Episode 186: Cory "Stretch" Schroeder

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Hello, and welcome to the Catch
My Killer Podcast. Thank you for listening.

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My name is Mark. For nearly
eight years, I've written a weekly

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newspaper column about true crimes and missing
people for the Claremont Sun newspaper in Ohio.

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With the column and podcast, it
has always been my objective to bring

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attention to cases that have not received
much media attention, if any. This

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week's story involves a box sighted,
Arkansas man named Corey Schrader, also known

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as Stretch, who vanished on Friday, May twenty first, twenty nineteen.

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He was last seen by a friend
who dropped Corey off at a store after

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Corey had called him and asked for
a ride. The friends said that after

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he dropped Corey off, he never
saw him again, and neither has anyone

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else. Corey has been missing for
over four years and his family in the

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Saline Sheriff's apartment need the public's assistance
and finding him. Cory Schrader, also

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affectionately known as Stretch, was a
box side, Arkansas man who vanished on

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Friday May twenty first, twenty nineteen, just a day short of his forty

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fifth birthday. Corey Schrader was born
on May twenty second, nineteen seventy four

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and Mosston, Wisconsin. He has
a younger sister named Cherish Schrader. After

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their mother became vice president of a
technical college, that job would take the

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Schraders to Arkansas, where they would
eventually settle. Corey and his sister grew

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up in the eighties and were best
friends as children. They played games,

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enjoyed throwing the football to each other, and rode their bicycles into the late

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hours of the night. They would
stay out until the street lights came on,

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which was common for children growing up
in the eighties. As children,

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Corey was always taller than everyone else. He was six foot eight and weighed

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over two hundred pounds. He had
a high IQ and did well in school.

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However, his sister said that Corey
was bored of school. He would

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drop out of school, complete his
ged and then attend a technical school to

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learn computer skills. Cherish had said
that although Corey had a great childhood,

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in home life, he began hanging
out with a bad crowd. Corey then

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engaged in criminal behavior, which led
him to a prison sentence. His sister

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said that while in prison, Corey
did stay out of trouble and never lost

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any of his privileges. He received
his commissary was able to visit with his

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family without any disruptions. After leaving
prison, Corey struggled with finding work since

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it can be difficult to find a
job when you have a felony, but

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he remained positive and did not want
to return to prison. He focused on

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working and spending time with his handicapped
daughter. Cherish said that he loved his

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daughter and committed his life to being
a supportive father. According to media sources,

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Corey was last seeing wearing a sweatshirt
with a hood and carrying a black

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and red backpack. This was the
last time that Corey was officially seen by

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anyone. After Corey failed to show
up to celebrate his birthday with his family,

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they all became concerned because they knew
that he would have never missed his

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birthday. Cherrish began reaching out to
Corey's acquaintances looking for him. His disappearance

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was also reported to law enforcement.
While looking for her brother, Cherrish met

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with someone who claimed to have information
about her brother. The person who spoke

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to Cherish said that her brother had
been shot in the back of the head

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and his body was then dumped somewhere, but she didn't know where. Although

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Cherish was able to convince the young
woman to speak to law enforcement, she

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was too terrified to write down her
account of what happened to Corey. Today,

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Cherish spends time speaking to people who
knew her brother had taken to social

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media to try and locate her brother's
body. She is convinced that someone has

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murdered him because she knows that he
would never walk away from his daughter or

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his family. For now, she
just wants to recover his body so that

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he can receive a proper burial and
the family can grieve over the loss.

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And now on with Corey Schrader's story, as told by his younger sister,

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Cherish Schrader. We're in Arkansas now, but we are actually from Wisconsin.

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My brother and I and my parents
on both sides were originally from Wisconsin.

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We were both born in Moston,
was on a little bitty town southeast of

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Madison, which is the capital of
Wisconsin. So we lived there until I

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guess I was about four and would
have made my brothers six, And then

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we moved to Kansas. My parents
just wanting to expand, you know,

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small town Wisconsin. You're not going
to do much with yourself unless you leave

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this small town. So then,
wanting a better life pressed kids and for

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themselves, they were like, we've
got to get out of small town Wisconsin.

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We were in Kansas for about ten
years and then my mom's job transferred

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her to Little Rock, Arkansas,
and that's how we ended up in Arkansas.

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But my brothers a little over two
years older than I am, so

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you know, siblings that are that
close together like cats and dogs, but

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you're also each other's protectors and things
like that. You know, yes,

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absolutely best friends. We went kitching
all the time and play games together,

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played football and the yard. A
lot of our best friends were each other's

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best friends too, you know,
playing and growing up riding bicycles together all

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the time, and we were those
latch key kids. So as soon as

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we got to school, hopped on
our bicycles and wrote bicycles and stuff and

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played with neighborhood kids together until the
street light came on and typical eighties growing

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up. Yep, Absolutely, me
and my brothers same thing. We throwed

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our bikes around everywhere, and this
was probably back in say nineteen eighty one

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to nineteen eighty three during the summers
when we were out of school. Good

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times. Yeah, yeah, I
remember back then the rule was come home

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when the street lights come on.
I think that was pretty typical back in

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those days. Yeah, yep,
and when the street guys came on yet,

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as long as the house was cleaning
room and dad got home. So

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we ended up in Arkansas, and
I guess it was December of eighty nine

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January of ninety. My mom was
vice president of a technical college and they

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transferred her down here to Arkansas.
And then Arkansas. I really wasn't we

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were Yankees. I guess you could
say that's how everybody thought we were.

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Anyway, we came from up north
and we'd come down here to the South,

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and everybody thought we were different.
So it was quite the adjustment moving

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down here. My brother, he's
six foot eight, so he's always a

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lot taller than everybody else, and
he was different. He was very intelligent.

