Killing for Chaos /// Part 1 /// 839 | Forensic Files

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go out to Wesha County, Wisconsin. This is a story that just broke here recently, about two months ago. The
story starts on the morning of Friday, February 28th, 2025, when Wesha County deputies arrived
at a lovely home on Cinder Hills Drive. The house is large with a threecar attached garage positioned to the left
side of the house at the top of the driveway. The yard is large as well and backs up to a wooded area. The lawn is
well manicured. There's a basketball hoop at the back of the driveway. The house has P green siding and a stone
facade. As you make your way from the driveway, there's an extended walkway leading to the front door of the home.
Shrubs line the left side of the walkway. The officers approach the front door doing their usual police protocol
of casually looking in the windows of the home as they walk by them. The house looks dark inside and from their vantage
point. There isn't much to see. It's a quarter to 10 a.m. that morning. The officers are knocking on the door. The
purpose for their visit, a welfare check at the residence. The officers were dispatched to the home after receiving a
call from a Mrs. Judith Mayor. Mrs. Mayor told dispatch that her son Donald Mayor and his wife Tatiana Cassap and
Tatiana's son Nikita Cassap had not been heard from or seen for some time. And there was growing concern for the family
of Thre's general welfare. This concern by Donald's mother was compounded by Nikita's absence from school. Nikita was
a student at Wesha West High School where their mission, as they say on this school's website, is to challenge minds,
foster compassion, and pursue excellence. there. A member of law enforcement, this is officer Edwards,
working in the capacity as the school's resource officer, is making some routine
school related phone calls that morning. One call was concerning Wesho West High
School student, 17-year-old Nikita Cassap. Cassap was a good student, very smart, and very focused. The concern
with the youngster wasn't grades or his behavior. It was simply his absence. Nikita previously had a perfect
attendance up until about two weeks prior to this date. Since then, the boy had not been at school at all. These are
all unexcused absences as no excused absences had been provided to the school by either Nikita's mother or stepfather
with whom the boy lived with. Neither parent had called Nikita in as absent. However, the school did receive a single
email that the school was not able to confirm that it had actually come from the family or actually anyone with the
authority to give notice of the boy's absence. Yeah. Sometimes when your child is sick, you'll call it in or if they
have a doctor's appointment, you call it in or maybe even send a note with them when they come back to school. But like
you said, Nikita has not been back in school and he's just 17 years old, but his his mother is only 35. His dad's
only 51. So then you think, well, did they go on vacation and just not tell us about it? And if you if an email could
get you out of school, my friend, I would have sent many a forged email back in the day to go on and have some fun.
would say the the official email of the colonel's parents atgmail.com. So what we have here,
Captain, are essentially two welfare checks, right? Requested both for the same home. One for the husband and
stepfather, Donald Mayor and family. That one coming from his mother and we also have one coming from the school
regarding the student and son Nikita Cassap. And at the scene of this welfare check,
officers were not able to make contact with anyone at the residence. So, no one answers the door. They could see no sign
of activity at the home. A deputy checked with neighbors and was able to make contact with with one neighbor who
stated that they had not seen the family or any activity at all at the family's property for several days. I mean, it's
a big house, too. Yes, it's a big looking house. Uh, nice looking home in a really cool neighborhood. Yeah, it's
one of those neighborhoods where everybody probably has one to two acres and then you got a threecar garage. You
have this giant driveway for a basketball hoop. It's fenced in next to a pond. I mean,
you just go, man, this this is a family that has made it. Mhm. Lots of people cutting lots of grass. Yeah. So,
deputies reached out to Donald's mother back to the high school resource officer
to collect some more information since they weren't able to make contact with anybody at the home. What they find is
really like some odd and weird suspicious text messages. Okay. So, Donald's mother tells police she
received suspicious or weird text messages on February 23rd, purportedly from her son. So, this
is 5 days prior to the welfare check. Mhm. But she says she has not heard from any member of the family of three
since. Further, she stated that Donald's sister had last talked to Donald on February 18th. So this is 10 days prior
to the welfare check. But this communication was simply via text as well and equally suspicious to the one
that Donald's mother received. This text to Donald's sister was from Donald's phone and saying that he was pretty sick
and was going to take some time off of social media. The school resource officer at Wesha West High School,
Officer Edwards, the one who also requested a welfare check, told police that the son, Nikita, had previously had
a perfect school attendance, but had not been present at the school for 2 weeks.
