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These are hour long documentaries, cinematic, 12 00:00:50.600 --> 00:00:55.960 really beautiful, beautifully shot documentaries about uh, you know, murder. 13 00:01:39.439 --> 00:01:44.400 On October fourth, twenty twenty one, firefighters rush to three 14 00:01:44.480 --> 00:01:48.920 eighty six Moon Valley Road in Dallas County, Missouri. The 15 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:51.280 name sounds like it should be printed on a postcard. 16 00:01:52.200 --> 00:01:55.879 Moon Valley makes you think of a serene getaway with 17 00:01:56.000 --> 00:02:00.599 cozy cabins and campfires. In reality, Moon Valley Road is 18 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:05.000 a boring strip of gravel that cuts through dense ozark woods. 19 00:02:06.040 --> 00:02:08.960 These trees are so thick that they almost block out 20 00:02:08.960 --> 00:02:12.280 the sky when you look up from the ground. The 21 00:02:12.400 --> 00:02:14.919 nights are so dark you can't see your hand in 22 00:02:14.919 --> 00:02:19.800 front of you. There are no street lights, no neighbors 23 00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:24.080 in sight, only the kind of isolation where bad things 24 00:02:24.120 --> 00:02:28.479 happen without anyone noticing. By the time they get there, 25 00:02:28.560 --> 00:02:31.879 the fire is already out of control. Nothing on the 26 00:02:31.919 --> 00:02:35.599 property can be salvaged. Flames shoot out of every building 27 00:02:35.680 --> 00:02:39.879 and don't stop burning until they've destroyed them all. After 28 00:02:39.919 --> 00:02:44.840 the fires are finally out, a Dallas County deputy steps 29 00:02:44.879 --> 00:02:48.439 onto the property. The ground is soft and sooty with 30 00:02:48.520 --> 00:02:52.120 wet ash. The black mud sticks to his boots, and 31 00:02:52.599 --> 00:02:56.960 smoke is seeping from the rubble. The cabin is a 32 00:02:57.000 --> 00:02:59.840 shell now, with the roof collapsed and the windows blown 33 00:02:59.840 --> 00:03:04.560 out out. The outbuildings are mostly gone. In the middle 34 00:03:04.560 --> 00:03:08.120 of the cabin's rubble stands a lone familiar piece of furniture, 35 00:03:08.960 --> 00:03:13.159 a bathtub. The deputy wades through the debris, scanning with 36 00:03:13.240 --> 00:03:18.240 a flashlight. Then his beam catches a wire, stretched tight, 37 00:03:18.439 --> 00:03:25.199 almost invisible, still attached to two scorched posts. He freezes 38 00:03:26.280 --> 00:03:29.479 it's a trip wire. He knows that if he moves 39 00:03:29.520 --> 00:03:31.759 the wrong way he could trigger it and blow them 40 00:03:31.800 --> 00:03:36.159 all to pieces. His eyes follow it carefully, and his 41 00:03:36.240 --> 00:03:39.000 focus is locked on the wire until it leads to 42 00:03:39.039 --> 00:03:42.960 a device buried in the rubble. They call the bomb squad, 43 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:47.080 who detonates one device on site and removes two more. 44 00:03:48.240 --> 00:03:53.080 These are homemade bombs. The fire marshal will make the 45 00:03:53.120 --> 00:03:55.680 easy call. This was arson. 46 00:03:56.319 --> 00:03:59.479 Scarce but solid details being released on what could have 47 00:03:59.520 --> 00:04:02.800 caused a late night fire on Moon Valley Road hours 48 00:04:02.800 --> 00:04:06.599 before Cassidy Rainwater suspected kidnappers were due in court. A 49 00:04:06.639 --> 00:04:09.360 cabin where James Phelps and Timothy Norton had been living 50 00:04:09.560 --> 00:04:12.800 burned to the ground. A report obtained by Ozarks First 51 00:04:12.840 --> 00:04:16.040 Today shows the Springfield bomb squad discovered not one, but 52 00:04:16.160 --> 00:04:19.759 two explosive devices among the ashes, and while it doesn't 53 00:04:19.759 --> 00:04:22.959 say whether the fire was set intentionally, it does list 54 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:26.680 what equipment was taken by investigators. The report calls them 55 00:04:26.720 --> 00:04:31.480 incendiary devices made with mortar tubes, balloons, and coiled fuses 56 00:04:31.560 --> 00:04:34.959 with a trip wire attached. A Springfield fire marshal says 57 00:04:35.040 --> 00:04:38.040 one of the explosives was detonated on site, but what 58 00:04:38.120 --> 00:04:40.959 happened to the second device has not yet been released. 