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He had like a one sixty four
IQ, so school board him to

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tears and he challenged his teachers as
well. He ended up dropping out in

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like the tenth grade, got his
GD got a scholarship from his GD because

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he scored so high on the test, and then from that scholarship that he

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got from his gud, he went
to technical school for some kind of computer

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technology something that was beyond my stuff. I'm a CPA. I just do

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numbers. I'm a new chowner,
so I don't get all that technical computer

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stuff. So he went to some
kind of technical school thing or something like

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that. But his passing was feahing. He loved to fish and he was

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good at it too. But yeah, his passion was fishing. But he

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did get into a little bit of
trouble. I guess it was ninety five.

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He got in with their own crowd, got into a little bit of

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trouble. I think his charges were
stealing or deft by receiving or something.

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So he did go to prison for
I think seven years, from ninety five

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till I think, oh three,
he got out. Now it was two

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thousand and two because my first son
had got to and he got after my

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first was born. Okay, let
me ask you real quick, when was

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Corey mourn When was his birthday?
Twenty two of seventy four? And was

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Corey your only brother? Yes?
So it was just you and Corey.

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Yep, just the two of us. Okay, I just wanted to clarify

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that, and now tell me about
what was it like for him getting back

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to having a regular life after he
was released from prison. Was he able

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to stay out of trouble after he
got out. He stayed out of trouble

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for the most part. Then,
of course, you getting a when you

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have a record of hard society browns
upon people that have records and stuff like

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that. But my dad has his
own sad like the business. So he

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went to work for my dad a
little bit here and there, found a

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girlfriend and ended up getting married.
I don't know what year it was that

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he got married, though, and
he finally had his first biological daughter,

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you know. Six. He has
a step daughter as well, who's from

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his wife, but he has a
first biological daughter. And when she was

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about eight months old, she got
to bork your meningitis. Come to find

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out, he was the one that
had tuberculosis. They said that they could

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have got it off of a shopping
cart or in an elevator or whatever.

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So she got really sick in oh
six or seven, So she's severely handicapped.

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The tuberculosis or the meningitis eight like
seventy three percent of her brain.

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She still at the today. She
didn't die or anything like that, but

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he took that really hard. He
felt like it was his fault that she

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got sick. So he spiraled a
little bit after that because she was severely

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disabled, and I guess he could
say mental and emotional health kind of spiral.

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He was diagnosed with some mild schizophrenia, which does run on my dad's

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side of the family. His mother
was in and out of mental institutions for

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a while, So he did struggle
a little bit here and there because of

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that, but other than that,
he did the best he could within in

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the parts that he was guilt,
but he held a lot of guilt,

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and I think he tried to self
medicate to numb himself from those kinds of

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things. Now, you just said
that his mother had mental issues. Do

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both of you have the same mother
or you have someones? Now it was

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my dad's mother, so our grandmother, I'm sorry, our grandmother. All

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my dad by was in and out
of mental institutions her entire life, which

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schizophrenia and I don't even know.
The list was so long. So we

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believed that he got a touch of
it ritarially or something like that they say

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schizophrenia, camera and families and stuff
like that, and it wasn't like he

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heard voices, but he would always
tell us that in his head it sounded

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like he was in a loud room
all the time. And of course Soccer's

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always wanted to put him on medication
and stuff like that, and he said

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the medication made him feel numb or
like a zombie, you know, like

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he couldn't enjoy the highs of life
you're supposed to have or the rows you're

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supposed to have. So he didn't
like taking the medication. So I could

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understand that. And then with the
issue with his daughter, and I think

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he tried to self medicate sometimes and
he got into a little bit of drugs

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and things like that and got hanging
around with the bad crowd again, which

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brings up I think how he disappeared. He was at the wrong place in

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the wrong term, didn't realize who
was there. Now take me up until

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when Corey disappeared. So I want
to ask you some questions about what I've

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seen in the media, and I
want you to tell me if their account

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is correct or not. So what
I saw was that a friend claimed to

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have taken Corey to a store and
dropped him off on May twenty first,

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twenty nineteen, and then once he
got to the store, that was the

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last time anyone has officially seen Corey. Is that a correct assessment of what

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happened to him? Or did the
media get it wrong anywhere? Yeah?

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Right, he was at our house. Okay, So he and I were

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both divorced. Coincidentally enough, he
and I both ended up getting a divorced

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in two thousand and eleven, so
we ended up back at my mom and

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dads temporarily trying to get back established
and back on our feet in our own

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right. So we were both living
with our mom and dad at that time.

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And so he came in my room
and he was like, oh,

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Sis, this, that and the
other. I said, Bobba, you

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just need to go live down.
We're picking nap to set the other.

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He was seven, a hard time. I had just taken my kids to

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school and stuff in so I guess
he messaged one of his friends and said,

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hey, come pick me up.
I just needed to numb the pain.

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And so his friend came and picked
him up from the house. And

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this was on May twentieth of twenty
nineteen and I took a nap. I

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was off work that day. I
had taken a nap, and he had

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previously been working for the ministry.
That's just a sidebar, but anyway,

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So the friend came and picked him
up, and when I woke up,

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he was gone, and I was
like, Okay, well where's he at?

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And well he wasn't answering the phone
or anything like that. How that's

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weird, weird, but not weird. He's been known to not answer to

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the phone for a few hours,
but not beas on end. He would

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always eventually text me back, Sis, I'm fine. So I wake up

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the next day and he's not home. Mary. He's not answering any texts.

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So I start reaching out to people
saying, as anybodying my brother or

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anything like that. While I got
ahold of the friend that picked him up,

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I was like, Hey, where's
my brother. He's like, I

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picked him up at your house at
this time, and I dropped him off

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at the store. So that's where
that leave becomes from. He's like,

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I dropped him off at Huckabee's.
Huckabee's is a little grossery store gas station,

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said, I dropped him off here. And I was like, that's

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odd, but okay, And so
I continued hunting for him, and that

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was on the twenty first. He
dropped him off was on the twenty first

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for his birthday on the twenty seconds. So when he didn't show up or

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hadn't been returning bone calls or texts
saying sis, I'm fine, and didn't

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show up for his cake and ice
cream and his birthday, I knew red

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flag because he never misses his birthday. So I said, something's going on.