It's very strange. Even though this is more of the same, they are dispatched to this area, to this residence to knock on
the doors, maybe look into the windows, see if there's any activity. And when they don't see that, they are doing
their due diligence to go back to check with dispatch. Where did these welfare check calls come from? Who was
requesting them? Can we speak with those individuals directly to figure out if there's any more information that could
help us locate one or all three of the family members? Now, am I correct in the in the
sense that if you're law enforcement, you're going to do this welfare check that you're also looking for probable
cause to enter the property? Yeah. you're going to look for suspicious activity because right now these people
are by persons that know them, right? They're unaccounted for. And by by both reports, they're getting two independent
reports that are telling you these people have been unaccounted for for days by this point. And and the truency
officer, the resource officer is saying this boy with perfect attendance has not
been at the school now for two weeks. and and we've not heard anything from anybody except for this email that we
don't we we the public don't have any details about that email other than the schools simply saying we weren't able to
verify that this email was legit. Well, I think that's an important thing that you just said about the the text message
that would have came from um his step Yeah. from his stepdad's phone is we can't just assume that
because it comes from somebody's phone or it's comes from somebody's email that that's coming from that individual.
Shortly after 10:00 a.m. deputies asked dispatch to check with local hospitals. So could you call the local
hospitals, ask them if all three or any of these three are had been admitted to a hospital or
are receiving any kind of medical attention at any hospital and they complied. The dispatch complied,
contacted all local hospitals and none of the three residents in question were located using those calls to the
hospital. Okay. So now we have a full throttle investigation that is going to be ramping up rather quickly. So we have
Wesha County Deputy Sponder, last name Sponder, spoke with Donald's boss, called Donald's boss at his place of
employment. So the boss explained to officer Sponder that they had been in somewhat regular contact with Donald,
but only via text message. telling the officer that Donald sent text message contact with him between
February 13th and February 25th with Donald telling him that he was too sick and couldn't talk on the phone. Further,
deputies discovered that the postman indicated that there was a vacation hold on the mail at the residence.
So here, to put it plain and simple, shit's just not adding up, right? Either these three are skipping out on work and
school for two weeks or something is very, very wrong. So law enforcement then checked flock cameras
in the area of the residence. I love Batman utility belt type technology. This is that they are looking for
movement of two vehicles. one, Donald Mayor's 2018 Volkswagen Atlas. This is a one of those crossover vehicles and or
the vehicle that was registered to Tatiana Cassap. So, you are hoping with this check of these flock cameras to get
a hit on one or both of these vehicles. Of course, this is going to be your breadcrumb trail. So, we follow a quick
aside here. Flock cameras are automatic license plate reader cameras. They are somewhat common, especially in more
populated areas. Big brother is watching. Data, data, however you want to say it, Captain, it is how we catch
criminals. The eye in the sky equals physical evidence. And much more importantly, as in this case, what
detectives crave, leads. Yeah. You say data, I say potato. So, these flock cameras or
ALPRs cameras capture images of vehicle license plates and other details such as
make, model, and color. And in some of the more advanced types, they can also detect gunshot sounds. These images and
data are stored and can be accessed by law enforcement to help investigate crimes, locate stolen vehicles or wanted
individuals. Flock Safety provides this technology to various entities including
but not limited to police departments and law enforcement agencies. So remember, at this time they are only
checking this in the area, right? The the immediate area where these folks live. They do get a couple of hits.