59 00:04:42.199 --> 00:04:45.959 The Missouri Ozarks cover more than forty thousand square miles 60 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:50.560 of rough isolated country, over half the state and twice 61 00:04:50.560 --> 00:04:55.120 the size of Switzerland. The Ozarks aren't a true mountain range, 62 00:04:55.319 --> 00:04:59.600 but a high ancient plateau of limestone carved over millions 63 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:05.600 of years. These limestone hills fold into deep valleys, Caves 64 00:05:05.759 --> 00:05:09.600 run for miles underground, and rivers disappear into sinkholes without 65 00:05:09.600 --> 00:05:13.279 a trace, and a lot of the roads are narrow 66 00:05:13.399 --> 00:05:17.360 and surrounded by woods. What goes on in the hollows 67 00:05:17.480 --> 00:05:22.680 is anyone's guests. Tourists come here for the fishing, cabins, 68 00:05:22.879 --> 00:05:27.720 float trips, and lake towns, but the Ozarks have another side. 69 00:05:28.720 --> 00:05:32.360 Civil War confederates use these woods to disappear and then 70 00:05:32.519 --> 00:05:37.839 ambush their enemies. Prohibition gangs built stills so far back 71 00:05:37.839 --> 00:05:40.759 in the timber that no one dared to go there. 72 00:05:41.839 --> 00:05:45.319 Math cooks and armed weed growers still guard their territory 73 00:05:45.639 --> 00:05:49.759 like they're at war. And then there are the legends 74 00:05:50.560 --> 00:05:55.399 weird lights moving through the trees with no source, numerous 75 00:05:55.639 --> 00:05:59.720 bigfoot sightings, and whispers of feral people living in the 76 00:05:59.759 --> 00:06:04.879 back country. Out here, it's easy to go missing, and 77 00:06:04.959 --> 00:06:08.759 even easier to stay that way. Thirty three year old 78 00:06:08.800 --> 00:06:13.879 Cassidy rainwater didn't just disappear all at once. It happened 79 00:06:13.920 --> 00:06:17.920 slowly and under the radar, the kind of missing person's 80 00:06:17.920 --> 00:06:19.920 case that didn't start with a nine to one one call, 81 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:24.120 but with a gap in contact that kept getting longer. 82 00:06:24.759 --> 00:06:32.040 Cassidy was a free spirited girl, loud. 83 00:06:30.560 --> 00:06:33.800 If she walked in a room, everybody knew she was there, 84 00:06:34.639 --> 00:06:35.040 but she. 85 00:06:36.720 --> 00:06:37.720 Had a beautiful soul. 86 00:06:39.120 --> 00:06:45.120 She was born on June ninth, nineteen eighty eight, near Lebanon, Missouri. Officially, 87 00:06:45.439 --> 00:06:50.519 Cassidy's parents were Clifford Welch and Tracy Wawasuck, but she 88 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:54.519 went by Rainwater, a Native American name tied to someone 89 00:06:54.519 --> 00:06:58.319 in her past, her grandfather, who happened to own land 90 00:06:58.360 --> 00:07:01.240 on Moon Valley Road, near where she was last seen. 91 00:07:02.399 --> 00:07:04.839 Cassidy had her first child with a high school boyfriend 92 00:07:04.920 --> 00:07:08.279 named Ben. The couple tried to make it work for 93 00:07:08.319 --> 00:07:11.000 the sake of their baby, but they chose to put 94 00:07:11.040 --> 00:07:14.759 them up for adoption at some point. Regardless, she and 95 00:07:14.800 --> 00:07:19.639 Ben remained on good terms. Later, she remarried and had 96 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:23.399 other children with that partner. Reports say that she was 97 00:07:23.439 --> 00:07:26.800 still legally married in twenty twenty one, but living apart. 