Crazy Beautiful - EPISODE 5 (The Bakersfield Three) | Forensic Files

[Music] there was once a time not that long before Bailey despots face was plastered
on missing Flyers that the most important man in her life was a pig he was a few hundred PBS and named after a
character from the movie Mean Girls Glen Coco Bailey raised him from a piglet as
part of the program Future Farmers of America you want to say hi to the camera hey hey
you hi okay just walk away that's Bailey trying to get his attention she'd wake up long before the
sun came up and spend most of her free time with him often just laying down with him in his pen she probably didn't
think of it then as a teenage girl but it'd be one of the more stable male relationships in her life certainly one
of the more innocent ones I'm Olivia Lavo and this is the Bakersfield 3 [Music] [Music]
it's interesting and sad to see the evolution of Bailey through her social media post posts today so many of our
Instagram pages are carefully curated but in those early days when there were no filters to make people's faces look
perfect no social media influencers there was something pretty genuine about Instagram and what our Pages said about
us Bailey's account a few years before her disappearance looks something like a scrapbook of her favorite things there's
a lot of photos of elaborate glittery manicures big Frappuccino drinks trips to Disneyland photos of Miley Cyrus
family barbecues camping trips and going to prom obviously everybody has their soulmate when it comes to a husband or a
wife and you that you love but we definitely have soulmates as friends as well and she was
mine her best friend Maddie is in a majority of her photos she was very spunky and full of life and attitude
while many of us go through awkward stages the two girls blossomed early on in high school we did definitely get a
lot of attention from you know the older males I should say a lot of the Juniors
and seniors were always spawning over us but it was something that she took with
a grain of salt the attention from boys didn't seem to have the same hold on Bailey as it does many teenage girls she
loved makeup but often times she was barefaced wearing leggings and baggy sweatshirts that swallowed up her tiny
frame she just kind of dressed how felt and she still got attention for it that's for sure but her natural beauty
was was the best she was a good student and outside of school when she wasn't caring for various different animals she
kept as pets she worked at a pizza parlor after graduation she started college she wanted to be a veterinarian
things seemed to be going well but there was a major shift in her family Dynamic
to say the least see there was another family that Bailey's Family was very close with let's call them the Joneses
the bond between the two families originated from the close relationship Bailey's dad had with Mr Jones here's
Bailey's Mom Jane to explain best friend from Life they did everything together best man at each other's wedding so our
wedding and his wedding you know they grew up together the Joneses had daughters too
so it was a natural fit for the families to be close evidently Bailey's dad got very close to his best friend's wife Mrs
Jones the two had an affair and ultimately left their spouses for each other at first you know I'm devastated
blah blah blah but you know I probably should have left him long time ago hindsight's 2020 and you know it was
terrible what he did to the girls Bailey's sister Caitlyn says they really had an idyllic childhood raised in a
nice nice house in a nice neighborhood with two loving attentive parents Bailey would even post on social media when it
was her parents wedding anniversary I'm not sure most high schoolers ever stopped to think about
their parents' anniversaries but Bailey did Caitlyn says the news of the affair with their family friend and her parents
eventual divorce devastated Bailey but it wasn't just their family unit that was
lost after they separated he didn't want anything to do with either one of us it was a series of
life-altering changes all at once of course the hardest Caitlyn says was their father blocking them out of his
life in the 5 years I've been reporting on Bailey's case I've never heard from him and he didn't want to speak with me
for the podcast after they divorced and he wanted nothing to do with this it upset her that she didn't have
her dad and she desperately wanted her dad around she wanted dad's approval she wanted to make Dad proud and so that's
where we all think her downward spiral started as Bailey was grappling losing the life she had known for 18 years her
best friend Maddie was also going through something I had just gotten out of a very toxic relationship and so her
and I were kind of going on like a little bit of a a bender like many 18-year-olds before them it seemed like
a pretty great idea to use partying to help cope and initially it seemed pretty typical anyways lots of college kids
party but then one night someone brought out cocaine the girls tried it and liked
it we would start drinking and then at whoever's house we would be at normally tended to have it so we would you know
go in the room with the older crowd and we would do a few lines here and there but we would all go back out to the
party and have a good time but I started noticing that um you know I would look around and I wouldn't see her anywhere
and I would always find her back in the in the bedroom again it became something
more serious and a lot quicker than I anticipated as well I thought it was just something that you know we were
going to dabble in and have a little bit of fun here and there as Bailey's partying was quickly
taking over her life Maddie says she met a guy who wasn't into that at all which
