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The Case 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:06.640 Murder on Songbird Road is a production of iHeart Podcasts. 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:11.600 What follows is a nine one one call place buy 0:00:11.600 --> 0:00:14.600 a woman named Julia Beverly in December of twenty twenty. 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:18.280 Its content may be disturbing to some listeners. 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:27.480 Hey, Julie, Okay, okay, okay listen content? 0:00:27.600 --> 0:00:29.280 What is listen to me? 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:29.720 Condent? 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:30.800 What's your address? 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:33.200 Four? 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:38.360 One three zero four is un murder Aia, Illinois? 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:38.760 Okay? 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:39.920 Okay, okay listen? 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:42.920 He said one three zero four songbird. 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:48.839 And one there is zero four okay. 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:52.520 Sometimes you find a story, sometimes the story finds you. 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:57.320 The message request started coming in through Facebook February sixteenth, 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:00.360 of twenty twenty three. The first one was a link 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:04.480 to an article with the headline jury finds Julia Beverly 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:08.480 guilty in the stabbing death of Jade Beasley. It was 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:13.400 immediately followed up with a message notification, which was immediately unsent, 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:18.039 and then this text please prayer hand emoji if you 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:22.360 can help considering. The prosecution's ending argument was even though 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:26.480 we have no physical evidence, dot dot dot yet guilty. 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:31.119 And so began a steady stream of missed video calls 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:33.000 and links pertaining to this case. 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:36.840 A jury trial for a Williamson County woman accused of 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:40.479 murdering a young girl starts tomorrow. Julia Beverley is set 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:43.040 to be in county court tomorrow morning at nine. She's 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:46.200 accused of murdering eleven year old Jade Beasley in December 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:49.480 of twenty twenty. Beasley died from multiple stab wounds. According 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:52.880 to investigators. Beverly pleaded not guilty. In the wake of 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:53.920 Beasley's death. 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:58.680 In Marion, Illinois, an eleven year old girl brutally stabbed 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:03.160 to death her father's longtime living girlfriend, maintaining innocence but 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:04.880 charged with her murder. 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:08.800 I ain't gonna life, you know, by the news articles, 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:12.240 I thought she was guilty at hers, aspiring what the 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:12.800 news said. 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:17.560 That's Whitney Nicole, the woman behind my myriad of Facebook messages. 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:23.240 I'm just a resident of this town and I can't 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:28.120 be quiet, and this eleven't innocent woman, but I believe 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:31.000 truly is innocent to. 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:36.440 Just sit in wat'e more of her time behind ours. 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:40.480 Whitney speaks the way she communicated on Facebook a bit 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:41.640 in bursts. 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:47.880 Marrying has always been a sweet stuff under the red 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:50.040 type of deal around here. 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:55.680 They don't saw murders they cover, and these journalists around 0:02:55.800 --> 0:03:01.000 here or news reporters are ridiculous. 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:02.359 They were lives. 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:06.440 And it's not innocent a proven guilty around here, it's 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:07.400 you're guilty. 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:12.919 Her outreach seems sincerely motivated by her concern for Julia Beverly, 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:15.440 a woman she says she barely knows. 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:19.399 I haven't only met her, probably a couple of times. 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:24.720 But I'm just seeing all the Ronalds. I just this girl, 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:27.960 it just needs help. That's a sorry for her, like 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:29.519 she does not deserve this. 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:35.280 I'm Lauren brad Pacheco, and this is murder on some 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:59.280 Bird Road. The nine one one call came in Saturday, 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:03.680 December five, twenty twenty, at twelve twenty four pm. It 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:07.480 was an unseasonably warm winter day in Illinois, sunny, with 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:09.120 a high of fifty four degrees. 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:13.160 He said, someone had broken into your house. 