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crime [Music] two c County Men missing for nearly a decade and tonight A detective pinpoints
his former colleague saying he's still a person of interest in this unsolved case
and that's not all our Amanda Hall talked to one mom who still has no answers about what happened to her only
son Amanda that's right detective O'Neal with the major crimes unit has been on both of these cases for most of those
eight years he tells me he's been all the way to Canada chasing leads but that all of the real corroborated evidence
leads right back here to Coler County Ste wakes me up through the middle of the night mhm and my mind is just racing
constantly thinking about you know has a sh Department did everything that they were supposed to do it's been 8 years
since Marcia Williams spoke with her son Terrence 8 years his four children have
been without a father and though the oldest two are teenagers now they don't speculate about what happened to
Terrence the truth was told to them in the beginning what is that um that he was
last seing with the deputy from K County and he disappeared Terrence Williams was
last seen near a North Naples cemetery on January 12th 2004 by Corporal Steve Caulkins who said he gave Williams a
ride to a convenience store I hope everyone was paying attention and listening closely during
this week's trailer because that was a great summary of this week's cases that's right cases because as you heard
in the trailer we have two missing persons but these two missing persons cases are much different than the case
we covered last week in fact these two cases are much different than any other missing person's cases covered here
before for starters last week's case Logan schindelman that case is true truly a mystery because unfortunately
just like Brandon Swanson and Brandon Lawson Logan's disappearance is a story where the leads are mysterious so much
so that the leads may not be leads at all or could have nothing to do with his case or why he is still missing this
week's cases Captain have a potentially big lead and share a commonality that not only linked the two cases but the
possibility that the reason that these two individuals are still missing as of January
2021 is that just maybe someone is responsible for the two missing men both of these cases and the men we are
looking for are Felipe Santos and Terrence Williams both of these cases are classified as missing endangered in
law enforcement speak endangered is a classification upgrade from Simply missing when it's more more than
reasonable to infer that the missing individual or in this case individuals are missing because of Foul Play is
involved I think these cases are going to make people look at other missing person cases a lot differently but here
we have two missing males and both law enforcement believed to be endangered again the names of those two Felipe
Santos and Terrence Williams now these two individuals did not vanish together in fact there is zero evidence that the
two men even knew one another but these cases unless we find some reason to tell
us otherwise will forever be linked together because first we have Felipe Santos who goes missing and other than
his close friends and relatives there was not a whole heck of a lot of activity as far as actually looking for
this guy or any type of investigation is concerned until later when Terence Williams goes missing and then both
cases become very active now we are not the first obviously to tell this story but because Terren disappearance really
kicked off the major investigation often the details surrounding his disappearance are told
first but here captain in this garage we will start at the beginning as to not make things any more confusing than they
already are Felipe Santos his last known whereabouts were from October 14th 2003
when he was known to be alive and well in Naples Florida my research found that Felipe has two birth dates listed with
different agencies assisting in the search for him as of this recording Felipe would be 40 or 42 years of age
depending on which agency is reporting Felipe is a Hispanic male and at the time of his disappearance October of
2003 he was in his early 20s there is a listed birthday of January 1st 1979 and some agencies give his date of
birth as May 26th 1980 and a good description at the time Felipe went missing is as follows
Felipe's height and weight are listed at 5 foot7 in 150 lb the Charlie project lists Felipe as a Hispanic male with
black hair and brown eyes Santos wore his hair and a ponytail at the time of his disappearance he is a Mexican
Citizen and speaks Spanish and very limited English as for clothing Felipe was wearing what is described as a
t-shirt blue jeans and boots on that day now the details of this disappearance as
said Felipe Santos was last seen in Naples Florida on October 14th 20 2003 a lot of the reports out there Captain a
lot of the online reports list him as going missing on October 1st right of 2003 which is just incorrect if you do a
little digging if you go to the Collier County Sheriff's office website they clearly state that he was last seen on
the 14th and they have police reports and other records to back up that date right so just so I'm clear you're saying
