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hmm [Music] wendyville missouri population 51 people wendyville is an unincorporated
community in dallas county and is located about an hour so drive northeast of springfield missouri
the community was so named for the frequently windy conditions but many people of missouri refer to
this town as spookyville because windyville is said to be haunted there are many rundown businesses in
multiple cemeteries that all have creepy things said about them in the 1800s there were multiple child
deaths if you go to the peppers cemetery located just less than a mile northeast
of the town conveniently off of pepper's road not only will you find the burial plot
for the road and cemetery's namesake civil war surgeon james pepper but also listen closely while you're
there as it has been reported that children's laughter can be heard coming from the
cemetery in wendyville at the lone rock cemetery there is a phantom horseback rider
guarding and watching over the hollowed ground on the mm highway there's an old bridge
the cross is a creek if you stop your vehicle here it has been told that you just might encounter a woman who walks
this bridge at night seemingly looking for her child visitors say that windyville missouri is
a creepy little town that seems to have been lost in time ghost in haunts in missouri a st louis
organization relates that windyville is said to have some sort of haunting in every deserted
building including the windyville store visitors have reported hearing terrifying screams coming from the old
cannery building from something called from the shadows true tales of the paranormal
wendyville is home to a woman with the head of a goat a spectral hitchhiker and be on the lookout for red eyes that
stare at people passing by the dead black windows of abandoned buildings many say that there are eerie things
that go on in wendyville and you might want to think twice about making a visit there
it's also home to spiritual cults so watch out proclaimed an october 2005 article in the usa today newspaper
these are some of the legends of windyville missouri population 51. but here in the garage we have much more
to talk about than just some stories coming out of an old ghost town because there are new legends coming out
of this tiny town stories that are less traditional popularly regarded as true but
unauthenticated and these stories are far more terrifying than the ones told around campfires at night
this is true crime garage and welcome to spookyville [Music] this week we take the flying garage ship
to the small town of windyville missouri and as you just heard you may want to think twice before going to windyville
or if you are traveling through the great state of missouri plan your route carefully but if windyville is a scary
and dangerous place well captain i have reason to believe that windyville just got very recently well it got a little
less dangerous and maybe a little less scary as well and that would be due to the arrest of two men that being 58 year
old james david phelps a long time resident of southwest missouri and more recently wendyville missouri
and his friend and likely accomplice if you will and that is 56 year old timothy
leroy norton a long-haul trucker who seems to hold no known permanent address before we get too far along in this
bizarre mystery coming out of spookyville i want to give a shout out to ky3.com for doing gangbusters work and
great reporting on this case in particular and this story is really making its way across our greatest of
nations the good old us and a because of a missing young woman and this is 33 year old
cassidy rainwater investigators say 33 year old cassidy rainwater has ties to dallas
green and lock lead counties all three are counties in missouri these are neighboring counties with lock lead
located just east of dallas county wendyville as said in today's trailer is located in dallas county and some of the
stories we're going to be talking about are coming out of lebanon missouri which is
the county seat for lock lead county now this is all very new very new stuff here
it's a missing person story that has rightfully got so many people really on edge
wondering what else may stem from this missing person's case and what other crimes and possibly even
other victims could be involved here from ky3 news the case has led to multiple arrests court proceedings and
new developments in recent weeks two suspects james phelps and timothy norton have been arrested and charged for the
kidnapping of cassidy rainwater both appeared in dallas county court on tuesday october 5th
now one night earlier the dallas county sheriff's office says a home near lebanon missouri connected to james
phelps was burned to the ground the missouri state fire marshal's office is investigating after the fire caused a
total loss to the home while the springfield fire department bomb squad responded after the discovery of a trip
wire okay so here we have two individuals suspected and being investigated in regards to this cassidy
rainwater missing persons case we have a brief timeline that i want to go through that will help to flesh out
this story a little better for those not familiar with the case but real quick before we get to that timeline i want to
underline something before we move on from those last two paragraphs the dallas county sheriff's office is
investigating this guy james david phelps age 58 and his weird friend timothy leroy norton age 56
and during the course of their investigation searching for clues and physical forensics evidence for their
cassidy rainwater investigation and arson fire caused a total loss to a home so the home is burned to the ground
certainly hindering hopefully not completely destroying their investigation and evidence that they
were hoping to find or collect now these two yahoos are locked up but from my understanding captain the fire