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:18.280 Yeah, when it broke in, they were running out as 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:19.480 I was coming home. 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:23.960 From Okay, listen, listen to me. 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:24.760 You're gonna take a bit. 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:26.080 I can't understand what you're saying. 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:28.200 Okay. 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:32.880 It originated from a somewhat rural section of Marion, Illinois, 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:36.960 a flat area of former farmland peppered with modest, mostly 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:38.560 ranch style homes. 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:41.479 He said, someone came running out of your house. 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:45.160 Daly got running out wherever home? 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:46.320 I know? 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:47.400 My norm was over? 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:52.040 Okay. The stretch of Songbird Road where the murder occurred 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:56.560 is dotted with Little League baseball fields, some still playable, 0:04:56.920 --> 0:05:02.360 most overgrown by weeds and sectioned off, resting chain link fences, 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:06.599 exuding an eerie air of time suspended and innocence lost. 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:08.360 Which way did they go? 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:14.800 That is right out where all one? And I came 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:16.080 in the check on Jane. 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:20.680 The call lasts for nearly twelve minutes. As a sobbing 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:23.480 Julia Beverley struggles to speak. 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:25.120 Who are else than the residence? 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:28.160 This is me right now? 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:29.560 But darn't? 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:30.280 Dead? 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:31.520 Is in the bottom? 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:34.400 We've got multiple one all over? 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:41.080 Okay? 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:43.000 Who is it in the bathtomb? 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:45.320 Is much time? 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:45.719 Hatter? 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:46.520 Okay? 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:47.360 How old is she. 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:49.640 One? 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:50.839 Okay? 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:57.240 Is she awakes? 0:05:57.440 --> 0:05:57.480 No? 0:05:57.800 --> 0:05:59.680 I think that's not moving. 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:00.480 Okay. 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:02.000 Hold on. 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:08.040 When that person left? 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:09.960 Did they leave in a vehicle or on foot? 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:13.560 They were on pos They just took over rudden. 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:16.520 Okay? 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:19.080 Could you tell if there was a male or a female? 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:21.719 It was a male? 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:29.480 Could you tell that colored shirt he was wearing. 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:32.360 He wasn't all black. 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:33.440 Okay. 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:37.000 Police arrived on the scene at twelve thirty five. 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:42.799 Thought, okay, there's. 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:47.200 An author's tree pulling end. 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:49.640 Okay, Joe, I wanna let you talk to them. 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:51.919 Okay, thank you. 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:58.640 They would find a still hysterical Julia Elaine Beverly, aged 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:02.440 twenty nine, inside the house in a bathtub with cold 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:06.720 running water. They would discover eleven year old Jade Marie Beasley. 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:10.640 Jade would be pronounced dead at the scene. The cause 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:13.880 of death was loss of blood from multiple stab wounds. 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:21.760 Through existing media coverage, I could quickly piece together that 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:25.360 Julia Beverly and Jade's father, Mike Beasley, had been a 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:28.640 couple for nearly eight years. They both had a child 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:32.360 from previous relationships who were about the same age. Jade 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:35.280 was eleven and Julia's son, Jaden, was ten years old 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:38.320 at the time of the murder. In addition, the couple 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:42.119 shared two young daughters together. One was three at the time, 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:44.760 the other was just one and a half years old. 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:48.960 That Saturday morning, Julia Beverly and Jade Beasley were the 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:52.680 only people in their one floor modular home. Mike was 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:54.840 at work as a cook at the local cracker barrel. 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:58.440 Julia's son, Jaden, was visiting his birth father, and the 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:02.560 couple's two young girls were spending the weekend with their grandmother, Sheila. 