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[Music] [Music] oh it's a scene straight out of a horor flick some guy is using his telescope to
spy on an attractive young woman from afar this of course unbeknownst to her as she sunbathes topless on a deserted
stretch of beach then he observes the unthinkable a terrifying looking man man storms Out of the Woods the man is
carrying a revolver and might be wearing some kind of Disguise like some kind of strange Beast
he charges at the woman yet she is unaware of his presence the man reaches down and grabs
a fist full of the young woman's hair yanking her up to her feet she begins to panic and he drags
her into the woods and just like that they are gone what should the onlooker do he is having a very difficult time
trying to comprehend what he just so very quickly witnessed who was the young woman and who was the man that grabbed
her did they know each other was this some kind of prank or possibly a domestic dispute or was this a very real and
horrific abduction what happened to the woman on the beach this is true crime garage and this
is the case of Heather [Music] [Music] T Heather Danielle Teague was born on April 25th
1972 she is the oldest of four children her mother is Sarah teue we don't know anything about Heather's father
according to her mom Heather was an honors student a cheerleader and a multiport athlete she was the homecoming
queen at Webster County high school after graduating high school in 1990 living in spotsville Kentucky it's not
really clear what Heather did there's some indication from Heather's mom Sarah that in
1995 Heather was struggling a little bit of late and that drugs may have been involved Sarah told The Courier press
that Heather was dating a guy who was almost 20 years older than she she had gotten into drugs some things she didn't
know how to get out of according to Sarah in the summer of 1995 Heather was trying to pull things together she
started taking classes at Western Kentucky University but in the week leading up to
her disappearance Heather was fired from her job and ended up on her mother's couch she seemed angry and unhappy and
during this period she spent a good deal of time writing long angst filled poems
and journaling Heather was beautiful she had long dark curly hair ha green eyes and a
wide smile during her teenage years she won a few beauty pageants she was also tiny at only 5'2 in tall and under 100
lb Heather suffered from scoliosis of the spine meaning that her spine was curved now where our story gets
incredibly and dangerously bizarre is on a Saturday in the late summer this is on
August 26th 19 1995 Heather decided to take advantage of some warm weather she drove her
little red car to the Newberg Beach which is along the old Mighty Ohio River in spotsville but more importantly in
Henderson County Kentucky Heather parked on private property this is a farm that was often
used by locals for parking to go hiking or down to the beach area even though they were not supposed to park there
yeah most of the Ohio river will connect right to woods but there'll be like these little tiny beaches so it's not
like a a beach that you would see in Florida that runs for miles and miles they're just sometimes the size of uh
like a a normal backyard mhm or where a turn in the river occurs right so Heather after parking her car she makes
her way through this wooded area and then down a steep embankment and on to the beach near the water she brought
with her a beach chair and her bag she set up her chair near the river and took off her red plaid shirt and her shorts
so now she's in her bikini all set up she decided to untie her bikini top and lie on her stomach and Sun her back
Heather lay there just enjoying the Beauty and the the quiet of the natural surroundings her Solitude was
interrupted by the sound of ATVs roaring nearby from the way it looks Captain Heather was alone in her spot but there
were a decent amount of other people there near the water but they were further down the beach so she is kind of
off in her own little world if you will but as we heard in the trailer it seems like Heather was being watched and of
course she was unaware Ware of this and we will have a lot to tear through later
but if she is in fact being watched well then she is being watched by is she being watched by more than one person
that's what I ask myself as we continue on meanwhile across the Ohio river in Evansville Indiana a man named Tim
walthal was at his Riverfront rental house while his wife was making lunch for the two of them Tim engaged in a
hobby that he often did this is gazing through his binoculars at the popular Beach area across the river now we don't
know if Tim was checking out Heather or just people watching in general was it binoculars or was it a telescope he
starts with binoculars and it will end with a telescope so he acknowledged later that he watched as what happened
to Heather unfolded but whatever the case whyever he would be watching we can't say for certain so through his
binoculars movement attracted Tim's eyes first we have the four ATVs that were climbing the sand dunes near where the
young woman lay on the beach but Tim noticed something else that was far more interesting and rather
