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way no [Music] way way out a 15-year-old girl walked away from her home in September of
2014 she took only her cell phone after that she was gone like a Whisper In The Wind her case was treated as a runaway
and then a missing child but many fear that it is much much worse did she die in an accident was she
murdered was this a human trafficking case or did she indeed run away there are so many alternative facts and so
many unanswered questions in this case starting with the changing stories told by the people in this girl's life
compounded with the unverified information floating around there are so many people close close to her who
failed this girl that we fear this case will never be solved this is true crime garage and
this is the case of Cassie Compton way no way out in September of 2014 Cassie Compton was
15 years old and living with her mother Judy in stutgart Arkansas stutgart is a town of about
9,000 residents that is famous for its rice production and duck hunting every year thousands of hunters descend on
stutgart for duck season and duck calling competitions there are a big deal sadly Cassie would go missing from
this town of 9000 in September of 2014 leading up to the day in question Cassie and her mother Judy had moved to
stutgart just 5 years prior the two making the move to Arkansas from Oklahoma in
2009 Judy said the move was prompted by her becoming a piano player for the stutgart church
Judy had been married to Roy Compton and Cassie was born December 4th 1998 she had three older siblings two
brothers and a sister the older siblings remained in Oklahoma and when Judy and Cassie moved to Arkansas it started off
just the two of them we reference a KATV interview with her older brother Chris where he said that out of the four
children in the family he was the closest with Cassie Cassie did not have a relationship with her father this case
is unique in that we do not have any personal friends of Cassie who have spoken to the media we have only the
word of adults who knew Cassie her mom her friend Hunter's mom her stepfather to be Brandon and her brother Chris to
tell us about Cassie the police have revealed very little in this case there have been different stories that have
been told about who Cassie was and what her life was like Cassie's mom Judy says
they were very close she says her daughter was a normal teenager she liked bowling cookouts and movies but Cassie
didn't go to school she was homeschooled her mom tells it that Cassie said the kids at school were mean to her and she
didn't want to go so she studied at home for her GED Judy has also said that this
decision was in part because of Cassie's severe allergies Judy has said that she was
allergic to quote the environment I'm guessing she's meaning everything Cassie apparently had an epip pen that she kept
in her backpack and Judy told lots of people reporters the police that Cassie was bipolar Andor clinically depressed
and that she was prescribed medication for this condition but she didn't like to take her meds and flush them down the
toilet however there is no evidence that Cassie was ever actually diagnosed by a doctor
and prescribed anything this according to the stut guard police chief Mark Duke Duke was one of the original officers
who responded to Cassie going missing and he knew the family from a previous unrelated visit to the home the lore
about Cassie is that she was not happy with her life this is backed up by some evidence one is that Judy told a private
investigator who worked closely with her her name is Tina stores of Halo investigations that Cassie had run away
a couple of times before although she always came home on those previous occasions after just a couple of days
and another was Cassie's brother Chris Chris said Cassie would confide in him and say that she was unhappy she was
unhappy because of her mom's fiance Brandon Lee rhods Chris said quote they would fight all of the time they didn't
get along and she didn't want to be around him well Brandon was quite a bit younger than her mother he was actually
closer to Cassie's age than Cassie's mother's age yeah the two met through mutual friends they end up getting
engaged in 2012 Brandon was living with Judy in her house on 15th Street in stuck with
Cassie and Judy obviously yeah Brandon had been in Cassie's life since she was about 13 years old Cassie had a black LG
straight talk smartphone and would post often on her Facebook page sharing information with her 93 friends on there
her page is not set to private most of her posts are very short so we get things like I made cookies or my cat had
kittens however it's not clear whether a post on Cassie's page on February 8th 2014 saying I'm engaged and a life event
got engaged was to be taken seriously she was only 15 at the time a year before on May 12th her page marked a
life event saying in a relationship but it's not clear who this relationship was
with neither post tagged any anyone else a lot of the timeline in the days leading up to Cassie's
disappearance is simply speculative since Cassie didn't attend school we have some gaps and police
haven't really released much of anything that they may have obtained through her
phone records we are going to go through what we know about four consecutive days
a Thursday Friday Saturday and Sunday in September of 2014 starting with Thursday the stutgart
daily leader reported that Cassie had been to the doctor a few days earlier for a bad cold and was on
medication a local familiar with the case posted that Brandon rhods had driven Cassie to the doctor on that
Thursday we don't know anything else about this doctor visit on Friday night so now we're at September 12th it's is
believed that Cassie went to the stutgart high school football game we have zero information on who she went
with or who she was hanging out with now we go to Saturday September 13th Cassie
was going to hang out with her friend Hunter Snider and there have been some questions here Captain if the two were
in a relationship no one's ever said that they were boyfriend and girlfriend it's
always been reported and stated by the people that knew the two that they were simply best friends but she's going to
go hang out with Hunter Snider I couldn't track down this guy's age I from what I could read and what I could
find I believe him to be close to Cassie's age maybe slightly older yeah I believe he's slightly older but he's
been Cooperative with police and as far as my research goes he's the only individual that police have came out and
said that they've cleared him Hunter's mom's friend picked Cassie up at 1:30 on Saturday afternoon and brought her to
