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[Music] in part one we discussed The Disappearance of 34-year-old Micah holsen bake The Disappearance of
20-year-old Bailey despot and the driveby shooting of murder victim age 38 James colad two missing one killed all
within 33 days of another the families of the three were United drawing media attention and working with police in mid
2019 police said the cases were in fact connected after the horrific discovery of the arm inside the duffel bag murder
victim Micah his father Lance holsen bake said that the family thought that they would feel better once they knew
what happened to Micah but the knowledge that he was dismembered was hard to take
his mother Cheryl said quote really difficult to not only know that your child was killed but that someone
thought so little of them that they dismembered them and threw them out like trash and the other question is they're
not able to tell us whether he was dismembered when he was alive or postmortem one year after she last heard
from her daughter Bailey Jane said quote I cry more I go to counseling it's just
hard not knowing where your kid is and thinking she's possibly chopped up like Micah end quote and James's mother said
that the three moms had become very close during their time together and they lifted each other up the three had
lobbied the kar County Board of Supervisors to fund the secret Witness Program of the Kern County Sheriff's
Office to facilitate anonymous tips Jane was determined to find her daughter Bailey and suspicious of Bailey's
boyfriend that she was living with Matthew Queen Jane was right to be concerned and suspicious as just
mentioned Queen had two pending criminal cases against him at this time and both
were for being a felon in possession of a firearm these charges were brought after Bailey and Micah disappeared and
he would soon rack up more charges well let's take a look at what one FBI profiler said about this case yes
Captain as we mentioned an episode of Dr Phil of the Dr Phil show which aired in
January 2019 brought national attention to the Bakers field 3 case now a former FBI profiler named Candace Delong
addressed the case positing that one person killed Micah and was also involved in Bailey's disappearance and
someone else connected to that same killer shot James quote there is a connection between the three they ran in
the same circles they knew some of the other parties involved and those other parties were involved in criminal
Behavior gun running illegal gun sales and drug sales end quote that's what dong said she also said that she
believed Bailey knew what happened to Micah and that in turn put her in danger the same man probably ordered the hit on
James Miss Delong must have had inside information because her profile of the killer was
eerily accurate she said he was a white male 35 to 40 who cohabits with a woman and also has kids quote he's a violent
guy and people know that he's a scary guy he's also smart and dangerous end quote he likely drives a macho car well
I'm no expert I'm just a captain but it sounds to me as if the profiler is des describing Matthew Queen I think that's
spot on my friend by January 2019 some information started to trickle out about the Bakersfield 3 case which was being
worked by Bakersfield Police Department at the time with the assistance of the Karns County Sheriff's Office so in June
of 2018 the Sheriff's Office executed a search warrant the news agency kg reported that the search warrant
revealed that law enforcement was investigating Bailey Micah and Matthew queen as well as three others for
manufacturing and selling illegal guns remember Micah had told his dad that he was providing guns for people MH before
he went missing James was shot and killed leaving the home of a doctor who was arrested on illegal gun charges
Bailey had been arrested with Matthew Queen in December of 2017 on gun charges the guns that were found in Matthew
Queen's vehicle when they were pulled over it was beginning to look like one big gun conspiracy for the Bakers field
3 Jane told kg quote the stuff they were involved in these people know they all know each other it's a big circle of
criminal activity over here in rosale in July of 2019 your boy Matthew Queen Captain was
arrested again charges unrelated to Bailey but these are still very serious and scary charges they were kidnapping
burglary manufacturing and assault weapon possession of a firearm by a felon and resisting arrest and those
weren't all there were also charges of assault on a person with Force causing great bodily injury making threats with
intent to terrorize and brandishing a deadly weapon other than a firearm that last charge is particularly frightening
to me I don't know exactly what that means but here's a rundown of that incident Captain while out on bail he's
already in trouble now he's out on bail and he's still up to no good after the December 2017 gun arrest in January
Matthew Queen and two others went to the home of Caleb seeler seeler was involved
in illegal gun manufacturing and drug dealing along with Matthew Queen Matthew Queen and his cronies were granted
access to the home by seer's roommate somehow they either pushed their way in or the
roommate let them in my guess here Captain is that the roommate felt extremely threatened or saw guns and
said you know what I'm not getting killed today Matthew Queen is wearing a bulletproof vest he's now in seer's room