98 00:07:27.879 --> 00:07:32.160 By the summer of twenty twenty one, Cassidy's life was unsettled. 99 00:07:33.000 --> 00:07:38.000 She'd been moving between places looking for stability. Her first partner, Ben, 100 00:07:38.360 --> 00:07:39.879 remembered being worried about her. 101 00:07:40.399 --> 00:07:42.360 She was in a bad way, like at that time. 102 00:07:42.600 --> 00:07:45.839 I'm pretty sure she was homeless, and she and I 103 00:07:45.920 --> 00:07:49.319 were talking and was just like, you come to Kansas City, 104 00:07:49.519 --> 00:07:50.639 we'll get things figured out. 105 00:07:51.800 --> 00:07:54.319 Searching for a place to stay eventually led her to 106 00:07:54.360 --> 00:07:58.079 a small property on Moon Valley Road, a remote rental 107 00:07:58.160 --> 00:08:01.920 cabin occupied by sixty year old him Phelps and owned 108 00:08:02.240 --> 00:08:06.720 by a man named John. John Nucassidy's grandparents and suggested 109 00:08:06.759 --> 00:08:10.199 she talk with the guy living there. Jim, living in 110 00:08:10.240 --> 00:08:12.680 the cabin, had a soft spot for taking in women 111 00:08:12.920 --> 00:08:16.879 and girls, but none of them ever said anything negative 112 00:08:16.879 --> 00:08:17.360 about him. 113 00:08:17.800 --> 00:08:21.839 Okay, Jim, it's a friend. Once again. He let me 114 00:08:21.920 --> 00:08:24.120 stay with him from time to time when I was 115 00:08:24.160 --> 00:08:25.000 having a hard time. 116 00:08:25.720 --> 00:08:27.399 I have a lot of health problems, so it's. 117 00:08:27.199 --> 00:08:31.000 Hard for me to work, which is why I'm getting 118 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:32.600 a job to where I work on my own time. 119 00:08:32.639 --> 00:08:36.360 Now. Seems like in the podcast, but. 120 00:08:38.120 --> 00:08:41.559 Jim, he was really kind. He was a sweet guy. 121 00:08:41.799 --> 00:08:44.639 But when I met him, he was a really kind guy. 122 00:08:45.639 --> 00:08:47.919 He was caring, He was really nice. 123 00:08:48.480 --> 00:08:52.440 No sexual relations, not like that out there. I mean, 124 00:08:52.519 --> 00:08:56.559 I've met Jim's family, I've met Tim's family. They know me, 125 00:08:57.120 --> 00:08:58.919 I know them. 126 00:08:59.200 --> 00:09:03.039 Amanda didn't just stumbled into this story. Her paths here 127 00:09:03.159 --> 00:09:06.399 started months earlier when she met fifty six year old 128 00:09:06.440 --> 00:09:12.399 Tim Norton, Jim's best friend. Amanda met Tim through a 129 00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:14.919 friend who was engaged to his nephew and living there. 130 00:09:15.919 --> 00:09:19.279 At the time. Amanda was between homes, so she moved 131 00:09:19.320 --> 00:09:23.279 into Tim's trailer, which, by all accounts was a disgusting 132 00:09:23.399 --> 00:09:28.000 pig pen. Tim was a long haul trucker and Amanda 133 00:09:28.200 --> 00:09:32.039 sometimes went along for the ride. Other times she acted 134 00:09:32.080 --> 00:09:36.559 like his personal dispatcher or helped with his finances. People 135 00:09:36.600 --> 00:09:42.120 assumed they were a couple. Amanda says, that's ridiculous. He 136 00:09:42.279 --> 00:09:46.480 was too old for her. According to Amanda, she was 137 00:09:46.519 --> 00:09:48.600 just helping him in exchange for a place to live. 138 00:09:49.399 --> 00:09:52.720 I mean, he was fifty six and she was nineteen. 139 00:09:53.879 --> 00:09:59.120 Nothing to see here. Right months later, Amanda's living situation 140 00:09:59.279 --> 00:10:03.080 shifted again. The chaos of everyone living in the trailer 141 00:10:03.320 --> 00:10:06.879 wore her down. Tim suggested she go and stay at 142 00:10:06.879 --> 00:10:10.519 his buddy, Jim's cabin for a while, so she did. 143 00:10:11.519 --> 00:10:14.639 On paper, it sounded like a quiet escape, a rural 144 00:10:14.679 --> 00:10:17.720 place with a name that could pass for a weekend getaway, 145 00:10:18.759 --> 00:10:23.360 but this was no campground. The cabin sat isolated, hidden 146 00:10:23.360 --> 00:10:28.279 from the road, with sheds of outbuildings scattered across the property. 