209 00:10:51.320 --> 00:10:51.720 and simeon. 210 00:10:57.919 --> 00:11:01.360 Christopher Whitely before he died, was staying with his longtime 211 00:11:01.480 --> 00:11:05.120 on and off girlfriend, Tyler Messina at her great uncle's place. 212 00:11:05.840 --> 00:11:08.960 It was right outside the Texas town of Lapan. That's 213 00:11:09.000 --> 00:11:13.159 pronounced light Pan, right, yes, kind of a Liepan Whpan. 214 00:11:13.840 --> 00:11:16.279 Liepan is tiny, about five hundred people. 215 00:11:16.919 --> 00:11:22.159 Liepan isn't even a one stoplight town. It's a highway. 216 00:11:22.519 --> 00:11:25.360 It's a gas station, in a library, in a post office, 217 00:11:25.440 --> 00:11:26.679 and that's about it. 218 00:11:27.240 --> 00:11:29.600 The town's about forty miles up the road from Dublin, 219 00:11:29.799 --> 00:11:32.360 the little town where Christopher grew up. It's in a 220 00:11:32.399 --> 00:11:35.799 part of Texas called the Western Cross timbers where right 221 00:11:35.840 --> 00:11:37.879 in the middle of the prairie, there's randomly all these 222 00:11:37.919 --> 00:11:41.879 trees and hills. Just one week after Christopher told Kimberly 223 00:11:41.960 --> 00:11:44.720 he was willing to die for Tyler, the couple stayed 224 00:11:44.759 --> 00:11:49.000 up late partying Tuesday night spilled into Wednesday morning. 225 00:11:49.879 --> 00:11:52.679 Something but I'm drinking all money, heaving a party till 226 00:11:52.720 --> 00:11:55.840 three thirty in the morning. Christcher did try to call 227 00:11:55.919 --> 00:11:58.679 me that morning. Okay, I missed the call because I 228 00:11:58.759 --> 00:11:59.720 turned the phone off. 229 00:12:00.480 --> 00:12:03.360 Kimberly missed his call, but Christopher got ahold of his dad, 230 00:12:03.480 --> 00:12:06.759 Robert at seven forty one am. Christopher said he was 231 00:12:06.799 --> 00:12:08.000 having some kind of emergency. 232 00:12:08.559 --> 00:12:09.600 It couldn't an emergency. 233 00:12:09.759 --> 00:12:13.799 He needed to ride from there because proposing to the 234 00:12:13.799 --> 00:12:16.559 people in that house or somebody's out there leaving and 235 00:12:16.639 --> 00:12:17.720 he needs to ride. 236 00:12:18.399 --> 00:12:20.879 You're hearing Robert in a recording made by the local 237 00:12:20.879 --> 00:12:21.720 sheriff's office. 238 00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:23.879 He was talking to me that there was a undrew 239 00:12:23.919 --> 00:12:26.480 or three people in the background. 240 00:12:26.639 --> 00:12:28.759 Hang on a minute, he said, I gotta walk away. 241 00:12:29.360 --> 00:12:31.799 But Christopher didn't give any names. He didn't say who 242 00:12:31.840 --> 00:12:33.080 he had to walk away from. 243 00:12:33.679 --> 00:12:36.320 Oh, he had to walked away from him, drank him 244 00:12:36.360 --> 00:12:38.720 talk filmy, and he talked to me for a while 245 00:12:38.720 --> 00:12:41.600 and I stood fun hung up, and I went ahead 246 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:42.679 and start getting dressed. 247 00:12:42.679 --> 00:12:42.960 All this. 248 00:12:43.120 --> 00:12:45.600 That called me back again and trought me. 249 00:12:45.559 --> 00:12:48.480 A little bit more, and I'd be on my waist. 250 00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:50.679 I told him, I said, I said, I don't never 251 00:12:50.799 --> 00:12:54.399 go out there. If something went out, skin like geograph 252 00:12:54.440 --> 00:12:54.919 were done. 253 00:12:54.759 --> 00:12:55.879 One lady's hanger, his sold out. 254 00:12:56.679 --> 00:12:59.120 I know that was hard to follow. Robert said he 255 00:12:59.120 --> 00:13:01.960 could hear two or three people in the background. He 256 00:13:02.000 --> 00:13:04.320 told Christopher that he told him to never go over 257 00:13:04.360 --> 00:13:07.639 there to Tyler's place, and the phone call ended abruptly. 