that he's a citizen of Mexico he's not a citizen of United States correct he would be an undocumented worker at the
time of his disappearance he was driving to work with two of his brothers Felipe
is driving a white 1988 Ford truck at 6:30 a.m. Felipe's vehicle hit another vehicle near the Green Tree shopping
center at Airport Pulling Road and a mck road this is a busy area in the immediate area we have a lot of
storefronts fast food restaurants gas stations and behind most of those storefronts and businesses there are
neighborhoods and condo communities right people in the area would tell you that aokia road is a busy road even at
6:30 a.m. on a Tuesday so we have this vehicle accident no one is hurt in the accident and the damage to both vehicles
is rather minor mhm a Coler County Sheriff's deputy Corporal Steven Henry Caulkins arrived at the scene now there
are three persons in Felipe's vehicle including himself and he is straight with the officer and tells Corporal
Caulkins he's the one driving and he doesn't have a license or insurance on the vehicle neither of his brothers
would have a license or insurance on the vehicle as as well right Felipe Santos is the at fault driver in this vehicle
accident situation the sheriff's deputy Steven Caulkins cites Philipe a Santos for reckless driving and for driving
without a license or insurance now there will be plenty of witnesses to much of what is happening right as we already
established this is a busy area this is a well-lit area even though it would be you know rather dark at this time so we
will have plenty of passer buyers and at the very least we will have Felipe's two
brothers that were traveling with him that morning and we have the driver of the other vehicle so we have witnesses
as to what's going on now the driver of the other vehicle says that when officer
Caulkins arrived on the scene he seemed agitated right from the GetGo yeah some people were mad to have to do their
their job I love those people yeah the people that Grunt and sigh and yeah make make noises when you ask them to do the
job that you're paying them for yeah my favorite is when you're in line and somebody goes next next and you just
know they don't want to be here so what we have here is a very differing in opinions we have Caulkins who says that
he did not arrest Santos however we have all three Witness is his two brothers and the other driver do we know anything
about the other driver we do um I know that her name is on record somewhere um and we don't want to give her name but
I'm just saying I'm assuming that she's a legal citizen that is correct that is correct and and she has been interviewed
multiple times now what we have here though is we have all three of these witnesses that would later say that they
all just assumed that Felipe Santos was under arrest by the officer because they
all witnessed officer Caulkins put Santos in the back of his patrol car and then the patrol car drives off and did
they say that he was handcuffed um no I don't believe that that is in the reports right but we
could assume he may have been um there's also a chance with this being these are
rather minor infractions I mean him being here undocumented could lead to him being
deported but these are not violent offenses I don't see much of a reason to slap some cuffs on this guy if
especially if it seems like he's cooperating you know he is at least honest and forthcoming with hey I don't
have a license and I don't have insurance on this vehicle but you can't let him drive away if you're the officer
you know he doesn't have a license you can't let him drive away so basically what what you're telling me is this
officer arrests him puts him in the back of the car leaves who drives the vehicle
away or did they have it towed from my understanding the vehicle was not towed and the officer did not request a tow
because he said that it was not in the way of traffic right but you can't let one of the brothers just drive the car
because you know they have no license oh but see what you are stating here Captain are all things that make a whole
lot of sense well I like to show up and do my job well what we're going to see here is a lot of officers Officer Caan's
actions and what he will say he's doing it doesn't really add up it doesn't track if you if you try to reason with
it and make sense of his actions because what he says is look Santos I changed my
mind he was nice he was polite and so I decided not to arrest him not to drive him to the jail instead I drove him to a
Circle K gas station because I didn't want him driving the truck off but right again as you already pointed out that
makes zero sense because you are fully aware at this time as the officer that the other two individuals in the truck
they did not possess a a legal driver's license either and you just left them there and what do you do if you're them
you're left you don't know what to do with the car are you going to call somebody to
have them come pick you up no you probably have to get to a job site or you're going to lose your job so one of
them probably jumped in the driver's seat and drove both of them to work so these are let's let's track this and and
