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secret many of us will face challenges struggles and battle against it and some of us will have have to do that alone
some of us will do that completely alone kyab Bobo was 32 years of age when she went missing 2 years ago she would
be 34 today Kyla was reported missing by her family in St Clair County Alabama alone is that how she felt that
night when her challenge came to battle or perhaps that is how she was feeling for so very long it's been 2 years where
is she I think there are several people in St Clair County that know where she is and why she's been missing for this
long I think they have told others there have been many looking for Kyla and the search continues but this
case is not immune to criticism and skepticism some have voiced a critique of the sheriff's department some have
voiced their skepticism of the persons surrounding this case Cas mainly the persons that come into play on the very
night that Kyla disappeared some have even stated criticism for the victim herself but fighting for justice is not
about choosing which victims to advocate for it's about choosing to fight for them all this is true crime garage and
this is the missing person's case of kylo [Music] Bobo and your [Music] secret there are always so many
Mysteries that surround the many disappearances covered here in the missing person's true crime stories on
True Crime garage often times that is the main reason that the person is still missing there's just too many Mysteries
too many Blanks on the timeline but there is something suspiciously different I feel about this case here we
find the details about the movements persons involved in the events during the day and night in question to be
vague I find them to be conveniently vague Kyla Bobo was 32 years old when she went missing at the end of January
just two years ago this story is out of the quaint town of Chula Vista Alabama located in St Clair County Alabama some
other areas of importance could be the towns and cities of Moody leads Odenville Margaret pel City Talladega
Springville Asheville and Birmingham kyab Bobo has varying degrees of ties to each of these locations they
are all for the most part nearby cities this is in the middle of Alabama sort of
the northeastern part the investigating agency here Captain is the St Clair County Sheriff's Office and as at least
one source puts it the criminal investigation division of St Clair County Sheriff's office has
characterized the Kyla Bobo missing persons case as intricate though they have refrained from divulging further
particulars the Sheriff's Office did an official press release with information about Kyla to the public early in the
investigation but for a large part of the time since they have been very quiet some fear a little too quiet the
following information is from that press release and it states the St Clair County criminal investigation division
continues their investigation into missing person Kyla Boba she was last seen in the Chula Vista area in late
January 2022 kyab Bobo is described as a [ __ ] ccasian woman 32 years of age at the
time of her disappearance so she would be 34 today 5' 5 in tall about 120 PBS brown hair brown eyes and she has a
tattoo of her name Kyla on the back of her right shoulder blade it's thought that when she was last seen that she was
wearing blue jeans a pink jacket and black flip-flops there's been little in the
way of media coverage and publicity for Kyla's case and as far as this circumstances of her
disappearance the story has been and remains short and sweet as they say or vague and haunting as we say and here we
go Kyla left from a friend's house Sunday night January 30th 2022 she was picked up by an individual
who claims to have dropped Kyla off at her boyfriend's house but the boyfriend claimed that she never showed up anyone
with any information that could help investigators locate Kyla should contact investigator Matthew con at
20588 43333 so that's it that's the story that's it and that's all folks but not
so fast because your boys did some cracking and we were able to put together a little bit of a timeline the
captain and the colonel we've been a crackalacking cracking some heads and when you go face when you go online and
you look up the story that's pretty much what you're going to find is that Kyla left her friend's house got a ride with
a guy guy says he dropped her off at the boyfriend's house boyfriend says she never showed up now we have a mystery
well let's go back before that and see if we can fill in some of the blanks and really expand on this timeline and the
known events of that evening the evening in question in the last year this case has
been one of the most recommended cases to look into I think because there's so much lack of information people wonder
is law enforcement doing a good job why don't we have more information we have a
bunch of people that are concerned about what happened to her so this is one that
like I said comes highly recommended from listeners kyab Bobo is born September 28th 1989 she grows up with a brother
and sister Kyla's dad spent some time working as a police officer growing up Kyla is described as really fun she's
described as a really fun kid and fun person one person telling us quote she was just the most fun person she played