Donald's 2018 Volkswagen Atlas was spotted by an ALPR camera on February 23rd, 2025. Again, 5 days prior to the
welfare check. And Tatiana's vehicle was last seen on flock camera on February 11th, 2025. So considerably earlier here
in our timeline. So good news, bad news situation, right? You have some more information to work with, but it's also
been quite some time since the vehicles were seen and active. Well, and they're not confirming who's driving the
vehicles. Correct. So again, February 28th is the welfare check. So 5 days for Donald's vehicle and 17 days for
Tatiana's utility belt resource number two. Officer Edwards, the school resource officer, had the Wesha West
High School ping Nikita's schoolisssued computer. And the last IP address for the computer was in Wesha on February
23rd, 2025. That's a smart move by law enforcement. Brilliant move. And furthermore, think about what's starting
to line up here now, too. His his computer last pinged in the Wesha area on the same day that a flock camera
picks up the Volkswagen Atlas. So, at that same day, we're still on the same day as the welfare check, but now we're
going to zoom forward a couple of hours, right? We talked about the investigation
that was going on behind the scenes, but now at 1:52 p.m. the Wesha County Sheriff's Department entered, they
actually go in and enter the residence and rather quickly they located a deceased female
on the first floor hallway. Oh [ __ ] The female was wearing a jacket and had towels over her legs and a blanket over
her body. Her face was blackened from decomposition and they also found quite a bit of dried blood on the floor around
her. Now, we need to note here, captain, that she could not be identified at the
scene. this due to the decomp. Deputies observed a possible exit wound in the female's back near her right shoulder
and further observed a possible bullet hole in a wall in that hallway where she was located. So near the body. I mean in
layman's terms this means that she's been there for quite a while. She's been there for quite some time. And even
though she can't be identified at the scene, what the deputies are seeing is you're you're seeing obvious signs of a
homicide. Yeah. And so now this this case is just completely flipped into a whole different type of investigation.
So what they're going to do here is they're going to leave. They're going to exit the residence upon finding her
body. They they're going to secure the residence. And this is something that we talk about
a lot here in the garage and I think it gets overlooked because people like to pick at nicks with what law enforcement
does and what they don't do. And where I get frustrated is look, there are plenty
of times where law enforcement botch it, right? Or where they just they just screw it up or there's somebody lazy or
stupid on the case and it just doesn't work out. Yeah. Or they're just human and they made a mistake. Yes. A lazy
stupid human. Now, the what they're doing here, Captain, is very brilliant. We we talk
about this often. You need to not only be investigating and doing your job and protecting everyone, but at the same
time, once you all of a sudden realize you got a major case, this is now a homicide situation. You need to make
sure that all of your actions going forward, from the minute you found out this is a homicide, that all of our
actions going forward and what we do will hold up in court one day. Because our end goal, our first goal was to find
these people alive and well and report back to the family in school that, hey, they're fine. It was just a
misunderstanding. that goal doesn't look like it's going to be able to be achieved because right
now you're sitting with a situation with we found a dead person. We don't know who she is 100%. Right? And we still
have two other missing people. We now have a homicide case. So now our goal is to solve this homicide and get justice
for this victim. So they exit the residence and they secure the home. Now, upon exiting, they do make some
observations. These observations are twofold. One, deputies did find Tatiana's vehicle at the residence in
the garage, but what they didn't find in the garage was Donald's vehicle. So, that's
not located at the residence. Well, and if you're law enforcement and if you have any idea of what's going on behind
the scenes, because the people doing the welfare check or law enforcement doing the welfare check might not be the same
individuals that are privy to some of this information that Donald cell phone was at least communicating with his
work. So you you have a missing mother, you stumble upon a victim that's probably roughly her age. So we can
assume a little bit that this could be the mother. we can lean towards that idea, but we haven't found the father.