how it's going to really become known that something fishy is going on yeah but hold on second when have you ever
heard of a police officer any law enforcement driving somebody to jail and just decide you know what changed my
mind changed my mind I'll just drop you off at this gas station you know what though I play it out in my mind a
thousand times because you and I are nice guys I can Envision if if we were the officer you know you're chatting up
the guy chatting up the per a little bit and at some point you look back and you
go you know what son I like the cut of your jib you need a break this guy needs a break I'm going to let you out yeah
but you don't let him out you take him to the police station and you say call somebody from here I'm not going to
arrest you I'm not going to book you but once you take um ownership I guess of that individual it's your job to make
sure that they are safe right he's he's officially regardless of how Caulkins wants to spin it later mhm if this
dude's in the back of your car he's in your custody right and you are then a steward of him you are responsible for
him right so what's safer having him get a ride from the police department or dropping him off at the Circle K well
let's let's go through this because there's some details that we we need to get to so how this all comes about or at
least how everyone becomes aware of this rather quickly of potentially this young
man having Gone Missing is that later that same day Santos's boss contacted the local jail because he
wanted to bail him out hey I need my worker back right right so this is a nice boss going to bail out this young
man so he can get back to work the next day well he doesn't speak a lot of English but he might be like the contact
person you know I mean like where where he's able to communicate with the other workers for his boss so the boss man
finds out that Felipe Santos was never booked at the jail okay and we've kind of circled around this a little bit but
let's go through it in in detail this is because officer ckins never took Santos
to jail when questioned well this is what he's claiming Officer cins says he changed his mind about taking Santos to
jail saying he found Santos to be a polite and nice young man so instead cins drove Santos to a Circle K
convenience store SL gas station this would be about one mile away from the site of the accident caulin says one he
didn't have Santos's vehicle towed away from the scene because it was not obstructing traffic caulin says he took
Santos somewhere that Santos could call someone and he could get a ride from a licensed driver there he didn't want to
leave Santos with the vehicle fearing that Santos would get back in the truck and drive off so officer cins Accord
according to his statements took Felipe Santos to the Circle K and drops him off
there caulin says he last Saw Santos walking toward the payones at the Circle K again he's your responsibility you
don't just leave him walking towards the pay phone and this is a mile from the wreckage it's roughly he says roughly a
mile it's actually fairly close if you look at it on a map it's it's pretty close I mean I don't want to can I start
poking holes in this dumb story or do you have more to go no go ahead well first of all if you're concerned that
he's going to get back in his truck you might want to drop him off somewhere farther than a mile it'll take him less
than 15 minutes to walk back and jump in his truck and go correct right and you don't even sit there and wait for him to
call somebody or to wait to make sure that he gets a ride it it just doesn't make any sense and on top of that okay I
understand not Towing the vehicle it's not in the way it's not damaged somebody could drive it off but you left two
other illegal immigrants with no driver's license by the truck so who do you think is going to drive the
truck um this it just doesn't make a lot of sense no it makes it makes zero sense
at all what would make the most sense is he decided to arrest the guy and take him to jail and Santos should have
arrived at the jail at some point that's what would make the most sense yeah again even if you changed your mind on
arresting him and you wanted to give him a break you didn't even make it a a mile
away with the guy he must have been really nice and polite in a very short period of time yeah to convince you to
let him go especially a guy that we know doesn't speak English that well no he so
Felipe Santos has never been heard from again since this incident right here after his disappearance his brother
filed a complaint against Caulkins with the sheriff's office but Caulkins was cleared of any wrongdoing I do want to
point out captain that this was over the course of a couple of months he wasn't cleared I believe until early January of
2004 of any wrongdoing there's a lot of reasons why Caulkins should be cleared and I can see why he would be cleared in
any wrongdoing in this particular case now we're going to get into some things that are not very nice and don't put
officer Caulkins in a very nice light here and I don't think he's going to have any friends any garage Friends by
the time we're done with these two episodes M but but we don't have any garage friends we need to look at this