concerning in the very tall dense trees surrounding the beach he could see a person moving and this person was
advancing slowly toward the beach Beach hunched down and sneaking through the underbrush occasionally popping up every
five or six steps to peer over the weeds in the growth as the person got closer he could tell that the person who
appeared to be sneaking through the woods was a man this man paused to allow the ATVs to drive off and by this point
he was about 15 ft away from the oblivious young woman Tim said that his first thought was that his that this man
was a friend or a boyfriend who was just sneaking up on her to scare her he grabbed his high powered telescope that
sat nearby and trained it in on the scene across the river he could see that the man approaching the girl was tall
with shaggy hair and what looked to be a dark beard Tim called to his wife Karen that
that someone was stalking a young woman on the beach the man being watched by Tim suddenly bolted from the edge of the
weeds into the chair of the sunbathing woman he crouched down and he threw his arm over her back the girl on the chair
jerked she was startled but then she went still the man grabbed her long hair Twisted it and yanked her up now Tim
could see why the girl had had suddenly become passive for the sunlight hit something that caused a shine and then
Tim focused in on the item that was in the man's hand and it was a silver revolver the girl was dragged off of the
chair she was no match for the strong man grasping her by the hair and she was taken away off into the woods dropping
her towel at the edge of the tree line well plus he had a gun right Tim could not hear obviously could not hear
anything from his vantage point across the river but he could see the gun in the man's hand and he watched in horror
as this man grabbed Heather and marched her off into the woods even if he had yelled like a warning to the struggling
girl or had screamed at the man brutalizing her they very likely would not have heard him at all well the Ohio
river is pretty wide well at this point Captain the Shore across the river was at least a half mile away so a good
distance there Tim could do nothing but watch helplessly as this young woman was
abducted so he calls the police now this sounds like a pretty straightforward statement right right but there is
nothing straightforward about this call as we will see as we get into it for now
staying on Pace with the information that is coming out as it was coming out so we will say that Tim waited about 20
or 25 minutes to phone the police he said that he stood there and watched to see if the young woman would come back
to retrieve her things and that she would be okay but she never reemerged from the woods and eventually he decided
to call it in one article in a local paper that we found reported that this woman was abducted at approximately 1210
p.m. another reported that it was around 1:00 Heather's mother Sarah is on the record stating she has reason to believe
the abduction took place at 12:30 the call from Tim came in at 1:15 p.m. so according to the akan Beacon
Journal a trooper arrived at the Newberg Beach 26 minutes after Tim's call to the
Kentucky State Police depending on which article is right or who is right we have
anywhere from 41 minutes at the very least all the way up to 91 minutes had elapsed since the scary event and the
sunbathing woman was long gone so you think that there was a hesitation to call police well he did say he's been up
front and forward about that saying you know I didn't call immediately because he was pretty convinced that what he was
seeing was just some kind of playful prank that these young adults or or teenagers
were playing on one another that maybe the two were some kinds of friends when you're watching from that
distance I mean I've never witnessed anything like this up close or even or even from that distance but I I don't
know there there's got to be a bit of a shock Factor right where you're not you're not really sure what you're
seeing I guess when you live by The Credo of see something say something maybe you don't hesit itate but I think
he was standing there watching thinking that at some point he would see both of them come back to the beach area and
he'd go oh they're just fooling around right it's it's not clear to us or I think anybody because it's not like
we're sitting um from his vantage point or his Viewpoint and knowing what kind of detail he he was able to see uh with
his telescope well and I don't want to get too far into this because it gets very evoluted very quickly but there's
also some there's some belief that there there were different phone calls that were made and what I mean by that is we
have a unique situation right where we have something going on in Kentucky on one side of the river and somebody
witnessing it on the other side of the river and therefore it's a little confusing as to who is to be called and
who is to respond to such a call right so that is part of the reason for this delay however you want to swing this
Hammer man it's either 41 minutes from the time that it's believe she was abducted all the way up to 91 minutes
before anyone responds to this spot on the beach now found on that lonely stretch of the beach was Heather
