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crime [Music] Skidmore is a small town in Northwest Missouri the state that we have ventured
off to on True Crime garage before but not often we covered the horrific case of Kent heol who found beaten and
strangled in a Columbia Missouri parking lot in 2005 Ryan Ferguson was wrongfully
convicted of that crime Charles Erikson the alleged accomplice remains in prison obviously there is much debate if
that case should be closed or reopened we covered the still unsolved mysterious disappearance of three women
dubbed the Springfield 3 Stacy McCall her good friend Suzanne streer and Suzanne's mother Cheryl levit that case
began on June 7th 1992 when all three went missing from Cheryl lit's home in Springfield
Missouri all of their personal belongings including cars and purses were left behind again that case is still unsolved
and all three are still missing Skidmore is a small town not just in size less than4 square miles but also in
population in fact it's estimated that only about 260 people live in Skidmore and for some reason the population has
been decreasing a little more each year for the last 100 years in 1981 Skidmore got the reputation of a
town that wouldn't take any crap a town that takes care of itself and watches out for their own this became known when
Ken Rex maoy the town bully was shot to death and dozens of people were present but like the old saying nobody saw a
thing Skidmore is a small town that is far away from the big cities of Columbia and Springfield Missouri but certainly
not too far that it is free from Big City problems this week we go to Skidmore and
examine a story that involves a strange disappearance and abduction and murder this is true crime
garage Branson Perry was born on February 24th 1981 his parents are Becky klino and Bob
Perry Branson was born and raised in Skidmore Missouri the town sits on a hill above the nway river amid
cornfields in North Western Missouri the resident farm and there is one lone gas
station in town some of the citizens work at the factories nearby at some point Branson's parents
split up but this was not when he was young Branson was the oldest of two boys and he went to live with his father his
little brother lived with Branson's mother Branson was close with his father and not only that Branson's father Bob
had some ongoing health concerns so there is some thought that maybe Branson chose living with his father in a way to
take care of him regardless we should point out that this was not a messy or nasty divorce that took place during
Branson's high school years Branson and his father were close and did a lot of fatherson bonding type activities
together especially outdoorsy type stuff like fishing hiking and so on one activity that the two enjoyed together
they both trained in the martial art of HAPO hapkido is described as a hybrid Korean martial art this is a form of
self-defense that employs joint locks grappling throwing techniques kicks punches and other striking attacks it
also teaches the use of traditional weapons there are different levels of belts and according to the Charlie
projects website Branson was a black belt but I don't think we can fully say with confidence just how skilled he was
one website I found says that there are only black belts in this discipline and different degrees of black belt right so
that makes sense uh because in other forms you'd have like a white belt and that would be your starting point but
here they're saying okay just black belts and then we give you different degrees as you get better and again this
is according to one website that I found I don't I'm not going to pretend to know
much about HAPO I actually had to look up how to spell the darn word so this is a fun cool and interesting thing to
study and practice and a great thing for father and son to do together but I don't think captain that we should
assume that Branson was like Carlos Norris or Steven sigal you know a oneman wrecking crew sort of thing jcvd a Perry
graduated nway Holt High School in 1999 and has been employed by a roofing company and a traveling petting zoo he
worked as like a maintenance man for the petting zoo for some time not easy jobs
he was unemployed at the time that he would go missing and he was said to have been looking for work Branson was 20
years old at the time of his disappearance and he was still living with his father on West Oak Street in
Skidmore Missouri now the day in question will be Wednesday April 11th 2001 this is reported to be the date
that Branson was last seen right he was reported missing by his family and depending on which report you read this
was either five or six days after he disappeared but either way he is officially as far as the sheriff's
department is concerned Officially Missing by the following Tuesday on April 17 2001 so we don't have a
clearcut definitive this is the last day that he was seen we have the report that
he was last seen on April 11 but there were some things and I think possibly very important things going on before
Branson went missing right so we already established that Branson is living with
his father Bob everything we could find shows that it was just the two of them living together in that home right now
Bob on Wednesday April 11 he is laid up in the hospital but he is due to come home soon so on this Wednesday there is
going to be a lot of activity at the house Branson to me looks to be prepping the house for his father's return or is
just being as productive as possible as he doesn't have a job so he's probably helping out by getting some things done
around the house right this also gives us a good opportunity to introduce Joanne stinnet Joanne is Branson's
grandmother and I think she likely is the one to have organize the events of April 11 so on this day Captain we are