softball as a youngster and was on a couple of dance teams Kyla was close with her sister Anna now After High
School Kyla kind of fell into the wrong crowd this would later dramatically change her life in the direction of her
life right around the time that Kyla turns 30 she moves in with her boyfriend now this guy he's a little bit younger
than Kyla his name is Blake this was a long-term situation a long-term relationship in fact Kyla and Blake
lived together for about two years living in a house this is Blake's house and for at least a portion of that time
there is a roommate that shared the dwelling with them maybe even for the entirety of that two years that part I'm
a little unclear of now even though Kyla is out on her own and even though she's
living in a different city than several of her family members she does stay in regular contact with her family and that
will be and we know this from studying other missing persons cases that will be one of the key
factors here when things start to go wrong yeah so if you're thinking right now maybe I should message my mother
more message my father more you should because it helps law enforcement also put together a timeline just in case
something happen and mommy and daddy miss you this is going to take us to Thursday January 27th
2022 Kyla and Blake they have some kind of argument now we don't know the exact details or particulars of this argument
but it sounds to me Captain from people that we spoke to is that the two again this is a long-term relationship they've
been living together for over two years sounds to me like the two kind of needed
a break and turns out that Kyla she knows that two of her girlfriends are living
at a place on a street called Cane Creek Drive so Cane Creek Drive this is in pel
city so she decides to go and visit them and she wants to see if she can stay there with her girlfriends for a while
right okay so pel city is going to play a major role in this True Crime Story this is a larger City larger than Chula
Vista and it's a few miles east and a little more than 12,000 people are living there so like we said she's
staying in a house with her boyfriend but she's is going to go visit her friends possibly to stay but this is
kind of a I would say unique situation yeah I think that's fair to say so the way that I understand it here Captain is
It's a larger property well at least large enough for there to be a house and a trailer on the property so the
property owner the person in charge there his name is Norman and he's renting a trailer on the
property to these two females Kyla goes she knows the girls and she goes and sees if she can stay there for a while
now for a while is undetermined we don't know what her intentions were how long she intended to stay there but we do
know that she does spend several nights there this is based off of what the women will later tell law enforcement so
on the 27th of January 2022 she has an argument with her boyfriend longtime boyfriend
leaves his place goes and stays with these two women now where things turn bad for our
timeline is she's last seen on January 30th so that would put her there what about three nights before she's last
seen and the way that this story shakes out is that sometime between the hours of 9 and 10 p.m. on January 30th she
catches a ride with a guy and it sounds like this ride is at her request that she reached out
to him hey we don't know exactly what was said but she asked him to come and pick her up he does and then as we
already heard as The Story Goes The Narrative that follows is what we've been told for two years now he says he
picked her up he agrees to that but he says he dropped her back off at her house that she shared with Blake her
boyfriend Blake tells law enforcement no no no that never happened I never saw her again after she left on the
27 so the problem with this story is that somebody's not telling the truth exactly one of both of these persons
cannot be telling the truth so your your reason for her missing lies with one of these two
people as far as I'm concerned either the guy that gave her the ride who knows where where they go or yes he did drop
her off and the boyfriend did something and I don't think it's wrong for people to question the boyfriend because look
that would there's some motive there are they having some issues is she trying to
leave him does he think she's trying to leave him and she's saying hey I'm going
to go stay with my friends and he's saying hey that's not cool with me that would give some sort of motive there
yeah yeah and you have to wonder like oh she's been out for three nights it's easy to assume that he thinks she's
out running around and may have a big problem with that or what's up with this guy that
picks her up so what do we know the the good thing here is that we have some witnesses right we have her friends that
she was staying with that that would appear to have some information now this is public knowledge you have to do a
little digging but if you dig deep enough this is public knowledge so the man that picks her up is an acquaintance
of hers and his name is Maxwell and we know this because the two women she's staying with they kind of know Maxwell
or at least know from Kyla telling them that that's who's picking her up that night so the answer into her
