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[Music] [Music] on December 23 1974 Rachel trilica Renee Wilson and Julianne Mosley set out on a
shopping trip to purchase Christmas gifts for their friends and family they drove off to South Fort Worth Texas to a
shopping mall Rachel the oldest of the three parked her car in the upper level near the Sears store the three girls
were supposed to be home by 4 pm but they never returned later a letter arrived saying the girls took off to get
away for a week or so the families early on strongly believe Foul Play was involved and as the slow day stretched
into long years the puzzle remained unsolved what happened to these girls and why now one thing's for sure says
raeanne Mosley the mother of the youngest missing girl that somebody knows something somebody knows for sure
what happened to these girls so Captain let's talk about some suspects here there are some interesting ones now I do
want to state that publicly the law enforcement involved throughout the years has been a little cagey let's say
that's a good word as to whether there are actual suspects and what I mean by that is in 1974 in December when they
went missing we have several news articles where the police state publicly we have no Suspects
then we have a year or two later where we have them stating publicly well we've narrowed it down after speaking and
following hundreds of leads interviewing people and such our investigation this is what we've come up with we've
narrowed it down to less than five individual Suspects and then I believe was 1981 when we hear
that law enforcement is strongly considering the following theory that multiple persons were involved in the
Abduction of all three girls and that all three girls are now deceased abducted by a group maybe as many as
Five Guys and it's likely one of the girls knew and or probably trusted one of the abductors so I think
we can see that it they were working that angle for several reasons we discussed on yesterday's show the
different eyewitness accounts and some of those they reference men or a group of men so I see why they're saying that
we're working that angle and work that angle at some point in this investigation well even if there wasn't
any eyewitnesses we we could assume that it'd be easier to abduct these three if
there's more than one individual and where they adopt were abducted from being a mall right a very public
location yes you would you would need to Corral the girls quickly into some type
of vehicle or Vehicles you know we saw in eyewitness accounts multiple Vehicles being mentioned from different
eyewitnesses maybe all these vehicles mentioned by different eyewitnesses were involved so let's get into something
that we've been talking a lot about on our other show off the Record you know lately we've discussed the West Memphis
3 case quite a bit and the thought that that we've discussed here is is the real
killer in that case a known suspect or an unknown suspect meaning a known suspect would be somebody where
we know their name because either a they are suspected by police Media or general
public right or B someone's name that has come up somewhere within the story or the case itself that their name
appears in the case file for any number of reasons you know whether they're a neighbor parent uncle or identified by
description you know like the man at the Bojangles restaurant would be an example
of that then we have the thought of an unknown suspect this is someone whose name and or description is not known to
police Media or general public someone whose name would not be found in the case File here in this case we have some
known characters did they have involvement was there someone or someone's that were up to no good or
planning an abduction or murder this would be someone close to the victims or was it a stranger someone that spotted
the girls in the mall or in the parking lot and decided to abduct them so let's look at known suspects let's say all
right so Thomas or Tommy trilica Rachel's husband a lot of people have questioned this dude because I think
when examining the situation there are some things that could stand out that that would say well maybe there there's
a motive here or are motives here right we should also include Debra now Deborah
is Rachel's older sister Deborah was 19 on the day that uh the day in question so she was two years older than Rachel
Tommy then only 21 years old at the time of The Disappearance had already lost both of his parents and was was a
divorced father of a two-year-old son he and Rachel had been married only about six months
so people point out that uh she is only in high school and was 16 at the time of
their marriage people point out that that is weird I don't know how that maybe it is weird
but I don't know how it leads to Triple homicide now past the age difference one thing that
often stands out and many people point to this right here is that Tommy and Deborah
Rachel's older sister were previously in a relationship together they were even engaged for a short
period of time as a matter of fact we know that that's how Rachel would end up meeting Tommy and later they're
married that's weird and it's weird yes so and and then to further that theory along and what I'm getting at is that
either Deborah was somehow guilty of something or Tommy is guilty are they both together
were involved in in The Disappearance of these three girls but to further that theory along we have that Deborah