teague's chair her purse shoes shirt shorts and bikini top and as said her towel that she dropped right at the edge
of the Woods Heather Teague has never been seen again that we are aware of there's never been any credible sighting
of her to this very day well I think the simple thing would be if you saw something like this you don't have to
look up what department to call you could just call 911 that seems like it would make the most sense to me yeah and
I think there's that's where people call into question the actions of the of our
Witness and who and who he called and why would he call whomever and and you know that's
a that's a as said that's a very long convoluted story okay so what do you think about this uh peeping Tom I don't
know that I would I I don't know what he was doing that day I can't I I don't think it's I don't think it's fair to
call him a Peeping Tom it's very odd that we're covering this case now because I just played on the Ohio River
different part where Ohio is connected to Kentucky but I could see somebody living
in a cabin or or something around there that that would just be something you would do uh because you see boats go by
by you see people set up um fire sights on the beach it might not be as creepy as him well I was uh looking
for girls in bikinis M it could just be oh there's a bunch of people at the beach I wonder what they're doing right
well and you know what some people are going to going to call me a creep or whatever I don't I actually don't even
think that that's that big of a deal even if he was like Hey I I purposely have these binoculars and this telescope
here to check out some women on the beach I I don't see that big of a deal with it it's a public area if you're not
doing if you're doing something you don't want somebody to see you doing maybe you should do that in private so
but you're also doing this with your wife home right I mean I have a set of binoculars at my house and I I use them
to check out things no I I mean I do there there's been times where I'm like hey oh what kind of car is that boom
pick up the binoculars if I were on the river I would definitely have the bxs ready to rock um well that's what I'm
saying but when you see like a we saw these really cool boats or we saw what almost look like a a mini yacht or
something it's like from where I was at like you could couldn't make out any details but it would have been cool to
to check it out from afar so I worked in that high-rise building downtown for years where many wealthy people lived
yeah and almost every one of them had a telescope either you know near the door that led to their balcony nosy neighbors
and I would joking you know I'd have these conversations with with the residents there and some of them were
very upfront about it they're like yeah I love to go out on the balcony have a little cocktail and I just kind of look
around through the telescope see what's going on in the park or see what's going
on down at the river or at these businesses at the at the skyscrapers and then there were other other residents
that said I just leave it set up I've never actually used it just for the funny conversations that it invokes when
I have guest over I believe Frasier Crane had one of these as well that's right and I think uh on the friend set
they had a telescope as well that's right and that that's the thing a lot of people call this Tim guy a creep I I
don't I don't see it uh but we we march on so he says this is what he says that he witnessed this terrifying event go
down as well as he described for the police the man he saw on the beach as a larger man he says approximately 6 feet
tall and about 220 to 230 lbs the abductor had Shaggy brown hair and a bushy dark beard he he was wearing cut
off jeans but no shirt and black sneakers Tim sat down with a police sketch artist I do want to clarify
something real quick here I said black sneakers I have in my notes too that black sneakers or black boots so I don't
know what is more accurate but I just wanted to make sure that I brought that up Tim sat down with a police sketch
artist and they were able to generate a drawing of the man Tim saw the the quick
description Captain is our per is a ponchy white guy with shaggy hair and a scraggly
beard now one very weird thing here to me is the exact time of when this sketch was made is very unclear and should be
called into question and will be once we have some more of the of the details here it looks like the police did not
out Tim's story the witness's story as we know they responded to the call they did search the area Heather's red car
was found parked near the spot on the beach her spot on the beach through that wooded area MH they did their thing you
know they ran the plate and figured out that the vehicle belonged to and they they figured out that it belonged to
Heather teag and I'm guessing here Captain but but based off of Tim's description of our abducted victim and
the description of the vehicle's owner the responding officers are probably making a connection here so our missing
person is very likely this Heather Teague and somehow they managed to track down her mother Sarah now Sarah said
that she and another daughter were out that day until about 300 p.m. and then they got a phone call from the Henderson