that burned the house to the ground was just one of james phelps properties which could be of importance but we will
circle back to that once we get through this brief timeline but i think ky3 summed up this story the best in the
following excerpt the dallas county sheriff's office is leading a months-long investigation into
the disappearance of cassidy rainwater an investigation that has taken multiple turns since september so let's go
through what we know about cassidy's disappearance and law enforcement's investigation now supposedly cassidy
rainwater disappeared or was last seen i think is the words we should probably use because that's what we're being told
was last seen on july 25th she wasn't reported missing two authorities until nearly a month later
and this is how this all went down according to officials on saturday july 25th 2021
james phelps told the police that this was the last date that he saw cassidy this is july 25th
he said that cassidy left his residence in the middle of the night and never came back
some reports say this was the last day anyone family members or otherwise reported seeing cassidy rainwater right
but it sounds to me captain that this is the last day that james phelps says that he saw cassidy because per
court records james phelps told police the last time he saw cassidy was on that date he told authorities that she left
in the middle of the night and never came back according to detectives cassidy rainwater was staying with james
phelps while she was going to get back on her feet again james phelps told authorities on july
25th or late july cassidy went outside in the middle of the night she walked to the end of his driveway
where he says that he saw her meet a vehicle at the street she gets inside and leaves and has not been seen nor
heard from since then according to james phelps when she moved in with him or came to
stay with him for a short period of time she was talking about moving to colorado
or to denver colorado and this is a somewhat believable story because cassidy seems to have some ties to the
state of colorado and possibly even the city of denver as well it appears that she lived there for some period of time
i don't know how long it looks like it was brief maybe a year or two and this would have been a few years ago now this
last july 25th date is important because according to additional court documents
ky3 learned that timothy norton the accomplice as i'm calling him was called to go to james phelps home by phelps
just one day earlier now james phelps is so ugly that his hair is running away from his face but all the pictures that
are relating to this case will be on our instagram at true crime garage or on our
facebook at true crime garage according to the information timothy norton was called over to help james phelps in
restraining cassidy rainwater and the documents go on to state that he was forcibly holding her
while a felony was being committed and now they don't necessarily state what that felony was um and we can speculate
if you like i think it would be a bit of spinning our tires to speculate what that felony was according to these same
court documents timothy norton admitted to going over to phelps place and admitted to helping
restrain the young woman now timothy norton looks like he smells timothy you stink the the odd
thing to me captain is they almost look like they could be related maybe cousins
or something i they for for some odd reason i feel like there's some resemblance between the two there
yeah scum and scummer then we are going to fast forward exactly one month see this story has these points
of interest along the way on this timeline here but also has these gaps of really no information at all these eerie
gaps in which we have nothing okay so exactly one month later puts us at wednesday august 25th
2021 on this day a family member of cassidy's contacted the dallas county sheriff's office this
person is reporting her missing saying we her family we have not heard or seen cassidy in quite some time
so this is when officially the investigation started into looking for cassidy rainwater now we go
to september 16th 2021 on our timeline when further developments unfold following this
active missing persons investigation this is when someone at the fbi contacted dallas county sheriff's
department the fbi is calling saying they have received an anonymous tip that cassidy rainwater was caged up on
james phelps property sick so for my understanding captain this is investigators with the federal bureau
of investigation contacting detectives at dallas county sheriff's office saying that somehow they have received
photos from an anonymous person showing cassidy rainwater locked up in a cage i'm wondering are they contacting
the fbi and saying here's a picture or pictures of cassie rainwater and she looks to be in trouble or or there's
this picture or multiple pictures of a woman in distress unnamed in some type of cage in these pictures
and what is going on in these pictures does not appear to be staged in any kind of way
so this person contacts the fbi we we don't know that the tip information is a bit
vague and what we do know is it sounds that the tip came by way of fbi and it was a person that wanted to
remain anonymous yeah not that i wanted to see the pictures but i looked for them
on google and couldn't find them but just imagine to be in law enforcement shoes and to receive pictures of a woman
in the nude in a cage the reports generally state that she was could be seen in a state of partially
nude inside of a cage the tricky thing here is there must have been something to elevate this
immediately into their investigation right somehow they connect these pictures to
cassidy rainwater or her being the likely person seen in the photos it could just be by them knowing who she is
and being able to identify her themselves or looking at those pictures and then looking at pictures that
they've maybe have received or maybe some social media accounts and they were able to