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So then I started digging into all
the dark corners of the world that

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I, as a single female,
had no business going. But I was

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going to find my brother. I
knew something was wrong, whether it was

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he was doing things he shouldn't have
been doing, I eat drugs, or

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he just needed to be found.
So I started calling people I had no

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business calling in, driving around places
I had no business driving around, but

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I knew I need to find my
brother. Something wasn't right. He missed

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his birthday, something was wrong,
and I couldn't find him anywhere. I

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couldn't get straight answers from anybody.
So I finally filed a missing person's report,

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and that was on Wednesday. His
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and so by Friday. I don't
know if you're a spiritual person or

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not, but I am. And
God had told me that Friday that week,

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I have your brother. He told
me. He said, your brothers

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with me. And then I just
knew, because God had already told me

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I got your brother. And of
course I wasn't going to tell mom,

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bet or anything like that, but
I just woke up that Friday morning with

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just this gut renting treeling because God
had told me. So. Your instincts,

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as Corey's sister, have told you
that your brother is no longer alive.

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That's how you feel right now.
Yes, yes, And that was

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four days that or I had last
seen him. After sheriff told me that

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she was convinced that her brother was
no longer alive, she became focused on

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recovering his body. Cherish has received
a tip from a woman with knowledge about

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her brother's fate. The woman told
Cherish that Corey was deceased and that his

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killer had shot him in the back
of the head. We will take a

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short break and return with the disturbing
details of the tip that Cherish received from

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an informant about Corey's final moments alive. Now, what about today, do

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you still believe that your brother is
deceased or is there still a small glimmer

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of hope that he's still alive.
No, I still believe today that he

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is in Heaven with Jesus. Yep, yep. And I had to put

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this out there in the public.
I don't want to say any speculative information,

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but there's a lot of things that
have come out, but through my

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own investigation and some people that have
come talk to me saying that they've talked

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The street talks. You know what
I'm saying. You know this, but

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the street does not talk to the
cops, but they'll talk to other people

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on the street. And the people
that were there when it happened, or

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people that have talked to the people
that were there when it happened, have

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said that he showed up, delivered
a message something about somebody's girlfriend. He

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made a comment about some girls bottom
for backside looking good. The boyfriend didn't

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take kindly to it. So the
boyfriend shot my brother in the back of

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the head, and then he enlisted
his friends to help cover it up.

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And the guy that did the murder
is of Ariyan brotherhood, and so that's

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why no one is willing to talk
is because they're scared to death of all

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these gang members and what will happen
to them if they put their name on

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paper and testify against this guy.
So, now that you've heard rumors about

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your brother being shot to death,
what do you think about these rumors?

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Are they just rumors or do you
think that this is factual information that you

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have received? What's your opinion.
I believe it to be legit. I've

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heard it from people on that side
of the street, you know what I'm

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saying, from those dark corners of
the world, from people that were there

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when it happened. There was one
individual that actually put my brother's body in

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the back of his car and has
said his blood is still in the back

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of my care And the person that
he was telling this two came straight to

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my house after and was like,
charrish, I've been sitting on this for

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two weeks and it's eaten me up
and blah blah blah blah blah, but

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sell. And so two weeks ago
I was riding around with him and for

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some reason, out of just you
know, for whatever reason, he needed

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to get off his chest. He
told me this, this, and this,

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But the only thing he didn't tell
me is where they put your brother.

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He told me, this is how
it happened. This is what happened.

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This is why it happened. And
then they put your brother in the

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back of this car, and she
herself saw the blood in the back of

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the car. And then I said, you have to tell the detectives.

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Where she went and told the detectives, and then when the detectives said put

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it on paper, she balked and
she said, nope, I'm not going

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to do it. She verbally reported
it to the detectives, but when they

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said write the statement, she said
nope. So the girl that you're telling

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me about, was she an actual
witness. She's a witness to a confession.

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Somebody that took part in the cover
up confessed to her. Okay,

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got it, and that was there
when it happened, had confessed to her,

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and she saw the blood and back
of the vehicle. Had confessed to

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her, and she told me,
and I convinced her to tell one of

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the detectives that she trust because she
has a storied past two but she's always

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been credible, but when it came
time to make a written statement, she

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wouldn't do it. There's been a
handful of people that they've questioned, Like

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I think the detective told me at
one time, they've questioned over seventy people

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in this case, and they've gotten
bits and pieces, and he's told me,

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he said, Cherish, this is
going to be a marathon, not

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a sprint. And I think that
there's more they could do. I've asked

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them to bring the FBI in,
but they won't do it. Why is

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that, Well, I don't know
if you know much about Seling County,

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Arkansas, not much. I don't
think I've really heard that much about that

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county specifically. You should do some
research on Sling County, Arkansas. And

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the Boys on the Tracks. Oh
right, right, the Boys on the

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Track. I'm familiar with that story. That was a long time ago,

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but I do remember it. The
Boys on the Tracks. Back in nineteen

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eighty seven, there is these two
boys from Bryant, Arkansas, which is

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just blocks away from where I met. As the story goes, they were

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just in the wrong place at the
wrong time yet again, but they accidentally

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seen a pretty heavy drug deal going
down. But they saw some things that

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shouldn't have seen and so they were
murdered. And if I recall, their

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deaths were rules and accident, but
the locals don't believe that. The locals

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believe that the boys were actually killed
by someone. Their deaths were ruled well

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an accident or suicide that they basically
got so high on marijuana that they lay

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down on the railroad tracks and fell
asleep. Yeah, and that's definitely not

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believable. I've been on many many
railroad tracks. I grew up near railroad

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tracks that used to walk them all
the time. There's no way that you're

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falling asleep on them and not hearing
a train coming. Those trains are very

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loud. Yeah, how do you
follows sleep on a railroad track and not

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hear a train coming? And you
don't get that high on weet that you

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don't hear a train coming. So, yeah, there's some corruption in Saline

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County. I don't think it's as
bad now is what it used to be

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back and say the late eighties,
early nineties. And the gentleman that they

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say is a person of interest or
the gentleman that committed this murder, like

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I say, he's airing Brotherhood,
and they have used him before for federal

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trafficking to try to get some of
these higher ups, some bigger fish,

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I guess. So you think this
guy may have worked as an informant.