Hunter's house they all left at 3:30 to go to the Arkansas County Fair demolition derby in dit after that
Cassie spent the night at the sniders according to reports Hunter and Cassie were newish friends and Hunter is
described as her best friend like we said the next morning they had Sunday brunch and a quote lazy day in the
evening Hunter took Cassie home to her mom's house which was located on East 15th Street in stutgart this is not in a
rural area it's Urban on Google Maps it's the block of East 15th Street between Grand and college so we have
both homes and businesses are in this immediate area we have a one-sided text chain from that weekend these are text
from Cassie to her mother that that were posted on a message board from a user going by the name caring for many which
pulled this from a broken daily leader article so this is a phone text timeline for Cassie and she's communicating with
her mother Judy but we only get the one side that was released so on Saturday September
13 at 9:47 a.m. Cassie texts to her mother nothing much I'm fine still got a cough though but it's getting
better still on Saturday now in the evening time at 6:56 p.m. she replies yeah 2 minutes later love you too so we
get to hear the one side of that conversation now we go to Sunday the 14th starting at 3:19 p.m. she tells her
mom text her says just tired then 3 minutes later at 3:22 p.m. yeah just feel like I haven't got enough
sleep as 6:02 p.m. this is where we start to get very near the time in question here she's texting her mom at
6:02 saying are you home we don't know what the reply was or if she got one but one minute later she's sending another
text to her mom at 6:03 p.m. saying be home in a bit this 603 text appears to be the last text from Cassie to Judy now
we go to CNN an interview with Tracy who is Tracy Tracy's Hunter's mom remember what we know about this timeline so far
is Hunter is returning Cassie to her mother's house on this Sunday evening this interview is conducted by Jane valz
Mitchell so Tracy Hunter's mom says he left our house at 6:05 and he got back by
645 talking about her son Hunter we live out of town so it was a bit a little bit
by the time he got there and dropped her off and got back home she did send him a text message
saying that she was going to go out and quote find a pack of cigarettes and that is the last response
he got from her so she's telling the public my son dropped her off and here's some communication that the two had
after he dropped her off and he had returned home well like you said we have the communication
between her and her mother and she's asking hey are you home we don't know what the reply is but again we have this
speculation we have people saying that maybe Cassie wasn't super comfortable in the living situation with mom's
boyfriend or fiance Brandon we are kind of overlapping this information here to show that some of it it seems to stack
up nicely right if she's texting mom at 602 saying are you home then at 603 saying be home in a bit and then we have
Tracy Hunter's mom saying that they the two left our house at 605 so that all seems to gel real nice based off of what
Tracy is saying about that trip to drop Cassie off it would appear to me Captain
that that it was very likely about 625 is when Cassie would arrive home Hunter also told his mother that she
wasn't very talkative on the way home home which I think is more indication that she didn't want to go home or
wasn't feeling well as the other text had indicated so now we got 6:55 p.m. this is when we are told that
Cassie text Hunter saying that she was going to go find or get some cigarettes I want everybody to to put a
question mark after this keep in mind it's Cassie's phone that sends this message to Hunter's phone I cannot sit
here and say 100% that Cassie text that message to Hunter I can tell you that her phone sent that message to his phone
but I do not know who scripted that text there was no back and forth or not much
of a back and forth as far as what we've been told here in that statement in that
text she does not mention getting a ride from anyone or anyone coming to pick her
up or meeting anybody she just simply say says she was going out to find some cigarettes Cassie's mom Judy Compton has
changed her story slightly over the years some things have remained consistent in her retelling of
the events of the evening of September 14th but some things have not Judy was sick in
bed that evening and could not even get up without having a dizzy spell so she remained in bed the whole
time she said that she heard Cassie come in that evening so getting dropped off by Hunter she comes into the house that
Sunday evening to which Judy then says that she shouted out hi baby girl but she later said that Cassie did not come
into the bedroom so she says she heard her come into the house she shouts out to her but to be clear she's saying I
never actually saw her I never saw her come she didn't come into the bedroom yeah Cassie's mother claims that she
never saw her I I believe she also says she never heard her which is weird because there is a statement that she
says where on one occasion she Judy states that Cassie denied dinner which sounds
confusing to me but and maybe to some others but as we go through these other statements it will make a little bit
more sense I think a couple things could both be true here Captain right she could have not never heard her dog
and Cassie could have also denied dinner because Brandon lives there as well she
could have her daughter could have told Brandon she didn't want dinner and that means can mean that Mom didn't hear that
interaction Judy says that she dozed off she did not hear Cassie leave when she woke at about 8:00 p.m. Cassie was gone
after a while Judy's fiance Brandon roads started calling around looking for Cassie and the sniders so Hunter Snider
and Tracy who we've already talked about were the first call Hunter's mom Tracy told CNN well there was three phone
calls they started at about 9:14 that night and he first asked if Cassie was still at our house Hunter told his mom
Tracy that when he pulled into Cassie's driveway at her house to drop her off on
that Sunday evening Cassie got out of the truck and walked up the driveway toward the house Brandon rhods Judy's
fiance was on the porch smoking and observed Cassie walk up the driveway and into the house this is according to
Hunter she did not speak to him he didn't speak to her Hunter turned around and went
home arriving around 645 when Brandon called Tracy at 9:14 asking if Cassie was still with with
them this made no sense since according to Hunter Brandon had seen her come home