258 00:13:08.720 --> 00:13:11.440 Robert wasn't sure if Christopher hung up or if someone 259 00:13:11.480 --> 00:13:14.679 made him hang up, whatever was going on. Robert hit 260 00:13:14.679 --> 00:13:17.480 the road for lightpan doug Man. 261 00:13:17.200 --> 00:13:19.840 I got there, I called his fine. 262 00:13:21.000 --> 00:13:24.120 Somebody answered the call, but no one said anything. Robert 263 00:13:24.159 --> 00:13:27.440 stayed on the line for about two minutes nothing, and 264 00:13:27.559 --> 00:13:28.080 then I just. 265 00:13:28.039 --> 00:13:29.840 Found up because that stuff I would ask through it. 266 00:13:30.440 --> 00:13:32.639 I parked the one side of the road all called him, 267 00:13:33.080 --> 00:13:36.240 said him, I was there. That's say him. I was there, 268 00:13:36.840 --> 00:13:38.840 and as he neither would have thrown I called the 269 00:13:38.879 --> 00:13:42.600 phone twenty one time, sitting there fifteen twenty minutes I 270 00:13:42.720 --> 00:13:45.080 was there. I never begin to get it after his phone. 271 00:13:44.840 --> 00:13:49.440 After I called her, so something's obviously going on. Christopher's 272 00:13:49.440 --> 00:13:53.200 having an emergency. Robert drives all the way over to Lightpan. 273 00:13:53.360 --> 00:13:55.799 He calls his son a bunch, waits there for a while, 274 00:13:56.000 --> 00:13:59.799 but when Christopher never shows, he eventually leaves and drives 275 00:13:59.799 --> 00:14:03.200 back to Dublin. Kimberly woke up later in the day 276 00:14:03.240 --> 00:14:06.320 and also tried to call Christopher, but he didn't answer her. 277 00:14:06.879 --> 00:14:08.960 No one could get a hold of him, not his parents, 278 00:14:08.960 --> 00:14:11.840 not his friends. Kimberly was also trying to get in 279 00:14:11.879 --> 00:14:15.639 touch with Tyler. Finally, Tyler responded to a direct message 280 00:14:15.679 --> 00:14:16.399 on Facebook. 281 00:14:16.960 --> 00:14:18.480 I said, did you find Christopher? 282 00:14:18.519 --> 00:14:20.080 She said, we're napping. 283 00:14:21.039 --> 00:14:24.559 I've seen a screenshot of this exchange. First, Tyler says, 284 00:14:24.600 --> 00:14:28.080 Chris is asleep. Is he with you? Kimberly asks, and 285 00:14:28.159 --> 00:14:32.679 Tyler responds, yeah, we're napping. The screenshot isn't timestamped, so 286 00:14:32.840 --> 00:14:35.600 I can't be exactly sure when Tyler and Kimberly were 287 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:38.559 sending these messages. But it's weird for Tyler to say 288 00:14:38.600 --> 00:14:41.399 she and Christopher were napping when in truth she hadn't 289 00:14:41.399 --> 00:14:44.679 seen him all day. Whatever, was going on. It wasn't 290 00:14:44.799 --> 00:14:48.759 until the following afternoon, more than thirty hours since Christopher 291 00:14:48.840 --> 00:14:51.440 was last seen, that anybody bothered. 292 00:14:51.080 --> 00:14:54.000 To call the law head County nine one one. What's 293 00:14:54.039 --> 00:15:00.159 the address? Have your emergency? 294 00:15:02.200 --> 00:15:05.519 Christopher had this friend named Pollie Huggins. Pollie is the 295 00:15:05.519 --> 00:15:08.639 one who finally dialed nine to one one. She wasn't 296 00:15:08.639 --> 00:15:12.600 reporting an emergency, not exactly. Polly just wasn't sure what 297 00:15:12.679 --> 00:15:13.200 else to do. 298 00:15:14.039 --> 00:15:15.759 I don't know how to do this because I've never 299 00:15:15.799 --> 00:15:18.320 had to. But I had a friend Paul, saying that 300 00:15:19.000 --> 00:15:21.799 her boyfriend thought that boyfriend came to Minting, which is 301 00:15:21.799 --> 00:15:25.759 one of my really good friends. And she's claiming that 302 00:15:26.679 --> 00:15:29.000 he up in just West in the middle of night 303 00:15:29.120 --> 00:15:31.200 or something like that. And I've tried to get her 304 00:15:31.240 --> 00:15:34.799 to go walk and looking for him, and she's like, oh, well, 305 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:37.240 you know, giving me all kinds of stories. 