147 00:10:29.399 --> 00:10:33.440 Amanda says her time there was temporary, but her connections 148 00:10:33.480 --> 00:10:37.600 with Jim and Tim were already cemented and they were 149 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:42.240 about to become a lot more than casual acquaintances. Let's 150 00:10:42.240 --> 00:10:47.559 circle back to Cassidy Rainwater. Amanda knew who she was 151 00:10:47.720 --> 00:10:53.519 because their time at Jim's cabin overlapped. Amanda remembered meeting her. 152 00:10:54.200 --> 00:10:55.720 I met her once. 153 00:10:56.360 --> 00:10:58.720 Me and Jim went over there because I had some 154 00:10:58.759 --> 00:11:00.639 mail to hook up, because that's when I melt Millan 155 00:11:00.720 --> 00:11:01.559 addresses right. 156 00:11:01.480 --> 00:11:04.080 Know, and her didn't really talk. 157 00:11:04.879 --> 00:11:06.240 She didn't She was kind of. 158 00:11:06.279 --> 00:11:09.559 Quiet, which I get a new person. 159 00:11:09.759 --> 00:11:12.039 I'm quiet too with new people, But. 160 00:11:12.919 --> 00:11:15.240 She didn't really talk. She kind of stayed to herself, 161 00:11:15.480 --> 00:11:19.919 and whenever I went to go do something in my car, 162 00:11:20.759 --> 00:11:23.399 and when I came back in, she had told Jim 163 00:11:23.440 --> 00:11:28.360 that she wanted to leave, that she wasn't comfortable those 164 00:11:28.399 --> 00:11:32.639 two many people. Jim didn't tell her that people were coming. 165 00:11:32.440 --> 00:11:33.840 Over and she wasn't comfortable with this. 166 00:11:34.759 --> 00:11:37.879 It was just me, Jim, Tim and her. 167 00:11:40.840 --> 00:11:46.200 Yeah, it wasn't exactly a warm welcome. Cassidy, like Amanda, 168 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:49.960 wasn't looking for new friends. You could say both women 169 00:11:49.960 --> 00:11:53.120 had retreated to the cabin for the same reason, to 170 00:11:53.279 --> 00:11:58.759 escape drama and conflict and piece themselves back together. The 171 00:11:58.840 --> 00:12:02.399 problem was that the place was starting to feel less 172 00:12:02.399 --> 00:12:06.000 like an isolated hideout and more like the worst kind 173 00:12:06.039 --> 00:12:10.399 of Airbnb, the kind where the host keeps allowing more 174 00:12:10.480 --> 00:12:14.960 guests to book the place without telling you. According to Amanda, 175 00:12:15.080 --> 00:12:17.120 the two tried to stay out of each other's way. 176 00:12:18.159 --> 00:12:21.960 This was around mid July twenty twenty one. By the 177 00:12:22.000 --> 00:12:25.600 time Cassidy went missing in late August, Amanda had already 178 00:12:25.679 --> 00:12:26.639 moved out. 179 00:12:26.879 --> 00:12:29.679 I didn't really I tried not to get involved in 180 00:12:29.759 --> 00:12:34.240 too much because I just I can't pay you bees. 181 00:12:34.440 --> 00:12:37.919 Just I was like, I looked at him and I said, so, 182 00:12:38.039 --> 00:12:40.759 how is Cassady doing? Because I was just kind of 183 00:12:40.799 --> 00:12:44.919 curious because I know she's been struggling with some stuff 184 00:12:45.320 --> 00:12:47.120 and I was in He was like, I don't know. 185 00:12:47.200 --> 00:12:51.240 She left in the middle of night. I like, oh, 186 00:12:51.320 --> 00:12:53.879 And then later I found out this she's missing. How 187 00:12:54.000 --> 00:12:59.679 you know? God until I read the article and I'm like, oh, 188 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:03.840 this suff happened, and then I said it. In the 189 00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:05.759 back of my mind, it was like that could have 190 00:13:05.799 --> 00:13:06.039 been me. 191 00:13:07.720 --> 00:13:10.639 In August, a friend noticed that it had been about 192 00:13:10.679 --> 00:13:15.639 six weeks since anyone had seen Cassidy. She was reported missing. 