So, you start then thinking, well, was there some kind of dispute and then then the father kills the mother and and now
where is um the stepson? Right? Unfortunately, there's no shortage of domestic disputes, violence or homicides
in this country, right? And so now what what's going to be taking place at the scene at the residence is after it's
secured, you're really just waiting on paperwork at this point. You're you're presenting everything that you now know
to a judge, getting them to sign off on a proper search warrant, right? Because before you entered the home under
probable cause. Now, you want to enter the home armed with paperwork saying that we can legally do what we are going
to do and we can collect evidence because now we've identified that there's been a homicide that took place
in this residence. So, at this time, while they're waiting on the paperwork to come through, which which will be
expedited and come through rather quickly, deputies were able to locate a neighbor and speak with him. His name is
Paul France. Paul France tells deputies that on February 23rd at approximately 1211 p.m. So shortly after noon that
day, he says he was pulling into his residence and he passed Donald's Volkswagen Atlas and he observed that it
was being operated by Nikita, the son, the 17-year-old son, right? Which he might have a license. Well, he tells the
deputies that this Nikita kid appeared to be alone and a different neighbor told
investigators that the family had a small black dog and that the dog had not been been seen outside in quite some
time. And one thing that the deputies didn't see when they were inside the residence was a small black dog. They
didn't see a dog at all. The officers ran Nikita's driving record and quickly found out that he has never been issued
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were hoping, you're an officer. You're arriving at this residence and you're hoping that this would be a pretty
routine welfare check. Officers make more of these welfare checks than I think most citizens are aware of. And
most of the time, somebody answers the door. It's a misunderstanding just like a lot of missing teenager cases or
missing person's cases where the person will be located within the first 24 hours. But now we have a whole different
set of circumstances. Things went from questionable to horrible upon entering the residence and
finding the body of a female. Yeah. With gunshot blast. And you have to be working under the assumption that
because she lived there that the deceased female is in fact one of the three people who you were looking for.
That that it's likely Tatiana. You're either going to find two more bodies or you're going to have to start looking
for individuals that might be responsible for the deaths. Yeah. If that proves true, well then you are
still missing two other people that lived at that house. So utility belt resource number three, an exigent ping
was placed for Donald's and Nikita's cell phones. And it was learned that both cell phones pinged in Cheyenne,
Wyoming. So this is approximately 980 miles away. So roughly a 13 12 to 14hour drive
west of the residence in Wesha, Wisconsin. Right. So we have a murder victim and it looks like we have
somebody on the run. Now we do have another report and I do want to state that both are from very reputable
sources. This report is stating that the phones pinged in Laram. Wyoming, which is a considerable distance from
Cheyenne. And kudos to the folks at AT&T who complied and acted so quickly to help with those emergency pings. Now,
both reports, I believe, Captain, are likely accurate because to me, these phones appear to be on the move. You
said somebody might be on the run. These phones appear to be on the move. And if
they are, you're going to be requesting updated GPS information regularly. And so both reports could be
very true if these phones are in fact on the move. Later that day, we're still on
February 28th. This is at approximately 5:00 p.m. The Wesha County Sheriff's Office, they now have search warrant in
hand. So they execute that search warrant at the residence. Upon entering the home once again and
now that they are armed with this judge signed paperwork permitting the full search of the residence, a second
deceased subject was located in what is best described as an office room again on the first floor of the
home. That subject was a male with a gray beard and was covered by a pile of clothing. The deceased male at that time
was believed to be Donald Mayor. Officers observed an obvious wound to the back of the victim's head. Now,
through records, this is advanced location records that were obtained, police learned that Nikita's phone
appeared to leave the Wesha area on February 24th at approximately 10:00 a.m. The device took
a very general route through multiple states, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Colorado. These records