Caleb seer's bedroom right and he's waving a gun and yelling seal when Matthew Queen walks into this room
is actually asleep with his girlfriend so he starts to wake up he wakes up to see this dude and a couple guys with him
Matthew Queen's in a bulletproof vest waving a gun and shouting threats at him and his girlfriend Matthew Queen accused
Caleb seeler of snitching to the cops about Queen's possessing guns resulting in the December arrest
so here's one thing that's really would be very interesting to know about this story because this situation of
Matthew Queen and Bailey despot getting pulled over in that car and all those guns
being found in the vehicle seems to be a really big kicking off point or one of the kicking off points in this whole
case right the information I would like to know and I know this is probably going to come out sooner rather than
later and we'll get into that here in a minute but the information I would like to know
is why were they pulled over why was that vehicle pulled over because it's pulling them over that leads the cops to
finding all those guns in the car now we have to look at this through Matthew's perspective Matthew
Queen he again is either paranoid because he's up to all this criminal activity or paranoid because of the
criminal activity and drugs drugs it gets very difficult to say but what what the issue is here Captain is that we
don't know why that vehicle was pulled over and I would love to know why because Matthew Queen seems to believe
that his car was targeted and he was targeted because somebody snitched on him that ratted him out that hey this
guy's got all these illegal guns and maybe they just pulled him over willy-nilly or found a reason to pull
him over because they knew guns were inside yeah if if somebody calls in a tip to law
enforcement yes you can't just they can't just go pull over that vehicle but they can follow you and they can nitpick
any little thing that you do wrong oh you you turned and you didn't use your turn signal oh we thought you got a
little too close to that curb you're not wearing your seat belt right you sneezed
the wrong way yeah you're picking your nose a little too deep so again it would be interesting to find out why he was
pulled over because because that whole incident is what leads us to this portion of our story
where he's now in this Caleb sealers bedroom waving a gun wearing a bulletproof vest threatening this dude
it's because he accuses Caleb of snitching to the cops about him possessing guns that resulting in his December
arrest he also accused Caleb of ratting him out about the location of a gun safe
he then forced Caleb into a Chevy Silverado at gunpoint where Matthew Queen sat behind him holding a gun to
his head during the drive and per bakersfield.com one of the victim's roommates said he looked scared to death
that Caleb looked scared to death as he was forced into this Chevy Silverado it's said that they drove around the
city with Matthew Queen interrogating Caleb about all kinds of different things threatening him and saying things
like he was going to smoke him right now one topic that seemed to be of concern to Matthew Queen was the identity of an
individual whose name was redacted in police reports Matthew Queen had these police reports in his hand while he's in
the back of the Silverado gun to Caleb's head threatening him he's got the police
report and it says who snitched on him but that name has been blacked out he can't see who snitch on him well he's of
the belief that Caleb possibly could have been the person whose name was blacked out from those police reports
Matthew Queen tells Caleb that the snitch could only have been one of two people it was either him Caleb
or it was who he was then referring to as his ex-girlfriend Bailey right so they eventually drove to the river and a
van down by the river and Matthew Queen forced Caleb to walk into the river with
the gun muzzle pressed against his head but for whatever reason Matthew didn't shoot Caleb it's not clear why he would
let him go but first he took the cell phone batteries from both Caleb and his girlfriend remember she was in the the
bedroom with Caleb he took the cell phone batteries out of both of their cell phones Caleb this guy he was so
scared he later told investigators that the two of them left town he and his girlfriend just left town he stated that
he did not want to stay in Bakersfield for any reason at all because he was afraid of what Matthew Queen could do to
him this is a scary situation right and th and this information is going to get back to law enforcement yeah somehow
it's not clear who reported it I have a hard time believing that it would be Caleb or the girlfriend because they
clearly just wanted to get out of Dodge and it may be fact it may be the truth that somebody else filed this
report and later police found Caleb Andor the girlfriend and interviewed them at that time but somehow this whole
kidnapping threatening to kill Caleb story makes its way to the police and in July the police decide well we're going
to go talk to this Matthew Queen guy about this specific incident so when they showed up at a construction site
that Matthew Queen was working at he sees police he decides to run he's jumping fences and scrambling over
obstacles we have uh pieces of the charging documents here that say he being Matthew right disregarded