disappearance lies with Maxwell or the boyfriend Blake unfortunately here captain
and you know this but to bring the listeners in a little bit closer we spoke to a bunch of people
about this case well that's the crack aacan you're talking about that's the Kraken what's unfortunate is not one of
them told us that they expect to find her that they think that she just walked away in fact there's rumor going around
in this area Chula Vista in pel city of what happened and the short part of that
is that it's a mystery but it's believed by all persons including law enforcement that she was met with Foul
Play and somebody has concealed her body somewhere well like the listeners know the captain loves a good
mystery you have cases like Brian schaer or Mara Murray where there's possibilities that maybe they ran off to
start a new life it's those cases are truly missing person cases to me this case to me is not a missing person case
it's a missing body case that's very sad to say but this is a murder investigation as far as I'm concerned
well and what's really sad for the families and all the persons that knew Kyla is it sounds like there was hope
early on in this investigation so how do we know that she goes missing right because the tricky part here is Maxwell
the person that gave her the ride picks her up that night he doesn't report her missing no later when he talks to the
police he says I dropped her off at Blake's house then the flip side of that coin is Blake did not report her missing
either he says know she took off on the 27th said that she was going to go stay elsewhere I never saw her again
who reported her missing well as we said she is picked up by Maxwell between 9:00
and 10 p.m. on January 30th unfortunately Kyla's grandmother passes away on February 1 and as we said even
though she lives in a neighboring City from most of her family she stays in regular contact well her family reached
out to her and said hey you know grandmother passed away trying to to fill her in on the
details Kyla never responds to any of those messages the services for her grandmother take place on February 7th
so family is reaching out to Kyla hey this is where the services will be this is what time the date such and such they
never hear back and she never shows up to any of the memorial Services well and like you said I mean the February 1st to
the 7th six day window trying to get a hold of a family member man I'd be freaking out well and this is going to
be where the police are going to get involved because after she doesn't show up to
Grandmother's memorial service her family reports that she's missing they believe something has happened there's
no way that she would have missed that so now police have to get involved they go and they talk to Blake Blake says I
don't know she took off she went she was staying elsewhere that quickly leads police to the girlfriend's place where
she was staying for a couple of nights and then that leads them to Maxwell who picked her up on the 30th well if I'm
law enforcement I'm sitting down this guy Blake I'm pulling a Keel and peel right I'm going to go
Blake what do you know what aren't you telling us Blake where is she were you upset that she was going to
leave were you upset that she's going to take some time apart from you well and police are going to be a little
suspicious of Blake because as I understand it he did agree and allow them to search the house and his
property they don't come up with any leads based off of that but then they ask him to take a polygraph test and
from my understanding Captain he agrees to the polygraph but fails to show up for the scheduled
polygraph well that's called not agreeing to it but exactly look don't want to throw black under the bus
because we've talked about this before there's no win in taking the polygraph if I pass it people go well it's a junk
science and you can't use it in the court of law and then if I fail it then people are saying well he's guilty no
matter how well uh of the technician or how how well of the test you know how how well of the
expertise the person giving me the test so it could be just a shitty investigator and I fail the test so
there's no win so I don't want to throw Blake under the bus because he didn't show up for a polygraph test yeah I
don't know that I would if if you are in the suspect category you said it perfectly there is no win this this for
the right team of detectives is not going to exclude me if I pass the polygraph now I do think that
it shows something on his end of agreeing to a search you know he didn't require them to get a search warrant
from my understanding he said yeah you can search the house you can search the property I don't I don't know where she
is yeah but if you know that the crime didn't happen there and that she's not there then go ahead search a big deal
Chris Watts comes to mind well she's not here so why don't you take a look around
so it sounds like this is going to be a good case for law enforcement right we have the situation where we already have
several leads we have Blake that we talked to we have Maxwell that we talked to we have the ladies that she was
staying with but we don't have any report on whether they offered Maxwell um light
detector do we we don't but I I'm going to make the very short leap I think that