changed Maddie's mindset causing her to fade out of the party scene Young Love can have quite an influence on someone
both bad and good sadly for Bailey the boys she was falling for weren't the type to encourage her to party less it
seemed quite the opposite this was summer 2017 when things truly took a turn for the worst for Bailey first it
was the partying then signs of an eating disorder she was never diagnosed with that but you know when you see three
different piles of puke out in the backyard from when she just ate you know you could go out and tell what it was
just broke my heart that you know she would do that or you could hear her in the bathroom doing it and she's like Mom
I'm okay you know she would deny that it was a problem Shane also noticed Bailey's
taste in men was not the best that July she got a domestic violence restraining order against boyfriend this was the
time that biley told her mom she had a friend named Micah who was a good guy and helped her out by picking her up
from the abusive boyfriend's house when she needed help the next time Jane heard
Micah's name was after she got a call from the cops that Bailey was picked up for drunk and disorderly conduct in
front of Micah's house you might remember Micah ended up calling 911 on her cuz a woman that W not stop coming
in my house Jane says this was Rock Bottom for her daughter at at least for a brief period Bailey agreed to seek
counseling to work to get her life back on track and for about a month she did until the day that changed everything
really so on August 23rd Bailey had a counseling appointment with behavior health with a counselor there that
morning biley told her mom she made plans with an acquaintance before the counseling
session she goes uh so and so called and and wants me to come over and go swimming Bailey insisted she was just
going to go lay out by the girls pool for a couple hours in the morning before it got too hot out and I couldn't get a
hold of her after lunch her phone just would you know how it goes when it's dead or turned
[Music] off a few hours went by as Jane anxiously waited for Bailey at her counseling appointment she never showed
up you know so I went home by this time I'm like I know something bad happened to her Bailey came home late that night
and told her mom she didn't feel well and needed to go to sleep Jane drained from the stress of the situation didn't
fight her on it deciding she'd speak with her the next day when Jane got up early that morning she saw Bailey was
already awake when I saw her sit out on the back porch shaking like Leaf you know and I could see
bruises all over her arms and legs and I asked her she thought she hadd been assaulted and she shook her head yes and
I go okay we have to go she's like Mom I don't want to can I shower I go no you can't shower we have to go you have to
go turn this in so we can stop it Jane says the experience of getting the rape kit done was
agonizing we were there oh my God I think it was 6 or 8 hours the nurse goes it's going to take a little longer than
than usual she's got bruises everywhere I was crying and still hard to hear that Jane says Bailey was drugged so the
events of the night are foggy at best she says Bailey told her she remembers a group of guys coming to the pool where
she and her girlfriend were swimming and they offered her a drink I've never been
able to read the police reports but a friend of Bailey's told me that Bailey said after blacking out at the pool she
woke up handcuffed to a bed where multiple men raped her while someone recorded it on their phone and she
wouldn't talk about it to me I was told you know she'll do it in her own time Jane says Bailey met with the detectives
multiple times and they shared with her that the rape kit came back with three different DNA profiles the story I have
always heard is that Bailey didn't know who the men were who raped her so she couldn't give any names in terms of the
DNA it's unclear if police have matched the profiles to any suspects but no arrests have ever been made she was
never the same after that Bailey's friend Maddie who at this point wasn't seeing biley as often reconnected with
her a couple months later and picked up immediately on how the sexual assault changed her it was a little hard
definitely because she was different Bailey seemed to clearly want to numb herself from the trauma of her
her assault and Jane says Bailey's counselor was deeply concerned about the effects it had on her mental health
which seemed to be deteriorating her family felt like they had no control they're still not
positive exactly what was going on in her life around this time but it was clear it wasn't good one time I found
all these hotel room keys in her backpack and I'm like what are these oh they're just you know to go to parties
and stuff and Jane wasn't sure if it was just her daughter partying way too much
or if there was something more Sinister going on by then it was starting to get really bad and the people she was
hanging out with and that's when the car started picking her up Jane says anytime
a car would come to pick up Bailey she would write down the license plate number she said she'd beg Bailey not to
go she didn't know where Bailey was going or who she was going with sometimes she'd even resort to trying to
physically strain her it's a difficult thought what to do with your child who in so many ways is still a child a child
deeply struggling but legally an adult a powerless terrifying feeling Bailey sister Caitlyn remembers One Night in
particular there were two vehicles parked across the street from our house that were there to pick her
up and I know one was a black car and then the one behind it was a black SUV and she had gotten into the back seat of