compare and contrast the pictures with those maybe some kind of facial recognition
software used to determine that it might be her i'm just questioning this not because i i questioned that it happened
i questioned how did the fbi so quickly get this to dallas county sheriff's department right the fbi is a federal
organization who's actively working the entire country of the united states cassidy
rainwater is missing in dallas county missouri a very specific location so i don't know i'm trying to connect some
dots here and again we just don't have enough information to really connect them well what i assume is that here's a
person that if you believe that this situation is not staged she's in immediate danger she's an immediate
threat for her life that's why i think law enforcement would be able to get all hands on deck to try to figure out where
she's located at and we've seen this before captain and talked about this on our show before where we've reviewed
some photos ourselves that are in some cases and even high profile cases really us the public we
look at them and wonder is this real or not is this something that's staged we talked about the strange photo that was
found down in florida in the parking lot where showed some kids that looked to be
tied up right still we sit here decades later and no one's identified or said that hey
we know who those kids are and they are this person or that person well it seems
like we've covered a lot of cases in the last five years where there's pictures of individuals that
nobody comes forward and and claims to be a family member or a friend the wording
on this next part is interesting to me this is from one of the better news reports out there that says quote
investigators say a detective a detective recognized rainwater in a partially nude state from a photo and
officials later discovered seven photos of cassidy rainwater after searching james phelps's phone
so dallas county sheriff's office they go out to follow up on this tip and that is when they find seven photos
on james phelps phone that will eventually lead to his arrest in this case i mean what an animal
though for him to put this woman into a cage and then take pictures of her and she's obviously it
seems like she's aware that the pictures are being taken over after his arrest captain he was taken to the dallas
county jail where he still remains to this day now of course this is important but we
what we have here is a missing person a tip sends police to speak with this james phelps he says yep i know her she
was staying with me and left in the middle of the night about three weeks ago so he's not denying that he knows
her he's not even denying that she was at his residence the detectives search his phone i don't
know if he agreed to let them view his phone or if they had a search warrant for it
i would think with how hot this case is or at least was for a few weeks in the news that often the warrants are easily
found by reporters and the wording in those reports is always of interest because most of the time the detectives
have to be fairly specific about what they are searching for why they are searching for it and why
they have reason to believe that they will find these items in this person's possession
and the significance of these items in relationship to the crimes committed or the crimes that they are investigating
seems to me the way it's reported is we have this picture and then once we they get a search warrant to
search his phone then we find another seven pictures on the phone so it seems like those pictures are
separate from the initial photo that they found possibly and we could dive into that and
i'd like to i just want to make sure i'm understanding your question before we move on too far
my suspicion is that it's not like a physical picture that they were handed right somebody contacted the fbi and
said hey i've seen this photo or these photos online and here are my concerns yeah that makes more sense to me than
one of them being printed out and the other seven not being printed out one thing that i found interesting was i
couldn't find really any exact quote or any definitive statement saying that they obtained these photos from his
phone or were viewing his phone because they had a warrant to do so they may have they may just been able to
keep it under wraps but i couldn't find anything definitively saying that they had applied for
or asked for certain warrants in this case and i'm guessing that they have here captain but what i'm really
questioning is what came first you know the chicken or the egg here was it the warrants and
then we have the arrest of these two individuals or did we have the arrest which then led to warrants for us to
search properties and phones and computers and things of that nature yeah that's a good question but i think like
you said it'd be a lot easier to attain if they're able to show a judge here as an individual that is missing james
phelps is the last person known to see her she was at his residency these pictures we believe are of his residency
a judge is going to sign off to search all his properties and his person and his phone and whatever you want
once you have that evidence agreed especially if you go out there and talk to him the first time and let's say you
see or witness nothing incriminating at this first encounter the first time you talk with him
but just him saying yes she was here and admitting that he knows her might be enough to get you certain
warrants like you pointed out and i'm just kind of circling around all of that like a vulture because i'm scratching my
head a bit with this we found similar pictures of cassidy on this man's phone rather than scratching
your balls if i'm one you know if one of my sick twisted hobbies is caging women
i'm not going to just offer up my phone for old johnny law to review right so if there was a warrant for the phone
or computer or the property when the detectives came a knocking on september 16th that fascinates me what led to the