193 00:13:16.440 --> 00:13:20.519 The last person to admit seeing her was Jim. It 194 00:13:20.559 --> 00:13:23.320 wasn't the police who made the first big move in 195 00:13:23.360 --> 00:13:28.360 the case. It was the FBI, after someone sent them 196 00:13:28.360 --> 00:13:33.320 an email with photographs labeled Cassidy. The first one showed 197 00:13:33.360 --> 00:13:37.360 a topless woman in a cage, and whoever sent it 198 00:13:37.519 --> 00:13:40.919 made sure the FBI knew exactly where to find her, 199 00:13:42.080 --> 00:14:11.840 or at least what was left of her. In the 200 00:14:11.840 --> 00:14:15.279 summer of twenty twenty one, Jim Phelps was living in 201 00:14:15.279 --> 00:14:18.799 a small cabin on Moon Valley Road, a patch of 202 00:14:18.919 --> 00:14:24.080 rural Missouri surrounded by dense ozark woods. He was a quiet, 203 00:14:24.279 --> 00:14:27.840 reclusive person who spent most of his time at the cabin. 204 00:14:28.799 --> 00:14:31.679 His closest friend, Tim Norton, was a long haul trucker, 205 00:14:31.919 --> 00:14:36.480 also with a habit of keeping to himself, and yet somehow, 206 00:14:36.919 --> 00:14:41.120 women kept finding their way to that cabin. One was 207 00:14:41.159 --> 00:14:44.720 a nineteen year old woman named Amanda. She also stayed 208 00:14:44.759 --> 00:14:47.279 at the cabin for a few weeks after life became 209 00:14:47.320 --> 00:14:52.360 too crowded at Tim's place, Cassidy Rainwater, whose life was unraveling, 210 00:14:53.000 --> 00:14:55.639 had come to the cabin searching for solitude and some 211 00:14:55.720 --> 00:15:01.240 kind of sanctuary. Like Amanda, she was private, guarded, not 212 00:15:01.399 --> 00:15:05.720 quick to share her world. Their paths only crossed briefly 213 00:15:05.840 --> 00:15:10.360 before Amanda moved out. A few weeks later, Cassidy was 214 00:15:10.399 --> 00:15:14.960 gone too, but unlike Amanda, she didn't choose her next destination. 215 00:15:15.200 --> 00:15:20.600 She simply disappeared. After six weeks with no sign of her, 216 00:15:21.279 --> 00:15:24.919 she was reported missing by a family member. The last 217 00:15:24.960 --> 00:15:29.919 person to have seen her was Jim Phelps. One night, 218 00:15:29.960 --> 00:15:34.440 deputies drove out to Moon Valley Road. The cabin was 219 00:15:34.519 --> 00:15:39.240 lit only by a porch bulb and their headlights. Otherwise 220 00:15:39.279 --> 00:15:44.240 it was an opaque kind of darkness. They knocked, asking 221 00:15:44.360 --> 00:15:46.159 Jim where Cassidy was. 222 00:15:46.759 --> 00:15:48.120 Haii Sheriff's office? 223 00:15:51.039 --> 00:15:51.679 How howdye? 224 00:15:53.240 --> 00:15:53.440 Yeah? 225 00:15:53.559 --> 00:15:54.960 Is a Cassidy here? 226 00:15:55.240 --> 00:15:55.279 No? 227 00:15:56.279 --> 00:15:57.639 No, I was seen her in Wait? 228 00:15:58.320 --> 00:16:00.759 Really, well, I'm trying to check on her. 229 00:16:01.559 --> 00:16:03.519 You know her? 230 00:16:03.559 --> 00:16:04.279 You know Cassidy? 231 00:16:04.440 --> 00:16:07.360 Yeah, I know, Well, I've been trying to check on her. 232 00:16:08.080 --> 00:16:12.679 Jim Phelps over six feet tall, bald, with glasses and 233 00:16:12.720 --> 00:16:16.000 a white Beard came to the cabin door, wearing only 234 00:16:16.080 --> 00:16:20.320 jeans and a dog tag around his neck. He looked 235 00:16:20.919 --> 00:16:25.360 relatively harmless, at least for OZARKI and Missouri. 236 00:16:25.840 --> 00:16:29.159 Do you have a phone number for her? Nope? Okay, 237 00:16:29.559 --> 00:16:32.960 do you want to look at Oh? No, she's not here. 238 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:34.919 She's not here. She's not in any trouble. They're just 239 00:16:34.960 --> 00:16:37.799 worried about her. Do you know maybe where she's at? 240 00:16:38.320 --> 00:16:40.679 Last I heard she was going to Colorado? 241 00:16:41.080 --> 00:16:45.120 Going to Colorado? Yeah, Oh, do you know what's over there? 