The Disappearance of Branson Perry: Three Witnesses, Zero Answers

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Three witnesses, 30 feet, three minutes.

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That's all it took for Branson Perry to vanish

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from his own backyard and a town that's world famous

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for knowing how to keep a secret.

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And when I say famous, I mean globally infamous.

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This isn't a case where nobody knows what happened.

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This is a case where somebody definitely knows

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and they've been quiet for 23 years.

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(upbeat music)

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Let's talk about Skidmore, Missouri.

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Population somewhere between 300 and 400,

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depending on who you ask and what year you're asking.

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This tiny town in Nautaway County should be anonymous.

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One of those places you drive through

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without even noticing, but Skidmore earned a reputation

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that true crime people know on site.

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In 1981, a man named Ken Rex McElroy

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was shot to death on Main Street at 10.30 in the morning.

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He was the town bully, the kind of guy

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who terrorized people for decades.

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And when someone finally had enough,

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they didn't do it quietly in the middle of the night.

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They did it in front of an estimated 60 witnesses,

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60 people in broad daylight.

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Three grand juries investigated.

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The federal government got involved.

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And you know what every single witness said?

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Nothing.

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Not one person saw who pulled the trigger.

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To this day, that murder remains officially unsolved.

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The message was clear, Skidmore handles its own business

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and outsiders don't get answers.

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20 years later, that culture of silence

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would become the biggest obstacle

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in solving what happened to Branson Cain Perry.

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Branson was born February 24, 1981.

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He grew up right there in Skidmore,

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graduating from Nautaway Holt High School in 1999.

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And he bounced around between jobs.

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He did some roofing work, helped out with a traveling petting

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zoo.

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At the time, he disappeared.

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He was 20 years old, unemployed, and living with his dad,

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Bob Perry, on West Oak Street.

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Physically, Branson was someone you wouldn't expect

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to be overpowered easily.

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He was between 5'9" 5'10", weighed about 140 to 155 pounds,

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blonde hair, blue eyes.

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He lifted weights, yet a black belt and hapkido.

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He also had Takakardia, which made his heart race

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when he was stressed.

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That detail becomes relevant later.

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Four days before he disappeared, something

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happened that threw Branson's whole world sideways.

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On April 7, 2001, Branson went to visit his neighbor,

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Jason Beerman.

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According to what Branson later told his father,

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he was drugged during that visit.

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While he was high and not in control,

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he did things that deeply humiliated him.

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He danced naked.

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He shaved his pubic hair.

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He had sex with Beerman.

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When Branson came down from whatever it was he was given,

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he was devastated.

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He told his dad everything.

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Bob knew his son was gay.

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That wasn't the issue.

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The issue was that Bob believed Beerman had drugged Branson

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and taken advantage of him.

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Bob was furious and Branson was traumatized.

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Again, this was four days before Branson vanished.

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Four days of tension, anger, and unresolved conflict

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in a town where everyone knows everyone's business.

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Here's where it gets wild.

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On the afternoon of April 11, Branson was home preparing

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for his dad to come back from the hospital.

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His friend, Jenna Crawford, came over to help him clean.

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According to what Jenna later told the police,

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she and Branson used methenphenomines together that afternoon.

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So right away, you've got a situation

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that's already high stress and chemically complicated.

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There were also two men outside working on Bob's car,

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which needed a new alternator.

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So the scene is this.

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Jenna, inside the house, two guys outside

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and Branson moving between the two spaces.

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At 3 p.m., Branson told Jenna he was going outside

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to return jumper cables to the shed.

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The shed was right there.

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We're talking about a walk that should have taken 30 seconds.

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Maybe a minute if you're moving slow.

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Jenna was inside.

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The two men were outside.

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Three witnesses, three different positions,

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all within ice sites of the path Branson would have taken.

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Branson walked out of that house and never walked back in.

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So here's what makes this case different

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from a lot of missing persons cases.

