Modelbehavior63: The Catfishing Murder of Kacie Woody

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In a seventh graders' bedroom in Arkansas, there were a couple of crumpled notes in the trash can.

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Her name was Casey Woody and she was 13 years old.

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On these notes, she'd paired her name with a boy's name and worked out the love percentage.

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There were two boys. One was Scott, a 14-year-old from Alfredo, Georgia.

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The other went by Dave Fagan. Dave said he was 18 and lived in San Diego.

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Out past Holland, Arkansas, there's a dirt and gravel road called Griggers Lane.

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And if you drive to the end of it, you run right into the Woody family's little grey house, where the road stops.

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Rick and Christie Woody had two boys and then Casey came along and nearly died as a baby from lung problems.

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The family was coming home from a baseball game one night when a couple of horses ran out onto the highway.

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Rick hit one of them and it came through the windshield on Christie's side and killed her.

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Casey was in the back seat and she saw everything. She hated horses from then on and she wrote a whole poem about that night.

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Casey brought her worn out cassette tape of grease to every sleepover and sang every song and she had a big honking laugh.

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Her favorite color was yellow. That fall, she emailed a friend, all fired up about her new sweatshirt that was yellow because yellow was the best color in the world to Casey.

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Rick worked nights as a green-brire cop and Casey was used to being home alone some nights, usually with the front door unlocked.

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Calling her friends in town from way out there cost you a long distance fee back then, so Casey ended up on the family computer every night.

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Her screen name was Model Behavior 63, which is Model Behavior, the Disney movie, plus her brother Austin's football number.

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She met a boy named Scott in a chat room that spring. He said he was 14 and he lived in Georgia and his picture was a grinning kid in a football uniform and Casey hung that picture in her locker at school.

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Casey met Dave that summer in a chat room for Christian teens.

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His profile said that he was 18 and lived in San Diego and if he pulled up his picture, you got a guy with long, wavy, sandy hair.

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Kathy Fry, the Arkansas Democrat Gazette reporter, that parts of the story come from said that he looked like a younger Fabio.

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Once Scott came along, Dave slid into being Casey's friend. He even called Scott and the first time Scott's mom answered and asked who was calling from California and whether it was a salesman.

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The second time he called his dad answered and told Dave he was not a kid and not to call the house again.

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Scott's parents clocked him immediately. Casey told her dad Dave was turning 18 and Rick said that was too old and she had to stop talking to him.

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After Casey sent Dave a message telling him that her dad said no, he switched to calling the house.

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Casey would call him first, she'd call him and hang up and then he would call right back so that he would be the one paying the long distance fee.

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Her friend Samantha Mann got on some of those calls and if you ask Sam, he talked like her dad trying to act cool, saying words like groovy and wicked.

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He asked Sam how old she was and when she said 13, he said oh cool.

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Dave told Casey that his Anton Arkansas had been in a car wreck. She was in a coma and she only had a few months left to live.

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Casey of course, as you remember, lost her own mother in a wreck and she was sure that her mom was now an angel.

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Casey's friend Jessica was sleeping over one night in November when Dave called and said that he was driving to Arkansas because of his aunt she was getting worse.

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And every time the girls tried to hang up the phone, he told them that he'd been driving for hours and he needed to stay on the phone.

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He needed the company.

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Then they heard what sounded like somebody walking around out behind the house. Casey lived in the middle of nowhere out in the woods, a dead-in road so you don't get a lot of foot traffic.

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They shoved a dresser in front of Casey's bedroom door and Casey told Dave on the phone that she was scared that somebody was in the house.

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He said nobody's in the house.

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Then all of a sudden the noise has stopped. Nobody knows for sure what was out there.

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Sam went to the school counselor that Tuesday and told her that Casey was handing her number out online and the counselor warned Casey about meeting people from the internet.

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After school Casey asked Sam if she could spend the night. Sam said no, since you don't do sleepovers on a school night.

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Two other girls said no too and Casey never said why. She laughed with that big honking laugh and hugged everybody goodbye at the bus.

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That night her dad was on shift and her brother was at the college library so Casey was home alone.

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She put on her baby girl sweatpants and a gray sweatshirt and sat down at the computer.

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She was on the phone with Dave and messaging Scott at the same time.

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Dave told her his aunt was about to die.

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Casey typed to Scott that tonight Dave's aunt is going to meet her mommy. Scott asked if she was okay and Casey typed back "yeah."

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That was at 9.41pm. Scott kept typing for 35 minutes and if you read what he typed he went from asking if she was mad at him to typing prayers into the chat box and then he called her house from Georgia and nobody picked up.

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A family friend that was staying with them noticed that her room was empty at around 11.30.

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When Rick got home both of Casey's coats were hanging over a kitchen chair including that brand new yellow one and her shoes were by the computer where she had always kicked them off.