one we're going to stay water here and we also need to look at the actions of the colier county Sheriff's Office well
okay my other question is this is a busy road so we should have eyewitnesses at the gas station at the Circle K possibly
some video footage from businesses in that area that would be able to back up his story yeah this is a busy road this
is a busy area that Circle K would be busy I'm I'm very familiar with this area this is an area that I travel to
annually and these roads are always busy especially in the morning hours and in the morning hours you see a lot of
workers keep in mind this is Florida it gets very hot there and so what we have going on is a lot of these uh people
that might be laborers or have very physical jobs they want to get an early start you want to start early before it
gets way too hot These Guys these brothers were in uh concrete and masonary work
that's tough work that's tough work especially when it gets to be 80 90 de out and what you will see in this area
typically uh you will see a lot of construction guys a lot of landscapers and such that that are up and you see
the trucks moving on these busy roads early in the morning 6: 7 a.m. getting ready to get that early jump get the get
a good work in on that day now I was kind of circling around the sheriff's office one thing that we have to keep in
mind here is they did clear Caulkins of any wrongdoing in Santos's case this is initially they're
going to go back on this later but initially they clear him of any wrongdoing and I think you you can see
why As I Lay this out here for you Captain as we said earlier Felipe Santos is a Mexican national at the time of his
disappearance he's living in Florida illegally it looks like he had been living there for about 3 years at the
time of his disappearance we said he was on his way into work before the traffic
accident he was employed with a concrete company he was sending money back to his
family in Mexico I've seen different reports here some reports state that he was married some state that he had a
girlfriend some state that um he had both some state that the girlfriend lived here or his girlfriend or wife
still lived in Mexico regardless of whom was living where what we can say for certain is all reports
indicate that he had some family here in Florida and some family still in Mexico
and he was sending money back to the family in Mexico from time to time now the reason why you're going to clear
Caulkins of any wrongdoing is a warrant goes out for the arrest of Felipe Santos
mhm okay because this is the next month in November of 2003 a warrant was issued
for Santos after he failed to appear in court for a hearing regarding the traffic accident of the day that he
vanished MH now at that time in late 2003 investigators believed that Santos probably returned to Mexico or was in
hiding to avoid the charges he was facing or avoid being deported right so reasonable explanation as to believe why
we cannot find this dude now that's all going to become a big problem for officer
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you Colonel cheers there Captain this brings us to our second case this is the missing person's case of Terrence
Williams and the details of this case are as follows on Sunday January 11th before he
went to bed Jason Gonzalez this is Terrence Williams roommate says that he spoke to Terrence on the phone on that
evening a little background on Terence Williams he grew up in Tennessee before moving to Naples Florida to be closer to
his mother he has a roommate this is Jason Gonzalez and at the time Terrence Williams is working two jobs during the
day he works as a construction worker and in the evening he works at a local Pizza Hut restaurant he's working two
jobs because he has four children and he has to pay a lot of Child Support he's working out a little Caesar Pizza Hut
right right now on this night on this Sunday night Terrence Williams is invited to go to an afterwork party with
a bunch of the Pizza Hut employees and co-workers he does not have an active or V valid driver's license at this time
what's with all these people that don't have Driver's License Driving Around well if you're an
undocumented uh worker somebody that's not supposed to be here legally harder to get a license you can't just walk in
and get a driver's license now Terrence he is a different situation his license has been revoked from a DUI
by okay so he recently purchased a white Cadillac now this is one of those big old school white Cadillacs I believe it
was in 1983 primier right it was a primier for the Cadillac well he purchased the
vehicle because at some point and fairly soon he's going to get his license back
okay right so he will be legally driving but not on this day and that's why he's
call on his roommate he's saying hey I was invited to go to this after workor party why don't you go with me you can
be the driver right you know you you take your vehicle I'll ride shotgun we'll go have a good time at this party
the roommate says I don't want to go right so against better judgment Terrence decides he's just going to drive his
vehicle and go to this party well we can all agree this is a bad decision but it's also there's some evidence of him