County Sheriff's Office office asking if they knew where Heather was they told her that they found her car at the beach
Sarah and her second daughter Holly went to the scene where they met with the Kentucky State Police and identified the
things found as belonging to Heather Sarah said she was horrified to see Heather's blue Chase lounge chair
sitting empty on the beach as we said police took Tim wal at his word about what he had witnessed on the beach
Kentucky State Police Trooper Larry Abel was quoted in the Billings Gazette as saying quote this guy rents this place
and looks across and sees this it's very shocking he's really helped us in this case if we did not have him would have a
missing person's case instead of what we have now the trooper very simply stating
that we know that this is not just a missing person's case because if we have a witness we know that we're dealing
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the case it didn't just stop with him giving a statement and helping to create the composite sketch no he met with the
family and participated in searches for the missing young woman these searches for Heather that took place over the
coming days and weeks were organized by Heather's mom Sarah and multiple volunteers as well as law enforcement
ment the beach and the surrounding areas were comb by professionals looking for any clues to Aid them in the solving the
mystery of Heather's abduction well but they also had to talk to anybody else that was on the beach that day right
that's right the other thing we did is we had divers check the ri River itself a helicopter using infrared sensors
scanned the area from overhead horseback Riders crisscross the surrounding land looking for really any signs of Heather
at all well when they search the river though they're only searching uh probably right in front of the beach I
mean this this is a big river this would be a lot to search yeah it's it's the Ohio it spans many states and then goes
into the uh Mississippi now dogs were brought in as expected they tracked Heather's scent this into the woods and
then to the parking area where they lost the trail okay but let's stop there because we have a eye would
saying that he saw a man take her into the woods and we have some proof of that because of the dogs mhm because of all
of these efforts the investigators based off of the evidence that they are working on they're working with the
theory now that Heather either got into or based off of our witness's statement was most likely forced into a vehicle
and then moved away from that area of note a dark pickup truck was seen parked at the beach that day but of course so
were a lot of other vehicles meanwhile police were canvasing the area to try to find any additional
witnesses as you stated who could help them pinpoint what happened to Heather Newberg Beach was described in
articles as usually very busy with several hundred people Gathering there on weekend days most of the stories
described it as a rough and tumble spot where locals partied sometimes we have drugs and alcohol involved and often
there were fights Kentucky State Police Trooper AEL voiced what do you mean there was
fights what do you mean fights at the beach yeah people fight at the beach oh it's like crowdy kid remember this is
not like a this is not like Fight Club where they're scheduling the fights it's just a lot of people in an area together
they're drugs and alcohol involved and sometimes people fight one another well just to be clear the UFC now has fight
Island right no so this is like Catey kid like where they go down to the beach we're having a little fire and then uh
Daniel son is going to take on Lawrence so the Associated Press on August 30th stated that there were about five
to 600 people there that afternoon wow and what we have is basically nobody saw anything in
regards to the Abduction of Heather other than this Tim guy on the other side of the river or if they did see
something for whatever reason possible I couldn't imagine what that would be they
didn't come forward to say anything but again maybe it's like he was saying he didn't know at first if it was like a
violent attack or a playful attack so maybe it was a little playful at first or she knew this individual and the
person was joking around and and that's why nobody paid attention to it yeah I they may not have paid
attention may not have seen her as said it sounds like she's off in in this little area almost by herself right and
people are busy doing their own thing right they're not they're not all strapped with B knocks and and
telescopes and checking saying somebody was 10 ft away and somebody grabbed grab
their hair as violent as he's claiming that I think I would have heard a girl scream you know or say help me or
something mhm and the this article will say that Heather was lying in an area about 500
ft away from the part of the beach that was the most popular she was in an isolated spot near the end of the beach
close to the woods and that is how she was taken without anyone on the beach noticing it's still pretty mind-boggling
that this could all occur right under the noses of others on that same beach in broad daylight and the only witness
is half a mile away across the water finally investigators found that there was someone who had been there that day