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:06.840 Mike's mom, Julia Beverly, was working the morning shift from 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:11.920 home as a remote customer service representative for Hyatt. Beverly 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:14.760 initially told police she had left Jade alone to do 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:18.360 holiday shopping at the local Walmart, but upon getting there, 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:21.880 realized she'd left her wallet at home when she switched 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:24.360 from her diaper bag to a smaller purse, so she 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:28.800 returned back home to the house. That's when, according to Beverly, 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:32.720 she encountered a knife wielding, masked man dressed in black 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:35.360 who tussled with her at the front door before fleeing 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:39.440 on foot. She then discovered blood throughout the house and 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:43.800 Jade in the bathtub before calling nine one one. Just 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:48.240 five days later, the now former Williamson County State's Attorney, 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:50.640 Brandon Soonati, held a press conference. 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:56.480 A few hours ago, I charged Julia Beverley, aged twenty nine, 0:08:56.679 --> 0:09:00.760 of eleven three oh four Songbird Road, Marion with three 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:05.240 counts a first degree murder. The murder of Jade Murray Beasley, 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:09.120 an eleven year old girl, and arrest warrant was issued 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:13.120 and Julia Bevley was arrested within the past hour and 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:15.960 is being processed and held with the Williamson County Jail. 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:19.000 She's being held on a two million dollar bond. 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:22.720 Zanati would then hold up a photo of the victim, 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:26.760 Jade Beasley. It shows an adorable young girl with bob 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:30.840 strawberry blonde hair accented with pink streaks and a pink bow. 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:35.160 She's smiling broadly from behind pink rimmed glasses, dressed in 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:39.040 even more bright pink. The cropped photo and the larger 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:42.120 full body original of the small, pink clad girl would 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:44.960 be utilized by the media throughout the duration of the 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:46.560 investigation and trial. 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:50.840 I recently was given a copy of the booking photo, 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:54.360 and I have those here for anyone that may want. 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:54.880 Then. 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:59.520 In stark contrast, Julia Beverly appears haggard and drained in 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:03.439 her booking photo, her dark clothing and dark hair disheveled. 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:07.560 The grainy shot drab enough to almost appear black and white. 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:12.959 These first degree murder charges carry with impossible penalties of 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:16.199 twenty to sixty years in the Department of Corrections and 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:19.840 if determined, extended term eligible up to one hundred and 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:20.679 twenty years. 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:24.800 Jade Beasley's murder and Julia Beverly's arrest were both announced 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:28.640 during that same press conference, but while no motive was given, 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:30.080 Zanati added this. 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:34.760 When the incident occurred, the suspect gave law enforcement an 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:41.079 initial report that the unidentified mail ran from the residence 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:44.240 upon her arriving home. She said that she left the 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:47.520 residence with Jade alone in the home for a short 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:52.640 time and return home to find an unidentified male fleeing. 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:56.760 The investigation has proven this story to be false. 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:06.720 Murder on Songbird Road will continue after the break. Now 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:08.960 back to Murder on Songbird Road. 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:13.320 What they had told us at the press conference was 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:16.560 that they had arrested Julie Beverly. They charged her with 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:20.200 murder and had said that she had told them a 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:24.600 story about a suspect that left the home and that 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:27.440 that was later proven to be false. That was the 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:31.240 first official word of that case. But they never explained 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:35.440 how that happened. I should have asked, you know, looking 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:37.240 back at it now in hindsight. 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:40.319 That's Danny Vaie, who was a reporter and anchor at 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:44.760 local news station WSIL News three when the Beverly story broke. 