the first car we couldn't physically make her stay but you could tell by the look on her face she didn't want to
go Jane also told me about a night that sounds similar one time it was these black SUVs and with the really black
windows you couldn't see and then like a fancy Mercedes car all black pulled up and Bailey had just been home for a
couple hours long enough to shower and she was going to eat and she got a call and she goes I have to go they're
here and I'm like Bailey don't go telling her Bailey don't get in the car stay stay and she's like Mom I got
to go you need to go back in the house I don't know who was in these cars but would she say like these are my
friends I'm going to go friends no okay so she never she never like really sugarcoated it
that no she just said I have to go you know you can't talk about it and then Jane found shocking videos of Bailey on
her Snapchat account you know she'd be like passed out naked in hotel rooms Jane describes these horrifying
videos in a calm collected manner because it's what she's been trained to do through years of therapy these guys
in their snorting cocaine off her stomach despite her tone now at the time Jane was in shock then Furious then
deeply saddened she said Bailey would tell her when the videos were taken she was passed out and had no idea what was
going on or that anyone was recording her until the videos were sent to her Snapchat account Jane felt utterly
powerless she's like a different personality after her assault I don't know if she wanted to change her
personality or if it was a side effect from it because it's a coping skill because she would go from Bailey that
everybody knew and loved who was fun to some gangster girl and I'm like Bailey what what's going on you know and then
she'd just leave you know somebody would come pick her up or you know I just couldn't I couldn't keep her at
home and she wouldn't let me take her out of you know cuz I would say Bailey just let me take you to go get help we
can go somewhere you know I'll figure out a way less than a year before mysterious
black SUVs were coming to pick up Bailey she and her family were every bit a typical normal happy family Jane never
dreamed her daughter would be involved with anything like this not even close and now she was having to navigate it as
a single mother with her husband and their father abruptly out of the picture it's something I'm not sure Jane or
anyone can put into words her sister Caitlyn says it was very painful to watch you would never think on this side
of town and then a girl who had a great upbringing in life would just go down this path
Caitlyn says she and her mom had different views on how to handle Bailey's downward
spiral it started getting real bad between me her and our mom I couldn't take the
enablement anymore and that's when I decided to remove myself from that situation
because the problem wasn't leaving she was staying which I get as a mom you're not going to kick out your kid who
desperately needs help but doesn't want it Caitlyn got a job in Texas and with the issues at home decided to take it
her last conversation with Bailey is one that haunts her I told her as far as I'm
concerned you're not a sister to me you're not the person I used to know you're a whole different version of the
girl that I grew up with and the last words I said during our argument was if you keep continuing down this
path with these people you're going to end up either dead or you're going to go missing and that was the last I ever
spoke to her Caitlyn moved away and not long after biley met a new guy Matthew Queen
I never considered them dating Bailey never said they were dating to this day I know it makes Jane uncomfortable to
hear me or any one say that biley and Matthew Queen were in a relationship well the first time I met
him he brought Bailey home on the back of his motorcycle and she goes oh my gosh that
was so fun I had so much fun shooting a gun and I go a gun you can't be shooting
a gun as if taking her daughter out on a motorcycle to shoot guns in the desert wasn't unnerving enough Jane says and
then he sat in the chair and took this helmet off and I thinking I'm like in my head I'm going oh my [ __ ] god he's
like a 40-year-old man what's he doing with my daughter this is around the time Bailey
met her friend Jessica who lived just down the street from mqueen Jessica still remembers the first time she saw
the couple together the age difference was what threw me off Queen was 21 years older than Bailey he had three children
one of whom was just a few years younger than Bailey but his youngest child was just a toddler at the time Jessica says
Bailey was often with the young boy who was the same age as Jessica's son which is how the two of them hit it off and
then when I went over there to have a play date at their house the fact that his wife and his mom and everyone lived
there and Bailey lived there as discussed in a previous episode the living situation was odd to most people
along with his children Queen's wife lived in the home in another bedroom as did Queen's mother but Bailey claimed
the situation worked for everyone and she was enjoying her new life with Queen he had a really nice house nice things
and let her drive his car and I thought she liked that I thought she liked playing you know housewife because she
would take make dinners and we would look up stuff on Pinterest and cook dinners and you know I thought she liked
that whole pretending she was a home body like her housewife and she loved his kids B friend Maddie they lived in a
very great neighborhood beautiful homes nice people and I feel like that's kind of what you know steered her towards him
as though he's he's got all this money in this big nice house like I think he's he's the good one for me you know he'll