that might be able to provide helpful information according to the Associated Press local farmers were disgruntled
because beachgoers and ATV riders were tearing up their land and leaving trash behind namely broken bottles litter
sometimes drug paraphernalia do you know who litters captain that would be people without a
future I was going to say real pieces of [ __ ] so these Farmers they hired an insurance adjuster a local guy to
videotape the area so they could try to pin down the source of this destructive Behavior this man fixed his camera on
the entrance to the beach area the video amongst other activities showed Heather
driving into the lot parking her car and walking down to the beach but there was
something else of interest on the video which was disclosed later this was not the abduction itself but it was a
possible clue driving by Heather's car was a red and white Ford Bronco police released a description of
the vehicle and the composite drawing made by Tim released this to the public and asked for help identifying the man
and the vehicle and they got a phone call from a man who reported that his neighbor drove a red and white Bronco
and that neighbor also resembled the composite sketch of the suspect the Bronco driver named by the
hipster was 30-year-old excon Marvin Ray Dill AKA Marty who lived in nearby pool his name was on a list obtained by
police of local drivers who had Broncos registered in their names police publicly released Marty Dill's driver's
license photo in which he had Shaggy unkempt hair and a scraggly beard and Tim wal believe that the man he saw on
the beach that day looked like the photo of Marty Dill that he was shown by police MH this is where we must mention
captain that the driver's license photo shown to Tim are I witness and release to the
public well it was 9 years old it was a 9-year-old photo which makes sense right
because you only renew your life your driver's license every 10 or 15 years right yeah or every years right so no of
course not so this makes zero sense actually but it's the information that we have so we roll on regardless now our
suspect has a name and a face and it's time to go looking for a one Marty Dill Dill lived in a mobile home on his
family's 28 acre property in pool Kentucky his red and white Bronco was found parked nearby hidden in some brush
hey Dill hey come come out with your hands up hey dill weed hey Dill according to reports the Bronco had been
cleaned recently I I don't know what that means we you know we're always suspicious of that people state that
like yeah he cleaned his car recently and I get it I get why we're suspicious because he's become under the uh
microscope there but but he could have just took it through a car wash or something it doesn't mean he cleaned the
inside maybe some of the good people just clean their cars once in a while I mean I clean my car every week so you'd
think like I'm not you know committing a crime every week I think what is more interesting is the statement of the
Bronco was found parked hidden behind some brush like it doesn't appear to be parked where one would normally park
their vehicle he's gone out of his way to kind of conceal it according to the reports uh we have police and FBI that
surrounded the mobile home armed with a search warrant and Dill's Uncle who just
so happened to be a Henderson cop his name is Ernie green he went inside to you know kind of calm things down
seemingly diffuse the situation and talk with Marty after he was inside for a while with Marty a single shot rang out
Marty Dill lay dead on the floor having shot himself Dill was dead of suicide before anyone could question him about
Heather Teague and his possible involvement in her Abduction of course Dill's abrupt suicide made him appear to
have a rather guilty conscience and investigators were confident that he was their man for one thing he had a record
in fact when Heather Teague was taken Dill was out on probation after a drug con conviction well see if you get
caught doing anything else you're going to go back to jail and that's probably a
place that Dill doesn't want to be he was arrested in February of 1995 in Evansville after police received reports
from residents that he was cruising in his Bronco and soliciting young girls for sex when he was arrested in his
truck this is this is some scary business they found marijuana that's not scary but they found two loaded handguns
rubber gloves duct tape and rope that's when he was trying to pick women up he and the the not hey you want to give me
some sex I'll pay you for some sex well the notes I have Captain is is young girls that he's approaching young girls
in in his vehicle and he's got loaded handguns rubber gloves duct tape and rope but he's offering money for sex I
don't know that I don't know that that is in fact okay so he's just cruising up sees these girls so we're guessing under
18 and he has gloves rubber gloves duct tape has a murder kit right that's what I would classify this as we do have Dill
who is a carpenter by trade so maybe one could explain away some of these items you should lead with that that he's a
carpenter he's a carpenter by trade so they found these items in his vehicle right but that doesn't explain way two