going to have some house cleaning and some vehicle repair and others will be involved so we have Gina
Crawford who was a good friend of Branson she is at the house she is helping with some cleaning and some
household chores there are two men at the house these guys are replacing the alternator in Branson's father's vehicle
now one thing here is that Gina is mentioned by name in almost every source that I could find these two men however
are not in some sources they are referred to as two men working on Bob's vehicle right other sources as two
mechanics and in some Outlets they are even referred to as two unnamed men or two unnamed mechanics yeah it's
difficult here because you have such a small town that it wouldn't be unlikely for a mechanic to come to your house and
just do the work hey I'll just come off on my off day and I I'll do the work over at your house we don't need to take
it into my shop so that's not unlikely but youo well who are these guys they could be mechanics and like
you said it wouldn't be uncommon especially in a town this small for them to come to the property and work on the
vehicle we're talking about a town that is less than4 square miles in size so everybody lives Within in blocks of one
another so if you have a vehicle that cannot move cannot operate you save everybody the hassle of a toe company
picking it up and moving it just to fix it when you could walk three blocks over
to your neighbor's home and fix it in the driveway and maybe they're also just being called mechanics because they're
fixing the car but changing an alternator in most cars is not the most complex mechanical work so there's a lot
of people that don't even know much about cars they could change that themselves because of the small town in
the population and we know Gina Crawford's name and we know Joan stinnett's name I just am curious why these guys
are unnamed it seems purposeful purposeful by the cops or purposeful just by by by all involved that may know
the names of these two individuals it it also could be two guys that were cleared
by cops and but maybe they have a a history a criminal history and so they don't want to brain up those names to
have people run wild with rumors we see that a lot with cases that afternoon Joanne and Gina are working inside the
home according to Gina around 300 p.m. Branson was inside the home and he retrieved something from a kitchen
cabinet he said nothing and then walked outside a little after 3:00 p.m. Gina looked out the window and saw Perry
talking with the two men Gina says that she opens up the window asking Branson hey what are you doing he tells her I'm
going to put some jumper cables back in the shed and then I'm going to go out for a bit and I will be back soon Gina
watched him throw the cables in the shed and then watched Branson leave the property on foot now we said Branson and
his father were tight right so Branson was in the habit of visiting his father every evening or night while Bob was at
the hospital so the next day Joanne Branson's grandmother she's at the hospital visiting Bob during which it
comes up in conversation that Branson did not visit his father in the hospital the night before apparently it was known
to the grandmother and to Bob that sometime on the evening of April 11 Branson would make his day daily visit
to see Bob Joanne is learning that that did not happen so after the visit to see
Bob at the hospital now she's going to go back to the house and check on Branson so this is on April
12th Joanne stck goes by the house when she gets there she finds that the doors are open I don't have an exact time for
this Captain but with the events of that day and from some things things that I've seen I think it's safe to say that
this is in the ballpark of Nish yeah midday so Joanne finds the house empty no Branson more alarming the doors are
unlocked and open she does say she walks through the house and nothing seemed to
be missing from the home other than Branson she specifically checked for some of Branson's personal belongings
checking to see if things are missing or out of place maybe that would clue her in on where to look for Branson or where
he went none of his personal belongings were out of place on Wednesday April 11th this is the last time any friends
or family reportedly saw Branson and no one is really sure where he was going when he s when he left that day so so
when he puts up the the cables car cables and he says I'm leaving he doesn't say where he's heading to he
simply says I'm returning these cables to the shed I'm heading out for a bit MH and then he leaves on foot says he'll be
back it it I think he says he'll be back in a little bit or in a few minutes whatever it was at least according to
Gina's story it doesn't sound like she had the impression that he would be gone very long one it's not clear to me so
maybe you can make it clear is he able to visit his dad in the hospital by walking there well let get into that
because that took quite a bit of further digging there's a lot of these stories out there about Branson and his
disappearance when you really start digging you can fill in the gaps and the big blanks that are left in a lot of the
stories out there about Branson so as we said earlier Branson is reported missing
to the local authorities this was by Bob and Becky his parents and again it was either on April 16th or April 17th I'm
guessing here Captain but one would think this missing report likely may have coincided with Bob's return home
from the hospital now there will be some leads and some Persons of Interest in Branson's case but again before we get
into those we should stop and examine something a little further now I'm not saying that there is any reason to
question Branson's family as they have been extremely active looking for him and looking for answers over the years
and local law enforcement probably have filled in a good number of these blanks that I mentioned but again Captain I