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I think so. But they keep
shoving him back to prison. Every time

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he gets a gun charge or something
like that. They're seving back to prison

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for six or eight months. Maybe
gets back out and he screws up again,

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and they sending back to federal prison. But they keep letting him out

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again, but he keeps getting away
with everything. But they can't prosecute a

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murder case without a body, and
they can't find my brother's body because nobody

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will say where they buried him,
or what they did with his remains or

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anything like that. And there's some
pretty gory details on what supposedly they did

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to him afterwards, their stories about
a wood kipper, and I don't even

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want to entertain that one, but
it's possible when you start talking about Arie

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and Brotherhood and what they're willing to
do to cover up their crimes. It's

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just a matter of my brother being
at the wrong place at the wrong time,

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and he said the wrong thing to
the wrong person. He had no

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idea who he was talking to or
who was dealing with. He was just

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hanging out. So let me ask
you where was Corey when he was supposedly

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killed? I mean, was he
at a party? Was he out in

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the woods? Where exactly was he
at? Allegedly now at he was at

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this guy's house. But yeah,
they call him ugly Mike or something like

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that. Bingley. He was at
a guy's house and there was probably a

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good twelve or sixteen twenty people there, and they were all party in and

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in doing the various things, and
a couple of people, you know,

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there's a guy that dropped him off, and dropped a couple of people off,

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I guess, and they were hanging
out doing their thing. And somebody

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else has since come forward and said, hey, Cheris, I didn't know

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that this was going to cause this. But when your brother left my house,

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I told him, I said,
hey, if you see so and

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So, tell her the only person's
booty that looks better than hers is dada,

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dadada. So when my brother delivered
that message, it was supposed to

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be funny, but apparently the boyfriend
didn't take it too kindly and it caused

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my brother to get to you,
so, where did this guy allegedly kill

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your brother. Was it in front
of witnesses or was it done out in

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the field. It sounds like he
just shot him right there and didn't worry

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about if there were any witnesses.
Based on what you just said, yes,

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apparently it was probably like thirty minutes
later. I'm guessing here, I'm

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just activating, guessing that he'd probably
sit there and feeled about it. This

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guy has a history of being very
jealous, extremely jealous, And from what

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I was told is he told somebody, go next door and get your mom's

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gun, and so he sent the
guy next door, or I think two

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houses down, and one gentleman went
two houses down, got his mom's gun,

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came back with it, handed it
to the guy. And I think

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when my brother got up to go
smoke a cigarette or something like that is

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when he sought him in the back
of the head. Brother's a very big

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man, but he's not violent at
all. Everybody called him the gentle giant.

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Children loves my brother. My brother
loves children. I mean, kids

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just flock to him. If anybody
needed a babysitter, they called my brothers.

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He was not a violent man at
all, but because of his stature.

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I mean, he was six foot
eight and two thirty five and the

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guy that killed him is not The
guy that killed him is only like five

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six and maybe one forty five.
That's probably why you're there. Was shot

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in the back of the head because
he wasn't looking exactly exactly it was it

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was, you know, And like
I said, he's a very jealous person

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from everybody telling about him, and
he's very jealous, has extreme anger issues.

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He joined a gang in prison is
because he needed the protection. I

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think that's pretty standard for people when
they go to prison. Yeah. Yeah,

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Well, from what I understand,
for people that are going to prison

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for any length of time, possibly
for life, or if they have some

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other type of long sentence, it's
probably safest for them to join a gang,

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whether it be the Aryan Brotherhood or
I guess whatever gang based on your

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ethnicity, joining the appropriate gang is
probably done for safety reasons. And believe

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it or not, yes, my
brother did end a few years in prison,

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but he was always in the non
violent unit and he was always on

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a committee of some sort because he
stayed out of trouble when he was in

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prison. He stayed out of trouble. He always had all his commissary,

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he had all his free time.
We were always able to visit him every

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weekend. It was because he stayed
out of trouble and he kept his nose

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clean. He didn't want to be
there, he wanted to come home.

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So he had no game affiliation whatsoever
when he was in there. And that's

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one thing that the detectives kept asking
me to add. They're like, he

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doesn't have any affiliation. I was
like, no, sir, none whatsoever.

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No, he has no game tattoos
or anything else. No, sir,

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no whatsoever. So, based on
what you're telling me about your brother,

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it sounds like he probably was killed
in the spur of the moment.

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It doesn't sound like something that was
planned, right. It sounds like someone

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just got angry at your brother and
just killed him allegedly yep, yep.

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And then you have witnesses who saw
what happened, dear brother, or people

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that know about it, but none
of them will see anything to enforcement.

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And you know what that's common because
I've spoken to other people who are in

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the same situation as you're in,
and they've also told me about witnesses or

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people that have information, but they
will never speak to the police about it.