protect me he'll take care of me within less than a year Bailey had gone from hardworking college student to party
girl dealing with some serious Trauma from her sexual assault to now essentially a housewife she was taking
care of of Matt Queen's children while he and his wife went to work she tended to the home and went to playd dates with
the kids certainly she was not living the life of most 20-year-olds even though her new friend
Jessica thought it was all pretty strange she loved spending time with baile she just loved life like loved
animals loved saving little creatures and wouldn't even kill a spider you know Bailey was the type to bring in Strays
find sickly animals and nurse them back to health just iica says she raised two ducklings insisting they got to take
over the master bathtub she was the funniest just like best with the kids like just joy to be around and like she
just tried to mask everything with this like tough Persona it seems there were almost two
sides to Bailey one that was very sweet and gentle and one that many people felt
was an act she put on as a result of her sexual assault she had something anger built up in her from that incident it's
just something she could not let go Jessica says it often seemed that Bailey's sexual assault consumed her and
it certainly compounded the hurt and resentment she already had with the negative male relationships in her
life I have no idea if this is true but someone said like she had a list of men yes that had like hurt her and yeah the
list of she did have a cuz I told you she WR she wrote A Lot in journals and and like her little notebooks and stuff
and just would write poems and there were kind of dark poetry like about I mean there was something even in there
about her dad like I don't know too much about her and her dad but she was she had a lot of spite towards her Dad too
but she did have a list and I know a few of those names were that were on there but I guess those were everyone that
heard her in the past what was the point of the list like did she say like this is a list of men who have hurt me and I
want to hurt them yeah and she I think she wanted Justice like she wanted Justice and felt like no one cared or
believed or like took it took it serious because I think they did file a police report and it was just one of those
things that just got overlooked I think and because of that she felt like they got away with ruining her like or
destroying her embarrassing her just all the things that come with that sexual assault several people told me Bailey
wanted to come off as tough particularly to men which they told me was unexpected
to see from a young beautiful girl she's crazy beautiful but crazy here's Jeremy Bell who knew Bailey
Micah and James she talked like she was a [ __ ] Kingpin or like she was you know what I
mean a leader of a gang or some [ __ ] like she was some badass but she wasn't and so it's kind of hard to take her
seriously several people say she was all bark and no bite Jessica says she only saw this side of Bailey when her sexual
assault was brought up she would just be so mad that like just fuming like that there's no justice she's living with
pain and and they're you know out parting and happy and probably doing it again or just that they got away with
everything they done to her Jessica believes Bailey's coping mechanism was to give off a certain image Bailey
appeared to never want to be fearful again or rather to never let a man think he could scare her she didn't post much
on her Instagram in the months before she went missing the year before her posts were often puppy pictures a video
frolicking at the county fair with a friend I missed my boo a video of her doing a ballet twirl
with the caption talking about her love for ballet and yoga Flash Forward to 2008 18 one of her only two posts for
that year before she vanished is a video of her putting a knife across her lips with the caption
dangerous the other post is a video of her lying on a bed with Matt Queen he's laying on her chest as she mouths the
word to this [Music] song There's laser looking lights flashing across them there there's
something trippy but dark about it I don't think she ever had the intentions to like actually hurt someone but she
just she wanted them to know like look you're not going to mess with me again I knew she did want to scare them and
that's why she felt like Matt was a safe place I think because no one would mess
with her again because of the whole gun thing because the gun thing was known everyone knew about the gun thing the
gun thing what she's referring to by that is Matthew Queen supposedly having an extensive gun collection and
participating in building high power assault rifles which numerous search warrants I found went into if you
remember warrants connected Bailey queen and Micah to this alleged illegal gun ring Jessica says Queen seemed to be
someone who had his life together with a good job and whatnot but was open about
making and selling guns something Queen has always denied to law enforcement and
Jessica says Bailey seemed to like being around them I think she just those guns made
her feel feel safe almost like or Untouchable like hey come mess with me now the couple's alleged involvement in
guns seemed odd and unexpected here's Bailey's sister Caitlyn I guarantee their neighbors didn't think anything
like that of either one of them thought that they were just normal American couple not knowing
the type of underground world that they were living in and the things that they were
doing Jessica says the guns seem to empower Bailey she says Bailey would take photos with them and would
sometimes go test fire them with Queen but then something happened they did end up discussing the gun thing with me
about how she took the gun charges cuz that's what they thought about all the time it would become a defining moment