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Branson wasn't reported missing until April 17.

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That's six full days after he disappeared.

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His grandmother, Joanne, stopped by the house April 12th

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and 13th.

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The house was unlocked, which wasn't unusual.

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She figured Branson had hitchhiked to Kansas City

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to visit friends, something he had done before.

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His car was still there, but that didn't immediately raise

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any alarms.

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By the time the police got involved,

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six critical days had passed.

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But even with that delay, investigators found something

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that confirmed this wasn't a voluntary disappearance.

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Remember those jumper cables?

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When police first checked the shed, the cables weren't there.

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Branson's whole reason for leaving the house

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was to return them to the shed, but they were gone.

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Then, two weeks later, those same jumper cables

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mysteriously appeared in the shed,

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placed right inside the door.

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Someone went back.

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Someone with access to the property staged that scene.

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That feels like evidence of a cover-up.

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While police were working the case,

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they got tips that Branson owed money to drug dealers.

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They questioned his acquaintances in St. Joseph.

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Everyone passed polygraph tests.

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But then another lead came in, and this one had teeth.

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Multiple sources told investigators

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that Branson had been seen at a house

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about a mile east of Quitman, Missouri.

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This location was known, and I mean widely known, as a drug hub.

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If Branson did leave his property that afternoon,

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the theory is that he went straight there.

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And here's the part that should have been a five alarm

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fire for investigators, except they didn't even

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know Branson was missing yet.

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That drug house in Quitman burned down less than a week

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after Branson vanished.

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A former Nautilag County Sheriff's Deputy

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confirmed responding to the scene

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and noted that everyone had cleared out

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before the fire started.

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The timeline is damning.

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Branson disappears April 11th.

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The drug house burns down between April 14th and 17th.

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Branson was reported missing on April 17th.

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Someone torched a potential crime scene

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before law enforcement even knew there was a crime.

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In 2003, the case took a turn that grabbed national headlines.

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Jack Wayne Rogers, a man from Fulton, Missouri,

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more than 200 miles from Skidmore,

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was arrested on federal child pornography charges.

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When investigators searched his computer,

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they found disturbing posts on a message board.

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Rogers had written detailed descriptions

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of a ducting, torturing, and murdering

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a blonde-haired boy from Skidmore, Missouri.

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The posts included details that seemed specific to Branson.

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Rogers ran an employment agency

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and served as a lay minister at a country church,

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which made the revelations even more shocking.

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Kind of.

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When police searched his property,

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they found surgical equipment, bondage gear,

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and torture devices.

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And then they found the necklace,

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a leather necklace with a turtle claw inside Rogers van.

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Bob Perry confirmed that necklace belonged to Branson.

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For years, Jack Wayne Rogers seemed like the answer.

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He was sentenced to 30 years in prison in 2004.

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But Rogers denied any involvement in Branson's disappearance.

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And investigators couldn't place him in Skidmore

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on April 11, 2001.

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Nobody was ever found.

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The logistics didn't line up with a 3PM disappearance

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witnessed by multiple people.

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Eventually, the Rogers theory lost steam.

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Many investigators now believe Rogers was a fantheist,

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who incorporated real details, like the necklace,

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into his online confessions

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to make them more believable.

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Branson's mother, Becky Cleno, publicly rejected

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the Rogers connection after attending his synancing.

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She said the answers were back in Skidmore,

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and she was right.

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Both of Branson's parents died without ever knowing

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what happened to their son.

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Bob Perry died in 2004.

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His mom, Becky, maintained a blog called Bring Branson Home

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for Years, searching for answers until she passed away in 2011.

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Her obituary listed Branson as having preceded her

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in death.

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And then in 2004, three years after Branson vanished,

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another tragedy hit the family.

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Branson's cousin, Bobby Joe Stinett,

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was eight months pregnant when Lisa Montgomery strangled her

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to death and cut the baby from her womb.