prior to The Disappearance of the three girls had an argument with her boyfriend
and she did she moved in with her little sister and Tommy for a short stay with the newlyweds so
some have suggested one or both Deborah and Tommy Were Somehow involved uh in this case and that they were having some
kind of secret relationship now Deborah says that out of all of the bad things that has happened to her in
different periods of her life The Disappearance of her sister is by far the worst thing and when she's
looking back she says quote we had a special bond according to Deborah both girls were afraid of their father
she says their father had a hot temper now he was also a sick man who was dying of cancer at the time of The
Disappearance and was buried that summer after the girls disappeared Deborah recalls that Rachel woke her that
morning of The Disappearance and asked her to go shopping so we mentioned this in yesterday's show that we have other
individuals that were asked to go on the shopping trip that didn't participate for whatever reason right Tommy being
one of them no Terry okay sorry I keep kidding the the middle one's boyfriend and the
oldest one's husband confused so what what's strange here though is we have Deborah Who falls under the public eye
suspicion yet she is somebody that was asked to go on the shopping trip and she does not go she says she was not
feeling well that day she stayed home in bed instead and Deborah was there was still staying at that home the next
morning when Tommy retrieved the letter out of the mailbox well I think the other thing that's weird here is if
Tommy was planning to get rid of his wife so then he could be with his wife's sister
then you have a scenario where his white or the his mistress was asked to go on the shopping trip
you know now we have uh Renee's boyfriend Terry was asked to go on the shopping trip and then
it's like it just seems like a bad time if you're going to try to uh you know kill this person and get them out of
your life that you're going to do so one in a public place which is maybe not so
weird because you are married to her but she's going to be with multiple people right and if she's with multiple people
it's like so now you're gonna kill three people to take care of this problem you
know it seems like the motive isn't strong enough for that I agree and that's why yesterday I
brought up you know who is the target when you have multiple individuals together when you have a group of people
together that are abducted or killed who is the target were all three of them a Target or was one of them specifically
targeted for a specific reason and like you just pointed out Captain if let's go
through this motive for a second because to me it just it's flimsy it's so damn flimsy because if he wanted to knock off
his wife [Music] if if for some reason you're like okay well this is the best time to do this oh
snap she's got two other people joining her on the shopping trip well I'm just going to do it at another time right I'm
not going to I'm not going to go out and abduct and kill three people because I'm
trying to get rid of one I'm just going to do it at another time and same goes for Deborah if she felt the same way she
would just do it at another time the other thing too if the two were involved together if the two if Deborah and Tommy
wanted the sister out of the picture you would think they could orchestrate a better plan than this like you said
abducting multiple people from a public place very very risky business I just but we also
have the we have possible DNA on the letter that was sent and it didn't match Tommy we don't know that it didn't match
Tommy what we do know is it doesn't match anybody in quote unquote their database
we don't know who is sitting in that database it doesn't mean everybody on the planet is in there so we do have
years later we have the words of Tommy we have the words of Deborah we have Tommy who says look there was no
uneasiness between uh anything going on there you know there wasn't it wasn't weird that her
sister that I was once engaged to came to stay with us for a short period of time
just because on the outside looking in it seems weird to everybody it didn't seem weird to Tommy was so he's stating
for the record that there wasn't they weren't having an affair or anything and and Deborah States the same
thing says that she insists that the romance was long over of course it would have to be I mean in order to marry her
sister I mean like yeah you know at some point like and for them to be they're still
friends you know the Sisters still being friends you would think that would have to be
Dead and Gone on on both ends right but you know what's even great even more interesting and I think that backs us up
a little bit and of course if you consider these two people to be suspects then yes you're hearing it from the
suspect's mouths themselves but in an interview Deborah she she says look it yeah this wasn't the
relationship that I had with Tommy before my sister married her it was not a serious relationship then the
interviewer says well I thought you were engaged and see she outwardly says yes we had been engaged if you want to call
it that but it she didn't consider a real engagement right and she's like kind of says it waving it off and
rolling her eyes as she's doing the interview yeah but you know again I mean how many times have we done kind of