numerous commands from officers climbed over several fences onto the roof of a business and ultimately entered the
river where he continued to ignore officers commands for more than one hour it almost sounds like a little bit of a
standoff here right Captain so this Matthew guy he's he literally jumped into the river and he's clinging to one
of those concrete pillars later charging documents allege that while resisting arrest he tried to he's like egging the
officers on trying to get them to shoot him well come on if Queen was a black man they would have shot him
when he's first started running and jumping those fence and now he's taunting them there should be like a
taunting penalty like there is in the NFL you taunt the police too much they get to hit you with their Billy culbs
this Matthew Queen is a a lunatic yes yes the lunatic and and amongst other things as well now Matthew Queen knew
that he was cornered he eventually surrenders in the situation afterward they searched his home and his car and
of course they found a handgun like that described by Caleb a non-registered semi-automatic rifle was also found and
a loaded 30 round high capacity magazine and they found drugs as well now as a felon Matthew Queen was not supposed to
be in possession of any guns and he was already on bail for the December 2017 weapons arrest this guy gets in trouble
he continues to get in trouble and even when he's threatened with jail time prison time he's going to continue to
get in trouble because he's a career criminal he's a person that's just going to offend and reoffend again and again
and what we're also seeing here Captain is this dude is going to go and enforce amongst others when he is
threatened with punishment he's going to threaten punishment on those that he think may have led police to him right a
very dangerous person because they they have nothing in their life they have nothing to lose and they have no care in
the world nor do they have any empathy for anybody or these career criminals like this they're almost a just a
different breed of human right it's almost like they're not really human at all right um that they
don't share the same brains or Souls that the rest of us do so Matthew Queen he ends up being held on bail of over $1
million thankful on two firearm possession charges and one charge of ammo possession more
charges were piled on this in December uh late December December 31st to be exact including two counts of possession
of an assault rifle and two counts of possession of a firearm and ammo by a felon police still had not charged
Matthew Queen in any of the Bakers field three cases though nor had they even named him as a suspect ector a person of
interest by this point now that he was locked up they could take their time and the families felt more at ease now that
they could help work the case with police and that this Matthew Queen could not hurt anyone else yeah and because
he's behind bars that you also then hope that other people then come forward with
more information yes and it that's when you Circle back and you start questioning people that you have tried
or attempted to interview before and you're starting off the new conversation with going you do know we have Matthew
Queen in custody and he's not getting out now we need to talk to you about this this and this yeah because you
could give us more information that keeps him away from everybody else and keeps everybody safe and and possibly
locks them up for the rest of his life and you may the risk of retaliation by Matthew queen that has diminished
greatly now the problem though captain that the uneasy feeling that many are still going to have
is clearly what we're seeing here by this point in our story it's obvious to everyone that a lot of these people are
running in these circles that involve a lot of criminal activity and so you have Matthew Queen
who obviously seems to be some kind of enforcer some kind of psychopath but you know he might not be
the only one Within These circles that you need to be afraid of so it's a really it's a I mean it's just really a
horrible horrible situation that no one would want to find themselves in the middle of in May of 2020 there was a
huge announcement from the karna County's DA's office a massive investigation including DNA testing cell
phone triangulation wirs prison call recordings multiple search warrants social media review and scores of
interviews resulted in many criminal charges here is the press release in its entirety on Wednesday May 27th 2020
district attorney Cynthia Zimmer was joined by Bakersfield Police Department chief Greg Terry and announcing the
filing of first-degree murder charges against Matthew Queen and Bailey despot for their alleged roles in the 2018 of
Michael holsen bake James colad Michael holsonbake and Bailey despot have been referred to as the Bakers field 3 as
they were a group of connected people who were either killed or went missing in 2018 the murder charges are part of
criminal filing that includes 34 criminal charges encompassing alleged criminal conduct that ranges from
December 200 17 through July of 2019 in addition to the alleged first-degree murder of holen bake
Matthew Queen and Bailey despot are both charged with a conspiracy to murder and
torture hsen bake as well as with the actual torture and kidnapping of holsen bake despot and queen are also jointly
charged in with the unlawful manufacturing of assault weapons the majority of the additional charges