and Hunter leave Brandon called back two more times saying they still hadn't found Cassie
and asking if Hunter had heard from her Tracy says she kept repeating to Brandon
through these phone calls to go to the police department or call the police and report her
missing in the third phone call he said that he did he went to the police department and
they told him it would be about 72 hours the stutgart police have not confirmed that this happened but a web sluth
verified Insider says that SPD has acknowledged at some point that Brandon rhods did in fact ride his bicycle to
the police station that evening and two officers took a statement from him and told him to go home and see if the
teenager would eventually come home that night or call now at 9:52 a.m. on Monday
so we've the whole night has gone by we wake up now we're at 9:52 a.m. on Monday
September 15th Judy mom Judy spoke with two officers who came to the house this is Kyle Stokes and then Lieutenant Mark
Duke remember he goes on to become the CH police chief the missing person's report on Cassie says the incident
occurred on Sunday September 14th between 6:52 2 and 700 p.m. what a short little window of time to have in
question here the description is only a few sentences long on this report it states quote on September 15 2014 I met
with Miss Judy Compton she stated that her daughter left the house located on 15th Street between 6:45 and 700 p.m. on
September 14 2014 and has not returned Cassie Compton is a 15 year-old with blonde hair and blue eyes approximately
100 lb has a scar on her left cheek subject was last seen wearing a blue tank top and teal plaid shorts Miss
Compton States her daughter has been diagnosed with a mental disorder possibly bipolar end quote well a couple
things before we move on I always hate in these missing person cases where when law
enforcement just assumes that this person is missing without any Foul Play but we have two parental figures that
are not being that cooperative and probably not being that truthful and this report of what she was last seen
wearing this is all speculative her mother actually didn't see her nor did she hear her come into the house that
night so she is basing what she was wearing off of what she knows is missing from her wardrobe at the house yeah and
what else was missing or what else wasn't missing from the house I find to be interesting too Cassie's overnight
bag that she had just taken with her to Hunter's house was found in her room so if she did in fact take that bag to
Hunters then we know that the portion of the story where Hunter returns her home
happened that bag didn't make its way on its own what's weird too is her purse was also in her room I think a lot of
people find that extremely weird I don't find it to be as weird because she's 15
and if in fact that text is correct that she was going to go find a pack of cigarettes she might have to go to a
couple of establishments to get somebody to sell her a pack of smoke she's not old enough to buy
cigarettes and it's a little difficult right if you walk into the place with your purse strapped around you and say
oh I I don't have my ID it's a little more believable if you walk in there with no purse on you and say yeah I'm
I'm of age I just don't have my ID well you first have to believe that she is the one that sent the text the other
thing too is her cell phone's gone but not her charger if she wanted to go away for a
good amount of time or even overnight right she's she's according to her mother has ran away on at least two
previous occasions but came back within a couple days yeah this isn't a case of a runaway the the overnight bag she
would have taken with her the cell phone charger she would have taken with her as
well and the captain's exactly right the description of what she was last wearing is kind of cobbled together
based off of items that might be missing from her room maybe some of what Hunter
says she was wearing when she was dropped off and if if Brandon saw her that night or not well originally
Brandon says that he did see her and then later changes story as said in the trailer police initially treated
Cassie's case as a runaway it was reported in the September 19th report on KATV that since there was no imminent
harm or possible death that Cassie's case didn't qualify for a Morgan Nick amber alert the stutgart
Police said while they don't believe Cassie has been abducted they did file Cassie's description with with the
national Center for missing and exploited children they've also been following up on leads with the family in
Kingston Oklahoma according to this report remember she has extended family living
in Kingston Oklahoma this is about 375 miles away so this included her brother Chris who said that he told police that
if she had run away he believed that she would have come to him but obviously she
didn't turn up eventually what we get here captain and it's fairly quick eventually we get assistant
chief we get assistant police chief Steven Bobo that said that leads gathered early on in this case
contradicted The Runaway Theory so now we have to shift gears and start saying well maybe something else
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police one of the first steps that they were going to take looking for Cassie they're going to look for leads right
you we need a breadcrumb trail if in fact she did go off walking to go find some cigarettes as the text said then we
need a breadcrumb trail leading us from her house to where we will find her and so they started checking surveillance
footage at the stores and businesses in the nearby area we have a several businesses uh not limited to the ones
that I'm going to list here but we have a Shell gas station a Family Dollar Store a Walmart so they collected
surveillance from all of these locations hopefully they were successful you know
they show up and and they actually have footage to share with the police but none of these stores seem to have any
footage of Cassie about 2 weeks after her disappearance the stut guard Police Department asked for assistance from the
Arkansas State Police and the FBI law enforcement announced an official search for Cassie that would take place on
October 4th calling for volunteers to help in the search they were searching this area that's called Casco and I
think this is rather important here so while the search didn't turn up anything the
officials were calling this search a recovery Mission that's not good it it doesn't sound to me like they were
hoping to recover a an alive and well Cassie so they're calling this a recovery Mission and according to some