in Bailey's love one's lives just before Christmas 2017 here's Bailey's Mom Jane you know
she called me and goes mom I've been arrested for guns and I'm like freaking out what what
happened that December night Bakersfield police officers were out searching for suspects that had just robbed an ice
cream store a witness described the getaway car as a dark SUV at this time Matthew Queen and Bailey were passing
through the area in a silver SUV so officers pulled them over and according to police reports could see a gun in
plain sight while Bailey and queen were not the ice cream shop robbers police found four guns in Queen's car three
handguns and an AR-15 rifle with no serial number making it a ghost gun which is illegal and as it turned out
Matthew Queen was also convicted of a felony over a decade ago in San Diego so he wasn't allowed to have any guns
whether they were made legally or not it was shocking to Jane Bailey had come in
contact with police before when she was arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct at mic's house which had
horrified Jane but getting arrested with guns seemed Unthinkable I had called the emergency
number for Behavior Health and you know said what should I do and they said well
if you can leave her in there you know we can get to her eventually and get her on her meds and you know and get her
faster into a program Jane had often been told by mental health officials that if Bailey didn't
want help there was nothing they could do unless perhaps she got arrested so Jane thought maybe that was the Silver
Lining in all of this until she heard a loud Rumble of an engine outside of her house Matt Queen came over on his
motorcycle after he buil out where's Bailey Queen's bail was high $350,000 he would have had to pay the
bondsman 10% of that 35,000 he got out expecting to find Bailey already back at home Jane
explained she hadn't bailed her out yet at the advice of Behavioral Health Counselors he goes I'm going to go get
her and I'm like I told him please do not go get my daughter do not bail her out of jail I'm trying to help her Queen
didn't listen and soon called Jane to let her know he'd paid Bailey's bail and she'd be getting out soon and I thought
well I'm going to go down to the police department and get her when she comes out before he has a chance to but right
for she was getting ready to leave in he walks Jane begged Bailey to come home with her begged her to see this as a
wakeup call and Bailey agreed but before she could leave Queen told her she needed to sign paperwork from the bail
bondsman biley asked Jane to wait in the car and then as they were leaving walking out after you know she signed
her Bell papers you know he pulled her real close and was saying something to her and when she got in the
car I go what did he just say to you and she goes I can't talk about it and that's what she would always say
I can't talk about the guns mom but she did talk to Jessica about it she would even say like I don't want to
go to jail I don't like I don't know how to fix this but I don't want him going to jail too I know for a fact that she
took the blame and would fight about that Jessica says the entire situation seemed to cause a lot of stress and
turmoil between them he thought that her mom was going to convince her to not take those charges because they weren't
hers and that's why he didn't never wanted her going to her mom's because her mom didn't want her owning up to
that her mom knew those weren't her guns if you met her yourself in person you would say there's no way she's very nice
she's small so she's not anything that would strike you as someone who would normally do stuff like this after his
arrest Queen hired one of the priciest defense attorneys in town who came with a bulldog investigator Dave Brown I was
tasked with conducting an investigation into the matter which in included a meeting with Matthew meeting with Bailey
conducting a scene investigation where the stop occurred and some other things related to that those charges to be
clear Dave Brown was not part of Bailey's defense team Bailey had her own defense attorney who got her a plea deal
early on after the arrest so all the information Bailey gave to Brown was specifically for Queen's
defense so on March 9th 2018 I interviewed her I conducted a recorded interview with her regarding
this incident and one of the things that she did tell me among others was that the
Firearms were hers and that Matthew didn't know they were in the vehicle at the time of the
stop the reason she told me she had taken the Firearms was because she had been raped by four guys and she was in
fear so she was going to accept responsibility for the Firearms she didn't come across as pressure but my
opinion I knew uh she wasn't telling the truth that was my opinion a transcript of her interview
with brown shows that Bailey said about a month after she was raped she went out
and purchased the Four Guns found in the car including two assault rifles she told Brown she wanted to feel protected
especially after reporting the rape to law enforcement and no arrests were made in addition to claiming the guns
were hers and that she secretly put them in the car Bailey story was that she and
queen were on their way to go talk to someone she said she thought might have information about her sexual assault
case Bailey had even made the comment in an interview which was spontaneous that
well we weren't going over there for revenge or something to that effect I would never do something like that but
yet they were armed to the teeth with firearms because it was my opinion that they were going to this house for
retaliation for the rap and addition to the four men she says raped her that summer Bailey says a month before she