306 00:15:38.279 --> 00:15:40.840 Polly wanted someone from the Sheriff's office to go check 307 00:15:40.879 --> 00:15:41.399 on her friend. 308 00:15:41.960 --> 00:15:45.320 It sounds are you sketchy like to me and his 309 00:15:45.480 --> 00:15:48.039 entire family. I just want to know if he's okay, okay? 310 00:15:48.279 --> 00:15:49.000 What's his name? 311 00:15:49.639 --> 00:15:55.039 Christopher Alan Whiteley? Is there a history of violin or 312 00:15:55.279 --> 00:16:00.639 drug or alcoholis well, actually I'm I'm going to tell 313 00:16:00.679 --> 00:16:01.120 you the truth. 314 00:16:01.679 --> 00:16:02.720 She's on probation. 315 00:16:02.960 --> 00:16:05.720 He just got out of prison for trying to kill her. 316 00:16:05.759 --> 00:16:09.120 At one time, according to Paulie, Tyler's ken folk were 317 00:16:09.159 --> 00:16:12.960 threatening Christopher and telling him to stay away. Christopher had 318 00:16:13.000 --> 00:16:15.639 done pretty much the opposite of that, and I heard 319 00:16:15.679 --> 00:16:18.279 her uncle talk to him the way her family talks. 320 00:16:18.120 --> 00:16:19.639 To him on the phone, you know, like if y'all 321 00:16:19.679 --> 00:16:21.759 ever get back together with promise, we'll do something to you. 322 00:16:21.919 --> 00:16:23.960 Like I said, he hasn't been out of prison long. 323 00:16:24.200 --> 00:16:27.799 We tried to keep him around us and keep her away, 324 00:16:27.919 --> 00:16:30.240 but he says up being down there in love blah 325 00:16:30.240 --> 00:16:32.600 blah blah, and we'll tell me it's a bad deal 326 00:16:32.639 --> 00:16:33.600 with Paull that I can too. 327 00:16:34.919 --> 00:16:37.000 It was also hard to understand who was over at 328 00:16:37.039 --> 00:16:37.799 the house that night. 329 00:16:38.440 --> 00:16:40.440 She kept saying it was like two people, and she's like, 330 00:16:40.480 --> 00:16:42.200 I never heard them get out of bed and here 331 00:16:42.399 --> 00:16:44.840 accuse them. I was like, why didn't he calls cops 332 00:16:44.879 --> 00:16:48.279 like he could be anywhere. So that's why Paul joel, 333 00:16:48.360 --> 00:16:52.519 because she's not showing any ascrout in my eyes, if. 334 00:16:52.360 --> 00:16:55.399 You didn't follow that, Polly said. Tyler also told her 335 00:16:55.639 --> 00:16:58.240 there were two people with him that night and she 336 00:16:58.360 --> 00:17:01.519 never heard them get out of bed. Paully wanted Tyler 337 00:17:01.559 --> 00:17:04.880 to call the cops, but she wouldn't do it, and 338 00:17:05.000 --> 00:17:08.359 Polly's eyes, Tyler wasn't making any effort to find Christopher. 339 00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:13.000 Shortly after Polly's nine to one one call, two deputies 340 00:17:13.039 --> 00:17:15.680 from the Hood County Sheriff's Office arrive at the property. 341 00:17:16.480 --> 00:17:19.480 It's stuck behind some trees on Howl Road, this narrow 342 00:17:19.559 --> 00:17:21.960 road that winds through the country about a mile outside 343 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:26.200 of Laipan. On their bodycam videos, Deputy Daniel Martin and 344 00:17:26.279 --> 00:17:28.960 Deputy Tyler Looper are seen knocking on the door. 345 00:17:31.880 --> 00:17:32.240 Morning. 346 00:17:34.680 --> 00:17:37.720 An older man comes to the door. His name is 347 00:17:38.000 --> 00:17:41.880 Kenneth Impy and he's technically Tyler's great uncle, but he 348 00:17:41.960 --> 00:17:45.359 often refers to Tyler as his granddaughter. He owns the 349 00:17:45.400 --> 00:17:48.640 property where Tyler and Christopher had been staying and he 350 00:17:48.680 --> 00:17:52.200 lives there too. He's mostly bald on top, with scraggly 351 00:17:52.279 --> 00:17:54.960 long gray hair on the sides and a long gray beard. 