of the locals what the rumor was at the time was that they were searching this spefic
specific area because of some cell phone ping information now at the time we're not
told whose phone they're pulling that information from later it is said that it was cass's phone that they had some
cell phone ping information in this area this Casco area yeah so we have no record of Cassie on surveillance footage
of any of these stores we don't have any eyewitness is claiming that they saw her
that night or in that area so really this idea that she went anywhere we have no evidence of it well
but we have her cell phone movement so we do have some cellphone ping technology there so we know that
her cell phone moved we just don't know if Cassie was with that cell phone or if
she was alive at that time and one thing here regarding this this second so there's a second search that takes place
right you hear recovery Mission that's not something you want to hear but then this other statement is
something you definitely don't want to hear but I want to set this up Captain by saying we had mentioned that Brandon
rhs the fiance mom's fiance his what he's saying is that he rode his bicycle to the police department to
report her missing Cassie missing that Sunday night that wasn't because he was just looking to get a little extra
exercise Brandon did not have a driver's license while he was known to drive illegally using Judy's car on
occasion at all the locals say the same thing you would see this guy riding his bicycle around town all the all of the
time so on the second search they are advising the volunteers this search starts off much closer to
Cassie's home to the Compton resident and they tell the Searchers immediately that you might be looking
for some small dismembered pieces here and the statement that that they used to follow that up with was that we think
that we might be looking for dismembered pieces because it would be easier for transportation purposes
that to me reading between the lines seems to indicate to me we might be talking about trying to transport
something without the use of a vehicle #b thean that's just what I'm saying police also search bodies of waters in
the area they interviewed residents along Cassie suspected walking route so this is interesting here they learned
that Cassie lik to walk to the Walmart in One Direction or the laundry mat or the stuck Gart Apartments where she was
known to hang out with some friends okay so these are going to be key areas now one thing we haven't done here in the
garage in a long time might be overdue the old pervert Roundup so on this route right you go One Direction from the
Compton home you go to Walmart you go the other direction it's the laundry mat and the
apartments between the apartments in the Walmart we have 15 registered sex offenders in this area the police
department did go door too to their homes inquiring about Cassie none of these individuals admitted to seeing her
and according to what we can find no suspects came of any of this of these interviews I believe at first law
enforcement wasn't taking this super serious it's very common for a teenager to get an argument with her parents and
disappear for the day once you look into the background of her Cassie's not in a
good living situation and they're not I believe being that truthful with law enforcement
so now we have to start digging up well what is their criminal history and what information can we get
from them can we give them a lie detector can we obtain their cell phone so then we can get cell phone records
from them and that's what law enforcement starts to do yeah on top of that we're seizing the cell phones
belonging to Judy and the fiance Brandon roads now this reportedly happened on October 3rd which is interesting to me
because the CCO search took place the following day October 4th that could be coincidence it's tough to that's a tough
hurdle to clear let's talk about Cassie's mother Judy the stuckart daily leader reported
the following this is on October 14th after interviewing Judy where she says the next morning she's talking about
Monday September 15th she says that she found that Cassie wasn't in her bedroom and started texting Cassie after no
quick response she sent another text then started calling her mother said Cassie always answered her text and
calls she called friends to see if Cassie was there and she wasn't it was then that worry began to set in and law
enforcement was called those are Judy's words so this timeline is very strange right because Brandon rhods claimed that
he went to the police station on Sunday night and told them that Cassie was gone
yet Judy is claiming that she didn't know her daughter was missing until the following morning that makes no no
sense because this what this means is that she was unaware that Cassie was missing and Brandon took it on himself
to call around and ask people if they had seen her okay yeah or somebody's lying look I get it the the official
report is that Judy wasn't feeling well couldn't get out of bed without a dizzy spell but to be completely oblivious to
your daughter being missing until 9:20 something the next morning boyfriend doesn't tell you
anything that's all none of that is is making any sense at all well like I said their stories keep changing at some
point Brandon says well in the kitchen and I was cooking breakfast for dinner and that he saw her and then later he
says that he never saw her but we know that did make it home because of the items that returned yeah and then we
talk about she never sees her daughter but then another version of the story says that she heard her leave the
house so that would kind of back up the going out for cigarettes and at some point Brandon has a he's in the bathroom
throwing up he has some kind of sickness going on yeah and so I look maybe it's maybe
the past history that she's reporting to police is is true is truthful but regardless let's say let's say it is
truthful or it's a lie Judy totally contributed to the police's runaway Theory either
accidentally or on purpose and keep in mind the initial report she's saying Cassie was bipolar
or possibly bipolar even though there was no evidence of that according to the police if she was trying to set up
something she's planting the seed that she ran away and all she's unstable as well and I have all types of problems
with her mother her mother is a or her mother was a registered sex offender and that is
because Cassie's Father which is in jail and he's in jail because he was molesting his which I believe was his
stepdaughter and cass's mother story is that she didn't know what was going on and