really get bothered anytime we have friends I want to be clear about that friends because we have Gina Crawford
and two unnamed individuals or family telling about the details surrounding one's disappearance and there are so
many holes and gaps and lack of information in the overall story right recently we discussed the Logan
schindelman disappearance out of Washington State a fascinating case with some very bizarre stuff going on in that
one and really the bizarre stuff it really overshadows what I think was really going on in that situation that
someone close to Logan is responsible for his disappearance and for whatever reason a person or persons in the family
are slow to act and then there are big chunks of the story missing or parts of the story that just do not make
sense real quick a shout out to the good people that participated in the honk and
wave event in Grand Mound Washington last week raising awareness for Logan's case Matthew anfel case and Karen
boden's case back to our case Captain here is what is missing from the story and again law enforcement likely has
filled in all of these blanks so Branson leaves and the persons at his home that
day they do not know where he is going I get that but Joanne says when she arrives at the
home less than 24 hours later Branson is gone and the house is unlocked and the doors are open so when did the people
leave the house the day before and when did Joanne leave and when she left if she was the last one to leave did she
lock up the house or was she not the last one to leave and it was general information at least between Joanne and
Bob that Brans would go visit Bob on the 11th this is after the time Branson was
last seen so how was Branson getting to the hospital as you pointed out Captain did Branson have a vehicle was he going
to drive his dad's vehicle maybe r a bike the hospital is 15 miles from Branson's home a 19 to 22 minute drive
according to my map app right if he was taking Dad's car to go see Dad that is a
fine explanation but we no two men two unnamed men were replacing the alternator in the vehicle on that day in
question so was the vehicle even operable before this switch out job because if it wasn't then again how was
you know Branson how did he get to and from the hospital the previous day and the day before that and the day before
that to visit to to visit his father right it couldn't hurt the investigation to shrink the time frame of when this
dude actually went missing this would really help us to have a better understanding of where whatever it was
that went down to prevent Branson from coming back home because he could have run into some trouble when he went out
that day or if we knew if Joanne Gina or either of these mechanic guys locked up
the house after leaving well then it would most certainly look like Branson probably returned at some point and
maybe something went down at the house right who knows but I'm again concerned with the lack of details here c yeah and
why don't we do we have details on when these mechanics left the house we do not
have an exact time captain of when these two men left the property but what has been reported is that they left sometime
after Branson left on foot look the the way that this case is generally told is a Young Man Branson Perry tells a friend
I'm taking some jumper cables to the shed he vanishes into thin air forever 2 weeks later these jumper cables
magically reappear in the shed apparently they were not there before or until that point that's the version of
this story that gets clicks views and so on right it's similar to some of the issues you and I had with the Brian
Schaefer case a man walks into a bar and disappears well that's not that's not the true story that's not the full story
and same with Branson's case Captain there are a lot more here there's a lot more to this so I think we've already
filled in some of the blanks but let's see if we can fill in some more along the way because there were some leads in
this case and there were some theories oh [Music] this show is sponsored by better help do
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cheers first off Captain early on in this investigation there was a theory that maybe Branson hitchhiked a ride out
of town but his family and friends they all said that they have never known Branson to hitchhike ever even you know
one single time at that so that will immediately lead us back to well what the heck was his vehicle situation
because most sources do not go this far into the story but the Charlie project page dedicated to Branson's case says
Branson owned a van and that the van was in fact found parked at Branson's home after he failed to return or at least
the next day when his grandmother came over on the 12th noticing that Branson was not home right so he had a van but
we don't even know if that van was operable that's that was my next question that I had so what we ended up
finding here he owns the van it's found at his home I found three other sources that that reference Branson's van so
again I think it's safe to say that he had his own transportation mhm and the way that the van is discussed it sounds
like it was operable at the time and it sounds like this was the method that Branson had been using to get to and
from the hospital to go see his father so then my question would become for his family and friends where would Branson
go without his van without his van was there a coffee shop around the corner was there a McDonald's that he like to
just walk to and get something to eat this I think that's another key thing here is understanding the the setting
understanding the the city well I shouldn't even say City I don't know that they even have enough people to
City status depending on what Missouri's rules are on that but it's a town of roughly 260
people from the reports I read there was one gas station in the entire town there