silly things as we're as younger adults or just teenagers and went now looking back on it a couple years ago that was
silly and we don't know the full extent of it I love that these I love these people and I look look I shouldn't I
shouldn't go off on uh and Witch Hunt anybody here because you can do it speculating about
cases and suspects is what you and I do so I shouldn't get onto anybody else for
doing that the only thing that I have a bit of an issue with is that I think that sometimes people stumble upon bad
information in a case and then they use it to back up their point or their Theory right and what I mean by this is
I saw several people that that were suggesting that Deborah and or Tommy should be big
time suspects in this case because once they they were they were engaged together then he goes off and marries
Rachel then Rachel disappears and then Deborah and Tommy end up married together and have a kid together that
was the ammunition that people were using to back up that theory the problem with that theory and with that
ammunition is Tommy and Deborah never got married they never had a child together right what happened what what
happened in real life was that Tommy moved away there was some bitterness between him and Rachel's
family after The Disappearance he moved away he still lives in Texas to this day
I know who he works for and I can't think of I'll give him give away all his information well he's he is married so I
can see where where people get that wrong right that he married Deborah he is married and he went on to have a
family he lives elsewhere in Texas I don't get the vibe from what I could find about him I didn't get the vibe
that he's running from anything right well well he could be running from their family on some level but you know their
daughter goes missing he is somewhat a suspect he has to be a suspect right I mean because the husband
always did it and they might have been throwing some shade at him and he just was like you
know at some point you have to move on with your life right right and so let's talk uh about the little
brother of these two girls uh Rusty so we were talking about Rachel and her older sister Deborah and well the two of
them have a younger brother Rusty now Rusty says that the letter the letter that we discussed yesterday holds
particular interest regarding the case for him okay he is certain that Rachel did not write that letter
Rusty at the time at one time said publicly that he was sure that Rachel and only Rachel is still alive and that
it is only a matter of time perhaps even days before he finds her according to Rusty following The Disappearance there
were several reports that the two older girls had been spotted at different locations and he referenced 17 and the
14 year old yeah he references a gas station a Walmart uh a country store and I think he actually references more
places than that but he says that initially in the early portions of the the case in the first
couple years he dismissed these reports as as a sham uh in in the beginning but he became
convinced that these were genuine sightings after meeting a private investigator by the name of Dan James
James hold on go ahead sorry I I I'm trying to follow your story and normally when you're telling parts of
the story I'm picturing things I'm having a hard time right now so we have they go missing in 74. there's a bunch
of reports eyewitness sightings right right the brother doesn't believe that the letter was
written by Rachel right believes that she's alive but the other two are not and when does this private investigator
come into the picture Okay so Rusty met him 20 years later in 1995. okay so this
is 20 years later right okay so that's what's Difficult about this case okay all right and we have Dan
James the private investigator as well as Rusty Arnold who is the brother of one of the missing girls we have these
two individuals stating that there are multiple sightings of the two older girls at different locations yeah and
then later on we're going to hear the brothers say that only Rachel is alive and that there had been continued
sightings of Rachel and only Rachel so all right we said that he became convinced of these sightings that they
were real after meeting private investigator Dan James uh we just said that they met in 1995 when they met Dan
tells Rusty that he's been following the case since 1975. right now technically the
private investigator was never hired by any of The Three Families James has stated publicly that he hasn't received
a penny and compensation for his work according to James what he has received is death threats from Anonymous callers
warning him away from the case now according to James several quote this is his words credible Witnesses end
quote say they've spotted Rachel since The Disappearance he says one was in 1998 around Christmas now private
investigator James believes that Rachel visits Fort Worth during the Christmas season each year and maintains that
someone is quote shrouding and Manufacturing evidence and what he says was at first an effort to keep the two
older girls away now he thinks only Rachel survives he says I believe that Renee Wilson is
not alive I believe that something dreadfully wrong and probably fatally occurred involving Julie Anne Mosley he
says he is evasive about what he thinks happened or who he believes can be held accountable so
yes he has a theory no he won't discuss it except to say that someone close to one of the girls had something to do