indicating that the device belonging to Nikita appeared to stop at Iowa 80, the world's largest truck stop located in
Walcott, Iowa on February 24th between the approximate times of 2:25 p.m. and 2:50 p.m. So, Detective
Jensen, you can see this captain is a all hands on deck situation. We got Well, that's a great name for a
detective if you're the chief. Jensen, it it's great for the chief and it's Jensen in in my office now. Jensen, it's
also great if you are a uh character on an HBO crime thriller. Yeah, Jensen, what do we have here? So,
Detective Jensen contacted the Walcott, Iowa Police Department, and he's requesting that
they check the video at the world's largest truck stop for the date of the 24th. Yeah. And provided them with the
window of time that was in question. They needed to determine if they could observe Donald's Volkswagen
Atlas there because we know that Nikita's phone was there. And they also want if if they can spot that vehicle or
or maybe not by plate, just a vehicle matching that description. You want to see is there any cameras that might tell
you whom may be driving the vehicle. The police department there sent officer sent officer Tim Hahan who responded and
went out to the scene, reviewed the security video and bingo. Officer Han observed a
vehicle matching Donald's Volkswagen Atlas on camera during the time frame of interest. The sheriff's office provided
the Iowa Police Department with a photo of Nikita. And based on that school photo,
Officer Han believed the lone occupant that he could see in surveillance footage of that vehicle was in fact
Nikita. And in fact, the footage was so detailed here, Captain, that the the officer said that he could see a small
black dog was with the lone occupant of that vehicle. So, this of course consistent with the dog that was missing
from the residence. Yeah. Like you said, we have this welfare check law enforcement. I mean, you don't know. So,
you're hoping for the best, but there's also situations you, you know, where something goes wrong and there's a um a
poisoning, right? Uh carbon monoxide poisoning, but you show up now. You have this victim by gunshot. Mhm. You find
another victim by gunshot. Appears to be a gunshot. you and appears to a gunshot
hole in the hallway wall of the residence as well. And it's a large property like we said. So then you're
looking for the sun and then you don't find the sun. Then you have other options. Okay. Now, now is the son
responsible for this or was this uh did somebody break into the house? Is is this
kidnapped by somebody? You have multiple possibilities. So now we're tracking this car. And once you see that it's
just the son by himself, he has made no contact with the school or authorities, family members or friends that we know
of, right? And he's all by himself with the dog driving his stepdad's car. It doesn't look good. No, it looks like a
situation where the 17-year-old murdered his mother and stepfather and appears to
have moved the phones of the murdered victims. The stepson doesn't have a driver's license. And look, you it
wouldn't be crazy to think of any other scenario because we've reviewed here in the garage, I think it was seven or
eight years ago, the middle of the night, some maniac shows up and guns down two parents and kidnaps the the
teenage daughter, right? Holds her captive for an extended period of time. and detectives and and they probably had
a better idea of what was going on, but us, the public, the general public, we were left clueless. We were like, "What
was was the kid involved? Is the kid dead somewhere?" You know, we were left with no answers. Is the kid a murderer
or a victim? And are they dead or alive? And so, at least we're getting some answers
here. We two dead parents, the child's alive. Now you have to start going. You're narrowing down the possibilities,
especially when you see the son by himself identified by a photograph and in the company of the missing dog from
the residence in a vehicle that matches the stepdad's vehicle description. Now, you had said they don't find the son at
the home. What they do find during this continued search of the re residence, they find paperwork. This paperwork is
telling them that Donald Mayor at some point purchased a Smith and Wesson 357 Magnum firearm and that a search of the
home. They could not find that gun. They could not find that firearm. It's not discovered within the residence during
that search. So, here we go, Captain. We are going to a tiny little town called Wini, Kansas. Yeah, that's what I wear
to the to the beach. A waini. That's right. It's a three-piece. It's a 17piece. This is
approximately so it's over 800 miles from the welfare check residence. This is in Tgo County, Kansas.
Wa. Other than being located right in tornado alley, this place looks very cool to me. Population less than 2,000.