pertain to Queen and include criminal threats kidnapping assault with a firearm and other unlawful and other
unlawful weapons charges although biley despot has been reported missing since 2018 there is no known physical evidence
that definitively confirms her possible death as a result of the filing of charges and
arrest warrant will be issued for Bailey despots arrest Matthew Queen is already
in custody and will be arraigned on new charges some of the filed charges against Queen are duplicative of several
filed cases for which he is already in custody awaiting trial the filing of this case incorporates all of Queen's
pending charges into the current filed case district attorney Cynthia Zimmer offered a reminder that an accused is
presumed innocent until proven guilty in the court of law and commented about the
dedicated work that led to the filing of charges and this extensive investigation
saying quote this yearslong investigation was made possible by the combined efforts of the Bakersfield
Police Department and the District Attorney's office our common goal is to never stop searching for answers on
homicide crimes and our combined dedication to solving this case has never wavered end quote
so this press release seems to indicate that not only do police have no clue what happened to Bailey right they seem
to think it's possible that she is alive that she is on the run after being an accomplice to murder mic
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favorite people in the world he's back I'm back back good to be back cheers to everybody the other thing that we learn
here Captain is what prosecutors are basically alleging well we learned a couple things don't don't do drugs don't
sell illegal weapons don't be friends with somebody that sells illegal weapons don't be friends with somebody that
sells illegal drugs the prosecutors are alleging that Matthew Queen procures and
manufactures AR-15s used you know connections that he has and equipment at his disposal Bailey's involved in being
involved with him and possibly advertising that this guy's making and selling weapons and
Micah is the one that is believed to have actually sold these weapons or at least some of
them now this is going to bring us to another person who ultimately is a third third defendant because
remember the state is charging Matthew Queen and missing Bailey despot both with murder charges so those are two
defendants right now we have a third defendant and his name is Matthew Vandy Castile who was also charged with
kidnapping and consp conspiracy prosecutors alleg that Vandy Castile was part of a criminal Enterprise with
Matthew Queen with Mike and with Bailey they were illegally manufacturing guns including AR-15s and
as you said selling drugs now when this guy was charged with conspiracy in connection with Micah's murder well
Matthew van Castile struck a deal with prosecutors he spoke to detectives while in Wasco State Prison serving time on
unrelated charges here's what he had to say about what happened to Micah and what happened to Bailey this is all
according to kg who we've cited multiple times who we've said have done gangbusters work on
this very complicated case they found the following through court documents and it says that Micah holen bake was in
way over his head he was dealing cocaine according to informants and he was also
in debt to various dangerous groups like the Hell's Angels and air quotes the cartels he had made some seriously
dangerous enemies then he allegedly stole a gun from Matthew Queen probably maybe even for self- protection
and then this Vandy Castile told investigators that Micah had lifted a 44 revolver off of Matthew
Queen and queen knew about it and was pissed one night toward the end of March 2018 Queen asked Vandy Castile if he
could use his detached garage at his home this is an apartment at 3029 North Half Moon Drive in Bakersfield Matthew
Queen and Bailey remember she's his living girlfriend at this time kidnap Micah at gunpoint they take him to Vandy
castile's house where they had already prepared the garage for his arrival if you will right
the plan here is to get information or get whatever they want from Micah and they might have to torture him in the
process to get him to confess to the gun theft and tell them what they want to know so Bailey and Matthew Queen they
zip tied Micah in this garage and they're questioning him in the garage for several hours Vandy Castile said he
didn't see the victim and said as far as he knew they were just going to torture
Micah to get him to talk he didn't know that they were going to kill him but but
he admitted that at one point Bailey came into the apartment where he was grabbed a pairing knife and then returns
to the garage then a second time she comes into the apartment and grabs a pair of scissors now here we are quoting
from kg says quote eventually despot this is Bailey re-entered Vandy castile's apartment and was visibly
shaken pale as a ghost and seemed flustered and responded to a back bedroom to change her clothing the
documents say before despot and queen left queen told Vandy Castile that he had cleaned everything up and it was
okay to go inside the garage Vandy Castile entered the garage and noticed a red grap fruit sized
spot the karna regional crime lab later concluded the stain tested positive for blood that was a DNA match to Micah
holsenbeck the day after the garage in incident Vandy Castile told police Matthew Queen returned to his residence