with The Disappearance all right okay I'm just trying to wrap my head around this idea so all three girls go missing
there's sightings he doesn't believe these sightings at first 20 years later he starts believing these sightings are
correct keep in mind the private investigator apparently has believed these sightings the entire time right so
after meeting the private investigator this guy has convinced him convinced the brother that these sightings are real
so this private investigator probably has some other theories that he's probably convinced him on
and I don't know what these theories are but the fact that somebody's there's somebody that's still responsible for
their abduction but two of them are dead one's still alive and she comes back to town every Christmas
yeah okay so is she coming back to town with somebody is she still did they take all three
girls hold them captive and they've just let her live and the other ones they didn't let live
or well okay this roaming the streets of Fort Worth by herself so Dan James the private investigator is pretty cryptic
about his theory yeah because it doesn't want to sound like a cuckoo bird but from sitting through multiple interviews
with him and piecing together his words here's what I can tell you that that I believe that he believes
is that all three girls were abducted by somebody that knew at least one of the girls okay okay that was close to at
least one of the girls with the idea that the two older girls were the Target that they would be kept alive for
whatever reason right so under this Theory my guess would be the the the believed abductor that was close to
quote unquote one of the victims probably would have been close to either Renee or Rachel one of the two older
girls right because those apparently were the Target and Julianne Mosley just happened to be
there and he states that under this theory that something dreadfully wrong fatality
happened to the young girl that during the course of either abducting these girls or or holding them that something
unplanned happened to the young girl and she died fairly early on into being held
captive or being part of whatever this weird situation is right then if we continue on down the road of the theory
is that the two older girls were alive for some period of time because he believes they were seen together at
different locations again but right right but that still points to the idea that
they were abducted and the abductor was like hey you you know like let them free or was in
the car while they went into a gas station I mean that's risky well and then but then on top of that the theory
goes that at some point only Rachel was alive the oldest of the three right you know the so 20 years later 21 years
later however you want to look at it that that's where that that stands that that he has reason to believe this
private investigator and Rusty believes him Rusty States publicly that this is not just Dan James's Theory this is my
theory as well now what happens here is this tears the Arnold Family apart we have Rusty and Deborah brother and
sister who spent a good amount of time looking for their sister together when they were younger and as they grew up
and Grew Older it apparently it looks like Rusty with the help of Dan James became suspicious of his own sister
Deborah because she says publicly in regards to Dan James she says I know he blames me I know he thinks I had
something to do with it and and talking about her brother she says Rusty thinks that this letter that Tommy got the next
day he thinks I wrote it and she says I didn't write the letter I don't know who
did I don't know what happened to my sister I have nothing to hide yeah possibly but we've seen this in cases
where somebody comes in and investigates whether it's an author or a private investigator
I mean he he's calling himself a private investigator but we don't know why he's
doing this he's not getting paid so he's just really fascinated by the case or is
he going to use this research later for a book or whatever so to have her not for Deborah not to trust
him I get that part we she might just be assuming this is what uh Rusty believes
you see what I mean no he's Rusty has stated publicly um not mentioned his sister well you
should have said that part well I I kind of did I said Dan James believes that some should have been paying attention
that Dan James believes that someone close to one of the victims was involved in the abduction there is evidence to
suggest that Dan James and Rusty Arnold the brother believe that Deborah was possibly involved in this abduction I
haven't been so crazy well and we have to remember like uh in the Madeleine McCann
did I say that correctly finally finally uh I think a year and a half later uh and then like in the midst of Mara
Murray case Brian Shaffer case even the recent case that we covered Molly Tibbetts there are eyewitness accounts
of seeing each individual and normally those eyewitness accounts produce nothing or in the case of like
Molly Tibbetts there was actually a lot of eyewitness sightings and we know that
they were not true right so um but it's so strange to me and I think we should pause here for a second
because I mean just put this in perspective we have three people going missing but we have multiple
eyewitnesses that see them family members believe those eyewitness sightings are actually
real one family member right but also a private investigator correct and and that means the abductor on some