was one bar in the entire town I don't know that there were I'm assuming there might be a restaurant or a diner but
it's not a place where you have a lot of choices as far as shopping or dining or
any you know really anything like that at all so after you date a couple people you have to start dating your cousins
right that's certainly an option the uh two guys you wanted to know about the two guys working on Dad's car so it's my
understanding captain that yes the van was operable that was Branson's method of getting to and from the hospital but
the two guys working on Dad's car fixing the alternator well they were trying to
fix the vehicle because Branson father Bob originally was scheduled to be released that evening and it sounds like
Branson was going to pick him up in his father's vehicle that would make sense I
can't say if the following is true or not but I like to think that it is Branson was close with his father that
is well known by all and I like to think that he was having the vehicle fixed as
a surprise for his old man mhm now as for the people at Branson 's house that day this is where things get tricky only
one source that I could find states that Branson's grandmother was even there on
that day however however however that in my humble garage opinion was a very very
good source so let's take that a step further I believe that if she were Branson's grandmother were in fact there
on that day that she probably was just there very briefly and left before Branson left and I say that because
later in an interview I found with Branson's mother his mother states that look we only have one person telling us
the story of Branson going missing this Gina Crawford friend of Branson's only one person Gina is the
only one ever on record saying that she saw Branson retrieve something from a kitchen cabinet she believed he was
trying to seal whatever it was that he pulled out from the cabinet right and then of course a short while later she
says she asked Branson what he is doing he says he's going to take these jumper cables to the shed and then go out for a
bit to fill in some more of the blanks in in that same interview Branson's mom says Gina and the guys working on the
car they all say that they left for the day when they finished working on whatever their project was and Branson
had not returned by the time that they left so to be clear it does not sound as if they all left together but rather
once when they had finished you know the car was done and then when the house was
done yeah so once the mechanics were done they left and once the house was done that that she left my question then
becomes was that vehicle now could you drive that vehicle could you drive Branson's dad's vehicle where were they
done putting that alternator in or or were they not successful that's a great question I do not know the answer to
that you know one thing left out of a lot of the sources are what I believe are more key
pieces of information maybe even possible evidence right so continuing with that
Branson's mom says that the shed was in a sid lot remember we have Gina again this is the only person
telling us what is going on activity-wise at that house or what Branson was up to that day that he's
last seen Branson tells Gina I'm going to replace these take these cables to the shed I'm going to leave for a bit
I'll be back in a few minutes vanishes forever Branson's mom says that the shed was in a side lot so Bob owned a double
lot side by side the shed was not in the backyard like most would expect but in a
side yard and then Becky also says that the jumper cables were typically kept on
the porch so the shed comment about the cables is strange to her completely Gina
the friend that was over that day said one of the guys working on the car at some point this after Branson left came
into the home and she says went to the same cabinet that she had earlier seen Branson retrieve something from and
according to Gina this guy too behaved strange when she saw him Branson's family says Not only was Branson's van
found parked at the house but they found all of his personal belongings inside the home including Branson's wallet and
to Joanne's statement the grandmother's statement about finding the doors to the
home open and unlocked according to Gina if you do some further digging she closed up the house when she left I
cannot say if this included locking the doors or not but she says she closed up the house so that makes me wonder
Captain did Branson come home later that day and then go out again or did something happen at the home right so
we're going to add to the story a little more because Joann's if you do further digging says not only were the doors
open but the stereo was on at the house and the music was turned up when she arrived on the 12th and Branson was not
there that's strange right so doesn't it look to you like there are other things
going on at this home even after Branson supposedly walked off on his own yeah and let's go back to those jumper cables
real quick cuz she goes oh well those were kept on the porch okay well if they're kept on the
porch that that's probably because the car again the alternator is it runs and feeds energy back to your battery right
if it doesn't feed energy back to your battery then you know normally have to jump it so they would want those wires
to be accessible and maybe you want to put them in the shed because you don't want to walk you know 10 ft every time
you have to jump the car cuz it's a common occurrence but you're having the alternator fixed so maybe that's why he
thought why I can put the cables finally back into the shed that makes a lot of sense and the the weird thing with the
jumper cables always has been the reason why this part of the story sticks and refuses to go away is that according to