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Therefore, the police can't arrest anyone
if they don't have any witnesses that

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will come forward. But then I
understand because they may be fearful. I

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mean, if this person's going to
kill someone, then if I talk,

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what's the stop them from doing the
same thing? To me, that's the

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mentality, So they're in survival mode. Unfortunately, that is detrimental to the

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family because the family wants to see
justice. In some situations, even the

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family can't get anyone to say anything, much less the police. You know,

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we'll settle for just finding my brother
or so we can bring him home

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and give him proper peace resting place
so we can mourn him, and then

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we'll get the justice after that.
But yeah, so we can have a

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place to go and mourn him,
rather it be on his birthday or the

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anniversary of which sat at the anniversary
that he went missing or was murdered,

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just very close to his birthday,
but you know, things like that,

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so we can properly mourn and put
him to risk. But meeting as spiritually

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connected as I am, I know
God's going to have his justice and it

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is eternal and it is far worse
than anything that this earthly law can give

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us. But yeah, during my
research about Corey's case, I looked at

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his Facebook page and found a disturbing
message. There's a post on his page

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from May twentieth, twenty nineteen,
the day before he disappeared, stating going

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to be leaving Facebook in a few
days going on new adventure. I asked

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Cherish what she thought of the post. We'll take a final and listened to

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her discuss the strange post in her
mission to find out what happened to her

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beloved brother. So, I was
looking at Corey's Facebook page and I noticed

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a really strange post. It was
the last one on his page. It

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said, I'm going to be going
on an adventure, so I'm going to

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be gone for a while. Can
you tell me about that post? Do

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you even think it was him?
I'm not even sure if that was him.

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I think that was his girlfriend at
the time. Yeah, they were

408
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fighting and stuff like that, and
she had all his passwords. So I

409
00:30:44.720 --> 00:30:48.880
had to get the passwords from her
to find out, you know, Like

410
00:30:48.880 --> 00:30:51.839
I said, I had to start
looking for him that next day, and

411
00:30:51.920 --> 00:30:53.920
that's how I found out I was
like, give me his password so I

412
00:30:53.960 --> 00:30:57.599
can look at his messages and see
who picked him up or where he went.

413
00:30:57.720 --> 00:31:03.079
And I logged in. I got
sorts from her to start finding him,

414
00:31:03.119 --> 00:31:04.799
and she was somewhat helpful at first, Like I said, she gave

415
00:31:04.799 --> 00:31:07.799
me his passwords. That after about
the first month or so, she just

416
00:31:08.079 --> 00:31:12.160
moved on. So then you think
that a former girlfriend may have put that

417
00:31:12.200 --> 00:31:17.680
on there maybe, and I'm speculating. Yeah, I find it kind of

418
00:31:17.680 --> 00:31:22.400
odd that it was posted on May
twentieth, the day before he disappeared.

419
00:31:22.960 --> 00:31:26.000
Yeah, they were fighting and he
called mom and said, my truck's breaking

420
00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:29.759
down, and can you and Dad
come up here and get me. He

421
00:31:29.880 --> 00:31:33.920
was with her in Tabot, which
is like probably an hour away from where

422
00:31:33.960 --> 00:31:37.359
we are, maybe forty five minutes
an hour. He said, the truck's

423
00:31:37.359 --> 00:31:40.359
acting funny. Can you and Dad
picked me up and tow the truck home?

424
00:31:40.759 --> 00:31:44.119
And so they towed the truck back
to what was our house at the

425
00:31:44.160 --> 00:31:48.680
time and brought him home and parked
the truck and things like that. He

426
00:31:48.799 --> 00:31:52.440
was going through some stuff at the
time that he disappeared, which leads to

427
00:31:52.680 --> 00:31:56.599
him calling his buddy saying I just
needed to mum, the pain, and

428
00:31:56.519 --> 00:32:00.559
so he was just he was going
through some stuff. I think it led

429
00:32:00.640 --> 00:32:04.640
him to a where he didn't have
any business being in the first place,

430
00:32:05.319 --> 00:32:09.920
and being around people that were unsavory
for lack of a better term. So

431
00:32:10.119 --> 00:32:14.640
yeah, it's a bad deal all
the way around. But we just want

432
00:32:14.640 --> 00:32:17.720
to bring him home in a proper
resting base and bring my family some kind

433
00:32:17.759 --> 00:32:23.039
of closure, whatever that closure may
be, and then justice. Yeah.

434
00:32:23.160 --> 00:32:29.799
So tell me about what the media
has stated about your brother based on everything

435
00:32:29.839 --> 00:32:32.880
that you've seen out there, as
the media gotten anything wrong about your brother.

436
00:32:34.599 --> 00:32:39.759
Well, originally the ACIC, which
I'm sure you're familiar with, had

437
00:32:39.839 --> 00:32:44.920
his height and weight wrong. They
had his height at six foot two and

438
00:32:45.000 --> 00:32:46.720
his weight at one hundred and forty
five pounds. I said, you've got

439
00:32:46.720 --> 00:32:51.319
to be kidding me, and they
had it. We're at in the first

440
00:32:51.359 --> 00:32:54.680
sixth month. But one of his
flyers I'm looking at now says the friend

441
00:32:54.759 --> 00:32:58.880
dropped him off at the store.
Well, no, he made it out

442
00:32:58.880 --> 00:33:04.119
to Cottonwood and well it's not it's
just it's a little bit misconstrued. Where

443
00:33:04.160 --> 00:33:07.880
the circumstances our Corey was last sing
when a friend dropped him off at a

444
00:33:07.920 --> 00:33:10.599
store, and then where it says
it was learned by a family that he

445
00:33:10.680 --> 00:33:15.480
was around the Cottonwood area, so
that could be a little confusing or could

446
00:33:15.519 --> 00:33:21.519
be misconstrued. And where it says
though that he had his red and black

447
00:33:21.680 --> 00:33:25.799
backpack. That needs to be updated
about. Okay, he disappeared in May.

448
00:33:27.039 --> 00:33:34.039
On January first of twenty twenty,
another friend or former classmate of hours

449
00:33:34.200 --> 00:33:37.799
showed up at my house with that
red and black backpack fresh and it had

450
00:33:37.880 --> 00:33:42.960
just been clean fresh, looked brand
new almost And he showed up. He's

451
00:33:43.000 --> 00:33:45.400
like, hey, Corey gave this
to me the month before he disappeared.