and queen were pulled over with the guns she and a group of friends went to a guy's house she didn't really know but
the guy knew her friends here's a quote from the interview transcript I woke up in the bathroom
with another female and he opened the door and threw crackers at us and I lost Consciousness again and woke up with him
on top of me end quote Bailey says eventually she was able to break free and run out out of the
house the interview transcript shows that Bailey said after that incident quote I made it a mission to go out and
get weapons to protect myself end quote even so Brown says he didn't believe those guns were hers well my
personal opinion is that if you wanted is that she was going to accept responsibility
because the charges for her with little or no record would be you know not as Extreme as they were for Matthew Queen
you know what I mean just your time with both Matthew and Bailey I mean What observations do you recall having well I
think with her she was she know she was 20 years old she's very young I think she was heavily influenced by
Matthew and he was you know way older than her so he was able to manipulate her to no end
to be clear no one who considers themselves a loved one of Matthew Queen has ever said anything negative to me
about his relationship with Bailey but their neighbor and Bailey's good friend Jessica says here are some of the things
she observed anytime me and her would you know have a girl's night and you know have a couple drinks in my house and we
would bake and look up stuff to bake on Pinterest he would always show up just Jessica says it seemed he didn't want
Bailey alone with friends and tried to keep a close eye on her I remember I walked her to her car and he was parked
down the street watching her like and I saw his Suburban parked down the street I'm like is that Matt and she was like
oh my God it is Jessica says overall she just thought they were your textbook toxic couple trading off antagonizing
situations fighting then making up Bailey's Mom Jane says she kept hoping the relationship was just a fling
I did ask one time they were in the house and Matt Queen was there and and I go well do you guys love each other and
Bailey goes I don't know and he goes well I love her and I'm like [ __ ] and then there was a St Patrick's
Day party in 2018 just a little over a month before Bailey would disappear Bailey's Family
was getting together for dinner and reluctantly told Bailey she could bring Queen and then I was out back and I came
in and my I forget if it was my sister or somebody but they're like oh my God that Matt Queen's all over Bailey like
kissing her like a teenager would do you know inappropriate stuff in front of family and so I went in there and then
that's when he said well you know Bailey's pregnant before Queen dropped that bombshell Bailey had already walked out
of the room and subsequently left the house she wouldn't answer any of her mother's calls or texts so Jane started
texting Queen here's the first text from Jane if you have gotten my daughter pregnant after the last year she had I
hope Bailey is not having a baby this is the last thing she needs Queen responded
that is exactly what she is doing we are going to have a beautiful little girl that I hoped you'd be happy about I love
Bailey and she loves me if you don't understand that then I'm sad for you you're so focused on my age instead of
what I am to B a few days later on March 23rd 2018 Queen seemingly out of the blue
sent Jane this message at first I thought you were simply an overprotective mother and I respected
that but it is now clear that Bailey was right all along you have a mental disorder yes Jane I'm twice her age get
over it find something else wrong with me you're obsessed with Bailey and it's not healthy I'm in love with her and if
I'm not mistaken she is in love with me keep trying to drive a wedge between us it's only weakening the strength in
yours and Jane if you continue to suggest to her that she murder her unborn child my unborn child it will be
the end of your relationship with her stop insinuating that you know what's best for her and focus on her happiness
better yet focus on your own life and all of its bad decisions from what I can tell it needs the attention and for
God's sakes Jane go out and get some some dick stay off my nuts Jane responded seemingly shocked
and Confused saying she never told Bailey to get an abortion to that Queen sent a seemingly cryptic message that
also made fun of Jane's job working with children in special education seems you've made your bed
you'll have to sleep in it now Jane I know you're in special ed so I'll explain that see it's a metaphor about
life the bed is yours you have made a decision about how you want to live your life with or without me in it and Bailey
has made her decision also now we must accept the consequences that go with that decision we must sleep in our beds
goodbye Jane I found the choice of words interesting that Bailey would have to deal with the consequences of her
decision it has a negative connotation to it which seems strange given the context of Jane and queen's conversation
about biley having a baby Queen said they were both very excited about it so why would Bailey's decision
have consequences Jane wasn't sure what to make of any of it and about a week later
Bailey finally opened up to her mother about being pregnant only to tell her she hadd had a
miscarriage just a note here despite Queen telling Jane he and Bailey were having a Girl by all accounts Bailey
would have been much too early in her pregnancy to know that the way Jane got the news was a tat startling she'd been
out of town for a couple of days and came home to some changes to one of her bathrooms Bailey said she was in the