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That case became nationally famous.

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Montgomery was eventually executed in 2021.

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While the crimes are unrelated,

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the connection amplified media attention on the Perry family

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and insured Branson's case stayed in the public eye.

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For 23 years, the case stayed cold.

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Then in May 2024, something shifted.

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The Notaway County Sheriff's Office received new tips

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they deemed credible.

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They returned to the equipment area with a full team,

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including the Missouri State Highway Patrol Water Division

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to search for a well on the property.

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Two individuals came forward and identified a specific spot

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where they claimed Branson's remains had been buried.

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When investigators excavated the area,

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they didn't find the body.

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But they found something almost as important.

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Clear evidence that the Earth had been disturbed

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and something had been buried there at some point.

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The FBI immediately deployed a specialized agent to assist.

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After 23 years, the investigation has circled back

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to where it started.

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The local drug network, the equipment area,

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the burned house that was destroyed before anyone

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even knew to look for Branson.

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The most likely scenario has always been local.

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Branson was in crisis.

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He'd been traumatized four days earlier.

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He was using methamphetamines the day he disappeared.

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He potentially owed money to dangerous people.

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And he lived in a town that had already proven

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it knew how to bury secrets.

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The fact that the jumper cables reappeared,

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the fact that a drug house burned down within days,

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the fact that 23 years later,

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people are finally talking and pointing

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to a specific burial location.

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This wasn't a random stranger abduction.

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This was someone Branson knew, someone who had help,

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and someone who counted on Skidmore's culture

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of silence to protect them.

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The investigation is ongoing.

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Sheriff Randy Strong continues to follow leads,

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and somewhere, and not away county,

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someone knows exactly what happened to Branson Perry.

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"Hey, have you heard about this podcast called 10 Minute Murder?

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"This guy Joe does it.

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"He's strange, but the podcast is good.

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"If you can overlook the fact that the host is weird,

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"then the podcast is great."

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That's how podcasts grow.

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And I've been so lucky and fortunate to have people

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like you listening that the show has over the past five years

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or so has continued to grow and grow and grow.

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And I can't thank you enough for that,

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but it still has to continue.

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I don't want to be stagnant or go and reverse.

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So please, if you're a new listener,

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you enjoy the podcast, let people know about it.

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All right, let's get to a listener email,

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subject, crime podcasts, and public spaces.

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Hey, Joe, this might sound weird,

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but I was at the grocery store the other day

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listening to your podcast in my earbuds.

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Everything was fine until you started describing

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a crime scene in very vivid detail.

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Right as I was in the produce section,

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surrounded by children, the lady next to me

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gave me the look of a lifetime.

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My question is, by the way, I think she probably,

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your earbuds were too loud.

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She heard me saying gross stuff.

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My question is, has anyone ever told you

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about the weirdest place they've listened to 10 Minute Murder?

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I can't be the only one committing questionable

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public listening decisions.

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That's Kaylee and Boise.

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Kaylee, thank you for the email, first of all.

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And yeah, people tell me they listen to the podcast

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and all kinds of weird places,

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taking their kids to school in the morning,

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which I mean, if they can handle true crime, I guess, I guess so.

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The grocery store is, that's a pretty common one.

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I do that myself.

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Listening to the office where other people

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and cubicles can hear the true crime stories

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you're talking about.

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That was a strange one.

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The one place that I hear that people listen the most

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is the one that I'm like, I would never in my life

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be able to do that.

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And that's out going for a walk,

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walking their dog or walking, you know,

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doing a walk by yourself.

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That's crazy work.

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That's the one time I would not be wanting to listen

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to a story about maybe your next door neighbor

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is a secret serial killer.

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But that's just me.

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This is a judgment-free zone.

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You do you, booboo.

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I'm just happy that you're listening.

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All right, that's gonna do it.

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That is your episode for today.

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Thank you again for listening to 10 Minute Murder.

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I'll see you next time.

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