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:47.760 Every town has its crime. Marian's no different than any 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:52.359 other towns. Marion gets a lot of theft, calls, burglaries. 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:55.640 Very few times that we've covered shootings in Marion, but 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:57.880 there have been. Not to say that there haven't been, 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:02.480 but to have a murderer screwsom is. Jade Beasley's doesn't 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:05.880 happen very often down here, not at all. It's very rare. 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:09.239 And by down here, Vaya means south. 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:13.080 Marion is So if you know Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:17.359 it's about thirty minutes east of Carbondale on Route thirteen. 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:20.720 If you're more familiar with highways, it cuts right by 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:22.880 in their stay fifty seven, it cuts through Marion. 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:25.200 And if you don't know any of the above, know 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:29.560 that Marion, Illinois is in extremely southern Illinois, closer to 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:34.520 Missouri than Chicago. Vye's recollection of Jade Beasley's murder remains 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:37.640 extremely clear. Three years later, on. 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:41.160 December fifth, twenty twenty, it was a Saturday. I was 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:45.400 still the morning anchor. My shift was over by around 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:49.959 ten eleven o'clock am, so I went home, and I'm 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:52.640 pure in rumblings that there's something happening in Marion. Joe 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:54.559 Rohanne was actually the first one to go over there. 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:58.120 He's our protog reporter. He actually shot the initial footage 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:01.200 of the police response there and he was just telling us, 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:03.240 you know, that there was a big presence. He went 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:06.719 to go eventually here back on the scanner that they 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:09.920 were calling a METAVAC helicopter to the home. But then 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:13.800 later on we find out that the call was rescinded, 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:18.120 that the aravact was canceled. Immediately, we were thinking someone died, 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:20.840 but we just don't know who. We just know that 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:24.600 there's a lot of police. There's so much activity going on, 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:28.079 like this is a huge response. I mean, it was insane. 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:30.640 The number of cars were there. I think there were five, 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:32.679 but it seemed like there were more. Even in the 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:35.240 days after when we followed up, they were still there. 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:38.480 But yeah, we first heard about it on Saturday. We 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:43.440 didn't get much information officially, and we were slowly hearing 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:46.840 little details on what may have happened. We were hearing 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:48.760 that it may have been a little girl. We were 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:52.280 hearing that it was the girl's mother. Then we're hearing 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:54.040 it wasn't the mother, it was a stepmother. 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:58.360 The lack of information, especially during the isolation of the pandemic, 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:01.320 led to immediate spec and concern. 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:05.720 People were calling us for five days asking what was 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:09.480 going on. People were wondering if the person was still 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:12.199 out there. There were so many questions. People were wondering 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:15.080 if there was a serial killer out there because there 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:18.400 was no hint of we need to find a suspect. 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:21.920 All we heard was that they were looking for surveillance 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:24.800 video of the area and that was it. They never 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:28.120 gave out a suspect description. They never said whether the 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:30.360 suspect was in custody or not. They never said if 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:34.280 there was a person of interest until the days leading 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:38.000 up to the press conference. We didn't hear official word 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:43.400 until Wednesday, So literally five days later after the fact, 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:46.640 when something's happening the press conference, that was the first 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:49.080 official word of that case. And I was actually the 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:49.960 one filming that. 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:52.960 Vye would go on to cover the case and the 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:56.000 trial reporting that would put him and the media in 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:59.880 general at odds with Renee high Tower. Beverly's mother, since 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:02.160 the day of the murder, her belief in her daughter's 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:06.400 innocence has not wavered. The daughter, who close friends and family, 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:07.400 called Julie. 