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round grab a chair grab a beer let's talk some true crime foreign population 51 people wendyville is an
unincorporated community in Dallas County and is located about an hour or 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 wendyville 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 peppers Road not only will you find the burial plot
for the road in 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 windyville 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 wendyville Missouri is a creepy little town that seems to have
been lost in time ghosts in haunts in Missouri a St Louis organization relates that wendyville is said to have
some sort of Haunting in every deserted building including the wendyville 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 windyville and you might
want to think twice about making a visit there it's also home to spiritual Cults so
watch out proclaimed in October 2005 article and the USA Today newspaper these are some of the legends of
wendyville 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 thank you 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 in 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 lockley 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 tripwire 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 burnt 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 was 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 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 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 person's 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 from 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 and some type of cage and 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 the 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 and I thought 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 light 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 question 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 stays we talked about the strange photo that
was found down in Florida in the parking lot where it 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 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 of her 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 detective searches 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 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 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] 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 all right continuing along our little timeline here captain we're gonna go out
just a couple of days later this will put us at September 19th 2021. this is when police interviewed the accomplice
the uh what were you calling them scumbag scum and scummer oh scum and scum 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 accomplices 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 is 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 little convoluted here though is that we
know according to Timothy Norton's 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 when
we see this happen with so many cases 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 oh yeah 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 but you see what
I'm saying like 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 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 the 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 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 Cassidy 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 why 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 arrest that followed
and it saddens me to say this but first guess 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 men 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 sugar coating 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 the 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 in 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 rainwaters 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 or we found items of her clothing items that we know belong 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's 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 girlfriend's 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 let's come 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 good
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 Pro 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 and 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 in 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 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 no 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 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 he 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 a 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 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 rumors of all
these bad things happening in the past seems like this place is almost cursed and on top of that because of Cassie
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 it we have 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 kidnap victims
or remains across state lines and that these two may even be responsible for the missing Springfield three
foreign thank everybody so much for joining us here in the garage make sure you join us
tomorrow for part two of spookyville and until then be good be kind and don't litter
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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; Phelps and Norton arrested for kidnapping her in Wendyville, Missouri.

Key points

Welcome to Spookyville. The hosts introduce the haunted town of Wendyville, known for its eerie legends.
The Arrest of James Phelps. Two men are arrested in connection with the missing Cassidy Rainwater case.
The Arrest of James Phelps. James Phelps is arrested after detectives find incriminating evidence.
Timothy Norton’s Involvement. Timothy Norton admits to restraining Cassidy Rainwater, raising questions about his complicity.
Community's Concern. A local woman expresses her distress over Cassidy's disappearance and the ongoing investigation.
Waiting for DNA Evidence. Investigators confirm they are waiting for DNA evidence in Cassidy's case, stirring rumors.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

Wendyville is said to be haunted.

Introduction to the spooky reputation of Wendyville.

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Tension

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