basically what she was charged with was the fact that she did know what was going on and was
basically protecting her husband from getting in trouble yeah so this this takes a while to come out okay so this
does this is not a part of the immediate information well not the immediate information from the like coming from
the media but law enforcement would have known this from Jump Street if they checked right right you don't you don't
there's it's not the Scarlet Letter where they just put a a big giant sign above your house that says registered
sex offender lives here uh should and and to to to say hey wait 48 hours or 72 hours or what Happ
you look this is the other thing that bothers me I get that all right you have somebody that that potentially has a
history of running away I get it that that is protocol in a lot of the police departments and and has been for a long
time it's changed in some jurisdictions over the years but in some jurisdictions
it's going to say stay this way the thing I've never understood like okay so studart is not like this crimer ridden
area the in 2014 there was not even there was not a single homicide that we are aware of right Cassie Compton may
have been murdered but it's never been labeled homicide so in 2014 you have no homicides and it's not a
crime it's not not just it's not this filthy seedy horrible area where there's just Crime After Crime After
Crime if you guys ain't got nothing to do let's take this report seriously for a couple of hours please please
but but then then as much as you you want to get angry and and shake a fist at law enforcement here you go what the
hell is going on at home because that's seems to be if there was a problem that seems to be where it
all started you're not getting it's difficult to say that the the Judy and Brandon were not
Cooperative because on the surface it feels a little bit like they're Cooperative they blow they both reported
her missing they both attempted to describe the situation report the situation to
police and they are talking with police and mother Judy's talking with the media
and we we referenced some of those interactions with the media and interviews that she was doing some on
camera some for newspapers but in most of those she's pleading to her she's making a plea to her daughter please
come back you know we're not mad at you it's safe to come home and whether there was anything bad
going on at home or not that that would appear that there is some level of cooperation what makes it so that there
is not this perfect level of cooperation is the changing Stories the changing stories are
very it's easy for me to get very angry with this mother and I also think that she may have no clue what happened to
her daughter I think both could be possible all at the same time yeah but I think look I think the
mother is a loser I think she tried she's never won mother of the year award never even been
nominated oh we have she was on the registered sex offender list because law enforcement believed that she was
protecting a child molester and she was protecting a child molester that was molesting her own
child so that's what law enforcement that's what that criminal history tells us we now have a situation where she
moves to this new location okay maybe that's to better her life maybe that's to better benefit her child's life but
then the child is not in school doesn't have a lot of friends and then what does she do she
moves in this individual that's quite a bit younger than she is and he doesn't have much
going for him he might be loser of the year in that county and then yes okay so she's sick she's not feeling well but it
seems like she also just believed whatever story Brandon her boyfriend was telling her that night and instead of
saying hey well we really need to uh take this serious she's almost giving evidence to law enforcement why they
shouldn't take it serious now I do have to applaud her because at some point she breaks up with
Brandon gets him out of the house and then is hopeful well hey maybe if my daughter finds out that he is gone and
if that is a possibility of why she would want to run away maybe she would come back h so I I do applaud her for
that yes the difficult thing here is that's when her story changes to all Brandon was in the bathroom throwing up
that night right well that might have been something you might wanted to tell the police about day one on on one of
multiple times of being interviewed or you did multiple interviews with police and media before you ever mention that
now he's out of the house and now that's when you choose it so all right let's we'll peel back the curtain a little bit
here because she says she's sick couldn't get out of bed dizzy spells whatever she was on Fentanyl patches at
the time she she may very likely may have been air quote sick because of the drugs being introduced to her body
right and he later will have meth charges and I don't think it was his first time around on that what we're
trying to point out here is I don't we can't say I can't say definitively that mom was doing anything wrong to Cassie
that boyfriend mom's boyfriend was doing anything wrong what I can say is wouldn't put it past them though I'll
wager a Franklin and guess who's going to win the colonel once again because I will tell you Mom done checked out a
long time ago she started slapping on those Fentanyl patches and that's when she checked out I think her story
changed a lot because she didn't know up from down but here's the other problem with my issue with law
enforcement when you start questioning the family and you know something's not right well then you
question well where was Cassie before this and if you started talking to her friend and her friend's parents you'd
quickly figure out that Cassie wasn't in love with her home situation and so to me that's a red flag and so maybe not
day one but by day two we're looking at this case and with different eyes and and and both of these individuals I
believe failed their polygraph test now I don't think that's been reported publicly but I believe in one of the
interviews the mother stated that she failed the test but she believed because she was on drugs or or or the stress of
her daughter going missing I can't remember what her horrible excuse was yeah so I again it those it could be
reasonable it could be that she couldn't physically give a proper test with what
drugs she was on at the time but it this was a mother that didn't work that was on Fentanyl patches and who
knows what else and a loser boyfriend that as the captain pointed out was closer in age to
Cassie or victim or missing person than he was to his fiance now okay so let's talk about her Hunter and