242 00:16:46.080 --> 00:16:46.840 She never told you? 243 00:16:48.240 --> 00:16:48.799 Yeah? 244 00:16:49.159 --> 00:16:49.559 How long? 245 00:16:50.919 --> 00:16:51.559 How long ago? 246 00:16:51.679 --> 00:16:51.879 Was that? 247 00:17:01.320 --> 00:17:01.720 All right? 248 00:17:01.799 --> 00:17:03.840 Well, if she comes back, or if she comes and busys, 249 00:17:03.879 --> 00:17:06.920 shed appreciate if you'd call us so we can tell, 250 00:17:07.200 --> 00:17:12.359 you know, tell her family that she's okay. So all right, Well, 251 00:17:12.440 --> 00:17:12.960 I guess. 252 00:17:12.720 --> 00:17:13.240 I'll be out of here. 253 00:17:15.279 --> 00:17:17.599 You mean to tell me that. In the whole time 254 00:17:17.680 --> 00:17:21.920 Cassidy was staying there under his roof, he didn't even 255 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:26.480 have her phone number. Come on. Just a few weeks later, 256 00:17:26.559 --> 00:17:31.119 on September sixteenth, twenty twenty one, an anonymous email lands 257 00:17:31.119 --> 00:17:37.279 in the FBI's tip line inbox. Attached are pictures, all 258 00:17:37.359 --> 00:17:43.000 labeled with the same name Cassidy. The first picture stops 259 00:17:43.000 --> 00:17:47.279 the FBI agent cold. It's a woman in a cage, 260 00:17:48.079 --> 00:17:52.559 blonde hair bear from the waist up, crouched in the 261 00:17:52.640 --> 00:17:56.880 cage with her knees pulled tightly against her chest. She 262 00:17:57.000 --> 00:18:01.039 has a vacant stare in between and the steel bars. 263 00:18:01.480 --> 00:18:06.519 He sees the room behind. This is a large animal cage, 264 00:18:06.599 --> 00:18:12.359 but it's inside a room. It's inside someone's house. He 265 00:18:12.440 --> 00:18:16.640 clicks to the next frame, and the scenery is outside 266 00:18:16.759 --> 00:18:22.599 old weather sheds, piles of scrap, and a tall metal frame. 267 00:18:23.880 --> 00:18:27.559 To most people it's nothing, but he's seen enough hunting 268 00:18:27.599 --> 00:18:32.599 setups to know what this is. A deer gantry. The 269 00:18:32.680 --> 00:18:35.799 details fall into place in his head, the wood grain 270 00:18:35.920 --> 00:18:39.000 on the walls, the layout of the yard and all 271 00:18:39.039 --> 00:18:42.759 of its clutter. Whoever sent him this email wasn't trying 272 00:18:42.759 --> 00:18:47.400 to hide anything. They wanted him to know exactly where 273 00:18:47.400 --> 00:18:51.799 this was. And as he stares at the screen, one 274 00:18:51.799 --> 00:18:55.920 thought is very clear. Whatever is happening out there on 275 00:18:56.440 --> 00:19:01.319 Moon Valley Road, it's probably already too late to stop it. 276 00:19:02.599 --> 00:19:05.960 On the same day, Dallas County detectives get a warrant 277 00:19:06.240 --> 00:19:09.799 and show up in broad daylight. They want to compare 278 00:19:09.880 --> 00:19:15.119 the scenery to the photos this time, the officer stops 279 00:19:15.279 --> 00:19:17.640 the car halfway up the gravel lane when he sees 280 00:19:17.720 --> 00:19:22.799 Jim's dog on a long leash, and then spots Jim 281 00:19:22.880 --> 00:19:27.599 walking slowly across the yard. Now he's fully clothed, but 282 00:19:28.480 --> 00:19:33.759 still is nonchalant as last time. Nope, I haven't seen her. 283 00:19:34.240 --> 00:19:40.880 Hello, how you doing okay? Yeah, uh well, I was 284 00:19:41.000 --> 00:19:46.759 just following up with you on Cassidy and it's been once. 285 00:19:46.799 --> 00:19:50.119 It been a couple of weeks since we've been here, and. 286 00:19:51.839 --> 00:19:54.680 We haven't heard a peep out over you know, So 287 00:19:55.680 --> 00:19:58.119 I'm just gonna see maybe you'd heard anything out of 288 00:19:58.160 --> 00:20:04.519 her or anything extra. You can send us to do 289 00:20:04.640 --> 00:20:08.039 follow ups arm some We're coming up pretty. 