warrant was there something in one of those online pictures that might indicate like you were pointing out that
she's being held on this man's property right something specific or some way of identifying whose
property or whose home it may be well it could be as simple as they are able to match something
with inside the first picture to something of his residency or you go to his residency and there's a freaking
cage you're there to ask james phelps some pretty standard and friendly questions and then
you as the detective can see something in plain sight a cage as you said or something from one of the photos that
tells them hey this is the location where these photos were taken and or maybe they were able to pull some
they could have been able to pull some kind of data from these online photos as well that's
right uh some metadata could tell them what the location possibly was at the time the pictures were taken but
however it goes down james phelps is arrested [Music] [Music] all right we're back cheers everybody
thanks for joining us here in the garage cheers to you colonel cheers to you captain he's back i'm back
we're all back [Music] all right continuing along our little timeline here captain we're going to go
out just a couple of days later this will put us at september 19 2021 this is when police interviewed the
accomplice the uh what were you calling them scumbag scum and scummer oh scum and
scummer dumb and dumber so i don't know who's scummier the one or the other but this is a scum
member number two timothy norton the accomplice as i'm calling him norton said he lived
in his vehicle because he was an over-the-road trucker i don't know what else they would be
over um under the road yeah over the water trucker the address listed for him in online
court systems and court documents show the same address as james phelps on moon valley road police say they
found some inaccuracies in his story in timothy norton's story now i have this address in my notes as 386 moon valley
road windyville missouri many of the articles will say the moon valley road property is near buffalo
missouri or the moon valley property is between lebanon and buffalo missouri that's simply just
because this windyville is so small you know what did we say population 51 people in the trailer so
they're going to reference the next biggest towns or cities but what's interesting
here is that we have this individual timothy norton who is a drives a truck over the road
and he's saying that he has no actual address and that he just you know when he's out on the road these
truckers they sleep in their truck yeah for the most part and he's saying look even when i'm home i either sleep in a
vehicle or his his truck and keeps it on the property the thing that's a little a little
convoluted here though is that we know according to timothy norton statements and what the sheriff's department
believes is that on the 24th there was a call that was made for him to help restrain
i'm guessing could this be as simple as dude is out sleeping in his truck and something happens inside that cabin
that james phelps lives in and calls him cell phone to cell phone and says hey i need you to come in here
and help me restrain this woman sickos on september 20th the police brought back timothy norton to interview him
again so at least two interviews with this timothy norton character that we are aware of that is when he admitted to
restraining cassidy rainwater back in july well and we see this happen with so many cases i i just don't understand
how this works maybe it's because i've never been put into that situation but it's like
yeah we're joking and calling him a scumbag but you're a scumbag because you helped him
but again i've never been in that situation if if i saw a partially nude girl and he was trying to restrain her
to put her back in the cage i'm beating the living [ __ ] out of him and calling the cops
and and making sure that she is safe but we see time and time again where these people say oh well i didn't kill the
individual but i helped bury the body because i didn't know what else to do or i helped burn
the body or you know i mean like there's so much we've seen that we've seen and it's just
like you know note to self if you if you go along with any of this stuff you are just as guilty you are
just as much of an animal and a monster as the individual that you are helping well
and you're right captain we've seen this dozens of times and it to me i always believe or have to believe that it means
that said person is guilty of something else we're just not aware of it i mean that's the only
reasonable explanation i can come up with in my mind as to why somebody would admit to helping move a body or help
bury a body i think that a lot of times that means that they had prior knowledge of what
was happening what was going on and at some point they were in so deep that they decided to help physically
and later admitted to it but don't ever really want to admit that hey i kind of knew this was all going on all along
well and again now circumstances change if you tell me that james had a a pistol on him
and said hey come in i need your help and you come in and there's this bad situation and he's holding a gun or
something he's like you need to help me that's different because now you're in threat
for danger of your life but even once you help restrain that person it is your human duty
to go get law enforcement get help make sure that this girl gets to safety but you see what i'm
saying like if if if somebody came to me in the middle of the night one of my best friends came to me and said hey
look man i got an issue come down to this park with me and i got down to the park and there's a dead body and they
said hey help me bury the body and i know there's all these jokes out there a true best friend will help you bury the
body no no no no you're not the true best friend your scumbag yeah my best friend says hey help me bury this body