every report that I could find the jumper cables were not present they couldn't find the jumper cables and then
two weeks later they magically reappeared and they were inside the shed yeah and look again I would love to know
the names of these guys that were quote unquote the mechanics because they could
have simply went oh we need to jump the car to get it started to let it run to feed energy back to the battery if they
completed the job we don't know if they completed the job or not and they used the jumper cables one of them threw it
threw those cables in the back of their car or the back of their truck and didn't realize those aren't my cables
couple weeks later they come back and return them but if it had if it was nothing nefarious why wouldn't somebody
just come forward and explain why they you know hey it was me that returned the jumper cable again if if somebody has a
record they you know these might be the reasons why they're not coming forward and going hey I my name is Frank and I
was one of the the I trust you believe you me the sheriff's department knows who these men are that were working on
the vehicle oh yeah yeah they're not going to let Gina Crawford uh maybe she's the only one that says she saw
these men they're not going to go into a town of 260 people and believe somebody
that they don't know at least one of the men names well no and on top of that so
Branson puts these you know jumper cables away and people just didn't know where they were and so then they they
they see them one day that that doesn't mean that that the jumper cables ever went missing it just means that maybe
they didn't recognize the spot they were located in for a week or so possibly I'm
I'm going with the that that part sticks because I heard it from the sheriff himself say that you know they weren't
there and then they were there uh so again these things need to be explained there's an answer for them that answer
might lead you to whatever happened to Branson right so our situation regardless is of course that there is no
real physical evidence or information that's really pointing law enforcement in the direction of where this young man
could be uh we have to keep in mind that law enforcement is working five or maybe
even six days after Branson disappeared so they are already at quite a disadvantage remember Bob had scheduled
he his scheduled release was for that night on the 11th but that got changed at the last minute and Bob was kept at
the hospital longer than expected so this is probably a good explanation for the delay that was
going on so you're hoping to find a breadcrumb from the Branson's you know from Branson's family and friends what
was he up to where does he normally go where do you think he would go if maybe if he were in some type of trouble that
sort of thing you're going to be asking those questions hoping that you can find
that breadcrumb to give you some kind of lead in this investigation yeah I mean let's let's do our our big Tech sweep
real quick no mention of Branson having a computer no mention of Branson having a cell phone would he have any way to
communicate with anybody once he left the property other than maybe a pay phone or something well the
first interesting breadcrumb comes from Branson's father right so first there is this weird bit
that took place on April 7th so 4 days before this is is all alleged information but Branson's father seem to
believe this enough that this story has gotten passed along time and time again right Bob said
Branson's father Bob said that on April 8th Branson told him a story and because
of the seriousness and because of Branson's tone Bob believed it Branson told his dad he was hanging out with a
neighbor this guy is named Jason this is the day before on April 7th and Jason gave him a pill and then the two engaged
in sexual activity together Bob says he was Furious because Jason was older than
Branson and Bob felt based on what Branson's reaction was and how he told the story that Branson was victimized by
this guy Bob felt that Jason drugged his son and took advantage of him right Bob
said he was pretty sure that his son had homosexual tendencies and probably explored that during his life but right
it gets tricky because if you're taking a drug that you don't know how you're going to react to how can you really be
how can you really consent to anything if you don't know how you're going to react to a drug could have been
I have even seen some throw around the word rape in regards to this situation I'm not going to pretend to know exactly
what went down if I had to really think that there was some drugs involved I also know that Branson was an adult at
this time he was 20 and look Branson could have been a victim here probably was I'm just pointing out that this is
not a man and little boy situation this could have all been consensual or could have been predatory behavior and again I
think because Bob seemed to believe this story and had took you know took a big issue with this situation we would be
remiss to not mention it now either way it's something that needs to be looked into and could be a solid lead for the
sheriff's department this is the not away Sheriff's Office investigating the case by the way the other lead that
stems from this same story about the neighbor is Bob says to detectives that maybe because of this event Branson
needed to you know he may have been seeking some help from a friend Branson had a longtime friend a close
friend that lived out of state so maybe he went there this neighbor story and then the out of state friend Story the
Sheriff's Office were made aware of both of these situations very early on and from everything I saw Captain
both were fully investigated and nothing came at of either of these possibilities the other
concern too is that at the time there was quite the drug problem going on in and around Skidmore Missouri during that