290 00:20:14.359 --> 00:20:14.519 Well. 291 00:20:14.519 --> 00:20:15.559 He doesn't like it, does he? 292 00:20:16.119 --> 00:20:19.359 Actually, he wants you to play with him. Oh yeah, yeah. 293 00:20:19.160 --> 00:20:20.799 The the last time I was here, I was walking 294 00:20:20.839 --> 00:20:21.160 by him and. 295 00:20:21.160 --> 00:20:22.079 He grabbed hold of me. 296 00:20:22.440 --> 00:20:23.839 I didn't know if he was trying to play or. 297 00:20:25.599 --> 00:20:25.759 So. 298 00:20:27.200 --> 00:20:30.279 The dog looks well cared for. So does Jim actually, 299 00:20:31.240 --> 00:20:34.839 but as unbothered as he seems, his posture says a lot. 300 00:20:36.039 --> 00:20:39.720 While his voice is easy, his words are compliant. He 301 00:20:39.759 --> 00:20:44.200 almost immediately folds his arms tightly across his chest. They 302 00:20:44.240 --> 00:20:46.799 call that a defensive posture. 303 00:20:47.960 --> 00:20:48.200 Jim. 304 00:20:48.240 --> 00:20:50.799 The last time I was here, let me get a 305 00:20:50.799 --> 00:20:53.039 piece of paper. I uh, I got to do a 306 00:20:53.079 --> 00:20:55.400 big report on it and stuff, and I have, Jim felt, 307 00:20:55.440 --> 00:20:56.720 but I won't have any room for it. 308 00:20:57.200 --> 00:20:59.559 I just wonder if I get that from you? Okay, 309 00:21:00.200 --> 00:21:00.960 Jim Phelps? 310 00:21:01.039 --> 00:21:03.880 Is it Jim James Eliot Man. 311 00:21:05.880 --> 00:21:06.839 James Philps. 312 00:21:07.680 --> 00:21:10.799 What's your data? Birth January thirteen sixty three. 313 00:21:12.119 --> 00:21:15.799 If you pay close attention, Jim is getting increasingly anxious. 314 00:21:16.640 --> 00:21:18.400 Listen for his nervous laugh. 315 00:21:19.279 --> 00:21:20.599 I guess you know your social. 316 00:21:20.400 --> 00:21:30.559 Media thirteen years in military? Yeah, I know, Yeah, you 317 00:21:31.200 --> 00:21:35.519 remember those things after that, long after the. 318 00:21:35.440 --> 00:21:36.200 First day or so. 319 00:21:36.559 --> 00:21:38.680 Yeah, remember you remember it. 320 00:21:39.559 --> 00:21:41.119 You don't want to have to go back there dig 321 00:21:41.160 --> 00:21:41.440 it out? 322 00:21:41.640 --> 00:21:42.680 What's that number again? 323 00:21:43.680 --> 00:21:45.160 I remember going to go through MEPs. 324 00:21:45.200 --> 00:21:47.519 It was like, because I didn't know mine, I had 325 00:21:47.640 --> 00:21:49.440 my car. It's like every time I turned around, I 326 00:21:49.440 --> 00:21:49.960 was digging it out. 327 00:21:50.000 --> 00:21:50.759 By the end of that day. 328 00:21:51.079 --> 00:21:52.799 I had it by the end of the first day, 329 00:21:53.920 --> 00:21:55.680 rattled it off without a problem. 330 00:21:55.759 --> 00:21:56.839 And you still can't today. 331 00:21:57.000 --> 00:21:57.200 Yeah. 332 00:21:57.279 --> 00:21:58.640 Oh yeah. 333 00:21:58.680 --> 00:22:01.799 There was a picture that I had come across of 334 00:22:01.880 --> 00:22:04.599 Cassidy and I was wondering if it was done here, 335 00:22:05.000 --> 00:22:07.599 would you mind if I looked at your backyard? In 336 00:22:07.680 --> 00:22:10.640 my backyard, Yeah, there's a picture taken over with a 337 00:22:11.920 --> 00:22:14.559 stump in the background. Do you have anything like that in. 338 00:22:14.480 --> 00:22:15.559 The back yard. 339 00:22:16.559 --> 00:22:17.640 I don't have a stump. 340 00:22:18.160 --> 00:22:18.400 Stump. 341 00:22:18.480 --> 00:22:19.680 You might have to take a look recruiting. 342 00:22:19.960 --> 00:22:21.440 Yeah, back, here's my boy. 343 00:22:22.799 --> 00:22:25.200 Jim tries to brush it off, saying the only thing 344 00:22:25.240 --> 00:22:29.200 back there is this hoist. But once they step into 345 00:22:29.240 --> 00:22:33.359 the yard, it's like walking right into the pictures themselves 346 00:22:33.839 --> 00:22:38.759 three D now, not just images on a page. The hoist, 347 00:22:39.480 --> 00:22:43.920 the clutter, the leaning sheds, every detail of the image 348 00:22:44.319 --> 00:22:44.920 lines up. 349 00:22:45.400 --> 00:22:47.440 Get up against that truck right now. Get your hands 350 00:22:47.440 --> 00:22:49.559 on that truck. Do not fuck with me. Get up 351 00:22:49.599 --> 00:22:55.720 there on that truck, on the truck, hands behind your back. 352 00:22:57.680 --> 00:22:58.440 What's going on? 353 00:23:00.559 --> 00:23:04.119 Kay? 354 00:23:05.079 --> 00:23:08.640 Going on, mister Phelps? Yeah, the right to remain silent. 