Shout out to the Brazen Bull, which if I'm ever in Waini, I'll be dropping by for a beer and a burger over there. I
looked Wa Police Department up on Facebook and on X just to see what their activity is because nowadays like
there's constant communication from a lot of these law enforcement agencies. And some of it's just kind of happy,
cheerful stuff and others like, "Hey, we're looking for this person, right? or uh stolen vehicle situation. the Wini
Police Department Facebook. It's it consists almost primarily and I when I say primarily Captain I mean it's like
95% missing dog found like this is a very communi communityoriented area small small town. Everybody knows
everybody and the police department's nice enough that you know what, we don't have much crime going on here. So, we go
go around and collect uh stray animals that we find posted on Facebook and we're returning we're returning pets to
their owners. Owners are collecting their pets. That is a lot of what the law enforcement activity is or appears
to be via Facebook anyway, right? Here in this small little town. So, all right, let's focus. I'll focus. It's
11:25 p.m. So late at night. This is still the night of February 28th, the same day as the welfare check. The same
day as two bodies found still unidentified back in Wisconsin. The Wini Police Department
while working traffic stopped a vehicle with outofstate plates. The officer lit him up and pulled him over at 7:45 South
First Street. The traffic stop was initiated due to the vehicle exiting Interstate 70 and then failing to stop
at a stop sign. The officer ran the plate and the vehicle came back as stolen out of Wisconsin. So, the TGO
County Sheriff's Office responded to back up the officer as well as another member of the Walini Police Department.
They arrive on the scene. Information from the Wisconsin Sheriff's Office that was provided to the officers at the
traffic stop scene is telling them that the person driving this vehicle could be
armed with a handgun. Right. The vehicle, of course, was a Volkswagen Atlas. They believe that it was likely
Nikita Cassap that was operating the vehicle. After approach, officers observed in plain view a handgun on the
passenger side floorboard. The driver was quickly identified to be Nikita and the juvenile was taken into
custody at approximately 11:37 p.m. All without incident, thank God. Further inspection of the
vehicle, the officers located Donald and Tatiana's driver's license, unused ammunition, and spent shell casings.
Also recovered was the little black dog. This is not looking good. Not at all, my
friend. Not at all. But we grab two more beers from the fridge and we venture on.
So the the gun that they took from the vehicle, spoiler alert, it's later determined to be a Smith and Wesson 357
Magnum firearm. So yeah, the one owned by his stepfather. Correct. As said, the subject was identified as Nikita, a
juvenile who by this time just about 13 hours after the police had entered the home for the welfare check or first
knocked on the door, I should say, he's wanted by this point. He's wanted out of
Wisconsin, right, as a person of interest in a double homicide that the Wesha Sheriff's Office was still openly
investigating. The vehicle was listed as stolen and that information went out to
the world only 90 minutes prior to him failing to stop at the stop sign. It's almost like destiny, right, that that an
officer happened to see him failing to stop at the stop sign. It's literally minutes after this
thing was first reported stolen. Who Who's to say that that late at night in a small town that the officer approaches
and doesn't see the gun and lets the guy off with a warning, doesn't run the plates? I mean really it's everybody
doing their jobs and it's multiple departments and multiple agencies across state lines in a very quick manner. So,
beyond the gun and the driver's licenses belonging to his parents, the first reports that were
coming out were short, but did say that Nikita did have items in the vehicle with him that were consistent with the
information received from the Wisconsin Sheriff's Office. These items with that short description here,
Captain would later, we get some details on it. And these items turn out to be boxes of 357 Magnum and 38 special
ammunition. They also located Donald Mayor's and Tatiana's wallets and a large amount of US currency and
euros. and two cell phones belonging to Donald Mayor and Tatiana were also found
in the vehicle. I want to touch on the large amount of US currency and euros here uh for a
moment. We know absolutely true because these are legal documents that state that it was US currency and euros. I've
seen the total sum reported differently in this case. I've I've seen it, I believe, as little
as $14,000 and maybe as high as $18,000. I don't know why the discrepancy the discrepancy may come from that they had
two different kinds of currency that was found in this vehicle. But regardless, this is a considerable amount of money
that's found in the vehicle with this kid who appears to have fled from the home of his murdered parents. You have
the murdered victims, these these parents, two individuals. You're looking for the third. You're hopeful that
they're alive, but then they're alive and then they become a suspect. And with all these items, I
mean, you don't have to be the greatest detective. Jensen. Um, yeah, we didn't need Jensen on this one. We could have