General time frame remember when attempting to profile an offender you have to profile the victim the area and
the situation we do have a psychic situation here captain and some people get all weird about the psychics some
people but we like them and it's our show so that you can do what you want when you get your own show uh well we're
not saying that they're accurate what we're saying is that they're interesting to to hear from from time to time well
and I think that the general problem that that the general public has with the psychic situations in these cases is
the same thing you know we Echo this we Echo this concern is that sometimes a psychic will see vulnerable people
vulnerable people that are experiencing the loss of a loved one a loved one's either missing or has been murdered and
the psychic will present themselves to the family right and then start you know requesting money and things for
information and these people are desperate for any type of help in some situations the family seeks out a
psychic so it does go the other way sometimes I don't know what happened here who sought out who I will say this
Branson's father and mother extremely obvious to me and everyone else else out there they loved this kid and they were
desperate for answers so maybe they sought out the psychic but regardless what happens here is the psychic says to
Mom and Dad you know I can see that your son has been murdered uh he was tortured
he suffered a long brutal torture before he was killed and the psychic refused to go
into details about what actually happened to Branson because they didn't they simply
couldn't didn't have the heart to tell the family so then you wonder about this neighbor but you also wonder about the
town itself again it's small but we have we have surrounding areas and and some of those people are not as
open-minded about sexuality so is it is this possibly a hate crime because psychic is saying
that Branson was tortured well I think let's go ahead and give a description here because this is a missing person's
case the case itself is classified as endangered missing Foul Play is strongly suspected in this case and we will be
getting into that more so but Branson is a white male he was 20 at the time when
he went missing he would be 40 years old today he was 5'9 in tall 155 lbs athletic build not a great clothing
description but it said that he was possibly wearing size 32 shorts a size medium or large t-shirt and necklaces
with leather trinkets or chains with some arrow heads on them now Branson does have a medical condition it's a
racing heart condition and he is also allergic to penicillin he has blonde hair blue eyes he wears his hair
typically short yeah he was a good-looking kid and has a small faint scar on the upper part of his right
cheek and a small scar on his left knee again we'll post pictures on our Instagram and Twitter and Facebook all
right this takes us to a weird part in this whole story Captain it actually takes us to another investigation not an
any way meant to be connected to Branson's missing person's case about 20 years ago and for several years the FBI
ran a project called operation Candyman the very basic goal of Candyman was to to identify and round up as many as
possible child pornography collectors Traders sellers suppliers makers all from the internet and I hope and pray
that this is a continued thing just running under different names over the years because a lot of sickos and a lot
of potentially violent dangerous sickos can be outed and locked up using this method this is the old pervert Roundup
undercover style yeah the old P us so this operation leads to dozens of rest when got him they
identify these computer perves they go to their homes they go to their you know through their things and more
importantly through their computers and Communications so one of the sikis that they uncovered in this operation
Candyman is a man named Michael Adam Davidson this is in 2002 this perv was a medical student down in Alabama he would
later plead guilty to multiple charges of receiving and attempting to receive images of child pornography pleading
guilty in federal court on his computer amongst some other really gross stuff they found a child pornography movie
MP3 and a short short snuff film MP3 that showed a man dying it would have been an mp4 Davidson had Communications
with another man that he thanked for the snuff film file the man Davidson thanked frequently
chatted with Davidson even even calling the man his mentor this Mentor told Davidson in not such short way that he
was a sexual stist and he had killed a number of boys SL men one of the stories this man
discussed to be clear these were discussions and I promise I not going to go through all of it it's lengthy it's
disgusting and frankly I don't want to have to say some of the things that I have read and heard the man tells Davids
when he was at the Walmart the other day he spotted something that reminded him of something he had done now this man is
attempting to be cryptic he says he was reminded of something that's missing he says it was not really missing it was
just never returned he said he had a great fondness in memories of it and said that the thing with most prey is
they are not worth looking for it was a runaway or so it told me and they again are referring to prey they are just
throwaways no one gives a [ __ ] this man chatting with Davidson when he was talking about something that wasn't
really missing it was just never returned it was determined that he was talking about seeing a missing person's
flyer for Branson Perry at the Walmart now again I'm going to keep this short as there is a lot to this chat and
it's vulgar really depraved stuff so the short of it is he picked it up hitchhiking on the interstate it told
him he was from Skidmore the two partied together drinking and he gave it a pill the combo