355 00:23:08.759 --> 00:23:11.079 Anything you say cannon willbeasies against you in a court 356 00:23:11.119 --> 00:23:11.440 of law. 357 00:23:12.559 --> 00:23:14.279 You know how the rest of that goes. In fact, 358 00:23:14.279 --> 00:23:16.440 you probably have it memorized. 359 00:23:17.000 --> 00:23:21.480 You understand your rights. Yeah, Okay, what's going on right now? 360 00:23:21.480 --> 00:23:24.799 You're under arrest for the homicide of Cassidy Rainwater. 361 00:23:25.960 --> 00:23:27.079 What's the app of my dog. 362 00:23:27.640 --> 00:23:29.119 We'll talk about that in just a little bit. 363 00:23:30.599 --> 00:23:33.519 To understand who Jim Phelps was, you have to hear 364 00:23:33.599 --> 00:23:37.519 from John Warren. He's the man who actually owned the 365 00:23:37.599 --> 00:23:41.359 cabin on Moon Valley Road. He wasn't just a landlord. 366 00:23:41.400 --> 00:23:45.799 He was family. He was Jim Phelps's brother in law 367 00:23:46.119 --> 00:23:48.960 and rented property to Jim for a mere two hundred 368 00:23:49.039 --> 00:23:53.559 dollars a month plus utilities. Keep in mind the place 369 00:23:53.720 --> 00:23:58.200 was no mansion. This guy also knew Cassidy because her grandfather, 370 00:23:59.000 --> 00:24:01.839 Bill Rainwater, used to be his neighbor. 371 00:24:02.480 --> 00:24:04.480 So that's when you met Cassie. When she's a kid. 372 00:24:04.920 --> 00:24:09.960 She was just who came out of the film one day. 373 00:24:10.920 --> 00:24:17.039 I kind of find out about two years later her 374 00:24:17.039 --> 00:24:23.200 mother disappeared, and about twenty years later who had done it? 375 00:24:23.359 --> 00:24:32.359 Him? When how it happened that her boyfriend meet her 376 00:24:32.480 --> 00:24:35.039 death and put her in. 377 00:24:35.039 --> 00:24:39.400 A box and to grew out in a very in 378 00:24:39.519 --> 00:24:44.920 shallow gray on the intro. Found that out twenty years later. 379 00:24:46.279 --> 00:24:48.759 Where was that over Lukely again? 380 00:24:51.079 --> 00:24:52.039 Who was your boyfriend? 381 00:24:53.319 --> 00:24:58.119 I don't know. Bill told me about it. 382 00:24:59.240 --> 00:25:03.119 In other words, John Warren wasn't just Jim Phelps landlord 383 00:25:03.200 --> 00:25:07.039 and brother in law. He was linked to all of them. 384 00:25:08.079 --> 00:25:12.440 He tied Jim to the property, and he tied Cassidy 385 00:25:12.519 --> 00:25:17.839 to a family history already marked by violence. Her mother's murder, 386 00:25:17.960 --> 00:25:21.039 hidden for twenty years, had only come to light a 387 00:25:21.079 --> 00:25:26.319 few years before Cassidy herself would disappear. John said Cassidy 388 00:25:26.440 --> 00:25:29.400 was going through a hard time. Finding out her mother 389 00:25:29.480 --> 00:25:32.799 was murdered was probably part of that, and so he 390 00:25:32.839 --> 00:25:34.720 and his wife were trying to help her. 391 00:25:43.039 --> 00:26:13.640 I'm sorry, robbing head and that you go to sut 392 00:26:13.960 --> 00:26:26.200 because now you get. 393 00:26:25.200 --> 00:26:25.279 It. 394 00:26:25.279 --> 00:26:29.160 Seemed like John Warren was kind of a grandfather to Cassidy. 395 00:26:30.079 --> 00:26:32.920 He tried to help her, but she stole from his wife, 396 00:26:33.559 --> 00:26:37.720 and he continued trying to help a recovering addict. He 397 00:26:37.799 --> 00:26:41.160 told Jim Phelps that to use his property there was 398 00:26:41.200 --> 00:26:45.759 a zero tolerance policy for drugs. He told Cassidy the 399 00:26:45.799 --> 00:26:47.920 same thing before he allowed her to stay on the 400 00:26:47.920 --> 00:26:52.440 property with Jim. By the time Cassidy was staying there, 401 00:26:53.000 --> 00:26:55.319