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It was 39 degrees and pouring rain. Rick was already absolutely certain that somebody had taken his little girl.

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State police investigator Carl Bird got there before dawn and found Casey's glasses under a pile of towels and Rick's recliner with one of the lenses popped out.

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They don't know if the man knocked or just walked in since that front door was usually unlocked.

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The next morning Jessica turned to Sam and said "oh my god Sam what about Dave?"

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About that same time an FBI agent was unfolding two crumpled papers from Casey's trash can. One said Casey Renee Woody loves Scott G.

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The other said Casey Renee Woody loves David Leslie Fagan.

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If you were a David Fagan or any David or any DF or anybody from California, Conway police wanted to know if you were at one of their motels.

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The motel six manager remembered a David Fuller from California who'd pitched a fit over the internet and stomped off to the library with his laptop.

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He'd also rented a silver Dodge Caravan in Conway and he was so jumpy at the counter that the clerk wrote down his plate and his motel room number.

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Give that clerk a raise. His cell number was also on that form in Casey's house had called it over and over.

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Dave was David Leslie Fuller and if you put his real face next to that Yahoo picture you'd see a balding 47 year old with a mustache from outside San Diego.

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He flew into Little Rock in October and stayed in that same motel six and police believe he spent that trip watching Casey.

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In November he bought a gun and told his own kids it was for target practice.

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Then flew back and rented the biggest unit at a Conway storage place and told them that he bought cars for a living.

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Back home he bought chain and a bottle of chloro form.

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Fuller's credit card showed a charge that day from the Guards March storage in Conway.

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Conway police sergeant Jim Barnett showed up a little after five with a couple of FBI agents.

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Jim lifted the door of Unit 313 and there was the silver van with the engine running and the radio on.

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And as he stepped inside a shot went off.

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Jim and the agents backed out and called for help.

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At that point you had cops standing in the sleep for more than three hours with no idea whether Casey was alive or dead before SWAT went in.

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Fuller was dead at the back of the unit.

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He'd shot himself the second Jim opened that door.

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Casey was in the van.

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He had chained to wrists and ankles to the floor. He raped her and then shot her in the head.

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His gatecode showed that he pulled in at 1015 the night before.

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The same time that Scott was trying to message Casey without her responding and then tried to call her house with no answer.

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Agents found Casey's poem about the night her mom died saved on Fuller's computer.

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And Carl Bird believed that dying aunt was a mind game aimed right at her.

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He told Kathy Fry.

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Casey was the one who was going to meet her mother.

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Casey was buried in a yellow dress that her grandma made.

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It was her favorite one.

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She's next to her mom.

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And if you go out there today, her headstone says, "I am an angel."

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There was never a trial since Fuller died in that storage unit.

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And the FBI found that he'd been working on three other girls around Casey's age.

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Rick let the FBI use Casey's story to train other officers.

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And he and her friends started the Casey Woody Foundation to teach families about online safety.

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And her brother Tim became a cop.

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And in 2021, he was telling his little sister's story to Arkansas kids.

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Hello, I'm Joe, I'm the host.

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And here's an email, subject, the house I grew up in.

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Joe, I'm going to tell you something that I've only told about four people.

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The house I grew up in had a room that we did not use.

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My parents said it was storage.

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It had a bed in it and nothing else.

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And the door stayed shut almost all the time.

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And in the nine years of living there, I was never told not to go in.

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I found out at 26 that a man died in that room in 1974, not violently, but he was 80.

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And he died in his sleep in the house, changed hands twice before my parents even got it.

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My mother told me after I asked, and then she said, "You used to talk to him when you were four.

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Just said it like she was reporting the weather."

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And then she wouldn't say anything else about it and she's never brought it up again in 15 years.

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I don't remember it talking to him, but I do remember the closed door.

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You cover a lot of stories where bad things happen in houses.

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Do you believe that a place can hold on to something, or is it just that we know what happened there

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and our brains kind of do the rest?

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Della in Ohio.

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Della, thank you for the email.

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Thank you for listening to the podcast.

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And I'm going to try to be as brief as I can with this answer, because this is a subject I could talk nonstop about.

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Let me start by saying that more than 15 years ago or so,

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I went on some ghost hunts.

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You've seen the reality shows on TV about the paranormal researchers and they go to these haunted places.

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I went to some of those with some of those people.

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They were legitimate.

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I went in with a closed mind.

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I'm not going to really go into exactly what happened, but I came out with an open mind and a vow to never mess with that stuff again.

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And here's the reason why.

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It's because I don't think that dead people, I don't think that when people die, their spirits linger here on earth.

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I think that their spirit goes to where it's going to go.

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I think that what is here could be demons.

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And that is my own opinion.

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So for that reason, I'm out.

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I don't mess with that anymore.

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If I thought it was just some harmless ghost activity, yeah, not a big deal.

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But I don't think that's what it is.

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Okay, now that we've gotten really weird.

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