and said he needed help disposing of Something Matthew Queen had a large black plastic storage container with a
yellow lid in the rear of his SUV Vandy Castile stated he believed the storage container had a body inside but does not
know that for a fact he told Matthew Queen he didn't want to leave his home and so Matthew Queen leaves good idea
Vandy Cass Ste yeah yeah don't leave don't go help dispose anytime somebody says I need help disposing of something
the answer is always no nope it's got to be always no I don't even want to know what you're disposing of well some
people just need to dispose of old like TV set or maybe some video games or some
comic books or baseball cards unless it's a large sum of cash I'm not helping you dispose of it you can dispose of it
right into my account yeah chaing so Queen returns to Vandy castile's residence several hours later this is
after he left after you know Vandy Castile won't help him dispose of something when he returns this is
several hours later Matthew Queen's SUV was muddy as if he had driven it Offroad and Vandy
Castile then finds out about Micah holsen bake missing two days later or at least what that's what he told the
police now so let's be clear here it seems certain that Vandy Castile knew more about what was going on in his
garage than what he's telling police right it seems like he was either lying about the extent of his involvement or
he had deliberately looked the other way while this torture and murder occurred he says at least he tells police that
hey I thought they were just going to torture Micah but what kind of freaking sentence is that that what kind of
statement is that to the police when you hear or have knowledge of a torture doesn't any psych reasonable logical
psycho half intelligent person psycho know that that could end in Murder Psycho Killer right you don't just go oh
they were just they were just going to torture him for a little bit no big deal no you always got to assume the
possibility of that ending in Murder what if Micah or whoever the victim is doesn't tell them what they need to know
or what they're looking to find out right or doesn't know the information there you go but police had no choice
but to cut a deal with this Vandy Castile guy and this is because they needed to secure his testimony so
without it they might never have been able to put together a case against Matthew Queen now what's weird though is
that they also charged Bailey according to Vandy Castile she was equally involved as Matthew Queen in
this murder but it's odd right it's kind of a weird thing charging a missing person for murder seems as though it
could be like some kind of tactic to get other jurisdictions to be on the lookout
for this Bailey person dead or alive uh or maybe they're right maybe they they are correct and she is indeed
On The Run running from future charges or potential charges of murder or possibly running from them right I mean
you just saw we don't know what her involvement is they they must have some kind of
evidence I don't think they would just take this individual's words uh they might have Fingerprints of hers they
might have her DNA if they know she's involved in this it's not that far out of the realm of possibility that she got
spooked herself and then took off and she knows one if I if you if I come forward you're going to arrest me but if
I come forward there's a possibility that somebody's going to hunt me down and torture me and murder me as well
well and the other thing that I got to believe too here Captain is you have a situation where you probably have all
the circumstantial evidence against Matthew Queen for at least the murder of Micah holsen bake mhm but if you're if
your number one weapon for putting this guy away is Vandy castile's testimony well according to what he's telling you
is that he not only witnessed Matthew Queen there in his detached garage but he also witnessed
Bailey there as well so if that's going to be your your number one Avenue for putting this guy away well you're going
to need to imply that on the other person that he's saying was present as well right because if we're going to
have a jury believe his story well then we need to believe his story and if we law enforcement believe his story then
we better be charging everyone that he's naming as guilty parties so of course a warrant was
issued for her arrest for Bailey's arrest but knowing what we know about Matthew Queen and what violent dangerous
piece of [ __ ] this guy is piece of [ __ ] it's really difficult for me to believe
that Bailey got to walk away I agree and remember we have this other guy Caleb sealer who's
saying when Matthew Queen was threatening me he had police documents he had the incident report that had a
name blacked out of the person that ratted on Matthew Queen and this name is blacked out and
Matthew Queen Is Telling Caleb as he's threatening him gun to the Head standing in the river like dude all I got to do
is pull this trigger and right where you drop is right where the body will be disposed of you will fall right into the
river and hopefully the current will take you away that's a pretty big that's a pretty big threat we have this
individual saying to police that Matthew Queen told me that the name could only be one of two people me or Bailey so
very difficult to believe that Bailey got the opportunity to walk away here or that Matthew would let her walk