Tracy Hunter is her friend that she stayed the night at their home hung out with until she's dropped off and then
goes missing on that Sunday and Tracy is his mother there's good and bad with with
with that group in my opinion but one thing that it points out is when we go through the timeline of that Thursday
the Friday the Saturday and Sunday what did we have for Thursday and Friday she went
to the doctor and it's reported that she went to a high school football game no other
information 48 Hours of Life a family life and we have two events that were known about and now mind you part of
that is she didn't attend school right she was to call it homeschooled is is not I mean she's
reading a textbook at home yeah she's hanging out at home she watching C she was responsible for for her own
education this is this is a the best information we get about that timeline the 4 days leading up to her
disappearance is from Hunter and Tracy right that gives us several more events because those are seem to
be that's what we would have I I think to me that just is more proof that that even though she lived under the same
roof as Mom and boyfriend they were checked out they were they were absentee yeah right put it mildly right
if so if they weren't doing anything at wrong at all what we do know is they weren't raising her right this is a
child that was neglected now to to say that she was completely unhappy with her life at home that seems true based off
of what her brother Chris says I I'm not so quick to believe Hunter and Tracy as
it appears that they only knew each other for like 3 weeks but Tracy seems to have fully diagnosed the whole living
situation of this girl that she knew for a very brief period of time and knew very little about yeah but here's the
thing when you have a child that is neglected and nobody's taken care of them when they get around an adult or a
parent that they feel safe with she might have shared so much information with her just in a couple hours of
conversation she could have would be better conversation and more information that was that was shared between
Hunter's mother than with her own mother she and what her mother has is a history
of turning a eye when her child is being molested and I wouldn't put it past her boyfriend
this Brandon rhs I wouldn't put it past him to again there's no evidence of this
but if this person if if Cassie is not enjoying her home life and she hates this individual well why does she hate
the individual and is it possible that he was molesting her was it possible that he was abusing her physically or
mentally so I I think these are all things that law enforcement had to question and like the captain pointed
out at some point Brandon is not only absent from the home because Judy says that she asked him to leave broke up
with him she states that she didn't break up with him because he failed the polygraph I believe that's the same
interview that she brings up the polygraph information or that she believed that
Brandon had done something to her daughter she says she broke up with him because she caught him stealing from her
we don't get any particulars about that but now he's absent he's removed from the
home and he's now removed from these interviews that Judy's doing with with the local news at this point
and at some point for one of the interviews that he was present for he's on camera with Judy this is a KATV
interview this is shortly after Cassie goes missing he kind of creeps everybody out
when he tells the interviewer about Cassie walking out the door saying quote she was gone like a Whisper In The
Wind then we fast forward to they split up he's no longer in the picture we get this completely different story from
Mom so remember we had referenced a Tina stores she is a private investigator working with this Halo organization she
spent about a week or so with Judy talking with her working with her closely trying to help out in the case
and then she goes on will continue to help with this case but working with a Kayla laugherty from the local news
while they're working together the story that Judy told Tina listen to how different this is than the stories we've
heard previously she tells the private investigator that Hunter dropped Cassie off on Sunday evening when Judy was sick
in bed and was out of it Cassie said nothing to either of them meaning Brandon or herself Brandon is making
pancakes for dinner and trying to get Judy to eat according to this version of the story Cassie changed her clothes and
went to go get some smokes or a smoke and she's basing this off of perr her text to Hunter but Judy told Tina
that around this same time Brandon told Judy he was going to get cigarettes right he left at about the same time as
Cassie he leaves in Judy's car I believe she says Brandon's gone for quite a time
period a few hours and then when he comes back he's throwing up in the bathroom now here's my speculation is
that Cassie never text anybody to say she's going to get cigarettes I believe that's Brandon
texting Hunter saying you know pretending to be Cassie and then he leaves to go get
cigarettes and he comes back and then he's throwing up for some reason yeah so the way that this timeline would
have to play out is she gets home around 6:25 the text to Hunter comes in about 645 Judy saying that they both leave
around this time or you know who know who knows how much weight you can put into this story at this time but what we
do know is that by 9:14 we have Brandon on the phone calling people looking for her so that's
like like 2 hours and maybe 15 minutes that that his time is unaccounted for and again Judy story very different much
more Vivid with detail at this point saying he's gone for a couple of hours and then when he returned he went
straight into the bathroom and was sick now eventually Brandon he's out of Judy's house out of her life he is
arrested for uh squatting in a vacant home yeah cuz he was homeless and he is also uh gets charges of
possession of methamphetamine at the same time well like you said it's probably not his
first runin with methan fetamines but his run-ins with law enforcement are just going to continue
yeah he gets out on the charges that we just talked about but then he is stopped
for speeding in October of 2018 and he still doesn't have a driver's license at this point uh he's
arrested in the car he was pulled over and was searched it was observed that the passenger side window was broken out
and a military style bag was lying on the front seat inspection of the contents revealed an ak-15 rifle loaded