shower when she began to miscarry and as a result broke the glass shower door and
damaged the toilet she said she had a miscarriage and she was falling and grabbed the shower door and she was
inside the tub so if you're falling in inside how did glass get in the toilet take the lid was missing so the whole
thing just doesn't add up it bothered Jane that the story didn't make sense but she was more troubled by something
else Bailey told her and Mom I should have never said those guns were mine it was the first time Bailey opened up to
her about taking the blame for the gun charges Queen was facing Bailey also talked to her friend Jessica about this
she regretted it she would say and she would like she was scared to go to jail for it and when they would fight she
really regretted it they were fighting so much towards the end that I can't be sure but I think I heard
her say something like well then why don't you go up and take responsibility and take your own charges essentially
Jessica says it seemed Bailey was at times considering going back on her decision whatever that meant exactly on
April 24th 2018 Bailey and Matt Queen went to court for Queen's preliminary hearing which is basically a mini trial
at prelims the prosecutor presents evidence in the case and the defense attorney Works to refute it and then the
judge considers both arguments and decides if there's enough probable cause to go forward to a jury trial Jane was
hoping to see Bailey after court but the plans fell through she said she couldn't
come to dinner cuz Court went real bad and I'm like what do you mean and she goes I
can't talk about it later that night Jane proposed that they have a nice dinner together tomorrow Bailey
responded to her yes please today was a terrible day the next day Jane asks Bailey what time she can pick her up for
dinner Bailey responds that she is a doctor's appointment and will let Jane know when she gets home Bailey also
texts her saying she's trying to get treatment for her anxiety and she feels depressed she tells her mom she's made
an appointment with her behavioral health counselor then over the course of a couple hours several texts from Jane
go unanswered Jane keeps asking are we still having dinner tonight Bailey finally answers hi I'm just so stressed
and then sends another text that is hard to make out this causes Jane to send her
a plethora of messages that go unanswered for several hours including telling her Bailey I'm worried about you
even on your worst days you always had time to text or see me eventually Bailey answers I'm leaving Matt's tonight to
hang out with friends I'm no good for him and he knows it to that Jane pleads with Bailey to come
to her house she tells Bailey you're a good person you just need to come home Bailey responds he's going to jail and
it's my fault he didn't do anything wrong and I ruined his life I'm leaving Jane responds I know that those were not
your guns you did not ruin anyone's life please do not do anything that will ruin
yours stay where you are I will come get you Bailey sends a text back that's one
giant typo but it appears to spell out you don't know me Jane replies yes I do I love you you are strong beautiful and
smart at this point Jane was concerned so she drove to Queen's house so when I got there Matt Queen's oldest son
answered the door and I'm like is Bailey here and he goes no she's left and I'm like what do
you mean she's left well she she left somebody picked her up Queen wasn't home either apparently
from there you can sense the panic in Jane's messages to Bailey especially when she realizes Bailey's phone is off
after 5 hours of getting no response from Bailey Jane received a text that would ultimately be the last message
she'd ever get from her daughter Jane had sent her many unanswered messages at this point but Bailey's text back only
responded to Jane saying she went over over to Queen's house to look for her it reads leave him alone this is all my
fault I told you I knew something bad had happened Jane reported Bailey missing that same day she also tried to get in
touch with queen with no luck but 4 days later Queen texts back that he hasn't seen Bailey he tells Jane she seems
confused about what she wants and she feels guilty about what's happening to me I'll let you read the letters she
wrote before she left if that help helps a few days later they texted again Queen tells Jane when she left she was
manic we both were torn up when she lost the baby only we grieved differently she
just wanted to go numb and hide behind drugs I didn't like that and wouldn't support it and that upset
her Queen goes on to say he's been dealing with a lot of financial stress and other issues lately and that Bailey
blamed herself for that as their conversation continued Queen said Bailey hadn't been sleeping and sometimes would
stay up for several days in a row just writing in her journals Jane responded that Bailey needs help and that she is
her mother won't stop fighting for her then Queen sent this message it says in part Bailey was really expecting all
the charges to be dismissed when they weren't she fell apart inside she blames herself for all of it and the guilt is
eating her alive this brings us to what happened the day before Bailey disappeared she was at
court then for Queen's preliminary hearing when a judge decided there was enough evidence for Queen to go to trial
from a legal stance this isn't surprising as most cases do not get thrown out at a prelim but here Queen
seems to suggest that it was surprising to Bailey and possibly why she left in the beginning I was really just I felt
I was confused because I have a message from her could put you on speaker and I could pull up the exact
message says I said what's wrong with your phone are you okay and she said um I effed up I need to disappear for a