away and I think that a lot of this stuff that we've already discussed is indications that he didn't let her walk
away well and like you said I mean there there suspicious of her but we have no evidence that she's still alive they
obviously don't have law enforcement doesn't have any evidence that she's dead but that's where I'd lean towards
and you're right they also don't seem to have evidence that she's alive either so
according to kg Bailey was freaked out by the murder of Micah which she either witnessed or actively participated in
and Matthew Queen was worried that maybe Bailey was going to crack and him out and then we have Vandy Castile who's
going to testify against Matthew Queen he's telling police that everyone including Matthew Queen believed that
Bailey was a snitch and that she cooperated with law enforcement in connection with the December 2017 case
where she and Matthew Queen were arrested on those Firearms charges so this fandy Castile guy stated that after
the murder Bailey started falling apart mentally and Matthew Queen probably thought she could not be trusted Vandy
Castile told police he believed Bailey was disposed of because she knew what had taken place in Vandy castile's
garage Matthew Queen denied any involvement in Bailey's disappearance and it's not just that he said I didn't
do it he told investigators that Bailey had cartel connections through her father and that they probably did
something to her and he suspected her of working with law enforcement he said perhaps turning on him but he's not
saying that she went into like some Witness Protection Program he's saying that she had some connections with the
cartel and once everybody figured out that she uh snitched on everybody that somebody murdered her because of that
exactly he's he's not giving any hope that she's alive in fact he's saying that his belief is that she's dead but
somebody else killed her no when you see these shows like Ozark you just don't think this stuff is real and this is a
real life case that could this could be a Netflix series and a very recent case too as well and so these charging
documents that we went through they contain some more information about what possibly happened to Micah CU remember
at this point we only have the arm recovered in the duffel bag so according to some informants his body was largely
dissolved in acid others reported that he was buried somewhere outside of Taft and remember how we said it seems likely
that Vandy Castile probably knew more or was more involved than what he's telling
police well according to kg detectives searched Vandy castile's Gmail account and found
it contained searches during the week of holsome bake's disappearance for lie chemical formula or lie for sale and how
long does it take to dissolve a human body specifically Vandy Castile or of course someone with access to his
computer searched how long does it take to dissolve a human body could you imagine being this type of individual
and then deciding that you need a Gmail account okay let's uh how about uh guns drugs boats and ho@ gmail.com well these
charging documents also seem to imply that Micah was not just killed over this little beef between him and Matthew
Queen about a stolen gun rather it seems possible that Matthew Queen was working
for someone else or at least acting on behalf of someone else when he took Micah out and this again per report says
several people told investigators that holsen bake was dealing a large amount of cocaine the court filings say and a
couple witnesses surmised that he was killed over drugs and that there was cartel type involvement I mean who knows
how how big this thing could get according to several witnesses Matthew Queen had quite the
reputation that's I mean I think it goes without saying at this point statement right I guess he was known as The
Boogeyman of Bakersfield booger everyone agreed that he was dangerous terrifying
and not to be messed with an ABC 23 reports that Witnesses told investigators that Micah was afraid of
Matthew Queen and that Matthew Queen may have kidnapped and threatened Micah in the past before he was kidnapped
tortured and then murdered so a separate incident so one witness says that in early 2008 she and Micah were hanging
out at her mom's house Matthew Queen shows up picks them up but instead of driving them to his house as I guess the
plan was he takes them to an orchard out in the sticks somewhere off of Renfro Road for a nice date she knew that
Matthew Queen had beef with Micah not only had Micah stolen a gun from him but he also owed Matthew Queen money Micah
was worried that Queen was going to kill him so as Queen's driving Micah jumps out of this moving vehicle and runs away
he calls his friend Caleb sealer remember him we've already talked about him and ask Caleb to come and pick him
up but ended up getting arrested by a passing police officer and it's I don't know exactly what the charges were Micah
told Caleb after this incident that Matthew Queen had kidnapped him at gunpoint once Micah was out of the car
Matthew Queen takes the female we still have the girl that was with Micah he takes her to that Orchard and he forces
her to her knees while pointing an AR15 at her and asking her how she would like
her child to grow up motherless he threatened to kill her if she didn't tell him whether Bailey was faithful to
him just Days Later police alleged that Bailey and and Matthew Queen murdered and dismembered Micah God this this
