The Texas Rangers did assist MPD with the investigation early on. Blaming this all on MPD is not quite right.


And I disagree if you are using the traditional term of "hit". Using a hammer is simply too messy and creates way too much blood spatter evidence on everything, increasing the chances of getting caught. It's like Gallagher hitting a watermelon, that stuff flies everywhere. This was a personal rage killing, by somebody that was smart enough to wear gloves and leave their phone at home. A pro would have just shot her in the head and left the gun.

What podcast

True Crime Garage, but it seems quite a few podcasts have covered the case to this point.

After googling, I'm not sure I'd seen this enhanced pic of the person in the swat gear, assuming it's real.

https://crimeblogger1983.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-murder-of-missy-bevers.html

Dang, this will be 5 years in April. I don't think this one gets solved.

Sure doesn't seem like it unless someone starts talking or if they happened to get DNA at the scene, the perp commits another crime and is added to the system.

I have mentioned the Delphi case a few times on a few threads about true crime. Same situation and I think about both cases a lot.

Weird to know there's someone out there who knows they got away with this.

Yep, but there's no way they are the only one or that others they know don't suspect them. As time goes on, relationships diminish, and things change. Let's hope if someone knows something, and is protecting them, that they choose to no longer do so, at some point.

Jimmy McNulty said:

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I've been back on the bottle and relegated to boat duty again.

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Stir up a hornet's nest, ain't no telling who's gonna get stung.

Jimmy McNulty said:

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I've been back on the bottle and relegated to boat duty again.

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Do your time, lay off the sauce, make things right with Rawls and I'll make sure you're off the boat by summer.

Would love to see this case get solved and turned into a movie.

After listening to one of the podcast and watching the video I think the the killer was a cold calculating chick

I think I'm with you on that. The movements and motions just seem to be feminine to me as well.

I think it was a scorned wife whose husband messed around with Bevens, or at least a wife who thought her husband did.

It also just makes sense from a planning standpoint

It's just wild they got away with it to this point. Some female just decided they need to kill this woman and they do enough to not get caught?

I still hold by my earlier disdain for the Midlothian PD. Detectives are paid to solve crimes and bring criminals to trial. There is a murderer out there who should have been brought to trial.

Yes, it's hard. But that's why you're a detective.

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I still hold by my earlier disdain for the Midlothian PD. Detectives are paid to solve crimes and bring criminals to trial. There is a murderer out there who should have been brought to trial.

Yes, it's hard. But that's why you're a detective.

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Not every crime is able to be solved. Some require help and some require big breaks. DPS assisted and still nothing. Sorry, it's just the truth.

It is still a failure.

Why are y'all so forgiving of a police department failing at finding this murderer? I bet if someone you know gets murdered you wouldn't be so cavalier about it.

That podcast makes a leap that it was a scorned lover of another one of her relationships. That it also could be a female seems interesting. I sort of get where they are going here.

This seems like something that would be easy to show the extent to which she was having affairs, and who the wife/gf was. they perhaps might not want all that info public, I guess.

It seems like whomever did this took great pains to establish a gait similar to the husband to frame him, perhaps unaware that he was out of town with an alibi. Or perhaps not. This puts the circle of people with that type of intel, with knowledge of her patterns extremely narrow. The list of people with that type of intel has to be in the 10-20 people total.

If the motive here was indeed adultery with cell phone pings, SMS, etc. this doesn't seem that hard a case to bring at least a few people in you figure out who she was sleeping list and work backwards.

But without some hard DNA and CCTV of a person linked to a car or something this is going nowwhere.

Actually, her location at that time of the morning was very well known.

CG trainers are at given locations at pretty specific times, normally about 30 minutes before their campers show up. You can look any trainer up on campgladiator.com and know when and where they're going to be.

Since she took her camp inside in cold weather, all the murderer had to do was be in there and wait.

That being said, I had no idea it was so easy to get away with murder. At least, it's a piece of cake in Midlothian.