it's not difficult to believe that if they requested a polygraph of Blake they probably requested a polygraph of the
other guy who might have been the last person to see her yeah I'd agree with you I you know law enforcement tends to
do things across the board and so that's why I believe that they asked Maxwell to
take a polygraph the unfortunate part of this story though is if that is true I don't know if he took it if he
agreed to take it or how he did on the test now from the people that we spoke to and I'm just guessing here guys but
from the people we spoke to it sounds to me like Maxwell's Cooperative to the point
of I picked her up we hung out I dropped her off at Blakes that's my story and I'm sticking to it that's the level of
cooperation that I gather that he's offering here so little to no cooperation right and see that becomes
the problem with this case right you it looks like a good story it looks like a good case for law enforcement where they
they get this missing person's case we might be able to find her because we have these leads we have Blake we have
Maxwell we have the girlfriends that she's staying with we have people that we can talk to we can start putting
together a timeline and a figure out maybe where she was or who was the actual last person to see her but the
problem then for your investigation becomes this everybody has their story everybody sticks to it well if
everybody's telling the truth then poof she just vanished Into Thin Air and we know that's not what happened here so
one of these people or maybe more is not giving us the full [Music] story [Music]
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the walls onward and upward cheers to the people in the front cheers to you Colonel cheers to you and cheers to the
people in the back and how about the people in the middle and to all the people crack a
lacking so there is a reward for information in this case $5,000 has been put up by a local company called the
line of fire they're in the town of Moody Alabama and from my understanding I believe they're like a gun range or a
gun store that has put up $5,000 to for information that will lead to the the location that will lead them to
finding kyab Bobo now the unfortunate part of this story is as we covered in the first half
is that everybody's saying that we are looking for her body at this point we believe that she's been met with Foul
Play and we need to recover evidence and figure out who the last person was to have seen her because that may lead us
to the answers as to what happened to this poor young woman she's just 32 years old man she would have been 34
today so this case is still relatively new still a little bit fresh usually we're covering cold cases here in the
garage but this is a newer one and one that was recommended to us and several people reached out and said hey guys
would you look into it well what we find is some interesting Leads Here the local
rumor is that she may have been placed in a well somewhere that's the rumor that's been swirling around this area
since her disappearance now police are going to get their first I wouldn't say their first lead
Captain but the first of what is probably several strange leads this comes in a couple of months
after Kyla's missing so police get this tip that Kyla was seen in a yard on a property that is near Camp
winnataska so Camp winnataska is this huge Nature Preserve it's it's incredibly large we're talking many
acres but there are a couple of properties that kind of back up to this Camp win
atasa that's how the tip comes in the tip comes in saying that she was spotted in a
yard of a property that backs up to the camp now what's interesting about this tip is going to be that the rumors going
around town later will be that she was placed in a well or buried on a property near this
same camp so who knows if this rumors comes out of this tip or if the tip comes from the rumor it's the chicken or
the egg situation but what we do know is police do follow up on this tip they go
out and they speak to the property owner and they don't find anything now the troubling thing about this tip here and
this is this is one thing that I was extremely curious about because this tip comes in a couple of months after she's
already been missing the tip is I saw her in a yard at this property that's it that's
all that's the entirety of the tip so I asked several people I said well what does that mean that the person said that
I saw her today which is 2 or 3 months after she's been missing on this yard in this yard or did you see her or did I
see her two or three months ago in this yard and didn't know that she was missing till I saw a flyer so this
person sees the flyer this tip makes its way to the police the tipster passes away to get whatever this
tipster told police remains between them and the police and we don't have further detail
on that because unfortunately that person's not around for us to talk to today well and just to be clear I mean
are they saying that they saw her body or did did they say that they saw her alive they see her dead or is it just
simply I saw her in a yard is that implying that she was dead well it's a bit of a mixed bag here because the
people that I spoke to they all firmly believe that she's saying I saw her alive you know and my