452
00:33:45.400 --> 00:33:50.079
And I'm like, oh, you're
lying. I know you're lying, because

453
00:33:50.079 --> 00:33:52.839
he walked out the door with it. He left with it. I know

454
00:33:52.960 --> 00:33:57.039
he did because it was sitting on
the fourier table that morning. The morning

455
00:33:57.079 --> 00:34:00.839
before he left, it was sitting
on the fourier table and was not here

456
00:34:00.839 --> 00:34:05.240
whenever he after he disappeared. So
he did not give it to you a

457
00:34:05.359 --> 00:34:08.239
month before he disappeared, So I
don't know where you got it from.

458
00:34:09.000 --> 00:34:13.840
But so I don't know. I
don't know where that gentleman got it from.

459
00:34:13.840 --> 00:34:15.840
But he returned it to us,
you know, fresh clean, like

460
00:34:15.920 --> 00:34:21.039
it had just been to the dry
cleaners or something. Was it actually his

461
00:34:21.119 --> 00:34:23.840
backpack? Yes, yes, it
was his backpack because it had the same

462
00:34:23.880 --> 00:34:29.159
carrors and the same little freight ends
and things like that. So it absolutely

463
00:34:29.199 --> 00:34:30.639
was my brother's backpack. And I
called the detectives. I told him,

464
00:34:30.639 --> 00:34:34.519
I said, I told him the
same thing, and they were like,

465
00:34:34.559 --> 00:34:37.559
because they wanted to test it for
DNA and different things like that. I

466
00:34:37.599 --> 00:34:38.920
said, it's not going to do
you any good. It's been cleaned,

467
00:34:39.280 --> 00:34:42.760
I said, but I'll bring it
down there to you if you want it.

468
00:34:42.840 --> 00:34:45.320
But it's been cleaned. I said. It looks almost brand new.

469
00:34:45.440 --> 00:34:50.159
So I don't know how he got
it, but yeah, there's probably a

470
00:34:50.159 --> 00:34:54.280
reason why someone cleaned it. Yeah. Absolutely, he took his laptop with

471
00:34:54.480 --> 00:35:00.559
him and it's disappeared. I don't
know where it disappeared too, in the

472
00:35:00.599 --> 00:35:05.039
scheme of all things, I'm sure
it's destroyed or at the bottom of some

473
00:35:05.159 --> 00:35:08.400
dumpster somewhere or something at this point. But yeah, it's a mess.

474
00:35:08.480 --> 00:35:15.119
It's just a mess. It's sad
that there's so many people involved and that

475
00:35:15.360 --> 00:35:21.320
know what happened. There's not a
single one that's willing to say or do

476
00:35:21.440 --> 00:35:25.239
something that's not tormented by it.
Unfortunately, I think in a lot of

477
00:35:25.320 --> 00:35:31.480
cases there's witnesses out there who know
something, but they just refuse to say

478
00:35:31.519 --> 00:35:36.119
anything. Just imagine if half of
every witness to a crime spoke up,

479
00:35:37.119 --> 00:35:40.559
Imagine how many cases could get solved. Yeah, yeah, I mean,

480
00:35:40.599 --> 00:35:45.679
I do understand a lot of people
either don't want to get involved, or

481
00:35:45.400 --> 00:35:49.559
they may fear for their own life. But at the same time, if

482
00:35:49.599 --> 00:35:53.840
you have information that can put this
guy away for life, there's wit pro

483
00:35:54.079 --> 00:35:59.880
there's always witness protection. So I
don't know, right, But then you

484
00:36:00.119 --> 00:36:05.079
go back to people not wanting to
get involved. I mean, who wants

485
00:36:05.079 --> 00:36:08.320
to go on a witness protection Who
wants to get moved around to different states

486
00:36:08.360 --> 00:36:14.360
and not be allowed to contact their
families anymore. There's actually a lot to

487
00:36:14.519 --> 00:36:19.719
that, but I think that a
lot of people they just don't want to

488
00:36:19.719 --> 00:36:23.360
get involved. And I hate to
say that, but it's true, right

489
00:36:24.159 --> 00:36:30.159
right when some of these people are
doing time. Right now, there's one

490
00:36:30.239 --> 00:36:36.280
individual that's serving a twenty year sentence
for drug charges in dely recharges and stuff

491
00:36:36.320 --> 00:36:39.239
like that, and they're hoping that
eventually they'll get sick and tired or serving

492
00:36:39.320 --> 00:36:43.320
time and decide to say something.
At some point, there's another guy that

493
00:36:43.719 --> 00:36:46.679
actually he's terminally you, and they're
hoping that he'll decide to make a deathbed

494
00:36:46.679 --> 00:36:50.559
confession of some sort, because what's
you got to lose at that point,

495
00:36:50.599 --> 00:36:55.360
you know. So Yeah, now, have you personally spoken to either of

496
00:36:55.360 --> 00:37:00.000
these guys that you just mentioned.
No, I've been advised to stay away,

497
00:37:00.639 --> 00:37:06.599
and it's probably safer. I have
two sons myself. They're adults now,

498
00:37:06.639 --> 00:37:09.480
but still, you know, so, at the same time, I

499
00:37:09.559 --> 00:37:15.000
do think logically, and if somebody
decides that I'm getting too close, they

500
00:37:15.039 --> 00:37:20.880
may decide to come after me as
well. That's definitely a real concern.

501
00:37:21.719 --> 00:37:24.199
Yeah. I have been advised to
let the law do what they're going to

502
00:37:24.280 --> 00:37:30.400
do or what have you. So
I've got a few friends in low places

503
00:37:30.440 --> 00:37:35.039
too, and I've decided to let
them risk their skinning back. If that's

504
00:37:35.039 --> 00:37:38.119
what they choose to do, it's
probably best that you stay out of it.

505
00:37:38.960 --> 00:37:42.920
Yeah. Yeah, they're like no, yeah, they're like cherished.

506
00:37:42.960 --> 00:37:45.519
No. Well, I think you're
doing your part by just keeping the story

507
00:37:45.599 --> 00:37:51.199
out there, talking to people and
making sure that nobody forgets about your brother.