guy's a real dangerous [ __ ] bag well we know that the bakerfields 3 are all connected in some way but how does
James's murder the driveby shooting relate to the the other two right and that's difficult because we
have law enforcement that eventually do say that they believe that all three cases were
related and you know it it doesn't seem unlikely that Matthew queen or someone he knew
possibly took James out but charging documents State the detectives found no evidence linking James's murder to that
of Micah or to Bailey's disappearance so this is a newer development in this case
now they have said that the three of course traveled in the same circles and knew many of the same people people so
while it's still possible these charging documents clearly state that detectives found no
evidence linking those two cases remember captain that we talked about how the families
were an integral part of setting up that secret witness hotline remember because
we have possible Witnesses we have people that know these victims know the perpetrators that probably do not want
to talk to police because either they're worried about losing their own lives the
threat of violence or being tortured in a garage they may be committing crimes of their own even if they're just lower
level crimes they may not want to have much involvement with law enforcement because of the circles they run in well
one thing that these documents maintain is that once this secret witness hotline was set up in in this
case in the Bakers field 3 case actually Matthew Queen was phoning false tips to
the secret witness hotline right so he's basically throwing out their misinformation and false tips and trying
to lead police down different avenues that do not lead to him and they were able to put this
together based off of language that was used during the course of those tips and
the times that they interviewed him where he would use similar words similar statements and they were able to make
that connection and I mean it really seems It's a a little dumb but it's also quite diabolical when you think about it
it's it's this this career criminal this enforcer this person that's going to retaliate against you and he's going to
go to all these efforts to cover up his crimes look at look at the efforts that were made in the Micah holsen bake case
and that leads us back to back to Micah holsen bake on August 19th 2021 another piece of this man was found
a skull was found near an overflow parking lot at piles Boy camp off of Henry Mayo Drive in Valencia that's
disgusting the Santa Clara River it flows nearby the skull was determined to belong to Micah hmig some sick [ __ ] and
per news outlets we have the family again stating quote we want to bring Micah home but bringing him home one
piece at a time is just just unbearable and it could last for years that's his father's statement and his father goes
on to say because every time there's something else found it's a good thing but it's also a very very difficult
thing one of the things that makes this case a little more interesting to me this week is Matthew Queen the trial of
Matthew Queen is basically happening as we speak yes it is so this is very much a live and and active case still to this
day while we're covering it now in September of 2021 last year Matthew Vandy Castile who again he was already
in prison he entered a no contest plea on charges of being an accessory to murder false imprisonment and felony
possession of a firearm he also admitted to a robbery he had committed in Washington in return for a 4-year
sentence on all of those charges and remember remember he agreed to testify at the upcoming trial of Matthew Queen
the trial that we are has either started by the time this hits your earballs or it is in the process of starting so we
will be interested to hear what Matthew Vandy castile's testimony is against Matthew Queen now Caleb
sealer the guy that was threatened by Matthew Queen uh at gunpoint he's in his own trouble and this is
because he was engaged in all kinds of illegal activities with Matthew Queen in October of 2021 he pled no contest to
possession of a firearm by a felon and in June of 2021 th this is stemming from an
incident in June of 2021 when probation officers found a short barreled AR-15 style rifle two 9mm handgun frames two
silencers ammunition and high capacity magazine in Caleb's home and of course as a felon he's prohibited from having
any of these items I would like to commend the probation officers for checking in on this guy a lot of times
these guys they they go off the prison or they get probation and they might have to go check in with their
po but a lot of times the POS are not doing house checks and I don't know what exactly led the the probation officers
to Caleb in this incident but I like when I hear that POS are going to going to the uh the individuals out on
probation going to their homes and checking in on them in in their own setting now Matthew's as the captain
pointed out Matthew Queen's trial was originally scheduled to start February 28th
2022 um there has been a recent hearing that may have changed that may change change this date so we're kind of
waiting for this thing to fully kick off here uh and and just a buyer beware that
when you're listening to this again his trial may have already started by the time that this hitch your earballs now
Matthew Queen unfortunately you know the captain and I don't mind a little prison