follow-up questions are well what do you mean out in the yard was there a party was she hanging out with other people
that could be identified was she just out on the front porch smoking a cigarette by herself you know what's
what's the details unfortunately none Nobody Knows the details now it's believed by all parties that
they're saying that Kyla was alive and well when this tipster saw her MH the did she have any
interaction with her that part we don't know but what I found interesting was there was at least one person that took
the tip to mean or or beli the tip meant that she had saw her recently not not two months ago not
three months ago which I don't know how much faith I put in that look it's one person's opinion it's one person's
belief it's just as good as mine but the the the reason why I don't tend to lean
that way is the fact that we've been told by many people she kept in contact constant
contact with her family grandmother passes away I don't think that if she if she if everything is normal and
everything's going as normal for Kyla unless somebody's stopping her from doing so it sounds to me like she would
have kept in contact with her family yeah very strange situation and and I I think think one could make an argument
if you're looking into this case you go well I guess you could make an argument that there's some evidence that she
wanted to start over or get out of the situation that she's in I don't think that's evidence of wanting to disappear
or to lose connection with family members I don't think we have any evidence of that and I and I also think
because of the rumors that are coming out and a lot of the that that's what leads law enforcement
and others involved in this case to think that she's just not around anymore well and the problem here too Captain
for investigators and for the community and at large would be drugs have really done a number on this area and it
started with methamphetamines and now it's continuing with fentanyl and and a lot of the people in
Kyla's Social Circle right they have addiction problems with methamphetamine Kyla unfortunately did as well she
struggled with addiction and so what you have here Captain is when you're trying
to do these cases you have to talk with family and friends and fan out from there now there's no problem with the
family here but once you get to the Friends portion of this story and this case for the
investigators you're going okay well every person I talk to I believe that they have a drug
problem and so I don't think that you know detectives are very good at at a gut feeling if someone's telling them
the truth or not and that will often times lead them and Lead their investigation lead them on their hunt
for evidence and for answers the problem when you find a circle of people that are all involved in illegal activity is
you can't figure out you a detective even the best detective oftentimes cannot sort out is this person lying to
me because they did something to Kyla or not being upfront with me because they're involved in other illegal
activity that has nothing to do with Kyla and I think that became the problem early on in this investigation for the
detectives because I think they had a lot to work with with all the rumors that were going on in this area you we
you know we have Rumors in other cases you don't have rumors like this that she's on a property near this Camp wi
atasa maybe in a well and then some of the rumors are even more detailed that the well is near power
lines and police go out the sheriff's department St Clair sheriff's department they go out and they find properties
that match that vague description what what they're a little Cy about what what law enforcement will
and will not stay or sorry will not say here is okay of all these properties out
there we searched them we searched some of them who consented to a search and who
did not consent to a search because then you start going well if so if so and so
won't consent to the search and their property has markings that line up with the rumors that we're hearing in
town is this person involved in something or are they just a stubborn homeowner that doesn't want anybody
snooping around on their property yeah not you know I hate to go against you but you know if you read Malcolm
gladwell's book talking to strangers I look I think the evidence points away from this idea that we we can have a
sense of whether or not we know if somebody's telling the truth um they did a lot of tests on law enforcement I even
believe some FBI agents as well and did tests with actors obviously you know saying well I'm going to tell you the
truth or I'm going to tell you lies and they failed the test so but I think it becomes even more
complex here because like you said we have people with drug addiction and so then the question then becomes too well
okay we're looking for we think there was Foul Play well is that murder or is that there was uh
overdose and the foul play is that we got rid of the body and we we didn't go to law enforcement and tell them what
happened yeah and the other thing that makes this a tricky case and this might steer you away from the boyfriend a
little bit again remember he consented to search he allowed his home and property to be searched by police we do