loaded handguns it might or or the marijuana it covers you probably on duct tape and
rope and rubber gloves but then then my question goes okay if these items were used for your trade where are the other
items for your trade where's the where's the hammer that you're swinging man where's the uh Power Tools where's the
other things no we just have loaded handguns yeah but In fairness he was too high to do any carpentry work you know
well he gets convicted on on a couple different charges here he's sentenced to 5 years after pleading
guilty but then the judge let him out on something called shock probation this is after serving 40 days
so he did serve some actual time but the shock probation basically is when it's when you have an offender sit
in jail for some amount of time and then suspend the rest of the sentence in favor of probation it's really designed
to deter the person from wanting to reoffend and go back to jail you will see this sometimes with with people that
are firsttime offenders right the other thing though too it was later revealed that Dill had
another conviction from 1993 for harassing a woman this stems from some events back in '92 this is when Dill
repeatedly called a woman and asked to speak to her boyfriend that doesn't sound like there's that's
not a big deal right he's calling to speak with her boyfriend and asking to speak with her boyfriend where the
harassment gets ramped up a couple of notches is the boyfriend is deceased it's very strange yeah
according so Dill Dill head right dill weed dillweed is calling a girl and he's saying hey let me talk to your boy
and she's saying hey my boyfriend's dead and he's like hey let me talk to your boyfriend something like that yeah
according to strange this woman that wasn't the U that wasn't the all of it she said that that Dill would follow her
sometimes on dates and then later would call her and tell her where she was and what she had been wearing you know
letting her know hey I was out there there watching you and I can prove it because I saw you here and I saw you
wearing this and he would say things to her according to her that you know if I wanted to I could hurt you and he also
made some references to sexually sadistic acts if you want to really scare somebody you you don't say you
know what I can I can hurt you you say stuff like you know what on Sundays I could do your laundry well the
Louisville Courier Journal reported that friends and relatives of Dills suspected
that he had in fact kidnapped Heather teag but apparently was too frightened to come forward so we know there's
eyewitnesses that saw Dill's Bronco at the beach that day or in that area that day and we know that he has priors and
we know that he has uh the ability to have guns do we have any evidence that he still
had guns well what we do have is the statements of his friends and family who believe that he might have been involved
in some manner we do have Dill's wife who hired a lawyer before Dill this is even before the police were on to Dill
in regards to Heather's abduction at some point Dill's wife was questioned by police and immediately afterward Dill
was kind enough to kick her out of their home real gentlemen after Heather went missing Dill conveniently started
parking his Bronco in the woods behind his mobile home this is according to again neighbors friends family so now we
have a working theory that Marty Dill abducted Heather Teague killed and disposed of her and managed to clean up
most of the evidence before police tracked him down and then kill himself in a crisis of conscience well if if
that were just that simple then Captain I would be off for tacos on a patio somewhere right now but we start to
learn that maybe the case against Dill is not so cut and dried Dill's relatives told investigators that his suicide
could have been motivated by factors other than guilt Dill didn't want to go back to jail as you pointed out since he
was still on probation and he was still operating his pot growing business he had a little pot growing business going
on right and plus he's having obviously relationship problems with his wife when
police arrived he took himself out instead and police processed Dill's Bronco and found
two drops of blood inside the vehicle there are different reports out there about where in the vehicle these were
located but most Reports say on the inside of the tailgate hey what's the deal with with Broncos and drops of
blood inside them yeah I don't I don't know hey what's the deal don't don't this is not another opportunity for a
shirt yeah I've been down this road a few times the Ford Bronco one spot was ruled one of these
spots of blood was ruled out as belonging to Heather teik the other was inconclusive police also connected
numerous fibers and according to Sarah her mother a hair uh to Heather teag but the Kentucky
State Police said that since they had no victim they could not compare the hair to Heathers and I'm sorry that just does
not seem kosher does it we know in a lot of cases somebody goes missing they go to the home of the missing person and
collect items of that person there at the home and then they can use it to compare well look if if people aren't
updating their driver's license for every 10 years maybe people are not combing their hair for for 5 years well