justice but Matthew Queen to me seems like the type of guy that will thrive in prison and may even have some
connections already may already have some friends before before he even gets there well rumor has it he has very soft
hands as for the Bakers field 3 moms the news that one of the kids was alleged to
have killed another you know with the Bailey being involved in Micah's death yeah
thankfully it it did not tear the group apart right you know they they're a United group they're going through
something together none of them signed up for this they're still Vic none of these moms none of these parents none of
these families signed up for this they're all finding themselves in a situation that no one would sign up for
and I'm very glad to report that it seems that none of this information has torn them apart from one another they
remain strong they made a video together thanking everyone for their support this
case is finally coming to an end getting some closure here the charity they formed together it's called the
Bakersfield 3 charity they worked with the Kern County Board of Supervisors to provide
$177,000 towards new sonar equipment for the kar County Sheriff's Office and search and rescue unit right the three
moms told abc23 that their mission is to bring victims of violent crimes missing
persons and their families together to build hope and strengthen Kar County through Community engagement and Victim
Advocacy now sadly Captain you know we're often asked to give our opinion and give our conclusion and our final
thoughts on these cases and really what I see here long story short to me it's a
very sad situation that I'm sure is unfortunately repeated in other great cities throughout this great nation but
here I see all indications that point to three individuals that came from good backgrounds and had their whole lives
ahead of them and they were leading good lives at one point but they got mixed up
in drugs and became seriously addicted to opiates Andor meth meth addictions that led to their
associations with some Psychopathic hardcore criminals yeah and you feel bad for the parents because they they raised
these kids essentially then and at some point they are good people they're on the right path then they get hooked on
pain pills which leads them to become drug addicts and that sends them down a whole life of criminal activity and and
you just feel bad because they they didn't have a chance to get better and to do something productive with their
lives and live the lives that they were probably meant to live and just because we have Matthew Queen who is facing
trial we need to remind everybody that this thing ain't over right we still have Bailey who is missing
we also have James colad no one has been charged in his murder so the police still need your help still need
information from the public and look I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed but it's easy for me to suspect that there's
probably other individuals that are involved in this overall situation but you're to and again a lot of those
individuals as you've seen as we go through name after name after name they're all involved in
lengthy months and years of criminal activity there's a lot of bad people in this story and the police still need
your help this community needs your help in getting these bad people off of the streets so if anybody has any
information this case is not over James kad's murder not solved nobody charged the secret witness hotline is still
available for you to submit information there is a reward in this case and I urge anybody with information Now's the
Time to come forward the threat has diminished the threat is a lot less than it used to be please call
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In the Summer of 2018 recreational swimmers found a duffel bag containing a severed arm in the Kern River near Bakersfield California. Around the same time three families had come together in an effort to locate their loved ones or find justice for them. The three were Micah Holsonbake, James Kulstad and Baylee Despot and were either missing, dead or missing and feared to be dead. These cases are all related. Please help. There is a reward set up for information.

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Brief Summary

The episode discusses the Bakersfield 3 case, focusing on Micah Holsenbake's murder and Bailey Despot's disappearance, involving Matthew Queen's criminal activities.

Key points

The Bakersfield 3 Case. Three individuals went missing or were murdered within 33 days, drawing media attention.
FBI Profiler's Insight. An FBI profiler connects the three victims, suggesting they ran in the same circles.
Charges Filed Against Suspects. Matthew Queen and Bailey Despot face first-degree murder charges related to the Bakersfield 3.
Charges Filed Against Matthew Queen. Matthew Queen faces multiple charges, including murder, in connection with Micah's disappearance.
Vandy Castile's Testimony. Vandy Castile reveals details about Micah's kidnapping and the involvement of Matthew Queen and Bailey.
Bailey Despot's Possible Involvement. Bailey Despot is charged with murder despite being missing, raising questions about her fate.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

It's just hard not knowing where your kid is.

A mother reflecting on her missing daughter.

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