352 00:17:55.640 --> 00:18:02.079 Oh Christopher here now? If there he isn't? Is his girlfriend? 353 00:18:02.599 --> 00:18:03.720 My granddaughter? 354 00:18:04.160 --> 00:18:04.279 Fo? 355 00:18:05.000 --> 00:18:06.720 Yeah? Can we speak with her? 356 00:18:06.920 --> 00:18:07.200 Huh? 357 00:18:07.279 --> 00:18:09.039 We're here just checking on Christopher. 358 00:18:09.519 --> 00:18:13.759 He was here, and yesterday morning, when I got up, 359 00:18:14.119 --> 00:18:15.359 my front door was open. 360 00:18:15.519 --> 00:18:16.319 He was gone. 361 00:18:17.200 --> 00:18:21.079 We had no idea where he's at. Tyler comes out 362 00:18:21.079 --> 00:18:22.759 of another room, pulling on a hoodie. 363 00:18:24.480 --> 00:18:26.000 We're looking for Chris. 364 00:18:27.039 --> 00:18:29.880 When Tyler hears Christopher's name, she kind of flinches or 365 00:18:29.920 --> 00:18:33.039 shrugs and goes bug eyed for a second. I don't 366 00:18:33.039 --> 00:18:34.680 really know how to interpret her reaction. 367 00:18:35.279 --> 00:18:38.279 Uh yeah, I've been looking for him too. He left 368 00:18:38.359 --> 00:18:41.160 yesterday morning, didn't even wake me up or anything. 369 00:18:41.240 --> 00:18:43.759 Why would he leave to go to work? 370 00:18:44.400 --> 00:18:47.160 Christopher technically had a job, but he hadn't been showing up. 371 00:18:47.799 --> 00:18:49.839 His friends had called his work, but he wasn't there. 372 00:18:50.839 --> 00:18:53.480 So he left for work and never came back. And 373 00:18:53.480 --> 00:18:54.640 you didn't think that was weird. 374 00:18:54.960 --> 00:18:56.640 I did think it was weird. That's when I started 375 00:18:56.640 --> 00:18:58.519 calling his friends and his parents. I was like, did 376 00:18:58.559 --> 00:19:00.599 y'all come pick him up? Because he didn't tell me why. 377 00:19:00.839 --> 00:19:02.599 So between four and seven he left. 378 00:19:03.279 --> 00:19:05.759 I was passed out on the bed. I remember hearing 379 00:19:05.839 --> 00:19:08.799 him faintly talk on the phone to somebody about coming 380 00:19:08.799 --> 00:19:10.680 to get him. But I didn't think it was going 381 00:19:10.759 --> 00:19:13.000 to be right then and there. And next thing I know, 382 00:19:13.039 --> 00:19:16.039 I wake up at already eight and he's not there. 383 00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:16.680 Are y'all fighting? 384 00:19:16.880 --> 00:19:19.279 Oh no, we're just cleaning and drinking. 385 00:19:19.960 --> 00:19:23.119 Deputy Daniel Martin asks to see Tyler's phone and he 386 00:19:23.160 --> 00:19:26.720 scrolls through Oliver text with Christopher. The messages are hard 387 00:19:26.759 --> 00:19:29.000 to read on the body cam video, but there are 388 00:19:29.039 --> 00:19:30.720 a lot, all of them from Tyler. 389 00:19:32.079 --> 00:19:34.000 Is there any reason that you would feel like he's 390 00:19:34.000 --> 00:19:34.519 in danger? 391 00:19:35.319 --> 00:19:35.960 I don't. 392 00:19:36.279 --> 00:19:37.039 I don't think so. 393 00:19:37.119 --> 00:19:38.319 I mean, I just I don't know. 394 00:19:38.480 --> 00:19:40.839 So it's not abnormal for him just kind of take 395 00:19:40.920 --> 00:19:41.279 out them. 396 00:19:41.319 --> 00:19:44.079 This is very weird. Like I was trying to say earlier, 397 00:19:44.119 --> 00:19:47.200 he calls me like every fought for ten minutes. I 398 00:19:47.200 --> 00:19:49.079 haven't had a phone call in two days. 399 00:19:49.319 --> 00:19:52.079 Does you have any enemies anybody that's been calling, harassing 400 00:19:52.160 --> 00:19:53.079 y'all anything like that. 401 00:19:53.440 --> 00:19:57.240