know that the family went there afterwards after she's missing to collect a bunch of her things so if
there was anything obvious pointing to signs that something happened to Kyla there they they would have seen it and
that doesn't seem to be the case now I will say this I have spoke to at least one
person that says the boyfriend's actions are a little weird because he seemed to be
Cooper in the beginning and then as we said doesn't show up to the polygraph and then seem to move on rather quickly
with his life yeah but hold on a second though let's let's just say what do we know we know that there's rumors
circulating and is it possible that he's cooperating with police and he starts hearing these rumors and he goes oh
something bad has happened and the fear of them trying to pin it on him and that would be enough reason or
if he started talking to people in his life and and they said hey look I know you care about her and everything I know
you want to cooperate but you need to protect yourself the other people here the other people involved the guy that
she is picked up by so what's interesting about this lead if I'm an investigator is not only the girlfriends
that she's staying with say okay this is the guy that picked her up that night he
remember he agrees yeah I picked her up that night dropped her off at her boyfriend's house they also find some
Communications with him I believe through like Facebook Messenger that arranging for him to come pick her up
that night so it's it's confirmed by all parties plus it's written somewhere for
them to review that so there's that lead now the guy that picked her up Maxwell or Max as many people call him he has a
history of violence you do a background check on him and you figure out rather quickly he's not a very good dude he's
not a nice guy and then through this Facebook Messenger they also get another lead about a guy named Larry that she
may have been running around with this guy Larry at some point between the time that she leaves
the boyfriend's house and is picked up by Max Larry as well I don't know the problem here is I can't sort out if
Larry and Max know each other but Larry not a great guy either he's got not violent behavior in his background but
breaking a lot of laws a lot of like theft burglary that kind of stuff and then you have sort of the icing on the
cake of of your troubled investigation is Norman so he owns the property where these girls are these
women are staying young women are staying in the trailer I'm guessing he's renting the trailer to them kylo goes
and stays with her girlfriends there for a couple of nights we know that at least
three nights that she stayed there her friends share her same struggles again as an investigator
you're interviewing all these people and you're probably not getting the whole story from everybody maybe even the
boyfriend's giving you the whole story but I don't think that they feel like they're getting the the entire story
from all the other parties that saw her in those days leading up to when she's last seen so so far we have
Blake and then we have the guy that picked her up Maxwell then we have this other individual that seems like she had
some kind of relationship with Larry and then the owner of the property and which
her friends were staying on Norman but then also I think you could again make the case if we have people with one
criminal histories or people that are using methamphetamines again I I go back to
the idea that did something happen did they party too hard and then hey we got to get rid of this body or we could get
in trouble well and we know that police did a I I I don't want to say that it was a detailed search of this Camp wi
atasa because again such a large area that it would be very difficult to do a grid search it would take who knows
how long it would take but what we do know is that when they when they start hearing these rumors that that her
body's up around there somewhere either in Camp wi itasa or on a property nearby
we do know that they go up there with ATVs and they're out there riding around doing a a search looking for anything
that's obvious so they did travel a good amount of land looking for her and we do
know that there was some searches that were conducted on properties near this Camp wi atasa again we don't know which
properties were searched and which properties they were turned away from but we do know that they did search some
of these properties and the reason why I keep going back to this is because it's
the rumors we've seen this in multiple cases that we've covered some of these cases expand out 10 12 15 20 years where
early on in the investigation there is some swirling rumor about what happened to somebody and then that rumor
eventually dies down because there's investigating efforts that take place people clear people police clear people
police look at other suspects they move on to other leads and then when the case
finally breaks and they finally get that break that they need and they close out
the case they make an arrest it's been what like 75 to maybe even up to 90% of those cases that we we look back in the
rearview mirror and in retrospect we go holy [ __ ] that rumor that was going around at the beginning of this case
there was a lot of Truth to that there was a lot of Truth to that that's right it's hairy and scary and but it could be