level is letting them roam was it of abduction as much as like you would think like
if you had the opportunity to go into a gas station you'd be like hey help me I mean we've seen it time and time again
where that's not always the case but they're seen multiple times together and then later just only Rachel being seen
and then she comes back for Christmas right I mean that's strange [Music] all right cheers and happy birthday it's
it's his birthday week birthday month or what he likes to say his birthday year Well we should what we
should mention here Captain is is another sad part of this story is not only do we have these missing kids and
then all these years later still missing but what we have is the aftermath and what the suspicion caused throughout
these different families or just the just having a missing child has torn apart some of these families right okay
and I won't get into the specifics of all of them but let's let's focus in on the Arnold family for a minute because
we've been talking about the obvious signs of problems that we're going to have within the Arnold family so Rachel
Arnold who disappeared we have her older sister Deborah that some people have suspected could know more about what
happened or maybe had some involvement and it appears that even her younger brother Rusty Arnold was a person not
only believing that but also driving that theory uh and getting everybody else to believe it as well yeah now we
mentioned Fran Langston earlier she's the mother of these three and she blames private
investigator Dan James for quote poisoning Rusty's mind uh she says that her family has been destroyed because of
Dan James's accusations regarding uh possible involvement by Deborah now this does
regardless of how crazy this Theory could be and I do want to point this out you know we there are cases out there
where somebody takes somebody captive and keeps them for a very long time cases where they let them go out into
public or go out with them I've even I can't remember the name of the offender or the victim but I can even recall a
case where the victim who was abducted who was being held captive was allowed to go home and see her family at one
point and then return to being held captive it's strange it's hard to wrap your mind
around it but it happens yeah that's called marriage well and then of course we know more
from a local case here Cleveland Ohio where an individual took girls captive and held them for like over 12 years
before one of them escaped and this guy invited people into his home he would have guests over to his home he liked to
entertain well he was a musician he would let his friends come over they would do their band practice at his home
anyway so it does happen it's hard to get your mind around it but this Theory as crazy as it seems could happen but it
does bring up and it raises an interesting and hopeful question are any of these girls still
alive yeah you know you have to wonder that the word like I said before some of the eyewitness
accounts and cases are are completely bogus but you have to follow all those leads but I mean I kind of jokingly said
that I mean that's super creepy but what if you know around the Christmas time every year
Whoever has Rachel is letting her go home well not home we know it's not home per
se but to Fort Worth right going to her hometown you know she we don't have any accusations of visiting family members
but the thought that Dan James believes is that she returns to the Fort Worth area for some reason around Christmas
time each year could that be some kind of reward by the captor like you know if you're if you're good all of these other
days of the year right you're granted this one thing you know there's it unfortunately it happens they brainwash
these these uh prisoners right but you think if that is happening or if they actually believe that then they would be
doing a lot of things around that time to put up flyers and this is what she could look like she has
been known to visit this area and maybe they could get her while she came to visit well one
thing I should point out that I believe here Captain is Rusty Arnold okay well where we have his family saying look his
thoughts his accusations his theories regarding this case has destroyed our family I agree with that 100 but what I
also agree with and we'll have Rusty's back on is I see him furthering the investigation and keeping the
investigation of his disappeared missing sister alive all these years later it might be the wrong tactic it might be in
poor taste it might be the wrong Theory it might be the wrong theory yes you're exactly right and but it it does keep
the case alive he is furthering the investigation and doing what John Walsh always says you should do keep your
loved ones memory and image in the public eye in the newspapers on the TV yes and it's weird with this private
investigator because it's you want to know his motives you know because he is not he's not getting paid yeah but I I
don't think that the general public has a good understanding of what most private investigators do for a living so
you're you're kind of like a you're a contracted worker you're you're somebody that sits around and waits for
the phone to ring uh or get a click on your website yeah and so you could go investigate a fraud or a cheating spouse
or any number of cases you know we've seen criminal cases where we have uh victims families hire private