Yeah, you can kind of figure out that uh this kid is probably responsible for murdering his parents, being killed by
your own gun. I mean, it's a sad, sick world. Um, and it just gets stranger every day. It seems like we're going
through a strange dark period. Um, 2025 is setting up real nice, Clark. Real nice. Yeah, Jensen. Um the the thing
here is too think about the even with the vague description provided to us. You can almost see this play out in
your head, right? Allegedly, he killed his parents. He's accused and will be eventually accused of such. Now, as you
said, killed with your own gun. The Donald Mayor is found with a single shot to the back of the head. Yeah. In the
office, a room described as the office on the first floor. And then the wounds to Nikita's mother,
Tatiana. There's multiple wounds. And she is, it appears very different to me, Captain. Right. It almost looks like
Nikita snuck up behind Donald Mayor and was able to get point blank and shoot him right in the back of the head. And
he was not moved much further than where he fell. He may have been playing on the
computer, working in his home office. I don't I don't know if he had a home office, if he We do know that he had to
report to work on on occasion. I don't know if it was every day, but regardless, that's what it looks like to
me. Nikita sneaks up behind Donald and boom, single shot, he's down. He's dead. Now, probably reactionary to that is
Tatiana in a very different manner is gunned down in the hallway of that home. Now, this boy
flees the scene, but he doesn't flee right away. So, we know at for at least a time period if he's responsible for
these murders, he is um living coexisting with these corpses. Well, and you would have to believe that
right out of the gate because of a couple reasons. One, the decomp of the two bodies that were found inside of the
home. And then you have data and information that's telling you that Nikita did not leave the Wesha area
until the 23rd 24th. And so, but keep in mind it's still you're still looking for clues and
searching for information and answers here. Some of it being scientific and some of it being evidentiary
because we've seen accelerated decomposition in some cases. and we're talking about a a difference of four or
five days between the time that he's located and the welfare check takes place to when the information says that
he left the area. So, still a lot left to to sift through here. But the key here is Captain that night he is taken
into custody. Nikita's brought into custody and but he's not charged with murder at this time. he was not been
charged in connection with his parents' death. And in fact, the law enforcement agency goes public, stating, "Look,
here's here's what's going on with this situation. We have located an individual
that we think is responsible. We have located the vehicle. We've located the gun that we believe to be the murder
weapon. However, this is an ongoing and active investigation. And until we have all the information and all of the
evidence, we're not going to charge Nikita with the murder of his mother and stepfather. What we're going to charge
him with is things that are obvious, right? Driving without a license. We know he broke that law. He was pulled
over operating a vehicle. He was also operating a vehicle that was reported stolen by the sheriff's office. So, he's
going to be charged with theft of that vehicle. And it's also based off of Donald Mayor being deceased that they
have to believe all signs point to Donald Mayor didn't allow him to use the vehicle or his handgun. Therefore, we
can charge him with the theft of the handgun as [Music] well. So much more to get to in this
bizarre case. Stick around for part two. Until then, be good. Be kind and don't litter.
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February 28, 2025 - a simple welfare check was requested by multiple persons at a residence in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Deputies were sent to the home to check on a family of three. No one answered the door. Soon the officers would have to force their way into the home. What they discovered there quickly made a simple check a very complex homicide investigation. The Waukesha Sheriff’s Office filed and executed multiple search warrants, and shortly after a nationwide manhunt was underway. Nikita Casap, killed his parents and that was just the start of it.

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Brief Summary

A welfare check leads to a double homicide investigation involving a missing family in Wisconsin.

Key points

Welcome to True Crime Garage. Join hosts Nick and the Captain as they dive into this week's true crime story.
A Mysterious Welfare Check. Officers conduct a welfare check on a family that hasn't been seen for days.
A Shocking Discovery. Deputies enter the residence and find a deceased female, marking a turn in the investigation.
Welfare Check Turns Deadly. What started as a routine welfare check quickly escalated into a double homicide investigation.
Nikita's Arrest. Nikita, a juvenile, is taken into custody after being found in a stolen vehicle with incriminating evidence.
Nikita's Custody Update. Nikita is taken into custody but not charged with murder yet. Law enforcement is still gathering evidence.

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