making making bad decisions he obviously got a DUI he obviously was drunk at some
point and decided to drive his car Williams is not like a what I would call a bad guy but he's no he's no saint
either he's he's done some he's had some infractions yeah good people make bad decisions from time to time on this day
he decides to drive now as far as all Witnesses are concerned Terrence left this party sometime around 6:00 a.m. the
following day so this would now be Monday January 12th at the time he is 27 years old and he's coming up on his 28th
birthday relatively soon at some point he is pulled over or he's involved with this officer
Caulkins again and it's a little it's a little confusing as to why because what we're going to have is Caan's statement
of why the two were interacting with each other officer cin says that at some point on the 12th he Witnesses a
Cadillac who is it appears that they're having some kind of mechanical trouble with the vehicle he says he ask the
driver if everything's okay the driver tells him that he's having trouble with the engine and that's when they start
interacting with one another right what goes on from here is somewhat similar to
what we saw in the Santos case where where Williams is eventually put into Caan's
vehicle and then they drive off there's some problems with this whole story and we're going to kind of back into it here
Captain so what happens is we have Terrence Williams's family they call police and they filed a missing person's
report this is because at some point on the 13th the roommate Jason Gonzalez he reaches out to Williams's mother and
says hey my roommate your son went to this party the other night I've not seen him since I spoke with some of the
people that he worked with they say he left at 6:00 a.m. on the 12th now it's the 13th this dude's not showed up for
work he's not come home do you know where he is mom doesn't know where he is now we're getting concerned relatives
the aunt get involved everybody's kind of calling around Captain checking local jail
hospitals what they end up doing is they end up tracking down his white Cadillac
they find that the vehicle was towed oh the way that they're going to trace this
thing back is the person that signed off on the toe is in officer Caulkins well looky looky lookie so now they want to
know why the vehicle was towed and where their family member is so they're calling the sheriff's the colier county
Sheriff's Office and asking did Caulkins drive off with this guy our son our our
family member they have reason to believe so because by this point they already know that the vehicle was towed
from a cemetery right the family reaches out to that Cemetery cuz of course you're going to want to know why is my
relative in the cemetery why why was the vehicle towed from there they speak with
a couple of the the employees of the cemetery who tell them we witnessed a Coler County sheriff's car drive off
with Terrence in the back right now I'm going to jump ahead here just a second captain because I want to go through an
incident report that was filed by Officer cins this was just a few days after he picks up Williams and again
that's in dispute okay and we will see that in this incident report Caan's report states that he first came in
contact with Terence Williams at 12:15 p.m. after noticing that the vehicle and I did some double checking in my notes
it was a 1984 white Cadillac was driving quote in distress the officer claimed that he
followed Terren to a cemetery parking lot and then Terren asked him for a ride to a nearby Circle K convenience store
because he was running late for work okay a little clar ification here this is not the same Circle K that we've
previously discussed in the Santos case right however this is still Coler County
and these are not you know the distance between this traffic stop and the previous one not terribly far away from
one another what goes down here is to fill in some of the blanks that are missing from this report here is that
caulin states that Terence Williams only gives him his first name tells him that
he's having trouble with the vehicle and that he's running late for work he works
according to Caulkins Terrence tells him that he works at that Circle K originally caulin says look I can call a
taxi cab for you I'm not giving you a ride I can call a cab for you he says Williams tells him I can't afford to pay
for a cab so at some point Caulkins agrees to take him to this Circle K and he points out to him hey you know your
tags are expired you've not provided me with any information and caulin says that Terrence Williams told him all of
the information that the officer was looking for is in the glove box of his vehicle and after he drops him off at
the Circle K I imagine if we're going to believe this story the way this is going
down is Williams tells him this in route to the Circle K right and says you can go back and you can find all that
information inside the vehicle after you drop me off yeah but let's think about this for a second on is it believable it
makes some sense I have a DUI I don't have a license I'm not legally allowed to drive this vehicle so if I'm stopped
on the side of the road and here comes a police officer as long as I don't give him my full name he can't look me up