and what we have here Captain is we have her mother who questions why the Kentucky State Police never asked her
for a sample of Heather's hair which again surely could have been found or retrievable from a hairbrush in the home
right let's pause for a second right so we we know that his vehicle was there or
we assume he was with that vehicle so he's in the area he is a a creep he has some priors he
has the capability of having guns so this is something that he could have done if you find a drop of blood in his
Bronco or some hair which you think you would find at something because if the eyewitnesses is correct and this
individual grabbed her hair as hard as they said they did you would think that you'd find at least a couple strands of
hair in the vehicle and if that matched then it's not too hard to go 1 + 1 equals 2 well and the other thing too
for all these people for anybody that would have access to that arrest report of him carrying those guns in his in his
vehicle yeah I'd be interested to know do either of those guns match the description given by our witness of the
gun that was used in the abduction yeah so really what we have here Captain is somebody that looks very interesting on
the surface but we technically have no conclusive forensic evidence linking Dill to Heather teue is it more likely
that he did a horrible crime like abduct ing a woman and killing her and then that's what he would commit suicide over
but they're trying to make it seem like oh well the he knew the police were on to him about marijuana you see what I
mean I know what you're getting at which makes the more sense but then I you also
have to factor in do we have a situation where where somebody is struggling with
a lot of other things that we are we don't know about we we we are unaware of we don't understand and this is a high
stretch stress situation that pushed him over the edge right the other problematic fact in this case is that
Marty Dill did not have shaggy hair as described by our eyewitness but we saw the the ID well you're right we
did the nine-year-old driver's license right so what happened to his shag hair from my understanding Dill was nearly
bald at the time of the abduction and did not have a beard when Heather was abducted so this is according to his
family investigators surmised that maybe he cut his hair and shaved his face after the abduction after the Amur after
the murder to alter his appearance but his family members told police that in fact Dill was bald and clean shaven for
months leading up to the abduction again what does every press conference tell when we have a missing person or we have
to be on the lookout for a suspect they always say the change of behavior in the last couple months and
the change of hairstyle or beard style so maybe his family is correct but it also makes it sound like oh well for the
last few months he he was clean shaven head and and face so at some point he was still holding on to the locks
upstairs even if he was going bald when's the last time he had a beard was it normally like that well and maybe
they're just wrong and it was just for the last few weeks and not the last few months yeah but you know who's going to
agree with them that's going to make it very difficult for a case against Dill the people that are going to agree
with him will be the county because Dill's jail admission report from April of 1995 4 months before Heather was
taken list him as bald he is also 5' 10 in tall and 180 lb not the 6 foot which I don't put a whole
lot of weight into the six foot thing cuz the guy is half a mile away yeah looking with a telescope and the Hefty
220 to 220 I'm sorry 220 to 230 pounds as described by Tim maybe if you get the height wrong you got the weight wrong as
well so I don't factor that in a whole lot but I find it very interesting that the county that released him when they
release him they say this man is bald and then we have the family saying he's been bald and clean shaven for several
months leading up to this abduction these are also the same people that say yeah I understand why he's a suspect
yeah but here's my other issue though is it possible that this guy had a wig and
is it possible that it wasn't actually uh maybe it was a mask right it it could be like think about a ski mask
let's say he was wearing a ski mask from a distance it would look like the individual had a beard and a full set of
hair right so that's all I'm saying or was he wearing you know some type of a tobog in and then wearing some face mask
or something I'm just saying that there's a bunch of to possibilities that we can't just rule him out because oh
well he actually had clean shaving well again maybe he had a baseball hat on with a mask or or maybe he had a tobogan
on or a ski mask on but we I mean we don't have a witness saying that he was wearing a ski mask but he could have
been wearing some type of Disguise the problem with the witness even though they had a
telescope um they're they're at a really far distance then maybe that witness shouldn't describe the face to to law
enforcement so that they can draw the composite sketch of of the uh the the man that he says abducted the young