of the pill and the drinking made it most compliant he took it out to a remote location that the man called basically a
campsite stripped it tied it to to a tree and tortured it physically mentally emotionally and spiritually until it
begged him to kill it this man said that these were activities that he had done before and his favorite part of these
activities was breaking it afterward he said he burned all of the clothing and he was very descriptive about destroying
the clothing and other evidence he said he eviscerated it so the body would not float or bloat
and tossing the guts into a ditch in the body into deep water he described the area simply as an Ozark's overnight stay
and it as an 18-hour project the FBI tracked down this man this was a Falton Missouri resident
Falton is about 250 Mi southeast of Skidmore and they did a search and seizure at the man's home work vacation
property basically described as a campsite with a trailer on it and his vehicle they uncovered a plethora of
child porn on his home and work computer and bondage items these are devices some
would say torture tools and devices these were found in the trailer at the campsite of course this man is arrested
and they are looking for evidence of any crimes this man may have committed but specific
looking for evidence that he killed and concealed the body of Branson Perry now what they find in relation to the Perry
case is a leather necklace with beads and a Turtles claw this is shown to Branson's parents and his father says
the necklace is identical to the one Branson had so who is this monster well it's
59-year-old business owner and resident of fton Missouri he is the OWN owner operator of Decker and Decker Employment
Services in Columbia Missouri he also is an ordained Presbyterian lay Minister and a Boy Scout
leader oh yeah this this guy he's already been convicted on child porn charges before
so how he was allowed to be involved with this church or the Boy Scouts I have no clue no answers for you there
captain no he reminds me a lot of Buffalo Bill like if you look at him just real
quick he doesn't look normal he looks um you definitely can see the Evil coming out in this individual back in the 90s
this man served a few months on child porn charges this is Jack Wayne Rogers and his whole story will just get
stranger and stranger and I'll read some of this here Captain this is from CBS news out of columia
Missouri a former Church Minister and Boy Scout leader who cut off another man's genitals in a makeshift gender
reassignment surgery in a hotel room pled guilty to first-degree assault and practicing medicine without a license
Jack Wayne Rogers age 59 of Fulton Missouri admitted he performed the grizzly operation the judge followed the
recommendation of prosecutors sentencing Rogers to 17 years in prison for assault
and 7 years for the illegal surgery the prison time is to run concurrently with a 30-year sentence handed to Rogers
after he plad guilty to child pornography and obscenity charges Rogers promised the victim he'd remove his
genitals in a 4-Hour operation that time passed complications developed and bleeding refused to stop the victim says
she didn't feel like a victim at first but changed her mind after prosecutors presented her with Rogers checkered
criminal history peppered with allegations of cannibalism and a pornography collection that included
photographs of severed genitals quote I didn't know his motivation when I went into it she said I was under a lot of
emotional stress and it seemed like there was no alternative Rogers Public Defender said she advised her client to
plead guilty to avoid further prison time quote he is getting concurrent time she said if he had gone to trial he very
well could have gotten consecutive time he is still being investigated in the torture and killing of Skidmore Man
Branson Perry who disappeared in April 2001 a police search of Rogers property turned up that necklace that we already
mentioned belonging to Branson Perry well okay we know he's a piece of [ __ ] right we know he's capable of doing this
and his name gets thrown around and like if I'm hearing you correctly at some point that Jack was telling somebody
this is what I did confessing to somebody that this is what I did to Branson yes yeah yeah now after he's
arrested for these child pornography charges what led them to this illegal surgery that this man performed was he
had photos and evidence of it on his computers and so you know you can't just be out there performing
surgeries and so they were able to charge him not only with the child pornography charges but this illegal
surgery that could have led to this individual's death this man's not a doctor he's
performing this surgery where there's going to be a lot of blood in a hotel room and as sick is this indivi
individual sounds Jack Wayne Rogers from what he has chatting about in chat rooms
and of course the nasty stuff found on his computers right as weird and strange and he describes himself as a sexual
stist that poor individual that's so damn desperate to to change their life to alter their life could have ended up
being severely victimized by this man in the end Captain Rogers has denied killing Branson Perry and he's never
been charged with anything in relation to anon's disappearance he said his writings and
discussions were works of fiction fantasies that he lived out online and frankly I don't know what's more
disgusting the most disgusting thing obviously is the idea that maybe he actually did all or some of what he said
he did but even if he didn't I don't know what is more appalling the idea that he has these fantasies and acts and
lives them out online or the fact that a bunch of others want to sit around and listen to it Branson's mother attended
Jack Wayne Rogers trial every chance she got she begged him to tell her where he
hid Branson's remains he offered no answers so where does the case stand today sadly Branson's father Bob died in