508
00:37:52.280 --> 00:37:55.519
Yeah, I'm working with the Morgan
Nick Foundation and law enforcement to the

509
00:37:55.519 --> 00:38:00.239
best of my abilities, and just
keeping his name base after to the best

510
00:38:00.239 --> 00:38:02.760
of my abilities, and working with
people like you to keep his name and

511
00:38:02.840 --> 00:38:07.079
face out there. You never know
him. Maybe when this gets out there,

512
00:38:07.480 --> 00:38:13.000
maybe some of these people will hear
it, and these super sleuths on

513
00:38:13.039 --> 00:38:16.320
the internet may get a phone call
or an email or something, and maybe

514
00:38:16.320 --> 00:38:22.159
it'll lead to something. That's really
all you can hope for. Yeah.

515
00:38:22.320 --> 00:38:25.480
Have you spoken to law enforcement lately
about the case? Oh? No,

516
00:38:25.760 --> 00:38:30.679
And that's another pain in my croft. Now. I will say that the

517
00:38:30.679 --> 00:38:34.840
first detective I thought he was just
good and great, and come to find

518
00:38:34.840 --> 00:38:37.239
out he was a dirty cut I
shouldn't know. He was too good to

519
00:38:37.280 --> 00:38:40.000
be true. But yeah, so
he's off the force now. Actually,

520
00:38:40.320 --> 00:38:45.159
I don't think he was doing anything
nefarious with my brother's case. I don't

521
00:38:45.199 --> 00:38:46.679
think. But yeah, the first
detective I had, I thought he was

522
00:38:47.119 --> 00:38:51.960
I thought it was golden, but
I didn't even know that he wasn't with

523
00:38:52.039 --> 00:38:54.119
the force anymore. And I kept
leaving the messages and leading messages, leading

524
00:38:54.159 --> 00:39:00.159
the messages, and then I got
talking to the reception them at the Sheriff's

525
00:39:00.159 --> 00:39:04.400
department, and she was like,
he's no longer with us. I was

526
00:39:04.440 --> 00:39:06.360
like, how long has he be
going and she was like two months.

527
00:39:06.400 --> 00:39:09.079
I said, that explains why he's
not returning my calls. Whoever they handed

528
00:39:09.119 --> 00:39:13.199
the case off to should have at
least called me and said, hey,

529
00:39:13.639 --> 00:39:16.719
here's what's happening. Somebody should be
keeping me abreast of what's going on down

530
00:39:16.760 --> 00:39:20.840
there instead of me leaving this.
You know, somebody's saying his voice mails.

531
00:39:20.840 --> 00:39:23.679
So yeah, I've got a new
detective now, and he's been much

532
00:39:23.719 --> 00:39:28.480
better about just saying, hey,
there's nothing going on, or there is

533
00:39:28.519 --> 00:39:31.440
something going on, or here's what
we've done so far. So once he

534
00:39:31.480 --> 00:39:35.800
took over the case, he has
been doing some searches and things like that,

535
00:39:36.079 --> 00:39:39.360
some different places that he's taking the
dogs out and search. Rumor has

536
00:39:39.360 --> 00:39:45.039
it was that he was buried out
behind a cemetery in the area that nobody

537
00:39:45.079 --> 00:39:50.159
has named the actual cemetery. So
it's like when somebody pops in and says,

538
00:39:50.239 --> 00:39:53.000
I heard it was this cemetery.
He's taking the dogs out and search

539
00:39:53.119 --> 00:39:57.719
that cemetery. But it's hit or
miss. I get phone calls and messages

540
00:39:57.760 --> 00:39:59.800
all the time. Like, hey
chairs, I heard this, Hey chairs,

541
00:40:00.199 --> 00:40:02.639
da da da da in Every time
I do, I report it and

542
00:40:02.719 --> 00:40:07.039
he sometimes is just like, are
you sure he didn't just take off?

543
00:40:07.840 --> 00:40:10.079
And I'm like telling you that my
brother would not do that. He has

544
00:40:10.119 --> 00:40:15.559
a daughter that's disabled. He would
not leave her. No matter what you

545
00:40:15.639 --> 00:40:19.000
thought he was doing, he would
not leave his daughter. He was her

546
00:40:19.079 --> 00:40:22.880
caregiver. He just wouldn't do that, no matter what was going through his

547
00:40:22.960 --> 00:40:25.639
head. He always cleaned himself up
when it was his time to take care

548
00:40:25.679 --> 00:40:30.800
of her. He never let his
daughter down. That's the one thing that

549
00:40:30.920 --> 00:40:34.079
was golden about my brothers. No
matter what was going on in his head,

550
00:40:34.800 --> 00:40:37.639
when it was time for him to
step up for her, he was

551
00:40:37.760 --> 00:40:40.639
there for her. So he was
really devoted to his daughter. Then,

552
00:40:42.440 --> 00:40:49.480
absolutely absolutely. And what's the name
of the local police department that's handling your

553
00:40:49.480 --> 00:40:54.119
brother's case. So if anybody out
there listening wants to contact law enforcement,

554
00:40:54.760 --> 00:41:01.400
who would they need to contact the
Seline County Sheriff's Department. Okay, and

555
00:41:01.800 --> 00:41:07.519
let me ask you about social media. Are you using Facebook? TikTok?

556
00:41:08.119 --> 00:41:12.320
Yes, I'm not a TikTok or
I'm not an Instagram or I'm not a

557
00:41:12.320 --> 00:41:15.360
Twitter user or anything like that,
so Facebook is all I have been using.