woman no I'm just saying that we we have to take that into account you know you want to take this this is the only
eyewitness we have we want to take all the information all the detail as we can but I think some of the information you
have to just go well maybe he saw this maybe he didn't I mean I mean he the eyewitness
is telling you I initially thought this seemed like a playful act so that that's all I'm saying is we
we have to keep that in perspective all right Captain bring in the grand jury because the prosecutors convened a grand
jury on November 7th 1995 to try to force reluctant Witnesses like Marty Dill's son to testify in an attempt to
conclusively determine that Dill had killed Heather Teague Tracy Dill Marty's Widow was among the witnesses subpoena
Henderson County Commonwealth's Attorney Bill markwell said quote they have a suspect and it's Marty Dill end quote
but something came out in connection with this grand jury that was new information a reed Kentucky resident
named Michelle Morgan told police she saw a woman she believed to be Heather fatigue struggling with a man in a car
in Reed Kentucky this was around 2:30 or 3 p.m. on the day Heather was taken from
the beach which we stated was around 12:30 or 1:00 the car Morgan witnessed was traveling eastbound on Kentucky 811
driving away from Newberg Beach Morgan's description of the Man scene with the struggling woman matched the compos
drawing with longer hair and a Shaggy beard the woman Morgan said clearly did not want to be in that car which was a
silver and red 1979 or 1980 chevet an article in the messenger Courier newspaper appearing at the end
of October 1995 read another suspect has surfaced in the August Abduction of a 23-year-old woman but count County
attorney markwell denied that any new suspects had emerged it's not clear what became of the grand jury but we do know
dead Marty Dill's wife Tracy took the fifth the Kentucky State Police kept the case open but told Sarah Teague that
Marty Dill killed her daughter and that was the end of it yeah but this is far from
over yes it is it's one of this is one of those cases that when you look into it you can often find many very quick
short summaries of a young woman alone on a beach who was abducted and this is reported to police by the witness and a
lot of times that's about as far as it goes right yeah but this story this case is very complicated and it's got a lot
of twist and turns along the way and regardless of what police told the mother back then we know captain that
this wasn't the end when Heather was taken Heather's mom Sarah went into activist mode even
though the prime suspect Marty Dill was dead she was at the time and still is To
This Day determined to find her daughter she started organizing many many searches now anniversaries of Heather's
disappearance came and went for the first year active searches continued with family friends and volunteers
scouring hundreds of miles of RI River bottomlands looking in every sistern field and barn they could find they've
searched abandoned buildings and motel rooms one year after the Abduction the Kentucky State Police acknowledged that
they had exhausted all leads and despite the efforts of her family no trace of Heather has ever been found anyone that
knows this case knows that Heather's mom Sarah Teague made it her mission to find
her daughter and she pinpointed Tracy Dill this is Marty Dill's wife in her quest for information for more
information in 1996 Tracy Dill filed a law suit against Sarah for harassment saying that the desperate mother had
plied her with eight letters demanding information about what her deceased husband may have done Sarah said said
she had no choice but to go directly to Tracy since Tracy would not testify about what she knew remember she took
the fifth with the grand jury right jurors acquitted Sarah and the trial failed to bring any new information to
light Tracy Dill testified that she had no knowledge in response to the defense attorney's questions which were as
follows whether she knew where Heather Teague is whether she helped clean Marty's truck whether Heather had been
raped or trafficked and whether she knew why neighbors reported hearing a woman screaming near the dill residence on the
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Brief Summary

Heather Teague was abducted in 1995; witness Tim Walthal saw the crime, and suspect Marty Dill later committed suicide before being questioned.

Key points

The Abduction of Heather Teague. Witnesses describe a horrifying scene as Heather is abducted from a beach.
Tim's Dilemma. Tim watches the abduction unfold but hesitates to call the police immediately.
Witness Importance. Trooper Abel highlights the crucial role of a witness in avoiding a missing person's case.
Marty Dill's Suicide. Marty Dill's suicide raises questions about his guilt in Heather Teague's abduction.
The Case Against Dill. Investigators theorize that Marty Dill abducted and killed Heather Teague before taking his own life.
Marty Dill Named as Suspect. Commonwealth's Attorney confirms Dill as the prime suspect in Heather's abduction.

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What happened to the woman on the beach?

A chilling question about a mysterious abduction.

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