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Actually, her location at that time of the morning was very well known.

CG trainers are at given locations at pretty specific times, normally about 30 minutes before their campers show up. You can look any trainer up on campgladiator.com and know when and where they're going to be.

Since she took her camp inside in cold weather, all the murderer had to do was be in there and wait.

That being said, I had no idea it was so easy to get away with murder. At least, it's a piece of cake in Midlothian.

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Yeah, I get that. I still stick to the theory that the person wanted to be caught on video walking like that.

I would also have thought that she could have just been camped out on outside, but wasn't. There was a desire to be seen on camera. So they had to figure out how/when to get in the building, and where the cameras were and stumble around them enough to get seen and frame the husband and GTFO.

Don't get any murdery ideas, I do wonder if they reviewed the IP logs of the CG schedule website

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wbt5845 said:

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Actually, her location at that time of the morning was very well known.

CG trainers are at given locations at pretty specific times, normally about 30 minutes before their campers show up. You can look any trainer up on campgladiator.com and know when and where they're going to be.

Since she took her camp inside in cold weather, all the murderer had to do was be in there and wait.

That being said, I had no idea it was so easy to get away with murder. At least, it's a piece of cake in Midlothian.

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Yeah, I get that. I still stick to the theory that the person wanted to be caught on video walking like that.

I would also have thought that she could have just been camped out on outside, but wasn't. There was a desire to be seen on camera. So they had to figure out how/when to get in the building, and where the cameras were and stumble around them enough to get seen and frame the husband and GTFO.

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This is an interesting theory. I have to think neither the husband nor father in law did it because those guys have to have been wire brushed pretty hard by the cops and Rangers. Anyway, they would have hired a pro who would have just popped her in the parking lot. Using a hammer shows a lot of hate - it's a nasty, bloody way to kill someone.

The wife of some one she was screwing makes sense. And if her husband found out or suspected, he was motivated to keep his mouth shut. It had to be someone familiar enough with CG to know the routine. It was mid-April, so camp normally would be outside. Someone had to know that, due to the rain, camp was going to be moved inside. So the murderer didn't know for sure they were doing the deed until that morning.

How she was smart enough to mastermind not leaving behind any evidence is beyond me, though.

This thread has made me start paying attention to the case again. Was plodding through some of the more recent Reddit posts on it last night, and one thing I hadn't seen before was a dropbox link to some scanned log sheets / incident reports received via FOIA request. When the cops first got to the scene (Midlothian PD first, followed by 4-5x Ellis County Sheriff), they noted that her truck was parked in the covered driveway at the church entrance, with the passenger door open and tonneau cover raised up and tailgate down (with a bunch of equipment still in the truck bed, plus her cell phone and purse in the front seat area. Then they found her body laying just inside near the building entrance, surrounded by broken glass and (possibly?) a gun nearby. She apparently didn't get more than a few steps inside before the ambush started. One of the wilder theories that I read suggested that the person in the fake SWAT uniform wasn't actually the killer... and that they were possibly there as a lookout/accomplice to someone else waiting at the front for Missy.

Lots of redacted portions of the document so hard to tell much regarding the gun. However, they did engage nearly immediately with local management from Wal Mart to check on any recently purchased or stolen guns / ammo.

I also looked at a map of where the church is for the first time, and noted that it's practically right in front of the Midlothian airport. I've been on some test flights out of there for my job. There's a fairly long/secluded access road into the airport off of 287, and it would make an ideal spot for a getaway car or other accomplice to wait. From the small size of the airport, it's unlikely that anyone was onsite at the time of the incident, and I'm sure they've already explored any surveillance / possible eyewitnesses there.

All the doors and back of truck being open is consistent with a CG trainer unloading her gear in prep of a camp. It was raining, So she'd pull under the awning, open everything up and start hauling it in.

Right. The main data point would seem to be the timing element... she hadn't been there long at all when the attack started. Possibly even lured inside by the murderer before she even had a chance to do anything but open up the truck?