little while can't use this phone anymore I'll call when I get a new number and that was April 27th at 800
p.m Bailey had been a missing person for about 48 Hours when she sent Jessica that Facebook message and so I thought
that was so weird cuz I'm like normally she doesn't even write like that like I don't even know if that's her that wrote
it the way she wrote it like her spelling and just like how she talks she was just a very expressive person like
she would write paragraphs and she was never that short especially with something that
serious reports show Queen was also sent a message that said I'm far enough from
your family that I can't do any more damage and apologized for quote ruining his life the message ended with saying
it was time for her to disappear when Queen was first interviewed by investigators he told
police he last Saw Bailey the day after she left his house he said he'd met up with her on a street corner after she
asked him to come bring her some of her clothes he says from there he watched Bailey get into a black SUV with a heavy
set man and he never saw her again I asked Dave Brown who at the time was the private investigator on Queen's defense
team how he Queen's then attorney ha Salah found out that Bailey was missing we didn't know until it broke
and I contacted saah and said hey Bailey's gone missing that's how we discovered it and
I informed sa and I shared with him you know my thoughts at that time also that I had a bad feeling about it
she's our our witness as far as and you know taking uh responsibility for the firearm so that would be something that
you would think you know Matthew would have said hey you know she's left me I can't find her anywhere you know tell
your investigator to go find her you know what I mean but that never happened Queen may have come off tight
lip to some but to others he wouldn't stop talking about Bailey's disappearance after Bailey went missing
that's when he started coming around more and more and more just randomly Jessica says Queen kept coming
over unannounced often times distraught and crying asking her to help him find Bailey he thought she might have been
kidnapped or piss someone off because she wanted revenge for whoever sexually assaulted her and went too far because
that whole sexual assault thing you know and then I thought maybe maybe she did try to go get revenge or something and
it just mind was coming up with all these scenarios and I was like well maybe she did and ran into the wrong
people maybe they were because Matt got me thinking so many different like things could have
happened Jessica said she could see the pain Queen was in and she wanted to be there for him and then one day Jane came
over to talk to me after the detectives and so he lives down the street and I guess he saw her caught in front of my
house and decides to come in walk through my patio door and walk straight into my
kitchen I after that point that's when I started getting scared of him because the way he walked in and the look on his
face like what are you telling Jane like what's what's there like what are you guys talking about Jane what are what
lies are you trying to convince her of stuff like that like he was so rude to Jane all the
time Bailey's Mom Jane knew at this point she and queen weren't going to work together to find Bailey she never
did get to see the letters he told Jane that Bailey left behind but Jane wasn't going to wait around for any clues or
any information into what happened to Bailey she was going to find it for herself I knew right away something bad
had happened to my daughter it was just getting someone to believe [Music] me I went over and asked what's going on
to the family and they said their 5-year-old daughter had found a body part on the beach that's next time
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EPISODE 5/15

Crazy Beautiful Baylee Despot was young, beautiful, and ambitious. But a series of traumatic events veered her life onto a dark path.

When two friends go missing back-to-back, and in between their disappearances, a third friend is murdered, their mothers begin their own investigation. As the connections between the three cases are explored, the mothers navigate devastating twists and turns, including one revelation that shakes the community to its core.

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Writing & Narration – Olivia Lavoice Audio Editing - Anthony Telfer Production and Music – Mike Migas Animation - Mat Rydzik, Paulina Szymanska

Special thanks to the mothers and family of the Bakersfield 3 & KGET News Station

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Brief Summary

Bailey Despot's life spirals after trauma, leading to her disappearance amid toxic relationships and legal troubles.

Key points

Bailey's Innocent Beginnings. Bailey had a close bond with her pet pig, representing one of her more stable relationships.
Family Turmoil. Bailey's family faced a devastating shift when her father had an affair, leading to their divorce.
The Downward Spiral. Bailey's life took a dark turn after her sexual assault, leading to troubling behaviors.
A Mother's Despair. Jane reflects on her daughter's drastic changes and the challenges of being a single mother.
Caitlyn's Haunting Words. Caitlyn's last conversation with Bailey foreshadowed her tragic fate.
Bailey's Dark Poetry. Bailey expressed her pain through dark poetry, hinting at her troubled relationship with her father.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

I probably should have left him a long time ago.

Bailey's mom reflecting on her husband's affair.

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Tension

85/ 100High tension

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