real and what's what's scary here there was also a rumor swirling about that there are a couple guys living together
on a large property near this Camp wi atasa mhm and the rumor is that they kept girls there that they they would
find women with with a drug problem right abduct them or take them out there willingly and then against their will
hold them there right use drugs as a way to sedate them and this sounds like some
True Detective stuff right straight out out of HBO but unfortunately it does happen now we don't know if there's any
truth to that this is just a rumor at this point but the problem with this rumor and it goes back
to that instinct that that belief that we have that we've exper because we've experienced it several times where
there's there ends up being Truth at the end of the day when they solve the case
in those early rumors and this rumor this rumor has ties to the other stories right it's a property near this Camp win
atasa and this this is all in this General pel City area and the the the thing here is why it makes you believe
that there's truth here is that it's not one person saying this it's dozens of people saying that oh she's buried
somewhere in pel City the answers are in pel City well and I think what you're pointing out here is that it's not a
separate rumor you could take the first rumors and connect it to then this rumor
that doesn't have to be separate it both could be happening at the same time well
and here's the thing too if if you have it sounds to me like a lot of people have information about this case it
sounds to me like while we may have a lot of people that have heard something or know something they were told
something they don't have any direct involvement in this case I think the hindrance of people reaching out to
police with good information to the Sheriff's Department with good information in this case is
that some of them have been involved in illegal activity you got to keep in mind if you're out
there and you're listening to this and you have information call the sheriff's department because here's the way that
it works you see the sign on the door that says homicide that's all we're concerned about we're not concerned
about you bought some meth or or you did a little bit of meth it's like the NFL playoffs right you the the referees get
together before the game and they say do math we call the felonies we're going to
let the misdemeanor go right so if if you got information all they care about is finding Kyla they will turn away
they'll turn a blind eye to your misdemeanor activities that you've been doing well and like you said I I'm just
going to put this out this this is my belief from Communications when you have so many people talking about these
rumors I think one of the things that going probably right for law enforcement is we have people that have a drug
history that creates loose lips and I think people have talked I think law enforcement actually has a lot more
information and look again one of the reasons why we're covering this case is people said hey there's all these people
talking and why isn't this case being covered and and why isn't law enforcement doing their due diligence
but hold on a second maybe they are maybe they're building in a case and now to finish the piece of the puzzle
because we know it's hard to convict somebody it's harder to convict somebody if you don't have a body and I think the
other issue too is where did they dump the body are they able to recover the body are they able to then move the body
to a different location so is law enforcement playing a little bit of a cat and mouse game with these murderers
well and we we talked about drugs and so if that is involved in all of this now I did we
did talk to at least one source that did say look she did have enemies she Kyla did have people that were upset with her
um they don't know exactly why their guess would be maybe she she had stole from them or there owed maybe owed some
money to someone but regardless of the motivation here we have these stories about where she may
be and I'm glad that you said some of that there Captain because the general belief here and feeling and I kind of
felt this way too when I first started looking into kylo's case the general belief is that well here's this young
woman she's kind of in drug kind of involved in drugs and other drug related activities with these other people
and the sheriff's department yeah they did a little searching for but they've been quiet ever since and that's because
they just don't care they you know it's it's a moral issue we got other cases to
work we got other victims that we're prioritizing over Kyla in this case and that is some of the belief here some
people firmly believe that about this case and like I said I kind of thought that I thought I had my suspicions about
that early on but then I really started digging and talking to more people and now I I've changed my song and dance
here I think I think you are right there Captain I think that while people say that they've been a little too quiet the
sheriff's department I think it's not because they're not doing anything I think it's because they're uncovering
stuff they're uncovering stuff and they they are working the case well like I said if you have individuals that have a