investigators it happens all the time yeah or if your co-host wants to go off and do a show with
Generation Y but what I want to call a private investigator okay but uh anyway so but the thing that I don't think that
the general public understands is that when when a private investigator is not working a case is not being paid to work
a case often you know you could do anything with your time but what some of them will do is they will pick a case
that's local to them and they'll say oh there's a reward in this case there's it
fifty thousand dollars to to to reward somebody for information regarding this missing person or sixty thousand dollar
reward for the apprehension of this suspect who looks like this so what they do is when they are not being paid for a
specific case some of them will pick up on local cases that have reward money and actively work those in their
downtime at the chance of catching catching some something it's almost like a lottery ticket
essentially one thing that's somewhat tied to this possibility of the girls still being live or one of them being
alive is we did have a situation in this case throughout the years where a lady caller and I have to apologize to you
captain and all the good garage people out there all right my notes are incomplete on this story but what
occurred was we have a lady caller that reached out to one of the victim's mothers and they had several phone calls
throughout weeks and maybe months which led to the two of them meeting together in person now the lady caller insisted
that she was one of the missing girls that she was the daughter of the woman that she was contacting what I'm
apologizing for is I don't remember which daughter she was claiming to be or which mother she was calling right
unfortunately two of the three mothers have passed away as of this date of our recording but
regardless she contacted one of them okay so you have this um nutty person right and she's calling
the one of the missing girls mothers and stating that she's one of the missing girls correct okay continue well they
meet and at the insistence of someone I don't know if it was the missing girl's mother or somebody in the missing Girl's
family right the person that was calling uh was subjected to a DNA test and it was determined that they were not who
they were claiming to be so this is years I'm I'm assuming this is years and years later yeah yeah because it because
you know you would think at some point if it were shortly after you'd be able to look at the individual and go nope
you're not you're not Renee you're not uh Julianne um I think this was right but I think
this could have been 25 maybe even 30 years after the fact I believe two of the three uh victims mothers passed away
with in the last five years what kind of Dick knows do you gotta be I mean who does that scam artist 20.
yeah Giant dick knows dick knows so big you can't even fit through door so do we have
other possible suspects and and the answer is yes yes we do and I believe much better suspects than what we have
discussed so far I want to be clear about as far as Deborah and Tommy go uh individuals that were related to victims
as far as them being suspects all that I could find that's in the Public's eye that's on these website forms it's not
never been any law enforcement stating that either of these two are suspected of anything and furthermore we have the
Charlie project that states in all three cases we've classified this we believe it to be a non-family abduction much
better suspects let's talk about this now obviously we know that there were there was an active serial killer or
killers in Texas in the 70s we have the Texas Killing Field case was starting up
in the 1970s and normally I would red flag something like that and go into it here unfortunately that's a huge case
that would take up way too much time and they're likely or at least I believe there is not a strong connection
with the exception of of a couple of items okay the first thing that I would would take into consideration Texas is a
larger than larger State than almost every state in the United States right yeah so that alone makes the connection
to the missing Fort Worth Trio case even less likely but some things of interest
in that case that should be noted so the girls abducted and killed in the early 70s in The Killing Fields case ages 12
years old to 19 years old most of them 14. so age of the victim fits our victimology here all were abducted
without a man or boy present and on three times two girls were taken at the same time so multiple persons abducted
at once and there was a break in the action down in The Killing Fields case there are no known victims from the end
of September 1974 to the beginning of May 1977. so did the killer or Killers move away relocate for work did they end
up for some reason in the greater Fort Worth Texas area and taking three girls from a mall parking lot in December of
1974. the other thing too is some of the later believed victims in The Killing Fields were never found which is of
course the case with the missing Fort Worth Trio I did look at other known cereals
and I looked at the ones where the victimology was a good fit for this case for the Trio's disappearance but all of
the ones that I could find either they were locked up at the time they were not in the area at
the time or would have been too young of an age at the time but wait I did find one I found one so