with a 27 round magazine gas mask military style equipment belt camouflage shirt eye protection goggles a large 9in
fixed blade another knife and a helmet the affidavit so this is an arrest warrant affidavit that was
obtained by the timeline podcast which is a was an eight part series all based around the missing Cassie Compton case
and this is put together by that Kayla laferty from KATV so she spent extensive amount of
time working on this case and researching this case she gets her hands on this arrest AV avit for Brandon rhs
and the affidavit states that the gun and tactical gear had been reported stolen from a house that Brandon was
staying at at the time and in Brandon's wallet was found a piece of paper with names numbers and odd statements on it
Brandon was interviewed after the arrest he allegedly said that he had been paid
200 bucks by a man to follow that man's wife and kill her the affidavit says quote he stated he chose to pose as a
Hitman because he knew it would get him back into prison for a long time and not
hurt anyone so later he says he you know he made all this up because he he he wanted to spend a good amount of time in
prison yeah and one of his claims is so he can work his missing you know girlfriend's daughter
case from the inside of the prisons yeah which is funny too because he also later
would say oh I posed as a Hitman to get this long prison sentence but really what I was
doing I was going after the people that took Cassie right so this is we can keep going down
this Rabbit Hole of Brandon rhods but what what I keep seeing here I don't know if it's a combination of his of the
drugs methampetamine will [ __ ] you up and your life yeah make no mistake about
it and unfortunately it's one of those drugs that a one-time use could be that could be forever so don't don't even
experiment this is not this is not marijuana where you can experiment and see if you like it or not this will ruin
you and I don't know if it ruined Brandon or if it's a combination of his brain his heart his soul and the drugs
or what but to continue down the Brandon roads Road it's a long trip to Crazy Town with this guy I short trip well
it's a short trip for it's a long trip for us because there's many stops and it veers off in many different directions I
can't make heads or tals of this dude because I don't think he can make heads or tales of the world I really want to
know what the conflict was when she got home and that's something that her mom would probably know if she wasn't passed
out at the time yeah the other statement too that really disturbs me among many statements that are disturbing in this
case it's from the arrest Aid avit from the the arrest warrant affidavit right so this is taken to be like a sworn
statement from Brandon rhods himself the affidavit says quote he stated he chose
to pose as a Hitman because he knew it would get him back to prison for a long time and not hurt anyone you have to be
severely unstable or have severe violent thought to pretend to have committed crimes or
an attempt to commit crimes that you really weren't attempting to do because you think that the best place for you is
to be locked up so you don't hurt anyone was that a an ability he didn't possess
at other times in his life leading up to that event well we'll hear from ex partners of him that he was controlling
and he had a short temper and and that he also had a rough childhood abusive childhood that is not to dismiss
anything that we think he did or was capable of doing but that kind of puts some perspective to all this again was
there a conflict he lost his temper did something disposed of her body but also people have stated that he was very
controlling and had to have the information of their cell phones or information from their social media so
again that would put in to play this idea that this individual was capable of sending messages to
people um pretending to be something he wasn't I guess at one point he was making calls to
this lady that he was tracking and stalking and made calls and pretended to be a woman and we have later on in in
the case where somebody contacted Cassie's mother and pretended to be Cassie and so then one could question
was this individual Brandon did Brandon call her up and pretend to be Cassie is that the same story of the 13-year-old
boy because there was a 13-year-old boy that was using a cell phone that on multiple occasions called pretending to
be Cassie and they they were able to figure out yeah they figured out it was the the teenage boy I'm just saying he
was he was actually arrested and charged right and but I'm just saying this puts
this still puts Brandon in the realm of possibilities of using Cassie's cell phone using Cassie's Facebook what who
else was he contacting and pretending possibly to be somebody else I'm just saying he has the
capability of it because we know he's done it in the past there there are we we we've been circling like vultures
around Brandon brhs and we should be clear here there are other possibilities in this case while he looks to be
a a character that nobody wants to invite over to Thanksgiving dinner uh let alone live with under the same roof
going to have him come over to my house I'm not going to make him some pancakes um there are other possib ities here I
mean he looks like Prime Suspect number one I believe the police have never well she didn't run away well and
the believe that the thing here is I I couldn't find any information that anybody had been cleared per police
saying that to the media I but I also couldn't find any information stating that Brandon was Prime Suspect number
one uh the other there are some other possibilities here we there's an individual named Dustin that we didn't
talk about a whole lot that that did have some interaction with Cassie he was he was an
older boy um he the the ages depending on what source you go to vary for this young man but at the time he would have
been in his 20s I couldn't find anything to say that he was younger than the age
of 20 but we have zero actual evidence that Dustin did anything to Cassie at all or that they even had a relationship
even though there were a couple locals that said that that they may these two may have had a relationship
of course um maybe Hunter's been rolled out I've not seen that but the the other
things that we should probably touch on here too is well as much as you look at Brandon and you go this guy's a piece of
[ __ ] right and you think okay he's going to slip up and we're going to we got him but what
happens in this case and probably good to keep this case in the spotlight and keep people talking about this
case is we have an individual that pops up in a Tik Tok video that kind of looks