right and if I'm not in the vehicle at the time that the officer approaches me he can't prove that I was driving right
right so all that kind of makes sense and then you go well everybody then says well well look he didn't work at the
Circle K well again that's another I'm not going to give you my full name and by the way I work down the street at the
Circle K could you you give me a ride what's at the Circle K a pay phone or possibly the work phone this the story
kind of Mak sense in this in the way of somebody not trying to get in trouble for illegally driving yeah and that's
what will will go through and I think that you know a lot of people view this and they go well this is completely made
up this is all a bunch of BS and I I don't think so I think that there are details in this story that some of them
are probably true and just by making some inferences like you just did you can see why some of these things might
be true here so continuing on in the incident report filed by Officer Caulkins he says that Williams told him
that the paperwork for the vehicle was in the vehicle's glove compartment and the officer claims that he then returned
after dropping Terrence Williams off at the Circle K that he returned to the Cadillac to to discover that the proper
registration the information that he was looking for was not it was not in fact in the vehicle and so now he's sitting
there going okay well this guy lied to me and I fell for it right I was being a nice guy I gave him a a lift I fell for
it so he says at this time that the officer says that he called the Circle K from his work issued cell phone he's got
like a nexttel that they carry back then you this is January 2004 top of the line
you know one thing that I always wonder about let's get sidetracked here for a second right those next Tails remember
had they had that walkie-talkie feature yeah where you could just hit the button
you had like people you could scroll through you just hit the button and instantly you're communicated with them
like they don't even have to pick up it just talks right I thought that was the coolest thing somehow we've gone away
from that is maybe it's an invasion of privacy so where I think there are some truths here okay is one thing that I
find interesting is this Circle K that Caulkins claims that Williams asked him to drive him to there is evidence that
Williams was a regular at this Circle K that he would frequently get gas there that he would okay cuz I'm trying to
figure out what what is a regular at a gas station oh somebody that gets gas there somebody Maybe by smokes or by
dude anybody that's worked at a gas station will tell you there there are some people you see every single day
really yeah you have certain people that will drop in for coffee on their way to
work every single day that they work some people that pick up cigarettes on their way home or pick up beer on their
way home there are people that you will see several times a week and I imagine you know Terren was a smoker and the
comments I found was that he purchased gas there regularly he purchased cigarettes there regularly so that makes
some sense I always thought gas station would be an interesting job like you'd see a lot of interesting people and a
lot of interesting situations go down I worked at gas stations I enjoyed working
there one thing that I enjoyed was I enjoyed seeing the people regularly you know the regulars right you have a very
brief interaction with them and it's usually very pleasant and uh so anyway the thing here though that's that's
interesting is caulin says he calls the Circle K cuz he's like all right this dude tricked me he asked for Terence
Williams caulin says that a female employee a lady employee picks up the phone I think this is important and
we'll get into this in a little bit but he says that he asked for Terence Williams the lady working who answered
the phone tells him I don't know who you're talking about I don't there's nobody here nobody works here with the
name Terrence Williams so now he's like oh this guy really pulled one over on on
me according to the report officer ckins then called in the license plate number
and found that the plates were expired weird that he didn't run those plates before he gave him a lift well there's a
lot of weirdness with this story so lot of weirdness with you right he's now back he being the officer back at the
cemetery with the vehicle and that's when he calls it in to have the vehicle towed saying that he believes that the
vehicle was either abandoned or potentially stolen because it's not registered to Terence Williams right the
last person that was registered to the registration makes makes little sense or no sense I should say to me so I'm sure
that giving him the benefit of the doubt here Caulkins probably thought there's a
chance that this vehicle could be stolen we go through that incident report because what what we're going to have
Captain is we're going to have witnesses who tell us something very different okay and those witnesses will be the
workers at the cemetery now mind you this is at noon it's all going down around noon and 1:00 in the afternoon