2004 and his mother Becky died in 2011 Branson has never been located in Branson's mother's
obituary it is noted that her son Branson Perry pred deceased her so even though no remains have been found Becky
who had cancer and knew that she was going to pass went to her grave knowing in her heart that Branson was dead of
course as we said earlier Foul Play is suspected in this case that's law enforcement stance now where the case
stands today and why Becky put in her obituary chose to put in her obituary that her son
Branson pred deceased her we'll be quite clear we're going to fill in some more blanks here go for it there is a man a
retired Sheriff the sheriff that worked the case at the time this would be nway County Sheriff Ben espie and if you
could take a mound of clay and mold it into a sheriff this is what you would get this guy was born to be a sheriff
you you should see this guy in interviews he's got that cold dark stare when he's asked a dumb question by some
reporter this man is all business all the time he knew that Branson's mother Becky was dying this was a battle with
cancer and it was coming to the end he wanted to offer her some kind of answers before she left left this
Earth and he said look it is my job to investigate these cases I however don't make arrest I
don't prosecute people it's the prosecutor's job to tell me who to arrest and who to convict in court yeah
he's just Gathering evidence get said suspects and keep in mind this lead with Jack Wayne Rogers that looked very very
promising this is is happening a couple years into the investigation Sheriff espie said
basically what was going on was we were we were going to follow every lead that came in every tip that came in
especially the Jack Wayne Rogers that all needs to be looked at it all needs to be sorted out but he said you know
what at the very beginning very early on in this case we knew what happened to Branson we knew who was responsible we
just couldn't put together the evidence and I think a lot of that was not being able to locate and recover the remains
to bring forth charges on some individuals that were responsible SB points out back to the drug problem at
the time and he says look unfortunately Branson Perry was no angel he was not a saint he was a good kid but later in
life he got mixed up with the wrong crowd and he was involved in some of the drug
manufacturing and pedaling that was going on at the very local small level in the area at the time espie is on
record after being retired saying that Branson Perry was shot in the head and he was buried somewhere and he said
that two people at least two people are responsible for the murder of Branson Perry and he believes and has evidence
that will show that nine of approximately nine people are either involved or aware or know exactly what
went down with Branson's case these are all people on the local level that everything leads back to the small town
of Skidmore Missouri right and over the years Captain they've gone to several locations and done these Excavating
digging looking for the remains and I really think that they would have had those remains they could have brought
this thing to court but again this murder is all at the local level it's not from some sicko that lived in fton
Missouri it's all about the drug trade and the drugs that were being trafficked in the local area of Skidmore Missouri
and again the sheriff's department knows who is responsible for this young man's
murder they've even gone so far to say that not only do we know who's responsible we know who else is involved
we know that he was buried at some point and we also have evidence and reason to
believe that at some point they went and moved the body well it sucks that they can't collect enough evidence to bring
charges against these individuals yeah and Sheriff Ben espie said look he he had to give this information to
Branson's mother before she was passing and he believed that even though they couldn't bring charges against these
individuals that they owed her the truth uh as the evidence and as their investigation showed the truth to
them Jack Wayne Rogers although not involved in this case other than being kind of a side
story that gets lumped in because of his sick fantasies that he's living out online he's an older man he's probably
about 75 years of age and and if my calculations are right he's about 10 maybe 12 years left on that 30-year
sentence so hopefully he'll die still with the status of a federal inmate but because but because of his
actions and his fantasies and for the sake of the communities and just Public Safety in general the feds better make
sure that he serves every minute of that 30-year sentence and join us here in the garage tomorrow
for another case cheers to you Colonel cheers to you Captain cheers to everybody out there join us back here in
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Brief Summary

Branson Perry vanished in 2001 from Skidmore, Missouri, with foul play suspected and ongoing investigations revealing troubling connections.

Key points

Branson Perry's Disappearance. A young man goes missing under mysterious circumstances in a small town.
Branson's Mysterious Van. Branson's van was found parked at his home after he went missing, raising questions about his whereabouts.
Psychic's Disturbing Revelation. A psychic claims Branson was murdered and tortured, leaving his family in shock.
The Discovery of Disturbing Content. Authorities uncover a child pornography movie and a snuff film linked to Davidson.
The Arrest of Jack Wayne Rogers. Jack Wayne Rogers, a former church minister, is arrested for child pornography and illegal surgery.
Branson Perry's Case Remains Unsolved. Despite evidence pointing to foul play, Branson Perry's remains have never been found.

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