this guy is not completely unknown but this is not an easy to find person and it is speculative okay so the individual
is named Lloyd Lee Welch Jr he goes by Mike Welch was convicted in the state of Delaware in 1997 for sexually assaulting
a 10 year old girl he has a lengthier criminal record than that including burglaries and other charges against
children but for the sake of time here captain we're not going to go into all that what's what's important here is how
do we get him to be involved in this case it took place all the way in Texas we have September 2017. Welch who is in
his early 60s as of last year he pled guilty to the first degree murder of twelve-year-old Sheila and 10 year old
Catherine Lyons who were taken from or taken just shortly after leaving the Wheaton Shopping Plaza
in the state of Maryland in March of 1975 how does that bring us to our case well Lloyd Welch was a known Drifter and
he was employed as a ride operator at a traveling Carnival he has had multiple convictions for sexual offenses against
young girls from the years of 1974 to 1997 Welch was in at least two dozen locations including Washington DC and
Texas in fact in January of 1974 he was confirmed to have been in Austin Texas then in March of 1975 he was confirmed
to have been in Wheaton Maryland It is believed he was in Texas from January of 74 until sometime early 1975. he was in
both areas at the time all of these girls went missing from a shopping mall with Welch being a Drifter and traveling
with a car Carnival for his job it is possible he was in Texas in December of 1974. as a Drifter obviously it makes
sense he would have remained under the radar for years and years police are also looking for information on any
security guards who would have worked at either Mall including information on Welch's longtime girlfriend Helen Craver
they dated for like 10 years most of it spanning over the 1970s they were always
on the road and had no permanent home or address Helen is noted to have worked as
Mall security from time to time I should go with that eyewitness report right and
now I do want to you know it kind of Breeze through that real quickly here but we're talking about an individual
that many many many years later just last year he pled guilty to first-degree murder of two girls about the same age
as the victims that we're talking about here who he abducted either from a mall or shortly after leaving them all way
back in 1975. yeah it just seems like in this Theory there's there's too many dots connecting to not
be somebody that we should be looking into yeah and if you're wondering hey he he confessed to this crime he pled
guilty to this double homicide from 1975 what's holding him back from telling law
enforcement that he was involved in the missing Trio case um one Texas has the death penalty and
they have a pretty quick route to getting there as well so that would deter him from doing that number one
number two this guy's confession is the most [ __ ] confession I've ever seen in my life and what I mean by that he's
not lying he's not lying that he killed the girls he's a lot his confession itself is a lie what I mean by that is
he he implies that other people were involved that he didn't actually do the killing himself that he was just somehow
involved in the abduction and somehow involved in getting rid of the bodies later he's never LED law enforcement to
the bodies and law enforcement has come out and said look we understand that this is what this dude's confession is
but at the end of the day he's the one that pled guilty to first-degree murder on both of these accounts the other
people that he's named throughout the course of his confession we either believe that they had no
involvement or some of these individuals have passed away or there's no evidence
to connect them to the case yeah and you wonder if he's not leading them to the bodies because that's a Dumping Ground
for some of his other victims as well that's interesting that you say that that very well could be and the other
thought on him too Captain I would I would suspect is that is it possible that if they were
to find the bodies that his story his confession doesn't so much line up the problem with him is I don't think that
he's just going to come right out and say hey I was involved in this murder I was involved in this abduction or that
abduction or this murder the way they got to this guy was they found stuff on him they found things to
put him in place of that abduction in 1975 in Maryland things that he couldn't dismiss away he couldn't explain away
why he was there okay and then we know throughout the course of his lifetime he would go on to have sexual assault
offenses against girls of the same or similar age now I do want to kind of put a hopeful spin on this story and maybe
maybe to bring some people to to think that something good could happen soon maybe we could get some answers in this
case and that would be I want to cycle back to Rusty Arnold we talked about him he's the brother of one of the missing
individuals recently he has said that he has quote a hunch that Vehicles submerged in the Benbrook Lake may have
Clues to the 1974 disappearance of his sister and the two other girls from Fort Worth Texas Arnold said in August of
this year on Facebook that he and his group of volunteers had Ray had reached their goal of ten thousand dollars this
money is to pay divers to pull out three vehicles sitting deep at the bottom of the lake