not going along with it now if that individual has a gun and he's holding that gun and he's going hey
you're going to help me bury this body different circumstance well and if these reports are
completely factual that we've been able to review that are coming out in regards
to the story it states that norton says to authorities that he is aware or knows
that cassidy is being held at that property and the wording on that makes it sound
to me like he is aware or knows that she's being kept in a cage at phelps's property so kind of circling
around this before we move on again that is the phone call from july 24th the you know not calling asking to help
bury a body but the phone call that says phelps is requesting norton to help him
restrain cassidy and i just hope you know i don't know whether this was an actual phone call or an actual text or
what have you but i just hope and pray that restrain is not code for something much worse
now the next day on september 21st timothy norton was arrested he is being held at the dallas county
jail with no bond on september 23rd police depart from a scene on moon valley drive
it says moon valley drive in this report i'm i'm guessing they mean moon valley road the dallas county sheriff's office
continues to investigate the case by this point in our timeline more than two months have passed since the
disappearance of cassidy rainwater and the community members around the ozarks are searching for answers on her
condition and what just may have happened to her on september 21st one of the news outlets
spoke with a woman who said that she knows cassie rainwater and knows of the suspects
she spoke with ky3 on the condition of anonymity she said she can't wrap her head around all of this quote i've been
incredibly unsettled since the whole menagerie started she said i'm continuing to pray for her family i
can't fathom what her family is experiencing and i'm heartedly sorry that that happened so close to my home
the woman recalls cassie rainwater as being friendly saying she would stop by and she would talk to us when we were
outside working saying i don't think cassidy would have ever run off without keeping contact with her family she said
unfortunately captain i don't think that any people think that cassie ran off in this case
you know with the photos and with the arrests that followed and it saddens me to say this but
first guest to me says authorities are probably searching for remains at this point i agree with you and like i said
think about placing yourself in law enforcement i i know a lot of true crime enthusiasts are like man being a law
enforcement officer at times would be some enjoyable aspects to it or trying to solve a crime but to see photographs
like this and then have to go to the family and say look we we believe this is cassidy can you identify her in these
pictures and there's no way of sugarcoating what you're going to show them that's correct on september 23rd
2021 deputies returned once again to search around some properties in rural dallas county
including the home on moon valley for evidence in the investigation after several hours deputies departed
from the scene now on friday october 1st 2021 investigators confirmed they were waiting for dna evidence to return in
the disappearance of cassidy rainwater dallas county sheriff scott rice says it could be at least 30 days before
any results are returned okay so around this same time we have a lot of local rumors that start
making their way out of this rural part of missouri out to the rest of us in the surrounding parts unknown well i'm
assuming because like you said they're probably looking for her remains but if they found
a cage or area that they thought a cage was put they can test the carpet or the floor or the cage itself for touch dna
plus multiple items probably on the property yeah touch dna here's my guess here captain because this is where i
think if the rumor mill hadn't already been started up and firing on all cylinders
i think this statement from the sheriff saying hey we're waiting on the return of some dna evidence and it
could take 30 days or so before we get any results back that's going to get the rumor mill fired
up and rocking and rolling right so because there's a lot of speculation as to what that could mean
does that mean that they found remains that they think could be cassie rain waters
they're not saying that they're not saying that they've found any remains at all they're not saying that they have
reason to believe that cassidy rainwater is deceased you know here we sit months later and it's really just kind
of left out in the open it's left open-ended where we know it's a missing person's investigation they were
investigating the disappearance of cassidy rainwater at one point and then at some point that
investigation shifts to the angle of we're investigating these photos that the fbi became aware of these scary
photos and it's really just left here all this time later as well it's still a missing person's case we've arrested
these people we've searched this property over and over and over again and it's still
as it was in the very beginning a missing person's case and we don't know where cassie rainwater is well and sadly
at this point we don't have an announcement that they found cassidy right and that's where i think that
you're probably on to something here captain with your thoughts of well they're probably waiting on results from
something they found at the crime scene that necessarily doesn't have to be actual remains right it could be as you
said touch dna maybe they found some hair that they believe could be hers what you're going to do here as a
detective your number one objective obviously is let's find cassidy rainwater and hope
and pray that she's okay and she's alive and well and this is somehow some kind of
misunderstanding but there were crimes committed and we have some factual things that we do