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:10.480 That morning, I was at work. 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:13.600 Renee was working at one of the gas stations she manages. 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:17.240 I remember the ambulances going by my work because I 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:19.400 was in my Marion store. 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:20.760 Nothing clicked. 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:23.720 Nothing was like, Oh my god, something's happened to one 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:25.680 of my children, you know, or one of my grandchildren. 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:28.280 Nothing clicked. I was just watching because they were going 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:31.600 like an extra speed. To my coworker, I was like, 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:33.960 oh my god, something really bad must to happen. Probably 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:37.240 about four thirty PM, my niece called me, who lives 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:41.040 in Salem, Massachusetts, and said she's seen something on social media. 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:44.320 Nikki is the daughter of Renee's sister and lived in 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:47.840 Marion with her family before they moved to Massachusetts after 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:49.120 she graduated high school. 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:52.960 I was just kind of doing my normal thing, chasing 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:55.000 the kids around, and I had a few moments to 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:58.080 pop on Facebook. And I still follow the local news 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:00.880 station Eaton, though are not there for a while. I 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:02.960 so to like to see what goes on in the community. 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:06.520 And I thought a new story about murdered in a 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:09.720 rutle area in Marion, and I was like, oh my god, 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:13.760 that's so crazy, because nothing will like that happens, at 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:15.960 least whenever I was growing up there. I clicked on 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:18.960 the article and the picture just it looked so familiar, 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:22.040 and I didn't want it to look familiar that it did. 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:25.320 And when I clicked on the article it said Songbird Road. 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:28.440 My heart sank because I knew it that's the road 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:30.960 that Julie lived on. It was the tree in the 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:33.560 front yard that did it, because it's a very odd 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:38.200 looking tree. I called my aunt, Julie's mom, and I said, hey, 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:40.000 if we call to Julie and she was like, no, no. 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:43.800 I was like, there's there's been a murder on her road, 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:45.200 and I think it here's her house. 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:49.480 She sent me a picture and sure enough I recognized 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:50.920 it to be Julie's house. 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:55.680 You found out through a niece who lives halfway across 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:59.360 the country who saw it on social media. Yes, four 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:01.680 hours later, so I raced out there. 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:04.440 I was about twelve to fifteen miles away, and I 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:06.920 think I got there in three minutes until I and 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:10.800 sure enough there's police vehicles everywhere and it's taped off, 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:13.760 and I'm in a panic, and there's an officer at 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:16.640 Kirk and I get out of my car and I'm asking, 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:19.960 are the kids okay? Ma'am you'll have to go to 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:23.040 the police station. I said, this is my daughter's house. 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:25.760 Is she okay? He would not answer, you have to 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:28.639 go a police sestion. In the meantime, I'm calling Julie, 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:34.280 no answer. I'm calling Mike, no answer. I'm calling Sheila Jade, 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:37.199 and nobody's answering the phone. So my panic level is 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:39.880 rising with every time I try to call somebody. 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:42.280 Because at that point, anybody could have been dead. 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:48.760 Yes, yes, And I finally get through to Sheila, Mike's mother, 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:50.639 and I asked, what's going on? 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:52.000 And is everybody okay? 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:52.240 You know? 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:55.520 And I had a many questions and her response to me, 0:17:56.520 --> 0:18:00.639 if you hold on, I'll tell you so breath and 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:07.400 she said to me, well, Jade's with our heavenly father now, 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:11.639 and I just lost it, lost it. I was screaming no, 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:15.639 and I quickly have to gather myself together again and 0:18:16.680 --> 0:18:18.840 ask what happened? And she said, do you want to 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:21.960 talk to Mike? I said yes, So Mike tells me 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:30.000 that she committed suicide, and I'm like, what makes an 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:33.560 eleven year old girl. What was going on? Was she depressed? No, 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:37.000 not that I know of, but Mom and Kim said 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:38.880 she might have been feeling a little bit depressed. 