okay so we may soon find out if he is right weather permitting the cars are scheduled to be pulled out September
22nd of this year by the divers and crew to see if there are any clues to The Disappearance of Rachel trilica Renee
Wilson and Julianne Mosley so just a few days away correct the case is listed as
active and opened by Fort Worth Police but according to Rusty Arnold he said that they are not involved in the search
at the lake so the group of volunteers are focusing on these three cars because they believe one of the vehicles belongs
to a person of interest in the case who knew one or all of the girls Rusty Arnold did not disclose the name of that
person of interest but said publicly at the same time the girls went missing we believe the vehicle he was driving also
disappeared Arnold added we sat around coming up with theories and we discovered that the
person of interest lived within five miles of Benbrook Lake at the time Arnold and his group have been working
on the lake theory for four years getting the help of a friend who used sonar and found the vehicles at the
bottom of Benbrook Lake this lake is in Southwest Fort Worth and it's about 10 miles from the shopping center so lots
of good news there Captain they have a lead they have something to follow up on something that could be concrete I mean
they know that these vehicles exist that they're in the lake and it sounds to me
after raising the money and after going through a couple of trial runs or practice Dives whatever you want to call
it they believe that this Saturday they may be able to remove all three of these
vehicles who knows what they may find in the course of those lives it might be some time before it's revealed what they
found or what significance it has to the case you know if you don't find a body in the vehicle or remains of one of the
victims in the vehicle it's not going to be so obvious you're going to have to sift through what is found and
determined if it holds any value evidentiary value in The Disappearance of these three girls but interesting and
a little bit of a little Ray of Hope that the remaining family members we're talking over 40 years ago that a lot of
these people lived the rest of their lives and never got any answers as far as what happened to their loved one now
maybe the remaining family members can get that answer those answers that they deserve and that they need they need
that they need some type of closure they need some type of reconciliation regarding this matter
this open wound that they have had for over 40 years foreign [Music] do we have a recommended reading this
week yes sir we do this week we are recommending sons of Cain a history of serial killers from the Stone Age to the
present by Peter veransky and I tell you what Peter's got some very interesting thoughts and theories regarding serial
killers in the history of serial killers I would offer you a uh detailed description regarding the book however
what it says right on the front cover is the best example of what you're going to read
it's a fascinating history of serial killers from the Stone Age to the present that's called sons of Cain and
you don't have to write that title down right now you can go to our website True
Crime garage.com click on the recommended page and we have a lot of recommended books and videos and stuff
for you there Captain I want to thank you for joining me in the garage and a big cheers to you sir happy birthday to
you uh old decrepit man thank you and thanks to everybody out there for joining us in the garage we want to see
you back here next week until then please be good be kind and don't litter foreign
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On December 23rd, 1974, three girls from three different families set out on a shopping trip to purchase Christmas gifts for their friends and family. They piled in the car and drove off to south Fort Worth, Texas. They were supposed to be home by 4pm but they never returned... The mystery surrounding their disappearance continues to confound law enforcement officials. For some, time stopped on that December day. For others, the tragedy created a seedbed of suspicion that now divides. To this day this case remains a riddle with no answers. Tonight we crack a few cold ones and take a look at a cold case, that is heating up again.

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Brief Summary

Three girls went missing in 1974; suspects include family and a potential serial killer, with new leads emerging from a lake search.

Key points

The Mysterious Disappearance. On December 23, 1974, three girls went missing during a shopping trip in Texas.
Deborah's Painful Reflection. Deborah, the sister of a missing girl, recalls the special bond they shared.
Private Investigator's Theory. Dan James believes Rachel is alive and hints at a cover-up regarding the case.
The Abduction Theory. A private investigator believes the girls were abducted by someone close to them.
Family Tensions. Rusty and Deborah Arnold's relationship deteriorates due to suspicions surrounding the case.
The Christmas Connection. Speculation arises about whether Rachel is allowed to return home during Christmas.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

Somebody knows for sure what happened to these girls.

Raeanne Mosley, mother of the youngest missing girl, expresses hope.

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Tension

65/ 100Some tension

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