like Cassie and people start thinking well this might be Cassie and so you can point the finger all day long at Brandon
but if Cassie is still alive then obviously he didn't kill her yeah and you know Tina stores the private
investigator that we've referenced a few times she's brought up the fact that Cassie would often walk to the local
Walmart she said that this area that she would be walking through she considered it to
be unsafe we mentioned abandoned holes earlier that she's saying there's abandoned homes on this route there's
squatters at times in these homes uh there are drug dealers or users using these homes on occasion I I kind of
think that if it was an unknown killer unless they wanted abduction was the number one goal that we would have found
her right by now now trafficking is certainly a possibility in this situation we have uh police chief Duke
who maintains that as part of the investigation human trafficking experts were consulted Tina stores believes it's
possible her she has a background in working human trafficking cases she says that she parsed through Cassie's social
media and through tips that came in that and she states that there were men and boys unknown to Cassie's mother
that were posting sexual comments about Cassie on social media uh whether those are true or not we don't know Tina
reported that she saw these posts and messages and in one of them Cassie said uh replying to these men don't worry
about me I'm working this side of town and we don't get any follow-up information as to what that exactly
means I don't think that the I don't think that Tina stores knows exactly what that statement means well and back
to this girl on the Tik Tok video so this is this blows up and this is shared by many social media creators or content
creators whatever you want to call them eventually this goes to the FBI the FBI is able to make
contact with this individual and she ends up making videos on her own social media to say hey I am not Cassie
Compton and and and then she explains who she is and that she's okay because in the video she was in the backseat of
a car with two men and she had black eyes well she had black eyes because she was robbed and she came out and said
everything was okay and then she even said that she's contacting FBI to let FBI know hey I'm not Cassie and and I'm
going to prove to you I'm not Cassie and Al I'm going to prove to you I'm okay so
everything as far as that story checks out but what a weird twist in this story to go hey something happened to this
15-year-old girl we don't know what happened and then years later we think that we see this girl on social media
yeah and the other possibility which doesn't seem highly probable but has to be considered here accidental death you
know Cassie could have died from some kind of accident or an overdose maybe the people she's with panic they hide
the body so I bring that up because one of the the search and rescue Personnel from
the Halos investigations we talked about a couple searches remember the they're stating that
Cassie's phone pinged in that Casco area in Casco and so that's why they were searching there and it's been brought up
up that perhaps she went to a party there and something happened in fact this same Halo person
told the timeline podcast that he got a tip to the effect that Cassie was at a party and somehow got killed and was
buried on private property the tip was a text from a woman that said Cassie had been accidentally run over and buried
behind an abandoned house a guy who lives in the stuck guard Apartments was allegedly involved now remember that's
the apartment complex that we know she was uh that she would frequent he indicated that he knew where she was
buried behind this old abandoned home and another tip comes in that it's somewhat similar but indicated that
Cassie had died and was put in a barrel in a creek all of these tips were passed
along to the police and truly you got to believe they were followed up on and really who who knows whether any of
these tips contain even a kernel of the truth right and again I just want to point out that this parental figure
Brandon rhods was known to pretend to be somebody he wasn't whether that's male or female so are there tips out there
are there false leads that he has created who knows I mean this guy is a a pile of [ __ ] and if I had to bet money
he's responsible for why Cassie Compton's missing but he he is a riddle Cassie Compton has been missing for 10
years now she was just 15 years old when she was last seen in September of 2014 it was September 14th she is 5' 3 in
tall and weighs about 100 lb she has blonde hair and blue eyes anyone with new information about Cassie is urged to
contact the stut guard Police Department by calling 87067 31414 or contact the National Center for
missing and exploited children by calling 1 1800 843 5678 want to thank everybody for joining us
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Cassie Kay Compton went missing 10 years ago from the town of Stuttgart, Arkansas. Today she would be 25 years old. She was just 15 when this mystery began. According to reports, Cassie was dropped off at her mother’s home on the evening of September 14, 2014. It is believed that the last person known to have seen Cassie was her mother’s fiancé Brandon Rhodes. Rhodes would later face several unrelated charges for drugs, weapons, and stolen goods. Brandon Rhodes remains a strong suspect in this disappearance and may hold the answers as to what happened to this little girl. At the time of her disappearance Cassie was 5’3, 100 pounds with blue eyes, and dyed blonde hair. There are some discrepancies as to what she was wearing at the time. The investigating agency is the Stuttgart Police Department and tips should be sent to them. SPD can be reached at 1-870-673-1414.

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Brief Summary

Cassie Compton, 15, vanished in 2014; family dynamics and police response raise questions about her disappearance.

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The Case of Cassie Compton. A 15-year-old girl vanished in 2014, leaving many questions behind.
Cassie's Disappearance. Cassie was reported missing, but initial investigations treated it as a runaway case.
Search Efforts Intensify. Authorities launched a search for Cassie, calling it a recovery mission.
Inconsistent Accounts. Judy and Brandon's conflicting stories raise questions about Cassie's disappearance.
The Mysterious Boyfriend. The mother's boyfriend raises suspicions about his involvement in Cassie's disappearance.

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