know and that detectives would know at this point in their investigation and that is
one they have reason to believe that this woman was being held against her will that being the photos and two
now we have this dork who says yeah i know who she is and she was staying with me now we have dork's friend who says
yeah i helped i knew she was being held on the property and i helped restrain her on one occasion and now you're going
okay well that is almost an admission of guilt as far as the kidnapping charges go but you want
to do your due diligence and put in the extra effort so now before you go before
the court you want to say not only do we have all this that proves that this man or these
men were responsible for kidnapping this young woman because technically the definition of kidnapping is holding you
even it doesn't mean throwing somebody in a vehicle and driving off with them if you put a pla a person in a
place that they do not want to be if you force them into a place or hold them somewhere that they do not want to
be you've kidnapped that person and kidnapping newsflash is a pretty big crime it's a
pretty big deal so what you're going to want to do is you're going to want to show the courts
not only do we have these photos but when we searched this man's property we found
hair in the uh you know the bathroom sink or on this brush where we found items of her clothing items that we know
belonged to her you want to prove 100 beyond just their words that she was actually physically
there at some point but he's not denying that right so he i mean at first he's saying oh yeah well she stayed with me
she was getting back on her feet i think the pictures of her being in a cage is what is your slam dunk as far as
getting a guilty verdict on kidnapping correct again but your defense attorney i could
i could go look she was trying to get back on her feet and i have some weird fetishes and i paid her a little bit of
money to get into the cage but i think the slam dunk is when you have the other individual
scummer scum one and scummer say that he helped restrain her therefore it being a kidnapping correct
but that's why they call it building a case against someone you're not going to just stop there and go well this is go
looks good enough to me no you have access to what you believe is a crime scene you're going to collect physical
evidence and again you want physical evidence that prov that proves scientifically
throw their words out throw the pictures out that proves scientifically that there is
reason to believe beyond a reasonable doubt that this woman physically was at this cabin at
some point and you're going to build this case against these individuals again kidnapping is a big deal if you cannot
find or locate her remains right you're hoping to turn the screws on these guys at some point and get them to tell you
information that you want that they may not be willing to to give up at this point but also think
about it from law enforcement's perspective james phelps is 58 timothy norton is 56.
if they're restraining and kidnapping somebody and putting a 33 year old female into a cage
nude partially nude nude whatever this is probably not their first rodeo they're probably responsible for other
heinous crimes i absolutely agree with you here captain i would think that if this stuff is going on and
one you're doing this type of nastiness to begin with but two you've managed to get an accomplice to help you it seems
like they're kind of proficient i guess would be my thought in these types of acts or
i mean something has led to this now what's interesting though was i was really curious and i was expecting to
find maybe some red flags in either of these individuals backgrounds but there wasn't
really anything major so what little i was able to find about each one of them is
we have some very minor misdemeanor charges against both of them throughout their history some of them
dating back as early as 1992. it looks like right but this is really minor stuff so
with one individual with james david phelps what i could find on him was that he had
charges of passing bad checks at multiple times throughout his life and every time he pled guilty
to the charges and these again are very small charges misdemeanors where you just pay a fine and court cost right he
has traffic violations like most of us do as far as the other guy timothy leroy norton goes
he has again some traffic minor traffic violations one of them and i have this in my notes
but it's unclear to me which individual it is one of them has like game warden type charges right where
you're like hunting illegally or masturbating in the woods or catching fish that you're required to
release but not releasing them well i wish it was a little more clear on james phelps properties
because we can only see pictures of the one where there there was a fi the fire that took place
but it just seems like unkept land it seems at least on this property that there was actual buildings
you know what was he using these properties for well and i'm glad that you referenced that because
i forgot to circle back around to that one thing that i find to be very troubling with both of these individuals
is you know we said that this is james phelps property from my understanding he's actually renting this property the
property where the cabin burnt down and where they believe cassidy rainwater was
being kept i'm a little unclear on how long he's occupied this space it sounds to me like
it's been years and then scummer 2 living in his truck or whatever we're supposed to believe even if it's on the
property or off of the property what we're being told is he's sleeping in his vehicle on this property where
again cassie rainwater is believed to have been held both of them have other addresses you
know even though we said that norton doesn't seem to have any permanent address that's listed he has
other addresses that that can be found relatively easily and same with phelps now their married situation their