and I I have a question in here that that may not have anything to do with the case but I found myself wondering we
have a witness saying that that he left the party at 6:00 a.m. and then we don't
have anything with Terrence Williams until this vehicle situation around noon so we got a missing window of 6 hours
that could potentially be important to this case what we do have here though is if we are to believe any or some of
Caan's story is that he decides to give Terrence Williams a ride he returns to the vehicle and then he has it towed
there's a couple problems in here and the cemetery workers will say a couple things one just like in the previous
situation they believe that Terrence Williams was being placed under arrest they witnessed him being Pat patted down
and then placed into the back of the sheriff's vehicle right but sometimes when a officer gives a person a ride
they still Pat them down and make sure they have no weapons on them that's correct the other issue is that they say
that when officer Caulkins came back to the scene that he now had access to the keys to the vehicle to the Cadillac and
this is because they say that he moved the vehicle got out of the vehicle and then threw the keys in the
grass they believe that he moved the vehicle so that he could say that the vehicle was obstructing traffic and
therefore it needed to be towed later when questioned Caulkins is going to say that he found the keys inside the
vehicle when he returned to the vehicle to find the paperwork and the information that he was looking for that
Williams told him he would find there well the problem is we have eyewitnesses from a distance there's no way they
would know when he had the keys or how he came about the keys all we know is he had them in his possession at some point
in the time frame where he has these keys Terence Williams is no longer around he's no longer with the vehicle
right Caulkins does not say he never says that he moved the vehicle in fact he denies that however we have Cemetery
employee Witnesses saying he in fact did move the vehicle and then threw the keys
away as so that they would not be found very odd thing for them to lie about well and to give right and I I I'll give
them credibility one in the situation that they have no dog in the fight here they have no reason to make things up
right and then take that a step further one of the employees is retired law enforcement look if if he was going
to air on the side of protecting his fellow officer well we're just getting the truth is what I what I really
believe from these Witnesses right the Circle K convenience store where Caulkins says that he dropped Terrence
Williams off at that day it's it's located in the vicinity of Wiggins Pass Road in
us41 now both of these Circle Caves are still they're still standing in an operation today they are different
locations but I'm giving you the area of this one so that we can determine one thing because we have witnesses that are
by the Cadillac that say that they are seeing officer cins return to the vehicle anywhere from 15 minutes to 1
hour later and this matches up with him calling in the toe as well because he's calling in the toe remember he says he
first encountered Terence Williams at 12:15 and then he's calling in the toe at 12:57 p.m. these are per police
records dispatch records and such so that all lines up with what these eyewitnesses are saying and this Circle
K is rough about a 7-minute drive from the location of the Cadillac at this Naples Memorial Cemetary but again
there's no video footage of caulin on the property that's what's really really difficult in this situation okay so hard
to miss a police car well yes and no and that's why I say it's difficult most Reports most online
reports that you will find will state very clearly that there is no eyewitness having seen Caulkins his
vehicle at the Circle K that day or having seen Terrence Williams at the Circle K that day we do know because
mind you Williams's family they're actively looking for him within days of him having gone missing so they're
filing a missing person's report and they're piecing things together they're the ones that are coming up with the
breadcrumb trail to try to lead to their missing loved one and what they uncover
is this interaction with officer ckins so we have Coler County Sheriff's Office they're going to go to the Circle K
they're going to review surveillance footage that's available to them and to which they never find any indication at
all you know they don't spot teren Williams they don't spot the officer Caulkins either now we should point out
again this is a very busy area middle of the day there's a chance I believe there's a chance that either of them or
both of them could have been there maybe they just weren't picked up on camera for whatever reason the reason why I say
that is because there is one person there is one employee who has said that they saw both
Terrence Williams and officer Caulkins that day at the Circle K right this employee she says and I find this be
interesting because remember from the incident report Officer caulin says that he called the Circle K and spoke with a
female employee and we have a female eyewitness right this could just be something that's coincidence what have