substance abuse problem that's also so leveraged that law enforcement can use sometimes to get more information oh
well guess what we we picked you up on this charge oh you know more about this rumor you know a couple details okay
maybe that doesn't lead us to the body but that leads us closer to a resolution so we're going to turn like you said
turn a blind eye to the criminal charge of possession or whatever they end up picking up these
individuals so these drug circles even even in big cities sometimes the drug circle is
smaller so you can like I said I think you just got loose lips because you have substance abuse problems yeah and
unfortunately methamphetamine Remains the number one cause of violent crimes committed in this general
area in this region so the but here here's garage detective 101 for everybody out there armchair
sleuthing um the evidence is what it should lead you right the evidence is what leads your investigation for a
detective the other thing that leads an investigation for detective detectives is a
lies right you you follow the evidence you also follow the lies who is lying what are they lying about and why the
problem here that complicates your case this ain't a hill this is a mountain of a case on the surface it looks like
there's very little narrative very little story here very little information underneath what you have is
you have a whole Social Circle filled with little lies some of them are probably because these people know what
happened they were directly involved with The Disappearance of kyab Bobo the other ones are Little White Lies
covering their tracks not telling you everything about what they do on a regular basis or who they associate with
and why so the trouble here for the detectives is when you're TR when you're tracking down those lies and you're
sorting out who is telling me the truth and who is not and why here they got a little extra leg work to do a little
extra leg work and I think that's why I'm hoping anyway we don't know for certain but I hope that that's the case
that they are building a case they've sorted through a lot of the muck in the Meer here and they're they're honing in
on not just a location where she could be but who's responsible when if you saw something say something do the right
thing she had a family that loved her she had friends that loved her they deserve to know what happened
to her yeah and and look here you don't a victim is a victim is a victim right we don't just push aside a victim
because they had some struggles or they had some issues right does anybody want to put their hand up and say I don't
have any issues I don't have any struggles because if you put your hand up you might be lying or lying to
yourself we all have struggles we all have issues and I have a tanky leg I I got regrets yeah I got them okay
mhm so Kyla just like the captain said she loved and she was loved and so let's help out her family Let's help out the
sheriff's department Let's help out the people that that knew and cared about Kyla if you know something it's time to
come up come off that information heal your soul make your own soul feel better do it do it for selfish reasons tell
pass on that information we we don't care about the misdemeanor we're only looking for f
the sign on the wall says homicide that's all we care about so reach out to the St Clair Sheriff's Office the
current detective in charge is detective Matthew con you can reach out to the St
Clair sheriff's department and reach out to detective cone by calling 205 884 3333 your
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Kyla Bobo was 32 years of age when she went missing two years ago. She would be 34 today. Kyla was reported missing by her family in St. Clair County, Alabama. The St. Clair County Sheriff's Office Criminal Investigation Division described the investigation as complex, but did not release any additional information about the case. Authorities said Bobo was last seen in the Chula Vista area.

Kyla is described as 5'4" in height and weighs around 120 pounds. She also has brown hair and brown eyes. If you have any information about Kyla Bobo, please contact the Sheriff’s Office 205-884-3333.

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Brief Summary

Kyla Bobo went missing in Alabama in 2022; her case involves questionable accounts from acquaintances and ongoing investigations into potential foul play.

Key points

The Disappearance of Kyla Bobo. Kyla Bobo went missing two years ago, leaving behind a mystery that continues to haunt her family.
A Troubling Timeline. Kyla's last known movements raise questions about her disappearance and the people involved.
The Investigation Unfolds. Law enforcement investigates Kyla's disappearance, leading to more questions than answers.
The Disappearance. Kyla's case presents a troubling mystery as conflicting stories emerge.
Reward for Information. A local company offers a $5,000 reward for leads in Kyla's case.
Rumors and Leads. Local rumors suggest Kyla may have been placed in a well, complicating the investigation.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

Kyla was reported missing by her family.

Introduction to Kyla Bobo's case.

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Tension

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