558
00:41:16.880 --> 00:41:22.800
And then every once in a while, our local news stations will do

559
00:41:22.000 --> 00:41:27.360
a blurt I guess as you would
call it or whatever they would, you

560
00:41:27.400 --> 00:41:31.119
know, be like hey, And
then actually, the Morgan Nick Foundation is

561
00:41:31.400 --> 00:41:37.559
a local foundation here and they put
stuff out. Now, they may be

562
00:41:37.800 --> 00:41:43.920
using those other avenues as far as
like Instagram and things like that, and

563
00:41:43.960 --> 00:41:49.960
then of course he's on like Charlie
Project and Gina for one one name us

564
00:41:50.000 --> 00:41:52.840
and yeah, they may be using
those other outlets, but I only use

565
00:41:52.920 --> 00:41:59.400
Facebook. And what's the name of
the Facebook page dedicated to Corey's case?

566
00:42:00.639 --> 00:42:05.599
It's Corey Schrader. Have you seen
me? Corey Schrader dot dot dot?

567
00:42:06.000 --> 00:42:09.639
Have you seen me? With three
question marks? And let's see, your

568
00:42:09.679 --> 00:42:15.800
brother's been gone for four years.
Tell me what is it that you missed

569
00:42:15.840 --> 00:42:20.639
the most about him? His sense
of humor, It didn't matter what you

570
00:42:20.679 --> 00:42:23.480
were depressed, that if you were
crying your eyes out, he could lift

571
00:42:23.519 --> 00:42:28.320
you out of that. His sense
of humor, and the bump he had

572
00:42:28.360 --> 00:42:30.679
with my boys. I can actually
hear it in your voice how much you

573
00:42:30.719 --> 00:42:36.599
miss him? Yeah, I miss
him? So much. I will share

574
00:42:36.639 --> 00:42:40.079
this story with you. One of
my oldest son was about thirteen months old.

575
00:42:40.119 --> 00:42:44.320
He had to have tubes in his
ears, and it was his first

576
00:42:44.360 --> 00:42:46.400
surgery or first major anything for me
as a mom, you know, and

577
00:42:46.480 --> 00:42:52.480
for of course my child and my
brother was there for that. And whenever

578
00:42:52.559 --> 00:42:54.559
my son woke up from that surgery, of course, as a mom,

579
00:42:54.599 --> 00:42:58.400
I wanted to go straight to my
son. One of my son to want

580
00:42:58.480 --> 00:43:04.039
his mommy. No, he wanted
his own stretch, Yes, uncle stretch.

581
00:43:04.239 --> 00:43:06.800
My son did not want his mommy. He wanted his uncle stretch.

582
00:43:07.119 --> 00:43:09.559
And of course he stepped right up
and grabbed my son and held him,

583
00:43:09.599 --> 00:43:13.880
and everything was right the world as
far as my son was concerned, because

584
00:43:13.880 --> 00:43:16.480
he had his own stretch. And
that made my brother's day and that would

585
00:43:16.480 --> 00:43:22.400
everything. And that's how tight they
were. And my son cries every day

586
00:43:22.440 --> 00:43:28.480
because his uncle's not here. We
all do because he's not here. Or

587
00:43:28.519 --> 00:43:32.960
he sounds like a pretty good guy
and a great uncle. Yeah yeah.

588
00:43:34.039 --> 00:43:37.840
And then of course there's that famous
saying about only the good die young.

589
00:43:38.679 --> 00:43:44.159
Yep, yep, and I really
believe that to be true. Yea.

590
00:43:45.159 --> 00:43:49.280
And the last question that I would
have for you is for anyone out there

591
00:43:49.400 --> 00:43:53.719
that's listening to this podcast and they
can hear the sound of your voice if

592
00:43:53.760 --> 00:43:59.960
they know anything about what happened to
Corey. What would you like to say

593
00:44:00.119 --> 00:44:07.400
to that person or persons if you
know anything about what happened to Corey Strader

594
00:44:08.199 --> 00:44:15.079
Stretch of Saline County, Arkansas.
I beg you to dig down deep in

595
00:44:15.159 --> 00:44:21.400
your heart and your soul. Just
dig deep, do the right thing.

596
00:44:22.440 --> 00:44:30.199
Know that you're doing something courageous,
brave, and God will keep you safe.

597
00:44:30.039 --> 00:44:35.719
You will bring my family so much
peace. You'll bring my brother peace.

598
00:44:37.519 --> 00:44:42.320
Just know it's the right thing to
do. It will cleanse your soul.

599
00:44:42.719 --> 00:44:45.360
It's the right thing to do.
And just because it's the right thing

600
00:44:45.400 --> 00:44:49.360
to do and you're cleansing your soul, God will keep you. And that

601
00:44:49.400 --> 00:44:54.159
concludes Corey Schrader's story. What happened
to Corey four years ago? Did he

602
00:44:54.239 --> 00:44:59.440
just walk away from his life?
According to his sister, he loved his

603
00:44:59.599 --> 00:45:04.400
family way too much to walk away
from them. Are the rumors about his

604
00:45:04.559 --> 00:45:09.039
death true? His family seems to
think so. Corey's described as being six

605
00:45:09.119 --> 00:45:14.719
foot six and weighing over two hundred
pounds. He was last seen wearing a

606
00:45:14.800 --> 00:45:20.239
gray hooded sweatshirt and carrying a backpack. The backpack has since been returned to

607
00:45:20.320 --> 00:45:25.760
the family. Corey's official missing date
is May twenty first, twenty nineteen,

608
00:45:27.360 --> 00:45:31.000
after he was dropped off at a
local store. If you have any information

609
00:45:31.199 --> 00:45:37.719
about Corey's whereabouts, please contact the
Saline Sheriff's apartment at five zero one three

610
00:45:37.840 --> 00:45:45.079
zero three, five six four seven
or five zero one three zero three five

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would like to make an anonymous call,

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please call five zero one three zero
three five seven four four. And if

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you would like additional information about Corey's
case, please visit the Corey Schrader Have

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I will also provide all of this information

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in the case story notes. And
if you are a parent, law enforcement

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official, friend, or relative seek
injustice for an unsolved homicide case, please

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visit my website and complete the contact
form. You can also contact with your

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Facebook. Thank you for listening.