married status is a little unclear as well now i do know that i mean are they married to each other
right um because scum scum and scummer now what i mean by that is whether either of them are are currently married
i do know that timothy norton was married twice so far that i could find that's always the case 1988 and then
again in 1994 i couldn't find any as far as uh you know marital status on james david
phelps but i do know he was a class of 1981 at uh crane high school home of the pirates
um so yeah he he actually won an award most likely to be a a douchebag also james
phelps i i don't mean to correct your expertise but you missed something on his criminal charges he was he's been
charged multiple times with having a skull it that's where you have you're bald with the mullet
look if you're bald on top don't have a ponytail but yeah you're right captain something that
you wouldn't expect to find here is that these guys don't have any major red flags on their criminal history that we
could find now one thing that's weird in this case is that reporters were able to dig up that
property okay again the property that phelps was staying at and again we've said that
we've seen reports that say he was renting that property i've seen reports that references a guy
that built the cabin i cannot find who owns this property right and maybe they're doing that to
just protect the individual the use of multiple properties is weird to me only because we know this this guy has
photos we've seen photos on his phone according to police that he's caging women on his property yeah and some
reporters were able to dig up some information at least this is what their reports state
is that two convicted sex offenders are tied to that address are tied to that property somehow the
interesting thing here is as we stated what we could find it looks like phelps is fairly clean and
so is norton neither of these guys are registered sex offenders in the state of missouri yeah but there's a little thing
called human trafficking and maybe these guys got mixed up with some other bad dudes but this whole town seems a mess
it seems like there's all these like you said before rumors that it's haunted remembers of
all these bad things happening in the past seems like this place is almost cursed
and on top of that because of cassidy going missing there's rumors flying all over this
small town well i'm not going to accuse wendyville of being a mess i'm not going
to allow one bad apple to spoil the whole dang bunch i don't know much about two bad apples this town at
all to speak ill of the other 49 occupants of the town the haunting stuff is interesting to me and some of it
sounds quite terrifying but you know every one of these little towns especially when
you get out in the sticks they all have these stories that they've passed down for years and for decades
it's what the older kids use to scare the little kids and then the little kids grow up and then they scare the little
kids at some point with oh don't go into those woods don't go to that graveyard don't go on that bridge at night don't
go masturbating in the woods but like you were saying captain this case has sparked up a lot of rumors and again
some of it may come from the sheriff's own words of hey we're waiting from we're waiting to hear back on these dna
test results and look i do not fault him for stating that he's simply updating you on their case we're waiting on
results now maybe some people's minds ran wild their imaginations ran wild with what could that mean
well some of the rumors include the finding of meat hooks on the property where phelps was staying by law
enforcement officials acts of cannibalism additional victims possibly the remains of up to 12 or 13
people found on the property additional suspects caged victims and transporting kidnapped victims or
remains across state lines and that these two may even be responsible for the missing springfield three
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you join us tomorrow for part two of spookyville and until then be good be kind and don't litter
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www.TrueCrimeGarage.com Happy Halloween from your Garage friends! There are some pretty scary stories and rumors coming out of a tiny town in Missouri. Stories of meat hooks, cannibalism and serial killing. These rumors and stories all stem from an ongoing Missing Persons Investigation. The last reported sighting of 33 -year old Cassidy Rainwater was back in July of 2021. With a tip from the F.B.I. the Dallas County Sheriff’s office is investigating after receiving a photo of the woman partially nude and caged. Some of the locals call this place Spookyville. Join us in the Garage for some Halloween fun as we crack a couple and take a look at this open investigation and discuss just what might come of it.

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Brief Summary

Cassidy Rainwater went missing; James Phelps and Timothy Norton arrested for her kidnapping in eerie Wendyville, Missouri.

Key points

Welcome to True Crime Garage. Hosts introduce the show and set the tone for the episode.
The Haunting of Windyville. Exploring the spooky legends surrounding Windyville, Missouri.
The Disappearance of Cassidy Rainwater. A young woman goes missing, leading to a tense investigation.
A Disturbing Tip to the FBI. The FBI receives an anonymous tip about Cassidy Rainwater's whereabouts.
Discovery of Disturbing Photos. Law enforcement finds incriminating photos on James Phelps's phone.
Timothy Norton Interviewed. Police interview Timothy Norton, an accomplice, who admits to restraining Cassidy Rainwater.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

This is a creepy little town that seems to have been lost in time.

Description of Windyville's eerie atmosphere.

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Tension

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