you however it lines up at the end of the day it still lines up even quinky quinky dinky this witness says that she
had worked there for a long period of time and she recognized Terrence Williams as a regular she didn't know
him by name but recognized him by face as he came in there often for gas and for
cigarettes she says that she saw Terence Williams fill up a gas can outside you know you you you walk up and you you
fill up your can and then you make you know you make your way out of the place she says that she believed that he was
walking off in the direction of wigan's Pass Road she also said that she spoke with officer Caulkins because he came in
to the gas station used the restroom and then asked a question or two about Terrence Williams before leaving well
and she remembered how bad it smelled I don't this is what's difficult Captain because you would think if he went
inside and used the restroom and spoke to her inside that he would definitely appear on the surveillance footage now
right I don't know where they're filming and where they're not filming at this location so
it's difficult to tell we do not have a an extremely detailed report from the Sheriff's Office well and I think the
other problem too with these reports is is it possible that he was seen on on film but they didn't collect that
evidence because they didn't know that they needed to from what I've been told in this situation and um I believe in
the Santos situation as well is that officers reviewed hours of surveillance footage from both of these Circle Cas
the one thing that we know to be true okay there are some question marks in the things we just discussed but one
thing we know to be true that is an absolute lie as far as his incident report goes the Nexel cell phone that Officer
caulin says that he used to call the Circle K to verify if Terrence Williams worked there or was still there we know
that that is a lie because that cell phone is owned by the sheriff's department they're trying to back up his
story they look it up there's no call in their records from that cell phone to the Circle K and in his incident report
he's very specific about this he says I used my Nexel Sheriff's Office phone to call the
circle K and I had the Circle K's number because I keep a phone book in the patrol car with me mhm that's very
specific detailed information to which the Sheriff's Office can 100% say that's false we can
tell by the records you did not use that phone to call the Circle K so now we are
left with a big question lots of questions and at the top of that list is what in fact really did happen that day
and where the hell are these two missing men and not only are they missing but they're endangered missing Terrence
Williams is described as African-American 5 8 in tall 160 to 170 lb with brown eyes and brown hair he has
several tattoos a t the letter T above his left chest ET on his right shoulder and Terren in red with blue high
highlights on his left forearm he also has a gold crown with the letter t on the upper right tooth and the other
upper front tooth is solid gold so some very distinctive marks and identifiers on Terren he also has a vertical scar on
his right shoulder and a dark birth mark on the right side of his abdomen he was
last seen wearing a short sleeve shirt blue jeans and brown Timberland boots he was also wearing diamond earrings and a
watch with a silver band The Face of the watch was surrounded by white stones if
anybody has any information in either case please contact Crim Stoppers at 1 80078
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In 2003 and 2004 something strange was going on down in Collier County, Florida. In the span of four short months two young men both in their early twenties go missing. Felipe Santos and Terrance Williams both now missing were last seen in two separate but very similar incidents. Both stories involve the missing person, their vehicle, some kind of traffic incident and an officer on the scene. The officer on the scene was 17 year Sheriff’s Office veteran Steven Calkins. Steven Calkins has been publicly named as a person of interest in both of these cases. We need your help and there is a very substantial reward for your help. If you have any information please contact the Collier County Sheriff’s Office @ 800-780-8477.

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Brief Summary

Two men, Felipe Santos and Terrence Williams, went missing in Florida under suspicious circumstances involving law enforcement.

Key points

Missing Persons Cases. Two men missing for nearly a decade, with a detective still pursuing leads.
Felipe Santos Disappearance. Felipe Santos was last seen after a minor vehicle accident, but vanished without a trace.
Terrence Williams' Disappearance. Terrence Williams goes missing after a party, raising concerns among family and friends.
Suspicious Circumstances. Witnesses report seeing Terrence being placed in a sheriff's vehicle, raising questions about his treatment.
The Missing Keys Mystery. The keys were in his possession, but how did he get them?
Eyewitness Accounts. Witnesses claim Officer Caulkins moved the vehicle and discarded the keys.

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