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:42.199 That initial confusion about the cause of death within the 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:45.440 immediate family and the fact that police only informed one 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:48.080 side of the family were just two of the issues 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:51.199 that would define the investigation of Jade's murder and the 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:55.360 case against Julia Beverly, as would what Renee recalls as 0:18:55.400 --> 0:18:59.720 a notable disconnect between Mike and his fiance. I'm like, 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:01.040 where's Julie? 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:02.440 I don't know. 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:05.520 Have you talked to her? No, he hasn't talked to her. 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:11.080 He hasn't spoken to the woman he lives with, who 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:17.399 is the mother of two of his children. Yes, yeah, 0:19:17.440 --> 0:19:19.320 Why how did he explain that. 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:25.480 He didn't He just said he hadn't talked to her. Now, 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:28.720 I'm sure by this time they had taken Julie's phone, 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:32.080 so she couldn't call or talk to anyone. But if 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:34.400 you were down in the police station like her, I mean, 0:19:34.480 --> 0:19:35.560 did you ask about her? 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:35.920 No? 0:19:36.760 --> 0:19:37.640 I think I don't know. 0:19:38.400 --> 0:19:41.240 But he didn't even know where she was, didn't know 0:19:41.280 --> 0:19:44.520 where she was, so I figured, well, this officer was 0:19:44.560 --> 0:19:46.360 telling me to go down to the police station. So 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:48.720 I go down to the Sheriff's. 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:52.000 Office, which is indeed where Julia was having agreed to 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:55.160 be questioned, initially waiving her right to an attorney. 0:19:55.680 --> 0:19:58.639 I was asking if my daughter was there, and he 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:00.560 asked who I was, and he said, we'll be down 0:20:00.560 --> 0:20:06.120 in a minute, and police officer Carl Gustantine came down 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:06.679 and talked to me. 0:20:07.200 --> 0:20:11.120 Remember that name, Carl Gustantine will play a pivotal role 0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:15.520 in Renee's issues with the investigation and Julia's arrest. At 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:17.520 this point, what time is it? 0:20:17.680 --> 0:20:22.040 Probably around five thirty pm going on six. He come 0:20:22.119 --> 0:20:24.200 down and he said, we've got a lot of questions 0:20:24.240 --> 0:20:26.760 that we're talking to her. It's going to be a while. 0:20:26.840 --> 0:20:29.280 And I said, well, I'm not going anywhere. As he's 0:20:29.320 --> 0:20:32.320 going back upstairs. I said, what would make an eleven 0:20:32.400 --> 0:20:35.560 year old commit suicide? And he looked at me strange 0:20:35.640 --> 0:20:37.760 and he said, who told you that? And I said 0:20:37.800 --> 0:20:40.399 her boyfriend, Mike, and he just said oh, and he 0:20:40.800 --> 0:20:45.640 went on and finished questioning my daughter. It was crazy. 0:20:46.200 --> 0:20:49.000 It was crazy. So I'm talking to. 0:20:48.960 --> 0:20:52.560 My oldest son, Michael, and he said, why do they 0:20:52.560 --> 0:20:55.479 still have her in there. It's been hours, and I 0:20:55.520 --> 0:20:56.879 was like, I don't know. I guess they got a 0:20:56.920 --> 0:20:59.280 lot of things to talk, you know, trying to figure 0:20:59.280 --> 0:21:03.000 this out. He's like, where's Mike. I said, I think 0:21:03.000 --> 0:21:06.119 he's at home. He's like, Mom, they're looking at her, 0:21:06.119 --> 0:21:07.199 at a suspect. 0:21:07.480 --> 0:21:15.359 Julie Willingly submitted for questioning yes, without representation, because it 0:21:15.400 --> 0:21:18.520 didn't occur to her that she was a suspect. 0:21:18.800 --> 0:21:23.439 Correct now. Julia had told me later on that she 0:21:23.560 --> 0:21:26.359 could feel a change in the wind within ten to 0:21:26.400 --> 0:21:28.320 fifteen minutes of being there. But then she's trying to 0:21:28.320 --> 0:21:31.080 brush it off. They're doing their job. They have to 0:21:31.800 --> 0:21:34.800 exclude family members before they fine, you know. So this 0:21:34.840 --> 0:21:36.639 is how she's playing it in her mind. This is 0:21:36.680 --> 0:21:39.000 their job, they have to do this. I'm reading too 0:21:39.080 --> 0:21:41.879 much into it, But she did say she could feel 0:21:41.920 --> 0:21:44.320 a change within ten minutes of them being there. 0:21:44.480 --> 0:21:47.639 Of the police being at her home, at the crime scene. 0:21:47.720 --> 0:21:48.639 Yes, yes. 0:21:50.680 --> 0:21:53.040 Much of this case seems to hinge on the fact. 0:21:53.200 --> 0:21:56.640 Beverly initially told police she had made it to Walmart 0:21:56.680 --> 0:22:00.320 before realizing she'd left her wallet at home, but surveillancege 0:22:00.400 --> 0:22:04.240 established she had not completed that journey here again is 0:22:04.280 --> 0:22:05.000 Whitney Nicole. 0:22:05.680 --> 0:22:09.520 They arrested her so fast, you know, and so I'm like, 0:22:09.720 --> 0:22:12.800 she must have been drenched in blood and had all 0:22:12.840 --> 0:22:16.399 this evidence, but come to find out, there was no 0:22:16.520 --> 0:22:21.040 bloody clothing of hers found. There was no blood found 0:22:21.080 --> 0:22:25.080 in her bedroom, or in her bathroom or even in 0:22:25.160 --> 0:22:28.600 their drain. So if she even took a shower, where 0:22:28.600 --> 0:22:31.439 did that blullod go? Where did her bloody clothes go? 0:22:31.960 --> 0:22:33.000 Where did weapon go? 0:22:33.880 --> 0:22:34.080